After a long time, so here it is the new chapter and enjoy it and pardon me for all the mistakes here since it's not beta'd.

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Chapter 37

"Were you coming from Ateara's" Billy looked up from Seattle Times spread on his hand for the past few minutes.

Harry heaved a weary sigh and dropped on to a well warn arm chair. His cap it the table with a thump in front as he slumped feeling the exhaustion, "It is sad business, but I'm glad they finally found what happened to her" he said with a somber expression on his face.

"Dinner is ready everyone. JARED! JAKE!" Sue's voice came loud and clear from the kitchen. Both Harry and Billy made their way, "Let me take a quick wash and I'll be down in five" Harry greeted his wife with a quick peck on her cheek and left Billy now occupying his usual spot near the dinner table.

Being best friends Billy was spent most of his time in Clearwater residence and now the boys followed the same tradition, they were either at the Blacks small house or here most of the time. As the final dish was brought to the table, Jacob and Jared trampled in to the kitchen like a herd of bulls evoking a glare from Sue much to Billy's amusement. They had the bad habit of not listening to him but Sue had a way with both her and his child. Billy was glad that Jacob at least had a mother figure in his best friend's wife after his passed away some ten years ago in a car accident.

Harry came down as everyone settled down, and then it was all sounds of spoons hitting glass and little sounds of asking to pass dishes, followed by few great full groans.

It was Billy who finally broke the silence after he had satisfied in his hunger; turning to his best friend he asked what had being churning in his mind. The news had made its way the police had finally caught the person responsible for the disappearance of Ateara's girl, "Are they going to charge him here?"

The sounds of glass hitting on metal came to a halt and all of them turned to Billy and who had his eyes on Harry.

"Yeah, he'll be charged here at first. But now the FBI is involved cause the man had committed crimes in different states, I'm not sure where they will take him next though." Harry sat down his fork and knife and dabbed at the corner of his lips with a napkin.

"I heard about Mary. I was thinking about going there tomorrow, Kyla would need someone to be with her while John is in Port Angeles" Sue replied while Harry nodded his head in agreement, "I'm glad he was caught. Is there more victims?"

"How many were there dad? Is it true, he tried to rape a girl from Forks?" Jared was interest and so was Jake, both of them sat still with shining, eager eyes, there half eaten dinner forgotten in the excitement of finding if the rumors were true.

"More than ten so far and yes, they finally caught him trying to rape a girl from Forks, she's helluva lucky they were interrupted before something happened." Harry replied.

"I heard its Emmett's girl," Jared wrinkled his brow trying to remember who Jake was talking about, " you know the huge dude from Forks high, he's with the crazy haired guy most of the time." Jake turned to Jared with a role of his eyes while nudged him on the rib with a raised brow, stared until Jared's eyes widen in remembering the duo.

"Yeah, I can see him beating few guys and doing some serious damage." Jared remembered Emmett, remembered him at the bonfire they had at the end of school year.

"Oh, that's the thing actually. When they found the girl, there was some serious damage done to the assaulters. There were few rumors or what the officers at the animal control are saying it was a wolf that came to girls rescue. She says she's not sure but guys had searched the whole area and didn't find even a stray cat. Then there's the bit marks, no one knows where the animal came or disappeared to. I saw them, the bite marks. Man… that's some serious damage done by whatever it was and I'm glad that thing came to the girl's rescue, even some of the people are weary about a wolf on loose. Looks like once again there are wolf's migrating in to these woods" Harry had a puzzle look.

"May be it's your white wolf dad, you know the one you swore Billy and you saw few months ago" Jared snorted while Jake snickered with his friend.

"Who knows may be the white wolf's spirit woke up and its protecting the people" Harry shrugged with a wry smile as the two boys snickered.

…AAMW….

"Oh! Here they come. Boys make way; I want to catch this on film." Esme fluttered around snapping pictures left and right. Edward rolled eyes at his moms' enthusiasm.

"Oh, Rosalie, you look so beautiful." Right after the complement Esme went back to snapping pictures, imitating a paparazzi while Edward's eyes fell on his father and chief who were snickering, heads bowed towards each other, whispering next to the fireplace trying to keeping away from the maniac woman.

Edward huffed, scowled at the two adult men and tugged at his tie with discomfort. It was slowly strangling him and with the way things are progressing, by the time he reached the dance sure would have a blue colored face, very in with the color theme and he might be able to blend in with other blue things in the room.

"Wow." It was whispered and the tone was different catching Edwards' attention immediately with the hush that fell in the room. Even the two snickering men froze and straightened up looking over his head towards where the stairs were coming down. Edward followed their gaze and straightened as his eyes widened, eyes following the vision descending down, feeling a slow churning in his gut start and a slight burn on his chest. God, this was not the time to get a heart burn or an upset stomach or maybe he's getting gastritis right? All the symptoms were there, heart burn, difficulty in breathing, upset stomach? May be he will get nausea….How come he didn't notice how beautiful she is when she smiles?

Bella had a small nervous smile playing at the corner of her mouth as she descended down. The light from the lamps caught on the blue crystals in her snow white gown and sparkled; it was charming, the gown; not hiding her beauty but complementing it as it showed her bare throat with its sweetheart neckline while it stopped inches before reaching her knees.

Bella held on to the banister with a white knuckled grip, taking one step at a time since this was her first time wearing shoes with heels, it adorned her feet in the same color as the crystals on her gown with a white dainty bow on it, she wished Rose had a different pair that matched the dress, not this four inch contraption, still every pair Rose owned came with height, ready to be substituted for a ladder when needed.

The closer Bella moved down, the harder Edward felt it was to breath and his hands automatically went to his tie, it really needed to go or he would be dead. Rooted to the spot, eyes still firmly attached to the girl he didn't notice his mother moving with a smile so big, she didn't need flasher to lighten up the room.

Esme stopped next to her son and nudged him with her shoulder, jolting awake the boy who turned towards his mom with a blank expression.

"Go and help her." She quirked her lips to the side and gestured towards Bella still had to make it halfway down the stairs.

"Oh! Ugh! Yeah!" Hand automatically honing on to his hair and ruining the somewhat combed style Edward strutted and walked away leaving behind an amused Esme, shaking silently in laughter.

Now that he had been out of whatever the spell he was under, Edward found Bella's plight quite funny, the way she held on to the banister with a death grip, the slight scrunch of her brow when she was concentrating too hard on something. Bella didn't even notice him waiting until she came to a halt when two legs clad in shiny black shoes and dark trousers blocked her way.

"Oh!" Her eyes widened just as Edward chuckled, offering his hand. Bella looked at his hand and back at his face and slowly lifted one of hers and put it in his. Edward didn't show how he felt when their skin touched, he wasn't sure if it was a pleasant feeling or not, it stung as if he was walking down a slippery slope, and his whole body tingled.

"I don't know how Rose does it, but I'm afraid I will fall down the minute I take my eyes away from the floor" her tinkling laughter was the only thing that could be heard while the whole room stared at the duo.

Edward held on to her hand as the feeling of churning in his stomach started to flare up once again, until a loud hiccup followed by another made him look around, searching for the person who kept making the sound.

"Oh! My baby is all grown up." Esme full on sobbed, while Carlisle patted her back with a smile he tried to hide but unable to so far. Edward rolled his eyes at Carlisle who shrugged in return; he felt his ears getting warm and knew they must be turning red Edward couldn't help but huff like a little boy.

"If you want, I can go back to my room. You can imagine I'm in kindergarten once again." Edward pointed up towards the second floor while Emmett kept snickering as Rose tried to muffle her laughter on his chest.

Though it was said in jest Edward really felt like running from the room and hiding. What the hell was wrong with him? This was crazy, he didn't like Bella like that or he thought. But a it had slowly started, the watching her when no one was aware of it, smiling when she smiled in content as snow starts to fall, going that extra mile to get her favourite food from the grocery store or saving the last grilled fish despite his best friend salivated after it like a Godzilla.

Edward had tried to dismiss all of these small changes in him but they were poking at him, wagging their red flag, still Edward head on without stopping to analyze what it was.

He was attracted to her, why? He didn't want to think about it now, may be later.

"What? NO! I had a hard time getting you to stop nursing until few months in to the kindergarten." Esmes' loud shout snapped him out of the morose mood and he watched how his mom leapt away from dad, shrugging his arm and like a woman possessed she started to give them orders and acted like a paparazzi.

"Dude…You drank boobie milk until you were five?" Emmett whispered with wide eyes and Edward stared back with a blank face. "Man…That is yuck, and I played with you and you were still drinking your mom's milk?"

"It's not yuck…Don't you know, breast milk is the best. You don't remember do you?" Emmett frowned at that.

"Mom, stopped when I started to bite her nipple, she told me I almost severed hers and she had to get stitches." He muttered lowly.

"Sorry bro." Edward patted his back.

"Maybe that's why I like Rosie's boobs, and her nipples are so soft and she likes it when I bite them-"

"TMI, Em. I don't want to have the mental picture of you attached to her breast whenever I look at her. Argh…go away. There is seriously something wrong with you." He groaned and pushed his smirking friend ready to suffer through his mother's torture.

If he correctly measured, it took exactly twenty seven minutes for his mother to act her heart out as an amateur photographer, and Edward kept seeing stars few minutes later as they walked out of the house, all because of the flasher and was glad finally his dad was able to snag the camera and let them to leave.

So it's not a surprise when they all reached the venue, which was their high school gym turned in to a ballroom, later than they expected.

While Edward took his trusty Volvo, Emmett followed behind in Rosalie's car, something he complained whenever he took his girlfriend to this type of function, serves him right, the little nipple bitter, Fuck, stop it, Edward. He shook his head trying to clear his head.

Edward walked around and opened Bella's door giving his hand to her, like the gentleman his mother brought him up. It was his first dance, he was following the etiquette.

Rosalie became a blur and dashed inside followed by Emmett in search of the warmth and Edward and Bella walked after them slowly, Bella was glad she had a tolerance for cold as Edward did gravitated towards her when he noticed the temperature difference. She did felt like a warm blanket and he liked it.

They entered the decorated room just after Rose and Emmett who as usual garnered attention, but for a change the people in the room were now noticing Edward and Bella who stopped on the threshold. Bella didn't notice the stir they were evoking; her eyes were jumping from one decoration to another.

This was exciting for her, and she liked how the room sparkled with glitter and silver color stars. Her eyes kept going to the displays of balloons of blue and white floating up. She needed to ask how that can happen. Her hand tightened on Edwards elbow.

Edward though had registered the surprised and somewhat envious expressions on the boys and girls he could see. This was his first time attending a dance and it felt good for once being envied and he couldn't disagree that Bella looked breathtaking.

Mine! A voice growled inside his head.

"Bro, you and B are stealing our thunder." Emmetts' boisterous laughter could be heard when they finally reached them and Rosalie beamed for a once not feeling jealous.

"You are happy you decided to come, right Edward?" she didn't wait for an answer but turned to Bella with sparkling eyes, "What do you think Bella, do you like it?"

"This is like in the movies we watched." She beamed at her friends but couldn't keep her eyes from wandering around every few seconds.

"Come on Rosie, let's go dance" Emmett pulled Rosalie to the dance floor leaving Edward in an awkward situation while Bella stared around unaware of her partners nervous glances.

"Bella, would you like to dance?" Edward asked when he noticed it was the polite thing to do.

"Sure" She beamed and took his hand and walked with him to a corner little bit less crowded.

"Umm…..I'm not really good with dancing Edward, Rosalie and I did practice, but I'm afraid of stepping on your feet." Bella looked bashful and Edward couldn't help but smile at her sweet nervous gesture.

"I'm sure you'll be fine and it's only a slow song. We could shuffle right here." from there on wards they danced silently, and for a change Edward enjoyed it. He was surprised when Bella started asking him questions, and found her observations entertaining.

When a fast beat started to play they both stepped out of the dance floor and went in search of their friends, who had the same idea and met them near the refreshment table.

"Hi, Bella. Hey Edward, I saw you guys get here and disappear in to the dance floor. You two look so cute together" Kate gushed as she and Garrett had followed behind Emmett and Rose.

"You look Beautiful Kate" Bella gave a huge smile while Rose inched towards her. After the whole bad scene at the hospital Rosalie had made an intervention when she found out and Kate had ask for forgiveness. Bella on his usual way stretched her hand in friendship and they were back to being good friends.

"Hey! Is that your brother?" Kate had her eyes glued near the entrance where a man in his twenties stood with an uncomfortable smile.

"Yup, he was corralled into being a chaperon, looks like he's having a good time." Rosalie laughed while they watched him uncomfortably trying to edge away from the girl with pink highlights in her hair.

"Maybe we should go and rescue him?" Kate watched how he had a hand behind his neck, eyes snapping around searching for an escape.

"Naa…let him talk it out of the situation; he is the new hot shot attorney as he keeps reminding me for the past few days." They were all silent for a minute.

"I want to go to the bathroom, come on B. Kate you coming?" Rose asked her two friends and without waiting she walked away while Kate lagged few feet behind with a Bella who kept dragging her feet as she eyes row around the room.

Half way towards the entrance they were intercepted and Mike who pounced on the opportunity to dance with the pretty girl who had stolen the eye of every boy of the school for a dance. The three boys had lost the sight of the girls after a few minutes and didn't notice Bella being ushered to dance with Mike who looked like he had won the lottery.

"Crazy isn't it? And don't drink the punch; Mike already spiked the second batch too." Garrett eyed the punch bowl as it kept getting empty while smirking at his fellow classmates.

"Oh, man Ed, did you see Lauren?" Emmett looked tickled pink while searching the dance floor for the girl as he had a huge smile on his face while Edward shook his head.

"You should see her; she looks like a disco ball and maybe you should put on sunglasses or the glare would blind you." Emmett snorted. The three of boys went silent and their eyes started to wonder on the dance floor, looking for the culprit of disco ball gown. It was pretty crowded but Lauren was dancing at the edge right at that time.

"Ouch." Garrett muttered gaining his friends attention. Two of the others followed his head and found Lauren Mallory shaking like she's been electrocuted and Edward couldn't help but snort at that.

"I told you." Emmett muttered while silently shaking in laughter.

"Hey, Garrett!" Their line of sight was blocked by the appearance of a girl. There stood Jessica Stanley with her eyes sparkling blue that complimented the blue ball gown she was dressed in.

"Oh, hi Edward! I didn't know you were going to be here." Jessica was dressed in a strapless dress which highlighted her cleavage and as if to not distract from the effect it will give at first glance her hair was done in an up do.

"Last minute change of mind." Edward shrugged his shoulder, his eyes wondering around the dance floor for a change so he missed the gleam of interest in Jessica's eyes.

"You look quite dashing today" She changed her mind going in search of refreshment and turned towards the boy who had been running after him for the past few months. Now for the first time she found him interesting when it looked like he had given up on her, or has he? She always liked to be desired by males so she didn't found it desirable the way one of her admirers were giving her the cold shoulder.

"This blue color suits you." she touched his arm while batting her lashes at him.

"You got to be shitting me." Edward said abruptly making Jessica and his two friends to look at him, curiously the former in disbelief.

"Take off that hand goddammit." Jessica gapped at him and took her hand as if she got burned.

"You don't have to be so cruel, it was just a touch." Jessica said with a pout.

"No one is touching without asking for permission first." Edward muttered with a scowl.

"My God, it's just a piece of cloth; you don't have to be so territorial about it." Jessica said with disbelief while Emmett and Garrett stared at the conversation with gaping mouths.

"Anyway I was just going to ask you for a dance." Jessica fluttered her lashes prettily at Edward who had a glazed look on his eyes.

Ah! Finally you've seen me haven't you little boy. Jessica gloated silently.

"No way, I had enough of this nonsense or I'm going to be a murderer before this night ends. Excuse me guys. Oh! Sorry Jessica I have to go now, it was nice seeing you." Without waiting for a reply he moved towards the dance floor while his friends and Jessica Stanley stared at his destination. The boys were amuse to see Edward pouncing on Mike Newton and apparently Bella dancing on the edge of the dancing floor and just as Mike's hand slipped below Bella's waist towards her ass Edward squeezed it, something hard from the grimace on Newton's face and swept Bella away in to his arms.

Both Emmett and Garrett found it amusing while Jessica huffed and stared at the couple with a gleam of calculated envy shining and huffed, "Well it was nice seeing you guys, see you after winter vacation." With her head held high she walked away at the right moment as Rosalie descended on her boyfriend and Garrett snickering and giggling like two school girls.

"Do I want to know what got you two giggling like middle school girls, while the queen bitch looked as if she finally found her left tit is wonky?" Rosalie watched the departing back of Stanley and turned towards red faced duo.

"The left one is wonky? Really, you checked it while on the girls' locker?" Emmett perked up while Kate giggled while taking hold of her boyfriend's arm.

"Subject change." Rose glared at her pouting boyfriend and turned to Garrett, "So what did she want?"

"Apparently a dance with Eddie boy, who decided to play the knight and decided to go rescue pretty Bella from the wandering hands of Mike Newton the dragon." They all turned back towards the dance floor to find Edward dancing with Bella while giving the death glare to Newton who was dancing closer to the couple while ignoring his partner and looking at Bella with longing.

"Why don't we give some support before he decided to maim Newton?" Rose snickered and dragged her boyfriend towards the dancing floor while the other couple shrugged and followed in their wake.

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A/N: Thank you for being so patient and all the reviews in the meantime. It makes me so happy to see people still reading this. I'm working with my Beta trying to clean this up but it is slow going so I've only finished around 20 chapters but we are getting closer so hope in the future I could get this beta'd before I post it.

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