Chapter 13: Get Me My Chips!

Leah decided she wanted to go home for lunch. While she was in the kitchen fixing herself a grilled ham and cheese sandwich I tried to figure out a way to start this weird conversation. She was humming along to a song that playing out of the little yellow radio that she kept above her sink. She flipped her sandwich a couple of times and then placed it on a paper plate. After she was finished cooking she came and sat down beside me on the couch in the living room. She took a bite of her sandwich and then glanced at me.

"I wish you'd spit it out already," she muttered, now focusing on her sandwich. "I know you want to say something … we've only got an hour before I have to go back." I still hadn't found the words. I decided to be blunt.

"So Ryan is your type?" Nothing against Ryan but he seemed a little too sloppy to fit Leah's taste, and the guy really didn't have that much going on upstairs. He had dark brown eyes and sloppy, dirty, blonde hair.

"I don't really have a type, Edward, it's how the person treats me and vibe I feel with the person," she said with her mouth full of food. "Why does it matter?"

"It doesn't, and you do have a type. It doesn't mean you can't fall for someone that doesn't fit that mold but you do have preferences, everybody does." I glanced past Leah, she'd left her sprite on counter; I got up to get it for her.

"Whatever, Edward, you're always right." She sighed and then began to work on the next half of her sandwich. "Can you bring me some potato chips, too?" I nodded and grabbed the chips off the top of her fridge. I placed the chips on her glass coffee table.

"I'm not trying to be right, Leah, I'm just trying to figure you out," I pleaded honestly.

"What is it that you're trying to figure out?" She frowned as she reached her hand in the chip bag. "Just be blunt, Edo, damn we've been spending all this time together, if there is something you want to know just spit it out!"

"Are you ready to start dating? Are you over Sam?" I did as she asked the two questions that were stupidly echoing in my head. She exhaled and took her hand out of the chip bag. She wiped her hands on her dark blue denim.

"Yes, I'm over Sam. It took a minute to realize that I was, but I am. I wouldn't mind dating but there's nobody I'm really looking at." She took that moment to look me in the eyes. God, her eyes were beautiful. "Satisfied?" she practically whispered.

"Yeah very, thanks for your honesty." I noticed that Leah's heartbeat had accelerated.

"No problem, uh Edward, now I have a question or two." She turned so she was facing me and gave me her undivided attention.

"Okay what do you want to know, Clearwater?" She smirked and picked at her fingers.

"Well how did you know that Bella was the one? I mean as far as looks are concerned she's pretty ordinary. I'm not saying she's not attractive, I just don't get the draw." She looked at me as if I was going to divulge some big secret.

"It's not her looks. It's her selflessness, her strength, her kindness, and believe it or not, her scent." Leah nodded, appreciating her scent.

"I get it, the girl has struggled, Jacob told me her story, but if you listen closely or talk to other females you'd realize all of us, or anyone for that matter, has a story. Life isn't easy. I think it's because you don't know what she's thinking. It makes her mysterious."

"You've given this a lot of thought haven't you?" I snickered and her expression went from curiosity to frustration.

"No! Honestly, I have no choice but to think about you in this situation! I just- I don't understand why someone as great as you is stuck on someone who doesn't even truly realize what she has!" She fumed, "I'm just perplexed and annoyed."

"So what I am hearing is…"

"You think I'm great," we both said at the same time and then she chuckled.

"God, Edo, you're so predictable!"

It was almost time for Leah to go back to work. I wasn't ready for this conversation to end yet. There was so much more I wanted to know from her. I knew exactly what I had to do. I grabbed Leah's cell phone out of her purse and called Susan, her boss.

"Hello Susan, this is Edward, I'm sorry to be calling you from Leah's phone but her lunch didn't agree with her. She's stuck in the bathroom and I don't think she's going to make it back!" Leah lunged at me and reached all around trying to snatch the phone from my grasp. She practically toppled on top of me trying to get it from me. "Okay, I'll let her know. Thanks goodbye." The damage had been done and now I had to deal with one pissed shifter.

"What the hell man! I have bills to pay!" She punched me and it hurt her a little.

"I'll pay you for your time Clearwater," I teased as I positioned her in my lap. It was weird holding her this way. Having my body in contact with so much of her body at once it was intense and I really enjoyed her heat.

"What am I your hooker?" She giggled and our eyes locked. She has such pretty eyes.

"That's not what… I want." I cleared my throat, it was dry, and not because of my thirst; just because I was envisioning Leah as my prostitute, and seeing her naked.

"What's wrong? Are you thirsty?" She asked as she shifted off me and sat on the couch.

"I was thinking about something." I muttered.

"What?" It was a logical question that I didn't want to answer so I stared at the wall in front of me. "I know you heard me or should I begin questioning your supernatural abilities?" She picked at me.

"Nudity," I snapped, "I was thinking about nudity." She giggled.

"What is Mr. Cullen missing Miss. Swan's bare bottom?" Her giggles turned into a laughing fit.

"I've never seen Bella that way!" I could've shut her up completely by mentioning that I was thinking of her naked. It wasn't that I wanted to see her that way… it was just a thought that crossed my mind and surprisingly it wasn't a bad thought at all.

"I call bullshit Edward! How long had you and the Swan been together?" She relaxed and leaned back on the couch.

"We were together almost three years." These questions were hard and triggering memories of the woman who had hurt me so badly wasn't something I wanted to be doing.

"That's why I call bullshit! No man goes out with a woman that long and doesn't demand to see a boob!" She grabbed her bag of chips, now completely invested and enjoying this conversation a little too much.

"Maybe the men that you've talked to aren't really men at all. Who demands anything like that from a woman? The woman should want to share herself openly and completely with her spouse." Leah frowned, she agreed with me but didn't admit to it.

"So Bella hasn't wanted to share herself openly?"

"Why are we talking about Bella so much?" I was whining. Oh my God, this she wolf had me whining.

"Don't change the subject now! Answer the question!" She shoved me and I took her chips which caused a little fight between us. She tried to tackle me for the second time today which landed her underneath me, pinned to the couch.

"Give me my chips!" She pouted.

"Shouldn't you be asking me to get off of you instead of worrying about your chips?" She rolled her eyes.

"That request should be obvious don't you think?" She attempted to shove me but I grabbed her hand, which, as usual, gave off that amazing tingling sensation.

"For some reason I like this, seeing you powerless and out of breath," I confessed. "It must be the vampire-shifter thing."

"Yeah," she whispered breathlessly. Her heartbeat became irregular; it was so loud I felt the vibration in my ears.

"Are you okay? Are you about to phase?" I asked, but for some reason I still didn't move. She shook her head and started to squirm.

"Get off me, Edo, you're heavy!" I forgot how much heavier I was than I looked. I lifted myself so that she could sit upright. "And now answer the question!"

"Uh, yes I suppose Bella was willing."

"Okay?" And why didn't you do anything.

"I wanted to respect her virtue. I wanted her to be pure on our wedding night, like I was," I confessed and Leah's eyes popped out of her head.

"You're a virgin!" She stood up and started to pace. "Aren't you like a million years old?"

"A hundred and stop making fun of me," I was angry. I never thought that Leah would laugh about this.

"I'm not teasing you, I'm just shocked! You're hot, I don't get why you would wait. I don't see how some girl didn't make it her mission to sway you to the naughty side." Leah giggled and I smirked at her. I noticed that she'd called me hot. I liked that she thought of me that way. I would hold onto this information until I can use to my advantage.

"I didn't say others didn't try Leah. Sex should be with someone you are truly in love with." I felt like I was talking to Bella all over again.

"I agree with you, I just believe in the practice run. I wouldn't want to get married and then have our very first time as husband and wife be a premature ejaculation disaster. It's supposed to be perfect."

"But isn't experiencing the unknown with your husband perfect?" I challenged and she shook her head.

"No, wedding sex is supposed to be earthshaking Edward! Bella will never let you live it down if that shit isn't magical." She punched my shoulder again.

"I don't even know if Bella's going to choose me." The confession popped out of my mouth so quickly I couldn't take it back.

"She will. Nothing against Jake, he's great, but Edward you're pretty amazing and very hard to compete with." She gazed at me with those eyes.

"Yeah, you too," I mouthed, as I took in her whole face. Mainly her lips, this wasn't happening was it? Is this what I wanted? I knew it was something that I really, really wanted to try. I inched closer to her, she took a deep breath in and moved closer to me and then- there was a knock at her door.

"Hey Leah, its Ryan, are you home? I heard you were sick I wanted to check on you." Leah looked at me and then to her door, but didn't move yet.

"Uh, yeah I'm here, that's so sweet. I can't open the door I don't want you to see me looking a sick mess." She suddenly changed her mind, got up, ran to the door and placed her body against it.

"Silly girl, even sick you're one of the most beautiful women I know. Anyways I got you this … seeya at work Thursday." He slid a card through the space at the bottom of the door.

"Seeya."

This Ryan was determined to sneak his way into Leah's life. I didn't like it at all. I watched as Leah scooted to the floor and opened the card and laughed at its silly message. He had made her smile, that was my job and I didn't plan to be giving it up anytime soon.

Author's Note: Hey all! There have been some requests for a longer chappie, this is a little longer! I hope you are all still enjoying the story. Please review let me know what you think and as always no flames!