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Ed POV.

We headed up the main stairs of the library while Alice and Jasper headed on to the mall. Poor Jasper. I would feel more sympathetic towards him, but due to the fact that I had to work with Bella, I felt that he got off easy.

We walked into the main hall inside the front doors. Bella pointed out to me where the different departments were. On the bottom floor where we were stood, there was a technology room, which had tens of computers linked to the internet, which were free to use. On that floor there was also the children's library.

We headed up the huge wooden staircase on the right and made it to the second floor. She led me to the left and took out a set of keys from her pocket. As she opened the door she nodded her head towards the staircase behind us that carried on up and said, "There are another two floors, but those are the archive floors and the documentation offices."

I nodded as if I understood what that meant and followed her through the door she had opened. I walked into the room and instantly saw the isles upon isles of book shelves. Opposite the door was a big solid looking wooden desk with a computer perched on top of it.

I watched as Bella headed straight towards the desk. I decided to take a look around the isles and see what sort of books there were in here. I walked left down one isle, then right down another and carried on going until I was well hidden.

Not long after, I could hear Bella's shouts, "Edward!? Where are you?! You forgot to leave a trail of bread to find your way back!" she joked. I realised that she was getting closer to me.

I peeked through the shelf that I was hiding behind and saw Bella on the other side. I could see her face contorted in annoyance as I hid from her. I ducked down from her line of vision and made it to the end of my isle. I saw her walk beyond her isle, to go down the one ahead of her. I decided to jump out without warning before she got any further.

Her scream echoed around the still empty room as I enveloped my arms around her waist from behind. I held onto her laughing while she fought to slow down her heart.

"You jerk Edward!" she scolded as she leant back against me catching her breath. With her back now pressed tightly against my chest I forgot the witty retort that I had planned and had to resort with a simple, "Sorry."

She grabbed one of my hands from her waist and pressed it against the top of her left chest to feel her heartbeat race. "That's what you did to me, you little bugger" she joked while I remained frozen.

Does she realise that all I have to do is move my hand down a short distance and I could be cupping her breast in my hand!?...Or I could just as easily lean my head down and kiss her neck!!? I silently reprimanded even though I knew the answer, No she doesn't realise because I'm just her friend.

I snapped out of my thoughts as I felt her take my hand in hers and put it back to her waist. Sighing she joked sounding sad, "As much as I'd love to stand around like this all day, there are people to see and books to stamp."

I smiled weakly as she pulled away from me, realising that she had no idea of how I felt about her. I watched her as she began to walk away. "Edward, don't make me come back there!" she teased as she continued walking. I followed her slowly making a note to myself to never hold to her like that again unless she knew how I felt.

Sitting beside her at the desk, I half listened as she explained to me how to work the computer system that checked in and checked out the books. "If you get any rebels that have their books overdue, they have to pay a fine." She carried on showing me how to do that on the computer system.

Hours later I was seriously bored. I'd made myself a ball out of elastic bands and a paper clip chain that wrapped right around the desk. I saw Bella give me a funny look as she was putting books away when I did that, so I childishly crossed my arms and stuck my tongue out at her.

From across the room I saw and heard her trying to control her laughing. I waved my arms over my head to draw her attention back to me. Why are all these people giving me funny looks…? I shrugged them off as I caught Bella's attention.

She looked at me curiously from across the room while still giggling occasionally. I slowly lifted one of my hands to my mouth and held a finger to my lips and then shushed her loudly with a stern look on my face.

I watched her as she clutched to her sides as a new wave of laughter passed through her. I slowly got up sighing and shaking my head in a mock disapproving manner to the people in the library as I made my way to Bella.

People were watching the both of us disapprovingly. I got close enough to Bella to whisper, "You do know that you're getting dirty looks……and that you're supposed to be in charge?"

I could see her regaining control as she cleared her throat and stood up straight. I noticed that her eyes were glistening with tears as she gave me a curt nod and headed back to the desk.

I finished the job that she had started, putting books away from the cart. Once I'd done this I headed back to the desk. I sat down next to Bella and scowled. She took my paper clip chain off….how dare she!!! I gave her a dirty look as I crossed my arms tapping my foot on the floor at the same time.

Surprisingly Bella didn't look at me. She's ignoring me! That's all the incentive that I need! I began to whistle lightly and strum my fingers across the desk top as well.

I smiled broadly when she gave up and slammed her hand down on mine. She turned to look at me with a smirk as she said, "Edward, be a good little boy and go get some coffee from downstairs."

I could sense that she'd had enough of me for a little while, and I was getting restless anyway, so I headed downstairs as she asked. I got to the coffee machine eventually after the stupid receptionist gave me the wrong directions.

As I was turning from the coffee machine someone called my name. I span around to see Mike Newton walking towards me. "Hey Mike, how are you? I" I asked as we nodded to each other instead of shaking hands because my hands were full.

"I'm good thanks. What are you doing here?" he asked me sounding curious.

"Jasper, our friend Emmett and I are just spending some time with Bella, Alice and Rosalie until we start a new business or get a new job." I explained out rehearsed story.

Mike nodded and carried on asking, "So are you here with Bella then?"

"Ummm, yeah just spending a few days with her, something to do instead of being in the house all day you know." I watched Mike as he pulled out his walkie talkie as it started crackling.

He spoke to the voice on the other end, then turned to me saying apologetically, "Sorry, work calls." We said our goodbyes and headed in different directions.

As I walked past the reception area, I gave the receptionist a dirty look and carried on upstairs. I made it back to Bella and bitched about the receptionist to her while she laughed and sipped on her coffee.

"Guess who I actually had a nice conversation with?" I asked changing the subject.

"Don't know?" she replied to me as she stamped some guy's book politely.

"Mike Newton! You didn't tell me that he worked here! Is he still in love with you then?" I teased her.

She sipped her coffee and I saw her raise her eyebrows at me over the rim of the cup. "Edward, don't pick on Mike, I know that you never liked him. Play nice."

I held up my hands and said, "I was nice, I made small talk with him, I didn't tease him or anything."

She seemed pleased with that, and then continued to sort out the books which had collected on the desk.

I found myself bored again, then risked asking, "Bella, do you have my paper clip chain? You took it off the desk" I finished with a pathetic tone of disappointment.

She looked at me and gave me a winning smile. I noticed that her hair still had the hint of red in it as she leaned forward into the sun, opening the desk draw at the same time. She frowned as she looked at me then said shaking her head, "You're so weird sometimes Edward…."

I faked shock and hurt as I held a hand to my heart saying, "You wound me!"

"But that's what I love about you!" She laughed as she finished, while standing up and ruffling my hair.

I sat there for a while going over the last sentence that she'd said. I chuckled lightly to myself once Bella was out of hearing range as I thought of how I was terrified of her saying those words to me when we were younger, and now, I craved to hear them.

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For the rest of the day, I carried on doing some odd jobs, mainly tidying up the shelves so that I wouldn't have to be with Bella the whole time, torturing myself.

At the end of the day I was comfortably sat in the furthest corner of the room, book in hand. That's how Bella found me. I looked up from the book once I realised that she hadn't said a word, yet still stood there silently.

I held up the book, showing her the cover. I watched as a confused look crossed her face as she asked, "Is that supposed to remind me of something?"

I shook my head as I stood up and explained, "Nope, I just picked the book up because I liked the cover, and its goooooood!" I drew out the last word as Bella lead me back to the door. I set the book on the desk so that I could carry on reading it tomorrow.

As Bella and I headed down stairs to the front door I heard her tell me, "You should never judge a book by its cover."

We sat on the wall outside the library for a few minutes arguing over judging a book by its cover until Jasper and Alice got to us.

That was the hardest one to write, so it's probably boring, I figured that a library would be boring for some people (Not me!!) so I made Edward do the things that I'd be doing with my twin sister if I was in that situation.

Can you guess which book Edward was reading at the end:D