EPOV

As I walked away from Bella's room I smiled. I loved the effect I had on girls, no; I loved the effect I had on her. I couldn't care less about any other girls. I wasn't very tired and I knew the guys were busy, so I headed over to the basketball courts. I grabbed a ball off the cart and began shooting free throws. Everyone swooshed through the net, not even hitting the rim. Basketball was like breathing for me, it was so natural. Everyone thought I was going to become some great NBA star or something, I just laughed at them.

I could never deal with that kind of publicity. I didn't want people all up in my business. A part of me wanted to pursue photography as my career, but it's just a hobby. I really want to be a doctor. I want to save people, just like I had been saved.

I stopped thinking and went back to shooting. When I finally started getting tired, after an hour or so, I put the ball back in its place and headed toward my room.

When I got there I was surprised to see Lauren leaning up against my door. I groaned; I didn't want to have to deal with her this late at night.

"Hey, Edward," she purred.

"Hi Lauren," I said in a monotone voice. She frowned; she didn't like it when I didn't play along.

"What's wrong?" she asked, putting her hand on my chest.

"Nothing, I am just not in the mood for your company." I replied, pushing off her hand. She huffed.

"Edward, you're not being very nice tonight didn't you have fun earlier with camera?"

"Not really and if you don't like the way I am then go away," I said simply. She just stood there gaping at me before she wrapped her jacket around her and stormed out of the building. I managed a chuckle before slipping into my room. I couldn't even be bothered to change or shower; I could do those things in the morning. Instead I just flopped down onto the bed thinking of Bella before I fell into a deep sleep.

The next morning I got up at four am for basketball practice. I don't understand why they can't have practice after classes instead of before. I mean who could play good basketball that early in the morning?

By the time I was changed and showered I didn't have time to get to English, so I just decided to skip it, although, I paid for that once I got to lunch.

"Where were you third period?" Bella screeched. I cringed; she was scary when she started yelling.

"I skipped English sorry," I said, trying to appear unaffected.

"Why didn't you tell us you were skipping?" Emmett asked with a mischievous grin. Normally, when we skipped we all skipped together and got wasted.

"It was a last minute decision," I shrugged, "I had basketball practice this morning and by the time I was done I didn't have enough time to get there."

"Well because you weren't there I had to partner with Jackson," Bella said grumpily. I couldn't contain my laughter. Jackson was a very weird and annoying kid in our class.

"It's not funny, Edward. He kind of scares me."

"You're right it isn't funny, I think it's hilarious," I squeaked out. Just as I was about to apologizing for laughing at her, a glob of ranch dressing hit my forehead.

"Oops, you have some ranch on your face!" Bella said, lowering her fork. The corners of my mouth twitched as I wiped it off. Then I picked up the ketchup bottle off the table and squirted it at her.

"Oops, I missed I was aiming for you mouth." I said, as it hit Bella's chin. She went to throw some lettuce at me, but instead it hit Emmett who was seated on my left.

Right before he squirted the mustard onto Bella's shirt he yelled, "FOOD FIGHT!" I just grabbed the ketchup bottle for dear life and hid under the table. I still some how managed to get covered in food, but I can guarantee you I hit some people with the ketchup considering it was now empty. I hadn't thought it was possible to have a food fight outside, but it was most definitely possible and even more fun. When I emerged from under the table the whole eating area was covered in food as well as most of the people standing around us. When we heard the principal's voice we all started to run in different directions.

He may have the squeakiest voice ever, but the man was built like a brick wall. No one wanted to be caught by him. As I snuck away I bumped into someone and they squeaked. When I turned around I realized it was Bella. I grabbed her hand before I took off running in the direction of my dorm room. She giggled all the way there and I relished in her happiness.

Before we made it to my room still holding hands, we passed the others. They were all standing outside of Alice and Rose's dorm building. They were staring at our hands and I felt Bella slowly pulling away and wasn't happy about that.

"Go get cleaned up," I said quickly, "If you get caught with food on you, they'll know you were involved, hurry."

"We were waiting for the two of you," Rosalie said.

"We can't all go to your room. We'll never get showered in time," I said, annoyed.

"True," Jasper said. He pulled Alice onto his back and started running towards the guy's dorm. Rosalie and Emmett dashed upstairs to the girl's dorm leaving me and Bella standing there on the sidewalk.

"Well we better hurry," she said, taking off. I followed, laughing as I passed her.

"No fair. You're too fast," she said. I just laughed some more, but slowed down a bit. When we got to my dorm building Bella kept running like she was going to her room, but I grabbed her and just pulled her towards my door.

"You'll get caught if you go all the way to you place to shower," I said, pulling her along. She pulled her arm out of my grasp, giggling, but still kept following me.

When we arrived at my room an awkward silence settled over us.

"Umm, you can go ahead and take a shower, first" I said, handing her some towels from the closet. She nodded going into the bathroom and closing the door behind her. I didn't really want to sit on any of my furniture in these clothes, so I just settled for pacing up and down. I couldn't have done anything else if I wanted to; my mind kept wandering to Bella. I mean who wouldn't think about a hot girl when they were naked in the other room using your shower?

About fifteen minutes later I heard the water shut off and then some shuffling in the bathroom. The door opened and she stood in the doorway in nothing, but a towel.

"Edward?" she asked.

"Yes?" I said, trying to keep my gaze on her face.

"Can I borrow something to wear?" she said, blushing heavily. I nodded, and turned around to get her something. I just grabbed a pair of basketball shorts and a wife beater and then quickly handed it to her. She said thank-you and then disappeared back into the bathroom.

It didn't take her long to come back up. Her hair was thrown up into a sloppy bun and she had to roll the shorts up to make them fit. She looked really fucking hot in my clothes. Before I got caught staring I quickly took her towel and threw it into the hamper.

"Do you mind if I take a shower real quick?" I asked. She shook her head, so I grabbed a towel and some clothes and went into the bathroom. It was still warm in there because from the heat of the water and the mirror was a little fogged up. As I stepped into the shower I couldn't help but think about how she had been here just a few minutes ago.

BPOV

I leaned back on Edward's couch as I waited for him to get out of the shower. Every once in a while I leaned down and breathed in. These clothes smelled like him. It was a very intoxicating smell. I got bored just sitting there, so I decided to take a look around. His room was just like everyone else's. It had a bathroom, a bedroom, and a living room. I wandered into the bedroom and looked around. He had a picture of his parents, a picture of the group from last year, and a picture of him and his basketball team. I smiled at how happy he looked. He was holding a trophy, so I assumed they must have won the championship last year. I was about to go back into the other room when a magazine on the floor caught my attention. I picked it up and when I saw the cover I started laughing uncontrollably. Edward came in, his hair still damp, and looked at me strangely.

"What's so funny?" He asked. I just held up the magazine, going into another fit of laughter. He snatched it out of my hand and threw it away. "Alice must have left that over here."

"Sure," I said, wiping the tears of laughter away from my eyes. "That would have been a good excuse if I didn't happen to know that Alice doesn't like Cosmo." He then started to blush and mumble under his breath.

"What were you doing in my room in the first place?" he asked. I just stared at him, but when I saw the amused look in his eyes I decided to mess with him since I was so close to the bed.

"I wanted to know how comfortable your bed was just in case I ever decide to stay here." I said. I had to hold back my laughter as his eyes widened. I just walked past him and winked. Wow, that was so unlike me, but Edward defiantly brings out another side of me that I could get use to.

He came out a few minutes later his cell phone and jacket in hand and shoes on his feet. "Alice wants us to meet them at the football field. Apparently a bunch of kids are hanging out there tonight," he explained. I nodded and slipped my sandals onto my feet while he went to grab me a hoodie to stay warm.

We headed out of the apartment and began walking towards the field. When we passed the "food court" we could see the unlucky kids who got caught still cleaning up. I felt sort of bad because I was one of the people who started it, but they should have gotten out of there faster. Edward and I walked in a comfortable silence and I discreetly kept scooting closer to him until we were barely touching. I couldn't help it I just felt so drawn to him.

EPOV

As we were walking I noticed how Bella kept inching closer to me. I found it quite amusing. Normally girls would practically latch onto me as we were walking, but Bella just scooted closer and stopped once our arms were barely touching. She was a tease, she just didn't know it. Another thing about Bella was she didn't need to fill the silence with mindless chatter and I loved it, it was so nice to just be together. She could just walk there contently without any more than me by her side and be perfectly fine. I could go on and on about Bella all day, everything about her was amazing.

I was brought out of my thoughts when we reached the field. Everyone was hanging out on the bleachers in their own little cliques. There was music playing at one end of the field and there were coolers filled with soda at the other end. I looked around and quickly found the others. They were at the top of the bleachers and Alice had provided blankets to help us stay warmer.

I pointed them out to Bella and we made our way up toward them.

"Do people do this a lot?" Bella asked, quietly.

"Twice a year," I said, looking down at her, "Before End of Year break we have all kinds of events. Like the school wide car wash and the winter formal."

"End of year break? Edward, school ends in May," she said. I laughed.

"No. End of the actual year, not the school year. We all get out of school three days before Thanksgiving and don't come back until January 2nd. We have a lot of events right before then because the teachers don't give much work. At the end of the year we Prom and the sports banquet. That about when we all do this again."

"Oh," she said. When we reached the top Alice wasted no time lecturing us.

"It took you long enough," she said, "I thought maybe you two finally realized you were hopelessly in love with each other and were having making love or some crap like that."

I gaped at her and Bella turned redder than a tomato. I couldn't believe Alice had just said that. But it had gotten me thinking. I mean I knew I liked Bella, but did I love her. I took a quick glance at Bella well Fuck me, Alice was right; I think I do love her.