I tried to get the next chapter to you as soon as possible, and I've succeeded in doing so.

I also have some information that might be able to set some things straight throughout the chapter and the story.

As of right now:

Bella: Age 16: Birthday is September 13th: Sophomore

Edward: Alice's older twin brother by 5minutes: Age 16: Birthday is June 20th: Able to drive: Sophomore

Alice: Jasper's girlfriend: Age 16: Birthday is June 20th

Emmett: Bella's older brother: Rosalie's boyfriend: Age 16: Birthday is December 9th

Rosalie: Age 16: Birthday is April 9th

Jasper: Rosalie's Twin: Age 16: Birthday is April 9th

Esme: Edward and Alice's mom

Carlisle: Edward and Alice's dad

Charlie: Bella and Emmett's dad: Police Chief of Seattle

Bella started school on Monday, September 9th. School began on Monday, September 2nd.

I know I haven't explained anything in detail, but Bella and Edward know most things about each other like: Bella knows he was a player but can see the good side of him, Edward knows Bella's history of dating, they both know what the other likes, etc.

So you'll find out more information little by little as the story goes on. It'll be kind of like a scavenger hunt except without a list to know what you'll be looking for.

I hoped all that information helped! Enjoy!

Birthday Date & Confessions

3 days later.

Friday morning. The day of the date that Edward will be taking me out on.

BPOV:

I was extremely excited for my date tonight with Edward.

I tried really hard not to show my excitement during school, and hopefully I'm still not showing it, but you can feel it coming off of me.

Alice told me and Edward that we had to walk separately after school today so that she can help me get ready for tonight.

The rest of the week had gone by in a flash and pretty irritating to say the least. Mike Newton kept asking me out, not taking 'no' for an answer, and Lauren had confronted me about being a boyfriend stealer.

Flashback

"You are such a boyfriend stealer, Whore." Lauren had said to me.

"What the hell are you going on about now?"

"I saw you yesterday walking with Edward, Emmett, and Jasper you little slut. I saw you guys laughing and joking around. You were so flirting with them. Now look who's the whore her."

"You really think you have everything figured out?" I asked as she nodded." "Well you really are stupid, aren't you? One, I sit with them at a table everyday for meals with their girlfriends I might add. Two, I already know Edward's not your boyfriend and I've hung out with him for the past two days so it doesn't matter. Three, Emmett's my brother. His name is Emmett Swan and I'm Isabella Swan, with Bella as a nickname. So we're related. Four, Jasper's twin sister is dating my brother and he's also the boyfriend of my roommate who happens to be Edward's younger sister. So sorry to disappoint you, but if I'm being truthful, I'm really not sorry at all."

End of Flashback

As the rest of the day continued on, I went around school doing my usual daily routine: going to the cafeteria for breakfast, Edward walking me to my first period class, go through my classes, meet up for lunch, then head toward biology with Edward, then gym, and going to practice on practice days. The only thing different about today is that I did my usual routine I was excited about tonight and I was greeted a 'Happy Birthday!' this morning as I said down for breakfast..

After gym I headed towards my room and was pulled inside and dragged to a chair in front of a mirror by none other than, Alice.

"Bella, you are going to have a great time tonight!" Alice exclaimed as she bounced up and down around the room.

"You know where he's taking me?" I asked her.

"Of course! How else as I suppose to know how to dress you up for tonight if I didn't know where you guys were going."

"Well, would you be kind enough to tell me what he's got planned for tonight?"

"Nope! Edward would kill me if he knew I told you."

I huffed as I sat back in my chair. I had been practically begging Edward to tell me what we were going to do tonight, but he wouldn't give a single clue.

When Alice was done with my hair and make-up she left me to get dressed with the clothes she left on my bed.

I walked towards my bed examined the clothes that were laid out to me. There was a gray halter top, a black and white plaid mini skirt, and black jeans with some white heels (Outfit on profile). I put them on and looked at myself in the mirror and I actually really looked pretty.

I heard a knock on the door and Alice ran to open the door to Edward, who was standing there with a single red rose in his hand.

"Hey Bella. Uh, this is for you." He said as he handed me the rose. "You look amazing tonight."

"You don't look too bad yourself," and he didn't. He was wearing a black dress shirt with some dark washed jeans (Outfit on profile). I went to grab my black and white striped purse as I chuckled.

"What's so funny?" He asked.

"Nothing. We just match."

"Hm? That is funny."

We walked down to his car, which was a silver Volvo. "Nice car." I complimented.

"Thanks. It was a birthday present."

As we got in the car, I asked the question that I knew he wouldn't answer. "So, where are we going?"

"It's a surprise."

"Please, Edward. You know how much I don't like surprises." I said with a puppy dog pout on my face.

"Bella, you might as well wipe that look off your face because I'm not even going to look in that direction let alone tell you where we're going."

"Please?" I pouted a bit more.

"No, Bella."

"Fine." I huffed as I sat back in my seat.

We drove in silence until we got to a restaurant called 'Volterra'.(What are the odds that it's a real restaurant and called Volterra)

As we were seated and told the waitress what drinks we wanted, but I was pretty sure she ignored me and continued to flirt with Edward.

Edward politely told her what both of our drink orders, since she clearly didn't listen to me.

As she came back to take our orders, I placed my order for a beef ravioli with spicy tomato cream sauce, which she ignored and asked Edward what he wanted, but he kept his eyes and attention to me even when he placed his own order..

"I'll have the same as what Bella wants."

She left, and I'm pretty sure she doesn't know what we wanted considering she paid most of her attention to Edward.

"I'm pretty sure she's going to get our order wrong since she probably wasn't paying any attention at all."

"Really? Why's that?"

"She was pretty much ignoring me so that she could flirt with you. She practically acted as if I wasn't here. I'm pretty sure that she would've sat on me without knowing it." I said to him as I narrowed my eyes.

"I hadn't noticed. I was basically looking at you the whole time."

I blushed as I said, "yeah I noticed. You wouldn't even look at her when you spoke to her."

"Why would I need to? I have a perfectly beautiful and intelligent girl right in front of me that I can have a conversation with, instead of one that's fake and would just look at me not understanding a word I say.

I blushed an even darker shade of red. "Edward I know I'm quite smart, but beautiful? I'm not really sure I believe you on that."

"Bella, you really are beautiful. Not just now, but every single day. I'm not just saying that, too. You truly are, inside and out."

"Thank you, Edward. I just don't think so. I guess I just don't complimented like that very often."

"Well I'm going to change that. I'll compliment you every day until you know just how beautiful you really are." He said as he placed his hand on my cheek.

"Here are two beef raviolis with spicy tomato cream sauce. I hope you enjoy, and please feel free to come and get me if you need anything else." She said as she left.

"I'm surprised she got the order right."

"So, how has the birthday girl's day been so far?"

"A pretty normal day except for the big 'happy birthday' this morning at breakfast. I was also very excited to go out to dinner with you." I said as I blush at my last statement.

"There's nothing to blush about, Bella. I was also very excited to go out to dinner with you, too." He said as he reached for my hand.

As we finished our dinner, the waitress came back with the bill. As I went to grab my purse Edward beat me to it by placing a card inside the bill and handing it back to our waitress.

"Edward! You didn't have to pay!" I exclaimed.

"Of course I did, Bella. This is a date Bella and it's you birthday, so don't worry about it Bella."

"But Edward!"

"Bella, it's fine, really. No more arguing with me on this."

"Fine, but Edward?"

"Yeah?"

"Thank you. Not just for dinner, but for a great birthday too."

"You're welcome, Bella." He said as he leaned forward and kissed my cheek, but took advantage of his leant down position and kissed him on the lips. He was shocked at first, but responded instantly. I could feel a spark between us and I hoped he felt it as well.

We broke apart from the kiss and I couldn't help responding with a, "wow,"

"That, Bella, is an understatement." He said as we walked back to his car.

"Edward, what does this mean for us?" I asked as he got into the driver's seat and took my hand.

"It'll mean whatever you want it to mean, Bella. I don't want you to do anything that you don't feel comfortable with. If you want this to mean something than I'm perfectly fine with it, but if you don't then it's perfectly fine. I just want you happy and comfortable."

"I want this to mean something, but I want us to take it slow. I really like you, Edward, but I know your dating history, and you know mine. I don't want this to end badly and have me regret giving you a chance. Not only that, but we've only known each other for a week. We may know a lot about the other, yet it's still like we don't know enough."

"Bella, I promise you won't regret it. We'll take it slow and go as fast as you want us to. I really like you, too. I swear to you that you're nothing like the girls that I've gone out with in the past. You're different." He said as he leaned in to give me another kiss.

"So, you're okay with us going slow."

"I don't want you uncomfortable, Bella. If you want to go slow then we'll go slow. You'll control the pace in this relationship, okay?" He asked as I nodded, and we drove back to the academy with him holding one of my hands as he had one hand on the wheel.

We got back to school with Edward and I holding hands as we walked to my room. No one was out this late, so it was pretty quiet.

When we got to the door to my room I turned to give Edward a quick kiss and said 'goodnight' to him.

"Goodnight, Bella. I'll see you tomorrow in the morning." He said as he gave me one more kiss.

"Edward, do you want everyone knowing about us?" I asked nervously. I wasn't opposed to the idea of telling our friends about us, but I wasn't sure if Edward wanted that. Not only that, but I don't know what Emmett's reaction will be.

"Whatever you want, Bella. I'm comfortable either way. I don't care as long as you're comfortable with it."

"I want to tell them. I can't lie even if my life depended on it, and I don't want to hide things from Emmett."

"We'll tell them, then, or we could just let them figure it out." He said with a smirk, "Get some sleep. I'll come tomorrow morning to pick you up for breakfast." He said as he kissed the top of my head.

I walked into our room and opened the door to my small bedroom to get changed to go to sleep as quietly as I could without waking up Alice.

When I was done I laid down in bed thinking about my time with Edward tonight. He said that he really liked me and would let me set the pace to our relationship. I know Edward won't play me like those other guys and I know he's changed, but I've got to let him really show me the change in him, since the time I first got here he was already hitting on me, and then I see him the next day he showed me the true him and we've gotten friendlier and friendlier up until now that we decided to confess liking the other.

I was getting tired and ended up falling asleep with thoughts of Edward in my head.

When I woke up to Alice jumping on my bed asking for details on how the date went yesterday the only reply I gave was, "ask Edward."

"Why would I ask Edward for details when you're standing right here, unless he did something?" I might as well have a little fun with this, so I kept silent.

"He did do something!"

I didn't reply and just made my way to the bathroom to change for breakfast. I heard a knock on the door and was pretty certain it was Edward, since I could hear Alice yelling at him from here.

"Alice, calm the fuck down. What the hell did I do now?" I could hear the confusion and annoyance in Edward's voice.

"That's what I would like to know. What did you do to Bella last night?"

I decided to step out of the bathroom and head towards him to give him a kiss on the cheek.

"Morning."

"Good morning, Bella."

"Okay, what the hell is going on? I thought Edward did something to you last night?"

"I didn't say that."

"You didn't say anything about it."

"Exactly, it's your own fault for assuming things."

"Well how could I not assume. You tell me to ask Edward how last night went, and then you stay silent when I asked if he did something." She practically screamed at me.

"You were going to make me put up with this?" Edward asked as he gestured towards a fuming Alice.

"Of course, she's your sister."

"But she's your roommate."

"Can one of you guys just explain to me what is going on?"

"I think this will be will be enough of an explanation." He said as he bent down to kiss me. I heard Alice squealing next to me.

"You guys are dating!" She squealed even louder as I nodded.

We walked out the door with me holding hands with Edward and Alice walking besides me.

"Why was I not informed of this last night?"

"Because when I got back last night you were already asleep and Edward wanted everybody to figure it out instead."

"Why the hell would you do that?!"

"Because I'm letting Bella decide what she wants to do and I thought it'd be fun."

"Fun my ass. I really thought you did something to, Bella."

"Do you really think I'd do anything to, Bella?"

"YES!"

"Well it's good to know that you have so little faith in me my dear sister."

We were the first ones to the table so I decided to pipe in, "Alice let's surprise them. I'll pretend to be mad at Edward and when they're least expecting it, we'll spring it on them."

"Bella, have you met your brother. If Emmett finds out I upset you then I'll be dead before we can even tell them it was a joke."

"I'll make sure he doesn't kill you. I'll stop him before he can lay a hand on you. Please, can you please do this for me?" As I pouted with my best puppy dog face.

"You know I can't resist that look." He sighed, "Fine, we'll do it, but I'm hiding behind you two the whole time." He said as he kissed my temple.

We quickly got our food and sat down, as everybody else showed up and quickly notice Alice sitting in between me and Edward.

"Edward, what the fuck did you do to my baby sister?!."

"Why do you assume that I'm the one who did something?"

"I think you know exactly why. I told you exactly what would happen if you upset her." He said as he took a step forward. I thought about stopping this, but I thought it would be a bit more fun if Edward got scared.

"I knew I shouldn't have let you off so easy. I should have given you specifics on what I would've done if you upset her." Emmett cracked his knuckles and took another step forward as Edward gulped loudly and looked at me pleadingly.

"Emmett, stop. Edward didn't do anything." I said as I got up from my seat to sit on Edward's lap.

"Then why the fuck were you guys sitting apart from each other and not talking?"

"We wanted to play a little joke on you guys." I said as Edward gave me a playful glare, "Okay, I wanted to play a joke on you guys."

"I thought you said you wouldn't let Emmett lay a hand on me." Edward said as I turned on his lap to look at him

"He didn't lay a hand on you. I stopped him before you could, but the look on your face was pretty funny."

"Pretty funny my ass. I almost pissed my pants, Bella." He stated as I burst out laughing.

"That's not funny, Bella." He pouted as I stopped laughing.

"I'm sorry." I said as I kissed his cheek.

"Okay, what's going on? I'm really confused here." Emmett asked.

"What does it look like to you, Emmett?" As Edward wrapped his arms around my waist and kissed the top of my head. I saw Emmett tilt his head as if he was looking at something very unusual.

"Are you really that dumb, big brother?"

"Seriously what's going on?" Everybody groaned except for Emmett as he continued to try to solve the mystery even though there wasn't even a mystery that needed to be solved.

"Emmett. It means that me and Edward are dating." I said as slow as possible like I was talking to a kid that needed instructions to do something.

"What! When the fuck did this happen?"

"Uh, last night, obviously."

"Whatever, as long as you're not upset, Bella, then I'm okay with it." Emmett replied with a sigh than stood up, "Well if we're done here I'm going to go grab some food for my empty belly over here." He said as he gestured to his stomach.

As I watched Rosalie and Jasper follow Emmett, I turned back around to face Edward and give him a kiss. "That wasn't so bad."

"Yeah, except for the fact that I almost got my ass kicked by your brother."

"Come on! I saved you in time before he even touched you, so I did keep my promise on making sure he didn't lay a hand on you." I said as I gave him another kiss.

"Hey! None of that in front of the brother, here."

"Like you're one to talk, Emmett, even when I come to visit you and dad during the summer you take every chance you get to make out with Rose. Even when I'm here now you still do it." I said as I noticed he was too busy eating his food.

"Are you even listening to me?" I asked him as he lifted up his headed and swallowing his mouthful of food.

"Did you say something, Bella?" He asked.

I narrowed my eyes in annoyance, "Why do I even bother?"

We continued to eat our breakfast and decided to head up to mine and Alice's room to hang out.

We decided to just sit around, listen to music, and talk. We continued to hang out, only getting up to grab some lunch and dinner.

When it was getting dark Rosalie and the boys decided that it was about time they got back to their own rooms. I gave a Edward a kiss and told him 'goodnight' before going to my bedroom and getting my clothes to change into for bed.

I laid in bed thinking how today went. It was obvious that Emmett didn't like the fact that I was dating Edward, but I trust Edward. Emmett will just have to get over the fact that I really like Edward.

Tomorrow we're all staying in our rooms to finish some school work, and I also have to finish the work that I missed from the week before, so we're all going to meet up for only breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

I thought it was a little fun to have Edward be a little scared of Emmett, but also sweet of Edward feeling comfortable with whatever Bella wanted.

The list of information I gave in the beginning of the chapter will be updated as the story goes, so if you find something confusing about previous chapters you can always check back to the Author's note in the beginning of possibly every other chapter.

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