A/N: Alright, another chapter down and here is another one for you guys. I didn't recieve the amount of reviews I was hoping for, but I might after you guys read this. Fate Lowe is my ever faithful Beta.

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'Oh Goody,' I thought, 'Another party.'

Emmett loved to have parties at the bar and since Jacob had put up a 'closed due to renovations' sign the night after Felix left, it gave Emmett all the fuel he needed to get one going.

Alice had been her usual bouncy self after Emmett said the word 'party', though I knew she had seen it coming, but that didn't stop her from pulling out all the stops to make this 'Grand Re-Opening' party one that our patrons would never forget.

Our bar was famous all over the city and half the state of Washington for being one of a kind and original. People from all over came to our bar to get a glimpse of it. Even people from our home town of Forks drove two hours to see us. And yes, it is a two hour drive from Seattle to Forks. We made that commute almost daily to visit Charlie while I was in college at the University. Charlie always hated it, but was so happy to see me every day, that he didn't really care that much.

So now, here I was, standing on top of a ladder, hanging the big 'Grand Re-Opening' banner under our bar sign outside and dreading the next twenty-four hours. Because that's how long this party was going to go for. Twenty-four ungodly hours.

'Thank you Emmett,' I though.

"So why did you guys decide to do renovations?" a female voice said from below me.

I finished tying off the right corner of the sign and climbed back down the ladder. Taking a step back to make sure the sign was centered and straight I said, "Because we thought it was time to make a change."

"Oh, well I hope the party will be just as chaotic as the last one I read about," the voice said again. I could feel their presence to my left and I turned to see the one person I never thought I'd see again.

I coughed for a second taking in the sight of her and blinked several times. I couldn't believe she was here.

"It's been a long time Bella," she said.

"What are you doing here?" I asked still slightly in shock of being in her presence.

"Decided to see if the rumors I heard were true," she replied.

I glanced down at me feet and pulled an Edward move, running my hands through my hair. "And what rumors would that be?" I asked hesitantly looking back up at her shyly.

"The ones that told me that little Bella went up against Aro and lived to tell the tale," she said flipping her golden blonde locks off her shoulder.

"You believe every rumor you hear Rosalie?" I asked cocking an eyebrow.

She smiled and said, "Only when it's Carlisle telling them."

I smiled at her response. God I missed him and Esme. They had been like parents to me after Charlie died and I loved them for it. Esme spent many nights with me, holding me as I cried and mourned the loss of my father. She always told me that she envied the fact that I was still able to cry and was confused at the same time and I would always laugh at her when she said that. Carlisle was also confused by that fact, but said that I was special to be able to retain so much of my humanity. I never really questioned why I was able to cry -- as no other vampire in the whole world was able to -- but was thankful that I had an escape to the emotional turmoil that ran through me at times.

'God, I haven't seen them since they left the night I met Emmett. I need to call them about the party. I bet they would love to see Edward again,' I thought.

"How are they anyways? Are they still in Alaska with the Denali coven?" I asked as I shoved my hands in my jean pockets, because all I wanted to do was hug her right now.

She smiled coyly at my gesture and began picking at nonexistent dirt under her fingernails. "They're good. Went on a world tour a couple of decades ago. Esme was getting cabin fever," she laughed.

We stood there for a handful of minutes just staring at each other, drinking in the sight of one another, when she suddenly broke our staring contest.

"Oh fuck it!" she said as she pulled me into a hug. My arms wound around her waist as hers encircled my shoulders. Each of us burying our heads into each others hair and breathing in deeply.

'Sunshine,' I thought.

Rosalie always smelled like sunshine to me and always would.

"I've missed you little sister," she whispered.

I felt tears prickling at the corners of my eyes and all I could do was nod my head in response. Rosalie had only once called me that in my entire 80 years as a vampire, the last time was the night she had left. I sniffled once and she pulled back and stared at me.

"Wonders like that never cease to amaze me," she said as she wiped a stray tear that had escaped its prison and rolled down my cheek.

We stayed like that for a second -- embracing one another -- completely unaware that the bar door had opened and closed once.

"Holy shit!"

We both jumped and pulled away from one another and stared at the person who had interrupted our moment.

Jasper.

"No wonder Alice has been jumping around the bar like a bunny on crack. She's been driving Edward nuts!" Jasper exclaimed.

Rosalie looked at me for second. "Edward?" she asked. I just nodded and went to fold up the ladder, letting it lean up against the front of the building.

"So what brings you here Rosalie?" Jasper asked as he pulled me in next to him as I tried to walk back into the bar.

"Just confirming rumors," she said with a smirk as she took in the sight of me and Jasper. He had swung his arm across my shoulders while I had circled his waist with both of mine.

"I see some things have changed after all," she said as she stared at each of us. I felt Jasper kiss my right temple and then released his hold on me.

"Stop seeing what you want to see. Bella and I aren't together, despite the rumors you may have heard about us in the past," Jasper said. "Now come here and give your brother a hug!"

Rosalie just laughed and hugged Jasper. They stayed that way for a couple of minutes before disengaging and turning their attention towards me. It had been way too long since I had seen Rosalie. Despite the fact that I had always felt like she hated me, she was still a sister to me in my heart.

I suddenly got an overwhelming sense of unease as I looked at her. I saw Jasper stiffen in response for my mood change and I watched as he leaned into Rosalie and whispered something so low, even I didn't hear him. I watched as a shudder rippled through her.

'Huh?'

She winked at me, smiled at Jasper, then turned and left.

'Weird?'

"Why are you so confused all of the sudden?" Jasper asked me.

"What did you say to her?" I asked as he grabbed the ladder and moved it to the side of the building. I followed him into the alleyway where he disappeared into the side of the building with the ladder in tow. We had a room behind the stage where we kept most of our tools and equipment, but the only way to get to it was from the door Jasper had just walked into. It made fixing the stage problems a bitch, but we were quick enough that we didn't worry about it anymore.

Jasper walked back out and shut the door behind him. I stared at him blankly as I waited for the answer to the question I just asked him. He leaned against the door and folded his arms across his chest. I mirrored his pose -- minus the leaning against the door part -- and asked, "Well?"

He just shrugged his shoulders at me. "Well, what?"

I glared at him with a stare that said 'don't play dumb with me'.

"Fine, but come here. I don't want anyone to beable to hear me," he said with a sigh.

I walked over to him -- arms still folded across my chest -- and stared at him waiting forthis "secret" answer of his. Jasper huffed at me and pulled my arms away, wrapping them around his neck. I walked into his arms as he hugged me to him. His breath was soft against me ear and I inhaled slowly.

"I told her that Emmett was inside," he whispered. I almost hadn't heard him, he had whispered that softly. I just nodded into his shoulder and waited for him to tell me more.

"I told her to come back for the party, 'cause we didn't need him distracted from finishing up." I laughed quietly into his neck; I knew what he had meant by 'distracted'. Alice and Jasper had told me many a story about just how 'distracted' Emmett could be when in the presence of Rosalie. I had never seen it myself of course and they always told me it was something I was better off not seeing.

Someone cleared their throat from beside us. I looked up from Jasper's neck and turned to see Alice standing there with her hands on her hips, trying to look intimidating and failing.

"You know, if I happened to be anybody else, I would think you two were out here making out instead of helping us get ready for the party," she said tapping her shoe against the pavement.

I smirked at her and Jasper turned his head to look at her, placing his cheek next to mine. I think we both had the same idea at that particular second, because we both started grabbing at each other clothes and kissing each other all over one another's faces, completely missing each other's lips on purpose. We did this every once in a while, cause we both knew it would get a rise out of her. We never kissed on the mouth, just everywhere else on the face. It was really funny the first time Emmett walked in on us, he actually thought Jasper was cheating on Alice and almost beat the shit out of Jasper. That was before I had jumped on his back and wrestled him to the ground, telling him it was all a joke. Needless to say, Emmett just laughs along with us every time he see us do it now.

"Grrr! I wonder if Edward would find this funny?" she said.

Jasper and I pulled away from one another and just laughed. "Why don't you just ask him yourself Alice. He's standing right behind you," Jasper said still laughing as we both straightened out our clothes.

Alice's eyes went wide when she heard Edward's musical laugh behind her. I stared at Edward and actually hoped he knew we were just joking around. Jasper leaned into me again. "Yes, he knew. I heard him come out the door after Alice did and told him what to expect," he whispered.

'Oh,' I thought, knowing if I was still human I might have blushed. Alice turned and faced Edward.

"Fuck! You are just as bad as these two!" she said throwing her arms in the air and stomping off.

"I better go after her," Jasper said before he disappeared around the corner, leaving Edward and I standing there just staring at one another. We actually hadn't had much time alone since we got back from California. We were both busy getting things ready for the party. Sending out personalized invites to a few of our friends up in Alaska. I was actually wondering if he had sent one to Rosalie and that's what she was actually doing here. There was always something for everyone to do, the only time we actually all got together as a group was after we had fed and had to purge the memories from our minds.

I think I was actually nervous to be alone with him. Thinking back on the last time we were alone together sent a shiver down my spine. I looked up at himthrough my lashes and watched as his eyes turned black, sending another shiver across my body. I closed my eyes at the sensation and when I opened them again, Edward was standing directly in front of me, almost panting. I backed away from him slowly and watched as he walked toward me. Every step back I took, he took one forward, until my back was pressed up against the brick wall of the building. He brought his arms up and rested his palms against the wall, one on either said of my head. We just stared at one another for a handful of seconds, both of our breathing quite ragged.

"I've been waiting for days to get you alone. You'd think -- with five vampires doing all the work -- that things would have gotten finished days ago," he whispered as he skimmed his nose softly up the line of my jaw. My breathing hitched as I placed my hands tentatively on his hips.

I felt his lips ghost across my earlobe as he whispered, "Alice has been driving me nuts all morning recited the Greek alphabet forwards and backwards, over and over again."

He sucked my earlobe in between his lips and flicked it with his tongue. My insides were growing warmer and warmer by the nanosecond as my breathing became labored. He pulled his lips away. "Have any idea why she was doing that, love?" he asked as he dragged his lips down the side of my neck. My eyes closed by themselves letting my body sink into the delicious feeling that was coursing through my system. My head fellback softly against the wall.

Edward pressed his hips into mine and I unabashedly groaned at the feeling of his body resting against mine. I splayed my fingers wide against his hips and dug in slightly. "Mmhmm," was all I could manage.

"Gonna tell me?" he asked as he pressed his hips in a little more. I licked my lips at the feeling.

'No, but you if do that again I might,' I thought as I felt my walls cracking around the edges.

"Bella," he said. His voice had taken on a husky tone and I nearly swooned from the sound of it. I felt his right hand press in between my shoulder blades before he dragged it slowly down the center of my back, letting it rest on the small of my back.

"Come on love, tell me," he whispered as his hand ghosted down over my ass squeezing slightly. I shook my head in defiance and his hand continued down passed my ass, dragging it slowly down the back of my left thigh. He kneaded the back of my thigh and I felt the beginnings of dampness gather in my panties.

'Not sure how much longer I can keep my shield up if he continues doing this,' I thought.

"I know your resolve is weakening Bella; I'm starting to get flashes of thoughts from you," he whispered as he resumed his delicious torture of dragging his lips up and down my neck. A kiss here, a random lick there, before his lips settled on the skin just below my ear.

'Oh God, not there!'

I dug my fingers into his hips more, trying to hold on to my shield as long as possible before my willpower crumbled. His hand moved down to the back of my knee lifting it while pressing his hips further into mine. As soon as I felt the hardness of his groin pressing into my core my resolve broke and I breathed a single word.

"Rosalie."

His lips and tongue worked together on the patch of skin under my ear as his hips began to slowly thrust up into mine, creating a delicious friction I had never known before. His mouth pulled away slightly. "What about her?" he asked with another slow thrust of his hips. I moaned at the feeling and reciprocated with a thrust of my own. Edward growled deep in his chest. I moved my hands up to his neck where they buried themselves in his hair, lightly tugging on it. His arm left me knee -- my leg stayed wrapped around his hip as I was not about to give up this delicious friction we had begun -- and he curled it around my back, bringing our chests together.

"She was here." I breathed as he drew his tongue in one wet line starting at the base of neck and ending just below my ear.

I felt his other hand reach down slowly behind my right knee and pulled it up effortlessly. As soon as my ankles were crossed behind his back, he gave a slow, deep thrust of his hips into mine. "And?" he asked.

'And I really wish there weren't any clothes between us right now, because you are driving my mad!,' I shouted in my mind, knowing he's hear it.

I heard Edward laugh quietly a second before his free hand cupped my cheek and brought my head up from the wall.

"Look at me," he said softly. I opened my eyes at his request and stared at his black ones. I knew my eyes were just as black and at that moment I couldn't care less, because the same desire and lust that were peering out of my eyes was staring back at me.

His lips came down softly against mine and I closed my eyes once again as a more potent stab of desire shot through my system and down to my core. His tongue easily parted my lips and snaked it's way into my awaiting mouth. He fed hungrily at my lips all the while softly thrusting his hips into mine. I moaned at the feeling and hated the fact that we were outside up against the side of the building. I wanted to be in my room above the bar. I wanted so many things at this moment.

'Fucking clothes. They need to disappear!'I thought angrily. I wanted to feel his skin moving against mine,his hard length driving into me with the same ferociousness as hislips and tongue as they ravaged my mouth. I wanted to rake my nails down the skin of his back while desparately asking him for more.

Edward's hand moved back into my hair and braided itself into my locks, tugging it slightly and earning him another moan.

Someone cleared their throat from beside us.

'GOD DAMMIT!!!,'my mind screamed. I was gonna kill whoever interrupted us, but thank them before their moment of death, because I didn't want my first time to be in the alleyway next to our bar.

I heard Edward growl quite loudly as we pulled our lips away from each other and turned to our soon-to-be-dead interrupter.

Emmett.

"Of course!" Edward growled. I unlocked my ankles from behind Edward's back and let them fall to the pavement to stand on my own. Edward's hands resumed their position of resting their palms against the wall on eitherside of my head.

"Is there any particular reason you like to cock-block me?" Edward asked in a tone that was not entirely friendly as he turned his head to stare at Emmett.

"Alice told me to," Emmett said with a knowing smirk on his face. Of course Alice would have seen the possible outcome of our intimate situation and I guess she too knew that my first time shouldn't be in an alleyway.

'Thank you Alice,' I thought as I realized that there would be another time for us to continue this.

"She also said to hurry your asses up and get inside and finish up," Emmett said before he turned and left.

Edward turned his head back to mine and smiled. His eyes had bled back to their usual green. I had always wondered why his eyes had stayed green after his transformation, while the rest of ours had turned into a beautiful butterscotch or topaz -- in the case of Emmett and Jasper.

'I think I'm going to ask Carlisle about that the next time I see him,' I thought as I gazed up into the beautiful green eyes before me.

"What has you thinking so hard?" Edward asked.

I shrugged my shoulders and told him what I had been thinking. "I was just wondering why your eyes are still green. Everyone else's are topaz or butterscotch."

"Carlisle always said that we retain at least one part of our physical humanity. I guess mine was my eyes, like yours is your ability to cry," he said.

"And what about the others?" I asked as I circled his waist with my arms and hugged him. His arms dropped from the wall and hugged me back.

"Not sure. Never really thought to ask," he answered.

"Anytime now guys!" Alice yelled.

I lifted my head from Edward's chest and stared at the direction of her voice. She had once again appeared in the mouth of the alleyway and was looking just as annoyed as before.

"Yes mother!" I yelled back.

She just huffed and went back into the bar. With the slamming of the door, I turned back to Edward and softly kissed his lucious lips once.

"To be continued?" he asked against my lips.

I smirked. "You bet your ass we're going to continue this," and with that I pulled away and exited the alleyway. I even made sure to put an extra sway into my walk. I heard Edward groan behind me and I smirked.

'Men can be so easy sometimes,' I thought.

A/N: Don't hate me guys. You will get your lemon, but I didn't want them to just jump into the sack yet. Next chapter will be the party and a coming together that is decades passed overdue. Stay with me! Reviews welcomed and encouraged!!