A/N- Just so we are all on the same page, I want to make it known that JACOB WILL NOT FALL FOR BELLA! He is strictly a best friend to Bella and they have absolutely no feelings for each other in that way. In fact, he is in a relationship with Leah in my story; she'll make an appearance later. Sooooo…..I just wanted to make that clear in case some were wondering. That is all, now go read!!

Chapter 14

I slowed my walk down to a normal pace as I saw Edward leaning against my locker.

"Hey, what are you doing at my locker?" I asked while opening and throwing my stuff inside.

"What? Can I not just meet a friend at her locker? That's ok right? I mean yesterday you were complaining that I was ignoring you, and now you're getting mad because I'm here? Make up your mind Bella." He smirked.

"Ok, One, I wasn't complaining, two, I didn't say anything was wrong with you waiting for me. I was just curious as to why."

"You mean nosey?" He smirked.

"Yes ass, I mean nosey! Glad you remembered that piece of valuable information."

"Well, that's another one of my many talents." He winked making me laugh thinking about the conversation that was had the night before.

"Yeah yeah yeah, you're a regular Chris Angel with your bag of tricks."

"Ewww, did you just compare me to Chris Angel?" Edward said with a look of disgust.

"Did you just say Ewww? You're such a girl."

Edward was just about to say something before I felt a hand on my shoulder.

"Hey Bella and Eddie." Jacob smiled.

"Edward" Edward had his arms crossed in front of his chest and appeared to be standing just a tad bit taller.

Oh the green monster is coming out and I'm not talking about the hulk. I had to work with this now. I turned around and gave Jacob a hug.

"Jacob!! Hey!!" Jacob gave me a puzzled look as I let go of him probably wondering why the hell I was hugging him.

"Wow it's nice to feel so loved Bella."

Edward cleared his throat, "So Bella it's time to go to class." He reached out to grab my hand pulling me toward him.

"Yeah just one second." I held up one finger and turned toward Jacob, "meet me at my house after school."

"But I have to meet L--," I gave him a look to shut the hell up which he had been accustomed to throughout the years, "Ok, after school you said? I'll be there."

I felt my hand being tugged, "Minute is up, I don't want us to be late for class." I let Edward pull me as I waved to Jacob with my free hand.

"Since when have you been Mr. Goody Two shoes that you want to make it on time to class? You've been 30 minutes late to biology before?"

"Well maybe I'm turning over a new leaf….or however that saying goes." I noticed that he still had a hold of my hand as we walked toward the gym.

"Have you taken my hand captive, or can I have it back?"

"Oh, sorry, I didn't realize I was still holding it." He squeezed tighter before letting it go.

We came up to the gym and I was standing right in front of the girls locker room feeling the loss of contact.

"It's alright." I shrugged, "Well this is me, so unless you are going to walk me in, I should go get dressed for a fantastic day of gym!

"No, I'll just leave you right here. I'm not up for a sexual harassment lawsuit today. Rain check? "

"Sure thing perv; I'll see you in there." I turned and walked into the locker room. I dressed in my uniform and headed for the bleachers where Alice was already sitting.

I saw Edward come into the gym and couldn't help but smile when I saw him looking around till he finally spotted me and smiled before sitting down toward the bottom. A few moments later, Jessica came in and sat next to him. I also couldn't stop my eyes from rolling.

"If you keep doing that, you're eyes are going to get stuck."

"Well, that's where you come in. I'll need to you give me a little smack in the back to make them straight again, or maybe I can get Rose to do it. She seems to have the smacking of the back of the head technique down."

"NO I'LL DO IT!!" She said while bouncing.

"I don't know if I should be overwhelmed or offended by the fact that you want to smack me?"

"I'd go with overwhelmed, definitely overwhelmed. It would be an honor for me to give you a good smack."

"OK, you got the job IF it ever happens!" I laughed.

The gym coach came in and gave us instructions that today would be the day we learned to play tennis. As soon as the words came out of her mouth, I knew it would be a disaster. Nothing good could come out of putting a possible weapon in my hand. I tried to see if I could just be that person who picks up the balls if they went off court. She wasn't having that and proceeded throw me that racket which of course I didn't catch. The only good thing was that I was paired up with Alice. She said she had played before, so it was up to her to make us look good. There was no chance in hell that it was going to be me. It all started off good as we were put up against Edward and Jessica. Jessica seemed to just stand there and eye fuck Edward as he swung the racket hard showing what muscles he did have in his arms. I can't blame the girl though; I was doing the same exact thing until I saw the ball coming toward me. Now I've always been scared with balls flying toward my face, so I acted on instinct and swung the racket so hard that it made me spin around. Everything would have been fine and dandy had it not been for Mr. Shim being right behind me. When I swung and did my semi ballet spin the racket hit the coach in the face. She automatically put her hand up to her face and let out a shriek which really didn't match her, it actually sounded like a girl. "Uhhh…I guess she is a woman," I said to myself. When she pulled her hands away from her face I saw blood gushing out of her nose.

"Oh my god! I'm Soooo sorry. I told you not to let me play!" I was spazzing out once I saw the blood. If I had a tail right now, I would be chasing it. "Tissues! Tissues! Get tissues! Someone get tissues!!" I hadn't noticed that she had already and a towel up to her nose. "Scratch that! Call off the search for tissues! Do I need to get the nurse? I'll go get the nurse!"

"Bella chill out. She's fine it's just a nose bleed." Edward said while grabbing a hold of my shoulders.

"I know, but I did it. I have to help her."

The coach had her head tilted while she spoke, "Everyone go change out and sit at the bleachers till class is over. I'm going to run to the nurse." She shot me an evil look before walking away.

"Come on Bella. Let's go change." I followed Alice into the locker room and started changing back into my regular clothes when I heard Alice laughing.

"What?"

"What do you mean what? You just hit the teacher in the face!" She laughed harder.

"Alice it's not funny. What if I broke her nose? Can she press charges on me? Will I be thrown into the slammer?"

"I doubt it Bella, your dad is the Chief of Forks. She can't press charges. It was an accident anyway, right? Did you purposely try to whack Mrs. Man?" She gasped.

"NO! It was an accident!"

"Surrreeee……I'm positive it was." She laughed. "I'm just messing with you Bella. It's all gonna be cool as a cucumber."

I couldn't help but be embarrassed as we went to sit down in the gym. I heard people snickering as I sat there and prayed for the bell to hurry up and ring. I kept my head down and my iPod turned up to ignore everything around me. Once I felt Alice tap me letting me know the bell had rang, I skedaddled my ass out of there with Alice hot on my heels.

"Don't worry, everyone will forget about this tomorrow."

"Yeah I'm sure they will." I shook my head and laughed. "I'll see you tomorrow Alice."

I jumped in my car and headed home, focused on my talk with Jacob. I pulled into the driveway and made my way inside the house. I heard the sound of Jake's bike outside, and I ran to the door to greet him. Damn it! I didn't even get a chance to prepare my speech for what I wanted to convince him to do for me. I'd just have to wing it. Jake walked up to the front door and I moved aside to let him in as he looked at me skeptically.

"Hey Jake! How's it going ole buddy ole pal?" Too much because I can surely give more. "So do you remember that time when I helped you lose your virginity. Speaking of, how is Leah?" I told you.

"Ugh….I knew you were up to something! What do you want Bella? It has to be something big if you're using this card. Does it have to do with that over protective boyfriend of yours?"

"He's not my boyfriend, and yes it has something big to do with him." I placed my hands on my hips.

I proceeded to tell him the whole story of what was going on between Edward and me. I told him about the arrangement that we had come up with, or that I came up with and also what I wanted him to do.

"Whoa whoa whoa! So you want me to pretend that I'm your boyfriend so that you can make Edward jealous like he's making you? Did I get that right?"

"No, not my boyfriend, just a casual dater person. Simple right?"

"I wouldn't say so simple, what if Leah finds out from word of mouth? Do you want to get your ass kicked again?"

"Hey! That was a lucky punch on her part. Besides, Leah is a giant compared to me, it was a cheap shot!"

"And why did she punch you again? Oh right, because she thought you were flirting with me before she knew we were friends."

"Well, let's tell Leah. There's no reason for her not to know anyway. She might be useful later on."

Jacob sighed, "Fine Bella, I'll do it, but don't get fresh with me or let your hands wander." He pointed.

"Please, you wish!" I started laughing. I punched Jake in the arm, "Thanks Jake. I knew I could count on you, and would you have rather I actually started dating a random person and put my virtue on the line?"

"Yeah I feel better knowing you are safe with me, and Pfft virtue? Don't make me laugh."

Jacob hung around till after dinner. We were able to catch up on all that we had missed in the past months that I hadn't talked to him since I was busy with the move and all. I was happy that he agreed to my plan. This would make things a lot simpler. I didn't have to worry about leading on some poor schmuck.

Once Jacob left I headed up to my room and got ready for bed. I did my nightly shower routine and plopped down on my bed and pulled the covers up to my chin. For some reason today just felt never ending. I was just about to doze off when I heard my phone ringing. Not a text message but ringing. I stared at the phone confused at who would actually be calling me. I practically fell off the bed when I realized that it was Edward.

"Hello you have reached the "How do I get my hair to look like I don't care" hotline, how may I help you?"

"Ha ha ha…..Very funny. I don't care about my hair, that's why it looks like that."

"Whatever you say to help you sleep at night pretty boy, I know you spend at least an hour pulling and tugging at your hair to make it look like that."

"You think I'm pretty? You're making me blush over here."

"Out of all the things I said, you pay most attention to me calling you pretty. I'm rolling my eyes over here! Isn't this the second time you've said this?"

"Maybe, I don't remember."

"I thought you said that was one of your talents?"

"Change subject! So, what are you wearing tonight?"

"How about we skip that and go to why you're actually calling me tonight rather than texting?"

"Does it matter? I could text you if you want. I just wanted to hear your voice." I couldn't complain. Actually hearing him talk was TONS times better than just reading his words. I could actually hear his sighs and his breathing.

"Well I guess that as good an excuse as any, I do have a rather sexy voice."

"Ooooo….I'm liking that confidence, it's hot."

"Yeah yeah, so whatcha doing?"

"Nothing, laying in bed. You?"

"Same."

"So I'm just going to ask and get it out there. What's up with this Jacob guy? Why did he go over to your house?"

"I told you Edward, he's an old friend."

"Are you going to start dating him? You seemed to be all over him."

"Please, I'd hardly call hugging him being all over him."

"You weren't seeing it from my position. And it was twice you hugged him. You didn't answer my question."

"What? Am I dating him? No not right now." I had to hold back my laughter. I could practically feel the heat from his ears coming through the phone.

"Not right now? What does that mean?"

"Well DAD, it means not at this moment, but I'll leave it open for the near future. I mean this was the plan right, casual dating? You have Jessica there at your side am I right."

I heard him groan, "Yeah, that's the stupid plan. I'm just letting you know I don't like the guy. I think he's on steroids……It's not normal to be that big for his age."

"Well, he's harmless, so you don't have to worry about it. I don't like Jessica, but am I trashing her and her big ass hair to you? No….so just cut it out."

I heard him laugh easing the tension, "You're right. I called to talk to you. I don't want to talk about that right now."

"Thanks, so what DO you want to talk about?"

"Hmm….." he stayed on the phone silently obviously thinking, "Let's talk about sex baby; let's talk about you and me."

"Ewwww….Did you just sing that corny song from Salt-and-Pepper?" I laughed.

"Busted! Yeah I went that low. Don't judge me by my musical choices damn it!"

"Fine, but that's your one freebie, don't let it happen again."

Just then my bedroom door opened to show Charlie standing in the doorway, "Bella? What are you still doing up and talking on the phone at this time of night? You do realize you have to go to school tomorrow right? Who are you talking to?"

"Oh, I'm just talking to Alice. She's telling me in detail what she's going to wear tomorrow at school."

"Well, say good night and go to bed." He said while closing the door.

"Do you have to go to bed now?" Edward laughed. "What are you 12 with a bedtime?"

"Shut up jerk. Do I need to remind you my dad is the Chief of Forks? Of course he has some rules around this place. Talking late on the phone just happens to be one of them."

His voice got softer and a bit sadder, "So you really have to hang up then?"

"Nah, this just means I'm on code red. If I suddenly hang up the phone, just know I bubble was busted."

"Cool, but you don't think he'll hear you talking?"

"I don't know. Just to be safe I talk under the covers." I laughed covering my mouth as soon as I did. "Oops….I forgot to go into my stealthy cat mode?"

"You're what?"

"You know, the ninja cat mode where I sneak around and you don't even know I'm there until I pounce and smother you?"

"Wow, I hate cats but the thought of you pouncing and smothering me, sounds VERY interesting. What would you smother me with?"

"My boobs of course, what else?" I didn't hear anything on the other end of the line. "Edward?"

I heard him clear his throat, "You just remember that you said that."

"Sure thing buddy." He was so easy to get worked up. "Now why do you hate cats? That's just mean; kittens are so cute and loveable."

"Yeah if you call clawing your arms and attacking your face cute, then YEAH I just LOVE those little fuckers!"

"I bet you're a dog person."

"You bet your ass I am. They're man's best friend."

"Yeah I can see how you would think that, they depend on you and craze your attention. I bet your just ADORE that don't you?"

"I do, can you blame me. I'm not going to lie though; I do enjoy a furless pussy now and again."

"Well, I have one lying near me. Maybe one day you'll get to pet her. If you're lucky."

"Luck is my middle name."

"Really? Is it before or after asshole?"

"Before of course."

Edward and I kept on talking. We talked about anything and everything. He was opening himself up to me, letting me see the real Edward. By the time I knew it, I was waking up from the sound of my alarm clock. It was 6 am and I noticed the phone was still by my ear. I looked at it realizing that the time was still moving. Edward hadn't hung up either.

I spoke into the phone wondering if Edward would hear me, "Edward?" no response. I spoke a little louder, "EDWARD?"

"Hmmm…."

"You awake?"

"Uhhh-hmm…."

"Well fell asleep on the phone."

"You're voice sounds really sexy when you wake up."

I giggled, "So does yours." And it did. His voice sounded all gruffly. "I'll see you at school Edward."

"Sure thing, Bella. See ya later."

"Ok….bye."

And with that I hang up the phone and threw the pillow over my face smiling into it. Today was starting off good.