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Thanks to 'SPOONS Secret Agent Alice' for looking through this for me. Especially since it's a little all over the place, I wrote the second half late last night after I got in from a party, and I'd been on cider all night. So sorry in advance, please still review though.

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The next morning, I woke up a little earlier than normal. I tried to tell myself it was only because my neighbour and his friends were watching an action movie at full volume at a ridiculous hour in the morning, but a part of me knew I was lying to myself, especially when the butterflies in my stomach went into overdrive when I thought about Edward picking me up this morning. My straightener was being used to curl my hair into natural waves like yesterday, just a little more tamed and with hair products.

I'd just finished making sure there were no stray articles of clothing lying around when the buzzer went. Except it wasn't Mike's normal buzz, it was as if someone was pressing it over and over, causing an impatient buzzing noise to ring throughout my apartment. I grabbed my bag, checked my hair in the mirror one more time, then locked my door and carefully but quickly made my way downstairs.

When I entered the little lobby downstairs I smiled at Alice through the window next to the door, where I could see her continuously pressing the button for my place. She carried on pressing it while using her other hand to wave at me. I opened the main door and looked at her hand that was still pressing the button.

"Oh yeah, sorry." she said while removing her hand and linking it through my arm, guiding me toward the silver Volvo that's parked up.

I could see Edward sitting patiently, watching us approach. Flashing me a dazzling smile when he caught my eye, making me thankful Alice had linked our arms to keep me upright. I bee lined toward the back of the car leaving Alice the passenger seat, oddly much too both the Cullen's disappointment. But it would have been weird having his sister sit in the back.

"Hey Edward." I said once I sat down, putting on my seat belt.

"Sleep well?" he asked, I saw him smirking in the mirror.

"Yeah, any thugs must have known that if it passed your impeccable safety inspection, they weren't getting in." I said with a smile, while Alice looked between us knowing she was missing out on some private joke. Not wanting her to feel left out I decided to throw her in at the deep end, "So Edward tells me this was your idea?"

Her face dropped at this, she glared at Edward who just kept his head down while he started the car and began making his way to college.

"Well about that Bella, I just thought it would be easier, I mean Mike came out of his way to pick you up, not that it would ever bother Mike, but I was thinking of him when I asked Edward, thinking of his petrol, of the environment. With all that's going on, we can't afford waste these days Bella." she said smiling, proud of her speech. Turning to face the front again, thinking she'd gotten herself out of hot water.

"And Edward randomly punched in some digits on his mobile and came out with my number by chance?" I said lightly.

Edward was gauging my reaction in the mirror and I winked at him so he understood I was only messing with her. I looked back at Alice who was at a loss for words, had I finally stumped Alice Cullen? Just as I thought that she started smiling, I guess I thought too soon.

"Edward, you've been around Bella for more than five minutes, what's one thing you would say about her?" she asked. Before I even had a chance to worry about where she was going with this, Edward replied.

"Beautiful." he stated proudly and unashamed.

I smiled, but it being me, also blushed like a fool.

It also made Alice smile, but she refused to be deterred, "What else?" she asked; we both looked at Edward expectantly.

"Intelligent, caring, funny... I could go on all day Alice, what do you want me to say?" he asked, by now I was as red as a tomato in the backseat.

"Think about the stories you told me, of how you first met Bella and then when you first asked her on a date." she said knowingly. I was a little confused and very concerned over what exactly Edward had told her. But he gave her a smile seeming to know where she was going with this.

"Clumsy." he replied, to my dismay.

"Exactly! Now, out of concern I gave you her number, what if she hurts herself? It's always best to have a doctor on speed dial, so by you phoning her, she now has your number. So Bella," she now turned to me "in future if you fall and hurt yourself: have no fear Edward is here."

My dismay was soon replaced with laughter as I looked at Alice's serious face.

"That's bull Alice; you just wanted to set us up." I said. I noticed I'd been very courageous lately and it was always when I was around a Cullen, they seemed to bring me out of a shell I never knew I was hiding in.

The rest of the journey was filled with carefree chatter. As ridiculous as it sounds, it felt like the three of us had known one another for years. Well obviously Alice and Edward had, but it wasn't awkward brother-sister kind of conversation.

Edward pulled into the college parking lot and parked outside the main entrance, then got out. I was about to open my door when Alice told me to wait. Then I saw Edward open Alice's door for her, and she thanked him with a smile, he then came and opened my door. He offered me his hand and I willingly took it.

"Have a great day in college, you too Alice." he said.

"Thanks, again. I guess I'll see you tomorrow morning?" I asked.

"Yep, bright and early." he replied with a smile, before leaning down and tenderly kissing my cheek like he did last night. He whispered "Bye." in my ear which gave me goose bumps and gave Alice a wave before getting in his car and driving off. I just watched his car leave helplessly, wondering how he managed to dazzle me yet again with just a simple thing.

"C'mon Bella, you'll see him again tomorrow." Alice said smugly, linking her arm through mine again.

As we were walking up the steps to the main entrance, I saw Lauren standing in the smoking shelter and she did not look pleased, neither did the girl next to her. She had strawberry blonde hair and was very attractive; I eyed her carefully, wondering why I was getting glared at.

"Ah yes, Tanya." Alice said with a sigh.

"Tanya?" I asked, glancing her way again to see that she was whispering something to Lauren still glaring my way.

"She's 'in love' with Edward, so she says anyway. At the beginning of first year we became good friends, turns out she only wanted to be my friend to get close to him." she said sadly.

I was thankful we'd gone through the main doors, away from the glaring strawberry blonde. How anyone could use Alice is ridiculous. She's so friendly and trusting, probably a little too trusting which this Tanya girl obviously tried to use to her advantage.

"Well, she's an idiot. I may only know you because I made a fool out of myself a few too many times in front of your brother, but I'm glad I've met you." I said, thinking about to my little epiphany earlier about both Alice and Edward pulling me out of my shell. But I was pulled away from them thoughts by Alice throwing her arms around me and giving me a tight squeeze.

"I love you too Bella!" her reply was muffled by my jacket but I still understood.

We entered the canteen and Tyler practically jumped out of his chair and made his way over, I saw that he was sitting with Mike and a few others. He'd obviously grown impatient over seeing Mike arrive without me.

"Finally, I've been wasting away." he said dramatically while pulling on my arm and leading me over to the hot food counter. He hadn't even noticed tiny Alice stood next to me, so I grabbed onto her hand and pulled her with me.

"We've got a new addition." I said with a laugh.

Tyler stopped dragging us and turned to look at Alice for the first time.

"Sorry, I was so overcome by my hunger I forgot about my manners, I'm Tyler." He said offering her the hand that wasn't wrapped around my wrist.

I let go of Alice's hand and she shook his hand while giving him one of her big smiles "Alice." she said.

He let go of my wrist and moved over to her, putting his arm around her shoulder, "Welcome aboard Alice." he said, directing her towards the food counter once again.

I followed closely behind, but let Tyler have his moment as he explained our routine to Alice. I swear he takes it a little too seriously sometimes, but Alice looked happy. I was glad that Alice was slowly fitting into our little group.

After we'd got our food, Alice had invested in a chocolate croissant with her coffee. We made our way over to Mike and Eric. We happily ate silently, savouring the flavours while Mike and Eric talked about a football game that was on last night, Tyler nodding and humming agreement now and then. Alice had pulled out a magazine and placed it between us so we both had something to look at while we ate.

I was half way through my sausage roll and reading about which celebrity was dating whom, when I heard the familiar voice of someone I didn't particularly want to sit with right now. I could identify that annoying fake laugh anywhere. Lauren had arrived and from what I could hear, she wasn't alone.

Her and Tanya sat opposite Alice and I, making poor Tyler cram little Eric into the corner. I followed Alice's lead of acting as if they hadn't arrived and carried on scanning the pages together.

It was quite for a minute before Lauren started the obviously rehearsed conversation with Tanya.

"You're right Tanya; Edward was totally looking at you before he left."

"Well, why wouldn't he?" she replied smugly, out of the corner of my eye I saw her curling her hair around her finger, "how do you know Edward, Bella is it?"

I swallowed the contents in my mouth and briefly looked up at her, she made it sound so casual but I could see the jealousy burning in her eyes, "Oh we keep bumping into each other, no matter where I go he just keeps popping up. Maybe I should get a restraining order put on him." I said the last bit to Alice who was snickering into the magazine by now "What do you think Alice?"

"Totally." she replied in a really fake enthusiastic voice, which caused us to both bow our heads down in an attempt to hold our laughter in, which was going well until Mike caught wind of our conversation.

"He's stalking you? Well that explains the hospital, he refused to let me pick you up from work last night and told me he was dropping you off at college from now on, if I knew he was obsessed with you I'd have never let him!" he said, obviously outraged.

That was just too much for both me and Alice, we both burst out laughing. I glanced up at the Tanya who looked like she wanted to murder me while Mike just looked confused. I also glanced at the clock to see it was a few minutes to nine, I nudged Alice and we got up and made our way to normal lessons, splitting up when we got inside the A level block.

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The rest of the day was unfortunately normal and boring. I had lots to catch up on with my other lessons for 'slacking' the past two days away according to my lecturers. Which, to be fair, is kind of true. It's just been get to know the Cullen's days really.

After last lesson I made my way out of the English room and found Alice waiting for me, just like she had done before lunch earlier.

"Hey Alice." I said.

"Hiya Bella. So, my brother isn't the expert planner he thinks he is, how are you getting home?" she asked.

Luckily I'd thought of this earlier and Mike had agreed to take me home, I was planning on keeping it a secret but looks like I had no choice now. "Erm, Mike offered." I said.

"Figured he would. I bumped into Sue earlier; she asked if we could drop by quickly at the end of the day, will Mike wait?"

"It's Mike." I said with a chuckle.

We trekked up to Sue's room where she handed us our half finished portfolios and each an envelope with a set of pictures from the camera in. She was giving us both odd smiles when she gave them to us, Alice was just confused but I knew what she was smiling about. She'd seen the pictures of me and Edward, and Alice and Jasper. I'd never been so thankful that Sue actually liked us, or else we'd be in the doghouse.

"How are you getting back Alice?" I asked. We'd just got outside and I could only see Mike and a few others in the parking lot.

"Oh I usually just go to the hospital; dad or Edward will go on a break and drop me home. Usually Edward though, so he can see mum and she can make sure he's okay. She worries about him far too much."

"Well, we've got this portfolio work to do, want to come back to mine and do it together? It'll save Edward or Carlisle using up their break, one of them could pick you up after their shift?" I asked.

"Will Mike mind?"

"I don't think so. It's only Edward he's not too fond of."

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After a rather tense car ride with Mike, we were thankfully in my apartment and we'd set up camp on my living room floor. We had our portfolios spread out around us and we'd put the TV on to keep us somewhat occupied. Alice, of course, tore into the envelope with the pictures in. I couldn't help but smile when she saw the ones of Jasper and her that I took.

"What, when... you?" was all she managed to stutter out.

"Well you got me, when I was blindfolded of all times." I said smugly.

"How did you know, you haven't looked yet?"

"I had the camera Monday night." I said simply, not mentioning the fact I printed it off.

"Oh." was her short response.

It had been a few minutes; we were both silently writing and sticking in pictures, the ones that didn't include Jasper or Edward. I think Sue just let us have those for keeps.

"So," I said eying the picture of Edward and I on the floor next to me.

"So?" Alice asked.

"Tanya." was all I managed to say, I didn't want to sound too bothered since I've only know Edward a week and a half at most, but she was very pretty.

"Oh what an idiot! If you're worried over Edward having any interest in her at all, don't worry. He doesn't. He didn't like her much when she was my 'friend' and he certainly hates her more when he found out she was using me. And in true Edward fashion he felt horrible about it all."

"You're his little sister, of course he felt horrible. But he didn't show her any interest at all? Not even when you were 'friends'." I said using my fingers to quote the word friends like she had been.

"Edward doesn't show much interest in any girls actually, Rosalie and I used to make fun of him when we were younger, even mum was a little convinced he was gay. That's why she's dying to meet you."

"She is?" I asked."Of course she is! She feels a little left out. Everyone's met you apart from her. Since dad met you on Monday she's been hassling Edward to invite you over to one of our family meals, but he refuses since you've known each other less than..."

"Two weeks." I finished off for her with a laugh.

"Yeah, this is huge to us. Mum's jumping in head first, I'm surprised she hasn't booked a wedding date yet." she said casually, she must have saw the horror on my face "Oh she won't, not until she's met you anyway." she added with a sly grin.

"I guess I'll have to stay away from the Cullen household then." I said more to myself than her, but she heard me anyway.

"No chance, she's determined, and once mum sets her mind to something there's no escape." then a light seemed to go on in her head "Oh, can you give me a tour of your place?" she asked.

"Erm sure, it's not very big, this is basically it, and just a small kitchen, a bathroom, my bedroom and the spare." I said a little confused.

"Great, it'll annoy Edward to no end." she said cheerfully as she jumped up, looking around as if she was memorizing everything.

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I gave Alice the 'grand tour' and nearly died of embarrassment when she found the picture on my nightstand. A lot of blushing and stuttering took place, but she let me off by telling me she was going to put the picture of her and Jasper on hers tonight as well. We managed to finish the rest of our portfolios in time for Carlisle to pick her. I'd been lying in bed for about an hour before I heard the familiar ring of my mobile beside me.

"Hello." I mumbled somewhat sleepily.

"Sorry, I didn't wake you did I?" replied the gorgeous velvet voice I've started to love hearing.

"No I haven't been in bed long, I'm just a beat. I've had a long day."

"Yes, so I hear. My sister wasn't too annoying was she? I've got to say, I'm a little hurt she got to see inside your place before I did."

"You should hurry up and take me on more dates then." I said cheekily.

"I'm trying; Saturday was the earliest time I could think of without sounding too desperate."

"Ah I guess that's true, I'll let you off. Is that all your ringing up for, to tell me of your disappointment?"

"Well I wanted to ring, but an annoying text off my sister gave me reason to, I must say I do love her sometimes."

"Oh I bet you do." I said smiling to myself, trying not to get too carried away with the happiness running through me.

"She also mentioned you had an unwanted guest sit with you today." he said in a solemn tone.

And there goes the happiness.

"The strawberry blonde." I said, matching his tone.

"From what I hear, she's expecting you to bang a restraining order on me any day now."

"I forgot about that." I said, laughing over their stupidity and Mike's gullibility this morning.

"I just wanted to say, thanks for taking Alice in. She was hurt over what Tanya did, more so then she lets on." he said.

I immediately stopped laughing, touched by the sincerity in his tone.

"She's a very welcome addition to our group." I said in the same tone "And if Tanya keeps bothering me, I'll just get your other sister onto her." I said with a smile.

"Rosalie?"

"Yeah, I met her yesterday. She's very... bold." was all I could think of to describe her.

I heard Edward's enchanting laughter from the other side of the phone, "Oh she certainly is. Thinking about it, if Alice has mentioned it to her tonight, there won't be a Tanya left." I could still hear the smile in his voice as he said this, which only made me smile even more. "But I won't keep you any longer. I'll see you tomorrow morning. I just wanted to tell you thanks while Alice isn't around, I swear that demon child hears everything." he said.

"I think you're right there, goodnight Edward." I said, my tiredness washing over me in waves.

"'Night Bella."

The line went dead and I put my phone back onto my nightstand, looking at the picture that lay on there. Feeling a strong sense of déjà vu from last night, I rolled over and just like last night, closed my eyes with the images of the perfect bronze haired boy, but this time it was accompanied with a picture of the little dark haired pixie who'd managed to become my closest friend in the space of a few days. I guess this is what the Cullen's did to people.

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