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Song for this Chapter: "Beside you" By Van Morrison

"Oh God, Oh God" I said aloud to myself as I stood in my bedroom staring into my closet. It was nearly half past six, Edward was due to pick me up at seven that left me with a little over half an hour.

I was already showered and my hair was done, lying perfectly straight and shiny against my back, I'd already put on a little make-up: Mascara, a hint of eye shadow and some lipstick that was in a very pretty plum shade, now all I needed to do was figure out what to wear.

A large pile of clothes lay strewn on my bed, and I quickly threw the t-shirt that I had in my hands into the pile. I didn't know what to wear, I mean we were going to see a movie so a dress was too much and I wasn't sure if a skirt was too much also.

I could wear jeans but I didn't really know what top to wear...I mostly just owned t-shirts...band t-shirts and I wanted to dress up a little bit.

I continued pulling clothes out and throwing them into the ever growing pile on the bed. "Jesus, I'm running out of time he'll be here soon, just bloody choose something Bella!" I said to myself.

I Pulled a black t-shirt out of the shelf and when I saw what was lying under it I smiled to myself. Perfect.

I had forgotten all about it, it was a dress that Renee had bought me a while ago, I love it but I'd only worn it once before, I'm not one that's really into dressing up, I was more of a jeans and t-shirt kind of girl but I knew it would be perfect for tonight.

It was a ribbed, pleated skater dress that fell just above my knee and was a magnificent red color that looked wonderful against my pale skin. I pulled a dark denim pair of skinny jeans out of the closet and threw the clothes on quickly.

I paired them with a navy belt that had three roses on it and a pair of red flat dolly shoes before grabbing my navy cardigan. I looked in the mirror and I had to admit that I actually looked good. I would have to wear things like this more often.

The outfit was perfect, the dress making it classy and elegant while the jeans added a more casual touch.

I looked at my phone checking the time, it was ten to seven and I decided I better leave and meet Edward at the entrance of the estate. I didn't have to worry about Charlie as he was working and had told me he wouldn't be back until late, twelve at the earliest...I Wasn't complaining.

I locked the front door behind me and started walking, I couldn't help but smile as I walked. It was a rather calm evening for Forks, a slight breeze but nothing that my cardigan wouldn't protect me against.

Edward's Volvo was parked at the curb when I turned the last corner. When he saw me he hopped out of the car before walking towards me and bending down to give me a peck on the lips. He pulled back.

"You look beautiful." He whispered holding my hands. I blushed.

"Thank you." He smiled before leading me towards the passenger side of the car and opening the door for me.

"Thank you Edward." I smiled as I climbed into the seat.

He mumbled "Your welcome" without taking his eyes of me, before he shut the door gently and made his way around the car to the driver side.

I took the opportunity to take him in fully as he did. He looked amazing...just Like always.

He wore a pair of dark denim jeans with a rip in the knee and boy did those jeans hug his butt if I do say so myself. On top he wore a shirt rolled up at the sleeves and it was baby blue, almost lavender in color it looked amazing against his skin tone.

The top button was left open and I could see the hint of a grey t-shirt underneath. He wore a pair of grey converse on his feet...like I said he looked amazing and I couldn't stop the sigh from escaping my lips.

He finally opened his car door and sat down beside me. He looked over at me smiled and then started the engine.

We were silent for a while, it wasn't awkward or anything, just relaxed and I was so glad that we could just sit like this, we didn't need words or small talk to fill the silence, we could just be.

"Do you mind if I put on some music?" I asked turning my head to look at him. He gave me a quick glance before turning his eyes back to the road.

"No I don't mind, there is some C.D's in the glove compartment if you want to go through them" He offered.

I pulled open the glove compartment on front of me and took out a black leather disc case. I pulled the zip and opened it to reveal tons of C.D's.

"Wow you have a lot of C.D's" I said looking over at him.

"Yeah it's kinda a thing I have, if you think that's a lot you should see my C.D shelf at home." He smiled.

I started flicking thorough them murmuring to myself, he had good taste, I had a lot of the same stuff on my ipod : Kings Of Leon, Muse, Greenday,Blue October, Counting Crows, Debussy, Beethoven, Johnny Cash. The list went on.

His taste was very varied, much like mine, Edward appeared to like a bit of everything. I kept flicking through and stopped when I came to a particular one Astral Weeks by Van Morrison.

Oh My God, He likes Van Morrison.

"You may be my favorite person in the entire world" I blurted out. He turned to look at me briefly.

"Oh Yeah, Why is that?"

"You have Van Morrison in here" I answered.

"You like Van Morrison?" He asked shocked.

"Hell Yeah I do, he's like, the best artist I've ever heard, He's completely my favorite." I replied. He stared at me for a while before abruptly turning his attention back to the road.

"He is my favorite too." He smiled.

"Really, what's your all time favorite song?" I asked really wanting to know.

"Oh, I guess I'd have to say 'Beside You'." He answered. Hmm interesting.

"Which one?" I asked.

"Not the Astral Weeks one, although that one is pretty amazing too but, I prefer the unreleased one."

"Yeah it's pretty amazing...I Cried the first time I heard it." I mumbled.

He smiled at me.

"Can't blame you, it's pretty amazing."

"Yeah it is." I smiled in return.

"So what's your favorite?" He asked me.

"And It Stoned me" I answered.

"That ones great as well, it's definitely one of my top five." He said.

I pulled the C.D out of the case and slipped it into the C.D player and closed my eyes contently as the opening strings of "Astral Weeks" started.

The rest of the drive went like that, we both smiled as we listened to Van the Man on the radio, occasionally we would comment on a song or ask each other questions, for the most part we stayed silent and just enjoyed the music...it Was pure bliss.

By the time we arrived in Port Angeles, I was slightly disappointed, I didn't want to leave the car. Edward parked on the street outside the movie theater and was out heading for my door before I could even blink.

I smiled as he held the door open and offered his hand to help me out. Who knew, chivalry isn't dead after all.

"Why thank you kind sir." I teased as I took his offered hand and climbed from the car.

"You are most welcome m'lady." He smirked. I laughed.

He didn't let go of my hand as we entered the theater and I couldn't stop smiling. He squeezed my hand and I looked up at him, he was smiling right back at me. We went and bought our tickets and food, well Edward bought them, he wouldn't let me pay at all.

We ended up seeing some Zombie movie that I couldn't even remember the name of. We took our seats down the back of the theater. We put our massive drink in between us..Yes we were sharing and I have no idea why that mad me so giddy but it did, And Edward held the popcorn on his lap.

He tilted the box towards me in offering and I took a handful and tossed one into my mouth, he smiled at me.

At first the atmosphere was light and easygoing and then the lights went out and the opening started. I immediately felt the electricity in the air, and a tingling sensation and I suddenly became very aware that I was sitting next to Edward, in the dark..Alone, well mostly alone.

It appeared that Edward noticed it too because I immediately noticed that he was as tense as I was. I couldn't help but stare at his face, taking it all in and I was mesmerized by the way the light from the screen flickered, illuminating his features and I found myself paying particular attention to his lips.

Those perfect, plump lips. His tongue flicked out and swept over his bottom lip and my eyes shot up to see that Edward was staring directly at me. I got butterflies in my stomach and a small gasp escaped me.

Slowly, very slowly Edward leaned towards me, he stopped about an inch from my lips, giving me the opportunity to stop him,I didn't. I could feel his breath fanning across my face and I licked my lips in response and that did it.

He leaned the rest of the way in and his lips landed on mine. My hands automatically went up and wrapped around his shoulders, fingering the hair at the back of his neck.

I opened my mouth and groaned and Edward took that as an invitation to slip his tongue into my mouth, I groaned quietly again. God he tasted so good, like honey and sun and everything good. My tongue mingled with his as we both panted.

I pulled back desperate for air and I sucked in a big gulp, Edward didn't let his lips leave my skin as he started kissing my jaw, my neck and this really sensitive spot behind my ear that I didn't even no existed.

I groaned again as I threw my head back giving him better access. I guess I groaned a little too loudly because the couple two rows ahead of us turned and glared. "Shh!"

Edward, unfortunately pulled away from my neck but not before laying one gentle peck on it. He turned to the couple and whispered "Sorry."

I was blushing of course and when Edward turned back to look at me he chuckled before putting an arm around me and pulling me closer to him. I sat snuggled up against his arm and he kissed the top of my head before focusing on the movie, I did the same.

We remained that way for the remainder of the film.

"Oh my God, that was the worst movie ever." I giggled as Edward and I walked out of the movie theater hand in hand.

"I know, I'm sorry love." I melted at the term of endearment.

"I mean, when they all just started beating him with the stick, I couldn't help but laugh" I looked up at him and he laughed out loud.

In the theater, the film was slightly funny and then this scene happens where this Zombie comes into a supermarket and a load of people come out of nowhere and start beating him with sticks, I burst out laughing because,well it was hilarious and when I finally calmed down I realized that the entire theate had turned in their seats to stare at me and that none of them were laughing, apparently it wasn't a comedy.

"Don't worry I thought it was funny too, I mean, it was supposed to be a horror movie, but come on, there was nothing scary about it." He smiled at me.

"I know, how could no one else in there find it funny?" I asked.

"I have no idea, it's like we chose the one movie that all of the most serious people in Washington chose to see aswell." He joked.

"Well I enjoyed myself." I smiled at him.

"Me too." He squeezed my hand.

"Are you hungry?" He asked.

"I could eat, what did you have in mind?"

"I know this diner around the corner that does the best fries you'll ever come across." He replied.

"Sounds good." I answered.

"Well, come on we can walk from here." He said pulling me in the right direction.

We reached the diner and he held the door open for me. We sat at a booth in the back and rather than sitting opposite me Edward sat down beside me. It felt more intimate.

A blonde waitress who looked about twenty two, twenty three, with a slim waist and boobs that were clearly fake sauntered over to us.

She looked directly at Edward and completely ignored me.

"What can I get you?" She asked in this completely nasal voice, I swear it was worse than nails on a chalkboard, I cringed. Edward turned to me.

"Bella, what would you like?" He asked. I hadn't even looked at the menu.

"Eh, what ever you are having is fine." I said to Edward. He smiled at me.

"We'll have two medium cokes, and a large cheese chips please." He asked not even glancing at the waitress, I smiled as she stormed off in a huff. Bitch.

We talked about random stuff while we waited on our food, it didn't take long, within ten minutes the blonde was back out with a gigantic bowel in her hands, she sat it on front of Edward and my eyes bugged out of my head as I looked at it. Holy crap it's gigantic.

"Is there anything else that I can do for you, anything at all?" She asked in what I assume was supposed to be a sexy voice, it just sounded slutty. I huffed. Edward smirked at me before replying.

"No thank You, I have everything that I could ever need right here." My heart melted right then and there and I can't express the satisfaction I felt as the waitress glared at me before leaving us alone.

"Are you jealous Bella?" Edward asked playfully.

"What, no..I..I.." I sputtered.

"Well I mean, she was throwing herself at you, its just plain rude to do that when I'm sitting right here." I huffed.

He smiled at me.

"Well it doesn't even matter because you are all I need, I didn't even notice her until I saw you giving her the death look."

"What, I did not give her a death look." I mumbled. Picking up the glass of coke before taking a gulp.

"Oh you did, I saw it with my own eyes, It was kinda sexy actually." I choked on the drink, ended up inhaling it, it came sputtering out of my mouth and my noise.

"Jesus, are you alright?" Edward asked reaching out towards me with a napkin. My eyes were watering from the fizz in my nose and I'm sure I was bright red. I groaned to myself.

"I'm fine" I coughed.

"You sure?" He asked gently patting my shirt with a napkin, where I clearly spit some coke.

"Yeah,..Guess That's not so sexy huh?" I asked still bright red.

He looked me in the eye.

"Bella everything you do is sexy, seriously that may be one of the sexiest things I've ever seen." He was teasing me. I mock punched him in the arm.

"Shut up Edward." I laughed at him. He rubbed his arm pretending to be hurt. He pushed the massive bowel towards me.

"Come on lets eat, I'm starving." He stated before picking up a fry covered in cheese sauce and melted cheese.

I Picked up a fry and moaned as I ate it. So good.

"Jesus, these are the best fries ever." I said looking at Edward.

He sat staring at me with a fry held up to his face,his mouth wide open like a goldfish and he looked like he was in pain.

"Edward?" I asked.

"You moaned." He whispered, What is he talking about?

"What?" I asked confused.

He seemed to shake himself out of it.

"Nothing, Nothing." He mumbled.

"Okay..." I was still confused.

He kept staring at me as I ate my next fry, as if waiting for something to happen, when it didn't he went back to eating his fries. Weird.

We spent the next hour talking about everything, music, books, he asked me my favorite color and I asked him his favorite writer and so on. I had just finished talking about Chalie when he asked me something I rather wish he hadn't.

"And what about your Mom?" I froze, debating what I should say, Edward clearly noticed that it was a sore topic.

"It's okay, you don't have to tell me." He rushed.

"No it's okay it's just me and Renee, my mom, we aren't really that close." I shrugged, he nodded at me to continue.

"We never really have been. My mother grew up in Forks and all she ever dreamed about was getting out, then she got pregnant at eighteen and married Charlie and suddenly she was stuck and she couldn't stand it.

When I was two she filed for a divorce and after it was finalized she took Daniel and I and we moved. We moved around a lot : Florida, Oregon, California and eventually we moved to Phoenix in Arizona, we stayed there.

Renee, I suppose the best word to describe her is flighty, I don't know how she looked after me and Daniel when we were young but I know then when we got older we took care of our selves. At age seven I was cooking dinner everynight and making sure the bills got paid on time.

When we were old enough Daniel and I got jobs, we helped pay the bills because Renee couldn't hold down a job. One week she was knitting, the next she was painting. She had all of these great ideas but not enough patience to see them through.

Then Daniel died and, she..She blamed me, she started drinking and it got to the point where she couldn't even stand to look at me. I figured it was best that I go away for at least a while, so I called Charlie and within three days I was here in Forks.

I haven't seen her since. I email her at least once a week but she hasn't replied, I tried texting her and that didn't work either. I know that she is okay because Charlie has talked to her..It's just me she doesn't want to speak to."

Edward had remained quiet throughout the entire conversation, just listening. I looked up at him to see his jaw clenched. He was angry.

"I hate that she does that...that She hurts you, a mother shouldn't do that." He said looking me in the eye. I swallowed shakily.

"Now I've painted her in a bad light, she isn't that bad, she just misses Daniel that's all." I whispered. He reached over and grabbed my hand squeezing my fingers lightly.

"Bella, don't make excuses for her, yes she misses Daniel, she is in pain and she is entitled to that, she lost a child but Bella, she still has a child, a daughter and her pain does not allow her to cause you further pain.

You are hurting too, you are grieving too and she should be with you helping you and reminding you that you are loved." He said it so strongly, like he believed every word and I know he did.

I had tears in my eyes. I wanted to tell him that she hated me, that she blamed me and that she had every right to do so. It was my fault, Daniel was dead because of me.

I wanted to say it all to him but I couldn't because I was so afraid that if he found out he would leave, he would be disgusted and I'd lose him.

I couldn't lose him, I wouldn't survive.

He pulled me into a hug and just held me for a while. He hugged me tighter as he whispered in my ear.

"You are loved, you are loved Bella." And for a few moments I just let myself believe it.

Eventually he pulled away from me and wiped under my eyes where a few tears had escaped. He smiled at me and I smile in return, I couldn't help it. He leaned in and kissed my lips sweetly.

It wasn't long or passionate, it was simple and sweet and was just to remind me that he cared.

He pulled back and just studied my face for a moment before leaning in and kissing my cheeks and then my nose. Just as he was about to pull away we heard a throat clear behind us. Edward looked over my shoulder and tensed.

"Alice.." He murmured.

Alice...Alice As in Edwards sister Alice. Oh God we were in so much trouble.

A/N: Hides behind screen hoping a mob with pitch forks doesn't attack because I just left you guys with a cliff hanger. It had to be done I'm sorry but I wanted this chapter to be just B&E Fluff.

Anywho..sorry for the late update, I am finally finished my exams...Leaving Certificate Examinations complete! and now I'm done with secondry school, Highschool..whatever you like to call it.

Now all I need to do is panic about the results, hope I get those 415 points(In ireland we work of a points system) that I need to get into college...if not my friends have joked that I'll be the homeless person living outside of mc Donalds in town(Dublin City Center) so wish me luck, I'd rather not be homeless.

xxxAoife