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"You've been awol for weeks man," Emmet said to Jasper, taking a break from their game of squash to give his friend a curious look. "We haven't seen you since you left Quill's with that hottie the other night."

"Her name's Bella," Jasper said, shocking his friend with his vicious tone.

"Woah, chill out, I didn't mean anything by it." Emmet held up his hands. "So, any plans to see her again?" he asked carefully.

"No." Jasper answered. He had thought about Bella every day since the night they had spent together. He wasn't surprised by her reaction to him come the morning, considering he had yelled at her more than once and woken her up by rubbing his cock against her. Jasper felt mortified by his body's reaction to sleeping in the same bed as Bella. There was no way anyone could describe him as innocent and he had fucked his share of beautiful women, but since holding her that night and waking up to her beautiful face in the morning, Jasper had found that he could not look at any other girl. Plus, she still had his favourite hoodie.

"Well that's probably a good thing," Emmet said. "A girl like that will only be trouble."

Despite disliking Emmet's words, Jasper couldn't help but agree. A girl who behaved that recklessly, no matter for what reason, would definitely be trouble. But then a little bit of trouble is what makes life that bit more interesting, Jasper thought to himself with a grin. And I do want that hoodie back.

"I completely agree Em," Jasper answered.

Emmet nodded in a satisfied manner. "Let's get back to the game then, I've gotta beat your ass at this some time!"

Bella picked up her phone, groaning when she saw Jessica Stanley's name flashing at her again. Jess had called every day since her ill-fated engagement party, ostensibly to check that she was ok, however Bella was well aware of her friend's propensity to gossip and knew that she would not pass on a chance to get the details of that night. After Jake had returned her engagement ring to Edward and picked up some clothes from the house she shared with Alice, Bella had spent the last two weeks moping around his flat and sleeping on the sofa, not leaving unless it was for lectures or her job in the bookshop. She knew that she would have to face her sister eventually, but she didn't feel ready for that conversation yet. From her daily talks with her parents, Bella knew that Alice was sorry for what she had done, but that didn't excuse the selfishness of her betrayal.

Jasper had also been on her mind. Bella still found herself completely hung up on him, but didn't have the energy to entertain the thought of trying to find him. Although this did not stop her from thinking about him, particularly lying on the sofa at night, with Jake and Sam in the next room. Bella felt lonely and her mind drifted constantly back to the night she had spent with him and how safe she had felt in his muscular arms.

Deciding that things had to change at some point, Bella took a deep breath and picked up her phone. She knew that Jake and Sam were happy to have her to stay for as long as she needed, however she also knew they were missing their time alone together. Particularly because Jake was only back in the country for a few months. They were the only couple Bella knew who had managed a long distance relationship quite so successfully.

She tapped Jessica's name on her phone and pulling the phone away from her ear, winced at Jess's high pitched squeal as she answered.

"Oh my god, Bella! I heard you and Edward had split up. Are you ok? What happened?"

"I really don't want to talk about it right now Jess," Bella said, a warning tone in her voice. "But I do need some girl time. Can we arrange lunch or something?"

"Of course Bella!" Jess answered. "Meet you at 12? I'll get the girls together and text you where we're meeting."

"Sounds great, I'll see you later." Bella was already dreading seeing her friends, but knew that she needed to do something other than sit around Jake's flat all day. With her mind set, she pulled herself up from the sofa and headed for the shower to get ready to face the world.

As Bella approached the restaurant, she could already see her group of friends inside. Jessica, Angela and Lauren had been her friends since their first days at university and had managed to stay in touch, largely due to Jess's bossy nature, insisting they all meet once a week to catch up.

Joining them at the table of the popular pizza chain, all eyes immediately focused on Bella. "How are you?" asked Angela, the quietest of the group and the most empathetic. "We heard that you've split up with Edward, do you want to talk about it?"

"There's not too much to say," Bella said. "Edward cheated on me at our engagement party, there's not really any way you can move on from that." She looked up at the shocked faces around the table, regretting that she had blurted it out so abruptly.

"Um, who with?" asked Jess.

Bella, looked at the table, sorry that she had not made up another reason for her split with Edward. "Alice," she answered. "My sister."

Loud gasps emanated around the table as her friends registered her words.

"I'm so sorry Bella," Angela said. "I can't believe they would do something like that to you. You should have called us earlier. You know, we're always here if you need to talk."

"Thanks hun. I just needed some alone time to work things out in my head. I'm feeling much better than I thought I would about it."

The conversation moved on to more mundane topics, for which Bella was glad. It was not like her to be the centre of attention. Jess was excited to tell them all about her new boyfriend, regaling them all with the details for a number of minutes.

"So, he's a city banker and he's called Laurence. He's gorgeous, of course and absolutely loaded!"

As Jess droned on, Bella rolled her eyes and smiled to herself at Jess' overexcitement. Despite thinking Laurence sounded incredibly boring, she acted happy for her friend; asking questions, oohing and aahing in all the right places as Jess babbled on about the dates they had been on.

As she came to the end of her last story, Jess looked to Bella. "I'm so sorry Bella, here's me going on and on about my new man, when you've just split up with your fiancé. That's so insensitive of me." The look on her face was not particularly sympathetic however, if anything she looked a little smug. Bella knew that Jess had been jealous of her relationship with Edward, particularly as she usually struggled to hold down a relationship for more than a few weeks.

"Oh don't worry about me!" Bella said, in a much more upbeat manner than she felt.

"I'm so glad you're ok about it," replied Jess, "Because he has a friend you should meet." She carried on in excitement. "His name's Mike Newton, he works at the bank with Laurence, he's gorgeous, blonde hair and blue eyes, just what you need to get over Edward," she said with a sly grin.

Bella felt as though she had been ambushed. "But I'm really not ready to move on yet," she answered. "It's only been a couple of weeks since I finished with Edward."

"It's best to get straight back on the horse Bella," said Lauren, giggling, always one to follow Jess's lead. Angela rolled her eyes, giving Bella a sympathetic glance. But Bella was thinking back to her talk with Jake the night after the party, when he had given her exactly the same advice, even if he was talking about a different man.

"Ok," she agreed finally. "I'll meet him."

The other girls looked at her with surprise. "Well, ok, that's great," Jess said, obviously expecting her to say no. "How about I set up a double date for us?"

"Sounds perfect." Bella smiled, now fairly amused at how put out Jess appeared to be. "I can't wait to meet him."

Half way through the dinner date a few days later and Bella was regretting agreeing to come.

She had gone all out for the night, dressing in her favourite tight blue knee length dress which showed just the right amount of cleavage. Teamed with skyscraper heels and chandelier earrings, Bella looked good and she knew it. She could tell her date appreciated the effort she had made, as he constantly ran his eyes over her body.

It had seemed like the night was off to a good start when the two men walked Bella and Jess to their table, pulling out their chairs. Polar opposites of each other, Laurence was tall, with smooth black skin, a shaved head and a wide smile. Mike was the shorter of the two, with spiked blonde hair and baby blue eyes. He was as good looking as Jess had said, in a clean cut, preppy sort of way.

He smiled widely at Bella as he introduced himself. "Hey, I'm Mike Newton, Jess has told me a lot about you."

Bella had smiled back, enjoying the easy manners of the good looking man in front of her.

The food at the Michelin starred restaurant they were eating at had been fabulous and Bella had relished her dressed crab and fillet of beef. By the time they reached dessert, Mike and Laurence were still talking about their work and the pranks they played on the colleagues at the bank, as they had for the entire meal. Unable to help herself, Bella had zoned out, paying little attention to her date.

"Just as he was about to transfer the money and earn himself the most commission in the banks history, we pulled the plug out on of his computer! Charlie was furious!" Mike and Laurence whooped with laughter at their story, Jess giggling along with them. Bella dragged her attention back to the table and managed a half-hearted chuckle.

Seeming to sense that she wasn't really interested in what he was saying, Mike finally turned his attention to Bella.

"So, Bella," he said. "Jess says you're training to be a psychologist? I bet that means you can tell everything I'm thinking, right?" he finished, with a flirty smile and another glance down at her breasts.

Fighting the urge to roll her eyes, Bella corrected him. "Well I'm completing my Masters in Psychology and would like to work in the field someday. It's such an exciting area to research, it changes constantly and there are still so many things we don't know."

"Uh, right," answered Mike, clearly unsure of how to respond to Bella's passionate speech. Bella looked at him with disappointment, any last thoughts she had of going on a second date with Mike disappearing as he dismissed her so quickly.

"Why don't we go on to a club?" Jess asked, perhaps sensing the tension which had grown between Bella and Mike.

"Yes, great idea Jess! I'm definitely up for some dancing," Bella answered, needing to go somewhere she could have a few more drinks and where the music would be loud enough to drown out the drivel Mike was now spouting about the millions of pounds he had moved between accounts in the last month.

"I'll meet you outside, I just need to freshen up." Retouching her make up in the toilets, Bella thought of the last time she had gone out drinking and the man she had met that night. She could not help but compare Jasper, with his angry words and the way he had protected and cared for her, to Mike's self-indulgent monologue which he had kept up for most of the night. Bella was not afraid to admit to herself that she had spent every night since seeing Jasper thinking of his body against hers and how his hard cock had pressed against her side. The dream she had the night she spent with him had been reoccurring and thinking of it now made her cheeks flush pink with need. Shaking her head to clear her inappropriate thoughts, Bella rejoined the others who were waiting outside in a taxi.

Making their way into a club which was pumping out dance music, the boys headed to the bar to buy a round of drinks while Bella and Jess made their way straight onto the dance floor, eager to let go and have a good time.

Jasper stood leaning against the bar, wincing at the dance music.

"Come on Jay, lighten up," shouted Emmett over the music, ignoring Jasper's scowl.

This was not the sort of place Jasper would usually frequent, but he had come along that night as a favour to Em. He looked around at the girls dancing suggestively, many of whom kept glancing over, hoping to catch his eye. He ignored them, annoyed that since spending the night with Bella no other girl came even close to her. I didn't even fuck her, he thought, feeling more and more pissed off that Bella had such an effect on him.

Two banker wankers bumped into him and Jasper turned, ready to give them a piece of his already very angry mind. Seeing the aggressive look on his face, the shorter of the two men with blonde hair and a baby face held up his hands in mock defence. "Sorry man," he said. "Didn't see you there."

Emmett grabbed Jasper's arm, pulling him away before he could start on the blonde asshole still smirking in their direction. "Let's go find a table," he said in his friend's ear, tugging him away with ease as Jasper shot the two men venomous looks.

Finding a table to rest their beers on, the two men carried on watching the girls in the crowd. "This is the life," said Emmett. "Can't do this sort of thing with Rose around!"

"God, you're impossible," Jasper replied with a shake of his head, knowing that although he liked to look, his friend would never do anything that would jeopardise his relationship with Rosalie.

Looking out onto the dance floor, Jasper found his eyes drawn to a small brunette in a tight blue dress which showed off her round ass and low cut enough to reveal her ample cleavage. As she rotated, dancing sexily with her girlfriend, Jasper recognised her. His heart almost stopped as he realised that Bella, who he had not been able to stop thinking about for the past few weeks was now right in front of him. He watched with fascination as she ran her hands down her body, in the way he had imagined her doing. As she threw back her head to laugh at something her friend said, the two girls were joined by the wankers from the bar. Jasper watched with increasing irritation as the blonde man wrapped his arms around her waist and attempted to pull Bella towards him. To his satisfaction, she did not seem to welcome the contact, firmly removing his hands. He was angry to see the blonde idiot did not seem to be getting the hint, as he went to put his hands on Bella again.

"I'll be back in a minute," Jasper said to Emmett who was oblivious to the scene Jasper had been riveted by. Looking at him with suspicion, Emmett narrowed his eyes, before opening them in alarm as he saw who Jasper was headed for.

"Jasper just leave it," he shouted after him, his voice drowned out by the loud club music as Jasper disappeared onto the dance floor.

Making his way swiftly towards Bella and the man who was accosting her, Jasper could feel his hands involuntarily clench into fists as he fought down the anger threatening to overwhelm him. Reaching the couple, Jasper snarled at the blonde man. "Get your hands off her."

Turning around with surprise, Bella's eyes widened with shock as she registered that Jasper was stood not a foot away from her, attempting to form a barricade with his body between her and Mike. Dressed from head to toe in black jeans and t-shirt with a number of his tattoos on show, he looked dangerous and very, very sexy. Eager to stop the evening from turning into a fight, Bella put her hand on his arm. "Jasper it's ok, I'm here with him," she said.

Looking up at him, Bella watched Jasper's eyes flash with an expression she could not quite place. Disappointment, jealousy, anger, they all ran through her mind. "Fine," he answered, before turning and stalking back off through the crowd.

Feeling as though cold water had been poured on her night, Bella watched Jasper's retreating back, fear striking her as she watched him walk away, suddenly scared that she had blown any chance she may have had to spend more time with him.

"I'm sorry Mike, Jess, there's someone I need to speak to," Bella said to her friends, walking away before they had a chance to respond. Following the path Jasper had taken across the dance floor, Bella looked everywhere but was disappointed to find that he seemed to have completely disappeared. Crestfallen, she paused near the group of tables at the edge of the club and continued to look around, hoping to see his head of honey gold curls.

Emmett noticed Bella pause by his table, looking out across the club as though she was searching for someone. Against his better judgement, he addressed her. "If you're looking for Jasper, he's gone outside."

Bella turned to look at him quickly, not thinking to question how this giant of a man seemed to know who she was and that she was looking for Jasper. "Thanks," she said, before making her way outside.

Wrapping her arms around herself against the cool air, Bella looked around for Jasper. Her eyes were drawn to a tall figure half hidden by shadows, leaning against the wall as he smoked his cigarette. She approached him quietly. "Jasper, I'm sorry."

"What are you sorry for Bella?" he asked, his eyes hard and angry. "You're allowed to see any guy you want, it's nothing to do with me."

"I don't know why I bothered coming out here, if that's how you feel," she said. "But just for the record, I'm not seeing Mike. I only met him tonight and have no intention of seeing him again."

At her words, Jasper felt his anger dissipate and realised with shame he had snapped at her again for no reason. "No, Bella, I'm sorry," he said, taking her hand. "Can we start over?"

She smiled back at him, a mischievous glint in her eye. "Sure thing, but you've gotta come dance with me first."

Bella tugged on his hand, leading him back into the club. He followed behind, eagerly anticipating the moment he got to put his hands on her, showing everyone in the club, including the blonde wanker, that she was with him.

Ooh, is this finally it? Bit of UST there! Sorry for the little cliffhanger, next chapter coming soon, I promise. If you like the direction this is taking, or not, please review and let me know your ideas!