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Last Chapter:

Later that night as I lay in a sleeping Edward's arms, I couldn't help but feel a little nervous about the following evening. I just hoped that Alice was right this time and there is nothing to worry about.

Six o'clock came on Friday with Rose and Alice pounding on my door.

"Hey girls," I said as I pulled the door open for them. "I have drinks."

I ushered them into my kitchen, waving my hand towards the cranberry and vodka drinks sitting on the counter.

I had rushed home from work, hoping to get a shower in before the she-demon, Alice, showed up to torture me. I had thankfully been able to shower and make some beverages. Not that pouring vodka and juice into a glass was overtly difficult or time consuming, but hey, it made me feel like I had accomplished something.

"Thanks," Rose said taking a long sip from her glass. "I needed that."

"Long day?" I asked, sipping on my drink.

"Just a long photo shot, with a pig headed photographer that thought it was appropriate to slap my ass at every turn," she ranted, chugging down the rest of her drink and then refilling it.

"Gross," I commented. Poor Rose.

"Okay, enough chit chat," Alice announced, seating her drink down. "I have work to do. Bella, I want you in the bathroom. Rose, you go lay the dresses out. I am going to go unload my bag and then I will start on Bella's hair."

Rose and I groaned in unison, Dictator Alice was no fun.

Before I rushed into the bathroom, I grabbed my cell phone. I hadn't really heard from Edward since this morning, but I knew that he was busy getting everything ready for tonight.

While I waited for the she-demon to appear, I shot Edward off a quick text.

E- Hope everything is going okay. I miss you and I can't wait until I see you later. Love you! -B

I didn't have to wait very long for a reply.

B- Everything is on schedule here. Thankfully. I miss you too. I can't wait to see how hot you look tonight; I may have to throw a blanket around you and take you home. I love you, too. -E

Chuckling, I texted him back.

E- And ruin all of Alice's hard work, you wouldn't dare! See you soon! -B

B- Wouldn't want to do that. I guess I will just have to settle with keeping my arm wrapped around you all night. Text me when you get here. -E

E- Sounds good to me, but it might make going to the ladies room awkward. I will text you when we arrive, until then, I love you. -B

B- And I love you. We will work something out about the bathroom situation; I better get back to work. See you soon! -E

I just finished reading his last text when Alice burst through the door.

"Okay, I have thirty minutes to do your hair. So sit still and let me work," she demanded as soon as she set her bag of tricks on the counter.

"Yes, Ma'am," I said with a salute and all.

She just rolled her eyes at me and proceeded to transform my hair into a work of art. Exactly thirty minutes later, my hair was done and I was amazed; as usual.

She had pulled all of my hair into a side ponytail that sat right under my right ear. She then took the hair and curled big thick curls. The end result was a cascading side ponytail, with shining bouncy curls.

"Thank you, Alice," I said after I had examined it in the mirror.

"You're very welcome. Do you need help with your makeup?" "I think I can handle it."

"Okay, get to it then. I have myself to get ready now," She said, waving her hand towards the door in dismissal.

I found Rose sitting on my bed, dressed in a beautiful pink, halter top, bandage dress, that followed her every curve. Her blonde hair was pulled into a high, glossy, ponytail, and her sparkly shoes caught my eye as I made my way to the closet to pull out my own dress.

"Love the shoes," I said in passing.

"Thanks, I love them a lot, too."

Having changed at least a hundred times in front of Rose, I felt no embarrassment in pulling off my robe to dress.

Since my dress was only one shouldered, I pulled on a nude strapless bra and matching nude, lace, boy shorts. The dress is a red, draped, leg enhancing concoction that look liked it belonged in Sex and the City. It was tight and screamed "Look at me!"

"Oh, Bella, that dress is amazing on you," Rose exclaimed once everything was in place.

"You think?" I asked biting my lip.

"Of course, silly! Just wait until Edward sees you in that."

I stepped in front of my floor length mirror, wanting to see what Rose did.

She was right; the dress hugged me in all the right spots. The color gave my normally translucent skin a shimmery glow.

"It does look nice," I finally admitted.

"It looks more than nice, it looks amazing," Alice interjected, walking out of the bathroom. "I don't know why you hid it in the back of your closet."

"You found that in the back of her closet?" Rose asked in disbelief.

"Yes! She hid it away next to her outdated pant suits, which by the way are getting thrown out missy."

I just rolled my eyes at the two of them.

"You look amazing, Alice," I offered in hopes of changing the subject.

"Thank you, Bella."

She really did look amazing. Her normally spiked hair was now half pulled up in one of those high poof things with the under layer straightened and laying flat against her neck. The dress that she told me about before looked perfect on her and the sliver gladiator heels gave her the height that she had always wanted.

"I'm going to fix my make up," I announced, walking into the bathroom.

"Hurry, we only have about twenty minutes until go time," Alice said, tapping an imaginary watch on her arm.

I quickly did some smoky eye makeup and a touch of rouge on the cheeks. After applying a quick swipe of red lip gloss, I was ready and with ten whole minutes to spare.

"You did good, kid," Alice said once I walked out into the living room.

"I told you that I could do my own make up."

"Only because I taught you how!" she exclaimed. She had me there.

I pulled on my black, pea coat. "You girls ready?"

They nodded their heads and pulled on their respective coats and we made our way to the club.

*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~WYB*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

We meet Jasper and Emmett at the club. Thankfully Em couldn't say anything about my dress, since I was still covered by my coat.

Edward told me that our names would be on the list and that we could by-pass the line in order to get in. We were use to this treatment anyways, with Rose being a super model and all.

Our group made its way to the front door, the people in line bitching at us as we passed.

There was a huge intimidating looking bouncer stationed in front of the door, while a smaller but bulky looking man stood in front of him with a clip board.

"Can I help you?" he asked in an irritated fashion.

"We should be on the list," I said in a timid voice.

"Name?" he barked out, not taking his eyes off his clip board.

"Swan."

He perused the list for a second. "Nope, sorry."

"Try Cullen," I said, maybe in the rush of getting things done, he had put his name down instead.

He flipped through the papers again. "Sorry, not here."

I was starting to get a little irritated. "We should be on that list."

His eyes snapped up from the clip board. He gave me his, what I was assuming to be, most menacing stare. "You're not on the list; you'll have to wait in line."

Before I could say another word, Rosalie pushed her way next to me.

"Excuse me, sir," She said sweetly. Ahhh… She was going to play the nice girl card.

"Yes…wow," He stuttered out. He obviously knows who she is.

"I am Rosalie Hale-Swan. I should be on that list," She said in her sugary sweet voice.

He frantically flipped through the papers again. "I'm sorry, your name isn't here," He babbled, his voice cracking. I about rolled my eyes at him.

"Well…." She started, obviously wanting his name.

"Steve Ashcroft," he supplied.

"Well Steve, Bella's boyfriend is promoting this club tonight and he put us on that list," she said wrapping her arm around my shoulder.

"I don't…I can't…..," he said, desperation circling his eyes.

"I can call him and have him come out here," I offered.

"Okay," He squeaked.

Ignoring that grumblings of the people waiting in line, I quickly dialed Edward's number. Imagine my shock when a woman's voice answered.

"Hello," she said in a crisp, but professional, voice.

I pulled the phone away to make sure that I dialed the right number. I had.

"Hello," she said again.

"I need to speak to Edward," I finally managed to get out.

Rose cocked her eyebrow up at me, almost as if she was asking why I would have to ask to Edward. I just shook my head at her, indicating that I would explain in a second.

"I'm so sorry, but Edward is busy right now," she said in a sickly sweet voice. I ground my teeth together; I knew that it had to be Tanya.

"Tanya?" I asked, cutting to the chase.

"Yes."

"I need to speak to Edward," I said more firmly.

"And I already told you that he was busy right now, if you know what I mean."

I felt my stomach roll at her innuendo. But before I could retaliate, with a snarky come back, I heard his voice in the background.

"Are you on my phone, Tanya?" his voice was muffled.

"Yes, wrong number," she said, before hanging up on me.

I pulled back my phone and looked at it in shock, I couldn't believe her nerve.

"What was that?" Rose asked.

"Tanya," was all I could force myself to say. I quickly re-dialed Edward's number.

"Bella?" he answered; I could hear the smile in his voice.

"Hey," I wanted to go off about Tanya, but now was not the time.

"Where are you at? I thought you would be here by now."

"We are stuck at the door, apparently we are not on the list," I explained, giving Steve a pointed look.

"Seriously? I know I put you guys on it, I even double checked it. I will right down there."

Then the phone went silent, I slid it back into my purse.

"He's on his way," I told Steve.

"What did Tanya do?" Alice asked, forcing her tiny body between Rose and me.

"I'll tell you once we are at the table," I forced out, anger bubbling just below the surface. I really didn't want it to blow in front of a line of people.

"Okay," she agreed, I'm sure sensing my anger.

Thankfully Edward opened the door a few seconds later. Striding confidently past the huge bouncer, his eyes set firmly on Steve. I felt a little rejected that he didn't even acknowledge me.

"Mr. Ashcroft, these are friends of mine and should be on that list," he barked out, yanking the clips board out of the shorter man's hands.

He roughly went through each page, not breaking eye contact with it.

"I'm so sorry sir, but I didn't find their names and we were given strict orders not to let anyone in, unless they were approved," Steve rambled.

Edward didn't respond, but quickly flipped through the papers a second time.

"It's not here," he mumbled out. "I put it here."

He finally shoved the clip board back at Steve. "I don't know how their name got removed, but they are approved to enter," his voice was firm.

"Okay," Steve squeaked out, gesturing quickly to the huge bouncer to move.

Edward, still not looking at me, wrapped his hand around my waist and walked me into the club.

"Trista," He called out to a passing waitress.

"Yes, Mr. Cullen," She answered him a slightly dreamy voice.

"Could you show my group to the VIP section, I have a booth reserved for them there." He told her.

"Of course, Mr. Cullen," she said, smiling widely at him. I about rolled my eyes at her, did she not see me standing right next to him.

I was slightly hurt that Edward was passing us off onto a waitress, but I understood that he had work to do.

I gently pulled myself out of his grasp, intent on staying close to our friends, I really didn't want to get separated from the group and not be able to find them.

"Where do you think you're going?" Edward said pulling me back against him firmly.

I gave him a confused look. "To the VIP section?"

"Not yet you're not. I want you to myself for a second," he said, finally looking at me. Oh my, his eyes were dangerously dark.

I realized that our friends were still standing there, waiting on me. I slowly peeled my coat off and set it in Alice's out stretched hands. How she knew that I was going to give it to her was beyond me.

"Are you trying to kill me?" Edward groaned out, his dark eyes taking in my skin tight dress.

"No, why would you think that?" I asked innocently.

Before he could answer, Emmett decided to play the big brother role…again.

"Bella, that is not appropriate attire!"

"We're going to the VIP section, see you there Bella," Rose said pulling Emmett behind her.

"We will finish this later," Emmett warned as he was drug away.

"I'll order you a drink," Alice announced before following everyone else.

I waved at my retreating friends and then turned back to a gawking Edward.

"Emmett is right, that is not appropriate attire," he said, pulling me even closer to him.

"It's just a dress," I sighed. "That is more than just a dress, my love."

"It's a fancy dress, I suppose," I quipped really wanting to change the subject. "So…."

"Oh, yeah. Follow me," he said grabbing my hand. He must have just realized that he had me all to himself.

While he walked me through the club I took a moment to check everything out, well what I could see of it.

The lights were dimmed and there was a normal amount of strobe lights going off. The main floor of the club was asses to elbows people; thankfully Edward was leading us through this mess. I probably would still be stuck next to the entrance.

There were huge chandeliers hanging from the ceiling, causing the strobe lights to have a rainbow effect everywhere. It was pretty neat.

Before I knew it, Edward was leading me through a nondescript door, closing it tightly behind us, ushering me into a very bright and quiet hallway.

"God, that dress looks even better in the light," He groaned, pulling me close to him. He brushed his plump, soft lips against mine for a minute. Before it went too far, he pulled away and started leading me down the hallway. Stopping at a huge, ornate door, he reached into his pocket and fished out a key ring.

After he unlocked the door and pulled me inside, I realized that we were in some sort of office. There was a huge, cream colored couch lining one wall and a massive wood desk took up the other wall.

"Where are we?" I asked.

"This is the owner's office; I have been using it off and on all week. Hence why I have a key," He said, jiggling the key.

"Oh."

I felt his strong hand wrap around my wrist, pulling my body into his. His lips descended on mine, hungrily nipping and licking. I moaned softly against his lips, accepting his tongue into my mouth, stroking it with mine.

His left hand trailed down my side, wrapping itself around my knee, pulling it up, he hitched it around his left hip. This caused his very evident erection to press against me in ways that made me forget that we were in a club full of people.

Before things could to out of hand, Edward's cell phone starting chirping from his pocket.

"No," he groaned loudly, releasing my leg from his grip. I set it on the floor, stepping away from him. He rummaged into his pocket, pulling out his silver phone.

"I have to take this, Love," he said, his eyes conveying his lust for me.

"Go ahead, you're technically at work."

He brought the phone to ear, grinning at me slightly.

"This better be important," He barked into the phone. I couldn't hear who was talking to but I assumed it was work related.

I then noticed how hot he looked tonight, not that he didn't look hot all the time, but more professionally hot tonight. He was wearing tailored black slacks, a tighter black long sleeved button up and no tie. His normally wild hair was slightly groomed to be more of a controlled mess.

I wanted to lick him.

"Tanya," he said, causing my eyes to snap back to his face. "I think that you can handle that situation."

She was good, I had to give her that. She knew that Edward was with me and now she was trying to pull him away. Well I hate to tell the tramp, but two can play at that game.

"Fuck!" he exclaimed. "Give me a fucking minute and I'll be there."

I internally rolled my eyes; she wasn't going to win this little game. I was going to wait to tell Edward about her hanging up on me earlier, but I guess it was time to play dirty.

He snapped his phone shut angrily. "I guess I need to go talk to some of the press."

"Okay," I said softly, walking back over to him and laying my hand onto his chest. "I'm sorry," He said, leaning his forehead against mine.

"It's really okay; I figured you would be all over the place tonight."

He pressed his lips against mine in a short but sweet kiss. "I'm glad you understand." "Of course," I answered, and then proceeded to drop the bomb.

"Why did Tanya answer your phone earlier?" I asked in an innocent voice.

"What?" "Right before I called you about being stuck at the door, I called and she told me that you were busy," I answered, leaving out the part about her hanging up on me and lying to him.

"What?" He asked again, it was obviously not clicking.

"I called and she answered. She told me that you were busy, but then I heard you in the back ground. We must have lost signal then," I tried explaining it a little more.

"The wrong number," he bellowed.

"Huh?"

"She told me that it was a wrong number!" he exclaimed in a deadly angry voice.

"Oh! But why did she have your phone?" I asked. I seriously wanted to know that tidbit.

"I accidentally left it here in the office, when I realized that it was gone I came back for it. Just as she was hanging up on… you, I guess," he said, stewing. "Don't worry, I will handle that."

"Okay," I said softly, feeling slightly guilty about not telling him that I knew Tanya lied to him in the first place, but I really didn't want to get into why I waited this long to tell him.

He must have taken my look for worry, because he stopped us before we entered the club again. "Seriously, Bella, I will handle her. I will not take her being anything but respectful towards you."

"Alright," I said, pushing up onto my toes, kissing him gently. "I love you."

"I love you too."

He pulled open the door and led me quickly to the VIP section, dropping me off with our friends. He rushed away after quietly telling me that he would be back ASAP.

I folded myself onto the giant, plush, gold couch. Squeezing myself next to Alice, leaving just enough room for Edward for when he joins us.

"Here," Alice said, shoving a drink into my hand. "I ordered this for you, I had a feeling you wouldn't be long."

I had a feeling she was trying to hide a knowing smirk.

"Yeah, well he is working."

I quickly downed my drink, thankful for the smooth burn of alcohol.

"So, tell me what happened with Tanya?" Alice inquired once I sat my empty glass onto the low table.

Her question caught the attention of the rest of our group, they all leaned in closely waiting for the story. Even Jasper and Emmett, you would think that they were girls when it came to petty gossip.

Sighing, I flipped my curled ponytail over my shoulder and launched into the story. After I had given them all the juicy details, Rose slammed her palm against the table, causing the glasses to jiggle.

"I bet that bitch took your name off of that list!" she exclaimed loudly, causing the group next to us to look over curiously.

"Shhh, Rose," Alice scolded her. But I didn't completely care about her being loud at that moment, realization had set in and I wanted to scream at the top of my lungs.

"Do you think…?" I started to ask.

"Yes," Rose said firmly. "I would bet Emmett's left nut that is what she did."

I almost gagged at that mental image. "Eww…Rose, please don't ever bring up my brother's…things again."

"And please don't go around bartering my balls," Emmett added, shifting nervously in his seat. I almost laughed.

"So what are you going to do about her?" Alice asked.

"Edward said that he is going to handle it."

"Yeah, right. A man handle a situation, don't make me laugh," Rose snorted.

"Hey! I can handle situations," Em said. Jasper nodded in agreement.

"Not the way they should be handled," Rose amended. "That bitch needs some slapping around, Edward is going to handle her with kid gloves, making her think that she has the upper hand because Bella is hiding behind Edward."

"I'm not hiding! I'm just letting him handle her because she is his business partner, not some random tramp."

"We know that, but she is obviously deluded. By Edward sitting her down for a talk, is only going to make her think that she is winning," Rose explained. Crap, I hated when she made sense.

"What do I do then?" I asked.

"You take a bitch out," Rose offered, leaning into Emmett's side.

"Yeah, well I'm not sixteen or live in the ghetto, so that's really not an option," I retorted in irritation. I really just wanted to let Edward handle this, she was his friend.

"Maybe you should try talking to her," Jasper finally entered the conversation, always the lawyer, thinking that talking things out would work.

I rolled my eyes at him. "Yeah, don't see that on happening. She confronted me in a restaurant! I don't think she will respond to a little one on one."

We sat in silence for a moment, each of us lost in thought about how this situation should be handled.

"Enough," I finally said, breaking the silence around us. "We are at an awesome club and we are going to enjoy it! I'll figure everything out when or if the time comes."

"I will drink to that," Emmett said, lifting up his almost empty drink.

A waitress appeared out of nowhere, almost if she was magically summoned by Emmett's declaration.

"Hi, my name is Heidi and I am your personal waitress tonight," she cooed to our table.

"What happened to Simone?" Rose asked. I am assuming that Simone was the waitress they had earlier.

"She had a family emergency to attend to, so I will be taking over for her."

Heidi was sex wrapped up in a black mini dress. Her long blonde hair hung in waves down her back and she had an exceptional amount of make up on, making you wonder if her beauty was fake or god given.

She quickly took our order, promising to be back in a jiff. I checked my cell phone, wondering what was taking Edward so long. I figured he would be back by now, to check on us.

I was surprised to see that it had been forty minutes since he had deposited me at the table.

"I'm going to look over the balcony," I announced to the table. I was hoping to catch a glimpse of Edward down there.

"I'll come with you," Alice said pushing her clutch into Jasper's lap.

We made our way over to the thick metal railing that made up the balcony that over looked the bar and the dance floor.

I quickly searched the crowd for a mop of messy bronze hair. I quickly deduced that he wasn't down there, just as I was turning to go, I caught sight of an overly coifed strawberry blonde at the bar.

Tanya.

I watched with her with interest for a second before nudging Alice.

"What?" she said.

"There's Tanya," I pointed to out the tall red head in a too tight silver mini dress.

"She looks like a hooker," Alice snorted, taking in her appearance. "An expensive hooker though, that's a Michael Kor's dress."

I didn't even want to know how she could tell the designer of the dress from that far away.

"Well it was a Michael Kor's dress before she had it hemmed and taken in," She huffed. "Why would you do that?"

"I don't know Al, must have thought it looked better as a tube top."

I tuned out what she said next because something more interesting was happening below. Tanya had struck up a conversation with a leggy blonde, squinting I realized that it was Heidi, our waitress.

I saw Tanya in lean in and say something into Heidi's ear, and then she waved her hand in the direction of the VIP section. Finally I saw her press something into Heidi's hand before turning and stalking off into the other direction with a self satisfied smile on her face.

I turned to Alice, just as she looked at me.

In unison we both said. "What is she up too?"

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