I Caught Myself.

Edward and his mates celebrate the return of Emmett, who has just returned from L.A. for university. He brings along his new girlfriend and her closest friends. Emmett's new girlfriend, the cocky but shy Bella Swan, turns out to be the girl of Edward's dreams … but his best friend's girl. Does she feel the same way? And how will Emmett take this?

RATED M FOR THE OBVIOUS REASONS. AU/AT/AH. And I don't own Twilight or anything related to it. It's just one of those things that we can play around with.

I got the idea for this fic from the song "Crush" by David Archuleta.

A/N: So it's been a while and I am really sorry about that. I've been sick, and I've also had to catch up on a ton of work and do like gazillions of assignments which for some reason seem to be due at the exact same time. Thanks to everyone for the TOD ideas! I will definitely use them … soon aha. The funny thing is that I was listening to "All I See is You" by Kylie Minogue a few (and I mean a few) nights ago and I just got a really, really good idea for this chapter, so I'm saving the truth or dare for next chapter, I PROMISE. Now, here's chapter three! :)

Chapter Three – Confused Thoughts.

Bella POV

Five more minutes, please!

I awoke with a start, as Emmett rolled over and started to snore in my face. I used to think that it was adorable, but in your face? Not so much.

I pushed his face away, which just flopped back to its original position and I groaned. Can't I sleep for a little longer? I knew that I wasn't going to get anymore sleep here, so I started to get up, hopeful that someone was already awake and I could climb into their bed.

As I sat up, I was pulled down by the bottom of my pyjama singlet and then almost crushed by Emmett's weight.

"Where were you going, miss?" he said teasingly, tickling me in my weak spot.

I giggled like a child. "No where! No where!"

"Good," he said, starting to peck me repeatedly on my cheek. "I like you where you are."

He started to kiss down my neck. I closed my eyes and bit my lip, enjoying the feeling. I couldn't believe how lucky I was at this moment. A ton of girls wanted to date Emmett back in uni, but he picked me. Out of all people, me! I sighed at the thought, and I felt Emmett grin against my neck.

He kissed his way down to my collar bone, and started to kiss there. It felt ticklish so I started laughing. I felt Emmett's breath against my chest as he blew out, and I began to squirm as his breath touched the skin he just kissed.

He looked up at me, still giggling like a maniac and he smiled, gently caressing my stomach. "What are you laughing at?"

"It was just ticklish there, that's all," I said, and added teasingly, "and my mouth is up here, silly."

"Sorry Bella, but I was mesmerized by the rest of your body."

I could feel myself beginning to blush. I bit my lip as Emmett began to stroke my cheek. "I love that colour on you."

I blushed harder and he laughed under his breath. He put himself fully on top of me, and leaned down to kiss me. His lips were so soft, and he knew how to work his around mine. He slowly put his tongue into my mouth and the kiss deepened. His hand slowly went up my singlet top, and I sighed. Our kissing quickened its pace, and soon we were out of breath. Emmett was the one to pull away, panting like he just ran a marathon. He grinned at me devilry, and I couldn't help but return it. He rolled over me carefully and pulled me towards him in an embrace.

He kissed the top of my head and whispered, "I'm so glad you came here with me, Bella. It means so much to me."

I smiled into his chest. "I'm glad I came too. I'd go anywhere with you." And I meant it.

He chuckled lightly. "You mean so much to me, Bella."

I bit my lip at his remark, feeling my cheeks grow hotter. "No one has ever said that to me before."

"I'm glad I was your first."

And we just lay there in silence. I didn't know how long we were there for, but it didn't feel weird in any way, just lying there. He was so comfortable, and I just traced light circles on his stomach. He rubbed my arms. I loved these moments that I had with Emmett, where we could just do nothing but when we did it was just so special to us.

And then we were interrupted by a large bang on the wall.

We both jumped up, and looked at each other. We started to laugh, and Emmett gave me a quick kiss and a hug. God, he was so warm. I looked over at the clock, and it said that it was 8:30.

"Holy shit Emmett!" I said, pulling back and looking at him. "It's almost nine!"

Emmett chuckled. "Don't worry babe, we normally sleep in."

I nodded and we both hopped off the bed, and walked out. And I saw something I just didn't feel like seeing at the moment.

But I did anyway. Edward strutted out of his room, wearing only dark jeans and grey chucks. Did I always have to encounter him in the morning, shirtless?? He had a white shirt in his hands, and it looked like he was about to put it on. But even though I didn't want to, I gasped and bit my lip at the sight of him, and I swear I saw him smirk.

"Edward!" chorused Emmett, slapping Edward on the back and coming back to me to put his arm around me.

"Morning Em," Edward smiled, and he looked over to me. "Morning Bella."

I smiled. "Morning Edward."

And then we just stood there; two of the most appealing men to me at this point in time with their shirts off, and I felt really sick in the stomach. Why did Edward have this effect over me? I just had a great moment with Emmett … and Edward came along to spoil it. And Edward looked so good. I started to imagine me kissing down his body and going further … stop it Bella, stop it!!

Edward hastily put his shirt on and Emmett went to go and turn on the T.V. We both stood in front of the bedroom doors in an awkward silence.

"Are you done with the bathroom?" I asked just a little too fast.

"Uh … yeah, sorry."

"Thanks," I smiled.

I rushed back into the room and grabbed the first thing I saw. Then I practically ran to the bathroom. My head hurt. I didn't want to feel this way, but I couldn't help it. What am I going to do?

Emmett POV

Edward slumped next to me as I changed the channel to American football.

"Hey, dude, what was that noise that came from your room?" I asked him.

"Oh, that was me. I banged my foot on the wall because I was looking for a shirt, and it was dark. I practically pissed Alice off."

I laughed. "Is Bella in the bathroom?"

He suddenly looked unsettled. "Uh, yeah."

"Hey man, what's wrong?"

"Nothing."

I gave him that look I always gave him when I knew that someone was hiding something from me.

"I-I'm just wondering if Alice is pissed at me or not."

I exhaled, relieved that it wasn't what I thought. "Dude, you're like her brother. She'll forgive you."

He nodded, his obviously elsewhere. I flicked the channel nostalgically. A door opened and giggles escaped from someone's mouth. Both Edward and I turned our heads.

Rosalie pranced out of Jasper's room, wearing a really short, pink nightgown. I gasped at the sight of her … her hair bouncing when she walked … how her pyjamas fit her body perfectly, showing off those gorgeous curves of hers …

What the fuck, Emmett? You're. With. Bella. Snap out of it!!

And just to make this moment even worse, Bella came out of the bathroom, sporting the shirt I bought with her back in L.A., and a pair of jeans and a belt. She looked absolutely gorgeous, as per usual. Then Rosalie came into my vision, giving Bella an embrace, squealing "Good Morning!"

Oh, how my day couldn't get any worse?

Jasper came and sat down on the recliner, trying to hide an evident grin. He nodded to us, and we nodded back. Then Rosalie came and sat on Jasper's lap, giggling as he began to tickle her. Bella came to sit next to me to make matters worse. Edward began to shuffle away from me, and I raised an eyebrow. He tried not to notice, but I know he did.

"Someone's gotten friendly," Bella said casually.

"Yeah," said Jasper. "She's such a tease."

Wow, the quiet guy spoke. Sure, he's Bella's best friend, but from what I noticed, he just sat in the corner and said nothing.

Rosalie giggled again. "Don't be silly, Jazzy, you are!"

Then they started doing the stupid "no you are!" cheesy couple thing. I could vomit. For some reason, I couldn't stand seeing Rosalie with Jasper. I would normally care if they started doing mushy stuff or having dry sex on the chair I normally sat on, but this wasn't it. I felt … jealous. And I couldn't believe it. I was with Bella! I was practically falling in love her, too. But Rosalie seemed so, I don't know, appealing to me. I tried to shake this feeling of by pulling Bella closer to me, but that made me feel worse. I needed to get out of here.

After the loved up couple stopped eating each other, Rosalie knelt down in front of Bella. "Bells, I need your help."

She looked horror stricken at first, obviously thinking what I was but Rosalie quickly brushed that off, saying "No, not that!"

Bella sighed a sigh of relief. "What is it then?"

"I need you to help me to pick out something to wear."

Bella's mouth practically fell to the floor. "What? You're a model, Rose. I'm sure you could do that yourself … like you normally do."

"Bella," Rosalie said a little more forceful. "Please?"

Bella looked defeated. "Fine."

Rosalie clapped her hands in excitement, and practically dragged Bella off into Jasper's room.

Then it was just us guys, sitting quietly, trying to focus somewhere other than each other.

Then quiet guy said something. "Isn't she wonderful?"

He was looking over at his bedroom door, and both me and Edward exchanged glances.

"Uh, yeah. Sure," I said quickly. To change the subject, I turned to Edward. "So you and Bella are getting along quiet well."

Edward's face went … pale? I watched him become uncomfortable. "You are right?" I asked in confusion.

"Oh … yeah sure. She's a great girl."

"Yeah, she is." Quiet boy, I don't recall you being in this conversation.

To be polite, I turned over to him. "So, how did you and Bella meet? You always sit in the corner and say nothing, and I'm just too occupied with Bella, I forget." I smirked.

Jasper furrowed his eyebrows in confusion, but answered my question anyway. "On the first day of high school. We were put next to each other in all the classes we had together. We thought it was sort of like fate, so we got to know each other. And the rest his history." He sighed, and went on. "Bella's like a sister to me. I would never let anyone hurt her." Then he eyed me strangely, and I backed away on the sofa, even though we were plenty apart already.

"That's like me and Alice," Edward said quickly, noticing Jasper's evil glare.

I saw Jasper smile and nod at Edward out of the corner of my eye, because I was trying to look anywhere but at him.

Then Bella and Rosalie came out of their room, giggling. We all turned around, just in time to see Keira and Jacob came out of their room. They seemed to try to avoid each other, in my opinion. I wondered what happened. They seemed to have gotten along really well a few days ago. Hm. Things change fast.

Alice POV

I rolled over onto my stomach, groaning. I didn't feel like waking up, but everyone was up and I was the breakfast lady. I sighed, getting up slowly and walking towards to the door. I opened the door to a really strange sight.

Rosalie and Jasper, the most unlikely couple in my eyes, were fooling around on the couch Emmett usually sat on. I tried not to throw up, turning to look at Edward and Bella, sitting on the couch. They were sitting quite close, but they seemed like they were avoiding each other. I was too confused.

I walked over to the couch, and leant over Edward, so he saw me upside down. He chuckled. "Morning Al."

"Morning!" I said cheerfully. I looked over at the others. "Morning you guys."

Bella smiled and replied, whereas Jasper was pre-occupied with Rosalie's hair and Rosalie with his chest. I made a face, and Bella said, "Never mind them."

I laughed. "Don't worry, I'm not." Then I felt a weird feeling in my stomach. It was the feeling I got when I lied. I don't normally lie, and I hated it. I guess you could say that I was sort of allergic to saying lies. So I always got this feeling when I lied. Except this time, I didn't even know that I was lying. Was I lying about not worrying about Jasper and Rosalie?

My thoughts were cut short when I felt arms wrap around my small waist, and I smelt that familiar smell that I loved, which was a mixture of cigarettes and that Calvin Klien CKIN2 cologne.

"Good Morning Jakey," I said, rubbing his back.

"Morning Allie," he replied.

I heard a gagging noise, and saw Keira, slumping into one of the single chairs. I smiled at her, but she just glared back. Did she fall of the wrong side of the bed this morning or something?

As I got up and gave Jacob a big hug, Emmett strutted out of the bathroom, sporting a black shirt with a colourful hem, blue jeans and red shoes. "Morning Alice!" he beamed at me.

I let go off Jacob and walked over to Emmett, where Jacob followed. I smiled at Emmett. "You done? I need to make brekkie."

"God Alice, don't worry! We – as in me, Bella and Edward because those love birds are off in the clouds – have decided to eat breakfast at McDonalds."

I blew a raspberry. "Honestly Emmett, I don't mind."

"But we do Alice."

"Yeah," Jacob put in. "You do so much, have a break baby."

I sighed in defeat. "Fine!"

Jacob and Emmett high-fived each other and Emmett went to sit next to Bella. I would've thought that she would ease up, now that he was next to her, but she just tensed up even more; I could feel it.

"What's up, babe?" Jacob asked me, following my stare.

"Oh, nothing," I smiled. "Man Keira gives some pretty deadly evils."

Jacob looked over at Keira. "Don't worry. She'll get over it. In the mean time, I'm going for a shower. Is the bathroom free?"

"Y-y-yeah, sure!" Jasper giggled, because Rosalie was tickling him.

I made gagging noises, which Jacob laughed his sexy laugh to, gave me a kiss on the cheek and walked off into his room.

I stood there alone for a moment, and out of all people I could look at, I found myself staring at Jasper … and Rosalie. Their lovey-dovey-ness gave me the creeps, quite literally, and I don't know why. I felt … jealous of Rose. Jasper all over her, giving her hugs and tickling her … I seriously wanted to be in her position. Then Jacob came out of his room and gave me his dreamy smile and that made my stomach churn. What was going on?

Rosalie POV

Being tickled by a really hot guy makes you want to piss … badly. Because it makes you laugh so hard. And not care about anyone else. Just him. Why? Because he's hot.

After Jacob got out of the bathroom, I ran towards it. I had my clothes ready with me so I had a shower at the same time. Bella and I picked out a red singlet with blue jeans, blue wedges and a head scarf.

As I got out, jasper was leaning against the bathroom wall. When he saw me, he smirked. "Hey there, sexy."

"Hey there gorgeous," I replied, winking.

He chuckled. "You done?"

"Yeah."

"Cool."

He walked into the bathroom, and before I knew it, I was alone. It felt weird not being around Jasper, because he was the only one I have been talking too lately. I decided to go down to where everyone else was sitting, and blend in.

I sat down where Jasper and I sat before, and all eyes were on me.

"I like what you're wearing," Keira said, not really looking at me, but at Jacob and Alice.

"Thanks, Keirs. Bella picked it out," I replied in mock tone.

Bella blew a raspberry and we all laughed.

"So what's on the agenda today?" asked Jacob, twirling Alice's hair around his finger.

We all sat in silence. Then Emmet randomly picked up a ball from the floor. "Who's up for a game of footy?"

I groaned. Typical.

All the guys seemed into it, but we girls looked sulky. "What's wrong ladies?" asked Emmett.

"Is that a trick question?" I snapped, and weirdly regretting it afterwards.

Emmett still looked confused. Alice shook her head. "Em, look at what I'm wearing! Look at what Rose's wearing! I'm not so sure what Keira is going to wear but the only girl who is fit to play is Bella but she doesn't seem interested."

Emmett stared at her for a while. "Well, that's now your problem. We're playing footy; you find something to entertain yourselves."

I gasped in excitement. "Let's go shopping!"

The girls seemed excited, but not so much for Keira. She just stared at Alice through the corner of her eye, evilly.

"Glad that's settled," said Edward. "Where are we going?"

"I heard there's a really good shopping centre around here. It's called …" I started racking through my purse, looking for a little piece of paper.

"Pacific Place."

"There's a park near there," said Jacob.

"And a McDonalds," Alice interjected. They high-fived each other, grinning.

Then Jasper came out of the bathroom, looking hot in a Rolling Stones shirt, blue jeans and light blue chucks. God, he was so hot.

"Jazz!" Emmett yelled, turning around on the sofa and kneeling. "Up for a game of footy?"

Jasper smiled. "Yeah, sure."

As Jasper started to walk towards me, everything went slow. I wasn't looking at Jasper. I was looking at Emmett, and how gorgeous he looked. What he wore flattered his body so well, and that sounds weird when you're talking about a guy, but that tight black shirt made it look like he wasn't wearing one, because it fit around him so perfectly. As I started to lick my lips, Jasper was in front of me, and my fascination over Emmett ended. And it only lasted a few seconds.

Jasper sat on the arm rest of the chair, as Keira went into the bathroom. I don't know why it happened. Why did I see Emmett like that? I was in sync with Jasper, not Emmett. Emmett was with Bella. But as I rolled those words around my head, they didn't seem right. My head began to throb slowly, and I decided to leave the subject. I made myself feel better by hugging Jasper. He felt so warm and cuddly. But I already knew that whatever I do, I will not get those thoughts out of my head.

Jacob POV

After Keira got out of the shower, we all went down to the garage together and got into cars. Emmett, Bella, Rosalie and Jasper in Emmett's Jeep and the rest of us in Edward's tiny car. We headed towards the 3rd Avenue Mc Donalds. Alice still seemed pretty uncomfortable with the fact that she wasn't cooking, but as soon as we stepped into the restaurant, her fears were averted.

"Are we still intime for breakfast? Oh good. Great, now I don't know what to get. Pancakes? A McMuffin? Oh God, I don't know. It smells so nice … I could eat everything here …"

I chuckled at her ranting and bought her a McMuffin meal, which was what almost everyone else got.

It was hard to find a table that would fit all eight of us, so we sat at two double tables. Me, Alice, Jasper and Rosalie on one, Edward, Bella, Emmett and Keira on another. We all seemed to be looking over at the other's tables, instead of looking at our own. If you wanted to sit with that person, why didn't you?

But I was as guilty as the rest of them. I was intently staring at Keira, and I knew that she was staring back. I felt sorry for her, especially after yesterday and her blundle. We had agreed to be friends, but we also seemed to be avoiding each other too. It was as if there was this electric field between us and we were sticking our heads right at the wires, and before we were missing them all. I didn't know what to think of it. I was with Alice … sort of. This was like a dream in some creepy ways, me being with Alice like this. We weren't together as such, but we were in sync. And this feeling about Keira just made matters worse.

"Jake, your bacon fell out of your muffin," Alice said.

"Uh, what?" I asked, whipping my head around to her.

She giggled. "Your bacon fell out of your muffin. And soon, so will your egg."

It took me a while to process this, but when I did I quickly shoved the egg and bacon back into my muffin.

Alice giggled again. "What got you so preoccupied to make you nearly lose your breakfast?"

I froze. Shit, what was I going to say. "I … I thought I saw something outside. But nevermind, there was nothing."

She smiled at me and went back to eating her own breakfast.

When I was sure that she was looking away, I looked back at Keira out of pure impulse. She seemed so lonely. Even if she was sitting next to Edward, who basically looked the same. I didn't blame them, because they were sitting across from Bella and Emmett, who were all loved up and putting food in each other's mouths. In my opinion, Bella seemed sort of distracted. I wasn't too sure if I was seeing into things too much. Keira seemed quite jealous of her sister too. I began to look at Keira. She seemed so effortlessly beautiful today, but she always was.

I then suddenly had the urge to go over to her, put my arm around her, and just make her smile. This prolonged my staring. Then she looked up at me. I didn't do much when she looked; I just continued staring. Then it all happened so fast. Keira smiled at me just as Alice put her hand on my back. I jumped, shaking my head out of my trance.

Alice giggled. "What's up?"

I looked at her for a moment. "Nothing, you just scared me that's all."

"Sorry honey," she said, kissing me on the cheek.

I quickly glanced at Keira again. She was looking out of the window; in the opposite direction.

Keira POV

After breakfast, we all walked out to the car park.

"So who's taking whose car?" Emmett asked.

Edward reached out into his jeans pocket, and handed his car keys to Bella. "You can take my car."

I nudged my sister, and she eyes me out of the corner of her eye. I shrugged. "Are you sure?" she asked him.

He looked around at the guys. "Yeah, sure. I mean, you drove it alright when you went to pick up Rosalie, and knowing Emmett he wouldn't like someone else driving his Jeep; even you." And he winked.

I would've gaped at him flirting with his best friend's girlfriend, but I didn't want to make it obvious. What was that noise? Oh, I think I can hear Bella's heart going 1 beat per millisecond.

"If you say so," she said slyly. I almost let out a laugh, but then I noticed Jacob looking at me again. I looked over at him, and he straight away looked away. If the circumstances were different, I would've loved the attention he was giving me, now I saw it as something to shove in my face; and it was ugly.

Emmett looked to happy. He probably saw Edward and Bella's small chat as bonding instead of flirting. I swear that man is blinded.

Then we all got into the cars and drove off. We were heading to Pacific Place, which was supposed to be a really good shopping centre. I felt so down, I needed a pick-me-up, and what was better than shopping? Oh right, nothing.

When I saw it, I thought it was beautiful. I praised Seattle for making a shopping centre this big! And when we got inside, I practically ran towards the escalators.

Alice laughed. "You're happy aren't you?"

Instead of laughing along with her and answering happily, I looked at her menacingly. How could she be so friendly to me after what happened? Obviously I only saw it as something terrible. But of course; she won the prize and I didn't. Use your brain, Keira.

Bella noticed. "Oh, uhh, she's normally like this. Keira loves shopping!" She smiled at Alice and Alice smiled back.

Thanks sis.

We window shopped for about 10 minutes until we came across Barneys New York. Bella stared into the window, eyeing a black one shoulder dress. Rosalie noticed. "Want it?" she asked.

Bella shook her head. "It would be too expensive."

"Nonsense! Come on, at least try it on!"

Bella looked at Rosalie as if Rose was about to give her the plague. "You should Bells," I interjected.

She looked defeated. "Fine!" Both Rose and I clapped our hands together in excitement.

We all walked inside, looking for the dress. And when we saw the price tag, we almost screamed.

"$1,245!! I can't try this on!" Bella exclaimed.

"Why not!" I whined.

"Because if I do, I might end up liking it and can't resist buying it."

"And is that such a crime?" Alice interjected.

Rosalie made puppy dog faces as Bella looked at us all. She groaned, and walked over to the change rooms.

After about 5 minutes, Bella walked out. She looked absolutely stunning. The dress fit her perfectly. It was as if it was made for her.

"Buy. It. Please," I said.

Bella eyed me like a mother as Rose and Alice kept on gaping at her. "Do you know how much it is?!"

"How about a proposition? We all buy one thing from a shop and then we choose one shop for us to all buy something from. The price isn't an excuse for not buying it. Agreed?" Alice declared.

Both Rose and I were nodding our heads (I couldn't believe I was agreeing with Alice) and Bella looked defeated once more.

"It does look nice on me, doesn't it," she said quietly.

"Oh, yes," said Rose, running over to her to ramble on about how great it looked on her.

After that, Bella walked over to the counter, looking confident.

"What a lovely choice, ma'am," the lady said. "That comes to $622.50."

Bella's mouth dropped to the ground. "Sorry, I must've misheard you. The label says this dress is $1,000."

The lady pointed to where we picked up the dress. "There's a sale. 50% off."

We looked over to see a huge sign over the clothing rack. "Oh," is all we could say.

The lady chuckled and Bella payed. We all walked out of the shop, giggling like a bunch of school girls.

The same routine went on for the rest of us. First, we walked into BCBGMAXAZRIA, and I saw a really cute dress. It was a lot cheaper than Bella's but still equally gorgeous. After I purchased it, we went into Express, where Rosalie saw this really pretty black dress. Hers was the quickest purchase because she was a model and did a few jobs for Express, and got the dress for 70% off. Then Alice went into White House | Black Market and did some show shopping. She bought these sating heels which looked really good on her. I might loathe her, but the girl has style.

After we opted for some lunch (time flies when one is having fun!) at a restaurant called Thai Ginger. We chatted about the items we bought and the hot guys and strange people we saw, and I really felt like I could get along with Alice. This was a weird feeling compared to how I felt at the beginning of the day, but I really felt like something could happen.

"What are we going to eat?" Rose asked, clicking her tongue.

The waiter came along and asked for our orders.

"I'll have the chicken curry please," I said.

"Phad See-iew for me," Bella managed to get out.

"Chicken cashew nuts please," said Rose.

"And I'll have the Phad Talay," said Alice.

After we ordered rice and drinks, Rosalie said, "So Al, things are going good for you and Jacob?" Thanks Rose.

Bella looked over at me, worried, but I made a face to say not to worry about it.

"Oh it's going great," Alice said, beginning to blush. "What about you and Jasper?" She said the last bit through … gritted teeth? Wow.

Rosalie began a lengthy speech about how Jasper was different from other guys she has dated and met, but it seemed that she said it through insecurities. As if she was forcing herself to say it. I listened intently about how she boasted that he was so kind and fun-loving and had a really good body. After a while I was really glad that our food came.

"So Bella," Rose said as she put some of her food onto her plate. "How about you and Emmett?" And then she fake smiled? I was really confused.

Bella awkwardly smiled. "It's going good. Really good." Both Alice and Rosalie awwwed but I knew the truth and pretended to be occupied with my food instead of joining in.

"What about you Keirs?" Rose asked me. We both looked up at each other, and then as if something clicked in Rose's brain, she quickly said, "How are you going with your course? Fashion designing wasn't it?"

"Yeah, it's going good. I'm thinking about applying for American InterContinental University in L.A. which will open a lot of doors for me."

And then there was silence. From that moment on until the end of the day I felt left out. And I hated the feeling. But I wasn't going to let it make me feel sorry for myself. I was going to do something about it.

Edward POV

Yes!

I had just scored another touchdown, and Emmett was jumping up and down and gave me bear hugs.

"Dude, get off me!"

Emmett put his shirt over his head and ran around the area we were playing. We all just stared at him until he came back; put his shirt down and said, "Were winning!!" in Jacob and Jasper's faces.

"Oh yeah?" Jasper asked who was suddenly all talkative. "We'll see about that!"

We played about another 10 minutes of the game, by which time I was tired. During the game, I wasn't really concentrating. My tries and catching the ball was just pure luck; my head was elsewhere. I was thinking about Bella as per usual, and she wouldn't leave me alone.

And seeing Emmett just made it worse. When I saw him, I felt immense jealousy that he was her boyfriend and I wasn't. I wanted to trade places with him. I couldn't help not feeling this and I felt so terrible for feeling this way about my best friend from way back, and how I felt about his girlfriend whom we was crazy about. But the crazy thing was that I really wanted to do something about trading places with him. I wanted to convince Bella or do something that will get Bella to be with me. It was a terrible thought and I wanted it to go away. But it just didn't; and it gave me a headache.

"Can we finish now?" I asked. "I'm tired and I've got the worst headache."

"Mm we should," said Jacob, walking over to the park bench I slumped on. "Alice said they they're finished shopping and that they'll meet us at home and they bring food."

"Oh man I'm starving," said Emmett. "Let's get going."

But I didn't feel like it, but straight away regretted feeling that when I saw her.

She looked beautiful. That's all I could say. There were no words for this feeling. She was fussing over the bags on the couch like all the other girls.

"Hey you guys!" Keira said for the first time today (well, for us guys anyway). "Come and see what we bought!" She ran up to me and grabbed my wrist and pulled me down towards everyone else. I was surprised at the attention she was showing me, because we hadn't really talked before. The guys were equally surprised, but followed me regardless.

Keira acted as a show hostess. "Bella bought this beautiful black dress that she got for half price! It used to be $1,245 but she got it for $622.50!" We all murmured in approval, and I wondered why she had to buy something so expensive. She would look good in anything … maybe even nothing …

"I bought this dress," Keira held up the dress she bought. "And Rose …" Rose held up hers. "And Alice bought these shoes!" She held up Alice's shoes for her and thrust them back into her lap. I raised my eyebrow at her but she just smiled.

"And we all bought one thing from Victoria Secret. No, it wasn't lingerie, but bikinis!"

All the girls held up the bikinis they bought. Alice had bought a pink spotty one, Keira had a white lacey one, Rosalie had a green checkered bikini and Bella had a black one. I began to imagine her in it when I was pushed to the dining table to eat.

We all chatted about the most random things; about the weather, strange people, politics, sports, and sex. How we got to talk about sex over the dinner table I don't know.

We watched a movie again, this time Pirates 3. After we finished, we had a lengthy discussion about it because Keira and Rosalie didn't know what on earth the movie was about.

By then it was 9 and we were all tired, especially us boys who were playing footy all day. We all slumped into our rooms and slugged into our pyjamas.

Alice and I laid on our bed for a while listening to Emmett and Bella, Rosalie and Jasper giggling. Keira and Jacob's room was quiet. I looked over at Alice; she had a look of longing on her face.

"You want to go to Jacob don't you?" I asked, not bothering to whisper because everyone was making so much noise."

"No, no!" she said quickly. "I haven't seen you all day. I've missed you brother."

I smiled at her. "I've missed you too sister."

She snuggled up next to me and began to sleep, and I wished that it was someone else next to me instead of her, and I felt guilty about feeling that way, but at the same time I didn't really. My head hurt again, and I drifted off into dreams of her.

OMG. I can't believe I finally finished chapter 3!! It has been soooo long. I again apologize for that. I was super busy and tried to cram in time for me to write but I only got time to write a few paragraphs. Since I'm on school holidays now, I got time! I am so glad I finished!

So now I guess it seems that everyone is with someone they want to be with but they find themselves attracted to someone else. But that's only for now. Without wanting to give too much away, by the end of next chapter they will be thinking otherwise!! Thank you for all who have stuck with me even if I haven't updated for ONE MONTH (dear me). It means a lot!!

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