I'll be Your Lover Too.

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 since we haven't heard from Emmett for the past two chapters, this chapter is eternally dedicated to him, as in, the only POV is Emmett's! So you will find out what he thinks about everything! Hope you enjoy the chapter, and there's and author note at the bottom, as usual!

Chapter 6; Suspicion

Emmett POV

It was quiet. Way too quiet. I leaned against the kitchen bench top, staring at the gloomy looking living room.

There was Alice, sprawled across the floor, magazines, fabrics, a phonebook, her cell, iTouch, and a log book in front of her. I guessed that she was planning another party (a wedding by the looks of it) and she would usually be cooped up in her room. Then there was Jasper, immersed in his book which I was sure he'd read about 20 times already. Rosalie was flipping through a magazine aimlessly, obviously not paying much attention. Soft strumming could be heard coming from Edward's room, and Alice would occasionally look up and shake her head in that direction. I wish she would get off his back. Jacob and Keira weren't in sight.

I felt arms wrap around my waist and saw Bella smiling widely at me.

"Hey," I whispered, trying not to disturb the stillness.

She just smiled back and tightened her grip around me. I lifted her arms up so I could turn around and face her. She smiled up at me again and I stroked her hair. She lay her head on my chest and I could feel her slow breaths. I kissed the top of her head, and noticed she was staring past me, at the living room.

"What's up with everyone?" I muttered.

"I think something happened, with everyone. I don't know what. It was like this last night too," she whispered back.

"It was?" I asked.

"Yeah. You were too cooped up in your own little world to notice," she teased.

"Hey, I was worried if I stuffed it up or not," I replied, messing up her hair. She slapped my chest, and I chuckled, as she leant back on me again.

"I don't like the quiet," I said.

"Obviously," Bella murmured, and I ignored her.

"I think we should find out what's going on, because I'm getting sick of this."

She looked up at me, smiling. "What a good idea, let's do that."

"Mm, I think I'll make myself a coffee first."

She groaned, getting off me. "I'm going to use the bathroom." And she tiptoed out of the kitchen.

I smiled at her leaving, and went to go make myself a coffee. I boiled the water and put the coffee beans into my cup. As I waited for the water to boil, I wondered where Jacob and Keira were, and why Alice was here and not with him. When I poured the water and went to go and get milk, Bella emerged from the bathroom, looked around, and went towards Edward's room. I narrowed my eyes as she knocked, then let herself in. I realised that I had put too much milk into my cup, and began to clean up my mess, wondering. What was Bella doing? For the first time since we came, I was worried. Worried about her and Edward. I had always thought that it was just them getting along, but was it something else? Had I become blind were it was vital for me to see?

I sipped some of my coffee, cursing myself for it was still hot, and made my way towards Edward's room. As I reached the ajar door, I could hear quiet laughter and the scratching of pencil on paper, then a few light strums of a guitar and Edward's humming. I could feel someone's eyes on me, and saw Alice staring at me, obviously wondering why on earth I was standing at Edward's door. I cleared my throat and went inside, not even bothering to knock.

Edward was sitting on his bed, paper everywhere, guitar in his lap. Bella was sitting, crossed-legged, on the bed as well, looking at one of the pieces of paper. They both looked up at me as if they were caught in the act. "Hey Em," Edward smiled up at me.

"Hi," I said awkwardly. "Did I interrupt something?"

"No," Edward replied quickly, shuffling the papers. "Bella was helping me to write a song."

"Oh," I replied, sitting on a chair. "Do you know what's going on out there?" I jabbed my thumb at the door.

"What's going on out there?" he asked.

"Everyone's quiet," Bella answered, and I saw Edward's eyes grow bigger. "We don't know why they are though. Do you?"

"Sort of," Edward said slowly, still gathering his papers.

"What then?" I asked quickly, before Bella had the chance to.

"Well, Alice was a bit upset last night and when I asked her, she just said 'Jacob', so I guess something's happened with her and Jacob."

"I bet it has something to do with Keira," I said after taking a sip of my coffee. "They're both hiding somewhere."

Bella buried her face in her hands. "She always does that," she said quietly. "She always takes what she can't have. I should speak with her."

"No, no," Edward said soothingly. "We should find out the whole story first. Someone should ask Alice."

"Maybe I should try, seeing as you already did and she didn't say much," I said.

Edward looked at me thoughtfully. "That's a good idea." He went back to strumming, oblivious to the other problems, so I said, "Something's happened with Rosalie and Jasper, too."

Edward looked up. "Really?"

"Yeah," Bella answered, holding her hand out for my coffee. "They're both not talking and seem to be so quiet." She took a sip and passed the cup back to me.

"Well, I don't know what the hell is going on," Edward said, sighing. "But we should find out. An atmosphere like this isn't exactly nice, and who knows how long we're all going to be living under the same roof."

"We should do that now, too," I said, standing up and finishing my coffee. "I'll go talk to Alice. Bella, do you want to talk to Keira?"

Bella sighed. "Not really. I think you should find out what happened with Alice first, then we can both talk to her or something. I should talk to Rosalie or Jasper."

"Okay. Edward?" I asked, looking at him.

"I'll be doing my music. If you need help, you'll know where to find me."

I sighed, and walked out, Bella following me. Alice was still lying on the floor, but now Rosalie and Jasper had gone. Bella took the cup out of my hands, and when I looked at her in bewilderment, she simply pointed at Alice, and I knew what she meant. I walked down to Alice, and stopped a two feet away from her.

"Hey, Alice," I said, trying to sound happy.

She looked up at me slowly. "Hullo Emmett," she answered dryly. I looked up at Bella for support, but she just nodded.

"Where did Rosalie and Jasper go?" I asked her.

"I don't know, Rosalie just got up and went, and then Jasper went into his room."

I heard Bella's footsteps walk away, but I didn't look up as I was too worried about Alice. "Mind if I sit?"

She nodded, and I sat down, crossing my legs beside her.

"What are you doing?" I asked her conversationally.

"Planning a wedding. The couple are so picky; I need to work on it fast before everything is unavailable."

"Oh sounds like fun …"

"Emmett, what do you want?"

"W-what?" I said, slightly taken aback.

"I know how much you dislike me planning things that you're not involved in, because you think it takes up so much of my time where I could be doing something else, and now you're suddenly so interested in it and said that it sounded like fun? Come off it Emmett, I know you're up to something."

"Wow, I'm speechless."

"Can you leave me alone, then?" she asked angrily.

I looked at her angry face, and pushed her hair behind her ear. "We're really good friends, right?"

Her face began to soften as she nodded.

"And we can tell each other anything and everything?"

She nodded again.

I got to her level, and whispered, "Tell me then; what's wrong?"

She looked at me for a long time before hiding her face in her arms. I lay fully on the ground, trying to pull her head up. When I was finally successful, she said, "I'm so confused Emmett."

"About what, honey?"

"About Jacob. About Keira. About EVERYONE."

"So this is about Jacob?" I asked, getting a bit angry.

She nodded, turning around to lie on her back. I copied her. She sighed. "What happened?"

"Firstly, I thought everything was going great with me and Jacob, I mean sure, it was a bit out of nowhere, us I mean. I went along with it because I like taking chances and whatnot. But then Keira came along and I don't really know what happened. I'm not blaming you, but something happened that night when we played truth or dare, and I think you dared her to kiss him or something like that … he had some epiphany and decided to go with her. Jacob is one of my really good friends, and I wouldn't really mind it if he did go off with her, but the thing is that he didn't tell me, and that's what annoys me the most."

I knew Alice would ramble. She always did, and I always hated it. But for once, I listened, and I became angrier at Jacob by the minute.

"And I didn't think I would, but I began to fall for him, and that somewhat annoys me even more than that."

"Alice," I said, searching for the right words. "The guys a dick. You've seen him do this to so many girls … simply he's just a dick.

Alice giggled, and I was glad that I was the one who made her smile for the first time today. Then she exhaled, rolling her head to her left to look at me. "I wish this would go away."

I found her hand, and I held it tight. She closed her eyes as I said, "I wish I could help you." And then I got an idea.

"I can help you."

"What do you mean?" Alice asked, opening her eyes and looking at me curiously.

"Let me talk to him," I said, and when I saw the horrified look on her face I said quickly, "I won't rip his head off, honestly. I just want to talk to him, find out his side of the story, and then fix this."

Alice smiled at me. "Thanks Emmett. You know, Bella's really lucky to have you."

My face fell slightly, but I tried to smile back nonetheless. "Why thank you," I said cheekily, and she slapped me on the arm.

"Well," Alice said, getting up and started to move her things onto the coffee table. "I should get back to this and off the floor, my back's killing me."

I laughed. "Okay." When I got up, I saw Bella emerge from Jasper's room, looking sort of accomplished and upset at the same time. I walked over to her, pulling her into the bathroom.

"So?" I asked her. "What's up with Jasper?"

"Nothing actually," she said. "It's about Rosalie. He's afraid he's hurt her feelings."

"How come?" I asked, sitting on the edge of the bathtub.

"Well, yesterday Rosalie came onto him, thinking that he wanted it too, but in fact he didn't. He told her that they were complete opposites, she got upset, and that's it."

"Man, that's bad."

"Yeah, and now Rosalie's gone somewhere and we're both worried about her, especially Jasper. He's totally shaken."

I rubbed my face, trying to make sense of things.

"What about Alice?" Bella asked, sitting on the toilet seat.

"Jacob went off with Keira, without telling Alice at all. She's upset about that, and the fact that she began to have feelings for him."

Bella shook her head, looking angry and upset. I knew she was mad at her sister, so I tried to crack a joke. "Are we the only couple here who's still okay?"

Bella obviously didn't find it funny, because she flinched and began to bite her lip, bouncing her leg up and down.

"Uh … sorry, that was supposed to be funny … I guess it wasn't …"

"No, its fine," she said quickly, getting up. "I think I should talk to Keira."

I reached the door before her, blocking her way. "No, Bella. We should talk to them together."

She nodded, and I pulled her into a hug, kissing the top of her head. "Everything's going to be fine." She nodded again, and pulled away, biting her lip again. We left the bathroom, Alice watching us.

"Al," Bella said. "Where are Jacob and Keira?"

"Uh …" Alice said, obviously not so upset about the subject as before. "I think they're in their room."

Bella charged towards the door, but I ran in front of her. I knocked on the door, heard a "yeah?" and entered.

The bed was covered in fabrics. Jacob was lying on an empty space, a book next to him. Keira was standing near her luggage.

"What's going on?" I head Bella ask from behind me.

"I was just showing Jacob some of the fabrics I use," said Keira brightly. "And I was just showing him his works …"

"Do you have any idea what you're doing Keira?!" said Bella furiously. Keira just looked at her bewildered. I put an arm around Bella's shoulders and said, "We're talking about Alice."

I saw Jacob shift in his sitting position. "What do you mean?" asked Keira.

"She's really upset," I said calmly. "About you two."

Keira blew a raspberry, and I could feel Bella tense up next to me. "Why should she be upset about us? It's not like they were ever together."

"Keira …" Bella began, but I stepped in. "Alice thought they were, and I'm pretty sure Jacob thought so too."

Keira crossed her arms over her chest. "Well why does that matter anymore? Jacob ended it with her yesterday."

Both mine and Bella's mouths dropped to the floor. "That's not what Alice said …" Bella said slowly.

"Well, Alice's is lying," Jacob said quickly.

I shot a glare at him. "You know very well Jacob Black that Alice never lies."

Keira kept looking from me and Bella, and back to Jacob. "Keira …" Bella said slowly, but Keira put a hand up.

"Are you trying to say …" she said slowly. "That you didn't end it with Alice?"

"Keira …" Jacob whispered, getting up.

"No!" Keira yelled. "Did you or did you not?!"

"I …" Jacob said, looking at me and Bella for support. Then he said finally, "no."

Keira took a step back. "So you didn't. You told me you did. You knew very well that I wouldn't go with you if you were still with Alice because I respect her. I may have done it before but I never knew those girls. But I know Alice, and she's becoming a friend of mine."

"I didn't want to her Alice, or you Keira," Jacob said, moving forward.

"Bullshit!" Keira yelled. "You've hurt both of us! You've lied to me, and hurt Alice's feelings. I'm not so sure if I can even look at you anymore."

"Keira …" Jacob said, showing on his face that he thought this would never happen.

Keira began to pull all of her fabrics off the bed, and Bella helped her. I just stood there, staring into Jacob's eyes. I could see he was searching for sympathy in mine, but I only gave him disgust.

When Keira was packed up, she said firmly to me, "Can I please sleep somewhere else?"

"Absolutely," I said, opening the door and letting her and Bella through. I took one last glance at Jacob, then slammed the door in his face.

*

In less than an hour, Keira had explained everything to Alice, and they somewhat became the best of friends, with Keira helping Alice with her planning, jotting down notes when Alice was on the phone and whatnot. Edward emerged from his room a few times, to get a glass of water or something to eat, and he would always have a few words with Bella. I wondered what they were talking about, maybe about what had just happened. But I kept on having the feeling that they weren't talking about that at all, and I felt jealous when he walked out. Edward had always been better looking than me, more charming than me and more fun to be around than me. Was Bella beginning to notice that?

The happiness between all the girls almost died out when Rosalie came through the door, holding a lot of bags. We all stared up at her, and she started back, not smiling at all. She walked towards her bedroom door, when Jasper walked out of it. They stopped two metres apart, staring at each other. Everyone watched. Then Jasper cleared his throat and walked to the bathroom. Rosalie headed for the bedroom door, when Bella called out, "Oh, Rose, you don't sleep there anymore. You're with Jacob. I hope you don't mind, but him and Keira had a falling out and seeing as you and Jasper …"

"Its fine," she said quickly, walking the other way. "Perfect."

Bella turned around, looking abashed. Rosalie then walked out again, bag free, and walked out of the apartment again. Bella made to get up, but I beat her to it. "I'll talk to her," I said reassuringly, following Rosalie out the door.

She was sitting on the steps next to the lift. I could hear the click of a lighter and I could smell smoke, and I knew that she was smoking. I went to go sit next to her. When she saw me, she let out a groan. "What do you want?"

"I just want to talk. I heard somewhere that it's better to talk to strangers if you're upset about something, and we're sort of still strangers, so I guess that helps."

I smiled at her, and she cracked a small one. She dragged on her cigarette, and said, "It's about Jasper."

"Yeah I know. Bella asked him and she told me."

"Well then what do you want to know?" she asked, sounding annoyed.

"I want to talk about it with you, you know get it all out."

She sighed. "I just don't get it. I thought that everything was going good, but apparently it wasn't. I don't know what happened."

"Maybe he thinks you were moving too fast. I'll give you an example. I once had a girlfriend in high school. She was beautiful, and we were sort of like the golden couple at school, we were prom king and queen and whatnot, even though we had only been together for like two weeks. On the night of graduation, she tried to do what you tried to do with Jasper, and her excuse was that we had to, because we were the golden couple. I saw it as moving too fast."

"So, he thinks I was moving too fast?"

"Possibly. He could also have been thinking that he didn't see you that way, because you both haven't kissed yet from what I know, and he probably saw you as a really good looking lady friend."

She giggled, dragging on her cigarette. "We've never kissed. The first time we did was yesterday, and I forced it upon him. I feel so guilty."

"Don't worry, he does too."

"What? But he didn't do anything."

"He thinks that he made you upset."

She sighed. "He's such a gentleman. I've never been drawn to someone like that before, but I don't know how I feel anymore."

"I'm sure Jasper …"

"I don't mean about Jasper."

I looked at her, confused. "Who do you mean then?"

"You," she said simply.

I was taken aback. "W-why?"

"Aw, well you know … on that night of truth or dare, how everyone dared us to do all those things, I couldn't help but feel something."

I suddenly felt very uncomfortable, with Rosalie being so honest, and having those memories of that night again, feeling what I did, and was worried that Bella noticed when she stormed out …

"I know that you're with Bella and all," she said, noticing me shifting in my seat. "But I just wanted to tell you, because I normally don't keep things to myself."

I smiled at her. "What were in all those bags before?"

"Clothes. When I'm upset, I go shopping. It normally helps, but today it didn't really. Talking to you did, though."

I gave her a quick smile, and she threw her cigarette on the ground. She put her foot over it to step on it, but I quickly grabbed her ankle as a reflex. "Please don't do that," I said quickly. "Last time someone did this, they had to pay for it, and it wasn't cheap."

She laughed. "Okay." She picked up her cigarette, got up and went back inside. I followed slowly. Suddenly confused with everything, my head began to hurt.

When I closed the door, the atmosphere in the room was much different from this morning. Alice, Keira and Bella were all working on planning the wedding, and Jasper was watching them. Rosalie doused her cigarette and threw it in the bin and joined the girls. Edward came out of the room to see the commotion. Jacob was still in his room.

Jasper smiled as Edward sat next to him. "Wanna play a video game?"

"Oh, no," said Edward. "My fingers are killing me."

Jasper laughed, and turned to me. "What about you, Emmett?"

I smiled at him. "Why not?"

"You pick," he said. "I can never decide."

As I pulled out my favourite game (and the one I knew I would win) Jasper said, "Jacob? Wanna play?"

For Jacob was standing in the doorway, watching us. The girls continued to chatter, but me, Edward and Jasper just started at him in silence. Jacob shook his head slowly, moving back inside his room. Jasper, oblivious to what was going on, said, "This one? Awesome, I heard it was really good."

"Yeah yeah it is," I said, turning to Jasper, who was putting the game in.

I knew that even though all the problems that were presented this morning were fixed, I knew that something else was going to happen. I didn't know how I knew, but I did. It gave me a funny feeling in my stomach like you're about to walk out on stage for the first time, and I wanted it to go away. I decided to push these feelings aside, as the game began, as I wanted to show off my excellent skills.

So, that was chapter 6! I hope you all liked it, and I'm sorry for being so late again. I was going to put this off for a few days then start, then a month goes past then you realise that you haven't started yet. Time flies so fast, and I had a lot of things going on as well. I promise, I will try to make my updates closer, as holidays are coming up for me.

This chapter was a short one, mainly because it was just answering some questions and whatnot. I know this is an Edward/Bella fanfic, so I hope you don't mind me writing a Emmett chapter; I felt like I needed to to answer all of your questions.

Reviews are love :)