Disclaimer: I own nothing, everything form Twilight belongs to Stephenie Meyer.

I know I promised a long chapter but this is just up until I can get the longer chapter up. So I'll explain that all the things people are confused about is stuff that happened to the Cullens before they moved to Forks. They were in Boston before and things got a little messy. All will be explained in due time. So chill and enjoy. And review.

GREEN, THE COLOR OF MONEY, SEA SICKNESS, AND EVEN JEALOUSY

Shot through the heart
And youre to blame
Darling, you give love a bad name
I play my part and you play your game
You give love a bad name
You give love a bad name

- Bon Jovi

Bella and Edward didn't talk for the rest of the week. It was only at lunch on Friday did they acknowledge each other.

Alice and Bella had just come in and sat down with the rest of their family. Bella did her best to not look at Edward, but it was a little difficult because her eyes always seemed to wander back to his face.

She busied herself with listening to Alice telling the family that it was going to be sunny on Monday, so they would plan on going "camping". All the Cullen's liked their hunting trips they took together, but Bella really preferred to just go with Emmett, her designated hunting partner.

She did enjoy spending time with her family and doing some out of state hunting, where there was bigger game, but usually she liked being by herself, or just with her adventuresome younger brother.

It wasn't long before she tuned her family out and looked at her tray of food she would never eat. It was while she was looking down at her food, and trying her damnedest to not look at the person across from her, that she felt a pair of eyes turn to her face.

When she looked up she saw Edward staring at her with rapt attention, again.

She stared back trying to match the intensity in his eyes with hers. But she couldn't and eventually she gave up trying.

She gave him an apologetic look with her eyes, and he seemed to understand, because his eyes softened and he nodded in acceptance.

Bella mouthed the word sorry and smiled at him. He smiled back, but his was a different kind of smile. Hers was small and shy, with a hint of pain in it, but his was more of sly grin.

Bella had seen this smile before, and she had come to love it; but right now it confused her, since it was so out of place.

However, when she looked back her expression changed and she smiled with a grin that matched his. They smiled at each other like that for a while, seemingly lost in their own world.

Edward began to drum out a rhythm on the table with his finger, and Bella followed suit, matching his rhythm by tapping her foot. They were in complete synchronicity.

Bella tore off a piece of the bread on her tray held it up to her mouth. Edward watched intently to see what she would do with it.

She ran it along her lips a few times before popping it in her mouth and biting down on it. A small shiver ran up Edward's spine as he watched her swallow it. She was teasing him, they both knew it; it was a question of what would come next that that mattered.

Bella slowly moved her foot against his leg under the table, so that she was rubbing it in anticipation. Edward suppressed the urge to purr in pleasure; Bella always liked it when he did this. She liked it even more when he growled, but only in bed.

Bella watched him watch her lick her lips, and she honestly considered asking him to join her in the car for a nice make up session between class.

"Hey Bella!" someone yelled to form across the lunchroom. Ryan.

Bella broke eye contact with Edward and moved her leg at the same time. She sat up in attention and looked at Ryan in answer.

"I'll see you tomorrow night, right?" he smiled at her. She smiled back as he went to sit with his friends. The whole lunchroom was silent as they stared at the only students who had the nerve to talk to one of the Cullens.

Rosalie turned and gave her sister a wicked grin, "What was that about?"

All of her family was looking at her for and answer. "Nothing, he's just having some party tomorrow, and he invited me. That's all," Bella said, hoping they would turn away and leave her alone. She couldn't stand the looks they were giving her.

They did turn away, slowly, and when they weren't paying attention to her anymore Bella looked at Edward again, but he wasn't looking at her.

The moment was gone.

Lost.

And it wasn't coming back anytime soon.

Bella caught up with Jasper as they were walking out of the school.

"Hey," she said grabbing his arm.

Hey," he said, looking a little uncomfortable.

"What's wrong?" Bella asked looking right into his eyes. Jasper and Bella were really close, and it was weird for him to tense up around her.

"Nothing…it's just that…nobody's really sure what's going on with you lately. I mean come on Bella, he's just a seventeen year old boy," Jasper said as if trying to plead with her.

She couldn't believe, she really couldn't believe it. Apparently no one in her family had any faith in her. "Don't you think I know that, I'm not completely ignorant Jasper. Nothing's going on, we're just friends," Bella enunciated each word slowly trying to get her point across. It seemed like lately "we're just friends" was becoming her own personal mantra.

"Yeah, I guess…It's just, it's weird is all. I mean after everything that happened in Boston with—"

"Jasper!" she cut him off with a warning glance. The topic of their lives in Boston had become a taboo subject in the Cullen house. Bella, above all, didn't want to talk about it.

"Ok," Jasper held up his hands in defeat. "I just don't want anything to happen again," he paused for a minute, "But I trust you, and so does everyone else. I know you been feeling like everyone's doubting you—"

"I told you to stop reading me," Bella said annoyed.

"But they don't, they're just worried is all," he finished.

"Well, there's no reason to be," Bella said. And there really wasn't; not yet, anyway.

"Ok, I believe you, and—Oh!" he stopped short in the middle of his sentence because something at the end of the hall had caught his eye.

Bella followed his gaze and immediately saw what he was so shocked about.

At the end of the hall was standing a rather small, brown-haired girl. She was smiling and laughing, and to anyone who could read people as well as vampires it was obvious she was flirting. And, the person she was flirting with was none other than their own brother, Edward Cullen.

He was standing about a foot away from her, laughing and smiling just like she was, and again obviously flirting, though he didn't have to try as hard as she did.

He apparently said something funny because the girl laughed so loud even humans with their inferior senses heard it all the way down the hall. Then, Edward reached out and brushed a piece of her hair away from her face. She shyly ducked her head and blushed.

He's touching her! He's actually going to stand there and touch this small human girl!

Bella mentally screamed in head. If Edward could read her mind, he would be getting an earful right now.

Jasper reached out and touched Bella's arm lightly. "Bella," he said soothingly. She jerked her arm away quickly. She wasn't hurt; she didn't take it personally. She was just worried about what would happen if Edward got involved with a human again.

That was all.

Right?

Bella turned to Jasper and smiled. "We should go. I need to talk to Alice and Rosalie about our plans for tomorrow night."

"Why? What's happening tomorrow?" Jasper asked. He turned to her now, confused.

Bella grined crookedly, "We're going to a party."