Ok guys sorry about this being so late but I finally got my laptop back into working order and hurricane Irene also hit my city. So without further ado here is chapter 12!

EPOV

Emmett had pulled me away from Bella about 30 minutes ago and I was currently being held against my will stuck talking to Jessica Stanley. I don't have anything against her really, just that her main job is harassing me and she is great at it.

Ok, ok I may have hooked up with her once or twice but that was just because we were bored and I told her before hand that this was just for fun and didn't mean anything. She agreed both times but that still doesn't mean she hasn't tried anything since. Besides that was like last year, other than Tanya I haven't really wanted to hook up with anyone for some reason.

Any way back to the present, as I am pretending to give a shit about whatever parties I missed this summer I was really trying to keep my eye on Bella. She was looking so damn beautiful and hot; it wasn't really safe for her to be alone with this many guys from our school at the party.

My parents went to bed a while ago and as soon as we knew for sure they were safely upstairs Emmett brought out the alcohol. I really meant to go back over to her but I kept getting bombarded by other girls. They seriously wouldn't stop! All I wanted to do was talk and dance with my Bella. But other guys were instead of me, almost every time I was able to get away from a girl Bella would be talking to another guy. I just couldn't win tonight. About an hour after we were separated I was chatting with Emmett when Bella came walking towards a little more clumsily than usual. She had this weird look on her face, I want to say it looked like concentration and seriousness but she actually looked constipated.

"Hey you three! What did you put in your punch Emmetts?" Three? Emmetts? What or who the fuck is she talking about?

"Um, my Rum Punch? Are you ok Bels?" Emmett said trying to look concerned but really trying hard not to laugh.

"Oh I am fine! I am having a great time, I love to dance did ya know that?" she shouted at the two of us. "I love music; I love to dance so much I think I like it better than baseball!" she again screamed in an awed voice and flailing her arms around, almost smacking my drink out of my hands and hitting Em in the face.

Both of us couldn't hold it in any more and busted out laughing. "Bella, how much did you have to drink tonight?" I asked after I finally calmed down and stopped laughing.

"Wipe that sexy smirk off your mouth Cullen." She responded slurred , "To be perfectly honest, I lost count of how many cups of red deliciousness I have drunken." She explained with a proud attitude.

Sexy smirk? I think I am liking this drunk Bella more and more.

I have been trying to get Bella drunk for a while and the one party I am not around her she gets drunk! Go figure. I was pretty sure Emmett was in shock at first since Bella always argued that we shouldn't drink and here she was drunk as a skunk. His shock wore off pretty quickly though.

"Oh this is too great!" Emmett said with a big shit eating grin, "Hey Jazz, get your ass over here! Our Bels is shit faced."

"Shhh! I am so not shit faced Emmetts. I am just feeling pretty good right about now." Bella explained, totally didn't help her case.

Jasper started walking to our group and for some reason Bella gave him a huge hug. I may or may not have growled a little. Jasper of course returned the hug laughing and asked what he did to deserve such an awesome hug. It was because he was the awesome-est. Her exact words not mine, then Alice laugh "OK Bella stop trying to steal my man."

"Alice I would never ever try to steal Jazz from you! You know how much I love E-"

"Bella! I was just kidding. I know you would never do that, you love everyone and our friendship too much." Alice interrupted her from going on with her sentence. When she started to say this word beginning with E I thought hey maybe she was going to say my name but it was wishful think of course. Maybe it was the couple drinks I had in me that made me swear she was going to say my name.

Emmett, the genius he is, decided to play the truth game with Bella. Its like truth or dare but you don't get a choice. Bella wasn't putting up much of a fight answering the questions. Emmett was in absolute heaven.

He asked her what she slept with in bed, if she was still a virgin, if she thought Newton was cute and what underwear she was wearing.

Her answers, which she gave happily, were: her baby blanket, yes (Iwashappyandturnedonabout), sorta, and a blue thong to match with her dress (IwillhavetothankAliceforthatimagelater… maybenot).

I noticed that Emmett kept the drinks coming and was getting a little angry with him. Bella wasn't used to drinking to begin with and he just wanted to get her even drunk just for his enjoyment. I mean I know Emmett loves Bella and will do anything to protect her but sometimes he just doesn't know when to stop.

Around an hour after the 'game' started I noticed Bella looking sick and knew that's how she felt when she stood up very quickly. I followed her and quickly showed her to the bathroom in my room. It was shortly after she stepped into the bathroom thing that every she ate and drank made an appearance. I felt bad since she had tears coming down her eyes as her head was in the toilet. I knew that she hates throwing up and from the sound of it, it sounded like it was hurting her throat. I bent down and held her hair and rubbed her back trying to comfort her. Once she was done throwing up she must have realized I was there and gave me a weak smile, it was still a beautiful one. I quickly let go of her hair and brought her a toothbrush she sometimes uses when she spends the night. I also figured she would be tired and uncomfortable in her dress so I pulled out one of my old basketball shorts.

She seemed drunk still and couldn't get the rest of her dress off. She let out an frustrated sigh, stopped and looked at me with pleading eyes, those same eyes that she knew I couldn't say no too. I unzipped the back of her blue dress all the way and gently pulled the dress up and over her shoulders and head. I looked down briefly and saw something lacey and blue. I let out a groan that I am sure she heard but goddamn it she was wearing a lacey blue bra that looked sinful against her skin. I ran over to my bureau and pulled out a big black shirt to cover her up but the image will always be in my mind.

Once she was situated in my clothes, which again she looked too good in, I tucked her into my bed and I laid down above the covers with her. I stayed with her till she went to sleep. I also locked my room so that no one could come in but Bella, if she needed to, could go out. I didn't trust any guys at my high school, definitely not while they had been drinking at least.

After I locked the door I went down stairs to let everyone know that Bella wasn't feeling good and that she was asleep in my room. I saw Alice give Rose and Jake a look and I just shook my head. I know what that look from my twin meant and I desperately wished something did happen.

The party lasted another hour and a half. I was over the girls hanging all over me while barely wearing any clothes. It was all the same shit just a different party. I did have fun chatting and catching up with Ali and getting to know Rose and Jake. They are both actually really cool and already fit in with the group perfectly. It was obvious that Em and Rose liked each other and it was really hysterical to watch them dance around each other. Jake was funny as hell and much to my surprise knew his shit about sports. When the party ended Jake and I gave the people who weren't able to drive home rides then after the last person Jake went home himself. I went up to my room and smiled to myself when I saw that Bella was still asleep. I made sure that she was fine and went under my covers to go to sleep. I dreamt of Bella that night, just Bella and I and she grabbed for my hand and just smiled a huge smile.

I woke up to a scream, which made my jump out of my fuckin skin. I looked around and saw it was just Bella. She looked at my with a questioning stare and I realized she probably doesn't remember much from last night much less why we are in the same bed. I knew she had to have had a headache and I am sure that her screaming did not help. After she stopped screaming she let out a groan and fell back to my bed.

I had to laugh because this scenario has happened multiple times but I was the one in pain and Bella was the one laughing at me. Since I have been in her spot numerous times I just nudged her and pointed to the bottle of water and pain medicine that I left on the counter last night.

She greedily took the pills and chugged the bottle of water. After doing that she turned to me with weary eyes, "OK, did I do anything to embarrass myself last night?", I just had to laugh.

"Well nothing exceptionally embarrassing. Just be prepared to face Emmett. You told him that you think Mike Newton is sorta cute, what kind of underwear you were wearing and that you are still a virgin." I started off teasing but when I got to her being a virgin I lowered my voice.

Don't get me wrong, they guys and I have worked hard to keep all the perverts away from our Bella. And I knew she never even had a boyfriend before but hearing that she was still a virgin just made something happen inside me.

She let out a nervous laugh then jumped off my bed. She seemed surprised to find that she wasn't wearing her dress from last night. She looked up at me and started blushing as she realized that I was the only would have done that. I loved her blush, I knew she hated her blush but I thought it was beautiful and cute.

I watched her take a deep breath, give herself an internal pep talk, nod to herself then leave the room. She was too adorable!

I laughed when I thought about the ways Emmett was going to torture Bella today at breakfast/lunch. I got out of bed and headed downstairs to find Emmett and Rosalie coming out of the guest room. Hmmm that's interesting. They didn't seem like they say me, since the guest room is closer to the stairs than my room and on the same side of the hallway.

"Yo bro!" I shouted making both of them jump.

"Oh, hey Edward. This isn't what it looks like dude. I just didn't want her to sleep on the couch and since your guest room is practically my room I always call it. I was just being a gentleman… yes a gentleman." Emmett said hurriedly.

Like I actually gave a shit about what went on in the guest room. It wouldn't have been the first girl he had in the guest room.

Rose just sighed and walked down stairs leaving us to talk and gossip. Yes, boys gossip too, we just gossip about things that have to do with us.

"So Em what really happened in the room?" I just had to ask him

"Honestly nothing! I really like her, its totally different with her. We just slept in the same bed, nothing more. She is amazing." He said with a big goofy smile on his face.

I just gave him a man slap on the back and we both walked downstairs. When we got to the last step we both smelled the most delicious smell you could smell when your hung over… pancakes. Em and I looked at each other, smiled and ran to the kitchen. Bella always makes them for us. It was sorta our morning after tradition.

As I got into the kitchen I was in awe at the massive amounts of food. When she saw Emmett she had a huge smile on her face.

"Hey guys, take a seat and I will bring over your food." She said surprisingly chipper for how much she was drinking last night.

She sat my plate down in front of me, it had about four pancakes with about 6 strips of bacon. It was a pretty large amount of food for me normally but this morning it was a God send. Before I dug into my meal I looked at Em's plate and my mouth dropped.

He had two plates of his favorite blueberry and chocolate chip pancakes smothered in maple syrup and another whole plate of bacon.

I knew what she was trying to do. She thought that if he buttered him up with food he wouldn't tease her so much about last night. I on the other hand knew it wouldn't work.

Emmett looked at me smiling, nodded and both bit into our pile of deliciousness. As we were eating Alice, Jasper and Jake also made an appearance. The three of them got normal size portions and we all sat at the kitchen table in silence.

Finally after thirty minutes Emmett was done his food, yes all of it, and looked up at Bella with his shit-eating grin. I knew her plan did not work.

"So Bells, Mike Newton huh?" Em smiled while leaning back in his chair.

Bella's face paled, I felt bad for her. "Em come on man, she was annihilated last night. She can't be held liable to anything she said." I tried to help put he was having none of that.

"Ed I know she was but I just wanted to let her know that I think Mike might have actually heard you say he was cute AND that she was still a virgin. She was pretty loud last night." Emmett shrugged.

Jasper looked at me with a pointed look, he knew Mike had always had this obsession with our Bells and knew if he had heard her say that our job this school year would be even harder.

I saw Bella looking upset and she quickly left the room. I looked at everyone letting them know I got this. I always came to Bella when I was upset and vice versa.

She went out on to the porch and was sitting on a chair that was hidden from view of the kitchen. She wasn't crying but she was definitely close. I moved closer and called her name so I wouldn't scare her.

She turned around and gave a weak smile.

"I don't know why I am this upset. I mean its not that big of a deal that people know I'm a loser virgin right? I am sure everybody knew that already. I haven't even had a boyfriend so how could I not be a virgin." Bella said rambling on trying to make it seem like she was ok. I obviously knew better.

"B, its ok to be upset. Having everyone know your private business is a scary and embarrassing thing to go through. I do have one thing to say about it though, I am glad you are." I said trying to make her feel less ridiculous.

Bella gave me a questioning look. "I'm glad you haven't had sex. Guys around here don't know how to treat women like you. You deserve better than a back seat fuck, and way better than any guy at this school. Trust me I hear all about their pathetic tries at sex. You are way to beautiful to be crying and too smart to give what happened last night any second thoughts. We have all been subjected to Emmett's games."

She launched herself at me and started crying. I was trying to help her feel better, not make her cry! "Aw Bella, I am sorry I didn't want to make you cry! I was just trying to make you see your better than you think. Please stop crying, you know I don't do well with you crying." I pleaded with her

She looked up at my with her puffy red eyes and smiled a genuine smile, "thanks Edward. You did make my feel better, it just sucks because I haven't had a boyfriend and barely even done more than make out with someone. How can I believe that I deserve better than the guys at school when I haven't even tried or been given the chance?" She asked me. I never even knew that she was self conscious of her experience or lack there of.

"Well I guess your just gonna have to take my word for it. But Bella, if you like someone at school just go for it. Like I said you are amazing and beautiful, any guy would be lucky to be your boyfriend."

She reached up and gave me a quick peck on the cheek and left to join the rest of the group back in the house.

I shook my head trying to get rid of the warm feeling on my cheek. I think I was smiling, I can't be too sure. As I walked back in the house I saw that no one was in the kitchen so I went into the living room where I heard Emmett's laugh.

Jasper saw me, "Yo dude, we are gonna play some basketball if you want to play with us?" I said yes then went upstairs to change into some baskeball shorts and a wife beater.

This year was definitely going to be an interesting one. I needed to find a way to tell Bella how I feel about her before I lose her to someone in our school, maybe for good.

OK guys please don't kill me! I finally got my computer back and working and than my state got hit with Hurricane Irene and THAN school and work have been piling up on me. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE review. It does help me write faster if I know and read peoples thoughts about this story and how it is going. HAPPY HALLOWEEN!