Hola amigos! Yes, I'm very late in updating. Muy muy triste! It's been a pretty eventful week. I couldn't find any time to update. I actually finished this chapter the night before but uh -- kinda fell asleep before I could post it up. I meant to! But oh well.

THANK YOU! For all those reviews last chapter. They were really funny to read. Especially all the death threats about making Jacob kiss Bella etc. Well - I'm not that horrid! I like Jacob too but I think he doesn't deserve to get the blame at all. In Stephenie's series, I feel it's Bella who made the bed of two singles, and wants to lie in both of them. That's what I think.

Orginally this chapter was meant to be in two parts but I thought, well I'm sure you guys won't be able to wait any longer so I edited edited edited edited to make it able for you guys to enjoy!

PS - I'm making one of the characters end their part in this story :( Sigh - but it's for the better I guess.

Disclaimer - Don't own any of Twilight.

Playlist IMPORTANT! - Light Surrounding You by Evermore

This song is VERY IMPORTANT for this chapter. I spent ages trying to figure out the best song for the rain scene later. It's so beautiful (cries) Haha. And my DREAM Bella (Emily Browning) is in the music video anyway :)

If You Never Had My Heart

Bella's POV

"I don't ever wanna be you! Don't wanna be just like you! Oh what I'm saying is this is the anthem throw all your hands up, you, don't wanna be you!"

Saved by the phone…I thought in relief and Jacob suddenly snapped out of his possessive trance and looked away slightly, distracted. Jacob's phone rang loudly and the moment he was distracted, I wrenched his hands away from my cheeks with the remaining energy I had and backed away, wobbling slightly, trying to retreat towards my bathroom.

Jacob had snatched his phone out of him pocket and switched it off roughly before grabbing my arm, "Bella, wait. I -"

I turned around and swung a foot and his knee and he yelled, "Ouch! Damn it, Bella! Why'd you do that for?!"

He gently leaned over to rub his knee and I said through my gritted teeth saying every word slowly, "Don't.Ever.Do.That.Again."

His innocent face annoyed me. "Do what?"

I exclaimed, "Don't ever touch me like that ever again! I'm not your toy, Jacob Black!"

He grinned sheepishly. "Sorry. I really wanted to know how you would react though," and he frowned, "But then Quil interrupted the moment. Sorry about that."

"THANK GOD HE DID!" I yelled.

Jacob laughed boyishly, "Come on, Bella. It couldn't have been that bad. Have you had your first kiss already?"

"None of your business…" I muttered and turned away.

"Remember, Bella. You are my business."

"You wish."

"Sure I do! So have you gotten kissed yet?" Jacob said cheerfully, like nothing happened.

"Do you realize you might be the last person I'd want to discuss this with right now?" I snapped.

Then, Jacob shook his head, "Then who else you could discuss it with? Masen?"

"Yeah! Definitely him than you!" I raised my voice again. I began to regret as maybe I was being too harsh on him. I was saying rather hurtful things suddenly and it shocked me. This wasn't me. Why was I so defensive all of a sudden? Did I really think that I had already belonged to Edward?

Jacob looked untroubled. "Maybe. But you don't know that for sure yet. You never know when you might really need me one of these days."

"I'm sure I will," I muttered sarcastically.

He shrugged and repeated, "Had your first kiss already?"

"None of your -"

"I'm guessing that would be a no. I would make it really special, you know?"

I rolled my eyes, "Sure. You are really experienced, I'm sure, since you've done it with so many girls before right? Fat chance of that, Jake."

"It's still worth while to hope. Where there's a will, there's a way," he grinned again.

"It doesn't apply for this."

"I'm sure it does, Bella. Just wait and see."

"You disgust me, you know that?"

"Nope. I doubt that I do though. It's just a natural reaction to unleash uncertainty and reluctance to the person you are starting to have interest in. Don't worry. I am willing to accept you for who you are."

I growled under my breath, "I'm pretty sure you're referring to my feelings for Edward…"

He laughed again, "Nah. It's just between you and me."

I walked past him and opened my room door, gesturing for him to leave, "I think it's getting late. You should get some rest as well for a good start."

He winked at me as he walked out, but before I could slam it, he held his strong hands on the door and said, "Just one try? I'm sure it wouldn't hurt."

"Goodnight, Jake." And I pushed the door closed with all my might and locked it.

As I walked over to my bed and let my heavily exhausted body fall flat on it, I knew I was in so much trouble. I was going to be married to a boy who I was irreversibly in love with that not only has nearly the whole population of females in our school harboring an interest him, but also the guy who I thought of as a good friend of mine wishes to win me over even though I'm technically, well, married. Not to mention a beautiful and stunning rival who just went out of town for the weekend that would come back and find out I've just stolen him away. Life couldn't get any better.

How did it all come to this…?

A/N - As I mentioned in the previous chapter, I'm skipping a few days to the front. Will make sense as you read on.

"You alright?" Angela asked on Wednesday before Geography after lunch.

"Bella?" Angela called again as she popped some chocolate pieces into her mouth.

"I'm okay."

Angela frowned. "Issaac and Joshua are killing my entire week. My parents flew out of town for my cousin's wedding in Philadelphia. I was stuck at home with those two nine year old twin devils."

I laughed. "They can't be that bad."

When Angela glared at me, I quickly mustered up my disgusted face. "Yeah, they suck. Totally. How could you ever be even related to them?"

Angela nodded, "So, how come you've been coming to school so early since Monday? You are even earlier than Dean Jenkins. He comes to school early because he gets a lift from the caretaker. The caretaker." Angela emphasized the last word loudly.

I tried to avoid eye contact. "Yeah, so?"

"Looks pretty strange to me."

"I wanted to wake up early and get to school before anyone else for a change."

"What? Why?"

"It seems like fun to do something I've never done before."

"Did someone bash you in the head this morning?"

"No! I'm just a little groggy because I'm not used to getting up that early anymore since I moved here. Did you know that I used to wake up at five in the morning back in boarding school?"

"You're avoiding someone."

"That wasn't a question! You can't assume things like that!" I was beginning to get nervous. Was it that obvious?

"I'd prefer it as more of a declaration. Which by the way, it doesn't need brains like," and she nodded over to a skinny boy with flat hair and large rimmed glasses, "David to realize who you are trying to avoid."

I frowned. "Angela, I'm warning you…"

Angela leaned back in her chair and held her hands up teasingly. "I'm just saying! You know you can't run from him, Bella. And let me count the ways…"

I turned around letting my back face her and clasped my hands over my ears and taunted her, "Not listening…"

Angela laughed, "Actually, I've noticed it since the beginning of Monday anyway. For one, you come to school early so you could avoid him offering you a ride."

"That's -"

"Secondly, you've been taking different staircases to your classes this week. You rather take the long route than the normal quick short way which normally requires you to go through crowds of people. Afraid you going to see someone you're intending to hide from?" Angela's voice was dripping with suspicion.

"I needed to get a good workout. It's good to exercise in the morning…" and I grumbled at myself for realizing it was a quote from Edward.

Angela shrugged, "I think I know you too well to believe that."

"You are too harsh on me, Angela," I pouted.

"On Monday, you were supposed to have History with him after lunch break. But you end up going to the nurse after eating my home made pasta? Am I missing anything here?"

"You're just way too critical."

I did have food poisoning on Monday. I suppose I ate too much lately since I tried to drown out the recent events by stuffing myself with food. On Tuesday, I didn't have a single class with Edward so it wasn't really avoiding him when I didn't see him.

He never even tried to contact me anyway. I suppose he has given up on me, I thought to myself, sighing.

"I'm not. It's just the plain facts," Angela argued.

I wrinkled my nose, "Incase you haven't noticed, Tanya came back from her weekend trip. I don't think I want to mess around with her. I prefer to avoid confrontations. The last thing I need is to be someone who stole someone else's lover…"

"They're not even together. There's no competition," Angela pointed out.

"I'm just happy that Alice has been really nice to me. Surprisingly Rosalie too, but Tanya is a whole different story. And who could blame her right? I mean, nobody likes a third wheeler."

Angela narrowed her eyes, "Please, sometimes you have to take one home for the team."

Just then, Ms. Tanner came in. I felt relieved so that I wouldn't have to try make up anymore stupid excuses to cover up. I wasn't covering up anything. I really had to get up early to school lately because I needed to print out lots of research info I found. The computer facilities are always fully booked already if you didn't come really early to get a place.

"Everyone, turn to the case study I gave you last class. Tell me an inference you can come up with after the first read of the article," Ms. Tanner said as she set her books down on the table.

The class moved relatively slow. I didn't know if I was really absorbing any of this. Sometimes Ms. Tanner's voice felt so far away. Other times I would find myself catching her eye and she would throw me a strange look, like she thought I was dozing off or something.

Right after class ended, Angela came over and said, "You know what I'll say, right?"

"Yup."

"Bella, if you really aren't interested in him at all, although I seriously doubt that, I think you should be honest right now. And everything that goes with it."

As we walked out of class, she pointed out, "Look at the sky. Gosh, it's raining again. A week ago on Wednesday it rained too. What an uncanny situation to have it rain on the same day a week later."

She looked at me. "Want a ride home with me and Ben? Or you're going with Jacob?"

I sighed, "Jake's staying back for some extra credit on his Business coursework so I'll probably try to catch him later. I need to go to my locker and get something I forgot this morning anyway."

"Too busy hiding in the toilets?"

"I'll see you tomorrow," I shook my head at her.

There was no way I could explain everything to Angela yet. I didn't know how to even start. There was no one by my locker when I arrived. I pushed my way through the stampede of people rushing to go home. I twirled my locker combination in and opened my locker to just stare at my piled up books in there. Mentally, I began to calculate what books I would need to bring back today.

Just as I zipped up my bag and shut my locker, I gasped when Edward suddenly appeared at the side of my locker where my own open locker door was blocking him before.

No wonder I didn't see him, I thought.

He had both hands in his pockets as his back leaned on the next locker beside mine. His head was slightly tilted to the side looking at me with an unreadable expression and hard eyes that had not a single trace of warmth in it. Maybe he felt disgusted for my childish ethics of the avoiding business. Even with that marbled face of his and darkened eyes, he still looked like a Greek God standing there.

"Hi," I said after awhile.

He didn't say anything for a moment. His eyes finally softened a little after awhile and he moved one hand out of his pocket to ruffle his hair.

"Bella, have you thought about wanting to stay with me yet?"

I flinched. It's not because of the question. It was because of the way he said it. He didn't say the simple, casual words such as moving over to stay in his house or being together with his family. He asked if I wanted to say with him.

I muttered, "I haven't seen you these few days. How have you been?"

"I'm fine. When are you moving over?"

"I – I don't know…I haven't really had time to think about it…"

Edward's eyes hardened again, "Why not?"

I narrowed my eyes back at him, "Are you alright? You don't seem to be in the right shape to be talking about this right now to me."

"Unlike you, who doesn't seem to be in the correct shape all the time? Besides, if I didn't come here, would you have come to look for me?"

He leaned towards me, his green eyes piercing, "It's been two days, Bella. It's not like I have to send you little notes every time like we're in the first grade or something to get your attention, right?"

"I'm sorry…" I said softly.

He repeated again, "Are you going to be moving over anytime soon? Caroline isn't a very patient woman, Bella."

"I don't know, honestly. I was thinking maybe somewhere this week…" I admitted.

He closed his eyes and folded his arms, leaning back against the locker once more, "How have you been? Good? Has Jacob been giving you any difficulties?"

"Not…really."

"What's that suppose to mean?"

"Nothing, really. I was just overreacting. I wasn't really listening to what I was saying just now."

His eyes opened and he looked at me. The green eyes were light again but his face was still troubled. I wish I could ask why but somehow I knew now wasn't the right time.

"It's raining. Need a ride home?"

"I was actually thinking of going home with Jake later after he's done with his coursework."

"Ah…"

I waited, but when he didn't continue, I slowly said, "But I could leave now…with you," but when I saw the skeptic look, I quickly added, "Because I didn't let Jake know that I would be going home with him."

Edward gave a small smile, "I'd like that. Let's go."

The rain was drizzling gently as Edward and I crossed the parking lot to his car.

"Well, at least we can still see a little sun shine. Maybe we can catch a rainbow or something," Edward laughed as he shut the door.

Strange how his mood suddenly changed from before. He was so cold, rigid and irritable just now. Suddenly, he's become the Edward that brightened up my day all the time.

"Your mood has changed," I pointed out.

He sighed as he clicked his seat belt in place and his face looked like it was snow going to be in a permanent frown.

"Was it something I said…?" I asked.

"No."

"Is it because of me? I haven't been very reasonable lately about the whole…thing so I don't blame you if this time it's your turn to be actually mad at me and hate me for something. I won't -"

Edward silenced me by taking my hand gently and held it to his face, "Although I know you are always unreasonable," and his eyes twinkled humorously, "There's nothing that you could possibly do to make me hate you when you're the best part of my day."

I could hear my heart beats drumming in my ear. His face was so smooth and soft; I began to wonder if it was even better than mine. It was amazing, considering he was a boy. But of course, he wasn't just another boy, was he? Not especially when he just said those words to me.

"Then…what happened to make you so down before?" I tried control my voice from becoming short breaths.

He removed my hand from his cheek and began to run his fingertips over my palm slowly, not looking up at me, "It's Tanya."

He looked distracted as he continued, "Tanya's family was broken up when she was thirteen, about the same time when Caroline moved in to live with Elizabeth and me. Her Dad remarried two years after the divorce and Tanya and her two younger sisters, Kate and Irina stayed with their Mum. Tanya never called her step-mum by her name, only as her Dad's wife."

He sighed again, "During the weekend when she took off, saying she was running errands for her Mum wasn't true. She had gone to Seattle to see her Dad and his wife. Her mum is leaving to Canada for a global journalist position because they were experiencing financial problems. She wasn't going to be in the same place all the time so it ruled out for Tanya and her two sisters living with their mum instead."

I looked down to stare at the continuous trailing finger on my palm, "I'm so sorry to hear this. When is she leaving?"

"This weekend, a day after the party. I don't understand why she can't stay till the end…" Edward mumbled.

"Probably because there is no relative nearby except her Dad that can take care of them when her Mum goes to Canada…" I decided.

Edward nodded, "I suppose. That's the reason why I didn't come to look for you earlier this week. I've been so caught up in helping the gang console Tanya that I didn't even have time for myself. She'd call me sometimes at random times, in the middle of the night, early in the morning before school to start breaking down again when Alice and Rosalie fail to answer their own phones."

He looked up at me, "It wasn't because I didn't care. I really, really wanted to see you so badly. You have no idea how much I was craving for you…"

I was afraid, that my heated face would give me away but I held a straight face, "I wanted to see you too…"

"Just give me some time, to help Tanya through this. I'm sorry that I was pretty crabby earlier. I was a little out of place when I realized I had forgotten about you, just a little…so I just said the first thing that came to my mind," Edward's green eyes poured into mine.

When I nodded slowly, he held my hand with his, used the other free hand to ignite the car engine and began to press on the accelerator, driving the car out of the gate. His hands in mine were so calm and I felt with his very presence there, everything would be alright. But I was getting a little nervous, seeing that he was only driving with one hand. But his driving skills proved to be sharper than a needle.

When we reached Jacob's house, he didn't stop in front like he usually did. He drove right past and into his house next door, parking the car neatly underneath the garage roof in the empty space.

"You knew it was going to rain?" I nodded towards the Aston Martin that was parked outside now.

He nodded, "Yeah."

He let go off my hand to remove the keys from the compartment and into his pocket. I stared out of the window and saw the water droplets pattering against the green lawn. I suddenly sighed when I saw the rain that was heavier this time but the sun was shinning through the grey clouds now.

Edward looked at me puzzled, "Something wrong?"

I looked at him, "A week ago on this day, Angela sparked up my childhood dream of going under the rain."

Edward continued to just stare at me, but his green eyes were starting to darken.

I grinned, "Come on, haven't you ever wondered what it was like?"

Edward's eyes were now smoldering. "Of course I do. I've done it."

I bit my lip, "Yeah, you walked in the rain because of me. Not only did you walk under it without me, but it made me wonder what it would be like if I did go with you."

A/N This scene with Bella under the rain is actually pretty long. But of course I can't write a scene that is just actions too long. Just imagine it to be about a minute or two?

Before he could say anything else, I opened the car door and walked across the garage and into the open garden. As the rain pattered on me, the cold water washing over me was incredible. Like a child, I danced around like idiot, parting my arms and twirling around. My hair and my clothes were getting soaked but it was an amazing feeling to be out there. If only he was willing to share that feeling with me.

And I knew for the first time in my life, I felt free.

Then, before I knew it, Edward held my hand once more and was in front of me shaking his head, "Bella, come on. Let's go in. You're going to catch a cold if you don't get dry immediately."

He led me under the shed of his front door. There was a towel hung on the doorknob and he wrapped it around me, running his hands all over my soaked shirt trying to dry me as much as possible. I didn't know if I was trembling from the cold of the water or the fact that he was touching everywhere.

"That was invigorating," I laughed, shaking my head to remove some water from my hair. Edward threw me a look, but his eyes were gentle now.

It was then I realized, he was a little wet too, but not as much as me so I asked, "Where'd you get the towel from?"

He dried my hair. "While you were busy trying to get pneumonia under the rain, I, like the wonderful person I am, ran into the house to get one of these. It would be easier to dry you out here than trying to convince you to come inside my house to warm up."

Then, he grinned, "That sentence sounds a bit strange…"

I closed my eyes, enjoying his every movement. "Hmm…"

The rain was become lighter again as the roaring sounds of it hitting the roofs and ground was becoming softer. I felt the towel leaving my hair and Edward's hand brushing through my tangled wet hair, pushing it backwards to tuck them behind my ear. His hands began to run up and down my shoulders, trying to make me feel a little warmer.

"Are you going to fall asleep if I keep doing this to you?" he teased softly.

"Not at all. You have no idea how good this feels…" I sighed.

Suddenly, my heart skipped a beat when his hands began to move up to my neck and finally resting them on either side of my cheeks.

"Do you dare to open your eyes right now?" he whispered.

A shiver ran up my spine when I heard his voice turn so soft and seductive. "Honestly, no…"

His thumbs were stroking my cheeks very softly, like it was waiting for me to open my eyes before anything else could happen. I could feel his cool breath tickling my eye lids to open. But knowing the curiosity me, and the tendency to spoil good times, my eyelids began to open slowly. Damn you, Bella. Always the moment spoiler…I cursed. But what I saw nearly got my heart jumping right out of me.

His head was tilted sideways and forward, nearer to me and his eyes were combusting a flame that I only to interpret as desire. The way his movements were, so slow and gentle, it was almost as if he wasn't real. The way he blinked as he continued to look at me, or even the way he was moving closer, till finally his lips was just an inch away from his touching mine wasn't helping either.

"That's better…" his breath blew it gently in my face.

And I closed my eyes again on instinct as his lips slowly touched mine. It was gentle as first, brushing over it. But then, it began to slowly part, stimulating mine to do the same. I don't know how, but my hands had now moved up to wrap around his neck. I suppose it was our first kiss, so it was very slow and exactly how I imagined it was suppose to be. And maybe even better than how I thought it would be. It was annoying that my heart was running a marathon at this moment.

But all good things had to come to an end as I felt him soothingly but firmly breaking apart our kiss and his hands moved down to my waist. Somehow, I didn't want to open my eyes again but I really wanted to see his expression.

He was looking out at the sky, but when he looked back at me, his eyes were glistening. "There you go. We did catch a rainbow after all…"

And I looked up to see a that faint spectrum of light across the now, clear sky and the sun shining on the faint rain droplets that were pattering down.

I thought this song I chose fits Edward's feelings this chapter. Get the lyrics people! So many quotes from the lyrics I would have taken to fill in Edward's words! Haha but I didn't since this was entirely Bella's POV.

That took me ages to write. Even longer than Chapter 12. Because I couldn't decide whether Jacob would have a chance to kiss Bella. Or if someone was suppose to come interrupt. If someone did, who would it be? How? When? Did Edward see through his window? (Originally I wanted that to happen but I realize it would become to soap opera and drama series). And if I wanted their first kiss to be next chapter or even at the party but haha. I am pretty fickle minded if I do say so myself.

Tough choices. Hope you guys enjoyed this chapter. Well - READ and REVIEW!

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