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We went to make our way outside, but Rosalie froze before the rest of us could get out.

"Okay, we really need coats," she stated, and then quickly shut the door. "It is freezing outside. Wait here and I will go get us some coats." I began to tell her that I didn't have one, but she insisted she had one I could use.

"Are you sure?" I asked as she went to walk up the stairs.

"Of course, Bella," She left up to the stairs and was back in less then a minute caring three coats. "Here my dear friends," Rosalie handed both of us one. My coat was black, which was perfectly fine with me. I didn't care what color the coat was as long as it covered me and kept me warm.

So with that, we headed out to the cars. The guys had decided that we split up. Edward had asked Carlisle if he could take his car; he approved, and Alice and Rose were going with Emmett and Jasper in Emmett's big jeep. I hadn't known that they had cars like that; really expensive, but I didn't broach on the subject any further.

When we got to the side of the house, the garage was open and I could see a line of four different cars. I tilted my head to the side and then heard Edward mumble something that sounded like "adorable". I nudged him with my elbow to let him know that I had heard what he said. I guess he still found my head titling to be cute. I wonder if I could use that to my advantage….

Stop it, Bella! Stop right there, I scolded myself, and tried to remember what I had told myself earlier today when me and Edward were caught in the act. I knew I needed to stop doing things to provoke him, but I always ended up taking it a step ahead.

After we were in the cars and on our way out of Forks, following Emmett's jeep, Edward turned his head slightly and began talking. I had a feeling that I knew what he was going to say, but I didn't say anything.

"So, thought your little act in the kitchen was funny, did you?" he had a small smile playing along his lips, which surprised me. I had been so sure that he was going to scold me of my actions to no end.

I stayed silent.

"You bought nearly killed me, Bella," he teased, but I could hint a few emotions in his voice. The first was obviously frustration, then there was a hint of either lust or need, but I couldn't quite put my finger on the last emotion. A small part of me thought, at first, that it was…love. But I quickly told myself that wasn't it.

"I'm sorry," I whispered, as my gaze fell to my hands. I was twisting and re-twisting my fingers together.

Edward chuckled, "Bella, love, even though you were almost the death of me, I never said I didn't like." He pointed out and then took one of my hands. I blushed as he winked at me and then kissed the back of my hand. "Just, don't do it again. Please," his voice was a little strained. I would have thought he liked it.

"Didn't you like it?" The thought of him not enjoying it would make me start to think I was repulsive to him.

"Are you kidding me? Bella, just because I asked you to not do it again, doesn't mean I didn't like it. I am a man, Bella, not an alien." He chuckled at me.

I was actually enjoying his conversation. It wasn't what I expected, and I could feel the need to torture him slink into my mind again. I quickly pulled my hand out of his and placed both of mine into fists at my side. I looked at Edward and he wore an expression of slight pain. I felt bad, but I had to control myself.

I didn't say anything. I didn't think I could without making a move on him as well. I needed to keep my mind focused on restraining my actions.

We sat in silence for almost twenty minutes, hearing nothing but the purr of the beautiful Mercedes. I hadn't taken in the interior, so during our little silence I took my time examining everything. It was amazing. The leather seats 

were comfortable; the smooth look of the wood along the console was sturdy and hard looking. It started to make me think about how hard Ed-

I was cut short of my bad reverie of Edward as he began to speak.

"Bella, are you mad at me?"

Never. I didn't speak.

"Did I do something wrong?"

Of course not. I still couldn't trust myself to say anything. Especially after my dirty thought.

"Bella, love, what's wrong?" Edward asked softly and he placed his finger ever so lightly under my chin, tilting my head to look at him.

Damn it. I felt me power start to slowly give way. We came to a sudden stop behind Emmett's jeep. Red light.

"Nothing," I said breathlessly. Jeez, trying to control myself was harder then it seemed.

He gave a chuckle and then leaned his lips to mine. It felt like things were going in slow motion, like you see in those movies, but it wasn't going slow in the romantic way. It was going slow out of anticipation.

As his lips came closer to mine, I squeezed my eyes shut. Then I heard Edward shuffle his body away from me; his finger leaving my chin.

"Did I do something wrong?" He asked in a pained voice, "Please, tell me if I did." I liked how he begged, I wonder if he would beg for me, but with a totally different reason. I snapped. I couldn't hold myself any longer. My self control broke.

I placed a hand gently on his thigh and stroked my hand back and forth over his upper leg. "Of course you didn't." I said in a low voice. My eyes held his and I gave a smile. I think it might have been a seductive smile because his eyes quickly 

averted to the road and he started forward as he light turned green. I leaned back into my seat, but kept my hand on his leg. Every minute I would let it ease farther up his leg. I could hear his breathing get heavy, but only smiled to myself.

How far do I want to take this? I asked myself, as I felt something warm being placed over my hand. I found that Edward had his hand over mine and then he started to move it up his leg.

However far I feel like it, I decided. He seemed to be liking it. Yes, I had lost control of my actions, which meant that I could torture him as well. He let go of my hand and I looked over to mine resting on the part that connected his hip to his leg. He let out a sigh.

Oh, yes, how torturous I was about to be.

I slid my hand lightly, almost like air gliding on top of water, over his manhood; only fabric separating our skin. He hissed, just like I wanted him to do and then pulled my hand back to lay it beside my other one in my lap.

"Bella," he slightly moaned.

"Yes, dear?" my tone indifferent; I suppressed a giggle at the thought of what I had just done.

"Why? Why do you feel the need to torture me?" He said almost breathlessly.

I sighed, "I am sorry." Even though I knew I wasn't, I still thought it was kind to apologize.

He just moaned again.

The rest of the car ride was actually spent in silence. Edward hadn't said anything else to me the whole way, and I cursed myself silently at the thought of what I had just brought on to myself.

When we finally came to a stop, we were in a parking lot and Emmett's jeep sat still beside our car. I guess we were at our destination. Edward turned his 

car off and walked over to my side of the car and opened the door for me. He reached his hand down to take mine, and I gladly accepted it.

Edward was still silent as we walked to meet Rose, Alice, Jasper, and Emmett waiting by the jeep. I looked over all their faces and noticed that they each held the look of something that they felt the need to hide from us. It must have been something funny, because Jasper chuckled and Alice shot a glare to him. He stopped short.

"What's up you guys?" Edward finally spoke.

"Nothing," Rose said before anyone else could start talking. Edward just shrugged his shoulders and began walking again. He still wasn't talking to me.

Oh God, I had gone too far, hadn't I? The answer was quite obvious. Of course I had gone too far. I knew better, but I still felt the need to be bad. Curse my mind that feels the need to take hold of what I do without my say.

We were all walking down a sidewalk now and I could see a crowded entry and dancing lights about thirty feet away. I couldn't go all night with this silence.

"Edward, talk to me."

"About what, Bella?" he didn't look at me. Okay, that was a very bad sign.

"Please, don't be mad at me, Edward." I almost felt like I was begging, but I needed us to get things resolved before we got to the doors of the club.

"I am not upset at you, Bella."

"Hell, Edward, of course you are."

"Bella, trust me. I am not upset with you. Just myself."

That caught me off guard, "What?"

"I messed up. I shouldn't have provoked you." He was taking the blame. Are you kidding me? This was different, but I would go with it.

"Its okay." I teased, "I understand."

"Good, now let's go have some fun." All six of us finally reached the entry way. There was a long line, but Alice walked straight up to the man and spoke to him. The man let us all through.

"Thank you, Sam" Alice gave him a smile, which he simply just nodded.

We entered the club to find it jam packed with dancing people everywhere. I gazed around the room and soaked up the atmosphere. It held a theme of techno pop, and played not only techno, but rap. There were dancing strobes all around the club, and blinking lights that indicated were the dance floor was. All together, I absolutely loved it. I could already feel my excitement building up. I was ready to dance, even if I knew I was going to break something before the night was over.

We were lucky enough to find a booth off to the side of the place, but Alice insisted that we weren't going to be sitting down for long. We all slid –cramped- into the booth. I was on the inside, then Edward beside me, and Emmett on his other side. Alice sat in front of me, then Jasper beside her and Rosalie on the very end. We ordered some drinks and then Emmett began to talk, but I didn't expect him to say what he did say.

"Saw that little stunt you pulled, Bella," I looked over to see him leaning forward on the table, giving me an amusing smile.

I didn't say anything, but I cold feel the flush spreading across my face.

"You like to tease Eddie, don't you?" he laughed and Rose smacked the back of his head. "What?"

"Emmett, stop being stupid and don't embarrass Bella," Rosalie said sternly and that actually made him shut up.

Our drinks came then making the topic drop as we ordered a big thing of chicken fries. I laughed at the sound of the two words put together. The waiter left and then Alice spoke up before Emmett could start being stupid again.

"Hey, let's make a bet!" Alice's eyes beamed with joy.

"Okay, what?" Rosalie asked.

"It's a bet on Bella and Edward," Alice warned, but then continued. "I bet everyone here that Edward can't last the whole night without kissing, Bella."

Rosalie rolled her eyes, "Well that part is kind of obvious."

"Yes," She pointed to me and Edward. "But if Edward gives in first on kissing Bella, then he has to let her ride with us on the way home, and Jasper ride with him." Alice giggled.

"But, what does Bella lose if she kisses Edward first?" Jasper interrupted.

"Hmm…good point; I don't know," She shrugged her tiny shoulders.

"How about," Emmett started, "If Bella loses then she can't touch or talk to Edward for the next day."

"Emmett that is a stu- Wait! Yes, that's perfect!" Rosalie kissed her fiancée on the lips.

"Gee, thanks you guys. Why do you feel the need to bet on us?" I asked incredulously. I barely knew them and they already wanted to mess with me.

"Wait there is more," Emmett started to talk, "And whoever wins the bet, Boys against Girls, gets to decided which out of the two will hang out with Bella the whole day." Okay, so I knew that it was a lot to lose, and I knew Edward wouldn't want to win, but as I thought about it, of course he would want to win. He was a guy and the males' ego when they lost something would go down drastically. So, this might be a little hard.

"Did we say we would agree to it?" Edward said; irritation coloring his tone.

"No," Alice said, "But it is already too late. You guys can't back out now." Oh dear Lord, what am I going to do? I can't even dance…

Our food arrived then, but Alice insisted we get up and go dance right then and there. We all agreed, and I could start to feel my pride over come me. I was going to when this bet, no matter what. I would even bring on my teasing and torturing to win, which I already knew I was going to. There was no way that I was going to be able to stay under control if I was dancing with Edward. But I had to try.

As we made our way to the dance floor, the two other couples started dancing with each other. Emmett and Rosalie were all over each other and then I looked over to see Alice hopping around Jasper in a fluid motion. I had to laugh. She was adorable. They ended up getting into their mood and didn't bother to pay attention to us.

"Well, are we going to see who wins the bet or what?" Edward teased me and then we walked onto the dance floor by Rose and Alice with their guys.

"I guess I could help you lose," I smiled as we started to dance. It wasn't exactly the kind of dancing you would do with a fast song, but before I could object, Edward had me in his arms, moving me back and forth with him slowly.

Okay, so I can dance…some. I thought to myself. Of course I could dance if some one was helping me.

"Uh-huh. We will see about that," he whispered in my ear. I gave an "okay you keep telling yourself that" kind of look and he just laughed.

During that whole song Edward and I didn't dance fast at all. It was different, and it felt odd with the jumpy beat.

"Guys, this is not prom, this is a club, you have to really dance." Alice snapped. Then without another word she went back to dancing with Jasper, who had started to twirl her.

Edward looked back to me, "We are," he said to himself.

I giggled, "This is a rather interesting way to dance." I nodded to his hands that lay on my mid back. I had my arms up around his neck.

"You don't like it, do you?"

"Yes, I find it actually to be pleasant." He buried his head into my shoulder, and chuckled. He slowly slid his hands, gently, down my back, resting it half on my lower back and then half on my butt. Exactly the way he had earlier today. I grinned at the thought.

So I told myself I was going to lose control, after I told myself that I wasn't. I knew how bad I wanted to lose control, but I also wanted to contain it. I was having a good time, and I didn't need to distract him of anything, except winning the deal. I wanted to tease Edward again, but I decided to go with the flow, and get him to kiss me on his own term. Not something I provoked.

How badly I wanted him to kiss my neck. To go ahead and get it over with and not have me ride home with him, but he didn't. He just kept his head against my shoulder humming my lullaby. I didn't even feel like I was in a club anymore as my eyes slid closed. I felt as if Edward and I were in our own little bubble, noise-proof and perfectly peaceful, with only him humming. I sighed in content.

"Ready to give in, yet?" he asked me as one of his hands slid to my butt.

My heart started to pound a little louder in my ears, "Nope, defiantly not yet." Just because I was thinking all of those thoughts still brought me back to the ignorant deal that had been made. Half of my brain wanted to stomp on it and go ahead and kiss Edward, because God knows I was trying hard not to, but then the other half wanted to keep going

"Are you?" I asked simply, already knowing his answer. Well, he defiantly wasn't going to give in easy. He wasn't even on the verge of sounding breathless enough to give way. I cursed silently at how much control this boy could have one minute and not the next.

"No, why would I be?"

"Just asking," I tightened my arms around his neck, trying to bring him closer. I didn't want there to be any space between us. This was also another position I could stay in.

I don't know how long we stayed there dancing like that, but Jasper soon intruded on our little world.

"Come on guys, we are going to go eat our food," He nearly shouted to us over the music. Edward gave an almost inaudible chuckle, and then let me go, only to take my hand. We walked through the crowd, pushing our way through. When we finally made it through the people, back to our table, Emmett moved out for me and Edward to slide in.

"Where's all the food?" I asked; there was food before I left.

"We ate it," Alice chimed in, "But, don't worry, we ordered more."

I just nodded my head.

"So, have either one of you kissed each other, yet?" Rosalie asked a little bored sounding.

"No," Edward said first.

"Wow, well, hurry it up," she shot back.

"Guys, I really don't care about this bet," Edward said. But, I thought he was all for it…

"What Edward? You were the one wanting to win…" I stated in confusion, as I took a drink of my soda.

"Yes, but now that I think about it…bets are childish. It is stupid to bet on something like that, anyway. So here," he took my face gently in his hands, "If you want the bet to be over then I hope you enjoy this, because I know I will." And then he kissed my lips. It wasn't like any kiss he had ever given me. This kiss was soft, powerful, but nothing but pure passion. I was breathless by the time he let my mouth go.

"Yay! Girls win, so Bella you know what that means. You have to ride home with us." Alice was so cheerful.

"Sure, fine," I said absentmindedly. I was still staring at Edward.

When we finally left the place, I was worn out. I felt like mush on my feet. I would never, ever be doing that again. Edward had one arm around my waist, holding me up. We got to the cars and I was about to fall asleep right in the parking lot.

"Edward, put Bella in the jeep will you. She can sit in the front." Rosalie demanded. I could feel Edward lifting me up into the jeep, and then buckling me in. But after the door shut I leaned my head against the window and was out. I heard Edward murmur some words to me. It sounded like "I will see you soon, my angel," but I couldn't be sure. I was nearly unconscious.

While I was asleep, I thought about the words that Edward had said to his family. He was right, it was all childish. The bet. Me losing control. I knew for a fact that I could handle things. I had control and I was going to use it. I didn't want to be immature anymore. Yes, Edward made me feel good, and carefree, but I didn't want to be so carefree that I would do anything with him at anytime. Like I told myself, I wasn't ready. I wasn't ready for having to hold the responsibility of me and Edward being physical in that way. I was going to hold off as long as I could and…if I was correct and was going to trust my instincts…then I would be able to control every part of my body.

I woke to someone pulling me out of the jeep. I was half awake, half asleep, but I could tell it was Edward. I felt the wind blow a little, but then as my senses were noticing things that my brain wasn't triggering, I felt the warm heat, and the soft leather of the Mercedes. I felt the gas run through the car. I would feel the sudden movements of the stopping and going. Soon, we were stopped again, and Edward was opening up his door. I'm guessing he came to my side, because then I felt my door being opened. I woke up, fully, this time.

"Edward…," I mumbled, as he helped me to my house.

"Yes, love?" he spoke in a soothing tone.

"Hi."

He chuckled, "Hello, Bella." He paused as we walked up the stairs. Edward reached for the key under the mat, "Can I ask you a question?"

"Of course," I said almost numbly. I could feel the weight of sleepiness crashing down on me.

"Would you like to go hiking with me tomorrow?" Edward's voice held a tint of…shyness? Interesting…

"Yes, I would love to," I barely got out, as the door opened to my house.

"Great, can I pick you up around noon?" I walked into the house and stood at the door frame, facing him outside.

"Sure."

And with that, we said our goodbyes, he kissed my forehead, and then he was heading back to his car. I shut the door, locked it, and then slowly, climbed the stairs to my room.

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