A/N: I am sooo embarrassed at how long this took to be posted. I was travelling around Europe all summer long, so I didn't have time then. And I really haven't had time to write since I've started school, I've realized that I'm not going to have a lot of time for the rest of the year. I will try as hard as I can to write in my free time but I can't really make any promises cause I feel like I would break them. This isn't a really good chapter, it's really rushed and I find it dreadfully boring, but it does give you some insight. Again, I'm really sorry!

TanyaPOV

"So this happened before or after she touched your boob." I fumed.

She laughed at my frustration and that kinda made it a little harder to be mad, but only a little.

"Gosh Tanya, live a little. You were the one that told me to confuse her; I thought that was a pretty good move." She defended.

"Whatever. I couldn't even look at your boobs for a few weeks without you being offended." I mumbled incoherently.

"What?"

"Nothing." I grumbled, looking anywhere but her.

"If I didn't know any better, I would think you were jealous." She teased. My back stiffened "Don't worry, you can join in on the fun soon enough. We're going on a date tomorrow night."

"Really?" My head popped up at the news. I hadn't been on a date with Bella since college, but that had been my own fault. I mean, I was just as confused as any other girl would be since I had been straight no less than a year before. But this was Bella I was talking about, and nothing was ever simple with her.

"Since I decided it last night." She smiled right back. "Look good, I wanna show you off to Alice."

With that she left my office. The smile on my face quickly disappeared along with her. Just the mention of Alice was enough to make me sick. I wanted Bella to go through with the plan, but I knew that in the process of all of it, her love for Alice would grow even more. And I wasn't the biggest fan of Alice, so that wouldn't be considered a good thing.

I seriously had to do something about this before it got out of hand.

BPOV

I couldn't help but walk with an extra step when I exited the law firm. After a long day of work, I was excited to finally get home and not have to worry about getting up early in the morning. Carlisle and Tanya hadn't been too happy with the elevator incident and it took me a while to convince them not to sue the apartment owners. Carlisle was actually worried about me, while Tanya just hoping that there was an off chance that Alice would have to move again.

Tanya… She really was a piece of work. Only she could take my near death situation as a good thing. Thanks for caring!

The only thing that I had left to find out was where the heck Jasper was taking Alice. Thankfully, my taste in everything was the polar opposite of Jasper's, but it has suddenly come to my disadvantage. The only place I could think of that Jasper would ever take Alice is that burger place a few blocks down from Starbucks, but even that seemed a little too classy for him. There was always the option of stalking them to their destination, but that would seem a little too pathetic and obvious.

By the time I had gotten to my apartment building, I was still in need of a plan. I would have thought that after several years of planning my revenge, I would have a plan right now. But I didn't, and that bothered me to no end. Jasper was actually beating me. And he wasn't even trying.

I was too concentrated on my thoughts and therefore failed to notice the girl that was standing in the middle of the lobby, directly in my path. I stumbled back and almost fell over. Small hands shot out and grabbed my forearms.

"Whoa there, I gotcha." A small voice giggled.

I could recognize that voice from anywhere. Though I had just met her the other day, I don't think I could ever forget.

I forced a small laugh myself before retracting myself from her grip.

"Thanks."I said, straightening myself. "Don't you work with Alice Brandon?"

A light pink flush made its way up her neck.

"Yea, I just saw her, actually." She said.

I opened my mouth to answer but closed it really fast. I had told Alice to stay home. There was no point in going if she was going to be late and she had a wonderful excuse.

"Did she go to work?" I demanded.

"No, I just visited her apartment. I had heard what happened from some people in Starbucks." She paused. "I can't even imagine how that must have felt. I knew I should have walked her up to her apartment."

"You don't have to feel too bad. I was with her the entire time." I said, somewhat smugly.

"Oh," She paused, obviously frustrated. "She didn't mention you…. I guess she forgot." She shrugged.

"What?" My head snapped up. I would have thought that she would have told someone that she wasn't alone in her near death experience. It was my near death experience as well. I mean, I had kept her company, held her as she slept, and carried her all the way up to her apartment. She had to have mentioned me. I quickly collected myself. "I mean, uh, I guess she hit her head pretty hard after all."

"I guess she did." She shrugged, once again.

By now, we were both waiting for the elevator to reach the lobby. There was a heavy silence and I guess she was thinking the same thing I was thinking, because I was definitely not going to break the silence.

The arrow pointing up suddenly lit up and we both sighed.

"So you live here?" I asked as casually as I could.

"Yep."

…

"Cool."

"Yep." She breathed out.

We both entered the elevator and reached for the same button. I saw her hand visibly speed up and hit the button before I could.

Damn it.

"You're on floor seventeen too?" I asked.

"Yep."

Bitch.

"Cool."

As the elevator door closed and started moving up, I tried to think of something to say or do. I tried thinking of all the funny things I had read on what to do on awkward elevators, but nothing came to mind. I had a funny feeling that I knew why she was determined not to speak. This little girl liked Alice. A lot.

"Are you and Alice good friends?" I broke the silence, once again.

"We just met, but I have a feeling that we might be some day. She's really nice." She replied.

"Yep." I replied, but quickly added. "But it's all on the surface."

"What do you mean?" She asked.

"Well, not everyone is sunshine and daisies and Alice of all people is a good example of that. I would just be very careful around her." I said vaguely.

"Alice?" She raised her eyebrows. "I think you're talking about the wrong girl."

The elevator stopped and the doors opened.

"Believe what you want. Just remember what I said." I replied and quickly left before she could say anything else.

…

"So I was thinking…"

"Yeah?" I urged her on.

She held in her breath and looked down at her shoes, trying to hide the embarrassment from me.

"I don't think that this plan of ours is going to work." Tanya finally spit out.

"Why do you think that?"

I was getting slightly annoyed with this conversation. This was the third time tonight that she had brought it up.

"Because, I mean. She's already miserable, so why make it worse?" She asked innocently.

"So, now is the time that you choose to show compassion." I replied dryly.

"You make me seem like a cold hearted bitch." She actually seemed offended. "I just think you should lay off. Maybe try to play the field, before you break your own heart."

"Whatever Tanya. I haven't had a girlfriend since Jane, and you and I both know how that turned out." I looked around the club once again and sighed.

I had been sure that they would end up here at some point since this was the hottest club in town. We had been here for around two hours and it was nearing 11 o'clock already. I had work tomorrow.

"I think we should head home. I don't think that they're gonna come here tonight." I started getting up, but stopped when a warm hand wrapped around my forearm.

"Wait. I'm sorry that I've been bothering you the entire night with my constant whining. Could we at least dance? We came to a club and we haven't danced at all. And I did pay the bouncer quite a bit just to get in." She added quietly.

She had paid the bouncer, which was sweet, considering that Tanya was never one to use money for anything. I looked at her for the first time tonight, like really looked at her. She was outrageously beautiful, anyone could see that. It was a shame that she had broken up with me in our junior year of college. I probably wouldn't have given Alice a second thought… Who was I kidding, that was definitely not true. But I definitely would go out with her again, given the chance. Maybe this night wasn't a waste of time.

"Sure, why not." I smiled.

She beamed right back at me and grabbed my hand before dragging me into the large crowd of people.

"Oh my gosh, I love this song!" she screamed at me.

I had no idea what song was playing but her happiness brought a smile to my face. She turned around to face me once we got towards the middle and started dancing. Now, I had lost a lot of weight, but that hadn't changed how bad of a dancer I was.

"Come on Bella, I know that you know how to dance." She quickly grabbed my hands when she saw that I wasn't going to make any attempt to dance. "It's all in the hips."

"You seriously just said that?" I laughed.

"Of course I did." She smirked.

That was the last thing we said for a while after that. Too engrossed in the movement of her body, I never realized how close we had gotten over the course of ten minutes. I would occasionally feel her breasts graze mine and I would feel that spark that I used to feel every time. I could feel her breath on my face as she started getting closer to me, closing whatever distance we had left between us.

She wrapped her arms around my shoulders and squeezed me closer, so close that I could faintly smell her perfume over the smell of sweat from the other dancers. It was beyond me why she still used this perfume; I had only gotten it for her because I loved it, but I clearly remembered that she hated it.

I felt her breath at my neck as she went into kiss it. It was a shot peck, but it was enough to create that small tingle in the depths of my stomach.

"I love your perfume." I murmured.

"I know." She sighed.

"You don't have to wear it. I know that you hated it."

"It grew on me over the years." She giggled.

"Whatever, if I didn't know any better, I would think you were trying to get into my pants. You know how turned on I get when I smell it." I playfully moaned at the end.

"Maybe I am." She countered. Her hands started travelling down my back and snaked into the huge hole at the back of my dress.

"I think you have had too much to drink." I chuckled as I withdrew her hands from my dress.

"Maybe I have." She giggled right back.

"Let's get you home." I sighed, taking her hand and leading her back to our table.

"When did you become such a grandma?" She whined.

I just shook my head and continued on. I knew she was slightly drunk. I mean, I had seen her down quite a few drinks and she was a light weight.

"Bella, let me sleep over. I feel so lonely at night." She whined again.

"Why? So you can be lonely in the guest room?" I scoffed.

"You know what I mean." She grumbled.

By now we were outside, waiting for a taxi.

"What do you mean?" I laughed.

"Never mind."

And just like that, she wasn't so drunk.

…..

I don't know how it happened, but I suddenly found myself lying in bed with a very knocked out Tanya. Don't get me wrong, I love to snuggle, but this was very new. Ever since our break up, Tanya had been very paranoid of going anywhere near my personal space. I think she believed she would be giving me the wrong message.

The bottom line was that I couldn't sleep. Something was off and it was really nagging me.

I saw a light flash from the other side of the room and noted it was Tanya's phone. It went on for a while before I couldn't take it anymore. I gently removed Tanya from on top of me and shoved the blankets off. I caught a glimpse of Tanya's bare legs and was mesmerized by how smooth they looked. My eyes travelled up until I reached her panty clad butt.

I sighed, remembering the good old days before making my way to her phone. There were several new messages, thirteen to be exact. I knew Tanya wouldn't mind me looking, so I slid the lock off and pressed READ.

Hey Tanya, I was wondering if you wanted to go grab coffee tomorrow. You haven't been answering any of my calls or messages.

Edward Mason 7:34 p.m.

Hey Tanya, just in case you didn't get my last message, I was wondering if you wanted to get coffee tomorrow. Text me back.

Edward Mason 7:43 p.m.

We don't have to get coffee. We can go get lunch somewhere if you like. I know this great Italian place. Call me!

Edward Mason 7:47 p.m.

The messages went on and on from today and days before, none of them had been answered. I found this very odd, considering Tanya had been drooling over this guy. I mean, she was the one telling me that he had no interest in her...what so ever. And here I was, reading text messages, which in my opinion, seemed very desperate to be answered.

… Something just wasn't right…

A.N: Again, sorry for the long wait. And I know that there wasn't any Bella Alice interaction, I just didn't feel it for this chapter. Rest assured, there will be some Bella Alice time the next chapter. I will try as hard as I can to get the next chapter up but I really can't make any promises. Whoever is still reading this story, thank you so much!

Oh, and thanks to all the people who have messaged me, telling me to update. If it weren't for you guys, this would have been posted a lot later.