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Edward

After going back home from dropping off Bella his smile never left his face. He kept thinking of the small things she had did during the bonfire that drove him crazy-but in a good way. Her smile, how she always tucked strands of hair from her face to behind her ear, her laugh, even her voice had unraveled him. He almost couldn't take his eyes off her. When he had parked up his car in the garage and as soon as he walked through the door into the house Alice bombarded him with questions.

"Where's Bella? Did you drop her off? What happened on the way there?"

"Let the man breath Alice," Jasper said coming up behind her. "He just walked through the door."

"Not until he gives me some answers."

"Bella's at home. Yes of course I dropped her off and we just asked each other questions on the way there. Calm down pixie, stress will start giving you more gray hairs."

Alice gasped as she ran her fingers through her short hair. "I have gray hairs?"

Before anyone can say no she ran up the bathroom in a frantic hurry. Jasper clamped him on his back.

"So when is the next time you'll see Bella?" Jasper asked.

"I don't know I told her to call me whenever she's free."

Emmett came down the stairs and grabbed Edward's bad shoulder jokingly. "So Lover Boy over here scored another date?"

"It's a maybe. I don't know if she'll even call me back."

"She will," Alice said coming back down the stairs. "She just text me."

Alice didn't elaborate further which made me anxious.

"Well? What did she say?"

"I'm not going to tell you as punishment for telling me I had gray hairs."

"Ooh that's cold." Emmett said.

Esme came down the stairs her hair slightly wet from he guessed was shower water. "You boys should go to sleep soon. It's been a long night."

"Sure thing, Mom."

They went upstairs to their rooms but not before they all kissed their mother good night which made her smile. He claimed the bathroom first as he took a quick shower removing the smoky smell from his skin and hair. After the shower he towel dried his hair and put on an old shirt and basketball shorts. Emmett took the bathroom next with Jasper sitting with his back to the wall with Alice as they talked silently to one another.

He went straight to his bedroom and quickly closed the door as a running Seth barreled towards him. He heard Seth teasing on the other side of the now locked door. He plopped onto his queen sized bed and stared up at the white popcorn ceiling until sleep took him.

The next day...

Bella had text him the next afternoon saying she was free Wednesday. He immediately text her back telling her when to get ready and what to bring with her. She had been extremely confused to the point where she had called him demanding answers to the so called "surprise" but he didn't tell her anything. She ruggedly agreed but she said he had to meet Charlie first as her father was not so sure about him yet. He agreed and after she hang up the smile didn't leave his face. He got another date with Bella, which was amazing since he never could get past the first date with most girls. It seemed only right that he would take her someplace special to him, a place not even his family knew too much about. But he hated that he would have to wait two more days but he sucked it up and tried to take his mind off of it.

He tried to do everything he could to keep himself distracted. He tried working out every spare minute he had but it just gave him more time to think about her and their date. He tried going to the local shooting range in Olympia to make sure his aim was still perfect but again he got more time to think. Then he hesitantly agreed going to the local bar with the team on Monday night and ended up wasted for all of Tuesday.

Thankfully though Tuesday was uneventful. Rosalie and Alice went to work at this designer clothes place and Esme went to her office where she said she would be planning on making new house designs. Carlisle was at the hospital probably too busy to bother. That left the house to six hung-over Marine boys. Edward didn't participate in their games or the wrestling matches claiming his shoulder still hurt, which was somewhat true. Emmett was the worst drunk, but the next day he was a lunatic. Always trying to do crazy stunts that nearly get him or someone else killed. But we all didn't mind because it was all in good fun. Thankfully he didn't drink too much thanks to Tessa so he was able to settle things before they got out of hand.

Wednesday morning he jumped from his bed and went straight to the kitchen. He picked up his plate of eggs that Esme was making and scarfed them down.

"What's the rush?" she asked.

"Yeah tell her, Lover Boy." Emmett said.

"Shut up Emmett." he said.

"Whatever."

"Are you going to see Bella again?" Esme asked as she passed him a glass of orange juice which he gladly took.

"Mom would you believe me if I told you if Edward has a date this afternoon?" Jasper said as he sat in the chair next to him.

"That's great sweetheart! She's a wonderful young lady."

"A date?" Jacob asked. "Didn't know she was into to you like that."

There was something in his voice that Edward couldn't pinpoint. "Yeah it only happened just recently."

"And to think Bella tells me everything." Jacob said. "I didn't know you could score another date."

Edward sensed the emotion in Jacob's voice and matched that emotion with a stronger one. "I'm quite capable of getting dates. It's just that the girl's are not worth another."

"Dang sudden hostility gentleman." Emmett teased diffusing the growing tension between me and Jacob.

"He's already coming to Bella's defense. Her knight in shining armor." Jasper said.

"He's no doubt head over heels for." said Seth as he went to the couch to turn on the TV.

"Shut up, Seth." Edward said.

"He's blushing!" Emmett said. He went over and gave me a nogin. "Eddie has it bad."

"Stop that Emmett," Esme scolded. "He didn't do this to you with Rose."

"'Cause he knows I can beat him up." Emmett smiled.

"When are you meeting up with her?" Alice asked next as she came down the stairs.

"Nope not going to answer." he said.

She pouted. "I can call her and ask. She is my friend you know."

"Go ahead, she doesn't know where we are going anyways." he said.

"Aww no fun," Alice said. "You must tell me how it goes afterwards."

"Yeah whatever you say, pixie." I said.

After eating and putting the plate in the sink he ran up into my room. To pass the time he cleaned his guns one by one and counted his lunchtime he quickly put on some casual clothes, a dark blue sweatshirt and faded jeans and packed a backpack with things he needed for the surprise for Bella and put on his sturdy combat boots before going downstairs.

Emmett teased him all the way to the garage where his Volvo was parked up. As he pushed the button to start the engine he smiled as he felt the familiar purr of the engine. They didn't have horsepower like this at Camp, it was all armor going at what felt like a snail's pace. The ride to Bella's house didn't take long with the speed he was going at and he pulled into her driveway. He got out quickly and knocked on the front door. Chief Swan opened it and the chief looked him over like he was analyzing him.

"You must be Edward." Chief Swan said extending a hand.

"Yes I am, it's nice to meet you sir." Edward said shaking his hand.

He shook it but he eyed the tattoo peeking under the sleeve of his sweatshirt on my right arm.

"A tattoo?" Charlie asked.

"For my parents who served in the Army," he said. Edward lifted up the sleeve a bit more so he could see. "They were KIA, and I got it in their honor when I joined the Marines."

Charlie blinked as he read the tattoo with my parents names on it.

"Well come on in, Edward." Charlie said.

"Thank you, sir." he said.

He stepped inside and looked around at the small house. It had a decent sized kitchen with a dining room table with three oak wood chairs around it. He could hear the TV buzzing further into the house and he saw the steps that lead up to the second floor.

"I'll go get her for you then." Charlie said.

Charlie disappeared up the stairs and he looked around the house more. In the kitchen there was some pictures on the refrigerator and he went to look. He was still studying the picture of a happy family, two parents and a small baby girl in between them when Charlie came back downstairs. Charlie cleared his throat and he quickly turned to look.

"I'll leave you guys alone then. Have a nice time Bells." Charlie said.

"Thanks Dad." Bella said.

She looked beautiful in her plain white shirt and gray jacket. Her blue jeans looked worn out and faded and she wore a pair of tennis shoes.

"Ready to go?" he asked.

"Yeah." she smiled.

He lead her out to the car and let her in first before going back into the driver's seat. As he started down the road she had already began piling him with questions.

"So where are we going again?"

"A surprise."

"I told you I hate surprises."

He smiled. "Well this one I assure you will like."

"What makes you think so?"

"You'll see when we get there. You won't want to leave."

That made her push her eyebrows as she tried to think what it was. She kept pressuring him on the way to tell her what it was but he wouldn't crack so easily. When he abruptly stopped on the side of the road next to the woods that she looked horrified.

"Hiking?"

"Sort of."

He got out of the car grabbing his backpack before going over to her door but when he tried to open it he realized she had locked it.

"In order to get to the surprise we have to go on foot."

"Didn't I tell you how clumsy I am? I will fall."

"Didn't I tell you at the party that it's all in the lead? I wont let you fall Bella."

"You'll have to be very patient." she said seriously.

"I will try my best."

She opened the door and got out but she looked like she was out of her comfort zone. He placed his hand on the small of her back and lead her through the forest. It wasn't until they got deeper into the forest that Bella kept tripping more and more and so he grabbed her hand to pull her up every time her foot got entangled in the leaves. With the amount of times she tripped he was sure she could trip on any surface possible. She had no traction whatsoever and the entire time he had to hold back laughter. The next time she tripped he didn't contain it as well as he wanted and she slapped his shoulder.

"Don't laugh at me!"

"I'm sorry," he said between chuckles. "Do you have like two left feet or something?"

Bella's face scrunched up and she stormed forward as he laughed some more.

"Don't be mad Bella I'm just used to people who know how to walk through all these different-"

He was abruptly halted as Bella's figure froze and her body grew stiff. As she gasped at what she saw around her.

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