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A/N: hi everyone, sorry this took so long but I typed out the majority of this out on my phone and I wasn't too happy with the first draft so I rewrote the whole chapter.

Anyway enjoy, thanks for reading and continuing to stay with me!

Chapter Three - Pacing floors and opening doors

Edward POV

Looking at my watch I saw that it was nearly two in the afternoon, knocking on the door Leah answered. She had a cup of coffee in one hand and was dressed casually in light blue slouchy jeans and a white t-shirt with the Rolling Stones logo, she was barefoot with her hair in a loose plait down her back, she smiled warmly at me as she let me in. Smiling back I walked in she led me into the small open plan kitchen, offering a cup of coffee. As she stirred the dark liquid, she sighed deeply looking at me as she spoke.

"The reason I called you was because Jake is not dealing with the break up well at all. Yesterday, he had some random guy in his bed, he's been going out nearly every night getting drunk and bringing back a new guy. Its not good for him" she handed me the cup, her eyebrows scrunched in concern for Jacob.

"Is that concern for someone else, are you feeling okay Leah?" I said in a teasing voice. She shook her head playfully slapping my shoulder as she sat down next to me.

"Yes, I care for Jake. He was there for me when Sam broke up with me and so I have to do the same. But tell him that and I'll fucking castrate you Cullen" she tacked on the last part with venom in her voice as the smirk fell from my face, Leah didn't do empty threats. Chuckling as she saw the look on my face I rolled my eyes and took a deep gulp of my coffee.

"So where is he?"

"In bed, he won't get up and he really needs a shower, he reeks of cigarettes, booze and some other shit" standing up and draining the rest of my coffee I placed our cups by the sink and walked towards the room that was Jacob's. Not bothering with knocking I pushed the door open and it banged against the wall causing a startled Jacob to sit Up in shock.

"what, what!...oh its you" He slumped back on to his bed and closed his eyes. Looking round the room, I took in the utter mess cluttered everywhere. The furniture in his room was simple, with a large bed on the left side the closet with clothes spilling out of it on the right side of the room opposite the bed. A chest of drawers was at the end of his bed, with the top drawers open and more clothes spilling out. Jacob currently lay on his back with the bed sheets pulled up to his chin.

"Jake, you can't stay in bed all day"

"I can if I want to" he moaned into his pillow as he clutched tightly at it, willing himself to cling on to the last vestiges of sleep. Sighing I made my way through the mess carpeting the floor to perch awkwardly on the end of the bed.

"C'mon Jake you were fine yesterday, what happened?" a stony silence greeted me until he threw the covers off of him and jumped out of bed, facing me with a scary looking glare on his face.

"Fine?" he hissed menacingly as he stood only a foot away from me with nothing on but a pair of light blue boxers. My gaze drifted lower to his toned torso and defined abs, but snapped back to his face as he started talking again. "You think I was fine as I watched all my smug friends be all cute and couply, very nicely reminding me of my newly single status. Or as I saw my ex boyfriend as he walked out of my life, for good"

"Jacob I di-"

"You didn't realise how insensitive you were or you didn't care after you realised what a mistake you made last night?" shit he was talking about the kiss, the kiss I hadn't been able to stop thinking about especially when Bella kissed me last night. As I made love to my fiancée, even though it was wrong I though about that small kiss as it felt so...I couldn't think of the right words but it was definitely different. I didn't know if that was a good or a bad thing.

"I don't think it was a mistake" I spoke so quietly I wasn't sure he heard me, but he stopped talking looking at me with confusion on his face anger still a prevalent emotion in his eyes as he looked at me. At that moment Leah walked in knocking on the door as she entered.

"Have I interrupted anything?" she raised an eyebrow as Jacob took a step back and grabbed a nearby t-shirt pulling it on quickly and then standing in the middle of the room looking slightly uncomfortable.

"No you haven't" said Jacob as he leaned against the window sill. Leah nodded but looked unconvinced she glanced at both of us before shaking her head evidently no longer concerned if she had interrupted anything.

"So I see your finally out of bed" he nodded turning and giving her his full attention.

"Looks like it"

"Good, now all we need to do is to get you to shower and shave you are starting to smell"

"Always so subtle" he replied with heavy sarcasm, while she rolled her eyes.

"You know me, now in the shower" she stepped back and pointed down the hall with a dramatic flourish. He groaned but grabbed a towel from one of the drawers by his bed and slouched off grumbling as he did so. She chuckled and called out after him: "don't forget to wash behind your ears" he made a general grunt of agreement. As he walked off down the hall to the bathroom, Leah walked the opposite way into the living room seating herself on the couch and motioning for me to do the same.

As I sat myself down at the opposite end, she switched on the TV flicking channels until she settled on a sports channel. She sat with her knees to her chest her chin leaning on her knees, her hair falling loose from the plait and settling round her face. As the commercials came on twenty minutes later Jacob walked in a pair of khaki cargo pants and a black short sleeved v-neck, his hair damp and ruffled as he sat in between me and Leah. As he sat next to me I was very much aware of the feel of his thigh next to mine, I was conflicted.

One part of me wanted to move away, sever the connection. The other part quite liked it and wanted to get closer to him, it was new to me and so I did the only logical thing. Standing up I looked away from Jacob and at Leah instead.

"I-I have to go, I forgot I need to go see Bella"

"Okay then see you later Ed" She stood and walked me too the door as Jacob called out a brief farewell, not looking at me as I walked out of their apartment.

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Walking to my front door as some knocked on my door with quite a bit of force, I looked down at my watch and then at my coffee table which had various papers scattered round for the lessons next week which I was preparing for. Pulling the door open I saw Bella she had a smile on her face, she kissed me on the lips chastely as a greeting as she let herself in. She was positively bursting with excitement as she walked into my kitchen and helped herself to a glass of wine.

"you'll never guess what I found out today" she took a small sip of wine as she gazed at me expectantly.

"If I'll never guess I'm Not sure I want to play this game" I replied nonchalantly as I pushed my glassed up my nose and walked over to the coffee table where my papers were, Bella trailing after me.

"Edward, we have a date"

"a date for what?" I scrunched my eyebrows in confusion, taking off my glasses and putting them on the table as I looked at Bella.

"the wedding of course! There was a cancellation at the -, so we can get married on July the 15th!"

"we've barely been engaged for a week" July was in just three months time, that was much sooner than I had originally anticipated. At my thoughtless statement her face fell, biting her lip as she sat next to me, now more subdued.

"are you having second thoughts Edward? Because if this is moving to fast we can always go for a long engagement. So we're not rushing into anything, I won't mind as long as I have you" she held my hand as she Looked deep into my eyes, her willingness to put her plans aside doe me reminded me of one of the reasons why I loved her.

"no, that sounds like the perfect date with the perfect woman at the perfect place" I smiled and pulled her into a hug. She pulled away the bright grin back on her face.

"Perfect" she said before she kissed me on the lips again, really getting into it deepening the kiss as she straddled my lap and started to grind against my hardening erection. Eliciting a groan from me she smiled and wound one her hands into my messy hair, tugging lightly and biting my lip as my hands wandered lower down to squeeze her ass. Moaning she broke away, smiling devilishly before she tugged off my shirt and moved down my body, to undo the buttons on my trousers.

Pushing aside any thoughts of Jacob, I pulled Bella to me kissing her deeply, probably more harshly than I had intended and picking her up so her legs were wrapped round my waist. Cupping her ass so she wouldn't fall her, hands wrapped round my neck as her kisses drifts lower down to my jaw and neck, I carried her into my bedroom.

~X~X~X~X~X~

The next day we all went out for drinks, whilst Bella and her friends went round to Rosalie's house to watch a girly movie and pamper themselves. We went to a local car that was a favourite of ours, they did live music and sometimes we performed on the amateur mike nights. Me on guitar, Jacob on Bass, Emmett on drums and Jasper singing.

This night as I pulled into the parking lot my mind would switch off. I would be thinking of Bella and the place and date she had already picked out then my thoughts would turn to the kiss with Jacob. Both the one he had started when drunk as a skunk so he most likely didn't remember and the one I had started on Friday night. Even if he had not remembered the first kiss he had still responded, he had kissed me back so where did that leave us?

I felt confused because as much as I tried to deny I wanted to kiss him again so badly, if only just reaffirm whether I am gay or not. Does it make me gay if I liked kissing another man or is it only if I...go all the way? Sighing and shaking my head I tried to clear my thoughts as I entered the bar and spotted Jacob first.

He was sitting at a small round table near to the small stage where a cover band were playing their version of The Fray's How to Save a Life. Jacob was watching the band as one of the band members playing the bass a fairly good looking brown haired guy no older than 21 smiled at Jacob, he smiled back before turned back to Emmett to hear the crude joke he was telling. Jasper took a deep pull from his glass of beer draining the rest of it as his phone rang, he casually looked at the screen once and ignored the call tucking the phone away in his trouser pocket.

"Edward, glad you could make it" I smiled at my brother and nodded non comittedly, taking the free seat in between Jasper and Jacob and shifting it so it was further away from Jacob. But sitting at the small table I was still very close to Jacob and so I could feel the heat coming off of his body. Trying to dismiss all thoughts of how close he was I turned to my friends as Jaspers phone rang again. Without looking he ignored the call and stood up, swaying slightly as did so.

"another round guys?" we all muttered our ascent and he stumbled to the bar getting the barman's attention by banging on the top of the bar loudly, with the palm of his hand. Turning round to face my friends I arched an eyebrow in confusion.

"what's up with him?" Emmett shook his head sympathetically.

"Him and Alice are fighting" I was still confused and looked back at Jasper seeing him ignore another call, that was most likely to be from Alice.

"I thought she only moved in barely two weeks ago?"

"she did, since then she's been trying to change everything. I went round yesterday to get the CD he borrowed off me, she put those little bowls of scented flowers and shit everywhere" I rolled my eyes, he was being a little over dramatic. "I overheard them talking and she wants to paint the bedroom purple. Anyway as much as he loves her, she is being way too over bearing" at that point Jasper came back to the table, holding four bottles of beer in his hands. Handing them out he took a deep swig of his, slamming it back down on the table with a sigh.

No one said anything about his behaviour or suggested that he should not have another beer as he was clearly drunk. We talked about mundane things our jobs, with Emmett cracking jokes about married life as per usual laughing very loudly at his own jokes. When we had been there for nearly an hour the cover band finished their first set and went to take a break. The guy that had recognised Jacob earlier, walked over a carefree smile on his face as he waved at him.

"Anything we should know Jake?" said Emmett Suggestively waggling his eyebrows at Jacob as he shook his head and rolled his eyes. The guy approached our table still smiling at Jacob, who looked deeply embarrassed.

"Hi Jacob"

"Hello"

"Are you going to introduce us Jake?" boomed Emmett grinning mischievously at him. Jacob ducked his head as if trying to hide his expression before, sitting up straight and clearing his throat.

"Guys this is Riley my...erm...a...friend of mine" we all heard the uncertainty in his voice, he obviously did not want his here but Riley was clearly keen on him. "Riley this is Emmett...Jasper...and Edward" he motioned to us all in turn and we nodded briefly in greeting.

"how about another round on me guys?"

"sure sure" said Jacob nodding absent mindedly as he walked over to the bar. As soon as he was out of earshot, Emmett turned to look at Jacob a little confused.

"well, he seemed...nice" Jacob just nodded again and finished his beer, standing up when he had finished he cleared his throat loudly and grabbed his jacket, pulling it on hurriedly.

"I need some fresh air" without another glance at any of us or at Riley who was headed back to the table, he made his way through the bar and out the back door into the parking lot. Standing up I followed him taking my jacket and yanking it on as I walked out. As I left the bar I looked round and saw him leaning against a dark blue old style BMW, I assume it is his new car. Slowly walking towards him he lights up a cigarette and takes a deep pull from it closing his eyes briefly.

"When did you start smoking again?" he was a smoker when I first met him, having started at the age of 16 when his mother died. He stopped shortly after he started dating Paul, as he convinced to quit it.

"a few days ago, why does it matter?" He opened his eyes looking defiantly at me as if challenging me to say something else.

"Because its not good for you, that's the reason you quit the first time" he laughed bitterly and took another puff from the cigarette, looking away from me and down at the floor.

"the reason I quit was because Paul didn't like it. But now, now I don't have to try and please him do I?" sighing he took another drag and ran a hand through his hair. "What do you want Edward?"

"I'd ask if your okay, but I can see that question is rather redundant considering recent events. You slept with Riley didn't you"

"no shit Sherlock" pushing himself off the car he stood up straight, pressing his lips together in a thin line in the way he did when he was angry or depressed. In this case I guess it was a bit of both, not wanting to make him more pissed off I took a step back to give him some space, shoving my hands in my pockets. There was a silence as he took a deep pull from the cigarette tapping it as he pulled it away from his mouth, ash falling to the ground.

"Well do you like him?" shaking his head he rubbed his chin and the light stubble there.

"he was just a one night stand, I was drunk it didn't mean anything" shrugging he continued to look around not meeting my gaze.

"it always means something" he rolled his eyes as he continued to smoke the cigarette hanging in between his lips as he looked at his watch briefly then pushed his sleeve back over it. "maybe not to you, but it mean something to him. That's the reason they call it 'making love' Jake" he laughed and threw the cigarette butt to the ground, stamping it out with the heel of his shoe.

"your such a girl Edward" he smiled teasingly looking back at me, I rolled my eyes and crossed my arms over my chest.

"That coming from the guy that has watched Grease so many times he knows it word for word including song lyrics and dance movements" he laughed shaking his head and putting his hands in his pockets.

"its a good movie" I just nodded, there was a brief silence before he looked away and spoke again. "are we ever going to talk about it or act like it never happened?"

"talk about what?" he looked at me with a slightly exasperated look raising an eyebrow. "do I have to spell it out for you? The kiss, you can't act like it never happened" it was my turn to look away as I though about how to respond to that. When I didn't answer he took a step towards me so was standing in front of me and placed his hand on my shoulder.

"I don't don't why it happened if that's what your asking" I still didn't look at him, because what I said was partly untrue, I did it because I had been thinking about it constantly since the night he came to my apartment drunk.

"did it...does it mean anything to you?"

"I'm not gay" I replied coldly.

"that wasn't what I asked you" I looked up at him and looked into his dark brown eyes that looked unwaveringly at me.

"I didn't feel anything for you" hearing my response he dropped his hand from my shoulder and shook his head.

"your such a crap liar Ed" not saying anything I looked down again, he took a step towards me and I took a step back. Taking another step forwards I took another step back but I was now backed against the car and his chest was inches away from mine. He held my chin and tilted it up so I was looking into his eyes again, his eyes were darker a mischievous glint to them as he lowered his head so that his mouth was close to mine. I could feel his warm breath over my lips and I could smell that woody pine scent that was so...appealing.

He dipped his head lower and brushed his lips against mine teasingly, I immediately responded and pushed my mouth against his but he moved away and I let out a small moan. Chuckling he placed his hand on my waist and lowered it slowly until his hand rested at the top of my ass, I put my hands on his shoulders to try and hold him closer, then he pressed his lips to mine. He nibbled on my bottom lip and my hands tangled in his hair, his tongue pushed against my lips and I parted them slightly and his tongue battled mine for dominance. By this time we were both breathing hard our hands all over each other, I let out a wanton moan of pleasure as he grabbed my ass roughly, smiling into the kiss before breaking away. Frowning but then composing my features I pushed myself off his car as he took a couple of steps back.

"you are such a bad liar" he pulled out his cars keys from his inside jacket pocket and got into his car without another word, driving off and leaving me.

A/N: sorry again that this took so long, I have started on the next one so it shouldn't be too long this time.

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