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AN: Okay so sorry you guys for such the long wait, but college finals can be a killer, but now I am done for a good three weeks, so I am going to try and do as much writing as possible. Also since I took so long I gave you guys an extra long chapter. I hope you enjoy, if not, let me know what I did wrong, or why you hated it.

Also you guys if you have any ideas for anything please let me know, I had a hard time writing this because I'm starting to run into a writer's block.

Anyways read on if you dare.

AN 2: Chapter has now been re-edited thanks to dihenydd!!

Chapter 7: And this is me being nice

When it's your turn
You'll get your lesson learned
You'll be blister burnt
My adrenaline
Is going to do you in
I'm seeing red again

You cross me once and you'll see
It's like a match in gasoline

-Gasoline by Porcelain and the tramps

I was ready to get back at Edward for everything he had done to me. But when would be the perfect time to start my game, and what exactly should I do to him? I had so many ideas going through my head but none of them really seemed good enough. I wanted to ask Emmett for some ideas, but I was afraid he would yell at me.

I could imagine him telling me to talk to Edward and sort this all out. Then again, I could also see Emmett sitting down with me thinking up the perfect schemes to payback Edward. Actually yeah, I saw him doing that one more than the former. To be honest though, I wanted to do this all on my own. I wanted to show Edward that I didn't need anyone else's help for anything.

By the time Tuesday came I remembered what Alice had said about Edward also going to the University of Washington, but I had yet to see him. I was really glad that I hadn't seen him. I was beginning to hope I was never going to see him, which would make my life a hundred times better.

I was sitting in the school's cafeteria, surfing the internet on my laptop whilst waiting for my sociology class to start, when he came over.

Great.

As soon as I start thinking that I may never see him here, he has to show up.

"Bella?"

Just ignore him and maybe he'll go away, or better yet completely vanish.

"Bella, please listen to me."

"Why? Why do I have to listen to you? At our last encounter I recall that you practically threatened me and told me to watch my back." I didn't look up from my laptop.

"Yeah, and I recall you did the same thing to me." I lifted my eyes up a little bit to see him looking at me with a slight smirk on his face.

What was he smirking at anyway? Did he really think I was going to sit here and actually talk to him?

"I think it's fair to say that you deserve some of the payback that's coming to you, don't you?" My voice came out sharp and harsh. I took my eyes off him and turned back to my computer.

"No, you deserved what you got." I heard him mumble.

"I deserved what I got?! How can you fucking say that?! You know what? I'm done talking to you. I didn't deserve anything! You on the other hand, deserve every little thing that is coming your way." I stood up from my seat and pushed the chair back.

"Just know this, whatever lame stunts you try to pull on me, I'll return the favor." He gave me an evil smile as his voice dripped with venom. I knew he was being serious, but I was not going to be intimidated anymore. If he thought he could still get to me, he could think again.

"I'll keep that in mind." I gave him a fake smile and slammed my laptop shut.

As I got up I ran into his shoulder pushing him to the side. Pathetic, I know, but right then I didn't care.

I went to the nearest Starbucks until my class actually started. To distract myself I pulled out my copy of Nicholas Sparks' The Lucky One, escaping reality for a little bit and entering a whole other world.

I don't know how long I sat there, before I felt my phone vibrate in my pocket. I grabbed it and opened it noticing it was a text from Alice.

B

How is class going?

E

God Alice, for someone who lives for texting you sure know how to miss a button.

Oh shit! I looked at the time.

"Shit, shit, shit…" I repeated over and over again as I hurriedly got my things together and booked it out of Starbucks. I was 20 minutes late to class and I had a test and a paper due today! I was in deep shit.

Back at school I ran straight for my classroom and ripped the door open. Looking towards my seat, I noticed someone sitting in it

I only saw their back but I would know that hair anywhere with its bronze locks and messy disarray. Slowly he turned around as my eyes got wide. He grinned at me and gave me a wave. Both my face and chest fell into my stomach from shock.

"FUCK!" I shrieked as I turned around and left the class feeling everyone's gaze on me. As I stormed out I also heard a faint, yet very familiar chuckle.

Cullen you are going to get it.

I headed straight for my truck in the parking lot, grumbling on the way, when I spotted a very familiar silver Volvo.

That's when an idea popped into my head. It had to be his Volvo, there weren't many people here driving a hatchback Volvo. Also the license plate read "pwned11". Seriously who would have that on their car? I rolled my eyes and kept on walking towards Edward's car.

Once I got there I felt my way around under the car. I knew Edward had one of those magnetic cases that stick to the bottom of your car and hold a spare key.

I found the key and unlocked the door. I started the car and pulled out of the parking space deciding to leave it in the parking lot on the other side of the school. I knew he was going to be pissed, but that was the point.

Before getting out of the car, I turned on the radio to the Disney station with the volume full blast. Edward despises Disney singers as much as I do. I really don't see how some people actually liked listening to Miley Cyrus. She sounds like someone scraping their nails on a chalkboard. He was in for a really nice surprise when he found the car. If he found it.

I left his car and practically skipped back to my truck, so happy about my little scheme. I know it wasn't that good a prank, but it was good enough for such short notice.

I drove home listening to Scooter's song "Fire", singing along with it.

"Hey Bella, what're you doing home?" Emmett asked once I made it home. He was sitting on the sofa, eating a sandwich and watching Battlestar Galactica, his favorite show.

"I could ask you the same thing." I made my way over to the kitchen to grab us a diet Pepsi each and sat down with him.

Emmett was a construction worker for Riverside homes, which is how we got our house for such a great deal when we first moved to Seattle from Forks.

"I got the day off" he stated as I handed him his drink. "What about you?" He opened his drink with a pop. I followed his example and opened mine as well.

"Let's put it this way. You know how people leave a pile of shit on your door step and runaway?" he nodded his head, "Well in my case they threw the pile of shit in my face, and instead of running away they sat there and laughed. You know what I did?" I took a giant gulp of my drink. "I ended up leaving it in their car. Well not really, but I should have done."

"I take it you saw Edward today." He never took his eyes off the screen.

'That obvious is it?" I rolled my eyes.

"Just a little." He gave me a small smirk.

After watching a few more episodes of Battlestar with Emmett, I decided it was time to make dinner.

"So what do you want for dinner?" I stood up and looked down at him.

"Steak."

"Of course, thick meat for the thick headed man." I walked towards the kitchen.

"I can't help it. I love me some meat."

"You're lucky I have some steak already defrosted in the fridge, or else you'd be having a salad."

As I was in the kitchen pulling out the ingredients for dinner Alice arrived.

"Bella?" she called out.

"I'm in the kitchen."

Alice came around the corner to greet me.

"Hope you're making enough for everyone."

"What do you mean everyone? I was cooking for Emmett and me. I wasn't expecting anyone else."

"Well, I'm here now, and Rose and Jasper came with me."

"Where's Rose?" I asked as I took out some potatoes and started peeling them.

"She's on the couch with Em."

"Of course she is. She won't be coming here to hang out with me anymore, will she?'

"Yeah, her first priority when she gets here will be to make out with Emmett as much as possible and when she's ready to leave she'll say hi to you." We both laughed at that, as it was more than likely true. It sounded just like Rose.

"So you and Jasper, huh?" I gave her a sly smile and then she did something out of character. She blushed! Out of all of us it was usually me who blushed. "Alice did you just blush? That is such a rare thing for you to do!"

"Shut up. Only you would notice someone else blushing, since you're such an expert. Well, at least you used to be, I don't see you blush very much anymore. It is kind of sad."

I kept on peeling the potatoes, but faster.

"Alice, that's because I've been humiliated so many times, in so many different ways that nothing really embarrasses me any more. I just get angry. Hardly anyone compliments me these days, except you guys and I am too used to that to blush. You used to say them all the time when I was in that dark phase. Now stop changing the subject. Did you and Jasper happen to spend this past weekend together?" I slowed down my pace of peeling.

"I like him a lot and yes we did spend a lot of the weekend together. In fact we skipped class today and went to the zoo." She took an apple that was sitting in the fruit basket on the counter and started chewing on it.

"Oooooo…The zoo, that's a big step." I told her sarcastically and waved my hands in the air.

"Shut up." She giggled as she pushed me. I smiled.

"Oh before I forget, thank you for taking the time out of your busy day," I looked over at her and smiled before I continued, "to send me that text message, or else I wouldn't have known I was missing class. Not that it mattered anyway, I didn't even go."

"Bella, I didn't send you any message."

"What are you talking about?" I stopped what I was doing.

"I didn't have my phone at all today. I loaned it to Edward because he lost his." She kept on eating her apple.

"Of course! So he knew we had class together today?"

"Of course he knew. Actually when he was scheduling classes he asked me what classes you were taking." My eyes got really wide as Alice sat there calmly chewing her apple.

How could she sit there and act like this was nothing. He scheduled himself in my classes on purpose. He really did want to torture me.

"Alice!" I stood there with my mouth open, not knowing what to say. So she continued.

"Speaking of which, he's coming too. In fact, he should've been here already; he didn't have a meeting today."

"ALICE!" I screamed.

"What?" she tried to act innocent, "I want to spend some time with my cousin and so do Em and Jazz, and you should too. He's been through a lot, despite what you believe Bella." I shook my head at her.

"Bella, he really isn't the same as he was in high school. Thank god for that. I don't know what I would've done if he'd kept going down the path he was on. If it wasn't for what happened to Tanya, who knows where he would be."

Wait, what? When did Tanya come into the picture? I closed my eyes and leaned up against the counter trying to keep control of myself as Alice continued to ramble on.

If there was anyone I hated more than Edward it was Tanya. It sent shivers up my spine thinking about her, and I wanted to hurl. Not to cleanse myself or anything, but because she made me sick to my stomach.

Okay no more. I was done thinking about her.

"Alice," She stopped her rambling and looked at me, "please explain what could have happened that is so horrible as to make him 'change', because right now he seems like the same jackass he was in high school." I took the potatoes that I had finished peeling and started to cut them forcefully.

"Bella, you know as well as I do what his real mom was like and what she did, that was horrible enough as it was."

Why was she bringing this up now? I knew about Edward's real mom, but that was a long time ago and now he has Carlisle and Esme who are the best parents anyone could ask for.

"That was when he was like 6 years old. It's never really seemed to affect him before. I don't see how him acting like a giant prick in high school is related to what his mom did. Even if it was, why take it out on me?"

"Trust me Bella, high school was bad for all of us. Just, some of us had it worse than others." She hesitantly lifted her eyes off the apple she was eating.

"Alice, no, not until he gets what he deserves."

"Whatever Bella, just play nice."

"I'll be as nice to him as he was to me." She gave me a stern look and shook her head.

"Where is he?" Alice huffed after a few minutes of silence. I had finished cutting up the potatoes and was putting the rest of dinner together, with the meat already on the grill cooking and potatoes boiling.

I shrugged, smiling to myself, picturing Edward freaking out about not being able to find his car.

Food was nearly ready so I went to set the table when he burst through the door.

"Edward! There you are." Emmett left Rose on the couch and ran over to give him a man hug.

Did everyone know he was supposed to be coming over but me?

"Hey Em."

"What took you so long to get here?" Jasper asked from the big chair he was sitting in.

"Sorry, but I had a hard time locating my vehicle."

I slowly lifted my eyes in their direction, and caught him looking at me so I lowered my eyes back down.

"You couldn't find your car? You couldn't think of a better excuse for being so late?" Emmett was smiling at him.

"Guess not." He shrugged, "But I do have something. Bella I believe you left this in the car." I lifted my head so fast my neck snapped, and gasped as I saw what he was holding. In his hand was my book bag. I stood there frozen, not knowing what to do. I let my eyes sweep across the room, everyone's face seemed to match mine - surprised and shocked; but theirs held a different shock to mine.

"I wasn't going to give it back, but then I figured you're going to need it because we have a paper due Thursday and your books are in your bag."

I went over to him and ripped my bag out of his grasp.

"Bella, what were you doing in Edwards car?" Rose questioned from beside me.

"Nothing" I mumbled as I set my bag by the stairs and went back to setting the table.

"It's time to eat." I called as I put everything on the table ignoring everyone's stares. I pulled out a chair, sat down and dished myself some food.

"Are you guys going to eat?" I motioned for them to sit down. Edward had a big cocky smile on his face and was the first to sit down, across from me. Slowly everyone else made their way over to the table.

Although no one approached the subject of my bag in Edwards's car, I knew they were all curious about it. I wasn't going to bring it up though, so we all ate and talked. Scratch that, they talked and I sat there playing with my food listening to them.

"Hey Em? Is it alright if I use your computer? I have a paper to finish and want to get it out of the way." Edward pushed himself back from the table, closely followed by Emmett.

"Sure, the computer is upstairs in my room." Emmett made his way to his favorite spot on the couch and patted the seat, looking expectantly at Rose.

"Can't you guys at least put your dishes in the sink?" I asked.

Emmett rolled his eyes and shared a glance with Edward, who was about to go up the stairs.

"Nope." They both said at the same time.

"Fine, but I'm letting you know now, I'm not cleaning up tonight, I'm going to take a nice warm bubble bath." I pushed myself away from the table and made my way up the stairs pushing Edward in the process for the second time that day.

Once I grabbed my change of clothes and my bathroom stuff, I made my way towards the bathroom. Walking past Emmett's room I noticed Edward typing way on the computer. All the anger and rage I held inside me surfaced and all I wanted to do was go over there and strangle him; just let it all out, but I decided against it.

Something deep down told me I should talk to him about all of it, but a larger part of me wanted to get even with him - right now. I was going with that side until he proved to me in some way that he had changed.

/&/

Two days later Edward still hadn't said or done anything, besides my bag that is, to get even with me. I was beginning to think that maybe it wasn't a good enough prank to get to him. I really needed to think of something better, but I was never really good at this kind of stuff.

The first half of my day passed by uneventfully, but then it was time for Sociology again. My class with Edward. I only had the class twice a week and it used to be one of my favorites, but now I dreaded setting foot anywhere near that class.

I went to class a little early so that I wouldn't end up making a scene again.

The class filled up slowly but there was no sign of Edward until just before class started when he entered the room and took the seat behind me.

Soon the teacher began class, talking about the human gender roles and how they start from birth when you are either wrapped in a blue or pink blanket, and before I knew it class was almost done. I had survived a whole lesson without Edward even twisting rubber bands in my hair or putting gum in it. I was okay.

"Now class before you leave I wanted to discuss your papers." Mr. Tanzer stated.

Uh oh, I never did turn mine in, and I completely forgot to email it to him instead.

"Everyone did a great job, with the exception of one person." He went on as he was handing out papers, then his eyes landed on mine.

"Ms. Swan, care to explain to me how the lyrics to Miley Cyrus' song '7 things' fits into the Marxist theory?" I heard everyone in the class burst out laughing, but as was usual now, I didn't blush. I felt myself becoming angry and I swear my eyes were bursting out of their sockets.

"Uhh…" I felt my heart banging against my chest.

I hated public speaking. I have always had a fear of it, hell I had a hard time just raising my hand in class, which was why it was always a surprise when a teacher actually knew my name.

Now there I was sitting in class with about 20 pairs of eyes looking at me and laughing. I was on a roll for making scenes in this class.

"Mr. Tanzer…I…I didn't even…even do my paper." I stuttered.

"Really? Then how come it is in my hands and was from your email address?"

I didn't know how to explain this. I knew I hadn't done it, then it clicked, of course Miley Cyrus. I turned in my seat to see Edward with the cocky grin I had become accustomed to.

"Mr. Tanzer, I can explain-"

"No Bella. I don't appreciate the kind of behavior you've shown these past few classes, but since you have such high scores in this class I will let you have until the end of today to do the real assignment and have it sent to me." I nodded my head.

"Now class is dismissed."

Mr. Tanzer walked over to me and forcefully handed me the paper that was in his hands.

"You can have this. I have no use for it." With that he went back to his desk.

I flipped through the paper angrily, then opened my bag and pulled out my class binder to find a sticky note stuck inside in his handwriting.

Bella,

I figured you would enjoy the song as much as I did.

E.

I crumpled the paper in my hand and marched out of the room to look for Edward.

When I saw him I took a couple of deep breaths before I smoothly made my way over to him.

"Hey Edward, that was pretty clever." I put on a fake smile as he looked at me in astonishment.

"You mean, you aren't angry?"

"No, why would I be? It was actually pretty funny. I mean I moved your car and you got back at me. It's all good." I waved my hand in front of me in a 'forget about it' motion. "So I was about to get some coffee and donuts. So what do you say, do you want a Hertz donut?"

"Uhh...I guess?" He said a little unsure.

"Okay." Right then I pulled my arm back as far as I could and socked him in the stomach. As soon as I did he keeled over holding on to his stomach as I shouted.

"HURTS DON'T IT!" I stormed off after that and went home to get my paper done.

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