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AN: So here is the next chapter for you guys, I just want to say thank you to all those who have been reviewing I really appreciate it. It really gives me the inspiration to write this story.

Also Letting you guys know, I don't think I ever said this before, but this is going to be a very angsty story, I have just finished writing out the plot line, and yeah, it is filled with lots of angst, sorry to those who hate it.

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


Chapter 8: If I go down I'll be taking you with me

I'm not sorry anymore for the way I was before
And as far as I'm concerned I'd say we're even
I'm not sorry anymore, there's a change
you can't ignore... there's a lesson to be learned
I'd say we're even

-Sorry by Nick Black


After I gave Edward that donut it was a never ending battle between the two of us. We went back and forth with stupid ass pranks for the next couple of months, some of them were worse than others. Although I was surprised when Thanksgiving came around he didn't do anything. The reason - he wasn't around. I had no clue where he was and no one was telling me, but I didn't ask. It was nice to go through the Thanksgiving holiday without looking over my shoulder waiting for Edward to do something.

Anyway, when Edward was around some of the pranks would include him stepping on the back of my shoes whenever he was walking behind me; I would shove ice cubes down his shirt whenever he came over. Once he put crayons in my shirt and dried them in the dryer and when I wore it itched like hell. God he was so fucking obnoxious.

When I put a bumper sticker on his car that said "CALL FOR FREE SEX" with his number, Edward put my number on a website for phone sex hotlines. Now that got pretty bad, I had some pretty disturbing people call me, like this guy named Jake. I shiver just thinking about his name.

Another time while I was at work at the Doggie Hotel at Pets Smart he came by and let all the dogs loose, thankfully my boss wasn't there and my friend, Angela helped capture them all.

After that incident, I went to the music store where Edward worked and swapped a good portion of the CD's around, things like swapping a Bob Marley CD with Atreyu. I laughed at the trouble he got in.

I found out that Edward was living with Jasper when Alice needed to go there and get something for Edward that he needed for some meeting. In fact he went to these meetings three times a week. The one on Friday seemed to take a good portion of the day; sometimes all day long. I don't know what it was for, and I honestly didn't care that much. I cared more about trying to think up schemes to get at him.

I went there with her, but not without her questioning me. I could tell she was worried that Edward and I were taking it too far. I knew she worried things would end badly for both of us, but to be honest the worst that could happen was that Edward would finally leave. I thought this would be just dandy, but deep down part of me churned and clenched at the thought. I didn't know why, but figured I would probably end up bored and lonely again without anyone to pick on and tease. Then again it would mean I wouldn't be picked on and teased anymore either. To be honest I'd been having fun these past couple of weeks thinking of things to do and wondering what he was planning. Sure I would get angry and pissed off when Edward actually did something, but then it was always fun getting back at him.

When we reached the boy's place and went inside, I was amazed. It was just so nice, clean and organized. I'd been to Jasper's place before, but it had never been this clean, so I figured it must have been because of Edward. That was just the way Edward was. I had always teased him, saying he was just like a girl, needing things to be clean. Emmett was a pig, in his room there were clothes all over the floor, dirty dishes on his desk, and everything, but Edward was the total opposite.

As I scanned their place my eyes landed on a grand piano that hadn't been there before. I knew it must be Edward's. He had always loved playing the piano when we were younger, I guess that hadn't changed.

I felt a small smile spread across my face as an idea formed in my head. Alice noticed it and looked between me and the piano.

"No, Bella, no, not his piano. He'd seriously kill you and not think twice about it, if you do anything to that thing."

"Come on Alice, all I want to do is play around with the keys for a minute. Maybe un-tune it so that when he is plays Clair de Lune, it sounds like a horrible out of tune version of the Entertainer." I shrugged not taking my eyes off the piano.

"Bella, NO! You can do anything else but not his piano. You know how much he loves that thing."

I really did know. No doubt he would want to shoot me if I screwed around with it.

"Fine, I guess I'll just have to do something else." I sighed deeply.

Man what was I going to do now?

"Okay, I got it." Alice came back from a room with a folder in her hands and started waving it around, "We can go now."

"Okay"

I was following behind her when something caught my eye. It was some sort of journal sitting open on a desk, but what stopped me was the fact that it was in Edward's handwriting.

Since when did Edward start keeping a journal? It wasn't like him at all. He always teased me about keeping a dairy when I was little, saying I could be his personal diary and tell him everything. Little did he know that there was more to me than he would ever know. There was no way I could tell him everything. After what happened I was glad I hadn't told him more, because the things I had told him he had used against me in high school.

Curiosity got the better of me and I slowly made my way over to the desk. I knew I shouldn't have, but I couldn't help myself. When I reached the journal I was able to pick out some of the words in his elegant script.

I have found myself too distracted to even think about doing it…

I thought that coming back and seeing her would trigger something but, it has seemed to have the opposite effect.

Plus, there is also Alexis…

"Bella?"

I didn't have time to make sense of it because Alice started to call me and I heard her footsteps getting closer, so I turned around and headed outside to join her.

"What were you doing?" She asked when we shut the door and left.

"Just getting a drink." She looked at me suspiciously. I hoped she bought my lie. I really didn't want her to know I was snooping around.

After that, I thought a lot about what I'd seen. I had no clue what to make of it. What was he so distracted about and what hadn't he thought about doing? What did he mean by seeing her would trigger something? Who was 'her'? Was I 'her'? If I was, what in the hell could I possibly trigger? But my biggest question was 'who was Alexis'? I would have asked Alice but it really wasn't right of me to go through his stuff, and if I asked her she would know I had.

All I wanted to do was just to annoy the hell out of him. I didn't want to delve into his private life. I wanted nothing to do with that, because I was afraid it might lead to something I didn't want to know and send me back to where I started. I was not going back there, I had come too far to go back now.

It was probably nothing, and I was just over analyzing something that had nothing to do with me. I wouldn't let these short, incomplete sentences get to me. I was going to stick to my plans and ignore it. It couldn't be important, could it?

"Have you thought of anything yet?" Rose asked as we sat on the sofa. We were both trying to think of something to do to Edward as retaliation for him unscrewing the bottom hinges on all the kitchen cabinets, leaving them wobbly so they banged my head when I opened them. Add this to my already uncoordinated personality, and when I opened a cabinet I was hit in the head, flew backwards, tripped over something, and ended up on the floor with a giant purple bruise in the middle of my forehead. Edward got a kick out of that, he ended up calling me a Klingon until it went away.

"Nope" I said with a pop on the "p".

We sat there for a few more minutes thinking then Rose yelped, making me jump.

"I know!"

"What do you have for me?" Rose was the only one who would really help with ideas and setting up the hoaxes. Emmett and Alice wanted nothing to do with Edward's and my skirmish.

"Well I actually read about this on the internet, but I'm not sure if it works, but you know how Edward has this thing about his hair?" I nodded my head wondering where she was going with this, "Apparently if you take off the shower head and fill it with that colored powder Kool-Aid, then it can dye someone's hair for a good week or for up to about 2 washes."

A great big grin spread across my face. This could work.

After we had gone to the store and picked up the perfect color of Kool-Aid for this time of year, we headed over to Edward's and Jasper's place after getting the key from Alice by telling her I had left something over there when we went to grab that folder for Edward. We filled his shower head with the Kool-Aid and headed out. I was just glad that they each had their own bathroom, unlike mine and Emmett's place, or else we would have to deal with the wrath of not only Edward but Jasper as well.

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It was the beginning of December and we were all putting up Christmas decorations. I had put Emmett and Jasper in charge of outside lights while we girls were in charge of decorating the inside. I had told them that next weekend we should all go looking for Christmas trees, because finals would be over by then and we could decorate the trees as a way of officially starting our Christmas break.

I was in the middle of hanging a garland on the banisters of the stairs when I heard Emmett's booming laughter along with Jaspers.

"What the hell could they be laughing at?" Alice asked as she pulled out some Christmas lights. Rose and I exchanged looks and ran towards the front door, Alice following closely.

"You guys, what is it?" She called from behind us in utter confusion.

When we opened the door we saw Emmett and Jasper supporting each other, laughing hysterically, and looking at Edward, who's normally perfect shade of bronze hair was now a bright shade of green, but with some of his original hair color still showing.

He stood there expressionless as Emmett and Jasper laughed and as soon as we girls really took in what he looked like, we started laughing just as hard.

"You…you look…like Christmas." Alice sputtered between laughter, and it was true, with his now green hair, and some of his bronze hair poking out, and pale skin he did look like Christmas.

Edward looked over towards us and made eye contact with me.

"You!" He pointed at me and I stopped laughing and stood straight with my arms across my chest. "You did this!" He pointed to his hair, it wasn't a question. He knew I'd done it. I mean, seriously, who else would it be?

"Your point being?"

"Good job" he gave me a thumbs up.

WHAT?

"WHAT?!" both Rose and I shouted together.

"Yeah, I actually like it. I think it is perfect for the holidays." He ran his hand through his hair and grinned.

I just growled at him as he made his way towards us pushing us out of the way so he could get inside the house.

After going to the kitchen and grabbing something to eat, he sat down on the sofa as we all finished decorating.

To be honest, I was a little upset when he didn't put up more of a fight. Hell, who was I kidding, I was more than upset, I was pissed off. It really didn't help that as we were all working and putting things together he would boss us around and complain that we weren't doing anything right. Saying dumb ass things like, "those lights are crooked", or "that fake snow isn't fluffy enough" and even, "that Nutcracker shouldn't go there unless you want to scare the hell out of someone." I told him to shove it repeatedly of course, but he wouldn't listen.

He just kept going on and on non stop! Well guess what, he was going to be in for a rude awakening tomorrow.

--

We finished decorating and agreed to go tree hunting the following Saturday afternoon. I was going to help Alice and Rose decorate their place. Alice had asked Jasper if they needed help with their place, but they said they could handle it on their own. I just rolled my eyes. I knew they weren't going to put any decorations up, not that it mattered; they were always at someone else's place never at home. They only went there to sleep, if that.

"So Bella, are you going shopping with us tomorrow?" Alice asked with a peppy voice.

"Ugh, if I must."

"Yep, we are going to go Christmas shopping!" She clapped her hands in excitement.

"Oh and I guess I should tell you that afterwards Emmett and I are going out to eat." Rose said

"Oh, and so are Jasper and I, so it looks like you'll be all on your lonesome tomorrow night." Alice gave me a fake frown.

"I think I'll survive."

"So we'll pick you up after work, okay?" Rose said.

"Okay guys, but just remember I have finals coming up, so I don't want to be out all day, okay?"

"Fine party pooper. We'll see you tomorrow."

With that Alice and Rose left, but not without giving small kisses to their boyfriends, leaving me with the boys.

"Well night boys." I started to head upstairs.

Emmett and Jasper just nodded their heads.

"Night Bells!" Edward called out in a really annoying sing song voice.

"Night Assclown!" I yelled back hearing him laugh.

Once I got to my room and was changed for bed, I set the alarm to wake up early. If dyeing his hair had no effect on him, what I had planned next surely would.