"What the hell, Bella?"

"Jake, will you calm down? It's honestly not that big of a deal." I pulled him to sit on the couch. I could still see the hurt in his eyes and it broke my heart to know it was because of me. I sat down on his coffee table so I could face him.

"We dated for two years. When he finally got drafted be the Seahawks, he dumped me. That was the last time I talked to him."

"He's the one that..." he whispered, more to himself than to me, as realization dawned on him. Jacob had met me only a week after Edawrd left and had seemed determined to fix me. "Bella, I'm so sorry." he said as he lifted me into his lap. This is where I felt safe. I knew I was forgiven. I loved how easy things always were with Jacob.

"Why didn't you ever tell me? I always went off about how great he was and you never said a word. In fact, the team never said anything either." He frowned and I had to laugh.

"I didn't tell you because he's my ex. He's in the past, Jake, and that's where he'll stay. I didn't say anything at first because it just hurt too much to talk about. As I fell more in love with you, I just didn't want to break your heart. Your man crush on him would have ended and then what would I have to laugh at?" I said, giggleing at him.

"So that's it?" I nodded. "You aren't still in love with him?"

I laughed."No, I love you. You know that!"

He rolled his eyes but kissed the top of my head. "I feel like I overreacted. Do you want to go back?" he asked. I shook my head no and snuggled deeper into his chest. We decided to watch a movie before calling it a night.

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"Shit, I forgot my keys!" I stage whispered outside my apartment door. Jacob rolled his eyes and snickered. I looked at my watch and decided that it was late enough for Alice to get her ass out of bed. I loudly knocked on the door(knowing Alice was a deep sleeper) until it opened.

Edward stood there with one of my cups drinking something, mostly likely coffee. When he saw me he opened the door wider with a slight smile that disappeared as soon as he laid eyes on Jacob. We entered and I made my way to the kitchen. Jacob was not a big believer in coffee but I loved it. It had saved me during those long nights doing homework.

Edward followed us and refilled his cup. We stood awkwardly for a moment before Jacob announced that he had left something in my room the day before and wondered off which left me with Edward. Wonderful.

"How are you, Bella?" he asked quietly. I didn't know if he was being respectful to his sister, who was still sleeping, or if he was nervous that I was going to bust out crying just talking to him. I almost laughed at the thought.

"Fine, you?" I replied. I drank my coffee and loved the way it burned going down my throat. I turned back to the counter and refilled my cup.

"I've been better." he laughed holding up his arm and motioned to his face with his coffee cup. My coffee cup. I stared at the cup, trying to figure out when I had gotten it. It had ballerinas dancing on it. Not a normal cup for a man to choose. I remembered that my mother, Renee, had gotten it for me when I had taken up ballet again.

Edward saw me looking at it and smiled sadly. "You still dance?" he wondered.

"Not much. Alice forces me to sometimes. I stopped after..." I trailed off. I stopped after Edward left. It use to bring me peace and comfort but when he left it only brought back memories of him. He sighed.

"Bella, I'm sorry." He said. He put the cup down and put his good arm on the counter, leaning on it.

"It doesn't matter, Edward. It happens." I told him. I was staring at my coffee on the counter as I spoke.

He groaned as he ran his hand through his hair. "You still paint?" he asked. I nodded and saw him smile from the corner of my eye.

Painting was something I'd been doing since high school. My drawing was horrible and my art teacher had gotten frustrated. He finally handed me a paintbrush and told me to do whatever I wanted. I still remembered the look on his when he saw what I'd painted a few weeks later. The day before I started I had gone for a walk through the forest and seen a fox curled up among the leaves. It was still early in the morning and the sunrise had light the fox brillantly. The image engraved itself into my head so I had painted it.

My teacher put it in a art contest where it took first place. He had wanted to put it on display in his art room for his future students, but I wanted to keep it. It was my first painting afterall. It now hung proudly in my room. Most of my other work was in a two roomed studio that Alice had bought for me for my birthday. I'd rolled my eyes when she'd done it but inwardly I was delighted. A place to paint and a place to dance. Alice used the dance room more than I did though.

Edward began wondering around the apartment so I followed him. "Alice told me her roommate was an artist. She said you had sold a few of your paintings already?"

"Yeah, but just to make ends meet. I needed tution and rent money. I really didn't want to go back to working at Newton's"

"Is that your's?" he asked, pointing to a painting on the wall. It showed horses running. I nodded. It was slightly darker than the ones I usually painted, but I loved it.

"I'd wanted to sell it orginally. When Alice saw it she convinced me to keep it. I'm thankful I listened to her." I said still looking at the painting.

Edward opened his mouth to say something but Alice came crashing into the living room. "Bella!" she shrieked. She hugged me as if we hadn't seen each other in years. "Where's Jacob?" she asked.

I nodded my head toward my room. I didn't bother checking on him to see if he had "found" what he was looking for.

"You ready to go?" she asked, referring to our customary breakfast plans every Sunday. I nodded and started heading towards the door. I quickly turned around and hurried to my room to tell Jacob I was going. If he wanted to escape, now was the time. I grabbed my keys before heading back to the living room.

"Alright, let's go." I said while dangling the keys in her face. Edward had wondered to the couch and was now flicking through the channels.

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Breakfast with Alice was silent...silent. I knew she wanted to know about me and Edward. She was probably waiting for me to start explaining myself and start apologizing for not telling her. I wasn't going to. If she wanted to know then she was going to have to ask.

Our waitress, Vanessa, came by and picked up our plates, leaving our cups. Alice and I had been going here since we started this tradition and we'd always had her as our waitress. She knew that even when we were done eating we would sit here and had even been a few times that Alice and I had stayed past her shift and she joined us.

Alice stirred her coffee slowly before looking up at me. Her eyes bore into mine but I refused to faulter. I had done nothing wrong.

"Why didn't you tell me?" She finally asked. I shrugged.

"There wasn't a reason to. We'd already broken up by the time I met you. If I had known he was your brother, I would have mentioned it. Which reminds me, why do you have different last names?"

'Well, you know that Emmett and I are adopted. We took our adoptive parents names. Edward never got around to it. Our mom still begs him to, but he refuses. He's such a dick sometimes." She said while shaking her head.I nodded in agreement. "That bracelet was cute though."

I raised my eyebrows at her."Sorry, but it was." I took rolled my eyes and took a sip of my coffee.

"So is that it? You don't want to know all the inner details of our relationship?"

"I kind of already talked to Edward about it. After you left, Emmett was ready to kick his ass." She laughed. I smiled at that thought.

"What I can't figure out is why you didn't know already. Edward never even mentioned having siblings. I never thought about meeting his parents because he never met mine. I just figured that they were just overbearing or something."

"I probably shouldn't tell you this, even if you are already over him, but he never told us about you either. I mean, he did call more often and sounded so much happier than his first two years of college. It was after he graduated that Emmett and I stopped talking to him. He just turned into such an obnoxious pig! Even more, anyway. I guess I don't have to tell you that but, I mean, is it really that hard to have a normal conversation with your sister. And then he-"

"Alice!" I interuppted her. I was having trouble keeping a straight face while she went through her rant.

"Sorry." She laughed at herself. She stood up and tossed the tip on the table. "Ready?" I nodded and stood up.

When we got back to the apartment Edward was still watching T.V. "Take your medicine?" Alice asked him. He rolled his eyes and nodded. "Call your coach?"

"Yes, mom." he glared at her. Something about that smirk just set me off.

"What is wrong with you? You come here, into our aparment, and give your sister attitude? She is trying to help you. What the fuck is your problem?" I yelled at him. I don't know why I did it. i just couldn't understand how he thought that he could take his problems out on his sister. I heard Jacob's laughter come from down the hall.

"Down girl. Give him a break. He just got the shit kicked out of him. He needs to fuel his ego." he said, wrapping his arms around me and kissing my forehead. I saw Edward frown at him and smiled. "Have fun at breakfast?"

I nodded and reached up to kiss his lips. Edward got up and grumbled his whole way to the guest bedroom. I turned to face Alice while still wrapped up in Jacobs arms.

"Alice, is he staying with us?" I asked sternly. I knew my roommate was up to no good.

"Umm, yeah," At least she had the desency to look guilty, "my mom was worried that he would get depressed not being able to play and all so I offered to watch over him."

"Nice to know we made a joint decision on our guest." I hissed. I may be able to act civil to him but that didn't mean I had forgotten what a big asshole he was. "I'm staying with you until he leaves." I told Jacob.

"Bella, no! I need your help. Please, I won't be able to handle him on my own." She begged while pulling me to her and away from Jacob.

"You know how bad that sounds right? You need help from your brother's ex to control him?"

"No, I need help from my best friend and roommate to care for my sickly brother." she corrected. I rolled my eyes.

"Fine, but I want it known that I'm doing it for you and that you owe me big time. And I think your brother is an ass who needs to get over his issues."

"Yes! Yes! Yes! Thank you! I love you, you know that right?" She squeezed me until I couldn't breath and Jacob had to save me.

"Yeah, kill me. Your love is just showing." I laughed. She rolled her eyes and headed to the guest bedroom. Her brother's room. Edward's room. I turned to Jacob and stared at him. He just laughed at what I'm sure was a 'What the fuck just happened' face and walked into the kitchen.

Well, there you go. Edward and Bella in the same apartment haha I'm sure that will turn out great!

I feel an urge to apologize for the late update, but its only been about a week, so I will not. It just seems longer because I'm working on this story and my other one. AND I started a new one haha. That one isn't going up until its done though. It came from a dream(and we know how great those stories come are). I wrote the little scene down cause I thought it was cute. Then, I dreamt of the same story, but it was more developed. So, while I'm suppose to be sleeping, my brain is feeding me a story lol Should be considered cheating.

Anyway, this is longer than the other chapter, but its still pretty short. I promise they'll get longer as we go along :)