Ok, first we're both really sorry for how long this chapter has taken but both our lives have been busy and if I've (Abbie) gone through quite a lot of family crap in the past couple of months as has Ashleigh. We know its been a loooooooong time but we do have our reasons for it being so late..

Anyway, here's chapter six (finally)...

Chapter Six - Ready...

Bella.

"What happened?" I ask when I reach him. I gently wipe some of the blood of his cheek with my hand. My stomach turns at the smell but I ignore it as best I can.

"It was nothing" He mumbles but winces as my knuckles graze his cut lip. My eyebrows raise as he tries to pass his injuries off as nothing.

"Did my dad do this?" I ask quietly after I think about it for a few seconds. He shakes his head and mumbles

"Emmett"

"Emmett?" I question "Why would Emmett do that to you?"

One name sprang to mind the moment the question had passed my lips

'Rose'

"What the hell did she do this time?" I ask annoyed and fed up. When is she just gonna let everything go and stop bringing past arguments into the damn present?!

Edward laughs and then cringes at the pain I'm sure he felt.

"Come on, lets go back to yours. Get you cleaned up. Nobody's home right?" I ask as I take his hand and lead him off towards where his car is parked haphazardly with one wheel up on the sidewalk. I'm actually quite flattered that he was in that much a hurry to get to me. He nods once and beeps his car open with the key fob. He some what reluctantly releases my hand and goes over to his door. I yanked the keys out of his hand as he opens the door. If he thinks I'm letting him drive in the state he's in now he's very much mistaken.

"You honestly think I'm gonna let you drive in that state?" I ask curling my fingers around his keys enclosing them securely in my fist so he cant get them back. I may be a bit of push over, ok so more than a bit, but still he's not driving like that he's lucky not to have crashed on his way here I wont let him risk it again. He protests but I ignore them since I can barely make sense of them anyway as he tries to talk through his swollen lip. I pull open his door and hop in. His Volvo is a far better car than my Vauxhall and I've never actually driven it before since Edward doesn't let anyone drive but him.

Grumbling he walks around the front and gets into the passenger side. He throws on his seat belt far too quickly. He's scared of me driving when he's the one who drives at like 70 MPH in side roads?! I laugh at him and pull away from the sidewalk turning the car back onto the road that leads to his house. It doesn't take long to get there but Edward grips his seat tightly the whole way, so tightly in fact that it actually insults me. I wanted to smack him for being such a prick and thinking I couldn't drive! I don't though, he's hurt bad enough for one day. Sulking I climb out of the drivers seat and slam the door. He practically winces at the action. I swear his car means more to him than I do. He jumps out and hurries after me. A good thing really since I never actually been inside his house before and walking up to it feels a little strange. He grabs my hand tugging me closer to him before unlocking the front door. My breath catches as he leads me into his house. With one quick glance around the fact that his mother is an interior designer is obvious.

"Woah"

"You like it?"

He mumbles through the busted lip, reminding me of his injures. I nod and ask

"Where's your bathroom? Got to get those cuts cleaned."

He rolls his eyes at my concern and still makes me slip my shoes off and dump my bag by the door before taking me up the two flights of stairs and pulls me inside his en suite bathroom.

"Sit"

I command holding his wash cloth under the tap and he does perching himself patiently on the side of his bath tub. He flinches as I dab the cold wet wash cloth over his cuts. The water in it runs red when I ring the cloth out over his sink. The sight of his blood makes me stomach roll but I force myself not to think about it as I keep dabbing and rinsing till its gone. I smile at the now clean version of his hansom face. The split lip doesn't look nearly as bad now that the bloods not covering it. Leaning down to press the folded cold cloth against his lip he runs his hand up the back of my shirt. A shiver runs through me at the feeling of his skin against mine, just like before... A shiver of a different kind follows when the sound of a gun shoot echo's through my mind. I close my eyes at the memory not realising that I'm crying till I feel his finger brush against my cheek.

"Don't cry."

His voice is a bit clearer now and I can understand him a hell of a lot better than before. I shake my head dismissing his words and saying

"I'm not."

He wipes away another few tears proving that I'm lying by doing so. He moves swiftly up off the bathtub and walks me backward towards his bed, his arms hugging me tight the whole time. He sits me down and knells in front of me.

"Bella, I'm fine."

I send him a 'do I look stupid?' look and he amends his sentence.

"Ok, I'm not fine but so what? Your dad shot me, yes and I would be lying if I said that it didn't hurt because it really did. But, Bella, I don't care. If I have to chance getting shot just to be near you then I'll chance it. You are more than worth a little risk. I love you and nothing will keep me away from you."

Even though his words touched my heart and made me want to smile, I didn't.

"You shouldn't have to risk anything! This is all my fault!"

I buried my head in my hands and cried harder.

"This is not your fault!"

I shake my head because it was. I'd brought up the idea of us having sex. For god's sake, I'd practically jumped on him! and that's why dad had taken a shot at him because he'd taken my 'innocence'.

"Bella, if its anyone's fault then it's Rosalie's!"

I lift my hands away from my face and ask him what he means with one glance.

"She rang Charlie when she saw my car. It's her fault that I got shot, not yours!"

She did what?! All I can see for a moment is anger induced red haze. My hands are shaking and I just want to hit something. This is a crossing a line! I get her party shut down so she gets my boyfriend shot?! How is that fair?!

"That stupid bitch."

I practically growl as I jump up off his bed so fast that I nearly trip over his bended knee and fall flat on my face. Edward grabs my forearms tightly to steady me before standing up and moving me to sit back on his bed.

"Yes she is but sit and calm down before you hurt yourself."

"Argh! I just wanna hit her!"

I cry when the frustration of not being able to vent my anger out on Rose becomes too much. I throw myself backwards across his bed and smack my head against his wall, that's gonna leave a bump! My hand on instinct moves up the back of my head to feel for the mark that I'm sure will be there by morning. Edward jumps up onto his bed beside me

"You alright?"

He's not even fighting a laugh like any normal person would be. If they even tried to fight it. I love him but seriously if he'd just banged his head I would be fighting not to laugh.

"Laugh"

He frowns looking at me like I'm crazy.

"Why don't you laugh when I hurt myself everyone else does?"

"I'm not laughing because it's not funny."

He looks concerned and asks me

"Now, how hard did you hit your head?"

I sighed annoyed and pretty much ignore his question giving him

"I'm fine, I'm just angry!"

As my answer.

"Argh! I mean it though I just want to hit her so bloody hard-"

He leans down and presses his mouth to mine. How kissing doesn't hurt him with his beaten up lip I will never know but it doesn't or at least he doesn't stop. My chest is rising and falling heavily as I try to catch my breath. He doesn't look nearly as breathless as he says,

"Don't Bella. It's not worth your time. She's not worth your time."

I'd practically forgotten what we were talking about before he said that. Feeling daring I rise up onto my knees leaving very little gap between our chests. I press my hand to his chest and run it slowly down towards his trousers. My hand slips past his waistband and I say in my best alluring voice,

"So what exactly is worth my time, Mr Cullen?"

Jasper.

I hadn't been able to stop smiling after Alice had whispered in my ear. Well, I hadn't till we got back to mine, my bedroom to be precise, and we're fooling around, kissing fiercely as our hands explore when I realise neither of us is actually prepared for this, neither of us has bothered to think about condoms since we are going to need one. As I realise this I regretfully force myself to pull away from her. She pouts and whines
"Jazz I told you I'm ready."
I sigh
"I know"
She sits up folding her legs underneath her
"Then why did you stop? Oh my, are ... are you ... you know... having trouble downstairs?" she's stutters and whispers the last part but I still hear it. I can't help stop myself shooting her a glare as I say
"Alice I'm seventeen! Not fifty!"
"Well how am I supposed to know?" She said with a hint of annoyance.
"I didn't mean it like that, I'm sorry." I say quietly as I pull her close. "I guess I'm a little nervous, but if I have the honour and pleasure of doing this with you...its the greatest thing ever." I say gazing, in what I hope is a romantic way, into her eyes. now I sound like Edward. Fuck the stupid condom, Alice was wrong, my 'downstairs' as she put it is more than ready, so ready it actually hurts.
"Jazz cut the sappy crap and finish what you started." she moves forward and starts undoing the buttons on my shirt. "I'm ready and so are you...so come on then.." She says seductively looking up at me. I'm so close to coming we better do this now. Our uniforms are off and on my floor in minutes. The sight of her lying naked beneath me makes it hard to calm myself down and take this slowly but I do. I don't wanna hurt her and I know I will if we rush this. I can see that it hurts her anyway though as I move slowly inside her because she winces and closes her eyes tight.
"Do you want me to stop?"
She quickly shakes her head for no so I don't...

Alice.

Was that it?! Seriously?! You've got be kidding me! Is all that is going through my mind as I pretend smile at Jazz after its over. He's grinning like an idiot and I can't help but feel just a little bit annoyed. He clearly had fun and all I got was pain. How is that bloody fair? God is definitely a man! There is no other reasonable explanation. I mean I did know it was gonna hurt but what the fuck? I thought it would feel like a pinch or something and that I would at least have some 'pleasure' from the experience. It was meant to be amazing not crap. Jazz is amazing at everything else we've ever done and he says I'm fantastic too so why was sex so shit? Maybe it wasn't though, maybe no girls first time is that good. I feel I need to ask someone but the question is who? I can't tell mom about this because she will murder me will her bare hands if she found out, I can't ask Rose because her and Emmett haven't gone this far yet, so who's left? I don't know anybody else well enough to ask them about something this private.

I get distracted from my thoughts by Jazz.
"Are you alright?" I tilt my head to face him and he continues
"You went quiet and you don't go quiet." he mumbles and I open my mouth to say 'I'm fine' even though I'm not when I hear a girl cursing in the room above us, Edwards room.
"Crap! Its 4 o'clock!"
I instantly tilt my head towards the ceiling. I can't figure out why that voice is familiar until Edward says her name and the light bulb clicks on inside my mind.
"Bella, don't go yet!"
Bella! I could ask Bella about sex! Oh my god that statement just didn't sound right in my head. I'd never thought in a million years I would have to ask that particular best friend about that particular subject. I went to run out of the room but I only got as far as the door because Jazz said

"Alice as much as I love your seeing your gorgeous bare ass, I don't think mum will like you running through our house naked."

"Damn!" I curse before grabbing Jazz's school shirt and boxers from the floor. I threw them on and ran out the door with my still naked boyfriend yelling after me

"Alice? Where the hell are you actually going?"
"Don't worry! I'll be right back!" I shout back. I race up the stairs before slowing to a complete stand still. What was I supposed to do? Just knock the door and say 'Oh hey Bella we haven't spoken for months but how did you find sex? Was it good? Did it hurt?'

Oh Lord, I'll have to make it up on the spot when I'm there. I reach Edward's bedroom and push open his unlocked door only to see Bella standing right in front of me wide eyed, the front of her school shirt half unbuttoned exposing her black bra and cleavage. Edward sat on the bed looking at Bella with lusted eyes. The blood had been cleared of his face and he looked half decent again. He snaps out of it as he scrambles up off his messy bed. He moved to block her from my curious gaze just as she hurriedly started re-buttoning her shirt, her face bright red like it always went.

"Er...hi." I said looking down trying not to giggle at the fact I had just practically caught them at it.

"Can you like leave please?" Bella timidly asked.

"Oh god yeah sorry. I just wanted to ... er talk to you that's all ... it can wait"

I back out of the room shutting the door as I went and head back to Jasper's room feeling more embarrassed then I had ever felt before. I don't make it half way down the hall before Bella catches up with me. She grabs hold of my arm and turned me around to face her. Her face was scared as she crossed her arms over her now covered chest and I knew what she was going to say before she said it.

"Look, what you saw-"

"I won't say anything Bells, I promise."

I wouldn't tell on them, I wasn't the type of person who did that, besides they were happy and Edward had received far more bodily harm than was probably good for him in the last few days. She mumbles a quick 'thanks', nervously fiddles with the bottom of her shirt sleeve before asking

"So what did you want to talk about before?"

I fell my anxiety and embarrassment triple as she waits for me to talk. I can't force the words out and it's only when she says

"Look, I've got to be back home in like ten minutes and you know I don't like being rude if I can help it but could hurry up and ask already?"

A nervous giggle escapes up my throat and I rush out the question

"Ok fine. When you first, you know, did it" I gulp, roll my eyes at myself and ask what I'd wanted to all along

"When you first had sex was it any good? Did it hurt more than you thought?"

Bella's face stays more composed than I would have thought and she surprises me by giving my clothes (or rather Jasper's) a quick once over.

"You and Jasper just...?"

I nod to save her finishing the question. She nods back thinking as her mahogany eyebrows rise up into her messy hair.

"So you left him straight after you slept with him to come ask me that?"

I start to nod and then it hits me that running off probably hadn't been the best thing to do. I'd probably scared the crap out of Jazz! I mutter a quick curse and ask

"That wasn't a good idea was it?"

She shakes her head and my heart sinks into my stomach

"Shit"

I mutter again before turning around and running off down the hallway. Bella calls after me and I pause turning back to her

"Yeah?"

She smiles at me

"Not really, Yes but it's gets better."

She says simply smiling and it takes me a few seconds to realise she's answering my questions and then some. I open my mouth to thank her but she's gone and the only sign that our conversation had even happened was Edward's door slowly closing behind her. I smile to the empty hallway and run back to Jazz. Well this is going to fun to explain!

Bella.

I close the door behind me before hopping inelegantly up onto Edward's bed beside him. Landing in a bit of heap I turn myself onto my back and stare up at him sadly. I know that I have to leave soon but I can't bring myself to move away from him. He flops down next to me and brushing the hair out of my eyes. I sigh

"I have to go, don't I?"

He slings his arm over my waist and pulls me towards him.

"Nope. Not gonna let you do that."

A little giggle escapes me as he turns onto his side, holding my body close in a grip so strong I can't wriggle out of it. He presses his lips to mine after I try to tell him again, that I have to leave. I know I have to go but he's too irresistible. My lips and body mould against him and the ache, that had been previously satisfied, starts to return between my legs. My body moves, on instinct, closer to his No! Stop it now! We really don't have time! I scold myself while reluctantly pulling my mouth away from his.

"I have to go." I glance up at the clock over his shoulder and add "Like now."

I jump up and start gathering up the rest of my school uniform. He groans loudly and I can't help but smirk at the reaction. Once I'm properly dressed, he regretfully takes my hand and leads me back through his house. Just as we near the front door keys rattle in its lock and who I guess is his mother and shoves it open. Panicked he steers me gently behind his back to hide me from view.

Edward.

I can actually feel my heart beating in my throat with fear. Maybe I should have listened to Bella earlier and let her leave when she'd tried too the first time because if mom sees her here after they told me yesterday I was forbidden to see her again there would be hell to pay.

"Hello mom."

My voice cracks and I know she heard it, we are so busted!

"Hello, darli- Oh my lord! What on earth happened to your face?!"

Looking nearly as horrified as Bella had on the beach she instantly moves over to me. I'm pretty sure her too close proximity isn't going to help my current 'keep Bella hidden situation'. I can feel Bella tense up behind my back. I want to reach back and reassure her somehow but if I move mom is sure to notice.

"Er just got in a bit of a fight with Emmett. Wont happen again mom, promise."

I say and take a tiny step back from her. Luckily she doesn't notice it but her face turns disapproving at the guilty tone to my voice, only she doesn't know that I've not guilty about the fight, and she asks like she already knows the answer.

"Would girls have anything to do with it?"

I nod, yes and one of the two is currently in the room with us only you can't see her.

She sighs, rolls her eyes and mutters almost to herself.

"There is way too much testosterone in this house."

Her voice is louder when she threatens

"Do it again and you're grounded"

I nod to her again and smile at little too wide. She sends me a look that basically tells me she's thinks I've lost it but she turns around away from me nonetheless. As soon as her back is turned I move around to face Bella.

"Oh and Edward?"

I freeze for a second but turn back to her smiling that scary 'too wide' grin again.

"For future reference, if you want to sneak someone out of the house it's probably best not to leave their bag and shoes by the front door, don't you think?"

The smile falls off my face, I'm so dead! Well I think that until I notice she's beaming at me looking very close to giggling. Has she been drinking?! I think just before she raises her eyebrows at me

"Well, hadn't you get Bella home before her parents?"

***

The drive to Bella's doesn't take long and I'm still in a state of shock when we pull up a couple of houses away from hers. She lends across to plant a kiss on my cheek

"Love you."

"Love you too."

She goes to open the door but stops her hand gripping the handle. She's staring straight ahead her brown eyes wide with shock.

"What's the mat-" I go to ask but my eyes follow hers as I'm talking and I stop dead mid-sentence. Renee and Charlie are standing outside the house yelling. Without the sound of the car's engine we can hear every word their saying

"Renee, you can't leave! What about me? What about Bella? Don't we matter anymore?!"

"I've had enough of pretending to be happy for her sake! I can't cope with this so called life anymore! We're not what we were and if I don't get out now then I'm just going to be stuck here for the rest of my life wishing I wasn't!"

She rants throwing bags into her the trunk of her car. Charlie grabs her wrist to stop her putting the last bag inside and reply's more hurt and shocked than angry.

"I don't understand. We've been getting on better.... and I'm trying to be a better husband. Come on, Ren, don't do this! I love you!"

He begs.

"I'm sorry but I don't love you." She says with little regret before slamming the trunk shut and getting inside. I look over at Bella as her father watches her mother drive away. She's frozen to her seat looking like she can't get her head around it. I can't either to be fair but then again they weren't my parents. Looking like she's moving in a trance she clicks the lock and silently slips out of my car. I have to fight the urge to run after her and I make myself stay in the car. Their front door is still open and she walks up their path, still looking lost and confused, and into her house closing the door behind her.

Hope you liked it, after such a long wait!

The next chapter is pretty much already done and will be up in the next couple of days :D

Thanks for sticking with us all this time :) *fingers crossed* it wont happen again :D

Abbie & Ashleigh.