A/N: First of all, thank you all for your wonderful reviews and all of your alerts.

Secondly, I know, I suck. I think so too. Life's been crazy lately with school and changing my working hours which has caused me to get little sleep. But I know I have no excuse.

This chapter is short and I'm sorry, it's all I had time to do. Next one will be quite long for sure, it's the restaurant scene. :D I'm not promising update dates anymore, not at least summer when I'm through with school because I know I probably will not be able to make it. So you will have to bear with me until December, then I will have some decent time to devote to this story. I also have several ideas for new stories but I'm not getting into them at least until I have a decent amount of chapters and the whole storyline sketched out so I don't get the same problems as with this story.

I'm making a request for a Beta, anyone interested, please let me know!! I tried looking myself but there are just too many and I think I could use some help with the story and beta might also encourage me to update sooner. If no one offers I'll browse around when I get the time.

Read on and please check the A/N at the bottom.

Disclaimer: Unfortunately, Twilight belongs to Stephanie Meyer and I didn't have anything to do with it.

I drove with Jasper and Emmett, the later of which teased me the entire time. It was a good distraction though, we goofed around and laughed. I had really missed our time together, and there hadn't been much since we had moved here. My head was occupied in other matters and they were just trying to adjust to our new home.

Our fun was over by the time we arrived to Port Angeles. I would have much rather spent some time on the boardwalk by the bay, enjoying getting to know the place, but Alice schedule wouldn't allow it. Two seconds into the city Alice called Jasper telling him that we needed to follow Angela's car to the department store and that no detours were allowed as there was much to be done. By the look on Jasper's face, Emmett and I knew we had no choice but to abide by her laws.

As we got out of the car Jessica came straight to me telling me she needed my help picking out her dress, since she was in desperately need of a male opinion.

As much as I wanted to help Angela out with hers I was relieved to hear Alice saying that I needed to babysit Emmett and Jasper and that under no circumstances was I allowed to leave them alone, particularly Emmett.

We strode off to the men's formal ware section of the store as the girls went off to the women's one.

As soon as we were there, Emmett started picking out suit after suit, as many as he was able to find in his size. The number of colours and designs was exuberant and I knew there was no way Rose was going to let him wear at least half of those, he was just doing it to annoy me and goof around, making the shopping experience a little more entertaining.

Jasper, on the other hand, knew exactly what Alice wanted him to wear and went straight to that. She had given him specific instructions which he followed very closely.

I sat in a chair in front of the dressing rooms once they had picked out everything they would try on.

Emmett came out every two minutes with a new suit and a huge smile on his face. By the fifth one something triggered his memory because he suddenly remembered my vampire search on Sunday and started teasing me about it.

"So, Eddie, are you going to tell me what that was about?" he said grinning.

"What was what about?" asked Jasper stepping out of the dressing room in the suit he was bound to buy later on.

"Nothing, Jazz. I was just doing some reading. Emmett, there is nothing to tell." My annoyance was growing by the second and I was wondering if hanging out with Jessica would be that much worse.

"Eddie, here, was researching vampires in Carlisle's library last Sunday's morning" stated Emmett with an evil look on his face.

Jasper started laughing. "Why on earth would you wake up on Sunday to do research on vampires?"

"I was just curious about some facts, just leave it at that."

Jasper easily quieted down noticing I did not want to discuss the matter and he went back in to the dressing room to change back into his clothes. Emmett, however, continued to harass me about the matter demanding an explanation and laughing at me. I soon had enough, got up and left him there laughing by himself.

I decided to go check on Angela and see if she needed my help with anything.

As I reached the women's section Angela was stepping out of her dressing room wearing a pale pink dress that draped around her tall frame nicely and brought out honey tints in her light brown hair.

"Wow, you look amazing!" I stated sincerely as she saw me.

"Thanks." She smiled warmly at me. "Weren't you supposed to be babysitting the boys?"

"Emmett became too much to handle and Jasper was calm enough so I think he could take care of any disaster waiting to happen. Are you finished already? Can I help with anything?"

"I'm finished with the dress but I still need some shoes."

"Let's go then" I said escorting her to the shoe section with my arm.

She looked around for a bit and even though it was not a very entertaining activity I enjoyed the calm and relaxation it brought.

As Angela tried on a pair of high heeled shoes I thought about asking her something.

"Ang,…" I started, hesitating.

"Yeah?"

"I… I was wondering, does Isabella Swan skip class a lot?" I blurted out.

"Well, not much, I suppose, but whenever the weather is nice the Chief goes backpacking or things like that and takes her with him." She said while trying a new pair of shoes.

I really liked this about Angela, she wouldn't bombard me with questions wanting to know why I was asking. This was the main reason I enjoyed spending time with her, everything was simple, nothing forced.

I was about to thank her as I saw a very upset Alice approaching.

"Edward Anthony Cullen, why are you not watching over Emmett and Jasper?" she almost yelled at me.

"Alice, Jasper can very well handle Emmett who was annoying me deeply and if I did not leave it would have been me you would have to worry about."

She calmed down a little bit knowing that I was right and told Angela they needed her help with some things. I said I would go and try to find a music store and meet them back for dinner. Angela directed me to the local music shop and went on her way with Alice.

I stepped out of the department store and it did not take me long to find the music shop with Angela's instructions. Just by looking at the window I could see this was not the store for me. It looked more like the place a fortune teller would inhabit than a music store. A little too much zen, candles and new age Cd's.

I decided that there had to be a decent music shop in the city and went on my way to find one. I wasn't paying much attention to where I was going; thoughts of her kept creeping back into my mind though all I wanted was to clear my head. I stomped along in a southerly direction, toward some glass-fronted shops that looked promising. But when I got to them they were just a repair shop and a vacant space. I started to realize then that I was going in the wrong direction. The little foot traffic I had seen was going north and it looked like the buildings here were mostly warehouses. I tried to trace my steps and get back to where I had come from but my thoughts had been so distracting that I had trouble remembering. I decided to turn east at the next corner, and then loop around after a few blocks and try my luck on a different street on my way back to the boardwalk.

A group of four men turned around the corner I was heading for, dressed too casually to be heading home from the office, but they were too grimy to be tourists. As they approached me, I realized they weren't too many years older than I was. They were joking loudly among themselves, laughing raucously and punching each other's arms. I scooted as far to the inside of the sidewalk as I could give them room, walking swiftly, looking past them to the corner.

"Hey, there, pretty boy!" one of them called as they passed. I glanced up automatically. Two of them had paused, the other two were slowing. The closest, a heavyset, dark-haired man in his early twenties, seemed to be the one who had spoken. He was wearing a flannel shirt open over a dirty t-shirt, cut-off jeans, and sandals. He took half a step toward me.

"Hello" I mumbled, a menacing look on my eyes, a knee-jerk reaction. I kept heading towards the corner. I could hear them mumbling among themselves after I passed them.

"Hey, wait!" one of them called after me again, but I rounded the corner quickly just wanting to leave them behind. I could hear them laughing behind me.

A/N: So, I liked how most of the chapter came along, not sure about the ending though. I pondered a lot about how to handle this part and as much as the idea of Edward being chased down by four women made me laugh I though that to keep it realistic I needed to change it into a mugging. We'll see how it plays out. Please let me know what you think and if you have any suggestions. They are always welcomed!

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