A/N: So it's back due to popular demand (yay) Closer is now officially a story. I'm just so glad you all liked it. Please let me know what you think of this chapter. Though I'm surprised I got this up so quick - my brain has been flipping out on me a little lately at the pressure of finishing off some of my first stories so this was a good escape.

Closer – part 2

One and a half years later

BPOV

Bella

I looked up to the dark passage and could remember every moment of that night. Who was he and what was he? It still confused the hell out of me eighteen months later. I had trawled around Forks looking for him after that night but nothing.

Bella

I could almost here him calling me as if somehow he knew I would be here. I looked at the shadows and hoped he would show himself to me.

"Bella." A familiar voice pulled me back out from my trance at the alley. I snapped my head around and turned to face him. Jacob.

"What's up with you Bells?" he looked at me as if I was mad. "You just went into your own little own little world. Don't worry, I'll protect you from any crazy guys lurking in the shadows." He joked but if only he knew how much I hoped for a guy to come out of the shadows. He placed his arm around me and pulled me along with him. I couldn't fight with him, he was huge. He took a giant growing spurt two years ago and suddenly he was a foot taller than me, it didn't stop there but it slowed.

"Sorry Jake, I'm just a bit tired I guess." This place just made me think of him. Edward. And here was Jake looking at me as if was mental. I think I might be. Seriously, who wants someone to jump out of the shadows to grab them? I felt safe with Jake dragging me along with him from the picture house but I also wondered if Edward did show up that he would be put off with this ogre around me. Jake isn't really someone you would want to take up a fight with and he was happy to look for trouble if he thought that it was "protecting" me.

We walked up past the alleyway that just over a year and a half ago I was pinned up against the wall fearing for my life then fearing for my sanity as my threatening Adonis decided to let me go. I didn't want to; I wanted to stay right there with him. His cold hands clamped down on my wrists like marble handcuffs scaring me but with his release I felt I had lost something, some vital part of me and it never returned.

I suppose I could reason that it was a safe move since he did say he wanted to kill me but my stupidity over took control of that, all I wanted was him. He had kissed me and his cold lips made my mouth tingle, his scary red eyes only drew me in further and the kiss to my head before he ordered me away broke me. Yeh I was definitely mad, wanting and longing for some self proclaimed killer. This surely would take up a full hours worth of some great TV psychologist time.

"So I was thinking you could come down to LaPush at the weekend and we could get the bikes out again. Just don't fall off this time. Charlie is becoming suspicious of all your injuries."

"Charlie knows I'm a disaster. He can't get suspicious of me hurting myself when I hang around with you when I'm able to break my own wrist falling up the stairs." Disaster is putting it mildly. I can't remember going a whole week without injuring my self some how. Last week it was staved fingers putting groceries away. Really if a pack of steaks can cause injury Charlie can't be surprised when I come home with a busted knee from falling. I just didn't mention it was off of a motor bike.

Poor Jake thought Charlie would be chasing him with his gun if I was rumbled but me being me, he never questioned it and so the bikes were our secret for at least another week.

Jake and I, there isn't much to tell, he's my best friend though I know he wants more. His love of sporadic adrenalin rushes keep me entertained and he's always happy for me to come along for the ride. I'm his student when it comes to all things mechanical, well for the bikes at least. We leave it there; I think he's to worried to educate me with the truck in fear of me trying to fix it myself and with my luck most likely falling into the monster sized engine. But for the most part we spend a lot of time together almost never fighting; I think he's content with my undivided attention. There is some animosity from him towards some of my male school friends but I can't help that. He will always be my best friend and right now were very content with whatever we have right now.

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Pulling up in my truck I grab hold of my back pack and slowly make my way to the school. I feel tired this morning, I didn't sleep well at all, I woke up in the middle of the night dreaming about him. I had dreamt of him before many times but this was different, it woke me up and the energy I felt from that night came surging back to me. God it was good even if it was only a brief elusion. I need to get the thought of him out of my mind. Getting swept of your feet when you're a naïve sixteen year old isn't that uncommon but to still mourn the loss of it years later is.

"Bella." I hear Eric call on me but in my heady daze I try just to make it to form but I'm too slow and he catches up with me. "So Bella, how does it feel?" he asks me cryptically and the quizzical gaze I give him lets him know I'm definitely not on the same wave length as him.

"I'm I to guess what you're talking about?" I turn to look at him.

"How does it feel not to be the new girl anymore?" he lets out a little laugh as if I should know what he's talking about.

"I have been here for two and a half years and I'm still the new girl. Wow this town needs some excitement injected into it quick." I let out sarcastically.

"Fine Bella." He rolls his eyes at me. After all this time he knows how to handle me almost as good as Jake, he doesn't sit looking at me longingly across my biology class room like Mike. "But there is a new girl in town, well actually two so I might just have to be friends with them instead now, you know how it goes, I need to keep up with the fresh meat." He teased.

"What you might actually get some friends instead of stalking us around." I teased back. I like Eric, he keeps me entertained at school when the girls talk about whatever girl talk is circulating and makes me feel comfortable when Mike has that look in his eyes. Angela and him go out and they seem to make a good couple. Angela and I are pretty close too; she keeps me sane when Jessica prattles on for hours about boys and hair.

"Well I could have a whole new group of friends; there are five of them starting today. Something to do with a new doctor moving to town, word is that there all adopted cos some of them have different sir names."

"Where do you find all this out?" I ask in awe of how he can be so informative of people who he has never met.

"I'm the eyes and ears of this place remember. I know all." He smirks. Oh to knock that look off his face just the once.

As we walk through the school halls talking a small petite girl with dark spiky hair looks at me and smiles as if she knows me. I guess its one of the new girls starting as she holds herself against a taller boy with blonde hair looking slightly sure of herself in comparison to the panic I felt when I arrived.

"This is my queue. I'll catch you around later once I have all of the gossip from the newbie's. I just need to find the other three." With that he leaves me standing in the hall as he walks up to the two, the blonde boy not looking the slightest bit pleased as Eric forces himself on the pair as the girl continues to make eye contact with me and smiles. I give a strained smile back feeling uncomfortable with her doe eyes shimmering at me but I can only imagine that she is trying to make friends and not offend anyone at the new school.

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"Hey Bella." Jessica's voice comes from behind me as I rake through my locker at interval. "So have you seen the new students?" she asks with a wide smile across her face, obviously in awe of the impact of one of them

"I seen a couple of them earlier but I hear there is five." I return as I fight the pile of books threatening to spill out onto the corridor.

"I have seen them all. There is a tall blonde, I'm thinking bottle blonde." She bitched about the new girl already, she must be jealous. "She seems to have some attitude problem, and I think she goes out with one of them, which is a bit eww. It's her brother."

"I thought they were adopted?" I try not to judge, I haven't even seen her.

"We'll its all a bit weird to me, but what ever he is to her he's pretty cute in a kinda jock way." I try to concentrate on what she says but its times like this I need Angela to help me through it. Where is she when I need her?

She just rambles on "There is a short girl too, she seems weird and it seems as if there is something going on with her and the blonde boy too. It's pretty weird, it's like there all couples."

I roll my eyes at her, but she can't see luckily. She has a tendency to judge a little quickly. I manage to slam my locker shut just before my books have time to fall out back on top of me as I turn to face Jessica.

"What about the other one?" I ask, trying to feign interest in the new family.

This has her; this is who made her smile. At the thought of him her face picks up and she starts. "Oh my god, you should see him, he's just so lush. He seems to have the attitude thing going on too, he looks like he could be in pain but he can pull it off with how he looks. He's tall gorgeous and messed up hair.

"Messy hair is a redeeming quality now?" I ask her with amassment.

"It does when he looks like that." she lets a small sigh out and I laugh at her face, her mind miles away from me right now as she thinks about the poor unsuspecting boy, if only he knew what kind of surprise he was in for when she got her claws into him.

We make our way to the lunchroom and meet with the others all sitting down at our usual table. Eric looks excited as he comes and joins us it's like he's been waiting all day to give us the inside scoop as he sits down.

"Ok so there is five of them a brother and sister and two brothers and a sister if that makes any sense." He pauses for a brief moment with his brain ticking wondering if he got it out right. "They are all adopted by a doctor Cullen. The blond siblings are Jasper and Rosalie, he seems ok but you might not want to go to close to the girl. They don't seem to have much interest in anyone else but there own group."

At the mention of the two the tall Blonde who I take to be Rosalie walks in with a well built guy beside her.

Eric continues with excitement bubbling over "That is Emmett, he seems ok, pretty chilled out and I'm sure the Coach will be trying to employ him to the football team if he gets the chance." With that Jasper walks in with the small brunette by his side. "That's Jasper and Alice." She flutters through the air with grace under Jaspers arm and smiles up at him before looking over at out table and giving a smile in my direction once again. "They both seem to want to keep to there group too but maybe Alice sees herself a new friend." He jokes as he looks over at me.

You can see the anticipation on Jessica's face as she looks toward the doors waiting for the fifth member but to no avail. I start on my lunch and the rest continue as I hear a small squeal from Jessica. I look up at her face which makes me smile.

"He seems to keep himself to him self a lot more, he practically ignore me earlier." Eric let out a little aggravated at being side stepped by the new student.

I look up and see his face, his white skin and bronze hair, his strong jaw line and those full lips that chilled me with a tingle. It's him. It really is, after a year and a half he's here and he's right in front of me. How can it be, how did this happen? My Adonis is back.

"What's his name?" Jessica asks with a little too much hope in her voice. Before Eric has time to answer I break in.

"Edward."

A/N: ok so I know I have a few things off here but I think I managed ok. I just hope all you die hard twilighters are able to look past the small flaws and enjoy the story.

Pretty pretty please review with a cherry sized Edward on top.

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