I decided I'm going to dedicate two people for each chapter!

This chapter is dedicated to:

Lordoftheringergottwilighed

And

Cheesbananas'n'twilight4Gail

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Previously: "Then, I see him here acting all flirty with you!" Flirty? I guess rubbing his hand up my arm could be considered that....I never thought about it that way. "I can't believe I'm about to say this." He muttered. He came up right next to me and looked at me. "I like you Bella." I opened my mouth to speak but nothing came out. "I like you a lot...more than just friends."

Well holy crap!

Bella's POV:

Okay, so, me being me, I didn't handle the situation like any normal person. A normal person that felt the same way about a guy, that just confessed he liked her, would be jumping for joy telling him the way she feels. Me though? Yeah, I fainted. Is that such a shocker though? Come on, I am Isabella Swan after all. I don't have it in me to act normal.

I slowly came back into consciousness. The first thing I saw was four pairs of eyes watching me intently. They belonged to Angela, Edward, Charlie, and Carlisle. My automatic response to all this was, "What happened?"

Edward looked uncomfortable, "You fainted." He said simply. He didn't mention anything about what he had said. Honestly, I'm sort of glad, my head was killing me, and I didn't need the stress of that right now. Especially with people...watching me.

Carlisle motioned for the others to back away so he could get closer. He kneeled down next to me and put his fingers to my wrist to check for a pulse and nodded absentmindedly. "You seem fine. It must have been a freak thing or something. Anything happen to cause it? Something shocking? Too much motion? Lack of oxygen?"

My eyes flickered over to Edward who was looking down at his shoes. It kind of reminded me of Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz because of the way he knocked his feet together. "No," I whispered. Truth is however, it was the most shocking thing I'd heard since I found out about my cancer.

Carlisle stood up straight, his left knee cracking quietly. He patted my shoulder, "Alright then. Just let me know if anything changes or if you have any questions. I'm sure I'll be seeing you around. Feel better, Bella." He smiled as he turned around. "Edward, I think it's time for you to come home too...you haven't been home in forever. You can come back later."

He nodded, "I guess you're right." His lips quickly touched my forehead, causing that section to tingle. "See ya later Bells." He left with Carlisle, with one parting smile.

I've ruined everything! He thinks I don't like him, so now it's going to be all awkward between us! Sad thing is, is that I really do like him. I like him a lot. But, I can't tell him…I can't get his hopes up. I'm hurting him enough by just being his friend.

Edward's POV:

"Edward! Tell me what happened! Is she okay? What happened? All the details!" Cried Alice the second I walked in the door.

"She's fine, she just fainted." I told her simply. Yeah, she fainted because I told her I liked her in front of her ex-boyfriend. Swell way to tell her isn't it? That Justin fellow was just annoying the hell out of me! The way he looked at her, almost like he'd rather eat her than be with her.

Alice sighed dramatically as I started up towards my room. She scampered behind me, trying to keep up with my long strides. "Something must have happened! You wouldn't be this shaken up if she had just fainted and was okay. What happened?"

I fell face first into my bed. My nose and mouth smothered by the pillows. Alice was still talking. Is that a surprise?

"Just tell me what happened! Come on, I won't say anything to anyone else! Edward, I'm your sister, I know something's up." She insisted, holding her ground.

"I tldd hrrr, I laaked, hrrr." I mumbled into the pillows.

"Mind repeating that?" She asked sarcastically. "It might help if I could understand you."

"I told her I liked her, okay? You happy?" I exclaimed.

Alice's face was a sight to see. She lit up, her eyes widened and her mouth opened wide with a smile showing off her perfectly straight teeth. "Happy are you freaking serious? Of course I'm happy! Oh my gosh! What did she say? She told you she likes you too right? Oh I am imagining your wedding now! A white and red theme, rose petals everywhere…"

She was jumping up and down on the heels of her feet but I stopped her abruptly. The direction of marriage is a bit different from what I had brought out of what happened. "She didn't say anything back. She fainted."

Alice stopped. "She fainted?" Then she started cracking up. "She fainted because you told her you liked her? That is so Bella! So, she didn't say anything after?"

I shook my head slowly. "Nope." How was I supposed to bring that up? Angela, Charlie and my Dad were all there! It might have turned out a bit different if it had just been us. I hadn't noticed my face dropped until Alice replied.

"Eh, don't worry about it. She'll come around. I mean, it is Bella after all, you know she sucks at being all mushy. She's not a show-all-my-emotions-for-everyone-to-see kinda girl, ya know?"

She had a point there…

"Yeah I know."

Alice smiled gently, her earlier attitude gone, but could come back at any unknown time. "It'll happen, I can just feel it."

I can only hope, right?

Alice's POV:

"Rosalie! Pick up your damn phone! Making progress on the GEABT plan! You there, or are you like sucking face with Emmett?" I waited a second and when she didn't answer I sighed, "Right, probably sucking face with Emmett. Whatever, just give me a call back, bye!"

Uh, I'm assuming no one knows what the GEABT plan is right? It just stands for the 'Get Edward And Bella Together' plan. I mean, we all know it's going to happen, just no one knows when. We are getting dangerously close though! Edward just told her! How much easier could this get? We just have to get Bella to tell him and bada-boom, bada-bing, you have a happy couple!

It didn't take long for Rosalie to call back. She was a bit breathless, almost as if she had been running, "Hey Ali, what's up? You thought of something?" Before I could answer Rose started giggling, "Emmett stop, I'm on the phone."

"Just to let you know, I'm rolling my eyes."

She laughed, "Whatever, just, what's the idea? What do we have to do?"

"Let's just say, it involves duct tape. And a lot of it."

"I'm not even sure I want to know anymore." Rose said with a small laugh.

"Oh, you'll like it, trust me."

"Alright, so, what exactly do we have to do?"

I smiled inwardly to myself, "Leave Emmett for a couple hours, I think he'll live. Meet me at Bella's house in fifteen minutes and bring a thing of duct tape. This is gonna be good."

"Alright will do," she said before hanging up.

"Oh Edward!" I called up to his room, "Come on down, we're gonna go to Bella's, and you're coming!" I grabbed the duct tape and put it near the top of my green purse.

Here it goes, and Bella, you better cooperate.

Bella's House

"Knock knock! Your best friends are here!" I chirped as I flung open Bella's door. Who knocks anymore? It's totally overrated, especially when it's your best friend's house.

"Alice," Edward hissed, "What's the big deal? Why are you in such a hurry?"

I shrugged, "You'll find out soon." I snuck a glance at Rose. She gave me a small smile and I winked.

"Bella? Where are you?" I called as I walked in farther and motioned for the others to follow me. Edward came in last, giving me the weirdest look. Sometimes I think he thinks I have problems. How could he think that though? I at least am honest with myself.

"In my room," I heard Bella call down faintly. The cancer has really gotten to her. The chemo hasn't really been helping lately. She's always tired and she can't go to school anymore. I don't see how she still has the spirit she does. It's like she doesn't let it get to her. She's strong in that way. I don't think I could ever do that.

I sighed thinking about what I was going to have to do to her. It sort of made me feel bad, but the feeling quickly went away. She may hate me once I do what I'm about to do, but it'll pay off; when the two of them are all happily ever after in ten years, they'll thank me. Well, if they are both…well in ten years.

I shook the thought from my head. Bella will live. Positive thinking is what we have to do. We have to be positive.

I opened the door quickly and opened my arms wide, "Bella! I haven't seen you in forever!" I exclaimed when I saw her.

She hugged me tight then hugged Rosalie, "Yeah, because two days is forever."

"It is in my book," I laughed.

Her gaze flickered to Edward and he gave her a weak smile. She tried to return it, but there was something in her eyes that you could tell was holding back.

I tried to ignore it. Mentioning it won't help me any, so there was no point in it.

My eyes flashed towards Rose and I nodded as the sign to go. I got closer to Bella and laid a hand on her shoulder. She was sitting on her spinning computer chair. She had been on her laptop when we walked in.

Rosalie got closer to Edward. He was just standing there, but before I could even blink, Rosalie pushed him down on a white chair. It looked like a kitchen chair. I never really understood why it was in her room, but you like what you like I suppose.

Rose whipped out her duct tape and started wrapping it around Edward's wrists and attached him to the chair.

"What the hell?" He exclaimed.

"Sorry bro, we had to." I told him as I moved quickly around Bella doing the same to her. It wasn't all that hard considering she couldn't really fight back.

Once they were both confined to the chairs with pretty much all the duct tape we rolled Bella's chair right in front of Edward's.

"Alice," Bella hissed in between her teeth. "What in the world are you doing?"

Edward smirked and snorted, "You took the words right out of my mouth."

Bella didn't bother trying to get out. She's not the strongest person when she's healthy, let alone sick. Edward on the other hand…he was trying, but failing miserably.

I kneeled down on the floor so I could face both of them. "Alright, here's the deal, we aren't leaving this room, until you both tell each other how you feel."

"Alice, you sound like you're from some Hallmark movie," Rose said trying to conceal a smile.

I shrugged, 'If it works, I could care less."

"If you didn't already know," Edward seethed, "I did."

You think you have brother problems? Ever meet Mr. PMS Edward?

Rose took this as a chance to speak, "Yeah, well, we need both of you on the same page."

"We told you we'd do this Bella." I smirked.

"Do what?" Edward exclaimed. When no one answered him he shook his head, "Girls."

Bella didn't say anything the whole time, but her face got bright red. At least it had more color than normal. That's when I really realized what she was wearing. Navy blue sweats, a red tank top and a yellow baseball cap! If she wasn't sick, she'd be dead.

"Edward, tell her again what you told her before."

He rolled his eyes but then looked pretty serious. Bella's eyes were averted. She looked down and tried to hide her blush.

"Bells, you know how I feel. I don't expect you to feel the same way, and I don't want things to be awkward between us. Just…forget I said anything, please?" His eyes pleaded with her.

That was when she looked up, eyes glinting with tears.

Bella's POV:

He's trying to make this hard, isn't he? Just forget it, how am I supposed to do that?

I saw the look in his eyes. The pain he was feeling and it was my fault. I was causing him pain by just being here.

"Tell him how you feel Bella." Alice urged and a single tear fell from my eye.

I looked up at her wordlessly and she had a small encouraging smile written on her lips.

"I'll tell him if you un-tape us."

She nodded. She took out a pair of scissors from my desk drawer and carefully cut the tape from both my wrists, then Edward's. It stung a bit.

I brought my eyes back to Edward and took a deep breath. I was going to do it. I was going to tell him how I felt and I wasn't going to hold back.

"I can't forget what you said." I told him simply. "I really can't."

"Just try? I'm sorry, I wasn't thinking…"

"Can I finish?" I asked him and he closed his mouth. "I can't forget, and I don't want to forget." I whispered and looked down again.

"The truth is, I like you too. I have for a while, but that doesn't change anything." I looked up to see Alice's expression but realized she and Rose had left. Gone downstairs, maybe?

"What are you talking about?" He asked, and took one of my hands in both of his. "That changes everything!"

"No it doesn't. I shouldn't like you like that, I just…can't." I told him, my bottom lip quivering a little bit more with each word.

He squeezed my hand gently, "Why not?"

"I'm hurting you," I confessed. "I can see it…and what happens if I die? If we…I don't know, start something, that'll make it even worse. I can't do that to you!" My body was starting to heat up. Fever or feelings I'm not sure. Maybe even a little bit of both.

His expression softened as I looked up into his mesmerizing emerald green eyes.

"You're not going to die. You'll be just fine." He told me earnestly. "It's going to work out, okay?"

"But what if it doesn't?" I asked him seriously. "Not everyone gets through things like this."

He took my head into his hands and stared straight into my eyes. "Isabella Marie Swan, don't ever talk like that. I'll be here with you through thick and thin. No matter what Bella, I'll be here."

And with the last word, his lips gently touched mine for the second time. Only this time, it meant something.

A/N: Ahh, so did you like it?! Finally getting somewhere with their relationship right?! Sorry for the long delay, I've been having a really bad case of writers block, so if anyone has any good ideas for future chapters, please let me know!

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PS Sorry for updating this chapter twice, I noticed a mistake.