Chapter 3

It was around twelve in the afternoon when my phone beeped and I received a text message from Rosalie.

She said, 'Check the entertainment section of L.A Today, ASAP.'

I lifted my cup of coffee and picked the newspaper and turned towards the entertainment section. I almost dropped the cup as soon as my eyes landed on the article Rosalie must have wanted me to check out.

There were photographs of Edward and me from last night's party. In the first picture, Edward and I were driving up to the club in his Volvo. In the second one, we were dancing and in the third one, I was standing there with a worried expression on my face as he argued with Tanya. The captions that went with the story said, 'Bella Swan and Edward Cullen attend Jane Volturi's Birthday Bash', 'Moonlight Super Stars are dating!' and finally, the last one said, 'Bellward, we caught you.'

I sat still, staring at the pictures, thinking of ways how the paparazzi caught us together and that Aro must be happy that he got such good results so quickly. I would have sat there for another thirty five minutes when my phone began to ring. I answered on the third ring, without checking the Caller I.D.

"Bella," shouted the loud voice of my best friend, Jacob Black. "Why didn't you tell me that you're dating Cullen?"

I sighed. I'm sure I wasn't allowed to tell anyone of Edward and my little forced fake dating arrangement and even though Jacob's my best friend from my hometown, Forks, I 'd also have to keep him from the truth.

"Hi Jake", I said in to the phone. "It's been a week since I've heard from you. What's going on?"

Jacob snorted. "Gee Bella, don't try to distract me. Just tell me, when did you start dating Cullen?"

"It's a recent development."

"So when did he ask you out?"

I bit back a groan and tried to explain to Jacob as carefully as I could that Edward and I started dating a few days ago. I hated lying but there was nothing else that I could do. Suddenly someone knocked at the door and turned to see who it was. I glanced through the peep hole and it was none other than Edward.

"I gotta go, Jake. Edward's here."

"Bye Bells. I miss you. Come home soon", said Jacob sadly before hanging up.

I pulled open the door and ushered Edward in.

"Hi", I said. "I didn't know you were coming today."

Edward shook his head. "I was passing by and thought that I'd ask you if you want go out for lunch right now."

"Sure, I'd love to", I answered with a smile. "Just give me a minute to change."

With that, I walked to my room and changed in to something appropriate for lunch.

Thirty minutes later, I sat across Edward at Marcus's dinner, which was two blocks away from where I lived.

Edward sat silent, with a thoughtful expression on his face. He kept on playing with the fries on his plate.

"Is everything alright?" I asked. "You look a bit distracted."

Edward attempted to smile. "I got a call from my sister today. She's coming over to visit me in a couple of days."

"So, what's with the sad face?"

"I'm not sure how I'll be able to keep this secret from her. I've never kept anything from Alice."

"I know how you feel. My best childhood friend Jacob almost gave me a heart attack earlier today. He was shouting about how I didn't personally didn't tell him that… we're dating", I laughed lightly.

Edward smiled as well. "Well, I'm an actor, I'm sure I'll be able to convince Alice."

We continued eating our fries and burgers until we were interrupted by a teenage girl who came up to us.

"Hi… I'm Bree Tanner. Umm, could I please get your autographs?" nervously asked the girl.

Edward looked towards me and I shrugged. I was Ok with signing something for Bree. And apparently, so was he.

"Yeah, what do you want us to sign for you?" said Edward kindly.

Bree pulled a folded up poster out of her bag and spaced it out on the table. It was a picture of Edward and me, posing for a Teen Scene magazine shoot. She handed me a pink Sharpie and I swiftly signed my name in the corner, and then tossed it to Edward. He took even lesser time than me to sign his initials and then returned the pen and poster back to its owner.

She ran out of the diner. "I saw Edward Cullen and Bella Swan!" she screamed at the top of her lungs once she was out.

Edward and I groaned. We knew what was going to happen next. We jumped off our seats and ran back to Edward's car but a group of about twenty teenagers swarmed around us.

There was nothing we could do besides sign autographs for them.

A/N: Hey. What did you think of this chapter?

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In the next chapter: Enter Alice Cullen.

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