Disclaimer: Not mine. Blah blah blah.

This is a short chapter, but I am going to attempt to get another one posted tonight. After the next chapter, we will be jumping in time.

Chapter 7

BPOV

Ex-fucking-cuse me!

"I'm sorry Emmett. I think I may be having hearing problems tonight. I thought you just said that is Edward's girlfriend." I laughed at the absurdity of what I thought he had just told me. My laughter quickly died when Emmett decided to speak again.

"Nope. You heard right. That's his girlfriend. Has been for a while now." In the time it took Emmett to say those few very small sentences, my mood drastically changed. Earlier this evening, I was being pleasured, albeit remotely, by Edward. Then, I get a chance to repay the favor in the lounge and now I'm being told he has a fucking girlfriend.

Apparently he doesn't understand who Bella Fucking Swan is.

I took a deep breath before turning and approaching the couch where Fuckward was sitting with Twatnya draped on him. My presence wasn't noticed immediately, so I was able to get myself in a good position to watch his reaction to me.

"Hi guys. Having a good time?" I plastered on my kill-with-kindness smile and looked between the two loverbirds. Edward's head snapped up and his eyes met mine. I took a second to attempt to gauge the emotions running across his face, but it became pointless when he became completely expressionless. He took on the look of hatred he had shown me in school his first weeks.

"Good evening Bella." His smooth voice made me want to jump on his lap, but I quickly deemed that inappropriate behavior given the circumstances.

"Oh. Mr. Cullen I'm really surprised to see you here. I mean, it is great that you were able to get the stick out of your ass long enough to come have some fun, but you seem to have some residual effects from it." I looked to his girlfriend and gave her my award winning smile. "Oh, you must be the girlfriend. How irritating is it to be around such a fucking douche bag all the time?" I continued to smile and cocked my head to the side as I awaited her answer to my question.

Tanya's eyes widened as she leaned into Edward. Oh. Marking her territory. I smirked at her reaction and rolled my eyes. "Not a talker, huh?" Again, I left room for her to contribute to the conversation, but got nothing from her. I sighed heavily, realizing this was just a waste of my time and decided to check out the rest of the VIP section.

"Bella. I need to talk to you about -" Edward was cut off by someone yelling my name.

"BELLS!" A deep, husky voice boomed from the entrance of the VIP room. I knew that voice anywhere, so I turned quickly to find the owner. Standing in the doorway, blocking it from everyone else was Jacob Black. Not seeing him since the day I hurt my shoulder, I was excited to spend some time with him.

"Jake!" I ran and jumped in his arms, throwing my arms around his neck and my legs around his waist.

"Hells yeah! If this is the reaction I get every time I see you, I will be visiting Forks more often!" Jake placed a kiss on my cheek and spun me around before letting down.

"So, I'm supposed to be dancing. Want to join?" I batted my eyelashes and gave Jake a sweet, innocent look.

"Shit. Bells. You do know that you can't pull off innocent very well, right?" He laughed when I pouted and grabbed my wrist to take me to the VIP dance floor. "And of course I want to dance. I just made a special song request."

Jacob and I started dancing as The Pink by Ying Yang Twins started playing. I rolled my eyes at his silliness, but danced with him anyway. I actually enjoyed dancing to the song because it was a definite grinding song, but a slow grind. It was perfect for showing Edward what he was missing, and had the added benefit of me finding out what Jacob was packing.

While dancing, I started going through my options of what to do now that I found out Edward has a girlfriend, yet obviously has some kind of attraction to me.

Option 1: Tell him to fuck off and move on with my life.

Option 2: Tell him to fuck me and…well, who cares after that.

Option 3: Make him jealous and make sure he understands what he's missing.

Option 4:…

"Bells?" I shook my head to clear my thoughts when I heard Jacob trying to get my attention. Doesn't he realize I am busy coming up with a list?

"Sorry. What?" I smiled at him and batted my eye lashes a little in an attempt to make him forget I was obviously not paying attention to him. Luckily, it worked. Typical male. Go all stupid at the sight of a chick acting flirtatiously.

"I was just asking if you want to go sit down." I looked to where he was motioning for us to sit and saw that it was the seating area currently housing Assward and Taintyna.

"I would love to!" I grabbed his hand and pulled him to the only free seat, which just happened to be a large chair. I pushed him down and took my place in his lap. After a very short debate in my head over what I should do, I decided I was in the mood to get some and Jacob would do.

I leaned into Jacob and began placing kisses on his neck. I heard his breathing hitch for a second and felt him stiffen slightly. As I made my way up to his jaw, he began to relax and his hands found their way to my lower back. I pulled back slightly to look in his eyes, almost asking for permission before continuing my assault. I saw pure lust in his eyes and decided to go on with my mission.

As I slowly leaned in to kiss him, I heard someone clear their throat quite loudly, causing me to jump away from Jacob slightly. I looked for the culprit and found Edward glaring at me and Jacob. I stared at him for a second trying to figure out what he could possibly want, but he said nothing.

Shrugging, I turned my attention back to Jacob and decided to make myself a little more comfortable in his lap. I turned myself so I was straddling his legs and wiggled my hips in time to the music, which was met with a very nice reaction from little Jacob. Although, I would call what I was feeling little by any means.

This time, Jacob moved his hands to my waist as I moved in to get back to where we were before we were interrupted. My lips brushed against his just as I heard another loud clearing of someone's throat.

"Oh for fucks sake!" I threw my hands up in the air in frustration and turned to glare at Edward. I was shocked when I saw that not only was he glaring right back, but so was Tanya. I furrowed m brow in confusion. Why would some random chick by angry with me for kissing on some hot guy? I continued staring at Tanya trying to figure out what was going on, but noticed I was not the person she was glaring at. She was angry with Jacob.

I blew out a breath and decided this was all just too much drama for me and jumped up off of Jacob's lap. I saw Victoria walking through the room, so I quickly made my way to her.

"Victoria!" She turned and smiled as soon as she saw me.

"My beautiful Bella!" Victoria gave me a hug that lasted a little longer than I was expecting, but I guess she was just having a great night.

"I was wondering if I could get out of here. It has been a crazy night." I tried to act like I was tired and she seemed to buy it.

"Oh. Of course. No problem. I'll see you on Tuesday to start swing girl training, right?" Victoria put her hand on my shoulder and gradually let it trace down my arm until she reached my hand and held it. Weird.

"Wouldn't miss it! I can't wait to do that!" I politely pulled my hand from hers and gave her a quick goodbye before looking for Rose and Alice to let them know I was leaving.

I found Rose dry-humping Emmett and motioned to her that I was leaving. A quick search had me locating Alice with Edward's friend, Jasper. I caught her eye and gave her the same gesture to let her know I was out of there. After that, I stealthily snuck out of the VIP room to grab my things from the lounge to leave.

Just as I was leaving the lounge, I ran into someone and started to fall before they grabbed me and steadied me. Looking up, I saw the last person I wanted to see that night.

"What?" I asked curtly.

"I just need to explain some things to you." Edward had a look of pain on his face as he pleaded with me.

"There's really nothing to explain. You were teasing me while you had a girlfriend." I sighed. "It's no big deal, Edward." I turned to walk away when he caught my arm.

"No, Bella. You don't understand. Tanya is…" Edward apparently didn't realize that I didn't want to hear about his relationship.

"Stop." I cut him off. "I seriously just want to go home. I'll see you in class Mr. Cullen."

"Damn it Bella. Would you just listen to me?!" He threw his hands in the air in exasperation. This just infuriated me. Why would he feel that way toward me? I have done nothing wrong.

"Maybe some other time." This time he didn't try to stop me as I began to walk away. I turned back just before I reached the end of the hallway. "Oh, and don't worry. I will never tell anyone about this.." I gestured between the two of us. "whatever this was." With that, I walked back out the back door of the club and started to walk to my car.

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Monday rolled around all too quickly, even with me not talking to anyone all weekend. Although my friends did nothing wrong and didn't even know about the Edward situation I was dealing with, I wasn't in the mood to be around them. They had the ability to be happy and in the relationship they wanted to be in, but I was stuck lusting after my fucking teacher.

Not in the spirit of dressing up for school, I threw on a pair of jeans and a orange tank top. I called Alice to let her know I would be driving myself to school and made up an excuse that I needed to be able to leave right after school for an appointment. Luckily she didn't ask what the appointment was for, so I didn't have to lie even more to her.

My plan to get through the day as quickly as possible with no confrontations was shot to hell as soon as I walked up to my locker and found Lauren trolling around.

"Damn. I need to put a No Loitering sign on my locker." I said to myself as I opened my locker to get everything organized for the day.

"Funny Bella." Lauren giggled which immediately clued me in that she was trying to get on my good side.

"What do you want?" I kept my tone as cold as possible hoping she would get the hint that I wasn't in the mood for her bullshit.

"Um…" yep, she got the whole get out of my face vibe I was throwing at her. "Sorry to bother you. I just wanted to see if you would put in a good with James for me." Lauren looked down, blushing at the request she just made of me.

I burst out into laughter once I realized exactly what she was asking of me.

"Lauren. Lauren. Lauren." I shook my head as I spoke her name. "Now, my dear. Why in the fuck would I ever put in a good for you with anyone, let alone James?" I tilted my head and gave her my are-you-fucking-insane smile while I waited for her answer.

She huffed.

"I just thought that since you don't want him anymore, you would be willing to help a friend out." Lauren crossed her arms over her chest and leaned against the locker next to mine.

"Um…okay. I would be happy to hook James up with one of my friends." I almost felt bad when I saw Lauren's eyes light up at my statement. "But, Lauren sweetie. You are definitely not one of my friends." I patter her shoulder to lessen the blow of the truth I was telling her.

"Oh. Okay. Well, thanks anyway." Lauren turned and walked away leaving me stunned.

At that moment, I noticed Mr. Cullen close by and knew he had heard my conversation with Lauren, so I decided to let him know I was not interested in playing his little games anymore.

"Oh, by the way, Lauren." I called out before she could get too far away. She turned and looked at me questioningly. "I think we're going to restart our arrangement anyway." I shrugged and smiled at her turning back to my locker to get my books for my first class, not checking to see what Mr. Cullen's reaction was.

My morning classes went by quickly with me only considering jumping out the window once in an attempt to get away from the idiots in my classes. Instead I began rating my fellow students on a scale of 1 to 10 on how much of a moron they were.

I took my time at my locker putting my books away during lunch, not really in the mood to eat anything and still not in the mood to talk to Alice and Rose. I really didn't need to listen to Rose tell me all about the number of times she and Emmett fucked over the weekend. If I'm not getting any, I choose to believe that no one else is.

Just as I closed my locker, someone came up behind me and pushed me up against it, holding my hands to my sides. Before I could register what was happening, the person began leaving kisses on my neck and nibbling on my ear lobe.

"I hear the arrangement is back on." James's husky whisper tickled my ear.

"Wow. News travels fast around here." I giggled and squirmed out of his grasp to turn to look at him. "Is that okay with you?" I purred while running my hand along his chest.

"Of course!" The smile on his face made me question why I ever stopped the arrangement to begin with. It was obvious he had some feelings for me and was willing to let me play around with him in any way just so he would be able to be with me. It made me feel slightly bad that I was just using him for entertainment purposes. But, I had to remind myself that I have always been honest with him and never led him to believe this could become more than friends with benefits type of thing.

"So, should we celebrate?" I questioned as I pulled his chest to me. Without even a nod, James grabbed my hand and pulled me to the first empty room we could find and locked the door.