DISCLAIMER: I'm still not her. Please stop asking. J/k you can ask, but the answer just won't change.

BPOV

Thanksgiving Weekend

I woke up early on Thanksgiving. Renee, Charlie, Emmett, and I were all going over to the Masen's house for the holiday meal. Mom was planning on making a couple casseroles, which usually meant I was planning on making a couple casseroles. My mother is a wonderful housewife, if you take out the whole cooking and clean aspects of it. It's just two of the reasons we encouraged her to go back and get her teaching certificate. I went down to the kitchen and began piecing together a vegetable casserole. I also started peeling a bunch of sweet potatoes for a sweet potato casserole that would make Charlie happy. I was halfway finished with the cooking when Renee came into the kitchen.

"Oh honey! I would have done that for you if you told me you were going to get up this early." We both knew that it was safer for everyone that I hadn't involved her, but I would make her feel as involved as possible, if it made her feel better.

"I know mom, but I just couldn't sleep any longer. So I decided to give you the year off. So you can just relax in the living room with dad and Emmett. I'm almost finished here anyways. Unless of course you want to wash the dishes for me…" I could usually guilt mom into doing the dishes each year. She usually was more than happy to help clean up since I made the food.

After both dishes were in the oven, the phone rang. I went to answer it as I set a timer. "Hello?"

"Bella? Hey! It's Edward. I was wondering if I could talk to you before dinner today. What time are you and your family planning on getting here?"

"Well Edward… Dinner is at 2, so why don't we plan on getting there at 1. That should give us plenty of time to talk while the mothers all work together in the kitchen. Who all is going to be there again?"

"Well, there's your family and mine, the Hales are coming by, and my mom's sister and her husband are going to be here. Why?"

"Oh just making sure the casseroles are big enough for all of us. I miss you."

"Yeah, well, I better get going Bella. I'll see you in a few hours."

We hung up the phone and I was left to my thoughts. I decided to sit at the table and work on as much of my homework as possible. We had a tournament for the basketball team the next two nights, which meant I wouldn't have a lot of time until Sunday. If I was lucky, I would be able to spend that day with Edward as well. I worked to finish my English paper and started my math. I was lost in math, but luckily Edward had agreed to "tutor" me, as long as I let him "borrow" some of our other homework assignments.

By the time 1 o'clock rolled around, I was almost finished with my homework. I had a little bit of social studies to work on, but nothing that would take a while. We packed up the car and traveled over to the Masen's for dinner. The first thing I noticed was a very expensive looking black Mercedes in the driveway. I also noticed the Hale's car was also parked. Once we were parked, I helped mom carry in one of the dishes and went straight to the kitchen with the food. Alice and Elizabeth were there, running around, finishing the preparations for dinner. I set the plate down while wishing everyone a "Happy Thanksgiving" and went off in search of Edward.

I went up to his room and saw him lying on top of his bed listening to music. I tiptoed into his room and sat beside him, placing a quick peck on his cheek. "Happy Thanksgiving, Edward. Why are you hiding up here?"

"I'm not hiding. I just figured I could talk to you privately up here. You look beautiful by the way."

"Okay. I'm listening. What do you want to talk about?"

I could hear my heart pumping in my ears as he sat silent for a few moments. "Well, Bella… I did something really stupid Wednesday. You know how Jessica and Lauren are always hanging around practice, right?"

I took a deep breath. This was going to be bad, I could tell by the way he wouldn't look at me. "Yeah… what happened?"

"Well, they came up to me yesterday and said that they were willing to…" He got up from the bed and walked over to his window.

"Edward, please just tell me. I'm a big girl. I can take whatever it is." I knew my fairy tale was too good to be true. I was just waiting for him to say the words.

"Well, they said that they were both willing to sleep with me… And I… well…"

I knew the day would come when Edward would realize I wasn't enough to hold his attention. "I see… Well, I guess that's that then… I'm…" I got up to leave the room. I was halfway to the door when I felt Edward's arms wrap around me from behind.

"No, you have the wrong idea. I didn't sleep with them Bella. It's just, me and my big mouth… I kind of told them, well, I made it seem like I wasn't interested in sleeping with them, because we were…."

He buried his head in my hair as the pieces came together in my head. "Edward Masen, did you tell them we were sleeping together?"

He nodded his head sheepishly. He still wasn't looking me in the eye. I glared at him for a few moments. "Edward… what am I supposed to say to people? What am I supposed to say when Emmett hears about this? Is that what you want, for people to think that I'm the type of girl to sleep with my first boyfriend, after only a couple weeks?" I was so angry that he would do this to me. Everyone knows what types of reputation this would give me. I ripped myself from his arms and walked out of the room before he could stop me.

Dinner passed by without too much drama. I got to talk with Elizabeth's sister Esme. Esme's husband was a doctor at the hospital in Port Angeles. They were going to be visiting all through the holiday weekend, and would even be at the basketball games this weekend. By the time we left, I was still angry with Edward. My family and I left and I barely hugged Edward back when I was walking out the door.

That night, as I was lying in my bed, I heard a tapping on my window. I walked over to it, to see Edward sitting on top of a branch outside my window. "Edward! What are you doing here?!" I said in a hushed whisper.

"I needed to talk to you. You have every right to be angry, but please, just hear me out. Please?"

I moved away from the window so he could get inside the room. I listened intently to hear whether or not Charlie was going to come bounding into my room at any moment. I sat on my bed with Edward beside me. We sat silently for some of the longest minutes of my life. "Bella, I have no right to ask you of this, but please don't hate me. I know I'm a jerk for saying those things to the two biggest gossips in the school, and I'll understand if you don't want to date me anymore, but please don't stop being my friend. I don't know how I would get through the day without you there to talk to, even if we aren't dating."

I sighed. "Edward. You hurt me. You know me better than that to know that I would be happy about this. I don't know what you expected from me. However, there is one thing you can be damn sure of after all of this.

"Bella, I am sorry. I know. I promise, I'll find somewhere else to sit at lunch, and I promise I won't bother you ever again." He stood up to leave my room. I stood up and followed him across my room. He was halfway out the room when I found my voice again.

"Edward, I never said I would stop being your friend. But for right now, I don't think it's a good idea to be your girlfriend. I obviously am not the type of girl you want to date anyways. So we may as well just stay friends, and that way, school and basketball won't be so awkward."

I smiled at him so he would know I was being serious. I really didn't want to lose his friendship, even if we weren't dating anymore. I kissed his cheek and wished him luck for the games this weekend before shutting the window and going back to bed. This was going to be a long season, I just hope my heart was up to it.