"Hey boys, how are you?"

"GOOD! WE WENT TO THE PARK TODAY!" I loved how the boys always yelled thing when they were excited. No matter how may time I told them to use their 'inside voice' when they were on the phone, they still did it their way.

"That sounds nice. What..."

"Mummy, when are you coming home?"

"Soon baby, I promise."

"We miss you."

"I miss you too. Can you put dad on?"

"Okay." They held the phone away from them to yell out to Jake that I wanted to talk to him. "He's here. Bye mum, we love you!"

"Hello?" He answered sleepily.

"Were you sleeping?"

"I was taking a nap. The boys are fine."

I took deep breaths to calm down. Yelling at him wasn't going to solve anything. "Just don't do it again, okay?"

"Fine. What did you want?"

"Just letting you know that I'll be home in about three weeks."

"Great. Hey listen, I have to go. Jane just got here."

"Jane? Who's?.." Nice. He hung up on me. If he had a girlfriend over there I was going to kill him. He had a horrible attention span and would most likely ignore the boys all night. Why did I think that he was 'the one'?

To take my mind off the situation, I went downstairs to the kitchen to make myself something to eat. Dad was already at work and the house was quiet, so I thought that I would use this opportunity to watch some trashy television on dad's prized possession, his brand new flat screen t.v.

Just as I was adding the final touches to my sandwich, there was a knock at the door. I opened it and found Edward standing there.

"Hey. Come in." He walked in, shut the door and kissed me. Hard.

"Hello to you too." I laughed, while he continued to kiss whatever part of me he could.

"I missed you. And thinking about our whole Jacuzzi escapade the other day wasn't helping me. So I needed to see you."

"Well I'm glad you did. Do you want a sandwich?"

"Nope." He said, his mouth still attached to my neck.

"So what do you want then?"

He looked up at me, and my god, he was gorgeous.

"You."

I laughed. "My god! Have you used that line on many women? And if you have, did it work?"

"Way to ruin the mood!"

"I'm sorry. But it was cheesy." I said, trying to hold back laughter and failing miserably as Edward was shooting me very dirty looks.

"Well, now you're not going to get the gift I bought to today."

"Gift? What gift?" I walked over to him and began to pat him down in an attempt to find it. But I don't think that it helped with Edward's current...situation.

"I know what you're trying to do, and if you know what's good for you, you'll stop."

"What?" I asked innocently. "I was just trying to find the gift."

"No you weren't."

I walked over to him until we were standing chest to chest. "Then what was doing?"

"Starting something that you don't want to finish..."

"I'M BACK!" I sighed as Charlie walked through the door and interrupted our little sexy time. He must have realised that as he offered to go over to his friend's house to watch the game.

"Don't worry about it. Stay here, we'll go out."

"Are you sure? Hey Edward, do you wanna watch the game?"

Just as I was about to protest, Edward agreed and that is how I spent my whole day, Drinking beers and eating Chinese food out of the cartons with my two boys.

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"So, were you planning of getting sexy lingerie for Edward tonight?" Alice asked, waggling her eyebrows suggestively.

"No. But I could use some new clothes."

"Don't I know it." Rose mumbled behind me. Bitch. What was she even doing here? The original plan was for me and Alice to go shopping, but as soon as Rose heard about it, she wanted in too. That was until we showed up at her house. She said hi to Alice, insulted my dress ("I think my grandmother had a dress like that in the 80's) and criticised what I was eating. ("Chinese Bella? Really?").

I turned to Rose. "You know, I don't think all that bronzer is working for you. I think everyone's adapted a 'less is more' approach to self tanning this season. Why don't we go over to the cosmetics department and see if we can't find you something nice there? Okay sweetie?" I threw her a patronising smile.

"I know that they may have taken that approach, but it seems to me that you could stand to use a little more. You know, just to enhance your appearance."

OH HELLS NO! She was going down!

Just as I was about to grab her hair (yes, I was such a girl) Alice pulled me back, claiming that she needed my opinion on something and told Rose to go ahead and we'd meet up with her later.

"Alice, can I just go home? She must be going through that early stages of menopause, and I can't put up with her anymore."

"You could stand to be a little nicer. She made the effort to come to hang out with you."

"No Alice, she made the effort to hang out with you. When she saw me in the car, the only thing stopping her from going back in was the amount of money that Emmett gave her for this shopping trip. She hates me and I really don't want to be subjected to this. I love you, and I'll call you later." I kissed her on the cheek and told her to have fun and was on my way.

But just as I was about to walk through the door, a little window display caught my attention. It was a shop that sold beautiful lingerie. Well, at least it looked amore classy than what they had at all those other sleazy shops. I walked in (just to look around, I told myself) but once I was approached by the saleslady (who looked like Rose. She and her clones are taking over the word I tell you! But was actually nice) I managed to spend $280. And when I walked out of there, I was freaking out that I was going o bump into someone I know and that they would demand to know what I bought. But I did manage to flag down a cab, and arrive home, not being approached by people asking what I bought.

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It was date night, and I was still standing in front of my closet in my newly acquired lingerie trying to find out what to wear. I went through many options but nothing seemed to work. And now Edward was here judging from the incessant ringing of the doorbell. But to my surprise (and horror) it was actually Rose standing at my door.

"Are you lost or something?"

"I wish. Alice, god knows why, asked me to drop this off for her."

I took the bag from her.

"Well thanks." She nodded and walked away. Fine by me.

I was just about to turn back when there was more banging on the door.

"What do you want k...Edward!"

"Please put something on! What are you doing answering the door like that?"

I looked down and realised that in my rush to answer the door the first time, I grabbed the robe that never seems to want to stay closed and that my underwear were out for the whole world to see.

"This is a faulty robe. But do you like what's underneath it?"

"I really do." He said as he managed to push the robe off my shoulders until it was pooled around my feet.

"I thought that the plan for tonight was going to get dinner."

"We can skip all that and just stay in..."

I pulled away. "No way mister. Food was promised and I'm hungry, so we're going. Let me get dressed and then we'll leave."

Once alone in my bedroom, I decided to change my underwear as he had already seen this set. I opted for a lacy black teddy hoping that it wasn't too slutty and dressed in the simple red dress that Alice gave me. I paired it with my red suede shoes and we were on our way.

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As our desert (or what was left of it) was taken away, we kept up the conversation. It was really easy to talk to him, and I was having a great time getting to know him better.

"You really do look gorgeous tonight."

"Thanks."

"But," He leaned in closer "I can't help but notice that there's no blue under that dress. And that can only mean one thing."

"Which is..."

"You changed. And I for one cannot wait to see what you changed into. Can I get a hint?"

"It's black and lacy. Oh, and it comes off very easily." I said while sipping my wine. It was so much fun to tease him like this.

"Well in that case, let's get you home."