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" Ugh." Yet again my alarm clock woke me up way too early for my comfort. I rolled out of bed glancing at the clock as I did so. Well at least it was later than yesterday, I told myself. Although 8:00 seems a lot earlier when you didn't get in until 3:00 am and then didn't fall asleep until much later than that.

I pulled on yoga pants and a sports bra and walked out of the room still half asleep. Yawning, I made my way outside and to the practice running arena.

I had gone around the track a few times at a leisurely pace before I began to fully wake up. And when I did, I wished for the sweet oblivion that being half asleep had afforded me. Last nights events were way to clear in my memory for my taste.

Flashback:

He caught my eye and with a smile headed in my direction. Ignoring his sister's greeting he span me into his arms and away into the crowd.

" Um, Edward, what are you doing?"

" What does it look like, I'm stealing you away, Bella."

I tried to pull away, but he held me closer, his body dancing sinuously with mine. I raised my eyebrows at him and looked pointedly at his arms snared around my waist.

"Oh, just one dance, Bella, what could it hurt" he begged. The look in his gorgeous green eyes as he stared into mine made it impossible to refuse or even more disturbingly, find it in me the desire to pull away. Rather than trust my voice, I twisted my arms around his neck in response.

The song changed, the tempo a little faster than what we had been dancing to. Edward caught me off guard by spinning me out and back in. I noted the spark of amusement and the hint of a challenge in his eyes as I regained my balance. Alright so that's how he wanted to play it. I loved nothing better than a challenge.

With a smirk I upped my dancing, swaying my hips and complicating the footwork. His answering smirk was a little late as he adjusted to the new moves. The dance had a little Cha Cha to it (AN- think the dance from Bring It On: In it to Win It) and the floor was soon cleared as people watched us. Edward dipped me as the song ended. Our crowd erupted in cheers and I blushed prettily.

A slow dance followed and I ignored the voice in my head and took Edward's offered hand. " You know Bella means beautiful," he asked with suggestion as he pulled me close.

" Like, I haven't heard that one before," I answered.

" Well, you look way more than beautiful tonight, you look drop dead sexy," his arm slid from my waist and landed a little lower on my butt.

" That's it." I pulled away and began to walk away until a hand gripped my waist and dipped me again. Edward's lips crashed onto mine. I pushed him away as soon as I got over the shock and practically sprinted through the crowd back to our table; feeling his eyes on my back the whole time.

"Bella, what's wrong," Alice's voice was concerned as I slid back onto the barstool next to her.

"Nothing," I answered, not caring enough that I couldn't lie convincingly as I registered the tingling in my lips and the butterflies in my stomach and what they meant.

She opened her mouth to push it, when our stools suddenly left the floor.

" Hey, lookey what I found, two little dolls," a booming voice echoed jokingly next to my ear.

" Emmett", Alice squealed. She jumped into his arms the second he placed our stools gently back on the floor. " Where is Rose?"

I heard when he told Alice that Rose was at a shoot somewhere, but didn't really pay attention to what he said after that due to the fact that Edward had just made his way over to our little group.

Without stopping to think of anything except my not wanting to get stuck anywhere near him, I turned to the person next to me. The person right next to me was Jacob Black, another member of the U.S.A swim team and Edward's biggest rival. Perfect.

"Dance," I commanded. I bit my lip and tried to look as flirty as possible. Apparently it worked, with a dazed look, Jacob stood up and allowed himself to be pulled onto the dance floor.

I began to dance sinuously, not sluttily, but still slightly risqué. I was goaded out of my normally shy behavior by the hungry look in Edward's eyes as they bore a hole in my back.

The rest of the night was a blur. Everything moved too fast so that nothing really stood out clearly. One thing that did stand out above the rest was one thing that I wished I couldn't remember clearly. Somehow at some point I ended up making out with Jacob. Full out make out, like on his lap tongues dueling for dominance while hands ran rampant.

And if that wasn't bad enough, our make out session ended abruptly when someone took a picture of us with a camera. Yeah, a picture of us making out. Then to top it all off, the bartender delivered a note shortly after that.

'Great picture', the note read, 'look for it in print.'

It was at that point that I went numb. I could be kicked off the team for something this scandalous. I don't know what I would have done if it wasn't for Alice and Mike. Somehow they managed to get me back to the hotel and in bed.

(End Flashback)

I began to run faster, as though by picking up the speed I could outrun last night and all its gory consequences. Soon I was speeding past all the other athletes on the track.

A charlie-horse finally forced me to slow down. Gasping and rubbing the pulled muscle, I collapsed on the grassy center part of the track.

" God, Bella, you should go out for track rather than gymnastics." Mike's voice cut into my awareness. His voice was gentle, but still it broke my tenuous hold on my emotions and I began sobbing.

He took me into his arms, until I was able to control myself.

" Come on, let's get you back to your room." Mike pulled me to my feet and wrapped an arm around me, supporting most of my weight as we exited the track field. Many people were staring and I looked right past them, until I saw one pair of unique green eyes burning into me with an almost pitying intensity.

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Meg