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So here's the next chapter, and we passed 100 reviews! I was so super amazed by you all, thank you SO MUCH.

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So I've written another story if you wanted to check it out- Love is Blind:

AH: Bella's new neighbour seems to be just her type, too bad he's got his sights set on the wrong girl. Will Edward realize Bella's perfect for him? Because all is fair in love and war…

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Bella POV

I sat on my bed, staring at the neon orange vest that was resting on the stupid walking frame. Surely I didn't fall over and hurt people that much…

My thoughts were interrupted by a quick and shockingly loud banging on the door. I grabbed the walking frame and briefly put on the vest. I walked past the kitchen and grabbed a knife for protection. Whoever was on the other side of the door had a mighty temper and I was afraid that temper would be taken out on me. My mind created a montage of all of the possibilities. The most potent image that reoccurred in my thoughts was a deadly killer, wishing me to be his next victim. I shuddered and swung the door open, knife raised.

"HIIIIIIYAH!" I yelled at an unprepared Alice.

"Bella!" she screamed in fear. "Don't do that to me!" She wailed. "Wait, that's a brilliant idea Bella! If you accidentally cut my dress to shards, then I'll have no choice but to wear other clothes!" She grinned.

Then I looked down in what she was dressed in. I looked twice as bad as a shabby potato sack… but I had to hand it to her, she made it look better than it would look on someone like me. But what surprised me more was the bum bag she wore which I hadn't seen her receive yesterday. I couldn't help the laugh that erupted from me. It sounded like I had been put on laughing gas.

"Bella! You're supposed to be supportive! She said I couldn't change the dress in anyway, and besides, I don't think you're vest in much better…"

My laughing fell short.

Hoping to stop her glaring at me, I asked, "So why the bum bag?"

"It was on my front doorstep this morning from Mrs. Hamilton" She hissed.

Rosalie suddenly crept next to Alice. She was wearing a large hat and big shades.

"Is anyone looking?" She whispered.

"No, but they will do… You look completely suspicious Rose!" Alice giggled.

"I doubt you'd look bad without the hair and makeup done, you've always been drop dead gorgeous…" I smiled in envy.

Rosalie pulled of the glasses and smiled. "You think?"

"On other thoughts, maybe you should wear the glasses to match the hat…" Alice smiled awkwardly. Rosalie had huge black bags underneath her eyes and looked half dead. I never realized how much she had depended on makeup till now.

"Let's go grab a coffee… I could barely sleep last night I was having so many nightmares about this piece of bin liner... Wait, I can't buy it… Oh my gosh! I can't even buy freakin coffee! This is crazy! Shopping is part of daily life! It's needed to create civilization! I might have to bring coffee from home when we go" She whispered the last few words.

My chin fell and I felt my cheeks flush at the thought of being in the public eye with this stupid orange vest that blinded people and this crazy walking frame.

"NO! No, no, no…"

Half an hour later, I had been dragged, kicking and screaming, walking frame and all to the shopping centre. Rosalie was still wearing her over-the-top-large hat and sunglasses. I swear she was going to knock people out, the brim was that long. Alice was wearing her potato sack and bum bag and I was dressed in the stupid orange vest and had my walking frame in hand.

We must have looked a sight as we received continuous wary glances from passers by.

Alice continuously fell to the ground and started screaming as we passed certain store with countless sales. As we were making our orders at a coffee bar, Edward, Emmett and Jasper walked past.

"Jasper!" Alice squealed and ran up to him straight away.

"Ugh" he unwrapped Alice's arms from around his waist and threw them back to her sides in disgust. He turned around and stared into the sky. Alice was completely baffled by his unusual behavior. Emmett was laughing hysterically at Alice, pointing and crouched over, trying to catch his breath. Alice raise an eyebrow at him, shook her little head and focused back onto Jasper who looked like he was about to cry.

Rosalie walked over to Emmett but could barely stand near him as her hat was too large. She tried to tilt her head upwards so the hat would move and she could stand closer to him but ended up just hitting him with the hat.

"Ouch Rose! And don't get too close you little sexual kitten!" He growled as he tried to run away from her.

I caught eye contact with Edward but he showed no trace of emotion, instead just staring at me as if I was a mere pigeon on the sidewalk. Then I remembered what his assignment was, he wasn't allowed to show any emotion. This would definitely be fun…

"I can't believe we have to do this…" Edward growled to me, face still blank.

"It's not like it was my idea, it's your crazy family that signed us up for this…"

"But you're the crazy person they signed both of us up for…"

My mind went blank and I didn't have anything to say back to his insult, so I decided to go with the one thing that would get to him…

"Pervert!" I screamed. I saw a flicker of shock in his eyes but it still didn't reach his face.

"Huh?" He asked in a flat tone. I pouted as it wasn't as bad I thought it would be.

"No I will not have sex with you on that table!" His chin dropped and a few people swerved around us, one lady covering her child's ears and eyes. Edward looked like he was having trouble not showing any emotion now.

"Oh I think I can change your mind about that Bella…" He said, trying to catch my bluff as he took steps closer and closer to me. I picked up my walking frame and slammed it in between us so he couldn't get any closer.

"Didn't you learn never to assault a disabled lady?!"

"Bella, if you're trying to make me lose this bet, I can do the same and make you lose yours…"

"Oh yeah? I'd like to see that…" I smirked, knowing he couldn't do anything.

Edward ripped the orange vest off of me and I gasped at how quick his fingers moved and his inappropriate gesture.

A quite bulky waiter from the restaurant tapped Edward on the shoulder from behind him. Edward turned around and was given a full blown punch to his face. Edward fell onto my walking frame and clutched his nose.

"What the fuck!" He shouted as the waiter walked off, mumbling about respect.

"Revenge is a bitch isn't it?" I smiled. "Oh, and wait, isn't anger an emotion Edward?" I asked coyly.

"Bella, it doesn't count if he got punched in the face because you wanted to get back at him for calling you crazy!" Alice gasped, trying to keep in a peek of laughter. But now that she mentioned it, it was a bit of an over reaction on my behalf and I felt sort of guilty.

"Sorry Edward…" I mumbled as he got to his feet. His eye looked like it was starting to swell. "We should get you some ice… Can we have some ice over here please?" I shouted over to the passing waiter.

A few minutes later, Alice, Rosalie, Emmett and Jasper had all disappeared and I was left covering Edward's face with the ice pack.

"I won't tell if you won't tell…" I smiled half heartedly.

He nodded with the same expressionless face that was starting to get on my nerves.

"So how have you been in the last few years?" I asked, trying to get some small talk going.

"Okay"

"Is that it?"

"Yes"

"Well thank you for your contribution to the conversation Edward…" I shouted and put more pressure onto the ice patch. He hissed and tried to keep his face emotionless. I stood up from the chair and was about to turn to walk away when he caught my wrist.

"Wait," He begged with his eyes. "Don't go, please?"

I took in his face, and then as the emotion still hadn't struck his features, I looked at his eyes. They looked like they were pleading and I couldn't help but sit. He was showing me his emotions through his eyes which was good enough for me to bother talking to him again, still trying to gather some information on the boy who had captivated my every wakening thought.

"My years have been… emotional…" His eyes had a sparkle to them and I realized his sentence was sort of ironic compared to the circumstances. "I never really forgave myself for not saying goodbye…" He muttered. My heart rate and breathing slowed as the feelings resurfaced my body. My fingers and eyes tingled as I looked at him intensely, wanting to capture his thoughts, wanting to save this image for the time where he would leave my life once again. "I'm really sorry Bella… I was weak, I was scared that I wouldn't be able to leave you, I didn't want to see you crying, I wanted you to forget me, I-"

"You wanted me to forget you?"

"Yeah, well, I wanted you to move on to be normal…" he trailed off, still conveying every emotion through his beautiful green eyes. I could see pain in them, which consequently caused a stab in my chest.

"Well I wasn't…" I equaled.

He clenched his jaw and I was getting so sick of the no emotion veto.

"Can I ask you something?" He asked.

"Didn't give me a chance there did you?" I laughed lightly at the overused joke. The corners of his eyes perked up and I nodded my head for him to continue.

"When you found out it was me in the closet… were you disappointed?"

My brown creased at his question, "Why would you ask that?"

"Well you sort of made an abrupt exit… but you still haven't answered my question…"

I stayed silent for a moment, taking in the moment where I could hold my cards to my chest, but about to expose them all.

"Yes. I thought that maybe if things continued on the outside, I would get over you… I guess I was mistaken."

"Get over me? You mean you weren't over me all of those years?"

"Bella! We're leaving now, you coming?" Alice interrupted, appearing from nowhere.

I looked at Edward as he sat in front of me, staying true to his bargain, not once showing any emotion on his perfect features.

"Yes" I said to Alice. I smiled at Edward and gave him a quick kiss on the cheek before getting up from my seat and starting to walk with Alice back to her car with my walking frame and orange vest.

I was in a complete daze for the rest of the trip home, finally getting one step closer to getting into the inner psyche of Edward Cullen.

But as Alice jumped out of the car, I took notice of her potato dress.

"Oh my gosh… Alice! What happened to your dress?!"

Rosalie snickered as she got out of the car, her face sticky and dripping from some dark substance. "Rosalie! Your eyes!" her laughter stopped and they both looked extremely guilty. We all walked up to my apartment and they finally spilled on why they were both sticky and oddly colored, Alice on her clothes and Rosalie on her face and hair.

"I needed colour! It's so boring just wearing this ugly thing!"

"I needed eye shadow! Eyeliner! And then there was the matter of hair…" They both confessed. My chin dropped as they explained in full detail of their attack in the food court…Alice squeezing stolen sauces all over her self as she wasn't permitted to buy them, trying to get some colour and detail on her 'dress', Rosalie trying to use the sauces it as make up and to style her hair. I felt quite proud of myself that I hadn't succumbed to such extreme measures.

***

"So should we have a chick flick night or a horror night?" Alice asked as we walked around the aisles of the movie store. I didn't feel quite as embarrassed as I walked around, as Rosalie and Alice were both a lot worse off. Rosalie still hadn't seen the extent of her damage as she hadn't been able to look in a mirror.

"I think we should go for the classics… I was looking for Love Actually but it's already out…" Rosalie sighed.

"Oh! I have that at home! We'll just go to my house instead…"

As we started to walk towards the door to leave, a movie title caught Alice's eye.

"Oh my gosh! I've been looking for this for ages!" She squealed. As she picked it up and ran over to the front desk, I screamed and leapt into the air to stop her.

"Alice!"

Everything was in slow motion as I soared through the air and was about to land on top of Alice till my foot got trapped and I fell on top of the walking frame. Instead Rosalie took the DVD out of Alice's hands and flung it to the other end of the store. I looked up from my fetal position on the ground from where I had rebounded off of the walking frame. The lady behind the counter looked completely shocked at the sight in front of her. I couldn't blame her expression as I stood up and straightened myself up.

"Let's go" I smiled casually as I pushed the walking frame towards the door like the grandma I must have looked like. I had developed a sort of lib from my terrible landing; I assumed gymnastics wasn't exactly a career option for me.

It was the first time I had ever been to Alice's house, and I was completely baffled by it. It was a beautiful white house surrounded by trees and a running lake at the back.

"Wow… Alice… Now this is the way to spend a childhood…"

"Well anything's better than Mrs. Ancaster" She laughed and I nodded my head knowingly.

The inside seemed better than the outside, which was quite hard to beat. Alice was throwing blankets across the floor in front of what appeared to be the biggest TV I had ever seen. It was hard not to feel a bit bitter about this house and the Owners, they were of course the reason I grew up without my two best friends. I smiled anyway and Rosalie skipped back from presumably the kitchen with a mountain of chocolate and popcorn.

As we looked over Alice's extensive DVD collection we decided to watch a horror instead. Alice turned off all of the lights jumped onto the sofa.

"This is going to be so good, this movie so scary! The first time I saw it I ran out of the room! Luckily Jasper was here and he had seen it before so he prepared me for everything an-"

"Alice?"

"Yes?"

"Shut up"

"Shutting up"

We were halfway through the movie and usually I wasn't too bad with scary movies, but I had to admit, I was trying to stop myself gnawing on the pillow I was holding onto for dear life. The main character, Sarah had just entered the villains lair, and you could tell by the change in music something terrible was about to happen. Shadows danced around the room and soft trickles of wind ran along my spine. I let out a violent shiver and bit harder into my lip.

There was suddenly a blood hurdling scream from Alice, which in return caused me and Rosalie to scream equally as loud. Alice was pointing to the window. I looked over and screamed louder as I saw a shadow of a person with a knife. There was something dripping off of the blade of the knife. As the blinds were shut we couldn't see anything but the silhouette.

We all continued to scream, each of us jumping up from the ground and the sofas. We ran around the room, nobody knowing what to do. The shadow moved and started walking in the direction of the door. There was a loud bang on the door and we all ran into the kitchen. I ran over to the knife holder, angry that the largest was coincidently taken, and took the second largest there. Alice picked up the stainless steel frying pan which I knew from experience were pretty darn heavy and Rosalie had found a baseball bat.

Alice started to run back to the stairs and we both followed her. She ran to the first door which was locked. Then as we checked the other on the landing, they were all locked.

"Alice! What's going on?!" I wailed, jumping up and down in fear.

"Stop!" Rosalie shouted. We both froze and turned around to look at her. She pointed at a camera on the staircase. We gasped and I felt like an idiot for not putting two and two together.

"Cameras downstairs too?" I asked, not really needing an answer. They nodded and sighed. I felt my cheeks flame a bit at how stupid I was acting…

We crept down the stairs, arms tightly linked. We walked slowly around the corner, trying hard to not make any sounds. We looked around for the other video camera and I grabbed my walking frame, knowing that I had spent the last ten minutes without it and I had been recorded breaking my half of the bargain.

"There!" Alice hissed as she pointed to the top of one a paintings opposite the TV we had been focused on.

"They were in here when we were watching TV!" Rosalie growled.

"Do you think they're watching us now?" I gasped. I walked up to the camera and ripped it down.

"Games up, you're dead." I snarled.

There was a loud eruption of laughter from outside. The door swung open, still causing me to jump. Following the masked Emmett was an emotionless Edward with a wet knife and Jasper who was crying and clutching his sides for dramatic effect.

"Well done boys…" Rosalie clapped. "That was quite well done… But I wouldn't want to be you when it comes to revenge… Edward should know, check out his black eye!"

I couldn't help but apologize for it again, the left side of his face was purple and swollen, and his eyes looked small as they squinted through the inflammation of his eye. He shook his head and put down the knife on the sideboard table.

"Trust me, nothing can beat this footage!" He laughed darkly as he shook the camcorder in his hands.

"We'll think of something" I winked.

"Jasper you can stop crying now…" Edward nudged. Jasper stood up straight and smiled proudly.

"Thank you, thank you!" he bowed.

Alice shook her head and cringed as Jasper continued to try and receive applause.

"Right… Let's go to my room…" Alice smiled angelically with a twinge of awkwardness on Jaspers behalf.

We all ran up the stairs, I managed to catch one of the legs of the walking frame on the railing and slammed face first into the staircase.

Alice shut the door once we were all inside and turned to us.

"Let's get down to some serious planning…" She grinned darkly.

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