A/N: Loving the reviews folks – keep 'em coming!

I've caught up with what I had pre-written now so it might be a few days between chapters from now on – but I promise there's much more on the way!

Chapter 7

"Shit," I cursed under my breath, unhappily releasing Edward's erection from my grip.

"I'm going to murder that little pixie," he growled, disentangling our bodies and reaching for his towel once more.

"Hello?" I heard Alice's voice ring out from the living room. "Is it safe to come in or are you guys still nekkid?"

Edward leaned down and whispered in my ear, "You go back into the laundry and do your thing, I'm going to teach my darling little sister a lesson," and then moved off towards the sound of Alice's voice.

Not wanting to miss her reaction to seeing Edward in a towel, I waited until he passed into the living room before following behind and hiding out of sight in the hallway.

"Alice!" I heard him exclaim. "We weren't expecting you home so soon!"

"For the sake of my eyesight, Edward, that towel had better stay where it is!" I heard Alice threaten.

I took a risk and peeked around the corner. Alice was standing near the entry to the kitchen and Edward had moved to stand close to the couch, so neither of them could see me from where I was watching. I covered my mouth to hide my laughter as Edward started toying with his towel, Alice getting paler and paler as the seconds passed.

After teasing his sister for what seemed like forever he shrugged his shoulders and grinned. "Ok," he replied, turning and heading for the hallway to the bedrooms. He looked quickly over his shoulder to see Alice still watching him, and promptly whipped his towel off, grabbing it in one hand and running like a lunatic towards where I was hiding.

"Edward!" I heard Alice wail and I turned and bolted for my room, throwing the door open and collapsing in fits of laughter on the bed.

"Something funny? You weren't laughing at my body ten minutes ago," Edward teased as he walked in, bending to retrieve his boxers from the floor.

I could hear the tap tap tap of Alice's heels as she walked through the living room and into the hallway, coming to a halt outside my door. "You have until the count of three to make sure you're decent Edward Anthony or you can stay at Emmett's tonight!" she threatened. "One…two…three!"

The door burst open and Alice stood on the other side with her hand over her eyes. "Bella?" she asked timidly, "Is it ok to look?"

"Yes Al," I replied with laughter in my voice. "His bits are in his boxers."

Edward roared with laughter at my comment and I joined in when Alice peeked through her fingers just to make sure. She marched into my room and smacked Edward hard in the middle of his bare chest. "You – out!" she told him. "Bella and I need to talk". For someone so small, Alice had a lot of strength. She started pushing Edward out the door. "And put some clothes on!" she finished, slamming the door behind him.

I was dreading what was coming next so I decided to jump in first. "Umm…Al? I kind of asked you not to come home till late this afternoon…"

"It is late Bella! Haven't you looked at the clock at all today? Has something been distracting you?" she teased.

I turned to look at my alarm clock and was surprised that it was 3pm. "Hmm…" I mused. "Seems like breakfast was actually a late lunch!"

"So were you distracted?" Alice asked again with a grin.

"Alice, do you really want all the gory details? I mean, Edward is your brother…won't it be weird?" I asked. Alice and I normally shared everything – I'd been living vicariously through her relationship with Jasper for months.

"Ew," Alice said, wrinkling her little nose. "When you put it like that…just tell me if you enjoyed yourself. I don't need all the ins and outs…" she trailed off as I started giggling. She soon joined me when she realised her pun.

Once I regained control of myself, I answered, "Yes, I enjoyed myself…twice!"

"Ew! Bel-la!" she screamed, running to the door and opening it, only to find Edward on the other side. "Were you listening?" she demanded.

"To what?" he asked, puzzled. "I was just about to knock to let you know Jasper's here."

"Jazzy!" Alice squealed, running down the hallway.

"I swear, no one ever got away with calling him 'Jazzy' before Alice came along," I said, rolling my eyes.

Edward came and flopped down on the bed next to me and reached for my hand. "So, what are we going to do for the rest of today?" he asked, tracing gentle circles on my palm.

"Don't you need to prepare for your interview tomorrow?" I asked.

"I have some reading to do but I also wanted to talk to you and Jasper, see what the place is like and stuff," he answered. "Maybe we can hang out with them for a while?"

"Ok," I responded. Then I asked the question I'd been dreading asking since I woke up. "When are you going back to Chicago?"

Edward let go of my hand and cupped my face as he looked into my eyes. "My flight is at 3 on Tuesday. I wanted to have some time to spend with Alice and Emmett Monday night, dinner or something, so I booked a later flight."

"Maybe I can ask Jazz to take my shift on Tuesday so I can take you to the airport?" I offered. "He owes me one from last week – Alice was "sick" on Friday so he stayed home to look after her."

"So you could be sick on Tuesday?" he asked, looking up at me like a little boy.

"I think that could be arranged," I smiled. "We just have to convince Jasper to cover for me at the hospital."

"Well," he said, "we'd better go do that then. Besides, it's about time I got to know this wonderful boyfriend Alice keeps telling me too much about!"

I laughed as we stood up and moved out to the living room where Alice and Jasper were watching a replay of a Coldplay concert on MTV.