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A/N: Hey everybody...okay so I know I haven't updated in a long time but this update means I survived exams! Ugh..and it was a long long long time..anyways its summer now so the updates will be more frequent! In this chapter Edward and Bella finally meet! I know you all have been waiting for that. In this chapter there is some reference to lemonade? not sure..anyways I won't be writing a lemon for this story I want to keep it "T" but the rating will change to "M" for one or two chapter later on for mature subjects. This chapter starts at the airport and ends with a bite ;) Still looking for a beta! Because frankly I'm way too lazy to edit when its over 10 pages in word lol. Enjoy! freeyourminddreamer :)

Bonjour ma Belle

BPOV

It was way too early for all this emotion, it was killing me! Actually, I think Jasper was getting the worst end of it, he had always been sensitive to the feelings of those around him and here he was, stuck in an airport full of mothers crying and wailing about letting their babies go away. If I hadn't known any better I would've thought they were being deported instead of sending their 17 and 18 year old teenagers on a week trip across Europe.

"Bella!" Renee yelled, wrapping her arms around me tight, "Promise me you'll be careful, and please honey, don't do anything stupid, I can't lose you for something like falling down the stairs! Be aware, look both ways before you cross the street, watch your feet, beware the stairs..." she was about to continue her acknowledgment about my klutzy habits but the laughing from Emmett stopped her. She snatched his ear and pulled him close.

"Aww 'Ma!" he groaned.

"You listen hear Emmett, I am putting you in full responsibility of watching your sister! No harm had better come to her, Alice, actually any of the girls! And especially Rose, you always put your fiancée before yourself!" It was my turn to join in the laughing, Emmett wasn't stupid, he already knew all of this, but it was funny to see my short mom holding this big tall tough guy by his ear.

"I promise Mom, I promise!" She seemed content enough but burst into a new round of tears. All the mothers were gathered together now continuing their warnings in between sobbing.

"Nick," Gail, Kate's mother sobbed, "You had better take care of my baby, no harm better come to Katrina!"

"Mrs. Succumbi don't worry, have I ever let anything happen to her?" Nick teased.

"Of course nothings ever happened to me because you don't have to do anything. I've done all the dirty work myself!" Kate proudly admitted.

Nick wrapped his arms around her, "That's why I love you." He whispered something else but only she could hear it, it must've been sweet because Kate blushed and she never blushes.

Emmett gasped, "It's a Bella blush on KATE! The apocalypse the apocalypse!" he started yelling in the middle of the terminal and I swear security was watching him.

Nick smacked him, "Get a grip man! At least I can make my woman blush, unlike you!"

Emmett's smirk grew, "Shall we place some money on that? Whichever man can make their girl blush the deepest Bella blush wins."

"Right now?" Laurent asked.

"Right now, who's in?" Emmett was holding his hand out for money.

Nick, Jasper, Laurent, Ben, Mike, James, Tyler and Riley all put their money in.

Kate, who had not been paying attention, snapped back into reality. "Oh no you don't boys, that bet is discrimination against women!"

"Bells?" Emmett pleaded with me.

I let out a sigh, "Fine! But only because I want to see who else can blush besides me! I'm the judge though."

We decided to wait until the mothers were forced to leave and after much more tears Renee, Phil, and all the others left us alone.

"Alright men, start your tonguing!" Emmett roared and all the girls took a step back as Rose smacked him.

"Tonguing?" she asked, eyebrows raised high.

"I meant like tongue movements…like talking?" Emmett tried to defend himself. I, on the other hand, was in stitches so motioned for them to start.

One by one the guys moved to their girlfriends whispering in their ears. I had to laugh, these guys were good! Irina and Angela flushed softly but little Vikki had bright pink all over her face! Even Jess, Tanya, and Alice were turning red! Finally, I had it narrowed down to Rose and Vikki and Kate, who chose to forfeit so Vikki was crowned "Bella #2."

"Geez guys, now I know how Bella feels!" Vikki shuffled awkwardly.

I tapped her on the back, "Don't worry honey, it gets better…no never mind, it always gets worse!"

James pulled her towards him and said, "Shouldn't we be crowning my ability to make her blush?"

I let out a gasp and the group turned towards me, "Guys being sweet to your girlfriends should be a natural ability!" That really set them into hysterics.

"Being...sweet?" Emmett choked.

"What makes girls blush more than being sweet Bells, think about it." Rose hissed to me.

And that's when it hit me. "GUYS! That's disgusting! You shouldn't be talking about that stuff in the middle of an airport!"

"Well not all of us were talking like that, I'm sure Ben and Nick weren't." James teased.

"I like Ben just the way he is!" Angela defended her man while Kate smacked hers, "Yeah, he'll do." The speakers stopped the laughter as we were instructed to board the plane.

EPOV

"Ricardo, I need some advice." I felt like a girl, here I was strong GA Edward and I was talking to a mirror because I was too stubborn to admit to Ricardo that I needed his help.

"Hey Ricardo...well I..." I shook my head, it just wasn't working. Instead, I decided to check on Bella. I had a mark on her now so I could watch her at all times but I wanted to hear what she was saying, she always cheered me up.

Bella had just crowned Vikki "Bella #2" for her ability to blush the "Bella Blush". I smiled, I loved her blush.

"Geez guys, now I know how Bella feels!" Vikki was moaning.

"Don't worry honey, it gets better…no never mind, it always gets worse!"

James pulled Vikki towards him and said, "Shouldn't we be crowning my ability to make her blush?"

Bella gasped and exclaimed, "Guys being sweet to your girlfriends should be a natural ability!" The group was in hysterics and I, like Bella, was utterly confused.

"Being...sweet?" Emmett choked.

"What makes girls blush more than being sweet Bells, think about it." Rose hissed to her.

It clicked in my mind and Bella's at the same time. "GUYS! That's disgusting! You shouldn't be talking about that stuff in the middle of an airport!" Wow, she seems really opposed to it I noticed.

"Well not all of us were talking like that, I'm sure Ben and Nick weren't." James teased.

"I like Ben just the way he is!" Angela defended her man while Kate smacked hers, "Yeah, he'll do." They began boarding the plane and I noticed Alice move closer to Bella.

"Sorry Bells, I thought you knew what the guys were saying." Bella wrinkled her nose.

"Well now I do."

"Aww Bells! Don't look at me like that! We weren't doing anything disgusting and, just between you and I, Jasper was saying more sweet than..."

"Enough!" Bella squealed but I swear...was she turning red?

"Isabella, are you embarrassed?" Alice giggled.

Bella shot her a death glare and Alice continued to giggle.

"You won't be so embarrassed when a guy talks to you like that."

"Like that'll ever happen." Oh, little do you know Bella, little do you know.

"C'mon Bells your guy's out there somewhere, just 'cause you haven't found him yet doesn't mean you won't ever!"

Bella sighed, "Alice, there is no one out there for me; I'm doomed to wander the world alone forever." It was breaking my heart to watch Bella so...tortured. I wanted to go to her and tell her that I was here, but I couldn't. Slowly, I moved back to my room and focused on asking Ricardo for his assistance.

"Sad isn't it?" I let out a yelp and jumped backwards, Ricardo was sitting on my couch.

"Stupid all-knowing..."

"Yeah, yeah, but you need my help remember?"

I glared at him.

"Well, are you going to ask me or not?"

"Will you..." I muttered.

He laughed and shook his head, "Clearly so I can hear you."

"I need your help to get Bella..." I sighed and joined him on the couch.

"Well, you have to tell her the truth, but not straight away."

I rolled my eyes, "I know that but how?"

He glared at me, "No stalking, no stalking whatsoever. She's very perceptive so you cannot let her recognize you no matter how you are dressed or acting."

"I don't stalk her."

This time Ricardo rolled his eyes, "Just introduce yourself at a gathering where there are lots of people and get to know her better. If there's a masquerade that would..."

"Yes! They're having a masquerade tonight!"

"Well that's coincidental," Ricardo raised his eyebrows to me but I just shrugged.

"I swear I had nothing to do with this."

"Alright, go knock yourself out, in a non-literal way Edward."

"Thanks!" I yelled as I headed off to plan for the night.

BPOV

We were standing on top of the Eiffel tower. It was our first day in France and Alice had rushed us here right away; we had a schedule to stick to.

"It's so..." Kate murmured, awed by the view.

"So beautiful, just like you." Nick smiled, putting his arms around her. I turned around and noticed all the other girls smacking their men.

"Why can't you be more like Nick!" Rose yelled at Emmett.

"Because then I would be..."

"Don't even think about insulting him!" Rose cut in.

"Rosie-baby, c'mon over here and I'll show you what a real man says to their woman.

"Shall we make another bet gentlemen?" I heard Jasper ask.

"Nuhuh." I wagged my finger at them, "No more bets. Apparently we have a schedule to keep to and as much as I love it here, where are we headed next Alice?"

Alice grinned, "The hotel. We have to prepare for the masquerade tonight."

"Masquerade!" everyone screamed.

Alice shrugged, "What? You didn't expect me to make you buy all those pretty dresses for nothing did you?"

"But costumes! What are we supposed t do!" Vikki whined.

Alice smiled again, "I took care of it already, don't worry." I had to laugh, that was just Alice, taking care of everything.

We headed for the cabs and I bid the view a temporary goodbye, once I'd found my Edward these romantic spots would be much more appealing to me.

"Bella! Zip me up will you?" Vikki was frantically hopping around in her purple dress trying to finish the zipper at the back.

"Come here, come here." I laughed as I helped her fix it. Almost everyone was ready which meant I was still in my jeans.

"Isabella Marie Swan put your dress on right this minute or I'll get Nick to hold you down while I do it for you!" I heard Kate threaten from the bathroom, straight iron in hand.

I groaned, "Why do I have to come? Even if I find someone to dance with he'll speak French and I can't understand him!"

Kate stepped outside of the bathroom with Alice and Rose, my dress in hand. I screamed, they looked pretty ferocious standing there. Grabbing the dress reluctantly, I put it on. Then they went nuts, curling my hair, fixing my makeup, still not telling me what they were dressing me as.

Vikki was a peacock, Irina was a swan, Kate was Dracula's Bride, Rosalie was well...Rosalie, and everyone was else was dressed similarly.

"You like?" Alice asked as she pulled me in front of the mirror.

The girls had taken the vampire look to a new level, the black dress against my pale skin was eerie enough but now my hair and makeup emphasized "beauty" and I had blood red lips.

"I hate to say it but I..." I decided to pause, seeing Alice wince, "I love it!"

She squealed and set about my shoes, "Okay I have two pairs. These black stilettos which would look completely amazing and oh so beautiful," she droned on about the heels as I rolled my eyes, no way was I wearing heels. "Or these black ballet flats, but the heels are..."

"Ballet flats!" I yelled, snatching them from her hand. She rolled her eyes but noticed Angela's hair drooping and ran to fix it.

The boys were now waiting for us in the hall and as we exited the whistling started.

"W-o-w!" Emmett yelled, "These babes are smoking!"

Kate smacked him and he laughed, "I'm kidding, you guys all look beautiful."

"That's better." she smiled and we all carefully walked towards the limo Alice had booked to escort us.

"Partay in the limo!" Jasper yelled as him and Emmett raced for the door, ignoring the fact that they were dressed up.

"Boys will be boys." Alice muttered.

"Never maturing after seven." Angela added as we followed the guys towards the limo.

What can I say about Alice? She goes completely overboard in a wonderful way, the masquerade was being held at a huge hall, the ones from those old movies us girls loved so much. How she had gotten us invited I didn't want to know. Jessica and Lauren dragged me onto the dance floor and immediately someone tapped my shoulder.

I turned around and there was a guy, dressed stunningly as a vampire with a mask, with his hand outstretched.

"Bonjour ma belle." he whispered.

"Err…je ne speak francish pas?" I knew that was completely wrong but hoped he got the drift of it.

"That is too bad, the French language would sound so sweet coming from your mouth." Now he was speaking perfect English…a little stalkerish though.

"Oh really, well that's a pity." Wait…did that even make sense? This guy was too gorgeous for my brain to comprehend.

"Would you like to dance?"

"Well, I guess…" I reached for his hand, already stretched towards me, and followed his lead. Get a grip Bella!

"My name is Edward, and you would be…?" My heart stopped beating and I swore under my breath…Alice had definitely set this one up. Fine, two could play at that game.

"Gertrude, you can call me Gerti." He laughed, he thought it was funny; he turned to me, preparing to speak but stopped when he saw my face.

"What?" He asked.

"What's so funny buddy. Do you think I find it funny that my friends had to do this for me? Am I that pathetic?" His expression was clueless; I had to admit he was a good actor.

"I have no idea what you're talking about Gerti." He chuckled again, very softly.

I smacked him, flat on the face, "Don't laugh at me! Don't you dare even utter one more word!" I turned on my heels and fell to the floor.

I felt his arms around me and I squirmed and yelled for him to release me.

"What's going on Bells?" It was Alice.

"Don't act so innocent any of you! This is pathetic! Taking something, someone personal to me and turning this into a joke!" I was on the verge of tears and was sure my makeup was smudged.

Alice looked hurt, "Bella…what the hell are you talking about?"

"Gerti?" Edward laughed again, if that was even his real name.

"Just leave me alone, all of you!" I screeched and ran from the building.

"Bella!"

"Come back!"

"Bells!"

I ran around the building to the other side, I fell once and tore the bottom of my dress but I didn't care, I just ran until I found the bench on the other side and sat, letting myself cry.

"Gerti?! Gerti!" I heard Edward yelling.

"My name is Isabella you idiot!" I screamed.

"I'm right behind you."

"Oh…well get lost."

"You friends didn't hire me…you were dressed as a vampire too so I thought I'd come and say hi…maybe ask you to dance, we could you know…dance."

I sighed, "Well I'm sure there's some hot blond vampire in there that would much nicer standing beside you."

"I don't want some stupid ditzy girl who laughs like a hyena and flaunts her 'stuff' making me want to gag."

I laughed, "So…you're gay then?"

He frowned, "Do I look gay to you?"

"No, you're too good looking it would be a pity, but you scoffed at the idea of a hot blond."
Wrong thing to say, he smiled.

"Well I want an intelligent relationship not one built on sex…but you think I'm good looking?" He raised his eyebrows, "That's a better start. Now I am Edward, and you are…?"

I stood up, "I'm Isabella, Bella please. Err, you may not want to walk in with me thought Edward, I'm sure I look far from the beautiful vampire you require on your arm."

He bowed and in a cheesy Transylvanian accent he whispered, "I vould be honoured if you vould allow me to escort you into this trivial human event my darling Bella, mon ange."

I nodded softly; I couldn't muster up any words after what he had said.

He laughed and brought his sleeve to my face, "Now we can't have any tears on your face, and your dress is torn!"

"I fell?" I whispered although it sounded more like a question.

"You seem to do that a lot."

I let out a hmph, "Well Eddie, you'll just have to get used to the fact that your ange is a first act klutz."

He laughed, "Fine by me, I'll be there every time to pull you back onto your feet again. But for now, it is chilly so why don't we go let your friends no I haven't kidnapped you, sounds good?"

"Sure." And with that I let him lead me back to my friends.

"She's here!" I heard Kate scream.

"Oh my God Bella are you alright? Your dress, what happened?!" Alice began pulling me towards the bathroom, purse in hand.

"I'm fine, I'm fine, please no makeup or dress repairs." I must've sounded desperate because she shrugged and after seeing I had no life-threatening injuries let me go…only to Kate though.

"Who's the vamp?" she asked.

"Edward."

"The Edward?"

I shrugged, "How would I know, his name is Edward, he's dressed as a vampire, he wants to dance. You're the one that's saying I should live a little!"

She clapped and gave me a hug, "Go nuts!" She trotted off towards Nick and I finally found Edward again.

"Sorry for slapping you."

He laughed, it was so musical and so familiar to me, "It's alright Bella, you were under a false impression so it is my fault. May I ask thought, why introduce yourself as Gerti?"

I could feel my face turning red, "Honestly, it was the first name that came to mind…"

"Well, all is well then, shall we dance?"

My face must've been tomato red because he started to laugh again.

"It's not funny, I can't dance at all!"

"Of course you can, it's all in the leading." And with that he pulled me onto the dance floor, snatched my arm and joined us into the dance.

I pouted, "No fair. What are you Superman or something?"

He chuckled, "For you, anything."

I hit him lightly on the arm, "Cut the crap, no one is that perfect. So who are you? A secret spy?"

"I suppose you could say that."

"Really? Do tell me more."

"I do believe that the woman is supposed to do most of the talking, tell me about your life Isabella." When he said my full name it sent chills down my spine.

I shrugged, "There's nothing interesting to talk about."

"Well, where are you from, let's start there."

"The US."

He rolled his eyes, "No kidding."

"I could've been from Canada."

He smiled, "True…so whereabouts in the US?"

"Stalker much?"

"I'm just trying to initiate conversation."

"Well where are you from?" I was trying to sound flirty but it was too forced, my voice was cracking.

"Somewhere very far from here." He looked away from me when he said that, lost in a memory or something.

"Aren't we all…" I whispered and he looked at me strangely…almost like he was looking right through me.

"Isabella…" Edward was cut off by the sound of someone clearing their throat at the microphone on stage.

"Excuse me, I thought I would let everyone know that the still picture and skit competition is about to begin. Partner up, find a group and in your costumes get on up here and form a still picture or short skit! Sign up at the table by the stairs."

I laughed; Emmett, Jasper, and Nick were running for the sign up table.

"Would you like to compete with me?" Edward asked.

"What would we portray?" I asked, trying to tease him.

"Well with your beauty I don't think we'd need to do anything, you would win hands down."

I laughed, "My lack of beauty perhaps, but if you're really set on competing why don't we just go up as crazy sadistic vampires?"

He grinned, the side of his smile crooked with his perfect teeth shining through, "Oh…I have a much better idea. Do you think on of you friends has fake blood on them?"

"And next we have Emmett and Rosalie portraying…err…big man and pretty woman?" The announcer was confused but the audience laughed as Emmett ran onto the stage half monkey/half man.

"Me Emmett me big man me want pretty woman!" He slammed his fists for effect and began roaming the stage.

"Oh!" Rosalie tripped on, fainting, "The heat, it's so…hot!"

Emmett jumped up and down, "Me save pretty woman! Me big man!" With that he attacked Rosalie, swooping her into his arms and running around like a mad man. It was probably the stupidest thing I had every seen but the sight of Emmett and Rosalie was adorable and hilarious.

"Thank you Emmett and Rosalie…next is oh Emmett and Rosalie again, this time accompanied by Jasper and Alice portraying the wizard, his munchkin apprentice with kidnapped pretty woman who must be saved by big man."

"I'm not a munchkin!" I heard Alice yell to the announcer. This skit was similar but more intricate. Jasper and Alice, his "munchkin" pulled a snow white and kidnapped Rosalie who was saved by an intelligent Emmett. A few of my other friends went up for some still pictures, James debating between killing his "peacock" Vikki and Kate was running away from her "Frankenstein", Nick.

"Lastly we have Edward and Isabella portraying 'An Eternity'". I stepped onto the stage, dazed and confused.

"Come back here!" Edward yelled and stepped onto the stage. I ran from him and tripped with a scream. He stepped towards me and picked me up in his arms as if I was weightless, laying me onto the table.

"Shh, shh, it will all be over soon my sweet, sweet Bella." He murmured.

"Why are you doing this to me." I moaned, "I love you."

"And I you, don't you want to stay with me forever."

"Forever…" I shivered.

"Forever my darling…I shall see you soon." With that he shifted me so that I was hanging limp in his arms, the tear in my dress making the scene much more dramatic. I let out a moan and he pressed his lips against my neck and released some of the fake blood. He "bit me" and my world turned dark…

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