Okay this chapter was fun to write! Lots of transitions and hopefully funny moments. I hope you don't think my chapters are getting random because I promise they all serve a purpose. Tell me what you think!

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BPOV

I rejoined everybody for dinner in a somewhat better mood. No one seemed to notice our little debacle and I silently slid back into my seat, as did Emmett.

"What was that about?" Edward whispered into my ear.

"You'll find out soon enough." I said back, leaning into my chair. Suddenly I wasn't very hungry.

"So what have you kids been up to lately," Carlisle said, snapping me out of my tangled state.

"You know, dad, I think the better question is what have Edward and Bella been up to lately." Alice replied, throwing me a knowing look.

I smiled as Edward grabbed my hand from the table and entwined our fingers.

I heard Alice yelp excitingly as he kissed my hand. And past all the current emotions I now held due to Emmett, I still felt my body undeniably flush with nervousness.

"Nothing much." He said, laughing into my wrist.

I rolled my eyes and looked around the table. Carlisle looked pleased, Alice looked like she would pass out with joy at any second, Emmett looked like he was in a whole other world completely, Rosalie looked excited (although I'm not too sure I wanted her smiling at me at that moment), Jasper looked smug, and then there was Esme…

Her gaze met mine and at first we simply smiled. And then I noticed her eyes had begun to sparkle and she pulled away from our small exchange and continued eating.

"Okay okay," Edward said, liking all the attention about as much as I did, "you said there were two announcements. What's the other?"

I cringed as my eyes darted to Emmett and Rosalie.

"Well, Rosalie and I are getting married." Emmett said as clear as day.

After a long period of silence, Alice of course broke it.

"Oh that's so exciting!" she said, clapping her hands together. "You have to let me plan every bit of it…." She trailed on, eliciting smiles throughout the table.

Rosalie flashed me several excited expressions but I barely responded. I was happy for my brother and I did understand that he loved her but I still held my guard up....especially since everybody else was letting theirs down.

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"So tonight was interesting." Edward said as we pulled onto the freeway. "I can't believe Emmett…your brother Emmett is getting married."

"Yes… it's all very interesting." I replied as best I could.

"What's that look for?" he said smiling at me.

I was about to give him a pitiful answer when my eyes suddenly locked with his. He looked at me questioningly as I just stared, his eyes shifting from the road back to me. And then, just like before when I was talking with Emmett, I suddenly understood why he could act so irrational. Love did that to you sometimes. Like now for instance. One second I was talking to Edward and the next second I wanted to feel his skin against mine, pouring myself into him in the most intimate way possible.

"Nothing" I said, smiling to myself as I rested my head against the seat. The last thing I remember was Edward grabbing my hand before I fell asleep.

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I woke up in bed next to Edward. His arm was around my waist, as his hand lay limp in my hair. I smiled as I watched his sleeping body sink and rise. Kissing his chin, I slowly fannagled my way out of his grip. Quietly I walked over to his dresser and pulled out my sports bra and a pair of shorts. I hadn't spent the night at my own apartment in more than a week and consequently, my wardrobe at Edward's was growing by the minute. I slipped on my work out clothes and piled my hair into a messy bun. Just then my phone began to ring.

"Hello" I whispered into the speaker as softly as I could.

"I need you now." was all Alice said.

"What?"

"Come to the apartment now."

I looked at the clock and sighed. "Alice it's 8:30 in the morning, can this wait?"

"No I'll see you in ten."

And then she hung up. I closed my phone and threw it into my purse.

I walked back over to the bed and straddled on top of his sleeping form. Slowly I trailed kisses along his chest, mesmerized by just how tightly each muscle was held in place. Within seconds I felt his body move under mine and his eyes fluttered open.

"Bella?" he said.

"Edward, I'm going to see Alice. I'll call you later on." I said kissing the edge of his lips just as his arms wrapped around my waist.

"hmmm?" he mumbled in my hair as I was now pinned against his body.

"I said I'm going to see Alice."

Suddenly I felt his hands slide up my back as he kissed my ear.

"Would you rather see Alice or lay in bed with me?"

Before I could answer, he flipped me on my back and was nuzzled on top of me. I felt his thumb trace my cheekbone, instantly turning my body to mush.

"Edward," I giggled worming my way out of his grip once more. I slid off the bed but not before his hand caught my wrist in protest.

"I'll call you later." I said

He pulled me into one last mangled kiss and let me go.

"Don't call." He mumbled, nestling back into his sheets, "Just come over."

I promised I would and within fifteen minutes I was heading towards my apartment.

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BPOV

"Okay I'm here. What's the big emergency?" I said, as I stepped into my apartment for what seemed like the first time in weeks. It was weird how foreign everything felt. The drapery Alice had insisted on buying, the plush carpet, red accents…it all took me by surprise as I stepped into the kitchen where I could hear Alice rummaging through something. I was about to chastise her for calling me so early when I noticed she was putting things into boxes.

"What are you doing?"

She looked up at me with an ambiguous expression and put her hands on her hips.

"I have the craziest story to tell you." She said, holstering herself onto the nearest bar stool.

"Okay, shoot." I said, my eyes still drifting towards my kitchen, which now looked like it was being pulled apart with abandon.

"Alright so last night Jasper took me to that really fancy restaurant in the Summits. We got all dressed up but the whole time he was acting really strange."

I motioned for her to continue, knowing that the story was far from over.

"Like he kept saying all these romantic things, you know? He just kept pulling me through all these random memories. And then I would catch him staring at me. Only he wasn't just staring. It was like he was searching for something."

I raised a brow, communicating to her that I now had no clue to where she was going with this.

"So then," she said, picking up momentum, "he started saying things like 'you know I love you Alice' and 'you know how much I value our relationship.' And then he reaches into his pocket."

I let out a gush of air as I suspected her next statement.

"Wait let me finish," she said smiling, "So then I was like 'Oh my God, he's going to propose' right and sure enough he pulls out a velvet ring box."

My excitement suddenly slowed as I noticed the tone of her voice.

"So while I'm busily thinking about the Monique Lhuillier wedding dress with the pink chiffon finish and lace details that I'm going to wear to my beautiful wedding this FOOL opens the box and guess what's inside it?"

"I'm guessing it wasn't a ring." I said fighting back laughter.

"No, it was a key! A KEY. Who the hell brings their girlfriend to a fancy restaurant, dresses in an expensive tuxedo, strings them through all the magnificent times they've had together, and then pulls out a…ring…box…a…wedding…ring…box…with a DAMN KEY INSIDE?"

This time I couldn't control the laughter that was bubbling inside of me.

"Oh Alice." I said, giving her a sorrowful expression. "What did you say?"

"I looked at him in disbelief and told him that it had better be a key to something very expensive."

"Well was it?" I said through giggles.

"No it was a key to his apartment, and apparently Emmett had assured him that this was the perfect way of presenting it to me."

"Leave it to Emmett."

"Yah well, Emmett is going to think its real funny when he has to pay the delivery man for the 400 pizzas I just ordered."

I smiled as I rummaged through an open box. "So I guess that means your moving out?"

"Yep."

She looked up at me when I didn't say anything and smiled. "Bella, you're always at Edward's anyways. You probably won't even notice I'm gone."

"Of course I'll notice Alice, you're my best friend."

"Which is why I have called upon you to help me move."

"Oh really," I said, beginning to wonder how long it would take to just pack away her closet. "I thought you wanted to tell me how thoughtful Jasper can be."

"Oh he's thoughtful alright. In fact, he's so damn thoughtful, that he over thinks everything. I mean really, a ring box. You've got to be kidding me."

I listened intently as Alice continued to mumble colorful words under her breath. And then I couldn't stop the wave of emotion that hit me. Emmett was getting married to some random chick after only hours of dating and Alice was moving in with Jasper. Once again I felt strangely left behind, as if Edward and I were moving at a painstakingly slow pace.

I wanted to be flying like my friends, even if that meant embarking on territory I knew nothing about.

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One Week Later…

"A what pepper?" I said, walking down the spice aisle of the supermarket.

Edward had insisted on cooking dinner for us after I told him I was sick of take out. I had offered to help but of course he declined, telling me he could not handle another cookie dough fight. So here I was, wandering up and down the freezing aisles of Whole Foods in search of the ingredients that he needed.

"Ro-co-to." He pronounced flawlessly and rather incredulously on the phone as if he couldn't believe I even had to ask.

"What does it look like?" I said, rummaging through ten different types of peppers which all looked the same.

"It's red."

I looked at the next two piles of peppers, all varying in shades of red.

"Well you're just teeming with details over there aren't you."

He laughed into the phone and sighed.

"What are you making anyways." I said, moving on to the candy aisle.

I picked up a package of sour gummy worms and opened them up. I had acquired the habit of eating things before actually paying for them from Alice. I always thought it was so tacky but here I was yet again, doing the exact same thing.

"Something delicious for my lover if she ever comes home." He replied.

I could hear the eagerness in his voice and after popping a gummy worm into my mouth, began the trudge back to the peppers.

"Okay, okay, let's get your Roocooti."

"ROCOTO" he said, laughing.

As I rounded the corner, an insult firmly positioned on the tip of my tongue, I ran straight into something hard. My basket left my hands, sending sour gummy worms flying everywhere. It landed against a shelf, which in turn sent ten bags of rice plummeting to the ground.

"Bella are you there…Bella.." I heard Edward frantically yell into the phone.

I picked up the phone from underneath a rice bag and craned it under my neck as I struggled to stand up. "Yah?"

"What happened, I heard a big bang and then you went quiet? Are you okay?"

"Yah, I bumped into somebody," I said gathering gummy worms before anyone noticed I'd been eating them.

"Who?"

"Rosalie." I said as my eyes wondered for the first time to the body giggling beside me.

"Rosalie?" Edward repeated.

"Yah…um…let me call you back okay."

"Okay, but don't forget the-"

"Riceenni… I got it." I said snapping the phone shut.

My eyes trailed back to Rosalie who was now picking gummy worms from her hair.

"Sorry about that." I said, putting the bag of rice back onto the shelf. I watched as she heaved her body from the ground.

"No problem."

"No seriously, I'm a walking catastrophe." I said giggling. Why I was giggling with the tramp who had seemingly convinced my unsuspecting brother to marry her within a month, I had no clue. Maybe it was the fact that I had just slammed into her with the force that sent us both flying backwards, or maybe it was the fact that her mere demeanor was somehow very intimidating. I decided to go with the latter.

"Okay, well I have to go get this pepper for Edward…" I said, trying to end any polite conversation that might be forming.

"What kind of pepper?" she said.

"Um…roco something."

"You mean Rocoto?" she said smiling.

Once again, I felt an immediate sense of inferiority.

"Uh yeah…" I said, grabbing my basket and heading towards the fresh produce once more. I watched in annoyance as she followed me. I picked up a red one and examined it's potential.

"That's a cherry pepper." She shifted through the pile and handed me a rounder one.

"That'll be your Rocoto." She said confidently. I forced a smile and thanked her.

"Um Bella?" I heard her say as I began my trek to the cashier.

"Yah?" I said, turning to face her, hoping that my reluctance wasn't as brightly as I felt it was.

"I know that you probably think I'm some home wrecker who tricked your brother into marrying him but I want you to know that's not true."

I raised a brow at her forwardness but let her continue.

" I love your brother Bella and I wouldn't do anything to-"

I raised my hand, prompting her to stop. Despite my slight disapproval in their marriage, I actually did want to get to know Rosalie. I mean I wasn't a big enough bitch to subject her to this awkward speech in the middle of the supermarket. At least not today.

"Rosalie, I know you're not a home wrecker." I stated, giving her a sincere smile.

"Thanks." She said, flashing me a grin. She really was beautiful. I could see why Emmett would be attracted to her. And I had a feeling that it was indeed this characteristic that sent my self-esteem plummeting. She had to be some prized supermodel …not that I would know or anything. I hardly knew her last name.

"But, at the same time, I know nothing about you." I said, giving her a stern, and serious look, which probably just looked awkward and uncomfortable.

"Okay, how about lunch on Wednesday? I know this great Italian restaurant and I can tell you all about me." She said excitingly.

I pretended to deeply ponder this, as if I had a huge schedule to maintain, and then nodded. I was rather annoyed that she was taking such charge in our relationship building but whatever. I was tired and Edward was waiting for his ruccoto.

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I entered Edward's apartment just in time to find him dancing in the kitchen, sans T-shirt. I leaned against the counter and watched him alternate his attention between the two steaming pots in front of him. The lower half of his body swayed to the beat of the music. I let out a giggle as he side stepped to grab the salt off the counter.

He turned around immediately and smiled.

"Bella Bella.." he sung in a cheap Italian accent.

"What are you doing?" I laughed, wrapping my hands around his waist.

He gave me a chaste kiss on the lips before dipping the edge of a spoon into my mouth.

"What do you think?" He said, eyeing my reaction.

"Definitely not as good as my cookies." I teased, shaking my head. It was insanely better, I thought.

"Well maybe that's a good thing." He said, giving me a wink.

I looked at the table and noticed it was elaborately set, with candles waiting to be lit. He followed my gaze and nodded.

"It's all about the full Italian experience."

"Ah, I see, but I could do without the thick accent though." I warned, pressing his lips together with my fingertips.

He smiled and continued to dance as he shook more salt into one of the pots.

A half hour later, I was sitting on his lap as he fed me the last of his gourmet meal. It put my cooking to shame. Everything was perfect, even the damn peppers were good.

"So I'm thinking you should cook from now on." I said, kissing him on the nose.

"Just so were on the safe side" he whispered.

"Hey" I said swatting at his arm. He grabbed my wrist and pulled me down to kiss him.

"So…"

"So…" he repeated, kissing me again.

All of a sudden it was one of those moments when everything was so perfect and magical that you didn't exactly think about what flew out of your lips. You just reacted. You didn't think, you just did. So it didn't entirely surprise me when I pulled away and asked the one burning question that had bothered me for weeks.

"So what do you think about us moving in together?"

But it did surprise me when Edward didn't answer. Or smile. Or react. Instead, he just sat there looking as uncomfortable as I was beginning to feel.

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