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"I can't take this much longer." muttered Bella Swan to Edward Cullen as he held the door of his Volvo open for her.

He got in the other side. "One more day." He reminded her softly, starting up the engine. "Then we can proclaim our love to the world."

"No more Jessica and Lauren flirting shamelessly with you." She sighed wistfully.

"No more Emmett making comments about what great chemistry we have to try and break me down."

"No more.." She trailed off and grinned. "I've got nothing. But it's gonna be pretty great."

Edward smiled slyly to himself. "It will be very special." He agreed.

Hmmmm....

It had been six long, hard days for Edward, Bella and their 'we're just friends an totally fine with that' act. Emmett had been trying to make it as hard for them both as humanly possible (there was no way he was just handing over one hundred dollars). He was constantly making comments about how 'smoking' Bella looked everyday, much to Edward's annoyance and jealousy.

Rosalie was also getting pretty pissed off at Emmett and his comments.

"Listen, buddy." She hissed after Em had suggested Bella wear a shorter skirt the next day. "If we're gonna make this work, you've got to decide who you want to be with, me or Bella."

Emmett had gone red. "I-I-I didn't mean.... I was only trying to annoy Edward."

Rose rolled her eyes. "Right. I'm going to believe that. Edward and Bella are just friends idiot." She had stood up. "Get some better excuses."

Edward smirked remembering it, but his expression immediately turned stony as he spotted a certain blonde boy rushing towards the car. He stuffed the keys in the ignition as fast as he could.

"Hey Bella!" Panted Mike rushing towards the. "I was hoping I'd catch you before you left."

Bella glared at Edward. "Couldn't you have started up the car just a little quicker?"

He shrugged and threw Mike a dirty look.

"You want to hang out tonight?" Her admirer asked eagerly. "Like, just the two of us? As in a date? As in, me picking you up and-"

"She knows what a date is Mike." Edward snapped irritably. "And she can't come."

"Yes she can!" Emmett boomed from the other side of the car. "Bella's a single girl Edward, she can't just hang out with you all the time." He wagged his finger in Edward's face. "Don't hold her back. Tut tut."

Mike jumped up and down, clapping his hands before composing himself. He cleared his throat. "Uh, yeah. I'll pick you up at seven."

"No you won't." Edward muttered at the same time as Emmett shouted. "She can't wait!"

Both boys turned to Bella who had a furious expression on her face. "Don't I get a say in who I do or not date?"

Emmett rolled his eyes. "Don't be dramatic. It's one night."

She glared at Edward. "And you! DO I OR DO I NOT HAVE A MOUTH?!"

"Yes." Squeaked Edward.

"THEN LET ME USE IT GOD DAMMIT!"

"Ok."

Emmett chuckled and sauntered off. "See you guys later."

Edward started up the car and drove out of the parking lot. Neither of them said a word on the ride to the Swan residence.

He stopped infront of the house and took her face in his hands. "I'm sorry Bella. I should have let you decide whether you wanted to go out with Mike or not. I was jealous and stupid." He unleashed the full power of his eyes on her. "Will you please forgive me."

Bella cleared her throat and tried to gather her thoughts. "Um...Yes?"

Edward released her and grinned. "Great."

She thought for a moment. "You will have to make it up to me though." She said leaning towards him.

"Anything you want." he murmured moving forwards to kiss her back.

A sharp rapping on the car window interrupted them.

Rosalie and Alice stood outside with goofy grins on their faces. "We heard you had a date."

"It's not a date!" growled Edward.

Bella smiled apologetically. "It kind of is."

"No!" He insisted. "It's you being kind enough to fulfill Mike's lifelong fantasy. Not a date."

Alice shrugged and pulled a curling iron out of her bag. "We don't really care. As long as we get to play Barbie Bella, it's fine by us."

Bella groaned. "Please, have mercy!"

Alice pressed her forehead against the glass. "Either you come out, or we come in there and get you."

A beep sounded and all the locks went down.

Rosalie and Alice raised their eyebrows and Rose held up a nail file. "We really don't want to scratch the paint job, but if we have to..."

The beep went off again, the passenger door was thrown open and Edward pushed Bella out into Rose and Alice's clutches.

"Edward! You traitor!" screeched Bella as Alice grinned gleefully and started to comb Bella's hair.

"Sorry." He apologised. "Have fun tonight and if he tries to kiss you, make sure you hurt him alot."

"Thanks for the tip." she spat as he drove off.

*

"Oh come on Bella!" moaned Rosalie. "What's the point in doing this if you're just going to hide in the bathroom?"

"I look like a prostitute." Bella cried in horror, staring at herself in the bathroom mirror.

Her two friends exchanged a exasperated look. "Bella, we dressed you in the longest miniskirt we could find! You do NOT look like a prostitute!"

"I do!" she wailed at the same time as her stepmother Sue Clearwater opened the door.

"Hi girls! I bought snacks!"

"Thanks, Sue!" Alice and Rosalie chorused while unintelligible mutterings came from inside the bathroom.

"What's Bella doing in the bathroom?" Sue asked curiously.

"She's got a date with Mike Newton tonight." giggled Alice.

"What about Edward?"

"What about him?"

Sue sat on the edge of Bella's bed. "Well he's up in Bella's room almost every night, I just assumed that-"

The bathroom door burst open and Bella stormed out.

She thinks THAT'S a short skirt? Honey, that's six inches longer that the skirt I wear to church!

"Well you assumed WRONG! Edward and I are just friends right guys?" She turned sharply to her friends who said nothing.

Sue stood up quickly. "Uh, I'd better go...cook or something. Bye bye girls."

Bella glared after her.

"Why do you hare her so much, Bella?" asked Rose bravely. "She's actually really nice."

"She's not my mother." Bella answered shortly. "She needs to stop trying."

There was an awkward silence for a moment until Rosalie's phone rang causing them all to jump.

"Hello, Emmett." She greeted coldly.

"Yes I'm at Bella's house. Please don't come and have sex with her right now as we're kind of busy."

"No! You can't come have sex with me EITHER! GOODBYE EMMETT!" She snapped the phone shut and rolled her eyes.

"You've gotta admire your persistence." Alice allowed nibbling on one of Sue's cookies.

"Well I don't." sniffed Rosalie. "I just find it annoying.

Bella winked at Alice. "Sure she does. We all know how much Rose loves it when Emmett chases her." She giggled. "It's her dirty little secret though."

Rose narrowed her eyes. "Speaking of dirty little secrets....."

Bella stiffened.

"...What do you and Edward get up to in your room every night?"

"Homework." Bella lied

"You're a terrible actress Bella."

"Yeah," agreed Alice with a grin. "We all know what's going on."

"W-What?" stuttered Bella.

Rose smiled. "Ok, listen. We're not going to tell Emmett, we know about the bet."

"Well if you figured out that we're together," screeched Bella. "I wouldn't be surprised if he has too!"

"It's Emmett, Bella." Rosalie reminded him. "He's a dumbass."

Bella thought for a moment, then breathed a sigh of relief. "You're totally right."

"I know. And after tonight, you can proclaim your love for each other from the rooftops. It was only a week you had to wait right?"

She nodded. "Yeah, you're right. This isn't a big deal at all. And after Edward-"

"ROSALIE!"

The girl's head's snapped up.

"ROSALIE! I LOVE YOU! LOOK OUT THE WINDOW!"

The three of them hurried to the window and looked down. Rosalie gasped. "Oh."

"My." whispered Bella.

"God!" Alice squealed.

Emmett was standing in the middle of Bella's front yard with a bouquet of roses in his arms. He chucked them up through Bella's bedroom window. "Rosie, you're the only girl for me! I've come to serenade you!"

Some of the surrounding house windows opened and people poked their heads out.

Emmett rushed back to the Jeep and pressed play on the radio. The chorus of 'I Wanna' by the All American Rejects started to blast through the speakers.

"I wanna I wanna I wanna touch you!" he yelled. "You wanna touch me too!"

"So true." Rose murmured.

"Everyday, but all I have is time," he pointed to his watch. "Our love's the perfect crime."

The front door of Bella's house burst open and Charlie stormed out, purple in the face. "No! You know what's a crime? YOU SINGING!" He fumed. "GET OFF MY PROPERTY BEFORE I CALL YOUR PARENTS EMMETT MCCARTY!"

Em threw Rosalie a desperate, panicked look. "Please?" He mouthed.

"YOU HAVE FIVE SECONDS!" yelled Charlie. "5....4...3..."

"What do ya say Rosie?"

Rose turned to Alice and Bella who nodded encouragingly.

"2...1..."

"Ok!" Rose called. "I'll take you back!"

Emmett squealed like a girl for two reasons. One, he was ecstatic that he had his girlfriend back and two, Charlie had just grabbed a baseball bat...

*

"That dude is scary, man." Emmett laughed. "He grabbed a baseball bat and started chasing me around the yard!"
Edward chuckled. "Thats what you get for being such a drama queen!"

"But it worked!" Em reminded him. "Rose is all mine again." His phone beeped. "That'll be her now."

"Is it?"

His friend grinned. "Yup. She and Alice are gonna spy on Bella's date. They want to know if we're coming."

"Hell yeah!" Edward jumped up. This was the perfect way to make sure Mike newton behaved himself.

Em grabbed his jacket. "Lets go. We're meeting at the restaurant."

Edward cleared his throat. "Uh, can we stop at the mall on the way there? I need to run an errand."

"Ok..."

Ten minutes later Emmett stopped outside the mall. "Make it quick ok? You're cutting into Rose and my make-up time."

"So so sorry." Edward muttered sarcastically, getting out of the car.

Em watched him run into a store. "Why is he going into the jewelers?" he wondered to himself. He snorted. "What a freaking girl, probably wants to buy himself a necklace."

*

"This has to have been the worst date in history." declared Alice, peeking over her menu to get a better look at Bella and Mike. "First his car breaks down so it takes two hours to get to the restaurant. Then he takes about an hour to order, all the while Bella practically falls asleep...."

Emmett shrugged. "I thought his story about the diet of koala's was fascinating." Four pairs of eyes stared back at him in disbelief. "What?"

"Excuse me," a waitress smiled pleasantly down at them. "I'm sorry, but it's midnight, the restaurant is closing."

"Midnight?" Edward echoed. His eyes lit up and he elbowed Emmett. "Shame, it's been a week since I broke up with Tanya. Cough up."

Emmett rolled his eyes and opened his wallet. "One hundred dollars. As promised. I've got to admit, I didn't think you could do it." he handed him the note. "Spend it wisely, grasshopper." Then he went back to kissing Rosalie.

Edward stood up and strode over to the table where Mike was talking animatedly about the time he fell off a swing and cracked his head open.

"...And there was blood everywhere, but I didn't really care because on the way to the hospital my mother bought me an ice-block...." He trailed off when he saw Edward. "What are you doing here?"

Bella looked up, here eyes were glazed over. "Edward!" she gasped happily.

"It's midnight." he said softly.

She punched her fist in the air. "Yes!" She stood up. "Thanks for a terrible evening Newton."

"I'm going to talk to Bella privately round the back of the restaurant for a moment." Edward called to their group of giggling friends. "Back in a minute."

"See you soon." sang Rosalie, winking knowingly.

Edward took Bella's hand and lead her out to the deserted parking lot.

"What's this about?" she asked curiously.

Edward turned to face her and took both of her hands. "These past few weeks have been hell for us."

She nodded in fervent agreement.

"With Tanya, the bet, everything. It was so so hard for me to be in love with you and not tell everyone. Not to claim you as my own."

"And now that's over."

He grinned. "Yes. It is over. We don't have to hide our relationship anymore."

Bella sighed happily. "I can't wait to tell everyone at school that I'm your girlfriend."

Edward shook his head fiercely. "I don't want you to tell the school that you're my girlfriend, because I don't want you to be my girlfriend."

"W-what?" She tried to drop his hands but he held on tighter than before.

"I want you to be more." He fell down on to one knee. "I have the keys to Emmett's Jeep in my pocket. I have all my money in my wallet..." he reached into his pocket and took out what he had bought in the jewelers. "Isabella Marie Swan, will you run away to Vegas with me right now? Will you become my wife?"