Landslide

BPOV

These past five weeks have been the absolute greatest of my life. My internship has been great and that is the only place that I have seen Alice lately aka she has not been all up in me and Edward's business. I met another woman named Rosalie there. She is tall and blonde and basically perfect. It's great to have met someone new that can help me around New York and stuff when Edward and Alice are busy. But of course best of all is having Edward 24/7. I wouldn't give up these weeks for anything but I know that the summer is almost half over, and then I'll have to go to college, away from Edward again. But at least we will be in the same city.

I got off from work early today because for some reason they told all the interns to go home and that we would just be in the way for the rest of the day. They are doing some big project that they don't want us involved in. I'm thrilled because Edward doesn't know I'm off early and I'm going to surprise him.

I love surprising him. His face is always priceless.

I pop my key in the door and walk inside. I quietly toss my purse onto the table in the hall and walk down the hallway and into the kitchen but I don't see him in there or in the bedroom. I turn around and walk past the family and peek around the corner into the home office. Edward is sitting at his desk looking at something in his desk drawer. He lets out a deep breath and closes the drawer before looking back up the computer screen and starts typing. I place myself on the threshold of the room and lean against the doorway with one arm, popping my hip out to one side. He looks up and notices me.

"Bella! What are you doing here? Shouldn't you be at work?" He asks with a huge smile.

And there it is. His perfect surprised face.

"We got off early today." I say, walking to him around the desk. He spins in his chair so that he's facing me and puts his hands on my hips as I walk up to him.

"Nice shoes." He says, looking down wagging his eyebrows at my brown platform heels. "I thought you hated heels." He says, looking back up and me and caressing my hip bones with his thumbs.

"I did. But then Alice and Rose introduced me to platforms, which are much more comfortable than regular heels." I say putting my hands on his shoulders.

"Well that's one good thing my sister has done." He chuckles to himself.

"I'm glad that you like them." I say, walking over to sit on his lap. "Do you mind if I take them off though?" I ask

"By all means." He smirks. I lean over to get the buckles on the shoes and slip them off with a cluck on the floor under his desk.

"There" I say triumphantly. "Much easier to move around now."

"That's what I was hoping." Edward says, holding my hips as I move to straddle his lap. I put my hands behind his head on the back of the chair to balance myself. As soon as our lips connect we are both caught up in each other and my hands move from the back of the chair into his hair. As I let my body fall against him the chair leans back a little too far and Edward's hand snaps from around my waist to grab onto the desk to hold us up.

"Careful love." He says.

"Sorry" I chuckle. We kiss again and this time I'm careful not to put too much of my weight against him. The one plus about this chair though, is that it does not prevent us from grinding. Edward moves his hands up to let the straps of my dress fall down my shoulders, revealing my red push-up bra.

"Ugh Bella are you trying to kill me" Edward groans.

"Maybe" I say breathily.

"You know you leave so early in the morning I never get to see what you wear to work. Sometimes when you come home I think that you look way too appealing. For the public eye that is." He chuckles. "Maybe we could have a little show sometime." Edward says.

"Haha sure why not. Or I could just wake you up and make sure you approve." I chuckle.

"Well the kind of fashion show I had in mind only included those heels and your undergarments so I think you would probably be very late to work if I let you wake me up." Edward laughed against my skin.

And just as Edward's hands snake up under my dress to caress my thighs, we hear a loud, knock on the door. I make a move to get up but Edward doesn't stop.

"Ignore it. It will go away." He says kissing my cleavage. I pull myself off of him and grab his face. I give him a long hard kiss and pull away from him, with his hands lingering on my hips.

"It'll just take a second." I whisper against his lips and skip out of the office. My main intention was to tease him a little bit.

It's worked wonders in the past.

I walk down the hallway pulling my dress straps up, hearing Edward mutter curses at whoever knocked. I stop to look in the mirror in the hall to make sure I look decent. My dress is fine and my bra isn't showing but my hair looks pretty sex-like. I figure that the UPS guy won't really give a damn and pull open the door.

My smile immediately drops. Standing in front of the door is Jake. My jaw almost hits and floor and my mind automatically starts racing. How did he get here? Why is he here? How did he find out? How will he react? His face looks hard as a stone and his eyes are on fire.

"Bella." Jakes says in a stern greeting.

As my mind is busy racing, Jake walks right past me into the apartment and turns around to face me in front of the family room. He looks around a little bit and then back at me.

"Nice place." Jake says in a very monotone voice.

"Jake, what are doing here?" I ask quietly.

"I could ask you the same thing." Jake says.

"No Jake you can't." I say angrily. "How did you even know I was here?"

"Well I thought I would come and surprise you. So I went to your work and a woman there said that they sent all the interns home. So I asked for directions to Alice's place. The woman said that you weren't living with Alice and gave me directions here." Jake said sourly.

"Jake, you don't have to look so angry." I spat at him.

"Don't have to look angry! Bella this is ridiculous I can't believe you're doing this!" Jake said a little louder.

"Jake this is none of your business!" I say, quite a bit louder as well. At this point Edward walks in and pauses when he sees Jake. He looks back and forth between the two of us and then walks past Jake and behind me to close the door. Jake is still staring daggers at me. Edward notices how uncomfortable and tense I am getting and places a hand on the middle of my back.

"Jake." He says, in a greeting almost as tense as Jake's had been to me.

"Edward." Jake says. I can feel myself starting to get nervous from the tension in the room. I never told Edward about all the stuff that Jake did while he was away, but he still remembers Jake from Alice's party as if it were yesterday. I start taking shallow, deep breaths to try and calm myself. Edward notices and lightly rubs my back.

"Jake I think you had better leave." Edward says in an icy voice.

"No I don't I will. I don't have what I came for yet." Jake says confidently.

"And what exactly was that." Edward asks. I can feel a low growl about to erupt from his chest.

"Bella." Jake says matter-of-factly.

"Excuse me?" Edward asks, now bringing his hand to my hip and clutching me tightly.

"Bella. I'm not leaving here without her." Jake says.

"Like hell you are." Edward growls. I can feel that this is not going to end very well.

"She belongs with me not you. You aren't right for her, she just can't see it clearly now but she will. You can't give her what she needs. I can give her what she needs." Jake says, clearly addressing Edward without even looking at me.

"Jake don't start…" I say.

"Don't start what Bella? Don't start with how he can't give you what you need? How he won't have sex with you or isn't even around for most of the year? Or don't start with how it's killing you that you have to keep this from your parents?" Jake says, addressing me this time.

I feel Edward's grip loosen on my hip as Jake says all this. I swing my arm up to wrap around Edward's torso behind me in a desperate attempt to not lose him in this moment. I can feel the wheels turning in his head as he thinks about what Jake is saying. I turn my face up to look at Edward.

"Don't listen to him Edward. He doesn't know what he's saying." I whisper, putting my hands on his face, trying to force him to make eye contact with me.

"Bella just think about it." Jake says softly. "We wouldn't have to hide from your parents, and I could give you what you need physically. I can give you what he can't. Just think of what we could be. What we could have…"Jake says in a whisper.

"Jake you don't know what you are talking about. You could never give me what Edward has given me." I say a few notches louder than my normal speaking voice.

"Bella you know you want it. Deep down inside you know I'm right. You know we should be together." Jake says walking forward to touch my face.

Before I can slap his hand away, Edward pulls me behind him and grabs Jake's arm. I look up at Edward's face from behind his back. I have never seen him this angry before. I wrap my arms around his waist to try and calm him.

"Jake. Leave. Now." Edward says.

His eyes look almost black from where I am standing. Jake shakes off Edward's grip.

"No. I won't leave without Bella." Jake says, and reaches for my arms around Edward's waist.

That was Edward's breaking point. Edward grabbed my arms from around his waist, before Jake could even touch me, and threw them behind him with such force that it propelled my entire body backwards a few feet. When I caught myself on the wall I saw Edward punch Jake in the nose. Jake grabbed his nose to try and stop the bleeding and winced in pain. Edward grabbed his collar and opened the door of the apartment, shoving Jake outside.

"Don't you dare even as much as think about coming back here again." Edward growls, slamming the door.

I'm still clutching the wall and Edward leans his back against the door and looks at the floor. We both just stay where we are for about half a minutes. Edward moves first and walks into the family room and sits down in a chair without even looking at me as he walks by. I watch him slump into the chair and put his head in his hands. I gather up the strength to let go of the wall and quietly walk over to Edward. I kneel in front of the chair and lightly rest my hands on his knees. I look at his hands and notice that the one that hit Jake has some cuts over the knuckles.

"Edward your hand…"

"Don't worry about it." He says shortly.

"Edward….Edward look at me." I ask, trying hard not to cry.

Edward lifts his head and looks at me. He looked rather lost to me and I couldn't deny the sadness that was in his eyes. I place my hands on his face softly.

"He's right." Edward says.

"What? Edward don't say that. He couldn't have been further from the truth." I say, trying desperately not to let him back away into his own head. I had to know what he was thinking.

Edward doesn't touch me at all, his hands now lying in his lap. His eyes shift away from me and look out to the left side of the room. Without warning Edward stands up and my hands fall from his face.

"Edward?" I ask.

He walks over to closet in the corner of the hallway and pulls on his leather jacket.

"Edward where are you going?" I ask. I can tell my voice was shaking with my attempts not to cry in that moment.

He doesn't answer me and walks to door. He puts his hand on the doorknob and pauses for a few seconds before opening the door and walking out of the apartment. I pull myself up onto the chair Edward had been sitting in. I stare at the door, thinking for some reason that he was going to change his mind and come back. After a few minutes of staring at the door I knew that he wouldn't be coming back soon. But for some reason I can't stop watching the doorknob, hoping that it will turn open again.

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