To make up my delay of updating my story last time, I decided to update the story again as soon as I have finished Chapter 8. So, here is Chapter 8 of the story. Please review.

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EPOV

I walked into La Bella Italia. I couldn't believe that Jasper set me up blind dates. Did he forget the fact that I had a girlfriend? Lauren would go crazy if she knew that.

'Good evening, sir. What can I help you?'

'I had a reservation under Brandon.' Her name tag said she was Rebecca.

'Brandon? Yes. Follow me please.' She walked ahead of me and swung her hip a little bit too much. I looked away. She led me to a table for two. I saw someone was at the table. I guessed that was the date Jasper set up. She was a brunette. She looked familiar to me.

'Hey, Rebecca.' She stopped and looked at me. I took the menu from her. 'Thanks for leading me to my table.' I slipped her a five dollar bill in her hand.

I walked to the table. 'Bella?' I was hoping I was right. She looked up and met my eyes. I just realized she had beautiful chocolate brown eyes. I was lost in her eyes and couldn't say a word.

'Edward? What are you doing here? I mean, what brings you here?' She sounded surprised. Apparently she didn't know who her date was.

'Oh. My friend set me up a blind date.' I said causally and sat in the chair across her.

'Me too. Wait, you said your friend set you up, right?' I nodded. 'Is it Jasper Whitlock?'

'Yeah. You know him?'

'Yeah. I used to be his patient. So how did Jasper know my roommate?'

'Your roommate?'

'Brandon, Alice Brandon. She's the one who set me a blind date.'

'You know what? Why don't we forget about this and let's have a nice dinner?'

'Yeah, you are right.'

'Good evening, are you ready to order yet?' Rebecca came back to our table. She was at Bella's back. She kept batting her eyelashes at me.

'Yes. I will have Arugula Citrus salad.' Bella ordered, glaring at her.

'And I will have Italian Flag Bowties.' My eyes never left Bella's face. Her cheeks were in shade of pink. She picked her wine glass and tried to cover her blush.

'You know, you look cute when you blush, Miss Swan.'

'Really? Thanks for the compliment, Mr. Cullen.'

'Well, you haven't told me why you hate me, Bella.'

'Well, you haven't told me what's you girlfriend problem.'

'Let's make a deal. You tell me why you hate me, and I will tell you about my girlfriend.' I smirked.

'I already told you, you acted like an arrogant jerk.'

'That's it? Just because I acted like an arrogant jerk and you hate me?'

'Yeah. That's it.' We fell in silence, just staring at each other.

'Okay, tell me about your girlfriend. What happened earlier today?'

'Well, I told my girlfriend I had a day off; she called, saying she was on the way to my apartment. So I escaped from the fire escape outside my room.'

'Why did you escape?'

'You know my girlfriend. She always wants me to call every minute in every day. Every time she came, she wants to… do those stuffs.' I trailed off.

She raised her eyebrows. 'Those stuffs?'

'Yeah, you know.' I felt blood rushed to my cheeks. I could tell my cheeks were in more shades of red than Bella.

'Why don't you just break up with her? And Jasper knows you have a girlfriend, why did he set you a blind date?'

'I don't know. Maybe I am using her.'

'For what?' Her tone was harsher that necessary. I knew I deserved it. I was using a woman after all.

'So that I can tell the others that I had a girlfriend. But I don't think I love her as much as I thought. But I am going to break up with her. I know I had fall in love with someone.' I could see that she gulped. Why would she gulp? 'Do you have a boyfriend?' That's something I needed to figure out.

'No.'

'Why not? You are pretty. I bet there are a lot of guy would fall for you.'

'I am not pretty at all. I am plain. I am a klutz. Who would want someone like me?'

'You haven't seen yourself clearly. Tell me, how did you know Jasper?' Her face was sad. I knew I had brought up something she didn't want to talk about. 'I am sorry, Bella. If you don't want to tell me, you don't have to.' She nodded.

'I am sorry, Edward.'

'For what?'

'I just couldn't tell you what happened.'

'Don't say sorry to me. You don't have to tell me if you are not ready or you don't want to. It's okay. Everybody has something that they don't want to tell anyone. Can you tell me why you became a negotiator?'

She chuckled. 'It's just because I didn't know what I could do with a degree of psychology. And one of my friend, she is also psychology in major and become a negotiator after graduation. So why did you become a cop?'

'Just to piss my father.' I said as-a-matter-of-fact.

'Why?'

'He always wants me to follow his footsteps to become a doctor.'

'Then, what do you want to be?'

'I want to be a musician.'

'A musician? What do you play?'

'I play piano.'

BPOV

'I play piano.' I was quite surprised. I would never link him with the piano.

We talked a lot through out the dinner. I had learned a lot about Edward. He seemed quite nice to me now. But I still didn't trust him. I knew how fast one changed his mind.

'It's almost ten. Maybe we should go home.'

'Yeah. I want to go to the washroom before we leave.'

'Okay. I will wait for you outside.' I nodded and headed to the washroom.

I went into the washroom and checked to make sure there was no one. I then pulled out my cell and called Alice.

'Alice, where are you?' I heard Rosalie was giggled with someone else.

'I am with Rosalie.'

'That doesn't have to be a genius to figure that out. I am heading back home.'

'Leave the car there.'

'But Alice, it is your Porsche we are talking about.'

'Bella. It's okay. I will take it afterwards. So how's your date?'

'Everything goes fine, apart from the fact that my date was one of the arrogant jerks in the department. We need to talk after you come home.'

'Whatever.' I hanged up and headed to the exit of the restaurant.

I found Edward at the parking lot. He was arguing with someone. He was standing under the street light. I could tell he was pretty annoyed and angry. His veins were popped out on his forehead. Another one was harder to tell. She, judging from the figure, was standing in the shade. It was too dark for me to take a better look at her face.

'…a date.'

'It was my friend.'

'Oh, so your friend doesn't know you have a girlfriend?'

'Yes, he doesn't know about you.' His eyes didn't even blink for once. If I hadn't known better, I could have believed him. Wow. Edward was really good at lying.

'Okay. Then, we are done.'

'Good. You don't know how long i have been waiting for today. I don't love you anymore. We are done for good. Don't try to contact me, Lauren. And stay away from me. Remember, we are done. For good.' So that woman, Lauren, was his girlfriend. Lauren walked away angrily. She couldn't even walk straight. She was apparently drunk.

'What are you looking at, bitch? I saw you with my Edward!' She slurred the words out. I saw Edward ran to us.

'What happened?' He demanded.

'You have a date with this slut? God, Edward. I didn't know you have such a bad taste.' She tried to lean on Edward but he pushed her away in disgusted.

Edward didn't say anything, but raised his hand and slapped her. I caught his wrist before he could do anything to Lauren. His career couldn't be brought to an end because of me.

'Edward, she's not worth it.' I whispered to him. His face softened and lowered his hand.

'Edward, why didn't you hit me? Are you scared, coward?'

'Ma'ma, please back off.'

'I don't listen to a slut.'

'If you don't leave us alone, we will take you down town and lock you up until you are sober.'

'You have nothing to hold against me, bitch.'

'I am Det. Swan. You are drunk, Miss. I can smell alcohol from your breaths. The place we kept drunken people was not a nice place to visit. You don't even want to walk into there.' She then glared at me and backed away.

'Bella, thank you.'

'You are welcome.'

'I am sorry.' He said suddenly.

'For what?'

'For letting Lauren insult you. And if it wasn't you, my career could have ended. Thank you.'

'The words Lauren had said are something I always heard when I was a uniform. And I couldn't let you bring your career to an end because of me.' Once again, we fell in silence, but this time, it's awkward.

'I should take you home.' Finally, Edward broke the uncomfortable silence.

'I drove my friend's car here. So I got to take it back home.'

'But, your friend, Alice. She just called me, said that I have to take you home, no matter what.' I groaned. Alice, I would kill her when she got back. I walked to his silver Volvo unwillingly.

Once I got into the car, I told him my address. Edward turned the stereo on. A familiar music flowed out from the loudspeaker. I grasped when I recognized the music.

'It's…' Edward said slowly.

'Debussy. Clair de Lune is great. I love it.'

'I didn't know you…'

'I don't know classical music very well. It's just because my mother always played that song for me when I was little.' Again, we fell in silence again for the rest of the drive.

We arrived our apartment block 10 minutes later. Before I could reach for the door handle, Edward already opened the door for me.

'Thanks,' I smiled to him.

He walked me all the way to my apartment. I took the keys out and opened the door. I was struggling with whether I should invite Edward in.

'Maybe I should go. Good night, Bella.' He bent down and kissed my cheek. The skin where he kissed was now felt like on fire. He then headed to his apartment.

'It was my father.' I whispered.

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