A/N*

So yeah, I wanted to say thanks for the wonderful reviews I am receiving and to all of the people putting this story on alert. I promise to do my best to keep you from waiting. I know that sometimes RL gets in the way but…. I'm not going to drag this out.

Also of course I own none of this, I just want to let these crazy kids have more fun than SM did.

Oh and if heavy angst is your thing, than you probably will want to skip this story. There will be drama, because nothing is ever perfect, but no angst, no love triangles, no Edward freaking out and running for the hills. You get the picture. So without further ado let's get this show back on the road.

Chapter 8

EPOV

"Don't worry bro, we'll figure something out."

I just groaned at this, I can only imagine what Emmett's idea of figuring this out would entail.

Don't get me wrong, I love Emmett. He's the best brother that a guy could ever ask for; he's fiercely protective and would go to hell and back for someone that he loves and Emmett loves everyone.

It's just that too often he acts without thinking it through first.

For example, there was that time after the big homecoming football game.

He was so excited that our team had totally screwed the opposing teams run for the state championship he inflated about a thousand condoms and tied them to the goal posts and then proceeded to spray paint a huge penis on the fifty yard line. Yeah, that cost him a weeks suspension, having to pay to re-do the field and a two hour lecture and grounding from Carlisle.

There was also this time that he had snuck into audio/visual room before school started and after the bell had signaled that it was time for home room, he started blaring "Closer" by Nine Inch Nails from the P.A system on never ending repeat. He then booked it out of there and padlocked the room with his own personal combination lock. It took almost an hour for the school janitor to come in and break the lock. Did I mention that this was a catholic school? The pictures of the expressions on the nuns and the priests faces were epic. So you can see why the idea of Emmett trying to help me out is causing a bit of concern.

"I've got it" he yelled, I am almost afraid to ask, but I stay silent while waiting on him to give me his "fantastic" idea.

"Well" I prompt him, I'm so afraid of what he was going to say, but being unable to resist at the same time I had to know.

"It's simple Eddie" I hate it when he calls me that and he knows it.

"You just fuck her out of your system."

"What" I'm screaming now. "You're kidding me right?" Knowing damn well that he wasn't.

"Listen to me" he said.

"Go ahead and get your cherry popped, just play it safe and no one will have to know."

"Once you've experienced it, the fascination won't be there anymore, in fact you will be so desperate to sample all of the flavors out there, you won't be giving her a second thought, and see problem solved."

I knew that he was giving himself props for being such a genius, but I was barely able to contain my rage.

How dare he think about Bella like that. She is a beautiful and pure woman, not an object to be used and taken out like the morning trash.

"Emmett" I say through gritted teeth, trying to control my anger, but by the look on his face, not doing a very good job.

"First of all, if this were about sex only, I could have had my cherry popped years ago as you so crudely put it."

"Sex for the sake of having sex, just doesn't appeal to me. I want there to be an emotional connection before the physical."

He just looked at me like I have eight heads. I don't know maybe I do.

I know that my beliefs are foreign to most people now and days, but there's nothing wrong with saving myself for the one.

"Damn Eddie, you're such a woman."

"Well that explains all of those sounds coming out your bathroom" he chuckles. " I told Alice that there was no way that you could be getting that much shampoo in your eyes every time you go in there."

Shit, I knew that I should have seen about having my room soundproofed.

"So seriously dude" he says after a moment.

"How can I help you?"

"I don't know Emmett, I don't know how to approach her romantically."

"I've never done this before and her age makes things so much harder."

I can tell that he's dying to make a smart ass comment about that, but I stop him before he can ever get started.

"Also she's my student." "Charlie is paying me to teach her piano, not to date her."

"Wait, man. She's your new student? I thought that you didn't teach older students." "No wonder Alice was acting so crazy this morning."

I explained that Charlie asked me to do this as a favor for him. He wants her to get out of her room more and thought that music lessons would help.

I couldn't very well say no to that could I? What would the "rents" think?

"Oh shit, so you have to see her every week then?" "Good luck man, there's no way that I could be that close and not touch." "It sucks to be you."

I laugh humorlessly knowing that he's right.

Spending this time with Emmett has helped me in some ways, I don't know how but I know that I have to be with Bella.

Just after today I know that's she the most important thing in my life and I will do whatever it takes to make sure that she knows that.

It feels good to get all of these feelings out in the open, even if it's with Emmett.

I know that he will do everything in his power to help me "get the girl."

It's just that I'm more than a little worried about how far he will be willing to go in order to accomplish that goal.

While driving around aimlessly, the beers long forgotten, I'm not surprised to find myself once again parked outside of the house, where earlier I had spent the best and the worst moments of my life. I'm sure as hell not going to tell Em about that though. I would never live it down and I'm sure that he would also mention it to Bella.

I never want her to feel ashamed or embarrassed, so she must never know.

I know that I violated her, and the guilt is beginning to eat away at my soul.

I vow at that moment, to spend as much time as I can making that up to her; even though she will never know what I'm trying to atone for.

Once he realizes where we're parked he let's out a roar.

"Seriously dude" I roll my eyes, doesn't he know another word?

"We're stalking her at the chief's house?" "This is badass, I never knew that you had it in you." If he only knew.

"Well since we're here, why don't you go up to the house and ask to speak to her?"

I couldn't figure out a way to tell him that I couldn't because I knew that she was sleeping. Way too many questions would follow that revelation.

As I fumbled for the perfect excuse, my savior walked out of the house followed closely by her father.

"Hurry up Bells," I hear him say, "We've got to get to the diner before they run out of cobbler"

We sit quietly while we watch the police cruiser slowly leave the driveway; then Emmett speaks up. "Man, this is so fucked up, what do you want to do now?"

I was wondering the same thing myself, but before I could make a decision he says "Well since we're here anyway, how do you feel about a little B&E into the chief's house?

Immediately I'm shocked and appalled by the thought, I know that Emmett loves to walk on the line of stupidity but this was too much even for him.

At the same time, I would love to get to walk into her world for even just one moment. I can already imagine how her fragrance would be lingering in her room. Hopefully mixed with some of that lust that she was throwing off earlier.

In that moment, the angel and the devil were back.

The angel pleading with me to think about what I was doing, that this would be an even bigger violation of her privacy then earlier.

The devil just telling him to shut the fuck up and that I may never get another opportunity like this, so I'd better take advantage of it.

Score: Devil 2- Angel 0.

I could tell that my brother was dying to do this, and what kind of brother would I be to deny him? Yeah right, that's the only reason that I am agreeing.

"Well, since I'm going to hell anyway, let's go." I say.

His face absolutely lit up, like a child on Christmas that received everything that he had ever wanted.

He ran up to the front door and tried to open it.

Yeah, like the chief of police would go off and leave it unlocked.

I told him that maybe we needed to look around the house, maybe a window was unlocked. I refuse to cause structural damage just to satisfy my perversion.

I start leading my way towards the side of the house that I knew Bella's room was on, I just couldn't let on that I knew where I was going.

Once there, I look up and notice that the window was still open and a lamp was left on. Damn, how lucky could I get?

I point that out to Emmett and then he sees my tree. Yep it's officially my tree.

I offer to climb the tree and go inside from the window. I tell him that it will be easier for me because of his size and that I will come to the front door and let him in.

I didn't tell him that I wanted to make sure that his gigantic ass didn't break my limb. Yes, that's my limb on my tree.

I also didn't tell him that I wanted a minute by myself in her room, to try to completely drown myself in everything that was Bella.

Once inside, I close my eyes and take a deep breath, Yep it was still there, strawberries, vanilla, freesia and something else.

I can't begin to name the intoxicating smell; maybe warm sugar. It was exquisite and I knew then that was her arousal.

"Oh God" I moan, I want to drink that smell. I could happily exist on nothing more than that.

I realize that I had left Emmett outside longer than I had intended.

Reluctantly I leave her room, to go let him in.

"Damn man, what were you doing in there?" "Wait, no don't answer that, I don't need that visual."

I threaten to slap that grin off of his face and I turn to climb the stairs back to my Bella's room.

I could care less about anything else going on in the house, her room felt like home.

I warned Em that if he broke anything in the house that there would be hell to pay.

Finally I reached her room again and was assaulted by the odor, but this time I refused to close my eyes.

I looked around for a moment to familiarize myself with everything that made her, well her.

Her built in bookshelves were filled to capacity. CD's lying everywhere, a laptop that I wanted so badly to open. Maybe I could get more insight to my girl by checking out her browsing history.

No, I all but literally yell to myself. There has to be a line somewhere and that's where I draw it.

I notice a book laying open on her bed. I walk closer to get a better look.

Romeo and Juliette. Aww, I new my girl would be a romantic at heart.

That gives me hope that she might understand my slightly Victorian beliefs regarding relationships.

I look around and notice drawings that she had most likely made when she was just a little girl.

I almost wept with thoughts of a little Bella. The long chestnut curls and doe eyes. The mental picture alone stole my breath away.

I think that it was then that I realized that I had no idea how much time had passed and decided that it was time to get Emmett and get the hell out of that house, no matter how much it pained me to do so.

Once downstairs, I find him settled on the couch with a beer in his hand, watching a game.

"What the hell Emmett?" I yelled. "Have you lost you fucking mind?"

"Calm down, man" he laughed. "I just wanted to give you some time to yourself up there." "You know to do whatever it was you were doing up there."

I rolled my eyes at the implications, but let it slide, because I have to admit that I was tempted.

"Relax, it's only been 15 minutes and you know that at the diner it takes longer than that to even get your food, let alone eat it."

With that I found myself calming down greatly.

"As far as the beer goes, man he has a ton of it in the fridge, help yourself to one." I knew he was just laughing at the thought of getting one over the chief.

I tell him that it was time to get out of there and start making my way towards the door, but then something caught my attention.

It was the mantle over the fireplace and I felt myself drawn towards it.

The whole thing was covered in pictures of my angel. They started from infancy, through the toddler years, god she was a beautiful little girl, until some that had to have been taken recently. There were so many surely he wouldn't miss one.

What was I thinking? It seems like that since she had walked into my life this morning, I had completely lost touch with myself.

She consumed every thought, every action.

I didn't know where I ended and she began. Surely this obsession couldn't be healthy.

Without a second thought, I reach up and grab a picture that was stuck in the corner of a frame. It was probably taken within the past few months. I had to have it.

I knew that I couldn't take it without leaving her with something in return, so I begged Emmett for 2 more minutes and ran back upstairs to her room and grabbed her Ipod.

In a flash, I was logged into Itunes and downloading the song that had been running through my head since the moment I laid eyes on her.

Brown Eyed Girl, I wonder if she's familiar with it and I say a silent prayer that she likes it.

Finally, as we are almost back to the car, Emmett says " Let me drive, I have an idea."

I couldn't imagine what he could possibly be up to, and furthermore I really didn't care.

My thoughts were all over the place, I was completely unglued.

"Edward, snap out of man. We're here"

Where's here, I wonder. I have idea how long we had been driving. It could have been hours, it could have been seconds for all that I knew.

I look up and see the neon sign. "Diner" it said.

"Why are we here?" I know that it must sound like I'm being petulant, but I can't really believe he's doing this to me.

"Come on and man up, let's go inside."

Somehow I gain control of my feet and legs and start trudging towards the small diner. I have no idea, if questioned, how we were going to explain our presence there.

"Get a grip man" I tell myself. It's a diner, I'm allowed to eat there if I want.

We walk through the door and then I see her.

Her back is turned towards the door so that she doesn't see us enter immediately.

I take a deep breath, try to control my beating heart. It's beating so loudly that I can hear it, I just hope that she can't

I walk beside there table and act completely surprised to see them there. Maybe I should have minored in drama in school.

"Chief Swan" I say, holding out my hand to shake his.

Then I turn to look at his dining companion. Breathtaking.

"Hello Bella, so nice to see you again."

God could I have sounded like a bigger spaz?

Emmett just cleared his throat, like he was waiting for something.

Oh yeah right you idiot, and introduction would be good here.

"Bella, this is my brother Emmett, Emmett this is my newest student Bella, and I know that you know her father Chief Swan."

It was then that I noticed it; her beautiful blush was back in full force. I wondered what could be causing that. What I wouldn't give for a peak into that mind of hers.

She timidly holds her hand out in order to shake Emmet's. Then in her sweet voice she tells him that it is nice to meet him.

Then in true Emmett fashion he starts laughing, and confirms that she was indeed the new student that had been to the house this morning.

"You're ears must have really been burning today" he said, "because you're all that everyone has been talking about."

Oh no he didn't just say that did he? I look down to her angelic face again and there it was that blush again. So I realize that he must have said what I thought he did.

If we ever get out of here, I'm so going to kill him for that. I never wanted to see Bella uncomfortable.

Especially because of a member of my family and then I firmly elbow him in the ribs, hoping that he will get the point.

"So boys" I hear Charlie again, "What brings you two in here tonight, I don't think that I've ever seen you in here before."

I start frantically searching the blackboard menu for some help.

"The berry cobbler" I say. "It's Esme's favorite and she asked us to pick some up for dinner tonight."

I start making my excuses for leaving, claiming that I needed to order it so that we could get it home, when Emmett chimes in again.

"Bella, it was really nice to meet you, I heard that you are going shopping with Alice tomorrow. Don't let her kill you, we like you, you can stay."

At that I start pushing Emmett with all of my strength, towards the door.

"Bye Chief Swan, bye Bella, I will see you next week."

It wasn't until we were almost home, when I realized what Emmett had said.

Something about Alice and Bella shopping tomorrow.

I realized then that Alice did indeed have something up her sleeve.

Maybe I should have talked to her instead.

I see Alice sitting on the couch as soon as we walked in the door.

I walked over to her hoping to see what she was doing, it looked like another one of her endless lists that she always makes, when planning a big shopping spree.

The only weird thing about this she just did this two weeks ago, there was no way that she needed this much stuff again.

I know that shopping for Alice is never about need, but this is getting way out of hand.

Just as I was about to question her regarding her plans for tomorrow, she stands up, starts talking about having a big day ahead of her and going to get some sleep.

In an instant she was gone, effectively shutting me down.

She was skipping up the stairs, humming a funky tune as if to tell me to not even think about asking her anything.

That's it, I'm getting more frustrated by the minute and decide that the only peace that I'm going to get tonight is in sleep.

This day has been exhausting anyway, so I tell everyone goodnight and head up to bed.

I pull the stolen picture out of my wallet and put it on my bedside table. I turn on some music alternating Van Morrison and Pink Floyd and strip down to my boxers.

Within minutes I was sound asleep, having dreams of chocolate colored eyes, long brown hair and beautiful babies.

A/N Poor Edward, he is going crazy with all that he's feeling.

Lust and then guilt for the lust, love and hopelessness.

Somebody better give him a break soon, before he completely looses it.

Next Alice POV, she's begging to be heard and I can't wait to hear what's going through that head of hers.