Me: Hello! Sorry it has taken me so long to post again, but my sis and I are back from Ireland and work has decided they want to work me to the ground.

Emmett: That's nice of them. Now for the important stuff…did you bring us back anything?

Me: …Um…. You see the thing is…

Edward: You go and leave us for about two weeks and didn't think to bring us anything back?

Me: hehe…Well I thought about bringing you guys shot glasses but then I remembered you couldn't use them so I kept them for myself…they are very useful on girls' nights in the middle of the week.

Emmett: So…did you find any leprechauns? You could have brought me back a leprechaun at least.

Edward: I though you said they weren't real?

Emmett: Still think it would be cool to have a leprechaun. You know like a pet that would do an Irish jig when it's happy.

Me: You do know that they are known as being tricksters and in some myths they are evil right?

Emmett: So. Some myths say the same about vampires.

Edward: Emmett's right… OH MY GOD! I did not just say that.

Me: YOU SO DID! I will say this quick before Edwards comment can go to Em's head. I own nothing twilight, they all belong to Stephenie Meyer. I only have the ability to manipulate them to do my bidding.

Chapter 14: part two of Saturday: The sleepover….

(BPOV)

"Alice there is no way in hell that I am going to wear that!" I half yelled as I threw the lacy tank top and short set back on to the bed.

Alice gave me a smile that didn't reach her eyes, for her eyes were giving me a really creepy stare. "Yes you will, it looks really cute on you and Rose, Ang and I will be wearing practically the same thing anyway. Look it's even in that lovely blue color Edward likes so much." I pretended not to hear the last part.

"Alice I am not going to wear that and walk around your house practically naked! What would your parents think? What would Emmett think? I doubt my brother wants to see his baby sister prance around in something his girlfriend would wear." I even crossed my arms and stomped my foot for emphasis (yes I know it was very five year oldish of me).

Alice was about to retort when the door bell rang from down stairs. Saved by the Bell! (I loved that show…). Well I thought I was saved but the look that Rose and Alice traded gave me chills. I should have seen it coming. The next thing I know I am being grabbed by the evil pixie and the Amazon model and thrown into Alice's closet with the dreaded pajama set. By the time I regained my balance the door was closed and it wouldn't open no matter how hard I tried.

"Alice! Rose! Let me out of here!"

"Not until you get dressed! Now be a good girl while I go and get Angela, Rose will guard the closet and let you out when I come back up." Great. I figured I should just give in and wear the damned thing, it wasn't too bad, it just looked a little too frilly to me.

I turned around to pick up the outfit when I got a real good look at Alice's closet…or should I say clothing room. It was huge! I mean racks and racks of clothing and bolts of cloth, she even had sewing machines in there (the industrial kind not those little machines you can buy at a craft store). I came to a very scary conclusion about Alice…

"Hey Rose?"

"Yes Bella?"

"Why does Alice have such a big closet?"

"You really have to ask?"

"Is your closet this big?"

"Nope, mine is normal size. When we moved here mom and dad wanted each of us kids to have our own hobby room. Edward has the music room that he shares sometimes with Alice, Alice has her dream closet/ design room that she lets me use sometimes, and I have the ultimate garage where I can play with the cars." Wow. I began to wonder just how much money this family has and what kind of job Esme had (and I hoped it was legal, for some reason I kept picturing her as either a mob boss or weapons dealer).

"Rose, what does your mom do for a living?"

"She is a home designer. She was an architect for a while, but she got bored and decided she liked to decorate instead. Now stop stalling and get changed I can hear Ali and Ang coming up the stairs. And if you're worried about your brother don't be, he will be too busy staring at me tonight to give a fuck about what you or anyone else is wearing."

Keeping that in mind I got changed and waited patently in one of the lounge chairs for the girls to let me out of the closet (who has chairs in their closet? There is even a mini fridge and a cabinet filled with bags of cheddar popcorn).

After what felt like eternity (probably only five minutes in reality) the door is flung open by my captors, I mean people I consider my best friends. I fling myself out of my chair and start kissing the ground outside the closet "Freedom! Oh sweet, sweet freedom!"

Alice shakes her head as Rose and Angela start laughing. "It wasn't that bad."

"You guys could have forgotten me and I would have had to live off of popcorn and soda." Alice gave a huff of annoyance while taking a seat on her bed; seeing how Rose and Angela were also sprawled over the bed I took a seat at the vanity. "Every teen's dream by the way, now come on and tell us what went on yesterday and don't say nothing young lady!" Wow she sounded like a mom there for a minute.

Oh shit, my face gets really red, I could feel it burn as though I spent all day in the sun (well, if there was a sun in Forks).

"Ummm" I try to think of something to stall when it hits me. "Wait a damn picking minute; you said we would hang as a group first before the whole sleep over spilling of the guts." There that should hold them off for a while.

Rose got an evil look in her eyes (now I know where Alice learned it from). "Well, the boys are moving some stuff around in the basement/ game room and then they are going and getting pizza and snacks, we have a good forty five minutes to an hour before they will even miss us."

I thought fast, still stalling. "We only just ate dinner, no need for pizza and that other junk."

"Well, they are teenage boys all someone has to do is mention the idea of food and they are hungry again. I might have told Ben that I thought I could still smell pizza in his car from his delivery job, who knew he would convince the other guys to go and get some chow." What has happened to my best friend since kindergarten? They have turned her against me! All is lost! So I give in and tell them. I tell them everything, from my first encounter with Edward at camp to the date. At some point Alice went and got them all some of her popcorn and they ate it as though they were watching a movie, entrapped in what was going on in my pathetic excuse of a life. When I get to the part about the kiss they all jump up around on the bed shouting "alleluia" and spilling popcorn everywhere (I am so not cleaning that up). Next thing I know they all jump off the bed and dog pile me to the floor, all talking at once.

"My little Bella is growing up!" "You have to let me plan the wedding" "I get to be the flower girl!" "Think of how cute their children will be!" I almost laughed till what they were talking about registered in my brain.

"Not to kill everybody's hopes and dreams over there, um, I don't even know if we are together or not, not to forget the whole over protective family. My family is made up of cops, firemen, and a music teacher that could give Edward a failing grade. No one fails band class; do you k now how humiliating that would be!"

Rose put her hand on my shoulder as we all sat up on the floor, "Bella we are just kidding around. You can talk to him later when everyone is too invested with their own love lives." Before I could say anything there was a shout from downstairs.

"Girls, if you aren't down here in five we will eat all this deliciousness by ourselves and watch Jennifer's body instead of a movie you girls would want to watch. Just think Megan Fox in barley anything for about two hours; you know who would be in our dreams tonight!" My brother is such an idiot. But he is also a life saver in getting the attention off me for the moment.

Angela quickly changes before we all are running down the stairs to the basement, no way was I going to sit through that movie again. As we made our way down the narrow basement steps I was suddenly over come with my clumsy ness as I trip over my own feet (the embarrassing thing is that I was almost all the way down the steps). I wait for the feeling of the ground as I put my hands out to stop my fall when I do actually stop falling. I open my eyes (they close automatically whenever I trip, it's a reflex) and stare into the worried green eyes of my savior…I mean into Edward's worried eyes. I feel my face heat up as my body gets a tingly feeling from where his hands are holding onto me.

"Are you okay?" He starts looking me over and gets a glazed looks in his eyes as he looks me over to make sure that I didn't hurt myself and notices what I have on, or what I don't have on (thank you Alice for making me wear this!). I found that I got a thrill out of making him look at me in that way, it made me feel, dare I say it, sexy for the first time in my life. "Yeah I'm fine." And I place my hands onto his arms to steady myself, reminding my lungs that I need to breath every once and a blue moon.

After staring at him like a deer in the headlights for a while I hear Jasper clear his throat. Edward and I snapped out of our trance and look at the others. Emmett and Rose were by a table in the corner that had all the food on it while the others were looking and smirking at Edward and me. I just felt relieved that Emmett was otherwise occupied as Edward and I let go of each other and inch away a bit looking at our feet.

Alice takes it upon herself to move the night along "Who's up for some party games? Jasper if you would be so kind as to turn on the music, Rose cut the lights will you please," as the lights went out a colored disco ball came down from the ceiling (that was cool) "now everyone grab a beanbag chair and let's party like it's 1999!"

Angela gave Alice a look of confusion, "Do you even remember 1999?"

"It's just an expression!" We all laughed as Alice's expense as Jasper wrapped his arms around her and gave her a kiss on the top of her head. She just sighed and plopped into the hot pink beanbag pulling Jasper next to her. We all got into a circle like shape when I noticed that I ended up sitting next to Edward, it made me smile until I realized Emmett was on my other side. This will be interesting…

(EPOV)

"All right peoples! It is now my turn to pick the game, no more of those sissy games it is time for a manly game that requires strength, endurance, cunning, and balls!"

I wanted to smack Emmett on the head so he would stop his ranting already. We have been down in the basement for the last three hours taking turns picking out games and activities. Alice stated it off with a game of Duck Duck Goose and then Mallmania, Jasper choose a trivia game, Ben choose Parcheesi, Rose choose to play Mafia, and Emmett had decided it was now his turn to pick.

"And what would this game be oh brother dear? I really hope it isn't dodge ball." Oh my poor sweet Bella, for her sake and mine I hope it wasn't that game either (I still remember that first gym class together).

Emmett shook his head no and announced "Nope it isn't that Bells, it is a game that the weak and strong fear more then anything!"

By now everyone was getting annoyed and Rose took it upon herself to get him to tell us already. "If you ever want a chance to see my garage again you best spill it out all ready!" Emmett's eyes went wide and I think he paled a little bit. "My choice is a round or two of truth and dare!"

Bella and I groaned while the rest of the group started to clap and cheer (isn't that game too middle schoolish?). Knowing my sisters they would embarrass the hell out of me or dare me to kiss Bella or something. Not that I wouldn't have minded that but I had a feeling I wouldn't have teeth tomorrow morning after Emmett was done with me. Seriously! Even now Bella and I are semi holding hands in-between our two beanbag chairs to keep the giant bear from noticing. We had been trying to keep from being too near each other but it was so damn hard to keep myself from pulling her to sit in my lap as the three (official) couples in the room were doing. Plus I hadn't gotten a chance to talk to Bella either about yesterday. I was hoping to do it before we all hung as a group but Ben mentioned a pizza run and we had to set up down here. I didn't know if the others knew anything but from the looks I was getting from the other girls, jasper and Ben the others did know what happened except for Emmett (hence why I was still alive and still had the family jewels).

I must have zoned out for a little bit cause apparently the game has started already, Emmett having dared Jasper to sing the My Little Pony theme song while jumping up and down on one leg. It was kindof juvenile but really funny (especially with his little southern twang as he sings). After that it was a free for all, everyone taking turns daring each other to do something stupid or crazy. The most hilarious one was when Alice choose truth and had to tell everyone which was more important to her, Jasper or her credit cards, she said Jasper after thinking it over for fifteen minutes (that was what made it so funny, she had to seriously think about it!). So far everything was harmless till it came to Rose asking Bella.

"Truth or dare Bella?"

Bella sat for a bit tilting her head from one side to the other as though weighing which would be the better choice. I gave her hand a little squeeze for encouragement and a small smile graced her face, "What could it hurt? I pick truth."

Rose took a moment and took a deep breath; I prayed that she wasn't going to ask something really embarrassing or stupid. I really wasn't prepared for the question she did ask.

"I remember that you didn't want to talk about it on that first day you came to school, but why did you live in Phoenix for three years if you didn't have a good opinion of your mom?" Bella looked as shocked by Rose's question as I felt. Before Bella even got a chance to say anything Emmett stood abruptly, Rose falling off his lap and onto his beanbag chair.

"Bella don't answer that! Rosalie you have no right to ask her anything like that!"

I stood up as well getting into Emmett's personal space, "Don't you dare yell at her, she was only asking a harmless question!"

Emmett shoved me back a couple of steps into Bella who had stood up when I did, thankfully she didn't fall back, "If Bella had wanted to tell you guys she would have its no big deal!"

"No big deal!" Rose stood up and grabbed Emmett's arm before he could either move or do something stupid such as hit me, "Emmett when we first met you three years ago you were a shell of the person you are now, even then you weren't as happy and carefree as you are now until you learned that Bella was coming home to stay! I just want to know why my new best friend was away for so long and why the guy I think I am falling in love with was so unhappy!" The four of us stood in silence, Emmett at a loss for words, me glaring at Emmett and Bella looking from me to Em. Alice was the one who broke the silence first.

"Well that wasn't the love confession I was hoping to hear tonight but common guys, let's not spoil the fun of tonight by fighting, Bella doesn't have to answer the question, lets all just play another game or split up and go to bed, I for one am tired!"

Bella walked over to Emmett and put her hand on his arm, "its okay Emmy, its not like they are going to tell anyone, I trust them. Its not that bad anyway as long as the gossips in town don't find out which I am sure they wont."

"It just makes me upset Bells."

"it is okay for you to feel that way but don't take it out on Rose or any of the others." It was funny to see tiny Bella Telling off the great Emmett. "Now tell them you're sorry."

Emmett looked sheepish and gave the twins a tiny smile that Rose returned, "I'm sorry, I just don't like to think about that woman I was told to call mother."

"Now if everyone will take a seat I will happily tell the story but it will be the only time any of this is brought up cause I hate to repeat myself," everyone nodded and took their seats again, when Bella went to sit in the extra bean bag I took her hand and pulled her to sit next to me on mine, not letting go of her hand even though Emmett glared at our joined hands. Bella took a deep breath before telling us her story.

"When Em and I were really young, too young to really remember anything our mother left to 'Find Herself" after Sue returned with Leah in tow, our parent's marriage had already fallen apart and Sue really is the love of dad's life. Sue raised Em and I as though we were her own and we actually thought she was our birth mother until I was the age of five and we got an unexpected visit from René. Emmett and I didn't know who she was and when we ran to our 'Mommy' René went livid pulling us to her and yelling at Sue, as she was about to slap her dad drove home from picking up Leah and Sam from a friends house, Sue managed to get all of us children away from all the commotion. we had never herd Charlie yell like that before ever. That was when Em and I started calling Sue Mama Sue and Rene would make her yearly visits.

Then when I was almost fourteen Rene decided that she wanted to play mommy and tried to take Em and I away from dad claiming that she never filed the divorce papers and threatening dad in order to get what she wanted. Dad and Sue hired lawyers and spent hours researching if what she was telling them was true causing them to have fights of there own. To keep my family that mattered together I made a deal with Rene that I would go with her with my own free will if she would leave everyone else alone. It wasn't until I had already started school in Phoenix that I had learned she lied about the papers.

It wasn't too bad living with her; it was like living with a teenager who wasn't home most of the time. Emmett would visit sometimes and I was able to make it to Forks for Leah and Jacob's wedding. When Rene remarried to Phil she wanted to travel with him to his away games but Phil thought she was abandoning me so he told her it was okay if she had to stay with me. Three weeks later I was on a plane back home."

Wow…we were all speechless after Bella finished telling her tale. Rose was hugging Em with tears in her eyes as Alice murmured soothing words to an upset Jasper (apparently he didn't know about Bella's reason for leaving Forks either). Ben and Angela were silent as well staring at the ground. No one really knew what to say, I gave Bella a hug and she rested her head on my shoulder. It was a good moment…

We sat like that for a while till Alice hopped up and claimed it was time to go to bed, saying something about everyone needing their beauty sleep. We did a quick cleaning of the snacks and stuff (which was easy with eight of us) and split up, girls to Rose's room guys to mine. Emmett and the other's fell asleep pretty quickly while I laid awake for what felt like hours. When I couldn't get my mind to stop bothering me I got up and walked down the hallway and stairs to the music room. I was glad it was sound proof as I started playing my mom's melody then transitioned to Bella's melody on my baby grand. When I finished playing I heard a soft clapping coming from the doorway and quickly spun around to see my angel standing there.

"That was really pretty, that's the song you played for me Thursday right?" Bella walked over to the leather couch that was located on the wall across from the piano and I got up to sit next to her.

"Yeah…so…couldn't sleep?"

"Yeah, I take it you couldn't either."

"Just a lot on my mind is all" I gave her a small smile before I continued with my train of thought "mostly thinking about you and yesterday". Might as well take the plunge now and see what she thinks of me.

"That's funny, I was thinking about yesterday too…and thinking that I scared you off with my little life story earlier". Her face turned that gorgeous shade of pink and I couldn't help lifting my hand to place it on her red cheek. It I felt a thrill at the touch of her skin on mine and it made me happy when she tilted her head into my hand.

"You didn't scare me away and I am sorry if earlier brought up bad memories for you."

"It didn't, and it all worked out in the end considering I am back here where I belong." She looks so cute when she smiles, I couldn't help bringing my lips to hers. I must have surprised her a bit because she sat frozen for a few milliseconds then responded to my kiss. It was sweet and we smiled like fools at each other. I leaned back on the sofa and she leaned into me and we sat like that.

"So…what are we?" I couldn't help but worry at her answer.

"Um…I guess we are more then friends?" That was a low blow to my ego.

"So…you want us to be just friends?"

"No I don't but I hate the whole title of boyfriend/girlfriend…at least till we know each other a little better." That made me feel better. "Besides, I think of you as more of the guy of my dreams." Cue the blush.

I couldn't help but smirk at her. "Well if I am the guy of your dreams then you are my fallen angel."

We sat on the couch for what seemed like hours just talking about ourselves, everything from embarrassing stories to what we wanted to be in the future, it surprised me a little that she wanted to be an English teacher instead of a music teacher but she explained that she loved books a little bit more then music.

We must have fallen asleep on the couch cause the next thing I know I am being woken up by a loud shout from the doorway to the music room.

"Why the fuck are you sleeping with your arms wrapped around my sister!"

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