A/N: Sorry this one's a bit short. But I think you'll understand why I cut it where I did.

CHAPTER 7: Busted

EPOV

I didn't want to let go of Bella's warm little hand as we walked back in through the front door of Emmett's house. But she dropped mine quickly, reminding me of how she had dropped my hand after we went back up to the house from the pool that night. I felt the sense of loss then, and I felt it now. Bella was not interested in me. She had a boyfriend and it would be wise to keep her out of my thoughts as much as possible. I knew it was a slippery slope if I was to get too close. Spending time with her to help her properly deal with the death of her mother would mean I was left open to her rejection again. Only this time it would probably be worse. But maybe for her I could deal with it. To make her happy again so I could hear that cute little giggle of hers more regularly I could do it. Because she was a different person now to the girl I met in August. There was a shadow behind her eyes and something holding her back, and I wanted to cut her lose from whatever it was that held her down.

We both walked back inside the house and found everyone else sitting around the coffee table. Dozens of shot glasses in place, Emmett filling them up with an assortment of liquor. My throat seized at the thought of knocking back any of it.

Alice squealed as we walked back into the room. She bounded over to Bella grabbing her arm and sat her down at the coffee table.

Emmett stopped what he was doing and looked up at us. "Where have you two been? If I didn't know any better I'd say you two were outside getting to know each other a little better." Emmett swivelled his hips around suggestively. Bella groaned and rolled her eyes, Rosalie and Jasper laughed at him and Alice, god love her, changed the topic of conversation. I really needed to appreciate my sister more.

"In honor of your arrival Bella, we're going to play a little getting to know you game," Alice stated with her arm around Bella's shoulders.

"Oh god Alice. I'm not good with shots."

"Nonsense. Anyway, if you're as sweet and innocent as they all seem to think," she gestured to Emmett, Rosalie & Jasper, "you'll come out of this completely unscathed."

Oh if only they knew she had deflowered me in August they would have a completely different opinion of her I'm sure. Her eyes shot to mine briefly. This was not helping, neither was the way she flirted with me earlier. I got my cell phone out of my pocket and decided to send Jess a text. I had to do something to keep my mind focused on the fact that I had a girlfriend.

I quickly typed it out.

Jess, pick you up at 5 tomorrow and we can have dinner before the party??

"So Ali, what are we playing this time," Jasper enquired politely.

"Well, I think a very simple game of Truth Or Dare is in order.....but let's skip the dare bit, I don't want to see anyone get injured like last time."

"Well then it's not truth or dare then if there's no dare. Why don't we just play I Never Ever." Jasper, Rosalie & Emmett all looked at Bella, wondering if perhaps she wasn't as innocent as she looked.

My phone vibrated in my pocket letting me know Jess had texted me back.

Sounds good. Can I see you later tonight?

I fought with myself on whether I should say yes or not. Although chances were we'd be staying here tonight so I replied back that I wouldn't be home. I'd probably cop grief for it tomorrow, but I was starting not to care.

"OK, you're on sweet cheeks. Why don't you start us off then Bella."

"OK........ah, I've never ever......um.........flashed my ass in public." Bella stated proudly.

Emmet, Jasper and I all groaned as we picked up a shot each and threw it back. Emmett was notorious for getting his pants off at parties, regularly drinking with them around his ankles. He was a very proud guy.

Jasper and I had been known to do the occasional nude run. Jasper had more than likely also had his ass out when shagging some skank in a public place.

"OK my turn," Alice chimed in. "I've never ever gotten off at school." Everyone looked at her blankly not too sure of what she meant. "You know, gotten off gotten off." Oh.

"Oh!" We all said in unison, clearly the alcohol meant we weren't very quick on the uptake this evening.

Everyone but Alice picked up a shot glass and skulled. They then all looked at 'sweet innocent' Bella.

"What! You all skulled as well, don't look at me as if I'm some kind of slut." She had a point, although I really did not want to know that Bella had let some guy, probably James get her off at school. I just hoped no one asked her for details.

Alice looked a little dejected, not being part of the 'club' and I noticed Jasper throw his arm over her shoulder.

"Don't worry Alice. I'll fix you up if you like."

"The hell you will Whitlock. Keep your filthy fucking hands off my little sister." For some reason she glared at me. Why in the hell would she want him anywhere fucking near her, she knew what he was like. He was my best friend and all, but I suspected he probably wasn't all that 'clean'. But the respect this guy had for me was second to none, Jasper's arm immediately dropped from around Alice's shoulder. And I was grateful for it, I didn't want that fucker breaking Alice's fragile little heart. She'd already had one man walk out on her, I wasn't going to allow it a second time.

"OK, it's my turn," Emmett said excitedly. He looked at each one of us with consideration, figuring out who he was going to target. Emmett usually got personal when we played this sort of shit, picking out random statements knowing it would reveal something very dodgy about someone that not all of us knew. The only thing he hadn't figured out yet was that it usually back fired. We would all gang up on him making sure he had to skull every time and he would end up passed out by the end of it. You had to feel sorry for Rosalie, she was invariably involved with whatever had gone on and had to skull as well.

Emmett continued to look at each of us before settling on Jasper and me and smirking to himself.

"I've never ever....had sex with.....Jessica Stanley." Ooh, that was a low blow and he knew it. It was one thing to talk about a girl publicly who we had both been with, it was another thing to bring it up when one of us was still actually seeing her!

But Jasper and I took our shots and I tried not to react. I really wasn't happy about having all of this shit revealed about me in front of Bella. But hell, Jessica was my girlfriend, of course Bella had to know we had sex. So why was it bothering me so much to have to admit it to her?

"OK. It's my turn," I said. "I've never ever been caught by Charlie Swan in a compromising position."

This question could backfire on me big time. I knew Emmett, and by virtue Rosalie, would have to skull. But please don't let Bella have to skull for this one. Being caught by the Police chief was one thing. Being caught by your father was another, but I just had to ask it. I know, I'm a masochist.

"Hey, that's not fair. He's my Dad, of course he might have caught me..........define 'compromising'."

"Well, based on the previous questions, let's just assume it has sexual connotations," I confirmed.

"Or nakedness," added Jasper raising his eyebrows suggestively at Bella just dying to hear that she had been caught naked by her father doing something naughty.

"Well of course he's seen me naked......but not since I hit puberty. So let's make that a 'no' he hasn't caught me in a compromising position." Oh thank god. I didn't want to have to hear about that.

"So, what did my Dad catch you guys doing?" Bella asked Emmett and Rosalie.

"Well," Rosalie started, "he might have caught Emmett, and some blonde girl who's face he never saw," she said smirking, "going at it in the dugout at the baseball stadium one night."

Bella just nodded her head.

"But that's not the funny part," I continued. "The funny part was when Chief Swan caught Emmett and dragged him home and made him tell his parents what he was doing and who he was doing it with. But he lied about the girl, not wanting to let anyone know that he and Rosalie were seeing each other and wanting to protect her 'virtue'."

"Which I'd shattered long before that night I'll have you know."

"Yeah, we know!!" Jasper, Alice & I all responded.

"OK, after that I think it's my turn," said Rosalie.

She thought for a while, it often took Rose & Emmett a while to come up with this shit, they'd done so much of it themselves.

"I never ever kissed more than one girl in one night."

Eh. Not a good one. Fuck me I was going to be hammered by the end of this night.

Bella all of a sudden piped up. "That one's not fair, it automatically excludes Alice an......" But she stopped mid sentence turning in Alice's direction as she took a shot, along with Jasper and I. We all knew about the night Alice & Rose were playing no holds barred spin the bottle when they were pretty young. Alice had had to kiss Rose. And as it so happened she'd also had to kiss Jessica. It had all happened back when the two of them were actually on speaking terms.

Bella waited until Alice had finished her shot looking for an explanation.

"Not my proudest moment I'll admit. But let's just say it involved Rose & Jessica, and a very random game of spin the bottle and alcohol at an age when I really wasn't ready for it."

"Fucking loved that shit. I wish it happened more often now," chimed in Emmett, looking wistfully at Rosalie. She just smacked him on the back of the head.

I just sat there hoping that Alice having to scull kept Bella's attention diverted. I was starting to feel pretty ashamed about some of the shit I'd done since Summer, and I didn't particularly want her thinking I was a complete fucking douchebag. Hell, she probably thought I'd lied about the whole virginity thing. Which I definitely hadn't, but it wasn't like I was completely fucking inexperienced, and she knew that at the time. But this was just making me sound like a complete dirtbag.

"Jasper man, it's your turn."

Jasper licked his lips and then looked at each of us, the faintest smirk on his face. "OK, I never ever..........lost my virginity to someone sitting in this room."

Oh fuck.

A/N: Oooh, how's Edward going to get his way out of this one??

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