EPOV

Hello my name is Edward Cullen. I am 18 years old and I'm currently a senior in Forks High School. I'm currently "dating" Isabella Swan. Her friends call her "Izzy" I prefer to call her "Bella" sounds more grown up.

I honestly don't know what the heck I'm doing, I should've left her to make her own mistakes but I don't know she's just so innocent and naïve I was afraid she'd get hurt. Why do I care you ask? Who the fuck knows! I just know that we seem to be getting closer and that's not good. I need to put some distance between us, I know she said she'd never fall for me but I can't take any chances.

The sooner that idoit of hers can look at her or she can move the fuck on the better.

FFL

Edward was quiet again today but he seemed even more aggravated today. I wish he would confide in someone, I mean I know it couldn't be me but Emmet maybe he said they were close; so he wouldn't be so troubled.

The day was looking like it was going to be a quiet one.

I sigh

I thought that after our afternoon talk we would be a bit closer but no he was back to his closed off self.

I sigh again.

"We're here"

I look around and notice that we indeed are; I had been so into my thoughts that I hadn't noticed.

We got off and waited for the gang to make their way towards us.

I leaned against the car.

They talked for a bit and joked around and everything seemed to be fine but I noticed Felix and Riley exchanging looks.

"Edward we really need to talk" Riley said nervously.

I heard everyone else sigh.

"Idiot" Rosalie muttered

I felt Edward tense.

"Not now Riley" Edward said in a strained voice.

"Ed I know" he began

He didn't get a chance to finish what he was going to say because Edward punched him in the face before he could say anything else.

I gasp.

"Does no one understand the meaning of 'not now'?" Edward roared.

"Rose and Jasper come with me. The rest of you get the fuck out of my face and don't come near me until you learn to follow orders."

He grabs my hand

"Come on Bella lets go to class" he says more softly.

Everyone was just as shocked as I was and by everyone I mean the whole parking lot. They all parted way to let us through.

FFL

Everyone made way, they knew by now that they shouldn't mess with me, ever, but especially when I was mad.

Riley was fucking lucky Bella was around, I always try to tone down my anger when she's there, she's so fragile that I'm scared she'll be traumatized if she ever saw how violent I can get.

I stopped us outside the classroom.

"Sorry to bring you here early but I just needed to get away from them" I say

"It's ok" she says quietly.

"I'm sorry you had to see that by the way"

"Its…" she trails off "I was going to say 'It's not your fault' but its ok. I'm not so fragile you know I can handle a little violence besides they should've listened to you and waited like you told them to. Even I could tell you were about to blow" she laughs

"Wow then they really are idiots. If you could tell then….wow" I say smiling playfully.

"Hey! I resent that you know" she pouted and crossed her arms across her chest.

I couldn't help it I laughed she looked so cute, kinda like an angry kitten.

She turned around and went inside.

I laughed again before turning towards Rose and Jasper.

I sighed

I knew they were going to say something sooner or later about the whole thing with Riley.

"Just say it" I said as I turned towards class.

Bella really is a bad influence on me; I'm going early to class.

I laughed again Mr. Mendez is going to be surprised.

"You say it" Rose whispers "if I say it it'll come out bitchy and he'll take it the wrong way"

"Yeah but" Jasper whispers nervously

"Man up Jazz you're starting to sound like a pussy"

That's Rose for you.

"Edward we're just a bit concerned" he started nervously.

When he didn't continue I decided to take pity on him and just help him out.

"Look if this is about the Riley thing and leaving the rest behind then save it ok I can take care of myself and Riley should've known better"

"We know you can take care of yourself Ed that's not what we want to talk to you about" Rose says exasperatedly "and they're all morons for that matter" referring to the whole gang.

"Then"

"It's about Bella" Jasper says hesitantly

I tensed

"What about her?"

"We're just concerned because of how much you're in love with her"

"I still don't get it. We're in love so….?" I trailed off

What could they possibly be concerned about?

"And it's good that you're in love but" he stops again.

"But what!" I ask getting agitated that they didn't get to the point.

"You suck at this you know" Rose said exasperated "look Edward you're different with her. When she's around you're like a different person"

"That's not much better" Jasper mutters

"Shut up" Rose responds

"Are you guys serious?" I say laughing "of course I'm different with Bella! She's….fragile ok. She's not like you guys or any of the other girls I've dated, she's not thick skinned. She's never been in a fight before and she's been sheltered her entire life for crying out fucking loud!"

"That's not what we mean Edward, not really. What we mean is the power she has over you"

"What are you guys talking about? What power?"

"The power she has over your moods. She can calm you down and make you laugh with just one touch, one look. Why do you think Riley risked it? We all know you don't want Bella involved with that part of your life but he was willing to risk it because she was there."

"That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard" I reply.

"Oh really" Rose asks raising an eyebrow. "Take today for example in the 2 minutes it took you to get from the parking lot to Bella's class you went from pissed to laughing and smiling. And it's not just today it's been going on the whole week Edward. Heck I haven't seen you laugh so much since I've known you. She can turn your shitty day into a good one with just one word."

"You guys think I'm getting too attached." I stated

"Edward we all know that she's been after Jacob Black since ever literally. We're not saying she doesn't feel the same way you do but we just don't want you to get hurt."

I'll cancel Friday.

"Thanks for your concern but trust me I know what I'm doing and I won't get hurt."

"If you say so" they both say

"Just be careful Edward" Rose says softly.

"Don't worry about me Rose" I say smiling.

Even though I try to shake off what they said I can't it just keeps nagging at me. It might be because besides they kisses and the hand holding everything I did when I was around Bella came naturally to me. But I didn't love Bella did I? No of course not! I'm just different with Bella because well she's Bella and I didn't want to traumatize her. I'm thinking too much and letting what they said get to me. They're just buying into our plan that all.

Still though I don't want them to keep thinking I'm too much into her I'll definitely cancel Friday.

After that the day passes by without a cinch and after school Bella and I go to her house.

"Gloria I'm home" she calls just like yesterday.

Gloria comes out and just like yesterday she immediately stops when she sees me.

"Hello" I wave smiling "it's me again" I say to see if I can rattle her.

"Hmp" is all she says before turning away from me and crossing her arms.

It's comical

"Gloria" Bella admonishes.

"It's ok Bella let's just go to your room already" I say leaning in "I can't wait" I whisper loudly so Gloria can hear

Bella looks up at me questioningly.

"Just play along" I whisper only for her to hear.

She shivers which just makes this better.

She takes my hand and leads the way.

"Ms. Bella where exactly do you think you're going with this….young man." She says trying to contain her disgust for me "You are not going anywhere upstairs everything you can do you can do it down here, where there are people around"

"That's the problem" I say winking and smiling wickedly.

Gloria just opens and closes her mouth unable to answer.

From the corner of my eye I see Bella blush.

"Come on Bella lets go watch a movie in the living room then. Gloria would you be a dear and brings some popcorn and a couple of other snacks oh and also a couple of cokes thanks" I say winking at her.

"Hmp" she says again and then leaves the room

"Why did you do that?" Bella asks when we're out of ear shot "you weren't serious were you? About you know…."

"No of course not but it was fun watching her face" I say laughing.

She shakes her head

"You really do enjoy doing that to people don't you? Getting to them"

"I do its fun."

"What movie do you want to watch anyway?" she asks

"I don't care as long as it's not a chick flick anything is fine."

She scrolls through Netflix on her T.V. looking for one.

"How about 'Water for Elephants'" she asks

"The 'Twilight' dude is in it I don't trust him" I say shaking my head

"He has a name you know" she says irritated "it's 'Robert Pattinson' and for your information he doesn't just do chick flicks"

"You like him" I say amused

"Yeah so"

"Oh I just figured you'd go for the werewolf you know since it's the friend having a crush in his friend and all" I shrug

"Well you're wrong; I'm a vampire girl not a wolf girl"

I tried not to laugh.

"What" she says looking pissed.

Damn I forgot how touchy girls got with this series.

"Nothing it's just that you totally stole the 'Wolf girl' bit from the book"

"How do you know what's in the book?" she asks looking at me funny.

Shit!

"Well you see…." Oh screw it "I lost a bet ok! Against my little sister. She's a big fan of the books and well she made me read. She even quizzed me to make sure I read them"

As expected Bella laughed. Hard.

"Oh my god! I can't believe" she said between laughs "your sister is a genius"

"Whatever" I said rolling my eyes.

"How old is she by the way?" she asks when she's done laughing.

"16 she goes to a private high school"

"Why didn't you go? To a private school I mean"

"I didn't want to" this was partly true the main reason Alice was in private school was because of all the protection a private school offered. Like I said before I could take care of myself.

"Thank you daisy, you can go now" Bella said.

Wasn't she the one from yesterday?

"Yes thank you Daisy" I say smiling flirtatiously.

She blushes and goes away.

"Hey" Bella says hitting me with her elbow "what did I tell you about that yesterday?"

"I was just being friendly" I say holding my hands up innocently.

"Since when are you so friendly" she mutters.

I don't know why but I find her irritation amusing and it makes me smile. She wasn't jealous I know that so why was I happy?

Jasper and Rose were kinda right though I realize that now. No I wasn't in love with Bella but I did laugh a lot when I was with her.

"So did your awesome sister also make you watch the movies" she asks grabbing some popcorn.

I roll my eyes

"Yeah" I say getting some popcorn too "but that's my dad fault"

"How" she asks

"Because he's putty in the hands of my mom and sister"

By the quizzical look on her face she still didn't get it

I sigh

"Every week we have a family movie night all 4 of us and of course Emmet, Jasper and Rose. Now we're supposed to all decide which movie to watch by voting so it's fair and we have a little variety and my dad is always the deciding vote but Alice always manages to get him on her side even though he hates chick flicks as much as I do"

She nods

"Your sister's a genius" she whispers.

I roll my eyes.

"So which movies have you watched?"

"Pretty much every single one that's come out since she's been born and some of the older ones"

She again nods but doesn't say anything else. Even though she's trying to hide it I can tell that she's sad.

"What is it? What's wrong?"

"Nothing" she says trying to wave it off.

She goes back to looking for something to watch.

"Don't lie to me what's wrong?"

"It's just that I know you don't like it because you're forced to watch movies you don't like but I envy you. I wish I could do that with my parents or maybe even Jake, not like a date but just spend some time together as a family. Jake is part of my family after all, my parents consider him like a son" she explains. She's on the verge of tears. "But that's never" she stops and swipes at the tears that are beginning to fall "but I've never been that imp" she stops and swipes the tears away again but more take their place.

Unable to take it anymore I take her into my arms and let her sob into my chest.

"Why?" she asks sobbing "why am I so insig" I can't understand anything after that.

I hold her until she stops crying.

He's an asshole

"Sorry about that" she says once she stops crying.

"It's ok" I say

"I think I ruined your shirt"

I look down at it and shrug "didn't like it anyway"

She smiles.

"You look much prettier when you smile" I say.

"Thanks" she says blushing

"You look cute when you blush too"

Ok Edward you can stop now I think that's enough cheering up.

Seriously though why did I say that?

She blushes even deeper.

"Ok how about this one" she says after a while.

"I don't know….I mean it's called "50 First dates' but then again Adam Sandler's in it so….ok let's watch it"

After watching her crying and me saying all those things I would've agreed to anything quite honestly.

Again Jacob Black is an Asshole! Would it kill the guy to spend a couple of hour on Friday or Saturday night to watch a couple of movies with her? Fucken dumb ass. I hate his guts.

The movie wasn't that bad we both laughed a little and Bella seemed much happier afterwards which was good.

Next we watched "Water for Elephants'

"You completely took advantage of my kindness Bella" I say shaking my head.

She turns and gives a huge grin.

I laugh

That one wasn't that bad either I mean it didn't have the comedy factor but it wasn't all "lovey dovey" either well…..

The last one we watched was 'Fast Five'

"For your benefit" she said but I saw her eyeing Paul Walker.

I loved it though.

"It's late I have to go" I say looking at my watch

Wow it's almost 9 my mom's gonna be pissed that I missed Dinner.

"It is late! Sorry I hope you won't get into trouble about missing dinner"

"How do you know about that?"

"After what you told me about having a movie night I just figured that dinner together with the whole family was something else you guys did" she shrugged.

"Are you okay?" I asked. I hope she wasn't going to start crying again.

She rolls her eyes

"Yes I am fine now you should get going before it gets even later"

"See you in the morning Bella" I say and turn to leave.

"Edward" Bella calls

I stop and turn towards her but before I can say anything she comes up to me and hugs me.

"Thanks for being such a good friend" she whispers then she stands on her toes and kisses my check before dashing upstairs.

To say I'm shocked would be an understatement both by her actions and that fact that she considers me her friend.

We're getting too close I really need to put some distance between us. I'm sorry Bella I know you're going to be shocked and maybe even lonely but we can't get any closer. It's for your own good.

I turn and leave.

I can't quite shake the slight guilt I feel on the way home.

Everything's quiet when I get home. I'm instantly suspicious.

I have barely closed the door when I hear my mother's voice

"Edward Anthony Masen Cullen where have you been?"

Damn full name

I wince

I turn and see that Alice, Rose Jazz and Emmet are there in the living room with my parents waiting for me. They have smug little smiles too, I've never been in trouble with mom before.

Damn smug bastards

"Well I'm waiting" my mother says tapping her foot.

Fuck how am I going to explain missing dinner? I hadn't told my parents about Bella and didn't plan to mainly because we weren't really going out and then of course there was also the fact that Rose and Jasper were here so it's not like I can say I was with a friend because they'll call me out and then I'll have to tell my parents about 'my girlfriend'.

Shit!

Hope you guys liked this chapter. I have the next 5 chapters written up I might upload them today I don't know and if you're reading any of my other stories I have them partially written and just need to be typed. Please review