"What's on today's agenda for work Mr. Cullen?"

Though eyes were on me where ever I walked, I wasn't uncomfortable anymore. I started to ignore them and just do my job.

Sometimes they pretended to do their work and as soon as they saw me walk in Edward's office, everyone stopped to stare. We didn't bother closing the blinds because we had other things to do than give them another free show.

By lunch time, everyone had a different theory as to what was going on between me and Edward. I'd heard a few of them, and some made me laugh. Others worried me a little.

I was doing really good ignoring people until I heard someone talking by the copying machine.

"I heard she's two months pregnant, and that's why she got dizzy this morning. Mr. Cullen just found out, that's why he's being nicer to people." It almost made me laugh, honestly, that was very creative. Then I turned to see none other than Jasper Cullen standing very close to the two ladies who were gossiping. His expression showed shock, and he was frozen in place.

I cursed under my breath and he turned to look at me. He tried to compose himself and smile at me, but I practically ran out of the little offices and towards the elevator.

Would he tell Alice? He obviously thought it was true, otherwise he wouldn't have just stood there paralyzed.

Once in the elevator, I debated with myself. I didn't know what to do. Who would have thought it was going to be this complicated? Maybe it was best for me to quit.

I felt my phone vibrate and I took it out.

From: Edward

Are you ok? Where are you? Want to go get some lunch with me?

I stared at my phone for a while. I heard the elevator's door open. I walked out without looking up and ran into someone.

"Uff! I'm so sorry!" I said immediately. I looked up to see Jake standing there with a smile. His smile faltered when he saw my worried face.

"What's wrong, Bells?" he asked, concerned.

"What are you doing here?" was all I could say. His eyebrows furrowed.

"You didn't answer your phone yesterday, and I wanted to know if you were okay. We were supposed to have dancing classes remember?" Yesterday was when I was at the hospital, and my phone was dead. Crap. I forgot about Jake, again.

"I'm so sorry Jake! Yesterday was a very strange day for me." I explained, trying not to give too much information.

"Oh, that's fine, Bells. I'm just glad you're okay. What are you doing out here? Were you on your way to get lunch?" Lunch! Where was my head today? I wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't connected to my body.

I brought up my phone and texted Edward back that I would go to lunch with him. I needed to talk to him about Jasper.

"Bells?" I looked up, and gave Jake another apologetic smile.

"Yes, I am just waiting for Edward. I haven't been feeling very, connected lately. Maybe we can do the classes another time?" I suggested. "I'll call you Jake, so you don't have to come for nothing." He just smiled.

"It wasn't for nothing, I got to see you." I laughed a bit. My phone vibrated again.

From: Edward

I'll meet you by my car In 5 minutes

I replied with an 'ok' and turned back to Jacob. "I'm glad to see you Jake. Though I am sorry about the classes." I said sheepishly.

"It's fine, I'm not the one who needs them." He teased. It was quiet for a minute then he rubbed his hands n his jeans.

"I better get going, so you can go meet Edward." He said. I heard the elevator doors open, and Jake leaned in to hug me. I hugged him back tightly and thanked him for stopping by and being so understanding.

"Sure sure," he said smiling, then walked away.

"You missed your dancing classes again." I turned to see Edward walking towards me, I wasn't sure if he was teasing me or…what. His expression didn't reveal anything.

"Uh, yeah. With yesterday being hectic, I forgot all about them." He smiled at my answer.

"Sorry about that, it's the second time you miss your classes because of me." He didn't sound sorry at all. I laughed.

"It was mostly my own fault. I'm the one with the horrible balance." He chuckled.

"True. But I could have prevented it." He was walked closer to me and put one of his hands on my waist, and the other cupped my face. I started getting dizzy.

"How?" I whispered.

" I could have saved you from the fall." He whispered back. His lips only another whisper away from mine. I licked my lips.

"You can't always be there…to…save me." I chocked those words out. My breath was gone. His eyes met mine. Then they glanced down at my lips. My lips felt so dry. I licked them again. He leaned in to close the little distance and I felt his lips touch mine.

I was so gone. My knees gave in.

"Bella!" his voice was alarmed. I smiled weakly.

"You made me dizzy, took my...breath away." I said slowly. He laughed half heartedly, and brought me helped me stand straight.

"What am I going to do with you, Bella?" his question made me laugh. Before I could respond, he picked me up in his arms, bridal style again. I didn't mind so much but he took me by surprise.

"What are you doing?" He looked at me and smiled.

"I'm taking you to lunch. I need to get some food in your system before I try to kiss you again. I don't want you fainting on me." He smiled at me; it was that bad boy crooked smile again.

He put me in the car, I don't know how he did it, but he did. Then he started walking around to get himself in, when Jasper stepped out of the elevator. I saw Edward stop and smile at Jasper, who in return, looked my way then back at Edward with a small smile.

I saw Jaspers mouth move but I couldn't make out what he was saying. Edwards back was to me, so I couldn't see his mouth move as he responded, if he responded. I was becoming a bit impatient.

Jasper's face became concerned, then he moved his mouth. He waited for a minute, for Edwards's reply I assume. Then he glanced at me and his face became even more concerned. What were they talking about?

I was about to step out of the car when I saw Jasper's face turn into one of relief, I saw Edward nod his head after Jasper said something.

I really didn't like muted movies.

Jasper smiled and waved at me, I waved back but couldn't return the smile. I was just staring at Edward's figure as he made his way to the car again.

Once he was inside he put the key in the ignition and turned on the engine without a word. I didn't know what to ask him, I just sat there in silence as he reversed and made his way out of the parking lot. He glanced at me and sighed.

"Bella, you're biting your lip off" I didn't realize I was biting my lip. I looked down at my hands and cleared my throat.

"What did Jasper tell you? He looked…concerned." It was silent for a minute, and when I realized he wasn't answering I looked up from my hands at him. He didn't look at me.

"Nothing really, just business that needs to be…fixed." His hesitation made me nervous. Like his sentence had some kind of double meaning.

"Are there any problems?" I asked trying to get more information. If it had been business, why had Japer glance my way in a nervous state? Edward cleared his throat.

"It's not anything that can't be fixed. Don't worry about it." He tried to give me a reassuring smile, but it didn't even reassure himself.

"Edward." I didn't need to say anything else. He knew I didn't believe him. He took a deep breath.

"There are some…bad rumors going around the office. " I closed my eyes but didn't say anything. After a moment, he continued, "I was fine with rumors about us…sleeping together but… it just went a bit too far and it spread a bit too much for my liking." Of course, he didn't want to be involved with someone like me. I should have known.

"You'll have my resignation on your desk first thing tomorrow morning." I spoke quietly. Edward stopped the car so abruptly that I had to look back to see if there was any traffic. Thankfully, there wasn't any. Edward realized his mistake and put the car into motion only to park on the side of the road. Then he turned to face me.

"What are you talking about, Bella?" he was trying to sound calm, but I could see his exasperation about to come out.

"It' fine that you don't want to be associated with someone like me. That you don't want any rumors going around into the wrong ears. And I—" he cupped my face.

"Isabella Marie Swan, I never said that." His face was so intense, I had to look down. He kept staring at me until I looked at him again. "Why would you think that kind of stuff?" when I didn't answer him, he simply leaned down and kissed me. He kissed me until my lips were numb. He kissed me so passionately I forgot my own name.

We were both breathless when we pulled away, our foreheads resting against each other. His eyes met mine.

"Don't you ever think that way again." He caressed my cheek. "I know it's going a bit fast, and that the rumors are bothering you, and they are getting out of hand. But I want you to know that I can handle it. We can handle it, Bella. Together. "

"But-"

"No buts. People at the office will just have to accept the fact that we care about each other. " he waited for me to argue, and I was about to, but I thought better of it.

"What about the rumors, how will we deal with that?" I was still wondering what Jasper said to Edward to make him so upset. Edwards face darkened.

"Every single person in that company will be wishing that you were truly pregnant with my child because of how ashamed they will be for believing such rumors. They will be wishing it were true so that I would stay nice to them." My mouth opened and closed several times. "But if that were true, I wouldn't be hiding it from them. I would have been shouting it and the world would know there was no need for such rumors." Did he really just tell me he wanted me to have his kids or was I getting things mixed up.

"I'm dizzy." Was all I could say. "This is too much for me to take in." Edward took another deep breath, then he took out his cell phone and dialed a number. I just stared at him in curiosity.

"Jasper, could you take care of things before we get back to the office? I don't want any stares, whispers, or more rumors. I want everyone to focus on work and mind their own business." My mouth dropped. How could he ask Jasper to… Edward listened to Jaspers response. "Thank you. I knew I could count on you my brother." Then he hung up and turned to me. "There, problem solved. I couldn't breathe.

"What is he going to do? How is he taking care of things, Edward? I don't want you to fire anyone at my expense I-" he silenced me with a kiss.

"No one will be fired, Bella. Yet. Just warned. It's a working environment and they should be doing their work not gossiping like they have nothing else to do." He had a point there, but still. He raised my face with a finger on my chin. "Don't worry so much about it, Bella." I answered him with a weak smile. He turned on the engine. "Now, let's go have lunch and enjoy ourselves." He said smiling, and pulled back into the road.

I know it took me a long time to update but now I fixed the other chapters and the story is back on track.

I hope you enjoyed the chapter. My back hurts from being on the computer all day fixing the chapters and writing this one. You will make me indefinitely happy if you review :)

Also, I know it seems like they're going fast, but remember it's been five months since she started working for him. It all started coming out a couple of days ago with Bella' accident before the movies.

Please do review, I'd love to hear what you guys think!

Always,

~Sparkles107