Summary for OURS: Bella is in the misted of getting a divorce. Her and her son Palmer, move to LA to start a new life. With a new life in store for her, Bella is sure everything is going to be great… but an injury to Palmer leads her to met a certain superman, Emmett McCarty.
Ours.
Driving alone threw the night was hard; harder than I expected it to be. It was currently 7am and the drive from Forks, Washington to Los Angeles, California had exhausted me to no end. I sighed helping Palmer out of the car; he clung to my neck though so I had no choice but to carry him. He rubbed his eyes and looked up at the tall apartment building in front of us.
"Is this our new home mama?" his tired voice asked, I smiled sadly at him.
"Yah little man, it is. What do you think?" he buried his face in my neck.
"It's tall. Is this whole thing our home mama?" he asked me sweetly, I giggled as he put his had in front of his face shielding his eyes from the bright California sun.
"No honey… only part of it. Remember how we had to stay in that hotel for a week when daddy got mad? That's kind of how it is. A lot more people live here too." I tried to explain as best as I could to my 5 year old.
"I didn't like that place mama. Why isn't daddy here?" his big blue eyes looked up to me and I almost started to cry. I set him down and put my hands on the sides of his arms.
"I'm sorry baby, daddy stayed at our old home. You see honey daddy isn't daddy anymore, mama and daddy aren't together. Daddy is just James now." I told him, he nodded.
"So I don't have daddy anymore. Like Lilly doesn't?" he asked me with his cute little voice as I picked him up again.
I smiled sadly. "Yah baby; like Lilly."
We got to our floor quickly; it was the top floor out of 10. Palmer was excited to see his new room even though I told him it wouldn't be as cool as his race car room back in Forks. I opened our apartment door. It was nice; I liked it when I saw it online yesterday. It's a two bedroom, one and an half bath, a small but nice kitchen with new appliances and a semi big living room.
Ten minutes later Palmer and I found ourselves surrounded by six suitcases. The moving company had all of our furniture and boxes of toys. I just packed all of our clothes and some of Palmers toys. I heard a knock on the door and looked up. Who could that be?
"Who is it mama?" Palmer asked me, I smiled down at him and shrugged.
"No clue baby. Let's go see." He smiled and jumped up running towards the door, I fallowed behind
I looked threw the peep hole trying to see who it could be. I saw Angela Weber, the girl I had talked to on the phone and also on Facebook. Her friend was the one selling the apartment and she was helping out.
"Hey Angela!" I greeted her as soon as I opened the door.
"Hi Bella! I know it's early and all, but I saw you and your cute little boy come up the stairs and thought I'd come say hello. We are next store neighbors actually." She explained, I let out a small laugh as she motioned down the hall.
I felt Palmers small arms latch onto the back of my calves and his head rest against the side of me left leg trying to sneak a peek at Angela. I smiled down at him as did Angela.
"So this is the cutie I've heard so much about. What's your name sweetie?" she asked him sweetly, he looked up at her as she bent down to his level.
"Pamer." He said forgetting to say his L in his name. I giggled as she nodded acting serious.
"It's Palmer." I told her, she nodded and put out her hand to shake his.
"Hi Palmer; I'm Angela your neighbor." He looked hesitant at shaking her hand but did anyways.
"Would you like to come in Angela? I don't have any furniture besides the table the previous owner left and their chairs, we could sit there." I laughed nervously wiping my palms against my sweats that I had on.
"I'd love too!" she said excitedly. I smiled at her and Palmer lost interest in the conversation and went back to play with his cars on the floor. I led her to the table and we both sat down.
"So when does your furniture come?" Angela asked.
"Later today." I told her happily.
"That's good! Tonight I was thinking that maybe you'd like to come over for dinner, the other neighbors our coming too? Please Bella?" she asked me, I looked down at the floor. I didn't want anyone to judge me because it was only Palmer and I. I saw the way people back in Forks treated Katie and Lilly.
"Alright, I'll go." I told her with a sigh, she smiled brightly.
"Great and I thought I'd give you a little knowledge about things here on this floor so you're not totally lost." She laughed before continuing. "Ben and I live on the left of you, so if you need anything don't be afraid to ask. Rosalie and Edward Cullen live next to me; they have two little girls Mary and Lexie, Lexie is five and Mary is three. Next to them our Alice and Jasper Whitlock, they have two five year old boys; they're twins Jackson and Brayden. Than the last person on the floor and he's right next to you is Emmett McCarty. He's not married or nothing, no kids. He's Alice's brother though and a total cutie, don't tell Ben I said that though." She laughed.
I stared at her trying to save all this information in my head.
"Alright I think I got it all." I laughed, she smiled brightly.
"Good! I better get going. I have to bring Mary to her daycare for Rose." She smiled apologetically as she got up; I fallowed her to the door.
"Bye Angela."
"Bye Bella. Oh and if you need an elementary school near, I know the best place. Brayden and Jackson go there and they love it. If you want to in role Palmer, they are expecting late applicants." She told me, I nodded thanking her before shutting the door.
I heard my blackberry ring and quickly ran over to it.
"Is this Bella?" I heard a deep voice ask.
"This is she." I answered hesitantly.
"I'm the manager for Mason Moving Company. Your moving truck is going to be delayed a day. They will arrive tomorrow around 7 am. Thank you, bye." He hung up; I set my phone down shocked. Where are we going to sleep tonight? I groaned and sat down next one of our many suitcases.
"Mama… what's wrong?" I heard Palmer ask me as he climbed into my lap.
"Nothing baby." I told him, he snuggled into my chest yawning.
"I'm ungry." He told me, I bit my lip.
"You want to go to Denny's for breakfast?" I asked him, he climbed out of my lap nodding.
"Yah mama, let's go!" he yelled excitedly pulling on my old Forks High school dance sweats. I looked down at my outfit biting my lip. I was wearing a baggy T-shirt, my grey dance sweats, and a pair of sandals. My hair was pulled up into a messy ponytail and I had no make up. James would kill me if he saw me right now. He hated when I wasn't perfect and dressed to impress. I shook my head and grabbed my keys. It didn't matter what he thought now.
"Come on Palm, let's go." I yelled back ticking him as I picked him up. He screeched laughing and wiggled in my arms.
"Mama stops! Mama!" he screamed laughing as we walked into the hall. I shut our door behind us letting him down laughing.
We arrived fifteen minutes later at the nearest Denny's I could actually find. Palmer and I sat down at a booth. A waitress came up to us, handing Palmer a child menu and crayons and me an adult one.
"Hello; welcome to Denny's. My name is Nikki; I will be your waitress today. Can I get you something to drink?" Nikki asked us nicely, she had a sweet smile and her blonde hair was pulled up into a high ponytail.
"Can I get orange juice mama?" Palmer asked me sweetly, I smiled at him.
"Yeah sweetheart. Can we get two orange juices?" Nikki nodded before walking away with a smile. I turned to Palmer.
"Mommy… I have to go potty." He whispered to me like it was a secret.
"Uh oh… you better go. Come on, let's go to the potty." I told him getting up and grabbing my purse. I grabbed Palmers little hand in mine.
I quickly found the bathrooms. I tried to pull him into the Woman's restroom but he pulled away.
"Mama, I'm no girl. I'm a big BOY now. I have to go in the boy's potty." He told me, I smiled holding in my life.
"Okay my big boy, go ahead." I let his hand go and he ran excitedly into the boy's bathroom.
"I'll just wait out here." I whispered to myself.
After five minutes of waiting for Palmer to finish I was scared and regretting the choice of letting him go in by himself. I started to cry when seven minutes passed and he still hadn't come out. I turned around to go find someone to go in there a look for me but instead I knocked into something hard.
"Shit, I'm sorry!" a deep voice cursed, I looked up into the most gorgeous blue eyes ever. "Hey, I didn't mean to knock into yah. Why are you cryin'?"
"My five year old son went into the bathroom about eight minutes ago and he hasn't come out." I cried, my tears blurring my vision.
"Hey, hey… I'll go in and get him. Don't worry." He told me before going into the bathroom. I wiped my tears waiting for him to come back out.
About thirty seconds later, the kind stranger with gorgeous blue eyes emerged out of the bathroom holding my little boy in his arms. I rushed forward and realized he was knocked out. I let out a tiny scream and my hands quickly went to touch him.
"I found him on the floor in front of the mirrors. I'm taking a guess that they just mopped the floor and they forgot to put the sign not to run. He has a bump on his head; he probably slipped and hit his head. We got to take him to the hospital. Call 911!"
"I will." I turned to see Nikki by a phone that was on the wall.
"Thank you Nikki." I thanked, she nodded at me.
I looked over at this kind man. "Thank you so much-" I realized I didn't even know his name.
"Emmett McCarty and it's no problem to help a damsel in distress." He flashed me a dimpled smile. I blushed and looked down at my little boy. I ran a hand threw his blonde hair.
"I'm Bella… and really this is really kind of you." I thanked again. He just smiled. My little boy suddenly jerked awake.
"Mama! I can't see!" my baby cried in Emmett's arms as he woke up.
"Baby! It's okay; we're taking you to the hospital." I cried looking at my little boy. He cried out before passing out again.
"It will be 1 minute before the ambulance will be here." Nikki informed.
"Excuse me ma'am. Will you be able to file an injury report? It's required if someone gets hurt here." A lady I have never seen ever asked me, I nodded.
"We'll be back to file one don't worry." I told her starting to bawl again.
"Bella… it's going to be okay. I know it." Emmett whispered to me. I sniffled and nodded.
"It has to be." I whispered looking up at his handsome face. He didn't look a day over 20 years old. He was huge, not in the fat huge, more like the big, muscular huge. He's tall too; probably around 6'5. He has curly blondish, brunette hair that falls to the middle of his forehead. He has straight teeth with dimples on each side when he smiles. He's tan, probably from the California sun.
"Excuse me ma'am but we're going to need to put your son on the gurney." Another male's voice told me, I sniffled and looked up to see the ambulance here. I nodded at him and Emmett handed Palmer to him. I fallowed them out to the ambulance, as did Emmett.
"Sorry ma'am, hospital rules that any extra people must fallow in a car." One of the ambulance people told me. I nodded.
"Come on Bella, I'll drive you. You're in no shape to drive." Emmett whispered in my ear, I nodded letting him lead me to his large Hummer.
"Thank you so much for helping out. You've been more than kind. I'm so glad I met you!" I cried from the passenger seat as we drove to the hospital. Emmett looked at me with a sad smile.
"I just wish we would of met under better circumstances." He said to me and I couldn't help but nod in agreement.
I looked out of the window. I didn't want to loose my little boy, he's all I have left.