A/N: I know I started this a long while back. It's been a hectic year, but I am once again dedicated to these stories and they will be complete. This one just had a little makeover. And added a page and a half.
I wanna say thanks to my best friend Samantha for helping me come up with this idea.
Disclaimer: Most of this stuff, characters, vampires, setting, belong to Mrs. Stephenie Meyer. The Song belongs to Hawk Nelson. I don't own anything.
"Come on Bella, it's time for you to go home." Edward said.
I looked up; it was something I did not want to do. I had learned so many new things about the Cullens tonight, and I didn't want to stop.
All evening I had been listening to the Cullens play their instruments. Carlisle played the electric guitar; something that surprised me. I never would had expected Carlisle to play guitar, acoustic maybe, but never electric.
Jasper on base; and Emmett, drums.
The most surprising thing though was Edward. He was the lead singer. I had never heard him sing before, and his voice was amazing. I couldn't keep my eyes off of him as they sung. It was very clearly imprinted in my brain. I never wanted to forget this evening.
I laughed along with Esme as Alice and Rosalie danced, singing along to the songs that the boys had made up a few years back.
I grabbed my jacket from the white seat that was across the room. I grabbed Edwards hand as we made our way out. As always, he opened the door, but before I took a step I turned around.
"You guys should really become a professional band." Jasper nodded, and smiled.
"Right Bella, a vampire band. We'll talk about it." He said and then I turned back around and stepped out the door into the crisp night air.
The ride home was filled with my complaints about going back home. Charlie met a girl a few months back, a cousin of one of the other workers at the station.
This cousin had become Charlie's girlfriend; a perfect match for Charlie, even though the two of us would always know that he would love my mother, Renee, his girlfriend, Lucy, had everything he needed at the time. And they were pretty serious, and that bond grew more and more daily.
"Are you sure that I can't spend the night tonight?" I asked Edward again; hoping that he would change his mind.
He looked over, his eyes smoldering. "I'm sorry Love, You can't. I don't think that Charlie would approve of you sleeping over with Alice again. You've spent the last two nights over at my house." He answered.
I sighed, knowing that he was right. But that wasn't going to stop my fight.
"But I don't want to go to my house; to that, to that…mad woman!" I practically yelled. I didn't exactly like Lucy. She was perfectly nice, when Charlie was there. But the thing that got me though was how she acted like she was the first and only woman in Charlie's life. And dad just saw right through that. She invaded all our space, seeing how she was only 'visiting' a cousin here in town, once she and Charlie…got together, she moved in seeing how she has no place to stay.
And she's going to find her new house; she keeps telling us that… right when pigs fly.
Edward looked over at me, his eyes worried. "It's just that because I have to share a room with her I won't be able to sleep. And I'll miss you." I said in a quieter voice while I grabbed his hand.
His eyes lightened up again as he spoke. "I miss you two Bella, but as long as Lucy is there, I can't be with you at night any longer. You're already late as it is. You shouldn't have listened to us play for so long." He smiled.
"But you guys are really good!" I exclaimed; then blushing at my significant outburst.
"Really?" he asked timidly, it was cute.
"Yes really! You guys would make a great band!" I said smiling.
"Alright…" He said. His eyes focused off in the distance for a moment. He only came back to reality when I yelled at him to keep his eyes on the road.
We pulled up the driveway to my house, that now not only had my red truck, Charlie's cruiser, but it now also had a blue bug convertible. I hated it.
Before I was even thinking about it, Edward had my door opened and ready for me. I numbly undid my seatbelt and climbed out of the car.
"I'm sorry. If Lucy weren't here then I would be up in your room before you could say, um… how about… I like knives?" He said. I raised an eyebrow at him. "Not that I do," he said rushed. "Knives are bad. Keep away from any knife that you see." He added quickly.
I smiled and leaned up to kiss him. We kissed for a moment then broke apart. He looked at me. "Charlie is wondering what we're doing." I frowned and opened the door to my ultimate doom.
"Bye!" I said weakly. He smiled, squeezed my hand and turned to walk away.
"Bye love..." I heard him say before he got into his car. I breathed in slowly to face my next task of the day; Lucy.
I walked into the kitchen where I could hear them talking to not see only Lucy and Charlie but also Billy Black too. Can my night get any worse?
"Hey Bells! How was your time at the Cullens?" Charlie asked.
"It was good. I basically just sat with Esme and listened to the rest of them play their instruments. They're really good." I said. I avoided Billy's gaze. I knew that he disapproved of my love life.
"That's great Hun!" Lucy said, ecstatically, obviously putting on a show for Charlie's sake. Hun? Is that what she just called me? Hun?
I nodded towards her and then turn my gaze back to Charlie. "I'm going to go to bed now Dad. I'm pretty tired. Alice and I stayed up pretty late the last two nights." I said. He nodded and I headed up towards my room.
Not feeling like taking a shower tonight, I just changed into my pajamas and fell into a fitful sleep. I could hear it when Lucy crawled into the bed next to mine, possibly hours later. I really needed to get permanent residence at the Cullen's place.
After waking up countless times, I ended up taking some cold medicine to knock me out. Every time I woke up, I would see Lucy look up from reading her book. She would then talk about wanting to have a little sleepover of our own seeing how we hadn't seen each other in 'ages', in the truth to the matter was it had only been a few days.
After a… slightly good night of sleep I made my way to the bathroom, toiletries in hand. When I was walking though the living room, I noticed that both Charlie and Billy were sleeping on the couch. I sighed, removed the empty pizza boxes from around them and walked into the bathroom.
I undressed, stepped into the shower, and turned on our shower radio to 106.1. As I listened more closely I noticed that I had heard this song before.
You
never ever leave my mind
My sweet, sweet Madeline
Every time I
look into your eyes
I feel like I'm alive
There was something familiar about that song. Something that I should've guessed the second the song started playing.
And
I can barely make a sound
Whenever you're around
You can find
me hiding in the crowd
Next time you come to town
But then again, I had just before had a terrible night sleep and a major headache.
Hey! Hey! I've been waitin' all day!
But as I listened more intently, I found out that it was one of the songs that I had heard the Cullens play last night.
Every
time I want to say hello
Every time I want to stay, I go
Can't
ever find the words to let you know
Sometimes you play my mind a
million times
I smiled to myself and turned off the radio, not listening to the rest of the song. They actually took my advice; they became a band…overnight. Something was up.
