Disclaimer: Twilight and characters belong solely to author Stephenie Meyer. American Idol Edward & Sissy (Bella) belong to me.
Welcome back! Long Distance Love is the continuing story of Edward Cullen & Bella Swan, singing star and singing waitress. It's been a year since they made their apologies to each other and reconciled at THE BAR in Georgia. Edward's career took off and he succeeded in his goal of having Bella's voice be heard. She is now equally as famous a recording star as he is, and they are America's Sweethearts.
Will fame and its temptations destroy them? Or will their love go the distance?
Rated M for mature themes, language, and of course...of course...SEX.
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Long Distance Love
Chapter 1: Georgia On Her Mind
Bella looked out of the window at the ground below as the plane circled for landing. The twinkling lights of the Atlanta International Airport beckoned in the distance causing a pang of homesickness to course through her. Georgia, you have always been on my mind...how eager I was to leave you, and how lonely I've been without you.
Her thoughts reverted to the past, to those long ago lazy childhood days spent running barefoot on clay roads, to church revivals, to the days before her mother had packed up and left. She contemplated her childhood, before times were harder than hard. She remembered her daddy when he was still a big shot in the music business encouraging her to sing.
"Go ahead on, girl. Use those pipes the Lord gave you. Daddy's right here", he used to say.
Oh daddy, why aren't you here now when I need you?
She let her mind wander to those hardscrabble times when daddy's dreams came crashing down around him, when he wasn't nothing but a broken down drunken mess. People gossiped that Charlie Swan was a loser who had to rely on his only child to wait tables for him in a redneck bar to make ends meet. Sissy was the only one who believed in him. She had never given up on her daddy, even when he had given up on himself. He climbed into the bottom of a bottle and never climbed back out. She felt a tear slide down her cheek and wiped it away.
Her gaze was drawn to the city below once again.
Atlanta. I need you like Edward needs Los Angeles.
She wiped away another tear.
Edward.
It had been less than a year since he had swept her off her feet, discovering her in THE BAR, taking her away with him to join him in Los Angeles and securing her recording contract. Their romance had been a whirlwind, starting out so heavenly. She had known from the night she met him that he was the one.
The pilot cleared them for landing and the stewardess approached her in the luxurious first class cabin. "Miss Swan, if you'll please just remain seated until everyone else disembarks, I believe it will be best for your security", she spoke quietly.
Bella nodded in understanding.
She was so easily recognized these days. She lost count of the magazine covers her picture had been displayed on. Her voice had captured America, along with her love story. She was the small town girl with the voice of an angel who had won the heart of the green-eyed soul singer from American Idol. She sold millions of magazines and assured that people tuned in to watch when she made T.V. guest appearances. People loved a love story, and their romance had been played out in the tabloids for the whole country to drool over. Their songs were dissected and reviewed for personal relationship clues, and each one out-charted the other. They were the new Tim and Faith, occasionally dueting together, their love songs shooting straight up the charts to number one. The public couldn't get enough of Edward and Bella.
Soon, it became too much for her to bear. She craved her privacy and a sense of normalcy. Georgia was on her mind, and Georgia was where Edward would find her.
If he ever takes the time to notice I'm gone.
Author Notes: This story, like its predecessor GIFTS was created and completed 3 years ago. Any similiarities between situations in this work of fan fiction and real-life events happening to Rob and Kristen are purely coincidental.
Some of this is going to hurt...love sometimes does. But if I am anything, I am a Happily Ever After girl. I can make that happen in fan fiction. Real life not so much. Sigh...