Disclaimer: I do not own Twilight Stephanie Meyer does.
The move. Ch. 1
"Edward could you grab that box?" My dad asks as he locks up the house for the last time.
I look up from mums flower garden to see my dad with two boxes in his hands and one at his feet.
"Can I take some of these dad? To start a new garden at our new place. It'll be like mum is there with us. I promise I will look after it." I beg him and feel a couple of tears slip down my face.
"Sure grab some pots from the shed and two hand shovels, I will help you" he said smiling at me. I quickly do as he says and we take one of everything.
Soon we are on the road leaving Chicago for good and heading to Washington to start our new lives.
After six hours on the road we pull up next to a two story house with a beat up old red truck and a police cruiser outs the front.
Our houses are almost identical, getting out of the car I immediately start unpacking boxes heading for the smaller of the two room upstairs and I make quick work of unpacking my things.
It doesn't take me long, four hours max, then I set about helping dad with the rest of the unpacking.
I head out the back to find a place to start my new garden tomorrow after I have been to the store for supplies.
"Hi, I'm Bella" a voice behind me says startling me and I let out a yelp spinning around so quickly I trip and fall flat on my ass.
Not my finest moment.
"Oh my god are you okay?" Bella asks as I get up blushing furiously, one of my inheritances from my mother.
"Yeah I'm fine, you just startled me is all" I said brushing myself off. "I'm Edward by the way, and just so you know in advance I hate people shortening my name in anyway so please don't" I say holding my hand out for her to shake.
She smiles "duly noted, just so you know I don't like being called Isabella so please don't. It's just Bella."
"Got it. Hey do you know where I can get garden supplies? All mine are back ho..ah, I mean, back in Chicago" I finish biting my lip and scratching the back of my neck.
"Are you starting a garden?" She asks. Well duh! I think to myself. Why else would I want garden tools?
"Ah, yeah. It was my mums, I'm just carrying it on" I said quietly.
"Oh, that's nice. Where is your mum? Is she inside, Can I meet her? My dads inside with yours." She babbles.
"Non...ah...you can't meet her. She passed away a few weeks ago. Cancer. It's hereditary, she got it from her mother." I choked out.
"Oh...I'm so sorry. Wait doesn't that mean that you..?"
"So. Garden supplies?" I ask cutting her off and changing the subject.
"Yeah, there's a hardware store in town. A place called Newtons. I can take you there if you want, I need to get a few things in town anyway so..."
"That would be great thank you." I said smiling "hey why is there a police car in your front yard?" I ask curiously and she blushes.
"Oh, my dad is the chief of police around here." She says quietly.
"Oh, cool." Is all I said..
"Hey do you wanna go see a movie with me tomorrow? There's this new action out that I wanted to see. It could be good." She asks. I shake my head.
"No thanks, I really wanna get this done." I say and her face falls and she looks disappointed, confusing me girls are weird.
"Oh, I can help you if you want and we can go after."
"No thanks, I want to do it alone." I say ignoring the look on her face. If she's looking for a boyfriend she won't find one here. I mean, it's not that she isn't pretty because she is but, she's not my type if you know what I mean.
"Sure no problem, another time maybe?" She asks hopefully confirming my suspicions.
"Sure, you could invite some of your friends. Help me get to know some people so I won't be completely lost when school starts on Monday." I say to her and she looks frustrated.
"Are you that oblivious? I'm trying to ask you out here, on a date not a group outing." She says annoyed.
"I know, I was just trying to let you down easy" I say and she frowns.
"What's that supposed to mean?" I blush "oh..." She says blushing "you're..." She trails off embarrassed.
"Gay." I stated.
"I'm so sorry, I mean we can still be friends right?" She asks still blushing.
"Don't worry about it, and of course we can be friends,I mean we live right next to each other so we have to get along so... What?" I ask blushing as she laughs cutting off my rant.
"I don't know how I didn't notice it before, it's pretty obvious actually now that I think about it." She laugh while I continue to grow even redder.
"I"lol ahh...see you tomorrow." I say bolting inside and heading straight for the stairs ignoring her laughter behind me.
"Edward could you come here for a minute please? There's someone here I want you to meet." Dad yelled foiling my escape plan.
I walk back down the stairs and head into the living room to find my dad standing in the middle of the room with a man with greying chocolate brown hair and a matching moustache in a police uniform.
"Edward this is Chief Charlie Swan, he lives next door with his daughter and has offered to drop in on you and keep an eye out from time to time whenever I have to go meet a client." Dad explained.
"Hi Chief Swan" I say offering my hand. "I just met your daughter. I hope you don't mind but she offered to take me to the hardware store tomorrow for garden supplies." I tell him and he frowns.
"Are we gonna need to have a talk son?" He asks making me return his frown.
"A talk sir?" I ask confused.
"About my daughter and your intentions towards her." He says making me blush and my dad snicker.
"I'm, I'm ggay sir." I stammer out blushing so hard I can feel my toes turning red.
"Oh...well...that's alright then. Have fun tomorrow." He smiles and I bolt for the stairs hearing laughter behind me.
Yeah thanks dad. Traitor!