Arrival (Anna)

I took a taxi in Port Angeles to Forks. I wanted to see my dear old friend Bella. I had nothing to do any where else. I was in front of her house by afternoon. I paid the taxi and took my stuff out of the trunk. It was cloudy and it was about to rain. I reached for the door but before knocking it was open. Bella was at the door frame. I took in a deep breath and wrapped my arms around her; I loved this fragile little beautiful girl with my whole heart. I opened my arms, kissed top of her head and said " U can't imagine how much I missed u honey." She went on her toes to put a kiss on my cheek and said " I missed u so much too. Come in"
I entered the house. It was really cute. I never saw anything like that before. "Is ur boyfriend here?" Her cheeks turned pink and said " Yes" and then I saw him. He was more like a super model coming out right from a page of one of those fashion magazines. I lifted my eyebrows. "Hello Annabella" he said with a polite velvet tone. "Hi Edward, just call me Anna" I smiled. I figured what he was. That was why she didn't say much about her boyfriend. I extended my arm to shake hands with him and said " It's a pleasure to meet you after all." He smiled and shook my hand " It's so nice to see u too Anna; Bella talks about u all the time!" " I bet she does " Bella took one of my bags and said " let's take ur stuff upstairs. Charlie would be thrilled to see u." " I'm gonna be more than pleased to see him. I really miss him." And headed upstairs. " I bet he feels the same. You should have seen his face when he heard u'r coming here. The look on his face was priceless." "I bet it was"
We put my bags on the floor and I got a chance to see Bella's room. It was so nice and cozy I loved it from the first look. I turned to face Bella and watched her heart shaped face and smiled at her with a sinking heart. My little Bella was getting married! It was as crazy as it sounds but I never disapproved her deeds. I really truely loved this girl and always wanted the best for her. " what are u thinking Ann? U'r freaking me out! It's been the longest u've ever been quiet. What do u think about Edward?" She said with her eyes being large moisty. I poked her nose and said " we will talk tonight honey. We'd better go downstairs I can hear Charlie's cruiser." She furrowed and said " I never understand how can u hear things from that far!" I laughed and said " I have sharp senses sweetheart" I wrapped my arm around her shoulders and we went downstairs. I caught Edward watching me suspiciously and I gave him the the right to be suspicious. I knew I had to talk to him later but now I wanted to meet Charlie. I opened the door and went outside he'd just parked his car in front of the house. He came out the car, spotted me and shouted " Hey Anna you came!" I ran to him and he opened his arms. We hugged each other for a few minutes then took apart. He punched me in the arm and said " Boy! how many pounds u lost?" I laughed a bitter laugh and said " U noticed ha? About twenty five pounds!" We started walking to the house and kept talking. I heard Edward saying to Bella " Charlie and Anna seem to be so close"
"Anna is a really good friend for me and my dad. She was there for me when no one was. She's more like a big sister for me." We entered the house; Charlie said " Hey Bells! U never said Anna was coming today!" " It was my idea to surprise u" I said with a big smile. "I caught the first flight to Washington the moment I heard u'r gonna be a father in law Charles!" Charlie poked me in the flank and I stepped aside and stuck my tounge out to him.
"Don't call me that!"
"What? Charles is so much better than Charlie!"
" I don't like it!"
" I do! By the way, u've got a handsome son in law Charlie! U did a nice job on bringing up a wise daughter!"
Both Charlie and Bella's cheeks turned red. Charlie turned to Edward and said
"Hey Edward, I believe u met Annabella"
Edward gave me a dazzling smile and said
" Yes we sure met. She's quite fascinating"
"Wow! Thanks! That's a first time someone calls me that!"

" that's because he hasn't got to know u well"

Charlie pointed out and winked at me.

"You and Anna can go talk in the living room dad. I'm gonna make dinner."

Charlie towed me to the living room and paid no attention to my insistence on wanting to help Bella.

We sat on the couch and he started to ask me about how I'm holding up and how I'm doing without my father, and that was the wrong topic to bring up! I burst into tears and Charlie held me while I sobbed. He changed the subject and we started to talk about medical school and I pointed out the fact that I'm not going back to school. He asked me about the reason and I simply said that it didn't please me anymore which was a lie but Charlie didn't have to know!

" Dad! Anna! Dinner's ready."

" You go Charlie! I have to go freshen up"

I went upstairs washed my hands and face and came downstairs. I heard them talking.

" Dad I told u not to bring that up. She's been through too much that she's had lots of difficulties coming back to her daily life."

I entered the kitchen and said

" Don't talk like that to ur father Bella. I'm fine!"

" come sit sweetheart, Bella made lasagna for dinner. You always liked it, didn't you?"

Said Charlie while taking out a chair for me. I smiled at him and sat on the chair. Bella put a big piece of lasagna for me and said

"you always nag to me for giving u the smallest piece. So have the biggest part"

I laughed out loud and said:

" sweetheart I barely eat that much now! I can't eat this much so give me the small piece"

"No, you have to eat that I can't bear one more minute of nagging so dig in!"

Edward was laughing so hard that his whole body was shaking. Charlie was smiling at us with complete pleasure. He always enjoyed us arguing; eventhough we never really fought actually. We did these arguing thingy for fun. As we've always been.