Okay, just remember throughout this story that I do not own anything here but the plot. I am only going to say that once as it gets tedious having to say that earth-shattering fact every chapter. So just remember that I do not own twilight or any of the twilight characters, although I do wish I was one of them a lot of the time.
Oh and this story takes place about…let's say five months after 'For Your Sake', that way we know Edward hasn't had enough time to be completely over all that trauma in 'For Your Sake'. You'll soon see why that is important. Review please.
Chapter 1
BPOV
I sat by my bedroom window, reading the book 'Wuthering Heights' that was now currently sitting on my lap. My fingers reached out of their own accord to trace the hair and eyes of the angel patterned onto the locket that was currently dangling from my neck, as it should. I always did this in Edward's absence. Not because I was possessive of him or couldn't bear to be away from him for even a second, I sometimes liked my space. It was just nice to feel the locket he had gifted me with on my last birthday with the utmost love clasped around my neck, the pendant residing close to my heart. Wearing the locket made me feel loved, even when I was alone, wearing the locket kept Edward's presence close to my heart and his love embracing me every minute the locket rested upon my chest, just above where my heart best.
I sighed as I read through the sufferings of the love of the two main characters in 'Wuthering Heights'. How wonderful must it be to have a lover who you know would suffer alongside with you even in your most trying predicaments? Once again, I fingered the locket around my neck, touching the ruby dots that made up the angel's hair. Inside the locket rested two miniature photographs. One was a copy of the picture Alice had in her phone of Edward and I helping each other to get candy floss out of our hair, and the other was a copy of the photograph Elizabeth Mason had kept framed in her home. The picture I had once found on the day of her death in her home. The photo of her sitting with a radiant smile with her three year old son, Edward, and her husband.
I had wanted to keep a memory of her too, close to my heart with her son. She had been a brave, intelligent woman who had suffered a lot throughout her life and then ended her life nobly for her son. Just thinking about her brought sadness to my heart and memories from five months ago. I had taken that picture frame with me from the house when the ambulance had arrived for Elizabeth those five months ago.
I had wanted to keep it, to have proof that a three year old Edward with a loving mother had existed but then I decided that it wasn't fair to rob Edward of the same privilege, so I gave him the picture whilst getting a copy of it for myself to put in the locket Edward had given me.
Suddenly, a horn blared from outside, startling me out of reverie. I glanced out of my window, only to see Edward, Emmet, Alice, Rosalie, and Jasper waving at me from outside in the street. Puzzled, I put my book down and opened my window, put my head out and called out to them:
"What are you all doing here?"
"There's a fair in town. We have to go and have some fun Bella" Alice shouted back excitedly.
"Some advance warning would have been nice" I yelled back.
"Oh, who cares? Let's go have some fun" Emmet hollered.
I raised my eyebrows and then realizing that they might not be able to see from down there I called:
"You're not going to throw candy floss at my hair again, are you, Emmet?"
"Don't worry, Bella. I'll protect you." Edward shouted with a stern glance at Emmet.
I laughed just as Rosalie shouted irritably "Why are we calling out to Bella like we're not allowed into the house or something? If you all want to have a nice chat, then you can do that once we get to the fair."
I laughed as I shut the window and hurried around my room, brushing through my hair quickly and then racing down the stairs, out of the front door, and into the street to meet everyone.
"Took you long enough" Emmet grumbled when I appeared.
"Actually, she didn't take long enough. Just look at what she's wearing." Alice mourned dramatically.
"Why? What's wrong with what I'm wearing?" I protested, looking at my plain blue jeans and plain white turtleneck, and grey converses.
"Nothing is wrong. You look beautiful as always. Alice is just being a drama queen as usual" Edward reassured me, rubbing a soothing hand over my arm.
"Whatever, Edward. You know nothing about fashion" Alice said dismissively.
"Can we go already?" Emmet shouted in a thunderous boom.
"Calm down, Emmet. We're leaving now." Jasper laughed as he climbed into his car with Alice.
Rosalie and Emmet went to Emmet's jeep which left me with Edward and his Aston Martin vanquish. Not that I had any complaint with that, I loved Edward's company, or maybe it would be more accurate to say that I loved him. Edward smiled lopsidedly at me as he held the passenger door open for me. I climbed in and we spent the drive in mostly silence.
We arrived after Emmet and Rosalie, and before Jasper and Alice. Emmet looked as though he were having a hard time to stand still which just seemed to aggravate Rosalie.
"What's wrong with you, Emmet?" Edward laughed as we sauntered up to them.
"He's just too excited. You should have seen how fast he was driving. I thought we might have an accident." Rosalie told us.
"What? I would never let you get hurt, Rose." Emmet objected.
"Come on guys. I want to go on the bumper cars." Alice whined.
"I agree. I want to go and bash Jasper and Eddie to bits" Emmet boomed excitedly.
"We won't be on real cars Em, so that's not possible." Jasper pointed out with an amused smile.
"Can we just go?" Emmet roared so angrily that we all jumped. Rosalie glared at him so venomously that I thought I saw Emmet almost quail.
"You can drive if you like, Rosy" Emmet offered Rosalie in a small voice.
Rosalie sighed as she commanded us all "Come on, let's go."
I muffled my laugh with my hand as we all followed Emmet and Rosalie to the bumper cars. We all paired ourselves off in the couples we were, obviously: Alice with Jasper, Emmet with Rosalie, and me with Edward.
Edward waited for me to climb in first so I sat down in the passenger seat, waiting for him to get in too.
Edward stared at me with raised eyebrows as he asked inquisitively "Don't you want to drive?"
"No. I'm already clumsy enough on my feet. If I were driving we would end up going home with bruises all over because of how many times I crashed into people." I admitted with a slight blush.
Edward looked bemused as he reminded me "You're meant to crash into people here, Bella."
I blushed crimson as I replied "I know that but with me driving we would be hurt more than we hurt other people."
Edward laughed as clambered into the driver's seat beside me. In a second our car was racing around as Edward rammed into other people and other people bashed into us. It was fun except for the bruises I could feel all over me. Emmet was certainly enjoying himself as he rammed people as hard as he possibly could. Most people tried to avoid Emmet because of the evident brute force he had in him but he would just go racing after them, scaring the life out of the poor souls as he bashed them hard. Edward tried his best to stay out of his range knowing that Emmet would use his immense strength to his full advantage.
However, Edward made the mistake of ramming Emmet from behind so that Emmet wouldn't see us coming. Emmet was very infuriated by that and was making an overly-exerted effort into hunting us down to ram us with as much force as he possibly could. Despite Edward's endeavours to evade Emmet we were found by Emmet, who upon seeing us zoomed towards us and smashed into us so violently that the impact caused me to fall sideways out of the seat and land… sprawled across Edward's chest.
Despite the fact that I have been dating Edward for the last five months and am still blissfully happy with him, the knowledge of this fact did not prevent the warmth of a red blush to colour my cheeks as my back rested upon Edward's beautifully sculpted chest. The bumper car had skidded to a halt when Emmet hard rammed into us and caused me to land across Edward's chest. I assumed that Edward had stopped steering the bumper car so that I could erect myself into a proper position but when I made to move off of him, he wrapped his arms around my waist, holding me to his chest with my head resting on the crook of his neck so that I could not move.
He slowly bent his head so that his lips brushed my ear and his nose skimmed the skin of my cheek. I heard him sigh audibly before he said in a low seductive whisper that made me tremble:
"Well, this is convenient"
I laughed shakily. Even after all the time I had spent being with him, being loved by him his close proximity never failed to stun me and dazzle me out of words. I blushed as his lips skimmed my neck and I felt him shake with laughter as he noticed my blush. He lifted his head but only to kiss my burning cheeks. Then he let his lips move from my cheek to just below my chin where he began peppering the skin of my neck with soft kisses as soft as the flutter of a butterfly's wings just about to take flight.
I trembled with each kiss and as Edward showered me with soft kisses whilst he kept me pinned to his chest I forgot all about the many bumper cars that were whizzing around us, ramming into each other. It never occurred to me that anyone at any minute would collide with us. Edward paused in the middle of creating a trail of kisses down my neck to whisper fervently:
"I love you, my Bella."
Just as I was about to say "I love you too" something collided with us with such force that my head jerked up and caused Edward's head to be thrown of my neck and make contact with the metal of the seat of the bumper car. Edward let out a colourful stream of profanities as the 'something' that was Emmet laughed raucously after having barged into us with such painful force that my head was now throbbing from the impact.
Edward shot him one poisonous glare as he offered a hand to me to help me out of the bumper car. I took it and squeezed it to catch Edward's attention.
"Is your head okay?" I asked Edward, feeling worried for him.
"I will be once I give that idiot Emmet a piece of my mind." Edward growled before he stalked off to where Emmet was standing, still laughing.
I shook my head as I watched Edward hit Emmet over the head upon which Emmet stopped laughing and then tackled Edward to the ground where they instantly began to fight. I saw Jasper break away from Alice and run over to where Edward and Emmet fought to try and break them up before they attracted any attention. Jasper said something which caused Emmet and Edward to momentarily stop fighting. Edward sprung lithely off of Emmet but Emmet glared at Jasper before tackling him.
I laughed as I watched all of this. Alice bounced up to my side, offering me a wad of candy floss as we watched the boys act like idiots.
I know, there wasn't anything really important in this chapter but you can't expect the drama to kick in right away. I just thought you would all love some general fluff in the first chapter. Just review and tell me how soon you want the drama to kick in and I promise I'll try to accommodate your wishes.
