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Whatever It Takes by Lifehouse
Chapter 2
Bella's Point of View
When Charlie and I got home, he helped me pack my stuff up to my room. It was just how it had been before when I was younger, minus the crib.
"So, Bella, are you hungry?" Charlie asked me while looking utterly confused. Probably trying to figure out how to treat your seventeen year old daughter, whose mother which she oh-so-deeply loved passed away only few months ago, and who you haven't seen or heard from since she was twelve years old. Yup, that might be a guess on what he was thinking about.
"Yeah, I am." I answered truthfully, with it somehow coming out polite.
"Well, I'm no cook, so do you want to go to the dinner for supper? That's usually where I go." I considered it. It's not really like I had any other choice. I just nodded and followed Charlie out to his police cruiser.
His damn police cruiser.
Edward's Point of View
I sat in the back of the dinner, chatting with the cooks while they prepared food for the soon-to-come supper rush. It was four o'clock. Not exactly the most common time for people to show up for supper.
"Hey, Cullen, you've got a table to wait" my manager, Tim, said from across the kitchen where he was helping the new cook here learn how to cook some of the basics. "Chief Swan and some girl."
I was about to ask him who 'some girl' was, but I figured he was too wrapped up helping the new boy. Newton. Mitch? No, I think it was Mike. Yeah, that sounded about right.
I grabbed two menus, my pad of paper, a pen, and a pitcher of water and headed out the kitchen doors to see Chief Swan sitting at his usual table. But this time he wasn't alone.
Beside him was a small girl. Not like a small child, she was obviously about my age, but she looked so short and fragile and innocent that it made her seem small. And delicate. And beautiful. And just simply amazing.
So, this must be the All And Mighty daughter Charlie had been telling everybody about. Isabella was her name, he had told me yesterday.
Isabella Swan. At that moment, before she had even looked at me, I just knew that something was going to happen between us. I wasn't sure what it would be, but I knew it would be something. Something special.
As I walked over to the table, I was anxious for her to look up at me. I just knew that she would get the same goofy grin that I could feel plastered on my face.
Much to my disappointment, Isabella didn't get the big goofy grin on her face. In fact, she didn't even look up from the cup she was twirling around her finger on the table.
I handed them their menus, feeling slightly rejected by Isabella not even acknowledging me, but not wanting to let it show.
"Can I start you two off with drinks?" I asked, louder than I really needed to say it, hoping to catch Isabella's eye. But, she still did not look up.
"Coffee for me please," Chief Swan grunted. That's what he does - grunts.
And, finally, I got a word from Isabella. Only one word, but still, it's a whole word. "Water." She whispered, while she handed her cup over to me. Still without looking at me.
Her voice was magical. It felt like a feather brushing over my heart. Like an angel singing down to us from heaven. Just amazing.
I took Isabella's cup and filled it up with ice water while she still refused to look up.
I left, feeling more than rejected. I just wasn't use to this. Not getting the girl, that is.
Okay, maybe I was over thinking this. I mean, really, it's not like I had asked her to marry me. Yet. And technique, she didn't say no to anything, so it's all good. Soon, it will be better. Very soon.
When I came back with Chief Swan's coffee, he had just gotten up to use the washroom. I took this as a golden opportunity to talk to Isabella.
"So," I said, while I placed Chief Swan's coffee down on the table. "You're Isabella Swan. The Chief's daughter."
And than it was that magical moment. She looked up at me, and her face was just.... completely amazed. Like I had predicted, she was in awe. Her mouth opened slightly, and her eyes practically popped out of her head.
But that moment didn't last very long. Actually, it lasted less than a second. Than she brushed the part of her long, beautiful chocolate brown hair that had escaped from her ponytail high on the back of her head behind her ear, and started glaring at me. Again, she said one work. "Bella."
"Okay than, if you prefer," I said, even though I hated that name. Bella. Just to plain. Sounds like the name of somebody simple. But Isabella.... that name suited her much better. "Hope you like it here in Forks." I told her with a smile planted on my face.
Her glare turned into confusion. This time, I got many more words than just one. "What are you, some kind of welcoming committee?" She asked me.
Okay, maybe that didn't work out to well. "Sorry, I think I started that off wrong." I said. "I'm Edward Cullen," I said while putting my hand out for her to shake. "I'm going to be going to Forks High with you."
She glared at my hand for a few moments before she cautiously reached out and slipped her small, soft, delicate hand into mine, which was about twice the size of hers.
"Great. Good to already know an asshole at my school." She replied. What? Where did that come from?
"Oh, so you like playing hard to get, don't you?" I blurted without thinking. Shit. Why had I just said that?
"Thanks for confirming my suspicion." She said to me. "And no, I don't."
"Don't what?" I asked her, even though I knew she was answering my previous question. I just wanted her to keep talking.
"Play hard to get. It's so overrated. I mean, eventually the other person will think what you want them to think, which is that you're not really interested, and when they figure that out they'll get discouraged. When they start to get discouraged, they'll leave you alone, and in the end it's you who gets the loss." Wow. That was deep. And I could tell she was being honest.
"Well, I guess you're not going to like many people at Forks High than," I said with a small chuckle at the end.
"Well, I guess that will be fine, because I wasn't planning on dating any of them, anyways." She said, while she looked me straight in the eyes.
That's what troubled me about her. Her eyes. So innocent, so young and naïve, but so knowing and mature at the same time. Like she was too young to experience whatever had happened to her, but it happened, nonetheless.
"Oh, don't worry, the other assholes will try to get you to change your mind." I smirked at her.
"Other assholes?" She asked, completely confused.
"Yeah. The other assholes. You didn't think it was just me, did you?" I asked her. And than she smiled at me. She smiled! In her eyes, I could tell that inside she was laughing.
I turned around and headed back to the kitchen before Chief Swan could come back and see me talking to his daughter. I'm not sure how protective he was of her, but I didn't want to find out either.
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