Chapter 2
Cheesecake!!!
As I walked up the front steps to my house I was actually fucking giddy about going to Bella's house. The opportunity to see her room, her pictures, her CD's and books was making me shake with anticipation. As soon as I shut the door behind me I was flying through the air and pinned down.
I heard snickering from somewhere, "Awe come on Em, your gonna make him Tinkle."
I pushed at Emmett but made no progress, "Fuck off Jasper," I sputtered, "Emmett get the fuck off of me!"
I felt something smack my leg, "I don't approve of that language Edward. Emmett, get off of your brother," my mom commanded. Emmett hopped off and than grinned at me dimples shining.
"Come on Ed, I was just having some fun."
I scowled at him, "Go fuck yourself!" I hissed under my breath!" Emmett chuckled. I ran my hands through my mop of hair and asked Jasper where Alice was.
"She's waiting for you in her room, says she aint going to that girl's house with you until the two of you talk," Jasper moved to forks from Texas a year ago and would never lose that drawl.
"How the fuck does she do that?" I muttered to myself under my breath.
"I dunno dude, I stopped trying to figure that out a long time ago!" Jasper answered.
"And how the fuck do you hear EVERYTHING?" Jasper just shrugged and I ran upstairs wondering what the hell Alice wanted to talk about. I walked up to Alice's door but before I could knock Alice called out to me.
"Come in Edward," I walked in and plopped myself down on her bed, "What's going on with you and this girl Edward?" I flinched a little at her icy tone.
"Don't beat around the fucking bush Alice, what the fuck, why don't you tell me what the fuck is going on, isn't that how we usually do things?" She clucked her tongue a couple of times her eyes a little hazy and than she met my gaze again, her face softer this time. "What Alice, what's going on?" I was starting to panic a little, Alice usually couldn't wait to throw her Diane Warwick infomercial act out there for all to admire and now she was holding back.
"I am not sure how much you want to know Edward, how much you need to know." I slid off her bed and sat indian style in front of her on the floor.
"Everything Alice, tell me everything." She deliberated a few seconds longer and than began.
"She is your storm Edward, everything that you have weathered in your life to this point will seem like nothing in comparison to what you will have to endure to be with her. In the end, you will either end up together happily ever after, or you will destroy each other. Either way the road to get the that point will be difficult at best and if it is the later, and you do destroy each other, she may not make it through that so you had better be very clear about what you want and how much you want it."
I stared at my sister for several long seconds, this was not my Alice, this woman in front of me was wise and stern, her concern for me evident, her fear for me palpable. "Alice," I whispered but I was unsure of what to say next. "Alice I. . . what do I. . . . Alice?"
She held my hand, "I wish I had more to tell you Edward, but things are still very new for the two of you." I continued to gape at her, "Come on, she said unfolding herself from where she sat in front of me on her bedroom floor, "lets go do this favor, I don't want you to start worrying about this, there is still plenty of time to turn back."
She started to walk away towards the door and than turned abruptly, her eyes taking on that hazy expression once again, "Oh my god Edward, you have already decided." I shook my head slowly, what the fuck was happening here? What had I decided, where was this headed? Was I going to destroy Bella Swan? Was she going to destroy me? She certainly had the power to do so already and I had known her less than 24 hours! Alice walked over and hugged me hard around the waist, "It's to late now big brother, just do your best by her."
I hugged Alice back, "Let's go," I said gruffly
When we arrived at the address Bella wrote down on the sheet of paper I suddenly realized that she had not given me a key. I was right about to tell Alice when she chirped, "It's above the eve," and bounced out of the car and up the front steps to wait.
"How the fuck does she do that shit?" I muttered following her up the path. The key was right where Alice said it would be and as we walked into the house we were greeted my the most horrendous odor, both of our hands went immediately to cover our noses and we backed out of the house closing the door behind us.
"What the fuck was that?" I shouted gesturing towards the house.
"Well," Alice supposed "You said she has been in the hospital for 9 months, if she went in unexpectedly there could be rotted food." We looked at each other for a hard minute.
"I can't leave her house like this Alice, I have to take care of it. If you want you can take my car home and I will call you later to pick me up, you don't have to wait," I offered.
Alice smacked me playfully on the arm, "Edward Cullen I am shocked at you! Of course I am going to help, you know we will finish ten times faster if I am helping and she and I are going to be best friends so I can't very well leave her house like this either." I just shook my head, I wasn't even going to ask.
Once we got back into the house we realized that the refrigerator had broken, the hardwood floor had not started to warp under the water that had leaked so it happened very recently. We took trash bags from under the sink and before I had the refrigerator cleared out of all the food Alice had the floor cleaned up and the rest of the kitchen spotless as well as the living room dusted. Once the bags of rotted food were out at the curb we headed upstairs with Bella's list to get her shit together.
Alice looked over the list quickly and said, "Ok, you get the first 3 and I'll take care of the rest!" The first item on the list was "Books" it didn't say which books, just books. I looked around her room and felt like I could stay in here for weeks. It was unorganized but neat, a teenage girl definitely lived in here but not any teenage girl, it had the feel of Bella. There was a bookcase in the corner packed with books, shit, what the fuck does she think I read minds or something? I walked over to her desk and found her IPod, the battery was dead so I looked around and found her power cord too. Her laptop was next to her IPod and the power cord for that was sitting on top of it. Two down now I just have to figure out the book situation, as I looked around I saw a stack of books on her nightstand. I walked over and saw that there were about 10 paperbacks in all. The books were obviously loved, the covers and edges worn and curling with incredibly broken in bindings, these are the books. I looked at the titles and smiled, girly romantics, unrequited love, perfect love, disastrous love and so on, all classics, mission accomplished. I turned to see how Alice was doing to find that she had found a suitcase in Bella's closet and filled the entire thing. Alice looked at me and narrowed her eyes, "What?" She demanded.
I just shrugged, "Nothing," I answered.
I continued to look around her room as Alice finished up, she had lots of pictures, pictures with girlfriends, pictures taken with schoolmates at Forks High School, pictures with friends at the hospital, there was a familiar looking guy in a lot them, I felt the jealousy pulsing in my gut, Who the fuck is that? I looked through her CD's to find that we had a lot of similar taste in music but she also had some of the craziest shit ever, what the fuck was she doing with the Sound of Music Soundtrack? I was going to give her shit about that!
"Alice," I turned to look at her but then turned away.
"What is it Edward?" Alice's voice was burning with curiosity.
"Alice her room at the hospital is… . ." I felt her hand on my forearm.
"I'll take care of it Edward." I was going to have to get something extra nice for Alice this Christmas. She walked around the house picking up random nick nak's and pictures and then we left Bella's house after locking it up. We were both thoughtful on the way home but as I was making my way up the drive to the house I turned off the music.
"Thank you Alice," I whispered. She did not respond and for that I was grateful, I'd had enough for the day. I went straight upstairs to my room changed clothes and fell asleep thinking about Bella Swan.
Bella
I was sitting in bed as usual waiting for the morning duty nurse when the door flew open and beautiful tiny girl burst in and stood at the edge of my bed. We eyed each other for several long moments and than I whispered "Alice?" A huge grin spread over her face.
"How did you know? Oooh do you see things too cause it would be so cool to know someone else who can see things, ?"
I took a deep breath and tried to uncross my eyes, "Alice did you have caffeine this morning?" She narrowed her eyes at me a little like I brought up a taboo topic and then answered.
"Yes I did ISABELLA because I wanted to make sure I got here before Edward this morning, so I got up extra early but your not going to tattle because today is Wednesday and every Wednesday the night nurse brings you 2 desserts and my dad would lose his shit if he knew that so were going to keep each others secrets right?"
WOW, everything Edward said about her was true and I think he was trying to be polite too. This chick is unreal, but I like it, "I'll keep your secret you evil little dwarf but next Wednesday YOU WILL bring me 2 slices of cheesecake instead of the imposter crap that they serve here." Alice thought about it a moment probably considering how much trouble she would be in with Dr. Cullen if she got caught but than smiled, "Deal!" she announced and then went to the hall to retrieve my suitcase and 2 large canvas bags.
"Well," she announced looking around, "there is a lot to do here so I better get busy." She started grabbing things out of the bags and I watched in silent curiosity for a few moments but eventually I had to ask.
"Alice," I called meekly, "what exactly are you doing?" Her giggle was so cute.
"Edward said your room needed a makeover, normally he doesn't know anything about that stuff but man he was right on this time," she squeaked. I laid back into my pillows and just let her have her way, I had a feeling it wouldn't matter what I said anyway. Twenty minutes later she had changed the curtains to billowy filmy purplie ones, pictures of my friends and family hung on the walls and decorated the surfaces all around me. My pillowcases had been changed to ones with a purplie pink design and my legs were now covered with the matching duvet, she also had the sheets, which she said she would change when the duty nurse came in.
She filled my small side dresser with pajamas, sweats and t-shirts from home and put a small basket in the bathroom, I raised my eyebrow and she explained that the hospital would not wash my clothes or linens so she and Edward would be in charge of that from now on.
I searched her face for several long moments and asked, "Why Alice?"
She laughed a beautiful chime sound laugh and answered, "Because you made my brother care about something Bella, you made him smile and laugh and also, because we are your people now." My eyes widened at her words, they are my people now. No I could not allow myself to accept that. They barely knew me and would decide at any moment that I wasn't worth the trouble and that would leave me alone again. I could no allow that to happen again so I just smiled and thanked her.
She pulled one last thing out of her magic bag, "This is going up on the wall but I thought you might want to see it first." She handed a box with a glass top and I gasped when I saw what was inside. The box had 3 sections, in the first section was my dad's chief of police badge, in the middle section was a picture of the 3 of us, my mom, my dad and myself, in the 3rd section was a post it note that was in my dad's wallet when he died, it was a note from my mom, it said;
'Char,
Had to leave early for work,
I love you so much!
Miss you already, see you tonight
R~'
I traced the lines of the box with my fingers, unable to speak. Who were these people, the Cullen's, why had they chosen me? I had been trying so hard to hold Dr. Cullen at bay and than Edward showed up and my heart went into overdrive every time he was nearby and now Alice. I don't think anyone had ever done anything so nice for me in my entire life. I swallowed several times and cleared my throat several more times and than said "Alice," she grabbed the box out of my hands and hung it on the wall closest to my bed where I could see from where I spent the majority of my time.
"Look Bella, I don't do gratitude well, so let's just not and say we did ok." I just nodded, "Now where is that nurse?" I looked at the clock it was 7:40, today was Wednesday and my normal nurse Emily was off which meant Tanya, I wasn't to crazy about Tanya. To say she was not incredibly attentive to the needs of her patients was generous.
"I guess she is late again," I said with a sigh. Alice looked extremely perturbed; "Well what does she help you with in the morning?" I was getting a little nervous, I barely knew this girl.
"She helps me bath and changes my gown and my scarf and gives me my meds."
Alice didn't even miss a beat, "Ok she said, lets get with it."
15 minutes later I was back in my bed which she had changed the sheets on already, I had freshly washed jammies on which was SUCH a relief and she helped me change my scarf. Once I was back in bed Tanya sauntered in eyeing my pajamas. "I only need my meds Tanya, Alice helped me with everything else today."
Tanya shrugged; "Whatever" she said apathetically putting the meds and a cup of water on my side table. Alice's eyes narrowed and I knew Tanya was in for it.
Alice stepped towards Tanya extending her hand, "Please excuse Bella's rudeness, I will just introduce myself my name is Alice Cullen," Tanya's eyes widened as she understood what Alice was getting at. Alice held Tanya's hand in hers firmly as she continued, "I have heard wonderful things about you Tanya, I am sure you were busy giving extra care to one of your patients and that is why you are tardy today. You are going to find that my family and I will be spending a lot of time here with Miss Swan and I look forward to giving my father glowing reports about you." I gulped looking from Alice to Tanya it was like a wild west shoot out.
Tanya finally blinked, "Thank you for putting the good word in for me Miss Cullen I appreciate it," she than turned and looked at me, I'll be back this afternoon Bella, see you later," I smiled and waved.
Alice came and sat in the chair by my bed, she told me about her boyfriend Jasper who she knew she was meant to be with since the moment she laid eyes on him, she told me about school and how she wanted to go either to The Art Institute, FIDM or Parsons to study design when she graduates, she told me about her friends at school and the stores she likes to shop at and he kids she taught at the rec center. Alice never once looked at me with sadness or pity and that made her invaluable to me. When the door opened and Edward walked in promptly at 8AM Alice hugged me tight and quick, "I guess I will see you next Wednesday Bella," she said quietly.
"Oh Alice you can come by anytime you like," I said quickly and watched a smile spread quickly across her face, she hopped up and kissed me quickly on the cheek.
"Bye Bella, see you soon!" I smiled at her grateful for my new friend.
"Bye Alice," and she was out the door before I could even blink.
"Hey Bella," Edward greeted me with the sexiest smile I had ever seen, my heart stopped and than started up again in double time.
"Hey Edward" shoot I sound like I just ran 20 laps; he is going to think I am some kind of love struck teenager! "Edward, thank you so much for the redecoration, I really appreciate it."
He picked his backpack up from the floor, "Please Bella, it was Alice's pleasure, don't mention it." He began pulling my things out of his backpack my IPod, my laptop, and the books I asked for, on top of the stack of books sat something that I had not requested. I picked up my journal, which was thick with pictures, drawings and mementos; I looked up at him through my lashes.
"Thank you!" I murmured. He smiled at me and I felt like the sun was rising in my heart, "Your welcome Bella, I brought you some other things too!" I set the journal down on my side table, "Lets see" I said excitedly! He pulled out an IPod docking station with a clock radio and used the plug by my nightstand setting it there after setting the time. "Edward, I really want to say that you shouldn't have but I am so glad you did!" He sat on the edge of my bed, he's in my bed!
"I really didn't have a choice Bella, if we are going to have a discussion about your manic playlist, said playlist must be available as evidence."
I took a moment to take in his appearance, dark blue jeans and a long sleeve grey t-shirt, everything looked expensive. "Bella, wanna take a picture, it'll last longer!" Crap, busted!
"Ummm, I was just wondering if you did your own shopping or if Alice did all the shopping for you?" Look at his eyes, he does not believe a single word coming out of your mouth Bella!
"Bella, you are a terrible liar! Does anyone ever believe your lies?" I took a deep breath and sighed.
"It's been a long time since I have had anyone to lie to so maybe I am a bit out of practice?" A strange look flickerd across his face, was it sadness? Before I could figure it out he picked up my IPod and turned it on.
"We need to talk about your song selection Miss Swan." My eyes narrowed at him but before I could get a word out my stomach growled fanfreakintastic! "What the fuck Bella, haven't you eaten?" The morning was so hectic with Alice I never noticed that the meal cart never came by.
"I'm sure the cafeteria cart is just running behind!" I said sheepishly. Just as Edward was getting up to walk to the phone the door opened and Dr. Cullen walked in, "Miss Sw. . ." Edwards brows were knitted together in stress, "Carlisle, Bella's stomach is growling she hasn't eaten yet!" I sank deep into my pillows willing my bed to swallow me whole, how freaking embarrassing!
"Bella," Dr. Cullen did not sound pleased! "Did you take your meds on an empty stomach?"
"Oh crap!" I squeaked my hand flying up to cover my mouth! "Dr. Cullen I am so sorry I wasn't even thinking about it!"
Dr. Cullen smiled, "It's not your fault Bella, that's what we are here for, I will get you some breakfast right away and bring a little extra, your stomach is sure to get a little tender, I'll be right back."
Edward was angry but I could tell he was trying to distract himself; he took a beautifully wrapped box out of his backpack and handed it to me. "Edward, what's this?" I asked incredulous.
"Open it brainiac," he rolled his eyes at me. I wanted to unwrap it carefully and all that but it had been so long since someone brought me a wrapped gift I tore into it and held the box up.
I looked up at him quizzically, "You got me a cell phone?"
He took the box and opened it, "It's not just a cell phone," he said rolling his eyes at me, "Check it out, it's touch screen with a touch keyboard so you can text your little heart out." I took the phone looking at it for a moment.
Well at least it wouldn't take long for me to update the contacts, "Who am I going to be texting?"
He laughed softly, "Well, Alice and I are already in your contacts list so you could start with us." Well, never mind updating the contacts, done!
"So who do I need to call to get the service transferred into my name?" Ok, he is looking at me like I am absolutely insane, what the heck?
"Bella, it's a GIFT, you don't pay for a gift." I wanted to tell him to go to hell and that I could pay my own bills but it was nice to have someone taking care of me for a change.
I reached out to him, "Give me a hug!" I demanded, he came over and took me carefully in has arms, "Thank you Edward," I whispered into his chest".
He tightened his arms around me, "Your welcome," he murmured and kissed the top of my head, he was so warm against my always cold body that I shuddered. His body felt amazing next to mine, I wanted to hold onto him forever but I heard the door open.
"Miss Swan, breakfast!"
My eyes widened and my mouth dropped open, Dr. Cullen you went to the cafeteria yourself and got me breakfast?"
He laughed at my expression, "What wouldn't I do for my favorite patient Miss Swan?" he said pulling my eating table over to me and setting the plate on in. "Look at what Edward got me!" I said handing him my phone as I dug into the pancakes.
"This is just like my phone," Dr. Cullen mused and started typing into the touch screen. "Wow, this food is way better than the crap I usually get." Edward and Dr. Cullen both froze and stared at me, I became really self conscious, "Is there something on my face?" I asked embarrassed.
"What's wrong with the food you normally get?" Dr. Cullen asked. I had just taken another bite and was trying to chew quickly, I swallowed and took a sip of juice.
"Well, it's usually ice cold by the time it gets here and it normally looks and tastes like food that may have been rejected from the local prison!" I laughed but than stopped because they were NOT laughing with me! "What?" I asked, "It's standard hospital dribble, no better or worse than the others I have been in," and right at that moment the orderly with the cafeteria cart came in.
"Hey Bella," he said holding out my tray a little confused that I had one already.
"Thanks James but I think I'm ok today!" Carlisle took he tray and opened it, sure enough gray eggs, burned bacon and limp toast. He touched the eggs and from his expression they were ice cold as predicted. He handed the tray back to James with a nod and turned back to me.
"Isabella," uh oh, "Why didn't you tell me about this, it is essential to your treatment that you have regular nutritious meals, ESSENTIAL!" As Carlisle was lecturing me, Edward was typing furiously on his phone. What did I do, I don't understand why am I in trouble, oh no, please don't, please please please but I couldn't stop them, the tears began to spill.
"Isabella!" Carlisle cried, what's wrong why are you crying?"
"I don't know," I whispered, "Tell me what I did wrong, I will fix it I promise just tell me what to do!" I sobbed. Edward stood frozen with a look of fear and concern on his face, Dr. Cullen came and sat next to me on my bed and pulled me into a fatherly embrace.
"Isabella, you did nothing wrong. We are just worried about you don't you understand?"
Edward
No, she shook her head no! She doesn't understand why we are upset, she doesn't understand that we care because it has been so fucking long since anyone has cared. She began sobbing into my father's chest, it wasn't about the breakfast anymore, it was everything she had been holding inside for who knows how long. The sounds escaping her were agony, it made me angry. I wanted to hit something, I wanted to hurt someone as much as Bella hurt, make someone pay for her suffering! My fists clenched and I felt my phone vibrate, I was grateful for the diversion, it was my mom's response to my earlier text message, I had sent her a text telling her the situation and asking for her help. Her answer, of course she would figure something out and I didn't need to worry Bella would be taken care of from now on.
Of course my mom would help, she was a good person, for the first time in my life I felt guilty as fuck for having been so lucky as to have been adopted by Carlisle and Esme. I had given them so much trouble over the years and they only ever shown me patience, love and understanding. I had never been gracious to them, thankful for everything they had done for me and this girl, this beautiful, fragile, sick girl had no one. How did that happen, what the fuck did Bella Swan ever do to deserve this?
Bella's breathing had evened out and her sobbing had subsided to tiny hiccups. My father motioned me over and whispered to me that Bella had fallen asleep, he lifted her gently from his chest and scooted out allowing me to take his place so he could complete his rounds. I shifted her weight as far from me as possible and laid down in the bed bringing her in to my side, just than she rolled onto her side throwing her leg over my hip her calve resting between my legs. This wouldn't have been a problem except that her leg brushed my semi making me instantly hard, fuck me can I have an appropriate fucking reaction just once!
Several hours later someone shook me awake, my mother and father stood by Bella's bedside mom carrying a paper bag with a handle, "It's time for Bella's lunch Edward, and she needs to take her medications," my father whispered. I nodded and tried to shake the sleep out of my head and than gently squeezed Bella's arm.
"Bella, wake up Bella." She slowly began to stir stretching out beside me pressing herself further into me, Holy Fuck, is she trying to make me bust wood in front of my mom!
"Edward," she whispered and I must of turned 30 different shades of red because my mother and father started laughing alerting Bella to that fact that there were other people in the room, she sat straight up bringing her had up to her throat and tossing me right off the bed. "Oh my gosh Edward I am so sorry, I can't believe I did that, please say you forgive me." I scowled at my mother and father, normally the paradigm for polite behavior laughing raucously. I got up and dusted myself off making them laugh even harder.
"Of course Bella, it was an accident," I smiled softly at her and then shot a glare at my parents causing them to snicker.
"Hello Bella," mom was trying to compose herself, my father wasn't, he was texting, probably Emmett, shit!
"Esme!" Bella was so excited to see her, my gut was telling me there was something up. "I am so glad to see you again Esme." AGAIN? I narrowed my eyes at my mom, I know she saw me and she completely ignored me.
"Bella, I would like to speak with you privately for a moment if you wouldn't mind? Bella smiled widely but I could see a hint of worry in her eyes. I didn't want to leave her but my mom looked at me pointedly and my father put his hand on my back between my shoulders and led me to the hall.
"What's going on?" I asked as soon as we were in the hall.
"It seems that Isabella Swan has captivated the majority of the Cullen household. You mother is asking Isabella's permission to have a dorm size refrigerator and microwave delivered today. She has hired a service that will come in daily to drop of meals, pick up and deliver her laundry and clean her room."
My mouth gaped, "Why?" I whispered? My father became very serious his expression a mixture of love and warning, "Because your not the only one who has fallen in love with Isabella Swan Edward, we all have."
My mind boggled at his words, love. I pushed it aside deciding that denial was best until I had time to think things through.
We returned to Bella's room to find her and mom laughing and chatting, turns out she brought enough lunch for both of us in that bag. My father informed us that a nurse would be by shortly to dispense her medication and then took her vitals, mom hugged Bella and kissed her on the cheek before she and my father left.
While Bella and I ate the gourmet sandwiches that mom brought I docked Bella's IPod, "Ok Swan, you have some explaining to do," I smirked. She gave me a warning look, "You should no better than to question peoples musical tastes Edward, you are walking a slippery slope.
I laughed and answered, "I'm walkin it cause you have some explaining to do," I tried to give her a stern look but my smile betrayed me.
"Ok," she smiled, what is the problem with my IPod?" I smirked at her with amusement and started.
"So I charged your IPod last night and took the liberty of scrolling thru your music and if I hadn't met you already I might think your mental!
You have Rage Against the Machine.
Sometimes I'm angry!
John Legend
Sometimes I'm wistful!
Blue October
Sometimes I'm sad!
Pearl Jam
Eddie Vedder's voice is hot!
Norah Jones
I want to fall in love someday!
Fall Out Boy
There is no Fall Out Boy on my Ipod!
I saw it myself!
I don't care what you think you saw, you will never hear me own to that!
Ok, I am gonna let that slide but explain this!
I hit play on the remote and the Do Re Me song from The Sound of Music soundtrack started playing, Bella immediately erupted in laughter, she grabbed the remote and hit pause. Once she caught her breath she said "Look Edward, I have had some seriously heavy experiences in the last couple of years and sometimes I can get really down. Can you imagine almost any situation where you could listen to this song and not smile?" She hit play and the song started up again, our eyes met and laughter erupted again, I don't think I had ever laughed as much or as hard as I have since meeting Bella Swan!
The door opened and a nurse walked in with Bella's medication and a cup of water. She swallowed dutifully and sighed with a parting "Thanks Tanya!" as the nurse left. Bella turned to me and looked so sad, "My meds make me sleepy, I will probably be asleep in a few minutes if you want to go." She bit her bottom lip again and I knew there was no way I could leave her looking that sad.
"I'll just stay around for a few minutes if that's ok with you!" She moved over and patted the empty side of the bed, I looked at it skeptically and she laughed, "Don't be scared I promise I wont throw you off again." I hopped in and she snuggled into my chest, a few moments later she was asleep and I couldn't imagine anywhere on earth I would rather be than in this hospital bed in Forks, WA with this beautiful girl.
Bella woke up about an hour later, I never fell asleep, I couldn't miss an opportunity to study her beautiful face without being busted! Once she woke I went back to my chair and I grilled her about every aspect of her life, the more she talked the more I wanted to keep her talking. Finally the door to her room opened and a voice boomed out "SPECIAL DELIVERY FOR ISABELLA SWAN, ARE YOU ISABELLA SWAN MISS?"
Bella's hand flew to her neck, "Em, take it down a notch!" I ordered rolling my eyes at him.
Bella's eyes lit up like a Christmas Tree, "Emmett?" she smiled.
"In the flesh Belly," Emmett bellowed. Great, he knew her for 30 fucking seconds and already he had a nickname for her? Emmett came into the room carrying a large box, the refrigerator, Jasper sauntered in behind him with the microwave, Alice bounced in after Jasper with 2 large paper bags with the fancy handles.
"Bellllllaahhhhh, did you miss me????" Bella laughed at her enthusiasm.
"Of course I did Alice," Alice climbed into bed with Bella in the space that I had vacated and we all talked and chatted while Emmett put in the refrigerator and microwave. Once the installation was complete Alice brought out the contents of the bags, Italian from Port Angeles. When she opened the lasagna Bella's eyes popped, "Oh my god" she squealed, "I LOVE lasagna, it's my favorite!!!!!!!" We all laughed at her reaction. The conversation flowed easily as Bella got to know Jasper and Emmett and they got to know her. Before long I could tell that my initial assessment of Bella was right on, she is like an addiction, once you walk into Isabella Swan's life, your in for good!
Alice pulled one last carton out of the paperbag, "Did you save room for dessert Bella?" she asked her eyes sparkling mischievously? Bella looked at the carton her eyes narrowed at Alice.
"Alice, is that. . . . ." Alice hopped off the bed moving away from Bella taking the mystery carton with her. You would have thought someone kicked Bella's puppy with the way she glared at Alice. She pointed at Alice and hissed hissed "You listen to me you evil midget, you father is going to be walking into this room in less than 5 minutes to say goodnight and if I don't have that carton in my hands in 15 seconds I am going to spill the. . ." Alice ran over and shoved the carton in her hands.
"Take it Bella, damn I was just kidding!" Bella tore the lid off the carton jammed her fork into it and shoved a huge bite of cheesecake in her mouth closing her eyes and moaning like she had just come, this should come as no surprise, I got hard instantly. Emmett, Jasper and I had been silent through the entire scenario burst with laughter at Bella's reaction to the cheesecake. Bella opened her eyes a moment later with an impish look on her face.
"Sorry Alice, I just don't kid around about cheesecake." Another roar of laughter erupted and the door opened again.
"Hello children," Carlisle greeted us.
"Hey Dad, Hey Carlisle, Hey Dr. Cullen!" we all responded at once and than laughed even harder. Carlisle's smile was ear to ear as he took Bella's vitals and dispensed her evening medication.
I glanced at the clock, it was almost 9 o'clock, she needed her rest, I sighed in defeat, I would never win against the clock. My father announced that it was time to let Bella rest, one by one they all hugged and kissed her walking out the door leaving me to say my goodbye in private. She looked up at me through her lashes, "Will you be stopping by tomorrow?"
I smiled at her shyness, "Yeah, I will be here at 8AM." I hugged her to me, "Sleep tight Bella," I whispered in her ear, she cradled my face in her hands and stared hard into my eyes for a long moment and kissed me on the cheek.
"You too Edward," she murmured and then sank into her pillows.
When I arrived home I went straight to my room, I wanted to continue to ride the high I was on from spending the day with Bella. As I lay in bed thinking of how innocent she looked while she was asleep my phone vibrated on my desk, I jumped up and grabbed it, it was a text from Rachel, I deleted it without opening the text to read it. I went back to bed and put my phone on my nightstand and started going over the conversations we had in my mind laughing at some of the funnier points and my phone vibrated again, I picked up the phone annoyed and ready to delete another text from Rachel, my eyes flew open, it was Bella!
Sleeping yet? –B
Nope, you should be though! –E
Just wanted to thank you for everything again! –B
Stop, my ego wont fit through the door if you keep that up! –E
I can't help it, you make me feel like Cinderella! –B
That's the plan, Cinderella and beyond! –E
Can I ask you something seriously? –B
Proceed :) –E
What am I to you? –B
What the fuck am I supposed to say to that? Shit, where the fuck is Alice when I need her? Tell her the truth douche, ALWAYS tell her the truth!
Your everything to me! –E
That's a bs answer but I will take it for now! –B
What am I to you? –E
I don't know yet, what I do know is that it's harder for me to breath when your gone. I didn't have that problem 3 days ago! –B
Me too –E
Night E –B
Night B –E
And once again, I fell asleep thinking of Bella Swan, I was pretty sure that was going to be a permanent thing!
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First Conversation With Edward
B is kickin it in the living room trying desperately to finish this chapter so I can go to bed, 1:07 AM!! Edward walks in and flops down in overstuffed chair and puts feet up on ottoman.
E: What's up B?
B: Hey Edward, what's going on?
E: I have some questions about this story?
B: Ok, what do you want to know?
E: Well, first of all why am I such a fucking douch dude? Do I have to have a permanent fucking hardon, I mean is that really fucking necessary?
B: You don't have a permanent hardon Edward, you have never had an emotional or physical reaction to a girl on this level before so it may take you some time to get used to it!
E: But Bella's sick so we may never get to do it which pretty much means that I'm gonna be walking around with blue balls for the rest of my life!
B: So are you saying your in this for life Edward?
E: Don't use that fucking reverse psychology bullshit on me B?
D: Just a simple question.
E: Whatever, I'm gonna get out of here before you start asking about my mother or some other kind of absurd girly shit!
B: Night Edward!
Edward flips me off and walks out the door!
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