Beloved Past

Chapter 2

The Faded Blue House

Edward follows his mother. I stay where I am. His house is beautiful, maybe not as beautiful as the white house, but beautiful nonetheless.

I could here the hushed voices of Edward and his mother.

"Mum, I could just leave her on the street" he said

"I guess I could get her a dress or two, what is she doing wearing pants. Ladies don't where pants Edward, there must be something wrong with her!" Elizabeth says back to her son.

"Do we have a room for her to stay in?" he says back to his mother

"No we don't, so I get a cot for now, and will be putting it in your room. Now I normally would want any young female who isn't in a courtship sleeping in a boys room, but she is your guest" Elizabeth says back to him

"I guess," he says back, I can tell he done talking to his mom.

He walks back to where I am. "Would you like a tour of the house?" he asks me.

"Sure, that would be lovely" I say back to him happily

"Well this" he points to the room he just left, "is the kitchen"

The room is small, and has a small table with four chairs, and in the corner of the room I see a staircase. Where does it go?

"Where does the staircase go?" I ask him

"I show that to you last" he say and walks away from the kitchen, down the hall, and stops at a big room with a fire place, "This is the drawing room" he says to me and looks down at his feet. The room is beautiful. I walked in to it. The carpet feels nice on my bare feet. I look around and see a piano, I walk over to it. I touch the lovely white keys.

"Do you play?" he ask me

"No, not really. My mother put me though lessons." I say to him.

"Do you?" I ask him

"A little" he says back, I can tell he's lying. But I don't say anything.

We walk out of that room and back to the hallway, at the end of the hall is a staircase.

"So are we going up stairs?" I ask him

"No, not now. My father is up there with some of his friends. He's in his office"

"So where are we going?" I asked him

He didn't say anything; he walked though the kitchen to the staircase. He walked up the stairs I followed him. When we got to the top landing, there where to doors.

"This" he pointed to the door on the left, "is the bathroom" I opened the door, and looked in.

There was a claw foot tub and toilet and sink. What else could I say about a bathroom? I looked back at him.

"This" he pointed to the door on the right, "is my room" he said and opened the door and walked in. I followed him.

The room was small. His bed was against one wall, and he had a night table next to it. He had a wardrobe on the opposite wall. The room was quite messy, he had books everywhere.

"What do you think?" he asked me

"Well, its quite messy" I say and look into his eyes. They're a brilliant emerald green. I could get lost in them forever.

"Well" he looks around at the books on the ground, "It could use some cleaning" he finishes

I start making a stack of books and pick them up and set them next to his wardrobe.

"There" I say back to him and smile

He sat down on his bed. He looked straight at me. I can tell he's searching for something. I slid to the floor the crossed my legs.

"Tell me everything about your self Bella"

Where could I start? Without telling him too much?

"Well like I said I'm from Arizona. I lived with my mom, Renee and my stepfather Phil. I have a boyfriend back in Arizona and a couple of friends."

"So you and your boyfriend, your in a courtship?"

"Well I guessing he's not my boyfriend any more, now that I live there" I looked around again.

"Have you ever been in love Bella?"

"No." I said. My answer is simple and flat. Even though I was or am with my boyfriend. We both knew we weren't in love with each other. We together because we could be. "He's my first mistake," I say in a low voice.

It soon became dinnertime.

"Edward dinner" Elizabeth called

"Come on Bella" he said to me. I felt as if she didn't want me to eat with them, by the way she only called for Edward.

Like I thought when I first saw him in the photo from the photo album, he is perfect.

"Your coming right?" he asked again

"Yes" I said, and pushed myself off the ground from where I sat.

We walked down the stairs to the kitchen. Elizabeth was there and so was a man.

He was tall like Edward but not as tall as Edward. His hair was combed back unlike Edwards. He has brown hair and Edward has bronze hair.

"Bella this is my father" he says and points to the man I was just looking at.

The man turns to look at me. He is Edwards father, I can tell the man I staring at my ratty sweatpants.

"Nice to meet you" I hold out my hand "I'm Bella" I tell him.

"Edward Sir." he says and takes my hand.

"Bella will be staying with us," Elizabeth says

Dinner passes slowly, Edward's father is a lawyer and owns a firm, Edward doesn't seem like he's the lawyer type.

He's Beautiful. And Funny

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Sleep was leaving me fast. I would wake up soon. The bed was soft were I lay, I knew if I got up the cold air would envelope me. I could feel the sunlight on my eyes.

"Edward, Honey time to wake up!" Elizabeth yells up the stairwell. I open my eyes, and remember everything from the day before. I looked around, I was in Edward room and I was in his bed and he was on the cot. He was still fast asleep, I got up a went to the cot a whispered into his ear 'wake up.' And sure enough his eyes opened and he looked up at me.

"Hi" I said to him

"Hey" he said back

"Your mom called up and told you to wake up" I said

He got up and walked to his wardrobe and took out a clean white button down and a pair of black pants. He also took out a button down for me. It would be way to big, but I would make it work.

He handed me the shirt and I walked to the bathroom, I closed the door. I took off my tank top and button up the shirt Edward gave me. I took my tank top and ran some water into the sink and used the bar soap to clean it. I twisted it to get the water off. I took and hung it on the side of the bathtub. Lastly I used the toilet and then washed my hands.

I opened the door and ran into Edward. I fell to my feet.

"Sorry I didn't see you" I said and started pushing myself off the ground.

"Here" he hand me his hand, "And it was my fault" he said

We walked down the stairs to the kitchen for breakfast; Elizabeth was waiting at the bottom of the stairs. "Edward where going to be late for church" she said and handed him a piece of bread "eat it while we walk, Bella and I'm sorry but you cant come being that you don't have dress to where out" she said to me.

They left. Edward hugged me before they left. Elizabeth didn't approve of me being in her house, I didn't blame her. She didn't know me. There was a little bit of bread left and some milk. I ate it and washed the dishes left out on the table.

I walked out of the kitchen to the drawing room. I walked right to the piano. I started to hit the white keys with my slim fingertips. And then I started to sing: all the song I sang came from my heart

It felt as if hours hand past since the left. I the piano keys felt nice under my fingertips. The song came out of my lips once again.

Just a day,

Just an ordinary day.

Just trying to get by.

Just a boy,

Just an ordinary boy.

But he was looking to the sky.

And as he asked if I would come along

I started to realize

That everyday he finds

Just what he's looking for,

Like a shooting star he shines.

He said take my hand,

Live while you can

Don't you see your dreams lie right in the palm of your hand

And as he spoke, he spoke ordinary words

Although they did not feel

For I felt what I had not felt before

And you'd swear those words could heal.

And as I looked up into those eyes

His vision borrows mine.

And I know he's no stranger,

For I feel I've held him for all of time.

And he said take my hand,

Live while you can

Don't you see your dreams lie right in the palm of your hand

In the palm of your hand.

Please come with me,

See what I see.

Touch the stars for time will not flee.

Time will not flee.

Can you see?

Just a dream, just an ordinary dream.

As I wake in bed

And the boy, that ordinary boy

Or was it all in my head?

Did he asked if I would come along

It all seemed so real.

But as I looked to the door,

I saw that boy standing there with a deal.

And he said take my hand,

Live while you can,

Don't you see all your dreams lie right in the palm of your hand

In the palm of your hand,

In the palm of your hand.

Just a day, just an ordinary day

Just trying to get by.

Just a boy,

Just an ordinary boy.

But he was looking to the sky.

They walked to the drawing room doorway. They looked at me. All I had done was singing and playing the piano.

"Bella, your really good" Edward said to me.

"No I'm not," I said

"What song was that? Have I heard of them?" Elizabeth asked

No she hadn't heard of them, she would be dead by the time Vanessa Carlton was alive.

"No you haven't," I said to her

I hadn't wanted them to find out I could sing and play the piano.