Angela On My Mind

I waited in my car for an hour outside of Bella's house. Charlie wasn't home and I didn't want my breaking in to upset Bella before I got the chance to do that with what I wanted to say to her. I went over in my mind all the things we could make small talk about before the conversation became too heavy and she shoved me right out the front door. My mind wandered to all the places she and I had spent time together. It took less than 30 seconds to recall each and every one. It seemed like less than nothing in comparison to the time she had spent in all the places she had been with Edward. I skipped through my thoughts to the last place we had been together...Angela's house. I had seen her around now that I thought about it. I'd just never paid that much attention to any girl besides Bella.

"Whoa!," I thought out loud. "Where did that come from, and what made you think of her?"

I was supposed to be concentrating on one major thing, talking the girl I loved out of ruining (and possibly ending) her life. I didn't need distractions. Angela seemed like she would make a nice distraction, but one I still didn't need to worry about just now. I

It was warm inside the car and the heat made me realize just how exhausted I was. I closed my eyes and let my skin bake in the sun. Before I knew what was happening I was standing outside a house watching a beautiful woman hanging clothes on a line to dry. Two little kids were playing in the yard and I could feel a smile forming on my lips. It felt so familiar to me, yet so distant and strange. This was a dream, I was lucid enough to know this was a dream, but it felt so right, so real. This was the dream Bella told me about. I had been thinking of her and my mind created this dream because of what she had said before.

I decided to take advantage of the opportunity before me, even if it was just a dream. After all, if I didn't convince Bella that Cullen was all wrong for her and I didn't do it soon, this was the closest thing I would get of my happy ever after with her. I walked through the dream to the kids who both smiled at me and giggled. I knew they were mine. They even looked like pictures of me when I was little. I didn't know if I had ever had a dream so vivid. If I had known for sure that there was more time to linger, I would've wrestled in the dirt with them both. Time was of the essence though if I was going to make a memory worthy of throwing up to Eddie later. I walked on past them to where their mother stood on her toes trying to hang my shirt on a too tall clothes line. Her back was to me, but I would know the woman I loved anywhere. I wrapped my arms around her tiny waist and lifted her off her feet. She threw her head back and laughed. The sound was beautiful. She dropped the shirt and I put her down gently. She turned to face me...she was beaming. I couldn't take my eyes off her as she moved swiftly to touch my face with her hand and I bent to kiss her. I wanted to keep her here in this perfect world with me forever. Love radiated from her to me. I could feel her skin against mine and I wondered if maybe this wasn't a dream after all. It felt too real.

She pulled back from the kiss slowly and looked so deep in my eyes that I knew she could see my thoughts. I never wanted to leave her. "I love you," she said in her angel's voice.

"I love you, too, Angela."

A knock on the window woke me with a start. Bella smiled. "Wake up, sleepy head. Let's go inside. We need to talk, don't we?"

Right then I wasn't so sure we did.