Chapter 2:

Carrying on with random plot line.

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Once again, all S.M for characters.



Soon enough the hungry and eager three teenagers came bounding through the door carrying burger bags and some ice-cream. So the ice-cream went straight to the freezer and the burgers were passed around and they sat.

Esme and Carlisle looked anxious for a few moments as the three settled in all around the dinner table, the feeling spread across the table to her, but it was washed away as soon as everyone started eating.

After several helpings of ice-cream and the tub was finished, downed mostly by Edward, everyone was sprawled around the living room watching America's Next Top Model – Edward's favourite show, There was really no mysterious as to why, he was a guy and they were pretty and skinny girls wearing tiny bikinis and whatnot.

Esme and Carlisle were sitting in their usual loveseat, her hands in his modestly, Alice stretched out across another couch and her and Edward sitting on another couch, Bella's head leant on his shoulder with his on the sofa arm. Still, nothing going on there.

By ten o'clock, Carlisle and Esme had retired to bed, Alice was in her room on the phone to her boyfriend Jasper Whitlock and Bella was in Edward's room with him.

Isabella could hear Alice laughing and talking, and more laughing, while she and Edward sat chatting quietly, with him doing some trig homework and gazing at his toned back not-so-subtly.

"What are you thinking about?" Edward asked pretty randomly as they were talking about the pros and cons of a baby getting a face lift. She had no idea how the conversation had gotten to that stage but she didnt mind as they were both enjoying the free flowing and easy going talk.

"Just Alice and Jasper, they seem so happy together." She thought up, in the spare of the moment, He didn't need to know that she was yet again pining for him. She was pretty convincing she thought, as he agreed.

Edward turned to smile at her then, momentarily dazzling her in the process, and stunning her into place. She blushed when she realised what had happened, again.

"They do, now Alice has a guy, and Emmett and Rosalie are happy, I guess we should get someone too." He laughed, chuckling happily. She couldn't tell if he was just stating that or if there was a hidden message there. But Bella wished with all of her heart there was.

Rosalie was Alice's friend, and sometimes Bella's, depending on her mood as sometimes she liked her then others she didn't. She was a stunning blonde who had a body that model's would defiantly kill for and loved tinkering with cars of all sorts, which is probably why she was so good with Emmet. He was a big burly looking guy who also loved cars. He looked scary but once you go to know him, you could see that he was just a big, soft cuddly teddy bear. Emmett was Edward and Jasper's friends. The 6 of them were like a big gang. Except for when Edward started dating Tanya and starting sitting with her posse. Bella then immediately realised what she had brought up. Aw heck.

"I'm sorry, I shouldn't have brought that up, that was mean what with you and Tanya today..." Bella was suddenly worried.

He looked angry for a second before he composed himself. She hadn't realised, but they had talked about virtually everything, besides this. He must be pretty pissed about it. She wanted to ask, but she knew from experience if he wanted to tell her, he would, on his own accord.

"No, no, it's alright." He sighed. "I guess you want to know now then."

"Well if it's alright..." Bella wanted to know badly, but acted calm, her bet was that he could tell anyway.

"It pretty simple. And I'm sure you know most of it already."

"Well um, yeah..." She replied, rather sheepishly.

He laughed lightly, he thankfully wasn't too angry.

"Well when came back to school, and I found out she did it with Eric, Tyler and Mike. I overheard them bragging.'" He shivered visibly, so she came and sat next to him, giving him a light squeeze on the shoulder, silently urging him to continue.

"Then she came up and told me she was a couple of months pregnant, and I knew it wasn't mine, we never... you know, though apparently she forgot, and thought I would just support the kid. I really thought she liked me for me. Not the money or whatever like everyone else." He sounded depressed and she yearned to comfort him. She knew she couldn't, she wasn't what he was looking for.

Bella was also disgusted, she couldn't believe what an idiot Tanya must have been to just ignore what a wonderful piece of art he was, she had been the lucky one to snatch him and then had wasted him by sleeping around! Was she crazy?! She must have been.

She turned him around to give him a huge friends-only kind of hug.

He seemed to be happy enough to accept her token of comfort. It seemed he was making an effort to not cry. It hurt Bella that someone like Tanya could hurt him like this. She also wanted to tell him she would always be here and just let it all out, but she didn't want to a) scare him and b) embarrass the poor guy.

She had been sort of straddling his lap, her legs on either side of his, and hugging him tightly, with nothing going on still, when Edward suddenly leaned forward so that their heads were unexpectedly close.

He then started to say something. But as soon as he had started, he stopped. Bella was in utter shock; he pulled her away and sat me beside him. He then sighed. What on earth?

The sound of Alice banging at the door broke the silence, Bella couldn't figure out if it was awkward, comfortable or just plain weird silence. Just silence between Edward and Bella. Alice then proceeded to barge in.

"Okay, enough with ever you too are up too, I need Bella back" she ranted. Bella hadn't even heard her hang up the phone.

She was then dragged back into Alice's bedroom next door.

"Okay, that's going to be annoying" Alice grinned, "warn me next time you start smooching my brother without any restraints." She joked, they both knew of her giant crush on him, and joked about it constantly.

"Yes Mom" Bella smirked; it was always like that when Alice abandoned her in their own house when Jasper came over. She was forced to hang out with Edward, who usually had one of his many girlfriends - mainly Tanya - over. The girlfriends were usually nice to her, but only because they wanted to graduate from the living room couch to the bedroom and knew that he had a family-like soft spot for her. But Edward had never allowed any girl to enter his room with the exception of his family, and her. No one had ever actually been intimidated by her. It was pretty laughable actually.

For Alice, the Mom comeback was still uncalled for; she never wanted to replace Bella's mother, Renee, with the way she looked out for her.

Bella saw the tension between them and said, "I think I'm going to go to bed, it's kind of late already."

"Okay, I'm sure I'll be awake before you in the morning anyways!" Alice said cheekily with a huge grin. All was forgiven.

Bella laughed too. "Oh, I'm sure you will too!"

"Night then Bells."

"Night Aly."

"I love you."

"You too."

On her way out of Alice's room, she ducked into Edward's. He had already gone to sleep, but he woke up as soon as his door creaked open.

"What do you want?" he grumbled, covering his head with a pillow.

"It's just me" she whispered. Bella hoped to remove any awkwardness between them, it was agonising.

"Oh, come here then?"

So she went to sit on the bed next to him. Edward sat up; his bare upper body wrapped itself around her, looking utterly delicious, might she add. It would seem as though she had been forgiven.

They sat there for a moment, just like they had done earlier. It was comforting to sit like this. Nothing more and nothing less. After a while Bella shrugged out of his hold.

"I'll let you go back to sleep now."

"Night Bella."

She tip-toed across the hallway into her new permanent room, Alice had helped her to convince Carlisle and Esme that seeing as Bella was going to be living there permanently, the guest room that she had been occupying been staying in should be made hers.

Bella had been given completely new furniture and completely and utterly remodelled room. Alice and Esme had had a blast, Esme being an interior decorator and Alice just loving picking out the clothes and new furniture, as hers of mine had been lost in the fire.

The walls had been painted as well. She was given new furniture and wallpaper six months ago. And to her delight it was all pretty blues and whites, her favourite colours.

Today was a day I don't think I'll ever forget she thought, she was pretty sure everybody else in the house was thinking along exactly the same thing.

So much had happened today, so many new chances and opportunities given.

Anything could happen now.

Maybe even her and Edward.

He was single and so was she.

His family loved her and they were great together.

So why not?

Oh yeah, he had no interest in her.

Well maybe it was time for a change.

She remembered hearing a saying years ago by Harold Wilson when her mother had had one of her phases...

He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.

Maybe it was time for some change?


Okay so that is a real saying, and i think it fits. Change is important. Especially for Bella. (:

Hope your enjoying 'cause im just going with the flow. (:

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