Chapter 5
Edward and I talked while Carlisle finished taking care of my foot. For every second I was close to him I loved him more. He was much more beautiful than the most beautiful human I could possibly dream about. We didn't talk about anything important, just the weather, music and something else. Even though it wasn't important it sounded like the most important things in the world when he was talking about them. Edward didn't seem to have as much fun as I. He had been looking nicely at me but now he looked like he was mad at me even though he was smiling. I didn't know why.
I didn't like that I had to go home when Carlisle had fixed my foot. I wanted to talk to Edward more even though he didn't seem to want to talk to me. I drove home. Jake was really relieved to see me because I had forgotten to call him from the hospital. I wasn't happy to see him even though I tried to hide it. I felt really guilty.
Chapter 6
I went to the mall the next day. Jake was really surprised that I was going again because I didn't like malls. I only went there again if I would see Edward. I knew he probably would be there again but it wouldn't hurt to look around. I had started to behave as a teenager in love even though I was 80 years and 2 days old. I didn't want to hurt Jake, I actually hadn't done anything wrong. But what if I wouldn't be able to control myself around Edward? "Stop being silly, Bella!" I told myself. Edward is seventeen, he isn't interested in you.
I told Jake I wouldn't come back until around six o'clock. He seemed fine about that. He told me he could cook something but I said that I would just bring some fast-food with me. I walked around the mall for hours but Edward wasn't there. I actually didn't expect him to be there but there was a part of me, actually a big part of me that wanted him to be here, even though he wasn't interested in me and maybe didn't even like me at all. I was wearing high heels, for the first time in 20 years because I wanted to look good. The heels were red and about 2.5 inches high, too high for my age but I didn't care. I was wearing a red dress that was a little shorter than knee-long and white nylon pantyhose. I had started the day by colouring my hair brown, it had started to become a bit gray but it still looked brown but now you couldn't see any gray hairs. I probably looked like a grandma that was trying to look young but really failed but I thought I looked okay.
It was two o'clock and I had just finished my coffee I had around one o'clock. I was going to walk around until 5 o'clock hoping to see Edward even though I knew he probably wouldn't be here. No boy would go to the mall two days in a row. I paid for my coffee, and stood up. Ouch! These shoes were really painful, they weren't this uncomfortable 20 years ago. I tried to look like everything was okay while I walked around the mall for the 1000th time today. I was focusing so much on walking elegantly that I didn't look down. I really should have looked down because I didn't see the escalator which was right in front of me. I started to fall, I would have hit my head on the escalator and rolled head-first down. I didn't hit my head because half a second before my head would have hit the escalator something cold wrapped its hands around me and pulled my away. I knew immediately that it was Edward.
"Are you crazy?" Edward asked. "You could have gotten killed!" I was so happy to see him.
"Why would that matter?" I asked him. "I will die sooner or later."
"You can at least thank me for saving you!" Edward said.
"Thank you, it was very nice of you to save me," I said. "What are you doing here again?"
"I... I like looking at people walk in the mall!" Edward said. "What have you been doing here wandering around the mall the whole day?"
"I will answer when you have answered me correctly!" I told him. "I normally don't know when people are lying but I know what you just said isn't true."
"I had a feeling you would hurt yourself and I was worried so I went to the mall to protect you!" he told me. "Are you happy now?"
"Thank you!" I said and I felt tears starting to fall down my cheeks. He cared about me. Edward went to the mall to protect me.
"Now you have to tell me what you are doing here!" Edward told me.
"I... well it isn't important!" I said.
"Just tell me!" he said.
"I wanted to see you again!" I told him.
"Bella I'm really flattered but I just have to tell you now so you won't be disappointed that you won't see me ever again after today!" he told me.
"Why were you saving me then?" I asked him.
"I want you to be alive and to be happy," he said. "I want to know that you are okay and that you are alive."
"Why can't I see you?" I asked.
"It's complicated!" he told me.
"Well if you don't want to see me I will just keep trying to fall down escalators until you understand that I want to see you again," I told him.
"Bella, stop being stubborn," He said.
"I'm not stubborn, you are the one who's being stubborn," I told him. "You are the one who doesn't want to see me ever again."
"Bella, I want to see you again but it's just not good for me or you," he told me.
"Don't you like talking to older women?" I asked him.
"I don't care about the age!" Edward said.
"What is it then?" I asked.
"It's complicated!" he said again.
"Do you have a girlfriend?" I asked him. "And are you afraid she's going to get jealous because you are talking to me, an old woman?"
"No I don't have a girlfriend," he told me. "Do you have a boyfriend or a husband?"
"No!" I said then I remembered Jake. "Well actually yes but he wouldn't care if we were friends."
"You see Bella, it is complicated!" Edward said once again.
"What about if you go home now and sleep on it and I go home and sleep on it to and then we meet here around eleven tomorrow and decide if we will meet again," I asked him.
"Okay but you have to trust me that it is best if you don't see me ever again," Edward said.
"I will remember that!" I said then I couldn't control myself anymore and hugged him goodbye. The feeling was wonderful I felt a tingling feeling in my stomach. Oh it was wonderful.
Chapter 7
Even though it was only 4 o'clock I bought dinner because Jake could eat at anytime. He didn't care if dinner was at seven, eleven or three. If there was food he wanted to eat. He didn't get fat. He just got more muscles. Even though he was almost 79 he just looked like he was 25 or 30. I didn't know how he could maintain such a young look but there had always been a lot of things about him that I couldn't understand. Why he hang out with his friends Sam, Quil, Embry, Paul, Seth, Leah and some others. Sometimes he hung out with them so much I felt left out. Seth, Leah and Embry still looked 25 or 30 years old but Sam, Quil and Paul looked a lot older. It was very weird. For the last two years Jake had started to look older than he used to but he still looked so young that it was hardly noticeable.
I was home around a quarter passed four. I put the food on the kitchen table and started looking for Jake. He wasn't in the living room but there was some strange noise coming from the bedroom. It was like Jake was jumping on the bed and it was like our granddaughter Renesmee was jumping on the bed with him. I didn't know that Renesmee was going to visit but I was happy I had bought enough food for one more person. I liked when my grandchildren visited and I was happy when I opened the door to the bedroom and said "hi Nessie".
"Oh my God!" I screamed. "What are you doing? You are a sick, evil, gross pervert! How could you do this? And with your granddaughter?"
How could I think Jake and Renesmee were jumping on the bed? I should have recognised the sound which was coming from Jake. How could he be sleeping with our granddaughter? He wasn't only cheating on me, his wife since 50 years back and his girlfriend since 62 years back, he was cheating on my with our granddaughter. How could he?
"You said you wouldn't be home until six and it's not as bad as it looks!" Jake said.
"How can it not be as bad as it looks?" I asked him. "You are sleeping with your granddaughter and I thought you would be happy I would be home earlier than I had said!"
"Nessie isn't technically my granddaughter!" Jake said. "You went to the sperm bank when you wanted to be pregnant with René junior, Nessie's mom. You didn't want to make me have to do anything because I was hurt but I was fine just a week later."
"I know, that was a miracle," I told him. "But Nessie is still your granddaughter and it is just as gross."
"I can't do anything about it!" Jake screamed. "I imprinted on her! I'm sorry!"
"I'm sorry too grandma!" Renesmee said. "I don't know how I can be so crazy in love with my grandfather even though he actually isn't my technical grandfather. I'm so sorry I didn't want to hurt you but I can't control myself around him and it has only been going on for two years!"
"It has been going on for TWO YEARS?" I screamed. "For two years you two have been lying to me and you have been cheating on me."
"Bella please let me explain!" Jake said. "I know it will sound ridiculous and stupid but I am telling you the truth. I'm a werewolf, Sam and the others are also werewolves. I fell in love with you when I was young but that didn't make me older. Werewolves don't get older until they imprint. I didn't think I was able to imprint because I loved you so much. I had decided to kill myself the day you would die because I would probably still be alive then. When Nessie was born I imprinted on her. I could play with her forever. I had never been able to play with my other grandchildren or my children as much as I could play with her and I never got born. When she turned 16, two years ago everything changed. She wasn't anymore this lovely baby I could play with forever, she was the most beautiful person on earth and I couldn't resist her. I know this is gross and ridiculous but I imprinted on her. I started getting older, in the same speed as her. She is the person I imprinted on and there is no stronger power in the world than the power of imprinting. Just ask Sam and Emily, Paul and my sister and Quil and Clare. They will all tell you the same things as I have told you. I'm so sorry I'm hurting you and I'm so sorry you have to find out this way."
"I'm still mad at you two!" I said. "I'm going to pack all of my stuff into boxes and stay at a hotel until I find a better place to live. You two have to tell Nessie's mother right now what you have done and I don't want to see you two ever again. At least not for ten years. This is the worst thing you have ever done to me. Jacob Black, I will send you the divorce papers tomorrow. Goodbye."
Chapter 8
I was screaming while I drove to a hotel. I was so mad. I was so mad I screamed the whole way. I stopped screaming while I checked into a room but I continued screaming when I got to my room until I fell asleep. I woke up at seven o'clock the next morning. I put on some pretty clothes and put on high heels, these had little lower heels than the ones I wore yesterday, they were 2 inches high. I was at the mall at ten o'clock and sat down at a café. I had a feeling Edward would find me so I just looked around. I saw Edward almost the moment I sat down. He was already there. I thought I was early.
"Hi!" I said. "Have you been waiting here for a long time?"
"Just a couple of hours," he said. "I wanted to be early!"
"Have you thought about what we discussed yesterday?" I asked him.
"Yes and I think it is best if we don't see each other again," he said. "It could be okay if we would meet once a year but it isn't good for you to be around me."
"Once a year is better than never! I said. "Yesterday I said I had a husband but I don't anymore. When he has signed the divorce papers we won't be married again."
"I'm sorry he cheated on you Bella!" Edward said. "He was terrible to you!"
"How did you know...?" I asked very confused.
"I was kind of spying on you yesterday!" Edward said looking very guilty like he had committed a horrible crime.
"You were spying on me?" I asked. "Why?"
"I'm just not strong enough to stay away from you!" Edward said.
"But you don't want me to see you again!" I told him.
"I know," Edward said. "I am asking Carlisle if we could move away but I don't think that would be enough I'm really not strong enough to stay away from you."
"Then why do you have to stay away from me?" I asked him. "I really like you and I don't want to stay away from you."
"Bella... there is something you should know about me!" Edward said.
"What is it?" I asked him.
"I'm not as innocent as I look!" he said.