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Gives You Hell Chapter 2
Esme's POV
"Erm, my mums coming tomorrow." Bella said. She sounded almost, regretful? I wasn't too sure.
"I know love. I heard." Edward replied, softly laughing, but even from behind I could tell he was concerned. I wasn't surprised, I was as well. Renee, the way she sounded, the way she has spoken to Bella was just. Well, I wouldn't speak to any of my children like that. Like Bella worked for her rather than being her daughter.
"Well then. I'll go sought out the guest room." I said, before running up the stairs and into the bathroom to grab some spare linen for the bed. I was surprised to find Rosalie in there. She was in the corner, sitting on the edge of the bath tub.
"Rose, dear. Are you okay?" I asked, walking over to her and placing my hand gently on her cheek.
"Yeah, mum, I'm fine." She said, raising her head to meet my gaze and softly smiled. I could see she didn't want to talk about it, and I wouldn't push her. She would talk to me when she was ready and when she wanted to. "What are you doing?"
"I'm just getting some clean sheets so I can get the room ready for Bella's mum."
Rosalie frowned. "Some character." She said, standing up and getting the sheets then handing them to me.
"Hmm. Yes, quite."
"From their conversation, I can guess that Bella isn't too excited about the news?"
I didn't answer.
"Can I help?" Alice had appeared in the doorway.
"Of course, dear." All three of us walked down the hall to the guest bedroom. It was the smallest room, but still fairly large. It was painted pale purple and had a huge Queen size bed in the centre. The south wall was made of glass and looked out over the back garden. We got to work, changing the sheets on the bed and putting the old ones into the wash basket in the corner. Alice then began to arrange the walk-in wardrobe so there was room for Renee's clothes while I sat in the chair by the window and Rosalie sat on the bed facing me.
"You don't think I was wrong, do you?" I asked no one in particular. The question had been bubbling in the back of my mind ever since Bella had ended the call to her mother.
"What do you mean?" Alice asked, coming out of the massive wardrobe and sitting down on the bed next Rosalie.
"Asking Renee to stay here; you don't think it was a bad idea?"
"Why would you say that?" Rosalie questioned.
"It's just, Bella seemed so shocked, that I wasn't sure if she was happy or not about her mum coming to stay, and then when I heard she was going to be staying in Port Angeles, I thought it was an awfully long way for her to travel each day to come and visit. But then when Renee agreed, Bella looked so … I don't know. Disappointed? I'm afraid I've done the wrong thing, that I've upset Bella by suggesting it."
I looked down. I didn't want to make Bella sad. I love her so much, she was already a daughter to me.
"I'm sorry Esme, I can't see. But I'm sure you haven't upset Bella. It's her mum. She must be excited about seeing her." But even as Alice said this, she looked doubtful.
"Don't be stupid Alice. Did you hear the way she spoke to Bella? She was so rude and snobby. I'm surprised Bella hasn't become a total bit.." I cleared my throat, "Sorry, but you know what I mean. She isn't nice. I for one am not looking forward to meeting her, and I can tell you Bella isn't either."
"What have I done?" I groaned, putting my head in my hands.
"Don't listen to Rose. I'm sure it will be fine, you'll see."
"But you can't see Alice, so how'd you know."
"Wait, you can't see this. You can't see her mother being here?" I suddenly felt uplifted.
"No. I can see Renee here, but someone hasn't made decision yet. I think it might be Bella, but I don't know why. I could be wrong of course. It might be someone else." Alice finished, eying Rose meaningfully. There was obviously something going on. Rosalie was particularly concern about this, about Bella. I chose to ignore it. 'She will tell me when she is ready,' I remind myself.
"Still, if your 'blind' then you can't know."
"Shut up Rosalie. I do know it will be fine. Besides, it's only for a week. We can deal with that right?" Alice soothed me, placing her tiny arms around my shoulders. I smiled at my pixie-like daughter, but even so, I could not help but agree with Rosalie's words. If this week was going to be anything, it was going to be interesting.
"I think the rooms ready. I'll go get Japer and we can go grocery shopping so we have enough food for us all for the week." We all grimaced at that. A downside of having human guests; having to pretend you are human also and eat their food.
"This is going to be one hell of a week." Rosalie said sarcastically. I nodded. Yes. Yes, it was.
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