A/N: Hello again! This is Annilaia ( my penname is a name I've had for characters since I was 12 and I've yet to make a good story with that name in it.) to bring you chapter THREE of Just the Summer. This one, I like… especially the beginning
To clear up something for ALittleTooAddicted : I read somewhere, I can't remember if It was Edward saying it or Stephenie Meyer, but probably Edward. He told Bella that he can pull off looking ages 15- 20 something. And In Twilight the Cullen's have been living in Forks since Edward and Alice's freshman year. So, those are the ages everyone knows them as
Disclaimer: This goes for all chapters that I have forgotten to and will forget to put a disclaimer on: I disclaim Twilight.
Chapter Three: Falling
I woke up for the second time the next morning at 10:30. The first time Charlie had woken me up to tell me he was going fishing, and was going to let me sleep all day since I was probably tired from the trip and from last night.
I forced myself out of bed, my hair sticking out from all angles, and stumbled down the stairs. My eyes were only half open as I moved through the kitchen, pouring a bowl of cereal, and sitting at the counter, staring at the newspaper without taking any of it in.
All I could hear was the crunch of my cornflakes.
Then there was a knock at the door. One of Charlie's friends, I thought. I forced myself up and hobbled across the linoleum, it was so cold against my bare feet. I opened the door and immediately shut it again, right in the face of the boy on the other side.
Edward.
"Bella?" he called. I could hear the confusion in his voice. "What's wrong? Are you alright?"
"Edward!" I screeched. I was horrified. He was standing on the other side of my front door, as pretty as can be, while I'm only other side wearing my dads old "The Doors" T-shirt, my hair flying off in every direction and my old pink pajama pants barely reaching my knees. "What are you doing here?!"
"Bella!?" he called again. "I told you I wanted to be with you this summer. It's still summer and I want to take you out." My heart stopped for a second.
"Why didn't you give me any advanced notice?" I called.
"I wanted to surprise you!" he replied. "What's the problem in that?!"
"I'm in my pajamas!" I yelled again. "I just woke up!"
"Bella!" he called, I could tell he was trying not to laugh. I could hear the smile on his voice. "Bella?" he tried again, trying to sound sad. I was certain if I was looking at him he would have been giving me puppy dog eyes. There was a pause, an awkward silence. "They're really pretty pajamas," he tried. I snorted and whirled around, pulling the door open. I looked at him incredulously, one eyebrow raised and my hands on my hips. I tried to act angry with him, but he just flashed his crooked smile as soon as he saw my face.
I sighed. "Come on in," I muttered, motioning for him to enter. He walked down to the living room and sat down in the chair I usually saw Charlie in. It was strange having him there, his presence lit up the entire room. I stood leaning against the door jamb, staring at him for a while until he looked up to me.
"Aren't you going to get dressed?" he asked. I stood upright and bolted over the stairs, shutting my door a little too loudly behind me. I quickly pulled on a blue T-shirt and a light brown tweed bolero jacket over it. It was an outfit Renée had bought me as a present for getting through middle school. I was jumping into my jeans as I rushed down the hall, doing them up quickly while jumping over the stairs. I slid into view in front of Edward who looked at me with wide eyes.
"I'm ready!" I declared. "What do you want to do today?" He stood up, giving me the once over. I found myself blushing again. I decided to do the same to him. He was wearing a green T-shirt with a high collar that clung magnificently to his body. On his lower half were dark jeans with light stitching and he wore brown sneakers.
He snapped back to reality and I, very happily, went back to staring at his face. "You look beautiful," he said softly. This took me by surprised. My eyes widened in shock and I blushed somewhere near the same shade as a fire truck.
"T-thank you!" I stammered, staring at my feet. He grinned and motioned for me to head for the door.
"Let's go for a walk," he said it bluntly, without asking. I nodded and hurriedly scrawled a note for Charlie. I picked up my blue and white purse, another thing that Renée and bought for me, and pulled on my old black high top converse, my favourite shoes. Edward smiled as I shoved my keys and wallet into the purse, skipping out of the door and down over the steps while he locked it behind him.
"Where are we going to walk to?" I asked curiously. The only thing I knew about this guy was that he was beautiful and was controlling where I would be going today.
"Um, I was thinking about going to my house," he began. His bronze hair was being tossed around in the breeze, flicking in front of his eyes, and I suddenly became very aware of how good he smelt. "Alice really wanted to see you again." I smiled at that thought. I really liked Alice.
He asked me loads of questions again as we walked, and I answered them quickly. Some of them were trivial things like my favourite colour and favourite band, and some required a bit more thought, like what I thought about Phil, mom's new fiancé.
When I finally tore my eyes away from Edward I realized we were on a street I had never been on in all of summers of living in Forks. The road was lined with thick woods on each side of us. I noticed that the sun was pathetically trying to break free from the evil grey clouds, but failing miserably.
Edward slowed down and let me walk ahead of him onto a dirt road that, if I hadn't been paying attention, I would've gone past. When we broke out of the woods my breath caught in my throat. There was a huge lawn, of beautiful green grass shaded completely by six primordial cedars. They created a shadow all the way up to the great white house with a wrap around porch.
I looked up at Edward, my mouth hanging open. He grinned and laughed. "Do you like?" he asked. I nodded, turning back to the house we were walking towards. I saw Alice jump down from the porch and start running very fast towards me.
"Bella!" she screamed when she jumped on me, taking my hands and jumping up and down. "I'm so glad you came! We just have to go to Port Angeles today! We can go shopping and then tonight we can go to a movie! Oh, hey I love your purse!" She said it all so fast and in one breath that when she finished she took in a deep breath, sighed and smiled, pleased with herself.
I smiled hesitantly, not completely sure of everything she had said. "Okay," I murmured finally. She squealed with her teeth clenched shut and ran back up to the house. Edward and I continued to walk up to the porch. I was just about to think about how proud I was with myself, not falling once the entire time we were walking (since I hadn't really been paying attention to where we were going). But, me being the person I am, caught my toe in the step while climbing onto the porch and immediately braced myself for impact.
I felt two strong arms grab my waist and lift me up onto the porch quickly. I opened my eyes to see Edward smiling down at me, his cool hands still on my waist. He quickly removed them and opened the door for me.
"You're lucky I'm around to catch you," he said with a chuckle. I blushed and smiled.
"I am; if it weren't for you I'd probably have a squashed nose by now." He laughed again as we went inside. The interior was just as impressive as the exterior. There was white all around in this living room, a black piano sitting on a platform nearby and a great curving staircase.
Alice came bounding over the stairs, Emmett, Rosalie and a boy who I was guessing was Jasper, were all trailing behind her. "Emmett's going to drive us out there!" she said excitedly. "Let's go!" she repeated this over and over again while we were rushing out of the house and into Emmett's very large jeep.
He drove like a maniac. I was squashed between Edward and Alice, Jasper on the other side of her, while Rosalie sat up front with Emmett. I felt for sure like we were well over the speed limit, and my nails were digging holes into the seat. When Emmett came to a stop in the parking lot of a mall in Port Angeles, I crawled over Edward in the seat, desperate to get out.
He stepped out behind me, looking surprised and a bit… amused? "What's wrong Bella?" he asked me softly as he moved closer to me. I was drawn in by his eyes, all the tension I felt before melting away into the smoldering gold.
"Um," I struggled to find what had upset me so much before now. "Emmett drives really fast, and I was afraid we were going to crash and die." He smiled and chuckled breathily onto me. The icy coolness of his breath and the wonderful smell made me stagger, but Alice grabbed my hand and dragged me up to the mall quickly.
We spent most of the day shopping. Alice had bought so many clothes! She had used a credit card I'd never seen before, and I could only assume that her father had given it to her. I used up nearly all of the money Renée had given me for this trip, satisfying myself with a couple of bags of clothes more suited for Phoenix than Forks, although I had bought a couple of sweaters, just in case. We hit the food court around two and I was so busy talking to each of them I had hardly noticed when they had finished their food and threw it out. I had eaten most of mine; the rest was pushed around sloppily on the tray.
After lunch we managed to find a half decent CD store. I stood up next to one row of CD's, my few bags hanging off my elbow. I was holding a CD that I had been studying when I looked up and saw Edward.
He was standing eight feet away, next to the classical music section. He was holding up a Debussy CD. His body was turned slightly away from mine, and I could see him studying the back of the CD, suddenly he turned his head slightly to look at me and smiled his lovely crooked smile. I grinned sheepishly, blushed and looked back down to my CD.
Once we had left that store we headed for a bookstore, one Jasper seemed very happy to finally get to. It was like a play date for me. I headed through the aisle of books, settling on two to buy.
By the time we had reached Emmett's jeep I was the proud owner of a few more outfits, a new CD and two books. We all stuffed our purchases into the very back and Emmett began to drive to the cinema. He seemed to slow down slightly, but much to my dismay, not slow enough. I spent most of the trip staring down at my shoes, studying them and then turning to Edward's and Alice's.
We walked into the theatre and everyone immediately began fighting over what to watch. Edward and I stood off to the side, leaning against an unused ticket booth. I stared down at my shoes, tracing patterns in the cheap carpet. I looked up and Edward was watching the movements of my feet with a curious intensity. When he noticed I'd stopped he looked to me and his eyes lit up. It made me smile to see them so bright and my heart started to beat in a way that was definitely not healthy.
"What were you drawing?" he asked. I blushed and held back a snort, which didn't work. It came out louder than it should and I laughed a little to try and cover it up.
"Fried eggs," I muttered sheepishly, staring down at my feet. "I wanted them for breakfast but I got too lazy." He laughed and looked back down to my feet where I had proceeded to write my name in cursive. Edward began to do the same, the two of us sounded out every syllable of our full names, middle names included.
Once when I was writing I hit his foot with mine, when I looked up to see his reaction, he frowned slightly, and then hit my foot with his.
"Hey!" I exclaimed angrily. Then it was an all out war, the two of us scribbling over each other's drawings and names. We stopped and laughed when we saw the others heading towards us.
"Now you're Edmundthy Macarter," I told him matter-of-factly. He looked down to where we had pretended to draw all over the floor.
"So I am," he said bluntly. "But now you're Isamarie swoon." I giggled and looked down, wiping my foot over a large part of the clean carpet. "Destroying the evidence, are we?" he asked me grinning and began to wipe with his own shoes.
"What are you guys doing?" Alice asked us. She looked at our feet like we had tentacles growing out of our toes.
"Drawing," we both said, an obvious answer. She looked at us strangely and rolled her eyes, turning back towards her siblings.
"They're crazy," she said sighing, like there was no hope. Edward and I merely laughed at her and moved to stand up next to her. Alice told us which movie they had decided on, and told us the other movie that it was a close tie with. We nodded, both were good choices.
Edward suddenly frowned and looked past everyone to people buying tickets. We all turned to see who he was frowning at. Walking towards us, and beaming at me very widely, were Mike, Jessica, Lauren, Angela, Erik, and Tyler.
"Bella!" Mike called and waved. I blushed and raised a hand. Like I couldn't see him, this place wasn't gigantic.
"Hey Mike," I said, a little disappointed that my evening with the Cullen's was disturbed. He asked what movie we were going to see and I told him, his face lit up.
"That's the one we're going to see!" he said excitedly. I smiled half-heartedly and muttered a 'that's great Mike,' before he continued. "Um, Bella, we were planning a beach trip in a couple days, down to Second beach in La Push. We were all wondering if you'd like to come with us, something to do since it's summer, right?" I smiled, a beach now, during this rain looked awesome. "Of course, you guys can come too, if you want…" Mike added, looking behind me.
I turned around, realizing that Edward and his family were still behind me. Edward looked upset and then he caught my eyes and smiled. "That's alright, Mike. Our parents are bringing us on a camping trip for a couple of weeks tomorrow." I knew my face dropped when he said that. And, I knew Edward could see it. He tried smiling a bit more, though I could see sadness in his eyes as well.
I turned back to Mike and forced a smile. "Sounds great, Mike. Just call me with the details tomorrow." Mike nodded, waved goodbye and headed into the cinema. I turned back to look at the Cullens. Rosalie had her nose wrinkled in disgust as she stared at the cinema where my other friends had gone into.
"I guess we're going to other movie," Jasper said as he stared where Mike had gone. Everyone, me included, laughed and headed for the ticket booth. Edward looked at me concernedly.
"Are you really that upset that we'll be leaving?" he asked me quietly so that no one else would here. I blushed and looked down, fiddling with my ticket in my hand.
"Well, you guys are the best friends I've ever had," I told him. "I've never had friends, not in Phoenix, and not here." He smiled slightly and took a step closer to me. I looked up into his gorgeous eyes and smiled sheepishly. "That and you're all so pretty," I added in a girlish, juvenile voice. He laughed and bent his head down to whisper in my ear.
"You're beautiful," the words were like velvet coming from his mouth and rubbing my skin, his cool breath tickling underneath my ear, causing me to tingle and shudder. He smiled and turned to face his siblings.
We all walked into the cinema, taking our seats in the second to front row, and staring up expectantly, waiting for the horror film.
About half way through I'd grabbed Edward's coat and was hiding half of my face behind it, my hands were coming up from underneath it, my fingers criss-crossing so that I could peek through and still clamp them shut. When I'd glanced over once before I'd noticed Alice doing the same with the sleeves of her long black sweater and Rosalie looking bored. When I'd turned to look at Edward I saw him looking down at me and smiling his crooked smile in amusement. His arms were crossed and his hands curled into tight fists. I glared at him and turned back to the screen.
When the movie was over Alice and I were walking through the parking lot jumping at every sound we heard. We got into the car and started quiet conversations amongst ourselves, usually discussing the movie. Going over a bumpy part of the road, when my head was bobbing up and down, my eyes sagged to a close and I felt myself drifting to sleep against Alice's arm.
I jerked awake when we hit a bump hard, and my eyes tried to adjust to the darkness. I was no longer lying against Alice. I could see from the corner of my eye that she was lying on Jasper's chest, he was stroking her hair and his coat was draped over her. Their eyes were closed so I figured they were nearing sleep.
It was then that I realized Edward's coat was draped over me, keeping my shoulders and hips warm as I was curled up beneath it. My head was resting against his chest as he was slouching in his seat. I turned my head and saw him looking straight ahead, only to look back down to me. The crooked smile I was beginning to love appeared and I couldn't hold back a grin of my own.
"Hey sleeping beauty," he whispered quietly. I pushed my fingers up from underneath his jacket and wiggled them at him. My eyes were beginning to droop again as I listened to the deep even movements of his breathing. He put an arm on my shoulder and began rubbing down my arms slowly.
"We're nearly home, go back to sleep. I'll wake you when we're there."
"Thanks," I managed to mutter before everything was dark again.
I woke up when I felt the car being forced over the sidewalk to my driveway. Everyone in the car sat up straight and I started to get my things together. Alice gave me a hug before I left. Edward was holding the door open for me. I gave him his coat and whispered a goodbye.
"Goodnight," he replied. "I'll see you when I can." We stared at each other for a short while, and I was very tempted to reach up, kiss his cheek quickly and dart into my house. But I never. The corners of my lips twitched into a smile and I saw his do the same, and then he was in the car, pulling out of the driveway, sticking his head out of the window and waving as they raced down the street.
My heart was fluttering in my chest and I sighed, heading into my house. I thought about it over and over as I called a goodnight to Charlie who was sitting watching sports news. I was in a trance like state as I flicked off my light after climbing into bed. I said it clearly in my head, just to make sure I believed it. And I did.
I was falling in love with Edward Cullen.
A/N: hoorah. It's done. My computer froze up about five times and my cat was attacking the words when they popped up and then murdered my hands. They're all scratched up. Thank y'all for the reviews! They make me mucho happy now I'm going to start writing the fourth one. I should have a lot of this updated by the time the weekend is over. There's a certain part in the story that I very muchly want to write, It's all planned in my head. Changes of point of views and lyrics and all that jazz ..
And the outfits Bella wore are in my profile. I found the pictures of them and then I realised I did a crappy job discribing.
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