Chapter 3
EPOV
I watched her sleep, she always looked so peaceful when she slept, I couldn't believe I could be so lucky, someone as wonderful as Bella, wanted to spend her life with me, I wanted the whole entire world to know, why was she so secretive. I assumed that everyone knew how serious our relationship was, we were living together, people would have to notice.
"Good morning Eddie." She greeted me, suddenly all my doubts disappeared, and I was glad they did, I needed to focus on being happy with Bella, whether people knew about our relationship or not.
"Good morning Belly-boo, what would you like for breakfast, I will cook anything you like." I was quite a wiz in the kitchen; Bella on the other hand could not cook for love nor money. So I assumed the role as chef in the household. "Hmmm, tough choice, do you have a breakfast menu I could look at?"
"No sorry, I was just going to whip one up today so you could have it to refer to in the future." She laughed that sweet, innocent laugh that anyone would have thought would have belonged to a five-year-old. "OK, well since you do not have a menu available, I will have whatever you're having, surprise me!" I gave her a little peck on the cheek and jumped out of bed and headed towards the door. "You just stay put and relax until I come and get you Miss Bella."
"Alright." She looked at me with adoring eyes, I loved those eyes. As I was walking down the hallway I was racking my brain for what I was going to make Bella for breakfast. Then it happened, my clumsiness had finally returned, I turned to go down the stairs too early and fell down the 17 steps in our house. At the bottom I rammed straight into the wall, I wasn't hurt but... oh no.
"Edward! Are you OK?" Bella had heard me fall and had rushed out of the bedroom to check I was OK. "Yeah, I'm alright." Then it left, all the sympathy she had for my clumsiness gone! She burst out laughing, her laugh was in fact funnier than the fact that I had just fall down the stairs and whacked into a wall. "Are you sure you can cook, why don't we just go to a cafe and have breakfast in the park?"
"Wouldn't that show us as having a close relationship? People would wander why we are up so early having breakfast together." I accused. I upset her, obviously, she got up and left back to the bedroom, I heard the slam of the door as she shut it. There, I've done it once again, upset her. Why couldn't she just tell me what the problem was? It was starting to get really irritating.
I got up, too quickly, my head started to spin at an extremely fast pace and next thing I knew I was on the floor again! This time, Bella didn't rush to my aid. I took my time getting up this time, slow and steady I made my way to the kitchen to make Bella some pancakes. I was not really in the mood to make the pancakes from scratch so I got out the pancake shaker mix, added some water and shook away. Within ten minutes I had two big pancakes for Bella and two for me, with a side of fresh fruit salad ready to take upstairs.
I entered the bedroom carefully; worried that Bella may still be upset with me. She looked like she had been crying, but quickly smiled at me; she hated making me think I had upset her. But I already knew I had. "Bells, I'm really sorry." I placed the tray of food on the bedside table, and slid into the bed next to her, pulling her tightly against my chest. "It's OK Edward, I just...I just want our relationship to stay between us, alright?" She must have had another reason, but I wasn't going to upset her any more today. "Yeah, sure." She reached up to my face and turned my head so my lips met hers, short but sweet.
"Now, your breakfast Miss. I have prepared some pancakes, with a fresh fruit salad and an orange juice as well." I said handing her her breakfast. I placed my breakfast on my lap and reached over for the television remote to turn the TV on. "Breaking News, Mike Newton, a man, aged in his 20's has been found dead in his Phoenix home, he appears to have suffered a serious amount of blood loss from an unknown cause. The police are treating the case as suspicious."
Bella froze, and then broke down. Mike had been one of her very close friends since the first day of school in Phoenix, he had always been there for her even though she never really needed him, he always seemed interested in Bella. I moved my breakfast off my lap and took hers as well, I leant over and held her tight, she was crying really hard, I had never really seen her cry this hard before.
"He was such a good person and I just blew him off! I should have at least let him be a close friend, or kept in contact with him after we left school. I feel so terrible!" She collapsed in my lap and continued to cry.
We spent the rest of the day in bed, doing nothing, but share stories about Mike, how desperate he was to be with Bella, how blind he was to not see that every girl in school wanted to be with him. I got a couple of laughs out of Bella, but when the stories stopped for a short moment, she broke down again and continued crying.
