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Chapter 3

BPOV

I quickly got dressed and grabbed my brush. "Bella, have you seen my purse?" Rose said as she walked through the open door. She gasped when she saw the handprints on the mirror. Hand prints that should not still be there as the hot steam was long gone but yet they still remained.

"What is that?" she asked cautiously. "Oh, it seems my visitor decided to come in." This wasn't completely unusual. It has happened before but most of the time they don't do things like this.

She shuttered slightly. "I think I saw your purse in the kitchen." I said as we walked out of the bathroom and down the hall. We sat down at the kitchen table. "Are you hungry? We could order pizza or something."

"Yeah that sounds good, I really didn't feel like going out tonight." Rose said flipping her phone open to check her messages. A disappointed look came across her face and I knew it had something to do with Royce."

"Do you want to talk about it?" I asked after I had ordered the pizza. "I'm not sure why I'm so upset, well I mean I know why I'm upset. It's because that asshat was cheating on me but strangely enough I think somewhere in the back of my mind I knew it wasn't right between us."

"Well if that's the case then it's better to have gotten out now, even though I'd like to rip his balls off for hurting you." Rose giggled a little. "I know your right, I just wish it didn't happen that way, I just feel like I'm going to be alone forever." I knew what she meant and while I went out on dates, they never got very far after I explained why I write books about the paranormal for a living.

"Well we can be alone together." I said getting up to get a drink. "You want something" I asked grabbing a glass from the cupboard. "Yeah, how about something stronger tonight though. Do you have any 'Jack'?"

"Yeah, um it's in the cupboard over the sink. I'll grab some coke." After we made our drinks we sat down in the living room waiting for the pizza to come. "Here's to us and having each other." Rose had lifted her glass up for a toast. "To us" I said as the door bell rang.

I got the pizza and sat down turning on the TV. We had just caught the last few seconds of the news. The TV flashed a number across the screen. 'If anyone has any information please contact your local police department.'

"You know Rose, you won't be alone forever, and you will find the right guy for you."

"I wish I had your confidence." She said quietly. "It's just not the right time yet, when it's meant to be it will happen." I tried cheering her up. "Well, I wish he'd hurry up and find me then. Just then the door bell rang for the second time this evening.

I got up to answer it. As I pulled it open I saw Renee and Phil standing there. "Baby, I've missed you." My mom shrieked as she grabbed me for a hug. "Mom, what are you guys doing here? I thought you would call first." I opened the door wider so she and Phil could come in.

"Well we decided to come in a night early and we were driving by on the way to the hotel." Phil hadn't said anything yet. "Do you remember Rosalie?" I said as she cleared away the pizza box from the coffee table. "Yes of course I do, how are you dear?"

"I'm fine, um how have you been Mrs. Dwyer?"

"Wonderful and please call me Renee, and this is my husband Phil." Rosalie shook his hand and said hello. Everyone sat down and the living room. It was slightly uncomfortable especially since Phil hadn't said anything yet.

"Bella, honey I need to use the bathroom, it was a long drive." She walked away and left the rest of us in silence. "So Phil how have you been?" I tried to make some conversation. "Good, and you?" well this will be a short one. "Good." Renee came around the corner a few minutes later. She had something in her hands.

"I hope you don't mind but I saw this in your room." Great, and so it begins.

"Is this the new book you've been working on?" Perfect mom; let's just get it over with.

"Um yeah, but it's not finished." I said trying to grab the papers back from her. "Still on the same kick huh sweetie. You know, you really should write romance novels, that's where the money is."

"I need a drink." Phil said suddenly standing up and headed for the kitchen. I heard the back door close. And Phil walked back out to us with a glass of water. "Girls, you really shouldn't leave the door hanging open like that. It's really not warm enough nor is it safe."

Rose and I just looked at each other. I knew the door hadn't been open, we were just in there a while ago and neither of us had opened it. She raised her eyebrow at me and I shook my head. Well, I had an idea of who opened it but I was about to say anything now.

"The door wasn't open when I was in there honey, maybe the wind blew it open." My mom said to Phil causing him to tense up immediately. "I shouldn't have to remind you to keep your doors locked Bella, your father being a policeman after all, you should know better."

I didn't have to say anything because Phil immediately announced it was time to go.

They left and Rose turned to me. "Phil's a real winner." She said sarcastically "And what was that about the back door?" "My guess is it was the same little boy." I didn't know if she would be upset or not so I tried to play it off as no big deal. I shrugged. "Is that pretty normal then?" she was curious and slightly nervous but didn't seem too worried.

"Well it's happened before. Usually I get people that either want to get a message across to someone or are just a little lost and need help crossing over." She had a thoughtful look on her face. "What do you think the little boy wants?" Good question. "Well, since he isn't talking I don't really know but maybe he's just confused, though I will say the whole dirt pouring from his mouth bothers me quite a bit. Maybe I will call in for a second opinion tomorrow." We both went to bed after that.

I had another nightmare that night. This was a new one though. This time I was in some wooded area and I had fallen into a deep hole. It was clear that someone had dug it. It was perfectly square and was about 5 feet by 5 feet. It was at least 6 feet deep as I couldn't see over the edge.

I heard someone moving around but I couldn't see anything. Then someone was shoveling dirt back into the hole. I was being buried. I woke up then but I couldn't catch my breath, it was like I was being suffocated. I grasped at my throat but I couldn't get any air in. The lights came on and Rosalie was standing in my bedroom doorway. "Are you okay?"

EPOV

"Edward, phone" Alice called from the other room. "Hello?" "Mr. Cullen, this is Jessica Newton I've made an appointment with the inspector for later this afternoon. You are not required to be there but you are welcome if you would like."

"I would like to be there, what time?" I looked at my watch it was just after 9:00am and I didn't have to be at work until late tonight. "2:30pm" "I'll be there, thanks Ms. Newton."

I decided to take a nap since I had just gotten off work a couple hours ago.

"I'm going to work Edward; will you be here for dinner?" Alice asked. "I'll be back by then, the house inspector will be meeting me at 2:30 and that shouldn't take too long."

"Okay, Jasper will be here for dinner too." She grabbed her purse and keys and was out the door. "Have a good day Ali" I called before I went to lie down. I woke up at 2:00 and drove over to the house. My house. "Hi, I'm Sam Uley I'm the home inspector. Are you Edward Cullen?"

"Yes, nice to meet you Mr. Uley." I shook his hand. "I'm going to go ahead and get started it will probably be an hour or two. Then I will be able to give you my full report."

"Thank you, I will be around I'm going to check out the area." I said and he went to work. Jessica pulled up then. "Mr. Cullen, glad you could make it, have you met Sam?" she asked looking around.

"Yes, he's already gotten started." She turned and looked towards the house. "I'm going to let Sam know I'm here and I will meet up with you later." She smiled.

I started in the back yard. It was mostly fenced in but near the back corner it looked like some wood had rotted out. It looked like there was a gate there at one time and there was a small opening. I was able to squeeze through. It led to a wooded area. Not quite a forest since we were in a residential area but maybe a small park, there were fir trees and it looked like an overgrown path. I started to follow it but it didn't go anywhere. I decided to head back since I wasn't sure whose property this was.

I met Jessica in front. "Do you know whose property is out behind the fence?" I asked. "I don't think anyone. At one time all this land belonged to the owner of your house. Then they started selling off pieces of it here and there. I think technically the city owns it but there isn't much that can be done with it now. It's not sufficient to build on and I believe that there was a small lake or stream there at one time which is probably why it didn't get sold in the first place."

Sam walked over to us at the point. "Well, everything looks really good; you may want to get the wiring and plumbing re-done. It's not in too bad of shape but it is pretty old and you may run into problems down the line. The fence needs to be repaired but other than that the house is in good shape."

I thanked Sam as he left and Jessica assured me that she could negotiate with the old owners to either pay for the electrical and plumbing or lower the price of the house to cover those costs.

I wasn't about to argue there. I still had some remodeling I wanted to do and I was all for not having to pay for anything I didn't need to.

When I got back to Alice's she and Jasper were just pulling up. "How did it go?" Alice asked as we all walked inside. "Great actually, the only trouble was the wiring and plumbing but Mrs. Newton was pretty sure she could get the old owners to pay for it."

The three of us sat down to dinner. "Alice told me that you were planning to do some of the remodeling on your own?" Jasper asked. "I was thinking about it. I will hire a contractor for the stuff I can't do but I will take on the smaller projects myself."

"If you need any work done on your house Edward I wouldn't mind helping out." Jasper offered. "Thanks Jasper, that's really nice." He really was a cool guy. "Jasper is really good at crown molding. He did my whole house." Alice beamed.

I looked around, it looked great. He obviously knows what he is doing. "Wow, you did a great job on this, I would love to have that done at my house. I'll pay you." I added.

"No payment necessary, that's what friends are for." I nodded in agreement. "We could have everyone over to help out, you know mom would love any excuse to see you Edward and dad and Em could come down. It will be some much fun."

Jessica got the details of the sale worked out and I was now a home owner. The first thing I did was have the electrician and plumber out. I wanted to get that out of the way. At the same time I hired a contractor for a few jobs. It was an older home with only one bathroom. And with the closet in my room practically as big as the bedroom, I decided to add a bathroom there and I still had a good sized closet. I also had the contractor refinish the hardwood floors. The rest I would do on my own.

I had a pretty hectic schedule for the next couple weeks but then it calmed down and I actually had a full weekend off. It was actually a 3 day weekend so everyone decided that that would be a good time to do some of the smaller projects and get everything moved in.

The contractor was finished with the re-wiring and the plumbing as well as most of the new bathroom. And I was ready to move into my new house. Mom, Dad and Em drove out Thursday after work and got into town around 8:00pm we all went out to dinner and went to bed after that.

Friday morning we started early. We got to the house and got right to work. Jasper got started on the molding with dad. Emmett was outside fixing the fence. Alice and Esme were painting. And I was replacing a couple of door knobs. I started on the one in the coat closet.

I unscrewed the screws to take off the old door knob; I put the screwdriver down while I put the new knob on. I reached back over for my screwdriver but it wasn't there. I felt around but with no luck. I stood up and looked around. "Dad, did you take the screwdriver?" he was in the next room.

"No" hmmm. "Are you sure?" where did it go? "Yes Edward, I'm pretty sure I'm not senile yet." I laughed at him and went to get another one. I got back to my closet and went to work again. I sat cross-legged and set my new screwdriver down in-between my legs so I wouldn't misplace this one. I was having trouble getting the new door knob in but I finally got it. I reached down to get the screwdriver again only to find two of them. Maybe I'm the one going senile.

We all were working hard for the next few hours and decided on a break. Alice and mom went to pick sub sandwiches for us. "I think I could eat 10 of these I'm so hungry." Emmett said as he went to grab a sandwich. "I know this is hard work, but we're making a lot of progress." Dad agreed with him.

Our goal was to get all the painting done today so we could get the furniture moved in as soon as possible. I still planned on a lot of work in the kitchen but I could take my time with that. After sitting around for a while it was time to go back to work. "Oh no" I heard Alice from upstairs.

"What's up Ali?" I went upstairs to check it out. There was a whole can of paint spilled out across the floor. "We weren't even in this room yet." She said not looking at me.

"Its okay, the tarps were already down, it didn't get on the floor." I told her, she looked really upset by it.

We cleaned it up and it was no big deal really, more of a pain in the ass. We got finished with what we could and everyone was ready to be done for the day. "Let's get cleaned up and head out to dinner. What does everyone feel like?" The vote was 4 to 2 in favor of Chinese food.

I locked up and on my way back to Ali's I stopped off to get more paint for the guest room. We all crashed early again and didn't get up quite so early the next day.

The guys moved all the furniture in while the girls cleaned the whole house. I got a jump start on the kitchen but I wasn't in a hurry. I could take time on it.

The rest of the weekend went off without a hitch. Sunday Mom, Dad, and Em drove home and it was the first night I was going to spend in my new home. Monday I went back to work and I had another grueling schedule for the next two weeks but I was rewarded with 4 days off in a row after that.

I had been so tired from working so much I was looking forward to doing nothing for a couple days. Alice and Jasper were planning on coming over that night. We had take out again. I still wasn't quite finished in the kitchen and didn't really feel like cooking. We were all sitting in the living room when Alice sat up straight. "Did you hear that?"

I hadn't heard a thing. And neither did Jasper. "What did you hear Alice?" she looked perplexed. "I don't know, it sounded like the toilet flushing." We dismissed it at that point while we continued to eat until she heard it again. "You guys didn't hear that?"

"No Ali, but I'll go check it out."

I went upstairs and checked both bathrooms. I didn't find anything so I came back downstairs. "Everything seemed fine but I'll call the contractor in the morning, maybe they didn't get it installed correctly. I'll just have them send someone back out."

I made the call in the morning and someone was out by that afternoon. "I've checked everything Mr. Cullen, there doesn't seem to be anything wrong with either of them."

I sighed, as long as it was taken care of and I wouldn't need to call them back out.

"Thanks for coming out." I said as I walked him to the door.