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Chapter 4 - Dinner
(EPOV)
Isabella Swan. She liked to go by the name of Bella. When she first walked in here, the first thing I noticed were those beautiful chocolate colored eyes. Her eyes were practically shinning with her excitement and yet nervousness at being here. Her long brown hair cascaded down her back in waves. It reached about mid back. It seemed as if she lit up the whole room with her presence. The moment she spoke, I felt like it was an angel's voice speaking to me. I could be a happy person just listening to her voice all day along.
At first when my parents told me she was coming to live with us for a year, I did not know what to think. I was somewhat reluctant that we had to have somebody come here and stay with us. However, once I saw who it was my opinion quickly changed. This was probably one of the best things that could have happened. I was happy at that fact that I had a whole year to get to know Bella. Since us, both live in different countries it would be great to see what the United States was like.
I was soon brought out of my train of thoughts when my mother said something. "Isn't seeing just lovely. I mean she just seems like a lovely person." Esme said. "Indeed she is." Carlisle agreed. I could only nod my head. "Now Edward, I want you to take care of Bella tomorrow at school. Show her around and make sure she feels welcomed." Esme told me. "I will mother. Don't worry about that." I replied to her. She had a smile on her face at my comment. "If you two will excuse me. I am going to go to my room now." I told them as I got up to leave. "Oh yes. Bella is going to be staying three doors down from you." Carlisle informed me. I turned to him and nodded my head a then left my mother and father sitting in the living room.
Once I walked out of their I smiled to myself knowing that she was going to be that much closer to me. When my father told me that it made me happy inside to know this. Something inside of me to stir and I was not sure what that was yet. However, I could not deny the fact that I wanted to find out what this new emotion was. Now I was resolved on getting to know Bella better. Therefore, it all starts with dinner. I thought to myself as I entered in my room and closed the door behind me. Thinking of the chocolate eye colored girl three doors down from me.
(Bella POV)
After Alice left, I went to my new coach and sat down on it. I then took out my purse and grabbed out my cell phone. Charlie had given me this cell phone a week before I had came here. He claims that we needed a way to communicate and so that was why he got me a cell phone. I told him that it was unnecessary to have spent all that money on me, but he had insisted. So here, I was with a cell phone in my hand. I flipped my phone opened and checked what time it was. It was 7:30 at night here. Therefore, this meant that it was 8:00 in the morning in forks that meant he should be awake and at work. I hit speed dial number one. (Riiiiiinnnggg, riiiiiiinnnggg). Somebody picked up the phone.
"Forks Police Station. How many I help you?" My dad's voice rang from the other line. "Hey dad. It is Bella." I told him. "Oh Bella. How are you this morning?" Charlie asked me. "Well it is night here dad. I was just telling you that I had arrived here already and am at the Cullen's house." I informed him. "I see. So how is the Cullen?" My dad was asking. "They are great and have been nothing, but nice to me since I got here." I told him. "That is great Bells. Listen I have to go, but call me very soon. I love you." Charlie said to me. "Oh. Okay. I will call you soon then. I love you too. Bye dad." I replied to him. "Bye Bella." Then the other line went dead as he had hung up the phone. I closed my cell phone and sat it on the table in front of me.
I lay down on the coach and stared at the ceiling. I did not know what to do now. Dinner was going to be ready in about 25 minutes and I had nothing to do. At first, I wanted to turn on the television to watch that, but it just did not appeal to me to do that. So then, I got the idea of going to Alice's room. She was going to come for me in a few minutes any ways. I might as well go upstairs and see her room while I am at it. If my room was like this then I did not want to know, what her room would look like or what her closet held. With that last thought, I sat up from the coach, headed out of my room, and took a left to where the stairs were that we came from. I walked down the hall and climb up the stairs to the fourth floor. Then I counted down the doors to the third one on the right. The door was closed so I knocked on the door twice. I stood out there to list to the voice. Then the door was opening to reveal Alice.
"Hey Bella. I did not expect to see you so soon." Alice was surprised, but was also happy to see me here. "I… uh…I got bored sitting in my room and you were coming down later any ways. Therefore, I thought I would pay a visit to you instead. I hope you do not mind." I bit my lip worriedly to what she would say. "No it is fine. Come in and make yourself comfortable." She moved away from the door and let me in to her room. I took some steps in to her room and noticed that it was very similar to mine room.
Alice had a huge bed that also sat in the middle of her room. She had pink colored comforters instead of my blue ones. Then she had some windows around the far wall. Beside her bed were two nightstands and to the right it held her clock on it. The dresser was to the right side of the wall and she had two of those. Then there was a huge vanity table that was filled with all sorts of products that went from hair to make-up to hair accessories. Then her closet was to the right side of the room while the bathroom was to the left side of them. The wall was still a peach color. Then a plasma television was in on the side of the dressers. They were on the other side of the door near the closet. She had a coach that sat near the wall. She had a table with chairs off to the side near the widows.
"I like the way your room is arranged. It is so much like mines." I said in awe. "Yup. That was how we had come up with each room. It is the same, but we just have a different arrangement in some things, but everything else is the same." Alice pulled my hand and she led me to her bed where I sat with her.
"Bella we need to go shopping sometime soon. It will be so much fun." Alice told me. "Alice I do not shop." I was telling her. "Come on Bella. Please. I promise you will have a great time. Please." She was pleading with me. "Alice. You people have already bought me clothes to last a lifetime. I really do not need any more clothes to wear." I was trying to reason with her. "First off you can never have too many clothes. Second clothes are meant to be bought. Trust me when I say you will have a great time. Please Bell. Please." She was pleading again and now she had a puppy dog look to her face with the big round eyes and the pouting lips. I gave a sign. "Fine! I will go shopping with you." I flopped down on the bed. "Thanks Bella! I promise you will have a great time. I have to talk to Rosalie and tell her what we are doing." Alice was rambling on and on. "Wait. Who is Rosalie?" I asked curious about who she was. "She is one of my best friends. You will meet her tomorrow when we go to school tomorrow and along with all our other friends." She informed me. Great. Tomorrow was school. How could I have forgotten that? The thought of school made me nervous. I was in a new country and with a completely different lifestyle. What was going to happen during school? I was rambling on in my head about all of these different scenarios about school. I was starting to worry about everything before it even happens. Therefore, I took a calming breath in and let it out slowly. I was not going to worry about that right now. Tonight was going to be time for me to get to know the Cullen an then when I was a lone I could break down about tomorrow.
As I thought this, there was suddenly a knock on the door. "Come in." Alice said to who ever was behind the door. The door opened to revile a servant there. He was wearing formal clothes. This consisted of a button down white shirt and dress pants. Not too formal, but still with a professional out look to it. "Dinner is served Miss Alice and Miss Bella.," he informed us. "Thank you Dante. We will be on our way in a few." Alice stated. Dante did not say another word and left her room. Closing the door behind him. I turned from the door to look at Alice. "Who was that?" I asked with curiosity. Since I still did not know who was who in this house. Moreover, there was so many people here that I just wanted to make sure I knew who they were. I probably will not know them all by name just yet. However, I could learn each one at a time. "Dante is one of our servants here. He is mostly Edward's personal servant. We all have one and you should be meeting your servant tomorrow morning." Alice told me. "I have a personal servant?" I asked her confused. "Yes you do. Like everybody else here." She told me as she got off the bed. "Now let us go to dinner." She said as she walked toward the bed. "Alright." I replied, as I could not think of anything else to say. I was kind of in shock that I was going to have a servant period. This was definitely going to be a different experience for me. Alice led me through the house. We walked the way that I came up here from. Then we walked passed the room that we met in and down the hall to where the dinning room was.
The dinning room had a long table in the center. There were at least fifteen chairs sitting around the table. The first five chairs where set. When you looked up a chandler glittered and shined. The room was painted a sort of peach colored. Everything was quite and subtle. We walked to the table where Carlisle sat at the head of the table. Esme sat to the right of him. Then Edward sat to the left of him. "You are going to sit beside Edward." Alice said as she walked away to take her seat near Esme. Great. Not only is my room down the hall form him, but I now have to sit next to him everyday during dinner too. This is turning out to be a great day. Why am I freaking out? There is nothing to be worrying about. Now I am rambling on and on.
I walked over to Edward's side and him being a gentleman got up and pulled my chair out for me. I sat in my seat and he then took his. "Thank you." I said to him. Staring in to his emerald green eyes. "You're welcome." He said to me and gave me a smile. I took a few more seconds to look at him before I turned away from him and to the rest of the family. The food was brought out a few minutes later.
"Bella, how do you like your room?" Esme asked me. "Oh. The room was fabulous. I honestly could not have asked for a better one. Everything was just perfect." I told her. "I am glad you like it. If you didn't like it we could always have it rearranged and changed out for you." Esme said to me. "Oh no! That will not be necessary. Really. I love it. It is absolutely perfect." I reassured her quickly. "If you say so Bella." She said kindly. "So Bella, tell us about your home back in Forks. How is it over there?" Carlisle asked me.
"Forks was a small place. Everybody knew each other there. They all grew up there from toddlers to adults. So no secrets are kept a secret for long. It is always in a constant state of rain. Hardly ever see the sun." I told them the truth. Nobody could keep secrets in a town that small. Which meant everybody was in your business. It did get annoying at times, but there really was not anything you could do about it. "I see Bella. That is interesting. Coming here must be a being change for you then." Carlisle said. "Yes, it really is. I mean everything here is different. So I can't wait to see everything that there is to see here." I told him happily. "We can go sight seeing sometime Bella." Alice said. "Yes. We could make a weekend trip and go see some places around here. I am sure you would love it." Edward said in that silky voice that absolutely left me breathless. "S-sure. That would be great." I stammered on my words since he was closer now. I could smell him now. A smell that was all on his own his. I could not pin point exactly what it was because he soon drew away, but a faint smell still lingered. The rest of the dinner went in about the same fashion. Where they would ask some questions about my home and things of that nature. While I in turn would ask about England and things of that nature. I was really starting to feel comfortable here with them. Even though I had only been here for some hours, I felt right at home. They did not make anything awkward between us and I like that.
After about an hour of dinner. The last of the dishes were taken away from the table. "Dinner was lovely." I told them. "Were glad you liked it Bella." Esme told me. "Well your father and I have other business to attend to. So we are going to go. If we do not see you guys until tomorrow then good night you three. Remember you guys have school in the morning." Esme told us as she got up. Carlisle did the same thing. "Good night you three. Make sure to make Bella feel at home now." Carlisle looked at his two children. "Yes father." They both said in unison. "Good night Esme, Carlisle." I said to them. With one, last good night they left the dinning room.
It was now just the three of us in the dinning room. When all of a sudden a cell phone went off. Alice pulled out her cell phone. She looked at the screen and her face lit up. "It's Jasper." Alice Screeched. "Jasper?" I asked confused here. "Jasper is my boyfriend. Sorry Bella, I need to take this. I will make it up to you in the morning though." Alice said to me. "Don't worry about it Alice." I replied to her. "In the mean time though, Edward can give you a tour of the house. All right? Great! Night you guys!" Alice did not even wait for our reply before she rushed off. I turned to Edward, who was staring at me. We both let out a few chuckles.
"Is she always this energetic?" I asked Edward. "You have no idea. She is like a ball of energy. No matter what time of the day it is." He replied to me. I just nodded my head thoughtfully. "Do you want a tour of the house?" Edward asked me. "I would love that." I told him. He led the way out of the dinning room.
We were walking down the hall in silence. As I was once again looking at all the pictures on the wall. "How many rooms are there exactly?" I was curious to know this. I mean from the out outside it seemed huge. I just wanted an exact answer on how huge, huge was. Edward thought for a second before answering me. "There are about eighty rooms in this house." He told me. I stopped for a second and my jaw dropped. He stopped to look at me. My face must have looked ridiculous because he chuckled. Edward then took his hand and put in under my chin to close my mouth. He whispered in to my ear, "You might want to close your mouth before you catch something in there." His voice sent a shiver down my spine. I just stared at him since he was inches away from my face. He made no move-to-move back. He leaned forward a bit and I moved back. In the end, I pulled my face back. A light blush falling over my face. I was not ready for anything yet. I did not know him like that yet. I wanted to get to know him before anything got to serious or out of hand here. I cleared my throat. "Umm…. So about that tour." I reminded him. Edward just looked at me for a few more seconds before he nodded his head. We were back on to touring the house.
We were once again walking down the hall. The air between us seemed to be a bit tense for that one moment of what could have happened between us. I mean I felt like I was ready to kiss him. That scared me a little since I did not know anything about him. Besides the fact that he was a Greek God, gorgeous eyes and a masculine scent all on his own. Just thinking about his body was making me wet. Who wouldn't want him? I shook my head at the thoughts that I was having. Of course, at that moment I had to blush.
"What are you thinking that is making you blush?" Edward asked me. I had not notice that he was staring at me. I was so lost in thought. "I-I…… its nothing." I stammered. Hoping he would drop the subject. No such luck there. "You had to be thinking of something Bella. Please tell me." Edward said in a husky voice. Hear him talk like that almost made me give in to the temptation. I just shook my head no vigorously. "Please Bella? Please?" He asked again. While I made the mistake of looking into his eyes. He was dazzling me with that smile of his. "Stop that." I mumbled to myself. Just not, low enough though because he heard me. "Stop what?" Edward asked cocking his head to the side. "You dazzle people." I told him honestly. "I do. Do I dazzle you Isabella?" Edward had a crooked smile on his face. This was the first time he used my name. "More than you know." I quietly said to him. I saw his smile widen before I turned away to continue the tour. He caught up to me a few minutes later.
As we went to the rooms, it was a very beautiful house. Everything from the kitchen to the living room to the dinning room was simply unique in its own way. He showed me all there was on the first floor. There was a ballroom in the house that I was not expecting at all. Yet it was huge in its own way. Edward told me that parties were held here. Things such as the winter ball that they had every year. Along with the annual ball, that Esme held herself. Most occasions that you could think of were done in here. In addition, birthday parties for the kids too. So it was understandable to have this ballroom. Next, we descended down the stairs and into the basement. I mean what could be there, right? Well let us just say the Cullen has had there own home movie theater along with a bowling alley of sorts here. They also had every gaming system you can name of here. Most of the time Alice and Edward had a movie day every Friday. It was apparently a tradition of there. After looking around for a little while more we went back up stairs and in to the third floor where Edward and I stayed.
"Thank you Edward for the tour. The house is very lovely. I guess I am going to retire for the night. Since tomorrow is going to be school and I just had a long flight here." I told him as I let out a yawn. "Oh we aren't done yet." Edward informed me. "We aren't?" I asked confused. "Nope. We have one more room to go." He told me. "Oh okay." I said. Edward turned on his heel, went down the hall, and took a left. We were in another hallway where it leads to a double door. Edward took the handles and opened it up. I followed him in. Inside was like a huge library. I light out small gasp. The room was filled with books. There were at least seven floors to ceiling bookcases. Most of them filled with books. While one side had a fireplace and couches around it. There was also a table off to the side with chairs around it. "Edward. This is amazing." I told him in awe. "I know. My parents love to read and I do the occasional reading here and there too." He told me. I just nodded my head as I let my head wrap around this. "This is a place I like to go to when I want to clear my head." He told me. "I know exactly what you mean. Sometimes you just want to get away and be able to just think." I responded. "Yes. Well the books here are for you to use if you need. Also if you just want to spend some time alone then feel free to us it." He said to me. "Thank you. This is awesome." I told him. We stood there for a few more minutes before I decided it was time to retire for the night. Edward walked me back to my room. "Good night Edward. Thanks for the tour again. I really appreciate it." I said to him. "It was my pleasure. Sweet dreams Bella. Good night." He said to me as he retreated to his own room. The moment he went in to his room, I did the same. I turned on the lights, went in to the closet, and looked for my sleeping clothes. When I went in there all my clothes were unpacked and hanging on the rack nicely. I put on some black shorts and a purple t-shirt. Then turned off the lights and slipped in to bed. I was asleep instantly my thoughts and dreams filled with the green-eyed god.
Whew! Another chapter done in this story! I hope you all like it so far. Well the next chapter is about to be Bella's first official day at Langton Private High School. How will her first day with all the riches be?
Preview:
"Listen Belle. Stay away from Edward. Just because you live with him now does not mean anything. In fact don't even talk to him. Cross me and your stay here will be a living hell." Tanya threatened me. She did not wait for a reply as she walked off in her five-inch heels.
