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Chapter 4
"No Edward this really is not going to work" I said stubbornly as I shook my head. "Oh come on Bella, you can't be serious. Think about it" he pleaded. "No Edward, we tried but it's not working. I'm sorry" I said as I pushed him away.
"It's not fair Bella. You and I can both cook in the same kitchen" he said as he held on to the door and then looked at me with a smile "by the way you're pretty strong for a woman but also very stubborn."
"Edward the last time you and I cooked together our food burned, and the time before that you dropped the pasta sauce. Please you just go inside and let me work in the kitchen because only then we will have real food," I said with a sigh
He looked at me with a smirk "Okay I may not be good at cooking but believe me there are things I am good at," I looked at him in shock "Edward Cullen how dare you!" I said in disbelief all the while blushing.
"If it's not true then why are you still holding on to me?" he said still smirking which caused me to push him harder "You are one crazy man and just so you know I'm just holding on to you so I can get you out of the kitchen" I said knowing that I wasn't making sense with whatever I was saying.
Finally I got him out of the kitchen but found it hard to take my hands of his shoulders. After all he did have an amazing body to which I wanted to do unimaginable things. Those thoughts made me blush harder and of course he noticed that.
"Thinking naughty about me Doctor Swan?" he asked in a sexy voice but I wouldn't let him get the upper hand so I decided to play it of "Please when there are people like Julian McMahon and Brad Pitt, why would I think naughty of you" I said waving him away.
He walked to me with this devilish but sexy look on his face and then whispered "Because I'm way sexier and hotter than them," he said his hot breath all over my face. Suddenly something else took my attention away "Hey what's that smell?"
He looked away with a frown which got me to clear my head, and that's how I remembered that there still was chicken in the oven "Shit, the chicken!" I yelled as I ran to the oven. I took the chicken out but it didn't look edible anymore. I huffed angrily and glared at Edward, who was laughing so hard that he had to hold on to the encounter.
"I hate you" I said still glaring at him, he just kept laughing. "Fine! You just starve tonight," I said as I walked out of the kitchen. He followed me still laughing lightly. "I promise the next time I won't interfere between you and your cooking" he said sincerely but unable to hold his grin away.
To be honest I wasn't really mad at him, I just wanted him to think I was mad at him. After some while he thought I was really mad and started begging for me to forgive him "Bella, I promise that from now on I will stay out of the kitchen. Please don't be mad at me. Please, please, please, please" he pouted.
"Well if you promise to always eat my food, and afterwards compliment my cooking and then clean the table, I forgive you" I said teasingly but sounding absolutely serious. He nodded enthusiastically "I promise"
I laughed at his enthusiasm and walked to the kitchen to see if there was a part of the chicken that was edible. Fortunately only the outside was burned so I cut that of and put the chicken together with some potatoes on the table. After that I called Edward to come eat.
We had a nice dinner with small talk and some lazy jokes from Edward, but it were moments like this that I loved the most. After Edward cleaned the table and washed the dishes –after a huge discussion that I shouldn't do it because I had done already so much, I of course disagreed but yeah he won-we went inside and decided to watch some TV.
Suddenly the rain caught my eye. It was raining so hard outside and if there is one thing that I absolutely love, it is hard rain. I stood up and took Edwards hand "Do you trust me?" I said as I walked to the door. "Sometimes," he said teasingly.
I opened the door and started walking outside when Edward stopped me "Um Bella, what are you doing? It's raining" he said as if it wasn't obvious "No really?" I responded sarcastically. He looked at me with raised eyebrows probably trying to figure what was going through my head.
I let go of his hand and ran into the rain. I loved the feeling of the hard droplets on my skin. They were hard, cold but so free. It made me feel free. I started to swirl with a big smile on my face and my eyes closed "Bella come back! Are you crazy?" Edward yelled from inside.
"No, you come! This is life, believe me" I yelled back still swirling around. "Bella, please for my sake come inside. You will get sick" he said in a rushed voice. I stopped to look at him and sighed. It put my hands on my hip and raised my eyebrows. After a while he started to look uncomfortable "Stop looking like that, you're making me feel uncomfortable" he mumbled.
"Then get here," I yelled but then added in a soft voice "please for me? You'll really enjoy this". "I have definitely lost my mind" he muttered but then joined me. I took hold of his hand and started to swirl with him, or actually I tried to that but he still wouldn't budge.
I again stopped to look at him and saw him looking at me with this strange look in his eyes that I just couldn't describe. I sighed and put my hand over his eyes "What are you doing?" he asked surprised but didn't push my hand away, he just kept still. "Sssh, be quiet and trust me" I said as I hushed him, he nodded silently "Now just enjoy. Feel free and let the rain take you away" I said in a whisper as I closed my own eyes.
I took my hand of his eyes but kept my eyes closed. After some silence I heard Edward breathing heavily so I opened my eyes and looked at him, he was again looking at me with that strange look "What is it?" I whispered, "Bella I…" he started and I don't know why but I got the feeling that he wanted to tell something very important.
"Bella I'm freezing" he continued with a laugh. I chuckled slightly but still wondered if that was what he really wanted to stay. I took his hand and led him inside "What now?" he asked as I closed the door. I looked at him and smiled at his eagerness "Now you go take a hot shower, your body will feel like it's on fire. It's amazing," I explained enthusiastically probably because of the images of Edward standing in a shower, naked. I shook my head to clear my head.
Edward put his hand on my forehead and then took it away "Strange" he said with a frown. "What?" I asked curiously, "You don't have a fever" he joked. I pushed him away and walked upstairs "Jerk" I muttered on my way up. All I got as a response was a laugh.
After taking a shower I got dressed and was leaving my room when suddenly my phone went off. Strange because no one would call me at this hour. The screen read 'chief' which putted a big smile on my face. I answered immediately "Chief!" he chuckled at my enthusiasm "Hello Bella, it's nice to know that you're happy to have a call from me"
"Of course chief, I'm always happy to talk to you" I said and it was true because to me he was more like a father than a boss. "Well instead of talking on the phone we could talk face to face" he told me.
"I don't understand what you're trying to say chief," I answered with confusion, "What I'm trying to say is that you have been in Iran for a while so I was thinking that you could come home for a couple weeks. We have some volunteers who would love to stand in for you" he explained.
I didn't know what to think about it. It was a great opportunity to see some friends and maybe even my parents, but did I really want to leave Edward? I hated the idea of leaving him but still "Chief, I don't know, I mean I love it here" I said still confused about it. "Don't decide now honey, take your time. Call me when you've made a decision" I was happy that he was giving me that chance.
"Thanks chief," I said as thoughts of leaving and staying swirled in my head. "You're welcome and Bella?" "Yeah" I said softly. "Please think about it" he said, worry clear in his voice. "I will" I answered honestly and then we both said goodbye and hung up.
I sighed and decided to ask what Edward thought of it.
When I walked to Edwards room I was thinking how I would approach the situation. I opened the door and froze when I saw a naked Edward standing in front of his closet. I put my hands in front of my eyes and started rambling, because that's what I do when I'm nervous.
"Oh my god, I'm so sorry! I really didn't see anything" except for your perfect butt I thought but decided to keep that to myself "I just came in to ask you something and forgot to knock and then suddenly you're there standing in your birth costume. I'm really sorry, I should have knocked. Oh god, this is so embarrassing."
Suddenly my hands were taken away from my eyes by his hand but I didn't dare to open my eyes. He chuckled and then said that I could open my eyes. "But you…no clothes…I" I didn't know what to say and on top of that I was stuttering like a schoolgirl who had a crush on her hot history teacher.
"Hot history teacher?" he asked amused. Shit that meant I had said that out loud. "Well there was this teacher in ninth grade who was really hot" I said but had no idea why I was telling him that. I had embarrassed myself enough already.
He started laughing which annoyed me to no end. "I'm leaving" I said as I turned around. "Bella sorry, I was joking and I'm dressed now" he said quickly. I turned around slowly and opened only one eye. I looked him up and down and then let out breath of relief when I saw that he was fully dressed.
"Do I really look that bad?" Edward said sounding offended. "No, but I… I was…I…Ugh" I was going crazy because I didn't know what to do or what to say without embarrassing myself. He smiled at me "I was joking Bella" "Of course you were" I muttered under my breath but he somehow had heard it and smirked at me.
After watching some TV both Edward and I went to bed without discussing anything. We just forgot what had happened in his room and talked about different things. But I had totally forgotten what I really wanted to talk to him about.
The next day went smoothly at the hospital. There were no attacks and the patients were getting better and better.
Edward was getting better too, the more people got better the more I saw Edward smile. But it also scared me for the next attack because as much as I wished it wouldn't happen, those attacks always happened. We needed a miracle to stop it and that miracle was not called Bella or Edward, so we did the only thing we could. We healed them, or at least we tried.
That afternoon Angela invited me and Edward for dinner. She said that she wanted to have a great evening with us that would make her forget the last even that had happened in her house. Yep, that was not nice. We of course said yes and after work we immediately went to her house because we were absolutely starving.
"Make us some amazing food woman" Ben teased as he grabbed some beer out of the fridge and then kissed Angela on the cheek. I didn't even know he had beer. He gave one to me and Edward, Angela was pregnant so she was stuck with soda or juice.
Angela was making the food as I talked to Edward. She didn't want me working in her kitchen because she was scared I would cut myself again. I promised her I wouldn't but that woman was stubborn too so that left me to do nothing.
"You know yesterday was actually pretty nice. I had never done that before" Edward said and I knew that he was talking about us standing in the rain. "Yeah, me and my father used to do that a lot but my mother, Renee, would always get mad because as a child I got sick easily. And yes almost every time I did got sick but I still did it because it makes me feel free. After while god probably decided that sickness wasn't going to stop me from swirling in the rain so I didn't get sick anymore. Or at least not every time," I told as I remembered those good times.
"I have actually never heard you talking to your parents" Edward said with a frown. "I did," I quickly defended myself, "Oh yeah? When was the last time you talked to them?" I looked down guiltily and then mumbled "three months". "What was that?" Edward acted as though he didn't hear me.
"Ugh yeah, it's true okay. I haven't talked to them in three months" I was frustrated because he was right it was not the good thing to do on my behalf. "It's just I feel like they're better off without me" I said looking away from him.
"I don't understand why you would say that" Edward said confused. I sighed as I told him that my mother was only sixteen when she got me and that she had to give up everything because of me. "I was happy to be eighteen because as much as I loved travelling I wanted to settle down in a place of my own. They of course wanted to travel and who am I to stop them. They should be able to enjoy their life and if they didn't have me, things would have been way better for them."
"So you're actually saying that you're a mistake they made in their teenage years?" He asked as if he was trying to get the story straight. I nodded because I really thought that was true. "Bella that's insane" he scoffed which surprised me because he was calm through the entire story.
"I'm absolutely sure that they love you and miss you. They're your parents. Did they even really said that you were a mistake?" I frowned at that but shook my head "Well no but-" he cut me off before I could argue.
"You're not a mistake. You're their baby girl who has grown into this wonderful and beautiful woman," he said in a determinate voice and I don't know how but somehow I believed him. "You think I'm beautiful?" I asked him though that wasn't what this was about, but still.
"Yes I do. You're absolutely beautiful Bella" he said in a soft voice "And no buts!" he added strictly. But the only part I got of that was buts, or actually more like butts because I started laughing when I thought of what had happened in his room and I saw his butt.
"What are you laughing about?" Edward asked worried, probably for my sanity. "When you said no buts, I had to think of yesterday when I saw your butt," I explained and then blushed. "I thought you said that you didn't see anything" he said in disbelief. I shook my head still laughing, soon Edward joined me.
"What are you two laughing about?" Angela asked as she stirred the spaghetti sauce. "Nothing" I said and waved it off with a laugh. She shook her head and smiled at us.
Suddenly Edwards phone rang. He looked at the screen and said "It's Alice" and then went outside to talk.
"Who is Alice?" Angela asked probably thinking that it was his girlfriend. Hell even I would think that. I mean look at the man, he's one hot piece! "She's his little sister. Very sweet actually. I talked to her once and she really cares about Edward and she also misses him a lot." Angela nodded with understanding.
"Bella there is actually something I want to tell. Since Ben is watching TV and Edward is outside we have some time alone," Angela said as she came to stand next to me. "What is it?" I asked curiously because when Angela had something to tell it was definitely important.
"I told Ben about the pregnancy and he's really happy but-" Angela got cut off by Edward who walked in looking like he had seen a ghost. I ran immediately to his side and asked what was wrong.
He looked confused as if he didn't understand the question but then frowned and looked in me in the eyes "My parents…they had an accident" he whispered with pain in his voice.
Angela and I both gasped when we heard this. I didn't know what to say and just stared at him. "Is it bad?" Angela asked him when she knew I wouldn't be able to bring it out. All I wanted to do was to hold him and assure him that he would be fine. But I couldn't.
"It's actually pretty bad" Edward answered sounding lost. I snapped out of my lostness and hugged him. "Edward I'm so sorry" I whispered in his ear. He hugged me tightly but said nothing. "We should go home so you can pack and go to Portland" I said which caused him to pull back and look at me with hope.
"You wouldn't mind it if I went?" he said surprised which annoyed me. Was I heartless or something? "Of course I won't! Edward I would actually mind it if you didn't went" I said annoyed that he would think that "Of course I'm going to go but what about you?" he said with worry.
"I'll be fine Edward, you just go to your parents" I said softly. He nodded and then went to call the airlines to get a ticket.
He had an flight in two hours, so we went home quickly. He only took his passport and jacket "Aren't you going to take some clothes with you?" I asked as we sat on the porch in front of our house, we were waiting for the taxi the come.
"No, I have some clothes in my house at Portland" Edward said and I don't know why but I was happy that he didn't call it his home. I loved the fact that Edward thought this was our home. I smiled at him.
"I wish I could take you with me Bella. With you I feel like I can take on the world," he said as he looked at me with that strange look. Again! "Me too" I answered to both sentences.
When the taxi arrived we hugged each other and didn't let go for a while. "Promise to call me. I'm worried about them too" I said as I was still holding on to him.
"I'll call everyday" he answered as he kissed my cheek, not in a romantic way but in a supporting way. Edward was letting me know that he was here for me even though he wasn't.
I pulled back after a time and watched him walk to the taxi. He looked back at me once and then closed the door. When the car pulled away I suddenly got an idea.
I ran to my room to get my phone and called my chief. He answered after two rings.
"Chief it's me Bella. Can you send two volunteers here a.s.a.p.?"
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