A/N: Here's a super-duper double length chapter, because I had so much stuff to fit in! :D
Important authors note at the bottom! :D
Edward:
"What have I done to make you hate me so much?" Bella asked, looking angry at me. She had every right to. This morning, outside her house when I was holding her to me, I realised I liked her more than my friend. Then, I decided to distance myself from her, so as to try and stop her from becoming my mate. Alice was pretty angry at me, saying how she said I shouldn't fight this, but I didn't listen.
I felt bad for making Bella have to struggle with her crutches on her own, and then I was just angry at myself for distancing myself from her. Part of me wanted to get closer to her, just let her be my mate, but another part said it would be safer if she wasn't my mate, because we don't know how much she knows about our family.
"I don't hate you." I said pathetically. I honestly didn't hate her, if anything; I hated myself for being an idiot.
"Well you're sure as hell acting like it! What have I done, Edward? Was it when I brushed my hand against yours this morning?" Bella asked angrily. Wait, the hand thing.
"That wasn't an accident?" I ask her, ignoring the rest of what she said.
"N-no, I mean, yes? It was an accident? And don't just ignore what I said before. Why do you hate me?" Bella said, and I knew she was lying. Why would she purposefully touch my hand?
"Like I said before, I don't hate you. I just, I think it would be better if I distanced myself from you." I told her, trying to be honest without revealing anything.
"Oh, right. I, uh, I get it now." Bella said, looking down. She looked…sad?
"Bella, are you alright?" I asked, and she just nodded, without looking at me. "What's the matter?" I asked her gently.
"Nothing, I said I was fine, alright. I get that you don't want to be close to me. Don't worry about me." Bella said, and I felt like crying. I was such a jerk.
"No, it's not that I don't want to spend time with you, really, I do. You're sweet, and caring, and funny, and beautiful, but, I…I can't. It's safer for you if we're not close." I told her. She looked up at me, looking confused, and not like she was believing what I just said.
"Edward! What have I told you? STOP TRYING TO CHANGE THE FUTURE!" Alice shout/thought at me. She also showed me again her vision, where Bella and I are lying together on the sofa together, laughing happily. I looked at Bella, who was doodling on her notepad.
"If you don't want to go shopping with Alice, I can get you out of it, if you want?" I said to her. At lunch, she looked uncomfortable when Alice suggested going shopping, and Rosalie's glares didn't seem to help.
"If you don't want me spending time with your sister, just tell me." Bella said, still not looking at me.
"No, I just, I just thought you didn't really like the sound of shopping. That's all." I told her. I looked closely at her, and her eyes seemed to be filling with tears, but they weren't yet spilling over. One single tear rolled down her face and, on impulse, I wiped it away with my finger. "Don't cry, Bella." I said to her gently. She looked up and me, and was about to say something, when the teacher walked in.
The whole lesson was a boring lecture, of which Bella was hurriedly taking notes about. At the end of the lesson, I helped walk her to gym, then went to my lesson.
"You're happier." Jasper commented when I sat down.
"I partly sorted things out with Bella." I told him, then ignored him and Emmett for the rest of the lesson. I met Bella after gym, and gave her Alice's number, so they could sort out their shopping trip. Bella looked happier now, and I was happy I was finally doing things right with her.
We walked out to my car, and I opened the door for her.
"Edward, you have really cold hands." Bella said once we were both inside.
"It's quite cold in Forks, in case you hadn't noticed." I joked, hoping she would drop the topic. She just nodded, and then shortly after we arrived at her house. I helped her to her door, said goodbye, then drove back home.
"Carlisle, Bella commented on the coldness of my skin, she's getting more suspicious." I said as soon as I got inside. We all quickly went to the dining room to talk about this.
"I said we should have moved before she figured anything out!" Rosalie huffed.
"We can't move Edward away from his mate. How would you like to be separated from Emmett?" Carlisle said. I did dispute what he just said, so Alice and Esme squealed happily.
"I knew you'd finally accept it, Edward!" Alice said, bouncing up and down a little bit.
"Might that have something to do with being able to see the future?" I asked her.
"Anyway, is there anything else she's noticed?" Carlisle asked.
"I don't think so…I can't read her mind, so I'm stumped." I tell him honestly.
"Maybe you should see if she says anything to her dad." Emmett says.
"How? What do you mean?" I ask.
"Do a bit of watching tonight, go to her house, but stay outside. Maybe snoop round her room a bit." Emmett says.
"No! I can't do that! That would be completely invading her privacy!" I tell him. How could he suggest that?
"Edward, that might work." Alice says, and then she shows me a vision of me sneaking around Bella's room, and finding something of importance.
"I can't do that." I reply.
"Edward, son, if it would help…" Carlisle says.
After a while of arguing, I'm forced to go to Bella's house, and watch her. I feel like a stalker. I watch her interact with her father, and everything seems normal. I climb up the side of their house, thankful they didn't have neighbours, and I quickly found Bella's room because of the smell. I went inside, through the window, and looked around. Nothing jumped out at me, so I walked over to beside her bed.
I didn't see anything, when a piece of paper on her desk caught my eye. I went over to it, and nearly gasped in surprise at what it had written on it.
Weird Things about Edward:
~Extremely pale skin (even more pale than me)
~Strange golden eye colour
~Same eye colour and pale skin as the rest of his family, though not related
~Possible still alive and still looking 17 after nearly 100 years
~Dr Cullen, Carlisle, had extremely cold hands (so does Edward)
I need to tell my family about this. I picked it up, and, underneath, I saw a picture of me. Only, I was very much human in this picture. I look at the date, and saw it was from my 17 birthday. And I suddenly remembered how Bella knew me.
I made a time capsule.
I run home as fast as I can, and burst in through the living room window, not caring about all the shards of glass flying everywhere. They won't hurt me.
"Flamboyant entrance, Eddie." Emmett says, laughing at me. I'm momentarily surprised he knows what flamboyant means, but I push that down to focus on more serious matters.
"She has a list, on her desk. Of weird things she'd noticed." I say hurriedly, then tell them what was on the list.
"This is bad." Jasper says quietly. Everyone else is quiet for a while.
"Anything else you saw?" Carlisle asks. I was hoping to avoid this, because I'm pretty sure Rosalie will kill me when she finds out I made a time capsule. She is way too protective of her family sometimes. And scary.
"A, uh, a picture of me. From a time capsule I made when I was human." I mutter quietly. I wait for someone to say something, but for a while, they don't.
"HOW THE HELL COULD YOU BE SO STUPID, EDWARD?" Rosalie screeches in my ear.
"Well, funnily enough, when I was human I didn't realise making a time capsule would be stupid because I would later become a vampire! I'd forgotten all about the time capsule, anyway, just another faded human memory." I tell her, getting angry.
"Look, I don't think Edward is to blame here. But we do need to assess the situation. If there was a picture in there, you'll look the same, there is no way to deny that. However, Bella may not know that we're vampires, but she will know there is something strange." Carlisle says in a calm voice.
"Edward is such an idiot. Why would anyone make a time capsule anyway? I don't see the point in them, they're stupid. Like Edward." Rosalie thinks.
"You do know I can hear you, right?" I ask, chuckling a bit.
"Whatever, idiot." She mutters, before running off.
Tomorrow's going to be interesting.
A/N: Who's looking forward to the next Bella chapter?
Well, here's the important part (sorta, I mainly said it was important so you'd read it, but it is kinda... ;D). I'm going on holiday on Saturday (woooo! To Spain, to escape the horrible British weather!), so I won't be able to update, probably. This means the next chapter won't be, 'til like, a week on Sunday.
So, this is a temporary goodbye! See you in just over a week :P
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