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Chapter Five: Breakfast and Vending Machines (Edward's POV)

I was having a dreamless sleep, which was rare for me in the last month, when I heard distant voices. "Does he always sleep down here?" one of the voices asked.

"Not usually. He only does it when he's stressed about something or thinking," another voice said. After the last comment I realized that the people were talking about me. I got to where I could open one eye and I saw Bella and Alice standing in front of me.

"What are you guys doing?" I groaned as I stretched. When my arms fell, they landed on my guitar – I had given up on trying to compose anything last night and played the acoustic version of The Great Escape by Boys Like Girls.

"We're waking everyone up for breakfast, so get your lazy butt up!" Alice laughed and skipped out of the practice room, but Bella stayed and looked around the room. She suddenly stopped at my piano, letting her fingers barely graze the wood, looking like she was about to cry.

"You okay?" I asked. Some part of me never wanted to see her cry. It was probably because we had been so close through the time the social workers were having arrangements made for the two of us, that I felt the need to protect her still. After ten years? Yeah sure..., the stupid voice in my head scoffed. I decided to ignore it this time, hoping it would just go away. Bella spun around, looking slightly startled, then instantly relaxing when she saw me. "Sorry, I didn't mean to scare you."

"Oh, it's alright, I just thought that you left already." She said giving a weak smile that didn't reach her eyes. "And yeah, I'll be fine, just a memory of my mom is all."

"You want to talk about it?"

She shook her head."Maybe another time." When she said this I felt a little disappointed that she didn't trust me anymore. But who was I kidding? She didn't remember me, so I was basically a stranger to her. Why would she trust me? "Well we should probably get to the table before Esme sends Alice after us, and I have the feeling she can go a little crazy." She laughed a little and waited for me to stand up.

"Alright, let's go." We walked out to where Esme had plates full of food. There were pancakes, bacon, toast, sausage, hash browns, and a bowl of fruit sitting at the table, a typical breakfast in our house.

"There you two are!" Esme said coming over and hugging me and Bella. "You better hurry and get your food, otherwise Emmett will take most of it, right Edward?"

"She's right. He usually eats twice what a normal person would." I chuckled and sat down in my usual spot. Bella sat across from me and grabbed two slices of toast, some bacon, and a peach. I was still looking at her when Alice came and sat next to me.

"Quit staring, it's rude," she muttered, jokingly, into my ear. Why did she always have to notice the things I hardly ever did? Did everyone see? I glanced around the table to see Rosalie, Jasper, and Emmett talking about the Aston Martin DB9; Remmy was watching Bella make a plate for her; and Esme handing a tupperware container with some food in it to Carlisle before he went off to work.

"Bella, Remmy, I'm sorry I won't be able to eat with you two this morning. I just got a call from the hospital saying I was needed for an emergency surgery, but I will be back by dinner," Carlisle said walking up to the table. Bella and Remmy both nodded and told him that they would see him then. Then he looked between me, Alice, Rose, Jasper, and Emmett and said, "You guys keep out of trouble at school today. I really don't want to talk with the principle again because of you Emmett."

"Yeah, okay dad," Emmett said, still engrossed in the conversation he was having with Rose and Jasper.

"Well I'm off now," he said as he headed to the garage door.

"Wait!" Remmy yelled, causing everyone to freeze. She got up from where she was sitting, ran over and hugged Carlisle. "Okay, now you can go."

Carlisle watched her go back to her seat and started laughing quietly. "You sure are something else, Remmy." With that, he left to go save another life. Everyone went back to what they were doing, which meant that Alice went back to questioning me. "So what's up? You were acting a little strange last night."

"Just trying to figure some stuff out is all," I replied, hoping that she would just let it drop.

"And... this stuff would be?" She pushed.

"Why I have two pushy siblings," I thought out loud, but that still didn't get her off of the topic I was still trying to figure out. What did I really feel for Bella after all of these years?

"Oh, ha ha Edward soo not funny. Really though, what's been bugging you?" Think of a way to ignore her, think of a way to ignore her, I looked over at Bella and noticed she was wearing a necklace that looked extremely familiar.

"Bella," I said, getting her attention. "Where'd you get your necklace?" Her hand instinctively grabbed it before she answered.

"I um... I got it when I was five, from a friend of mine. He bought it from..." I cut her off right there.

"A toy vending machine, right?" Suddenly all eyes were on me and Bella.

"Yeah, how'd you kn-" Realization shot across her face and a mixed look of confusion and hope came next. "Edward? Is it really you?"

Hope you liked this chapter . Let me know if you have any suggestions for future chapters and what not. Also, if you haven't noticed yet, I changed who I'm basing the characters looks off of. So if you want to see the new pictures, just go to my profile and they'll be there! There's a new poll up too.

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