Chapter 7
Bella
I slammed the bedroom door and flopped on the bed pulsing with anger.
The game had been awful. The wolves were twice as competitive as the Cullen's; except for Emmett who couldn't contain his excitement at kicking wolf butt.
Soaked to the skin, hair drenched and having been subjected to torture for the last two hours I sighed and placed my hands on my head.
I didn't hear the door open but I heard it click shut and I opened my eyes to the welcoming sight of Edward looking equally drenched and muddy but surprisingly calm.
He smiled at me warmly and I stood up and walked into his arms that tightened around me.
We didn't speak...there was nothing to say. While Edward couldn't literally read my mind; he knew my every expression...he knew what I would be thinking if he could hear. And I had a pretty good idea of what he was thinking too.
Instead once he had held me for as long as he could before the other's noticed we were missing he sighed, let me go and kissed my forehead once.
Then he headed to the closet to change and I felt better...that was the thing with Edward; his very presence soothed me.
I grabbed a dress Alice had bought me on her latest shopping spree last week. I hadn't worn it yet and seeing as we were having company for dinner I might as well dress up.
It was purple and V-cut. I was surprised to actually like this one! Intrigued I looked at the label. Big Mistake!
I gulped as I removed the plastic protective wrap.
"Edward!" I cried astounded.
He appeared almost instantly as I called his name, wearing his own designer shirt and trousers.
"What?" He asked worried.
"This is what." I motioned to the dress and he lifted an eyebrow confused.
"It's a lovely dress Bella; though I'm not sure it does you justice. You'll outshine it's beauty easily."
"Edward this is an Alexander McQueen dress." I scowled.
"So?" He said...Edward may be an academic genius but Alice had all the Fashion Facts.
"It costs $2,215 dollars. Why is it in my closet?" I couldn't believe I had actually liked it before.
"You should know Alice by now; though I'm amazed she was stupid enough to keep the tag on for you to look at, she must've known you'd never touch it again after you found out how much it cost." Edward chuckled.
"It's not funny; she shouldn't spend this money on me!" I said uncomfortably dropping it on the bed.
"Bella you are entirely incapable of accepting any gift...it's an illness I swear. Another glitch in your brain no doubt." He smiled knowing exactly what to say.
"I am not! I accept gifts..." I said
"Yes just not expensive ones." He laughed pushing me further toward the outcome he wanted.
"I can too!"
"Name one..." He said disappearing into the closet to find his socks.
"Well..." I started frustratingly trying to find
"I'll ask her to send it back tomorrow okay." He shouted from the closet and I could imagine him rolling his eyes at me, not understanding why I hated anyone spending money on me.
"Actually no, see I've thought of an expensive gift that I haven't rejected."I smiled.
He appeared from the cupboard with a victorious smile.
"Oh yes? What's that then Bella?" He held a playful expression on his face, knowing what answer I was going to give.
"This lovely dress Alice gave me, do you like it?" I smiled picking the dress back up and pretending to model it. I knew this is what he was trying to do anyway...I was only keeping the dress to prove him wrong and he knew it.
He laughed at disappeared back into the closet to get his shoes.
We arrived back at the Cullen's ten minutes later Jacob, Seth, Charlie and Renesmee were playing 'Rock band 2' on the Nintendo Wii.
Jacob, Emmett, Jasper and now Edward were laughing hilariously and even I smiled at the song that Charlie had just chosen.
'Poison by Alice Cooper' started blaring from the 58 inch flat screen TV.
I and Edward walked into the kitchen, both barely able to contain our laughter at the irony.
Esme and Carlisle came in with a shopping bag each full of 'human food'. When they had invited people over for dinner they realised that they didn't actually have anything to feed them so they'd gone shopping for the first time in over a hundred years. The sight was so
"What are we going to do? Pretend to eat?" I asked, this was my first 'pretend to be human' event.
"No, we'll eat it. It doesn't taste that bad when you get over the first few bites." Carlisle explained.
I gave an uncertain smile as Edward tried to reassure me everything was going to be okay.
I sat on the counter watching as Edward sliced mushroom for the Bolognese sauce.
Alice came to sit by us and looked alarmed.
"What is it Alice?" I asked but Edward already knew.
"Are you certain?" He asked.
Alice nodded and I sighed wishing they wouldn't do the 'hearing thoughts' thing anymore.
Edward looked at me and whispered "Later."
I nodded and told him I'd hold him to that.
Ten minutes later and somehow the Bolognese that took me almost two hours to make in my human life had been made in only twenty minutes by three Cullen's.
"Dinner!" Esme called and the sound was so odd that It felt like I'd been transported back to phoenix when I used to cook for Renee and shout "Dinner!" in a similar way.
Everyone from the living room trudged in Charlie out of puff from the Rock band session.
Emmett sat next to Edward and Rosalie appeared from downstairs with a look of disgust on her face aimed at Jacob and Seth.
Dinner went without much fuss and Carlisle was right, the food wasn't bad, it was pretty tasteless; but not filling at all. Though towards the end it was like forcing myself to eat dirt.
Charlie wolfed it down, which made me worry that this was the first good meal he'd had in the months since I'd left his house.
I still had a mound of spaghetti and I looked at it showing my reluctance to eat anymore. Edward leaned over and whispered silently "Leave it." To me, clearly knowing what I was thinking.
Dinner went pretty smoothly despite Emmett accidentally denting the table when he slammed his fist down and said "This is great food" trying a little too enthusiastically to make dinner sound like a regular event in our house.
I, Edward, Alice and Jasper couldn't help laughing as Emmett winked at Renesmee who giggled along too.
After dinner, Jacob and Seth insisted that they had to leave on urgent business which made me anxious that what Alice had seen was more important than either she or Edward were letting on.
Emmett, Renesmee, Jasper and Alice were having a game of Tennis on the Wii and both Alice and Emmett were finding it desperately hard not to use their super speed to hit the ball back and forth. I was certain Alice even complained that the console was too slow.
I and Charlie were sat in the kitchen while Edward had left my side for the first time that evening and was sitting in the living room watching them play their tennis match laughing as Emmett just missed Alice's serve.
"So, everything okay Bells?" Charlie coughed awkwardly.
"Yep." I said, not meaning to keep giving one word answers.
"Renesmee looks good, healthy." He said.
"Yeah she's fine." I smiled.
The silence was almost unbearable until an almighty crash from the living room sent both me and Charlie charging from the kitchen.
When we got there we found Jasper and Alice in stitches, Edward protectively holding Renesmee and Emmett sat on the sofa trying to act casual.
The plasma TV lay smashed on the floor in pieces; a Nintendo Wii controller lying besides it...
"Was that your fault?" I asked raising my eyebrow at him accusingly like a Mom telling him off.
"I may have accidentally sent the Wii control spirally into the TV screen, yes." He grinned happy with himself whilst Charlie looked confused as to why everyone could be so calm when a TV like that had been trashed to bits.
"Emmett, what were you thinking?" I groaned happy that Renesmee was okay.
"I was trying to beat Alice." He lifted his arms up in an 'I'm harmless' gesture.
"Actually your precise thoughts were 'okay fortune cookie; you're going down.' " Edward grinned as Alice gave him a 'you'll pay for that' glare.
"Hey a little harmless banter didn't hurt anyone." Emmett smirked.
Our laughter was cut short by the piercing howl of pain that broke into the night from the woods.
Edward looked to Alice who nodded once and then everything broke into pandemonium.
