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Sorry it's taken so long to get this chapter up but I had major writer's block and was totally stuck, so I wrote this chapter on Sunday but then had to type it up an add stuff. So I wrote it on Sunday sitting in the sun and trying to tan - though failed miserably - and listening to a song by Celine Dion called you and I. It's cool and helped me write this chapter. I hope you enjoy this chapter through all the problems I had with it and so with no more delay here you are:
Disclaimer - I do definitely not own Twilight.
Chapter Seven - Don't Forget The Advisors BPOV
The next day I got up around 8, had my shower and washed my hair as well as shaving my legs and under my arms. I got out and dried myself and cleaned my teeth 3 times getting rid of any morning breath at all, and spraying my favourite deodorant on before stepping out of the bathroom to get ready for the day.
I walked back into my room and into my closet and found my sleeveless floral summer dress that started just above my bust and finished just above my knees, it was almost covered in flower patterns and had a baby pink bow around my waist with a bit of ribbon that came down to almost the bottom of my dress. I added my white comfy high heels with it and put my hair into a messy bun I also picked up the pink and silver dangly earrings and the silver circles necklace that Mr Lorry got me that I love. I squirted a bit of my channel perfume and I was ready, I ran out of the bedroom door and walked down the stairs and found Edward's office, he was in there sat talking with the man I saw yesterday coming down the stairs when he was going up.
I knocked on the door and poked my head around the corner to get his attention,
"Bella," he said as he looked up and noticed me standing in the doorway, he had a smile on his face that wasn't there when he was talking to the man "you haven't been waiting long have you? I'm so sorry if you have I was just intrigued as to the conversation I was having with Ben here"
"No I haven't been waiting long, I'll go now I just wanted to say good morning" I started backing out of the door feeling really guilty for putting him in that position, he was having a conversation for Christ's sakes Bella and you just disturbed him.
"No Bella, don't go I wanted to say good morning to you to, Bella this is my advisor Ben. Ben this is fiancée Bella, Ben's fiancée will also be here in a couple of days as well as my family which hopefully you'll get to meet soon." He said pulling me back into the room. "I wanted to also give you a tour today so I hope you've got your walking boots on! It's a pretty long walk."
"I haven't got my walking boots on but these are my really comfy heels but if we're going outside I'll grab a jacket since it's quite breezy and us humans get cold. Plus I haven't had any breakfast yet.
"Oh that's OK I have a picnic just for you but you are right, you will get cold meet us back here and we'll be ready to go."
"OK, see you guys in a minute" And with that I walked back to my room and grabbed me denim Jane Norman jacket from it's hanger in my wardrobe. I put it on and hugged it to me, though I was still cold so I changed into my dark denim jeans, my pink halter neck and my waterfall black cardigan that was really thick and soft as well as my black high heels to match.
I walked back down to the office and Ben was sat in there checking through Edward's papers, he looked up and smiled when he saw me.
"Nice outfit" he complimented "Edward's just gone to pick up the picnic for you since you are just about the only human around here. Then we'll start the tour, or our version of the tour. You probably only seen a bit of the house when you were with Peter on his tour"
"Umm yeah, that sounds cool. I felt cold inside so I changed as I knew it would be even colder in some parts of this mansion you call a house" and at that he laughed. Then Edward walked in and was laughing as well since he'd heard us with his incredible vampire heightened hearing senses, he was also carrying a bag that was rustling. I looked confused at him I mean was he sure I was the ONLY one eating that was a HUGE bag and it was almost over flowing with food.
"What is it Bella" he said when he caught my questioning and very confused look pointed his way.
"Are you sure you want me to eat THAT much food I mean I am only ONE human Edward not 5 people 1."
He and Ben found this highly amusing for some reason but I shrugged it off, I wasn't going to let them get to me.
"Nice outfit" He commented after he's stopped laughing although he couldn't take the smile off his perfect face. Wait did I really just think that.
"Umm thanks that's exactly what Ben said when he seen me, you crazy pair have been working together for too long" I finished exaggerating on the crazy and long bits! Well I needed to get across my point somehow.
"Then let's go for a tour shall we, we'll start with the bottom floor. This is obviously my office, as you've probably gathered by now. Now let's go to the next room" Edward started off with Ben but pulling me behind him with one arm around my waist to the next room to Edward's office. "This is the downstairs bathroom, there are 3 other toilets on the ground floor but this one had a shower as well. Now to the next room the ballroom" Then we walked to the ballroom, "this is where I host parties and such and why there are so many toilets on the ground floor because I don't want people all over the house and so if you do happen to be upstairs you'll be stuck up there until the party ends and everyone is gone." Hmm perfect for a girly night in then if I can make some friends though I suppose his family will want to be at the party and not for a girly night in but hey there should be other people I can make friends with. "This is the room full of coats when a party is on, it's easier to have them all in here you see, now to the next room which is the first sitting room this is the gold sitting room because everything in here is gold" and it was too! ", now to the next sitting room this is the red sitting room for the same reason as the gold, now the white sitting room, the blue sitting room and the pink sitting room. All for the same reasons, plus it's easier then to know where the girls will be and where the parents and then boys will be as well as all the others that like to be alone.
"Now to the second floor, you can choose what staircase you want to go up" Edward said with a smile "I will go up whichever you choose"
"I think I'll go up this one" I said pointing to the one straight in front of me so to not embarrass myself by admitting that I would have to go up and down the stairs now twice as often to go up the two different sets! Well they were pretty damn awesome stairs I have to say I don't think I could now live in a normal house again after seeing this.
"OK whatever you like!"
We walked up the stairs! That's what they call them as if everyone has them, well they do but not engraved with gold and a red carpet going down them that's been rolled down them and not just carpeted stairs. Jeez! I know what I'm talking about even if you don't, though Ben went up the other set of stairs to me and Edward. It was quite random!
When we got to the top we re-joined and stood at thee top of the stairs, I was standing there amazed at the sight it looked exactly like a palace should.
"I will warn you Bella before we start that we have over 45 guest rooms as well as my own, yours and Ben's. Plus the turrets that you go through via doors on this level, we therefore have roughly 70 rooms on this level. Just to warn you! So now you're warned let's get on with the tour!" Edward said, that's alright, I thought, I have actually done worse. I love walking and cleaning the Meredith's big house in Taunton has well prepared me for walks longer than this. Thanks god for them they really are life savers. So I sat there and nodded gratefully it was nice and comforting to know.
"You know he isn't joking and actually he is downplaying it by a lot. Even hiker's that come here can't do the full walk of this floor, it's too tiring" Ben added with a genuinely confused expression at my eager face. Time to fill them in obviously, I thought, mum obviously hadn't mentioned my job and her lack of money to save herself embarrassment I suppose.
"Ah but to earn money since I was never given any by my mother, I used to help clean the Meredith house and they have 150 rooms on one floor, and I got them cleaned to sparkling spotlessness from top to bottom and I got it done in about an hour on my own so it's not exactly knew to me."
They both stared at me with their eyes wide open and jaws probably dropping to the floor if they could.
"Oh didn't mum tell you that?" I asked sweetly with a smile "Are we carrying on the tour since I don't think we are going to finish this tour otherwise if we don't get going." Neither of them moved, so I walked up to the first door opening it and going inside whilst looking around. It was basically a beach. There was a sea blue colour on the walls and the ceiling was painted in white with a sun in the sky. There was also some seagulls painted on the walls there was a real beach rope around the outside walls and there was also a real buoy on the wall. It had a sandy yellow carpet and a sandy cyellow bedsit, there was also beach scene pictures in beech wood! Whoop! Whoop!
I walked back and they were both still frozen in place and their jaws were still pratcially on the floor. I smiled, this was quite funny to see.
I walked into the next room seeing it was green, green carper, mint green walls, green bedset, green furnature and green lights. LOL green room, I though to myself whilst walking to the next room which was white. I wouldn't be able to keep it this white if I was a guest but this really was whit. White walls, surfaces, bedspread, everything! OK green room, white room.
Then u walked back out of the white room and into the next room. This room was like a garden scene, as if you were a tiny bug in the grass. There was long green grass painted on the walls almost ¾ of the way! And massive trees almost to the ceiling with huge great big leaves, no two were identical. Extra large flowers, in many shapes, sizes and colours. This wasn't a bedroom though, it was extra large and a muddy brown carpet and green rugs. It had sparkly butterfly mobiles and caterpillars. There was a large draw full of soft toys and young books for babies, rattles and all that sort of thing. This was a crèche, what was it doing here? There are school rooms and any other sort of education rooms upstairs, I knew that from Meredith's all the royal children got taught there, wouldn't it be logical to put them altogether? That seems odd, I will have to ask Edward about it later.
I walked back out surprised still at the crèche, and smiled happily when I seen Edward and Ben had finally snapped out of shock and both had looks of horror on their faces.
"Finally guys I wanted a tour you know not a me on my lary searching the place without knowing why it's there or who it's for," I joked.
"I'm so sorry we were being so rude." Edward said elbowing Ben in the ribs and speaking in an honestful manor "we'll carry on now won't we Ben" he said elbowing him again and glaring as if daring him not to say yes.
"Yeah that's fine but can I ask you a question first Bella?" Ben asked still looking in pain and there were glimpses of horror and shock sweeping across his face too.
"Of course, Ben, what is it?" I asked, my motherly instincts kicking in.
"did you seriously have to work, to get yourself some money. Didn't your mum or dad just give you a tenner if you went out shopping or something?" He seemed to stress on the words work and mum though he probably didn't think I could tell only my mother knew I was extremely perceptive and even with vampires I could still tell, I've probably been hanging round with them for too long in my life.
"Umm, that is a difficult since she didn't give me pocket money, no, and if I wanted some clothes r something then I didn't get them until my birthday or whatever which may be months later from when I needed them. And sometimes on my birthday or whatever she got me really expensive gifts. But she never gave me money definitely no so I had to get some money to go into town with my friends somehow." Thinking back it was quite embarrassingly true.
"She never ever gave you money just to help you out occasionally" By this point Edward and Ben had anger filling their facial features and Mr Lorry had just come around the corner and he looked angry as well. Oh god I've done it now what have I done already, I hope it's not punishments like home. They used to be embarrassing, like when I had to go a day without food or when I had to walk around the house for a day with only a very small bra and knickers on. When my dad came back home then it was embarrassing, Jade just laughed and asked my mum what I had done to deserve to be that was in front of my dad 'knowing how he is' what was he like. Did of he think of me, not as his daughter, but as other things. No he couldn't have, he was my daddy and he never did anything wrong it was my cruel mum and Jade.
Thinking back to the pain I'd had to endure I started crying, and slid down the wall with weakness. I noticed the maids going past looking at Edward with desperate faces to be able to help me, but I was way past caring. I kept chanting "my dad didn't do anything wrong, don't hurt me mum, stop hurting me Jade, leave me alone Aunty Janice, my dad didn't do anything wrong, don't hurt me mum, stop hurting me Jade, leave me alone Aunty Janice" and I kept going until I thought I'd cried it all out of me, but what it really was, was a passing maid who'd had enough guts to try and soothe me but by now all 3 men were looking at me with helplessness in their eyes as well as guilt as if they were thinking they were to blame. For my awful childhood, they had nothing wrong I was just scared that I had.
"No one is going to hurt you under my, or my guards, watch Bella. Your safe now; from your mum, from Jade, from your dad, from anyone you've been afraid of all your life. I promise that to you Bella, you are my life and my world and I don't know what else I can do to make you see that." Edward finished with so much sadness in his eyes as if he blamed himself.
"It's not your fault, don't blame yourself Edward. I shouldn't be remembering these things still I know I'm safe now so there's no problem. Is there?" I said looking at Edward with my tearful eyes, his expression immediately softened and a crooked smile took his place.
"No Bella, there is no problem, none what so ever."
He had his arm around me for the rest of the tour around the castle, and both Mr Lorry and Ben came with us as well but always stood real close in case I broke down again. Not good. The whole house/mansion was beautiful, it was all decorated perfectly and although there were about 200 rooms in the whole house/mansion they were all amazingly different. Some were slightly the same but there were very few of them and even those were only the same colour schemes and definitely not the same décor.
Amazing, I went to bed early that night and didn't write a diary entry I was so tired and upset, I wouldn't let it over take me though. I was stronger.
Well there you go, chapter 7. I hope you liked this chapter please RXR and tell me what you thought - flames accepted - I just want to know how you feel about it.
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