Chapter 7
Dear diary,
It's been four months two weeks, and four days since we moved here. Honestly this is the longest we been in one place for. Me, and my mom are back to being the best of friends. We talked two days after our major fight, and she saw my side of things. She agreed that she had put a lot of weight on me. Now she and Edward's aunt are the best of friends. Speaking if Edward today we turn two weeks of official dating. His sister Alice is now my best friend. I' do almost everything with her. Leah, and Seth love Edward's youngest sister. She's only four. School ended last month, and it's close to Christmas. I think it's going to be an awesome one at that. Edward's family, and mine are all celebrating it together. On new years we are going to reveal our safe house-
"Bella!"
"coming mom."
I shut my dairy, and run down the stairs. My mom smiles when she sees me.
"I'm taking the twins over to Esme's. You want to come along?"
"no. Edward is coming over later."
"alright then be good."
I nod, and walk into the kitchen. I lean on the counter reaching up for the two bowls I would need to make the snooker doodles I promised. I gather all the ingredients, and start mixing.
"hey beautiful."
I jump out of my skin when Edward comes out of nowhere. I hear him chuckle, and turn around with a spoon full of batter. I fling the batter to land right on his nose.
"not nice."
His says wiping the batter off. I walk up to him, and hug him.
"I'm sorry. Forgive me?"
I look up at him with innocent eyes. He squeezes me hard.
"of course I will if you give me some of the cookies."
I playfully slap his chest. I finish making the cookies, and clean up my mess.
"did you get the movies?"
"yes I got every single thing that Taylor Lautner did a voice, appearance, and role in."
He walks over pulling out the movies. I smile. Taylor is my favorite actor ever. I never understood why he is, but he is. I'm not a psyco fan or anything, but I so went team Jacob right from the beginning.
"we'll watch them in order. Beginning to end."
I look at the cover of abduction. Edward clears his throat.
"You know I don't like, my girlfriend cheating on me with a cover of a DVD. It makes me very jealous."
I giggle, as he does his best to show the emotion of jealousy on his face, instead it comes out all wrong and funny. He pulls the DVD away from me, and pulls me into his arms. I lean up pecking his lips lightly. We both smile. I pull away grabbing the cookies, popcorn, chips, and chocolate. He grabs all the movies, and the four bottles of dr. Pepper. We make ourselves comfortable on the couch, then he pops in the DVD. I cuddle up to him as Shadow fury starts. After awhile I fall asleep.
The sound of an explosion scares me, I sit up looking around.
"Edward? Edward!"
I scream, and get up. I'm cold, and no longer in the house. Instead I'm somewhere wet, and green.
"long live the princess. As long as she stays with us. Long live the princess."
A creepy voice keeps whispering that over, and over again. I run, and run. I run right into James. He grips my upper arms tightly. I feel like the bone inside is about to shatter. I try to scream make a noise but its like my vocal cords got cut.
"I knew I would find you. After all a true hunter always catches his prey."
Suddenly he letting go of me, and pushed me back. I fall to the floor. Dogs wild dogs start coming towards me on every side. Growling having their teeth exposed.
"Human blood is my craving. The amount is unknown. But yes it s my craving."
That's the creepy voices new chant. The dogs get closer.
"stay."
James yells out, and all the dogs sit within niches of me.
"surrender yourself to me, and you'll be safe, or would you prefer the dogs to eat you."
"Bella! Bella!"
I sit up straight gasping for air. My heart pounds in my chest. I look over at Edward, and lean back into him.
"it's okay Bells. I'm here."
I cling onto him using his familiar smell to chase away the nightmare. Soon I am calm enough to talk.
"I'm sorry I keep falling asleep on you."
"it's okay. I know it's cause of the nightmares at night."
I look down sadly. The nightmares keep on coming. I am actually thinking of never sleeping again.
"do you want to keep on watching the movies or go out for a run."
I look up at him. He smiles sweetly. I grin at him.
"let's go for a run."
I sit up, and he stands up. I stand up on the couch, and jump. My legs lock tightly around his waist, and I grip on tightly around his neck. I grip the fabric of his sweater.
"you are getting too use to this."
He says. I giggle, and put my chin on his shoulder. We run out the back door, and onto the woodsy path that we usually took. I grip on tight as he runs his fastest, and everything looks like a complete blur. I don't care, this is our form of relaxing, and bonding. He jumps in through his living room window, and flips me onto the couch. I land on it laughing like a maniac.
"Nice of you two to join us."
Esme says with a smile. I get up, and walk over to hug her.
"hey Esme."
She smiles, and walks into the kitchen my mom following behind. I walk back to the couch, and plop down. Edward walks over, and scopes me up over his shoulder.
"where are you taking me?"
"I am taking you to your doom."
I didn't say anything since I had a nice view of his butt right now. He flips me onto something soft, and a quick look around shows that we are in his room. I stretch out on what must be his bed. He smiles, as he walks over to his closet.
"I have something for you."
I sit up curious on what he could have for me.
He comes out with a medium size box. I move to sit in the middle of the bed. He places the box in front of me.
"so as you know my aunt's wedding is coming up."
I nod for him to continue. He takes a deep breath in.
"we'll its next week, and she...we want you to be a bridesmaid."
He pulls the lid off of the box, to reveal a beautiful royal blue dress. My mouth drops open. I stand up, and reach for it hesitantly for it. He passes it up to me. I pull it, and hold it close to me.
"Go try it on."
He says with a secret smile. I walk into his closet, and shut the door behind me. I pull of my top, and pull the dress on. The fabric is cool, and soft. Softer than silk. I watch as the dress shapes it's self around me. I step out, and hear him breath in. I smile at his reaction,
"Wow you look...amazing"
I blush, and look around the room. I feel like the most beautiful girl in the whole world right now. I look back at Edward, and smile. I walk over to him, and am just about to kiss him when I hear..
"Knock knock."
Esme pokes in her head. I smile looking over at her. Horrible timing. She smiles in my direction her whole face lighting up.
"Wow look how beautiful you look."
"Thank you."
She runs over, and spins me around. The dress flares around me. I giggle, and stop spinning feeling a bit dizzy. I look at my reflection in the mirror by the dresser. I take a deep breath in. The color does a perfect contrast with my skin. Through the dress I see curves that I didn't even know I had, but what I love most about this moment is the way Edward is looking at me with love, hunger, and desire.
"You will be my prettiest bridesmaid."
I smile sadly remembering the last time I heard that.
"Bella! Stop for minute I have to tell you something."
Emmett sits down on the edge of the pool, and I go beside him.
"What is it Emmett?"
He looks away.
"Angie I have to get married...to Rosalie."
"What no! You can't marry her."
I shrieked. He looks away sadly.
"I'm sorry Bella, but I did a stupid mistake, and now I need to pay for them."
"What kind of a mistake?"
I ask honestly curious.
"The stupidest one ever. I let my emotions, and not the right kind of emotions take over my body, and thinking process, and that lead me to do something I will forever regret."
I look up at him. He seemed so sad, and broken. My brother the one who always looked fearless, and strong now looks the opposite. The way he looks now scared me. I wrap my arms around his legs, and lean my head on his knees. He places his hand softly on my head,
"Bella I want you to promise me something?"
"What?"
I look up at him causing hair to fall into my eyes. He looks down at me, and I can see the hope in his eyes I can see the want, and regret there. I don't care what it is I will do it. For him. For my brother
"That you will be a bridesmaid."
"I promise Emmett."
I look up, and see him completely shocked that I agreed so easily. He moves the hair out of my eyes, and smiles.
"You'll be the most beautiful bridesmaid of them all. I just know it."
My brother's voice echoed in my head. Tears gather in my eyes. The saddest part is I never got to see my brother's wedding because we ran away two nights before. I broke my promise, and now I think I know what mistake it was. I hear someone take a few steps back, or forward I'm not sure. I feel the fabric of my clothes.
"I popped the dress away."
Edward says. I nod, and wipe the one tear that got away.
"I need to go."
I turn, and Edward catches me. He pulls me into his chest, and we fall to the floor. I cry into his chest, and soon I feel Esme's hand rubbing soothing circles on my back. Soon I stop. Edward looks at me.
"Feel better?"
I nod not trusting my voice. Esme passes me a tissue, and the garbage can. I blow my nose, and throw the Kleenex out.
"Do you want to go see him? We would stay invisible, but at least you would see his is happy."
I look up at Edward, and nod again. We stand up slowly.
"If your taking her anywhere near those people I'm coming with you."
Alice says looking at me. She has this over protective look to her, like a mother lion with her cubs. Edward nods. She walks over, and hugs me tightly.
"My human."
She says right possessively. We all burst into laughter as Edward pulls me away from her.