I am soooo sorry for it taking so long! School is getting ridiculous with all the work I have to do! It is so much harder than last year! So I made you an extra long chapter! YAY!!
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Now without any further adieu…
Chapter 9
I could feel the tension building up within me. What was he doing here? Did he have a death wish? I could feel my angry tears coming.
"What do you want Jacob?" I said bitterly.
"Sheesh, Bells. Calm down. Is that any way to greet your friend?"
"Friend?" I laughed humorlessly. "Is that the term for mean, backstabbing, jerks these days?"
"Ouch," he said, not hurt at all. "Come on. Get over it. It was in your best interest. That guy is not good for you at all. You're so much better off without him now."
What? He thought my parents had actually broken Edward and me up? He truly belongs in a mental institution. Seriously!
"Besides," he said, softer now. "Now we can be together."
"Excuse me? What did you just say?"
"I know how you feel about me, Bella. Now I'm telling you that I feel just as strongly for you."
"Good," I said. I heard Alice whisper a soft "What?"
"See?" Jacob said. "You're welcome about earlier today."
"That's not what I meant. I meant 'good, if you're as mad and upset at me as I am at you, we never have to see each other again.'" I heard Alice quietly chuckle.
"Bells, stop being stubborn. Give into your feelings." Where the hell did he get that nickname from! If it was anyone else, yes that would be fine, but he is totally pissing me off.
I laughed, truly annoyed now. "If you want me to give into my feelings, then I will most certainly hurt you in anyway possible. However, I don't think my parents would like that very much. Plus, Edward would probably rather do it. I'll let him have his fun."
"But you're not with Edward anymore," he said confidently.
"Wrong again. We are together and will be for a very long time."
"You're going against your parents wishes? You should not do that. You know they want you to be with me. Why don't you listen for once?"
"Three strikes! You're out!" I said sarcastically. "My parents gave Edward and me permission to be together. So just get over it and butt out!"
"What?" he yelled. "There's no way! You're lying to me now!"
"Nope, not lying. I'm an awful liar. You'd be able to tell."
"But what about us?" Was he serious?
"There's nothing between us and will never be, except tension and anger on my part."
"You're going to change your mind. Maybe not now, but soon. I swear it! You will be mine!"
"Ohhhh! Scary!!" I yelled back.
He turned around and left.
I took a deep breath and shut the window.
"Wow," Alice said. "That was interesting."
"He is such a pain in the butt!"
"He's just a kid with a crush. Cut him some slack. It's a totally confusing time."
"Well it would help if he had a crush on someone else! Why doesn't he just give up! Can't he take a hint? I have a boyfriend!!"
"How'd you get all of these admirers?" Alice asked. "You can't even dress yourself well! Next thing we know, Mike Newton will be battling for your attention."
"That will never happen." Please don't jinx me!
"You may not want to tell Edward about the killing part, though. He may take it literally considering how protective he is of you," she warned. "He'd do anything for you."
I laughed, "I couldn't have gotten anyone more perfect."
"Would you like to stay over?" she asked.
"Sure," I said.
I called my parents and they were fine with it.
Alice and I had so much fun. We had to catch up a little since I had been spending so much of my time with Edward and she, apparently, had been spending copious amounts of her time with Jasper.
"Tell me all about it," I told her.
"Well," she started. "Jasper is so sweet. He doesn't mind going shopping with me, like some people. He carries all my bags for me. But most importantly, he cares for me. I can see it every time I look into his eyes, Bella. He would do anything for me, and I him."
"Wow," I said.
"That's not the best part, either. That was just building anticipation."
"Well?"
"Today, while we were in Seattle, he took me to a beautiful fountain in the mall. It was amazing. He then told me how essential I was to his existence. You should have seen his eyes! They were absolutely glowing! He told me how he has liked me as more of a friend for a while now. Then, he gave me a soft, gentle kiss on my lips! It was amazing!"
"Aww! You guys are so cute together! I'm so happy for you!" I told her as I threw my arms around her.
We spent the rest of the night doing our nails and having 'girl talk.' This was the first time we were head-over-heels in love. There was so much to talk about. And we were both more than content with listening to the other.
The next few weeks flew by. I never heard from Jacob again. Edward and I spent everyday together. I told him about Jacob. He really did want to kill him, but I convinced him not to by telling him to not kill him for me. Alice was right, he really would do anything for me.
Before I knew it, we had less than a week before everyone was going to arrive. I was packing up my things for living at Alice's house for the next three weeks. Edward was lying on my bed.
"You know," he said, "I would be perfectly happy if you stayed at my house for the next three weeks."
I sat down beside him on my bed and he put his arms around me. "I would love that! But, I don't think my parents would like it very much."
I smiled as he leaned down and softly kissed me. "But, do remember that I will be at Alice's house with no parents of my own. That means that when I don't have to be with the family, we can spend the time together."
"Ohhh! Sounds more than good to me," he gently kissed my cheek.
"Bella! Get down here! Now!" my mother called from downstairs.
"Oh, great!" I grabbed Edward's hand and lead him out of my room. "Let's go see what she wants."
I found her in the kitchen, surrounded by lots of colorful paper, styrofoam objects, and a box filled with pictures.
"Great, Edward's here too!" As if she didn't know! Maybe she truly didn't though! She looked so stressed I wouldn't put it past her to not notice it. I don't think she has been sleeping lately. She's been having to start cooking for everyone, and freezing it so that it will be good for next week, cooking for the party, making decorations, and tons of other stuff. Plus, she also has needed to do her Christmas shopping. With so many people, that was bound to be an extremely hard task.
"I need your help organizing and making decorations for your dad's birthday party."
"What would you like us to do?" I asked.
"Well, Edward, could you start organizing the pictures? Just pull out pictures of Charlie getting… wiser. Just put them in order from him being little to ol-… fifty." I couldn't help the snicker that escaped. My mom didn't seem to notice though. "Be sure to include some family pictures."
"Sure," Edward replied, perfectly polite as always. "No problem."
"Thanks. And Bella, start cutting tissue paper and then staple it to the styrofoam half cirles. After that, stick a bunch of these fake flowers in them, and we'll have our center places for the tables. Edward, once you're done with the pictures, since there's not that many, could you help Bella with the center pieces?"
"Absolutely," he smiled that unbelievably gorgeous smile.
"Good. I'm just going to run down to the store. I really need to finish the Christmas shopping. I will probably be a few hours."
"Okay, Mom. Have fun!" I said.
"Oh, I will," she answered, sarcastically. "Oh, and Edward, can I ask you to do one more thing for me?"
"Of course," he replied.
"Make sure Bella doesn't hurt herself with all this stuff. You know how she is!"
"No problem at all!" he said confidently. "It would be my pleasure!"
My mom smiled at me really quickly before leaving.
"Well, I guess we better get to work," Edward told me.
"Right," I said. "I'm really sorry you got pulled into this!"
"It's no problem. It means I get to spend more time with you."
I blushed and he kissed the spots on my cheeks.
"You're too amazing for your own good!" I told him. I gave him a quick kiss and we both got to work.
We talked and laughed. All of a sudden I heard Edward say "Aww!"
"What?" I asked suspicious.
"You were so cute as a little girl. Almost as cute as you are now, but for different reasons, of course."
"What?" I repeated. I got up from my spot at the table and went to see what he had. He had separated a few pictures of me as a little kid. They weren't in the pile of using or not using. I assumed he pulled them out for his own use.
I looked through the pictures labeled 'use'. There was a picture of my dad holding me when I was a newborn, helping me on my first bike, holding my hand on my first day of school, standing next to me at my eight grade graduation, and with me at my senior graduation.
There was another one that Edward had pulled aside. I couldn't make it out from where I was, so I picked it up to take a closer look and gasped.
"What the…" I could feel my face getting hot. I'd be lucky if my face wasn't permanently red from now on.
"Bella?" Edward asked, getting concerned.
"Bella? Talk to me," he got up and put his arms around me. "Bella, please?"
I was mute, though. Oh God! How was I going to get through this one!
"You're not upset with me are you?"
I buried my head in his chest and felt him sigh.
I finally found my voice. "I'm not upset with you. I'm just embarrassed."
"Don't be, love," he ran his hand up and down my back. "Every parent takes embarrassing pictures."
"Yeah. But not everyone's boyfriend's see them," I pointed out.
"Sure they do. Plus, aren't you happy I took it out so that its not blown up and put on the wall at the party?"
"Oh my gosh! Thank you so much!! That would be awful having a bubble bath picture of me on the wall for everyone to see!"
Edward laughed. "I don't think I'd like that too much, either."
I took a deep breath and then pulled out of Edward's arms. "Time to get back to work. Come on. You're helping me now. I think you're done with the pictures! They must have been extremely boring."
He smiled his crooked smile. "I could never get tired of looking at you." I rolled my eyes. "They were actually pretty interesting. I enjoyed it quite a bit. Of course, its not even close to as good as it feels to have you with me and in my arms."
"You truly are amazing!" I said. I gave him a soft kiss and got back to work.
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I need a lot of names for family members, so please give me names I can use, or your name if you'd like. I need both boy and girl names.
Good news: I have most of the next chapter written, except for the names!! YAY!! I really want to post it tomorrow, but I need 58 reviews first! Please! That just means one more.
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Spoiler for next chapter: Edward, Bella, Jacob, and Tanya all in the same room!
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