Chapter 48: Normal but not quite
It is exactly one week since my mother, Renee's funeral. I have decided to go clean my mother's house.
"Edward," I called him, because he was outside our cottage with Renesmee.
"Yes," he asked from behind me.
"I've decided to go to Phoenix for a couple of days, to clean up my mom's place,"
"Are you sure, it hasn't been that long since the funeral,"
"Yeah I want to do it,"
"Okay, well, we'll go in two days,"
"No, I want to go alone,"
"Why?"
"I don't know, I feel like it's my responsibility,"
"I want to come with you. You know I don't like being away from you for more than twenty four hours." He looked quite sad; he was looking at me his eyes smouldering into mine. I ran over to him and pressed my lips to his, he wrapped his arms around me and refused to let go, he held me as close as he could. He didn't let go of me until Renesmee walked through the front door, and he still left his arms wrapped around me, his eyes still smouldering into mine.
"Fine, you can come," I gave in and saw the smile break into his face.
"What's going on?" Renesmee asked.
"We're going to clean up your grandmother's house, down in Phoenix." Edward surprised her.
"Yeah but we leave it until next month, I don't want to do it yet," I pleaded.
"Yeah, sure, whenever you're ready," He smiled. Alice came in the front door.
"Hey guys, Renesmee are you ready to go?" Alice asked her.
"Yeah, sure, we're going shopping, see you later mom, dad!" Renesmee chimed as the turned and darted into the forest.
"I'm going to get changed," I walked to our bedroom with Edward at my side. I got changed into shorts and a shirt, just to wear around the house.
"You look nice," Edward was sat on the bed, waiting.
"Thank you," I replied going to sit next to him. He wrapped his arms around my waist and I wrapped my arms around his neck. "Want to do some practising on reading my thoughts?" I smiled.
"Okay," he smiled back.
"But remember I have to concentrate, so no distractions," He nodded. I concentrated on pushing my shield away. I thought about pushing the first time he kissed me as a vampire, and then suddenly I was dragged out of my concentration with a kiss. "Hey!" I laughed.
"Sorry, I couldn't help myself, your too tempting," I was about to laugh, but he pushed me down on the bed and then his lips crushed mine with a great amount of enthusiasm.
We spent all of the night huddled up talking about everything.
"Want to go hunting this morning?" He whispered into my hair.
"Okay, is Jacob looking after Renesmee?" I asked.
"Yeah, I suppose so," I looked up and he smiled down at me.
"Jacob's outside isn't he," I could hear his heartbeat.
"Yes," Edward chuckled.
"Right, better get up," I tried to get up but his arms restrained me and pulled me back down.
"No, you stay here; I'll go give Renesmee to Jacob, okay?" He commanded smiling.
"Okay," I kissed him for a brief second then sat on the bed. While he streaked out of the door, five minutes later he ran back through the door and came and sat by me. He lifted my chin and continued kissing me.
