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BPOV
Perfect!" Ms. Murphy clapped her hands together excitedly as I said my final lines and we finished the scene. "Just perfect you two! I think we can end today's rehearsal a little early." She grinned broadly at the two of us. I breathed a sigh of relief, I needed to get away from Edward for a while, he was doing all kinds of things to me. Making me do all kinds of things, acting ten times more strange than I normally do. I knew I was physically attracted to him I had known that for a while, but now, it was beginning to feel like something more, he was making me swoon.
I looked over at Ms. Murphy and gave her a tight smile as I walked of the stage, picking up all my things, then darted for the door.
"Hang on!" I froze my hand dropped from the door and turned to Ms. Murphy, who was waving me back over to her and Edward who was stood next to her looking at me from under his lashes and some hair that had fell in his eyes. Honestly? He looked adorable, my heart picked up speed, beating faster than a hummingbird's wings. My head told my heart to stop, but it wouldn't, actually, it was more like it couldn't. I swallowed pushing my hand through my hair and tugged on my jacket as I walked towards the two who were already talking.
"Ah Bella." She gave me a smiled as I came to a stop at her side. "I've just filled Edward in, I'm not going to be here tomorrow afternoon, I have to attend a family function –"
"So there's no extra rehearsal tomorrow?" I asked hopefully, cutting her off mid sentence.
"Not quite." She said looking at me, all hope I had leaving quickly. "I still need you and Edward to run lines together, for both your paired scenes and if you could run through your monologues too that are more tricky to learn, so I need you and Edward to meet outside of school or you could still come into here if you wanted the slot is still ours, I just won't be here with you."
"Oh okay." I nodded.
"Alright? Good. " She smiled. "So all you need to do now is sort that out between the two of you before tomorrow, I'll see the both of you in two days and I want you to both have the second half of the balcony scene rehearsed." She sent a smile to both of us as she walked away to the back of the room to pick up her own bag and coat. I hoisted my bag higher on shoulder awkwardly and looked over to Edward.
"I'll, ah, meet you outside." I nodded at Edward; he smiled at me and nodded before turning to retrieve his bag from one of the seats. I shuffled out of the room, taking a deep breath as I walked out of the front doors and walked across the lot to Edward's bike. The black bike was leaning up against its kick stand at the far end of the lot on its own; it was normally accompanied by two other more modern models that belong to two of Edward's friends, Marcus and Victoria. The lot was almost empty apart from the few cars of the teachers that had decided to stay late.
I looked back at his bike, it was even more impressive up close, the black and silver paint job made it look sleek and amazing to ride, I reached out and let my fifers brush against the sleek body. A smile stretched itself across my face of its own accord as I imagined what it would be like to ride on it, wind kissing my face and blowing through my hair, and the speed, god the speed. A chuckle came from behind me making me jump. I turned to see a grinning Edward stood behind me, his bag slung over one shoulder and his helmet tucked under his arm.
"It rides like a dream." He said as if reading my mind, I dropped my hand from the bike.
"I can imagine." I smiled, letting my gaze travel back along the bike.
"You ever ridden on a bike before?" He asked tilting his head to the side.
"Only once, it was amazing, it was on the back of one of the bikes my sister restored, our Dad made us sell it once she'd finished doing it up." I shook my head, thinking back, Rosalie was so pissed off it had taken her hours to restore it; I looked back up at Edward and placed my hand on the bike brushing my fingers across it. "I've never ridden anything like this though,"
"Maybe I could take you out on it sometime." He smiled up at me, his lips pulled up higher on the one side than the other. Was he serious? Maybe, but he most probably wouldn't follow through with it was probably one of those things people say like, we'll have to go see that movie sometime and you never do.
"Maybe." I murmured giving him a softy smile "So, what's the plan for tomorrow?" I asked.
"I was thinking maybe we could go to mine, or yours, and do the rehearsing there, I really don't want to have to spend more time in this place than I have to." He grinned cheekily leaning opposite me against the bike.
"I agree fully." I nodded full-heartedly. "We can just meet by your bike after class, then decide whose house we'll go to."
"Sure." He nodded smiling; he pushed of the bike and stuck his bag in the box at the back of his bike and slid his helmet on, he turned back to me and I could see his smile through the tinted visor. "I'll see you tomorrow."
"See you tomorrow." I nodded smiling at him; he gave me one last nod of the head before he climbed on his bike and revved the engine, kicking away the kick stand before I turned hoisting my bag higher on my shoulder as it slipped. I jogged over to my car a climbed in, driving out of the lot I took one last look over at Edward who was just ahead, he raised his hand in a silent goodbye then peeled out of the gates. I leant back in my seat for a second trying to gather my thoughts, then leant forward and drove out heading for home.
As expected when I got home I was bombarded with questions, Alice and Rose dragged me to my room and Jasper and Emmett (I did tell you they practically lived with us) both went up and sulked in Jasper's room when their girlfriends left them and they weren't allowed to join in the conversation. I told them all the details about what had happened, with Jacob, then the rehearsal, then the plans for tomorrow, I skipped the part about where he said he might take me on his bike sometime, knowing then would read way too much into it.
After a few hours Alice and Emmett left to go home and the rest of us like the party animals we are went to bed. I fell asleep almost virtually as my head hit the pillow, it was probably the most restful sleep I'd had in a while. The next morning came way too quickly, I felt rested, sure, but who wants to wake up at an ungodly hour in the morning? I rolled out of bed reluctantly, after Charlie threatened to drive me to school in the cruiser, with the lights going.
"I'm up, I'm awake." I sat up blinking. "Sort of." Charlie left for work shortly after, shouting a gruff I'll be home later up the stairs to everyone, and something to soft for me to hear. After going through all my morning ministrations, taking slightly longer than usual to choose my outfit, in the end I lost my temper and just threw on my jeans and a tee shirt with a nice jacket over the top. I sent a look over too my dresser as I went to walk out of my room to where my copy of Romeo and Juliet was sitting. I hesitated then quickly grabbed it off the side and placed in my bag running my fingers along the spine then zipped up my bag and dashing out my room.
I jumped down the stairs, bag in hand, and rushed into the kitchen to grab some toast before I had to leave. Rose was sat on a stool at the counter top eat a bowl of cereal, she looked up with a smile, yawning delicately, as I pressed down a couple of pieces of bread into the toaster.
"Morning." She greeted.
"Morning." I smiled, grabbing the butter out of the fridge walking over to lean next to Rose on the counter, waiting for the toast to pop, turning to look at it every thirty seconds, I turned back to Rose. "What are the car arrangements for today?" I asked, knowing it was best if I didn't drive knowing I most probably wouldn't be able to drive back. Just as I asked Jasper walked in with a lazy grin on his face.
"I don't think you need to worry about the car for today." Rose replied with a half smirk, Jasper smiled, ruffling my hair as he walked passed, grabbing one of the pieces of toast , that had popped up, I rolled my eyes and snacked him on the back of the head as he grabbed another knife, buttering my toast.
"You are such a pain sometimes." I huffed, straightening my hair and buttering my own piece of toast, then I frowned looking over to Rose. "Wait, what do you mean?" Rose turned to me and cocked her head to the side and smiled.
"Ah you'll see." She looked over at Jasper "I think my cars all out of gas so were going to need to take Bellas truck." She took one last bite of cereal and tossed her bowl in the sink.
"Sure." Jasper shrugged. "But what about Bella?" He mumbled through a mouthful of food. I took a few more bites of food watching Rose carefully, wanting to know the answer to this myself.
"First, don't eat with your mouth full, second she'll be fine." She sent him a look silencing him when he went to say something else. "Just trust me would you? You'll see in a minute." I stood there blinking utterly confused, I took a couple more bites of toast finishing it and sucking the butter of my fingers. Frowning when I was done, I was still hungry. Jasper.
"Whatever you say" He muttered, tossing his knife in the sink along with Rose's bowl and the butter in the fridge. "Shall we go then?" I still didn't move from my spot, trying to process this, where they just going to leave me stranded?
"See you later Bells" Jasper said, ruffling my hair again as he passed by me, I sighed, flattening my hair down with my hand, running my hands through it.
"Sure, I might see you at school." I muttered sarcastically. "That is if I get there today." Rosalie just rolled her eyes at me and wrapped me in a hug.
"Trust me; you'll be perfectly fine, maybe even more than that." She smirked, then frowned, "Take care of yourself." She squeezed me tighter, the let go and hurried after Jasper, swinging her bag over her shoulder. "See you later, I expect details." She called out over her shoulder, I rolled my eyes. "About everything!" I frowned; I think she may have officially lost it.
"Sure, see you." The door shut behind her and I could hear her and Jasper start to argue over something outside, Jasper didn't sound too happy about it, whatever it was. Rose sounded like she was trying to convince him of something, she sounded partly amused, but also part serious herself, after two or three more minutes I heard Jasper sigh. Their footsteps faded until I couldn't hear them anymore. Great now what am I supposed to do?
I grabbed Rose's car keys off the key holder, might as well check if there's enough gas in it to get me too school. Getting home, well that's another thing; I grabbed my bag of the kitchen counter, cursing as I caught the time, rushing out the door, locking it behind me. I turned around to head to the car and froze. At the end of the drive, Edward was leant up against his bike, leather jacket open and his helmet on the seat behind him, a second helmet was perched on the handle bars.
"Edward?" I blinked, he was still there. He walked forward and held his helmet out to me the other hand stuck in his pocket his mouth pulled up in an uneven smile.
"Still want that ride?" He asked, as I took the helmet from his hands, I nodded not quite feeling all there, he nodded his smile widening, walking pack to his bike and climbing on he looked back at me, I walked next to the bike, blinking, looking from Edward to the bike and back again. I was utterly speechless, he grabbed his helmet and pulled it on I followed suit; he reached out and grabbed my bag placing it with his in the box on the back. I climbed on the back holding his arm to steady myself as I climbed on placing my hands tentatively on his waist. I heard him laugh as him took my hands in his and pulled them fully around his waist.
"Hold on tight." He chuckled, sounding muffled through the helmet. At that moment I was so glad he couldn't see me, I could feel the heat rise in my cheeks when he moved my arms around him. He started the bike it rumbling beneath us, the engine purring as we tore off the driveway and down the road. The air was blowing straight through the lengths of my hair; I smiled exuberantly, my arms tightening around Edward's waist without thinking. My heart raced as the bike sped up, it felt like it was going so much faster than it actually was.
We slowed to a stop at a red light, next to a flashy black BMW. I peered into the window seeing Mike and Eric in the front seat apprising the two of us. Cockily they revved there engine creep forward an inch, Edward followed suit revving the bike engine creeping forward slightly so he was in line with them, it carried on like this until the light when green and Edward accelerated off taking them by surprise. We drove off leaving them behind, I turned and saw both with mouths open pissed off looks on their faces. I burst out laughing my shoulders shaking gripping Edward's waist tighter not being able to contain the laughs, my whole body shaking, for a second he stiffened, then his whole started to shake along with mine. I could feel his laughter, literally.
It didn't take us long to reach the school parking lot after that we pulled in and Edward parked up in his normal spot at the far end in the lot between the two other bikes. We were both still laughing as we climbed off. I pulled of my helmet and shook out my hair, running my fingers through the ends trying to tame the ends. I looked up at Edward who was grinning down at me, holding out my bag in his hand. "Did you see their faces?" He laughed shaking his head; I nodded laughing, taking my bag from his hands and hoisting it on my shoulder.
"You know I think he might be over compensating for something." I grinned, Edward frowned his eyebrows slowly rising as he figured it out, he's laughter was loud and free, I joined him. We had finally sobered up when Mike pulled up into the lot and caught our eyes, surprise flashing across his features as he looked between the two of us. At that we both started laughing again, leaning on each other for support, I looked up at his face quickly sobering up a blush flooding my cheeks, his hair was windswept his eyes bright, the light laughing.
"So Bella?" He smiled down at me.
"Edward?" I smiled softly, feeling suddenly a lot warmer.
"Were on for tonight right?"He asked, I nodded, not quite able to find any words just yet.
"Great, so if we meet back here as planned, we can go back to mine, my parents won't be there so we'll have some privacy."
"Sure, Rose, Jasper, Emmett, and Alice are all going to be at mine tonight so it would be pretty hopeless to go there if we want to rehearse in private." I shook my head thinking about how well that would go. It was like living with a bunch of seven year olds sometimes, most of the time my mental age was just as low as theirs, so it worked.
"Grace's out tonight too it's her night off so she visits friends who live close by" Edward paused a slow grin making its way across his face. "She sometimes comes back early, but the two of you have already met and she obviously liked you, even with the crazy clothing choices, although your slippers were..." He paused looking for the right word. "Unique, we have some pretty efficient heating too so being cold shouldn't be a problem." He chuckled; I groaned and placed my head in my hands, peaking through my fingers.
"I'm never going to live that down am I?"
"Not a chance." He laughed."Although I prefer a girl who doesn't take herself too seriously." He grinned, I smiled back, I opened my mouth to retort, but the bell for first class rang cutting me off. It was only then when I turned around that I noticed how many people were turned in our direction. My eyes swept over the crowd, on the other side of the lot Jasper stood with Alice, Rose and Emmett appraising Edward with hard eyes, Alice sent me a smile, Emmett just quirked an eyebrow and Rose had a hesitant smirk on her face.
I looked away, on the opposite end of the lot stood Lauren, Mike, Jessica, Jane and some other of Laurens friends, all giving me that look. You know that look that says what do you think you're doing? He is so out of you league, we are so much better than you. Well, all apart from Jane who looked like she was fighting back a smile, then so quick I didn't know whether it really happened, she winked at me. My eyes widened for a fraction of a second, then I turned away.
"Just ignore them, I do, I personally think there like that because they have their heads stuck too far up there asses." He grinned cheekily; I was surprised at how casually he could talk about his ex-girlfriend and her friends like that. "But that's just me." I just nodded biting back a laugh; we made our way inside splitting up when we got inside. I let my legs carry me there, deep in thought, trying to process everything; it just didn't quite feel right. I shook it off and took the day as it came still receiving looks from people throughout the day. I stayed in the library at lunch; I didn't want the tenth degree from everyone when I still had so many questions to get my own head around. The end of the day bell came quickly; I hurried back out to Edward's bike avoiding talking to Alice, who had just been in my class.
"Bella!" I turned, Edward jogged up to me grinning. "You ready?" I nodded.
"You have no idea." He looked at me cocking his head to one side passing me the spare helmet.
"Bad day?" He asked, taking my bag and placing in the box at the back with his, I shrugged.
"Ah, something like that." I answered, being intentionally vague, not quite ready to unleash the inner workings of my mind on him all unsuspecting. He just quirked an eyebrow and pulled his helmet on his head.
"C'mon trouble." I smiled, pulling on the other helmet and awkward slinging my leg over the bike, tentatively wrapping my arms around his waist still unsure. His muscle flexed under her touched and he revved the bike a sped off, for the second time that day she felt completely free. She closed her eyes, feeling the sensations of the wind, the speed and the warmth of Edward's body up against hers and sighed contentedly. After about ten minutes the turned down a long winding road, turning off halfway up speeding up a long mud track, tall trees lining the edges of the road leading to a large house.
It had a classic yet modern feel to it, a large double door in front, long stunningly red curtains hanging in each window. It climbed the walls around the windows and doors, it was without a doubt, one of the most stunning houses I have ever seen and this was just the outside. We rumbled to a stop on the drive, gravel crunching under the tires. I climbed off, reluctantly unwrapping my arms from his waist, pulling off the helmet I ran my fingers through my hair.
"Your house is amazing." I breathed, looking up at it, in awe, He grabbed our bags from the bike and tossed me mine, looking over at me a sarcastic smile playing on his lips.
He snorted, "I s'pose."
I turned to him. "What?" He looked up at me and shook his head.
"It's just harder to see it that way for me." He sighed running a hand through his hair tugging at it; I looked at him, but didn't ask the question on the tip of tongue knowing it was a definite red flag.
"Okay, it's still stunning, I don't think I've seen another house like it, I mean size wise sure, but the design, it's truly amazing." I looked over at him smiling a small crease formed between his eyebrows.
"Yeah, Esme Cullen designed it." He murmured, we started to walk up to the double door.
"Alice and Emmett's mom Esme?" Esme Cullen was like a surrogate mother to me, my mom and Esme had been best friends when she was alive, Esme ran an interior design business that sometimes took her overseas, it was a small business but Esme's designs had gotten popular over the years and the business expanded. Apart from their house I'd never really seen any of her work first hand, looking at it now there was no doubt in my mind about why she was so popular.
"Yeah, I think so; she did this a while back, when we were all babies." He said guiding me to through the front door. We walked into a large hallway opposite a large wooden staircase. He placed his hand on the small of my back and pushed me gently towards and up the stairs.
"C'mon we can go to my room to rehearse; I left my copy of the script up there."
"Sure." My interest was piqued, I wonder what Mr Populars' room looks like, the thought of being in his room in the vicinity of a bed made me flush, my mind wondering a little too far south. I shook those thoughts away; he pulled me through a door near the end of the hall. It was completely different from what I had expected, on the far wall there were rows and rows of books and CD's lining the wall. I walked towards the shelves' even more surprised when I read some of the titles. Tolstoy, Bronte, Turgenev, Carroll, Dickens, Hardy, Shakespeare, Wilde and some many more I couldn't count there was even a collection of Steven King novels tucked in with the more modern selection. The music was ranging from classic rock, Guns n' Roses, Led Zeppelin to the more modern rock bands like Linkin Park.
"This is absolutely amazing, who knew Mr Popular was so well read." I laughed astonished, his lips quirked up into a half smile.
"I don't know whether or not I should be offended by that." He chuckled.
"Oh, no, I didn't mean it like that it's just I didn't see you as a Tolstoy fan." I rambled.
"I like the Russians as much as the next guy." He grinned, he walked over to a desk in the far corner of his room which was littered with a few papers, and grabbed his script, I stood awkwardly in front on the wide double bed were Edward had taken a seat, he patted the stop beside him and grinned cheekily. "Sit."
"I'm not a dog, and I'm fine here thanks." I muttered, he laughed.
"Come on, I don't bite." He grinned wide, I could feel myself blushing. What if I want you too? I blinked; I cannot believe I just thought that. He motioned me over again this time I went sitting hesitantly on the edge of the bed. We sat awkwardly for a minute or so before he spoke up.
"So, you must be excited about the dance."
"No." I snorted, shaking my head.
"Why not? I thought girls were really into that sort of crap." He smirked. Leaning back on to two hands.
"Well, not me." I shrugged, looking back at him.
"Huh." He looked at me, his mouth still pulled up in a smirk nodding his head.
"What?" I looked at him.
"Nothing." He smiled a little more genuinely this time. "Just, nothing."
"It can't be nothing; otherwise you wouldn't have said anything."
"No, really, it's just; it doesn't surprise me as much as it probably should." He said, rubbing a hand on the back of his neck.
"Why?" I asked, intrigued, not that I didn't already know I was an open book, but all the same, Edward didn't really know me.
"You don't strike me as that kind of girl, you never really have." He murmured leaning forward.
"That kind of girl?" I teased, he rolled his eyes, I knew what he meant but I wanted to see what his definition would be.
"You know; the kind that thinks it's the end of the world when she breaks a nail." He chuckled; I laughed along with him then shrugged.
"Breaking a nail can hurt like a bitch, but it's far from the end of the world." I laughed; Edward leaned back in his chair and smiled, tilting his head to the side in silent thought.
"It's strange you would think all this would surprise me, but for some reason, it really doesn't."
He said almost in thought, I don't know quite what was going through my head, I wasn't surprised at his epiphany, because as I said before I know I'm not all that hard to read, but it was still strange to be told so bluntly, by Edward no less.
"I can't say the same about you." I admitted, cocking my head to one side mimicking his pose.
"Really?" Both his brows rose up in obvious surprise.
"Sure." I shrugged, leaning forward to rest my elbows on my lap, resting my chin on my hand.
"You don't seem to care or flaunt the fact you have a lot of money, you have amazing taste in books and music, you go shopping with your maid..." I trailed off, looking him straight in the eye. "I just can't seem to figure you out." I murmured my voice quiet; his face broke out into a wide grin.
"What can I say? I'm a very complex guy." He teased, chuckling, then his gaze softened. "I guess even though I've grown up around money, it's never really made me all that comfortable, take Grace for example; she's like family and yet she cooks and cleans for us, I just don't feel comfortable letting her pick up after me. She might be the closest family I have" He blinked, then smiled at me sheepishly as if maybe he had said more than he had intended to. I smiled; placing a hand on his forearm I gave it a tentative squeeze. There was so much about Edward I didn't understand, something inexplicable made me want to understand.
"Anyway enough of the heavy. What about you?" I asked.
"What about me?" He frowned confused.
"Will you, Mr Popular, be going to the dance?" I grinned. "I mean it's a Shakespearian theme so you may even get to wear some tights." I teased, he grinned letting out a laugh.
"Yeah, as tempting as that sounds, I honestly don't know, why? Is this you asking me out?" He grinned cheekily.
"Nope, this is me wondering." I shrugged. "Why? Don't you have a date already?" A sardonic smile stretched across his face, my eyes widened as I realised what I said."Oh god sorry of course you don't." I slapped my hand across my mouth to stop the words from spilling out.
"Sorry." I mumbled from behind my hand.
He chuckled, "its okay." He looked at me. "Honestly."
"You seem so fine about this; you don't seem to be effected at all by your break up with Lauren." I pointed out, worried for a second that I might have crossed the line but he merely smiled shaking his head, then looked me straight in the eyes.
"Can I tell you the truth?" I nodded.
"I was only going out with her to annoy my parents." He laughed, well that was totally unexpected, they had always seemed, well not close, but genuine, in a way. I suppose it makes sense, even more now I know more about Edward. They are complete opposites.
"Wow." I couldn't come up with any other words.
"Yeah, wow, makes me seem like a total ass right?" he looked away, then back running a hand over his face.
"Just a little." I smiled, fiddling with the pages of my book.
"What's that?" He asked motioning his chin towards the book in my lap.
"Romeo and Juliet." I answered, lifting it up to show the title on the front in gold script.
"You have your own copy?" I smiled and nodded, he held out his hand tentatively, looking at me, "May I?" I hesitated, then placed it into his out stretched hand.
"Careful I murmured, watching him carefully as he ran his fingers down the spine, he opened the front cover and cocked his head as he read, what I'm guessing, is the message inside the front cover.
"Your mum gave you this?" a soft smile tugged at his lips.
"Yeah, she did." My voice barely a whisper, he didn't ask anything else, even though I could tell he wanted too, he simply nodded in silent understanding.
"Anyway, shall we?" he asked shaking his script.
I nodded, "We shall."
We worked our way through our scenes, he would look over at me every so often from under his lashes, his lips pulled up slightly more on one side, making me lose concentration every now and again. He had this effect on me; I was sure whether or not I liked it just yet. After a couple of hours we called it a night, during this time we had shifted from the edge of the bed to being sprawled across the centre only inches away from each other. I closed my book lying on my back looking up at his ceiling. "I am absolutely exhausted." I smiled, stretching then pushing up to sit crossed legged in front of Edward. He grinned, and pushed himself up sitting in the same position opposite me.
"Me too, I don't think I can handle any more Shakespeare." He looked at me, I could feel the tension in the air, I moved forward slightly almost unconsciously, he did the same. I blinked, and looked away I pushed my hand backwards feeling for my book to close it, I grabbed and turned to quickly, the book slid off the bed and I fell backwards trying to catch it. Quickly Edward's arms shot out, grabbing me and pulling me forward, toppling backwards as he lost balance pulling me with him. I landed on top of his body, it was warm inviting, if I'm totally honest I could have stayed there quite happily, I gasped softly meeting his eyes our faces inches apart.
Slowly we both began to move unconsciously forward until our lips were a mere centimetre a part noses almost brushing.
"Edward!" A female voice carried up the stairs. We both blinked I quickly scrambled off his body and the bed picking up my book. I could tell my face was flushed without even looking into a mirror. Edward just looked at me his head tilted to the side and shook his head. Did we? Did he? Would we have? No, no way.
"I'm upstairs mom!" His mom? Butterflies fluttered in my stomach, why? I don't know, were not together, were only rehearsing, why should I care about his mom and what she thinks of me? He turned back to me. "C'mon, I'll take you home." He smiled, the tension in the room slowly disappearing. "We can take the bike again." I perked up at this and smiled back nodding.
"Sure, I just need to put this." I lifted up the book. "Into my bag, then I'm ready to go." I turned and placed Romeo and Juliet into my bag, zipping it up and tossing over my shoulder, placing my discarded jacket over my arm. I followed Edward out of the room silently, we walked down the stairs, we walked down the hall towards the door. Before we could a tall woman with long dark hair brown and soft green eyes intercepted our path.
"Edward, who might this young lady, be?" she asked smiling; it didn't quite reach her eyes.
Edward sighed. "This is Bella, mom."
"Bella?"
"Yes, we were cast alongside each other in theatre so we have to rehearse together." Edward explained. "I'm taking her home; I brought her here from school." His mother regarded him, silently then nodded looking at me again. Unsure of what to say I simply smiled at her.
"You have a lovely home."
"Thank you Bella." She murmured, sounding surprised standing aside, she looked between the two of us "Okay, don't be home too late." Edward nodded and took my hand pulling me through the door the last thing I noticed was her looking at out intertwined hands with a frown on her face.
"Sorry about that." Edward sighed running his fingers through his hair. "I didn't expect her to be home this early she said she had a late appointment." I squeezed his hand.
"It's fine honestly." I smiled, perplexed at his words, she wasn't quite how I imagined her she seemed to not be too pleased about me being there, I shrugged it off. Edward looked at me gave me a smile and my hand a slight squeeze before dropping it and putting my bag in the box at the back of his bike for safe keeping. He handed me the helmet and pulled his own on we climbed on and sped back off down the drive.
It didn't take long before we reached my house, I got of the bike and thanked him for the ride, he smiled and waved at me as I walked up my drive I waved back watching as he sped away down the road out of sight into the darkness. I turned and walked through the front door, I frowned thinking back, would we have kissed if his mom hadn't turned up? I didn't know. The shrill sound of the ringing phone broke me out of me thoughts, I dived for it on the coffee table before the person had a chance to put the phone down. "Hello?"
"Bella? Good. There's an event I'd like you to attend with me in a couple of weeks time." I pulled back from the phone and stared at it puzzled, I could quite place the voice of the person on the other end, the no nonsense female voice rang in my ear. Then it clicked. Didyme.
"Hey Dida." I greeted smiling.
"Bella." She greeted a smile in her voice. "As I was saying, next month there is a event where all the big publishing companies and their friends get together and boast about this year's big successes, there will be other businesses there, I suppose you could says it's a networking party, I thought that maybe you could come with me since Aro has decided it'd my turn to attend the tedious event, Jane also has no interest in attending one of my work events, but I thought since you wanted to work in the publishing business you could come along with me and see how the business works. Maybe do some networking of your own" She finally paused, that women can talk, sometimes more than Alice. "So, what do you say?"
"Sure, Dida, that sounds great." I said, running a hand through my hair.
"Are you feeling okay Bella?" She asked her voice concerned.
"Yeah, I, Yeah, I've just got a lot on my mind." I confessed.
"Well, honey, I hope you feel better, but right now I have to go Aro is doing the cooking tonight." She sighed. "It's our anniversary, he's trying to be romantic, but it would be so much better if I still had a house and all of my husband, when it comes to business he's great, but cooking, he has no skill what so ever." She said if could practically feel her rolling her eyes.
I laughed. "I know exactly what you mean."
"I'll email you the details, okay; I'll see you soon, Bella."
"Okay, I'll see you soon Dida." I let out a breath and made my way upstairs peeling off my clothes and pulling on some sweats and a black camisole, pulling my hair up out of my face. I hopped back down the stairs to the kitchen and fixed myself a sandwich, before going back into my room and sitting in on my bed cross legged. I lifted my laptop on to my bed to check my emails, I clicked onto the internet and opened my inbox biting my lip a muttering a quiet "ah ha." as I opened the email from Dida. My eyes widened, it read;
To:
From:
Subject: Event details
Bella,
The details are as follows;
The date will be November 25th 2011 it starts at 8:00 approx ending at anywhere between 12:00 and 1:00. I'll have my car pick you upon the way to the venue.
The dinner will be held at Mr. and Mrs. Edward and Elisabeth Mason's house and is formal dress so you need to wear a dress preferable, heels aren't necessary, Bella please we don't need you causing any injuries.
See you soon,
Dida
Edward and Elisabeth Mason, Edward's parents. Well, this should be interesting.
A/N So? I hope you liked it lots of Edward in this one : D! So down to business I'm so sorry for this taking so long but I've been busy with college work I've been have grade worries in my two science subjects lately, you know as much as I wish this could take priority it can't : ( I also had a bit if writers block too which didn't help I've had the majority of this written for a while but I had trouble finishing it my ideas kept changing so I could get the right pace.
Anyway, PLEASE READ! This is for all readers: I have another request, I'm writing the ball scene soon and I need some dress ideas I've finished Rosalie, Alice and bellas outfits I've had bellas mapped out for a long while. But what I need you to do my lovely readers is help me out with any/ all of the boy's suits and masks if you find one that you think is nice. The girls dresses I need are Angela, Jessica, Lauren, Jane maybe others that I can't remember right now : ) Also masks, if any of you find dresses you think would be nice for Alice and Rosalie too ill take a look cause you never know, there might be an even better dress than I have already chosen!
I've been looking myself and I can't find ones that are gelling for me so I thought that it might be more fun this way just PM me if you have any or a lot of ideas, or you just want to chat, I won bite! All of your ideas are really appreciated :D
So massive massive thanks to my awesome beta angel she really is amazing and I forgot to give her love last chapter so she needs extra now :D
Hope you liked it and I promised to get the next chapter out as soon as I possibly can.
Love to you all.
Monstergirl
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