Chapter 9
Tears and Forgiveness
(edward's POV)
When Bella fell asleep she started talking. "Edward," she said. My head snapped up to see if she had woken up.
"Edward," she said again, louder, and with so much emotion it almost hurt.
Then I heard Charlie's thoughts from his room down the hall. What is that girl talking about now? I guess I had better go check it out.
Oh no. Charlie's coming! I ran to Bella's closet and positioned myself behind her clothes. She really didn't have that many. Better not tell Alice that, though.
Charlie stumbled into the room just as I had finished closing the door.
"Edward, I love you so much," Bella said.
Charlie sighed. He was thinking: she even thinks about that boy when she's unconscious. Maybe I was too hard on her. Bella does have good judgement. I need to talk to her in the morning. Then Charlie turned and headed back to his room. Within minutes he was fast asleep.
I let out the breath I had been holding and sat in the rocking chair on the corner of Bella's room.
She tossed and turned all night, saying things like, "Please don't be mad, Charlie. It was only 3 minutes," and, " I love Edward, you can't make me leave him." I sighed again. It would be my fault if Charlie blew up at Bella tomorrow, the same with Renee.
(bella's pov)
"hmm…huh," I yawned, rubbed my eyes, stretched, and sat up. "Edward?" I whispered, blinking the sleep from my eyes.
"I love you hair like that. It looks like a haystack," Edward answered from his position in my rocking chair.
"Edward, you stayed!" I rejoiced.
"Well of course I did," Edward looked confused at the fact that I was surprised. "Listen, Bella. Charlie wants to talk to you over breakfast. He's cooking today," that's when I started to smell the smoke.
"Uh oh," I said.
"Meet me in your truck when you're done," Edward said as he ducked out my window, "unless you want help breaking the knew to Charlie," he called.
"'s okay, I can do it," I said. Then I lurched down the stairs to make sure Charlie didn't burn down all of Forks. I bumped into the walls and almost did a face plant on the stairs quite a few times.
"Charlie," I said breathlessly, "what the he-ck are you doing?"
"Making breakfast," Charlie said, confused but proud of the fact that he was "making breakfast".
"Dad, that French toast is black," I said, like I was explaining something to a little kid.
"Um, oops?" he said. I started laughing while making us both good, unblackened French toast.
"Bells?" he asked when I had finished.
"Ya, Dad?"
He cleared his throat. "I need to talk to you," he said, "I think I might have overreacted last night." I raised my eyebrows. He sighed, "and about you and Edward in general. I never realized how much you loved him. Love him."
"I really do love him, Dad," I said, looking at my ring finger. Oops, I must have left it upstairs on my bedside table. "I'll be right back," I said.
I ran upstairs and grabbed the ring, shoving it on my finger on my way downstairs. I was marveling at the beauty of it when I walked into the kitchen. I took a deep breath and said, "Dad, last night, well… Edward asked me to marry him."
Charlie looked shocked but not really surprised. "And?" he asked, though he already knew the answer by the ring.
"And I said YES!" I practically screamed.
"Well, the ring is beautiful…just like you," Charlie muttered.
"Dad…"
"Oh, come here, Bella," Charlie said, patting his lap. I went over and sat gently on his lap, not putting my full weight on him. "You know I will always love you, no matter what you choose to do with your life, right?"
"Yes," I said, the tears starting to flow.
"Good, because it's true. I just don't want you to throw your whole life away because of some boy," I glared at him, which was surprisingly hard to do when you are crying, by the way, "Edward," he said and rolled his eyes.
"I'm not throwing away my life. We're still going to go to college and everything," eventually, "I'm just starting a whole new part of my life. I really love Edward, and loves me too," I said. More than you will ever know.
"Well, if you really feel that way…I'd be proud to walk you down that aisle. When will the wedding be, anyway?"
"I'm not sure, I'm going over to the Cullen's house today so we can plan it."
"All right. Do you want me to call Renee, then?"
"Oh, yes! Thank you Daddy! For everything," I said, kissed his cheek, and hugged him. Then I strolled up the stairs, trying to control the tears leaking out of my eyes and staining my cheeks.
I went straight to the bathroom to take a short, hot shower, then went quickly to my room. I already knew what I was going to wear so I pulled on the dark blue v-neck sweater that Edward liked so much and the inescapable blue jeans.
I brushed my teeth thouroghly and ran my brush through my hair. I decided to leave it down because it was one of the few days that my hair wasn't completely frizzy.
I ran down the stairs, grabbing my keys off the hook, and kissed Charlie on the cheek. Then I narrowly escaped a face plant on the driveway when Edward caught me with his cold, strong arms.
"Thanks, Edward," I said.
"My pleasure," he said, "now why don't we get you to my house before you break that beautiful face of yours?"
"Always the charmer, aren't you?" I muttered while getting into the car.
A/N—sorry it's taken so long, I will try to update at least once a week cause school starts on Monday, but no promises! Please review, remember it's a rule now!!
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