A/N: Ok, so don't know about you guys… but I wrote my summer reading essay yesterday and I'm in desperate need of some good old senseless fluff… lol… the deeper talks and drama and bad stuff that we all love to hate shall come soon but really? I figured it was time for some pure fluff anyways…really short… for this story anyways…Read. Enjoy. Review…
Trip Around the Sun
Chapter Ten – Balancing Act
"So," said Alice as we were walking out of school on Monday, and heading towards the parking lot with Jasper, "If you come over now will you be hanging out with dad or us?"
"Alice!" I hissed as we approached the cars, "Volume."
"What? Are you ashamed of daddy or something?"
"Hardly," I replied, rolling my eyes and leaning against the side of my truck, "It's just we decided not to tell anyone just yet, and I think it would be best if you didn't break that for us."
"Right, sorry, no one heard me though," said Alice reassuringly, "But seriously, answer the question."
"I don't know," I said, "Wouldn't you already know that answer anyways?"
"No," said Alice disappointedly, "You haven't made up your decision yet, though I do see dad taking us all to a movie up in Port Angeles."
"See?" I said, happy this meant that I could spend some time with both parties, "I'll be spending time with all three of you."
"Right," said Alice skeptically, and she rolled her eyes, "You'll be clinging to dad the entire time."
"Yes," I said, that had been in my plans, "But I will be sitting next to you too."
"Fine," said Alice and I hopped into the truck and followed them home.
We just about raced home, though it would be totally unfair if we actually did race, considering there was no way my old truck was going to keep up with their Porsche. We gunned it up the driveway, which basically meant fifty miles per hour for me, but their Porsche came to a screeching halt outside the garage door. Carlisle was standing by his Mercedes, like he had just got home and I stopped the truck just before I reached my normal parking spot and hopped out, running towards him.
"Carlisle," I said, flinging my arms around his neck and he chuckled as he kissed the top of my head.
"Good afternoon, Bella," He said, calmly chuckling as he in turn wrapped his arms around me.
"Ok," said Alice as I looked up into Carlisle's eyes, about to kiss him, "If we don't get going now we're going to miss the movie."
"I'm afraid she's right," said Carlisle, leaning down and kissing me quickly, "Ride with me, my love?"
"Course," I said and Jasper chuckled.
"I'm guessing we're going to want to take our own car?" He said it more like a statement than a question, I blushed and Carlisle chuckled as Alice nodded and they went off to get into the Porsche again.
"After you, my darling," said Carlisle politely as he gestured over to the car and I laughed a little as I hopped into the front seat.
He followed me closely and sat down into the driver's seat as Alice and Jasper pulled out and whipped down the driveway. He chuckled under his breath as he watched them disappear before he took my hand over the center consol and kissed the back of it before starting the engine. We rode in comfortable silence until we hit the highway.
"So how was your day?" Carlisle asked once we were going a normal speed down the highway.
"Ok," I said, giving his cold hand a little squeeze, "Missed you."
"I missed you too," He said, kissing the back of my hand again.
"But how was the hospital?" I asked and he rolled his eyes playfully.
"Dreadfully boring without you, my love," He said sweetly and I smiled once again.
"You sure know how to make a girl feel special," I replied and he grinned.
"It's easy when they already are special," He retorted as we followed the distant yellow Porsche onto the exit for the movie theater.
We were quiet after that until we got to the theater, and got our while Alice bounced right out of her passenger seat and Jasper climbed out more calmly. Carlisle and I were forced to keep our hands to ourselves until we reached the safety of the dark theater, just in case there was anyone that would know us. I envied Alice and Jasper for those few minutes as we got the tickets and filed into the movie, in which time they got to hold hands while I stood on the opposite side of the group as Carlisle.
"You seem to be balancing us and him perfectly well," Jasper whispered to me as Carlisle got me popcorn at the concession stand, "No matter how much Alice likes teasing you about it."
"Thanks, Jasper," I said and he nodded as Carlisle returned, handing me a small bucket of popcorn, "And thanks Carlisle."
"My Pleasure, Bella," Carlisle said with a wink that meant 'If we weren't in such a public place I would have kissed you in place of this wink.'
"Shall we head in?" said Alice, she didn't have to be Jasper to sense the need for a little bit of darkness, "The movie starts in a few minutes."
"You lead the way," said Carlisle and we all paraded through the entrance to the actual theater itself.
The moment I handed the ticket to the guy for him to rip was the first time I thought to check what movie we were seeing. The guy handed me back the stub and I read the movie title. Then I chuckled a little and shot Carlisle a questioning look, but he glanced right back at me, reminding me to keep any questions to myself until we got to our seats. Alice must have seen my question because she chuckled a little too and then we headed into the actual theater.
It was already dark for the commercials and we sat down towards the middle of the theater. I sat casually between Alice and Carlisle while Jasper took a seat on the other side of Alice. I looked up and over at Carlisle and he smiled before wrapping his arm gently around my shoulders.
"I believe you had a question for me," said Carlisle and I nodded as his lips made contact with the top of my head.
"Why did you pick a chick flick?" I asked and the three of them started to chuckle.
"First off my dear," said Carlisle, "A practical reason in the fact that it came out before all the other movies and coming to the after noon show would secure that we'd be the only ones in the theater. Secondly, I have never, since movies started coming out, had the excuse to go to one of these movies, I was curious."
"I told him he wasn't missing much," said Jasper from the other side of Alice, but his comment earned him a slap on the arm from Alice.
"Well I was curious," said Carlisle, and I let my head drop onto his shoulder, "You don't mind, do you?"
"No," I said with a light sigh as he pecked my cheek, "But you might in a few minutes."
"It can't be as bad as the cold war," said Carlisle, "That was excruciating, and nothing ever happened."
"Have to take your word for it," I replied as the opening credits started and I wrapped an arm low over Carlisle's waist, arm snaked underneath the armrest.
As Alice had said, I stayed right there hanging onto Carlisle the entire movie. I had to chuckled a little each time he sighed, I could tell he was getting a tad annoyed with the plot line. At one point I heard Jasper chuckle as Carlisle seemed to actually be getting into the movie towards the end.
"What?" said Carlisle as the credits started to roll at the end, "He died? That's how they ended it? The whole movie was fine and then he died? In a freak accident like that?"
"They always kill off the guy," Jasper said and I shook my head as we all got up.
"Not always," I replied, "Just most of the time."
"Well that was ridiculous," said Carlisle, "He finally told her he loved her and he promptly got hit by a bus."
"Don't worry," said Jasper as we went back out into the lobby, "You tend not to care after the first one."
"Well thank you, Jasper," said Carlisle as Alice and I ran ahead of the men., and out into the parking lot.
We were waiting over by the respective cars by the time the guys had come out into the parking lot. They were laughing a little and I looked over at Alice who just rolled her eyes.
"You two can chat like old ladies when we get home," Alice reminded them, and Jasper smiled at her as they reached us.
"Sorry to keep you two waiting," Carlisle said playfully as we got into the cars and headed back towards Forks.
Carlisle was once again, in the sweetest way possible holding my hand while he drove. I looked over at him and marveled once again at just how amazingly gorgeous he was. While, after making out with him a few times my heart had learned to behave itself with the pounding, it still seemed a little surreal. A gorgeous, sweet, caring, perfect guy came out of nowhere and declares that we're soul mates. Sure he was a vampire, but that seemed like such a little price to pay.