AUTHOR'S NOTE:

Thanks go to my beta TheRainGirl for getting this back to me in one day! Go check out her completed story Inamorata and meet Peeper. He's a naughty young man that likes to watch his new neighbor strip to chick rock in her bedroom...

No copyright is on this baby because the law says I can't, and I don't want to. Fanfiction is written in fun for you to read for free.

Rated M: language, lemons, some angst

CHAPTER 10

March 2006

"Are you sure about this, Bella?"

"What do I have to be sure about?" She asked, taking her shoes off ahead of time to get in the security line.

"This," I replied, waving my hands down at her luggage. "Going to Phoenix. Surprising James."

Huffing, she stood back up straight with an exasperated look on her face. "Surprises are nice, Edward."

I grimaced with a sinking feeling in my chest. "Not always."

"Look," she sighed, placing her palms flat on my chest. "I haven't seen him since last August. That's seven months. He said he couldn't take off work at Christmas, but I'm not going to let him tell me that he has too much homework for me to see him over Spring Break. Nobody has that much homework. "

My eyebrows scrunched together looking down into her rich coffee brown eyes. Something seemed off with what she was saying, though she spoke every word calmly and evenly.

"A boyfriend should want to see his girlfriend more than just during the summers. He should drop everything, even if for just one hour if he had the chance to see her. Don't you agree? Don't I deserve an hour?"

Of course she did. She deserved every hour. But something was wrong with this picture. "Bella? What is–"

"I have to go..." she whispered, interrupting me, conveying her unwavering plea with four simple words. I wanted to ask her if she suspected something like I did, but I already knew by what her eyes were telling me. The worry behind the determination told me that she had no idea what was waiting for her in Phoenix, but she had to go anyways. She had to find out.

Rolling my head around on my shoulders to relieve the building stress, I gave in and handed her backpack over. "Call me when you find out your gate information for your return flight. I'll come get you."

"Thank you," she mouthed, stretching up to give me a quick peck on the cheek. She was already getting into line before the tingle was gone, but I couldn't leave it there.

"Call me for anything, Bella. Anything at all. I'm here."

She smiled softly, never breaking eye contact with me until she stepped through the metal detector, and just before she got lost in the crowd of passengers, I saw a wiggle of her fingers in goodbye. Never in my life had I wanted to grab onto fingers so much. Never had I wanted to hold onto somebody so tightly.

I hoped she knew what she was doing.

AUTHOR'S END NOTE:

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