Thank you so much for all the reviews and here is the next chapter you all have patiently been waiting for:

(And sorry this chapter is short, it's just because next chapter is going to be extra long!)

Bella POV

Robbi's expression changed as I reached the door, and I swore he wasn't with me. I frowned, staring into his glazed eyes, noticing the red rim of his actual colour of his eyes were peeking through the contact and I took his hand into mine and I waited for him to return to me.

"Elizabeth!" He suddenly cried out, his eyes in pain and shock I almost thought he was mistaking me for someone before his head dropped down, his eyelids shutting tightly before his head raised slowly and his eyes met with mine. His eyes stared into my confused ones as his eyes went slightly wider.

"Please don't tell me I blacked out again," Robbi grimaced as I nodded and he laughed nervously at my response, "I'm so sorry, they rarely come, but when they do I'm drawn back in time and I have to relive a painful memory again. I'm sorry about that."

I raised my finger to his lips and his words stopped forming and we just stayed like that for what seemed forever before I finally spoke. "Don't be."

I lowered my hand and took his as I placed my key in the door and swung the door open.

Just as I had seen, Charlie was still on the settee watching the game. Robbi let go of my hand and I walked slowly up to Charlie.

"Hey dad," I smiled, so glad that Robbi and him were going to get to know each other finally.

"Hey Bells, what're doing back so soon? I thought you were on a date…" Charlie stopped, before peering towards the door then at me again. "He's not out there is he?"

"No," I chuckled, before turning around to point to Robbi but he had gone. Vanished into thin air. Or escaped while he had the chance.

I heard an engine in the background roar to life and I ran outside before I missed him go. But when I got there the car was gone, and any evidence that he even came to my house gone with it. I threw my head back on my shoulders and closed my eyes, balling up my fists, before flicking my eyes back open when I felt a raindrop land on my cheek. I wiped it away before heading back inside the house and slamming the door shut. I grabbed my phone out of my pocket and punched in his number, dialing him.

First ring, second ring, third, fourth, fifth… I was about to give up when he finally answered.

"Bella – I'm so sorry, I just couldn't do it to you-" He began hastily, but as he paused for the briefest moment I found my chance to interrupt his sorry speech.

"I don't give a damn!" I hollered before heading back outside when I noticed Charlie watching me rather than the game. When our eyes met, he spun back in his seat, his eyes on the game, but his ears all on the conversation I was now having with Robbi, or in his case with an unknown mystery person.

I put the door on the catch and shut it lightly behind me, before continuing, "You left me in my house looking like an idiot! What is so wrong that you couldn't even meet my dad? I mean c'mon, it's not like he's going to shoot you, but at the moment he has a pretty good damn reason!"

Robbi, who was silent on the other side of the line now spoke in, "Bella, I couldn't do it again! I… I have to tell you, and then you can make up your mind whether you want to be with me still or not. But what I tell you goes no further than you or I – understood?" I nodded, but realised he couldn't see me so I cleared my throat and agreed. "I'll take you to my house Wednesday. I just need to clear my head for a bit so I won't be in Monday…"

"Wait, I'm going to your house?" I gasped, shocked.

"Yeah, what I'm telling you is confidential, I don't want anyone else hearing us, and your house has Charlie there." Robbi replied solemnly.

"And you're not in Monday…" I continued and Robbi agreed again.

"But you're in Tuesday – right?" I asked again, to which Robbi confirmed.

"I'll see you Tuesday then," I huffed and Robbi said a small farewell, along the lines of 'I'll see you then,' and I hung up.

I headed into the house and Charlie came up to me. "So…" He pointed to the phone then me.

"Don't worry dad, I don't want to bring you into anything." I smiled warmly and headed off upstairs to my room, pulling out my copy of Wuthering Heights to take my mind of my problems for a while before I had to cook dinner.

Ooh… do any of you know what Robbi needs to tell Bella Wednesday? I'm sure you all do but I'd love to know if what's in my head is clear enough for you, so please – review, I love reading and replying to them

Sam xx