Disclaimer: Twilight still isn't mine.
Bella's POV
On the car ride home, I was feeling kind of low from thinking about Tanya and Edward so I let Rose, Alice and Aaron continue talking and laughing while I got out my ipod.
I put it on shuffle mode and was surprised with the song that came on. I must have forgot I put this on here but I had to admit that this was one of the only songs I liked from Demi Lovato probably since it was slow and she actually sang it and didn't yell. As I listened to lyrics I couldn't help but relate. Don't Forget by Demi Lovato.
Did you forget
That I was even alive
Did you forget
Everything we ever had
Did you forget
Did you forget
About me
Did you regret
Ever standing by my side
Did you forget
What we were feeling inside
Now I'm left to forget
About us
But somewhere we went wrong
We were once so strong
Our love is like a song
You can't forget it
So now I guess
This is where we have to stand
Did you regret
Ever holding my hand
Never again
Please don't forget
Don't forget
We had it all
We were just about to fall
Even more in love
Than we were before
I won't forget
I won't forget
About us
But somewhere we went wrong
We were once so strong
Our love is like a song
You can't forget it
Somewhere we went wrong
We were once so strong
Our love is like a song
You can't forget it
At all
And at last
All the pictures have been burned
And all the past
Is just a lesson that we've learned
I won't forget
I won't forget us
But somewhere we went wrong
Our love is like a song
But you won't sing along
You've forgotten
About us
Thursday went by quickly at school, thankfully James was absent and after school I couldn't hang out with Alice and Rose since I had to check some books out from the library for a new project in government class. I had started typing my assignment on my laptop when I heard a knock at my door.
"Aaron I told you I don't know where the remote is!" I answered not taking my attention away from my laptop screen.
"I may not be Aaron but I know where the remote is. Can I come in Bells?" Charlie's calm and low voice came from the other side of the door.
"Yea it's open." I responded, taken back. Charlie and I hadn't talked at all in a couple days. I had no idea what he would want to talk about.
"Look Bells I think it's time I apologize about this whole situation. Jacob called yesterday while you were shopping with your friends and explained everything to me. He told me how he lied out of jealousy and anger and that none of it was true. He sounded really sorry and regretful about everything." Charlie was looking me straight in the eyes as he paused.
"He should." I mumbled under my breath.
"I hope you can forgive him and forgive me. I know I overreacted about the whole Edward situation but it's just that I know you're growing up Bells and honestly it kind of scares me, I don't want to lose my little girl, it feels like not too long ago you were making mud pies." Charlie looked down at his feet now and I knew that this was hard for him. He never cried but he looked like he was on the verge on tears right now, I sprang up from the chair and crashed into him throwing my arms around him as he laid his cheek on my head.
"Dad of course I'll forgive you. When I said I hate you I didn't mean it I was just too angry. I'm a terrible person." I closed my eyes as I felt the guilt consume me of when I remembered yelling 'I hate you' at Charlie.
"You're not a terrible person Bella, I deserved it." He paused again to grab my shoulders and look me in the face. "From now on I want to try to be reasonable and try to see things from your perspective too. For example, the Edward situation, I think we can come to a compromise about this, maybe I you can arrange for a dinner between us three so I can meet him and we can assign times during the day when he can come over, under my supervision of course and…"
My chest began to hurt again as Charlie brought Edward up. "Dad that's not gonna happen, Edward and I are over." I muttered as I felt tears began to develop. Great, I was going to cry again.
"What do you mean Bells? I'm gonna call the academy and straighten everything out, I'll tell them about the whole misunderstanding if I have to. I don't want to make you unhappy for another minute." Charlie said, clearly not understanding the depth of my words.
"The academy wasn't the only reason we broke up." I refused to get my hopes up that just because Charlie was going to set things straight with the academy that everything between me and Edward could go back to the way it was, like the night of the party.
"Oh." Was all that escaped Charlie's mouth. I could tell he didn't know what else to say so I decided I should help him.
"Dad you mean so much to me, thank you for all you've done. I think what I need right now is a nice hot shower though." I let him off the hook as I went to grab my bag of toiletries, underwear, my PJ's and a towel.
"Mkay Bells I guess I'll go call up the academy." He left my room and as soon as I heard his footsteps fade down the stairs I dropped myself on my bed, releasing what I had grabbed for my shower silently and put my head in my hands.
I wanted to believe that this would make everything go back to the way it was but I kept forcing myself to stay in reality. Edward didn't want me. If it had been just the academy holding us back he would've tried a little harder right? If the academy was the only obstacle he must've not wanted to try to work through it. There had to be another reason he broke up with me... right?
The next morning I woke up to the smell of pancakes so I got ready and my school stuff together before going downstairs to scarf some down.
"Morning Dad." I greeted Charlie.
"Morning Bells." Charlie answered back.
"Finally sleepy head." Aaron teased sitting on the table with a plate full of pancakes. I stuck my tongue out at him like a four year old. Charlie served me a couple pancakes before grabbing some for himself, then we sat down and ate together.
"Bells, there's something else I need to talk to you about. I had never told you about this but I was offered a promotion after my last successful assignment, lately I've been thinking about it and one major downfall is it's in New York." My heart stopped as Charlie said the words. I wasn't with Edward anymore but I still certainly didn't want to leave. I still had Alice, Rosalie, Jake, the rest of the Cullens and I didn't want my memories with Edward here to fade even though it hurt to think about them.
"I just want to know that I'm turning it down this morning." Charlie finished. I felt awful for feeling so relieved.
"Well I can't say I'm unhappy." I smiled at Charlie before taking a bite of my pancakes and he just chuckled.
Since today was Friday, school went by pretty smoothly. Luckily James had left me alone and I wasn't assigned any weekend homework.
"Let's do something tonight." Alice suggested during lunch.
"How about we just have a sleepover? Carlisle and Esme left for Brazil for a couple days and the boys aren't supposed to come home from the academy until tomorrow, it'll be perfect." Rose smiled, clearly proud of herself for the idea.
"You mean we'll have your guy's huge house to ourselves?" I asked making sure Edward wasn't gonna be there, I still felt too raw about the way things ended to see him, but then another part of me was dieing to see his beautiful face.
"Yep." Alice grinned.
"Ok then." I agreed.
"Aaron can come too if he wants, we have a couple guest bedrooms." Rose said, reminding me about Aaron. I had totally forgot he would have to tag along.
"Maybe I can get him to take the night off. He's always talking about his family, maybe he would wanna go see them tonight or something." I proposed.
"Aww that's a great idea Bells. What's the deal behind you and him anyways?" Alice asked raising an eyebrow.
"Me and Aaron?" I started shocked. I couldn't even think about liking another guy right now. I wasn't that kind of girl who immediately liked someone else after being broken up with. "He's like the brother I never had, there are no feelings there trust me, he reminds me of Jake, friend status." I'm not sure if they believed me but they just looked at each other and nodded.
"We'll pick you up from your dad's at four." Alice muttered before eating her yogurt.
Charlie agreed to let me sleepover in a heartbeat when I told him how the boys were at the academy this weekend. I left out the parts that Carlisle and Esme were also gone and that they boys would be returning tomorrow, he didn't need to know that much. To my surprise he suggested that Aaron take the night off too, Charlie didn't want to force Aaron to endure us talking about boys, doing each other's nails and all the other freshman year things Charlie listed.
Sure enough right at four our doorbell rang. I let Charlie answer it as I grabbed my bag and headed down the stairs. Alice and Rose introduced themselves and Charlie seemed to like them which was a plus, maybe I could get more freedom since I hung out with people he liked.
Once we got into Rose's BMW I saw the junk food they must have bought before picking me up. It included chocolate and chocolate mint chip ice cream, microwave popcorn, M&M's, gummy worms, oreos, brownie mix and a six-pack of diet coke. Just looking at the bags of junk food made me want to go running.
"This isn't all for us is it?" I asked scared that tomorrow morning I wouldn't fit into my jeans. I don't know how Rose and Alice could eat this and not gain weight.
"I don't think we'll eat all of it, we just wanted different chooses, besides it's a sleepover it's what we're supposed to do!" Alice answered giving me a childish smile.
"If we don't have a heart attack first." I added under my breath.
The sleepover wasn't so bad, in fact I had a lot of fun. Alice and Rose had rented a couple comedies from the video store where Jessica Stanley worked and they had me laughing so hard my eyes were watering. I think Alice had planned a schedule for the night ahead of time because she always seemed like she knew exactly what to do next. After watching two funny movies while eating junk food, Alice wanted us to play charades, where you had to try to act out a word and the other people had to guess it. Alice's laptop would pick a random word from it's online dictionary then each person had to act it out. I always got the weird words like bladder and mortician that i couldn't act out well so Alice and Rose would give up after guessing like a million words.
After that we played what Alice called 'Alice's truth or dare' where each person would be asked an extremely personal truth, the person being asked could either lie or tell the truth, if the person lied and someone caught them in a lie then they would have to do a dare, but knowing Alice and Rose, I never lied. I was too afraid of the crazy dare they might make me do if they caught me lying.
I'm not sure when but after Alice's truth or dare, we all eventually fell asleep on the blanket we were laying on in the living room. The last thing I remembered was Alice and Rose talking about how they were going to take me on the next family vacation, then we all drifted off into sleep.
I could've sworn that I was being moved around in my sleep and someone brush against my forehead but I was too tired to wake up and find out. A little while later I was on a Maui Beach with the Cullen's. Edward had took me swimming and as we got deeper and deeper into the ocean my feet could no longer touch the ocean floor. I felt myself get pulled into a riptide and scream Edward's name. He reached his hand out towards me but I couldn't reach it. He put his head down and pulled his arm back. I screamed his name once more before I sat up grabbing the comforter. Wait, a comforter? I was in a bed, this was not where I had fallen asleep. I looked around the room I was in, one side of the wall was covered with shelves of music with a high quality stereo system. On the opposing wall, it was clear glass. I gasped as I looked into the midnight forest seeing the moon's reflection of the nearby river. I must've been in one of the guest rooms. I looked over at the clock on the nightstand and it said 1:47 am. I felt extremely thirsty so I threw the covers off and tried to tiptoe out of the room. I tiptoed down the stairs and felt the unfamiliar walls in the darkness as I made my way to the kitchen.
As I walked through the dining room I stubbed my toe on a table leg and cried out in a pain.
"Owwwww." I whimpered as I grabbed my toe. Then I heard someone take a sharp intake of breath.
"Bella?"
A/N: Thanks for all the reviews for last chapter!! I think I'll post the next chapter Thursday morning if I can get twenty more reviews? The power is in your hands haha.
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