"Bella?
Do you know what time it is?" Alice groaned sleepily.
"Yes,
Alice, I'll take it downstairs." I muttered getting out of bed.
And borrowing one of Alice's many dressing gowns. I didn't even look
at the caller ID and just flipped my phone open. "Hello?" I
sat down on the sofa again. "Do you know what time it is?"
I asked wearily I froze when I heard the voice on the other end.
"Bella, it's 8am and somebody had a busy night last night, you didn't even come home last night, I was waiting for you in our room. Why are you ignoring me? You can't ignore me forever baby."
"Why are you calling me? Please leave me alone. It's been months, just move on." I begged
"I can't, Bells. You mean too much to me"
"If you call this number again, I will not be as understanding. Good-bye and don't ever call back." And I hang up. I wasn't at all sleepy any more and I just sat there in complete silence and the phone rang again, I saw the ID and opened it. I took a breath and answered as cheerfully as possible. "Hey dad," I said
"Hey Bells, are you ok? You didn't come home last night. Your mother and I were worried sick," dad started, he sounded relieved to hear my voice.
"Yeah, I'm sorry dad, really. I'm at the Masens, helped clean up last night," I looked around the still messy room." They guys are still asleep, we still have a little cleaning to do so will be home in time for dinner, but I need to come and get changed first so about lunch? Are you in call today?" I asked wiping my eyes.
"No baby, will be home all day, did you have a nice time last night?" he asked. I heard him turn the page if a newspaper.
"Relatively," I said simply. "Listen call you later, my batteries about to die, Bye Daddy," I hurried.
"Bye Bells and I hung up and turned off my phone. It was 9:30. I couldn't just sit here all day and do nothing. So I got up and started to clean. It was easier than I thought and I just got on with it. I tried not to think about him calling but it was all I could think about as I scrubbed the counters, collected the rubbish and put it outside in the trash can. By the time 10 came around, the house was spotless and I just lay down on the couch. I tried not to fall asleep but I couldn't help it and there was a blanket there on the couch.
I don't know what time it was but I heard voices coming down the stairs but I couldn't open my eyes and just listened instead.
"Should we wake Bella up?" a soft voice asked.
"Hell no! She wakes up when she does; don't try to do that unless you have a death wish." Booming voice replied." Any way I suppose we have cleaning to do." He guess he looked around the room "or not." Emmett said.
"Who in their right mind would get up before 11am and clean?" Jasper asked. I thought it time to reveal myself.
"I would." And I raised my hand feebly. "Oh and Em, you woke me up so prepare to pay later." I muttered letting it land limply at my side again.
"Bella, what time to you get up? It must have been early, 'cause Alice isn't even up yet." Jasper asked, coming round to face me and I opened my eyes. Emmett joined him looking nervous and trying to hold back a laugh, but Edward was looking at me with an unreadable expression. I stared at him for a second.
"Somebody called me." I replied with a monotone. "Then Dad called me, he was worried. I told him I'm going home to get changed around lunch, but then I fell asleep after I cleaned up." I yawned, and turned away from them all. But then Alice jumped on top of me.
"Morning sunshine! Rise and shine for a brand new day!" She shouted and the boys laughed. I shot daggers at her.
"Fine, I'm up, I'm up. But I am not happy about it." And I stared at Emmett and he looked genuinely scared. "Alice I'm going to the city today, want to come?" I asked getting up.
"Sure why are you going?" she asked.
"I need a new cell phone." I muttered.
"What happened to the old one?" Jasper asked annoyed. I looked at Edward for a second.
"It broke," I muttered simply. I thought about how I smashed it to smithereens on the patio earlier that morning and how the remains lay in one of the trash cans out front. "I'm going home for lunch, will get some stuff. Guys do you want me to get you a change of clothes or anything?" They both nodded. "Okay then, anybody else want to come to the city then?" I already knew the answer but I was still surprised that Edward piped up and said;
"I will," he muttered. Emmett gave him a look "I can give you a ride and I know a good cell phone store." He said, rising to his feet.
"Ok, cool. Alice is you going to come with me so I can get changed. You might aswell come too, we can go straight afterwards." I pointed to Edward and he got up. "Need to get my dress so I -"
"I'll get it; meet you at yours in a minute." Alice interrupted and she flew upstairs.
"Okay then," I'll be back soon, tell Rose I said hey. Will you be coming home for dinner?" I asked Emmett and Jazz.
"Probably," they both replied. With that I walked out of the house with slippers that didn't belong to me. Once we were out of the house. Edward grabbed my hand.
"So he called you again?" he stated
"Yeah, I told him not to call me again but I didn't trust him so I destroyed me phone." I muttered
"Clever, why didn't you tell me?" he asked pulling me up into his arms and carrying me like a baby. I didn't object it was too cold to.
"You were asleep; I didn't want to bother you." I muttered
"Don't ever think that .I'll always be here for you." He replied angrily.
"But, you hardly know me, realistically. It isn't your fight." I replied just as angrily, trying to wriggle free now.
"I may have known you for only two weeks but I feel like I've known you a whole lot longer." He smiled down at me and I leaned up to kiss him lightly." And by the way, any fight that you have I have." He muttered and I smiled up to him.
"You should probably put me down here .Don't want Mum and Dad to think I fainted or something." I murmured. And he gently put me down. I walked up to my house and rang the doorbell. I could see Alice running down the road with my stuff and the door opened. "Hey dad," he wasn't looking at me, he was glaring at Edward. Ooh, tense, "this is Edward; I don't believe that you two have met. Dad meet Edward, Edward meet Dad." There was silence, then my savoir Alice appeared. "But you have however met Alice," this seemed to snap something in my fathers head.
"Ah, Alice. Lovely to see you again. You're a friend of Bella's?" he asked shaking her by the hand. Edward was smiling smugly to himself. We all walked into the sitting room. Mum was in there sitting on the leather sofa, she looked worried.
"Hey Mum, you okay?" I asked giving her a swift peck on the cheek. "You remember Edward, he came round that day we had the volleyball game?" I asked hopefully.
"Yes of course I remember, Edward how are you, I trust you are well?" she asked. I mouthed;
"Thank you" behind Edward's head. Dad sat down again, staring at Edward's head. I was wondering how much he wanted to kill him. Had he seen me being carried by him? "I have to get changed; we're going to town in a minute,"
"Why?" dad snapped. Suddenly looking in my direction.
"My phone broke. Edward knows a good phone store." I said, poking my head around the door.
"I bet he knows a good phone store;" he muttered under his breath.
"What was that Daddy?" I asked and Edward smirked a little even though he was still deep in conversation with my Mother.
"I said could you go to the book store?" he said improvising.
"I'll have a look dad." I smirked. I made my way to my bedroom. It faced the street and I had a balcony that also faced the street. It was a beautiful room.
"So your dad is just as protective as your brothers." Alice asked
"No, my brothers are just as protective as my dad!" I giggled. I got dressed in a hurry, just throwing on a dress and some pumps. I grabbed by credit card and sunglasses that hid most of my face and got some stuff for Emmett and Jazz, and ran downstairs.
