Sorry it took so long, i just kept putting it all off, but i hope you all enjoy it now.
Edward and I were running through the forest at a leisurely pace, holding hands, and of course him being the gentleman, he was carrying my guitar for me. I looked over at him and smiled, things have been so great lately, and I had finally started to feel like I can trust him again. He smiled back at me and slowed to a walk.
He pulled the guitar strap on, so the guitar was sitting on his back, and then he stopped and turned to me with a cute smile plastered on his face. He leant in and kissed me gently at first, but then with more passion and heat. His tongue darted out and traced my bottom lip, asking for entrance, which I hesitantly denied. I wasn't ready for that. When we were first together there were so many boundaries that he would enforce, and now, I was he one who wasn't ready to cross them… yet.
He pulled back looking disappointed, like a child who just found out the last cookie was gone. I laughed at him and leant in giving him a quick peck on the lips before grabbing his hand and starting off for the house again.
When we reached the house Alice was sitting on the front step again, it was like she had to personally greet us when we got back, that or she wanted something.
"Bella" she whined. "Why won't you show me what you write, I'm your best friend, remember"
I looked at her, and then at Edward and sighed heavily.
"Fine" I said walking through the door, making my way towards Edwards piano. I sat down on the bench and looked back to see the confusion on both their faces. I rolled my eyes and turned towards the keys, my fingers glided across the ivory gracefully as I played the introduction to the song.
Making my way downtown
Walking fast
Faces passed
And I'm home bound
Staring blankly ahead And I need you If I could fall It's always times like these 'Cause everything's so wrong 'Cause I need you If I could fall And I, I Making my way downtown Staring blankly ahead And I still need you If I could fall
Just making my way
Making my way
Through the crowd
And I miss you
And now I wonder....
Into the sky
Do you think time
Would pass me by
'Cause you know I'd walk
A thousand miles
If I could
Just see you
Tonight
When I think of you
And I wonder
If you ever
Think of me
And I don't belong
Living in your
Precious memories
And I miss you
And now I wonder....
Into the sky
Do you think time
Would pass me by
'Cause you know I'd walk
A thousand miles
If I could
Just see you
Tonight
Don't want to let you know
I, I
Drown in your memory
I, I
Don't want to let this go
I, I
Don't....
Walking fast
Faces passed
And I'm home bound
Just making my way
Making my way
Through the crowd
And I still miss you
And now I wonder....
Into the sky
Do you think time
Would pass us by
'Cause you know I'd walk
A thousand miles
If I could
Just see you...
If I could fall
Into the sky
Do you think time
Would pass me by
'Cause you know I'd walk
A thousand miles
If I could
Just see you
If I could
Just hold you
Tonight
I turned around to look at the two that I had played for, not all that surprised to find all the Cullen's standing there staring at me in awe, I was so absorbed in my music, that I didn't even notice them come in. Alice was sitting on the floor with her legs crossed staring up at me like a child during story time. Rosalie was standing in the doorway leaning back against Emmett who was smiling like an idiot. Jasper was sitting on the ground next to Alice looking over at her with the most adoring look I have ever seen.
Carlisle and Esme were standing behind Jasper and Alice, Esme was leaning back into Carlisle's embrace, and they were both looking at me proudly. And Edward, he was standing directly in front of me, looking at me lovingly and adoringly, and yet, surprised.
"I love that song" Alice said dazed, and everyone nodded dumbly in agreement.
I stood up from the seat and walked into Edwards awaiting arms. He kissed the top of my head tenderly, and I heard the rest of the family leaving the room, clearly giving us some privacy.
I pulled out of his arms, smiling up at him.
"That was beautiful, Love."
"Thanks" I replied timidly, I always got embarrassed when someone said something good about my songs, because to be honest, I didn't think they were all that great.
Suddenly Alice came running into the room her eyes alight with excitement, this couldn't be good.
"Alice?" I asked, almost too scared to trust my own voice.
"We're going shopping." She replied grinning.
"No were not, we had a deal, remember?"
"Oh, I remember, but the deal was that I can't drag you off shopping, we didn't say anything about Edward." She replied grinning evilly.
"So you have two choices here Bella, you can come along too so he doesn't have to suffer alone, or you can refuse and I will keep him away all day torturing the both of you."
Crap, I can't let him go with her alone.
"Why do you need Edward to go?"
"I need someone to carry my bags" she replied with a shrug of her shoulders.
"Oh, I see, that makes sense…" I looked over to Edward with a smile on my face.
"Sorry" I replied. He looked shocked and betrayed, but as if I would ever let him go shopping with her if I could avoid it.
"Jasper" He was standing at the bottom of the stairs as soon as I said his name, he was looking over to me expectantly.
"You're going shopping." I smiled at him.
He looked at me, then to Alice and sighed heavily.
"Ok, let's go" He said to Alice before walking out to the car.
"You suck." She said before walking out towards the car with a shrug of her shoulders.
In a very mature gesture, I poked my tongue out at her, and then turned around to smile at Edward.
"Thanks, love. I thought I was a goner then" he sounded relieved.
"You didn't really think I would abandon you like that did you?"
He chuckled lightly "No, I suppose not"
"So what are we doing today?" I asked curiously.
"Well, I actually have to help Carlisle with something, so I'm afraid you're on your own today. But I suppose you could see what Esme is doing; she might have something to keep you busy."
"I think I might." I replied smiling.
He smiled before kissing me on the cheek and walking off towards Carlisle's office. I hadn't spent much time with Esme, and I had really missed the mother figure in my life. I smiled walking off towards the stairs, looking for her.
I could hear her humming in her office; I walked up the stairs knocking on the beautiful wooden door. Esme was always collecting things to make each of her rooms in her house original; she was a master at decoration.
"Come in" She sang, I opened the door to see her dancing around the room to her own humming. She was re-decorating it and was half way through painting a wall. She was doing it all at a normal, human pace, I suppose she enjoyed it so much that she liked to savour the time.
She stopped what she was doing and looked to me smiling a brilliant smile.
"What can I do for you dear?"
"Well, I was just wondering if you would like an extra pair of hands, I know we haven't spent that much time together lately."
"That's a wonderful idea, I could always use the company" she smiled.
I walked over to the table picking up one of the paint brushes. I looked at the plan that she had laid out on her desk so I knew what I was doing and dipped my brush into the grass green paint and started applying it to the bottom of the wall.
Esme smiled over at me before starting to paint again also, she was turning the wall behind her desk into a beautiful garden; green grass, brilliant blue sky with a few white fluffy clouds. Red and yellow roses, huge fig trees and all kinds of animals. It was like one of those perfect gardens you see in cartoons and TV shows, it kind of reminded me of a Bambi picture I used to have in my room when I was a child. It's strange the things I remember.
We painted in silence for a while; I was just about to start on a baby deer when she moved to come closer to me.
"I must admit Bella; I'm rather impressed by your music. I remember when that song came out, I loved it, and I just can't believe that you wrote it. Oh, no offence. It's just I never knew you had an interest in music."
"Well, I needed something to do at night, I started with guitar, drums, and anything else, I was really hesitant to go anywhere near the piano for obvious reasons, it reminded me too much of him. I was out shopping one day and I saw the most amazing grand piano, and it almost seemed like it was calling me, so I brought it on an impulse. It sat in my music room for about 3 years before one day I decided to sit down and have a bit of a play around, and that's where A Thousand Miles came from." I replied smiling.
"I remember I was sitting at the piano, and it was so over whelming, I missed him so much and I just started to play. After I wrote that song I felt so much lighter, so after that I used my song writing as a way to vent."
"Maybe I could hear some of your other songs one day?" Esme asked sincerely, "I would love to hear you play the guitar."
"Sure, maybe later." I smiled.
She smiled back at me before turning back to the wall to continue painting.
……………….
Esme and I had finally finished painting the wall, and all though I was sceptical as to how it would look with the rest of the room, it in fact looked amazing; of course, I should never have doubted Esme.
"Knock, knock"
Esme and I both turned from admiring the work that we had done to see both of our men standing at the door. Carlisle walked over to Esme, enveloping her in a huge, kissing her tenderly on the top of her head, while I walked over into Edwards embrace.
"I missed you" He stated simply into my hair.
I just snuggled in closer to his embrace. As strange as it seems, Edward and I have spent all of our time together lately, we hadn't been apart for longer than half an hour in over a month, so to spend a whole day apart was harder then I thought it would be, so I was happy for the distraction that Esme gave me.
I pulled back a little bit looking up at him through my eyelashes.
I turned around to find that both Esme and Carlisle had left; I was so absorbed in Edward that I didn't even really notice.
I pulled out of his grip entirely "What's wrong, love?" He asked as he looked down at me, slightly disappointed that I had pulled away, while trying to pull me back to his chest.
"I need to hunt" I stated simply.
"I see; would you like me to come?" He asked sincerely.
"Would you like to come?"
"Of course I would, my love. Shall we go?" He asked offering me his arm as I linked mine with his.
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Edward and I had hunted many times before, and each time he seemed to get less and less protective of me. I remember on hunting trip he threw himself between me and a grizzly bear. After he realised I was angrier and more dangerous than the grizzly he sauntered off sheepishly, to find something for him to hunt… alone.
This time however, he had no trouble letting me go and watching me take down some bears, and even if I do say so myself, I think Emmett would even be proud of me.
We were casually walking back to the house, not really in a rush to go anywhere, I mean it's not like we need to sleep or eat. As we finally reached the house I was suddenly pulled into a bone crushing hug.
"Bella, I missed you!" Emmett called excitedly.
Emmett and Rosalie had been away for a week, I wasn't really sure where they went, but I think I have a pretty good idea what they were doing while there.
"I missed you too, now put me down you crazy man!" I replied laughing at his childish behaviour.
He put me down with a grin on his face. I heard Edward chuckle from the corner, obviously at Emmett's idiocy.
"Don't think I forgot about you little brother" Emmett said bounding over to Edward in the corner, who had attempted to run, but was too slow. Emmett picked him up and threw him over his shoulder walking towards the back door. Edward was struggling to get out of Emmett's grip, but we all knew that he wouldn't be able too, despite the fact that we are all naturally strong; Emmett is defiantly the strongest in the family.
I was laughing hysterically at the two as Emmett carried Edward out the back door and towards the creek. Too afraid to get any closer, I stood at the back door laughing as Edward was thrown in the river.
Alice was at my side suddenly, back from her shopping trip with Jasper.
"Hey, I see Emmett is back." Alice said smirking in the general direction of the boys.
"Yes he certainly is. How was shopping?" I asked, knowing too well what the answer would be.
"It would have been better if you had come." She pouted.
"Yeah, but I didn't." I replied.
We stood there for a few seconds, watching Edward chasing Emmett around the back yard, trying to get him into the river, both of them laughing hysterically… This family never got boring, god I love it here. Imagine, if I was at home right now I would be bored out of my mind, probably writing another song.
"So…" I started, getting her to look at me. "What did you buy me?" I asked innocently.
"How did you know that I bought you something, how do you know that I wasn't so mad at you for not coming with me that I didn't buy you anything."
I just raised my eyebrows at her, looking at her like she grew a second head.
"Come look, it's so cute!" She replied, suddenly excited.
I just shook my head laughing at her, wondering exactly how many 'cute' things she had bought me.
We walked up to her room, where there were a few bags sitting on the floor, which I gathered where full of stuff she had brought for me, everything else would be put away by now.
I walked in and was about to sit down on her and Jasper's bed, but then realising the only thing the bed would be used for, I suddenly decided to sit on the floor instead.
"Ok well don't freak out, but I kind of already went through the clothes that you have here, and got rid of all the ones I didn't approve of, which was most of your wardrobe… And all this is just the start; we still have lots of work to do."
"Alice, the suspense is killing me here."
"Ok, ok."
She walked over to a bag, looking in. She pulled out a very tight fitting, short dress. It was midnight blue, and stopped about mid thigh, it had long sleeves and a low cut neck line, but all in all, it wasn't that bad.
I don't really mind wearing more feminine, and revealing clothes, simply because I know I am beautiful, it's part of the design, and so I feel a lot more comfortable in myself. Although whenever I was with Edward I generally felt this way anyway, I would never dare wear those kinds of clothes around him before I was changed, now on the other hand, well like I said, I have a lot more confidence, and I know Edward loves me.
She also got me a pair of black pumps to wear with it as well as a black chunky bracelet, a beaded black necklace that doubles over and a pair of fishnet gloves. One outfit down.
We went through 10 different outfits before it was all done, then she rushed off to put them in my closet, making sure certain outfits were put together. Edward sure will get a shock when he opens his wardrobe next, but then again, he did know she was going shopping, so maybe not.
We went back into her room when she walked into her wardrobe, coming back out with three more bags, three bags that I would recognise anywhere, Victoria Secret.
"Alice…" I said warily.
"Oh, come on, it's just a few things, you know, for when you and Edward decide to --"
"Alice!"
"What? It's bound to happen eventually, and you will need to be prepared."
"Alice! That's none of your business!"
"You know," She started smirking. "We all thought we lost the whole 'blushing virgin Bella' when you got confidence, but I just found your weak spot." She said looking quite proud of herself.
I just snatched the bags off her, stomping out of her room. I walked to Edward and my room, to find him sitting on his couch; I dumped the bags on the floor and walked over to the couch, sitting next to him.
"I hate your sister." I said leaning my head on his shoulder.
He pulled me onto his lap, "no, you don't." He kissed me softly before pulling back and looking at me.
"I on the other hand, hate my brother, and I'm sure that I will love my sister even more when I get a better look at them." he said gesturing to the Victoria Secrets bag.
If I could blush, I would have, but instead, I wacked him lightly on the chest.
I buried my head in his chest, listening to his rhythmic breathing, when I heard a car coming up the driveway, but I didn't think much of it, it was just probably someone from the family.
I heard a car door slam and suddenly, Tanya was standing in front of us with her hands firmly on her hips.
Oh crap, I had forgotten about her.
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And i know i promised Tanya drama this chapter, but i changed my mind, it will be in the next chapter instead. :) Sorry.
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