A.N.: Next update! We're back to BPOV! Hope you lke it!
I was glad that a couple reviews praised Edward for being a good sport about Bella leaving to go back home. He's satisfied she wants him. But he's not going to last being without her for so long lol!
Bella remember something quite important when she gets back to Seattle... what could it be? And oh yeah... there's a lil twist heading your way! ;)
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Chapter 12
BPOV
The drive back to Seattle was excruciating. And not because it was a long four hour trip down and had horrendous traffic, but because I'm missing Edward so much.
I hated leaving him, but I had to. And I really hope he finds my letter explaining everything. I need him to know that I want him and that I didn't leave him to be cruel.
I had tears in my eyes the entire trip home and a few times when I stopped for a break, I just sobbed. My heart aches for Edward. It knew something… someone was missing. I had to keep reminding myself that it was only for a few days and then I'd return to him.
Maybe I could convince him to move here.
Finally, I'm back in my house. Just as I finished unpacking, I check the time on my bedside alarm clock and notice that it is one in the afternoon.
And then I gasp.
"Shit!" I scream. I forgot my parents were arriving in Seattle this afternoon because of the scheduled engagement party I was throwing for me and Emmett in a few days. I was all caught up in the whirlwind romance with Edward and my conscious nagging at me to end it all with Emmett if I wasn't set on spending my life with him that I completely spaced out about my parents coming up.
I grab my keys and race to my car, driving to SeaTac to pick up my parents. As I make my way to the airport, I check my emails from the past few days. I accumulated a lot in the three days I was with Edward. But my eyes zoom in on the email that my mother had sent the day I left to meet Edward to tell me what time her and my dad's flight came in and what terminal.
After finding out the info, I close my email app on my phone and continue my drive.
I arrive just in time to see people getting off the arrived plane, keeping an eye out for my parents. After three minutes, I see them coming out of the baggage pick-up area. My mom squeals and races towards me, yanking me into a tight hug. It's been a while since I'd seen them last, so I relish being in my mother's tight embrace. Eventually she releases me to let me quickly hug my dad, but then pulls me back in again.
"Oh Bella! I missed you," she says.
"Missed you, too, Mom."
"I'm so happy that you and Emmett finally are settling down. I just cannot wait for the wedding and of course the grandbabies I'll be getting!"
My heart tugs at the thought of my mother believing I'm still marrying Emmett. I know she'd understand my reasoning for leaving Emmett, but it still bugs me that she thinks she'll be getting grandchildren from me and Emmett. When with Emmett, I never gave much thought to having kids. Like yeah, I wanted them eventually, but I was content in waiting till I was sure.
But now… I cannot take my mind off having kids… with Edward. I can see it all with him and I wouldn't be against popping out a child that had a part of him now, if I had to be honest.
Anyway…
"So I was thinking we could grab some lunch or go to dinner in a couple of hours," I say, taking my mother's mind off Emmett and me. "And then we can head back to my house and veg out. Sound okay?"
"Sounds great, honey," Renee says.
"I'm all for food now, Bells," Charlie chimes in.
"Then let's go!" I exclaim happily.
We head out to get our lunch at a restaurant in the city that wasn't all too fancy. I try to pay the check, but my father grabbed at the bill before I could and also had his credit card ready, me not even knowing it. Sneaky. He tries to tell me that I'm putting up with them for a few days that the least they could do was pay for a meal or two. I grudgingly accept it.
While on the drive back to my place, with my dad driving as Renee and I had quite a bit of wine, my mother starts chatting my ear off about her new hobby of studying new age beliefs. From the backseat she tells me about auras and other nonsense. I pretend to listen and my dad tunes his wife out completely. Eventually we get back to my house and my mom stops talking about whatever she was talking about.
Since we just had lunch, I decide that dinner could wait a few more hours. But my mom insists on helping me come up with something to make. We settle on something simple as grilling burgers and hot dogs. After deciding what to make, I ask my mom to help me make the bed in the guestroom, but not before I quickly go use the bathroom because all the wine was about to leak out if I didn't.
Just as I enter the bathroom, the house phone rings and I instinctively yell out for my dad to answer it.
~OoO~
Charlie POV
I'm glad to see my baby girl again. It's been a couple of months since hers and Emmett's last visit down to Arizona. To be honest I'm not entirely sure that I would like Emmett to be married to Bella. There's nothing bad about him that would make him not worthy for my daughter, but there's something that tells me that neither of them really love eachother, at least not in the way I love my wife, Renee.
Yeah, Renee is cuckoo, but I love her and I love that she is cuckoo. It makes her her. But Emmett and Bella seem like they tolerate eachother. I know Bella never really took Jake's death well. He was everything to her. I loved him like he was my son and I would have been proud to have him officially in the family. But even then I was thinking that Jake wasn't meant for Bella either.
They were so young, only twenty-three when they decided to get married. I was young, too, when I married Renee, but in this day in age, I thought women were independent and were willing to get married late in life. Not only did I want my daughter to not date a boy or marry one until she was at least thirty, I also believed she was one who would wait because she was always headstrong… stubborn. Until she and Jake got together, she wasn't thinking much about boys and getting married. She was content with how her life was and she wanted to focus on becoming a doctor – any kind of doctor.
High school came and went, and so did college. Her romance with Jake was too good to be true, for both me and Bella. And then Jake tragically died and it tore Bella apart. She lost the love of her life, according to her. Like I said, Jake was a good guy, a good man to Bella, but I believed that someone else was out there, that Jake wasn't the one for her.
She found Emmett, but again, to me Emmett didn't come off as a guy who'd get married and have kids. He and Bella were friends for a year or so until they started dating, and he came off as a guy who didn't know what to do in a relationship. He'd shower Bella with gifts galore, and use them as a way to get forgiveness out of her from what I heard. To me that didn't sound like an honorable man or even a man in love.
Renee doesn't really see it, but I do and I know Bella does… Bella doesn't love Emmett like that. I have a feeling it's all for convenience. Renee told me how their relationship began, that Emmett was a shoulder for Bella to cry on after she lost Jake and that friendship bloomed in a relationship. But I don't see the twinkle in my daughter's eyes when she looks at Emmett. Hell, they don't even live together even after what? Three years of dating? Jake and Bella moved in together immediately after they moved up north for college, knowing we couldn't stop them since they were so far from us. But you'd think that Bella and Emmett, who are adults, would move in not too long after starting their relationship. And now that they're engaged, wouldn't Emmett be moving in really soon? They certainly couldn't be living apart like they are now once they're married.
Also Bella seems to be deflecting anything involving hers and Emmett's engagement when my wife brings it up, so I think something's up. I'm just not sure.
After eating lunch and me driving the two drunk women who both have a special place in my heart back to Bella's home, we 'veg' out, as Bella termed it, and she and her mother decide what to do about dinner. I don't even want to think about dinner, I'm so stuffed.
Renee tells me she and Bella are going to set up the guestroom and that I can watch TV if I want. I'm obviously not needed. I hear the bathroom door close and then a few seconds later, the phone rings. I'm frozen; I don't want to answer my daughter's phone. Besides, Bella will answer it from wherever she is if she's not the one in the bathroom. After two rings, turns out Bella is in the bathroom and from there she calls out for me to just answer it.
"Hello?" I greet.
"Hello? Charlie?"
Oh… it's Emmett.
"Oh, hey Emmett. How've you been?"
"I've been okay. Was on a business trip in New York."
"Good. So, uh, do you want me to get Bella?"
"No, it's okay. I just called to say that I'm leaving now. Turns out my trip here wasn't going to take as long as planned, so I thought I'd just catch a red eye home. I'm in a hurry now to get to the airport; packing as I'm speaking with you. So do you mind just telling Bella that? As well as I'll see her tomorrow since it'll be really late when I come home tonight?"
"Sure, son. Safe flight home."
"Of course, sir. See you tomorrow."
We hang up and I remind myself to tell Bella.
But honestly… I soon forget because there's a baseball game on. And I don't remember until the next morning.
~OoO~
BPOV (again)
I relieve myself and exit the bathroom, my dad still on the phone. I ignore what he's saying and head back to the guest room where my mother is unpacking hers and my dad's suitcase.
"Help me make the bed?" I ask her.
She smiles and nods. I grab the sheet set I have in the closet outside the room and we both start making the bed. As we do so I work up the courage to tell my mom the truth.
"Mom?"
"Yes, honey."
"I'm calling off the engagement," I say outright.
My mother is silent and then sighs heavily. "I had a feeling something was wrong."
"How?"
"Well… one, you have a huge hickey on you neck. No way did Emmett do that because he doesn't seem like a guy who would, nor does it look like it's from when he left. It looks too fresh."
I gasp and cover my neck with my hand. I can't believe Edward left me a fucking hickey! We're not in high school.
"Two, because you kept deflecting any conversation revolving around you and Emmett. Surely, a woman who just got engaged would want to talk even just a little bit about wedding plans. And three, your aura shows that you are in love, but your father and I both know you're not in love with Emmett. Well, your father thinks I'm blind to it, but I know. You are content with Emmett. You love him an entire different way than with another man. So who is it?"
"Um…his brother," I squeak, clenching my eyes shut. I don't know how my mother will react.
Then I heard her let out a small giggle. "The other Cullen brother. Your love life is a soap opera, Bella."
"Don't I know it. Mom… I really love Edward. That's Emmett's brother. Edward. He's so much different than Emmett and it's refreshing. At first I hated him. He was acting like such an asshole to me when I showed up on his doorstep a few days ago to ask him to see Emmett and forgive him for the 'bad blood' between them so Edward could see his brother get married. But then I found out what happened between them. Emmett did wrong, but he wants to own up to his sins now and wanted his baby brother to be there with him, but Edward was so…"
"Douchey?"
"Yes! Douchey! He didn't even want to listen to me. Once I said I was Emmett's fiancée, he slammed the door in my face. But I finally convinced him to listen to me, and we argued and then we had sex. Really good sex, Mom. So intense and passionate and I started falling for him, though I wanted to put him out of my mind completely because I'm with Emmett."
"What changed your mind, other than you falling madly in love with Edward?" my mom asks dreamily.
"We went out on a date last night," I admit. "He took me to the ballet, Mom. Romeo and Juliet! Edward and I share common interests and when we weren't arguing, we were able to actually talk to one another. He wants to take care of me. I know Emmett wants to, too, but his intentions and Edward's are different entirely. And Edward said he'd do things for me or give me things for the sake of wanting to, not because he feels like he has to.
"Emmett is very materialistic, and he and I don't share the same interests, really. And he feels that in order to get my forgiveness, flowers or jewelry is the answer. Yes, I've accepted them because I don't want to fight. But he does that to butter me up or to replace actually trying to work out our differences. But Edward… he's very passionate. In everything! We fought, but I actually liked it. I liked being able to yell back at someone and getting through to them… sort of. Edward is just as stubborn as I am."
"I can tell you love, him, baby. The way you talk about it proves that though it's been only a few days, it's real and you want it and are willing to give up Emmett so you can be happy, as well as allow Emmett to be happy with someone else one day."
"I just don't want to hurt Emmett," I confess, a tear falling from my eye. "He and I may not be in love with eachother, but I do love him. He's my best friend. The only other guy in my life who could be like Jake."
"Bella, did you love Jake like you love Edward?" Renee asks.
"I loved Jacob, don't get me wrong. What he and I shared was amazing. I would have been very happy with Jake if he never died and we did get married. But now that I've met Edward, I don't think I would have been able to stay with Jake like I can't stay with Emmett. God knows I didn't want to give in to Edward because I was trying my best to stay devoted to Emmett, as he is my fiancé, but true love cannot be stopped. And I truly love Edward. It hurts to be away from him."
"Bella… you're father and I really did love Jacob. He would have been an amazing husband and father to any children you conceived. We loved him like a son we never had. We were very happy with you being with him. But the glimmer you have in your eyes now… you never had that with Jake. I'm sure along the road something would have changed between you and Jake, especially if you did end up meeting Edward at some point. I don't think Jacob was the one for you. But I believe Edward is."
"I want you and Dad to meet him. Soon. I just want to get through this road bump first. You'd like him, Mom. And maybe Dad will, too. He did act a little tough and guarded when I was officially with Jake and when I brought Emmett down to meet you both. No doubt he would when he meets Edward."
"I hope so, too. I want to meet the man who stole my daughter's heart and brought her back to life."
We laugh and my mom hugs me tightly, telling me all will be okay.
A.N.: So... thoughts? Please leave a review because I want to know what you all thought! :D
And uh oh! Charlie made a boo boo in forgetting to tell Bella Emmett was coming home early! Did anyone see that coming?
I like this Renee... she isn't flaky, but she still has some character to her. Anybody else like her? What about Charlie? Sure he messed up, but he's a good guy at heart :) The conversation between Bella and Renee was sweet, right?
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