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Fire vs Ice
Privacy
Edwards Point of View
I was shocked, stunned to my very core. I swear my dead heart had finally regained the ability to beat, there standing at the bottom of the stairs, her eyes boring into mine as she tried to read the emotion in my face and in my heart, was Bella.
I stood frozen on the stairs, I couldn't move, I wondered vaguely if a vampire could go into shock, that would explain a lot. I was startled when Alice who had been standing next to me let out a shriek and went flying down the stairs throwing herself into Bella.
Alice must have forgotten Bella's difficulty with coordination, or she was just a little bit over excited, because Alice hit Bella, who tripped over and had to be caught by both Alice and Emmett to stop herself from hitting the ground.
I couldn't help but a small gasp escape my lips, even for the fact that air was no longer essential to me, but the beauty of her skin when she blushed crimson. I couldn't stand to look at her anymore. I turned on my heel and fled to my room. I slammed the door and tried to calm myself.
I could hear them downstairs, everyone trying to make up for my behaviour, explaining that I am just shocked by her sudden reappearance is all. I couldn't wait to see Emmett after Bella is gone. Oh he is going to get so much for this, he couldn't have at least warned me?
I took one final breath of unnecessary air before heading back out of my room and to the top of the stairs, where I stood to make my apologies to my family and to Bella.
"I am terribly sorry for the inappropriate way that I have acted, especially with a guest in our home. I pray you can all forgive my rudeness." Everyone nodded at me, except for Bella, she now seemed to be ignoring me completely.
Esme had pulled Bella over to the couch to talk to her about high school and then what she was studying at university. Alice was sitting on the couch behind her, and looked as though she was having troubles with something. When Esme finished asking about the degree Bella was doing in journalism, Alice pulled her away demanding to play Bella Barbie.
"Alice, please, let me catch up with everyone again first. I haven't seen you all in so long. I have missed you so much, I promise to come around again just so you can dress me up if you give me tonight off." Alice considered this before finally agreeing in the end.
After that, Bella was basically passed around the family and questions were asked of her. Emmett who already knew just about everything was very smug because he already knew the answers to the questions the rest of the family was asking about.
Alice asked about Bella's wardrobe, why she hadn't done anything to her hair in the last four years, if she had actually gone out and bought herself some nice clothes after Alice had left her without fashion advice, Rosalie just asked her how she had been and Bella answered a few questions, they were both civil but we could all feel the tension.
Carlisle asked about how Forks was, what had happened after they had left and about her most recent medical emergencies, I ground my teeth at all the injuries Bella couldn't protect herself from, and felt myself staring at her as she blushed at the way Emmett boomed out his laughter at everyone of her painful stories.
Jasper had never really known Bella all that well, and he asked her about how Charlie was, if he was well and how he was going as the Chief of Police, Bella seemed happy talking about her father, and she also told Jasper about her best friend Jacob, I could tell by the way her eyes narrowed when she spoke of him that there was something she was hiding from us about him.
Then it was Bella's turn to ask the questions, she wanted to know what we had been doing since we had left Forks, where we had gone and what we were doing back here, we explained that we had gone Denali to see our old friends, but then when Carlisle was offered a position at the hospital here he had to say yes.
Jasper was majoring in psychology, Rose was working part time as a nurse and also studying geology, Emmett was trying to invent his own video game console, Esme was looking into studying graphic design part time and Alice was majoring in design with a masters in shoe design. How interesting.
Nobody mentioned me and Bella didn't ask, I didn't know what to make of it. I could hear Emmett shouting at me that she was still in love with me, and he had walked in on her listening to the song I had made for her on repeat, but I tuned him out and just stared at Bella.
I caught her looking at me a few times but she always dropped her gaze or looked away when she knew she had gotten caught, I sighed, I could tell she wanted to talk to me, but she was too shy to start the conversation.
Or she was still harbouring under the horrible lie I had told her when I was leaving, that I didn't love her anymore. Possibly, she was still in love and didn't want me to know, because she thought that I had moved on already.
I closed my eyes and hoped that it would be that simple, my eyes snapped open when I heard Bella get to her feet.
"Well I had better be going, my roommates will be getting worried if I'm not home soon." Bella said quietly, I could tell that she didn't really want to go, she wanted to stay and be with us longer. That definitely made me feel a lot better.
"Bella, you wrote on your note that you didn't know if you would be home tonight and would let them know, call Shayla and tell her you're staying with us tonight." Emmett announced, he seemed so proud of himself.
"Oh, I don't want to be any trouble for you honestly I'm fine." Bella replied but Esme wouldn't have any of that. She shook her head and laughed at Bella.
"When will you learn Bella dear, you're never any trouble to any of us, we have more than enough spare beds upstairs, we have to keep up with human facade."
"Yeah, Bella come on you have to stay here with us, please." That was Alice, always enthusiastic. "You could sleep in Edward's bed." I glared at her, that might be pushing it a little bit.
"I'm sure that Edward doesn't want me in his bed, I have my own bed Alice." Bella glared at her as well, though she was blushing as she said it and I smiled.
"No Bella I insist, stay here, you can have my bed." Her head snapped around to stare at me and she looked me in the eyes, I stared back at her, once again captivated by her beauty. She offered me a slight smile and I smiled back, dazzling her as she had once put it many years ago.
"Well in that case, as I am out numbered and you are all a thousand times stronger than me anyway, I guess I don't really have any choice." She pulled out her phone, but I was a little hurt by what she had said.
"Bella, we would never force you to stay, if you really don't want to I can take you home." Bella shook her head at me, she did want to stay.
"But you can take me home in the morning Edward, I don't mind staying here one night." I felt my face break into a huge grin once again at her words and then watched as Bella walked away to call Shayla.
After Bella had gotten off the phone to her friend she stayed up with us for another two hours, catching up on all the gossip, it wasn't until she almost fell asleep on Emmett's shoulder that she decided she should go to bed.
After Bella had gone to bed, Carlisle looked around at the family.
"I think that now would be a good time for a family hunt, excluding Edward, he may want some privacy right now." I was shocked, they wanted me to go and talk to Bella right now.
I nodded, though told Carlisle to wait a few hours, I wanted her to be able to comprehend what I was saying when we spoke and at the moment she was just too tired. Carlisle and my family agreed, and I spent the next three hours deciding what I would say to Bella.
At 3.00 in the morning Carlisle and the family left to go hunt and I silently climbed the stairs to my room, I walked in and looked at the beautiful form of Bella laying in my bed, I crossed my fingers that after today, she would be like this a lot more often.
I climbed into the bed behind my angel and snaked my arms around her waist, I felt her gasp as she woke up.
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