Ch21 Tell me about your life
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As we pulled out of the kiss of a lifetime, we were both a little light-headed.
Bella rested her forehead against mine. "I still can't believe you are here. That you were in the grocery store. That you left jizzadue on my rug." Her little giggle brought me out of my drunken state.
"I am sorry about that, Bella." I am sure my face was the color of a ripe tomato.
"It's okay, Edward, really. I know things got a little heated and well, I was of no help to you." She shrugged her shoulders, donned a pair of rubber gloves and started to pull products from the cart.
"Tell me about your life, Bella." I asked as I, too, donned a pair of gloves and wet a wash cloth.
"There's not a whole lot to tell, really. My parents got divorced, my dad willingly let my mom take me, unaware of her drinking problem. We moved to Phoenix. She drank. I raised myself." She paused and started to spray Clorox cleaner across the cabinet top where the jizzadue remained.
"I went to school. I did my homework. I did the housework, grocery shopping and all the cooking. I tried to pay bills with the money that Charlie sent or whatever income Renee brought in from her various part-time jobs." I stopped scrubbing the rug and looked up at her.
She had truly been alone all these years. She thought we hated her and didn't want her around.
How different our lives could have been if we only made more of an effort.
"Why didn't you ever tell Charlie? Move back to Forks?" I questioned. I wanted to know why she lived so miserably when she could have been free of Renee.
"He was married to Sue, they had Leah and Seth to raise. I didn't want to impose." Bella shrugged and kept on cleaning.
"Bella, he would have welcomed you home. You have to know that." I stated, my anger building at the life that Renee had forced upon her only child.
"I know that now but at thirteen, fifteen, seventeen, I didn't." She said in a whisper.
"I would have welcomed you back." I said under my breath.
I watched her as she disinfected the whole cabinet top, she was breathtaking and didn't even realize it.
She caught me staring in the mirror. "What?" Her eyes were twinkling.
"You are so beautiful, Bella. I just can't believe I'm here, with you, cleaning up your bathroom." I whispered as I stood up behind her, both of us looked at the other in the mirror.
"I'm glad you are here, Edward." She spoke soft and sincere.
"Me too, love. Me too." I replied before I leaned down to place my lips at her neck.
I slid my hands around her waist and pulled her back into my chest.
"We're a perfect fit," she commented as I stood back up.
She was right. She fit right under my chin.
"A perfect match." I said to her and watched her smile.
God, I hoped it wasn't to soon to want to marry her. Because in that moment, I saw our entire future pass before my eyes.