A/N So i think that i mightnot change the title of this story. idk im still undecided, but if i do change it, it will be "Really Really." I'll have a new poll up on which one you like better soon =]
And personally i would have to say this is my least favorite chapter out of all of them...idk why but it just doesn't seem as exciting as all the rest...what do you think?
Go!!
BPOV
"Oh...mygosh! Your…faces!!" Rosalie could hardly breath she was laughing so hard.
Apparently when Alice and I, at the same time, started to tell our big new, we made 'WTF?!' faces at each other.
And apparently it was funny…
After Rose finally calmed down, Alice proceeded to tell us how Jasper professed his love.
"It was after basketball practice and he came to my house to pick me up. When I asked him where we were going, he just smiled. Then the whole car ride was silent, except for my occasional question of where he was taking me. I just got that stupid, cute smirk every time!"
I was quietly snickering at a very worked up Alice.
"He pulled up in front of the school, which I thought was weird. Once we got out he blindfolded me. I was pulled over to a different spot and he told me to keep my eyes closed while he removed the blindfold. I was too excited so I cheated a little and peeked without permission…" she giggled.
"On the grass, in front of the school where we had that carnival earlier in the semester was a blanket with a single rose and a folded up note."
Rosalie and I reflexively 'aww'd.'
"He spun me around to look at him and he was about to say something, but I couldn't help myself and blurted out "I love you, Jasper." He was practically gaping at me for five minutes. I asked him what was wrong and that smirk reappeared as he said, "You took the words right out of my mouth."
"Then he handed me the note, which I will not tell you about because it was very sweet and personal. But it explained that the reason he brought me to the school was because that was the moment he first knew he would be with me forever, at the carnival."
Alice got a dreamy look in her eyes and sighed as she fell back onto the bed.
She shot back up less than three seconds later and looked at me, "Your turn!!" she squealed.
I told them everything starting from Edward's 'other girlfriend,' all the way to when he blew me a kiss before driving away.
We were silent in our own thoughts until Rosalie spoke.
"How did we get so luck?"
No one knew the answer.
EPOV
I pulled my Volvo in the garage and saw my very enthusiastic mother waiting for me.
"Oh Edward! I'm so happy for you and Bella!" she gave me a tight squeeze and then flitted inside.
I followed her in and was met by a very amused Carlisle, Emmett, and Jasper.
"So, you went screaming to Renee about your great news?" Emmett smirked.
"At least it wasn't the entire school on their way to class!" I shot back.
Esme's eyes went wide, "Whaaaat?!"
Emmett glared at me before taking great interest in his shoes. "Erm…I told Rosalie I loved her…afewdaysago…" he mumbled.
"And you didn't tell me!?!"
"Jasper didn't tell you either!" he defended, throwing Jasper under the bus with him.
"Jasper Cullen!! You're in love too?!" she gasped.
"Yeahh…but I just told her a couple hours ago, not days!" he turned towards Emmett.
Carlisle looked confused. "So tell me something…all three of you told your girlfriends you love them this past week?"
We all silently nodded.
He breathed out a laugh, got out his phone, and dialed someone's number as he walked away.
"Well! We certainly need to have a talk about why you boys do not trust your mother enough to clue her in to the whole 'I love a girl' thing. But first I want to hear about you told them…starting with Emmett!
He groaned and began.
:-:-:
I arrived at Bella's house ten minutes earlier than I did yesterday.
She must have been watching for me because before I even got to the door she was waiting in the threshold for me.
"Hey you." I smiled and kissed her cheek.
"Hey." She grabbed my hand and led me inside.
We walked into the kitchen and found Renee pouring herself a cup of coffee.
"Good morning Renee." I nodded politely.
"Good morning Edward!" she sang, Renee must be a morning person…"I have to get to my meeting I'm already two minutes late for, so make sure Bella is all taken care of before you head off to school." She winked and said her goodbyes.
After I heard the door click shut I turned to Bella lifting my eyebrows, "She trusts us alone?" I teased.
Bella smirked and placed a lingering kiss on my lips, "I guess so…"
Before I left I made sure Bella had everything she needed for a while and wouldn't have to leave her spot on the couch.
"Do you really have to go?" she pouted.
"As much as I hate to, I think our parents wouldn't like that very much, us being alone in your house all day…and by parents I mean Charlie…"
"Pleeeaase Edward. I get so bored." She jutted out her bottom lip and it took all I had to stay strong.
"I'm sorry, love. I'll text you whenever I get the chance." I kissed her forehead.
"Fine…" she huffed, "But I get one good kiss to last me the whole day."
I smiled and planted a pretty amazing kiss on her lips if I do say so myself.
Our foreheads were pressed together and I had to keep reminding myself why I couldn't just skip school today.
"Edward?"
"Yeah?"
"I love you."
"I love you too, Bella." I reluctantly detached from her and walked out the door.
I had the biggest smile plastered on my face the whole way to school.
:-:-:
School – Bella = Horrible!
I would walk down the halls and feel 'naked' on the left side of my body, because that's always where Bella walked. My hand felt cold from the absence of her touch and any girl with long brown hair made my heart go crazy.
As I walked down the halls I laughed at myself remembering last night, and the night she came home from the hospital.
I was a wreck.
Ever since my realization of loving Bella my hands got clammy every time I was near her. I tried to find the right moment to tell her I loved her but always ended up chickening out...again and again.
After she made me get out of her room at the hospital when I thought she was trying to escape I freaked out a little.
I have no idea why either.
For some reason I thought Bella was furious with me for wrongly accusing her. Then I kept second-guessing myself on whether or not to still tell her how I felt.
I told you, I was a mess.
Then when Bella told me she was never mad to begin with it felt like 10-ton boulders were lifted off my shoulders.
I knew right then that I had to tell her soon.
Very soon.
When we were saying goodbye on her doorstep, it just felt right. We had just been joking around and I had kissed her, it felt so us. So I convinced myself to tell her right there, but of course, Emmett had to ruin the moment.
Story of my life…
I didn't let it stop me though. It didn't seem fair to either one of us to keep these feelings to myself, so I sucked it up and just told her.
I smiled again, luckily for me she loved me back.
Now I was left without her for a full eight hours, plus two more hours of basketball practice on top of that.
This is my personal hell.
:-:-:
Wednesday, the day Bella finally comes back to school.
I hopped in my car and sped over to the Swan's to pick her up.
I knocked on the door and was greeted by a stern-looking Charlie.
"Hello Sir." I nodded.
"Edward. Please come in." he stepped away from the door.
He escorted me to the living room and turned to face me.
"Now, I understand that you love my Isabella."
I gulped.
"Yes sir. I do." I tried not to sound as nervous as I felt.
"I was surprised when I got a call from Carlisle telling me the news. Who told him?"
Carlisle? My dad freaking called my girlfriend's dad to gossip!?
"My mother did."
He grunted.
"Well, I am happy for you both, but mark my words son, if you ever hurt her you will have to answer to me. Understand?" He was a tad scarier with his police uniform on, and his gun situated right by his hand…
"Yes Mr. Swan. I would expect nothing less."
"Alright then!" he patted me on the back, "And call me Charlie, 'sir' and 'Mr. Swan' make me feel like an old man." He laughed, creating wrinkles around his eyes.
Bella limped down the stairs at this moment and froze at the sight before her.
"I'll see you later Mr., Er…Charlie."
"Learn something at school!" he called after us as we retreated to the Volvo.
"What did he say to you?" Bella asked cautiously.
"Nothing he wasn't supposed to." I reassured her.
"Edward…. tell me."
"It's not important Bella. He just told me I better take care of you, and I agreed." Basically…no reason to bring up the scary factor…
"Oh. Okay then." She seemed relieved and relaxed into the seat.
We arrived at school and Bella was immediately bombarded with hugs from her friends and all of her basketball teammates.
The whole day was filled with people welcoming Bella back and few of the boys seemed a little too welcoming to me…Emmett told me I was just possessive.
Besides that everything felt perfect.
I had Bella at my side.
Her hand clasped in mine.
School + Bella = Right
BPOV
I knocked on Coach Clapp's office door and let myself in. She was watching a video of our last game and taking notes, probably about what we needed to work on during practice.
"Coach?"
"Bella, please have a seat. I'm almost done with this." She gestured towards the TV.
She wrote down one more thing and then paused the tape before facing me.
"I assume this is about your participation during the remainder of the season?"
I nodded.
"Well from what Dr. Cullen has told me, you will be out for about a month and a half."
"What? He only told me a month."
"Well yes, it's a month until you get your brace off, but you will still have to go easy on your leg for a little while."
"So when will I actually be able to play again?" If my calculations were correct, I wouldn't get to play a good portion of our games.
"I would estimate around the time of our first tournament. Until then I want you to have practices with the school's physical therapist. Her office is right across from the entrance to the gym, and she will be expecting you after school."
"Alright. But I was wondering if I would be able to come and watch some regular practices, just so I have the plays down and things like that."
"That will be fine, but I want you to worry about recovering right now Miss Swan."
"Yes ma'am." You never argued with Coach.
:-:-:
After school Edward walked me to the therapist's office.
"I'll see you after practice." He kissed my forehead.
"Okay, I'll wait for you in front of the gym if I get out earlier than you."
He started to walk away but then turned around suddenly as if he just realized he forgot something.
"I love you Bella."
"I love you too Edward." I blew him a kiss before taking a deep breath and opening the door.
Behind the desk sat a very muscular man, with tan skin and jet-black hair.
He looked fairly young, I'd say mid to late twenties.
I walked in timidly, as he still hadn't looked up from whatever he was working on, and sat down in one of the blue chairs situated in front of his desk.
I cleared my throat to get his attention, "Hi, I'm Bella Swan. Coach Clapp told me I was supposed to meet with you."
He looked up and smiled, "Ah yes. The basketball super star."
I blushed, "I wouldn't go that far…"
"Well its all the school has been buzzing about since your last minute shot at the Port Angeles game."
I sighed, "Yeah it was the only game I got to play before this." I gestured to my lump of a leg.
"I see that. I was looking at your x-rays here, and was wondering. How did you manage to fracture your leg? I haven't gotten the story behind your injuries, if you don't mind me asking…" he stated cautiously.
"No that's fine, I'm actually surprised you haven't heard the school 'buzzing' about this. I was at the last boys' basketball game and fell down the flight of stairs from the bleachers…" I trailed off.
"And how did you fall?"
"Well…" I hesitated, "I didn't so much fall…as I was being pushed…"
"You got pushed?!"
"Yeah, long story short, this girl didn't like me because she likes my boyfriend."
"Is that why Tanya Denali got suspended?" He started to put the pieces together.
"Pretty much…it honestly shocks me that you didn't hear all this. My friends made it seem like it was all anyone talked about."
"I thought that they were just silly rumors! I had no idea she actually pushed you. I'm so glad to see you didn't get terribly harmed."
"Thank you, Mr.-" I realized I didn't even know his name.
"Uley. Mr. Uley, but you can call me Sam. I don't like the whole formality thing. It reminds me of my father." He joked.
"So…what will 'practice' be like Coach Sam?" I teased.
"I'm going to show you a series of exercises you can do every night, just to make you more comfortable with walking around since you have on that brace for a month."
Sam proceeded to show me the exercises he was talking about. They were a little hard, but definitely helped.
He also showed me easier ways to move around with my crutches.
By the time we were finished it was about five minutes before Edward's practice got let out.
I thanked Sam for helping me and told him I would see him next practice. Coach Clapp had decided I go every other day switching from physical therapy, to the regular team practices.
I hobbled over to where the boys exited the gym right as practice ended.
Edward was one of the first ones out.
He took my bags and told me to wait on the sidewalk while he brought the car up.
After an argument about how necessary it was for him to do this I watched him smugly walk towards the Volvo.
How does he always win?
Not two seconds after Edward left someone came up behind me.
"Isabella Swan?"
I turned around and saw Jonathan…. something exit the gym.
"Bella." I stated simply.
"Huh?"
"Its not Isabella, its just Bella."
"Oh, my mistake." He smiled timidly.
"Don't worry about it." I assured him.
"I just wanted to say, you know, welcome back and glad your walking around. That was a pretty nasty fall you took. I saw Tanya push you, but I was on the other end of the gym, so I didn't make it in time to catch you, otherwise I would have." He said apologetically.
"No, that's ok. I didn't get many injuries, and they weren't even that bad." I smiled back.
"Well, that's good." His mood seemed to brighten a little.
Then Jonathan came and gave me an awkward hug. It was awkward partly because the crutches got in the way, and partly because I didn't even know this guy.
Edward chose to pull up at that moment and I heard him slamming the car door as Jonathan released me from the hug.
"I'll see you later Jonathan." I waved.
"Oh! Let me help you." He ran forward and tried to assist me, but only managed to make things worse.
"I can take it from here." Edward cut him off.
"Alright. Well I'll see you around Bella." Jonathan waved as he walked towards his own car.
Edward helped me in, and then went around to his side of the car.
We sped away and I could tell he wasn't happy.
"Edward, what's wrong?" I had a pretty good idea, but wanted to make sure.
"I don't like that guy." He said through clenched teeth.
"Yeah, he's annoying, but Jonathan doesn't mean any harm…" I tried to calm him down a little.
Didn't work.
"Just try to stay away from him. For me. I don't like how he was looking at you and…I don't know! He just doesn't give me a good feeling." Edward fumed.
"Okay. I'll stay away from him. I didn't know he bothered you that much…" I rubbed his arm up and down still trying to get him to loosen up a bit.
His rigid body relaxed and he sighed, "I didn't mean to get all mad like that…I'm sorry Bella. I just got insanely jealous when he hugged you and I haven't heard the greatest things about Jonathan…" he trailed off.
"Its okay." I kissed him on the cheek to let him know I wasn't mad.
It was quiet after that until I started giggling.
"What?" Edward smiled, wanting to be let in on the joke.
"You know, you're pretty cute when you're jealous." I smirked.
"Really?"
"Really Really." I stated matter-of-factly.
A/N Aww i love jealous Edward =]
Favorite: When Edward is thinking about when he told Bella he loved her and he's like, 'When we were saying goodbye on her doorstep, it just felt right. We had just been joking around and I had kissed her, it felt so us. So I convinced myself to tell her right there, but of course, Emmett had to ruin the moment. Story of my life…' AND i love that Esme gets as excited, or maybe even more excited than Renee when she found out all her sons are in love =]
Least Favorite: When Jonathan tried to help Bella in the car but only made things worse. I don't like Jonathan lol
So! Favorite part? Least favorite?
Okay, lemme know about if you like the new title that i talked about in the above AN and i'll have the poll up in the next hour =]
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