26 – EPOV
I was almost too happy to see Bella sitting with Alice and Jasper.
Too happy because this meant I could get to know her a bit better outside of our comfort zones and away from our regular lives.
Maybe I could escape the clutches of being a dad first and just be me for one night.
"So Edward, Bella here tells us you had to fix her pipes," Jasper grinned and wiggled his eyebrows.
I rolled my eyes, "Yeah, 'cause I'm a plumber and that's what I do, Bro." I replied through gritted teeth.
I may not have game. At all. But the last thing I needed was my little brother's innuendos making me look like an ass.
I took a sip from my beer and turned my attention to Bella.
We discussed her life in Forks and laughed about some things we both remembered as kids.
I'm quite a bit older than her so we didn't go to school together but we did have some of the same teachers.
Conversation flowed easily between the four of us.
For once, I didn't feel like the third wheel and Bella's presence was unlike anything I'd ever experienced.
The women I'd dated that had been out with us had either hung all over me or had irritated the crap out of me with their boring banter that evidently had lead us nowhere.
After only a few weeks of knowing this woman, I knew, without a shadow of a doubt, that she was someone special and that I needed to let her in. I could definitely, without a doubt be her friend and eventually, hopefully something more.
So... one more before RL takes me away for a few hours?