Heyyy! O I'm here again. A little bit later than usual. But I typed this up in about an hour, and I think it came out really cute. I hope you guys like it. Annddd if for some reason you guys enjoy hearing about my little stories. I thought id share that today in dance, I jumped and landed on my ankle sideways. Hurt it pretty bad. ):
Chapter 29
The Walk
I went downstairs, Alice following right behind me.
"Why are you keeping secrets from me? I feel like we aren't even friends anymore. Did something happen between you and Edward?" She asked. I shook my head.
"No, everything is fine. Just let it go. And I'm not keeping secrets from you. Trust me, you'd know if I was" I said. She smiled.
"I guess I would." we walked into the kitchen to get some breakfast. Edward was sitting at the bar eating cereal. Alice sat down beside him. "Good morning brother, what's got you up so early?" she asked.
"Oh nothing out of the normal. Just the 2 girls shouting at each other in the room next to mine."
"We weren't shouting." I said.
"Yea well you weren't whispering either." he mumbled.
"HEY!" I yelled, Alice smacked his arm. "You hush." I made some pancakes quickly. While we were eating Esme and Carlisle arrived home. They had gone to Esme's parents house for the night. They knew Alice wanted to through a party after the game, and for some reason, they trusted her.
"Hey kids." she came in and kissed us all on the head.
"Hey"
"Well, I have to say I'm proud of you guys. I half expected to come home to a mess. But the house looks great. Did nobody show up to your party Alice?"
"Dad. Of course people showed up. We just happen to have a great clean up crew." Alice said. I rolled my eyes.
"Ok, I was just making sure." Carlisle laughed and grabbed one of the extra pancakes I made.
"Bella, come here." Edward said. I put my plate in the sink and followed him out of the kitchen to the living room. He turned the TV on. "What are we going to do?" he asked.
"What are you talking about?"
"Bella, by Monday Tanya will have told the whole town about us leaving the party together. We need to figure something out, unless we both want to die."
"Oh. Umm, I guess we do" I sat down, I hadn't really thought of thought of that. I figured that'd we'd just go with it, but I guess that wouldn't exactly be a good idea. "well I don't think there really is much that we can do." he looked at me like I was crazy.
"What are you talking about?"
"Well, think about it. Two teenagers sneak away from a party together. You don't actually think they'd believe us if we said that we just made cupcakes do you?" he looked down at his feet. "Oh my god. Look we're just gonna have to go with what people say. Let them believe what they want. They're really isn't anything else we can do." he sat down beside me.
"I guess you're right. But I just hate hearing the way people talk. Have you heard some of the things they say about you?"
"Yes I have.."
"oh umm. Sorry" Esme's voice said from the doorway. I glanced over at her, then back at Edward. We were sitting practically up against each other. I hadn't realized.
"Its ok mom." he said. I slid over so I wasn't so close.
"Yea Esme, we were just talking."
"Alright. Well I just wanted to let you know that Carlisle needs to run to work for a bit and Alice just got off the phone with jasper. He'll be over in a bit." she said.
"Alright, thanks mom." Edward said.
"You're welcome. I'll be in the garden if you need me." she said, then turned and headed back to the kitchen.
We stayed where we were. I slowly relaxed back into the couch. Neither of us said anything. A few minutes later, Rose walked in. she stopped in the doorway.
"Oh…. Wow, it's like you can just see the awkward in the room. I'm gonna go find Alice and Jasper." she said and walked back out of the room. I looked over at Edward.
"She probably thinks we got into a fight or something." he said.
"yea… maybe we should tell them that we're not actually together." I watched Edward as I waited for him to say something.
"Alright, but hey, can we take a walk first?" he said standing up.
"Um sure" he grabbed my hand and helped me up. We stopped to put on shoes, then headed outside and into a path that headed into the woods.
It was a quiet walk. I really didn't know much to say. We kept walking until the path opened up into a clearing. The grass was low and moving with the wind. The air smelled like the salt of the ocean. The sky was clear, a bright blue.
"Bella?" he said from behind me.
"Yea?" I turned to face him. He eyes shown in the sunlight.
"I don't like this pretending acting thing." I looked down a the ground.
"yea I don't either. Its getting kinda hard. Maybe we should just go back and tell everyone that we were just making the whole thing up."
"Bella.." I looked back up at him. "That isn't exactly what I had in mind." he said.
"What should we tell them we broke up?"
"Well. No."
"Then what?"
"Bella.. Just listen to me."
"Ok."
Alright.. Umm…" he took a deep breathe and ran his hand through his hair. "Alright, this past few weeks. I kept forgetting that we were only pretending. We managed to even fool myself. But instead of pretending, how about we make this all real?"
I just stared up at him. I was completely speechless. Surely I was just dreaming again. I'd wake up any second, its just another crazy dream to add to my list.
"Bella.. Oh god.. I'm sorry" he ran his hand through his hair again and started pacing. "We don't have to. We can just tell people we were only faking…. We can forget this whole conversation.." he kept rambling. I laughed. "Bella..?"
"Edward calm down."
"What?
"You haven't even heard what I have to say." he stopped.
"So you're saying…?"
"I'm saying yes." A smile broke across his face. He ran over and picked me up into a hug. I laughed as he spun me around.
"Edward stop. Put me down."
"Oh, sorry, I just couldn't believe it."
"Its ok. Now how about we had back and tell everyone."
"That we're actually together?"
"Yes Edward." he grabbed my hand and we walked back to the house.
When we got back we found that Emmett had made his way over to the house to. They were all sitting around the living room.
"There you two are. Where'd you go?" Emmett asked.
"On a walk" I said.
"Alright, now, we have a bit of a story to tell" Edward said. He walked over and sat on the recliner, I sat on the arm.
"This should be interesting." Alice said. Rose turned the TV off, everyone turned to face us.
"Well, let's start from the beginning. When the rumors started, neither of us knew what to do. So we ended up coming up with this idea to pretend that we were going out." Edward started.
"YOU WHAT? YOU GUYS WERE ONLY PRETENDING?" Alice stood up and screamed.
"Alice calm down. And listen to the story." she slowly sat back down.
"Alright, as I was saying. We decided to pretend that we were going out, but other than that, we had nothing else plan. Which we found out, was something we really should've done. So we continued with just going along with what people say. Then we decided to do that date so that it seemed more believable. Which worked. Then last night at the party, neither of us wanted to be there, so we snuck out the back, went to Bella's house and made some cupcakes."
"I wondered where those came from" Emmett said quietly. Everyone laughed.
"Well then we came back and found out that Tanya saw us. And today, we realized that by Monday, everyone would know. And we'd just have to go along with that to. Pretending was getting difficult. So we went on a walk, the one we just got back from, and while we were on it… we decided that it was time to stop pretending."
"WHAT?" Alice and Rose screamed in unison.
"SHH" I said back to them.
"SOOOO…. We decided to make it official." Edward said grabbed my hand. Alice and Rose's face changed.
"AWW… that's so cute."
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Ashley n' ally
