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Chapter 37
Bella fidgeted behind Charlie looking around the beautiful garden. This was her first time here on Bainbridge Island and the place was filled with beautiful driveways and houses. The house now they were standing in front awed her at first sight.
It was a modern home with floor to ceiling windows and water in the back ground. She turned round and round couple of time finding something breathtaking in every turn. The opening of the door made her stop and turn abruptly and they came face to face with two older couple around his dad's age and stayed while Charlie greeted them and then she was ushered inside, still lost in the splendor of her surrounding and the smartly dressed handsome couple.
"We were wondering if you two had trouble finding the address." Esme smiled at the father and daughter.
"Oh, no,no. We found it easily" Charlie said with a small shake of his head.
"Hmmm….this is for you Mrs….." Bella stepped closer to Esme with her beautiful flowers.
"Call me Esme dear, and this is Carlisle. Wow, such a beautiful bouquet, Thank you so much. I just love lilies" she was ready to pull the girl in to a bone crushing hug except her husband had a good grip on her.
"This is my daughter Bella. And Bells Carlisle and I were good friends in middle school and then he went away to Chicago and we lost contact" Charlie introduced with a grin thinking about past.
"You have a beautiful daughter Charlie" Esme walked up to Bella and took hold of her hands and patted it affectionately.
"She takes after her mother" Charles said abashedly while staring at his daughter.
"I'm sorry about your wife, we moved to Seattle only six months before our eldest son was born" Esme ushered them in to the living room.
"It was a long time ago and thank you" Charles sat on the sofa while all of the others took seat around, it was then his eyes fell on the boy wandering in to the room.
"This must be your son?"
"Ah, Seth it's good you came down, where is your brother?" Esme turned around and watched him walk in to the room.
"He finally fell asleep" Seth's eyes kept wandering to the girl and her father.
"Come and meet our new house guest and this is your dad's friend from middle school" Esme opened her arms for Seth and he walked little bit shy now he was in front of a girl.
"Hello" He was inching towards his mother and Bella found it endearing.
"This is Charlie Swan and this is Isabella" Esme introduced.
"You can call me Bella" Bella smiled and gave a little wave of her hand.
"You can call me Seth" He grinned.
"Our eldest is little bit indisposed today. He caught a cold and is having a hard time, I'm sure he will be down when he wake up" Esme turned towards her guests.
"How about something to drink?"
"Yes, Charlie come on I have a good bottle of Whiskey?" Carlisle piped up and Charlie nodded his head and stood up.
"It looks like you are left with me, would you like to get something to drink or to see your room?" Bella nodded her head at that and soon followed behind Esme.
"You have a beautiful home Esme" she said with awe coloring her voice as she found how breathtaking the view and the elegance of the interior to her liking.
"Thank you, I love designing though I'm a fashion designer I wanted my home to be a place of beauty while being relaxing"
"You are a fashion designer? Wow, one of my friends are hoping to go to fashion school"
"That's wonderful, and I forgot to ask before, Carlisle told me you go to school closer around here and what grade are you in now?"
"I was worried when dad told me I was going to stay with one of his friends' family because I thought I will have to make a long commute to school but it's nearby. I'm a senior at Volturi high school" they were now walking up to the third floor and Bella was distracted looking around the floor to ceiling view.
"Really, that is a surprise. My eldest is going to the same school and he is a senior this year too. You might know him" they were now standing up the floor and Esme turned around and waited for Bella who kept lagging behind when her attention fell on a painting she liked.
"Oh, really who is it?" Bella walked up to Esme with surprise. It will be wonderful if she knew this person.
"Do you kno-" With a bang the door few feet in front of them opened and steam oozed out of the room. Both Esme and Bella turned at the sound. For Bella the next few seconds passed in a blur.
"YOU?" Bella shouted.
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A/N: That is a cliché ending I know but my imagination is quite lacking and I will update when I finish the next chapter and I don't know what it is going to be, the posting schedule I mean. What is my excuse for being late…..Exams, yeah, I have them so I'm sorry for going MIA.
Hope you guys enjoyed it and thank you so much for the reviews.
Aria xxx