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BPOV
"Please Edward? Pretty please." Emmett fluttered his eyelids at Edward's unimpressed expression. "Come on. I won so it's only fair!"
"Okay then, if you won't stop bugging me about it."
"I won't. Not until you do it." A triumphant grin spread across Emmett's face. Although why he was asking Edward I have no idea. Surely he would ask me about this? After all I was the one who had to play the game.
"Ready Bella?" Alice came up behind me with a scarf/blindfold thing. I nodded trying not to think about the chaos I was about to cause. I felt the woollen scarf cover my eyes and immediately felt like this was a bad idea. I mean blinding the most accident-prone girl since the beginning of time, not smart. "You know how to play?"
"Yep! Tell me when to go though." I adjusted the knot at the back of my head and waited for conformation.
"GO!" I think it was Emmett who said that.
Oh, that's me. I reached my arms out in front of me and called to anyone who could hear me, "Marco!"
"Polo!" At least three voices answered back. So they hadn't totally deserted me. Not all of them anyway. I stumbled around cautiously not wanting to walk into anything. I tried to listen extra carefully so I would hear any movement. I took another step forward and felt something cold.
"Aha! I got someone!" But as I said that the person moved away and I fell to the floor. I knew the person wasn't Edward, as he would have saved me before I hit the floor. Ouch! I forgot what it was like to fall on your ass! "Hey that's cheating!" I stood up and dusted myself off. I sighed and got back on with business, "Marco!"
"Polo!" I heard voices in the distance. I tried to walk in that direction but walked into a shelf of some sort and fell over again. "Ow! That hurt." I mumbled to myself as I stood up again. I turned away from the shelf and called out again, "Marco!"
"Polo!" The voices were closer than before. So they saw me fall down and decided to do nothing about it. What fantastic friends I have. Right, third time lucky. I took a step forwards and miraculously I was still standing! Woo hoo! I took another step and another. Still upright. I started feeling ambitious and started walking in the direction of the voices. Slowly, but still walking. "Marco!"
"Polo!" A voice was close to me. Then without thinking about it I half walked-half ran in that direction.
"Marco!"
"Polo!" Oh no! The voice was getting further away. After it! I carried on with my weird walky-runny thing hoping I wouldn't crash again. I turned down an aisle after hearing footsteps. Then I smashed into something and started falling again! God, how many times can I fall in the space of ten minutes? But before I hit the floor I was caught and I knew who by. As I was pulled up I felt cold hands on my shoulders. Edward! When I was on my feet I moved closer to his body. I put my hands flat on his chest and made them crawl upwards until they were around his neck. Funny, he was taller than I remember.
"Thank God I found you. I fell over so many times back there that I thought I'd give myself a concussion! But now you're here to make me better." I leaned upwards for a kiss but felt Edward back away. "What's wrong?"
"I'm sorry Bella, I can't do this." But that wasn't Edward's voice that was …
I tore my blindfold off to see a doctor's uniform. Oh please no. I brought my eyes up until they met his. Crap! It was …
"Carlisle!" I gasped as I saw him looking into my eyes with a worried look on his face. This can't be happening!
"Bella, I didn't know you felt that way and I'm flattered I really am but I can't do it. You have Edward and I have Esme. I'm married, Bella and have been since before you were born. And I'm sorry to tell you but I don't have feelings for you. I mean, I love you like a daughter - friend even but not a lover." Seriously, is he having a 'talk' with me? I just stood there – dumbfounded – not knowing what to say or do. I couldn't speak; my voice was literally lost in my throat. I backed away before attempting.
"Carlisle – I wasn't – I didn't – I mean –" I couldn't string a sentence together properly. "Carlisle, listen, I thought you were Edward. I'm so sorry!" This is soooo embarrassing. I can't believe I'm apologizing to Edwards 'father' for expressing inappropriate feelings for him that aren't even there! I buried my face in my hands feeling my the heat on my palms. Crap, crap crapedy crap! What happens now then? I gingerly raised my head searching Carlisle's face for some sort of indication.
"Well," he cleared his throat, " I guess that's acceptable. This has been sufficiently awkward." He rocked on his heels.
"Yeah, I'm sorry. Can we just forget about this whole thing?" I asked a little to enthusiastically. Carlisle chuckled and nodded.
"Defiantly. I can do without this. I only came for a loaf of bread. See you later Bella and tell the others I want serious words with them about playing Marco Polo in Wal-Mart." I watched him leave, playing with the scarf in my hands. I heard excited giggling coming from the next aisle along. I crept to see who it was. As if I couldn't already guess.
"You! You meant for that to happen didn't you?" I stared angrily at the Cullen's in front of me. Even Edward was bent over with laughter. "Edward, you were meant to be on my side!" So much for my guardian angel!
"Bella, love, I'm sorry. They forced me. Will you forgive me?" His eyes smouldered making me lose the power of speech all over again. God, he looked so sexy like that and he knew it. I saw a smile play on the corners of his mouth. Damn you Edward Cullen and your ability to render me speechless!
"I…errm…I" Come on say something, anything. Well not anything, you don't want to make them laugh anymore. A little sentence. Just for me. Please. "You need to make it up to me. In anyway I choose." I raised my eyebrow suggestively. The smile dropped off his face.
"Bella, you know I can't do that. It's too dangerous." He almost sounded like he was pleading.
"What? I never said anything yet." I had a look of mock surprise on my face. "Edward get you're mind out of the gutter. I didn't mean that." I started walking away from the group. I turned my head around. "It's time to go don't you think. Anyway Carlisle wants a word with all of you at home." I carried on walking hopefully towards the exit.
"Hang on a second Bella." Edward hadn't moved from where he was before. I looked over my shoulder towards him and smiled. "The exit's the other way."
"Oh right. Thanks." I mumbled as I changed course. I nearly had it then. So close, but yet so far away!
I got to the car and had to wait a few minutes for the driver to arrive. I got kind of bored so my mind started to wander. When I saw the Cullen's coming towards me I was thinking what I should cook Charlie for dinner. It was his first night back so it would be like a welcome back meal for him. I was considering making a curry of some sort when Edward opened the door for me to get in. I sat down and closed the door behind me. I was still deep in thought about dinner tonight.
"Do you think I should make a cake or something?" I was thinking out loud. I looked round to Edward who was trying to stop a smile spreading across his face.
"Love, if you want to make a cake then you go for it." Okay there was no need for that tone. The tone that implied I was crazy, Emmett usually used that voice on me. My cheeks reddened slightly as I tried to think of a cover up.
"Well I was just thinking about making dinner for Charlie. Sort of a welcome party thing. I'm not sure though, what do you think?"
"I think it's a great idea. I suggest you get what you need now or else everyone will want to come back again and make it extremely difficult for you to actually buy anything." He had a fair point so we got out of the car and went back inside, hoping we wouldn't be followed.
Sorry this chapter is out later than I planned but I never got around to finishing it yesterday. Anyway, it's here :D Ta-Da *Insert Jazz Hands Here* Hope you like it. Any ideas as to what will go wrong with the dinner tonight?? XX
