Chapter 9

When Julie got outside of school that day, she was a little surprised to find her sister standing there…waiting for her.

"Julie," she yelled as she walked over to her sister. "why are you here?" "I told mom I was coming with you!" she said, smiling. "You didn't tell her where, did you?" "No," she replied rolling her eyes. "Good….then I guess you can come." "Do I have a choice?"

Julie and Emily walked up to the mansion. Julie had to pull Emily away from the sculptures this time, but they got there. When they got there, Edward was no where to be found….again. Julie was looking around the mansion when she finally found him, making another glass sculpture.

When she got into the room, she found him making a sculpture out of what she thought was glass, but it turned out not to be glass at all…it was ice. She looked up at the sculpture he was making as ice shavings fell all over the room like snow. The sculpture was of a girl…she was holding her hand out as if to hold someone else's. As she got closer, she realized the picture was of her!

She slowly pulled the picture she had of her in front of the garden with her arm outstretched, holding the camera. It was perfect. It looked exactly the same, even thought it wasn't in color.

As he stopped, the snow stopped falling, slowly. Luckily he had the window closed, or else it would have gone out the window. She marveled at the huge statue, speechless and awe-struck. When she came out of the daze, Edward was standing in front of her. She looked at him and couldn't believe it, still.

"Edward," she said throwing her arms around him, "it's beautiful." She held on to him for a few seconds before he said, "Like you," She let go of him and looked into his eyes. They were locked in a stare for a brief moment, until Emily came in.

"Julie I still can't-" she started, but stared at the statue just like Julie had.

"Wow!" she said loudly. "That's so….pretty!" she said. For a while, all she and Julie could do was stare at the huge statue. After a while, Julie snapped out of it again.

They went back to Edward's room. It was kind of quiet that day. Julie stared at Edward almost the whole time. Mostly because she was trying to make a picture, but she couldn't keep her eyes off of him. She didn't want to get too full of herself, but something was telling her he had feelings for her, but she was also wondering if she was starting to get feelings for him.

Julie came out of her daze again when her cell phone rang. "Julie!" Chase's voice said. "Your mom's on her way to my house!" "What!" she yelled, startling Edward and Emily. "Run over here, now!" "How do we get-" "Sneak through the bathroom window! I have an idea!" he sad quickly. Julie and he both hung up their phones. "Emily, we have to go." "But why?" "Just come on!" she said throwing her stuff into her bag. "Bye Edward, sorry we had to leave." Julie said giving him a kiss on the cheek. Afterwards, she paused for a very awkward moment. She smiled at Edward, and he smiled back. Then, she very quickly realized what was going on and quickly ran down the steps.

She and Emily were running when Emily stopped. She was too tired, so Julie picked her up and threw her over her shoulder and began to run faster. They reached Chase's house and saw their mom walking to the front door. She hurried to the back of the house.

She was right outside the bathroom window, when she heard Chase yelling. "OH HI MRS. STEVENS! IT'S NICE TO SEE YOU! IN MY HOUSE!" "It's nice to see you, too, Chase." replied her mom, "why are you yelling?" "No reason…" he replied. "So, where are Julie and Emily?" "They're still in the BATHROOM!" he yelled. Julie was trying to push Emily up to the bathroom window, but she couldn't reach. "C'mon Em," she said. "Throw me," she whispered. "What?" Julie replied. "Just do it!" Julie jumped up and let go of her sister. Emily reluctantly went up and grabbed on to the edge of the window. She pulled herself in. "They're both in the bathroom?" "Yeah…um…Emily…was playing with my dog…and she….fell….so Julie is helping her fix her leg!" "Oh," she replied.

"C'mon, Julie!" Emily whispered loudly to Julie. Julie was trying to climb up the wall of the house and finally got to the window and dragged herself in, falling into the bathroom.

"YES, LET'S GO SEE HOW THEY ARE! I'M GONNA OPEN THE DOOR, NOW-" "Chase," Julie said, coming out of the bathroom. "Why are you yelling?" "No reason." He said again. "Well…" Julie's mom said. "You two okay?" she asked. "I'm fine," Emily said. "Let me see your knee." "Um, false alarm, mom. She fell in the grass. Her leg's fine." "That's good." Her mom said. "Well, I came to get you guys. Your dad and I wanted to talk to you." "Well, then let's go." Julie said.

"Bye, Chase!" Julie and Emily said. "See ya," he said, rather plainly. They left, shutting the door behind them. "Your welcome, Julie." He muttered.

"Mom, why did you bring us here?" Julie asked as they walked into the door of their house. "Daddy!" Emily yelled running over to her dad, who was sitting on the couch. "Em, your leg seems fine now," Julie said giving Emily an irritated face. "Oh, well…I guess it was nothing," she said, letting out a fake laugh. "Girls," Julie's mom said. "Your father and I have something to tell you." Julie's mom said sitting down on the couch.

She let out a huge sigh and looked up at them both. "Is something wrong?" Julie asked. "Well…not exactly." She replied. "I guess we actually have two things to tell you." Julie's mom said. "Your mom and I," her dad started. "Are….well…." "Say it!" Julie said smiling, guessing what they were about to say. "We're…dating again." Julie let out an excited squeal. "I knew it!" Julie said getting up. She raced over to the couch and gave her parents a big hug. "Well, what's the other news?" Julie asked getting back up. "Well, we're-" her mom started, but her dad interrupted. "We'll…be out for a while from now on," "Well, duh. We knew that!" Julie said. "This is so awesome!" Julie said. "I knew you guys would be back together!" Julie said.

"Well, we're going out for dinner tonight, so go get whatever you need to and get ready." Her dad said. Julie ran up stairs to freshen up. Emily saw her motion for her to go up with her. "I'm gonna go with Julie," Emily replied.

After they went upstairs, their parents had a talk. "Why didn't you tell them yet?" their mother asked their dad. "Well, I don't know if we should tell them just yet. I mean, Julie's prom is Saturday. This may be hard for them. "Well, we can't hold the secret it until we actually-" "We're ready!" Julie said dragging Emily down the stairs. "Oh, good." Their dad replied and they went out the door. "Remember what I said." Julie whispered to Emily. "I know how to act in a restaurant, I'm not five!" Emily said irritated. "Well, remember last time…" Julie said as her parents gave each other weird glances about their earlier discussion, which would be very hard for Julie and Emily to know about…

Later that week….

Friday came pretty fast…there was only one day left before prom. That day, Julie went to Edward's by herself. Emily had to go to the dentist's. When she got there, she went immediately to the room with the huge sculptures and took a picture. She was amazed and wondering why none of them melted because they were made of ice…

Afterwards, she and Edward sat and talked as usual. It was a little more awkward this time, though. It was probably because of what had happened yesterday. Julie was drawing again, but she still couldn't help but stare at him a few times. She got more done that day, though.

"I really liked the sculpture you made yesterday," Julie said. "Thank you," he replied. "It was so…it looked just like the picture." He smiled in response. Julie noticed that they were sitting pretty close to each other. "So," started, "The prom's tomorrow." She said smiling. "Tomorrow?" he asked. "Yup," she replied as she started to color the picture. "I found a dress. It's really nice. I should show you a picture." Julie said looking up at him.

Suddenly, they stared at each other's eyes again. This time, they stared at each other for a long time. There was a very long silence as their faces drew closer to each other's. Their lips met and they kissed, for a while, too. Julie pulled away slowly and looked up at him. She looked at her watch.

"Well…" she started. "I better go. I have a thousand things to do tomorrow." She got up and so did Edward. She hurriedly packed her bag and then went towards the stairs. "Bye…" she said. She felt kind of bad for getting ready to leave right after that, so she hugged him. "See ya soon." She smiled and went home.