Disclaimer: You know the drill. I don't own Twilight even though it would so damn cool if I did, it and all of it's characters belong to Stephenie Meyer.
Chapter 7
The bookstore wasn't really all that big, but it was a bookstore, and it did have a pretty good selection of books for its size. Even with Edward there I couldn't help getting completely lost in the books and my own mind, I noticed nothing but the books and with Edward there, that was really saying something. I don't even know how much time we spent in the book store, 10 minutes, an hour, three hours? Time didn't matter. When I finally decided which books I wanted we went up to the counter and paid, and then Edward was half-carrying me out to his car again.
When I got into his car I looked at his clock and realized it was 8 in the evening, we had been in the book store for almost 4 hours.
"So where are we going next?" I asked as Edward slid into the car.
"Bella, I told you it is a surprise, will you please stop asking questions."
"How many more stops are there before we are done?"
"Just one."
"Oh." I know I sounded a little disappointed. It had been a wonderful day and I didn't want it to end.
"Don't be upset Bella, we don't have very much school left this year, and then we can spend almost every day of the summer together." He smiled at me reassuringly.
"He was right, we only had 3 weeks of school left. And then it was three months of bliss with him.
I then finally realized where we were going. We were headed back to the lake we had went to earlier, but I didn't bother telling Edward I knew, because it wasn't useful information, because I still didn't know what we were going to do. I sat there the rest of the ride trying to figure out what he could have planned.
"What are you thinking Bella?" He asked as he turned off the car.
"I'm just trying to figure out what we are doing here," I replied honestly. He just sighed as he got out of the car and swiftly opened my door. I decided that I wouldn't even bother asking anymore questions for the night, at least not about my surprises, as Edward scooped me out of the car and began running with me in his arms.
When we finally arrived at our destination and I finally opened my eyes, I knew exactly what we would be doing there. Edward had set up a picnic. There was a blanket laid across the ground about 10 feet away from the lake. There was a large picnic basket on one corner of the blanket there were dishes set up towards the middle of it.
"So what do you think?" He was grinning from ear to ear.
"Oh Edward, it's wonderful!" I was absolutely thrilled, and I wasn't even quite sure why, it was just a picnic. Then it hit me, Edward and I could have spent as much time as we wanted just sitting there with each other, and we wouldn't be bothered by anyone.
He carried me down to the blanket and gently sat me down in front of the dishes and took his seat on the other side.
"I didn't really know exactly what you would want so I brought a few different things." He gestured towards the basket. "I brought some steak, potato salad, spaghetti," he continued listing off a few more items as he pulled them out of the basket. There was enough food there to last me a week. I decided to eat the steak with some coleslaw. It was amazing, the steak was cooked to perfection.
"Did you make this yourself?" I asked Edward after I swallowed a bite of steak.
"Not exactly, I hired someone to help me make it."
"Well it is amazing!" I said enthusiastically as I put another piece of steak in my mouth. "So how come we didn't have lunch here instead of driving back and forth to Port Angeles?"
"Because when we were here earlier, it was in the middle of the day, look up Bella."
I didn't realize the sun had gone down. The lake was lit by the gorgeous full moon and all the stars surrounding it. The surprises just kept coming, getting more beautiful each time. "Wow" I finally breathed. I finished eating my food and put all my dishes into the basket. Then I laid down on the blanket with my head in Edward's lap and gazed at the stars.
"What are you thinking about?" I asked Edward. He must have been surprised I asked him for once, because it took him a minute to answer.
"I was just about to ask you the same thing." He grinned down at me.
"You first."
"Ok, I was thinking that I don't deserve you, that I should just let you go. What are you thinking?"
"Don't be ridiculous Edward, I would never leave even if you tried to let me go. And as for what I was thinking, I was just thinking about how wonderful this day was."
He smiled and laid down next to me, wrapping me tightly in his arms. I could have stayed there all night but sadly things just didn't turn out that way. Edward's phone rang.
"Hello," he said completely calm and peacefully still laying next to me.
"WHAT!" He was sitting straight up.
"He couldn't have been! I would have known! I was there Alice I saw him do it!" Edward was practically screaming into the phone. "Ok, I am on my way home. Come on Bella," he said as he hung up the phone. He stuffed everything into the picnic basket and flung me over his back and began to run faster than ever before, I didn't have time to even close my eyes before we were back to his car. We were back in front of my house in half an hour.
"Bella I can't explain now, but I have to go, I will be back tomorrow." He kissed me and drove into the night.
A/N: Yeah ok the ending "and he drove into the night" is kind of cheesy and overly done, but I just couldn't help it lol. Also sorry for the length, it's very short, but I didn't want to start anything in the middle of the chapter. So who can guess what has happened! It isn't that hard to figure it out, lol. Also sorry for taking so long, things have been hectic around here any way, I hope you enjoyed it!
Timeline
12pm Leave Bella's house.
12:30-3:00 Boat
3:15-4:00 Lunch
4:05-8:00 Book Store
8:20-10:00 Dinner/Stars
She gets her cast off the week after Edward comes back.
And I am having them get out of school in the last week of May.
A/N: Ok, so as I was re-reading this I realized that the timeline I had already set up wouldn't really work the way I wanted it too, I originally had them starting the day earlier… even though it didn't actually say a time… so anyway… here is the timeline for when everything happens just to kind of give you a clue. And yeah the lunch and dinner times are kinda off… but that's just how it worked out lol. For those who have already read the whole thing before you read this chapter, I made Bella grab a breakfast bar on her way out the door. And the last two notes on the cast and school are more for my advantage than yours… I keep forgetting how long they have left, lol.
