I DREAM OF RAINBOWS

Disclaimer: The Cullen's, the Swans, and most of the characters mentioned in the story that are known from Stephanie Meyer's beloved Twilight Saga, are all hers and hers alone. I neither have nor wish to pass them off as mine. I do appreciate the fact that she did bring them to life and allows us to play with them in our imaginations. The only thing I will claim is the current storyline.

The awesome and talented dowlingnana searched out my errors and corrected them.

As she had told Mark, in the beginning it was fun and exciting because it was new, but, it didn't take long for the newness to wear off and the exhaustion to start to set in. She felt like she was lucky at times just to remember what city they were in and not worrying about where they would be next. So, it was no wonder that she was glad to be home and to be able to fall into her own bed for however long she wanted to.

But, as fate would have it she was startled awake in just a matter of hours by the constant bang on her front door.

CHAPTER 3: AND ANOTHER RAINBOW

"Wait a minute!" she yelled at the door loud enough, hopefully, that the person on the other side of the door would cease their continual banging. And, then she was mumbling to herself as she continued to answer the door, "Damn, can't a person get a break and have a bit of peace in their own home without all of this disturbance?"

She threw the door open in a bit of temper to see a good looking stranger standing there. He was a tall, not really muscular, but, definitely tone and took care of his body, stood about six feet or six one, in height with blonde hair and bright blue eyes and his looks weren't bad on the eyes either. But, with seeing him standing there without saying anything as if waiting for her to say the first word, silence seemed to stretch to the point of becoming uncomfortable.

Bella became aware that she hadn't done anything, but, just stood there staring at the man as he was waiting for her to give him some form of greeting. Jerking herself to her full senses she moved to one side in invitation and motioned for him to enter. Once he had stepped across the threshold far enough for her to close the door, she did and then moved around him to lead the way to the living room area and told him to take a seat. Then she started with, "Who are you and what is it that you want?"

"My name is Jasper Cullen and my company is most interested in acquiring certain rights to your book." He said without adding any further information, almost as if wanting to see how she was going to react to what little he had said.

Just being woken from a sound sleep that had been greatly needed and still was, Bella didn't react at the moment to what Jasper had said. She sat and stared at him as if he hadn't spoken a word, or, at least, wasn't speaking English. Her mind wasn't catching up to the situation that was being played out in her living room at the moment.

Finally, she did pull herself together enough to say, "Excuse me, but, I didn't quite catch what you said. I'm extremely tired and need to get some much needed sleep, so, I'm not meaning to be rude, but, what the hell do you want?"

Jasper had expected some sort of excitement or a favorable reception to his opening line and then further discussion of the details and then arrangements made for the offer to be finalized. But, this wasn't something that even presented itself into his prior experience before, especially, from an up and coming new author that was being presented with a unique opportunity such as he was about to offer.

"Excuse me, Ms. Swan, but, I don't think you understand, let alone realize, the unique deal I'm offering you. If you wou-" He had started to explain until Bella held her hand up for him to stop.

She told him, "Mr. Cullen, you probably are here to offer me some kind of fantastic deal, offer, or, whatever, but, right now I'm not interested since I'm too damn tried to give a rat's ass about discussing any kind of business.

"Besides, I have an agent, a financial advisor and an attorney that handles any discussions of business. If they're satisfied that things are worth my time they'll get in touch with me and arrange a meeting at that point. So, I suggest that whatever you're wanting to pedal to me that you go through them first. I'll be happy to supply their contact information if you need it." And with that said she rose and walked to the front door, opening it upon arrival and turned to look at the stranger that had his mouth open in total shock and surprise with a jaw hanging towards the floor. But, seeing that he wasn't going to be allowed to get any further he bade her a farewell and left with the door barely missing his butt as it closed behind him. Bella gave a great big yawn and without giving the incident further thought headed back to bed and to sleep.

She slept soundly around the clock until the following morning and was preparing breakfast before the memories of yesterday hit her in the face like she had blindly slammed into a brick wall. Reaching out for her phone she quickly dialed Mark's number and waited for an answer. It seemed like it was forever before he answered, so, once he did she abruptly demanded, "What took so damn long?" He answered that he had been sleeping and it was then that she did hear that his words had a sleep slurred quality to them.

"Hey, man, sorry to be such a bitch when you answered. Are you still catching up on your sleep from our return?" She asked him, but, all she heard was what sounded like a mumbled negative. And, with that answer she launched into explaining what had happened the morning before, or, at least, what she remembered of it.

The more she talked it seemed the more awake Mark became and he started to ask her questions concerning what had happened. With telling him all she could they ended the conversation with Mark being fully awake and saying he was going to get ready and go into the office to see if he could trace down what this offer was about and to confirm the validity of the company making the supposed offer.

Bella went back to getting her breakfast ready and then eating it. After eating and cleaning up the kitchen she began the tasks that were needed to freshen up her home by cleaning, dusting and doing the laundry that was left before her trip and that had accumulated during the trip. It helped to pass the time so she wasn't dwelling upon questions about what her visitor had wanted that her mind would have been formulating for the answers to be sought. All she needed to do was to let Mark do his job and he'd get back with her if and when the need arose to let her know the when and where she was needed.

XXXXXX

Once again Bella was awakened from a sound sleep, but, not by someone banging on her front door; instead it was by her phone ringing. It had stopped and started at least three times before she was awake enough to even realize that someone had been trying to call her; she noticed the three missed calls and it was about to be a fourth if she didn't answer the damn thing.

"'lo." She slurred into the phone, never taking the time to see who the missed calls, let alone, who the present call, was from. All she wanted to do this early since it was only a little before seven was to shut the damn thing up so she could get a little bit more rest.

Her body was demanding more rest since she had taken her cleaning duties to a deeper level than 'just a swipe and a promise'. Furniture had been moved as she ran the vac, floors in kitchen and bath areas scrubbed spotlessly clean, the dusting was more of using furniture polish and a rag variety, the fridge had been dealt with as well with a thorough cleaning to be ready for restocking, the laundry had all been done then folded and put away and all of the bed linen and covers changed then washed as well. But, the final chore had been to do walls and baseboards with a light washing and drying with a rag to make sure all of the dust was cleared away that had collected since her last deep cleaning.

All of this had kept Bella's mind from dwelling on her visitor as she went through her day and that night after a long soak in the tub she hit the bed ready for the soothing sleep that her body deserved. True there had been odd moments throughout the day when she had considering calling Mark just to see if he had found out anything, but, managed to refrain from doing so. Instead, she just moved on to her next project and that was the way her whole day had gone until bed that night.

Now, she was being awoken by the blasted ringing of her phone because someone couldn't wait until a decent hour to call and had finally answered the annoying thing, she was waiting to for someone to tell her the reason for the call.

"Bella, you there?" The caller which turned out to be Mark was asking since he hadn't gotten any response from her as it seemed he had been talking to her while her mind was going down a different avenue. "Come on woman answer me." He demanded a little impatiently.

"Yeah, yeah, I'm here, but, do you realize what time of the morning it is?"

"I do and I needed to catch you early so you could get down to my office by eight thirty. A meeting is taking place a little later today with your visitor from the other day, but, I want the time to go over all of the details before we go into this meeting." Mark explained to her once he was sure he had her full attention.

"Can't you tell me about it now?"

"No, because you're not fully awake. But, I will tell you this, it's big. Bigger than big and the whole office is excited for us."

"Excited for 'us'? What 'us' are you talking about?"

"You, because of the offer that is coming your way, and me, because I'm your agent and what I do for you affects the agency. That's the 'us' I'm talking about." He explained and it was at that moment that Bella was able to pick up on the barely suppressed excitement that was being reflected in his voice.

"Okay. As much as I need the rest to still level out from the trip and from all of the cleaning I did yesterday, I'll be there. And, just so you'll know, Mark, I might be a little late, so, don't get your knickers in a twist." Bella told him.

As she disconnected from the call and tossed her phone onto the bed, Bella started to feel an unexplained excitement and her mind was quickly trying to come up with all of the possible reasons as to why her agent was so excited and why she was being affected by his held in check excitement. She did wonder why Mark didn't just go ahead and give her some more information than what he had as to why he wanted the early meeting and as what the meeting with the stranger was about as well.

Glancing at the clock she decided she had time to get ready and have a decent breakfast before meeting with Mark, but, that would only happen if she moved her butt at that moment instead of continuing to lay in bed and allow her mind free rein as to the possibilities.

Throwing the covers back, she got up and started getting ready. Next, she fixed breakfast and after eating she put the dishes into the dish washer along with the pans she had used, started the machine and walked into the living room to get her things in preparation for leaving.

XXXXXX

Walking into Mark's office, Bella surprised him. He was on the phone and was unaware that she was standing in the doorway listening to him conducting a conversation with someone that had to do with another one of his clients. Or, as Bella learned the longer she listened, a new client that was wanting an upcoming part in a movie that was going to be auditioning within the next few days.

As he was listening Mark happened to look over at his door and noticed Bella standing there with a smile. He motioned for her to take a seat as he finished his call. So, she walked forwards and took the chair that was just on her side of his desk and waited, but, she didn't have to wait too long.

When he hung up he just sat there and looked at her for a moment while a big smile slowly spread across his face. Then he said, "You are one lucky person. Your visitor is here to offer making a movie out of your book"

And when Bella heard that and it had had time to move from her ears to her brain to be processed, she sucked in a bit of a breath.

A/N: Shock of shocks, someone wants to make a movie out of her book. Bella is going to have many questions and some decisions to make. What will all of those be?

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