In Too Deep

Edward

"Again… what exactly is it that you're here for?" I asked my sister sitting in my study at home. Rosalie stood there her blonde hair perfectly waved with a headband on. Her Birkin bag had it's own seat in the chair across from mine as she stood in front of me.

"Tanya called me the other night, made it seem like she was calling to have idle conversation. Then she brought up the fact that she saw you with a date." She said smirking. I sighed.

"Yeah well." I muttered. Knowing that she was happy that I was going through with the plan, but part of me was ashamed that I was taking this route to get what I wanted. Is this even what I wanted?

"Oh don't get that look on your face."

"A look?" I said lazily as I tugged on my hair. I needed a haircut.

"Yeah that look… that you're doing something wrong…You're not. You're doing what's best for you. This girl is just… a nobody." Rosalie said as she picked up her Birkin and threw it over her shoulder. She rubbed her lips together as to smooth out her lip gloss.

"Tanya's gonna be at the garden party with that dog fiancé of hers so… keep up your little love movie and make sure she's there to see all the scenes." Was all she said before Renesme walked in with her music blasting in her ears in workout attire. Rosalie took that time to make her way out. They briefly bumped each other's shoulders and gave each other dirty looks but nothing really happened after that. When Rosalie was gone Renesme sat down in the chair across me.

"To what do I owe this summoning?" She said picking up some documents on my desk and easily minding my business.

"I need your permission on something." I said pouring her some scotch. Renesme looked at me suspiciously but said nothing. She just raised her eyebrow in response.

"Can I take Bella to the Paris conference?" I asked she laughed out loud. The Paris conference was a week long and it was filled with potential to rub shoulders. Renesme and I went every year she loved the Paris conference, which is why I was extremely nervous to ask her for this favor. I needed to listen to Rosalie though, I needed to wow Bella to shock Tanya.

"Well I've only been a hundred times so…. I wouldn't mind. You really like this girl don't you?" She asked amused.

"Yeah." I answered like a man in love hating myself for it. "I really do." I said.

OOOoo

"If you eat animal crackers are you still a vegetarian?" Maria asked cutely up at me from my big office chair that she was sitting in while Bella and I did work. Renesme had left the room not too long ago.

"No I don't think so." I answered used to her random questions. Bella rolled her eyes at me but didn't look up, as she was used to the stupid responses that I usually gave. Alice was running late at an event and Jasper got caught up with work so Maria was in Bella's care. As she usually was when Alice and Jasper ran into such issues. If it wasn't Bella it was Jacob and if it wasn't Jacob newly now it was Angela. The little girl had a team of less than valid nannies, not that it mattered to her, she loved us all.

"Interesting." She answered as she shoved some in her mouth. Just then Jasper walked in his keys dangling, wearing a leather jacket looking kind of tired.

"Daddy!" Maria yelled running into his arms. Though he was tired his eyes lit up when the little girl propelled herself into his arms. He kissed her forehead and stooped down to her level to hear her talk a million words a minute about nothing really. He listened attentively and quietly holding her close. There were a lot of.

"Really's"

And some

"Oh I see's"

As they engaged in their conversation.

"Alright well I'm glad you had fun, lets get you home huh?" He said softly picking up the little girl. She wrapped her arms around his neck tightly.

"Say goodnight to Bella and Edward." Jasper prompted softly.

"Bye Eddie bye Bellsey" She said tiredly.

"Bye munchkin." Bella said going over to her and kissing her forehead. I waved softly with one hand while the other was in my pocket. Jasper waved at us tiredly saying thank you before he took her and left and when they were gone Bella went back to working. She picked up the IPad and started looking at documents, while I still stood there.

"Do you plan on working or are you just gonna stare at the wall all day." Bella said shoving me a little.

"Does Maria make you want kids… because you spend so much time with her?" I asked conversationally as I sat in my chair and leaned back into it.

"Sometimes yeah she does." She said not looking at me as she scrolled with her fingers.

"But you don't want any?" I asked her.

"No." She answered calmly.

"But you're so good with them… I mean look at Angela and Maria and-

"I can't be anybody's mother." She said calmly placing the IPad on the chair and going over to my computer to fidget and do some more work.

"You definitely have the capabilities-

"Edward. Jesus" She said interrupting my third degree. I put my hands up in surrender. She just looked amused as she filed through my computer, then she looked up at me.

"Don't give me a plan okay?" she said seriously. I knew exactly what she meant.

"Bell I didn't mean-

"I know you didn't mean anything bad by it… but I'm not Tanya and I never will be any of these society princesses that's going to sit down here and make a perfect plan with you. If that's what you need I understand…. But it is not me and it never will be okay?" She said softly. I just got up from my spot and went over to her. I pushed a strand of her brown hair behind her ears and I took her in my arms. She fit perfectly in them.

"I'm sorry." I whispered. I kissed her forehead and she looked up at me. "I haven't been in a relationship where two people just… let things happen." I admitted. She just nodded softly.

"Okay" she whispered. Wrapping her arms around me. I leaned in and kissed her and she kissed me back. It started off slow and sweet and then it deepened and next thing I knew I had her on my desk. I stood inbetween her legs and I was kissing down her neck.

Realistically this wasn't part of any plan to get Tanya back…. But she was so…. Irresistible.

"Wait we can't do this here." I said trying be reasonable.

"Mhm." She mumbled ignoring my half assed reasoning. Just then Renesme walked in, she burst out laughing at the site of us. Bella pushed me away from her a little bit.

"Really? You couldn't wait till you got home… Jesus you guys are like teenagers." She muttered before she rolled her eyes and closed the door behind her.

OOOOo

Bella and I were "seeing each other" that was the term Angela gave me when she asked if we were boyfriend and girlfriend and I said I had no idea. We went out on dates, I watched movies at her place she watched movies at mine. We had many run-ins with Tanya in the city some planned some not so much. I realised that as the Paris conference got closer that what had happened was I had started to… like Bella… really like her. For me… not to make Tanya jealous and because of that… to make it up to her (even though she had no idea what was going on but I felt I had to apologise for treating her like such trash some way) I needed to make this trip perfect. The only way I could do that was to officially, publicly declare her.

"What is this?" Maria as she held up an expensive paperweight. Maria was one of the many things that came with Bella.

Her friends.

For my whole life… it was always just Edward and Embry… then Edward and Embry and Renesme not too long after. But Bella brought Angela, Maria, Alice, Jasper and Jacob. Our groups had kind of meshed and with that meshing of groups came the meshing of responsibility…. The groups infant.

Maria.

"That is something that would cause you to work your entire life to pay off. Now let's put it down." I said nicely and patiently as I took it from her. I placed it on the desk. She had become very well known in the building. She spent most of her time with Angela when she worked here part time or if Angela wasn't here she was in my big chair, watching cartoons on Netflix. At first I would worry endlessly about where she'd run off too, so I soon had one security guard on her at all times and she was free to roam the building on her daily adventures. Sometimes she'd run off to visit the secretaries downstairs

"I'm bored." She said cutely as she wiggled side to side.

"How about this you go find Renesme and Bella in the conference room give them these papers and then after I'll take you for candy ?" I said to her using her favorite thing to get her to calm down.

"Okay!" She said. Excitedly just then one of my workers, came into the office with a smile on her face.

"Mr. Cullen your sister Is here to see you now." She said just then Rosalie walked in and when she saw Maria she hid her horns, because everybody could love that kid.

"Hi what's your name!" Maria said running up to Rosalie with the papers I gave her. Rosalie smiled and went down to her level.

"Rosalie Cullen I'm Edward's sister what's yours?"

"Maria Whitlock… I'm in kindergarten but I don't like it." She said as she took one of Rosalie's blonde tresses. I raised my eyebrow at the fact that the ice queen looked, amused?

"You look like the princess Rapunzel with the long blonde hair." She said as she played with Rosalie's hair.

"Really? That's a compliment thank you." Rosalie said just then Renesme walked in without Bella. I gave her a look gesturing my sister and she already knew what I meant.

"Come on kid lets go, Edward's gotta work." Renesme said picking her up.

"Okay… Bye pretty princess." She said waving goodbye to Rosalie. Rosalie just smiled and when they were gone and the door closed she looked at me with a smile.

"Cute kid where'd you get her?"

"She's a friend of Bella's." I said as she placed that bag in it's own chair and sat across from me. Folding her arms and looking at me

"Okay what did you want."

"This is done…. This little game with Bella…. It has to be done." I said truthfully. She let out a laugh.

"Excuse me?... You fell for the punk… what are you kidding me Edward." She snarkily said.

"Rosalie this is wrong and I'll admit I was desperate when you proposed the bullshit plan but she's a person and this is horrible and I cant be a part of it."

She said nothing for a few moments but then she did.

"Mom and dad will never accept her."

"Unlike you I don't live for them or their approval so it really doesn't matter does it?" I said ending the conversation as she stood up. She just smirked.

"You won't be able to hide her from the rest of our world for long and it'll all crumble down around you because she is a farce."

"Rosalie, Shut. Up for heaven's sake." I said leaning in my chair.

"How do you plan on hiding her from mom and dad?"

"I'm not hiding her, I'm not ashamed of her." I said she scoffed before she got up and looked at me up and down.

"You're making a big mistake." Was all she said before she took her bag and left the office. I opened the door and looked at Bella who was sitting at her desk now, unaware so many people were discussing her.

"Hey." I said walking up to her and turning her chair to face me, not caring about how our coworkers would see us like I usually did.

"Hey." She said sweetly as she gave me a chaste kiss on my lips. "What's up?" She asked softly.

"Come away with me this weekend?" I asked her softly. She laughed.

"Uh. No." She said sternly with a little laugh. "I don't want Angela out of my site… for a little bit longer." She said with a little half smile looking sorry. I wasn't mad at all though, if anything I found it more endearing, that she put so much of herself into this teenager that she owed nothing to.

"I can… watch her." Renesme said popping out of nowhere. The both of us looked at her.

"Uh really? I don't think so Renesme, Angela is a handful she can talk her way out of anything you have to be really harsh with her or she'll slip through your hands" Bella instructed. Renesme scoffed.

"Hey, I help run one of the best book publishing companies in the world… trust me I can handle a teenager." Renesme said Bella looked at me and I raised my eyebrow. She put her forehead to mine.

"Fine." She said with a little smile. "Where are we going?" She asked me softly.

"Just a little stay-cation." I said with a smile. Not letting her in on where we were going.

OOOOoo

I showed up to the front of Bella's building in my BMW convertible. She had yet to see this car, but I really wanted to impress her. There were no games, no lies… I was moving on and I felt great about it. I looked up from my cell phone to alert Bella I was here only to see Angela at my car with a louis Vuitton duffel looking less then pleased.

"Hey… what's up." I asked her enthusiastically.

"I have to spend my weekend with Renesme…. She's insane." She said dully. I laughed.

"I would take you but-

"You know a month ago I was alone all the time and NOW…. I can't go anywhere without a babysitter." She complained

"She wants what's best for you." I said amused. She looked over her shoulder and squinted at the sun hitting her eyes. She lowered herself so that the sun was out of her eye and she can show me how serious her face was.

"I complain a lot but I love her… so if you're just playing games dump her because she's the only person in my life who cares about me and I don't want you to fuck up the only real parent I've ever had." She said so bluntly and truthfully I just blinked in shock for a few seconds before I responded.

"I care about her a lot." I said she didn't say anything as Bella approached the car holding a duffel bag. She threw it in the backseat of my car and looked at Angela.

"Do you have your glasses?" She asked her.

"Yah." The teenager answered dully.

"Homework?"

"Yah"

"Even the math?"

"Yes."

"Good!" Bella said kissing the socialite on her forehead. "Be good!" Bella yelled enthusiastically as she hoped into my car. Bella waved enthusiastically as Angela looked over at us dully, I honked twice before I sped off and soon it was just the two of us.

"So where exactly are we going?" She asked me.

"The Hamptons. I have a place up there and the construction is finally done. You can lay out, enjoy the pool and relax." I said enticing her.

"Ooh I like that." She said leaning over to kiss me. Just then her phone rang and she pulled apart from me to pick it up, it was a work call. A work call that lasted twenty minutes, for some reason I was amused by the entire thing. She looked at me curiously.

"I'm sorry it's just funny seeing me be relaxed and you work." I admitted. She rolled her eyes.

"One of us needs to keep their head in the game." She answered as she rested her head against the seat and I made it onto the highway and sped off. I just shook my head as we listened to some of Bella's favorites the whole ride, when we got to my estate about two hours later after a few stops to eat and to use the washroom… small bladder that girl had. You learn something new everyday about the person you're with it seems. When we pulled up to my estate, I watched her eyes narrow at the huge gate opening slowly to reveal the expansive property.

"What?" I asked her as I slowly moved the car up the extensive drive way and pushed the button for the gate to close behind me.

"Isn't cottage getaway supposed to be small and quaint?" She asked turning her nose up at the huge place.

"No." I said smartly as I parked the car and opened the door for her to get out. I took her bag from her and put my key in the door and when I pushed it open I watched her roam. She smiled appreciatively at my childhood photos and little trinkets from my past.

"I like it… it's homey." She observed softly. I nodded. Happy that I could share a special part of my life with her.

-6 P.M-

Bella was getting acquainted with my pool, swimming laps around it while I barbecued us burgers. It was nice to watch her.

"Sure you don't need help?" She asked from her spot by the edge of the pool in the water.

"You just keep doing your thing little mermaid." I said as she shrugged and started doing the back stroke in the pool. The doorbell rang and she looked at me.

"Want me to get it?" She asked as she swam.

"No I got it!" I said as I closed the barbeque and ran to the front of the house to get the door. When I swung it open I was tackled in a bear hug and laughed once I realized it was peter, a buddy of mine from college.

"What's up ass face haven't seen you in a while. I saw your car pull up earlier I knew you were in town. Why wouldn't you tell me!" He said as Charlette rolled her eyes at her husbands' antics.

"I told you he probably didn't tell you because he didn't come here to get drunk. Probably came here to relax." She said pulling him back kind of like a child. He scoffed, I laughed.

"I'm just in town for the weekend a little R-N-R" I said but Peter wasn't listening as his eyes was on the pool in the back.

"Whose that?" He asked as Bella swam back and forth unaware that she was now a topic of conversation.

"Oh… a friend of mine." I said nicely, he raised his eyebrow and put his hands up in surrender.

"Edward?" Said Bella's voice in the distance.

"I'm coming" I yelled back towards the pool. "Look I'll uh call you? Later?" I said to my friends. They both nodded, trying to sneak a peak but otherwise, left. I turned back to go to Bella. She was at the edge of the pool, wringing her hair out.

"Who was that?"

"Nobody just some old friends." I said nonchalantly. It wasn't that I didn't want her to know about them. I just wanted her to myself for a while. This was new and my world was hectic, and Bella was…. Different. I felt like we should build a strong foundation before I fed her to the sharks in my life. That and well… people in my life weren't the most accepting and as bad as this may have sounded I needed a way to brand Bella so that I didn't have to hear any shit.

"Oh okay." She said with a shrug of her shoulders. She leaned in and gave me a little kiss and I kissed her back, happy that there was no one here to potentially ruin this.