Bella's point view
I'm confused. Where am I? My eyes don't want to open I'm just too comfortable sleeping. Living with newlyweds has been hard on my sleep. I slowly pry my eyes open to find my head on Alice's shoulder. She had her arms wrapped around me. I looked at her and smiled.
"Hey there sleepy head" Alice cooed
"Sorry for sleeping all over you. But wow that was some good sleep." I said with a stretch. Then I became aware that both Edward and his mom were looking at me too. Even Carlisle was staring at me through the mirror. Wow awkward
"No problem. I woke up just before you. If you saw the way I snuggled under you last night…hahaha needless to say your head was my pillow too" she said with a smirk
"I'm happy to be of service, since you guys did give me a free ride. Where are we by the way?" I said
"We are almost to Forks. It's Sunday morning." She said with a smile
"Crap! Can I borrow your phone to call my Dad?" I said a bit too loudly and with a smidge of panic. I did not want to worry Charlie any more than necessary
"Yeah sure. Edward give me your phone so Bella can call her Dad." She said with a smile
He handed it over with a small indulgent smile. He looks at me with a smile that said yeah I know she's crazy but you get used to it
I dial my Dad's number. I see while dialing it's almost eight o'clock but you would not have known it by the look of the sky. Nothing but cloudy skies and the ever present rain mist. I just hope he is awake and not too mad that I hadn't checked in yet.
Charlie answers a bit groggily "Hhhhhello"
"Hey Dad, it's me. I am going to be in Forks in about….." I cover the mouth piece and look at Alice. She mouths one hour "…one hour" I said
"Okay Bells. I will get dressed and run and pick something up for breakfast." he said with a stretch. "I'll see yah in a few then and its great your coming Bells. How was the bus ride? I didn't think they stopped in Forks."
Wow I had the guiltiest face in life on. I didn't want to tell him that I got a ride with unknown people. But then again they are nice and I was assured they weren't pervs. BUT I wasn't trying to get in trouble with him the first day back. So I lied.
"Yeah Dad I will probably be at your house before you even get back with your errands. They probably took pity on me and decided to let me off by the house on their way to Alaska. I did look kind of pitiful with my thin jacket in this arctic cold. Hahaha" I said with a swift tongue. Wow my lies have been getting good since I started high school. Damn it must be in the female DNA. But I do hate doing this to Charlie.
"Okay see you then Bells" he said and hung up.
I press click. I look straight at Carlisle "Carlisle as good as this ride has been I need to beat my Dad home can we make it to my Dad's house in an hour?" I said silently begging him.
"hahahaha I think we can get that done." He said with a chuckle
He hit seventy miles an hour and I was pushed back in my seat.
Edward's point of View
Watching Bella sleep was fun. She slept on a very happy Alice. I couldn't read Bella's mind but I didn't let my family in on that yet. I didn't notice at first which took me by surprise. I was more interested in what she was saying instead of thinking. While she talked with Alice I just listened to her story and then her even breath while sleeping. It almost felt like I was sleeping too, I sat there and just basked in her smell.
While she slept though I grew curious and wanted to know what she was dreaming about. I heard nothing. I tried harder because humans always thought something when they slept. But still nothing. It unnerved me. THIS WASN'T POSSIBLE! I am growing more and more nervous as my attempts failed.
When she woke up I tried again and nothing happened. Not even a whisper of a thought. I am angry now, the one person I wanted to read I couldn't. This leads me to the vision of me and her at the cafeteria table maybe we sat like that for a reason. Maybe it has to do with her smell. I have never smelled anything like this before. It is so sweet and floral at the same time.
I came to the conclusion she was not human. Simple as that. She couldn't be human because this was some kind of deviant smell that had me on edge when I paid too close attention to it.
She sat back when Carlisle drove faster. She looked like she was both worried and having fun at trying to trick her father. We all heard her lie and my parents heard her and they thought various things
Well it makes sense when you think about it…no father would be comfortable with their daughter hitch hiking
This stunt was dangerous for a human, lucky we picked her up
She could have been murdered if she was picked up by the wrong type of person
Wonder what made her leave this late at night?
Hahaha her mom was having sex and that's why she hasn't got any sleep! (of course that was Emmett's train of thought)
She is a threat and we shouldn't have picked her up. Wonder what made her run? Could it really just be about her mom being a newlywed? why is she so comfortable in a car full of vampires? Humans are supposed to not like to be near us my instinct and her she is sleeping in my wife's arms…mmhmm my wife's arms –I shut that door real quick before I got too much information
why is Alice so interested in this human? She needs to explain this cluster….god listening to Rosalie gives me a headache.
We were entering Forks with time to spare when we approached the chiefs house.
"Hey Bella there is only one school here in Forks so most likely we will have a class or two together, do you want to eat with us?" said Alice with a knowing smile. I saw Bella was going to be sitting with us Monday afternoon. That's all Alice saw and since she wanted to surprise herself she decided to look no further.
"Yeah that would be great! I know no one else besides you guys. And It would be cool to know the others in the car behind us." She said with a big smile.
Alice squealed with delight. I could see her going through multiple outfits for tomorrow. She wanted to have Bella be her best friend so she wanted things to be perfect. But she also wanted to play matchmaker as well. She was thinking about how sweet it would be for us to have me be complete.
She thought I was a mope. She thought that I was lonely. Was I? I don't think I was. I had hobbies! I wasn't some zombie like she thought I was! I'm a grown (well older) man and I could act how I wish. But I couldn't like and say I was completely against this scheming. I did want to find out what this girl is and what she is all about and if Alice's scheming did that than I couldn't say no.
"What grade are you guys in?" Bella said with a smile while pulling herself together before exiting the truck.
"Me and Edward are juniors. And Rosalie, Jasper and Emmett are seniors." Alice said with grace
"Cool beans, I'm a junior. So most likely we will have classes together because this is a REALLY small town." She said with a half-smile.
We Alice last night told her our cover story while Bella listened attentively. She seemed to be genuinely interested in how Carlisle and Esme adopted family and older children from the system and raised them. She didn't seem scandalized in some of us "dating" each other. She simply said "Hey you guys aint related so there is no need for me to comment" and she also muttered "Wow and I had to sneak out, lucky"
I didn't like where this sneak out comment lead me. Why was she sneaking out? To see some unknown guy? I was getting angry now and I didn't like it and I have no idea where it came from.
Bella climbed out the door and approached front doors and smiled a wide smile at Carlisle and made him think the happiest thoughts.
"Thank you for the ride and for not perving out on me. You guys are great!" she said with a laugh as she hugged him through the window. This caught him off guard and it did to everyone else. HUMANS NEVER INITIATE CONTACT WITH VAMPIRES. Instinct makes them not want to touch us.
She walked up to the steps of the house and sat down with her bag. She does look sweet with her brown reddish hair and brown eyes. She sat and just was happy to wait in the rain for her dad to get back and that was just endearing.
Carlisle didn't want to drive off and leave her there but we wanted to help with her cover story and he thought it was kind of sweet of her to lie and make her dad feel okay about her travels. Wow she's really nice. Haha and it's kind of like we are in cahoots with her and its fun! Edward I know you heard that but it was irresponsible what she did. I'm just enjoying the ride.
We drove to our home and unloaded the clothes while Alice went on and on about the girl we all would soon know better.
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