Kind of random, Edward's POV. I don't know how much I like this one, but I think the writing is pretty good.
Characters/Pairings: Bella/Edward, Charlie
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Surprise!
Bella and I sat in her living room, pretending to watch TV with Charlie. He was caught up in some ball game. As far as I was concerned, they were all relatively the same. You could only see so many games of baseball before they clumped together into one gigantic, snore-inducing blur.
Well, if vampires could snore.
Bella seemed engrossed by the game as well, but I couldn't ever tell with her. She was never interested in baseball before. I think she felt guilty that she would be leaving Charlie soon and was trying to spend as much time as possible bonding with him.
So of course that meant I would be there, too. Charlie definitely didn't appreciate it; he was always thinking of elaborate plans to get me out of the house. Sometimes they were so complex, I was surprised that he'd come up with them on his own.
Excuse me. That was rude. I shouldn't be insulting the intelligence of my fiancé's dad, also known as my future father-in-law.
This game was rather boring. Usually I would read Charlie's thoughts, but they were fully concentrated on the game, nothing interesting.
I wonder why Edward's here... What a catch! That was classic! Great!
Lame.
I slid my eyes over, gazing at Bella. God, I could stare at her forever. Her eyes, her hair, her smile. She was beautiful. I smiled slightly as she laid her head against my shoulder, eyes still staring at the TV screen. Her scent was perfect, delicious. And the fact that it was Bella made me not even want to drink her blood.
I needed a way to distract myself.
I snuck a glance at Charlie. Still staring at the TV. I quickly turned Bella's face to mine and kissed her. She jumped slightly, but relaxed as I deepened the kiss. I quickly pulled away and looked in the opposite direction as Charlie turned to look at us.
He gave us a strange look, due to the fact that Bella's brain hadn't quite registered we were done kissing and was still facing the back of my head with her eyes closed.
But he forgot about it as something happened in the baseball game that captured his attention once again.
Once again, Charlie was paying us no attention. I leaned in, placed my lips against her ear. She flinched in surprise, but didn't say anything. I flicked my tongue out then, running it up and down the soft skin. She shut her eyes and smiled, obviously forgetting that Charlie was even in the room.
"Hey!" Bella protested as I pulled away; Charlie was watching again.
Then she blushed as Charlie gave her a strange look. "You okay, Bells?"
"Er, yeah." She mumbled, glaring at me. I smirked. Teasing Bella was funny.
It went on like that for awhile, until the game finally flicked to a commercial.
"Tune in to the E! True Hollywood Story: 50 Nastiest Celebrity Divorces," blared some bleached-blonde woman whose clothing was so tight it appeared to be suffocating her.
Charlie shook his head. "I don't know why people can't just stay married," he mumbled, sort of to us, sort of to himself. "You're lucky you won't have to worry about marriage for awhile, eh, Bella?" He chuckled. He wasn't really expecting a response.
Bella froze, but Charlie didn't notice. "Um," she said, biting her lip. She couldn't lie.
Suddenly, I had an idea. Bella would hate me for it, but probably only for a minute. Anyway, this needed to be done at some point. My eyes lit up and my lips twitched into a smirk.
Bella saw it and immediately gathered what I was going to say. She stared at me. "Don't. Do. This," she hissed, but she saw my resolve. She stood up quickly. "I'm going to... wash my hair!" she called, obviously blurting the first thing that came to mind as she very nearly ran from the room.
"Actually, Sir," I began.
"Hmm?" Then he thought. He remembered the last thing he'd said- marriage. My contradiction. Bella disappearing. He made the connection. Charlie's eyes bugged out, as he whirled around to face me. "WHAT?" His mind was going crazy. This is a joke. Is she PREGNANT? She's too young to be married! I bet she's pregnant. She's marrying HIM? That bastard! I hate him! BELLA IS NOT GETTING MARRIED.
"I've asked Bella to marry me," I said, grinning like a crazy person. Maybe I was crazy, but if it felt like this, what did it matter?
I heard Bella groan in the other room and imagined she was hyperventilating. I wished I could go calm her down, but I don't think Charlie would take very well to me announcing our engagement and running away.
"And what... has she said?" Charlie asked, trying to stay calm, but I could see him seething. His face was turning a rather unattractive shade of red.
"To my good fortune, she has agreed."
"ISABELLA MARIE SWAN!" Charlie shouted, jumping up from his chair.
"Soon to be Cullen!" I said in a sing-song voice. Bella reappeared in the room, and she and Charlie shot me identical glares.
"You're- marry- asked- He-he's lying, right?" Charlie stuttered, his eyes bugging out of his head.
"Um, no," Bella said, wincing. "Surprise!"
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So. I feel like Edward would have asked Charlie for permission to marry Bella first, but I'm not so good with Charlie's personality and I was too lazy to think that hard about it, so I didn't do that. (I think it would have come out too cliché, as in "Grr-Edward-I-hate-you-but-okay—Bella-if-this-is-what-you-want-I-love-you.") Plus I liked that surprise line. Haha.
Soo... review!!