So I screwed up these two chapters kind of, it should've been one huge long chapter. But I don't think it's that big of a deal, it fits in with my short chapter pattern fairly well so I'll just deal with that. Sorry if the ending of the last chapter sucked though, I didn't know where to cut it off or anything. D:

"Edward, can I borrow your cell phone?" I asked when he scooped me up in his arms and gazed at me like I was Aphrodite, the goddess of love.

"Sure Bella, dial away. I'll be inside talking to Carlisle, take your time," he said in his irresistible velvet voice.

I dialed Charlie's number, it was Saturday so surely he'd be home for a while unless he already went fishing.

"Hello?"

"Charlie! Good, I caught you. Say, I'm in town, can I come home?"

"Bells, what kind of question is that? Of course you can come home, I have your room made up for you and everything! Are you staying with Alice right now?"

"Uh, yeah I am. She'll drive me over in a few minutes. We got back very late last night and I didn't want to wake you."

"Busy partying again, aren't we?"

"Oh, you know it. So you're sure that I can come over, I hope I'm not interrupting your day."

"I didn't have anything planned Bella, it's perfect."

"Cool, say do you think we could go visit Billy and Jacob in La Push today? I want to surprise Jake, maybe we can have lunch with them."

"Sounds good Bella! See you in a few minutes."

"Okay, bye Charlie!"

"Bye Bells!" The line went dead and I closed the phone. Excitement ran through my veins once again and I danced my way inside the house.

"Where's Alice?" I said looking around.

"She went hunting," Esme replied.

"What? Shoot! I told Charlie she would come drop me off at my house."

"That's okay," Edward said. "I'll drive you. Charlie will be surprised to see me."

"Edward, I haven't told him that you're back. I don't know how he'll react, especially if he knew you're home while I was staying with Alice."

"Well, then I will drive you back in her convertible, though you'll have to take your stuff in yourself."

"Stuff? I thought I left it all at school?"

"When Alice brought your school work back she also brought back your own clothes too. She didn't want to tell you until you went home."

"Alice," I said angrily. "Oh well, let's go, I want to see Charlie."

We walked to the car and sped to Charlie's house. Before I got out of the car I kissed Edward goodbye and said, "Right where we left off tonight," and I pointed up to my room. It has been a long time since Edward has watched me sleep.

Edward squeezed my good hand and kissed me one more time. I grabbed all my stuff from the back seat since there was not very much. I opened the door and Charlie immediately wrapped me in a giant hug.

"Oooh Bella you're home! How I've missed you so! Now my food will be good again, and there will be life in this house!" He spun me around in his arms and rocked me back and forth. He finally set me down and said, "How are you doing?"

"Fine, Charlie. Do I hear water running?"

"Uh, no, no you don't!" Charlie was obviously hiding something. I walked into the kitchen and almost had a heart attack.

"Jacob!!"

"Bella!!!!!!" he ran over and gave me a bone crushing hug. "Oh Bella I've missed you so much," and he whispered in my ear, "thank God you're alive." Jacob set me down on the floor and took my bags up into my room.

"Charlie that boy has grown so much."

"He's over six foot, it's impressive how strong he is."

"I thought we were going to surprise him this afternoon!"

"Well, we decided to surprise you, and it looks like it worked."

"Certainly!! I am surprised."

"Well glad, we've missed you so much Bella, I'm glad you're here for Christmas."

"It doesn't look like Christmas around here, the house looks bare."

"Well, that is our mission today, Jacob is going to help us put up the Christmas lights and we have our fake tree in the garage along with stockings and all that other Christmas-y stuff."

"Sounds good. Something smells really good too, what is it?"

"Hot chocolate. I know it's your favorite."

"That it is! I'm going to get some right now." I was still cold from early this morning, but as I poured the hot chocolate into a mug my hands immediately warmed up. "This is so nice, it's warm."

"You still haven't adjusted to Washington winters, have you?"

I lied and said, "No, guess I never will." I drank out of my mug nervously thinking Charlie could hear past the lie.

"Well, maybe it's just one of those things you're born with, though you might adapt someday."

Jacob walked down the stairs then and said, "So Bella, did you like my going-away present?"

I turned my head and gave Jake my biggest smile. "It's perfect, I love it. Right now it's sitting on my desk where I do school work."

"Good. So how is your blood---" he froze. And I froze at the same time. "I mean, biology class?"

"I thought you didn't have biology this term Bella?" Fortunately Charlie did not pay much attention to Jacob's mistake.

"He means Biology club. I joined at the beginning of the term. It's good, fun. Though the other day they did blood sampling and I had to step out of the room." That lie almost seemed convincing.

"Wow Bells, I didn't think you liked science all that much. Well I'm proud of you, that's a good way to meet new people. Blood has never been your thing either, hopefully you didn't pass out!" He bought the lie. I was stunned, since when has Charlie become so gullible? I am terrible at lying.

"Yeah, well I joined for the science part of it. The people are okay I guess."

"Bella," Jacob started. "Does that mean I can't make fun of you and call you a geek?"

Laughing I said, "Yes Jake, no making fun of me. There are no geeks in this house, just the smart and the smarter." We all laughed and sat down at the kitchen table. We talked for a couple hours straight about everything. Nothing interesting has happened in Forks since I left and I knew that was because of the Cullens. Eventually we pulled stuff out from the garage and began decorating the house. Jacob put up the lights outside because it was raining and he was the only one brave enough to do it. I helped Charlie set up the fake tree (that I have always hated) and we decorated it with ornaments and more lights. When it was five in the afternoon I started making dinner. I could see Charlie's mouth watering.

"Real food!" Charlie exclaimed.

"I know, campus food gets old after a while too. Especially pasta. I haven't had meatloaf in a long time, and I bet you haven't either, so something new for all of us!"

"Sounds good Bella." Meanwhile, Jake came in soaking wet.

"Charlie, got a towel I can borrow?"

"Jacob, you're not wearing a coat even! You're soaked to the bone! Aren't you freezing?"

Jacob and I both knew the answer to that question. I tried to hide my smile as I heard Jacob's response. "Nah, rain doesn't really bother me that much. I just don't like being this wet," Jacob replied.

"Well, there are towels in the bathroom upstairs."

"Great, be back in a minute." Jacob wandered up the stairs and found a spare towel and dried off. We sat down to dinner and talked the whole time. Charlie told me about what I have missed being away at college for so long. The truth was that I really had not missed much at all. Jacob was telling me about school and the kind of trouble him and his buddies get into on the reservation. At about seven in the evening we decided to bake cookies, something I had not done in a long time. We all had fun, just the three of us. An hour went by and we were just finishing up a batch of chocolate chip cookies. The doorbell rang and immediately everything stopped.

"Wonder who that could be?" Charlie said. He walked to the door and opened it. "Get out, I don't want to see you within a hundred miles of this house! Now, GET!" His face turned purple from what I could see. I walked toward the door curious to see if I should go grab Charlie's shot gun. "Bella, stay out of this," Charlie said while sticking his hand behind him to stop me. It was too late, I saw who our guest was.

"Edward?" I said in disbelief. I thought he would wait a few days, or months, if he ever came and told Charlie he still loved me. I heard Jacob growl in the background, he clearly was not happy.

"Bella, I told you to stay back," Charlie said almost yelling. "Don't worry, he won't come near you."

"Charlie, let Edward come in, it's obvious he has to say something."

"But Bella, this boy hurt you last year, he has no right to come in this house."

"Please, Charlie, five minutes alone with Bella. I need to talk to her about something important, mainly the reason why I'm here," Edward said.

"Charlie, I'm a big girl, I can handle myself."

"Fine Bella, you do what you want. But only five minutes." Edward stepped in the house and I led him up to my room so we could 'talk' in private.

"Very convincing Bella, you fooled Charlie. You held your character very well."

"Same to you, but I didn't think you would come and reveal yourself so soon! There goes my nice evening."

"I'm sorry for ruining what seemed like a very nice family moment. I just can't stay away from you for very long."

"Okay, well we need a game plan then for convincing Charlie that you're here to stay, and that you do still love me. I don't know how you plan to earn back his trust, he's not one who is so forgiving."

"I'm going to ask you to escort Jacob out of the house, and I think Charlie and I need to talk alone."

"That sounds fine, are you sure you don't want me there though? Charlie may not believe you unless I say something."

"I'm fine, besides I have my mind so I can convince Charlie easily. Fear not, love." Edward put his arms around my waist and rocked me back and forth. I loved this feeling so much, I never wanted to let him go. "I'm going to need you to do something else too Bella," Edward said in between kissing my cheek.

"Sure, anything," I said.

"Keep a straight face when you go downstairs, Charlie will not be pleased if he sees you that happy."

"Okay, I can do that. Guess we better go face him, huh?"

Edward moaned and tightened the grip around my waist. My hands grabbed his and he loosened his grip. I turned around and kissed him with great intensity. "Guess this is all apart of taking responsibility for my consequences," Edward replied. He signed and squeezed my hand. We both turned around and I started down the stairs first.

"Jacob, you wanna go for a little walk, the rain has stopped."

"Sure Bells, anything you want." We started out the door and I connected with Edwards eyes one last time before I closed the door.