A/N: Woo! I'm almost done moving everything I can for now! So updates should be better. However, after this I probably won't update again until I finish Breaking Dawn. So like…two days? I gotta read eclipse again, too. Anywho! Here it is. Oh! And I'm not Stephenie Meyer.
I woke up to a peaceful night of deep sleep on something warm, and soft. I felt like I was on a heated mattress when I noticed that I was sitting upright.
"Oh! I'm sorry!" I said, jumping up from Edward, whom I should have figured was my new bed. Nothing manufactured by anyone but God could feel that wonderful.
"What? Come back to bed, Bella." He said, still half asleep. "Bella?" He called for me patting the newly vacant space beside him. He suddenly became alert. "Bella?" He near shouted.
"I'm right here." I said from four feet away, he would have seen me if his eyes weren't so focused on the space where I had been.
"Is something wrong?" He asked with concern.
"No, I just woke up. Don't you want to…you know, sleep in your bed?" I asked regretfully. I wanted to just stay on the couch with him. When I came over I assumed that I would sleep with Alice. I didn't know that Jasper and her would be roomed together.
His face became puzzled. No, not puzzled, shocked. Absolutely shocked. "You want to go to my bed?" He asked and his face suddenly offended me. I didn't know what bothered me more. The fact that he thought that was what I meant, or that he seemed somewhat disgusted.
"Of course not!" I gasped. "I meant you don't have to stay on the couch with me, when you have a perfectly good bed upstairs." I corrected, trying not to slap him for his assumption, and his reaction to it.
He started chuckling. "You're mad. Why are you mad, Bella?" He asked, obviously amused.
All his expression did was make me even angrier. I felt a single tear slide down my cheek. I hated that I cried when I was emotional, no matter what emotion I had. "I'm not mad!" I snapped.
Edward reached out and gently took my hand pulling me next to him again. He wiped my betrayal tear, no longer amused. "What's the matter? Why are you crying?" He questioned as he rubbed his hand up and down my arm.
All this excitement over one stupid tear.
"Because I was mad." I said calmly. His touch was soothing to me, and it instantly made me feel better.
"What did I do wrong? I don't want to hurt your feelings." He was dazzling me, and he knew it. He knew just as well as I did that when he looked at me that way, I had to tell the truth.
"Well first you actually thought that I would….sleep with you. Then you acted like even if I would that it was repulsive." I finished, not wanting to know what he thought.
I mean, how would I react if he said 'Well Bella, you are repulsive.'
A vast array of emotions played across his angel face. First confusion, then irritation, remorse, and finally a touch of anger. "I don't think you're repulsive! That's the stupidest thing anyone could ever say. You're the prettiest girl in school; even vile Mike Newton for as much crap as he talks to your face sure seems to favor you behind your back. I was just surprised because you don't seem like that type of girl. I just took it wrong." His whole speech was a long decrescendo. By the end he was quiet, even apologetic, I might say.
I didn't know how to respond. I couldn't very well be offended anymore, he had just said I was pretty. "I'm not that type of girl, and you don't seem like that type of guy. Alice even said that you were mad because…" I instantly shut up. I couldn't remember if his relationship with Lauren was supposed to be a secret to me, or not.
"What did Alice say?" Edward asked through gritted teeth. He was kind of cute when he was annoyed.
"Nothing. Let's go back to sleep." I said quickly. Pulling the covers back over me.
He playfully swiped the blanket from me. "You better tell me or else!" He teased.
"Or else what?" I challenged.
"Are you ticklish?" He cocked an eyebrow, and looked ready to pounce.
I quickly stood up. "You wouldn't dare!" I gasped.
I tried to run but he pinned me back to the couch and began his attack on my sides. I started laughing uncontrollably.
"Tell me!" He demanded.
"Never!" I said in between giggles, still trying to escape.
"Tell me!" He told me again.
"Okay okay fine." I gave up, trying to catch my breath. "She said that you got mad because you dated Lauren and she said that you two did stuff that you didn't do." I spilled.
"Well if you hear anything that she said, you know it's really not true, right?" He was back to being serious, and I wanted him to be playful and happy again, even if it meant getting tickled.
"Of course. Lauren's kind of…a bitch." I giggled a little bit at my bravery, I rarely cursed.
He chuckled, too. "As long as you know that it's not true. I can't believe Alice told you that, though." I felt guilty for throwing Alice under the bus.
"Well, I can't believe you dated Lauren." I snorted. I think he noticed the jealousy in my voice that I tried to hide.
"You're adorable when you're jealous, you know." He was amused again, and I was embarrassed.
"I'm not jealous of Lauren. She's awful, and mean, but pretty, and she's the most popular girl in school. Not to mention, she did date you." I swatted his arm playfully.
"Last night was kind of a date, don't you think?" He asked carefully.
"I guess it kind of was." I said more to myself than him. Satisfaction clear in my voice that he had the same ideas I did.
"We could do it again sometime, without everyone else, if you want to." He told me hesitantly.
"I would like that." I said quietly, the blush on my cheeks more prominent than my voice anyway.
He opened his mouth to say something else when Emmett came down the stairs.
"You two are up early. Or did you sleep at all?" Emmett asked eyeing Edward in a way I couldn't quite place.
"We just woke up." Edward answered, slightly defensive. There was suddenly a tension in the room that made me uncomfortable.
Emmett turned to me. "Bells we have to head home. I'm going to my mom's house for the rest of the weekend and she's picking me up in an hour." He said stiffly.
"Oh okay." I stood up and began to gather my things.
"I can take her home later, if you want. It's not a big deal." Edward tried to reason.
"I think it's best that I take her home now. Thank you, though." His words were caring but his tone was more like stay away from her.
"Yeah. I'll see you at school on Monday." I smiled at Edward, trying to ease the tension.
"Okay. See you at school. Thanks for hanging out with us, it was fun." He smiled back as the tension began to lift out of the room.
I nodded and waved before heading out with Emmett who was walking a little too fast.
"What was that about?" I asked him once I got into the Jeep.
"Bella I just want you to know that Edward likes you, as more than a friend. And if you don't want that, then you should stay away from him." He sounded more like a brother than ever. Which made me angry.
"That's none of your business Emmett." I tried to sound calm, but I was almost livid.
"It is my business!" He shouted. "I'm your brother." He reasoned.
"Hardly! Being the spawn of my absent father doesn't give you the right to tell me what to do. I've known Edward just about as long as I've known you!" I threw my hands in the air and instantly regretted the words that just spilled out of my mouth.
"Emmett, I'm sorry. I didn't mean it like that." I told him, ashamed. "I like Edward, too. And I don't want you two to be mad at each other over me."
"Your absent father?" He questioned. "You need to have a talk with Dad this weekend, Bella, and I mean it." He seemed as if my comment didn't really bother him as much as it confused him.
"What are you talking about?" I questioned, and for some reason I couldn't place I started to feel panic course through my veins.
"Bella. Next time you go spouting off about abandonment and all that you need to stop and think about what was going on over here." He told me calmly.
"Emmett, please tell me what you mean." I begged, tears beginning to escape my eyes for the second time.
"I promised Dad that I wouldn't say anything. Just talk to him about it. Promise you will?" He asked, handing me a tissue to wipe my face.
"I will." I said quietly and nodded.
"And Bella as long as you like Edward, too, I don't mind you guys being together. He really is a good guy. It's just that I feel protective of you after all that you've been through. Are you sure you can handle a relationship right now?" He asked reasonably. But still as if he was trying to persuade me not to.
"I'm not going to rush into anything." I said, but my mind was like a zombie. I was preoccupied.
We pulled up to the house, where Emmett's mother was already waiting.
"Hi mom." Emmett said, hugging her tightly. She was so small compared to him. Seeing them together ripped a hole in me that made me long for my own mother.
She actually looked quite a bit like my mom. She was a bit taller than her, but fair skinned and dark haired.
"You must be Bella." She smiled a friendly grin and shook my hand.
She didn't seem like the type of woman who would keep me from my father.
I needed to talk to Charlie. I needed answers about why he never tried to contact me when I was little, and I needed them now.
A/N: VERY important chapter next chapter. All the pms and reviews about Bella and Emmett's age and how Charlie must be a womanizer blah blah blah will be answered next chapter…then the REAL story begins. Hallelujah. I'm really excited to write it, but like I said…I can't until like…Sunday or Monday ish. Have a GREAT weekend. Thanks for reading, and Review?