A/N: Please don't kill me. The long awaited arrival of Edward Cullen will be put up most likely tomorrow morning. Yes, long awaited. By either me or any fans out there thanks very much. Til then, how about a teaser?
CharliePOV
I could hardly stand to see Bella suffer so much. When the phone rang or a car passed by, her head would snap up, her eyes would widen with life, and then dim out as she realized it wasn't him. It wasn't Jacob. I tried talking to Billy and even that didn't help.
"A man makes his own choices. Whether their wrong or right, Charlie. He made his own." That had been Billy's response to my desperate plea of making Jacob see different. In truth, who could argue with him?
Jacob had willingly put Bella in a position to feel pain, and whether or not I could do anything about it, that pain would always be in Bella's heart.
Watching a Mariner's game on the flat screen, I hadn't realized Bella had come down the stairs.
"Hey dad," her lips twitched into a ghost of a smile.
"Hey Bells." I let the greeting hang in the air. I wanted her to come to me for anything and I figured pushing her into doing so would only lead to the opposite effect.
What she did sure did surprise me though. She plopped down next to me on the leather couch and sighed. The first signs of life I had seen from her in a while. It was boredom, but it was something.
"Uh, did you want to go watch a movie or something? Maybe I could take you up to the new book store in Port Angeles?" I wanted her to have something to do. Normally I would have stayed quiet and let her watch with me but I was pushing for a reaction from her. I was losing my mind here.
Her eyes narrowed slightly which surprised me even more.
"No," she whispered.
"Sure." I decided I was pushing my luck and sat back in the couch to watch the game peacefully. I knew there would be no more from Bella tonight.