Chapter 3
BPOV
I made Charlie fish, which Edward had to eat with us. I felt really sorry for him. Occasionally, Charlie would ask Edward a question and Edward had no choice but to eat a piece of food. But when Edward wasn't looking, he would put the food in his napkin. I kept throwing him sorry glances, which only made Charlie look at him some more, so I stopped with those.
After dinner, Edward excused himself to go take a shower, which I knew he was going to throw up all that fish he just ate. But when he came back down, his hair was actually wet. Charlie had given him some of his old pajamas, which were 2 sizes too big for Edward, but it was still funny.
I, of course, was laughing for a whole different reason than Charlie thought I was laughing for. Charlie thought I was laughing because the clothes were too big, but I was actually laughing because this was the first time I had seen Edward in pajamas, and he still made them look sexy.
We watched sports with Charlie, of course. Edward and Charlie were too engrossed in the game, so I just watched them interact. It was actually funny to see Edward and Charlie arguing about how the referee's were calling the wrong things. About 10, Charlie got up to go to bed.
" Well, I'm going to bed. Don't stay up too late, kids," Charlie said.
"We won't, Dad," I said.
Charlie then went upstairs, and when I heard his door shut, I turned to face Edward.
"So, what do you want to do now?" I asked, moving closer to him.
"I think I have an idea," he said, leaning down to kiss me.
I tangled my hands in his hair and pulled him closer. He did the same, except he was a lot more gentle with me. I pushed him down on the couch and straddled his lap. My tongue traced his bottom lip, but of course, he just pushed back in my mouth and his tongue came in my mouth. Hey, I wasn't complaining.
The ringtone that said, "Bella!!!! Oh, Bella!!!!! It's your most favorite person in the world!!!!" I groaned and reached on the table to get my phone. What does she want?
"What?" I asked.
"Well, good evening to you too, Ms. Soon-to-be-Cullen," Zoey said. She called me this sometimes when she joked around.
And about the ringtone, when we still lived in Phoenix together, she recorded that and set it as my ringtone.
"What did you call for, Zoe? I was kind of in the middle of something," I said looking over at Edward.
"Ew. I didn't want to know that. Besides, you said I could never bother you and call whenever I wanted," she said, reminding me about my words earlier. I rolled my eyes.
"Don't roll those eyes at me," she said. How does she do that?
"How do you do that?" I asked.
"I'm psychic," she said sarcastically. Edward and I laughed. She wasn't, but we both knew someone who was.
"Really, Zoey. Why did you call at 10 o' clock at night?" I asked.
"Well, Mom and Dad are in another fight. You know how those get, and it's storming really bad outside," she said.
"Are you still scared of thunder?" I asked, remembering when Zoey was always scared of thunder.
"No. It's tornadoes I'm scared of now. They're common here," she said.
"Zoe, they have alarms around that area. So I highly doubt you'll be caught in a tornado. And besides, I know your mom. She's probably watching the news right now," I said.
"Bella, I think you're the psychic one," Zoey said.
We laughed together, then both sighed.
"So, how's the snowstorm?" Zoey asked.
"Terribly. It was 5 feet when Charlie got home, which was 5 hours ago, and it hasn't stopped since," I said.
Zoey laughed. "Don't worry, Bells. You'll make it through. I take it Edward's there with you," she said.
"Yeah. Charlie actually let him stay the night. It was a shock to me," I said.
"Wow," Zoey said. She was shocked, too.
"Yeah, well, I thought your phone was dead," I said.
"Yeah, it almost was. But I turned it off so I would have time to call you before I went to bed. It's actually fixing to go dead and the power's out here," she said.
As soon as she said that, the TV turned off and I felt the heater shut off.
"Perfect," I muttered.
"What is it?" Zoey asked.
"You just jinxed us, Zoey! Our power just shut off," I said, laughing.
"Sorry, Bells. Well, I better go. I need my sleep and my phone says low battery, so as soon as I charge it, I'll call you. Goodnight, Bella," she said.
"Night, Zoey," I said. I hung up the phone and turned to Edward.
"Charlie's coming down," he said.
I heard Charlie coming down the stairs.
"Kids, are the lights off?" he asked.
"Yeah, Dad. They just went off. Zoey jinxed us," I said. Charlie gave me a confused look.
"Why was Zoey calling you at this time?" he asked.
"They're having some bad weather and she couldn't sleep, I guess, so she called. She said she didn't have power, then as soon as she said it, the power went out," I said. Then I yawned. Wow, I was dog tired.
"Okay, well, get extra blankets since we have no heater now. And you kids should probably go to bed now," Charlie said.
"Okay, Dad," I said.
I went upstairs to get extra blankets and came back downstairs. I had to make it look like Edward was sleeping, didn't I?
Edward was laying on the couch, so when I threw the blanket over him, he pulled me down under it.
"What are you doing? Charlie won't be happy I slept down here with you," I said.
"Relax, Bella. He won't get mad. Now go to sleep," Edward said. I rolled my eyes and laid on my side.
My eyes closed when Edward started humming my lullaby. Soon, I drifted off into unconsciousness.
The next morning, I woke up to two cold arms around my waist. I giggled and turned over to look at Edward's face. I turned to see his eyes closed, and he looked like he was actually sleeping. I looked at him funny, then heard Charlie coming down the stairs. I quickly turned over and shut my eyes, too.
I heard Charlie stop to look at us, then sighed and went into the kitchen. He wasn't in there long before he left to go to work. I wish he wouldn't go with the roads all icy, but he promised to be safe and that the town needed him on these days.
When the door closed, I felt Edward move behind me. I turned around to look at his face. His eyes were open and they were looking down at me. I smiled and pecked his lips once.
"Good morning," I said.
"Morning, love," he said.
"How was sleeping?" I asked, smirking.
"Boring. I couldn't see your beautiful face. By the way, you're a bad actor. Charlie could tell you were awake," Edward said.
"Whatever. I'm hungry," I said, getting up.
I got up into a sitting position before my phone rang. I looked at the time. It was a little past 7. No one but Alice called me this early and that wasn't her ringtone. I looked at the caller id. It read 'Shelby'. Why would Shelby call me at this time?
Shelby is another friend of mine and Zoey's. She's not as close as Zoey is to me, but she's a good friend. And that girl never gets up at 7 in the morning. More like 12 in the afternoon. She loves to sleep late.
"Shelby? What's up? It's 7 in the morning. You're never up this early," I said.
"Bella!" Shelby cried. She sounded like she was crying. I heard her sobs and cries. I instantly straightened up. Something was wrong.
"Shelby, what is it?" I asked.
"Bella, it's….it's…." she just sobbed, never telling me what was wrong. Edward was sitting next to me, listening to my friend break down over something that I didn't know.
"Shelby, calm down and tell me what's wrong," I said.
"Bella, it's Zoey," she said. I immediately lost all the color in my face. What happened to Zoey that has Shelby crying.
"What about Zoey?" I asked, suddenly more sharper. I sounded mad, but that girl is like my sister, so I was going to sound urgent and mean.
"Bella, you're not going to believe what happened," she sobbed.
"Shelby, tell me what the hell happened to Zoey," I said.
"Bella, are you sitting down?" she asked.
"Shelby! I swear, if you don't tell me what happened to Zoey…." I threatened. Something was terribly wrong.
"Bella, last night a tree fell on her house…..on her room, which she was in. Bella, the tree fell on Zoey and it killed her."
That's pretty much how the conversation went with my friend when she told me our friend was killed. A tree actually fell on her house, so I decided to use that.