This chapter all about getting to know the characters better hope you enjoy it. :)
Chapter 4
Jasper and Rose's parents had sold their house to their children at a very low price when the moved back to Texas 2 years ago. The house has four bedrooms and when Jas and Rose asked if anyone was willing to chip in to buy the house I jumped at the chance and so did Edward as at the time we were both living in tiny shoe box apartments right in the city that were closer to our places of work than the house but were not really worth the cheap rent that we were paying. (Yes they were that bad). Edward has his own column at the Seattle time's newspaper which he got after being an intern for 2 years. Both of our jobs are in the city and from the house it takes us half an hour to get to work so on the occasions that we have similar work hours we car pool.
When Alice finished her course in fashion she got a loan and bought her own little boutique shop that had a cute apartment above it. The place had been quite run down when she bought it but after she enlisted us the fix it up to her EXACT specifications it turned in to quite the master piece. That girl can do anything when she puts her mind to it. The shop does very well; Alice fixes vintage dresses and even sells some original designs. It's about a 15 minute drive from the house to the boutique so she doesn't live to far away.
Emmett did something similar except rose is his business partner they opened a mechanics shop together as the both love working on cars. Emmet had done a split course at university between business and engineering, while rose was solely focused on her degree in engineering. The shop/garage has a two bedroom apartment above it Emmet live there and rents the other room to Paul, one of the guys who works at the shop. Rose love the shop, working underneath the hood of a car has always been her calling. It's a 20 minute drive from the house which isn't that far at all.
When Jasper was at school he loved to things music and history and he partakes in both. He has a degree in history and now teaches it at the university, and every now and again he plays a few songs at Vent our go to bar.
Saturday evening
"Children dinners' ready" I called to Edward, Jasper and Rose.
"Funny" snickers Rose as she walks in and take a seat.
Edward and Jasper join us a few seconds later as I reply to Rose.
"Well… I have accepted the fact that neither of you have any sort of cutlery talent what so ever" I say while pointing to Rose and Jasper.
"While you" the pointed finger lands on Edward "only cook when you know that there is no chance that I'm going to and most of the time you wait too long hoping that I'm going to cook that we then have to get takeout."
Silence as they look at me trying to gage my mood, they are starting to look worried as I feel my straight face cracking.
"You can start calling me mother if you want" I giggle.
Each one of them puts on a bored face and rolls their eyes at me while trying to hide the fact that they are secretly relieved that they aren't going to have to live on takeout food for the next week because I'm sick of doing all the cooking again. They had complained that they had just about staved the last time that had happened.
After dinner I went up to my room to read a new manuscript for work.
Sunday late Morning
My dad had moved out to Port Angeles after I left home saying that he liked the closer knit force over there. Matt changes forces with Him and now live in a cottage outside PA with his wife, Emmett's darling mother Kate. Charlie lives in town in a two bedroom house that he bought so that he has room for when either Garrett or I to stay when we come to visit.
Opening the door to the two bedroom house, I call out to him.
"Dad?"
"In the kitchen" he yells. He was sitting at the table reading the paper.
"So has Garrett told you yet" I ask a grin plastered to my face.
He looks at me with a questioning look on his face.
"Told me what" he asks
"That he's coming home soon and getting a job outside of the military so that he can live in Seattle" I say excitedly. "He's coming home to us Daddy"
"That's wonderful news Bella"
We give each other a hug.
"So how is work, do you have any interesting cases at the moment?"
"Well recently we have been gathering evidence to do a drug bust, the hours haven't been great and we have been on a few all nighters but with Matt to keep me entertained they weren't too bad"
Emmet gets his cheeky personality from his father; they have even on occasion had master mind prank wars which are hilarious to witness.
"The McCartney's and their antics" I reply, smiling thinking of the number of times Emmett has been the source of entertainment on rainy days.
"Their serious when the need arises. Have you Read any good manuscripts lately?"
"One that I'm reading at the moment is really good; it really holds you and is hard to put down."
"That's good, I'm glad that you're enjoying work" He says.
Reading has always been something that I enjoy" I smile at him from across the table.
It had been a while since I had been able to talk to my dad face to face we had both been really busy. I've always very much been a Daddy's girl since Renée; my Mother had left us when I was five and Garrett was six. I loved just being with Charlie whether it was talking, being in a comfortable silence or watching some sort of sports game with him on the telly.
"There's a game on this morning would you mind if we watched it?
I chuckle. "You and your sports games dad" I get up from the table leading the way in to the lounge and lay down on the couch. The lazy boys have always been his and Matt's chairs, and I'm sure If I hadn't helped him pick the furniture for this house he would have forgotten about getting couches for when he has more than on guest visiting.
We sit in the lounge for a few hours, he watches the sports channel and I read my new Manuscript.
When I hear a growling sound coming from across the room I know that it's time for lunch because unless he got one in the last few weeks and forgot to tell me my father does not own a dog.
Putting the manuscript down, I get up from the couch and ask "Cheese toasty's okay for lunch? I'm going to make lasagna for dinner."
"Yes of course thank you sweetie"
Since I had learned how to make it lasagna was my dad's favourite meal. The rest of the day was great it was like I was a teenager again, when I cooked dinner every night since Charlie could burn water.
I left straight after dinner as I had a 2 and a half hour drive ahead of me, to get back to the house.
The drive wasn't too bad as I just belted out what ever came on the radio. When I was leaving PA it was still light out so I did get some pretty strange, which just made me become even more animated in my sing along.
I got home at 8:30 so everyone was doing their own thing. Rose was watching Top gear in the lounge.
"Hey how was your day with Charlie" she asked.
I had left quite early in the morning so had no talked to any of them today.
"It was great; I hadn't realized how much I missed him until I saw him." I answered her smiling.
I left the lounge heading up the stairs Edwards door was open so I lead in. He was lying sideways on his bed with ear buds in probably listening to music. He looked up, becoming aware of my presence in the door way. Taking one ear bud out he smiled at me. "Enjoy your day without us did you?" He asked
"Of course" I replied then carried on with my journey down the hallway.
The third bedroom was Jaspers I could hear the soft sound of him playing his guitar while he hummed a tune.
I open the door without knocking Jasper was sitting on the floor leaning against his bed. I walked into the room and lay down on the bed sideways so that my head was next to his.
He stopped playing and looked up at me and smirked "How did your audience enjoy the performance" He asked.
"I got a few weird looks when leaving PA But I think most of them enjoyed it" I replied without missing a beat.
He let out a chuckle and then went back to strumming the guitar. We stayed like that for a while not speaking. I just lay there and listened as he played his guitar, after a while I felt myself falling to sleep to the soothing sound of jaspers voice.
I felt arms surrounding me and then blankets being put over me, I bleakly open my eyes, I could see Jaspers form in the dark as he removed his arms from underneath me.
"sshhh go back to sleep" He whispered when his eyes meet mine.
I felt him get up, a few seconds later the bed moved slightly and then I drifted of back to sleep.
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