AN: Once again I own nothing, all characters belong to SM I just borrowed them for this story =D. Well here's chapter 4 hope it's to your liking.

Chapter 4 – Fixing things

BPOV

Week later

It was a slow day at the bookshop, Wednesday always seemed to be such a slow day at the bookshop I don't know why but it just always was. I sat at the counter reading The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, it seemed to such a popular book and with talks of it being re-made into a movie I figured it would be a good read.

The ringing of the door opening alerted to me to a customer, looking up I was surprised to see Alice standing at the door.

"Hi can we talk?" she asked hovering by the door like she was waiting for me to say no.

I nodded, "Sure there's a coffee shop we can go around the corner."

"Is that ok?" she said looking around the place.

"Yeah it's fine, Wednesday always seems to be a slow day, you'd be saving me actually." I said with a smile as I gathered my things and started closing the place up. Alice waited patiently for me. Once I was done we walked in silence to Ariel's Coffee Shop it was one of my favourite places to have coffee.

Angela my friend who worked there waved as we walked in, we took a seat at a corner table.

"Hey Bella." Angela greeted as she came over to the table to take our order.

"Hey Ang. This is Alice, Edward's sister, Alice this is my best friend since primary school Angela." I said introducing them.

"Hi." Angela said before giving me her 'what's up' look, I mouthed I'll explain later to her as Alice said hi to her.

"What can I get you girls?" Angela asked pulling out her notepad.

"I'll have a mocha please." I replied.

"I'll have a black coffee." was Alice's response. Angela took our orders and left.

"Does Angela know?" asked Alice, I nodded.

"Yeah, she does I told her after she met Edward for the first time, we always come here and sometimes double date with Angela and her boyfriend, Ben, when Edward has a few days off in a row." I said smiling.

"You smile whenever Edward's name is mentioned." Alice stated and I just shrugged my shoulders.

"The reason why I wanted to have coffee is that I wanted to apologize to you. The way I reacted was way over the top and I know that you're not anything that I accused you of. I guess it was just a reaction." Alice said pausing to have a sip of her coffee that Angela had brought over.

"It's just the girls that Edward seems to attract, but not date, are actually all the same, fake and gold diggers. I guess I was just worried that one had finally tricked Edward somehow and because he hadn't said anything about dating anyone I just assumed.

So I'm sorry Bella, I'm sorry for assuming that you're a gold digger and that you would do something like tricking someone into marrying you. I hope that you can forgive me and that we can be friends." Finished Alice.

Her apology seemed too sincere that I couldn't question it or her motives behind it.

"I forgive you Alice and I would like us to be friends," before I could even finish talking Alice was out of her seat hugging me.

"Oh this is going to be so great and Edward will be pleased that were friends. Oh when are you going to tell everyone? We should have a party to celebrate your marriage since none of us were at the wedding. Oh and we can shop for dresses and decorations and it will be fun." Alice rambled, slightly bouncing in her chair.

I just sat there in silence watching her, she amused me, and before I could even stop myself I was giggling. Alice looked up and giggled along with me.

"I'm so glad we can be friends Bella. I was so sure you would hate me after how I reacted."

"Honestly Alice I kind of did expect that reaction, well maybe not being accused of being a gold digger and trapping Edward into marriage but the being angry about it I did expect. Edward seems to think that everyone will welcome our marriage with open arms."

"Is this why you haven't told anyone? I did ask Edward the other day, but he said it wasn't the right time and that he didn't know if there was still anything to tell." Alice said with a small smile.

I sighed, "I've been so worried about how your parents will react and how my dad will react that I forget it's hurting Edward. We haven't even spoken this week; I try but he just won't listen to me. He thinks I want out of this marriage."

"Do you want out?" She asked

"No the last thing I want is to leave Edward or for Edward to leave me. I keep trying to tell him that but it hasn't worked. I just want us to get out of town for the weekend and just reconnect." I replied.

"That's a fantastic idea Bella and I'm sure Edward would really appreciate the effort too." Alice said smiling at me; she looked as if she was planning something in her head.

An hour later we went our separate ways after exchanging numbers, I promised to call Alice once we got back from our trip to catch up. I headed home grabbing my laptop from the study and started booking our trip away I had settled on Santa Monica as Edward and I had talked about how we'd like to go there some time.

I booked us into the Bayside Hotel in a suite that has a kitchen and everything so that if we wanted to stay in and cook we could, I was surprised at the cheap deal that I got but I was happy with it. I booked our flight for tomorrow afternoon still hoping that Edward had the weekend off.

I knew Edward was working till nine, so I made myself an easy pasta dinner and put the left over's in a bowl for him to have when he got home as I knew he would be hungry and wouldn't make himself anything to eat.

I knew that when Edward came home that he would eat then head straight to the spare room where he had been sleeping for the past week, as he refused to sleep in the same bed as me.

I exited our bedroom as Edward was walking into the spare room and slipped in before Edward could even close the door, he didn't look happy to see me but right now that didn't matter to me. I handed him the print out of our tickets and hotel accommodation he looked at them top to bottom then looked up at me.

"Bella?" he asked

I sighed, "You won't talk to me so I thought maybe a trip away would do us good, you know to reconnect and stuff, but if you don't want to or you've taken a shift then I can just cancel it now."

He didn't say anything so I turned around to leave but before I was even out the door I felt his arm on me.

"Wait Bella, thank you for doing this, it wasn't what I expected when you came in with papers, but this is a nice surprise."

I nodded, "It's no problem Edward, you can come back to our bed when you're ready." I said leaving him standing there, I wasn't sure if he would come or not. I slid into bed. I'm not sure how much later it was, but I felt the bed dip and arms pulling me toward a strong body, I smiled as I felt him pull me as close as possible kissing my shoulder.

We spent the morning packing for our flight, which was leaving at 1, I was really excited about the trip and by the looks of it so was Edward. We got a taxi to the airport instead of paying for parking since it was cheaper.

We arrived in Santa Monica 2 hours later; we didn't need to get our luggage since we had carry on only. We headed to the car rental place and got our car I had booked us a convertible I figured its LA why not, I had printed off directions from the airport to our hotel.

We checked in and headed up to the room and right when we got in the room Edward turned to me and spoke.

"Bella, can we talk about everything now so that we have a good weekend?" Edward said and I nodded he was right, talking about it now would be better and that way we would be able to enjoy our weekend away.

"Can I start?" Edward asked and I nodded

"I'm sorry about last week, I'm sorry for blowing up at you that way and I'm sorry that I've been ignoring you for the past week. I should have been more careful about your feelings. But I was so stubborn,"

"Edward." I interrupted, but he interrupted right back.

"No Bella just let me finish please?" he said and I nodded.

"I was so caught up in only caring about my feelings about our wedding that I didn't take in consideration how you were feeling about it and what your feelings were about telling everyone about it."

"Edward it's not just your fault I should have told you my feelings regarding it, we were both at fault here, because while we talked we never really talked about when we were going to tell our family or how and I think the more I thought about it the scarier it seemed."

Edward looked at me confused.

"Hang on, I'm not explaining this right, it's not that I thought us being married was scary it was the reactions I was coming up with in my mind that were scary and I guess with the way Alice reacted I figured my own reactions would be true and that freaked me out."

"Bella I need you to know that not all of them will react this way, well I can't speak for your father because I don't know him but I know my parents won't. But if you want to wait then that's what we'll do." Edward said taking my hands into his.

"Edward I'm ready to tell them I don't know when or how we will but I think it's time for me to be a big girl and take whatever comes my way. I'm sorry for last week to Edward, I'm sorry for not taking your feelings into account."

"Bella I forgive you I just hope you can forgive me for how I acted and the way I've been all week."

"I forgive you, you goof." I said laughing.

"I honestly thought that you were going to serve me divorce papers Bella." Edward said somewhat sullen.

"Edward, look at me," I said and I waited till he actually did before I continued, "I'm in this for the long haul I know I can be a bit hard to live with at times. But I'm here for life. I wouldn't have said yes if I wasn't."

"I love you Bella." He responded.

"I love you too Edward." I said, as the words registered with him, he had the biggest fucking smile ever.

"You have no idea how long I've wanted to say it to you Bella, it never felt right but it does now."

I smiled he was right it did feel right and I was so glad I had told him too.

"So when do we tell them?" I asked Edward

"Well I think we should do it in person so we can either invite them to Seattle or we can go to Forks, but I don't have another weekend off for a month."

"Ok well why don't we drive down to Forks, cause that way if my Dad wants to kill you then we can escape." I said smiling even though I was being serious, my dad might want to kill Edward so having a car to escape in would be good.

"So my next weekend off we tell them?" Edward asked.

"Yes, I'm kind of looking forward to it." I said and Edward laughed.

"Looking forward to your dad pulling a gun out on me and chasing me?" he asked.

"Well it is a funny image when you think about it. But I'm sure my dad won't do anything drastic, as the police chief he wouldn't want to set a bad example for the community of Forks."

"So are we good?" I asked as I curled myself into him

"Yeah, we're good." He responded giving me a kiss on my head.

Well that was chapter 4. I hope you all enjoyed it. Let me know if you did and please review.

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