4. Memories and Discoveries

BPOV

This week flew by in the same order as the first day, except for the introductions of people. Nick's table had increased massively in size and the classes dragged on like at any other school. I found I knew people in all of them and started to remember names.

Edward was a nice guy and I talked to him in science on occasions, I still got tongue-tied though when I looked in his eyes. I just couldn't forget those eyes, so intriguing and full of mysteries I would find out as I had promised myself the other afternoon.

So here I am in my bed on Saturday morning thinking back on my week. I heard my mum and dad talking quietly downstairs about how I was coping.

They seemed to think I was coping great and I couldn't disagree. It was easier than I thought to settle in and make friends. I was accepted as me and everyone seemed to handle it.

I then heard the phone ring and my dad pick it up. He must have been called in to work then because I heard him say, "Sorry sweetie but I have to get to work there's an emergency."

I looked out my window in time to see him pull out the drive way. He saw me and waved as I did the same back.

I gathered my toiletries and headed to the bathroom to shower and get ready for my day of discovery.

I headed down stairs after my relaxing shower. My mum was in the kitchen making pancakes. She heard me come in a grinned widely at me whilst greeting me with, "Good morning Bells."

"Morning mum. I was wondering if u had any thing planned for today?" I asked because she was included in the plans I had made today and if she was busy then I couldn't get the information I needed.

She gave me a questioning look but answered my question any way, "Um, no I don't have any thing planned just unpacking more boxes because I'm to lazy to get it done in one week." She laughed freely and I laughed with her. She then stopped laughing in an instance and turned to me with a confused expression on her face.

"Why do you want to know my plans for the day Bella?" , she asked and the confusion was dominant in her voice.

I sheepishly smiled back at her and embarrassingly admitted, "Well you were sort of a major part in my plans." It was at this point I started to ramble, "You see there's this person at school I'm sure I know from kindergarten but I'm not sure and you still keep in touch with their mum and you know what all the boxes have in them and this just has been bothering me all week - but really it is a weekend job to go through all that stuff- and I'm just really wanting to find out if it is the person I think it is."

"BELLA!" my mum screamed to stop my rambling.

I went red as she laughed at me. In between giggles she answered my one pressing question that I had not asked, "Of coarse I will help you Bella but I'm missing vital information. Who is this person?"

I blushed furiously and answered in a barely audible voice, "Edward Cullen"

She must have heard it though because she exclaimed, "Esme Cullen's second son who is the same age as you?"

I nodded my head while she started to scream and jump around.

A few minutes later she was just jumping whilst saying, "I knew you two would fall in love it was so obvious. You two were inseparable. Oh my, we better get started searching then. Come on I'll help you." , and with that she bounced into the garage where all the boxes were.

A few hours later after searching through many photo albums and boxes for all my childhood mementos we finally hit the jackpot.

I looked in the box to find heaps of photo albums and pieces of paper with messy writing all over them. Bright drawings covered the bottom of the box.

I looked up at my mum who was looking teary eyed. I stood up and went and gave her a hug.

One tear escaped from the corner of her eye even though you could see she was trying to hold it back.

"Oh Bella, I'm sorry, I don't mean to cry. It's just that I look back at this and think of how you used to be and look at you now – you're all grown up and not my little girl anymore - it only feels like yesterday when Charlie and I were cradling you in our arms." She blubbered while I rubbed soothing circles on her back.

After she calmed down a bit we both started to dig through the boxes. The first things I found were the photo albums.

I opened the first page to find my baby pictures. In one of the pictures there was a little baby boy lying next to me holding my hand and we were both asleep.

I didn't recognise the boy so I turned to my mum, while holding up the album so she could see the photo, and asked, "Who's this boy in the photo with me?"

She snatched the album from me. "Oh Bella this is you and Edward. Oh my God you were so cute together."

I just sat there in shock for a second then I snatched the album back to look closer at the picture.

Now I could see similarities. He has lost all his baby fat but he still has the same lips and nose and ears, even his little tuff of hair was a shade lighter than the colour it is now.

I flipped the page to see a pair of beautiful eyes staring at me as well as brown ones. I looked at the other pictures and realised most of them were of Edward and me.

"Mum, how long have you known Esme and Carlisle?" I asked because obviously they had known each other for a while before Edward was born.

"Um…. I don't know how many years exactly but I know I've been her best friend since we were fifteen so a long time. Gee that makes me feel so old. All of this makes me feel old." She sighed while looking through another photo album.

We continued quietly for another two hours. We were in our own little worlds so we didn't notice when Charlie got back. He was calling our names when he walked past the open garage door. He looked in with a confused expression on his face.

"Hi. Um, what is going on here?" he asked indicating to the mess we had made.

Mum ran up to him and pecked his cheek, "Oh Bella just wanted to look for something and we found it. How long have we been in here?" she wondered aloud looking at her watch.

She then walked out of the room. Charlie just looked at the mess then at me.

"Um, what exactly were you looking for?" he questioned.

I blushed once again and just said an old photo.

He left after that so I went back to looking at the photo albums.

I found one picture in particular that triggered a memory.

Edward and I were on a set of swings in a park with our mothers sitting on a bench somewhere near by.

I felt Edward's eyes on me so I looked over to see a bright smile lighting his face. I could see the fun he was having written all in his eyes.

I had a sudden idea and exclaimed, "Hey Edward! I can swing higher than you!". As I began to swing my legs to make me go higher in the air.

"Yeah sure you can Bella!" he teasingly called back to as his own legs started to sway to make him go higher.

We started to giggle and 5 minutes later we were laughing so hard that we almost had tears running down our cheeks. We decided we tied and gave up on the competition.

I don't know what caused that memory but it stayed in my head for the rest of the night. It was the last thing I remembered before drifting into dream world.

A/N: ohhhhhhhh they both have the same flashback and Bella now knows it him!!!

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