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If things were different.
CHAPTER 7; Chinese
Once they were all settled (Edward was in the spare room, Jasper and Emmett would join him tomorrow. Alice was on a mattress in 'Bella's Room'. Rose would join us on the sofa bed), we decided to order in. Alice wanted Chinese. Edward chose Indian. I voted Chinese.
"But we never have Indian!" Edward moaned.
"Edward, you liar. We had it on Tuesday," Alice complained.
"Two against one!" I chimed in an Alice-like manner. She stuck her tongue out and waggled it at him.
"Meh," he grumbled in response, making me giggle.
Alice ran to the phone tab;e and picked up Phil's collection of takeaway menus. She dropped the ones she didn't want back on the table as she flicked through them. She found what she was looking for half way through the stack. Dropping the rest on the discarded pile, she skipped back and flopped gently on the sofa in the gap between me and Edward.
"I'll have lemon chicken," I said without looking at the menu.
"One lemon and one swee-" Alice began.
"One lemon, one sweet & sour and a chow mein," Edward interrupted.
I got up to get to the phone, but Edward was already there.
"I'm paying," he told me.
"No, you're not. I am. You two are my guests," I argued.
"Bella, I'm your sister, not a guest!" Alice giggled. You could hear her grin without looking at her face.
"I only said that to get out of shopping, and save my feet from amputation!"
By this time, Edward had dialled and was speaking to the person on the other end,"...yes, I'll pay by credit card."
I tried to grab the receiver from his hands, but he was taller than I expected and he turned at the wrong moment.
"Ouch!"
"Sorry, I am so sorry! I didn't mean to hit you!"
"Bella, stop"and he told the take out person his credit card number without looking at his card. I huffed and slouched back to the couch.
"Thank you," Edward put the phone down, "it'll be here in ten minutes."
I grabbed the remote off the coffee table in front of me.
"Humph," I mumbled, turning the TV on.
"I guess Bella'll actually be ignoring me now," Edward stage whispered, knowing I could hear him.
"Pssh! She'll forgive you," Alice paused, she looked over and saw the glare I was sending to Edward, "...eventually."
Edward came over and joined me on the sofa. I turned off the TV and was just about to get up and leave.
"Bella, I'll tell you a secret if you'll talk to me again."
"Humph!"
"Please," he bagged.
I narrowed my eyes at him. He smiled at me and stuck out his tongue. Such an immature gesture.
"Go away."
"Oh, come on! The food'll be here in a minute."
"And?"
"And..." I saw him look to Alice for ideas.
"Edward will play the piano for you when we get back to Forks."
"What the hell? You play piano?"
"Yes," he mumbled, giving a sarcastic 'thanks' look to Alice.
"Well, she's talking to you, now. You'll thank me later."
Edward quietly mumbled, "You wish," (which I only heard because he was sat next to me) as she walked to the door to collect the food from the delivery man. Me and Edward sat in silence, until I heard the front door shut. Alice stood in the archway into the living room holding a brown paper bag, no doubt containing three white boxes with a red logo on the side.
"Well come on then," she said, walking out and into the kitchen. I followed her, with Edward behind me.
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After we ate, Edward suggested we do something.
"...and not watch TV, please."
"Any ideas Alice?" I asked turning to her.
"Let me think about that... not. SWIMMING!"
"You up for swimming Edward?"
"Sure thing," he paused. "Where are we going to go?"
"Oh, Bella has her own swimming pool, it's just down the hallway."
His mouth dropped open. He was staring at me as if I had said something terrible.
"What?" I asked.
"Y-You h-have a swimming pool i-i-in your h-house?!" he stuttered.
"Yeah," I said standing up. I collected the take out boxes and put them inside each other. I grabbed the paper bag off the floor and dropped the boxes in.
"I'll go get changed," Alice told us.
"Me too," Edward said, giving me a quizzical look.
"Meet you in the pool, I guess then."
"Yup," I said back to Alice.
Leaving the brown paper bag next to the kitchen bin, I walked over to the pool room. I kept my costume and bikini in there, seeing as I had a spare to take to club. I decided, in my head, to wear my bikini. I grabbed it and ran over to the shower area, and got changed. After I was changed I walked back into the pool area and sat on the side, dangling my feet in the water. Not long after Alice came running in wearing a yellow Renée bikini. She stopped at the door.
"What?" she asked, when she saw the look I was giving her.
"She has everything in the collection. Don't be surprised," Edward said, as he pushed Alice into the room. "Nice," he added nodding.
"Oh, Alice, will you flip the switch behind you, please?"
She turned on her heel, and pushed the switch. The LED lights turned on and I heard a gasp. Turning to Edward I saw his jaw almost sat on his chest... his chest, I thought to myself. He must have been working out. No way was he that muscled before.
"Cowabunga!"
SPLASH!
"Alice!?" I moaned.
"What, your going to get wet anyway...," she trailed off.
I slid in, as gracefully as possible. I was very aware that Edward was in the room, possibly, watching?
"Bella, do you have any inflatables?" Edward asked.
"Yeah, they're in there," I said, pointing to the cupboard door next to the showers.
He went and pulled out a couple of inflatable lilos and a ball. He threw the lilos into the pool, I was close to where the pink one landed, with a splash, so I pulled myself up and onto it. Alice swam over to grab the green one and lay on it. When I was sat on it, I used my hands to turn myself around, only to be hit in the face with the ball.
"Ouch!"
"Oops!"
"Ha! Bella, your face was classic!" Alice exclaimed.
"Meh," I mumbled, rubbing my face.
"Bella, I'm sorry, really, really sorry."
"Edward, shut up," I said.
I heard Alice giggle loudly before I submerged myself beneath the water level. I watched Edward dive into the pool, in an unnaturally graceful manner...damn him... actually no don't! While I was having a silent argument in my head about whether or not to damn Edward, he swam up to me. I pushed my self to the surface to take a gasp of air, and then I swam in the opposite direction.
"Bella, I truly am sorry. I didn't mean to hit you in the face."
"Well you did, and you must've been throwing the ball at the back of my head. Why else would it have hit me directly in the face if you hadn't been aiming at me?"
"That's a good question Edward," Alice agreed
"I-I...uhhh, I mean... I-You were..." he stammered.
"Exactly what I thought," I replied, I turned around and swam some lengths.
"Women!" Edward groaned quietly, obviously not meaning for either me or Alice to hear. But we both did.
"What's that supposed to mean?" I asked.
"You can talk, Lady," Alice murmured at the same time.
"Alice what's that supposed to mean? I ment women and their over emotional tendencies. And I forgave you for hitting me earlier, Bella. What's so different about this?"
"Everything."
"Would you care to explain?"
"Nope," I said popping my lips on the P. He jutted his bottom lip out. "You know, I could fit a plant pot on your lip," I said, smiling and splashing him. He smiled back at me, pushing a pitiful wave towards me.
"Friends?"
"Friends," I smiled, turning around and swimming of to the lilo, which had floated over to near where Alice was watching us. I sat myself on the inflatable, facing Edward. I pushed, what felt like, a bucket load of water towards him.
A/N REVIEW... sorry for a cliffhanger... I'll continue writing asap... my laptop is being strange and keeps freezing in the middle of stuffs...
I'm going to skip out the rest of this evening :) because that would just be a painful read, as i'm not that good at describing and stuff...
I do hope you enjoy this story, I am going to have cannon pairings...as is obvious from Jasper & Alice, Emmett & Rose. but I hope you don't mind me adding Bella to the Hale's... I thought it made the story better... and I did do research on if it's illegal to marry your brother/sister-in-law...IT'S NOT :D :P
Please review and ideas are welcome...I'm storing them in my brain :) Hut here we come :P... Any ideas for the summer in Forks, other than the usual "OMG go to Edward's meadow"...already thought of that :d.
Please do tell me if you think the characters don't sound right because it does pee me off when they don't sound right when I'm reading... & please point out any and all spelling mistakes... I'm sure there are loads :P (especially as i just wrote [miistakes] because I'm in a rush & I want my dinnerr :P)
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