VISITORS
Edward, of course, had been aware that Bella was stood in the doorway of the kitchen but the chance to get Esme in the face was too good an opportunity for him to miss. He had carefully aimed to reduce splash back but still manage to get the whole of Esme's face covered in the gunk. Edward discarded the now juiceless lemon; it had served its purpose and, let's face it, there was plenty more where that came from. Bella swivelled her eyes to follow the rind of the lemon as Edward launched it at the bin, which was now overflowing with the juiceless peelings of the once magnificent lemons.
Edward walked over to the refrigerator to get out a tray of ice cubes which he promptly tipped into a jug full of lemon juice that Bella had missed on her preliminary assessment of the kitchen. This must have been what Edward was doing. Bella could not help but feel touched. Edward, who had no need to be in the kitchen, to eat or even to drink (anything except for blood, had spent the last hour slaving away in his barely used kitchen to make her a cool yet refreshing beverage. How sweet!
Edward had almost reached Bella when he dropped the jug, causing juice to spray EVERWHERE dousing everyone in the sour liquid. Edward hissed, no doubt he had picked up a thoughts of an intruder, clearly the thoughts he had heard did not make him happy.
"Carlisle" the intruder called, it was a voice that Edward and Bella recognised. They both stiffened as the intruder walked into the kitchen. He was tall, quite young and devilishly handsome, just like he had been when he was ripped apart by the werewolves. Riley walked into the kitchen confidently and completely unaware of the fact that he was supposed to be dead. "Oh! Sorry" exclaimed Riley when it became apparent that Carlisle was not actually in the kitchen "I assumed Carlisle would be where the noise was" evidently he was wrong. "if you could just point me in the right direction, Carlisle and I have...urm...business to attend to" Riley finished, rather lamely.
"I'm sorry" Edward interjected, he did not sound the slightest bit sorry at all "but didn't I watch you die?"
"Correct, but it would appear that the Volturi took pity on us, something I hear they do not do lightly, and they pulled us out of the flames before any real damage could be done"
"and Victoria?" Bella questioned timidly
"as if I know" Riley answered coldly and his eyes flashed red.
Carlisle strolled into the room and upon seeing Riley he looked like a deer caught in headlights.
"I told you not to come here. The business we have is private and should not be carried out in such a..." Carlisle glanced around the room "...public place" he finished.
"Give it up Carlisle, I know about your dirty little secret, did you think your thoughts would be safe forever? Sooner or later you would have thought about the quality time you were spending with Riley in the woods and I would have known" Edward said coldly "I just can't believe you would have done this to us, to Esme"