-1Chapter 4: A Long Night
When we got back to my house, my dad was already there.
"Hey dad we're home," I yelled as we entered the front door.
"Back here in the kitchen," he yelled back. I could see a hand waving from the kitchen with chicken leg in it. Alice and Rosalie laughed.
"Hello Mr. Swan," Alice said as reached the doorway.
"Hello again Alice and for the last time, please call me Charlie."
"Alright Charlie, I would like to introduce you to my sister Rosalie," Alice said waving her hand in the direction of Rosalie.
"It's nice to meet you Charlie. You have a beautiful home. Thank you so much for letting Alice and I stay over tonight," Rosalie said pushing her blonde hair back behind her shoulder.
Charlie stood there speechless, just staring at Rosalie, just like all the other men that come around her.
I just laughed. "We're going up to my room now dad," I said, grabbing some chicken before I left. "We'll see you in the morning," I kissed him on the cheek and headed for the door. "Oh and dad, pick your jaw up off the floor, I don't need to clean up drool in the morning," I said giggling all the way upstairs.
The girls threw their bags in the corner and turned to me.
"We have a lot to do before tomorrow. Are you up for it, because it's not to late to change your mind you know?" Alice said.
"No, I made up my mind last night. Nothing is going to side track me," I said with determination in my voice.
Alice jumped up and down with excitement. "Good," Rosalie said, "we better get started, it's going to be a very long night."
I heard Charlie's alarm clock go off at 7:00 am.
"I can't believe we have been working all night. I don't know how you guys go without sleep. I'm exhausted," I said with a yawn.
"Trust me you get use to it and if your plan works then you will join our little insomnia party," Rosalie said as she finished getting ready for school.
"You can sleep in the car to and from Port Angeles," Alice said putting her books back into her bag. "Now let's go get you something to eat, you need all the energy you can get."
"Thank you guys so much for your help, I don't know how I would able to do this without you."
"Don't thank us yet, we still have awhile until completion," Rosalie said walking out the door, "we better get a move on the boys will be impatient."
"Do you think we should let Emmitt and Jasper in on our plan," I said following them down the stairs.
Alice closed her eyes and thought for a moment. "We will tell them but not yet, but when we do that is when it's going to get interesting," Alice said with a grin.
I grabbed a granola bar and a bottle of water from the kitchen and headed out the door to Rosalie's car.
Alice looked at my choice of breakfast and raised her eyebrow. "I know I haven't eaten real food in awhile but should get something, oh I don't know, substantial."
"I know it's not the breakfast of champions but my stomach is in knots and I thought less might be more."
"Just don't pass out on us OK. Edward would never forgive us," she said smiling and letting into the back seat.
When we pulled into the school parking lot, the boys were already there waiting for us near Edward's Volvo. It's not fair for guys to look that good.
Alice didn't even have time to open her door and get out of the car before Edward pulled me out of the back seat and into his arms.
"Well good morning to you to brother dear," she said as she walked over to a sad looking Jasper and gave him a kiss. Emmitt already had Rosalie over his shoulder carrying her into school before I had a chance to say good-bye. Oh well, I'll see her in lunch.
"Do you know that it took every ounce of will power I had not to crawl into your window last night," Edward said spreading kisses all over my face.
"I take it you missed me then?" I said sheepishly. I hated being away from him too.
"I didn't just miss you, I longed for you. Please don't make me suffer like that again," he said pleading. If he only knew.
"So what did you girls do last night?" he said as he walked me to my first class.
"Just girl stuff. You'll just have to wait and see," I said with a wink.
"Do you really have to go shopping today. Wouldn't it be more fun to stay with me, maybe we could go to the meadow," he said with a gleam in his eye.
Oh the meadow, he's not playing fair. I could picture us laying on blanket in the middle of the field, no one else around and we could just hold each other and… No! I shook my head and made my thought go away like shaking an Etch A Sketch. "Sorry I already made plans with your sisters, but I'm not going until after school and I will see you tonight."
He groaned. "Fine I'll let you go but tonight your mine."
"I'm always yours. I'll see you after class," I said kissing him on the cheek and heading into the room. As the door closed I could still see him standing in the hall with a frown on his face. Can I really do this? I can't stand to hurt him. Please let him understand that I'm doing this for us. I can't back down. I have to see this through. I opened my text book and tried to pay attention to the teacher.