Alice sat on the super uncomfortable hospital chair as Edward walked Bella towards a less crowded spot in the hospital to talk to him about God knows what. As Alice pulled out her cell phone to check her messages, a man around forty sat down next to her. He had beautiful eyes, a gorgeous complexion and smiled at her with a grin that could have made any woman's panties drop.
Alice glanced over towards the man and smiled back. She felt a sudden weird sense, almost like she knew the man but shrugged it off. He spoke softly to her.
"You know, I thought this was a great idea at one time but now I see that maybe I've made a mistake," he said as he pulled out a pen and a piece of paper.
"I'm sorry, do I know you?" Alice asked as she put her phone back into her purse.
"No, I don't think you do," he said. "But you apparently know Dr. Cullen. Could you do a favor and give him this?" He handed Alice a piece of folded paper with something written on it.
"Um, sure," she said taking the paper. She felt like she was involved in a covert, top secret mission and the paper would disappear in fifteen seconds.
"Thanks so much, and by the way, your friend is perfect for him. I always imagined he'd end up with someone as pretty as her," the mysterious figure said to Alice as he walked away and out the doors of the hospital.
And with that last comment, Alice quickly realized who she sat beside.
"Oh my God, I can communicate with the dead," she said out loud. Everyone who sat around stopped what they were doing and stared at her for a moment before going back to their own conversations.
Alice opened the piece of paper and read the inside.
"Edward, you've done me proud. Love, Dad."
Alice grinned at the first encounter ever with a ghost.
As the events with Edward's dad unfolded across the room from him, he tried to find the words to tell Bella how he couldn't stop thinking about her since she nearly killed him with a coffee carafe.
However, as he stood in front of her the words just wouldn't escape him. He fidgeted with his fingers and the hem of his doctor's coat as Bella stood patiently waiting for the beautiful boy to speak. Finally he blurted out "you're pretty." Edward immediately blushed and looked away.
Bella blushed too and as they stood saying nothing, but a lot at the same time, a screeching voice from behind interrupted what could have been the best moment of their lives.
"Edward Teddy Kennedy Masen Platt Cullen, you get away from that girl right now." Edward blushed again but for a totally different reason. This time it was from embarrassment as his mother rode around the corner in her Hoveround.
"Mooooom," Edward whined again, "I'm a grown man. Please don't do this right here."
"I will do as I please, I am your mother," she said. She reached up and grabbed Edward by his ear and led him away from Bella.
Bella stood shocked. She realized right then and there that she wasn't the one who needed rescuing. Edward needed rescuing from his own mother.
"Edward," Bella shouted. "Wait."
Bravely Bella ran over to Edward, who still had his ear held hostage by his mother. She kissed him softly on the cheek and slipped her phone number into his doctor coat pocket without Esme realizing it. She gave Esme an evil look and walked towards Alice.
Bella could hear Esme gasp as she walked away.
"I swear on everything that is holy, I saw his ghost Bella. You can believe me or not but here is the proof." She handed Bella the note that the mysterious being had written to her.
"Alice, ghosts cannot write notes okay?"
"How do you know, have you ever seen a ghost write a note before?" Alice waited for an answer as they pulled up to Alice's apartment. This would be interesting. Alice lived on the top floor of a five story building.
As Alice took each step of the stair case carefully, she kept swearing up and down that in fact she did see the ghost of Carlisle Cullen. Finally after the last step had been reached at the top of the stairs, a blonde boy stood at the doorway.
"Alice, oh my gosh, are you okay? I was getting worried sick about you." Bella soon realized that the boy who stood before her was the infamous drink stealer her manager Emmett had warned her about.
Jasper quickly realized that Bella worked at In-N-Out Burger and almost bolted until Alice stopped him.
"Jazzy, she's not going to tell on you, I promise," Alice said screaming down the hall at Jasper.
Finally, he walked back up, not making eye contact with Bella and helped her open the door. Jasper made sure Alice got settled in as Bella called her dad to let him know Alice was okay. He mumbled something about how her clumsiness must be contagious and hung up on Bella. She glanced at her phone and put it in her pocket, shaking her head.
"So what happened my little ray of sunshine?" Jasper asked as he sat at her feet. It was almost as if he worshiped her or something. Alice smile down at him and told him the story, the whole story from start to finish. After she was done, Jasper asked a very important question.
"Are you going to give this baby doctor the note or what?"
Bella looked at Alice and she shrugged. "Do you think I should? What if it wasn't a ghost but some lunatic trying to play games with the Doc?"
Bella shrugged as she thought of how much she couldn't stand the woman who could be her future mother-in-law. The thought of how much the reception alone would cost made Bella nearly faint.
"He seemed sincere and very proud of your baby doctor," Alice said as she sipped from bottle of water.
"Either way, I doubt we'll be seeing each other again," Bella said with disappointment in her tone.
"Why not?" Alice asked.
"There are a lot of reasons. Look at me Alice, I can't even chew gum and talk without nearly killing myself or someone else."
Bella walked behind Alice's couch to go into the kitchen and tripped over her cat Jane. Jane was a bitch. She deliberately took a piss in a pair of Alice's Steve Maddens one day when she refused to let him into her bedroom. From that point on, Alice and Jane have had a love/hate relationship.
Bella quickly bounced back up. "I'm okay," she said but realized that no one cared. Jasper and Alice were off in their own little world. Bella picked up her purse, handed Jasper the awesome 800mg prescription for ibuprofen and headed back home.
There are some things that cannot be explained. For instance how could a man like Carlisle Cullen disappear for so long and not leave a trace? Why would he allow his wife and son to believe he was dead? The only person who could answer that was Carlisle and apparently he wasn't saying a word to anyone, not even me, and I'm telling the story. So for now we'll leave that as a mystery.
Edward sat at his piano in his mother's house staring at the sheet music which held the notes of his more recent song. He also stared at piece of paper that held the number for the woman of his dreams. He was writing a song for Bella but if you told his mother, she'd have a stroke on spot. He told his mom that it was a song about the spring and she loved it.
As he sat pecking at the notes, his mother came around the corner in her Hoveround and stopped right at the piano. Edward shoved the number into his pocket.
"This was the best investment your father and I put into this house," she said pointing at the piano. "Did I ever tell you how we came across it?"
"Yes mom," Edward said but before he could finish, she started the story all over again.
"The year was 1988 and your father took me on a date to see Yanni live in concert," she said, holding her hand near her heart as though the story was near and dear to her. Edward pinched the bridge of his nose and sighed. He knew where this would go.
"I'd never seen a concert of this caliber before and couldn't believe my ears when I heard him play."
Ladies and gents, I hate to inform you but she wasn't talking about Yanni.
Nope. Not. At. All.
"The way his music flowed from his keyboard made my heart melt and it was from that point on that I always knew that my son or daughter would have a piano to play as beautifully as that man."
(Ms. Platt was referring to John Tesh. He played with Yanni for a couple of years and even though some of you who are reading this may not have any clue as to whom Yanni or John Tesh may be, I'll break it down in two words: Entertainment Tonight. You're welcome and back to Esme's story.)
"A year before you were born, we heard that John Tesh was holding a charity auction and one of the items he sold was this very piano. I remember that day like it was yesterday." Esme fingers now began tracing her neckline as though she remembered something far sultrier than an auction. Edward tried to ignore his mother's gesture and stared back at his sheet paper.
Finally Esme snapped out of her alternate reality and finished the story. "We brought the piano home and now it sits here today. Some beautiful music has been made from this piano." Edward rolled his eyes and Esme backed up, beeping as she did.
"Well you continue your cute little song about spring. I'm going to go have a doughnut. Love you baby boy."
Edward sighed as he continued work on his song about Bella and trying to pack away the suspicion about his mother and John Tesh.
A/N: There you go JenniP. Your John Tesh fantasies have come true.