Lifeline Chapter 2

He turned around and saw me coming down the stairs. He gave me my favorite crooked smile. I loved when he smiled like that his whole face just lit up. I smiled back knowing mine was not as brilliant as his. He came over to me and pulled me into a hug. He was cold but at that moment he felt hot. We separated and I looked into his eyes. The same beautiful gold I loved so much.

"You look beautiful." Edward whispered in my ear. I was sure I was blushing.

"I hate to break this up," Alive was saying while pushing me and Edward, "but you need to get to Seattle."

"We're moving, Alice." Edward said, while we were being pushed towards the garage door. We walked over to the silver Volvo. Edward opened my door and I got into the seat. Edward shut my door and I turned around to look in the back of the car and saw three suitcases. I wondered how Alice and Rose fit all those clothed plus Edwards's clothes in three suitcases. About the same time Edward had opened his door and was sliding into the seat. He rolled the windows sown so we could see his family waving goodbye.

"Have fun kids." Esme said. I thought to myself if vampires could cry she would be sobbing. She was waving and holding onto Carlisle, who to my surprise was home from work. He must have gotten there when Rose and Alice made me their personal Barbie doll. He was also still in his lab coat.

"Remember Edward; if anything goes wrong just call me." Carlisle said.

"I will dad, but what's the worst that could happen." Edward smirked.

"In our family, a lot. Have fun and see you later." Carlisle smiled and waved at us. Edward started to back out and we were meet by a choir of goodbyes. I looked over at Edward and he gave me a smile. He turned around to look out the rearview window. We were slowly backing out of the garage and into the driveway. As soon as the hood of the car cleared the wall of the garage, Edward whipped the car around to face down the driveway. We both turned around and waved at everyone then we were off. Edward reached over a held my hand. Little shocks of electricity shot through my body. My hand felt as if it were of fire. Even though his hands were like ice. I thought about this and smiled to myself.

"What are you thinking about Bella?" Edward smirked looking over at me. "You know I can't read your mind."

"Edward would you keep your eyes on the road. If you must know I was thinking about fire and ice. How I'm warm and your cold." I looked over at him. He was laughing, not hard laughing more like chuckling.

"Bella, I love you." I could feel myself blushing. He always makes me blush. He smiled my favorite smile and started to caress my hand. We drove down the highway going about 85! I hated when he would drive this fast. Even though he was a vampire and had faster reflexes than me, I was afraid he would crash. If I had said something he would have just laughed and speed up. I looked out the window and saw a sign that said "Seattle 5 miles." WOW! Time had flown by and I hadn't said more than ten words to Edward. So I said the first thing that came to my mind, "Are you excited?" I mentally slapped myself after I said it.

"Bella, I am more than excited. I can't wait another minute." He smiled at me and I immediately felt better. "What's more important is if you're excited."

"Works can't describe it. I've ever felt this excited about anything before." This was true. The only thing that even came close to being this exciting was when I moved from Arizona to Forks, or cliff diving.

"This is our exit." Edward said and he started to turn the car onto the exit ramp. We pulled up to the toll gate and Edward handed her the money and gave her smile. I swear she was going to faint. I gave her a stern stare and Edward drove off.

It was only a five minute drive from the toll gate to the hotel. Edward drove around looking for a place to park, never letting go of my hand. We finally found a place and he was out of the car.

"Wait right here." He said and went to find a bellhop. It was only three suitcases, why couldn't we just carry them? Edward came back, bellhop in tow pushing a dolly. It soon became clear why we couldn't carry our suitcase. There was about seven of them all together. Edward dismissed the bellhop and took the dolly. He held my hand as we walked into the huge hotel. We found the front desk and walk towards it. Luckily there was no line except for the couple in front of us. It seemed to me the man was trying to correct something, but the receptionist was arguing with him.

"No it's not ok! You gave our room away to someone, because we were walking in the door thirty seconds late!"

"I'm sorry Sir, but all I have left is the penthouse suite and they should be here any minute to claim their room."

"Well that's just great!" The man continues to argue while the young woman turned around to talk to us.

"I'm so sorry about him," she said. She had dirty blonde hair, bright green eyed and a very petite frame, I mean less than five foot which was cute because the man was about 6'3", "he's just mad because it's our four year anniversary and all our friends got their rooms, but they gave ours away. Oh, and by the way I'm Selina."

"Nice to meet you Selina, I'm Edward and this is Bella. I think I can help you don't mind." Edward said. I noticed for the first time since I meet Edward, Selina did not look like she was envious of me, she looked like she wasn't even attracted to him. I really liked that. Edward was walking up to the receptionist and was talking to her about something.

"Sorry about this, Cole sometimes loses his temper over small things. I wish he wouldn't but he just can't help it." Selina sighed and glanced at who I assumed was Cole.

"I understand, Edward has those times to." I said thinking back to James. I saw Edward a Cole walking back towards us and Cole had a huge smile on his face. He ran up to Selina and picked her up off the ground and spun her around and kissed her.

"Selina, you'll never guess what happened!" Cole seemed really excited.

"What Cole?" Selina asked eyebrows rose in suspicion.

"Edward here," he said patting Edward on the back, "talked the manager to let us stay in their room for free!"

"Where will they sleep?" Selina questioned.

"We will sleep in the other room in the suite." Edward said.

"Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!" Selina said hugging Cole.

"This will be fun." I said.

"Well then, let's go." Edward said putting he hand on my waist and leading me towards the elevator. All four of us got in and Edward pressed the 23rd floor button. The elevator started to move upwards toward our floor. Selina and Cole were talking, but I thought it was rude to listen to their conversation. Beep! Beep! Beep! We keep going up. Edward had moved his arm from around my waist and took my hand instead so he could grab the trolley.

"I'm so excited that we get to stay in the same room as you guys. Thank you so much." Squealed Selina Cole smiled and rolled his eyes. Edward shrugged and the door to the elevator opened. Cole gave Selina the key and told her to go unlock the door and Edward and he would get the luggage. Selina and I stepped out of the elevator and into the penthouse suite.

"Wow, this place is huge!" Selina said walking from room to room. This place was huge. Just then the elevator opened and Edward and Cole walked in. Cole went in the direction that Selina did following her voice. Edward stopped next to me.

"Bella are you alright? You look really pale like something is wrong." He put his hand on my forehead and stared at me.

"I'm fine Edward," I said, "I have this strange feeling that something's not right. Like something bad is going to happen."

"Bella you are with me. I promise no one will ever hurt you. No one! If they even come close to touching you I will personally rip them to shreds. After all I am a vampire." He took my hand in his and started to walk towards the room. He stopped though and turned and looked at me. He leaned over and gave me a light kiss on the cheek." I promise."

He opened the door and I walked inside. This place reminded me of the Cullen house just a little bit smaller. The windows were huge and right off the bat I noticed that there were six doors in the living room. How big was this place? I followed Edward over to a door on the left side of the room. He took my hand again and led me into the room. The bedroom was the biggest bedroom I had ever seen. The bed was like three of my beds. There was a chandelier hanging in the middle of the room and three doors.

"Two closest and a bathroom." Edward said, "I had a feeling Alice wouldn't let you pack light."

I couldn't help but giggle. "Your right, she must think her brothers a mule or something."

"Ha Ha, very funny Bella," He shot me that crooked smile of his and I blushed, "You better get changed we have a dinner reservation at nine that you don't want to miss." Edward walked into one of the closest with my stuff a came out and gestured for me to go in a change. I walked in a door shut behind me. I went over to my suitcase and opened one to see what I had. I dug through the suitcase and pulled out the black and salmon dress. I looked at the two and finally decided on the black one. I slipped it on over my head and zipped the side. I went over to the bags and dug around looking for shoes and pantyhose. I found them and went for the door that I hoped was to the bathroom. It was. I grabbed my curling iron and some make-up and started to fix some of the stuff that had been messed up on the car ride. A curl here a touch of lipstick there and looked just like Alice and Rose wanted me to. I looked at the clock and it was 8:30. I had to get ready to go.

I went back into the closet and grabbed some black heels. I slipped them on my feet and opened the door that went into the bedroom. I walked in and Edward was waiting on the bed with a black Tux on. He smiled at me and got up and came over and gave me a kiss. He took my hand in his and led me out of the room.

"You look absolutely stunning." Edward said. I could tell I was blushing like crazy and he was smiling at me.

"Well you clean up very nice." I said back to him.

"Hey, Cole and Selina, we're leaving try not to tear the place up." Edward yelled as we walked towards the elevator. Edward held my hand all the way down to the lobby. When we got to the lobby I noticed a girl starring at me and Edward. My blood began to rise and I was getting angry. No, I was not jealous. I took a couple deep breaths to calm down. Edward squeezed my hand. "Don't worry, she's too cocky. She's thinking of that she's prettier than you and I'll dump you for her. We both know that's never going to happen." Edward stopped and gave me a passionate kiss. After we separated I looked at the girl. She was walking towards us.

"Hi," she said, "I'm Cameron and I was wondering if you wanted to get some Avon?" She said flipping her long blonde hair. Her blue eyes keep going between me and Edward.

"No thanks." Edward said and grabbed my waist and we walked away. We got outside and Edward started to laugh and say how dumb she was. I wasn't sure; she did seem prettier than I am. We went to the Volvo and Edward opened the door for me to get in. He closed the door and walked around the driver's side. He got in the car and pulled out. The restaurant was only down the street so it didn't take long to get there. We got there in about three minutes. He again got out of the car and walked over to my door. He opened my door. "Here we are at the Mamma Melina Ristorante.

"Wow! This place looks really expensive." I said. It was French and huge. Edward shut the door and came and took my waist. We walked into the restaurant and were greeted by a hostess.

"Hi, welcome to Mamma Melina Ristorante, how many?" The hostess looked to be in her mid-thirties. She was tall and her hair had some gray in it.

"I made a reservation under the name Cullen." Edward said looking down at me smiling. I know I must have blushed.

"Ah, Mr. Cullen your table is right this way. Follow me." Edward and I followed her to a secluded table on the terrace. "Can I get you guys anything to drink."

"Water" I said knowing that Edward wasn't going to drink it. We sat down and talked for a little bit then our water came and they asked if we wanted an appetizer.

"We will have the Brochette al Pomodoro, please." Edward said handing her the menu and looking at me.

The dinner was romantic and amazing. Edward had to throw some of his food in the trash to make it look like he was eating it. I had eaten a small Cesar salad, Pollo Parmigiana and for dessert I and Edward "shared" a Culore DiCioccolate. Edward had pretended to eat Scampi all Griglia. We were driving back to the hotel now and I was tired and closed my eyes. Edward then took my hand my hand and held it. I snuck a peed at Edward and the clock. It was 11:30. Wow we had been out late.

I closed my eyes and felt the car stop. I heard one door close and almost at the same time another one open. Edward picked me up and closed my door behind him. He walked into where I assumed the lobby was. He hit a button and I heard a ding. I was too tired to care. I felt myself moving up. Another ding. Edward stepped out of the elevator and to our room. He opened the door. He laid me on the bed and I felt him slid some pants under the dress and he put a shirt on over the dress. He unzipped it and pulled it off me. He laid down next to me.

I woke up later to screams. Edward had gotten up and ran to see what it was going on. I was wide awake now because I heard screams everywhere. Edwards's phone was ringing on the nightstand. I crawled over and grabbed it and looked at the caller I.D. It was Alice so I hit talk.

"Bella, Bella! It's Alice be careful they are there!" Alice screamed

"Who's here?" I asked obviously unaware of what in the world was going on.

"Zombies!"