I stumbled a little as I crashed into the hard chest. As we collided there was a deafening cracking noise. It sounded as though two marble objects were slammed together with alarming force.
Smooth, strong hands steadied me I crashed into the marble chest and gasped. I shyly looked above me, not moving my head just moving my amber eyes upwards to see the gorgeous sight before me.
Edward Cullen. He was once my Edward Cullen, it didn't surprise me when he broke up with me and went to live in some mysterious place. It didn't make sense for him to love me, he was perfect. Physically and every other way possible, he was so caring, kind and extremely attractive. Everything I wasn't or ever would be…
"Bella?" He whispered.
I decided now was a good time to move my head fully upwards so he could see me and more importantly I could see him. He looked as perfect as he had done the last time I had seen him. His unruly bronze hair looked as though he had just rolled out of bed from doing less than innocent things with someone; his eyes a dark shade of amber and his perfectly angular face and the straightness of his nose all remained unchanged.
"Yes?" I asked, my voice coming out like ringing bells, this was one of the many things I loved about being a vampire, my appearance was much more attractive and I happened to like it a lot more.
Edward's eyes widened at my wind chime like voice and a pained look crossed his face. He drank in my appearance, spending the most amount of time taking in my new and improved facial features. My eyes widened when he brought up his hand to my cheek and cupped it gently, and slowly dragged his thumb across my cheek bone. Our eyes bore into each other, a pained look crossed Edward's features and he dropped his hand from the place on my cheek and jogged past me and up the stairs.
My chest tightened and my face fell. Emmett was the one that came up from behind me and hugged me tightly. I fought back the dry sobs and just tried to keep myself together. Esme wrapped her arms around me and whispered reassuring words to me and I embraced her hug as my chest shook and sobs over took me and ripped out of my chest.
"This, is why I didn't want to come here." I hissed angrily. "I'm so stupid, he hates me! Of course he hates me that's why he left me!"
"Bella dear," Esme said to me softly. "Calm down, he's obviously very surprised; this is the last thing he would have expected when he came back from hunting. I also for a fact know that Edward does not hate you sweetheart."
"Is it okay if I go upstairs Esme?" I asked in a small voice. She nodded looking at me sympathetically.
I walked slowly and quietly up the stairs and across the hall to the bedroom that Alice had led me to earlier on. I perched myself on the window sill and looked out onto the Cullen's land, it led into the woods just as the last house had.
I sighed; none of this had worked out how I hoped it would. I didn't expect it to work out, it's not like Edward would welcome me back with open arms and tell me what a mistake he made and how much he loves me and wants to spend the rest of his life with me. It wasn't going to happen, as much as I wanted it to.
It felt strange knowing that I was in the same house as him and that I was within walking distance of someone that I had been pining for since the first day I met him. His gorgeous face and wonderful bronze hair would never be forgotten, I hadn't forgotten even after the pain of being changed, thinking about Edward was the thing that had made the change more bearable. I sighed and buried my head into my knees and closed my eyes.
After shifting places more than once through out the night I ended up led on the King sized bed when the sun began to rise over the hill tops. As the light seeped through the windows in the bedroom my skin began to sparkle, I smiled at the heat. Then it dawned on me that if the sun was out, I would have to be stuck in this house all day which wasn't going to be comfortable for anyone living in the house due to the tension between me and Edward.
During the time that I was led on the bed in the dark last night I heard the front door open and close again. I heard Esme rush over to the door and assumed that Carlisle was home. I heard Esme start to explain the situation, that included how Edward reacted and I heard Carlisle call Edward into his office. I chose to block out what was being said, they obviously didn't want to be heard if they were talking in Carlisle's office.
As I led on the bed I heard footsteps going up the steps in the direction of the bedroom that I was in. I sighed and sat up, and ran my hands through my hair. I heard of soft knock and my name spoken softly. I walked over the door with a smile on my face, I dragged the door open and jumped into the arms of the person waiting at the door.
Carlisle laughed loudly and hugged me tightly back. "Bella!"
"Carlisle," I gushed. "I've missed you! You missed so many hospital visits."
Carlisle nodded and took in my appearance, but not with the same disgusted type of look that Edward had given me when he had first saw me. He was grinning and telling me how wonderful I looked as a vampire. Then a strange expression crossed his face, and he looked at me differently as though he was being pressed to be serious about the situation his family had just been placed in having a new vampire present in their house.
"Bella." He said to me gently. "Would you be comfortable telling us what happened yet?"
I sighed and shook my head. "Carlisle, would it be okay if I stayed a while?" I asked, feeling horribly rude. "Only, I don't have anywhere to go because I..."
Carlisle cut me off before I had time to explain my situation.
"Of course Bella, we'd love to have you stay." Carlisle told me. "But Bella, if you're going to stay for a while, we need to sort things about between you and Edward, Esme told me about it and I've spoken to Edward. Would you mind coming to have a talk with me with Edward in my office?"
