Chapter 38

Edward's POV

So I had taken the risk of upsetting Rosalie by going out with Bella. So what? Rose was already mad at me, and I wasn't exactly in the best of moods with her either. Therefore, I decided to just go out with Bella and at least try to have some fun.

"Ready?" Bella asked, as I grabbed my wallet and stuffed it in my back jeans pocket.

"Yeah," I replied, exhasted and ready to escape from this house.

"So where are we going?" I wondered as I led her out the door first and then locked up behind her.

"Uh...I hadn't really planned that far ahead, actually," She admitted.

I thought of a good place that we could go and both enjoy that would allow us to take a break from all this craziness.

"How about...well. Nevermind." I knew my suggestion might be stretching it.

"What?!" She asked, curious to know what I had in mind.

"No, you'll never agree," I continued, figuring if I convinced her she wouldn't like it, she would probably go just to go against what I predicted.

"Please tell me?" She begged.

I gave in. "Well...I've always wanted to go skydiving, and I've never been before. So I was wondering, maybe we could go today??" I put on a sweet, innocent face.

She looked surprised. "You don't think I'd be up for something like that?" She asked with a cocky smile.

Now it was my turn to be surprised. "I dunno. I guess I just assumed that you wouldn't because Rose would never do that sort of stuff with me, and most girls wouldn't."

Now she had a huge grin spread across her face. "Good thing I'm not most girls." And with that she hopped into the passenger's side of the car and buckled her seat belt.

I was still standing outside, in front of the car, like an idiot. But after a minute I realized that that was, in a weird way, a yes.

I smiled, climbed in the car, started up the engine, and pulled out of the driveway.

As we were driving along, I noticed Bella staring at me. I - for some reason - didn't feel uncomfortable or anything, although anyone else would be.

But after a while, I did want to know what she was staring at, or rather why she was staring at it, so I turned towards her for a couple of seconds and said, "What?" with a small grin.

She laughed. "Nothing."

"Something." I argued.

She sighed. "It's just...How do you stay so...calm?"

I gave her a confused look.

"What I mean," She continued, "Is with everything going on, one might think you would be a little...well...down in the dumps."

I turned to her briefly again. "What do you mean 'everything going on'?"

"Well, you have strange new neighbors living across the street from you, your little sister and brother-in-law are staying over, and oh yeah, you just found out your wife is pregnant and was going to keep it from you."

"I don't know for certain if she was going to keep it from me," I defended for Rose, even though I was still confused about what to believe.

"Well, I guess she could of told you..." She muttered.

"You don't think she would have?" I asked, curious.

"It's not that...it's just...I know women. Heck, I AM a woman. And if Rose was pregnant and she knew for certain that the baby was a product of her marriage to you, why would she hide the fact?" There was a short silence. "However." She resumed. "If the father was someone...else...she wouldn't want people to know, now would she?"

I looked at her in disbelief. "You sure do seem calm when convicting your husband of cheating."

She scratched at her scalp and looked down, sighing. After a moment though, she looked back up at me.

"I know. I just don't know why." She actually looked partly ashamed with herself after saying this.

I took a deep breath.

"I guess we're both just tangled up in a mess. I mean - you haven't had it easy since your stay here either."

She cocked her head to the side, curious.

"Well," I continued, "Rose got mad at you for something ridiculous, Emmett got mad at you for something even more ridiculous, got mad, came over to my house briefly, stayed out the rest of the night, and then came back to your house the next morning with a major hangover and attitude problem."

"Wait - what?!" Bella said, stunned. "What did you just say?! Emmett came over to your house?!"


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