A/N: PLEASE FORGIVE ME! It's been too long for you all

Edward's POV

I spent the whole day with Bella after that coffee kiss but dropped her off at her house with all her bags and baggage around mid-afternoon. Charlie wanted her back but promised that I could visit her in an hour or two once she settled back in. And when I got there, boy was I in shock.

Bella had chosen this time to wash her truck. Decked out in denim cutoffs and the new white tank top that Alice had gotten for her, she was hard at work, spraying the water at her truck and scrubbing. Man, look at the legs on that girl.

But I couldn't keep staring, this was my chance to have some fun with her, so I stealthily crept up next to the water hose...

And turned it on full blast at Bella!

She screamed and spun around, trying to fight off the water with flailing arms. I laughed as I shut the water off. Bella's hair was wet and everywhere, furthermore her top had been soaked through and transparent.

I gaped at the black bikini top she had put on under it as she glared at me. Then she saw where I was staring and she giggled. She sidled up to me and ran a wet fingertip down my front and across my jaw. What I didn't see was the hose that she had hidden behind her back.

She got back at me, as I was drenched from head to toe. She laughed, threw down the hose and started to run away. I caught her around the waist and swung her around as I was aroused at the sight my beautiful fiancée. I picked at the black string around her neck, wondering how a flimsy string like that kept her top up.

Bella's POV

Edward was soaked from top to toe and wasn't he gorgeous. He wrapped his strong arms around my waist and swung me around as we splattered water everywhere. As he slowly came to a stop and put my feet back on the blessed ground, our heads drew close together as we breathed heavily from the exertion and laughing. I leaned my forehead against his smooth one as he hugged me to him.

I sighed as I heard my dad calling me from inside.

"You have to go."

He whispered with a sad look in his eyes.

"We're going swimming tomorrow. All of us. Alice demanded that I bring you along so I'll pick you up at nine tomorrow. I'll have to prepare some things tonight so be safe."

I nodded and with a feather light breath of his beautiful scent, he disappeared.

My father ordered me straight into the bathroom without hesitation as my head worried about what I had to wear!

I had absolutely no figure to speak of. Could I even tolerate standing in a swimming suit next to Rosalie, the super model? For heaven's sake the entire family has done modeling in the past!

I fretted the entire night, just like the night before Edward took me out to his meadow for the first time. In the end, with Phil's cd blasting in my ears once more and the taste of cough medicine of my lips, I fell asleep.

The next morning I rushed through my morning routine as usual, anticipation and a little apprehension growing with every passing minute.

Edward stood outside my door promptly at nine, grinning widely. I had changed into a simple denim shorts and a simple white loose cotton blouse. He held up a bag, his grin getting wider.

"Queen Alice and Queen Rosalie both demanded that you change into this before showing yourself at the party."

I took the bag with worry and I knew I had been right to worry about today.

What I took out was a two-piece entirely in white. It was a bikini that would be held up by two strings around my neck and the elastic around my back, while the bottom piece looked like a normal pair of shorts.

I reluctantly put it on under my outfit and thrust my change of clothes into a bag. Edward took my hand and squeezed it gently, sensing my uneasiness about the swimsuit.

Edward was a maniac in the Volvo and on his two legs as usual and we reached a clearing in a forest where his whole family was waiting for us.

Alice was jumping up and down in excitement while Rosalie was standing, with a small smile on her face. Jasper and Emmett were already fidgeting about, ready to go while Carlisle and Esme were standing on the sidelines, amused at their 'adopted' children. I got down from Edward's back and looked around, frowning.

There was a pool in the forest?

Alice grinned and tugged on my hand, leading me past the clearing down a narrow path, where the trees finally cleared to a grassy area surrounding a lake about 150m wide. Emmett and Jasper whooped, tore of their outer clothes and cannonballed in. Who knew vampires could act so mature but be so childish at the same time?

The rest of the Cullens got in, bubbling with excitement while Edward waited on the sidelines for me to change at the slow human pace I was blessed with, also making sure that I didn't fall in.

Edward grinned as I got ready, diving in neatly as he waited for me to get in. I lowered my body slowly into the water, marveling at the coolness of the water. he caught me around the waist and kissed my forehead.

"Have I told you how beautiful you look today?"

I ducked my head and blushed and his grin grew wider.

"Time for a race everybody!"

Emmett, the ever competitive older brother, hustled everybody into a single row. The 'parents' declined, preferring to referee the match.

I sighed, knowing I could never compare to the Cullens in speed. I took swimming as a sport back in Phoenix though, it was about the only sport that I was good at. We'll see.

"Go!"

At the sound of Carlisle's shout, we all took off. All my strokes came back to me as I cut through the water cleanly and quickly, due to the amount of training I had received back home. When I reached the other side of the lake, all the Cullens were staring at me.

I looked down at myself, seeing if I had embarrassed myself in any way, nothing, I hadn't done anything weird either.

Edward finally spoke up.

"Bella do you know how fast you were going?"

"Slower than you guys evidently." I shrugged

"Bells, Alice reached the side like ten seconds before you and she's the slowest swimmer."

"Yeah so?"

Carlisle took over.

"Bella even for a human, that is amazingly fast. For a vampire to beat you by mere seconds is incredible. Edward have you seen her move with this sort of speed before?"

He shook his head grinning.

"She'd trip first."

I blushed again as the rest of the family sniggered.

"Maybe it's because she can't trip on water?" Emmett asked with a roar of laughter.

"I took swimming as a sport in Phoenix and had training a few times a week, that's about it."

They all looked at me in awe.

"We should definitely go swimming more often, since it's about the only sport Bella can do."

Alice exclaimed with a grin, to a laughing response from the rest of the family, to which I, of course, blushed until I was ruby red.

The rest of the day was spent fooling around in the lake, with occasional races. I sat at the side watching Emmett, Rosalie, Jasper, Alice and Carlisle have a diving competition. Edward swam up next to me and I rested my head on his cold chest.

"Tired love?"

"Mm hmm, but it was fun."

Suddenly Carlisle's phone rang and he dashed to get it.

"Oh no." was the first thing he said, and all our heads snapped up.

He covered the phone with a hand and turned to me.

"Bella," he hesitated.

I tensed and I felt Edward take in a breath next to me.

"Charlie had a heart attack."

I sped to the hospital in Edward's Volvo, clenching and unclenching my cold fingers. Edward reached over and took my hand.

"Charlie will be fine. Carlisle will take care of him."

"But what if it's too late and nothing can be done?"

My voice was a whisper in the quiet car.

He had no answer to that.

I burst into the waiting room with Edward by my side. Alice was getting out of her car not far behind. Carlisle was already coming out of a room dressed in the doctor's clothes as he hurried to the intensive care unit.

The nurse stopped us as we tried to follow.

"I'm sorry but the doctors are attempting to revive him now."

I sat on the hard plastic chair with my head in my hands. I felt Edward sit down and felt his arms around me as he pulled me to him.

I drew in ragged breaths as Alice paced outside the door.

Emmett, Jasper and the rest were down the hallway, not wanting to intrude but I felt calm settling over me and I looked up gratefully at Jasper and I saw him smile reassuringly at me.

It seemed like days but it was only an hour or so. Lice had gotten me a cup of coffee while Edward kept his arms firmly around me and I felt at times that that was the only thing keeping me together.

Finally Carlisle came out.

"He's awake now, but still extremely weak, if he lives through tonight, he will make it but if he doesn't..." and his voice trailed off.

He patted my shoulder and smiled.

I nodded and Edward helped me up and took me in.

I sat next to the bed, holding a hand connected to a body that was hooked up to so many tubes I could hardly recognize the man to whom it belonged to.

"Charlie..." I whispered.

"Bells...glad...you came."

"Don't talk, save your strength."

I fought tears as Edward stood silently behind me.

"I'm...sorry I won't...be...there to...give you away...at...your wedding."

He drew in a gasping breath.

"No don't say that. You're going to fine Dad. Please..."

The monitors were going crazy, beeping incessantly but I focused on Charlie.

"I love..."

He took a deep breath.

"I love...you. Tell...Renee...I love...her too."

My tears were falling unchecked now and I didn.t care. Charlie was going to be fine, he was going to be fine.

He addressed Edward next.

"You...take care...of my girl...now, you...hear?"

"I will sir I promise."

"I love you Dad. Don.t go." I pleaded

But his eyes closed and the monitors went wild. Edward threw open the door and yelled for Carlisle as I felt his hand go slack.

Nurses and doctor rushed in while a nurse herded Edward and I out the door.

The rest of the Cullens were outside now, waiting silently as I fought tooth and nail to get back inside that room.

Charlie couldn't die he couldn't!

What was going to happen to me?

"Dad! Dad! Don't die don't die don't die..."

I tried to make a break for it, dashing for the door but Edward caught me and spun me around as I slammed into his body, hitting out at his chest as I buried my face into it.

He closed his arms around me, stroking my hair as I sobbed.

"Charlie don't die don't die..."

But as I heard the monitors inside emit a single constant sound, my sobs grew louder and Edward's hands grew tighter around me.

Edward's POV

Carlisle told me that Charlie probably wouldn't make it and as I heard Charlie telling Bella that he loved her, I knew that Charlie probably knew it himself too.

"You...take care...of my girl...now, you...hear?"

"I will sir I promise."

Bella only had me now.

"I love you Dad. Don't go."

I heard Bella sobbing and I heard the monitors go wild.

"Carlisle! Charlie's in trouble!"

I helped pull Bella out the door as she tried to get back in.

"Dad! Dad! Don't die don't die don't die..."

Bells was struggling so hard I was going to lose my grip on her. With a final twist of her shoulders, my hands slipped and she tried to run into the room where her dad was. I could see Alice and Esme out of the corner of my eye, looking as anguished as I felt for Bella.

I caught her around her shoulders and spun around so I was between her and the room. She hit out weakly at me as I pulled her in. She gripped my shirt as she pressed her head to my chest, sobbing harder than ever before.

I hugged her shaking body closer and smoothed her hair.

"Charlie don't die don't die..."

Edward, Charlie's gone

As I heard Carlisle, I also heard the monitors emit a single sound. I knew it, and Bella knew it. My arms tightened and she sobbed louder and my heart broke for Bella, as she cried for the father that she had lost.

A/N: I'm sorry that Bella is going through so much but I promise that it will get better soon! Please don't stone me for taking so long to update:)