A Different Kind of Romance
Chapter 3: The Best
Bella was jumping up and down on the bed, waiting for movie night. She was in her pajamas, waiting for the rest of her family. Edward was the first one to come down, after Bella, of course.
Bella's eyes brightened as she saw him in his unneeded P.J.s at the bottom of the stairs. "Eddie!" she cried running to him. "I got the bed that Emmett brought down again!" she said proudly. Edward didn't have the heart to tell her that they always got the bed specifically for her.
"That's good, Bells." Edward said, picking her up and throwing her over his shoulder. "Time for you to go get Mommy Rose and Alice, huh? We wouldn't want them to be late, would we?" Edward asked.
Bella shook her head frantically. This was her favorite day of the week and she didn't want it to be delayed. She rushed up to the stairs with her half vampire speed, and knocked on Alice's door.
Edward walked into the kitchen and grabbed Bella's blood bottle. She had never grown out of drinking blood out of a bottle. Of couse she hunted, but she loved drinking from a bottle. It made her feel less like a monster somehow.
A knock was heard on the door and Edward froze, thinking who it could be on the other side of the door. He quickly used his enhanced gift and was annoyed and angry to find out. He walked to the door, though, and opened it, welcoming the person in. He was too gentlemanly for his own good.
"Hello, Tanya," he greeted with a forced smile. Tanya smiled back a bit warmer than required.
"Hello, Edward. The rest of my family will be here shortly." she said.
Edward frowned. "Not to be rude, but what are you doing here?"
"Carlisle invited us when we asked if all of you were doing anything for today." Tanya said, smiling brightly. Edward's jaw locked. Carlisle. Of course. Reading her thoughts, Edward found out that Tanya had actually asked Carlisle if he was doing anything tonight, and Carlisle had responded that Edward was having his family night with his family.
"Come in, then." he said, opening the door wider. Emmett came down a couple seconds later. Him, being the blunt person that he was, asked very bluntly,
"What's she doing here?" Edward shot him a look that screamed 'shut up'.
"Carlisle invited her. Behave, Emmett." he growled. He took a seat on the bed, and Tanya was about to sit next to him, when Bella jumped on the bed, right where Tanya was about to sit.
"Oh, I'm sorry. Were you going to sit here?" Bella asked innocently. Edward was smothering his laughs as coughs, as was Emmett. "Don't worry, there's a couch over there." Bella said, pointing to a couch on the other side of the room. "It's really nice of you for coming to our family movie night." Bella said, letting the guiltiness overtake her.
"Move over, Edward!" Rosalie demanded, climbing onto the bed with Edward and Bella on top. "I'm sitting next to my baby tonight, even if I have to pull you off the bed!" she threatened him. Edward let out a warning growl and Rosalie copied him, making hers more menacing.
"Don't!" Bella burst out. "This is our family night! I'll lay between the two of you," Bella decided. They both frowned, wanting her to themselves, but complied anyways.
Esme came down the stairs with Carlisle, "What movie are we watching, guys?" she asked her children. The was a knock on the door, and Carlisle calmly walked over to it to open it.
"Hello, Irina, Kate, Carmen, Eleazar." Carlisle greeted. "It's nice to see you again." he said sincerely. They Denali Clan said the same, and took seats around the Living Room. Bella bounced happily on Edward's lap, waiting for everyone to get comfortable. She held Rosalie's hand, feeling excited. everyone chuckled at Bella's enthusiasm.
"So, Bella, what do you think we should watch?" Esme asked, motherly. Bella thought for a minute, putting one finger under her chin while tilting her head to the side, and slightly scrunching up her lips. Everyone laughed again. Bella ignored them.
"I wanna watch Harry Potter 2!" she squealed finally. Alice was rubbing off on her. Alice danced up and grabbed the movie, and put it and danced back to her seat. The lights turned off slowly, (Bella's Doing) giving the room a theatrical feeling. Bella layed down, Rosalie and Edward doing the same, on opposite sides of her. Bella's heart would begin to flutter even faster than it usually would at the creepy parts, and her breath would catch.
"I love this part!" Bella would sometimes whisper to Edward and Rosalie. They would just smile at her and nod.
When the movie was over, Bella was yawning but requested another movie. Only 15-20 minutes into the movie, and Bella was fast asleep, mumbling in her sleep.
"I'll take her to her room," Edward offered, already picking Bella up delicately and preparing to whisk her up to her blue room.
"Wait!" Alice cried, "She can't go to bed in those Pajamas! It simply isn't right!" Alice complained. With a roll of his eyes, Edward ran up the stairs and laid his Bella down on her bed.
"Goodnight, my Bella," he whispered before kissing her forehead, making her eyelids unconsciously flutter. He chuckled. "Silly Bella," he said.
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"Eeeeeeeeddddddddiiiiiieeeeeeee!" Bella called out, waking up without Edward beside her. Edward was in her room in a split second.
"Mmhmm, Bella?" he asked, carrying a tray of human food with Bella's bottled full of blood in one corner.
"Yummy! Food!" Bella said enthusiastically. Edward walked over to her at human pace and set the tray down on her lap. She grabbed half of her bottle and poured it all over her food. Edward's nose unwrinkled from the smell. She sat down on her bed and started to eat happily.
"what're we doing today, Eddie?" Bella asked, after swallowing her second mouthful of food. Edward thought for a moment.
"We could go to the woods," he suggested. Bella nodded joyfully and turned back to her food.
"I wanna go swimming!" she announced. Edward was caught by surprise once again and he chuckled.
"We can do whatever you want to do, Bella." he said.
As Emmett walked by he heard a cough that oddly sounded like 'whipped'. Edward rolled his eyes.
"whatever you say, Emmett!" Edward yelled through the door. Alice suddenly burst through the door, dancing her way to Bella, her eyes having a maniacal gleam in them.
"Please don't Alice!" Bella pleaded.
Alice pretended not to hear, "Lets go choose your bathing suit, Bella!" she trilled cheerfully, dragging Bella out of her room, and into hers. Edward sighed as he took the tray that was abandoned on Bella's bed and brought it downstairs to be cleaned by Esme. They were skipping school because it was sunny, the perfect day to go swimming in the outside pool in their backyard, on their private land where no one could see them sparkling-or Bella glowing for that matter.
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"WHOOOHOOO!" Bella screamed as she jumped off the high dive and into the deep end flawlessly. She never needed to learn how to swim, it was one of those vampire talents that she had.
Emmett followed soon after, splashing Rosalie, who was trying to soak up as much of the sun as she could before tomorrow.
"Gosh, Emmett!" Rosalie said, starting her rant, "Could you make a bigger splash?!" before she could continue, though, Emmett grinned at her before saying,
"Of course I can!" and indeed he did. Rosalie was soaking up the water by now and pounced on Emmett angrily. Bella turned away from her mom and her brother and look ed towards Edward, who was just coming out.
"Eddie!" she squealed. "Jump!" she commanded him. Edward did as he was told, and jumped, bombarding Bell with water in her face. When he resurfaced, he shook his hair, purposely on Bella, making her giggle. She squealed as she tried to get away from him, but Edward was faster. He grabbed her around the waist and pulled her underwater with him.
Bella could hold her breath up to an five hours at the average. Full Vampires could hold their breath for all eternity. She laughed underwater, bubbles erupting from her mouth. Edward laughed with her, pulling her back up.
"I want to explore the ocean one day," Bella admitted, her eyes sparkling with the idea. Edward was about to object, but Bella spoke before she could. "Oh, don't worry, Edward! my skin is as solid as yours!" Bella said, waving her hand as if to brush off Edward's unsaid comment. "I want to fight with a shark!" she exclaimed, her eyes glinting. Emmett laughed.
"Oh no you don't! I will never let you wrestle with a shark... ever!" Edward said sternly.
"Oh come on, Edward! I'm a kid! I wanna play with my food!" Bella said, earning laughs from the rest of the family who were now outside. Even Edward cracked a smile at that.
"No, Bella," he said, looking at Bella's crestfallen face he grinned. "Not without me." Bella's face brightened and she embraced Edward hugging him tightly.
"You're the best, Edward!" Bella said as she let go of him. Rosalie frowned and Bella noticed.
"Rosalie's best at comforting me, and letting me have somewhere to go, Esme is best at being motherly, Emmett is best at making me laugh, Jasper is the best at keeping me calm, Alice is the best at influencing me and making me jumpy and hyper, Carlisle is the best at acting daddy, Edward is the best at pretty much everything else." Bella said.
Everyone smiled at her; Edward was grinning like crazy. He was the best at everything else. That made him feel proud of himself.
He was her favorite.