Chapter Six – Be patient.
Bella's POV. Occurs sometime during the first half of Eclipse.
Edward sat beside me and drummed his fingers persistently yet rhythmically on the steering wheel. He had insisted yet again on driving my car, though I knew he couldn't stand its sluggish pace. He pushed down hard on the accelerator, and the truck screamed in resistance. He sighed, almost silently. I could tell how frustrated he was, and how hard he must have been working not to clench his fists and seriously deform my steering wheel.
I reached over, almost cautiously, with my left hand and placed it over his. He sent a quick smile in my direction, and stopped drumming his fingers. He turned his head towards me, and I wondered yet again how he managed to drive so flawlessly without even looking at the road. "I have better reflexes," a quote of his floated into my mind. I smiled inwardly, and when Edward gave me a questioning look, I realised I was smiling on the outside too.
He opened his mouth to ask a question, but I replied before he spoke. I knew what he would ask; it would be the same question he always asked.
"I was thinking about how you insist on driving my car because you have better reflexes than me, although your patience clearly needs some work," I stated. He grinned his crooked smile, melting my insides.
"I can be patient if I want to," he replied. I glared at him. "Okay, maybe I have issues with patience. It's all a bit backwards if you think about it. I'm not very patient, yet I had to wait over a century to find you,"
"While I'm fairly patient, even though I didn't even wait two decades for you," I completed his sentence. I sunk deep into thought about how I would have coped living for an entire century without meeting Edward, but I was interrupted by the door beside me opening. I hadn't even noticed the noisy rattling of my truck come to a halt when we arrived.
Edward scooped me out of the truck and into his arms. He whispered in my ear, in a voice so low I could barely hear him; "You were worth the wait."
