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Chapter 19

I couldn't help it. I tried as hard as I could it hold in the laughter. Staring at Emmett for any duration of time longer than a second made this almost impossible. I bit my lip so hard I was concerned that I was going to actually draw blood. Edward elbowed me and shot me a warning look. I put my hand over my mouth as a small chuckle released itself. I think the worse part of the whole situation was that Emmett had somehow deluded himself into thinking that pink actually looked good on him.

I made the mistake of looking at Jasper who looked like he was in pain. It was the look he had when I was around and he hadn't fed but not quite so scary looking. I turned my body into Edward's and as I buried my head against his chest allowed the laughter to pour out. Jasper followed closely behind me, although he didn't have someone to muffle the loud laughter that was now echoing against the walls. Edward followed Jasper and this really pissed off Emmett who lunged at Jasper.

They were rolling around on the ground fighting when Esme entered the house. "What do you think you are doing?" she yelled. The boys halted. I had never heard Esme yell, didn't think she had it in her. Both the boys got up from the floor and hung their heads in shame. "What is the meaning of all that nonsense? Didn't I raise you better?"

"He laughed at me." Emmett muttered pointing at Jasper.

"Not at him, his shirt." Jasper defended.

Esme looked at the shirt, "It's pink."

"Salmon." Emmett corrected.

Esme shrugged, "next time you boys decide to fight over the color of a shirt, take it outside and don't ruing my house." She turned to leave the room. She was almost out the room when she turned back as an afterthought, "Pink suits you Emmett." Then she left the room.

"It's salmon." He called after her. Jasper went back to having fits of laughter.

I lost it, again. Edward was rubbing my back in attempt to calm me down. Alice was mad. She was grating her teeth and it I didn't need to have super-vampire hearing to hear it. "Just because you have no fashion sense Bella, doesn't mean you can laugh at fashion."

Afraid to speak in case I burst out in laughter again I settled for a nod.

Edward turned his attention to Alice, "Yeah that sounds a good idea."

"What?" I asked turning from Alice to Edward questioningly.

"Charlie."

Opps, I forgot about Charlie again. He wasn't going to be happy. "Is he mad" I asked quietly.

Alice nodded, "would probably be for the best if you go home and see him."

Sighing I nodded and after hugging Alice I followed Edward out to the Volvo. He opened the passenger front door for me and then rushed around to the driver's seat. Once we made it back to my house we sat out the front in the car for a few minutes in silence.

"How mad is he?" I asked after a couple of minutes, not being able to deal with the silence any longer.

"First it was concern but now he knows you are out the front and with me he isn't too happy. He's planning on having a concerned father talk to me."

I groaned and put my head in my hands, "right, might as well get it over then."

Edward got out of the car and at a human pace went around and opened my door. He led me to the door with his hand on the small of my back guiding me. Before I opened the door he placed a light kiss on my forehead and whispered, "Don't worry. It will be alright."

"Glad you're confident." I muttered as I opened the door and headed into the hallway.

We were almost instantly greeted by Charlie who didn't look too happy. "Hi Dad." I muttered, not making eye contact.

"Isabella." He said, I gulped, the use of my whole name only meant one thing…trouble. "Edward."

Edward nodded, "Evening Charlie. How have you been?"

Charlie snorted, "Was fine till you decided to come back and mess everything up for Bella again."

"Sir, I never meant to do nothing to hurt Bella." Edward said in an attempt to defend himself.

Charlie turned to me, "Bella why don't you go upstairs and I will deal with you later. Edward and I need to have a little talk."

I nodded reluctantly. I really didn't like the idea of leaving Edward alone with Charlie. Even though Edward was a vampire there was almost nothing more dangerous than a concerned/angry father. I made my way slowly up the stairs. When I reached the landing I took one last glance back, saw Charlie walk into the kitchen, and Edward followed closely behind. Knowing I had no chance at hearing what the conversation was about I resigned to going to my bedroom. I slammed the door behind me to give Charlie the hint that I was now safely away from overhearing anything.

I collapsed down on the bed and waited. I could slowly feel myself drifting in slumber when there was a light tap at the window. After I got my heartbeat back to a normal level I slowly and cautiously headed over to the window. I opened it to see Alice standing on the ground smiling. I stood back and within moments she was in the room with me.

"Alice!" I exclaimed.

"Don't know how Edward does it every night, climbing into that window of ours. I swear I could have ripped something or broken a nail." She said checking herself over in the mirror to ensure there was no damage to her clothes.

"I knew Charlie would leave you out the loop so I'd thought I'd come over and help you eavesdrop." She explained, grinning, as she perched herself on my bed.

I nodded and joined her on the bed. She surveyed my concerned face, "Don't worry, you haven't missed anything yet. Charlie is trying to work out how to approach the subject without annoying you. Personally I think he should go for it. Edward can look after himself."

"It's not Edward I'm worried about." I muttered.

After a couple of moments Alice squealed in delight, "Here we go."

I mentally shuttered, yes here we go.

Edward's POV

I sat in the kitchen waiting for Charlie to say something. Anything. Sometimes it was such a pain to know what people are thinking. All I wanted to say was, "Yes Charlie I get the message I will never hurt Bella again." But nothing is ever that easy.

Come on Charlie pull it together. He thought to himself, you are the Chief of Police .You can deal with your daughter's boyfriend.

I smiled to myself. If only he knew. If Charlie knew the truth there was no way he would let me anywhere near his daughter or even allow us to continue living in the town.

I could hear Bella upstairs talking to Alice, should have known that she wouldn't want to miss out on the next chapter in the saga that is Bella's and I's relationship. But on a positive note at least she had come alone. I could actually see Emmett sitting up in Bella's room with a bowl of popcorn listening. Although he would probably only throw the popcorn seeing they don't do a blood flavored version.

I shook my head in an attempt to get the stupid thoughts out of my head. I really just wished that Charlie would get it over and done with.

Eventually he joined me at the table and stared into my eyes. "Now Edward," he started, "I'm going to start with the first basic and most important rule. If you ever, ever hurt my little girl again I swear to God you will wish you were dead."

I nodded mutely and he took this as the message to continue, "Rule number two, whenever you want to see my daughter it will be under the supervision of either myself or your father." I smiled lightly at the idea of Carlisle having to supervise Bella and I. "Rule three, Bella will be home by nine o'clock every night no matter what. Rule number four, you will not leave Forks unless I grant permission…" I tuned out, knowing that he still had eleven other rules to go through.

I could hear Alice upstairs laughing at me and Bella was groaning. I heard footsteps coming down the stairs. Bella was coming to join us.

Charlie was going through rule number eight, Bella will not be allowed to sit with you during school hours because I was a distraction and she needed to pass senior year, when Bella burst into the kitchen.

"Oh Char…Dad." She said angrily, "Edward gets to picture. I get the picture. We are not allowed to do anything unless you say so."

Charlie seemed surprised that Bella had actually interrupted his list of rules. "Isabella," Bella cringed at the use of her whole name, "this has nothing to do with you. You and I will be having a discussion later."

Bella rolled her eyes and defiantly sat down at the table, "Dad, you might as well tell us both at the same time. Saves extra work." She smiled sweetly.

Charlie seemed to accept this and then started listing off the rules from the start. Bella groaned and placed her head in her hands. By the time he reached rule number fifteen Bella had had enough. She stood up from her chair, "Ok Dad, we get the message." She grabbed my hand and then lead me from the room.

Charlie opened and closed his mouth like a fish. "Bella, I'm not done yet."

Bella sighed and turned and faced her father, "Edward gets the message. He knows the rules."

"How can he know all the rules Bella? I haven't finished going through them yet."

Bella obviously hadn't thought it through properly so I stepped in and lied, "Carlisle gave me pretty much the same rules, Sir. So I promise that we will not break any of your rules."

Charlie nodded and seemed to accept my lie. "It's good to know that your father wants the best as well."

I nodded and Bella lead me up the stairs towards her bedroom. Charlie coughed drawing her attention to him rather than her determination to get me upstairs.

Sighing Bella turned and faced him, "Dad, we are not breaking any rules."

"I think you are Bella."

Bella shook her head, "nope rule number seven was that Edward had to be out of the house by nine and its only eight." She smiled sweetly at her father and then proceeded to climb the stairs.

"I'm changing the rule Bella. Not only does he have to be out of the house by nine but you always must be accompanied by an adult."

Bella was holding onto my hand so hard that if my skin wasn't like granite she would have broken my hand. She turned and went back into the kitchen, "Dad we need sometime alone!" she yelled.

"Nope." Charlie said crossing his arms over his chest, "don't know if I can trust him."

Bella screamed in annoyance, "You are so frustrating! We won't do anything. Can you please trust me? I'm not ten anymore Dad."

Charlie sighed, "It's not that I don't trust you Bella…"

"You don't." she yelled back, "With all your stupid rules you have put a leash around my neck."

"It is for the best." He retorted.

"Look Dad." She attempted to reason, "Edward and I will follow your rules but we do need to have some time alone!"

I stepped forward, "Sir, I promise I won't do anything that you won't approve of."

Charlie grunted at me. Turning to his daughter, he could see the unshed tears in her eyes he sighed in defeat. "Ok fine."

Bella went to him and gave him a hug and a kiss on the cheek. Then she turned to me and headed up the stairs. "But I reserve the right to check on you at any moment."

"Fine." She called after him.

Smiling she turned to me and kissed me lightly on the lips, "I love you." She muttered, "and I am so sorry about my father."

I laughed gently and then pulled her up into my arms, "I love you too Bella. You are my everything."

Bella POV

Edward carried me up into my bedroom and placed me lightly on the bed.

"You can come out Alice." Edward called.

Grinning Alice appeared. "Well that went well." She said cheekily, "Can't wait till you tell Carlisle he has to supervise you." She started to laugh.

Edward growled at her and lunged at her. She dogged it and Edward went crashing into my wardrobe. "Shh" I said, "I don't want to give Charlie an excuse to kick you out."

"BELLA!" Charlie yelled from downstairs.

I turned to Edward, "Great now you have done it."

"BELLA!" Charlie's voice got louder. He was obviously heading up the stairs. Alice quickly jumped out the window and Edward sat himself down at my desk picking up the book that I was reading. I headed over to the door and opened it.

"Sorry Dad," I called, "I bumped into my wardrobe when I came upstairs. No biggy."

"Are you sure?" Charlie asked unconvinced.

"Yeah, no harm done."

"It sounded more like a crash." He said as he appeared in my doorway. He looked in the room and saw Edward 'reading' and then checked for damage on the wardrobe. He shrugged, "you ok?"

I threw my arms up in the air, "Yeah no damage. Edward caught me." At hearing his name Edward looked up, with a look on surprise on his face as if he couldn't believe we were talking about him.

"Is this true?" Charlie asked.

Edward nodded and then returned his attention to his book. Charlie seemed satisfied with our excuse and then left the room. I closed the door behind him and sighed in relief.

"He didn't believe you." Alice piped up as she reentered the room. "You need to lie better Bella."

I threw a pillow at her, which she caught easily, "usually it's a good thing when people can't lie."

"Most people don't hang around with vampires." She responded.

I opened my mouth with all good intentions of rebutting her comment but Edward placed my book down and then turned to his sister, "don't you have somewhere to be?" he asked.

"Nope." Alice said making herself comfortable on my bed. Edward growled at her lightly. She sighed and threw her hands up in the air, "fine I get the message. I'm going." She came over to me, hugged me, put her tongue out at Edward and then jumped from the window.

"Real mature Alice." Edward called after her.

"Bye Alice," I called after her, "sorry I laughed at Emmett's shirt."

"She accepts your apology." Edward said coming over to me and wrapping his arms around my waist. He placed a light kiss on my neck.

"I can't believe I only have half an hour with you before Charlie kicks you out the house." I turned to him, "will you come back tonight?" I asked hopefully.

Edward kissed me lightly again, only this time on the lips "of course."

I laid down the bed and Edward wrapped his arms around me. I yawned. "Tired?' he asked.

I groaned and nodded lightly, "must be nice not having to sleep." I muttered as I closed my eyes.

He laughed lightly, "I like watching you sleep Bella."

"That's cause you're weird." I said cheekily.

Edward laughed lightly, "This is probably true."

I snuggled closer to him, ignoring the chattering of my teeth, "but that's why I love you."

He placed a kiss on my forehead and wrapped a blanket around me, "and I love you because you are a klutz and I get to always save you from the evils that are snow, wardrobes..." he continued to list off the things I had run into, slipped over, and everything thing else that I done to injure myself.

I playful punched him, "be serious."

He looked at me with mock shock, "I am. How could you suggest otherwise?"

I giggled lightly and got up from the bed and grabbed a jumper out of my draw and picked up my book. I put the jumper on and climbed back on the bed and started reading. Edward laughed, "I'm offended. You pick a book over me."

"This isn't just any book." I said thrusting it into his face, "It's Pride and Prejudice."

Edward grunted in typical male way, "It's a romance novel."

"Don't care what you think." I said holding the book to my chest like it was a baby, "Every girl needs a Mr. Darcy."

"Am I your Mr. Darcy?" Edward asked me.

I shrugged, "you were." He looked at me surprised, "but when you insult my book I have to wonder."

He laughed, "So I am no longer your Mr. Darcy because I laughed at your book?" I nodded. He chuckled lightly again, "so if I do this do I get to be your Mr. Darcy again?" He grabbed the book from me and pulled me closer to him and he kissed me. Properly. None of that boring restrained stuff. The best part was that Edward was so into the kiss that he didn't hear Charlie enter my room.

We broke apart when Charlie coughed loudly. We broke apart and I flushed bright red. "Bella." He said fairly restrained seeing the veins were popping out from his neck, "Edward. Its almost nine."

Edward got up from my bed, place one final parting kiss on my lips, "I'll be back soon." He muttered quietly, "Charlie." He nodded and then left the room.

Charlie waited until the sound of gravel under car tires sounded before he turned on me, "Bella." He started.

I didn't wait for the lecture. I just muttered sorry and then headed to the shower. I showered quickly, got in my pajamas and then got into bed. I slammed my door behind me to make sure Charlie heard that I was going to bed. I was tucked up under my bedspread reading my book when Edward returned.

I smiled at him, "Hi."

He looked at me closely trying to work out what happened once he left. "So?" he asked.

I giggled, "So what?"

"What happened? Charlie is too interested in the game to think about what happened."

I shrugged, "nothing much. He was going to lecture me but I didn't give him the chance."

He laughed, "Don't be too confident. There's always tomorrow."

I yawned and placed my book down. "Mmm tomorrow. School."

"Yes, school."

"Will you be there?" I muttered almost asleep.

"Of course." He placed a kiss lightly on my lips, "Sleep Bella."

I drifted off into slumber. Dreaming only good dreams of Edward.

A/N: ok guys!! Hope you liked the chapter. I just kept on writing and didn't realize how long it actually was. Sorry it's taken me a while to update but I had exams and assignments and all that boring stuff. But now on holidays so hopefully will get more updates up faster!