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Chapter 21

The rest of the week passed quickly. I spent the days at school, the designated hours with Edward, and Charlie, and the evenings in Edward's arms sleeping. By the time the weekend arrived we had got ourselves into a routine that was breaking pretty much all of Charlie's stupid rules. I kept in contact with Jacob but hadn't seen him again.

It was Saturday night and Charlie had allowed a little extra time to be in the house. I initially thought this was due to it being the weekend, but alas no, as it turned out Edward was making me fill out college application forms and Charlie agreed with him that my education was important so Edward was allowed to stay an extra hour.

"Don't wanna do this anymore." I whined throwing down my pen and resting my head against the table.

Edward was getting frustrated with me, I had been complaining about having to do this since he told me I had to. "Bella." He pleaded, "Just get the essay written and then I'll fill out the rest."

I raised my head and looked at him confused, "but I have to sign my name like a hundred times."

He shrugged, "Bella, your signature is easy. It's just B Swan. I can sign it easily."

I went to hit him but not surprisingly he was too fast and I ended up whacking my hand on the table instead. "Ow." I whined cradling my hand.

Due to all of the noise Charlie left the lounge room and made his way into the kitchen with his serious dad face on, "What's going on here?"

"Nothing." I whimpered, trying to stop the tears from the pain that were welling up in my eyes from falling.

"Bella" Charlie said in his 'I know you're lying voice'.

"I wacked my hand on the table." I said throwing an angry glance at Edward.

Charlie shrugged and went back to watching whatever ball game he was watching. Well at least he had something causing a distraction that meant he wasn't in the same room as us criticizing our every move.

Edward sat back down at the table once he was sure I wasn't going to hit him anymore. I sighed and put my head back down on the table. "It's just too hard." I whined again.

Edward sighed as well, "Bella, please, just write the essay."

I gave in knowing that I wouldn't win the argument. I picked up the pen and started chewing the end of it, deep in thought. Edward groaned, "What are you thinking about?"

"My essay and what I have to write about." I said as if it was the most obvious thing.

"Well just about your life and why you would be a good student for the school."

This gave me an idea and I grabbed my pen and started writing, making sure my arm was covering the paper so Edward couldn't see what I was writing. I had a cheeky grin on my face and this concerned Edward. He kept raising his neck in an attempt to see what I was writing. After about 10 minutes I put the pen down.

"Right done." I said smiling.

"Can I read it now?" Edward asked still trying to read the piece of paper.

"Nope," I said, his face turned into a frown and he looked upset, "I'll read it to you." He looked at little happier.

I cleared my voice in an attempt to seem more important; Edward just rolled his eyes in mild amusement.

"My name is Isabella Swan, but everyone calls me Bella unless they wish to die a painful death," I started; Edward had a look of concern on his face.

"Bella." He warned, sounding an awful lot like Charlie.

I ignored him continued as if he hadn't interrupted me, "I am a very standard boring person, well at least I was until I moved to the tiny town of Forks. One would think that moving from Phoenix to a small country town would make my life more boring, but alas this is not true. For the first few weeks I was normal, well as normal as can be when you're a klutz and everybody is staring at you like you're a new shiny toy or something. Things started getting interesting when this boy got involved. He wasn't you're normal type of person. Instead of running for the hills I became more interested in him. As it turned out my super detective skills resulted in me discovering he was a vampire. But a good vampire, who eats animals not humans…."

Edward had finally decided enough was enough and stood up from the table, "do you think this is a joke Bella?" he asked rather angrily.

"Well yeah," I said, "I'm getting to the good part."

"Well if you're going to act like that I'm going home." He grabbed his jacket, bid Charlie goodnight and left the house.

I was in shock. If I hadn't been so surprised by his reaction I would have chased after him, but I knew that by now he would be half way home. It was only supposed to be a joke. The tears started welling up in my eyes again. This time only from a pain in the heart, not hand.

Charlie walked into the kitchen and leaned against the doorframe. "You and Edward have an argument?" he asked. I could help but notice the slight amount of excitement at that possibility.

I shrugged and started gathering the paper up, "nothing I won't be able to fix" I said, "It was my fault anyway."

Charlie nodded and went back to the game. Once I had all the paper work gathered up I called out to Charlie that I was going to finish it up in my room and then go to bed. I climbed the stairs slowly, hoping that Edward would be in my room lazing on my bed like he usually did. I, however, wasn't surprised to open my door to find my room empty.

I sat at my desk and set to work on my applications, properly this time. After two hours I had two of them completed and decided it was time to go to bed. Showering quickly, I got myself into bed and drifted into a deep sleep plagued with nightmares.

After a crap night sleep I woke late the next day. 10.00am my alarm clock read. I got out of bed, checked the window, still closed so Edward probably didn't come back last night, and headed downstairs for breakfast.

I suppressed my shock as I entered the kitchen to see Charlie at the stove cooking eggs.

"Morning." He said turning away from the stove for a second, "Eggs?" he asked.

"Sure," I said, "need any help?"

"Nope. Just make yourself comfortable. Shouldn't be too much longer."

I sat myself down at the table and attempt to make small talk with Charlie. After Charlie had put my eggs in front of me he sat down as well. After he had covered every inch of his eggs with salt he spoke, "Got much planned for today?" he asked.

I shrugged as I put a bit of egg in my mouth.

"Esme called this morning," he started, I attempted to hold in my shock and attempt to not choke on a piece of toast, "she was wondering if you would like to join them for lunch."

"Would that be breaking one of your rules Dad?" I asked rather sweetly.

"Nope, rule 2, you can see each other as long as you are under the supervision of either me or Edward's parents."

I was surprised that Charlie had managed to remember all of his rules and what number they all were.

"How am I getting there?" I asked.

"I believe Alice is coming to get you." He looked as his watch, "at about 11."

I looked at the clock on the microwave, 10.40. I finished off my breakfast quickly and then rushed upstairs to get ready. I didn't worry about my clothes, because I knew either way that Alice would complain about them. So I just grabbed the first clean pair of pants and top that I found. I made a mental note to do the washing when I got home.

I was just doing my hair when the doorbell rang. I could hear the muffled tones of Charlie and Alice in the hallway. I grabbed my bag and rushed down the stairs. In my hurry I missed the last step and almost landed on my face if Alice hadn't been there to grab me. She smiled at me in an 'I knew it was coming' way. I waved goodbye to Charlie and followed Alice out to Carlisle's car. She didn't say anything until we were pulling away from the house, "So," she started, "Edward is mad at you."

I dropped my head in embarrassment, "it was only supposed to be a joke."

Alice shrugged, "from what I hear it was rather clever."

"I still feel bad."

"Don't worry about it. He'll get over it." She turned her concentration from the road to me for a brief second, "now in keeping with Charlie's rules…" I groaned, Alice shot me a warning glare, "Esme will be in the house listening but not in the same room."

"Really?" I asked.

Alice nodded, "It was the only way she would make the call."

I sighed, "Fine."

"I wouldn't worry too much though, all the others are out hunting and I'm going to join them once I have dropped you off."

I nodded and the rest of the drive was in silence, expect the music from the radio and Alice's occasional humming.

Once Alice had parked the car I got out and saw Edward was waiting for me on the porch. I ran up to him and threw my arms around his neck. "I'm sorry about last night." I said into his neck.

"It's alright." He said, "I'm sorry for my reaction."

"If it makes you feel any better I have finished two of the applications and the essay is a proper essay."

"Thank you." He said kissing the top of my head.

We headed into the house. Alice had disappeared; I assumed that she had gone in search of the others. Esme was watching some cooking show on the TV. She looked up when we entered the room and embraced me in a hug.

We headed up the stairs into Edward's room. I settled down on his chair and Edward had his back to me, pretending he was looking through his music collection.

"Edward?" I asked, "Everything ok?"

Edward sighed and turned to me, "Bella, it's time you told me about your dreams."

A/N: Hi everyone!! I am so sorry it has taken me months to update, but in my defense I have been overseas! So even though I haven't updated in a long time I have the rest of the story worked out and even a sequel which is all set to go! So there aren't many chapters left to go in this story. Just need to work out how to end it. Hoping to have the whole story done by the end of the week. Please keep reviewing. I love them all. Hoping to get 100 reviews…only 15 to go!! Thanks everyone and more updates soon (and much quicker than this one!).