Bella POV
The smell of pancakes, bacon and cinnamon woke me up. I glanced over to the night stand and noticed that the clock read 1:05 pm. Great I slept the morning away. I realized that Edward wasn't laying next to me and I frowned. I pulled myself out of bed and slipped my robe on. I only had one foot out the door when I saw Edward walking up the stairs with a huge tray.
"Excuse Isabella, but as your doctor I thought I told you to stay off of your ankle. Now get back into bed and I'll bring breakfast to you."
I scooted back to bed as Edward came in, sat down on the other side of the bed with the tray still on his lap. I expected him to put the heavy tray on my lap, but he kept it on his.
"So I made pancakes, bacon and those cinnamon buns were you just have to bake them. I couldn't tell if the pancakes has too much nutmeg and I didn't know how you liked your bacons so I did it crispy. I hope everything is good."
I looked at all the food and wondered if he really thought I'd eat all of that. I don't even think Jake would be able to eat all this food. I tried not to cry. Jake never just brought me breakfast in bed for no reason. Sure I got breakfast in bed on mother's day but usually it was a bowl of cereal.
I went to grab the tray off of his lap when his hands grabbed a hold of my wrist. "I want to feed you Bella." He told me and picked up the fork.
The food tasted beyond delectable. I ate three pancakes, three strips of bacon that were perfectly crispy and two cinnamon buns that melted in my mouth.
He went to fill my mouth with more bacon, when I put my hands up to stop him.
"I'm full, I'm full! It was so good thank you very much. Jake never does anything like this ever." I said and laughed. I heard a growl rumble out of his chest. I cleared my throat.
As I slide down so I was laying on my side again, I saw the bed shift and noticed Edward was gone with the tray. I didn't even have time to miss him before he was back and laying on the bed with no shirt on. My breath caught in my throat.
"I hope you don't mind. I got pancake batter on my button down. I could run back to my house and grab another…"
"NO!" I shouted.
"I mean. I've seen you without a shirt before. Plus I've seen less on Jake and I am a mother." I said blushing. I heard another growl bubble up from his chest. I cleared my throat again.
"In the ER you said that you were back with Alice and Jasper? Are the others coming back too? Nurse Kate said that Carlisle might come back and work?"
Edward let out a heavy sighing and said, "Bella I didn't want to interrupt your life. I was just here to kill Victoria then leave."
I could feel the panic expression wash over my face because he quickly said, "Let me finish please. But now I can't leave you. I called Carlisle before you woke and told them to come back. So they should be back within the next two days."
I smiled. A real smile for the first time in weeks, maybe even months or years.
"I want to see them! All of them. And I want them to meet the twins! Oh Edward, you have to meet them! We can go today, we'll go down to Charlie's and we'll take them out. I miss them so much and I don't want to stay away from them. Oh and on the way I have to stop and get divorce papers. Oh. My God. Did I just say divorce papers? And I guess a lawyer because there has to be a custody hearing." I was getting ahead of myself. Before I knew it, tears were running down my checks.
"Love, don't cry. What's wrong? Do you not want to divorce him?" I nodded my head 'no' and kept sobbing.
"Can't afford a lawyer? I'll get you the best lawyer money can buy." I nodded 'no' again.
"Afraid you won't get custody? Love please talk to me." He pleaded into my eyes. I sat up on the bed.
"I just feel like such a failure. I'm twenty four years old and I'm getting a divorce. Everyone was right, they knew this was going to happen. Edward you don't know what it was like when you left me here. I'm not trying to guilt you or anything, but Edward….I'm trying to forgive you I honestly am. But life…life was hard." I closed my eyes willing the tears to stop.
I felt the bed shift and knew that Edward had gotten up. I opened my eyes and I noticed he was staring outside the window. He undid the lock and pushed up on the window. It took him two times until it finally gave way with a loud creak. Fresh air came into the room and stung my wet cheeks.
I expected him to jump out and make a run for it, but he didn't. He just stood there, staring out the window. When he turned around I saw that his eyes were pained. That he was in pain.
"Tell me about it then. I want to know. Jesus I need to know what I did to you."
"Edward Anthony Masen Cullen you can't blame yourself! The things I did, I did because I wanted to. Keeping the twins, getting married, going to school I wanted to do those things."
"If you wanted to get married, then why do you want to get a divorce Bella?" He turned towards the window and I could hear the pain in his voice. I was causing him pain.
"Well…funny story" I said with a humor laugh. "Jake kind of tricked me into a relationship… a sexual relationship" I was full out blushing.
Edward whipped his head around and his eyes were a flat black. "He what?" He snarled. I heard him mutter that he was going to find him and kill him. I sprung up to my feet, ignoring the pain in my ankle and went over to the window. I grabbed his wrist and pulled him over to the bed. I sat down and put my hands on his cold chest trying to calm him.
"Wait Edward, stop! I didn't mean it like that. Please let me just explain…" He nodded his head yes so I continued.
"When you left it was bad. I didn't eat or talk or even move. I would just lay in bed, no TV no music, no… anything. I missed two weeks of school and after awhile everyone stopped calling. Renee came up to take me back to Florida with her, but I couldn't go! I knew someday that you would come back for me, you just had to. So I tried to act normal for Charlie, I knew if he even had the slightest hint something was up he'd send me away.
"So I started to hang out with my friends. I started to drink, a lot. I mean A LOT. I'd drink with Jess and even Lauren and Mike. It was bad…Like two weeks of nothing but drinking, throwing up, school, repeat. So then one day I went down to La Push and that's when I meet Jake and we started to just hang out," I saw him wince. I didn't want to hurt him, but he wanted to know and I wasn't leave anything out.
"Then one day he told me about what he was. A wolf, he told me about how they killed Laurent and were tracking down Victoria. He told me about imprinting. He said I was his imprint." I paused and took a deep breath, I was lost in thoughts.
"I remember the first time we had sex... Charlie and Billy went upstate for a fishing trip. I remember Jake being just so hot on top of me, the whole damn room was so hot. I couldn't breath, I couldn't think right. I didn't want to open the window though. I was afraid of what might happen. All I could think of was that it felt so wrong. All I could think about was that it should have been you." I felt more tears run down my cheek.
"Bella you don't have to go on. It's ok, you don't have to tell me." Edward said wiping the tears off my cheeks.
"No Edward I want to tell you… We weren't even dating a year when I found out that I was pregnant. God I was so scared. I knew that Charlie was going to kill me, but abortion wasn't an option. I was only going to the local community college, so I didn't have to worry about school."
"I remember the night we told Charlie I thought he was going to have a heart attack. He told us we were too young, that we were stupid, that now we had to get married. So we did. We got married and then about three months later Elizabeth- Alice- Rose and Masen- William- Charles were born. I knew that it was the only way I could hold onto you."
"God it was so hard. We were living here with Charlie and his new wife Sue, and finally Charlie couldn't take it so they moved back down to La Push and left us the house. Jake's a good dad, don't get me wrong, he really is, but he had to work. Edward I have been in the same major at the same community college for the last six years. When he told me that I wasn't his real imprint though, God I thought my life was over, but now I know that it's just starting.. I need you so much Edward. I need you right now."
Before I knew what I was doing, I had Edward on his back and I was straddling him. I had to have him right now. I had to feel whole again for the first time in six years.
A/N: ok this chapter was kind of just a long filler/ cliffhanger. I'm having some personal problems so I don't know when the next chapter is going to be up so please bare with me. I love you guys and the fact that people are reading this and leaving reviews and alerts and adding to favorites honestly makes me feel so much better. So please keep up the reviews and alerts and everything. I love you guys so much!
