We pulled into school mad I groaned when hew as stood there, leaning against his Volvo, beaming at me. His eyes were also slightly annoyed at me being in the passenger side rather than driving the gift he got me.
The gift he was going to return at the next available opportunity, aka at lunch when we had free period.
My teeth ground together and Charlie sighed.
"He's well within his right to spoil you Bella, I mean you are his…" Charlie swallowed, "intended."
I frowned and climbed out of the car without so much as a bye. I was seething inside, and was afraid if I opened my mouth I would end up screaming profanities at him.
That wouldn't be fair. Well neither was getting two gifts and god knows how many more when you don't ask for them now that was unfair.
But in the interests of remaining sane, I wasn't going to give Edward the satisfaction of me even acknowledging them.
Edward knew me, and he knew how I would react, he didn't need a psychic sister to tell him that.
I slammed the door of the cruiser and marched up to Edward, and then right past him.
He sighed and I saw him wave at Charlie who was pulling away in the window of his Volvo as I passed. Charlie returned the favour and gave my fiancée an encouraging smile.
I continued walking, not even bothering to be annoyed when he caught up with me so easily.
"I take it by this you got your presents then?" he asked, hands in his pockets. I wanted so much to take his hand, but I folded my arms across my chest to stop myself. Body language which doubled as a deterrent for him doing the same. Nice one Swan.
"Hey?" He demanded and stopped walking, catching my arm and stopping me walking. Not because he was so million times stronger than I was, but because when he touched me, my resolve melted slightly night then.
As much as I wanted to deny it it was me who turned around, me who couldn't't help but lift her eyes to look into his. It was when I did that, as soon as I looked at his face I lost it.
It also happened right after he spoke.
"What's the matter?" He asked gently.
"What's the matter?" I screamed. There was no one in the car park now, and even if their had been this would probably have been the one day of the year, the one circumstance when I simply wouldn't't have cared.
"Edward I told you that I didn't't want to be celebrated in any way. And like you did with my birthday and Christmas and everything else you had to buy some lavish gift that I don't want!" I yelled.
His face flickered with hurt and I regretted not phrasing it differently.
"Your mad." He said quietly, his hand cupping my cheek gently.
"I'm sorry." he whispered.
Well that wasn't't exactly a first for Edward. He tended to put everything and everyone before himself, and of course I was top of the pile. I didn't't necessarily want Edward to apologise for getting me them things… well okay I did, but I anted him to understand why I didn't't want them as well.
"I'll take your truck back at lunch, I'm sorry, I should have listened to you." He said quietly.
I stretched up on my toes and kissed him gently.
He moaned slightly and picked me up, I was surprised at this, but wasn't going to continue our argument if it was getting in the ay of this.
I wrapped my arms around his neck and my legs tight around his waist. Uncharacteristically for Edward, his hands fell to my ass, to say I liked this position was saying the least. But my thoughts were to preoccupied with him touching me to think of a better word to describe what I was thinking.
Edward, being the in human dictionary could probably have given me hundreds in thousands of languages, but asking him would have meant moving my mouth from his, and that was something I wasn't going to do if the acropolis started there and then.
The bell rang and Edward sighed, pulling away to set me down, his hand taking mine.
I pouted and eh ran his thumb over my protruding bottom lip.
"I take it that means I'm forgiven?" He chuckled, although I could sense the hope in his velvet voice.
I smiled and linked leant under his arm as he wrapped it over my shoulders.
"You promise me you haven't bought me another gift?" I asked, dread in my voice.
He chuckled, "I've learnt my lesson." He said and pushed open the doors.
"Cleary not." I gasped when my eyes fell to the corridor. Hearts and red streamers hung everywhere, and it seemed on every available surface there were the words happy valentines day.
I groaned and glance dup at Edward, he smiled and opened his mouth when I cut him off.
"Yeh yeh important right of passage what ever." I mumbled and towed him by the hand towards our first period.
We rounded the corner and I fought the urge to turn around. Edward squeezed my palm and leant down to whisper in my ear.
"Would it make you feel better if I let you keep mine?" He breathed,
I nodded and he lead me towards the table where Mr Green was handing out our school pictured. It was bad enough that everyone was able to se them, but it was worse that Edward was not only making me buy mine, after offering to buy it himself.
It was down right mortifying that he had put his order in to buy one off me weeks before.
I groaned and handed him one, and he in return handed me on of his. He put mine straight in the clear slot in his wallet, his going to the confines of my bag, before I put it in a fame beside my bed, where I would later worship it.
He re took my hand and I forced a smile at him. Until that is I saw the gift giving glint in his eyes, causing me to hang my head.
Edward pushed a piece of hair out of my face and I groaned.
"Your really trying to kill me." m uttered.
His eyes grew dark," Its my job to make sure o body does."
I smiled and kissed him gently, "Thank you tough guy."