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All at sea--In a state of confusion and disorder.
Bella POV.
"Home sweet home!" I sighed as Rosalie pulled up her BMW outside Charlie's house. I slumped back in my back seat, feeling relieved to be somewhere familiar where there was more to do to distract me from the aching in my chest each time I thought of Edward.
I followed Alice and Rosalie out, hauling my bag out after me before I trudged up to the front door. I found the front door key eventually amidst my random collection and kicked the door open, revelling in the feeling of relief at being home.
I dumped my bag just inside the doorway and headed straight to the kitchen. I found a note, probably explaining why Charlie wasn't home as he'd promised he'd be, I though as I picked it up.
"Man I love this place!" Rosalie called before I head a familiar noise of her diving onto the couch in front of the TV. Sure enough, seconds later, I could hear the faint sound of the TV playing while Alice ordered for Rosalie to turn it to a fashion show.
I shook my head, turning my attention back to the note that was written in my dad's familiar messy scrawl.
Hey Bells, had to go to work-emergency. Sorry. Hi to Rosie and Alice, don't know when I will be home tonight. Carlisle and Esme called for you. Go see them. Love you, Dad, -Uncle Charlie. xxx
I set the note down and then followed the sound of the TV. I stood in the doorway, watching Alice and Rosalie bicker over which program to watch. "I'm going to unpack, play nice!" I ordered them as the blatantly ignored me and carried on snapping at each other.
After hauling my bag up the stairs and on my bed, I unpacked, putting Charlie's gift aside so I would remember that I had it with me. Once I had all of my clothes sorted, and Edwards neatly folded in the corner, I turned to leave, grabbing the Eclipse fish toy that I'd bought for Charlie on my way out.
As I went to shut the door, I bit my lip, thinking that there was something missing. Quickly, I realised what it was and went to sort it out. I pulled out Edwards black hoodie and gray sweats and set them on my bed, ready for tonight. I smiled at my new nightclothes that I'd become stupidly attached to.
Once my task was done, I made my way back down stairs and set Charlie's gift on the kitchen table before I dared to venture back to the living room. Thankfully, the two of them had settled while I was away and were laying, docile as they watched something on MTV.
"Charlie wants us to go over to see Carlisle and Emse, they've called apparently." I told them as I leant against the back of the sofa. Turning off the TV without warning, Rosalie got up and called out as she pulled out her car keys, "Car now, mush, mush!"
"What are we? Huskies?" Alice asked rhetorically as she rolled her eyes and got up obediently following me out of the door. I locked it after us and sat myself in the back while Alice sat at her respective passenger seat while the speed demon Rosalie drove.
"Rose, just because Charlie's a cop in this town, it doesn't mean that you're allowed to speed…he will book you if he catches you…" I told her for the umpteenth time as the clock reached 70mph.
"No he wont, he's caught me at least three times each summer since I passed my test, and he hasn't booked me yet." She declared smugly as she pressed down on the accelerator even more, nudging the clock up to 80mph. I sat back in my seat, silently hoping that we wouldn't crash, or if we did, that it would be closer to Carlisle and Esme's house. It couldn't hurt to be that little bit closer to a doctor if we ended up face to face with a tree.
A short while later, we got to the practically concealed turning at made our way steadily down the road. Once we reached the familiar house that we'd been to once or twice before, Rosalie parked lazily in front of the house before she shut off the engine and jumped out of the car to study the huge jeep right in front of us.
"Whoahhh baby!" she laughed as she walked around it. Alice and I rolled our eyes at her, having absolutely no interest what so ever in the monster. "Alice, you got your camera? Emmett would love this!" She called back smirking as she ran her hands over the beast.
A noise from the house alerted us. The three of us turned quickly to see Carlisle and Esme stood at the door, smiling warmly down at us. "Girls how are you?" Esme asked as she walked toward us as we advanced to them at the same time.
I hugged her and answered much the same as Rosalie and Alice, that we were fine and had a good time on board the ship.
"Look Carlisle, I came back, unscathed!" he laughed as I gave him a full turn, holding my arms out as if he would see more that way.
"Very good! I hope that doesn't mean that you'll be making up for your lack of accidents on board the ship this summer when you come back to visit Charlie?" he asked with a dramatic look of horror on his face which made us both laugh out loud.
"Oooo, I hope not!" I laughed out as I followed Esme's orders and followed her, Alice and Rosalie into the house. The four of us sat down in the living room while Carlisle announced that he was going to get the boys from the back yard. I smiled, wondering how old they were and how many kids they had and if they would be like typical boys, caked in mud and covered in grass stains from wrestling.
"So girls, have you got any pictures for me?" Esme asked enthusiastically, drawing our attention back to her as Alice pulled out a copy of printed pictures and moved to sit beside her as she talked her through the pictures.
Edward POV.
After getting back to Alaska, we received an urgent all from our father, asking us to come and visit them, in their new home of three years, in Forks because our mother was desperate to see her little boys.
With nothing better to do for the next week or two besides moping like love sick puppies, we agreed to Esme's request and arrived at their house the next afternoon. I still wore Bella's zip up hoodie as did Emmett with Rosalie's and Jasper with Alice's necklace.
I couldn't help but pack Bella's clothes in with mine before we left for Forks, feeling that I needed as much of her as possible with me wherever I was.
I didn't care about the funny looks I got off Carlisle and Esme as I got out of Emmett's jeep to greet them while wearing her hoodie and neither did Emmett as they took in their big guy wearing a screaming pink hoodie with a girls name written on the front and back.
I couldn't quite put my finger on it, but for some reason, I felt like there was something that they were hiding from us, but I just couldn't put my finger on it. Neither of them nagged us for being grumpy, quiet or snappy or asked us what was wrong. Somehow it was as if they knew we were lovesick.
The three of us were out in the back garden when we heard a car arrive at the front of the house. I shuddered, imagining some old prunes from the medical board or something that our parents were having over for dinner. I looked over to Emmett who was stood beside me, like a statue.I almost felt embarrassed for him asI noted the redness in his eyes, he didn't even bother hiding the fact that he'd been crying. Then Jasper. It turt to look at Jasper, he looked so lost and broken when he'd hug his arms arround himself, as if he was holding himself together. I was sure that the three of us could have been mistaken for men who had lost their wives by the way we were acting.
Emmett, Jasper and I remained outside, not doing what we usually would have done when a visitor would arrive which was run to hide in our rooms away from prying eyes. At that very moment I didn't care who saw me, or what they would think of me when they saw me wearing a top that was obviously not meant for me.
"Boys, I want you to come in and meet some friends of ours…" my father began as he stood in the doorway, waiting for us to comply and follow him in.
"Dad…cant we just pass on this one…" Emmett begged before he pulled the neckline of the hoodie up to inhale Rosalie's faint smell.
"No, if our guests were anyone else, I would let you pass, believe me, but these are people who your mother and I have become to know quite well…through the A&E visits…" I turned to look at him as I heard the smile in his voice. I wondered who would be clumsy enough to visit the A&E repeatedly.
With a heavy sigh, and new images of Bella randomly coming to my mind, I gave my head a small nod before I muttered "Fine, but once I've met them, I'm gone." I glanced at Emmett and Jasper and caught their indifferent shrugs as they moved to follow me in after our father.
My chest felt heavy and tight as I thought of how much I missed Bella. I hung my head and gave it a shake as I foolishly thought that I could smell her scent. I rolled my eyes at myself for being so stupid. I was wearing her hoodie, why wouldn't I be able to smell her scent?
I heard a small thud, smiling slightly as I wondered if the clumsy person had fallen over. "Ohhh my, Carlisle, she's fainted!" my mothers worried voice came from the living room in front of us.
I instantly snapped my head up as I heard what I thought to be two familiar voices calling out my brother's name in astonishment. "Emmett…Jasper?"
"Rosie baby!" Emmett bellowed from behind me before he ran straight past me and vaulted over a sofa, pulling a shocked Rosalie to his embrace before he began to kiss her wildly.
I remained confused for a few more seconds. I caught sight of Jasper as he walked fluidly past me, picking up a sobbing Alice and burying his face in the crook of her neck.
Finally, I caught up with my confusion and processed the words that my mother had called. "She's fainted". Bella.
I ran over to my mother and father who were both bent over Bella's still form on the floor. "Bella…love…" I whispered as I took Esme's place on the floor, silently thanking her for moving. I held Bella's face in my hands, unwilling to let her go now that she was here, even if she was some sort of figment of my imagination.
I lowered my head to hers and pressed my lips lightly to hers before I moved them to her eyes and then the rest of her face as I waited desperately for her to wake up.
"Edward?" she murmured in a confused whisper against my lips as I kissed her once again.
"Bella…wake up for me love, come on…" I pleaded as I rested my forehead against hers, staring at her closed lids, waiting to sink into the chocolaty pools which were her eyes.
Her eyes fluttered open seconds later as my father moved back, to give us more room. "Ohhh no…" I stiffened at the sound of horror in her voice which matched the change in her eyes. "I've died…I never got to see you again…I love you…" she sobbed before she pressed her lips to mine.
I reluctantly pulled her back and sat up, looking down at her as I told her, astounded, "Bella…you fainted, you didn't die…come here…" I held my arms open for her which she thankfully flew into after looking to the side to see Alice and Jasper and Emmett with Rosalie.
"I've missed you…we haven't even been away from each other for two days and I still missed you like crazy…" she admitted as she held tightly to me.
"I know…all I could think about was you…I couldn't sleep…" I confessed as I kissed her temple. "I love you" I whispered into her ear as I cradled her in my arms, on the floor, with my parents watching us between the other two couples I was sure.
"I love you too…" I sighed, feeling almost completely better and back to normal having heard those three simple words which meant the world to me coming from Bella.
I pulled her up to the sofa beside us and pulled her into my lap, so she was facing me, simplifying my aim of staring into her eyes, and drinking in her beauty once more.
"Well...it's good to know that you weren't cross-dressing…" my mother declared lightly as she passed me, giving my shoulder a squeeze. I acknowledged her words with a crooked smile which I just remembered that Bella liked. I smiled even more as I noticed that she'd forgotten to breathe.
"Breathe Bella…" I ordered her as I touched a finger to her lips which she kissed as she took a breath through her nose.
"How?" she asked me simply, but I knew what she meant. Neither of us had any idea that we could have found out about each other via my parents.
"What a coincidence…" my mother whispered asshepointed at the picture that she and my father were looking at from the pile on the table beside us. I realised that they were the ones that Alice had taken during the holiday. She had probably had them printed.
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Carlisle POV. (A few months ago.)
I gave a heartfelt sigh as I sat beside my wife, in our living room in a comfortable silence.
"What is it love?" Esme asked me as she turned to look at me, worry etched in her eyes.
"I just want the boys to settle down…find love like I've found with you, I think that's what's lacking in their lives…" I admitted as I accumulated my ideas into words from the various thoughts that I'd been having these last few weeks.
"Darling…you have to let them be, they'll find someone soon enough, they'll get bored of the partying or whatever they do in Alaska…" she sighed, giving her head a small shake before she settled it back on my shoulder. "I just hope they find the right girls…" she whispered to me seconds before my beeper went off.
I snatched it into my hands quickly and read a familiar message. "Bella's in again…" I kissed the top of Esme's head before I got up and shrugged on my coat and picked up my briefcase.
"Here, give these to Alice and Rosalie…keep them occupied…" she told me as she handed me a stack of magazines and a paper bag filled with cookies. "Give Bella my best…" she kissed me softly before she pushed me playfully out of the door.
Within a few minutes, I was at A&E, Bella's file in one hand and the magazines and cookies in the other. I made my way into her room to find her propped up and slightly pale. "What's the damage this time?" I asked as I placed the magazines routinely in Alice's hands and passed the cookies to Rosalie.
"Slipped, knife in hand, woopsie and ouchie to my forearm…" Bella stated simply as she held out her arm to me, showing a deep, yet short gash on her forearm.
"So how did you slip?" I asked as I flipped through her file, listening to Rosalie's munching in the background and Alice flipping through one of the magazines.
"I tripped…over my foot…" she told me simply as she blushed and averted her eyes from me.
"Another Bella moment doc…" Rosalie sighed as she sat back in her chair, stuffing a piece of cookie into Bella's waiting mouth.
I rolled my eyes and set to work, cleaning and stitching up the gash. As I worked, I looked at each of the girls. I realised that Rosalie would be the type of girl that Emmett would go for; she was beautiful and laid back with a funny side as well. Bella I would have to say would be Edward's type. Edward had a real passion for music and literature and from their frequent visits to A&E I had learnt a lot about these girls, so I knew that Bella liked music and literature too. Finally Alice. She was the energetic one, and probably wouldn't be seen as a good catch for Jasper, but I knew better. Too often, people tried to push Jasper into social situation, which he didn't really like too much, but with Alice, I could just imagine her captivating presence enticing him out of his usual quiet shell. I smiled to myself as I wondered if Jasper would be man enough to even calm Alice down a little with his usual calming presence.
I also listened to the girls banter as I worked on Bella's arm. They talked about holidays and how Alice dreamed that her addiction for shopping would pay for a holiday in her ideal world. Bella and Rosalie scoffed at Alice's dream before they moved on to talk about fashion. That's when I closed my ears, not having any interest in the topic.
Once I was finished, the girls thanked me and took the bag of cookies, but left the magazines to take back to Esme. I did so and picked them up, dropping Bella's file off at the nurse's desk before I headed to my car.
My phone began to ring the instant I got into my car. "Hey papa! How are you?" Emmett's jolly voice came from the other end.
"Fine…what do you want Emmett?" I asked back, cutting the conversation in half by taking away the small talk.
"Right…well…you know…the summer's coming up and we have been good boys in medical school and last year we went on a cruise and we were really grateful…" he rambled before I cut him off.
"Consider it done, you'll get your cruise." I grinned to myself as I saw a plan forming in my minds eye.
"Thanks daddy-o, we love you and mummy Esme too!" he called before he made his short farewell and hung up.
I quickly dialled a familiar family friend's number and waited for her to pick up. "Carlisle, how's things?" Tanya's cheery voice asked from the other end.
"Fine, fine, but I need another holiday booked for the boys, the same as last year, three weeks, all expenses paid." I explained as I rubbed my forehead, wondering if what I would say next would be the right thing to do.
"That's fine, consider it done…" she told me in a cheery voice.
"I'll need a second room too, another three people, same conditions apply, but it's a slightly different situation…these girls won't know that I'm sending them…they'll think that they've won a competition…" I began to explain my ploy, hoping that all would go to plan.
"Oooo I get to play Cupid and make them fall in love! Thank you Carlisle!" Tanya squealed down the phone at me as I relaxed back in my seat, relieved that the deed was done. All I had to do now was let the ball roll.
Once the call was finished, I headed for home. "Esme…now don't get mad, but I've gone and done something that might be a little irrational…" I began as I explained my idea.
"And Tanya will watch them for us, call us to let us know how they get on and push them together as much as possible?" Esme asked me once I'd finished explaining my conversation with Tanya.
I gave Esme a tentative nod of my head before she gave me a winning smile as she declared, "This should be interesting to say the least…"
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Mwahahaha! Carlisle was the brains behind them falling in love!
Tanya--Cupid! That's why she looked so shocked when Edward called her Cupid in chapter 19 after the Romeo&Juliet performance! And Tanya was the one that Bella heard talking to Carlisle on the phone in chapter 18 when she was half asleep and in chapter 21 when she was in the bathroom.
It's all over nooooo…..! No promises on a sequel, but if I run out of stories to write…(unlikely)…I'll post an extra chapter as a sort of tiny sequel to this story and I might do one for the last story too...
Thanks for the reviews! Expecialy last chapters-I usually get arround 20/30, but the last one's up to 52 already!