EPOV: Pictures
After showering and putting all my clothes away I made my way down stairs. Emmett and Jasper were playing Halo and Rose was sitting on the couch reading a fashion magazine. I went in the kitchen to find my mother. When I walked in she was sitting at the table with a piece of pie in front of her and on the opposite side of the table. I sat down in front of it, smiling at my mother for a moment. She smiled back.
"Do you feel better after your shower?" She asked me softly, taking a bite out of her pie. I nodded.
"Ya, I needed one. The plane ride took for ever and I was beginning to smell bad." She started to laugh.
"Edward you haven't changed a bit. I'm glad you're home. We all missed you."
"Where's Alice and Bella. Dad was telling me how Bella was staying for the summer, how come you never told me?" I looked up at her as I took a break from eating my pie.
"They are on their way, they left this morning. I never told you because you never asked." I looked at her in shock and she smiled.
"It's true you never asked. You stopped talking to Bella whatever you're reasons were I'll never know. Maybe if you hadn't stopped talking to her you would have known." That was true. I should have never of stopped talking to Bella, we were really close. We loved the same music and that was rare to find in Forks.
"Okay, okay. You have me their, I stopped talking to her because...it was hard enough being so far away, I couldn't continue to do it. We were both busy it was the best decision I could have made." My mother got up from the table and grabbed my plate along with hers and took them to the since. She turned to me and mouthed sit and she left the room. She came back a few minutes later with a couple of books and frames. Scrapbooks and picture frames. Fantastic.
"Why do you have these out?" I asked her raising an eyebrow. She just shrugged and grabbed the first frame on top of the others. It was Alice and a girl. Bella. They were both smiling and cutting a cake. Bella looked looked a little different but not anything like what Emmett and Jasper said in the car. I looked up from the picture to see my mother smiling.
"I took that the day of their graduation. They were both so happy to be going to the same college together and sharing the graduation party was an excellent idea. They loved it. The cake was beautiful." She continued on with the next picture, she handed it to me laughing. It was Bella, Emmett, Rose, Jazz, and Alice all yelling at each other over something.
"That was taken the very first Thanksgiving they were all home. They had all gotten into a fight about what they wanted to watch on TV. They were screaming at each other, and then Bella grabbed the remote from Emmett and ran. But before she could she tripped over Jasper's leg and hit her head on the coffee table. We ended up in the ER for four hours." I laughed, leave it up to Bella. She was always so clumsy.
"Why did you all go?" I asked because I was curious. She smiled and grabbed another picture frame off the others and gave it to me taking it the picture from my hands and running her fingers over it.
"Because were all a family. That and Bella couldn't stand on her own from all the blood." She stopped talking and motioned for me to look at the next picture. It was of Alice and my mother wrapping a huge present. They both looked up at the camera smiling and laughing.
"Who took the picture?" I asked.
She laughed softly. "Your father. It was a couple of days before Christmas last year and we made Bella go out and get some ice cream. We all ran up stairs and wrapped her present. She loved it." My mother was so happy talking about the pictures I didn't want to interrupt her again. But I had to ask.
"What was the present?" She pointed to the last picture on the table and laughed. I lifted it up to see Bella in her pajamas, her eyes wide with shock holding her brand new guitar. I smiled to myself. Bella was really good at playing and singing she had the voice of an angle.
"A guitar. Good her old one was well...old. It also smelled horrible. The last time I heard her play was right before I left, I heard her in her room and I sneaked a peek. She's amazing." My mother nodded in reply.
"Yes she is. She is still shy about playing, but she plays a couple of songs once and a while whenever I ask her. I guess she can't refuse me. I love to here her. You better get used to her singing, because I ask her every other day to play. She does but in the morning before any body wakes up." She told me I could look through the rest of the pictures and I did. I must have been there for a little more than an hour because when I was looking at a picture of the family at dinner, I felt a hand grab my shoulder. I looked up to see my dad smiling at me.
"Hey dad." I closed the scrapbook and put them all together for my mother to put them back from where ever she pulled them.
"Hey. I was wondering if you wanted to go get some food, movies and ice cream for the girls and everybody when they get here." That sounded like a good idea I needed some fresh air.
"Ya. Let me go ask if any body else wants to come." He nodded and went out the front door. I went into the living room to see Rose taking a nap and Emmett and Jasper still playing.
"Do any of you want to go with my dad and I. Were going to pick stuff up for later." Emmett shook his head no and went to wake Rose up. Jasper nodded and followed me to the car.