"Well, tell Ben and Angela I said hello." I said as I walked Bella out. It felt like my heart was taking another step farther away from me as our distance increased, but I tried to ignore it.
"I will. Give EJ a kiss for me." She said softly before she made her way down the steps.
"Sure thing." I responded automatically. A feeling of dread spread throughout my body when I realized that I would have no reason to see her again for a while. "Hey Bella?"
"Yeah?" she asked, turning around at the bottom of the stairs.
"Would it be alright…?" I asked in a sudden spurt of courage. "If I called you sometime? Maybe we could go out for coffee?"
"I'd love that." She said with a smile, flushing at the attention and realization of the word love floating about in the air.
"Great." I breathed as she waved and continued on. She climbed into her monster of a truck and turned the key in the ignition. But instead of roaring to life like I expected, it sputtered and gasped before turning off again. Frowning, Bella repeated the same action three times, all getting the same results, before hopping out of the truck and slamming the door. She leaned on the bed as she pulled out her phone from the pocket of her jeans. Groaning, she shoved the silver object back into her pocket and stormed up the steps.
"Can I use your phone?"She practically growled. The look on her face was absolutely priceless, her eyes narrowed in frustration and her bottom lip being all but gnawed off. She reminded me of a small child attempting to act angry but failing miserably.
"Sure. Come on in." I told her, biting back a smile as she thanked me shortly and stalked back into the house.
"Charlie?" she asked after a moment, one arm wrapped around herself and her right foot tapping incessantly."Look, something happened. NO! God no, no accident. No, the truck won't start."
"Bella?" I asked softly, not wanting to interrupt. I had just realized that Emmett still needed to return the bottle tops anyways, so he could come up for a day and fix her truck for her.
"Yeah, I know. So I'm not going to be able to come home in time to make dinner. Well, yes, I know I'm going to have to get it fixed sometime." She said, pausing occasionally to listen to her father. "Walk."
"Dad…it's just hard." She said softly, hiding behind her hair again. "The last time something like this happened, Jake fixed it."
Oh boy.
"Bella." I said, a little louder this time. She didn't answer, so I decided that I'd just have to continue. "My brother can fix it for you. I could give you a ride until then."
"Edward," she finally responded, cupping one hand over the end of the phone. "I couldn't impose on you like that."
"But it wouldn't be imposing." I insisted. "EJ and I need to get out sometime."
"I couldn't." she said, removing her hand and beginning to speak to her dad again. "I'll figure it out dad. Why don't you just order yourself some pizza?"
"I need to use the phone." I told her, hoping that my plan would work and I could guilt her into it. She turned to look at me, and I gestured for the phone. Her eyes widened in recognition and apology, and she quickly muttered something into the phone before hanging it up and giving it to me.
"Emmett?" I said after I dialed. I saw Bella's eyes narrow as she realized what I was doing. She was just too damn observant for her own good. "It's Edward."
"Again?" he asked.
"Yes, again. Listen, I need a favor." I said quickly, hoping that Bella wouldn't snatch the phone away. Thankfully, she didn't, but she did cross her arms over her chest in an attempt to be threatening. She didn't realize how attractive it made her look.
"What kind of favor?" Emmett questioned. I could hear metal clanging in the background, which meant he was in the shop. Perfect.
"I've got a challenge for you. Can you make it up here tomorrow?" I asked. Knowing Emmett, he'd make time. Emmett had never been one to pass on a challenge, and he had eight formerly broken bones to prove it.
"A challenge?" he asked curiously.
"Yep. A vintage truck that won't start anymore for no apparent reason." I told him. I heard Bella inhale deeply and her foot began tapping a punctuated angry rhythm on the ground.
"Sweet. Hmm…I had a meeting…what the hell, I'll cancel. I'll be there at noon. Maybe Rose'll want to come and meet Bella early."
"And she could always spend more time with EJ." I agreed.
"Yeah. Besides, she couldn't wait to tell you all the sex of the babies. She couldn't wait, so we both went in yesterday." He told me excitedly. Something told me that at least one of those babies was a boy. Emmett wouldn't be as excited if he didn't get a potential sports fanatic.
"So you want me to call Alice and Jasper too?" I asked. By now, I had turned myself around to face the wall so I could pretend to be oblivious to Bella's anger.
"Why not? It'll be a party. I really don't know why we left so early anyway."He commented.
"I'll see you tomorrow then." I said before hanging up the phone. I took a deep breath before I spun around to look at Bella. Oh boy. She was furious. Decidedly adorable, but most definitely furious.
"Edward." She said angrily and I flinched. "Why did you call your brother?"
"You needed help, Emmett could help for free, and he was coming up anyway?" I listed, making it a question so that it would diffuse her anger.
"Edward, I told you not to bother your brother. Now he's coming all the way down just for me. I'm sure that's a huge inconvenience to him, not to mention Rosalie, who you said was five months pregnant with twins!" she said, throwing her hands in the air for emphasis.
"Bella, its fine. They were coming up this weekend anyway. Emmett said there was some news they wanted to share as well. Now if you'll excuse me, I've got to call my other brother." I said, dialing the other number as I spoke. Bella scoffed at me and re-crossed her arms, but I could tell she wasn't too terribly angry at me.
"Jasper?" I asked in a moment.
"Edward? What's wrong?" he asked.
"Nothing's wrong." I answered quickly. "Everything's great. I was just calling to see what you and Alice were doing tomorrow. Emmett and Rose wanted to start the weekend early, something about big news. You two up for it?"
"Uhmm…I think that'd be fine. Alice had some board meeting this morning, but her final sketch isn't due for another week. I think I could take off a day or two…yeah. Yeah, we'll be there. We'll see you around one." He said.
"All right. Bye Jasper." I told him as I hung up the phone.
"Are you sure I won't be inconveniencing any of you?" she asked again.
"Bella, its fine. They're always begging for an excuse to get out of work. Last year, Emmett called in sick because he got a paper cut." I assured her.
"Okay…" she agreed uncertainly.
"Do you-"
"WWWWWWWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!" EJ apparently decided that an hour was too long of a nap for himself.
"I'll be right back." I apologized before I began jogging up the stairs. I thought I could hear the echo of feet slowly padding up the stairs after me, but I couldn't be sure. Eric could be very loud when he wanted to.
I cautiously made my way into his room, making sure to keep the noise down to a minimum. I could hear his wails echoing across the room from his tiny bassinette. When I arrived at the side, I came face to face with a very angry infant. His face was bright red and his eyes weren't open. Not a good sign.
"Shh, EJ. It's ok, Daddy's here." I assured him in hushed tones as I gently scooped him up in my arms. I could hear Bella's quiet footsteps as she came into the room after me and I smiled a bit.
"See, Bella's here too." I told him. He ignored me, wailing louder. I tried rocking him back and forth before I sat down in the rocking chair and tried the swaying motion. Bella leaned against the crib, stumbling at first when the wheels moved it back, and smiled at us.
"What do you think he wants?" I asked in concern when five minutes later he was still crying.
"I don't know. Maybe he's just overly tired and can't sleep." She said from her hands and knees, where she was picking up the remaining stuffed animals that littered the floor. Apparently, trying to get an infant to latch onto a fluffy animal was not a smart idea. It was easier and cleaner to let his tiny fingernails claw at my neck.
"You're going to be late to Angela's." I told her for what must have been the eighth time. "Let me drive you."
"And what about EJ?" she asked pointedly, gesturing to the screaming child in my arms.
"They did invent car seats for a reason." I said smugly, wincing as he screamed especially loudly in my ear.
"Are you ever going to give up?" She asked. She sounded angry, but the smile fighting to take over her features disagreed.
"Nope. Let's go." I said as I got up. I grabbed a blanket on the way out of the room and shut off the dim light, allowing Bella to exit before I shut the door with my free hand.
I pulled my keys out of the drawer in the kitchen where they were carefully placed (after Emmett lost the keys to my Vanquish, all my keys went into one organized drawer. He called it anal. I called it careful.) and walked into the garage. After carefully placing the red faced squealing child into his baby seat, I sat in the drivers seat.
"Thank you Edward." Bella said quietly as I started up the car. If you weren't listening carefully, her voice was lost over the high octaves of my son's voice.
"You're welcome." I responded as I backed out.
"So where do they live? I haven't been there in months." I asked once we were out on the main road.
"Oh, just turn up here." She said as she looked at something outside the window. She seemed to shrink down in her seat as we were passing an old Volkswagen Rabbit for some inexplicable reason.
"Isn't it the yellow house on the right?" I asked, attempting to get her mind off whatever was bothering her.
"Hmm?" she asked absentmindedly as she turned her head. "Oh! Yeah, it's the yellow one with the plain white mailbox."
"Did you notice?" she asked me. I looked at her for a moment before I put my eyes back on the road.
"Notice what?" I said.
"He's asleep." She told me with a smile. I looked in the rearview mirror and sure enough, EJ was quietly sleeping in the backseat.
"Well, that's a good thing, because we're here." I said as I pulled into their driveway. Ben and Angela had been the first people I'd met when Tanya and I moved to Forks, and we'd been friends. But I alienated everyone but my family when Tanya was about four months pregnant. She was only home to sleep and eat, and she refused to speak more than a few words to me at a time. Even then, it was only about the baby. I still wasn't sure why we were like that, but I think that it helped us both in the long run. In theory, Emmett was right. I had been grieving Tanya's loss for months.
"Thank you so-"
"Edward? Edward Cullen?" someone called. I looked up at the porch through the rain that was now falling from the sky and saw the blurred outline of a man standing on the porch.
"Is that you, Ben?" I called over the rain after I rolled down the window. Bella was fumbling with her seatbelt and flinched back when a fat droplet of rain fell on her hand.
"Hey, Edward! Come on in!" he invited.
"I don't know. I've got the baby with me." I explained. I didn't want him getting sick, especially at such a young age. I didn't know if his little body could take that.
"Even better. We'd love to see the two of you." He said, and I could make out the blurry shape of an umbrella going up in his hands. "I'll come and get you."
He was off the porch and at Bella's door in a few seconds. As soon as Bella was under the umbrella, I was out of my door. I threw my jacket over my head and popped open the trunk, grabbing the umbrella I made sure to leave in there. I managed to get EJ out of his carrier and into my arms underneath the umbrella before he got wet. In my haste to reach the dry haven the porch allowed, I almost bowled Ben over.
"Hey man. I haven't seen you in a while." He said as he clapped me on the shoulder.
"I've been busy." I explained curtly. My failed marriage was complicated, and I wasn't sure if I was ready to talk about it yet. "And now I'm even busier."
"Hey little guy." Ben greeted EJ softly, brushing a finger along his tiny hand. "What's his name?"
He opened the door and let us inside while he was talking, and I took a moment to re-familiarize myself with the cozy home. There were new things, like the baby gates and the toys that threatened to take over the room, but it was generally the same as I remembered it.
"Eric James. Most of us just call him EJ." I answered as I shut my umbrella, taking extra care so as not to jostle the baby.
"Bonjour mes amies! My name is Roberto!"
"What the hell…" Ben asked in confusion.
"Benjamin Andrew Cheney! Language!" Angela called from the kitchen. I could hear Bella laughing about something, so I could only assume they were talking together.
"Honey, it's not like he can understand me." He cried in exasperation as he ran a hand through his hair.
"You'd be surprised." She called.
"He's only five months old and she's already getting ready for him to walk and talk." He explained as he gestured for me to follow him into the kitchen. After a moment of fumbling with the baby gate, he gave up and just stepped over it. I did the same and nearly walked into Angela.
"Edward?" she asked in confusion.
"He gave me a ride." Bella explained meekly.
"It's so nice to see you." She said warmly. Thankfully, she said nothing about Tanya or the funeral where I dodged everyone.
"And who's this?" she asked as she smiled down at EJ.
"This is my son, Eric James Cullen. Most of us just call him EJ." I said.
"He looks just like you." She told me kindly as she cooed at him. He opened his eyes, and I tensed up, fearing another meltdown. But he merely stared at her.
"Can I hold him?" she asked. I nodded, and placed him gently in her arms.
"Can you say oui? Oui! Oui! Oui!"
"What the…heck…is that, Ang?" Ben asked again, pausing to insure that he didn't swear again.
"It's some new educational cartoon called Roberto the Dwarf. He lives in Canada and has all these foreign friends. He's French, so it's supposed to help the kids learn another language." She explained as she turned her back on us to stir something in danger of boiling over on the stove, passing me EJ on the way. Bella, I had noticed, had picked up a giggling baby from his playpen in the corner.
"If he's French, why is his name Roberto?" Ben muttered under his breath as he brushed past me to nudge Angela out of the way.
"Go on, honey, I'll finish this. You go get dressed." He told her as he slid her hands away from the pot. I could smell the baby formula heating from across the room, so I could only assume she was preparing a bottle for Ben Jr.
"Is it just me or does this stuff smell awful?" he asked, grimacing as he poured the mixture into a bottle.
"No, it smells awful." I agreed. I glanced down at EJ to see if he was still awake, and sure enough, he was lying in my arms taking everything in. His wide eyes stared at everything, from the television in the corner to the baby in Bella's arms. Finally, he looked up at me, his bewildered expression making me laugh. Unfortunately, the noise startled him and he began to cry.
"I'm sorry, EJ, you just made Daddy laugh." I said, still chuckling as I moved him to lie on my shoulder. He soon quieted down, gazing at something behind me. I turned around and caught Ben making a face at me.
"Oh. Sorry." He said sheepishly, rubbing his hand on the back of his neck awkwardly.
"Did you want to hold him?" I asked, fighting to hide my smile.
"Nah. I've got to give Ben his bottle anyway." He said, picking up the bottle. He tested the formula on his wrist before grabbing Ben Jr. and hoisting him up in his arms.
"Come on son, lets go get you in your pajamas." He muttered as he wandered out of the room.
"Hey Bella, do you think you could zip me up?" Angela asked as she breezed into the kitchen.
"Sure thing." Bella responded as Angela came to stand before her.
"So you two met at a grocery store?" Angela asked curiously. Bella flushed at the memory of the awkward run in with her ex.
"Yeah, she saved me from a nervous breakdown." I said wryly.
"Screaming child and only two hands?" She asked knowingly.
"Add a complicated baby carrier and you've got it." I said
"Been there, done that." She smiled. We chatted amicably for the next few minutes until Ben…and Ben arrived back downstairs. With a promise to visit soon and another one to pick up Bella tomorrow, EJ and I headed home, ready to get to sleep to start the next day.
***
"My God Emmett, could you find a bigger wrench?"
"Seriously Alice, did you need three bags for shoes?"
"What the hell is that supposed to mean?"
"I don't know, ask Mr. Psychiatrist over there."
"Waaahhhh..."
"Shoot me now, he cries as much as Edward."
"Suck it up, you've going to have to deal with two soon."
"Good morning sunshine."
"Bite me."
"Well. Someone needs some happy pills…"
"And maybe someone needs to keep their abnormally large mouth shut. Do you have any idea how loud you snore?"
"Ummm…hello?" I asked blearily. Upon hearing the ruckus in my house, I glanced at the clock and discovered that it was 8 in the morning, much too early for my siblings to have arrived. But sure enough, after stumbling down the stairs, I found all four of my siblings (Alice and Rosalie were practically my sisters) bickering with poor EJ stuck in the middle.
"Surprise?" Emmett said weakly, throwing up his hands in the air.
"I need some coffee." I muttered, brushing past them without bothering to say anything. It had been a long night, and I had only gotten about two full hours of sleep. I didn't even want to think about how they got EJ downstairs without me knowing, because I knew for a fact that he had fallen asleep for the last time in his bassinet in my room and I was too sensitive to light when I slept not to have woken up when the door opened.
"Don't be mad, Edward." Alice pleaded as she bounced along to follow me.
"M'not mad. Just tired." My words sounded garbled.
"It's just that this was so unexpected! Emmett and Rosalie apparently couldn't wait, so they showed up at our loft at three in the morning and then Emmett got bored and the police were almost called…it really is a funny story. I'll let him tell you later. But where is Bella? Rose and I want to go shopping and since Bella said she didn't like to shop and didn't want Emmett to bother with her car, we could distract her with the better one. Because who really likes working on cars that much anyway? I sure don't, and Jasper doesn't, and you don't…" she babbled on. Suddenly, the walk from the stairs to the kitchen seemed miles long.
"Sorry about Alice, Edward. Emmett thought it would be funny to see what would happen if he gave Alice caffeinated coffee." Jasper apologized as he picked up his wife and threw her over his shoulder. Alice had some sort of issue with caffeine, so she rarely partook in it. But when she did, she was good for a good hour of crazy before she was back to normal.
"Jazzy! Put me down!" she squealed happily. Jasper smiled at me and shrugged before making his way back to the couches.
"Ugh…" I said in disgust. The counter was covered in some sort of white liquid and there were granules of sugar everywhere. Something smelled suspiciously of burnt rubber and I swore that my coffeepot wasn't always blue, but the coffee was hot and full of caffeine, so I didn't care.
"Sit down." I ordered them half-heartedly when I arrived back in the living room, knowing that it would never happen. I complied with my own rule before sipping the steamy bitter liquid, allowing it to awaken my senses so I could be fully prepared to start off my morning. Poor Rosalie was the only one who actually listened to me, though it was more for her comfort than mine. EJ was screaming in her ear and she was frantically trying to find the bottle to give him. I leaned over and plucked it off of a stack of blankets and handed it to her. Jasper was setting Alice down on his lap and trying to smack Emmett at the same time, who was trying to get away with something stupid.
"So why are you here?" I asked gruffly. I had never been a morning person, but it was especially true now that I was running on empty.
"Love you too, bro." Emmett said, clasping a hand over his heart in mock hurt before falling down onto the couch, jostling Rosalie and Eric.
"Emmett," Rosalie hissed in warning. EJ had just quieted down, and no one wanted to risk the peaceful silence.
"Why are you here so early?" I rephrased, taking a deep drink of the hot beverage.
"Well…" Alice began. Thankfully, Rosalie cut her off.
"At one in the morning, Emmett woke me up, talking about how much fun it would be to surprise you and how he couldn't wait to tell you about the babies. I told him to shut up and let me sleep. Fifteen minutes later, I woke up and found myself in the Jeep, bags packed, and on the way to Alice and Jasper's." Rosalie told us. Emmett nodded proudly and threw an arm over her shoulder, taking care not to move the baby.
"So when we finally got there, we realized that both of them had their phones turned off. Ordinarily, that wouldn't be a problem, but someone forgot his spare key." Rosalie said pointedly.
"I didn't forget!" Emmett protested.
"You just didn't bring them." She retorted.
"Well, yeah, but I was too busy packing everything else! Anyway," he said animatedly. "I decided that they wouldn't mind if we tried to break in. So I grabbed one of my credit cards and snuck up to the door. I should have let Rose do it, she's better at breaking in to places. But,"
"Excuse me?" I asked. This was news to me.
"Well, how do you think we got into your room this morning? The door was locked, for some weird reason." He explained. "As I was saying…I got up to their door and pulled out my card. I kept trying to jiggle it in the handle like you see them do in movies, but it was too thick. I gave up and decided that I'd just try and knock the door in."
"So that's what that noise was!" Alice exclaimed.
"God, what is it with you people? ANYWAY, I banged the handle one last time, and it gave way a little bit. So, rather than break the whole door down, I figured I could just knock the handle off. I almost had it too, but then some guy walked out into the hallway and gave me this weird look."
"Emmett, that 'weird guy' just had to get massive plastic surgery after a horrific car accident!" Jasper told him.
"Whatever. He was still weird." Emmett waved him off, unperturbed. "So I'm this close to knocking off the handle when I hear this guy talking to someone. I only heard the words 'police' and 'burglary', but I assumed he was talking about me. It took some time, but eventually convinced him that I was Jasper's brother. I'm just that smooth."
"Or it could be the fact that I stumbled out of the apartment to see what was going on." Jasper added.
"That's beside the point." Emmett said.
"How in the world did you get Jasper to go along with this?" I asked, somewhat more pleasantly. The coffee was working.
"I didn't. Alice woke up and agreed with Emmett." He said darkly.
"You wanted to meet Bella too!" she argued.
"At three thirty in the morning, all I wanted to do was sleep." He retorted.
"Well…we're here now!" Alice said brightly, the eternal optimist.
"Yeah. Didn't you have something you wanted to tell us, Rose?" I asked curiously.
"Well, we already called Carlisle and Esme and told them, and my parents could care less, but we found out..." she said excitedly.
"We'rehavingaboyandagirl!" Emmett blurted out, cutting Rosalie off. She glared at him viciously.
"I'm sorry?" Jasper asked.
"We're having a boy and a girl." Rosalie repeated, still glaring at her husband.
"Erm, Em? Don't you think you should have let Rosalie tell us?" I asked gently, not sure of how to remind him of Rosalie's wrath.
"Oh shit." He gulped in realization of his slip-up. "Rosie baby, I'm SO sorry! I just got so excited, and I couldn't wait to tell them and…I'm so incredibly sorry. I love you!"
"I guess it's alright." Rosalie sighed.
"So…what are you going to name them? Because I found some great names online and I just thought of you immediately. I knew you were going to have one of each all along, I just knew it. So I started looking for you and I found some fantastic ones. What do you think of Madison for a girl and then Matthew for a boy? Cause then they'd be Matt and Maddie and that would be adorable. Or Samantha and Samuel! Only, that would be confusing, because there would be two Sam's. Oh! But Alexander and Abigail would be great too, and you could call them Alex and Abby. It has a nice ring to it, don't you think?" Alice babbled on. We all looked at each other in shock before turning our attention back to our little time bomb. "And I think that Justin and Jessica are nice too, but those don't have matching nicknames. The only thing is that those are all so common…and…whew. Jazz, I don't feel so good."
Jasper started rubbing her back gently and she held her head in her hands.
"Ugh," she moaned. "I never have headaches like this unless…oh my god. Emmett, when I feel up to it I'm going to kill you!"
After a Tylenol and a lot of water, Alice was feeling well enough to realize something.
"Edward, you still aren't dressed! And you haven't called Bella yet!" Alice admonished.
"EJ isn't dressed yet either." I argued childishly.
"Well, he's cuter than you are. Deal with it." She said as she tried to push me up the stairs. IT was quite comical, actually, seeing the tiny Alice trying to push the much taller me up the stairs.
"I'm going, I'm going." I told her.
"You're going to call Bella too?" She prompted.
"Taken care of!" Emmett hollered from the other room, where he and Jasper were cleaning up their "formula experiment".
"What do you mean, taken care of?" I asked.
"I mean, I called Bella a while ago. She sounded tired. Oh, and by the way, your phone needs to be charged." He said.
"Emmett…" I hissed. Deciding that it wasn't worth the energy, I walked up the stairs to get dressed instead.
"I guess I'm wearing this." I muttered when I saw that Alice had laid out a grey shirt and jeans on my bed.
"So we figured we could go shopping while the boys work on your car, because who wouldn't want to go shopping?"I heard Alice talking to someone as I walked down the stairs once I was done.
"I don't know…" I heard a familiar voice say.
"Bella?" I asked uncertainly as I came into the living room.
"Edward? I was wondering where you were." She said, sounding relieved. She looked shell-shocked in her jeans and blue blouse while Alice and Rosalie circled her. Poor thing. She had no idea what they were capable of.
"How'd you get here?" I asked, more to Alice and Rosalie.
"We got bored, so we called Bella from your phone and asked if we could come get her." Rosalie said.
"Well, good morning." I greeted.
"G'morning. How's EJ?" she asked timidly. Bella didn't do well with new people, apparently, and her cheeks were already a vibrant red. It was very becoming.
"Boring." Emmett complained as he sprinted down the stairs. "He's asleep."
"I don't know if you've met them already, but these are my siblings. This is Emmett," I introduced.
"Hey Bella." He said happily.
"And Rosalie is his wife." I said, pointing to Rosalie.
"And this," she said, pointing to her protruding belly. "Is going to be twins."
"Jasper is my other brother, and he's married to Alice." I finished. Jasper kept his distance from her, seeing that she was overwhelmed.
"Hello Bella. It's nice to meet you." He said cordially.
"Ok, we all know each other. Can we go shopping now?" Alice asked impatiently.
"Let's go." Rosalie agreed. They made their way out to the Jeep, and Emmett and Jasper followed, anxious to work on the truck.
"I'm sorry about them. They're a bit…overwhelming." I apologized.
"No, they're great." She disagreed.
"They like you." I told her. She blushed shyly in response. "Just…be careful when you're shopping today. Alice and Rosalie take it very seriously."
"It's just shopping." She said.
"You obviously haven't seen Alice and Rosalie near a sale." I warned.
"Well, I'll be careful." She teased playfully. Sure, she laughs now. But six hours later, she would be begging for mercy.
"Edward?" She asked hesitantly.
"Yes Bella?"
"Could we maybe postpone that whole…getting coffee thing…for later?" She said.
I tried to keep my face from falling, but it was hard. "Sure."
"No, no, it's not like that!" she said when she realized what she said. "Its just that my editor called this morning and told me that I got promoted."
"That's great." I told her half-heartedly. I was excited for her, but I was just as disappointed that she didn't want to see me later.
"I have to go to New York for a couple of months first, and then I can stay in Forks. So, would it be alright if we went when I got back?" she explained.
"That'd be great." I told her happily. I couldn't wait for the next couple of months to be over with, ready for Bella to be back in Forks, Washington for good.
Music Listened To:
A Twist in My Story (Secondhand Serenade), Night Minds (Missy Higgins), Untouched (The Veronica's), Invisible (Taylor Swift), Be Be Your Love (Rachael Yamagata), Little Saint Nick (The Beach Boy's), Marshmallow World (The Rat Pack), Book Report (You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown), Better (Piano Version) [Regina Spektor], Lovestoned (Justin Timberlake), Rock & Roll (Eric Hutchinson), 1, 2, 3, 4 (Plain White T's), Gravity (Sara Bareilles)
Abducted by aliens? Kidnapped by Canadians? Murdered by pirates? Didn't buy it, huh? Well…I'm so incredibly sorry at the wait for this chapter. I really don't know how it suddenly became December, but it is and I'm terribly sorry. Forgive me? I've got a good idea for the next chapter, so it should start progressing faster. Just a warning, though. I really have no idea where I want to go with this story, so I don't know how fast the updates will be. Oh, and the light sensitivity thing when Edward sleeps? It's like how some people are really light sleepers, others are bothered not by noise, but by light. My friend is like that and once got 3 hours of sleep one night because the street light outside kept flashing on and off.