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Chapter 10

"Edward, son I am so glad you made it" Charlie had a dimpled smile on his face as he shook hands with him.

"I did say I would come" Edward stated as he acknowledged the good old man. Charlie looked at him but his eyes had a far away look as he stated "People break promises very easily these days."

"Sir, that is definitely not in my nature" Edward added politely.

"You amaze me son...these days I hardly see a guy with perfect manners" he produced a cigarette from the pocket of his shirt and plopped it in his mouth.

Edward eyed him with narrow eyes which made Charlie laugh.

"Stop looking at me like that"

"You said you will stop smoking"

"I said I will try" Charlie disagreed.

Edward gave him a worried look and he sighed. "You two will kill me someday" He groaned and then threw the cigarette in the nearby bin.

Edward walked beside him and chuckled. "I know one...who's the other?"

"My daughter obviously...She gives me the same look whenever I smoke." A smile pulled on his lips as he remembered his daughter hiding the ashtray from his prying eyes, only to be pissed when Charlie bought a new one home. Charlie shook his head slightly and held his wrist to check the time.

"Come come we are going to miss it" He exclaimed when he realized it was near time.

Edward nodded at him and started to walk faster towards the building. As they approached he noticed that the parking lot was nearly vacant. There was pin drop silence except of the tapping noise of their shoes. Charlie walked with quick pace; his actions said that he had visited the place more than once to be so familiar with the directions.

They walked into an auditorium and Edward found out that the only people present there was the two of them. They threaded through the chairs and settled themselves in the front row. The walls in the room were covered with thick red curtain and a 3 foot tall stage was made in the front of the room.

Edward looked at Charlie and asked "Are we early?"

"Oh definitely not" Charlie answered and right at the same time the lights in the hall dimmed.

"Hello all. Do you want me to sing for you tonight?" A low voice sang from the blackness.

Charlie clapped enthusiastically and shouted "Yess!"

A beautiful laugh echoed in Edward's ear, anticipation rolled down his spine and settled deep in his gut.

A glow slowly suffused the stage behind the singer until he could see her silhouette, black against the white light. The girl had one hip propped on the high stool, her foot at the bottom rung and the other planted on the stage. Her body swayed with the beat of the music, as her fingers strummed low cords of the guitar in her hand. She was a beauty with exquisite curve of breast, waist and hip. He wondered if her voice would match her outer persona.

He was clearly surprised as she opened her lips and started to sing.

"Something always brings me back to you

It never takes too long

No matter what I say or do

I still feel you here till the

moment I'm gone"

He was enthralled by her. When she sang the words fell from her lips like embrace. It was like she was communicating through them, she was bringing her emotions to life through them. He was in awe of her voice and beauty. Her brown hair blew in the air slightly; her closed purple lids made those long eyelashes caress her cheeks.

You hold me without touch

You keep me without chains

I never wanted anything so much

Than to drown in your love

and not feel your rain

Set me free, leave me be

I don't wanna fall another

moment into your gravity

Here I am and I stand so tall

I'm just the way I'm

supposed to be

But you're on to me and all over me

"She is...she is..." Edward was speechless.

"Amazing" Charlie had a proud smile in his face as he looked at the girl on the stage. "I know"

Edward shifted himself in his seat so he could face him. Charlie looked at his questioning face and grinned.

"She is my daughter...Chelsea"

Edward was red in embarrassment. He was just checking out Charlie's daughter in front of him. He shook his head slightly and Charlie looked at him in amusement. Could this be any more humiliating?

"Let's have a walk" Charlie hushed to him so to not disturb Chelsea's performance. Edward swallowed loudly, and then looked at his flexing muscles.

"I am not going to kill you Edward...Come" Charlie demanded.

Once outside Edward was ready to apologize for his inappropriate behavior but stopped when Charlie spoke.

"She is beautiful...it's okay to notice" Edward sighed and Charlie laughed out loud.

"She is immensely talented. Why doesn't she perform in concerts?" Edward asked with curiosity.

"She has Agoraphobia" Charlie huffed and drooped on the bench beside the tree. "When Chelsea was seven, she and my wife visited this town fair..."Charlie let out a long breathe. Edward was in dilemma, he could clearly see that it was a subject that Charlie usually neglected. He sat beside him and touched on Charlie's arm lightly to give him some kind of comfort.

"She...she was lost...we never found her...Chelsea was so afraid...It was too much for the child to bear" Charlie squeezed his eyes. Edward knew the pain, he could relate to Charlie in so many ways. He had lost his mother when he was young and he had never seen his father either.

'Why did you want me to come?" Edward asked Charlie trying to change the subject.

Charlie smiled and replied "Chelsea wanted you to come"

Edward looked at him with confusion.

"She wanted to thank you doctor...she wanted to thank you for taking care of me" Edward was about to protest that it was his duty to take care of his patients but was cut off by Charlie.

"You must know no one comes here except of me. This is her sanctuary and by letting you in, she wanted to tell that she appreciated you being in our life."

His heart melted with those words and he thanked Charlie again and again for the opportunity to see Chelsea play.

"Thank her...not me" Charlie had said.

That's what Edward did by coming every Saturday with Charlie to see her play. And each time he visited, Chelsea would look his way and smile shyly. There was a time when Charlie was in the hospital and couldn't visit but Edward always made a point to come. He sat on his designated chair and watched her performance. Chelsea never showed it but it touched her heart whenever she would see Edward in the audience.

She was already deep in love with him.

I live here on my knees

As I try to make you see

That you're everything I think I need

Here on the ground

But you're neither friend nor foe

Though I can't seem to let you go

The one thing that I still know

Is that you're keeping me down

You are keeping me down

You're on to me, on to me

and all over

Something always brings me back to you

It never takes too long

His head was pounding, and the mere act of breathing caused pain in his body. Edward tried and failed to open his eyes completely but managed to open them a little only. His body was stretched out in a bed with his shoulder pressed on a soft pillow. He was in a room that he didn't recognize. Hell he didn't know how he had ended up here in the first place. He tried to look at his wrist to check the time but the sharp pain it caused made him flinch.

"Don't Move" He heard her from the other room. Edward was now wide awake. He was clearly surprised. He had thought it was a dream.

"Bella?" He called out.

"Can't you just stay still?" she asked as she appeared in the room wearing a T-shirt and boy shorts. Her hair was down and the curls bounced slightly as she walked to him. This is a dream right? He thought again.

She gently pushed him to the pillow urging him to lie on his back while she knelt beside the bed. She raised her hands and pressed a wet wash cloth on his head. The icy cold water soothed his ache and he sighed deeply.

"Do you remember what happened?" Bella asked as she pressed the cloth more firmly on his forehead.

Edward pushed those voices away from his head and sighed. "Yeah I was hit by a tree"

Bella hid her smile and asked "Do you know who you are?"

Edward rolled his eyes "I am not suffering from Amnesia..."

"Hmm...your head hit pretty hard though...and there is a cut in your forehead." She gently touched his forehead and placed a band aid above his brow. "Your arm is still bleeding and there seem to be some scratches from the glass on your shoulder." She said ruefully as her hands traveled down his neck and rested on his shoulder. Edward looked at her face lovingly but when she turned to him he looked away.

"I didn't know you were this upset that you were attempting to suicide" Bella teased him lightly. Edward looked at her with humor in his eyes but it died quickly and changed to sorrow.

"Did you bring me in your house out of guilt then? You would have been glad if I was out of your life"

Her mouth hung open slightly; she opened her lips as if to say something but silence was the only thing she could offer. He raised his left arm which was not injured and swept her hair aside to slide his fingers around her neck, his thumb glided over her cheeks.

"I make your life miserable...Isn't it?"

Bella looked down at her fingers and carefully wove them together in her lap.

"Is that what you think?" She asked timidly as she bowed forward, her hair hiding her face from his.

"You want no interference from me in your life Bella…what am I supposed to think?"

Am I this cruel? She thought as his words clenched her heart. A voice inside her head laughed at her bitterly and she sighed. Yes, she had been too tough on him; she never gave him chance to defend himself. She ignored his calls, messages and had gone far enough to make sure that she didn't cross path with him in the hospital. And yet nothing could soothe the void in her life. As if knowing about the bet wasn't enough, now she had to go through the pain of losing her closest friends too. With her mind and life both in mess, her moods were constantly changing.

She bit on her lips and looked at Edward who was still watching her silently.

"Take off your shirt" she demanded suddenly.

"W-What? I am sorry I must be hearing things..." He was dying with a headache and all he could think about was getting nude with her. Edward shook his head to try to get the image out of his head. She makes him loose his sanity too.

"You are not hearing things...I told you to take off your shirt." Bella replied.

"But-"

She sighed. "You are so impossible"

He gulped air able to breathe again as she unbuttoned his shirt. She flicked the buttons one after the other to reveal his chest to her. She slowly yanked the hem of his shirt from his slacks, unbuttoned the cuffs and then stood upright to remove the shirt carefully through his arms.

Edward groaned in pain. Bella looked at him with worry, her eyes fell on the cut on his arm and she gasped. She took a long breathe and then moved across the room to return with her medical kit. She held his injured arm carefully so not to cause any pressure and then concentrated on the cut to get the little pieces of glass out of his skin.

As she leant forward, her face hovered over his. Her hair fell on his face like a curtain and he greedily breathed her in.

Bella blinked rapidly, tears gathered in the rim of her eyes.

"You should drive a Volvo ... It's like the safest car in town" her voice trembled as she whispered in a low voice. Bella pressed a cool liquid on his arm when the glasses were out and then wrapped a white gauze tape over it.

One corner of his mouth turned up. "Since when did my safety matter to you?"

Bella squeezed her eyelids together tighter before looking him in the eye. Her face was just inches away from his face as she gazed into those green orbs and said the one thing that she had known all along.

"You are not the only one who cares." Her throat was tight and her heart pounded furiously like a hamming bird. She felt angry, she felt sad. "I know...I know I have been tough with you...but-" few tears slid down her cheeks.

"Can't you see Edward? Can't you see how much I care about you...?" Her knees shook slightly as she cupped his face in her hands. "Can't you see how much it hurt me to know whatever happened between us was just based on a bet?"

"Bella" His voice rumbled, like the low, deeply felt thunder that followed nearby lightning. Bella shook her head vigorously as more tears gathered in her eyes. "No...You don't know anything..."

"Sweetheart" He hushed her, stroking her face affectionately.

"When I found you in that car...I thought...I thought you would never make it...and...I realized I would probably never be able to tell you that..." Bella swallowed as thick tears fell down the apples of her cheeks.

"Tell me what?" his voice was a whisper as his palms captured her tears. She hesitated at first but then leant forward and brushed her lips from his chin to his jaw. He felt her unsteady breath on the crook of his neck; chills ran down his body as her lips inched upward to the shell of his ear.

"Edward Masen… you're an impossible, incredible man. You infuriate me, baffle me and make me want to throw things at you all the time but most of all ...you drive me crazy."

She laughed through tears and Edward took the chance to turn his face and meet her lips with his. There was softness and heat. There was sorrow and apologies, need and desire as his tongue traced the edge of her mouth before plunging deeper. The kiss started out with slow, lingering licks and twirls and suddenly turned wild as he nibbled on her bottom lip and then trailed kisses around to the sensitive flesh behind her ear. Edward smiled against her skin when she shuddered. She rested one hand on his chest, her fingers threading through the dusting light hair and running them down his chiseled features, muscled chest and his taut abdomen. Edward groaned deeply, he had missed this so terribly. He would trade anything in the world to feel her soft luscious lips on his.

They kissed repeatedly, with depth and passion until she broke apart panting. She brushed her hair back out of her face feeling dizzy for a second.

"Bella...you must know when I asked you for dinner, that bet was the last thing on my mind." He pleaded.

There was anguish in his face when he asked "Do you regret what happened that night?"

His left arm went right around her, molding her to him and urging her to look at him in the eyes.

"I have thought about it time and time again Edward and I decided that... I didn't care...even if it was a bet...nothing had ever felt so right" She sighed. And then she was right against him, her hands slipped up to his shoulders, then to the nape of his neck, pulling his face down to hers.

"I don't regret it Edward" she said before her mouth found his again. The kiss burned deep down into her heart. She pulled away a little, tilted her head back and looked into his eyes.

"Do you regret it?" She asked. His eyes were dark and hooded and when he replied, it brought an arching longing for her.

"Never. Nothing had ever felt so right" He repeated the same words that she had said.

After several kisses and panted breathes, there was silence in the room. Bella lay across from him hugging the pillow to her body. Edward never took his eyes of her, although his eyes felt heavier as the tablets that Bella had given him earlier started to show its effect.

"What is it" she asked when she met his gaze.

"Did you forgive me?"

"Yes and No" she couldn't stop the little laugh escaping her lips when she saw the worried look in his face.

"I am willing to give a chance Edward...and if you fail..." she leaned up and held the pillow in her hand in a threatening manner "I am going to biff you with this" she laughed down on his face.

Edward chuckled and then grabbed on the pillow which made her lean closer to him until their nose were almost touching. "I will make it up to you Isabella Swan Cullen...I promise" He breathed before nuzzling his face in her neck. He was ecstatic, and determined to do anything to prove it to her that they could work out together.

Bella moaned as he gently nibbled and then sucked on the flesh. She tilted her head offering herself to his mercy. He placed open mouth kisses on her neck and then bit on her collarbone, devouring her greedily. His kisses stirred the tingling feeling between her legs.

"I am afraid...if we continue... we might end up doing something foolish" she breathed heavily. His fingers made circles on the exposed skin of her waist and then inched closer to her centre.

"Edward" she whimpered when his fingers stroked her gently. His face slid down and his kisses centered on her breasts. He sucked her ravenously, wetting the material of her shirt so it clung to her erect nipple. She shivered with pleasure as his breath brushed over the damp fabric. His hands dipped inside her shorts and cupped her mound.

"You are so wet" he groaned as his fingers traced her slick folds. Bella arched her back pulling him closer to her so that she could feel his warm skin on hers. Her hands accidentally brushed on the scratches on his shoulders.

"Oww" Edward flinched.

"Oh shit...Shit...I am sorry!" She instantly sat upright and moved further away from him as if afraid her presence was enough to harm his body.

"God... I am fine Isabella...stop apologizing" He chuckled before pulling her towards him.

"I don't want to break your other arm Edward..." She sighed and then plopped herself on her elbows to kiss him on the cheeks.

"You should sleep" She insisted as she swung her legs out of the bed.

"What no-"

"Sleep or I am going to kick you out the first thing in the morning" Bella warned but the humor still lay in her eyes. Edward pouted and then grinned at her. He decided nothing was better than seeing Bella smile.

"Stay with me?" Edward pleaded.

Bella rolled her eyes "Good night Edward."

She switched the lights off and walked out of the room but not before shouting "And If you need anything...then don't call me" She barked out laugh and was gone.

Edward's face almost hurt for smiling too much. He sighed and breathed in the fragrance of lavender from the pillow.

"Good night My Bella" he whispered as his eyes started to droop. Suddenly from the periphery of his eyes, he caught a glimpse of a photo in the moonlight. He picked the frame carefully and stared at it.

A tall guy with cropped black hair and suntan body had Bella hopped on his back. She was cringing to him like a spider wearing nothing but a two piece and was looking at the camera with a joyous smile.

He saw red. Edward had never felt this angry.

So what do you think?

I don't know how many of you are interested in Edward's past but you must know his past does play a part in his future. So...you can expect Edward and Chelsea scenes in the upcoming chapter. But they won't be too vivid; I plan on going above the surface just so you all know what really happened.

I am sure by now you know I like messing with the characters...a lot hehe. First Jasper is a badass and now Chelsea is Charlie's daughter. I thought why not? They both start with a C and h and I haven't read any stories where Edward and Chelsea is a couple.

The song used in the Chapter is Gravity by Sara Bareilles. If you haven't heard it then you should...its beautiful.

Well that's it for now.

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