A/N: Hello there! Once again, I'm sorry for the delay, but I promise I will try and update as much as possible! So from now on, I'm putting a previously on every chapter so you don't have to keep going back a chapter to remember what has just happened. Right, so without further ado, I present to you, Chapter 6!
DISCLAIMER: I DON'T OWN TWILIGHT! GET IT INTO YOUR HEAD!
Previously: "Bella?" He whispered in my ear once I'd calmed down a bit. I pulled my head back and looked into his wild green eyes. I sniffled a bit before I answered.
"Yeah?" My voice was hoarse from crying. He put his hand on my cheek and brushed away a stray tear.
"I have never lied to you and never will. Silly Bella, I've been your best friend for god knows how long and I don't think I've lied once. And I'm speaking truthfully when I say I think you're beautiful."
I think my heart just exploded.
Chapter 6 – Uh oh
I stared at Edward for a long time, processing what he had just said. It couldn't be true, I mean, no one ever used to say things like that before. But having Edward saying it to me, telling me he's not lying… I've never felt so happy.
"Bella? Are you alright now?" Alright? I'm more than alright! I feel, out of this world! But I can't tell him that. I don't want him to know. Well not yet anyway.
"Yeah, I-I j-just… oh I don't know." I went to rub the side of my head, but before I could stop myself, my hand was already on top of his.
I saw Edward swallow hard, his hand still frozen in place on my cheek. I looked down, trying desperately not to look in his eyes. I know I should've taken my hand off by now, but… I just couldn't.
I felt Edward stroke slowly down my face, only very slightly; and then I felt him move a step closer to me so that our bodies were nearly touching.
I looked back up, to see what emotion was on his face, and found that it practically mirrored mine. He looked like he was fighting to control himself, to control his movements. He looked nervous, but determined.
I finally stared straight into his eyes and found the same type of emotion in them that I saw this morning. Was it really only today that we were travelling to school? It felt much longer than that. Much, much longer.
As I gazed into his eyes, I felt a weird sensation in my stomach, one I have never felt before. It felt like a cross between butterflies and feeling sick. Whatever it was it felt unbelievable and I didn't want to lose it. Ever.
The feeling soon spread throughout my body and I was forever lost in the moment. I felt Edward's breath on my face; his scent overwhelming my senses. All I could see, all I could feel was Edward. Nothing mattered to me more than this moment, this feeling. I would never trade it for the world.
"EDWARD! BELLA! GET YOUR BUTTS DOWN HERE NOW, WE'RE WAITING!" We jumped away from each other in fright, surprised by Emmett's loud voice. As soon as we lost contact, all that was felt in that moment had swiftly disappeared.
I quickly turned to look at Edward, as we had abruptly turned away from each other at the loud noise, and the feeling in my stomach returned.
Uh-oh…
"I-I'm just going to, uh, change these…uh…shoes! Yes, I'm going to change my shoes." I struggled to get out the excuse to leave the room. It was very tense before we were disturbed.
"Yeah, um, I'll go downstairs and… uh… wait." He looked up at me, our eyes meeting once again. We stood there, frozen for a moment, and then he rapidly made his way to the door and went downstairs. I quickly snapped myself out of my reverie and also made my way to the door.
I went back into Rose's room, got a pair of black pumps out of her wardrobe and changed into them. Then I hurriedly made my way downstairs to meet everyone, and Edward.
"Finally! She has arrived, now can we please leave or there wont be enough time to look around." Alice's chirpy, but freakishly stern voice echoed throughout the room as I came into view. I glanced over at Rose and she scowled at my bootlessness. (A/N: Lolol at that word! Sorry, anyway, carrying on…) I merely shrugged and looked away. I'd get the lecture later on when we were alone, and I also knew for a fact that Rose and Alice would interrogate me as soon as we were alone.
I bet you can't guess what they wanted to talk to me about?
I breathed in deeply and sighed. It was not something to look forward to. We eventually all made our way to their garage and lo and behold, we were going in couples.
Shit-ake Mushrooms. This was not happening. It clearly wasn't my day today.
I slowly made my way towards the passenger side of Edward's Volvo and waited for him to unlock it. He came out last from the house, and when he saw the arrangements, I swear he mouthed the word 'shit'. Well at least I wasn't the only one nervous about being together, alone.
Edward walked over, looking anywhere but at me, and unlocked the car. I wordlessly got in and did my seatbelt. I heard him get in after me and start the engine. Before I knew it, we were on the motorway, (A/N: or highway. Either or, it's the same thing) going towards…
Wait a second, where were we going? I was about to turn towards Edward and ask him, but decided against it. When I looked at him, it would probably take me five minutes to make one coherent sentence. So I sat there for the whole journey, in silence, thinking about what had happened in his room.
Ok, I know I've changed my mind about three times, but now I truly think Esme was right. What just happened in his room would not happen to friends. Not just friends.
"Bella we're here." Edward's voice was barely a whisper, but I could still hear him. It hadn't taken as long as I thought it did, but I suppose with Edward's driving, it was expected.
I got out quickly and looked around to see where we were. A museum? Since when did Emmett, Rose and Alice like Museums? I know Jasper loves them and Edward doesn't mind, but why did they want to go?
"Guys, why are we at a Museum?" I turned towards them, probably with a confused expression on my face. It was Alice who answered.
"Well Grumpy Guts, we thought, as you're only here for a few more days, that we should take you somewhere you like." They came here for me? Damn I love my friends.
"Can we hurry up pelease?? I want to get this over with." I laughed at Emmett and led the way into the Museum. We went up to the admissions desk and asked for six tickets but the woman didn't seem to hear as she was gawking at Edward.
Anger rushed through me and I had a sudden, uncontrollable urge to punch this woman, to make her stop staring at Edward. My hands were clenched into fists at my sides and I was staring, no I was glaring at her. I think this is what they call jealousy.
A nudge from Rose caught my attention and made me stop looking at the woman. Rose had her eyebrows raised and kept looking between Edward, the woman and me. I turned around before she could say anything and knocked on the desk in front of us.
"Excuse me? Can I have the tickets please? And stop gawking at my husband." WHAT? BELLA! WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT?! Shit, shit, shit, shit…
The woman was startled and quickly turned her eyes to me.
"I-I'm s-sorry. H-here are your t-tickets miss, no I mean u-uh mrs." I had to bite my lip to stop myself from laughing. Once we finally got the tickets, we made it to the first 'area' that was the Egyptians.
We all spilt up when we entered the room, as we were all interested in different things. I went straight to the sculptures and artwork. I loved historic artwork; I found it so fascinating the way they used images and pictures to tell a story or something. At first, I thought I had ventured on my own, but I felt someone's presence behind me so I looked round.
Edward. But it wasn't Edward in the car Edward. This was Edward with beautiful crooked grin on his face Edward. I couldn't help but smile back.
"So my lovely wife, what are we going to look at first?" He walked towards me, his grin getting bigger by the second. I let out a laugh, not able to hold it in anymore.
"Sorry I had to do that. She was taking forever and it was kinda annoying, to be honest." I blushed slightly at my own comment and let out a nervous laugh.
"No, it's alright. I didn't mind. She was staring to freak me out a little though." He shuddered slightly. "I would hate to know what she was thinking just then."
"She was undressing you with her eyes, you didn't have to know what she was thinking to know what she wanted to do with you." I did NOT just say that. Edward rose and eyebrow at me.
"And how would you know what that looked like?" That was easy enough to answer.
"Because whenever I'm with you, every single girl we pass does it. And then once they've undressed you, they give me evils for just being next to you." I shook my head at the memories. Edward looked bewildered.
"Girls used to look at me, like that?" He didn't notice? How can anyone not notice?
"Yeah they did, ALL the time. I wanted to sl—" I was cut off my Alice's voice.
"You two! Come on, we're going to the Roman's now!" I didn't even get to look at the Egyptian stuff.
After that, we all walked round together and every now and then commented on the artefacts. Some of us were quite serious, like Jasper and I, but some people's comments were just hilarious. When we got to the Greeks, there were sculptures of an animal that ate other people, but it was half man, well you could definitely tell it was a man.
(Begin Flashback-Thing)
"Omg Rose! Check out HIS crown jewels! Man! That goes all the way to his chest! I feel sorry for his wife. He's HUGE! Jazz, come have a look at this!" Jasper made his way over to Emmett.
"Holy Shit! That's like the size of his leg! Hey Edward, take a load of this, I know yours is big but not as big as this!" Edward froze mid-step and he turned and stared at Jasper. I was drinking a bottle of water at the time, and was listening to the conversation. When Jasper said what he had to say, I practically choked on the water and spat it out.
Rose and Alice were laughing hysterically next to Emmett while Edward and I were in shock.
"Looks like virgin boy wasn't expecting that!" Virgin Boy? Poor Edward, he was bright red from embarrassment, or was it anger?
"Emmett you did not just say that out loud." Edward was breathing deeply, probably trying to control himself. I slowly walked away from Edward and Emmett, knowing that something bad was about to happen. Jasper stood in front of Alice and Rose and pushed them away from them too. We all knew Emmett loved a fight, especially when Edward got angry. Edward has a very short temper, so they fight a lot.
But even though they do it all the time, they still shouldn't fight in a museum. Of all places a museum? I worked out that Edward would probably be able to see me out of the corner of his eye, so I slowly shook my head, telling him no. His eyes turned to look at me and he relaxed his stance.
Emmett looked confused. "Eddy? No fight today?"
"No, we're in a museum you idiot. Let's just carry on." He walked up to me and whispered in my ear, "Thanks." Which made a shiver run down my spine.
(End Flashback-Thing)
Thinking back on the things Jasper and Emmett said, they said at one point how…big Edward was.
I stood frozen in the exit. I couldn't stop myself. I started laughing really loudly. I was cracking up.
"Bella?" I couldn't respond, I was laughing too much. I didn't even know who spoke my name. Now I was crying with laughter.
"Bella what's so funny?" It was Edward's voice.
"Emmett!" I tried to choke out but I was laughing hysterically at this point. I saw Edward smile and shake his head. Once I had calmed down, we got back in the cars and made our way back. I still giggled every now and then, the humour never completely disappeared.
The mood was considerably happier than on the way here. I laughed to myself once again. You can always rely on Emmett to make the day a little brighter, not that it wasn't amazingly earth shattering anyway. Yes, I though what happened this afternoon was earth shattering. It made me smile just thinking about it.
I think I can safely conclude that Esme was mostly right, and I hope she stays right. Because if the man that I was sitting next to now, wasn't in my future, then I didn't want to be either.
Finished Chapter 6!! YAY! So, if you liked Bella and Edwards little 'connection' or if you didn't like it at all, please tell me so I can change things for the better. Yes that means review, pleeease!
Chapter 7 will be up as soon as I can write it!
