Home To Stay Chapter 2, a twilight fanfic

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"She's just like Jacob." I whispered. I thought I got rid of him long ago.

"What did she want with you?" Ally asked. "Why was she bugging you?"

"The will…" I started. "She wants everything."

"We need to get home before I start throwin' punches, I swear it! That b-" Ally stopped and took a deep breath in attempt to calm herself. "That... stupid lady! Ugh! I thought I got rid of her!"

"I thought I did too. I thought Jacob was gone, but I guess I was wrong. His mother is a spitin' image of him or maybe he was a spitin' image of her… Oh well! I hate them both." I said a little too loudly. The woman in front of Ally and I at the cash register turned her head.

"Hate is a very strong word." The woman said. She appeared to be in her sixties or even her seventies. She was what I pictured when Ally said Sarah sold her homemade jewellery to old women who sold bingo card because quite frankly, this woman fit that image. Her voice was shaky too and she had quite a few wrinkles.

"Yeah." I hissed. I really didn't want to be rude, but let's face it - that was my mood at that particular moment. "That's why I used it!"

The old woman turned her head back to the cashier to pay, not saying another word to Ally or me. That was good on her benefit; she really didn't want to hear everything I had to say.

Finally the woman got her purse out and paid her $10.52 she owed the store. I watched her push her little cart away and with an angry sigh I started tossing everything in my cart onto the check out line in front of the young cashier.

He must have been new since I didn't recognize him and I go grocery shopping every weekend. He had dark brown hair that was pretty long and a few pimples on his face. I guessed him to be about sixteen years of age. If not younger a year or two younger. He didn't have a nametag, which I found peculiar.

"Havin' a nice day ladies?" He asked Ally and I. He could tell we were at the store together even though we were buying separately.

Ally huffed. "Lovely day."

"Well the weather is nice." He winked and started checking out my items. I grabbed my wallet out of my black purse so that I could have the money ready by the time everything was scanned. I really wanted to get out of there as soon as possible.

Ally walked around her cart and to me. She put a hand on my shoulder. I looked at her.

"Bells, we ain't gon' tell the guys alright?" She asked me.

I shot her a confused look.

She was just about to explain but then I heard ringing.

"Shit, I mean poop…" Ally looked up at the young boy who chuckled. "You're still kind of young for that."

She reached into her purse and pulled out her cell phone. She brought it up to her ear. "Hello?"

"Oh hi, Jazz!" She smiled a genuine smile and went off into her own little world. I rolled my eyes at her sappiness and turned back to the young boy as he finished scanning the last of my items.

"Did you find everything alright, today?" He asked me.

I nodded. "Everything but the costumers." It came out as a mumble.

"Pardon me?" He asked looking up. Our gazes locked and he smirked. His smirk had nothing on Edward's though.

"Nothing, thank you." I tried to sound nice but I did say it through clenched teeth.

"Okay, you're total is $72.48." He said looking at the computer screen to the side with the total. I handed him my credit card and he swiped it. I quickly put the pin in and went to bag the items.

"Okay, Jazz! Look, I'm just checkin' out! See ya soon?" She laughed. "I most definitely will."

And cue the wiggling eyebrows for Ally.

Yeah… Sometimes you can just tell when she's talking about the nastiness.

…

"That guy… he looked familiar." Ally mumbled and even tapped her chin as though she were concentrating.

"What guy?" I asked letting her know I heard.

"Oh!" Ally exclaimed. "The guy at the cash register…"

"He was only like what, fifteen?" I questioned.

Ally shrugged. "He looked familiar."

"Well I've never noticed him before. Certainly not at the store." I told her truthfully. We were nearly home. Or well, my house, I still had to drive Ally home to hers. I should bring my groceries home first… The cold stuff won't be cold if I go straight to Ally's.

"Yeah, I never saw him at the store… His face though… It seemed familiar. Hmm." Again she shrugged. "Oh well."

"Anyway… Oh!" Ally said. Yes, she said 'Oh' a lot today. "Jazz called me."

"Yes," I laughed. "I know that."

"Guess what?" She asked me, getting all jumpy in the passenger seat. Good thing she had her seatbelt on.

"What?" I asked.

"Tell me!" I begged after a few silent moments of her still being jumpy.

"Jazz is at your house!" She smiled. "Well you and Eddie's house."

"Really?" I asked her. "But didn't he have-"

"A flat tire?" Ally intervened and I nodded. "Yeah, Sam came over and fixed it. He called Eddie afterwards. They want to have poker night, but it would be rude to leave out Emmett…"

"Yeah." I sighed. "They should wait."

"Anyway, Jazz is over at your place now. We're havin' dinner together I guess. Good thing I didn't buy ice cream. That would melt. I guess it doesn't matter since Jasper brought a cooler, he put it in the trunk…" Ally rambled. "Smart thinkers those boys are… Well they can be. Most of the time they burp and rub their stomachs since their full."

I laughed. "Classic."

"Happens every night." Ally laughed.

"Yup." I agreed. "So that's cool. Did you ask what's for supper?"

"Ha." Ally laughed. "As if they can cook."

"Well you kind of can't order pizza where I live." I explained.

"Yeah," Ally nodded. "True."

"Do they expect me just to cook?" I asked her and rolled my eyes. I looked over at Ally quickly so she could see me roll my eyes.

"I love your cooking." She replied innocently.

I laughed and turned up the radio.

...

"Wait." Ally interjected. She reached across and tried to stop me from opening the driver's side door.

"What?" I asked her a bit confused. I slowly withdrew my hand and looked over at her.

"Do we tell them?" She asked me quietly as though someone would hear.

"Do we tell them?" I quoted her and I sounded kind of sour. I saw her nod and I knitted my eyebrows together in confusion. "What do you mean, Alice?"

She pointed to the house with didn't give me any explanation.

"What?" I repeated.

"Gosh Bells! Weren't you at the store with me?" She asked dumbly. "Look, do we tell our husbands who we came across at the supermarket or what?"

"Oh!" I came to realization. "Hmm, do you think we should?"

"I don't think so." Ally shook her head.

"Why not?" I asked. The one thing Edward and I promised to each other was that we wouldn't keep anything from each other. It was even in our vows!

"You know how they get..." Ally laughed to herself and shook her head. "I mean it's not that important so we shouldn't bug them."

I sighed. Half of me agreed with Alice. It is a little important. The fact I saw her isn't important but she bugged me and she wants something I don't have anymore.

"You know I'm right Bells. Lets not stress them, there's enough goin' on." She said to me.

"What, poker night?" I asked her. "There isn't much stress."

"Well, lets not bring on stress. Less than a year ago you and Eddie, boy, you had so much stress! Just from Jacob and now you're both all relaxed... Why ruin that?"

"Because Edward and I don't keep anything from each other!" I said a bit too loudly. "If he finds out-"

"It's not keepin' anythin' from each other. It's not like you tell him exactly what happens when you get home from shoppin'." Ally told me and gave a weak smile. "Come on Bells."

"Why do you want to keep it from them?" I asked her and I gave her a pointed look.

"Jasper thought Sarah was out of town." Ally shrugged. "I don't want to stress him out."

"Well I don't want to stress Edward out." I defended myself. I felt attacked, like I was being a bad wife.

"Look!" Ally said loudly and tossed her hands up. "Please, just lets keep this our secret. It's nothing."

"Okay." I nodded slowly. A part of me still hated the fact I was keeping something from Edward. I grabbed the door handle and opened the door. The air outside seemed warmer than the air inside the car, which surprised me. I stepped out of the car and stretched. I walked to the trunk and popped it open, and then I started grabbing some bags. I had three bags and I turned, starting to walk to the house.

I saw Ally, already opening the front door.

Well thanks for the help. Sarcasm.

Something was up with her... I just couldn't put my finger on it.

I sighed and heaved myself forward to the door, the bags suddenly feeling heavier. I looked at the ground and kept walking, when I made it to the door. I just set the bag down on the porch and started walking back to the car. I decided it would be better to get all the shopping bags on the porch, and then I would bring them inside instead of repeatedly opening the door.

It was when I got back to the trunk that I heard footsteps behind me.

I felt a hand on my shoulder.

I still jumped. "Eek. Edward you scared me!"

He chuckled and moved the hand on my shoulder to my waist. His mouth moved to my ear. "Eek? Really?"

"Yes! You scared me!" I said and he chuckled even more. He kissed my cheek.

"Putting away the groceries?" He raised an eyebrow at the packed trunk.

I shook my head. "Bringing them to the door first."

"No difference." He rolled his eyes.

"Yes there is..." I started. "You have to get them out of the trunk, to the door, then inside and after they are inside-"

Edward's lips met mine suddenly. He used his arm that was around my waist to turn me, to face him. He wrapped his other arm around me and pulled me tightly to him. I stood up on my tiptoes so I could reach better. My hands pressed to his chest. Edward parted his lips and I slowly brought my tongue out and licked his bottom lip. He groaned and kissed me harder.

"Welcome home." He murmured in a pant once we released.

"Glad to be home." I panted and turned back to the trunk. Edward kept both arms around me.

"Alice isn't helping?" He questioned and rested his chin on my shoulder.

I shook my head. "Nope."

"That's not very nice, it's the least she could do..." He murmured and kissed my cheek.

"I know." I sighed.

I felt Edward tense a bit. "Did something happen?"

"What do you mean?" I asked instantly.

"You heard me, love." He tried to keep his voice light but it wasn't working. I could already feel him getting stressed, getting angry. I shook my head and quickly thought of a lie.

"No, no. I think she just had a bad day at work."

"Oh, so she was like this the whole time?" Edward asked me and I reached for another bag in the trunk. I grabbed two and held them in my left hand. Edward unwrapped himself from around me and I hated the loss instantly. He grabbed a few bags from the trunk and started following me to bring them to the porch.

"Yeah, as I said, bad day at work I guess." I shrugged to pull off the lie further.

"Thanks for helping." I said to Edward once we were back at the trunk grabbing the rest of the bags. We both had two bags, held by our hands.

"Of course." He smiled at me and instantly my mood shifted.

"I love you." I reminded him and turned. I started walking back to the porch and Edward followed. When we got to the porch we both set down the bags and I opened the door. It led to the kitchen.

"Jazz, I told you!" I heard Ally yell. "Look now shut up! Edward and Bella will be back inside at any moment."

"Stop yellin' at me! I'm askin' 'cause I love ya!" Jazz yelled back a little quieter than Ally. I looked over my shoulder at Edward. He had a look of confusion on his face.

"What's going on with them?" I asked in a whisper.

"I honestly do not know..." His eyebrows knitted together.

"Jasper didn't mention anything earlier?" I asked him.

"No he was just talking about being pissed about the flat... poker night... sports... oh, wait..." Edward stopped. "Hmm... He did mention that he was glad to get out of the house. Then I mentioned that he should call and tell Ally that he was at our house..."

"Funny, Ally was really nice on the phone with him." I told Edward.

He nodded. "So was Jasper..."

"Something is going on." I stated.

"Yeah," Edward quickly agreed.

"It may not be our business..." I started.

"They're family. It is our business. I won't let their marriage go into the slums again."

"Again?" I questioned and raised my eyebrows.

I've known Jasper as long as Edward, longer actually. Edward hasn't seen Ally until after I met her, before that they were teenagers when they last saw each other. Jasper and Ally have only been married a year and a half... almost two... how could their marriage already have a rotten moment? How did Edward know this when I didn't?

Why hasn't anyone told me?

Why am I missing so much information?

I sighed internally; I still have so much to learn.

Good thing I have forever.

"That's a conversation for another time." Edward quickly brushed it off.

"Well you're telling me tonight then." I said but smiled a bit so he didn't think I was demanding.

He kissed my temple. "Fine, even though I had other plans for tonight..."

"You always have different plans." I joked.

He rolled his eyes at me. "Yeah, yeah. Come on, let's get these groceries inside."

...

"This is really good, Bella." Jasper said politely. That was all that was said so far through the whole meal. Ally and Jasper sat across from each other, meaning Edward and I had to sit across from each other as well. Edward and I kept exchanging funny looks at each other, trying to figure out the situation. Something was up...

It may not be something big, but something was going on. I was missing something and by the look on Edward's face, he was on the same page as I. He still knew something more than I did and I knew I'd find that out soon.

Edward quirked an eyebrow and looked between Jasper and Ally. The air was... thick.

To say the least.

"Yeah." Edward piped up. "My wife can cook!"

I rolled my eyes at him and he beamed at me. Thankfully, past all the thick tension that all you needed was a knife to cut, Edward stayed ecstatic. I could feel how euphoric he was. He was just always like that, always making me feel elated.

I watched Ally as she shoved another spoonful of rice into her mouth and chewed quickly, swallowing hard afterwards. Her and Jasper were making eye contact as if they were talking.

Edward's words came back to my head.

That doesn't sound suspicious. I mean, I'm glad to get out of the house when I'm stuck in it too often, I bet Jasper felt the same. He and Ally have been spending a lot of time at home lately since there hasn't been poker night and no date night lately. Well at least no triple dates.

Rosalie and Emmett are having one of those on and off affairs. It sucks because Emmett really likes her but Rosalie is stuck, she's having one of those crises where she doesn't know what she wants in life, where she's going or what she wants to do. We all just hope she gets over all those and chooses Emmett.

Because really, they do belong together.

...

"Thanks for havin' us over, Bells." Jasper smiled at me. Ally was still bent down, putting on her shoes. "You too Edward."

"Anytime." I smiled. "Thanks for joining us."

"Yeah, so Edward, I'll call ya when Emmett gets back?" Jasper said and it came out like a question. "Emmett's gon' stop by my place on his way home 'cause he borrowed some DVD's for his portable DVD player, so he had somethin' to do at night, ya know?"

"Yeah," Edward nodded.

"Then you guys can have poker night as soon as possible." Ally straightened her shirt once she stood straight. "Don't let poor Em get some rest when he gets back."

"It's not that, babe." Jazz shook his head roughly. "It's just we want it all planned so that it doesn't get cancelled again!"

"Yeah, yeah." Ally sighed. "Babe, I don't even get the concept of poker night. Get trunk and trade around chips and not the food chips!"

I stifled a laugh.

"I know. It's nice though. Guys need... guy time. Ya know?" Jasper said and Ally tilted her head to the side in confusion. "Never mind ya don't know, you ain't a guy."

Ally rolled her eyes. "Thank the lord for that!"

Edward chuckled to that and Jasper opened the door, letting Ally go through first then he followed. Edward and I went outside to stand on the small porch and watch them leave.

"Oh and Bells!" Ally turned around and looked at me.

Please don't bring up the incident earlier, Ally.

"Yeah?" I asked her warily.

Please don't.

I know if she did, Edward would suspect something instantaneously.

"I'll call you when I hear more from Ang. I'll ask her where she wants to stay next time I talk to her." She told me and I breathed out a breath of relief.

"That's cool with me," I nodded and Ally turned and walked to the car, getting in. Jasper was already in the car and it was turned on.

"Angela?" Edward asked once they pulled down the long driveway.

I nodded. "Yeah her and Ben are coming down next weekend... I think next weekend. Ally will tell me when she calls."

"Nice." Edward smiled. "Poker night with Ben!"

I shook my head and giggled. "You guys are obsessed with poker night."

I looked up at Edward and kissed his cheek. "It's adorable actually."

Edward smirked and then he followed me into the house. "Laugh it up, dear. I'm just excited."

"Oh, so that's what gets you excited?" I asked suggestively and raised my eyebrows.

"Well... Maybe not." He waggled his eyebrows.

I laughed and Edward started to chuckle.

"Now you got me excited, Bella."

"You still have something to tell me." I reminded him.

"They're family. It is our business. I won't let their marriage go into the slums again."

"Again?" I questioned and raised my eyebrows.

Yeah... He still had to explain that.

"That can wait, I have other plans." He chuckled and walked over to me quickly. He picked me up in his arms, carrying me off to our room.

...

"Bella?" I heard Edward call gruffly out to me. It was pretty late into the evening, Edward just finished watching the news and I was drying off the rest of the dishes from dinner.

"Yeah?" I asked, poking my head around to see into the living room where I thought Edward was.

He wasn't there.

"Edward?" I called out.

I saw the front door open and Edward stepped inside with something in his hands.

"Hmm." He hummed loudly and stared down at whatever was in his hands.

"What is it?" I asked suddenly curious. I threw the dishtowel aside and walked into the living room. I walked up to Edward, stopping about a foot in front of him.

He looked pissed.

Edward looked up at me and met my gaze.

"Would you like to explain what the hell these are?" He asked in a growl and showed me what was in his hands.

That's when I knew my secret was out.

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