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Chapter 3 – Flight 604
BPOV
As I opened my eyes, the events of last night came back to me.
Zeke.
Looking around the room I noticed that he had not returned. I looked over to my alarm clock. 5:30 AM.
I hopped out of bed and headed to my bathroom, taking a shower and dressing before heading down stairs.
I walked over to the counter and reached up into the cabinet for a bowl. I then poured some of my favorite cereal, Froot Loops, and added some milk into the bowl. I walked over to the table to sit down, when I noticed a note.
Bella,
Phil and I had to head out this morning and didn't want to wake you. We are heading to breakfast and to a meeting for the team. Be back around diner time.
Love,
Mom and Phil
Ok, so I had the day to myself...oh, joy.
I finished my cereal and headed back up to my room to check my phone. I had one missed call. It was, of course, Edward.
I hit the send button and he answered on the first ring.
"Hello, Love. How are you this morning?"
I laughed, "I'm fine. Mom and Phil are gone for the day so I'm alone. How are you? How's Forks?"
"I'm sorry to hear that you're all alone for the day. I wish I was there to keep you company. And Fork's is…well Fork's is the same way you left it. Wet and green." He laughed at the last part.
"Don't laugh at me. Down here everything is so bright. Those sunglasses Alice packed me have a good use, I guess. And it is too humid down here. But I'm having fun."
"Well it's cool up here apparently. Oh, and Alice says 'you're welcome for the useful glasses'." He said. "And I told you it would be fun. Have you met any new friends yet?"
Uh, oh. "Not really. Most of the people I've met have been friends of Phil's."
"You ok? You sound a bit distracted."
Oh, crap! "No... I mean yeah I'm fine. The house is pretty close to a terminal and the planes here fly low. One just went by the house and I freaked. Sorry."
"Were you watching Final Destination again?" he laughed, knowing that that movie gave me the creeps.
"No! But hey you have to admit that those things could happen to me. I think I'm the champion at defying death." I laughed.
"I can't argue there. So what have you been doing down there?"
"Well to my horror my mother tried the sex talk again, she forced me to go shopping with her, and Phil has been teaching me how to play baseball."
There was a long pause on the other end of the phone. "You're learning to play baseball?" there was another pause before I heard him chuckle to himself.
"Stop laughing at me! Phil offered and I said yes. And before you say anything I only hit him twice." I looked down to the floor. I knew that I was blushing.
"I'm sorry, love, but even I can imagine that. But I'm glad that you're enjoying your time there."
I was about to reply when a shadow moved across the light on the floor. I gasped and looked towards the bottom of the bed.
Zeke.
"Bella, you ok? What's wrong?" I heard Edward ask from the other end. I quickly regained my composer.
"Um, nothing. I'm fine. I just spilt some water onto the floor, that's all." I looked at Zeke to find him staring at me with his head slight tilted to the side, questing me.
I just motioned for him to be quiet.
"Well I hope that you enjoy Florida while you can for the next three days. I have to go Alice is freaking out about something that Emmett is planning. So I'll talk to you later ok love?"
"Yeah…Oh wait! That's what I meant to ask you. Is it ok if I spend another week down here? I guess I've just been away from my mom to long and I'm not really ready to go."
"Bella, you can stay as long as you'd like." He laughed.
"Alright, thanks. Well I guess I'll talk to you later. Love you."
"Love you, too." And with that he hung up.
I sat my phone down on my nightstand and looked back to Zeke. "Do you feel a little better?"
"A little. The burning isn't so bad. It felt so weird doing that and I felt so bad for the animal."
"Yeah, well apparently it gets better. And it's better than killing a human."
He smiled and motioned over to my phone. "Was that your fiancé?"
I laughed and nodded, "Yes, that was Edward."
"What's he like? If you don't mind my asking." He sat on the corner of my bed.
"Well, he's very kind and loving. He was born back in the 1900's so he has a lot of morals. More morals then are good for a vampire. He's about 6'1", has bronze colored hair, and he has the most gorgeous golden eyes I've ever seen. You just get lost in them." If I hadn't realized that I was lost in my own little world and ranting to someone I didn't really know, I just did. I felt myself blush. "Sorry, I guess you didn't need to know all that."
I heard him give a low laugh, "No, I didn't, but thank you for sharing." He leaned back to lie on his back across the bed and stared at the ceiling. "So why did he chose to hunt animals, not humans? What motivated him away?"
"Well, Carlisle, the one who changed him, fed from animals and Edward just didn't want to be a 'monster,' as he puts it. There are 7 in the family. The leaders or 'parents' are Carlisle and Esme and then there are the 'children' Rosalie, Emmett, Jasper, Alice and Edward. Carlisle is a doctor at the town hospital and the kids all go to school. That's how I met them. All of them follow the animal blood diet. They call themselves vegetarians. Carlisle and Esme are mates, and so are Rosalie and Emmett, and Jasper and Alice." I smiled thinking about my family. I missed them greatly being so far away.
"So Edward was alone?" Zeke's metallic burgundy eyes met mine awaiting an answer.
I had to laugh and answer. "Yeah, he had been alone since he was changed in 1918 and never even so much as had a girlfriend, until me. Apparently, the kids eventually started thinking he was gay."
Zeke laughed along with me. I felt bad about picking on Edward, but I was just having fun and I meant no harm.
"So they consider you as being part of the family?" I nodded. "What's it like? Being in a family of vampires?"
"It's really no different then what a normal family is like. They don't stay together because they have to; they enjoy each other's company. Each person brought something to the family. Carlisle and Esme's compassion towards everyone and everything, Emmett's fun loving and trouble making persona, Jasper keeps everyone down to earth, Alice…is just Alice, Rosalie is stubborn and makes sure the family see that there are two sides to things. She was hell bent on the family staying away from me. It took her almost 2 years to finally start talking to me in a 'friendly' way. And then there's Edward. He's the 'protector of the underdog' as most say. He's my protector."
"It must be nice, knowing that you have a family to go back home to. It's going to be weird being on my own again." He mumbled but the recovered quickly and, to fast for my eyes to follow, jumped off the bed and looked over to my TV. "Wanna watch a movie?"
I looked over at the clock. 7:30 AM. We had time.
I pulled my favorite movie out of the bag, Final Destination. Ironic that I was about to watch it and Edward just mentioned it.
I closed the curtains and popped the movie into the DVD player.
We sat and laughed at the irony of the movie compared to my life and somehow without realizing it we ended up watching all 3 movies.
EPOV (From the Phone Call)
"Edward!"
I sighed as I heard Alice yell my name before running into my room holding flowers. She held the out smiling.
"Ok. Pink, White or Ivory carnations for the centerpieces on the tables for the wedding?"
I sighed. Here we go again. Bella was coming home in three days and Alice couldn't wait to get the final details of the wedding ready. "Alice, that's for Bella to decide. She'll only be gone another three days, relax. Let her enjoy her time with her mom."
Alice huffed and walked out.
I leaned over and grabbed the picture of Bella and I in my backyard. We were just sitting under a tree working on homework after school on one of the days my family and I 'went camping because of the nice weather.' Alice had snapped the shot while Bella was busy looking over at Emmett who was at the time wrestling around with Jasper in the mud hole the made in backyard. Esme wasn't too happy about that one.
As I sat the picture down my phone began to vibrate and I knew who it was before I answered.
"Hello, Love. How are you this morning?"
I heard her laugh on the other line, "I'm fine. Mom and Phil are gone for the day so I'm alone. How are you? How's Forks?"
"I'm sorry to hear that you're all alone for the day. I wish I was there to keep you company. And Fork's is…well Fork's is the same way you left it. Wet and green." I had to laugh at the last part while looking out the window.
"Don't laugh at me. Down here everything is so bright. Those sunglasses Alice packed me have a good use I guess. And is too humid down here. But I'm having fun."
I heard Alice yell from downstairs, "Tell her I said she's welcome for the glasses! I knew she'd need them!!"
"Well it's cool up here apparently. Oh, and Alice says 'you're welcome for the useful glasses.' And I told you it would be fun. Have you met any new friends yet?"
There was a slight pause on the other end. "Not really. Most of the people I've met have been friends of Phil's."
"You ok? You sound a bit distracted." Something seemed off. She was hiding something, but I wasn't going to push.
"No...I mean yeah I'm fine. The house is pretty close to a terminal and the planes here fly low. One just went by the house and I freaked. Sorry."
"Were you watching Final Destination again?" I laughed knowing that her life just about matched the movies 'plot'.
"No! But hey you have to admit that those things could happen to me. I think I'm the champion at defying death." Her bell like laugh came through the phone. I had missed that sound.
"I can't argue there. So what have you been doing down there?"
"Well to my horror, my mother tried the sex talk again, she forced me to go shopping with her, and Phil has been teaching me how to play baseball."
I had to pause on that one. Bella...playing baseball…I really hope they had a good E.R. "You're learning to play baseball?"
"Stop laughing at me! Phil offered and I said yes. And before you say anything I only hit him twice." Even without being there, I could hear the blush in her voice.
"I'm sorry, love, but even I can imagine that. But I'm glad that you're enjoying your time there."
I heard her gasp loudly at something. I knew that she didn't spook at much so whatever it was must have surprised her. I knew she was in the house because I could faintly hear the voice echo on the walls. "Bella, you ok? What's wrong?"
"Um, nothing; I'm fine. I just spilled some water onto the floor, that's all." She sounded frazzled. Like she was quickly trying to cover something. This wasn't like her; I had to figure out what was going on.
I am still on edge over what had happened with Victoria. I could have lost Bella, and now having her so far away and acting as she is I knew something was up.
"Well I hope that you enjoy Florida while you can for the next three days. I have to go Alice is freaking out about something that Emmett is planning. So I'll talk to you later ok love?"
"Yeah…Oh wait! That's what I meant to ask you. Is it ok if I spend another week down here? I guess I've just been away from my mom to long and I'm not really ready to go."
"Bella you can stay as long as you'd like." I hid my worry with a laugh.
"Alright thanks. Well I guess I'll talk to you later. Love you."
"Love you, too." I hung up the phone and immediately dialed the airport in Seattle for the first available flight to Jacksonville, Florida.
My flight left at 9 AM.
And I should land around 10 PM.
I packed my things and said goodbye to my family before leaving.
I entered the airport and headed for the waiting area for my flight. It wasn't long before I heard a woman on the intercom. 'Flight 604 to Jacksonville, Florida now boarding.'
I grabbed my things and boarded the plane.
Something was up with Bella and I was determined to figure out what.
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