A/N: Yet another long chapter, 6,050 words for this one. (Yippee)
I'm sorry that this took forever, I really am.
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Here is Chapter 21, enjoy.
Bella's Point of View
"Seriously Edward," I yelled at him. "Calm down and we'll go home in a few minutes. We can't let Ross see you this angry." Trying to restrain Edward from running to the house is not the easiest thing to do. We allowed Emmett to go home first because he wouldn't get too protective. But just because at points through out the day, we were sitting in the trees outside of the house listening to their conversations, didn't mean that we were overprotective. When they had been eating dinner outside and Ross had asked Nessie on a date (a proper date) it took Emmett, Jasper and myself to restrain him from ripping Ross' head off.
"Bella, honestly, I won't do anything to him."
"Yeah honey," I said patting him on the back. "I'm sure that you won't do a thing."
I hadn't seen Edward this upset or impacient in a while and he was really starting to frighten me. After a few minutes, I stood up from the murky ground that we were sitting on and started walking home. We were moving at about the pace that a human would run, considering I was in no hurry to get home. Although Edward and I were worried about Nessie and I was trying to restrain him it was nice to spend a little bit of time alone with him. We were only a mile or so from our house and as we approached I heard Ross' car turn onto the street that led to our driveway and I knew that he was in the clear as long as he drove really fast. I was hoping that Edward hadn't noticed the sound of his car because he wouldn't be happy to learn that Ross hadn't left until 10 o'clock.
We walked into the house and Emmett was sitting on the couch in the living room with Nessie nowhere to be found. Emmett glanced at us and then back to the tv, pretending that we weren't even there.
"Where is she," Edward hissed under his breath. It's not like Emmett had eaten her or anything so he had no right to be bad at Emmett.
"She's sleeping Eddie," Emmett responded not taking his eyes off of the television. Edward absolutely hated being called Eddie and Emmett was the only one brave enough to call him that. "And you are going to leave her alone. You know that she didn't sleep well last night and I'm not letting you wake her up so that you can yell at her and then interrogate her."
Emmett was being defensive and it was a side of him that I never saw. But at this particular moment I was glad that he was being as defensive as I was. He cared about Nessie more than anybody else, except for Rosalie, and I loved him even more because of that. It was also nice to not be the only one that cared about keeping Edward away from Nessie at this moment. I just wish that Edward wasn't so protective of her because someday it would give her a complex.
"Eddie, why don't you teach Bella the piano? It should relax you or amuse you," he laughed under his breath.
"Since when are you the voice of reason," Edward whispered in a low voice.
"Since I realized that she is growing up. Have you realized how happy that girl is right now? She never stops smiling, not even while she is asleep. She is innocent Edward and she has morals and boundaries. She would never do anything to hurt you. And," he emphasized. "Her dating some guy is not to hurt you or annoy you or some kind of defiance. She is dating Ross to make herself happy. At least understand that."
Edward and I just stood dumbfounded for a minute. Emmett was sticking up for Nessie and I was glad to have another person on my side. Carlisle wanted Nessie to be happy but not to the extent of dating a human. (Glad I know that now!) Esme just wanted Nessie to be happy, no matter what the cost. (Score one for Team Ross). Alice already knew what was going to happen so she was on my side. (Score one more for Team Ross). Jasper was hard to read when it came to Nessie so I would score him as a tie. Rosalie despised the idea, just like my situation years ago. She didn't want Renesmee to get too attached and then have him not feel so keen on her being what she is. We all know Edward's feelings and mine (So now the score is Team Ross: 3, Team Edward: 3). And now we had Emmett join our side. It was now only a matter of time before everybody was on board with Team Ross.
"Come on Edward, teach me some more piano," I begged him. Hopefully my piano skills would put him a better mood. My skills were improving but I hadn't had many lessons yet. I had tried to just let my finger's take over and it hadn't sounded too bad.
I grabbed Edward's hand and made it upstairs to our music room. We had a piano, a drum set, guitars (acoustic and electric) and just about every other instrument that you could think of. Just because we had all those instruments didn't mean that we played them all. Edward was musical; he could play just about anything. I was learning the piano and the guitar, gradually, and Jasper could play the guitar also. I was learning from Jasper how to play the electric guitar and the acoustic from Ann. She was very patient compared to Edward and Jasper. Every time I would get frustrated around Jasper he would become frustrated as well.
Edward and I sat at the piano all night and played quietly. He was trying to teach me how to read music but I was better at just listening to the way that he played it and then playing it back to him almost immediately afterward. He smiled at me when I nailed some of the hardest piano compositions and kissed me on the forehead.
"I love you Bella."
"I love you too Edward."
I kissed him on the lips and all of sudden, I felt the urge to jump on him and have him make love to me. I wrapped my legs around his waist as he lifted me off of the bench, still with my legs around him and kissing him passionately, and he closed and locked the door. Our lips never lost contact as we made our way across the room and back towards the piano. He set me on top of the piano gently and started rubbing my body in all sorts of ways that I felt like I hadn't felt in a long time. I didn't care that there were people through out my house or that my daughter was asleep downstairs. Everything that was inside of my head escaped as Edward removed my shirt and I unbuttoned his. I pulled him closer to me, using my legs to create no space between us, just so that I could be as close to him as possible. I wrapped my shield around the both of us so that he could get some privacy as well in our personal moment together.
When I made love to Edward it was like no other feeling that I had ever had. I knew that no matter what he would be the love of my life, of my eternity and my forever. I know that I never really believed in true love until I met him but just calling him my husband was never nearly enough to explain how I felt about him.
After a few rounds we were laying on the floor of the music room with our clothes thrown over the piano and a guitar laying in pieces next to us. Just another casualty in our sexcapades. I smiled at Edward as we felt the warmth of the sun shining through the windows in the back of the house. It felt so nice to feel warmth and to have him wrapping his arms around me, no longer getting cold at the feeling of his skin. Once the sun was up beyond the horizon it was time for us to get up off of the floor. No doubt somebody would want to come in here eventually today. If it weren't for that fact then I would have stayed here for the entire day, possibly the next week.
Renesmee's Point of View
I woke up in the morning and with a big smile on my face. I remember watching a movie with Ross and then falling asleep on the couch with him. When Uncle Emmett woke us up I freaked out thinking that my dad was home and Ross would be killed because of it. But thanks to Uncle Emmett, Ross is alive and well, I think. I was hoping that he got home okay because that car of his is not the most reliable car in the world. I remember hearing my father yelling at Uncle Emmett and how my uncle defended me. I was smiling towards Emmett and when he started to go on a rant about me, I fell asleep.
But I knew that today was going to be a good day. I would go hunting today and then tonight I had a real date with Ross, that's if I had permission to and if my family didn't scare him off. I would hate to him.
That afternoon I went hunting with Aedan, Camden and Carlisle. It was a change of pace that I loved because mostly I would go hunting with my mom and dad. But Aedan and Camden had been doing well with the vegetarian lifestyle so that is why I went with them. If they were still having issues there was no way that anybody would allow me to go with them. If they even smelled human blood it would be a very bad thing and they didn't want me to see that or need to restrain them.
When it was time for my date, I was so excited. Everybody was sitting around in the living room waiting for him to arrive. When I heard his car I began to get nervous.
"Alright everybody, act human and for god sakes be nice to him."
I stood at the door in anticipation of Ross' arrival. When I walked outside to greet him, he looked so nervous like he had never been on a date before. And great, now I had to introduce him to the family. This kid was going to have a headache before we even went out on our first date. I walked over when he got out of his car and gave him a hug.
"Are you ready to meet the family," I asked him.
The smile that was on his face, though it was a nervous smile, disappeared and his expression was unreadable. "Come on, I promise they don't bite."
I chuckled to myself and heard my family inside also laughing. If only he knew. I walked in the house holding Ross' hand. My dad looked at me with a harsh look but when he realized that Ross was looking at him, he softened his expression. Besides my father though, the rest of the family had warm inviting smiles on their faces. Okay something was going on.
"You already know Alice," I said pointing to her. She had a warm, inviting smile on her face and nodded towards him. He nodded back. "This is Jasper and his twin sister Rosalie. Then the big guy is Emmett and next to him is Edward. And finally my cousin Bella."
I was wishing that I could explain to him who my family members really were. I was good at the lying thing but it was bound to slip up eventually. I would say that my father was too overprotective and Carlisle doesn't seem like that kind of father to anybody. He was our leader more than anything but Esme played the mother role very well. She cared for her children, although they were old enough to take care of themselves, and she did a better job than most mothers did with their biological children. She helped raise me and taught my mother a few things and for that I was very grateful.
Ross introduced himself to the family, making his rounds around the room. My father gripped his hand a little tighter than anybody else did, including Uncle Emmett. Ross came back over to me and he looked like he had loosened up a little bit. We said our goodbyes to the family before turning to leave.
"Nessie, can we talk for a minute," I heard my mother ask. I looked at Ross and he continued to the car while I went back over to my mother.
"Mom, what's wrong?"
"You're just growing up so fast," she sobbed quietly wrapping her arms around me.
"Oh mom," I said quietly allowing my arms to circle around her tiny frame. I held on tightly and felt like I was going to cry. And if she were able to cry she would have been. She let go of me and my dad was next. He looked at me for a moment with a look of discipline on his face but then he smiled, also wrapping me in a hug.
"Be safe honey, okay," he whispered. "Don't be home too late."
"No problem daddy, it's a school night anyways." Plus there really isn't anywhere to escape to, I added in my thoughts. He chuckled quietly. It then seemed like I was passed around the room because I was engulfed into a bear hug the next thing that I knew.
"Don't be making out in the movie theater," Emmett said loudly. "It's not the lady like thing to do."
"Oh," my father snickered. "Like you and Ross have never done that one before." I laughed as Emmett put me down and got into my father's face yelling at him with profanities that I wouldn't like to repeat. Esme and Carlisle hugged me and kissed my forehead at the same time. Alice and Jasper were sitting on the couch listening to Emmett and my dad argued with each other while Rose and my mom were yelling at them to knock it off. My family was absolutely ridiculous.
"Nessie, honey, go be normal," Esme said.
"That's for the sake of all of us," Carlisle said before stepping away from me and to the fighting teenage boys in the middle of the living room. They were both over 75 years old but they were still acting like adolescent boys. I shook my head and walked out of the door laughing. Ross got out of the car and opened my door before joining me inside.
"What's going on in there," he asked me.
"Well this is my first date and I'm the baby so I'm being treated as such. Then Emmett and Edward got into an argument because Edward made a snide comment about him and Rosalie. I swear they are all like a bunch of 5 year olds."
He laughed a little bit before he spoke. "I like your family," he said honestly still laughing a little bit. "Emmett seems like the big, tough enforcer but Edward is the one that does the enforcing."
"When it comes to my everyday life yes but just to let you know, if you hurt me then Emmett will be the one leading the hunting party. I heard him shallow loudly. "Don't worry but we should get going before we miss the beginning of the movie."
"Sorry I don't drive as fast as you do."
"It's alright not many people do."
As he started up the car I was thankful because if the fight between my dad and Emmett escaladed into a physical fight then it would probably not be the best thing for Ross to see. However, most of their fights usually did result in a competition or in a fight. And usually their fights were about the other's sex life.
That night at the movies was so much fun. The movie theater was basically empty, except for an elderly couple that ended falling asleep a few minutes into the movie, so it was like we had the place to ourselves. It was like Ross and I had known each other for years and we were so comfortable with each other. He never once mentioned the temperature of my skin, which made me relax quite a bit. Also the fact that I didn't have any of my family around made my life so much easier. We held hands for the entire movie but nothing more than that. Around halfway through the movie he tried putting his arm around me but we ended up getting pelted with popcorn. I turned around quickly and saw my Uncle Emmett, my Uncle Jasper and my father sitting 5 rows behind us, each holding their own bags of popcorn. I scowled at them and I think that I hissed quietly also. Ross looked too and laughed at them, turning around and continued watching the movie. After another minute of me giving them the death glare I turned my attention back towards the movie.
It wasn't really that great of a movie to begin with and now everything was ruined. I was so upset by the fact that I couldn't have alone time with Ross without the men in my family looking over me. Why did Jasper come anyways? I thought of all of the guys he would have been the one to stay home and leave me alone. That's why I loved Jasper so much. He didn't hover as much as the other two did. I think that Ross could sense what was wrong because he looked at me. He leaned in a little bit.
"Don't worry about it Nessie, they are just being over protective. It's fine."
"But it's not okay. This isn't right."
"Do you want any popcorn," he asked me. I looked down and barely any of it was eaten. I didn't like popcorn at all and I could always just say that I had a big dinner and that I wasn't hungry.
"No why?"
"A fabulous idea just popped into my head."
Before I knew it there was an on slot of popcorn being thrown at us from the location of the boys. I took a handful of ours and started throwing it at them, turning around to face them. My dad had really bad aim, he never got it anywhere near us. Jasper was doing particularly good and Emmett is well Emmett. He ran down the aisle and dumped the rest of his bag on top of his head. We were all in hysterics by the end and the old couple in the corner of the theatre was still sleeping soundly. There was popcorn everywhere and I kind of felt bad for whoever had to clean up our little mess.
Afterwards there was no point in staying for the rest of the movie so after the guys left, with a punch from me to each of them, Ross and I left.
"So do you want to go anywhere," he asked me. "We don't need to be back at your house for another hour."
"I don't know it's up to you."
"Do you want to get some ice cream," he asked. I hated the fact that I had to eat when I didn't want to. I hated most human food and when you were dating a human, whose mission in life seemed like it was eating, then I just had to get used to it.
"I guess that would be nice."
We ended up going to the town's local ice cream shop. I smiled as he held my lower back in line and waited to place our orders. Once we had our ice cream we just sat down at a picnic table and talked.
"So," he asked me. "Do I still have popcorn in my hair?"
"Umm, no. You seem to be all set. However, for me, it is going to take forever to get this stuff out of my hair. You're so lucky that you have short hair. I have been wanting to cut mine for a long time."
"Please don't," he said quietly.
"Why?"
"Because I love your hair the way that it is. I think that if you had shorter hair it just wouldn't look right."
I ran my fingers through my hair and stray pieces flew in front of my face. He softly brushed the strands of hair behind my ear, but his hand rested on my face. I saw the look in his eyes and he seemed so innocent and sweet and there was nothing stopping me from kissing him right at the moment. He gently pulled my face towards his, although I was moving in that direction without his help, and he leaned in until we were just centimeters away from each other. We were so close that I could smell the sweet scent of his breath. I wanted to kiss him so bad but I couldn't bring myself to move any closer. I wanted to stay this close to him forever and I didn't want the moment to end.
I didn't really know what to do though. I had never kissed anybody besides the members of my family and in no way was this the same thing. I was frozen in place and I couldn't tell why. My heart was beating so fast that it felt like it was going to burst through my chest. Ross leaned into the space that was left between us and our lips connected. A bolt of electricity shot through my body in the limited time that our lips were touching.
We both pulled away at the same time and smiled at each other, and that's all we did while we finished our ice cream. We kept our eyes locked on one another and we were both smiling like big fools. He was just amazing to me. Most teenage boys would have tried more and not many dates would have gone so well with the girl's family sitting behind them in a movie theatre. Also, when Ross had decided to throw the popcorn, I thought it was the most brilliant idea.
This weekend had been the best of my short life by far. When we got to the house Ross kissed my cheek inside of the car before we go out and he walked me up to the door.
"Thank you," I said lamely to him.
"You're welcome, but for what may I ask?"
"Sticking up to my brother, not many people would have done that. They can all be a bunch of lug heads at times."
"It's alright. My brothers are the same way. They would have been there tonight too if they would have known about it."
"Oh great, so our brothers can just form one big team."
"Yep, sent just to annoy us."
We laughed a little bit as we approached the door and then we embraced in a hug.
"I'll see you tomorrow," he asked, a little unsure of himself. It's not like I was just going to skip down in order not to see him.
"Of course. I had a great time tonight."
"As did I." He bent down and whispered in my ear "Sweet dreams Nessie." His breath sent a shiver down my spine and he turned to walk to his car, leaving me with a smile on my face as I watching him drive back down the driveway.
When I walked into the house my family was nowhere to be found. I figured that they would be here asking me a million questions but they weren't. I finally decided to go upstairs to see if they were in their rooms but nothing. I went into the music room and sat down on the bench in front of the piano. It smelled like bleach in here, overwhelmingly so, but it didn't bother me as much as it normally would. I was in a great mood and nothing was going to take that away from me.
I ran my fingers across the keys and let them take over as I let my emotions lead my fingers. A beautiful melody came out and it was nothing I had ever heard before. I committed it to my memory so that I could play it again and maybe even put words to it some day. I didn't know how to fully write down music yet and I didn't want to mess up this melody. The tune carried through the empty house and I then felt a presence behind me. I immediately stopped.
"Don't stop," Ann spoke quietly. "Please." She sat down beside me and looked at me. "That was absolutely beautiful. Did you write it?"
"Yeah, just now actually. It kind of just came to me out of nowhere. I haven't even played the piano in a few months but all of a sudden it was calling to me."
"When did you learn?"
"When I was younger my dad would be playing and I asked him to teach me. I wanted to be just like every other member of my family and have all of their talents. I have a little bit of something from all of them."
"Which is a good thing if I do say so myself. They let me come in and I love them for that. You have a really great family."
"I do," I responded. "But they do have some issues with being a little too overprotective."
"I understand that. I don't remember much from when I was a human but I do remember my older brother. He was one of those guys that put on a front about how much of a pain I was and that he didn't really care about me. But every time I had a boyfriend he would interrogate the hell out of them and if they hurt me, he would hurt them. He was really a great brother. I miss him so much."
"What was his name?"
"Josh but I called him Doshy just to annoy the crap out of him."
"See I wish I could do that but my aunts and uncles have been around for so long that they've heard all of the annoying nicknames that there are. My dad still hates being called Eddie and my mom hates being called Isabella so I guess it could work in that aspect."
"I should try calling your dad Eddie. I wonder how that would go over."
"Not to well I would assume." I paused for a minute. Ann remembered a lot of her human life. I had never really talked to her about it before. "So have you ever checked up on your family," I asked unsure if she wanted me to speak about her human life.
"A few times. Right after I died my parents got a divorce and my entire family separated but the last time that I checked they were still on good terms. They live within a 30-mile radius of each other and get together on every holiday and birthday. On the anniversary of my death and on my birthday they all go to the cemetery with each other. The last time my brother brought his daughter with him. She was so adorable and I was just so happy for him. He named her after me you know."
"That was really sweet of him."
"He's always been a sweet guy and I just wish that I could talk to him. We were like best friends when we were teenagers. We had the same friends, the same life but then I went to college and he didn't. But I think that me being the way that I am now helped him. He started going to college after that, trying to be who I was and have my parents be proud of him. He owns his own contracting business now and he's married and has a beautiful daughter."
"Do you know his wife's name?"
"Megan I believe. But I have never really seen her. I've heard him talk about her to my parents and the wedding band on his finger."
"Is it hard?" Ann looked at me confused by my question. "To be so close to your family and not be able to talk to them?"
"All of the time. I want so badly just to tell them that everything will be alright. I just want them to not be so sad about it. My life is great like this because I found my soul mate and I met your family. I will go back again soon."
"Do you want me to come with you?"
"You want to come," she asked with disbelief.
"Yeah, I want to be there for you. I couldn't even imagine not being able to see my family, to talk to them, to hug them or to get angry at them when they interrupt my date."
"Wait what? They interrupted your date."
"Of course, what would you expect from the boys. They would do it to any of us but especially me."
"Did that ruin it all?"
"No actually, it made it more fun. A popcorn fight in a movie theatre just kind of made the situation a little bit lighter. Ross and I had our first kiss tonight to."
"Oh my God, tell me," she said turning towards me sitting with her legs criss-crossed underneath her. "You could have stopped me from talking about my family when you had huge news like this."
"I meant what I said about going with you."
"I know and I think I will take you up on your offer. The next time it is sunny I'm hoping in my car and driving down to Massachusetts."
"Alright."
"Okay so continue with you date."
We sat and talked about the date that I had with Ross. It was so great to have somebody to talk to about it, especially because Ann was so upbeat about everything. I just wished I had more friends like her. I was sad though because of her story. I felt so bad for her and there was nothing that I could do about it. I wanted to have her be able to talk to her family so that she could hug them again and stay with them. I would never be able to leave my family; I would never be that strong. The more I learned about Ann the more I began to realize how strong she really was. And she did so well at covering it all up with being upbeat and happy all of the time but something told me that there were a lot of issues within her.
After talking with her for a little longer, she helped me work on the lyrics of my song. It was coming along but I knew that it was time for me to go to sleep. None of my family was home either and they never left me alone at night. One of them was always there to put me to sleep and I was beginning to get nervous about it. I went to bed and fell asleep around midnight.
Bella's Point of View
"I think we can go home now," I said to my family. We had all gone off into the woods to work on our fighting skills. There was nothing to do after the boys had gotten back from ruining my daughter's date. I was completely opposed to it but they snuck off and were out of the driveway before we realized that they were even gone. So Rosalie, Alice and I had decided that we would make them suffer by not letting them see Nessie after her date.
They all nodded their heads and we all started running to the house, which slowly became a competition to see who could win the race. I came in second, only losing to Jasper, with Edward close behind and then Emmett and Rosalie tied and Alice came in last. But part of me thought that she did that purposely because she knew what would happen if Emmett came in last place.
We walked into the house and Ann and Alex were sitting in our living room, each reading a book from Carlisle's study.
"Hey Cullens," Alex said to us as we made our way to the house.
"Where have you been," Ann asked us impatiently. "Nessie was worried."
"Where is she," I asked.
"She is sleeping."
"How late is it?"
"One in the morning."
"Oh god, is she okay?"
"She's fine, she had a great time on her date and she wrote a piece on the piano."
"Can I hear it," Edward asked her.
"The sheet music is on the piano. Just don't let her hear you, she'll be upset."
"Why," he continued.
"Because it is a personal song that she wrote. If she wanted you to hear it she would play it for her."
"Then why are you letting me read it?"
"Because I think that as a musician you will appreciate it. I wrote the sheet music down for her because she is still having some issues with writing music."
Edward dashed up the stairs.
"Ann, are you sure she is okay," I asked her sitting down in the chair beside the couch.
"Yeah. She had a great time on her date and she played piano, which was absolutely beautiful. I wanted to ask you something."
"Sure, go ahead."
"I was going to take a trip in a few days to check in on my family and Nessie asked me if she could go and I was just wondering if that was okay?"
"Yeah it's fine. We'll all go if you want us to."
"No that's okay. Usually I go by myself but I want Nessie to go with me."
"I went last time," Alex chimed in. "You had a really nice family baby."
"Nessie can go if she wants to," I replied. "I think that she really likes having you around."
"That makes me happy. You should go upstairs and listen to her music. It is absolutely beautiful."
"Thank you," I said getting up off of the chair. I gave her a kiss on the top of the head and ran up the stairs to see Edward at the piano.
"Well isn't this scene familiar," I said standing in the doorway.
"Not again you two," Esme yelled from down the hall. "It took me all day to clean in there."
"Sorry mom," we answered in unison and then laughed with each other. I sat down on the bench next to him and he ran his fingers over the keys looking at the pieces of paper set up in front of him.
"Go ahead and play it quietly," I told him.
He did as I asked and Renesmee's music floated around the room with a beautiful tone that I hadn't heard in such a long time. My daughter was so amazing and she was just going up so quickly and that scared me.
A/N:
So there is the new chapter, how was it?
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I'm thinking another chapter with Ross/Nessie and also Ann going back home
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