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Chapter 20

I laughed as I ran to the limo.

"I am so excited to see this house, Mom!" I told her truthfully.

"It is absolutely stunning! You will fall in love with it instantly! There is this lovely room upstairs with a balcony that I thought could be your room. I just… It's really… amazing…" She sighed. It wasn't everyday that I saw my mom lost for words. It really made me smile.

The car journey was quite long but there were no awkward silences. I had so much to tell her, and it turns out, she had a lot to tell me as well. She had been very busy, and apparently had found herself by doing yoga…

"Yoga is just wonderful!" She exclaimed. "I don't know why I never tried it before! It relaxes me so much."

"Whatever does it for you, Mom," I teased.

That wasn't the only odd thing though. She looked very nervous all the time and it started to make me worried.

When we got to Seattle, she said, "Bella, I thought maybe we could go shopping first! Get a manicure, my treat!" She smiled and winked at me. Now I was nervous, this was extremely out of character, but I decided to go with it. She didn't always decide to treat me with these things!

"Sure, that would be great!"

She squealed with happiness. I gave her a confused look but she waved it off.

Seattle was much better than Port Angeles. It had all the big stores that I had grown to miss while in Forks. Mom and I giggled and had a great time shopping. She bought everything I wanted, and I was loving this quality time with her. I got some new boots, leather ones. Yvonne will approve of these, I thought. I also got a blue jacket and a white floaty dress. I decided not to go overboard with the stuff, Mom had tried to buy me even more than that. We stopped for lunch at a small café and I had a sandwich and Mom had soup. We dumped our bags into the limo.

"Right, I have booked this time for a manicure, then after that we have to go and see the house, okay?"

"Sure, that's fine. I can't wait!"

We got to the nail salon and I looked at all the amazing colours and styles on display.

"I have no idea what to choose!" I said, in awe.

"Well, I am going for a straight forward French Manicure, you take your time choosing."

I stood in front of the collection for around five minutes, still indecisive of what to get. In the end I decided to get Cheetah nails. You get this by using a black undercoat and yellow nail polish that chips. I sat in wonder watching the girl paint my nails. I had never been very good at it, but she managed to do it without leaving a mess.

"Are you Bella Swan?" The beautician asked. "As in the actress?"

"Um, yes," I blushed.

"Wow, I love all your movies." She never once looked up my hands. "If you don't mind me asking, what are you doing in Seattle?"

"Well, nothing really, having a day out with my Mom." I looked over to her and she smiled and waved at me with her free hand. I didn't want to tell many people about the movie yet as we had only filmed a few scenes.

"That's cool. Is it true that you are dating Zac Efron?" She looked up at my face to see my reaction to that.

"What? Is that really a rumour?" I laughed. I couldn't stop laughing and soon I was gasping for breath. "I'm sorry." I laugh again. "That is just completely ridiculous!"

She gave me a confused look. "Then why are there all these rumours going around. There are even a few pictures of you together I'm sure."

"I've never met him in my life, I doubt it's me. Maybe another girl looks like me, or something." I shrugged. Mom gave me a confused look from across the room but I mouthed 'I'll explain later'. She nodded and went back to reading her magazine.

"Oh, then you should probably make a statement to stop the rumours or something. Like, make a twitter and announce it." She straightened up. "Right, that's the base done. Is the first hand dry?"

I lightly touched my pinky nail. "Yeah, It seems like it."

She nodded, but searched around in her desk for a bit.

"Here it is!" She brought up a gossip magazine. "Here, this is the one about you and Zac. Read the article." Then she started working on the top coat.

I flicked open the magazine to the section about me.

It seems that Bella Swan has got a new man after her. It has been reported that she and Zac Efron have been frolicking on a beach in California, and they looked very close if you know what I'm saying. They went out on trip together on Monday on his private boat and didn't come back until Thursday. Here are some exclusive pictures.

I turned my attention away from the text and towards the pictures. I gasped. There was no denying it. That was me in the pictures. I was hugging Zac in the water. I was walking with Zac along the beach. I was with Zac.

But I wasn't.

I was utterly confused. I stared at the magazine with my eyes wide. I was horrified. Someone out there was pretending to be me. I shook my head.

"All done. Now we wait for some of the nail polish to crack and Voila!" She said.

"Do you mind if I keep this?" I asked her, referring to the magazine.

"No, of course not! That's an old one anyway." She smiled at me.

"This girl really look like me," I muttered. "Maybe I'm having an identity crisis."

"I'm sure whoever it is will be caught for impersonation. This will all blow over."

"Hopefully," I replied.

When we were done, my mom went to the counter and paid.

"Mom, I have something to show you in the car. It really freaked me out," I shuddered as I told her.

We quickly walked to the limo, my mother panicking at what it could be.

"Look at this article!" I shoved the magazine in my mother's face as we sat in the car. Her eyes widened with surprise when I watched her eyes skim across the page.

"When were you in California!" She demanded. "I should have heard about this!"

"I wasn't there, that couldn't possibly be me!" I said, slightly screaming it.

"Maybe I should phone the Agency, see what this is about."

She pulled out her cell phone and I stared out the window as she uttered obscene words to the Agents. She turned back to me.

"They thought it was you, so they didn't do anything about it. A full inquiry is going to be made now." She nodded her head as if to comfort me.

I just continued to look out the window. I looked back at Mom to see she was sweating and rubbing her palms against her crisp ironed skirt. I gave her an inquisitive look.

"There is something I have to tell you!" She blurted out. This had taken me by surprise as she is normally so cool and colleted, but now she was a nervous wreck.

"Ok, what's up?" I crossed the limo to sit beside her. I was falling all over the place. When I finally got over, she grabbed my hand.

"Right, Bella, this will only happen if you are really ok with it."

"Ok…"

"So I want you to know that this isn't settled at all, I can stop it. It doesn't need to happen."

"Mom, spit it out!"

"I'vebensheeingPhil!" She let out all at the one time. I couldn't make out a word of it.

"What?"

She took a deep breath and repeated herself, slower this time. "I have been seeing, Phil."

"Who's Phil?" I asked, confused.

"The director of your new movie. Remember? I liked him before we started working together. There were some late nights working together and then we started getting drinks together. Then it was meals. And one thing led to another… and here we are."

She looked happy eventually telling me. "I think I love him. He makes me feel wonderful inside!" She blushed.

I resisted the urge to gag. This man wasn't anything out of the ordinary. He had nice eyes and that was around it. Of course, his eyes weren't as nice as Edward's so he really had nothing going for him. But mom seemed love struck.

"That's great Mom!" I was genuinely happy for her, she needed a man in her life. She beamed at me. "But I don't understand why you were so nervous to tell me."

"Oh, I thought you understood that part. Well, what I meant to tell you is that we've been getting quite serious." She stopped and looked at me. I still didn't get where this was going, so she sighed.

"We want to move in together."

I was convinced that my heart had stopped beating. My throat felt tight. I was glad my mom was happy but could I live with him?

The answer was probably no.

I said nothing. I just continued to stare at her.

"Here we are, our new house!" She rolled down the window so I could get a better view. But the only view I got was Phil standing in front of the house on his cell. When he saw the limo, he snapped it shut and walked over to the car.

"Hello, ladies," he said, making my mom giggle. He winked at her, and again, I had to stop my gut reflex to gag. "Are you ready to see our new home?"

"Sure, honey," she told him. "Open the door for us, please."

He bowed low and opened the door. He then held his hand out for mom to take it. She giggled again.

"Thank you, kind sir," She curtsied. How she managed to do that in that skirt I would never know.

They walked together towards the house, leaving me in the car. Mom was so happy and in love she had completely forgotten that I had not given her an answer or said anything about the living arrangements. I grabbed my purse and sighed, shutting the door.

I then followed after the love birds, shaking my head.