Mishap

That afternoon, I was curled up on the sofa downstairs, reading 'A Little Princess' as it was one of my favorite novels. My dad walked in and helped himself to the coffee I made, which was sitting on the table. 'Hey Bells, you've been working hard today haven't you?'

'Yes, I have,' I smiled and sat up, 'Dad, my friend Emma is coming over later. She's on the school gym team, and we're going to do some practice for the upcoming meet.'

'Were you by any chance wondering if I could give you girls a hand?' dad raised his eyebrows expectantly.

'Sure we were,' I laughed.

'Yeah, anything for you Bells.'

My dad went back upstairs to his room to whatever he had been doing and I sighed. I didn't know why, but I wasn't in the mood for reading anymore. I walked upstairs lazily and changed into a comfy leotard and put on a pair of shorts and my cotton green tank top, which was worn from the years I had owned it, but I wore it anyway, as I felt that it gave me luck.

I jogged back down the stairs, pumping to tunes on my ipod. I got back into the living room, and moved the coffee table forward a bit so there was more space. I sat myself down and opened my legs in the straddle position, and began stretching my straddle splits. I moved on to stretch my left and right splits, my back, my arms, wrist, etc. When I had done every stretch that I knew, I wondered why Emma hadn't arrived yet.

Feeling a bit dehydrated, I walked into the kitchen to find my mom marking papers on the kitchen table. She looked up when I came in and took her glasses off, 'Can I fix you something darling?'

'Thanks mom,' I flopped onto a chair and sighed, glancing at the clock. I watched as mom made me a banana smoothie, one of my favorites.

As mom placed the glass of smoothie in front of me, she asked, 'Isn't your friend Emma supposed to be coming around today?'

'Yeah,' I replied after a sip, 'but I don't know when she is. I've tried calling her cell, but she's not picking up.'

I sighed, worried that Emma had stood me up for some reason, I wondered if it had anything do to with Mark. If it was Mark that had picked her up for an unexpected date, I would be happy for Emma, but she should have the manners to at least call me and tell me she wouldn't be showing up.

Before my mom was able to reply, someone rung our bell, 'I guess that's her!' I said happy that she had finally arrived. I opened the door to find a very breathless Emma.

'Bella!' she panted, 'I'm so sorry I'm a bit late, but there was something wrong with the oven so I had to stay at home for a while and fix it. And my cell was completely drained of battery, and you know how my room is, I couldn't find the charger! My sister was hogging the home phone, so I couldn't use that either. I am so mad at her!'

'Wow…,' it amused me how unorganized Emma was sometimes, 'Would you like to come in?' I asked.

I went to the kitchen and introduced Emma to mom, who poured her a glass of smoothie to help her get her breath back. Then we went upstairs and met my dad.

'Thanks so much for saying that you'd help me with my gym moves Mr. Swan. I'm not a very good gymnast so I know absolutely nothing compared to Bella.' Emma said to my dad as we walked over to my room.

'I think we can work with that,' my dad said with a wink.

I smiled, 'don't say that Emma, really. You're a great gymnast!'

Emma rolled her eyes, 'That's what they all say.'

We laughed. I leaned ever so slightly on the space of wall next to my wardrobe, and the entrance to the secret room swung open, to the surprise of Emma. I chuckled at Emma's face as I said, 'Welcome to the secret room! This is where I spend some of my spare time.'

'Wow Bella! You're really lucky to have this! I wish I had a room like this.'

'My dad smiled politely, 'Well Emma, you can come over anytime and use Bella's secret room, if she's okay with that.'

'Sure,' I said, 'That'd be fine by me.'

Emma beamed, 'I love this family!'

We got warmed up and then I started to practice a beam routine by myself seeing as dad would be working with Emma on vault first as she described vault as her 'absolute weakest event.'

I decided to do my nationals beam routine, just to honor the good times of my career. I did a front salto of the spring board onto the beam, once again, landing like I wasn't 5 feet up in the air, standing on a four inch piece of wood. I did two handsprings in a row and pushed off with my knees for the layout. I landed that tumbling sequence well. I did a pike jump and a simple turn. Then I proceed to do a spilt jump in the air, arching my back. I decided to alert my routine a bit and add in an illusion, a skill that I had always loved. I loved the graceful-ness of it, and how effortless you could make it look. Then I did a few dance moves and went into my dismount, using the same dismount that I had used in the nationals. A powerful round off, and a back handspring later, I was doing a single twisting double back. [A/N: To those people that actually do gymnastics out there, does a single twisting double back exist? I want Bella to do something cool, but would a double twisting double back be too complicated for her? :S idk. So let's just pretend a single twisting double back exists even if it doesn't :D ] Just before I reached the ground, I bended my legs and prepared for the landing. I smashed into the mat and only had to take the teeniest of steps to balance myself. I smiled. I was doing quite well for someone who hadn't had elite training for a bit.

I went to grab my water bottle, for a drink and walked over to the vault to see how Emma and dad were doing. They seemed to be getting along quite well, which was good. I saw that Emma could now do a simple forward tuck, the move that I had been teaching her on the day I had a puzzling conversation with Edward Cullen, who was now my boyfriend! I loved repeating that to myself, I have to admit. Edward Cullen was boyfriend! I made it all seem real. And to me, it didn't seem real. A lot of the times, it was too prefect to be real.

My dad, noticed that I was watching, and when Emma was doing the vault again, he walked over and smiled that me, 'I saw that routine you did back there. It was really good.'

I smiled, 'Thanks dad.'

'But…' my dad raised his eyebrows, 'there is room for improvement.'

'Sure there is,' I said in reply.

My dad believed that there isn't a move or a routine that cannot be improved. He thinks that there isn't one routine without some sort of flaw. Sometimes I just want to go, 'Jesus dad, what happened to Nadia Comaneci and the prefect 10s?'

I listened on as my dad told Emma how to improve her front tuck. Emma said that she'd be okay by herself then and dad asked me to show him my bars routine.

I started off jumping of the spring board and onto the bars. Next I did a giant, hitting the handstands. I did a few kips to get momentum for my first release skill, which happened to be a Tkatchev. [A/N Links on my profile to see some gymnastics moves] When I released the bar I got into the straddle position and flung myself over the high bar. I proceed to start falling and extended my arms to re catch the bar. However, I found that I had flung myself a little too much and I couldn't really reach the bar. Panicking, I looked at my dad but he didn't notice and was chatting to Emma. So there was less chance of my getting injured, I tried to land standing with my legs bent, but I had placed my ankle wrongly and I fell down on the mat, my ankle all bent.

Surprised at my fall, my dad ran to help me while Emma stood there gaping. 'Bella! What went wrong?' my dad demanded.

I shrugged miserably, 'I couldn't reach the bar after I did the release move. I flung myself over a bit too much.'

My dad sighed, 'I guess we'll have to work on that before the meet huh?' he looked as me as I nodded, 'Alright, let's have a look at your ankle.'

My dad groaned, 'You've twisted your ankle again. I doubt that you'd be recovered by the meet on Wednesday.'

I sighed, 'No, I'll compete anyway. I'll be fine!'

Emma looked at me with those big round eyes of hers, 'Are you sure Bella? I don't want your ankle to get any worse!'

'I've competed injured before, it's no biggie.'

- - -

Edward placed his cool arm around my waist, 'Are you sure your ankle's okay? You should get my dad to take a look at it.'

I sighed, 'Edward, I was a freaking elite gymnast for god's sake. I think I can handle an injury or two.'

'Right,' Edward nodded at me, eyes still filled with concern, 'But if anything happens…'

I rolled my eyes, 'I know Edward, I know, I could always get your dad to look at it.'

Edward laughed softly, as we didn't want my parents to find that he was in my room. My parents still didn't know that Edward and I were together as they wouldn't think having a boyfriend was something I should be doing. They believed that I would get too distracted from school work and gym and hang out with him too much. Clearly, this was no the case, Edward, being the clever clogs that he was, actually helped with my school work.

The subject of Edward's mysterious family secrets had not come up in our conversations for a while. I realized that we always talked about me and my interests but rarely about Edward. I didn't want to start asking all these questions about him though, as I didn't want him to get mad at me again.

I sighed as my swollen ankle throbbed painfully under the covers. I slowly feel asleep in Edwards arms, once again, dreaming of him.

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