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A New Beginning
Chapter Twenty-One:
I woke up kinda early on Saturday? Was it Saturday? But then I remembered everything that had happened last night and, yes, it was definitely Saturday.
Ugh, just thinking about everything that had happened made me shiver slightly. I still couldn't figure anything out. I guess I was just being slow.
I yawned and then felt some arms get tightened around my waist. Oh yeah, Edward had stayed with me last night. Man, I was being slow today!
"Morning beautiful." Edward whispered. Aww, How cute was that?
"Morning." I sighed. "What time is it?"
"8am." On a Saturday? You have got to be kidding me. I groaned.
"Oops. Did I wake you up as well?"
"No. I have been watching you for the past 15 minutes." Eh?
"Watching me? You mean watching me sleep?" I laughed.
"You're cute when you sleep. You talk." Edward laughed slightly. I could feel my face getting very hot. Crap, crap, crap. How embarrassing was that? I groaned again.
"That's awful!" I put one hand over my eyes and groaned, again.
"Why?" He sounded upset now.
"It just is!" I sighed. Edward grabbed hold of the hand that was covering my eyes and laced his fingers through it.
"It really isn't." I turned my head slightly and could see him smiling. I didn't even want to think about what I had said.
"I don't want to think about what is going to happen today." I tried to smile but I don't think it came out like a proper smile.
"Everything will be fine, Bella." He lent forward and kissed my forehead.
"It's not that I'm worried about! I have to endure shopping with Alice!" I laughed. "I better get up I suppose." I yawned again. Edward's arm tightened around my waist again.
"No." He whispered in my ear. What?
"What do you mean, 'No'?" I sighed.
Instead of replying to my question, Edward lent forward and pressed his lips against mine. So that's what he meant. The kiss deepened and it felt like nothing I had ever experienced with Edward before. The kiss ended and we were both breathing harder than usual.
"That's why I said no." He whispered.
"Mmmmm." Was the only thing I could say.
Despite everything that had happened last night, and everything that was probably going to happen soon. I was happier than I had ever been.
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About an hour or so later, Alice had just arrived. She had let herself in and was already bouncing up and down.
"Come on Bella! It's time to go!" She giggled like a small child.
"Why?" I groaned and heard Edward laugh.
"Because Bella, You owe me after last night!" I had forgotten about that.
"Whatever." I snuggled closer to Edward and tried to ignore Alice, which wasn't that easy.
"Come on Bella! We won't take long I promise." She did the puppy-dog face on me.
"Come on Alice! Don't do that to me!" I was awful when it came to guilt trips. She continued to pout at me. "Fine! But if we take more than two hours I am coming back without you."
"Yay!" She started bouncing around again.
"How can someone be so upbeat this early on a Saturday morning?" I whispered to Edward.
"I have no idea." He laughed and kissed my hair. "That's just Alice."
"Hurry up Bella." I swear if that girl moved any faster she would become a blur like a cartoon character.
"Alright. Keep you're socks on!" I turned around and kissed Edward swiftly before standing up. "You'll be okay?" I asked him.
"Sure. I'm sure I can handle a few hours with Leo." He smiled at me.
"I'll see you later Leo." I walked over to him and kissed him on the forehead.
"Where are you going Momma?"
"Shopping with Alice." Leo giggled.
"Have fun Momma."
"Be good." I kissed him again before going outside to Alice who was already outside in her car. Of course she had brought her brand new Porsche with her. It was bright yellow and so Alice. She said it was an impulse buy that she just had to have.
"It will be fine Bella. Stop fussing." She smiled at me as I sat down in the car with her.
"No. It will be torture, every single second of it." I laughed.
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Two hours later we were still wandering around the Mall. Alice was carrying more bags than I could count, and I had my fair share as well.
"Alice is this all yours?" I asked very shocked.
"No silly! Some of it is for you!" Alice giggled.
"O-Kay."
"We couldn't come shopping and not buy stuff for you! There's some stuff for Leo as well."
"Alice you didn't have to do that." I really didn't want this.
"It's nothing Bella. You and Leo are Family now." I felt like I might cry after hearing that. I just hugged Alice very tightly.
"You mean that?" I sniffed.
"Of course I do." She hugged me back, well as best she could with all the bags she was carrying. That was seriously the nicest thing anybody had ever said to me. "Come on, we'll go home now." She grabbed my hand and started pulling me back to her car.
We were half way home when Alice suddenly started talking again, she had been singing along to Taylor Swift on her iPod that was blasting into the car for the past half an hour.
"Bella?"
"Yeah Alice?"
"You don't have to worry about anything. We are all here for you now."
"I know Alice. Thank you." I smiled at her. She grabbed one of my hands and squeezed it.
We arrived home and walked indoors. I guess the mountain of bags was staying in the car for now.
"Momma! You're home!" Leo came bounding at me and jumped into my arms.
"Hey, Baby. I missed you." I hugged him.
"I missed you too Momma."
I walked into the Living Room too see Edward with his brothers watching "Star Wars." I laughed and they all looked at me.
"Star Wars? Seriously?" I sat on the couch next to Edward.
"Scared or something Bella?" Emmett grinned at me.
"No." I was lying obviously. Emmett just laughed at me.
"Sure you're not."
"Be quiet Emmett."
"Where's Rose?" Alice asked as she down next to Jasper.
"She's coming in a little while." Emmett answered her. I smiled.
"Have fun shopping?" Edward whispered to me.
"It was okay." I smiled. Edward raised an eyebrow at me. "Honest." I squeezed his hand which I now had hold of. Leo jumped off of my lap and sat on the floor by my feet. "Was he okay?" I asked looking at Leo.
"He was fine." Edward squeezed my hand this time. "He asked what had happened last night though, he said he had heard you crying and wanted to know why."
I looked at Edward. "What did you say?" Leo had seen me cry before, but I was still worried.
"I just said that you were worried about something." He smiled at me.
"Oh. Good." I snuggled into Edward's side and tried to watch the rest of the movie with everybody. I was scared, (No not for Darth Vader. Okay maybe a little bit for Darth Vader.) But mainly for what was going to happen with Danny.
Just there Rose walked in the house. I laughed.
"I love how everybody just lets themselves in." I smiled.
"Huh?" Rose looked confused.
"Nothing." I just smiled at her.
"Have fun shopping with Alice, Bella?" She laughed.
"It wasn't that bad actually." I smiled at her. Rose just looked a bit confused. I looked at Alice and saw her smiling at me.
"I told you! We are so doing that more often now!" Uh Oh.
"I should have said I had an awful time shouldn't I?" Everybody just nodded at me. Edward laughed and kissed my hair. Alice just glared at me.
We continued watching the movie and not until the very end did Darth Vader turn up. Emmett laughed at me, even though I hadn't jumped or anything. Idiot.
We were about to watch "The Lion King" (Again.) when there was a knock at the door. Everybody looked at me. Edward squeezed my hand.
"Everything will be okay." He kissed my hair again.
"Here goes nothing." I said as I stood up and walked over to the front door…
A/N: Chapter Twenty-One Already?! Crikey! I Can't Believe This Has Gone So Well! I'm Hoping Everyone Is Liking Where This Is Going. I Have A Pretty Good Idea Of What I Going To Happen Soon As Well! =D
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