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A New Beginning

Chapter Twenty-Two:

I had purposely shut the living room door on my way out. That way nobody could hear anything. I had to talk to Danny for a little while anyway.

I walked over to the front door and opened it. Well I say opened, it got a bit stuck so I just yanked on it, and almost fell backwards when I eventually opened it.

Danny was just stood there; he had his back to me, which means he must have gotten impatient whilst waiting for me to open the door. Typical Danny.

I coughed.

Danny whirled round and spotted me and his face broke out into a huge smile. The next thing I knew his arms were around my waist and he was hugging me, very tightly if I might add!

"I missed you Bell." He whispered into my ear. Making me shiver, but it wasn't a good shiver. At least not that sort of shiver I got whenever Edward touched me.

"You didn't miss me. You saw me yesterday." I pulled his arms off of me and folded my arms as a way of defending myself.

"Are you going to invite me in then? Or am I just going to stand here all day." He smiled at me again. That just got me thinking of when I used to like that smile. Snap out of it Bella! Ugh!

"Sure. Come on in." I moved out of the way and shut the door behind him. "We need to talk first." First thing. Check.

"Talk?" Danny sounded suspicious. What did he think I meant? I wasn't going to chirp at him was I? Idiot.

"Talk. About what's going to happen; now you've decided to show up." I paused letting that sink in. Danny opened his mouth to say something, but I just carried on talking. "Unless you're thinking of disappearing again?" I sat down at the kitchen table and Danny sat opposite me. We couldn't talk in the Living room, because everybody else was in there.

"Bell. Come on don't do this!" He sighed.

"Don't do what?" I folded my arms again. I was not in the mood right now.

"That." He pointed at me. "You're being all.. I dunno… protective!" Protective? Of course I was being protected you Baffoon! This is my son's life we are discussing here. Okay, I should have really said 'our' son, but I didn't consider that. After all, Danny hadn't been to visit Leo in almost two years.

"Of course I'm being protective!" I sighed.

"Why though?" Danny asked. Did he just get dumber?

"We're discussing Leo here aren't we? This is all about him, that's why I'm protective." Danny nodded.

"We are talking about you as well though Bell." He smiled at me again. Stop doing that!

Firstly I wanted to know who had told him about where Leo & I were. I swear if it was my Mom, I was going to kill her. Not literally. I wouldn't get away with it, with Charlie being Chief of Police and all.

"Who told you where to find us Danny?" I put one of my hands on the table.

"You're Mom." He paused and I tried to jump in but he stopped me by continuing. "But I also heard from Krissie as well." Fantastic.

I nodded at him before carrying on. "What did they tell you?" I winced knowing that my Mom had let loose. She was getting a phone-call later.

"Just that you were living in Forks now. And I said that I wanted to come and see you, so they told me where to find you. Simple." He reached his hand forward to try and grab hold of the one I had one the table. I pulled it away before he could reach it. Danny sighed. "What happened Bell? We used to have something so special." Was he really asking that question?

"You left me Dan. That's what happened." I sighed.

"You know I didn't really want to do that." Ex-Boyfriend say what now?!

"Huh?" I folded my arms again, something in the pit of my stomach told me I wasn't going to like this.

"You know I still love you Bell." Yep. Definitely not liking that.

"Huh?" Was all I managed to say again. Way to go Bella! The boy just told you he loves you! I shook my head and carried on. "Still love me? You waited three years to tell me this?" He just nodded at me. Okay, so I wasn't in a good mood before. Now I was fuming.

"I'm sorry Bell." Sorry?! I was trying everything I had not to stand there and scream at him and then break down crying.

"Yeah, I'm sorry too Danny." He tried to smile like he thought it meant something else. Which in Danny's head it probably did. "It still doesn't change anything. I don't love you anymore Danny."

"I guess I should have know that. You love him in there don't you? The one that was with you yesterday." Danny sighed. What was I supposed to say to that?

I just nodded. "You have to understand Danny. What we had was lost when you left me. It's never coming back." I smiled weakly at him.

"I should have guessed that." He shook his head and stood up. Where was he going?

"Where are you going?" I was shocked, and even more annoyed now.

"I'm leaving." I should have guessed this from the start.

"Do you not want to see you're son?" I was trying very hard not to cry.

"Of course." He looked at me.

"Then stay. Please?"

"He doesn't even know who I am."

"That's because you've never been around. I'm not stopping you from seeing him, nor have I ever stopped you from seeing him. You decided not to see him on you're on free will." I nodded, I was right. I was always right. I stood up as well.

"I want to be involved Bell. I just…I don't know." He shook his head.

"I know. Wait here." I walked out of the kitchen and into the living room again. As soon as I walked in everybody looked at me. Edward mouthed "Are you okay?" at me. I just nodded back. He raised an eyebrow though, I didn't think he would believe me.

I walked over to Leo, who was watching the TV and picked him up. I put my finger against my lip, so he wouldn't say anything and walked out of the living room.

"Momma. Where are we going?" By now we were in the kitchen and I was stood in front of Danny with Leo in my arms.

"Leo. This." I pointed at Danny. "Is you're Daddy."

"Hey Leo." Danny smiled at him.

Leo just looked at him. After all, Danny had never been around so Leo wouldn't remember him. Leo looked at me.

"Momma?"

"Yeah, baby?"

"Is he really my Daddy?" I nodded at him and kissed him on the forehead. Leo reached across and grabbed Danny's hand. Danny just looked shocked, more shocked than I had ever seen in my whole life.

"H-He looks a lot like me." Danny looked at me and smiled. "He looks like you too Bell."

"Not really. He has my eyes. The rest is all you." I laughed quietly. I took that moment too look at the clock on the cooker. It was 3:15pm already.

Leo let go of Danny's hand and grabbed hold of me and hugged me tightly.

"What's wrong with him?" Danny asked sounding hurt.

"He's tired." I hugged Leo back. "Come back tomorrow. You can get to know him better and spend the day with him." I smiled at Danny. Okay, so I really didn't like Danny that much anymore. But I couldn't exactly say "Hey, I don't want you to ever come back and see me or Leo again" Not that he was here now.

"'Kay. Thanks Bell." He hugged me and walked towards the front door. "Bye Leo. Oh and Bell?"

"Yeah?"

"Sorry for everything." He smiled at me.

Three years. It's been three years and now he chooses to say sorry. Idiot.

"Bye Danny." But he was already gone.

How tiring had today been? Again. I walked back into the living room and sat down next to Edward. Leo had woken up and had gone to sit with Alice. Alice looked at me and smiled.

"Was everything okay?" Edward put his arms around me.

"You probably heard most of it." I smiled. "But yeah. It went better than I thought."

"I told you." He kissed my hair. I laughed quietly.

Everybody left about half an hour later.

"Are you staying again?" I looked at Edward and smiled.

"If you want me too." He hugged me tighter.

"Of course." I smiled.

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The rest of the evening went okay. Charlie came home and asked me stuff about Danny that he hadn't been able to ask last night. I got the feeling he knew that Edward had stayed last night. But I really couldn't care less.

I walked into the kitchen and get a drink and heard Charlie follow me.

"Is everything okay Bells?"

"It's fine Dad. Trust me. I think it's all going to work out. Well I hope so." I smiled at him.

"Okay." He turned to walk back into the living room. "Oh Bells?"

"Yeah?" I turned around and looked at him.

"You don't have to sneak around. It's fine that he's staying with you." Charlie just walked away after that. I blushed. So he did know. But he didn't have any problem with it on the upside! Yay!

I walked back into the living room and sat down again. I yawned. It was almost 8.00pm. Already?

Charlie stood up then and said he was going out. He was gone before I could say anything.

"Did he say anything to you?" I looked at Edward.

"No. What about?"

"He knows that you stayed last night." I paused and Edward was about to jump in. "He doesn't mind though." I smiled. "That's the best part." I lent forward and kissed him.

"Hmm. That is the best part." Edward put his arms around me again.

"I love you." I smiled.

"I love you too Bella. Always." He kissed me again.

Right now, nothing could ruin how happy I was. Everything had gone okay with Danny. And everything was going even better with Edward.

I sighed. I was content with life at the moment. Very, very content.

I kept on Yawning and decided that I had to put Leo to bed anyway. I went and did that and just as I put him in to bed I felt Edward's arms around me again.

"What are you doing?" I laughed quietly.

"Hugging you." He kissed the back of my neck, making me shiver. Wow. "Plus you're tired as well. For some reason." He laughed. I yawned again.

"What ever gave you that idea?" I laughed. I had already put my pyjama's on, but that was what I did ever night after I put Leo to bed.

I walked over to my bed, well the best that I could walk with Edward's arms still around me. He let go so I could actually get in my bed. I yawned again before having Edward's arms around me.

For the second time, I fell asleep in Edward's arms.

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