"Nessie are you ready yet?" I called from the bottom of the stairs. It had been 5 minutes since Nessie went up to get dressed. She usually took 5 minutes and I wanted to get out of the house before the others came back. Jake and Esme were watching Tv on the couch. I had told them about the news earlier and they were keen on watching it themselves.
"Yes, I'm ready" Nessie said walking down the stairs. She was wearing her dark skinny jeans and a pink top. She had her hooded coat on too, which Jacob also bought her and her pink shoes. She jumped into my arms.
"Ok, Jake come on, We're going now" I said interrupting the football game which was on.
"Ok" He moaned clearly annoyed because the game had only started.
"You can listen to it on the radio in the car" I acknowledged.
Jake smiled at me, then started playing with Nessie's curly hair. Edward was waiting in the car. Today he was driving our newest car, the blue Ferrari. Nessie jumped into Jake's arm's who put her in her baby seat and I got into the front of the car alongside Edward. Jake jumped in beside Nessie.
"Take it easy today Edward and try to drive within the speed limit for once." I laughed.
"Ok" He huffed.
We drove at 55 miles per hour down the lane and onto the main roads. The roads weren't busy today, though it was only 7:30am.
"Oh yes, Emmett phoned me and asked me to ask you what he could get for Rosalie. He said it would have to be something really special" Edward told me.
"I don't know. That's not my area of expertise and besides if he wants to get Rosalie something how about a change in his behaviour. I know it's harsh but you and I both know Emmett goes way out of the line sometimes" I replied.
"I guess your right, Ill phone him soon, let him sweat a little more first" Edward giggled.
Nessie, Jacob and I joined in. Edward pulled up outside Charlie's house. Hopefully he's in, I thought. I had my eye contacts in already. I kissed Edward on the cheek, got out of the car and went over to Nessie's side to unbuckle her. She jumped into my arms.
"I'll phone you later" I said to Edward.
"Ok, Bye, Have fun" Edward replied.
"Bye Ness" Jacob called.
"Bye, Bye," Nessie replied smiling. She was blushing a little, something I did not miss from being human. She always did blush when Jake was with her but it was cute. Edward drove of down the road out of sight.
"BELLS, NESSIE" Charlie shouted full of excitement from the house. He swiftly walked outside to meet us.
"Why didn't you tell me you were going to call?" Charlie asked hugging me.
Nessie held out her arms for Charlie. Charlie took her from my arms.
"Hello, Ness, Wow you've grown, I haven't seen you in so long" Charlie said smiling at her. Nessie laughed at Charlie.
"I wanted to surprise you" I said.
"Well you certainly did, come on inside." He insisted. The rain was still on but it was only drizzles. We walked into Charlie's house. It was clean and tidy, it looked better than I thought it would.
"So how have you been holding up?" I asked looking around at the tidy the house was. We went over to the couch and sat down. It had been so long since I was in this house.
"Ok, actually really well. Sue and Billy are helping out, especially lately with everything going on in Port Angeles." Charlie answered.
"Oh yea, I heard about that." I said keeping it casual.
"Yea, it was pretty bad but it's over now" Charlie said. I wanted to ask him how did he know it was over but I actually wanted to forget about it all.
"So how have you been? It's been a while." Charlie asked changing the subject.
"I'm great, everyone's fine, actually we are going away tonight for two weeks that's why I thought we would call in to see you today. We are going to visit Edward's aunt in the Bahamas. It was really short notice, we only found out yesterday that we were invited tonight." I told Charlie trying to keep as close to the truth as possible. I didn't want to tell him we were just going on holiday but I felt really bad that Charlie couldn't come though it was too risky so instead I said,
"Jake's coming too, I'm sorry, we would have invited you too, it just wouldn't be fair on Billy and anyway we thought you two would have more fun going to the match next Saturday."
It was the finals next Saturday, the end of this season. I knew because all the boys wouldn't stop going on about it. Charlie and Billy always watched the matches but never got to go, meet the players and watch them.
"Here you go, Dad" I said handing Charlie the £5,000 that would cover tickets for the match, meeting the players and staying in a nearby hotel for a few nights.
"Oh Bells,....Thank you so much,......I was talking to Billy just yesterday....about that match and now....now we are actually going to watch it...and meet the players at last. I'm just going to phone Billy" Charlie stuttered excitedly running towards the phone.
Nessie was looking through old photo albums from a long time ago.
"Momma who's that?" Nessie asked pointing to the picture of me as a baby.
"That's me Ness" I confessed.
"Wow, you look alot like me" Nessie said laughing.
"Oh no, Nessie you are much prettier," I replied.
"Thank you, Momma" she smiled.
"Who's this?" She asked. This person she had yet to meet.
"That's my mum Renee, your grandma," I told her.
"Is this the one I got half of my name from?" She acknowledged.
"Yes that's her," I said laughing at Nessie. She remembered everything, every little detail no matter what it was. It was unreal.
"Yes, Billy.........Yes..........Next Saturday......Ok, I'll see you later.......Bye," Charlie said down the phone.
"Sorted?" I asked him.
"Yes, we have to go to Sue's house later on today and ask her to book it for us," Charlie replied still excited.
Time was flying by. It was now 3:30pm and I hadn't even noticed. It was probably because there was so much to talk about, Charlie asked about me, Edward, Nessie, Jake, everyone. We had also looked through the photo albums with Nessie.
"I guess it's time to phone Edward now, we are leaving at 6:00pm and want to double check we have everything." I informed Charlie.
"Ok, I understand," Charlie replied. He was still chatting to Nessie and telling her stories about me in high school and what it was like when I came to live with him. The more Charlie talked about it the more things I was starting to remember alot more clearly. I dialed Edward's mobile number on my phone and he picked up on the second ring.
"Hello, Edward it's me will you pick me and Nessie up now?" I asked.
"Yes, we're nearly there actually, we've just finished shopping." Edward said.
"Ok, See you soon, Bye" I replied and put down the phone.
"Why didn't Edward come today?" Charlie asked.
"He thought it would be nice if it was just us three since it has been so long." I answered.
"That was nice of him," Charlie said.
"He has also went shopping with Jake" I beamed.
"Wow, they are getting along well," Charlie realized. "Who would have thought it?"
We both laughed while putting away Charlie's photo album's. Edward was parked outside the house.
"Bye Bells, I'll see you when you come back, I'm glad you came over today, Tell Edward I said Hi," Charlie said hugging me. Charlie was getting closer to Edward, I think he knew he had too when we 'adopted' Nessie and got married. It was then he knew how serious we were about each other and that our relationship wasn't some teenage fling.
"Bye Dad, see you soon." I said.
He hugged Nessie goodbye.
"Before you go Bella, I got this book for Nessie a while back and haven't had the chance to give it to her." Charlie said handing me the book.
"Thank you, Grandpa" Nessie thanked him.
"Your welcome, Ness, Goodbye" he waved.
Nessie and I walked over to the car. Edward and Jake waved at Charlie who waved back. I handed Nessie to Jake and got into the car beside Edward.
"How was it?" Edward asked me as we drove down the lane.
"Good, we had a nice day, didn't we Ness?" I asked her.
"Yes" Nessie replied. She was reading the book Charlie had gotten for her.
"Oh, and Charlie said Hi," I said to Edward. He looked surprised and pleased at the same time. "I also gave him £5,000 to go to the match next Saturday because I told him about the holiday and felt bad so him and Billy are excited about that."
"I know, I kinda heard Charlie's thoughts by accident," Edward laughed.
I just shook my head. I had told him so many times not to read Charlie's thought's I was getting fed up with telling him off.
"I'm sorry," he apologized.
"It's Ok, at least the money isn't a problem." I laughed.
"Not at all" Edward smiled.
"How was your day? You'll not be needing more clothes for another while yet, Jacob" I laughed looking at the bags laying everywhere in the car.
"Tell me about it, I don't think I've had as much clothes in my life and we had fun," He laughed.
"Yea we did, didn't we?" Edward said looking at Jacob. They both smirked.
"What happened?" I asked knowing by their facial expressions something funny had happened.
"Ok, Some girl, she was around 20 years old came over to us and asked Edward and I for autographs," Jake laughed loudly. "We were like......OK, It was so funny, Bella, I don't think I have laughed so hard in a long time,"
I couldn't even say anything. I was too busy laughing with Edward and Jake. Edward pulled up outside the Cullen's house. I got out of the car, unbuckled Nessie and me, Nessie and Jake went into the house while Edward went to park the car in the garage.
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