Let Me Love You

Chapter Nineteen

It's been a week since the weekend we spent in New York from her latest concert. We toured to a couple more cities.

Thankfully we owned houses in each of them, or at least in a small town nearby. That fact helped make it easier for me to compose the song I've been working on, with a grand piano that I owned in each one of our homes. And with the fact that the cities contained many major malls, Alice had the excuse to drag Bella along as well. Even though it pained me, it helped to preoccupy her from having open ears to my surprise.

All through the seven days, give or take a few, Jasper and I have been busy at work with the song. Being a person that didn't know a lot about music, he knew enough to help me here and there. His main focus was on helping me bring out my emotions, enhancing them, so I could get the feel on what I wanted to write.

x Flashback x

"Okay, just think about Bella, and I'll boost what you got with a little BAM BAM." I raised my eyebrow, and he gave me an apologetic look. "Sorry, I may not be a musician, but this helped me with the poetry I wrote for Alice. And you know what? It got her to say yes when I asked her to marry me." He grinned.

I rolled my eyes. "She would have said yes, if you even trashed all her new shoes and threw dirt in her face. She's head over heals for you, not hard to figure out what she'd do for you. And she probably already saw it coming anyway."

"Well, she loved it anyway. She looked like she was about to cry—if she could anyway. Trust me, I felt it." He put a hand over his heart.

"Yeah, okay buddy. Can we get started yet? Emmett already wasted enough time with his stupidity and the girls are going to be back in about five hours." I lifted my arm up, looking at my watch.

"Pssh, five hours is plenty of time. And you can't rush this kind of thing. You have to just relax and feel it, and then it will come to you. No need to have a fit and be all snappy and sarcastic about it." By now he was walking back and forth, making gestures with his right hand in the air and rotating his wrist in circles. "I get enough of that feeling in public areas when we're around women that are PMSing. Like jeez, what crawled up their ass during the night? I swear—"

"Alright, alright, we're getting off topic here." I cut him off reminding him why we were here in the first place. Sometimes I think he forgets that I can already read his thoughts before he even voices them out.

"Right, okay just think about every moment you've experienced ever since you met Bella. It helps you verify each feeling you've ever had." I did as he asked, and by the time Alice and Rosalie were in a close enough distance where I could detect their thoughts again, I already hid away half the first page to the song.

x End of Flashback x

I was nearly done the composition, with only a few more notes to add to the final sheet.

"We're BAAAA-AAAAAAAAAAACK!" I could more than clearly hear my two sisters declare. I quickly tucked away my work under the seat of the bench in a flash.

Soon I saw Bella walk in, her eyes tired as was the rest of her. She was practically dragging herself in, barely having enough energy to even collapse on the nearby couch, let alone the guest room we had lent her.

I rushed to her side in a heartbeat, Alice's eyes going blank into a vision, but I ignored it, focusing all my attention on Bella while I took her hand in mine. "Are you okay? Because, I swear, if-"

"Yes, just need some sleep." She mumbled, barely coherent to my own hearing, her eyes drifting closed in no time.

"Oh heeeeeeell NO!" I heard the pixie let out, with Bella safely by my side, I chanced a glance towards Alice.

"What?" Emmett now came into the room, greeting Rosalie with a peck on the lips, snaking his arm around her waist while she leaned back onto him.

"I just got a vision of-"

-Look at me I know I'm fly (fly), look at me, you wanna be fly like I- (isn't that song addicting? LOL I keep playing it over and over again xD)

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" before I could even blink, Alice was across the room where Bella—now wide awake—was lying on the couch. She grabbed into Bella's front pocket, ripping out the black phone, and to all our utter shock, whipped the electronic into the ground. It had broken into a million pieces, leaving some marks into the hard wood floor that Esme was not going to be happy about once she saw them.

"ALICE!" Bella shrieked, eyes wide, stunned.

"Oh, heh, did I do that? I thought it was, uh, Ijustreallyhatethatsong. Yup. Can'tstandit,sorry,I'llbuyyouanewonetomorrow." (I just really hate that song. Yup. Can't stand it, sorry, I'll buy you a new one tomorrow.)

"Okay..." Bella shifted closer towards my direction on the plush sofa, hesitantly, as if one wrong move and the little spiky haired girl would turn her violence onto her and attack.

-Look at me I know I'm fly (fly), look at me, you wanna-

"Hello? Oh yes, I just got here, let me put her on the phone for you." Aro's voice filtered through the front door, before his light rap on the door could be heard.

Since when was Aro into pop music, let alone Girlicious?

Bella flew to the door before Alice could get her hands on her.

"DADDY!" she hugged him enthusiastically.

"Hello, my sweet Bella." He chuckled, patting her on the head. "Aro's here!" he announced.

"The chocolate bar?" I mentally slapped my forehead. Only Emmett.

"Chocolate bar? What chocolate bar?" Aro gave him a look of confusion, oblivious to the indication of the statement, seeing as we don't eat human food.

"Never mind him; he's just joking around, being Emmett." Rose gritted her teeth, smacking her husband upside the head.

"I see—oh right. Shane's" even at the mention of Him's name, my heart gave an in volunteer tug, afraid of what was to come next, "on the line, he wants to speak to you, seeing as he said you hung up on him a minute ago." He handed Bella the phone, Alice burying her head in her hands, moaning silently almost as if in pain.

"Hello?" she continued talking into the phone in a hushed voice, it being more difficult to hear, before she quickly hung up.

"Well my dear, what did he say?" Aro asked.

"Shane says he's dropping by again since he has a few days off." She smiled, but it was different somehow than to her usual breathtaking one that makes me feel as if my heart were beating again.

"Oh well," he shot a glance at me, I'm truly sorry Edward, my boy, before looking back at his beloved daughter, "I better be going. I have to head off back to Voltera for a meeting the morning after tomorrow, and Jane's being a whiny sap. She's been like that ever since I told her she could eat one of your fans at the concert in New York. Well, I better be off now. Take care darling." He hugged her one more time, turning about to leave before he spun back around, seeming to remember something. "Oh, and Edward, take care of my daughter for me will you? I want what's best for her." His gaze shot to the corner of his eyes in Bella's direction. I nodded, grinning back at him, as we shook hands, catching his double meaning.

"What was that supposed to mean?" Bella narrowed her eyes at me in accusation.

"Nothing." I smiled back innocently. She could tell it was too innocent, but let it drop.

"Anyway, Shane said he was going to come by-"

-DING DONG-

"-soon." She finished, pointlessly, as she walked over to the door and opened it.

"Hey baby." He had his arms out open for her as before the door even opened.

I turned away, knowing I wouldn't be able to take it when she walked into his arms and embraced Him back with possibly a 'I've missed you' reunion kiss. But what surprised me was what I heard next.

"Shane, can I speak to you? In private." She added, with a slight edge to her voice.

"Sure, Izzy." Izzy? What made Him think that he could call her that, when she didn't even like to be called Isabella?

"I told you to stop calling me that." she whispered, although not quiet enough as I picked it up just barely.

"Ok, ok. Sorry." He raised his arms in surrender, still with a stupid smile—that I wanted to rip right off his damn lips—appearing on his face.

He followed her up the stairs, and I feared slightly what they could be doing up there. A 'reunion' it would be to my great horror.

To my relief, I heard only hushed voices, in tones that I wouldn't take as the 'reunion' I was expecting.

I soon found myself unable to stop myself from peeking into His mind, when curiosity got the best of me.

"Why do you smell of women's perfume?" Bella hissed.

Damn, I gotta chose the ones that don't stink themselves up.

"Oh c'mon. Baby, I just saw an old friend that I haven't seen in years. We hugged, that's it." I could almost feel the smug smile on his lips.

"Oh really? Did she accidentally smear her lips on your neck too?" she pointed at his neck.

Damn, and the ones that don't cake a pound on lip-gloss on their mouths.

Was this guy serious?

"Uh...yea..."

Wow, this guy was serious.

Bella looked away, anywhere but at Him, as she furrowed her eyebrows, obviously having an internal battle contemplating something. After a few moments, her eyes returned to the bastard with a hard, serious glare.

"Are you cheating on me?" her voice cracked in the middle.

I swear, if he-

"No!" he replied too quickly, and then realized how it sounded. "I mean no. Baby, you know I would never do that to you."

Time for the sincere act.

Oh god, I wanted to march right up there and rip him to shreds. But I knew this was between Him and Bella, and let me tell you, it took all my self control to keep myself restrained. The only thing that helped me think straight, as I clenched my fists so tight I faintly heard Emmett saying, "Dude, your knuckles are white. I mean, whiter than they usually are." was the thought of Bella that kept me in line.

I could see though His point of view that Bella's expression didn't waver one bit into his lies.

"Okay, I admit, I did. But it was just the flight attendant! She meant nothing to me!"

"Oh god, not again." Bella had slumped onto her bed, covering her face in her hands with her elbows supported by her knees.

Again?

He walked swiftly over to her, kneeling down in front of her taking her hands away from her face and I could promptly see the tears that were beginning to form. He then had the nerve to lift her chin up to look at him!

"That BASTARD!" I sprung up, and Emmett and Jasper both leapt up and crashed into me, the sound of boulders clashing together echoing around, as they held me down. I felt the low growl vibrating at the base of my throat.

Bella looked up quickly, having heard some sort of commotion downstairs. She looked like she was about to get up when He started talking again, her attention returning to him.

"I'm sorry, it won't happen again." He spoke in that fake sincerely quiet voice.

"That's what you said. All those other times." she whispered, her gaze falling downward.

I let out a ferocious roar, unable to collect myself anymore, as I pushed harder against my brothers, ignoring the knowledge that they both easily out powered me.

Bella's attention shot up again, but he once again turned her chin to face him.

"Calm down, man!" Emmett hissed as he tightened his grip, but I wasn't paying attention, feeling my eyes instantly turning black, until I felt Jasper send waves of serene around the room. My aggressive pushes soon died down.

"I mean it this time. I swear, it's only you that matters."

Oh no...Bella, please don't, I prayed.

"Promise?" a small smile appeared as she spoke.

No...

This is just too easy.

"I promise." He grinned back, while Jasper let go of me, falling to the ground as he felt my pain take over me.

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For not updating as early as I should have the last time, and leaving the last couple of chapters pretty short, I made this longer! :D Too bad it wasn't a happy chapter though...:( well it kind of was in the beginning, but then BAM, I through in a bunch of crap that ruined the sort-of-happy mood that, I don't need to be Alice to know, you guys are going to complain about LOL. For all the readers of my other story, I'm SO sorry! I started the next chapter but then I stopped, and I just couldn't think of anything even remotely funny to add in there. And THEN I was back at school, too busy with work and yea...I don't know why I can't think of any jokes, unless its just cuz of some drama that's occurred lately...

Well anyway, I better get back to work!

PS: Oh! And I cant make an update the next weekend because I'm going to be off on a school trip for four days starting Friday, so you'll be lucky if I can squish an update sometime this week. Sorry!

PSS: I went to edit this chapter because I forgot to add something in my AN and I just noticed that FanFiction does a lot of tinkering to original drafts when they're submitted...hm...like that they put the title of the story on the top of the chapter for you (So I should probably stop doing that when I type chapters) and I cant use the squarish brackets when I want to write an AN in the middle of a chapter. And I noticed (a while ago) that we can't even use the equal sign or the little star character when you hold shift 8. Just noticed, sorry I'm being pointless again!