Disclaimer; Twilight isn't mine because if it was then Carlisle certainly wouldn't be married lol….

A/N Thanks for reading guy's - I love it that your sticking with me here.

Chapter 14

It had been three days since the whole skipping school incident and I still hadn't heard the last of it - except about the skipping bit because only Alice, Jasper and Carlisle knew about that. No my problem was Edward and his endless complaints that I didn't tell him that I had been hurt and how worried he had been when he realised I wasn't in school excreta excreta. To be honest though, it was Alice I felt the most sorry for - the way Edward went on about her not seeing my "accident" coming was ridiculous - I'm surprised she hasn't smacked him yet. But regardless of how much grief Edward gave me, I couldn't bring myself to regret my actions. When I think back to those few minutes with Carlisle in the hospital, it had felt so right and I knew I was done fighting against whatever it was between us because there was simply no denying it anymore.

As I lay on my bed waiting for the alarm to go off I wondered how everything would turn out and if there was such things as happy endings. If anything today would be a test of things to come, because today I was going to the Cullen house for the day and I would have to pretend that the events of the last week had never happened. That alone would be hard enough, but what would be worse is the fact that I would have to see Esme, the woman I viewed as my surrogate mother be with the man I loved. I really wished it was possible to cancel and say I was sick or something, but Alice had already warned me that if I tried it that she'd come over and make me go. Maybe I could get Charlie to ask me to go with him to the reservation today, that could work I thought. I glanced over at my alarm 07.00am, I could get up now - I reached over and switched the alarm off and got out of bed and was just about to head for a shower when my phone went off. I went over and looked to see that I had a message "Don't even think about it, it said. Great, so much for that then… but then again if I left now then what's stopping me I thought to myself. Then I received another message "It doesn't matter where you are, you're not getting out of it" it said. Sometimes having a psychic for a friend really didn't make things easier.

I looked at the clock for the fifth time in as many minutes and asked myself again, how I get myself into these situations. Alice was due to pick me up any minute - not that I wasn't capable of driving myself, but apparently that wasn't an option. I had been sitting waiting for the past thirty minutes for her to arrive - Charlie had left about an hour ago to head down to La push to pick up Billy so that they could go fishing together. I felt like I was going crazy, I had already done all of this mornings dishes and had cleaned the house from top to bottom last night - so there was very little for me to do except for sit and wait for Alice to come, and it was killing me - because right now at this second, I just wanted it over. I wanted the day to end just so I could relax. I sighed and went to check the clock again when I heard the beep beep of a car horn, I bolted out my seat, grabbed my keys off the table and ran out the door.

I expected to see Alice's yellow Porsche in the drive but instead saw a black Mercedes. I grinned as I walked over to the car and got in, closing the door behind me. I looked over at the man beside me and I gave him a smile so big that my whole face ached "I'm so glad you're here" I told him. "Isabella" Carlisle said, giving me a gentle smile "I shall always be here for you" and then he reached out and brushed his hand over my cheek. "Are you going to be okay with this? He asked me "Because Alice said she had visions of you absconding." I gave him a small smile "As long as you're here Carlisle, Ill survive - its just going to be strange, us having to pretend that all this never happened. For me to be all coupley with Edward and to see you with Esme" I told him. "I know Bella, believe me I do - the idea of seeing you be with Edward today… it makes me angry that he gets to touch you and be with you and I can't - not yet anyway. I just want to scream keep off, she's mine" he said grimacing slightly.

I let out a giggle "Caveman" I said affectionately while ruffling his hair with my fingers. "What can I say" he said smiling slightly "You bring out the best of me…. Or maybe I should say the beast of me" and he took a hold of my and squeezed it gently in his. "We have to get going don't we?" I said to him. "Yes, the others will be waiting for us" he said. I gave a small sigh as he let go of my hand, started the car and backed out of the drive. In some ways I thought, I couldn't wait to get this day over with - but in others I really didn't want right now to end. I just had to hope that I was a better actor than I thought I was because today was going to take all of the pretending I was capable of and more.

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