The next morning I woke early enough to watch the sunrise; which is always something I love to do. After all the beautiful colors were gone leaving just the blinding yellow I decided to go take a shower. Edward's family was due to arrive this afternoon and we still had a lot to talk about.

I thought of what he had told his parents about his non-existent girlfriend. He mentioned that he told them about a girlfriend but what was the story. Did I work, how did we meet, did I have family, and if so how would that play into the holidays? All these possibilities were driving me mad as I showered and got dressed.

I had finally decided to quit driving myself crazy and just go find him and ask him these questions. I opened my bedroom door and screamed at the top of my lungs when James was standing there waiting for me. I heard heels against the hard wood floors before I saw Grace running towards me. I also heard a door down the hall open before Edward came running towards us.

"Bella are you alright?"

It didn't escape me that Edward sounded a little more worried than someone normally would for a person they just met. I clutch my heart and caught my breath. "Yes, I'm fine I was just startled by James." He lifted the tray of food that he was holding that I didn't notice before. "I'm so sorry I didn't mean to scare you. I just wanted to drop off your breakfast. Drake isn't feeling well and he asked if I could do this for him. I am very sorry." As he spoke I noticed what Edward was, or wasn't wearing. He was shirtless wearing very low pajama pants. I had to force myself to not lick my lips.

"Miss Farrell, if you would please take Bella down to the living room, I will join her there shortly." She nodded and guided me down the hallway towards the stairs. We had just rounded the corner when I heard Edward yell,"…I don't care you don't come around her alone and you stay away from her room. I don't know what you did but she obviously doesn't like you!"

I glanced at Grace and smiled timidly, she rubbed my back to silently tell me that it was ok. I waited in the living room watching the weather channel hoping that the weather would be nice for when Edward's family got here. I was looking at all of the pictures he had sitting on the mantel of the fireplace when I heard a knocking on the doorframe.

When I turned around Edward was wearing dark jeans and a black t-shirt. "Are you ok?" I stuck my hands in my back pockets and shrugged. "Yeah, he really just startled me. I was expecting anyone to be standing outside of my door. I actually thought I was the only one awake. I didn't get him in too much trouble did I?"

Edward leaned against the doorframe. "You really don't need to worry about that. Emerson will be leaving you alone from now on. Now let's go eat." We walked into the kitchen where James was waiting for us. I kept my gaze to the ground, "Miss Bella, I want to apologize for this morning. I am truly sorry and I promise it won't happen again." I smiled timidly at him. "Emerson, could you leave us please?" He nodded and left the kitchen.

Edward and I sat down and I looked at the food sitting before me and raised an eyebrow to Edward. He laughed at me before answering my unspoken question, "It's a breakfast taco. I told you we were going to have Spanish cuisine today." I picked it up and took a tentative bite, but then hummed at the delicious taste. "Oh my god that is delicious!" He chuckled at me before returning to his food.

After we finished eating we walked around the inside garden while he checked all the flowers he said were his mothers favorites. I was admiring a rose bush while he was cutting some stems off of it and placed them in a vase. I watched as he made his way around the garden clipping certain flowers and placing them in vases.

I pulled myself up on a countertop next to him as he wrote cards to go with each, "So I have a question for you." He stopped writing and turned to look at me. "Well your family's gonna be here soon and all I know about 'us' is that I'm you long time girlfriend. I'm pretty sure we need to get our stories straight before they get here."

Edward hoped up on the counter next to me and grabbed my hand. "Honestly my parents don't know anything about my 'girlfriend'. I haven't seen them in at least three years and we only talk around the holidays. I always tell them that I am not spending the holidays alone and that there is a special someone in my life but I never told them anything specific. But I suppose we should iron out those details."

He was just about to speak when Grace came running in the room "Mr. Cullen you have an emergency phone call I told them you didn't want to deal with business but they started talking about some deal that has gone south and it needs your immediate attention."

He placed his hands on Grace's shoulders to calm her down. "Grace, deep breath," she did as he instructed; "OK I will go handle the call. Can you please help take the vases into the proper rooms? The orchids go in my mom's room, the freesia's go in Alice's, the pink roses go in Rosalie's, and the cream roses are for Bella."

I perked up when I heard him say my name. When he left the garden I looked at the vase of cream roses and they really were beautiful. They weren't that perfect solid color that you see all the time. There was a delicate shade of pink on the tip of the petals. It reminded of something but it was like a flash of a memory that I couldn't quite grasp. I mentally shook my head and got up to help Grace. "May I?" She smiled and handed me the orchids for his mother's room and the roses for my own.

We went up stairs and put the flowers in each room. "It's really nice of him to put flowers in everyone's rooms. Does he know if they like these flowers?" Grace laughed, "Actually I asked a similar question when I first started working here. He took a gardening class in college and part of the course was learning what each flower means and if I know him like I think I do he probably told everyone in the cards." She left me standing in my room holding the flowers and the unopened card. I placed them both on the vanity across the room from my bed. I laid down on the bench in front of the bay windows.

I must have fallen asleep because I was woken up by Drake who brought me lunch. "Mr. Cullen is still trying to straighten out the mess and he sent me to serve you lunch. Emerson made you a fish taco and a burrito. Also the family is due around four o'clock and dinner will be served at six with cocktails an hour prior." I thanked him and he left me alone.

After lunch curiosity got the best of me and I went to the library where I saw a computer. I searched online for flower meanings wanting to know what the others meant. I was still too afraid to know what my roses meant.

First I found the pink roses which meant friendship. I guess he is trying to get on Rosalie's good side early. Then I looked up freesia. I was surprised to find that they mean spirited, maybe that would make more sense after meeting her. The orchids for his mother made me smile, they meant delicate beauty.

I glanced down at my watch and almost died when I saw it was almost three thirty so I ran to my room to take and shower and get presentable for the family. It was then that I realized that Edward and I never worked out our story. This was going to be a very interesting night. Hopefully they wouldn't ask too many questions.


Sorry it was short but the next chapter should be longer. PM or review and let me know what you think. Also I can't decided if I should write some from Edward POV give me your thoughts on this.