Disclaimer: I do not own Twilight.
A/N: Sorry about the delay, hopefully I won't be as slow in the future with updates.
Also, in my head, downhill means good. You ever heard the saying 'it's an uphill battle', well I took that and said it's all downhill from here, like smooth sailing and what not. Sorry about the confusion.
I can feel her soft lips covering mine. They feel so much better than Edwards ever did; they feel so much more inviting. I feel Tanya applying more pressure against me, so much so that I'm falling backwards. I wrap my hands around her neck and tangle my hands into her hair. I can feel her grip on my waist tighten as we fall backwards.
"Bella, are you even paying attention to me?" Charlie asked.
His voice quickly snapped me out of my mini day dream. Ever since that first kiss yesterday, I can't stop day dreaming about it. Of course, my mind tends to embellish a little about what happened, but that's okay, I don't mind.
"Of course dad, you were telling me about how that team is winning because they have bigger guys right?" I asked.
I know that's way off from what he was saying, because I really don't know what he was saying. I should have known that the moment I asked him to explain the game to me, I wouldn't have paid him any attention. At least he's explaining it to me though.
"Bella." Charlie sighed and then went off into another explanation that I already forgot.
After the kiss yesterday, it seems as if I'm on a constant cloud nine. Tanya's smirk that she gave me after the kiss let me know that she knew exactly the feeling's she caused in me. If I could have yesterday I would have continued our kissing and turned it into a full out make-out session, but of course I couldn't be that lucky. I was actually about to go in for another kiss, when my phone went off.
Charlie called to have me home for something or another. It annoyed me greatly, but at least it saved me from having to see Kate again that day. I know the next time I see her, which happens to be this evening; I'm in for a lot of teasing.
I went home yesterday to go to some work thing with Charlie that I guess families were invited to and Charlie wanted to bring me to. The whole time I didn't pay attention to what was happening but just texting with Tanya. She eventually asked me over for dinner to officially introduce me to her family as her girlfriend.
When I read that certain text with her titling me as her girlfriend, I couldn't stop the squeal of excitement that came out of my mouth. I know, very uncharacteristic of me, but I couldn't help because I was so happy. I was luckily no longer at the function anymore and just with Charlie on the way home, so only he gave me a weird look.
That look he gave me though, when I couldn't explain what had made me so happy, made me realize that I couldn't tell him about Tanya. That quickly dampened my mood. How can I tell my law enforcing dad that I'm dating a teacher? I know Tanya said that she doesn't care about what others think, that she has no problem hiding away in her house until they all forget about her, but I can't not tell my dad. I don't want Tanya to be a secret; it makes me think that I'm not telling because I'm ashamed.
I'll admit I never really saw myself getting involved with a woman before, and I'm still slightly shocked that I am, but I'm insanely happy to be with Tanya. I want my dad to know, but if he knows he'll probably put me on lockdown. I don't want to sneak around to be with Tanya, or at least I don't want to sneak around too much. If Charlie finds out about me and Tanya, he won't let me see her anymore. I can't let that happen.
"So now do you understand Bella?" Charlie said with a slightly proud look on his face. I guess he's really happy that I'm talking to him about sports. I figure that since eventually he'll know about me and Tanya, I might as well start 'buttering him up', so that when he does find out, it'll be easier to get him over it. I hope at least.
"Ya, dad, thanks." I said as we both put our focus back on the game.
My thoughts immediately went from what was happening on the game to what happened today during school. After Zach and Grace saw us yesterday and Tanya made it clear we were at the restaurant together, I'll admit I was really nervous about what they would do. Different scenarios ran through my head all night about what might happen. I thought about what would happen if they told their parents, if they told school officials or if they told Sarah or Lindsay. My thoughts weren't all that positive.
When I eventually managed to drag myself to school, I only did it so I could see Tanya I might add, I went straight to the group hang out like normal. I decided that I would act like nothing was wrong, not that dating Tanya is wrong but you know what I mean, and if someone says something, I'll just deal with it then.
Besides a few suspicious looks from Grace and Zach, no one said or did anything that would make me think they told. Even during math when Tanya felt it would be best to keep me at her desk to help me with today's work, Grace only gave us a suspicious look, but Sarah didn't do anything besides try to trip me. I thought I heard Tanya growl a little at that, but I don't think anyone else notice.
So if Tanya was able to keep me at her desk, in really close proximity because when would Tanya ever not want to be close to me, and kept her hand on my leg the whole time without even bothering to try and hide the fact that she was inappropriately touching me and Grace did nothing, I think we're safe from her doing anything. At least, I hope that's true.
"So where is that you're going again?" Charlie asked when a commercial came on.
"I'm going to a study group with my math teacher." I answered.
That's not a complete lie… at all. I'm going to be with a group, a group known as the Denali family. I'm going to be with my math teacher and I will be studying. I'll be studying how to ignore Kate's teasing and how to hopefully not blush as much. For some reason I don't think any amount of studying will get me used to her.
Getting Charlie to let me go was really easy. The moment he heard study and group, he said yes without asking anything else. He's so happy that I'm apparently hanging out with friends that he wants to make sure he doesn't want to look like he doesn't support it. He seems to be so afraid that I'll go back to how I acted after Edward left that he's become a lot more softer on things like letting me go out late on school nights to 'hang out with friends'.
The only lie I had to tell him was that I was going to a friend's house and carpooling to get there. I didn't tell him that the friend's house is my teacher and that the person giving me a ride is Carmen, not one of my friends from school. He doesn't need to know all that and he didn't ask, so I don't feel bad about not telling him.
I had made sure to tell Tanya as often as possible to make sure it wasn't Kate to get me. I had no problem telling her that I was procrastinating seeing her to put off as much teasing as possible. Luckily I didn't have work today, so I didn't have to worry about her dropping in. I figure that Carmen would be a safe bet to not being teased since when I first met her she was trying to get Kate to back off a little from her teasing during the fake interview.
"That's good, extra studying with friends is good. What time are getting picked up?" Charlie asked.
I would personally like to say that all vampires either have really good timing or they wait outside doors waiting for the right time; because as soon as Charlie asked that the doorbell went off.
"I guess now. I'll see you later Charlie. I don't know how long we'll be, but I promise not to be out to late." I said I stood to leave.
"Good, because you do have school tomorrow and i don't want to sleep through it." Charlie said as I left the room.
I grabbed my jacked, since it was still a bit chilly outside, and opened the door. The smile I had had from the excitement of hanging out with the Denali's faded when I saw who was waiting for me on the other side of the door.
"Aw, come on Bella. You look like you're sad to see me." Kate said with a huge grin.
Let the teasing begin.
A/N: Sorry about the shortness of this chapter. To me this was really just a filler chapter. I just wanted to show that Bella still has a relationship with Charlie.
Also, as an fyi, when Bella does eventually leave Charlie to become a vampire, because let's face it the Denali's won't break the law to tell Charlie what Bella is really doing and I personally don't want Charlie to be a vampire just to stay with Bella so she's going to have to leave him, but I think the way I have planned is a lot better than just disappearing.
The next chapter will be full of teasing and embarrassment for Bella because I love to torture the poor girl.