True Love Never Dies

Chapter 8

Ellen's POV:

It didn't felt like I'd slept for long but it must have been a while. Everyone had left the lounge and obviously gone home as the house was quiet. All I could hear was the TV on low and Renesme in the kitchen. Opening my eyes slowly I looked up to see Max still had me close to him. Smiling softly up at him it took me a few moments before I was finally awake "Good afternoon sleepy head," he grinned down at me.

"What's the time?" I asked, blushing softly. There was nothing that I loved more then when he called me beautiful.

"Almost dinner time," Renesme called from the kitchen. Sitting up slightly I looked over to her and smiled softly.

"Did you need any help?" I asked as I realized Max must have had a dead leg by now.

"I'm fine thank you love, it's almost ready," Renesme mentioned looking between the three of us. Nodding a little I say up and whispered to Max.

"Thank you, sorry Id I'm heavy," I looked up to Max and kissed his cheek quickly. I could feel eyes on me so I jumped up and ran my fingers through my hair. "I'm going to go wash up before dinner," I smile slightly before heading upstairs.

Splashing my face with water I tie my hear into a high pony tail before heading getting ready to head back down stairs.

Heading towards the stairs I can't help but hear the arguing downstairs. Going quiet I try to listen, hoping to at least be able to put my mind at ease.

"I can't go onto patrol tonight Dad, not while Ellen's here, she'll know something's up,"

"Max, you've got to go on patrol, it's not fair on the others to have to take your shifts,'

"It'll be my first patrol; they wouldn't know the difference,"

"Can you two please talk about this later? Ellen's upstairs and I don't want her walking into this,"

"It's too late,"

The footsteps began to sound as if they were heading upstairs, I began to panic so I quickly headed towards the bedroom, pretending to look through my bag.

"Everything okay?" Max questioned as he headed into his room to watch me. Nodding a little I looked over to him.

"I'm fine,' I whispered, "just trying to find a shirt... this one's a little wet," I look up to him, biting my lip softly before looking back through my bag.

"Try this one," Max said as I looked over to him, he pulled a bag out of his draws. I smiled slightly and slipped my shirt off before slipping his on.

"Thank you," He nodded a little and looked over to me.

"I think dinners ready," he took my hands gently. Taking his hands I nodded slightly, no longer sure what to think as we headed down stairs.

Looking around for a moment I took a seat at the table. I could feel the tension in the room, but I wasn't sure what to think, was this my fault? Because my name sure was mentioned in the argument.

Smiling slightly over to Max as he put down three bottles of water on the table along with a beer for Jacob I bite my lip softly. Renesme begins to cover the table with an array of foods. Renesme reminded me of my own mum, her life was taking care of Jacob's friends. My mum lived to take care of Dads friends and our very extended family.

"Thank you Renesme," I smile softly towards her "this smells amazing," I serve myself up a small plate but I can't help but notice that Renesmes is almost nothing, compared to Jacob's and Max's whose look like it could over flow.

It's not long before dinner is finished along with the dishes and we head to the lounge to watch some TV when Jacob begins to look over to Max, there's something between the two of them and I wish I knew what it was.

"I'm going to head to bed," I whisper, jumping up and heading upstairs, wanting some time to think to myself.

"Max, let's go," I hear Jacob, I wasn't sure what to think and I had no idea where they were going. I waited till I could hear the two of them leave before heading downstairs and looking to Renesme "What's going on?"

AN: It's short but another update to come