Here is another chapter, I am sorry that it is later than I said. I hope you guys enjoy this chapter. The characters do not belong to me, but they do belong to the author. The only things that do belong to me are the characters I made up and the plotline. Please enjoy this chapter and let me know what you think, but do be nice. This is my first story and I am just getting the hang of it. Also, I do love hear your guys reviews, so please review. I will have the next chapter up by tomorrow sometime.
Edward carried Bella up the staircase and into her room. Placing her gently onto her bed. She moved to sit up, but he stood in front of her.
"Edward…please," Bella begged. "I want to get a shower and then breakfast." Bella said while trying to stand again, this time he actually moved out of her way. She began her way into her bathroom.
"Who is he to you Bella?" He asked while taking a seat on her bed. This made her stop in her tracks. She stood still and closed her eyes. She did not want to talk about James or anything that had to do with James. "Bella?" Edward asked while standing and coming closer to her. He placed his hands on her hips and pulled her closer to him. She leaned back into him and sighed before breaking away from him. She turned to face him and tried to smile.
"He is my friend…or ex friend really," Bella sighed. "I am not really sure." She was not sure about anything anymore.
"Who is he really Bella?" Edward asked. Bella took a deep breath of air, before exhaling and looking up at Edward. The look he was giving her was making her tremble. The look on his face was between sadness and anger and she could not figure out why.
"It would seem you already know," Bella said while turning around.
"Princess." Edward begged and he did not like begging. Bella bit her lip and turned to face him again.
"He is my ex fiancé…the one I told you about," Bella sighed. "Can we please not talk about this." She begged. Edward nodded his yes and set back down on her bed. Bella stood there staring at him. "You heard everything…didn't you?" Bella asked him. Edward looked up at her and could tell that if he said the wrong thing, she would never forgive him.
"No." Was the only thing that he said. They both knew that he was lying.
"You lie." She said before going into her bathroom and shutting the door behind her. She could not talk anymore about her and James or the supernatural world. She wanted everything to change. She knew he was lying to her, she knew from the moment he wrapped his arms around her that he knew everything. That he had heard everything that they had talked about. She turned the water on in the shower and placed a towel on her chair that she had in the room. She slowly took off her clothes and climbed into the shower. Letting the water trickle down her body, she closed her eyes and tried to clear her mind.
"Bella?" Edward asked while knocking on her door again. She been in the shower for over an hour and he was beginning to worry about her.
"I am fine." Bella called back. The water had turned cold and she was shivering now. She not eve realized that she had been in the shower that long. Stepping out, she wrapped a towel around her body and opened the door to see Edward standing there. She could see that his eyes darken at the sight of her.
"Princess…I am sorry for bringing anything up." He said while stepping closer to her. He did not want to hurt her.
"I don't want to talk about it…I need to change." Bella said while stepping around him and heading to her closet. She did not want to deal with anything else. She just wanted to disappear.
"I'll see ya downstairs." He said before leaving. He hated leaving her but he also had to talk to Charlie about the vampire hunter and what it would mean. Bella changed into her riding pants and an orange-colored halter shirt. Bella tied her hair up in a high ponytail before slipping her riding boots on. She snuck down the secret staircase and into the kitchen. Checking over shoulder, she saw no one while she slipped outside. She raced down to the barn. She could see the groomers working with some of the horses. She whistled when she stepped inside the barn. Reese nickered back at her, while pawing at the ground. She made her way over to him. Petting his nose, she smiled and kissed him. Opening the stall door, she slid in.
"Want to go for a ride buddy?" She asked him. He shook his head at her and she smiled, while putting his bridle on. Throwing a leg over his back, she motioned him out of the barn. She kicked him in the side, getting him into a trot. She loved riding bare back and having the wind whip through her hair. She closed her eyes and threw her head back, has Reese picked up speed. After several minutes, she slowed him down and directed him to a clearing in the middle of the woods that surrounded her parent's house. She stopped him and jumped off. Making her way to the middle of the clearing she laid down. Woods on every side surrounded the clearing and there were wild flowers everywhere, mostly purple and white flowers. Bella always loved to come here and think. Running her fingers through the grass, she let her mind go blank.
She did not know how long she had laid there, until she felt someone sitting beside her, looking up she was blinded by the sun. Blocking her eyes, she looked again. She could see Jacob sitting there. She smiled at him.
"What are you doing here?" Bella asked while sitting up. She was a little surprised that he sitting beside her.
"Your mother called me…she said you disappeared this morning." Jacob said while laying back, making Bella also lay back, resting her head on his stomach.
"What time is it?" Bella asked while playing with a flower that she had picked.
"About one…how long have you been out here?" He asked while taking one of her hands in his.
"I am not sure…but since early this morning." Bella said while turning her head to the side, facing him. He traced one of his fingers up and down the pad of her hand.
"Well the way your mom was talking…you had been gone for a while." Jacob chuckled.
"Why would she call you?" Bella asked while taking her hand back and staring at him. She moved to lay on her stomach and propped herself up on her elbows.
"She figured I would know where you were at." Jacob said while turning on to his side and propped himself up by his hand. He played with the grass in front of him and smiled at her. He had been one of the few people who knew about the clearing and how much it meant to her. He used to come here with her until they stopped being friends. She had a sneaky suspicion that he would come up there when she wasn't there.
"You are the only one that knows about this clearing or that I like to come out here…how did you know I would be here anyway?" She wondered why he would figure that she would come out to the clearing. The only time she came out here was to think or if something bad happened. She wondered how much her mother had told him.
"Your mom said you were having a rough morning…everything okay?" He asked.
"Yeah…its fine." She lied. "I am glad you are here…I might have slept the day away." Bella laughed.
"You sure?" He asked. He knew that she was lying about something. She just smiled at him and rolled onto her back and looked up to the sky. "Bells?"
"Jake…I am fine." Bella tried to get him to believe her. He grinned at her, he was happy that she had used her nickname for him. He knew everyone called him that, but he was happy that she calling him by his nickname and not his full name.
"Okay…how about we get you home." Jacob said while standing.
"I just want to stay here." Bella sighed. She really did not want to go back to the house and have to deal with everything that needed her attention.
"Come on." He said while helping her to her feet. "Lets get you back on your horse." He said while helping her up onto her horse. "I guess I will see ya tonight." Jacob said while patting her leg. She looked down at him and smiled.
"I almost forgot about it." She laughed, but it wasn't really a laugh.
"Bells you worry me." He sounded worried. He could tell something was going on with her and it worried him.
"Don't worry about me…I will see ya tonight…it will be good to see a few people from school." Bella called over shoulder has she got the horse turned around. She got Reese into a canter has they disappeared into the woods.
Bella stood in front of her mirror looking at herself. She was wearing a pair of short shorts and a royal blue v-neck, along with her ankle boots and belt that had a rose on it. She had her hair down; it had curled when she didn't dry it from getting out of the shower. She turned to the side and stared at herself in the mirror. Bella looked towards her door that was being opened. She smiled at her mom. Her mother stepped through the doorway and smiled at her daughter. Renée worried about her and wished that she could live a normal life.
"Tell me your not wearing that?" Renée asked has she looked her daughter over.
"Yes…what is wrong with it?" Bella asked has she looked back to the mirror. She could not see anything wrong with her outfit.
"Your not in high school anymore," Renée said. "Let Alice choose for you."
"Mom." Bella huffed. "I look fine." She was annoyed with her mom.
"Alice…dear." Renée called to Alice who was outside in the hallway talking to Rosalie."
"Yes aunt Renée?" Alice asked while peeking into the room. She smiled at her aunt but frowned when she saw what Bella was wearing. She could not get over how Bella did not know how to dress or that she did not care about what clothes she wore.
"Please tell me your not wearing that?" Alice asked while walking into the room, with Rose behind her. Both of the girls were beautifully dressed. Rose was wearing a classic white button down and a pair of jeans. She had her hair in a braid, while Alice was wearing a pair of white shorts and a green v-neck sleeveless blouse.
"Well I will let you to it." Renée said before leaving the room.
"I am not changing…my outfit is fine." Bella huffed while turning to face them.
"Come on Bella." Alice said while laughing and shaking her head has she went into Bella's closet and brought out a simple black dress. The dress was a spaghetti strap dress with all over lace and a sweetheart neckline and low scoop back. "Put these on to." Alice said while handing her a pair of black flats. "It will look cute together." Bella looked at the outfit and then back to Alice. "Come on Bella…we are going to be late and don't you have a date with that handsome man…don't you want to look good for him?" Alice said while tapping her foot on the ground. Bella huffed while taking her clothes from Alice. There was no winning with Alice.
"I am not going on a date with Edward," Bella said through the closet door. "I am just showing him around the bonfire tonight." Bella said while changing. She slipped her feet into her flats and made her way out of the closet and glared Alice.
"Yet that is not how it sounded when he told you he could not wait until you two went to the bonfire together." Alice laughed, making Bella blush. She did not know why she was blushing. Bella remembered what Alice was talking about. When she got back from riding, Edward had met her in the kitchen, asking her a lot of questions and that's when they both noticed that Alice and Rose was sitting at the island. Edward left the room, but not before telling her that he could not wait until they went to the bonfire together. Bella had been worried they would begin to ask her questions about her and Edward and she had been right. They began to ask her questions and she did not know what to tell them.
"He's a friend." Bella sighed. She did not want to talk about her feelings, because she was not sure what her feelings were. She knew that she trusted Edward with her life and that scared her the most.
"Sure he is." Rose laughed and smiled at her. "You should have seen the look he was giving you while you two were dancing."
"Oh…yes…it was so romantic." Alice gushed.
"What are you talking about?" Bella asked while sitting down at her mirror. Alice began to do her make-up.
"That boy loves you…you can't tell?" Alice asked while putting cover-up on Bella's face.
"He is a friend Allie…nothing more." Bella blushed.
"With you blushing that way…it would seem that he is a little more than a friend." Rose laughed has she took a seat on Bella's bed.
"Tell us." Alice said while spreading eye shadow across Bella's eyes.
"There is nothing to tell." Bella huffed.
"See that tells me there is…its not like he isn't good looking-"
"Or sweet to you and it would seem that he is in love with you." Rose said while cutting Alice off.
"Guys…please," Bella begged for them to stop. She did not want to hear about how Edward liked (loved) her, because she did not believe it or really know what her own feelings were. "He is a good friend of mine and I trust him."
"Bella…just admit it." Alice said while taking a brush through Bella's hair, she yanked a little too hard.
"Ow…damn it Allie." Bella yelped. She could see Alice smirking behind her. "Your mean Pixy." Bella said while playfully swatting at Alice, who just laughed. "Okay…I will admit I find him attractive and I never really know how to act around him." Bella blushed. Which was the truth, he made her lose all common sense. "For some reason…everything just feels right with him and it scares me…especially with how things went down with James." She had to lie a bit. Yes, he made her lose all common sense but he also made her mad sometimes, to the point that she wanted to pull her own hair out.
"Aww," Alice grinned at Bella. "I remember that feeling with Jasper…I still get it sometimes when we are together…I miss him and he just left this morning." Alice smiled while remembering dropping her husband off at the airport early this morning.
"Me too…Emmett made me feel so safe and I just trusted him from the start…it scared me so badly." Rose said while smiling.
"So have you guys ever…you know." Alice asked while running the brush once more through Bella's hair. Bella began to blush badly while remembering the time her and Edward had spent together. She did not understand what had come over her, why she had done that. Yes, she found him attractive, she would be blind if she did not and she trusted him with her life. He had protected her and even saved her, but she felt betrayed that he had left her and she was not ready to forget that. She also had too much on her plate to be starting anything new. She was still getting over James and the lost of her baby and how he lied to her. Along with getting over all that, she was still trying to process that she was part vampire, part human and that her whole town is filled with werewolves and that her parents friend, her friend's father was the leader of the pack and supposedly her protector growing up. What was really hard to believe was that her mother knew everything and never told her anything about it. She did not hold it against her mother, but she wished to a point she had told her. She wanted to scream loudly and she wished there was such things has time traveling machines, because she wanted to go back to in time when everything was different. When she had no idea vampires, werewolves, vampire hunters, anything supernatural was actually real. When life was simple and she still had James and her life was perfect, because in this point in time. She felt like everything was crumpling and she was beginning to suffocate under the pressure, of the lying and the knowing.
"You have…you dirty dog." Rose smirked and laughed.
"Its none of your guys business." Bella huffed, her face got pinker. Her face felt like it was on fire. She hated feeling anything for Edward, because she did not know if she wanted to feel anything or if she did. She knew one thing; she did not want to lose him ever again. She would feel lost without him. .
"And you said that he was just a friend." Alice smirked at her. "Now tell me what you think." Alice said while turning Bella to face the mirror. Bella gasped, her hair was curled better and her make-up was done nicely.
"I love it Allie…its perfect." Bella said while standing and grabbing her clutch. "We should probably go…mother will throw a fit if we are late." Bella said while heading for the sitting area, when she noticed Edward walking into the sitting area. Edward froze in place at the sight of his mate. She was beautiful everyday, but in that moment she was beyond gorgeous in her black dress. He wanted to ravish her and never let her leave the bedroom. She could see that his eyes had gotten darker, she noticed when he was around her they did that a lot. She wondered if it had anything to with blood or not. He stepped closer to her when he was able to move.
"Princess." He said while handing her a single white rose. She took the rose and smelled it, while smiling up at him.
"Thank you…what are you doing here?" Bella asked. She was hoping the girls had been wrong.
"Remember our date…I thought I was taking you to the bonfire tonight." He was hoping she had not changed her mind. He would not be to handle himself if she had changed her mind and then spent the whole night with the pup.
"She didn't forget…and we were just leaving." Alice said while making herself known. "She can't wait…can she Rose." Alice called to Rose, who waddled into the room smiling.
"Yep…its nice meeting you Edward…we haven't really gotten to talk," Rose smiled. "But…I think you know that if you do anything to upset Bella…that you have me or my husband or even little one here," Rose said while motioning with her head to Alice. "you'll have us to deal with." Rose smiled more. She could be very scary when she was protecting the ones she loved. Bella wanted to hide; she was so embarrassed that Rose would say something like that. "But I know Bella trusts you…so I will try to trust…just don't screw up." Both Alice and Rose began to laugh.
"It was nice meeting you again Edward." Alice called over her shoulder before both of the girls left the room.
"They are a little scary." Edward laughed, noticing that Bella was blushing. "You okay?"
"Yeah…just embarrassed." Bella laughed.
"Don't be…they love ya…you should be happy that you have some many people who do." Edward smiled. "Not many people have that."
"Yeah…I am lucky…so are you ready to see how Wescott throws a bonfire?" Bella asked, wanting to switch the subject.
"Come on." Edward said while taking Bella's hand. "I have a surprise for you." He whispered in her ear has they left the room, she shivered at the contact of his breath against her skin. They made their way downstairs and outside to where a nice white Aston Martin V12 Vantage Roadster was parked. She gasped at the sight of the car parked in her parents drive. "You like?" He whispered in her ear. She shivered again at how close he was. She hated how Alice and Rose made her think there was something going on between her and Edward. It made things more difficult.
"This is your?" Bella asked while Edward helped her into the car and made his way around to the driver's side.
"Yep…I bought it when it first came out…isn't she a beauty." Edward said while driving the car down the long drive. "I have a few cars…which you have seen most of them…just not the bike I have." Edward grinned.
"What bike?" Bella asked. She was not surprised that Edward had a motorcycle.
"It's a Ninja ZX 14R…it's also a beauty." He was having the bike shipped to Wescott and he couldn't wait until the bike got here. He loved his cars and being a vampire had its benefits, he had managed to pick up a lot of cars over a span of time. Only keeping the ones that actually meant something to him. The car purred has he pressed on the gas, making the car go faster. The top was down and was making Bella's hair blow all around. Edward could see her smiling from the corner of his eye and it made him smile. He took her hand in his and squeezed it gently, before placing a light kiss on her the back of her hand. She smiled at him. She could not believe how much fun she was having has he raced the car through the old country roads.
"Do you even know where you going?" She yelled over the wind.
"No…but I thought you would like to take a ride before we had to be there."
"You know what…I am having fun…I love driving fast." Bella said while biting her lip. "James use to take me to this place and I was allowed to drive has fast has I wanted and it was great…especially since I have a Porsche." Bella smiled awhile remembering her times driving her Porsche. The only downside to remembering that was she was remembering James also. A frown a peered on Bella's face has she remembered her good times with James.
"Want to drive?" He asked her while coming to a stop sign. He noticed the change her mood and it made him sad that vampire hunter held a part of his mate's heart. He wanted to do anything to make her happy and he figured if she liked driving fast, that she would love to drive his car.
"Really…you would let me drive this car?" Bella asked. She found the car to be amazing and would give anything to drive the car.
"Of course…I already let you drive my favorite car." Edward smiled at her. "Come on…change me seats." Edward said while getting out of the car. She followed suit and made her way around to the other side. She had to smile has she closed the car door behind her and pulled away from the stop. "Are you enjoying yourself?" Edward asked a few minutes later has they were speeding down the road. He noticed that the frown had disappeared from her face and that there was smile in its place. It made him happy that he could make her happy.
"Hell yes." Bella yelled and laughed has she took her grandparents drive a little too fast, she could hear the tires screeching and smiled.
"Lets not wreck." He laughed. He was happy to see her laughing and smiling. He would do anything to make her smile and laugh. He loved hearing her laugh.
"Your one to talk." She laughed back. Slowly the car down, she parked the car in-between Emmett's jeep and Chris's 2012 red Honda Civic Hybrid. She could see her aunt Sofia and uncle Ethan's Hummer, along with her aunt Madison and uncle Tony's 2011 Rolls-Royce Ghost and her father's Jaguar and her aunt Esme and uncle Carlisle's AMG Mercedes-benz sedan. She could also see the rest of her family's cars. She was just happy to know that Alice and Rose where already here. They got out of the car and Edward followed Bella around the side of her grandparent's five-bedroom two-story brick farmhouse. Inside they had three bathrooms and two large dinning rooms. But of course it was nothing like her parents house, but she loved this house a little more than the house she grew up in, just for the fact that her grandma Mary tried to make it feel homey. She could see Christmas light hung throughout the trees nearby the clearing, has they got closer to the bonfire area. It was out back of her grandparent's house, in the clearing that was in the middle of their woods. There were trucks pulled up around the small circle to give light to the bonfire. Bella could see the smokes and sparks drifting upward, the fire kept flickering in the small wind that they were having. People were standing around with red plastic cups in their hands talking and some were dancing to the music or sitting beside the fire. There were logs placed around the fire pit. Bella could see that people from town had parked closer around the clearing. The music wasn't blaring yet, but Bella knew when the parents finally turned in, that the music would be thumping. Edward took Bella's hand has they walked towards the bonfire and she smiled up at him.