AUTHOR'S NOTE: So It's been a little while, but I hope you haven't forgotten me quite yet. I want you to know now that I do have the plan for the story in my head, but I'm having problems trying to string words together, and I think today is the first day that I haven't had some serious writer blocks. I want to take the time, like always, to thank the people who have followed, favorited, and reviewed my story, and I want to thank the people who have followed and favorited me as an author. I know it can't be easy trying to keep up with my long, and way overdue updates. So thank you. Now I know how itchy you've all been for Bella to grow up a little. Maybe open her eyes. All I have to say is this, what people don't want to see isn't there. Bella doesn't want to believe Edward would lie to her, or be sarcastic with her, so she believes him when he says he's "showing brotherly love". However it gets harder to ignore as she gets older, so bear with me. This story is like my baby and I want the characters to grow and develop into their own personalities. Even Edward. That's my little hint for what is to come, though no more. I own nothing but the plot line, and all rights belong to any original owners.
P.S. WARNING THERE IS A BIT OF A CRAZY SCENE WHEN THE WORDS RENEE HIGGINBOTHAM SHOW UP YOU MAY SKIP THAT PARAGRAPH IF YOU ARE PARTIAL TO PARTIAL VIOLENCE, CRUELTY, AND DEATH. IT WILL ONLY BE ONE PARAGRAPH YOU CAN GO ON READING AFTER THAT. THERE WILL BE NO MORE MENTION OF THE CRAZY SCENE AFTER. Chapter Nine: Time Passed EPOV
My plan had changed somewhat. I wanted time to get to know Bella, on a more romantic level before I changed her. I would change her when she became eighteen. The day she turned eighteen. I would start to court her when she turned sixteen. It would only be a year under my physical self, although thousands under my actual age.
Bella was acting out more and more lately, and it surprised me so. When I asked Esme to talk to her, I felt Bella would be more accepting if her mother talked to her about it, Esme very nearly laughed at me. She told me that Bella was growing up, that acting out was a part of growing up. I wasn't sure how I liked that.
I liked that Bella was growing up, but she was doubting my words. Which, admittedly, were more to protect her in some form than for really any truth or lie. Like with Emmett, she rolled her eyes whenever I told her I was showing him brotherly love. I would reprimand her for it but she would just roll her eyes some more. It's come down to it, that I've almost accepted it. It's a part of Bella, and it shows she's maturing by doubting my word. At the same time, however, she is intolerable because she's doubting my word. I would do nothing but if it keeps I may blow a fuse. But I can't hurt her. Never her.
Jasper's been good as his word all those years ago about not hurting Bella. I've been true to mine about not harming Alice. It's all worked out so far, and I couldn't be more pleased. Rosalie, however, is pissing me off. I don't know how many times I yell at her, threaten Emmett, or make her blind for a few hours she won't shut up about my angel. Bella needs to be out in a world with humans Edward. Edward you can't be serious about changing her! She's human she needs to stay that way! Jeezus Edward, what is wrong with you? Is all I hear from her. She's cooled off though since I ripped off Emmett's head for one of her remarks. Next time I told her I'd rip off her favorite appendage, she could take from that what she will, and send it to Alaska for the Denali clan to find. I haven't heard a word from her since.
After Bella gets out of her newborn stage after I turn her I'm going to have to take her somewhere far away from the Cullen's. They've become a little too complacent with me for my taste, and they need to know that is not acceptable. Bella will just have to call them, it'll be our honeymoon time, I suppose. After that we'll move relatively close to them, perhaps a state or two away and Bella could visit them whenever without my having to deal with them.
Charlie Swan was a permanent fixture in our lives now since he wouldn't be without Bella. Every so often I'd catch him wanting to take her home with him, but then he'd stop and realize the Cullen's and I were her family. I didn't even have to prompt him. Charlie had gotten his life back in Forks. He'd become a Deputy Police Officer, not Chief since the current Chief of Police was still in charge. He'd come over every Friday for dinner with Bella. We would pretend we'd already eaten, and left Mr. Swan to the allusion that he was alone with his daughter. He seemed to enjoy that, and Bella had taken to calling him Uncle Charlie. It was as close to family as he would ever get to her.
Charlie Swan seemed to realize after seeing Bella again that he needed to move on. He met a woman named Sue Clearwater three months after Bella and his first meeting. She was a widow of four years, and apparently made Mr. Swan happy, which made Bella happy. A year after dating each other they got married, and the new Mrs. Swan is currently two month's pregnant.
Renee Higginbotham is still a sore spot for me, and I start to see red anytime I think about her. I'd taken to haunting her with her past. Images of Bella would appear in and out of her house. Pictures of Charlie and his new family life would find themselves randomly attached to her mirror, or in a picture frame on her dresser. After she would scream and leave the room I would sweep in and clean the room as if there was nothing wrong. Ms. Higginbotham is now in a mental hospital where I routinely visit her every night, while I make myself invisible, at one in the morning whispering that she was a horrible person in her ear while she screamed like a crazy person. She eventually got so scared she put herself into a coma. She's been that way for four months. I'm expecting Charlie to tell the hospital "put her out of her misery" any day now. Until then I continue whispering into her ear.
Bella's growing up, and I can't wait until she's eighteen. Ready to be changed, and ready to be mine.
AUTHOR'S NOTE: So what did you think? I want to know what you think about the scene with Renee. Do you think that was a satisfying end for what she did to Bella and Charlie? I still think I'm a bit rusty but this chapter is better than the last I feel...