Hot Damn, Charlie Swan!

Monster

A/N: So now that Tanya has gone there are 3, Edward is to be thanked for telling us who's going next xx

Bella

I really don't understand what's happening to me, it was almost painful to leave the Cullens yesterday. I feel drawn to return, why? I need to talk to Irina, but she and Charlie are giving me some space and have gone out for the day and overnight, maybe Edward could help me, he's coming over soon. I have been sorting out more of my stuff, I got one of those wooden coat stands ages ago, it really just stood in my room with a black Fedora and Duster Coat on it. Neither of which I'd ever worn, way too big for me, I just liked them. So it's now in my rear hallway, it's a perfect fit.

I must get some stuff for making coffee out there to, for Eric and me, the utility room is opposite the darkroom and there is a free bunker. That is the obvious place, what with the sink and everything already in there. Then maybe a couple of folding chairs so we can sit, waiting for processing is a bore sometimes. Yes, that would be great, the hallway is a large square and the doors would still be accessible. I heard the door not long after and Edward was on my front stoop, he still looked young but his hair had, hell I don't know! It was all over the place as if the wind had whipped it into a riot and his fingers were continually running through it too, making it more disarrayed and it was a good look,

"Leave it alone Edward, that's a good look for you, makes you look older somehow!" I said and he lit up like a sign on Broadway,

"That's why I'm here, I want you to help me look older and less schoolboyish, please!" he begged and I ushered him in.

So after a long chat, I thank him for the heads up yesterday, with his note,

'She saw, she's angry and intends to destroy it and you, Bella!'

And he smiles, telling me it was his pleasure because Alice needs seriously putting in her place. Then about him always being made to be a junior where ever they go, dressed almost younger even, He laughs saying if Alice could get away with it, she'd put him in short pants. Then me disparaging Alice's taste in, hell everything! Suddenly, I had a plan!

"Take off the crappy awful jersey and roll up the sleeves of your shirt, thank god it's white, just to below the elbow okay? The open the top four buttons, I'll be right back!" he looked confused but started to comply,

Grabbing the hat and coat from the hall, I handed them to him,

"Don't put the hat on, but put on the coat and scrunch up the sleeves to be above where the shirt cuffs are! Right now follow me, bring the hat, Edward" I ordered, going to the back door,

I opened it wide and told him to stand at the bottom of the stairs, one foot on the second riser, thus bending his knee enough to lean on it with one arm,

"Right look down, holding the hat between your hands, it has the meaning of life written in there Edward so look intent!" I say, now lying on the hallway floor,

Camera in hand and snapping pictures to get him comfortable. I tell him to grip the hat, then look up at the camera, just his eyes to move, not his head,

"Imagine the camera is her Edward, show her how you feel!" I'm saying,

Now on my knees and its perfect, shit that's intense! He'll melt my camera with all that pent-up desire.

"Now sit on the top step, dangle the hat between your legs and lift your eyes to the sky, go on give him a prayer, it can't hurt none!" I guide him,

As I move forward out into the garden, he's so photogenic, no need to ask him to stay still, damn vampire! This is fuck awesome if he was my type I'd be hyperventilating by now. He hadn't said, but I hazarded a guess, this was about Esme, hence the need to look older. I had gotten some of their histories yesterday and knew how old they all were then. But he was only weeks short of eighteen when changed and she was just newly turned twenty-six, so it was really only seven years, not the nine their ages made it seem like. I had a feeling Alice had been poking her oar in here; somehow, I just felt it.