Real Women Have Curves (Twilight AU-Human)

Chapter 11: Dinner

B POV

All day Saturday I turned Friday's events over and over in my head, excusing away Edward's actions. He joined the fight to save Jacob, his friend, from getting hurt. He was opening doors because it was the polite thing to do. He kissed me on the hand to make Tanya jealous. These thoughts ran through my head over and over again.

I was thinking them as I did my homework, went to the store, did laundry, cooked. Pretty soon Charlie noticed something was off too. I hadn't told him about the attempted mugging because I didn't want to upset him. If I told him about it he'd never let me go to another football game again. I promised myself if I felt any more of a threat from James, Victoria or Laurent I'd tell him straightaway though.

"Okay Bells." Charlie breaks the silence as we eat dinner. "What is it?"

"Nothing," I wave my fork at him as I take another bite of the chicken alfredo I made.

"No it's not." Charlie sets his arm down on the table. "You're upset." Was he reading me that well for once? "You're upset about dinner with your grandfather tomorrow night aren't you?" I guess he wasn't reading me that well.

"Yeah," I grumble wanting him to think that is the reason I'm upset rather than over some guy I barely know.

"Well, you don't need to worry about that. I already told Grandpa Charles to be on his best behavior." He takes another bite of garlic bread.

"Good," Like that would stop him from saying whatever the hell came to his mind.

Dinner continued in relative silence. I found reading hard to do that night as I sat in bed. I would start reading, then thinking and before I knew it I was halfway down the page and realized I didn't pay attention to anything I had just read because my mind was too far gone. I gave up and went to sleep.

Billy stopped by Sunday morning and picked Charlie up for fishing so I had the house to myself until noon. Charlie was due to be back by then so that we could head up to Port Angeles to see Grandpa Charles.

I'm in the kitchen eating pancakes when the phone rings.

"Hello?" I answer.

"Hey Bells! It's Jake."

"Hey Jake. What's up?"

"Nothing," he says nonchalantly. "Just calling to make sure you're doing okay."

"Yeah I'm doing great." I put the phone between my shoulder and my ear so I can clean my dish.

"Good good." He answers. "Listen, Leah is going to be by soon. I told her I would take her to dinner and a movie. Something about not going out enough. I dunno, girls."

"I am a girl Jake," I remind him.

"Yeah but you don't count. You're...you."

"Thanks? I think," I answer. I knew what he meant. I was platonic and neutral. No need to try and figure me out because I wasn't in that league.

"So?" I muse. "You called me to tell me that you're going out with your girlfriend?"

"Ah, no. I called to see if you and Edward wanted to double tonight. That way I don't have to listen to Leah talk about girl stuff the entire time. You can do that stuff for me and then Edward and I can talk about guy stuff."

"Whoa! Edward and I aren't dating." I stammer. "And I have to go to dinner at my grandpa's anyway tonight. Sorry, I can't be your girlfriend's babysitter for the night."

"Oh," Jacob hesitates. "AWKward! I just figured the way he acted around you the other night and how you were going to his party that maybe you guys were..." He trails off.