Edward Cullen's Stalking Class 101

Chapter 29 - When Charlie Met the Cullens

Edward's POV

Don't stare at Bella. Don't stare at Bella...

Damn this was hard. Why was she so beautiful? Even Jasper can't help me right now. Alice and Rosalie were trying to talk to each other but quickly ended up texting. In fact, everyone started texting and Esme noticed how rude we were being and put an end to it.

To my beloved family,
STOP TEXTING IT'S RUDE!
*death glare*
Don't make me text again!
- The best second mom you could ever ask for

Everyone immediately sent back an apology and a sad face emoji.

To the best mom ever,
Sorry for the texting, :( but Bella and I have a problem. I can't compliment her or say anything of the romantic kind because Bella doesn't want her dad to know we are dating yet. I promise to try and make the texting less obvious.
- Your favourite least annoying son

To my least annoying son,
Fine. You're forgiven. Only because you seem to be the only one with a decent excuse. But why is Bella not telling Charlie about her relationship? She should tell him! He has a right to know!
- Your very concerned mother

To my mother who takes things way too seriously,
Now who's texting excessively? Anyway, I don't know why she's no telling Charlie. Maybe she's not ready. Don't push her. She'll do it in her own time.
- Your caring son

To my caring son,
Well that's nice but I still don't think Bella should be hiding things from her father. At least hint to her that she should tell him. I know she probably doesn't think it's a good idea but you never know. This might be a good thing and maybe Charlie would stop worrying about her so much. He's been calling me to ask about her as she seems distant to him somehow. That's probably why he invited us out tonight. He wants to get to know the people who have become a big part of Bella's life. Anyway, let her know that she should say something and PUT YOUR PHONE AWAY.
- You know I'm right

Damn it she was right. I put my phone away and waited for them to bring out our main course. Everyone made their way through the starter without a problem, well almost. When we were ordering drinks, Emmett protested that Esme and Carlisle got to drink wine but he didn't. He claimed he was nearly 21 and demanded to get some. I don't know why, considering he didn't like the taste of wine anyway but it is Emmett so who knows what he was thinking.

"Emmett honey, no you're not. You're nineteen remember?" Esme hissed.

"Oh right, sorry mom." And that was that.

When we started to eat, Bella looked at us in amazement. She knew we didn't eat so watching us chew and swallow was a novelty. Not that anything tasted good because when we became vampires our taste buds were craving something else but we were very good at acting.

Charlie looked awkward being around us. Like we were royalty or something and he was just a peasant. Which in a way is true, I don't mean to disrespect Chief Swan in any way. But we just seemed to have an air of gracefulness around us compared to humans.

He could see how happy Bella was around us and he seemed happy that Bella had made friends but there was something about the way he looked at us that said why them? In fact, I can prove that he did say that. Well he thought it. He was thinking about how different we seemed the whole dinner and almost seemed oblivious to Esme's small talk as he tried to figure out what was so different about us compared to everyone else.