Chapter 5: So you where outside my window the whole time???

BPOV

I stirred in the bed as I woke up in the morning the next day. I heard how the
rain quietly hit the glass of the window, how the wind blew the tree branches
outside…how his breath blew onto my neck, how his arms were folded around
me…wait what??

I opened my eyes, and just as I has noticed before, his arms where folded around
me, his breath was blowing onto my neck, and he was lying so close…How did I
end up on the bed?? Wasn’t I lying on the couch? Oh right, I got scared by that
freaky nightmare and woke up, and then I crawled down in his bed and fell
asleep… I shuddered a little from the awful memory, and then turned my head
around to peek at Edward. His eyes were closed and he was breathing slowly and
even. I turned back and closed my eyes.

“Are you awake??”Edward suddenly asked, and I kept my eyes closed as I

answered, stiffening a yawn.

“No.” I mumbled quietly, and knew he was smiling at me.

“Really?? I could swear you turned around 5 minutes ago and looked at me.” He
said and I could hear his smile in his voice.

“You’re imagining things.” I answered teasingly and rolled around to look at him.
He loosened his grip and smiled as our eyes met.

“Good morning.” He greeted me and took one of his hands to remove one strand
of hair from my face that had escaped. I smiled at him, and he smiled back.

“Good morning.” I said back and then I sat up.

“Your hair looks like a haystack…but I like it.” he teased me and I grinned at him
as I punched him playfully on his arm.

“Hey, no commenting on my morning hair.” I said as I rose from his bed. My legs
were feeling strangely cold, and when I looked down, I blushed. I wasn’t wearing
anything except Edward’s T-shirt and a pair of mini-shorts. I looked back at the
bed, and as I had expected, there they were; the sweatpants. Edward was staring
at me as well, which made me more self-conscious.

“Eh…I’ll just go and use the bathroom.”I said and half-ran towards his bathroom,
taking my clothes from the sofa with me on the way. I had locked the door before
he had a chance to answer. I took the liberty to take a small shower, and when I
was done, I felt slightly calm again. I dressed quickly, and when I got out, Edward
was sitting in the sofa reading, waiting for me. He looked up from his book when
he heard me coming, and smiled.

“Ready for breakfast??” He asked as he put the book down and stood up. I was
just about to answer, when my stomach decided it was going to answer for me,
and growled loudly. I blushed pink as I laughed with embarrassment. Edward just
smiled, being the gentleman he is, and took my hand as we began to walk out of
the room.

“I take that as a yes.” He said and chuckled as we made our way downstairs.
When we entered the dining room, we we’re greeted by a joyful Esme.

“There you are!” She exclaimed with a warm smile and hugged me, and then her
son. “I was wondering when you two we’re going to show up.”

“Well, here we are.” Edward said and grinned at his mother.

“Yes you are. Now, now, sit down and I’ll be right back with some breakfast for
you.” Esme said and pushed me over to the large table to one of the chairs. I sat
down in it, and Edward joined me on the opposite side. A small chuckle made me
turn my head to the doorway. And guess who’s there??

“You two are up late.” Emmet snickered and walked into the room. He walked
over to me and slung his arm around my shoulders, bending down so he was at
my height. “But you know what?? It’s okay; I’m sure you two were busy with
something else.” He said, and took one apple from the bowl in the middle of the
table and ran out of the room before Edward or I could respond. Edward was
glaring at the empty doorway where he had escaped.

“Emmet, you are so dead.”Edward muttered darkly to himself, almost like a

reminder to his to-do list. The smell of newly fry waffles filled the room as Esme
entered the room with two plates. She smiled at me as she placed one of them in
front of me.

“Here you are honey; I hope you’ll like it.”

*Later*

“It was delicious Esme.” I said honestly as she took my empty plate from me and
walked into the kitchen.

“I’m glad you liked it.” She called back to me, and I heard how she turned on the
tap water, and the scrambling of the plates in the sink. Edward rose from his seat
and walked over to me.

“So, what do you want to do today??” He asked and put his arm around my
shoulder as we walked out of the dining room.

“I don’t know.” I said, lost in thought. What could we do?? “Maybe-“I began, but I
was interrupted by a sudden knock on the door. Alice, who was sitting in the sofa,
reading a fashion magazine, dropped it to the floor, with a small frown on her
face.

“I wonder who that can be.”She muttered to herself, and followed me and
Edward as we walked to the door. The anonym visitor was apparently very
impatient, because he/she began to knock on the door again, harder this time.
Edward sighed and opened the door. The face outside surprised us all.

“J-Jake?? What are you doing here??” I asked, surprised by the fact that he was
here. His eyes widened with relief when he saw me, and in one swift move, he
moved forward and crushed me into a big hug.

“Bells! You have no idea how happy I am to see you!”He said, his voice
somewhat breathless. This was one of these rare occasions when he was wearing
a shirt (which I was pretty happy about).

“Jake. Can’t. Breathe.” I answered him in a strangled voice, which made him drop
his hold, and step back.

“What are you doing here?”Edward asked, in a slightly irritated voice. I looked
back at him, and his face was hard as stone, no emotions showing. Jake looked at
Edward, and his face became as hard as Edward’s.

“I’m here to see Bella.”He said in a cold voice, and then he turned back to me,
and his eyes began to fill with tears.

“Jake, what’s the matter?!?”I said, not understanding what was happening. Jake
looked at Alice with puppy eyes and he was shaking a little.

“Can I come in??” He asked in a pitiful voice, and Alice face hardened.

“No.”She and her brother both answered him in unison, and just as they had
answered, a gasp behind us was heard.

“Alice! Edward! What has gotten into you? Of course he can come in! Look at
him! He’s shaking and crying for goodness sake!” Esme exclaimed, her small
heart-shaped face showing compassion and anger. Edward looked away from his
mother, clearly not happy with her answer to Jake, and sighed.

*5 minutes later*

“Here you go.” Esme said as she gave him a cup of hot coco in the sofa. He was
still shaking, and his tear filled eyes made them look like puppy eyes all the time.

“Thank you.” He said as she walked away to the kitchen. We all stayed quiet for a
while as Jake drank his coco. But my curiosity broke that silence.

“Jake, seriously, what are you doing here??” I asked, and he stopped drinking. He
looked me in the eye, and a tear escaped from his eye.

“It was horrible…”He began, his voice shaking. “I was done showering and
stepped out of the shower, only wearing a towel and-“

“Do we want to hear this part??”Alice asked with a small frown on her face. Jake
turned his head into her direction, and his shaken, scared face became a cold
and angry one.

“Do you want me to finish or not?” he retorted back at her. Then it changed back
again, and he was the small little boy who lost his lollipop.
“I stepped into my room, just getting ready to get dressed, and there she
was!”He exclaimed and covered his face in his hands. All of us stared at him like
he was an idiot.

“…who??” I asked, frowning in confusion.

“I don’t know!” He said and crawled into a ball.

“Okay, you need to explain it properly, we don’t understand a thing.” Alice said,
sounding as confused as I felt. Jake took a deep breath, and then began from the
beginning.

“Okay. I was taking a shower, and then I got out of the shower in only a towel,
and walked to my room to get dressed, and then…” He trailed of removing his
hands from his face.

“And then??”Edward asked tiredly.

“And then I saw the girl, standing outside my window! Her hair was black and
curly, like, seriously curly, and she had pale skin, but not like ghost pale, just
pale. And her face was pressing against the window, and she was talking crazy
stuff!” He said and his description reminded me of the time when Mike used to
stalk me around my house.

“What did she say??” I asked, and he looked at me with a strange grimace.

“She said that it was going to be her and me forever, that we we’re going to get
married and have small mini-Jacobs! I think she was holding a chain and a rope
too.” He said and I almost began to laugh at his ridiculous story.

“And you expect us to believe this?” Alice asked with one eyebrow raised at him.
He nodded weakly at us.

“Sorry Jake, but it doesn’t sound so convincing in my ears.” I said slowly, hoping I
hadn’t hurt his feelings. Sure, he was crazy, sometimes mean, and a little bit of a
stalker, but he was my friend, and he was nice most of the time.

“But that’s not the worst part! Then she began to bang on the window, yelling
she wanted more of my biceps or something like that. I screamed and took my
clothes and ran back to the bathroom and changed. When I finally had the
courage to go back, she was gone! And there was a lipstick mark on the window,
and there was a text too, written in something red!”

“Maybe lipstick??” I suggested.

“Yeah! In it said; I’m watching you. Soon we’ll be together. I was freaked out and
took my car as fast as I could to your place, but you weren’t there. Charlie said
you where here, so I came here.” He finished and looked at me with his puppy
eyes.

“You believe me, right??” he asked, but puppy eyes or not, I wasn’t going to lie.

“No.” I said honestly, and his face fell.

“But I-“ he began, but was interrupted by Emmet, who barged into the room, his
face filled with excitement.
“You guys, you have to check this out! Bring the crying loser too.” He said
snickering, and ran out again. We looked at each other for a second, frowning,
but curiosity burned in all of us, and we rose from our seats and followed him
outside. He was running to the garden, and we rounded the corner of the house,
we saw what he was talking about. Near the house, was a large oak lying on the
ground, probably knocked down by the wind last night.

“Man, that’s one big tree.” He said and placed one hand on the big oak and
patted it slowly. “Hey, but check this out.” He said, and grinned as he walked
around, the 3 of us following.”It almost looks like a handprint, doesn’t it??” he
said and pointed at the mark on the tree. It was a dent, and just like Emmet had
pointed out, it did look like a handprint.

“It looks like you also have a stalker, see??” Alice teased and pointed at the
house. Sure enough, the tree had been standing near Edward’s window. Those
words made my body go cold. Stalker…handprint in a tree…Why does it sound
like this is a typical thing a certain vampire stalker I know would do?? Seriously,
Smith?? Was this his doing?? Had he watched me and Edward the whole time??

“Haha, very funny Alice.” Edward said, and shook his head. He looked at me, and
being him, of course he just had to notice I was scared shitless.

“What’s wrong Bella??” he asked and walked over to me.

“Eh…I…I just thought of…” I said, not knowing what I was going to say. What was
I going to say?? “I’m only scared of the creepy vampire stalker I have who
possibly did this, and is most certainly watching us right now.” Yeah, that pretty
much sums it up. “I thought of that bad dream I had last night.” I said, and
hopefully he wouldn’t pick up the lie.

“Oh, it’s okay Bella.” He said and gave me a small hug and a smile. “It was only a
dream.”

Well, let’s hope so. If it’s not…ugh, I don’t even want to think about it.

*Later inside*

“So, what are we doing now??” Edward asked, ignoring Jake who was sitting in
the sofa, staring at us.

“I know what you’re going to do.” Alice said, and a sly smile began to paint her
lips.

“Okay then…what are we doing then?”I asked, still a little shaken after my latest
discovery (well, I hadn’t proved it yet, but it’s most likely true).

“Well, you are going to come with me to my room for, well I don’t know, and
hour. And for you two,” she said, pointing at Edward and Jake. “Well, whatever-
your-name-was can leave, and you Edward, are going to take a shower.” She
said.

“And why am I going to listen to you right now??” Edward asked, frowning at his
sister.

“Because you smell.” She said, and then dragged me off to her room.

*1 hour later*
“Are you finished yet?? Why did you have to do this makeover now??” I asked as
she applied more makeup on my face. She giggled and continued.

“You’re so silly Bella. You’re going to be fabulous when I’m done with you.” She
said smugly.

“Wait, there’s more??”I asked in a horrified voice. She laughed at me and shook
her head.

“Only 2 minutes, you can hold out that long, can you??” she asked, and I sulked
in her chair as she hummed on some melody.

*2 minutes later*

“And…Voila!” She exclaimed and showed me the mirror. I hardly recognized

myself.

“Alice….” I trailed off, looking at myself.

“You like it, I know you do, and don’t say anything different.” She said with a
confident voice, and helped me up from the chair.

“Now, for your clothes…” she said, trailing off in though as she entered her
closet, and walked off to the ‘small’ section she had for me. I groaned as I
followed.

“Alice, what is this all about??”I asked again, and as expected, she avoided the
question.

“We should pick blue, it matches your skin.” She said and rummaged through the
closet until she found a blue, strapless cocktail dress, looking very expensive. I
sighed, and wondered what I had done to deserve this.

*15 minutes later*

“Are you done changing?” She asked through the door the bathroom door, and I
sighed for the millionth time today.

“Yes.” I said and opened the door. She squealed happily when she saw me, and
began to jump up and down.

“You look amazing!” she complimented excitedly and hugged me. “But it’s
missing something…” she said, and stopped jumping around, and ran back into
her closet. She came back with a black cardigan, and gave it to me. I put it on
happily, not liking the slightly naked feeling I got by that dress. When I had it on,
she smiled smugly.

“Now, that is one, hot looking lady in front of me.” She said and smiled smugly. I
blushed slightly and followed her out of the room. I was happy that she had
decided to not give me those scary, high heeled shoes she almost decided to
give me, and chose the flat ballerinas instead. We walked downstairs, and I was
pretty surprised to see Jake downstairs. When he saw me, his eyes widened and
he grinned.

“What did she do; torture you until you gave her permission to torture you some
more??” He teased, and got a small hit from Alice.
“Be quiet. Why are you still here??” She asked in an irritated tone, and glared at
him.

“What? Did you expect me to go home and face that?? That creepy girl, standing
outside my window? Nu-uh, no way.” He said and Alice sighed.

“Fine, be that way. Where’s Edward??” She asked, and just as the words were
out, he was coming down the stairs. When he saw me, a smile appeared on his
godlike face, and I became warm inside of joy.

“You look beautiful.” He said and gave me a small hug. Then he turned to his
sister.

“Now, will you tell us why we did all this??” He said, and the tone of his voice had
the hidden message; if you don’t tell me, you’re in big trouble.

“Remember that favor you two were going to for me later?? Well guess what,
now is later.”Alice said and her face became excited.

“And, you want us to do...what exactly??”I asked feeling a little bit confused. Why
had I dressed up like I was going to some tremendous party where I was going to
meet the queen of England??

“I want the two of you to go on a date.” She said happily.

“What?!?” Edward, Jake and I all said in unison.