Unexpectedly Chapter 14 Teaser

The sun was shining brightly through her window for once, there seemed to be birds singing a morning song, and everything seemed different; because today was different. Bella pulled her covers from her, swung her legs over to the side of her bed, stood up and smiled.

Today was her eighteenth birthday.

She looked at her alarm clock to see that it was 9.00 AM already, which was a little confusing as on every other birthday, Charlie had woken up before he had gone to the station so that he could wish her a happy birthday and give her a gift. However, she then noted her truck in the drive and assumed that was her present this year, despite being given it for graduation.

The last few days had been tough with Charlie. It was now Friday and they hadn’t really spoken much in the week at all. Suddenly, Charlie was spending more time in La Push with Harry Clearwater and sometimes coming back after Bella had retired to bed. It wasn’t completely unusual as she was used to spending time apart from Charlie as he was on the police force and was on call 24/7. This week, for some reason that she couldn’t work out, Charlie had been somewhat distant.

She brushed it off as just a coincidence though, and concentrated on her upcoming birthday – the big one-eight. She saw that there was a piece of paper left on her bed before she headed down for breakfast. It was from Charlie.

Didn’t want to wake you. I’ll be back at 4.00 today. Don’t do anything stupid, Bella.

Stupid? Her? She frowned as she tried to decipher what her father had meant by it. He had never been concerned about what she was doing while he was work, so his words were a little curious, but Bella had been used to Charlie’s weird mood in the week, so again, she passed it off – even the fact that he hadn’t even said “happy birthday”. She had more important things to worry about.

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Update tomorrow, hopefully.
Edie xxx