FYH Chapter 11

FYH Chapter 11

Climbing Hills

EPOV:
I was woken in the morning by the feeling of someone kissing my neck and it only took about half a second from there to realize that it was Bella and that she was naked and somehow, so was I. How she managed that I will never know. I reached my arms around her pulling her closer to me.
"It's about time you woke up. You are such a sound sleeper. Well most of you is, a certain part of you woke up a while ago." She teased me. After thoroughly making love to her we had to rush to get ready to go to our first skiing lesson and to make it on time as we were now running late.
Ok. I think I have to right to complain a little bit here, I was freaking freezing my ass off already and we just started. Not to mention Bella and I were standing in the middle of a bunch of kids taking their first skiing lessons. I leaned into Bella and asked, "If you are from Washington and it's a mountainous region, how is it that you never learned to ski before?"
"Are you kidding me? There was no way that my parents were going to let me don skis and go flying down a mountainside with my lack of coordination. They wouldn't let me go roller skating or skateboarding either after I ended up breaking my arm and my ankle the very first time they put me on a bicycle." I could stop it. I tried but it happened anyway. My palm hit my forehead.
"And you are just telling me this now as I am about to let you go careening down a hill to your very possible death?"
"Don't be so dramatic. I'm sure that I won't die."
I opened my mouth to say more but didn't get the chance to say anything else to her as the instructor chose that moment to show up and started the lesson. Skiing itself was easier than I thought that it would be. But using the lift wasn't nearly as easy it looked. Bella and the other children had a good time laughing at me when I fell of the lift and landed face first in the snow. It was about three hours later and several successful trips up and down the hill before I managed to get my revenge. I came up to her and wrapped my arms around like I was going to give her a big hug, then I grabbed the collar of her coat and dropped a handful of snow down inside. And that was where I made my big mistake that officially made me that worst husband in the world and effectively ended our skiing adventures. The cold had startled her and she lost her balance and went down. I was in pure shock for a moment as she sat on the ground clutching her ankle. I was apologizing repeatedly as I attempted to get our skis off.
As she sat on the ground I thought that she was crying the way that her shoulders were shaking, but once I got down in front of her I noticed that she was laughing. "Wait til Angela and Ben hears about this one!" By that point we had attracted the attention of several people including the instructor that we had been working with earlier who had thankfully summoned someone with a stretcher to help us get to the infirmary. After several x-rays and even more arguments from Bella about getting the x-rays it was determined that she merely sprained her ankle and was ordered to rest and elevate it as much as possible for the next few days.
She was given a pair of crutches and we made our way back to the condo. I was still apologizing repeatedly but she didn't want to hear it. How could she not be furious at me for causing her bodily injury? She would have been just fine if I hadn't screwed up and caused her to hurt her ankle.
"Edward, stop it. I'm fine."
"Bella, I hardly think that having a sprained ankle constitutes you being fine."
"I may not be 100% healthy and injury free but I am fine. I had a wonderful time skiing and now I am looking forward to spending the next few days on bed rest with my sexy husband. Now I need a bath and I am in desperate need of someone to help me. So are you going to help me or do I need to call back that cute medic that helped us get to the infirmary?" Well of course that got my attention, I knew that she was just joking but there was no way that I was going to let her get away with teasing me like that. I would get her back for that later after a much needed soak in a hot tub of water. I knew that her ankle was in pain but the rest of her had to be just as sore as I was.
I spent the next three days catering to her every whim and desire. Her ankle was feeling so much better that we started going down to the lobby to spend time and we had dinner at the restaurant at the resort several times.
We had heard from our friend Meg, who invited us to St. Louis for this big Halloween bash that they were throwing. Since we still had a little over a week to get there we decided to stop and see Mount Rushmore first then head south to see our friends. We were both really excited to see Meg and David and actually meet Carolyn.
We didn't get a chance to tell Meg that we had gotten married when we were on the phone she was at her fitting for her maid of honor dress and had to get off the phone. But she did get to tell us that the wedding was going to be next August.
But the most important thing that we did do while Bella was laid up was that we called my mother. The call went a lot better than I had expected it too and we got a lot accomplished and finally in the open with the call but it had also pissed me off something terrible. The things that she did to me were just unacceptable and a part of me wanted to never speak to her again. But then I thought about Bella and the fact that her parents were dead and it made me feel guilty. She was right, if I didn't try with my family and something happened to them I would regret it. But at least Bella had a chance to talk to my mother and father and got to "meet" them so to speak. Like my mother said, at least something good came out of this fucked up mess we were in.
BPOV:
I can't believe that I fell and sprained my ankle. I kept trying to tell Edward that it was my luck and coordination that did it and not him putting snow down my shirt, which by the way I still can't believe that he actually did. But skiing was fun and I got a few good runs down before I was put out of commission. So I was still thrilled about how great the day had been.
I called Ben and Ang that night and told them about my little mishap and of course they laughed at me profusely. It really was a classic Bella move and Edward didn't really have anything to do with it, not that he would listen to me. So I sat back and reveled in being pampered for a couple of days because, for one my ankle did hurt and two, it was really nice to be doted on like that for once. It made me wonder though how obsessively and annoyingly attentive when we were ready to start a family and I was pregnant.
Another good thing about be stuck in the room was that Edward called his mom before I got to talk to her. It had really startled me when he got as angry as he did with her when they were talking so I pulled him back to me and started comforting him by running my hand through his hair. I could feel the frustration and anger that he was feeling dissipate by the second. As soon he was a lot calmer but he still was upset with her. He didn't spend all that much time on the phone with her before giving me the phone and taking off to take a shower. I had no idea what she said to him but he would tell me when he was ready. And he definitely was not ready right now.
Esme and I spent a long time on the phone and I have to say that I am very happy that I gave her the chance to make her own first impression on my and I know that the only regret that I have is that I didn't insist on doing it sooner. But then again, I don't think that Edward would have been ready to listen to her side and deal with a lot of the things they needed to before now. And that is all that I am going to about that for now.
Now that my ankle was healed and I returned my crutches to the infirmary as I had no desire to take them with me even though it really was inevitable that I would need them again, possibly soon knowing me we were ready to take off for our next destination. Which just happened to be Mount Rushmore.
I was really excited to go there as I have wanted to go ever since I was a kid but my parents never had the money to go on trips. Being a small town police chief didn't exactly pay well. That is one of the reasons that this trip is so special to me. It is my very first vacation.
And now I had another reason to be excited about the trip as it is now our honeymoon. I never dreamed when I left home that this trip would take the turns that it did or lead me to the love of my life. I truly believe that my parents are watching over me and a guiding me and really did guide me straight to Edward. We had really found each other when we really needed each other, we just didn't know it at the time. I touched on this during that phone call with Esme and our conversation what was said had us both in tears.
We started out of Colorado very early in the morning as we had a long drive ahead of us. Edward was laughing at me saying that I was bouncing around in my seat like a little kid that has had too much sugar for breakfast. At which point I showed him my inner kid and stuck my tongue out at him.
Since it was already going to take all day to drive to Rapid City, South Dakota we decided to just fly through some fast food for meals and to try not to stop any more than necessary. Edward was starting to get a little peeved that nature was causing necessity stops more often than we had originally planned.
I must have fallen asleep somewhere along the way because before I knew it I felt Edward laying me down on a bed. He told me to stay in the room and he would be right back with our bags. I was going to suggest ordering a pizza or something to eat as I was now starving but again he surprised me by already think ahead about dinner. He had apparently run through a Subway and picked us up sandwiches, chips, and he got me one of those huge dill pickles that he new that I loved.
After eating, we each took a hot shower and fell into bed too tired to do anything else that required energy. The next day we were going to head down to see the monument and I had already spent a good portion of the drive clearing up the memory cards for the camera. I wanted to make sure that we had plenty of room to take a zillion pictures of us at the monument.
A/N: REALLY IMPORTANT:::
Ok. Now that I have your attention, yes this is a little shorter than I intended but I am giving you a really good outtake this week and after editing I managed to add about 500 words. I have made the decision that only Edward and Bella POV's will be posted in the main story and everyone else that wants a say will be in the Outtakes, that is why the phone call was not detailed in this chapter. It is being written from Esme's POV and it is long. You know where to find me between chapters! Enjoy!