FYH Chapter 15

FYH Chapter 15

New Orleans at Night

EPOV:
I've always heard that New Orleans at night was a spectacular thing to witness. Not only is there great food at amazing restaurants but great musicians playing on every street corner. We had dinner at a lovely restaurant called Mr. B's and then wandered up and down Bourbon Street and settled at a corner bar sitting out in the courtyard listening to live jazz music while enjoying the warm evening that New Orleans had given us.
After a couple of hours we left the bar and took another walked around Bourbon Street and then started the walk back to our hotel. It was just past three in the morning but we decided to get the car and go on walk along the beach of Lake Pontchartrain. We took a blanket with us and sat on the beach until we watched the sun rise. Then we started back to the hotel stopping for breakfast along the way. Once back at the hotel we fell right to sleep perfectly content in our love for one another.
The phone rang about noon waking us both up. Groggily I reached for my phone on the nightstand where I normally kept it.
"Ha-yah." Jesus even I could hear how incoherent I sounded.
"Edward?" It was my mother.
"Yeah, Mom," I said sitting up and looking at the clock.
"Are you ok?"
"Yes. I was asleep."
"Oh dear. I'm sorry. I didn't think about time differences."
"Mom, it's alright. It's actually noon here."
"Oh. I'd ask why you're still in bed at that hour but I'm afraid that's something a mother really doesn't want to know about her son."
Now I was laughing. "No, mom, Bella and I are in New Orleans. We were out late listening to music and then decided to sit at the beach and watch the sunrise."
"Oh your father and I did that a few times. Way back before we had kids and could sleep in half the day. You know, now that you are all grown and out of the house maybe we should do things like that again." She laughed. I hadn't heard my mother laugh like that in years, nor had I heard her sound so happy. "I didn't wake Bella too did I?"
"Nah, she's still dead to the world."
"Good. The reason I called honey is that we wanted to ask you to participate in family therapy with us. I mean if you want to, we won't pressure you into anything you don't want to do."
"Well that would be a first mom." I blurted out not even realizing what I had said until I heard my mother gasp. "Mom, I'm—"
"No, Edward. Don't you even dare try to apologize. I deserved that and anyway it's the truth."
"Truth or not it wasn't very nice."
"That's beside the point."
"No, its not, it was rude. No one deserves to be treated that rudely. Well, not no one, I can think of a few. But back to the point, what is involved with this therapy thing?"
She went on to inform be that it would be once every two weeks and that all I would need to do is be by the phone in a quiet place when it was time for them to call."
"I know that Alice and Emmett and going but what about Rose and Jasper?"
"Yes, they are attending as well they are part of this family."
"What about Bella?"
"Well, I, uh…" she stuttered over her words, "I hadn't really thought about it, but she is part of this family now too, so of course, she should join in, if you want her too and she wants to."
"Of course, I want her too. She is my wife."
"Edward, I didn't mean it like that. It just never dawned on me to invite her to sit in, to be honest I was preoccupied with your reaction to my request."
"It looks like it's a good thing we are doing group therapy, I think that I'm really going to need it to get passed all this anger I have right now."
"Do you think you can? Forgive me and move on, I mean?"
"I think so, but I have to tell you that I am still very angry about the things that you told me about on our last call. Please tell me you don't have any more confessions like that coming."
"No. Little things maybe, but that was the worst of what I had done that you didn't know about. But we should leave that for therapy."
"Ok. When do we have to be by the phone?"
"Wednesday at 2pm."
"Ok. That's five my time. That should work."
"Good. Thank you Edward for agreeing to this."
"You're welcome, mom. I really think that this will be a good thing."
"Can I ask you something, Edward?"
"Yeah." I answered warily.
"What are the two of you planning to do for Thanksgiving?"
"Don't know mom. We haven't even decided where our next destination is going to be and we are leaving tomorrow."
"Oh. You don't suppose you would consider—"
"No mom. That is not going to happen. I'm willing to work on this but I'm not ready to see you."
"I understand. I love you and I'll talk to you on Wednesday. Ok?" She sounded like she was about to start crying and wanted to get off the phone before it happened.
"Ok. I love you too, mom." I sighed and hung up the phone and stared at it in my hand for a minute before looking over at Bella and realizing that she was awake. She never said a word she just sat up and wrapped her arms around me and held me in silence while I thought about how that call had gone and how rude I'd been. I was feeling guilty because her she was trying to make amends and fix things between us and the vindictive part of me was glad that I'd hurt her feelings and let her feel for a moment as bad as she had made me feel for years.
BPOV:
I could hear Edward talking but at first I thought it was a dream. That is until I realized that I really was awake and he really was talking to his mother. I wondered what she was saying because he was responding with very un-Edward-like very rude comments.
I heard my name get mentioned once and I have no idea what it was that she said about me but it really upset Edward and he snapped at her again. I thought she had liked me when we had talked before but maybe I was wrong.
I rudest I heard him get was when he refused point blank to see her. While I wasn't proud of the way that he said it I was proud that he stood his ground with her and refused to give in to her demands. Then he ended the call and just sat there. I pulled him into my arms and just held him knowing that he would talk to me when he was ready. One thing that my mother always told me and Mrs. Webber confirmed was that men would talk when they were ready to and it did no good to try to force them before they were ready.
Eventually Edward leaned down and kissed me on the forehead before saying thanks and getting up to go into the bathroom and I reached over and grabbed the room service menu. This was going to call for big chocolate malts and a bubble bath with candles.
So I ordered the malts and burgers and fries and asked if they could get the candles from the gift shop for me and then I informed Edward that lunch was on the way when he came out of the bathroom. He smiled at me and came over to lie next to me on the bed and grabbed me up into his arms. We laid there holding each other and just kissing until the food had arrived. We had had such a romantic night waiting up for the sunrise and I could tell that he was not going to let his phone call with his mother put a damper on that.
After we ate I went into the bathroom to run the bubble bath and then invited Edward to join me. Well, ok, what really happened was that I stood in the middle of the room stark naked and told him that I was going to take bubble bath then turned to walk into the bathroom and at the bathroom door I turned around and asked if he was coming. Yeah, he about knocked us both down in his attempt to rid himself of his clothes while following me into the bathroom.
We sat in the tub for about fifteen minutes before he spoke. "Mom called to ask us to join the family therapy thing."
"Both of us?" I asked.
"Yes."
"But she doesn't like me."
"What gave you that idea?" He asked and I when I turned to look at him he looked utterly perplexed.
"I heard you talking about me and it just seemed that she had said something to indicate that she didn't."
"Oh honey, no. She was a bit rude but I really don't think it was intentional." He explained that it just had not occurred to her that I would want to join into the family therapy with them. Honestly I could agree with that a little. I really didn't know these people so what good would it really do for me to participate.
"Bella, you do want to don't you?"
"Edward, I do yet I don't. I don't know what I would say or really have to contribute. I don't know them and I didn't know you then, but I will sit with you and listen."
"That sounds reasonable and probably what my mother thought. But will you promise that you'll speak up if you have something to say about what's being discussed?"
I agreed that that sounded reasonable and we continued our bath and discussed where we wanted to go next. It was down to two different locations Disney World or Myrtle Beach. Where ever we ended up was going to be where we would where we would be spending Thanksgiving, and that is what cinched our decision. We were going to go to Myrtle Beach and rent a beach house. At least that way I could cook us a big dinner and we'd have peace and quiet. Disney seemed like there would be a lot of people and commotion.
Later that afternoon we went out and enjoyed our last evening before we had to leave New Orleans. While we enjoyed our time there it was by no means a place that I could see myself settling down in.
The next morning we loaded up the car and bid a farewell to yet another location that we had visited and made sure that we sent our pictures off to Angela and his mother before we pulled out of town.
A/N:
Sorry about the lack of update last week. Another auditing exam came up that took a lot of time. There is an outtake being posted today as well. We get to hear from Alice for the first time. Finals are in about a month so updates are going to be sketchy til they are done. Thanks for reading and you know where to find me. I want to rec a story this week: Discovering You, Discovering Me; by JSFAZZ. It is really good and it's an Edward that you will want to sink your teeth into…literally!