bella trying to do her summer reading and edward just being desperate for her to pay attention to him instead
“just let me tell you the ending.”
“no.”
“i’ll write the essay for you too, come on! this class will be a breeze.”
“no edward, i want to read it myself.”
emmett and bella love hanging out and it’s over this summer that he starts calling her ‘little sister’ affectionately
they watch the summer sports games together, usually with edward sitting nearby to keep her cool so she doesn’t stick to the leather couch
she has a surprising amount of knowledge from living with phil and charlie for so long
because she’s there pretty much every day, carlisle and esme decide that making amends to their lifestyle for the sake of bella has to be a priority
they decide to take a cooking class together and once a week they make her a special meal to practice their skills
alice and bella also attempt to make popsicles by blending and freezing their own fruit purees but they can’t find a specific adaptor for the blender
bella knows it will make a mess without it but they call emmett over to hold his hand over the top and they just hope for the best
it doesn’t go well and esme almost has a heart attack when she comes home and finds her kitchen covered in the blood-red soupy substance
jasper is still a little nervous around bella but builds up his confidence as the summer wears on
she overhears him asking a few of his family members if they’d like to play chess with him but they all refuse
he wanders past her with the board under his arm looking a lil sad so she calls out to him, “i’ll play. i’m not very good but-…”
jasper grins at her, “not very good is perfect! i love to win.”
in the end they wind up being pretty evenly matched and make it a semi-regular thing which by the end of the summer becomes a mini-tournament with the whole family taking bets on who will win
alice and bella become virtually inseparable over the summer, talking almost as much as bella and edward do
within just a few weeks, bella considers alice even more of a sister than she did before and feels like she can talk to her about absolutely everything
she goes to her whenever she’s unsure about how to convince edward that she should be allowed to become a vampire and stay with his family forever
rosalie keeps her distance but slowly gets more comfortable having bella around
they’re civil to each other and every once in a while, when bella does something clumsy or is inadvertently funny, rosalie will crack a genuine smile
as for edward, well it was their summer of love that’s for sure
having bella be a part of his family and seeing her engage with each of his family members in turn thrilled him but also deeply saddened him
he could so easily picture her staying with them forever
but if she did so, he’d be asking her to give up everything good that she so deserved
either way, he knew he had time to make the decision and tried to forget about it as much as possible
the days belonged to his family and bella spending every waking moment in their home
but the nights were just theirs alone
and when he held her in his arms, his cool skin keeping her restful during the long hot night, he was able to pretend that there was nothing else in the world except one another and that gloriously long summer
Dragonborn fighter, the very second she sees a human npc who strikes her as particularly gross: Hm. Looks like somebody is going to have to cast Speak With Animals.
Our DM: Just for that, now you’re going to have to.
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