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Disclaimer: I do not own Titanic or any of the rights.
Chapter 7-
Surprises
"Bella? Come on, you can't do this."
"I can do this, just watch me."
"You're being childish!" She scolded me.
"Am I? You weren't there Angela, you didn't see what happened." I shouted before pulling the duvet over my head. I heard my door slam shut indicating Angela's departure. I sighed out loud. That was easy.
It's been three days since I was last on set. Three days since the worst day of filming in history. Within those three days I hadn't moved from my bed. The whole situation was weighing on my mind. I have never reacted like that before and the reason behind my behaviour made me feel even more anxious. I had only ever had an interest in one guy in my life. His name was Joseph and we were fourteen. Now at the age of twenty two I was showing that interest again. The difference being Edward. He was unlike any guy I have ever met, let alone dated. He was such a gentleman. He was polite and supportive not to mention, his gorgeous. He was also way out of my league and I knew that. So why did this guy have such an effect on me? An effect that lead to my terrible acting the other day.
I heard the door to my room open again. I guess Angela was back to try and get me out of this bed. I pulled the duvet even more tightly around my body and braced myself for what was coming. She didn't say anything, instead I felt the bed dip a little.
"Bella?" I froze. I knew that voice and it wasn't Angela's. Hesitantly I sat up and lifted the duvet off my head. I came face to face with the guy that was causing havoc in my life. He sat on the side of my head, dressed in jeans and a shirt. His eyes were piercing and his hair a mess. The only real difference was the lines of worry etched onto his face. There was only one way he could have gotten in here. Angela had really gone below the belt this time.
"I am really going to kill her." I said looking directly at Edward. I watched as amusement flashed on his face, but before I got to admire it, it was gone. "What are you doing here?"
"I have been trying to call you for three days. I've been worried." I suddenly felt bad. The look he was giving me was making me feel really small.
"My phone's off." I said quietly. He nodded slightly
"I just...Bella...Nobody could tell me what hotel you were staying in. Then half an hour ago I got a call from Angela." My eyes narrowed as Edward said her name. I can't believe her sometimes. I guess she was trying to help but at the moment all I was feeling towards my assistant was anger and annoyance.
"Why are you here Edward? What can I do for you?"
"I...Bella...Are you okay?" I don't know if it was his voice but I suddenly felt very emotional. Tears sprung into my eyes before falling running down my cheek.
"You mean am I ok that I embarrassed myself in front of the whole set? In front of directors and producers? In front of you?" I mentally slapped myself for the last one. I really need to be more careful. Something flashed behind Edward's eyes as he gazed at me.
"You didn't embarrass yourself, Bella." He said as he raised his hand to my face and gently brushed away the tears from my cheeks. I closed my eyes at his soft touch. My heart was pounding in my chest, he must have been able to hear it.
"Please don't cry Bella." I opened my eyes to look at the beautiful man in front of me.
"I did Edward. You were there. You saw what happened. How everyone acted, how Carlisle reacted. Everyone must be so disappointed in me. I know I am." I couldn't stop the tears running down my face. Edward watched me with a pained expression before pulling me into his arms. Too upset to be in shock by his actions, I just pressed my face into his shirt as his arms tightened around me. He didn't say anything, he just held me until my tears died down. After what seemed like hours I finally pulled away from Edward. He let go, but grabbed my hand.
"You okay?" I tried to avoid looking at his face but he placed his hand under my chin gently guiding my head up until I met his eyes. "Listen to me Bella. I promise you, no body is disappointed in you. We've all been worried about you. We understand that you haven't done anything like this before and we just want to help you. It happens. It's happened to me."
"Really?" I said rubbing my snotty nose with my free hand. Classy Bella.
"Yes really. It was when I was filming my first ever sex scene. I was unbelievably nervous. So nervous that I actually threw up before going on set." His eyes widened slightly at his admission, I couldn't help but giggle at his facial expression. "Don't tell anyone that."
"I won't." I smiled back. "What happened next?"
"I got onto the set, we started filming and I just froze up. Completely froze up. At least you managed to get through half of the scene before you froze up." There was slight embarrassment in his voice, but mostly he sounded amused at what had happened to him. I could help but admire him. He had experienced the same ordeal as me, only he found the situation funny, he laughed at his mistakes and here I was moping in bed for three days. Although his story had cheered me up immensely.
"True I guess." I smiled back at him gently. His face finally relieving the worry he had been showing. "I actually feel better knowing you are just as useless as me." I laughed gently.
"Although I can't help but wonder what was making you freeze. Was it me?" He was teasing me now. I slapped his arm, rolling my eyes.
"You wish." I was blatantly lying now. "Thank you."
"You're welcome, Bella. I spoke to Carlisle, he agreed to delay the filming of that scene until a later date. So, are we going to put this behind us now? No more of this talking about quitting the film?
"How did you..."
"Angela." Edward said before I finished my sentence. Of course.
"I'm really going to kill her." I laughed tightly. "Thank you Edward. For everything."
"You're welcome, Bella." He accepted my thanks.
We sat for a few seconds in silence. Edward seemed to want to ask something but was finding it difficult to form the words. Eventually he gave up and said what he wanted to ask.
"You want to get out of here? Get something to eat?" Edward asked in a nervous voice.
"Like a date?" I asked teasing him.
"What?...No...Yes...if you want it to be...no...no...erm" Edward stuttered out his face turning red. I couldn't help but laugh. He looked so adorable when he blushed.
"Calm down, I was joking. Yea sure." I nodded a little too eagerly.
"I'll wait in the living room." Edward said, finally letting go of my hand and walking out of the bedroom door.
I climbed out of the bed, picked up some clothes and walked into the bathroom. A quick glance in the mirror confirmed that I looked like hell. My eyes were red and puffy, my hair looked like a haystack, I looked like I had been dragged through a bush. How did Edward manage to look at me without laughing? I brushed out the knots in my hair before jumping in the shower. I climbed out after I had almost scrubbed off my skin. I dressed in a light blue summer dress with white sandals before brushing out my hair and tying it up with light blue ribbon. I threw my phone, keys and purse into my small white shoulder bag before walking out to join Edward.
He stood from the chair when I entered the room. His eyes scanned my outfit.
"You look amazing."
"Thanks. You ready?" I blushed.
"Yes of course." We walked towards the door, which he held open for me. We made our way out of the hotel in comfortable silence. When we got outside I realised how late it was. The sun was setting, alighting the sky in that amazing pink colour. It was beautiful
"Is it okay if we walk?" Edward asked turning away from the sunset to look at me.
"Yea of course." I smiled. Edward took hold of my right hand and began leading me down the road. I noticed as we walked that a lot of people turned to stare.
I was surprised to see that there were no body guards around Edward tonight, was it safe for us to be walking?
"No Emmett and Chase tonight?" I asked as a beautiful Mexican girl dropped the bottle of water she was holding after she noticed Edward.
"Nope. Just you and me." My heart jumped a little at that revelation. However, I couldn't help but smile.
"Should we be walking? I mean people are starting to stare at you."
"What makes you think they're staring at me?" He raised an eyebrow.
"I serious Edward, people are recognizing you."
"Bella, it's fine. Most people won't approach us and even if they do they normally only want a picture or an autograph. It's the paparazzi we need to watch out for." Edward finished his sentence in a dramatic voice. I rolled my eyes but let the subject drop.
"Where are we going?" I asked after we had been walking for a few minutes.
"There's a restaurant just down the road. They do amazing food and entertainment. I've been there a few times."
After a few more minutes Edward pulled me into a elegant looking restaurant.
"Ah, ¡Hola Edward." A very handsome, young waiter approached us. He greeted Edward before seeing me by his side. His face broke into a huge sexy smile. "Who is this, may I ask?"
"Alejandro, this is Bella." Edward introduced me but rolled his eyes.
"Lovely to meet you Bella." Alejandro said kissing my hand.
"You too." I breathed out. This guy was a charmer. He gave Edward a run for his money.
"Table for two then." Alejandro led us over to table in the corner. Alejandro laid two menus on the table. Before moving to pull out my seat. However, Edward got there first. He glared playfully at Alejandro who backed away. I sat down on the chair Edward had pulled out before he moved to sit in his own chair.
"What can I get you to drink?" Alejandro asked looking directly at me. I blushed bright red and looked down at my menu.
"Take it down a notch Alejandro." Edward scolded the waiter but it only made me blush even more. "Is wine okay Bella?"
"Yes of course." I said finally looking up from the menu.
"We'll have a bottle of red wine please."
"Of course. I'll be right back with that." Alejandro said. Before leaving he winked at me causing my blush to appear on my cheeks again.
"His a charmer, isn't he?" Edward said smirking at me.
"Indeed."
"Do you know what you would like?" Edward asked, not evening looking at his menu.
"Nope."
"Really? I mean you've been staring at that menu since we got here." He was teasing me again.
Before I could reply Alejandro returned with the wine. He poured a large glass for each of us before taking our orders. I settled on the Chilli Con Carne, while Edward ordered Chicken Enchiladas.
As we waited for our food to arrive I glanced around the restaurant. I was nervous about being out in the open with Edward like this. I was expecting his fan club to rock through the doors at any minute. However, it didn't come. Nobody in the restaurant seemed to care. A few people would glance over but then they would smile politely and go back to their meal.
"What are you staring at?"
"Nothing." I replied as our meal arrived. Alejandro smirked at me but left after placing the plates down.
"Were you expecting to be rushed?" Edward asked, amusement laced within his voice. Obviously he guessed the direction my thoughts were travelling in. I took a bite of my food. Edward was right it was amazing, I almost moaned aloud.
"I guess. I mean you can't even walk through an airport without a security team and yet here we are sitting in a restaurant with no one paying any attention to you."
"Airports are always targets for paparazzi." Edwards words reminded me of my last trip through LAX.
"How do you stand it? I only experienced a small moment of it and that was more than enough." I was truly interested in how he managed to cope with so much attention on a daily basis and not let it go to his head.
"I just deal with it. It's part of the job." I took another bite of my meal as he continued. "I absolutely love being an actor so I see it as a consequence of doing some thing I love. You can't have one without the other."
"I guess you sort of get used to it and learn to ignore it."
"True. You also learn to avoid it. You're going to have to get used to it." Edward voice became a little stiff towards the end of his sentence.
"What does that mean?"
"It means that you're a lot more...for lack of a better word...Famous then you think. You've caught a lot of attention lately and with this film it's only going to get worse. Your last airport trip is only the start."
I took a large gulp from my wine glass. Even with my current project I highly doubted I would be as sought after as Edward. Why would the paparazzi be interested in taking pictures of me in tracksuit bottoms while eating cake when they can be taking pictures of Tanya Denali?
"I don't think it will be that bad." I wasn't sure if I was trying to convince him or myself.
"The male population is going to love you." Edward's eyes narrowed at his comment. "Anyway, How's your food?"
"Amazing." I said before taking another huge bite.
This was nice. I loved that we could just hang out without work getting in the way. I actually enjoyed spending time with Edward, and not just because it meant I could stare at him without it being weird. We talked and laughed through our dinner, drawing more and more attention to ourselves. Finally a girl approached our table asking for Edward's autograph. I watched in fascination as Edward interacted with one of his fans. He attention was focused on her, he smiled that amazing smile, signed her napkin and even gave her a kiss. There was glint in his eyes I had never seen before. It radiated from him. The girl was lapping it up, finally meeting the gorgeous Edward Masen. She would be doing a lot of texting when she got home. I couldn't help but stare in admiration even after the girl had left.
"What?" Edward asked after he noticed me staring.
"Nothing." I smiled back as the music changed from energetic to slow and romantic.
"Would you like to dance?" His cheeks were red.
"Oh, no thank you. I can't dance without hurting myself or others. Plus, I might fall over."
Edward didn't say anything. Instead, he just stood from his chair and walked over to me. He held out his hand.
"May I have this dance Bella? I promise I won't let you fall." He sounded like he meant what he was saying. I couldn't say no to this guy.
I didn't say anything, I just took hold of his hand and allowed him to pull me towards the floor. I stood close to him as he put my left hand on his shoulder, then put his right arm around my waist pulling us even closer. My breath hitched and I gulped. He held my right hand in his left, all the time holding eye contact. There was sliver of space between us. Slowly he began to dance us around. Slowly, I began to relax into the dance. I actually felt completely comfortable even though I was slow dancing with the hottest guy in the world.
I lay my head on his chest as he swept us gracefully across the floor.
"Bella?" Edward whispered in my ear. I lifted my head to look him directly in the eyes. I found myself locked in his gaze.
"Yea." I whispered back, mostly because that was all I could manage.
"I...can I..." He seemed to be struggling with something. Eventually he sighed. "I'm glad I met you."
"I'm glad I met you too, Edward." I replied before leaning up and kissing his cheek. I lingered there longer then I should have done. When I pulled away I looked hesitantly into his eyes. He looked back at me with some emotion I couldn't identify. However, he replaced it with a smile. Not the dazzling, heart stopping smile I loved but a softer, gently smile that held more emotion and meaning. He kissed my forehead gently before dipping me. I screamed a little in shock but laughed at his spontaneous dancing.
There was no one like Edward Masen.
XOXOXOXOXOX
"You ready?" Alice said holding up a white corset. I groaned looking at it but removed my t-shirt.
For the past few weeks as well as the swimming sessions, etiquette lessons, and vocial coaching. Alice had decided that it would help my case if I wore the contraption of death whenever I wasn't filming. Apparently, this would help me get used to them. All I could say was that it wasn't working.
"Three, Two, one." I gasped for air as Alice gave the strings of my corset one last final tug. Shoving the air completely out of my lungs and making my eyes water. I leaned heavily against Angela as I attempted to catch my breath.
"You okay?" Alice asked from somewhere behind me. I ignored her, instead I let go of Angela and stood up straight.
"Bella?" Angela asked after I didn't reply.
"Yea I'm okay." I breathed out. "I still don't see why I need to wear one of these."
"Not this again Bella."
"But they're so uncomfortable. What is the likely hood of the audience caring about if I'm wearing a corest or not." I had moaned for about ten minutes everytime Alice squeezed me into one of these bloody things. They were even more painful because I leanred in my etiquette lessons that I would need to stand with pefect posture and posie.
"Every single women on this set will be wearing a corset. Even the extras that will hardly be seen on the film. Now stop moaning."
I pulled on the white shirt Alice handed me as there was no way I was getting that t-shirt back on. I stood as straight as I could, remembering that slouching in one of these thing was a very bad idea. I wasn't filming today, I was here for a meeting with Carlisle. However, the second I walked into the building Alice jumped me, forcing the death contraption at me. 'The nude scene' incident seemed to have completely blown over. Nobody mentioned it or even gave any indication that it happened. For that, I was thankful. Tomorrow I would be back to filming so I spent the rest of the morning in a costume fitting and learning my lines.
At two o'clock I made my way to Carlisle's office. I knocked once before I heard him call for me to enter. He was sitting at his desk, watching the footage filmed today of Edward 'boarding' the ship.
"Ah Bella. Please take a seat." He indicated the chairs in front of his desk. I walked over to chairs and very gently tried to lower myself into it. When I was three quarters of the way down I yelped and practically fell into the chair.
"Are you okay Bella?" Carlisle asked, his voice a little worried.
"Yea I'm fine. Sorry it's this corset." I wheezed out.
"Why are you wearing a corset?"
"Alice thinks it's a good way for me to get used to them."
"Ah okay then. Painful?"
"You have no idea."
"I asked you here today for two reasons. First to see if you were ok from the other day."
"I'm fine Carlisle. I apologise for my acting, I was just really nervous. I let it get to me. It won't happen again." I automatically began trying to explain myself. He wasn't going to fire me was he? Please don't fire me.
"Bella it's fine. It happens. I understand that you haven't done anything like this before and I may have come across a little harshly."
"No it's fine. You're passionate about what you do and you just want everything to be done right."
Carlisle smiled at me before talking again. "We'll put this behind us then. The second reason I asked you here was I wanted to introduce you to your new co-star."
"My new co-star?" I was under the impression I had at least encountered everyone I would be acting with.
"Yes. He has been away filming another film. He just flew in yesterday. He will be playing the role of Cal, you're fiancé. So I figured you should be the first to meet him." Carlisle informed me. As he finished talking there was knock on the office door.
"Ah this must be him now. Come in" I heard the door open but didn't turn round in my seat. Eventually our guest spoke.
"You must be Isabella Swan." I turned to talk to my new co star. However, my voice disappeared the minute I saw who it was. He just stood there waiting for my to talk.
"Oh my gosh." Was what I managed to say when my brain kicked in.
"You okay?" He asked.
"You're...You're..." Really? This was getting stupid. He found it funny though.
"Jacob Black. It's a pleasure to meet you."
Disclaimer: I do not own Twilight or any of the characters/ locations etc from the series.
Disclaimer: I do not own Titanic or any of the rights.
A/N: None of the story will be based on Titanic. I needed a film that would have been difficult to film. However, I am not using the storyline. Just the filming ideas and the title of the film.
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xxx Red as a Rose xxx
