Are You There? (cont)

[Edward Cullen]

Still feeling ornery, he strode over the Bella and picked her up, holding her like a giant sack of potatoes over his shoulder. "Let's go, love." he said through his laughing. And he proceeded to near-skip out the double doors of the restaurant.

[Bella Swan]

Momentarily stunned, Bella didn't start objecting about being carried off in that fashion, until they were outside of the restaraunt.

"What are you doing?!" she protested, pounding at Edward's back, knowing full well that it did no good, but feeling the need to do it anyway.