So my second story...ta da! Here's the preface...if I get a good response I'll post the 1st chapter on Sat to get the ball rollin'. Enjoyyy
Preface
EPOV
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It's official. I'm out of my fucking mind.
Insane. Loopy. Completely off the deep end.
Because I was standing on the side walk of a string of buildings at two thirty in the morning while it's below freezing and raining, getting completely fucking soaked while I look like a moron.
The fact that my feet led me here of all places was what annoyed me. And the fact that the two of us had just ripped each other a new one and gone for each others jugulars less than three hours ago and now I was outside of her apartment that I detested so passionately.
Just standing out there and starring up at the windows like I could fucking see something. Which I couldn't.
Not really knowing what I was doing, I pulled out my phone and scrolled through the contacts until I found the one I was looking for. I didn't even hesitate to push the call button and bring the phone up to my ear.
It rang three times before she answered.
"What the hell do you want?" she hissed.
I probably should have winced but I was so used to it by now.
"You home?" I asked.
"What's it to you?"
"Are you fucking home?"
"Yes." She sighed into the phone.
"Can…" I hesitated. "Can I come up?"
"Give me one reason why," she drawled.
"Give me one reason why not," I countered.
She sighed again and she sniffed and fuck it—I needed to get upstairs.
"Buzz me up, please." I tilted my head back up and squinted to see if she was standing at her window staring down at me. "Are you looking at me?"
"Yes."
"Let me up."
"No, Edward."
I sighed. "Please, Bella…just…" I cracked my neck. "Just talk to me, okay?"
"I don't want to talk to you, asshole."
I sat on her front steps and held the phone between my ear and my shoulder. "If you didn't you wouldn't have answered." I picked at the dirt under my fingernails and tried again. "Buzz me up."
There was silence on her end. Either she hung up or I was breaking her.
"Bella? Please. Let me help…" I whined.
"Nothing's wrong."
"Yeah, okay," I rolled my eyes. "That's definitely why you got a phone call or something at my apartment and burst into tears and left without saying goodbye."
"I never say goodbye to you."
"Which is rude, by the way," I informed her.
She groaned. "How long are you going to sit on my porch if I don't let you in?"
I contemplated this, and then shrugged even though she couldn't see me. "I dunno. It's raining, so I have an increased chance of getting phenomena or some shit like that."
She sighed again and it sounded so strained and frustrated and…lost.
"I just want to be by myself, Edward."
"That's bullshit. Alice is up there," I told her.
"No, actually Alice and Jasper aren't here. They were going to a movie and sleeping at your place." She moved something around in her room. "Why are you here?"
I huffed into the phone. "I just…" I didn't know how to answer her. I wanted to wring her neck partially for making me feel like I needed to come out here, but really a bigger part of me needed to know she was okay. When she had left the apartment it was fucking scary with how quickly her mood changed. One text and suddenly she's got tears in her eyes and she's storming out of the room like she'd seen a ghost.
Weird shit.
"I want to make sure you're okay." I settled on. It was normal enough, right? Eh, not really. This is Bella you're talking about.
She didn't say anything for a moment. I knew she was still on the phone because I could hear her breathing picking up and coming out in short pants. I felt my heart jump in my throat and I heard her sniff again.
"Bella—"
"Fine."
I blinked in surprise, and then heard the familiar buzz of the front door unlocking. I jumped up and quickly walked up the stairs to the elevator to make my way up to her floor.
Once I was at her door she wrenched it open before I could even knock. And the sight of her left me breathless—in a bad way.
"What the fuck happened to you?" I hissed, pushing her back inside her apartment.
She was a fucking mess; her hair was all over the place, she had tears streaming down her face, her lips were swollen and her lower lip was quivering, and she was sobbing while I was just standing there, starring at her.
She couldn't speak. She was just sobbing hysterically.
"Bella!" I said frantically. I took her shoulders and shook her a little but she didn't say anything. She shook her head and put it in my chest and wrapped her little arms around me and held on for dear life.
"Shh…" I had no fucking clue what to do. Keeping one arm wrapped around her, I pulled out my phone and dialed Jasper's cell.
A very groggy Jasper answered with a strained, "What the fuck, Cullen."
"Get Alice," I barked into the phone, rubbing Bella's back. "Something's wrong with Bella."
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Should I continue it? I have a few chapter written, so just let me know :)
