"You See Me For Me"
Chapter 1
EPOV
I woke up at seven a.m. as usual. I groaned as I dragged myself from the bed and too the shower but I knew I had to hurry so I wouldn't run into my room mate, Jasper, and his perky little girlfriend, Alice, who had just moved in with us.
It wasn't that I didn't like them; they were the nicest people I knew. It was just so hard to be around such a happy couple since my break up with Tanya. It hurt to even think about it. We had been dating for two years. I was thinking about asking her to marry me. But then I found her cheating on me with some guy in a local club. She had only been with me for my looks apparently. She broke my heart.
Ever since then I haven't been able to stand even being around another happy couple.
I got out of the shower and dressed in record timing and I was out the door of my apartment building in a flash. Every morning I made my way down to the Starbucks on the end of my street to get my morning coffee and a bagel. It was a bright and sunny morning in Seattle and the streets were already busy as usual.
When I made it to Starbucks I couldn't help but gawk at the sign that ruined my morning routine.
"Closed due to remodeling."
I groaned. I needed my morning coffee and bagel so badly. This was not going to be a good day.
I decided to continue down the street to find somewhere else to get my coffee for now. I walked about two blocks until I came upon a little corner café. It was a cute little shop and it was very busy. I went inside as waited in line. I only purchased a coffee and made my way outside to find a table. It was a beautiful day and I really didn't feel like heading to work yet.
All the tables inside and out were taken though and there wasn't even an extra chair.
But then I spotted one. There was only one open seat and it was at a small round table and a young girl who looked to be about 23, maybe 24, sat. She had the most beautiful brown hair that was tied in a braid down her shoulder. She was pale but not too pale and she was wearing a gorgeous green shirt and big, dark sunglasses. She also had a think book propped up on the table that she was reading and her coffee to her right that she occasionally took sips of.
I usually didn't sit with strangers but I felt a draw to her that I didn't realize what I was doing until I was standing right in front of her.
"Is this seat taken?" I asked.
"No, you can sit." She said looking up from her book. A small welcoming smile played on her little pink lips. I sat down trying not too look like I was gawking at her but she had the most stunning features I had ever seen. I hoped she wouldn't notice.
"And you are…?" She questioned.
"Oh I'm Edward." I said and she smiled.
"I'm Bella." She said closing her book and extending her right hand across the table. I took it and shook her hand and he touch sent an electric shock through my body. Or at least that's what it felt like.
"It's nice to meet you Edward." She smiled.
"It's nice to meet you too." I said. "Do you come here often." I said before I realized how cheesy it sounded. But she didn't notice.
"Only every day. I just live right around the corner so it's really easy to walk to." She laughed which made my stomach flutter. I had no clue why I was feeling like this with her! I had just met her! "Do you?" she asked.
"No this is my first time here." I answered. I said a silent goodbye to Starbucks because I knew now that this is the only place in town where I wanted to get coffee. Plus I had taken a few sips of the coffee and it was actually really good.
"Well you are going to love it here! Not only is the coffee good but the people are very nice." She smiled.
"I can tell." I said referring to her.
"Do you live near by?" She asked.
"Yeah, um I live a few blocks down. I usually go to Starbucks but it was closed so I came down here." For the first time in my life I was babbling and I couldn't stop.
"Ughh. I hate chain restaurants. They don't care for the people they serve. Family owned companies, that's the way to go." She said and I looked down at my coffee ashamed at myself for going to Starbucks all these years. I looked up at her calm face. She was so beautiful in the most subtle way. She was nothing like Tanya, with her fake blond hair and her layers upon layers of make-up.
I was intrigued by her and her thoughts. She told me about how she grew up in this neighborhood and about how she knew the owners of the coffee shop and before I knew it, a half an hour had passed and I was late for work. But I didn't care.
"I should get going." Bella said after ending a story about the storeowner.
"Will I see you here tomorrow?" I asked quickly.
"Yeah, I like I said I come here every day." She smiled and dug around in her purse for something. She kept her eyes on me and never looked down into her bag.
She pulled out something that looked like a little stick that was black and red and stood. She slung her purse over her shoulder and turned to me.
"Again, it was nice meeting you." She smiled.
"You too." Was all I could say as I was given a full view of her gorgeous body. She was about 5 foot 4 inches and she had on dark skinny jeans that showed off all of her amazing curves. She was very slender and she looked so fragile.
I watched her as she took the black and red thing and extended it into a long pole that had a black handle which she was holding, a red tip on the other end and in-between them was all white. I gazed at the pole confused until she started walking in the opposite direction while tapping the pole across the sidewalk.
Bella was blind.
I stared after her with my mouth hanging open. How could I not have noticed? Oh I know, because she seemed so normal! She didn't act like she was blind! She was even reading! After Bella had turned the corner and was out of sight I looked down to find that she had forgotten her book. I reached over and picked it up, there was not title on the front or the spine so I opened it.
It was all in braille.
I was in shock. I definitely wasn't expecting that.
After about ten minutes of trying to think through what had just happened I slowly walked home. There was no way I was going to work today. I literally felt sick to my stomach.
I slowly made my way back into the apartment. I soon found myself in the kitchen and Alice was making Jasper eggs and toast while he read the newspaper.
Japser saw me enter.
"Why aren't you at work, I thought you left already." He said.
"I did but something happened." I said sitting on the barstool next to him.
"What?" Alice asked handing a plate of food to Jasper.
"I met somebody."
"Like a girl? Oh Edward that's great!" Alice said excitedly.
"I still don't understand why you're home." Jasper said after a minute.
"I'm home because I spent like a half an hour talking to her before I realized she was blind!" I said running my fingers through my hair.
"Dude, how could you have not realized that before?" Jasper laughed at me and Alice hit him.
"Don't listen to him Edward. Blind people are perfectly normal." Alice huffed.
"I just can't believe she's blind. She seemed so normal." I said.
"She probably is normal Edward, she just can't see. Look, there's no reason why you shouldn't like her because she'd blind." Alice said.
"No Alice, I do like her. A lot. It's just that her being blind just shocked me. And I'm supposed to see her again tomorrow. I don't even know what to say to her now."
Alice shrugged and went to clean the kitchen.
I sighed and went to my room.
All I knew is that I Bella was blind and I had fallen hard for her.
I really hope you guys liked it! I got this Idea and I couldn't wait to write it down!
Please tell me if you think I should continue or not.
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