"That didn't go so well," Alice said as we walked dejectedly back to our apartment.
"Nope," I reply, flopping onto the couch.
"I'll make popcorn," she says sadly. When she comes back three minutes later, all despair seems to have left her. "Now, since we are roommates, we get to swap stories. You first. Why did you leave Forks?"
She sat down next to me, holding the bowl of popcorn on her lap.
I groaned. "It's sort of an embarrassing story," I said warily. She grinned wider.
"That makes it even better!" she exclaimed. "Come on, spill. Then I'll tell you something."
I Sighed. "All right," I agree. "Well, I was living with my best friend Angela. She's really amazing. I've known her since kindergarten. Anyway, she was going out with this guy Erik. It got pretty serious. Then one day, she starts screaming and shouting profanities from the bathroom. I ran to see what was wrong, and there's a positive pregnancy test laying on the sink."
Alice gasped, obviously having gotten very into my story.
"Yeah. So then I try and calm her down, and while I'm doing that, the door opens, and Erik walks in. now, Angela and I both knew this wasn't exactly going to be good news to him. She got super pissed. She yelled something about him forgetting the protection. I don't know. Anyway, she goes into my room. And, well, she had decided that since we were two single young women living together, we should be prepared, and so she had a gun in her dresser…"
Alice screeched. "She didn't kill him!" I explained quickly. "But she shot him in the leg. A neighbor heard, and while I was trying to calm down a hysterical Angela, and help Erik's leg, the police came. Erik went to the hospital, and Angela and I were taken to the police station."
"By the time everything was sorted out, Erik was long out of town and Angela had calmed down. Then things got weird for a while. That was when I first thought about moving. Everyone looked at me weird. I mean, I had been arrested for being an accomplice in what the people of Forks deemed an 'attempted murder'. But I couldn't leave Angela like that."
Alice nodded vigorously, encouraging me to continue. "But then, as she got more and more pregnant, she started getting really attached to this guy Ben. He didn't mind that she was pregnant with some other guy's kid. Anyway, long story short, she had the baby, an adorable little girl named Lucille Marie, and the two of them moved in with Ben. That was when I decided to leave."
Alice nodded. "Wow. That's pretty dramatic. I mean, I've heard of dads shooting their pregnant daughter's boyfriend, but the never the girl shooting her own boyfriend!"
I nodded, grinning. "Well, Angela's prone to freaking out. But Erik turned out to be an asshole who had it coming. Now, it's your turn. You have to tell me something about you."
"Um, okay, let me think…" she looked thoughtful for a moment. "It has to be as good as yours…Huh. I guess I don't really have anything that big. Ok, I'll just tell you about my roommate before you. Her name was Tanya."
"So I had just left college, and I was looking for a roommate. Tanya had this place, minus all the fabulous decorating, and so I moved in with her. We sort of became friends, but we didn't really click like you and I. anyway, my brother, Edward came over one time, and she started acting all kind of slutty. The idiot fell for it!"
I groaned. I already don't like the sound of Edward or Tanya. "So they go out right, and after their very first date, I can't sleep because of what's going on in her bedroom. I won't give you any horrible details, but I will say that I had to go over to Jasper's apartment just to get some sleep."
I shudder. "Anyway, so they go out, right. And thank god they usually go over to his place. Then, after they've been dating about two months, Tanya starts talking about how she's engaged to my brother. I called to…er…congratulate him, and he freaked! He didn't know what the hell I was talking about!"
I laughed so hard I choked on a piece of popcorn. "Yeah! Then he comes over to talk to her, and he tells her he's not ready to get married. So she tells him she's pregnant! Of course, I intervene right there, because I would know if she was pregnant. She would have told me about it, for one, plus I am really good at noticing, even when someone first finds out for themselves."
I'm laughing really hard at this point. "So I tell him she's definitely not pregnant, and she freaks out and starts begging him to marry her! So then he tells her he wants nothing to do with her, and leaves. After that, she was gone within six hours."
After she finished, Alice and I burst into hysterical laughter. It takes a good ten minutes before we can breathe properly.
*****
Like it? I hope you did! Anyway, I think Bella and Alice will have a few more of these sharing talks, because it's the easiest way for me to let you know about their past. And also, Edward does come in soon, for those of you who are wondering!
Psssst! You there! Yeah, you, with the face! Don't look now, but right down there, there's a button that says review-I TOLD YOU NOT TO LOOK! Ugh. Now you have to click it!
