Alice, what are you looking at?" She asked the small five year-old.
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Alice turned around, looking at Bella.
"I wanna go over there with Rosalie and Edward, but every time I go over there, Edward tells me to leave them alone. I just want to give Rosalie a hug, but nooo Edward says to stay away. He won't let me sit with them." She looked up at Bella, a smile spreading across her face. "You know what Edward said? He said helovessssssssss Rosalie. He said he wants to marry her. He always says he loves her. He never says he loves me anymore."
Bella looked down at Alice, who had tears in her eyes, then looked over at him. He was staring at Rosalie as she talked to Kate. He never looked at me that way before. Bella thought. She looked back down to Alice and smiled.
"Don't worry Alice, there is no way ... Edward" - she flinched - "Could ever not love you. And I think we should go over and sit down next to them. How would you like that?" Alice looked up at Bella, a huge grin spreading over her face. Somewhere inside Bella, she knew this would hurt her. But, she had sworn to Rosalie that she had no feelings left for him. Now was the time show that she had no more feelings for him. But of course, she only said that so Rosalie wouldn't feel uncomfortable about dating Edward. She knew Rosalie hated being in those situations. Even though she acted like a strong, independent woman on the outside, which she was, Rosalie was also a huge push-over. She had problems standing up for herself.
As Bella walked towards their table, Alice holding her hand, she felt her mask fall into place. A fake smile spread on her lips, and no matter how hard she tried, she couldn't make it real. She doubted it looked real too. As she got closer, she could hear them all laughing. She saw his head tilt back, just enough for a sliver of sun to glint off his bronze hair. She saw his thin lips open, revealing his perfect white teeth, and suddenly, her heart ached. Alice ran ahead and got to the only open seat before she did, so when she got there, she had to sit with Alice on her lap, which wasn't horrible, it could have been worse. She might have had to sit next to him. Anyway, after a few minutes, Alice got up to go play with her friend Maggie who had just pulled up. Bella turned back around to look at the other three people sitting at the table and smiled.
"Um, hey. I'm Bella." She said, holding her hand out to Kate. Kate shook it and introduced herself. Bella noticed that he was looking down at the ground, looking up at the sky, looking over at the swimming pool, anywhere but at her. Her heart ached again, this time worse. She wanted him not to ignore her. She wanted to be more than just a ex-girlfriend to him. She wanted to be his friend. That's what he had said, right?
Hey i read your note and i think we should just be friends if that's okay.
Bella had said okay, thinking they would be friends, like he had said. But do friends completely ignore each other? Did they push you away if you need help? No. Friends don't do that. Friends, they talk to each other, they ask how the other is doing. If one is hurt, the other one cares, or at least pretends to, right? At least, that's how it's supposed to be. Bella tried to make eye contact with him but he kept looking away. When she had finally looked away, giving up at trying to fix their friendship, his eyes gazed past her, resting for a split second on her. She thought, for a moment, she saw something in his eyes, something... different. But what it was would take a long time to uncover, maybe more time than Bella had to put into trying to figure it out.
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Anyway, I'm thinking about doing some flash backs next, so you can know exactly what happened to break Bella and Edward up. And i just want to let you know, I can't promise a happy ending. Yes, this is a Bella and Edward story, but only because they are what the story is mainly about. But it does not mean they get together in the end. Anyway, I'll try and get the next chapter up by tomorrow or Wednesday!
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