CHAPTER 2
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CHAPTER 2
New Apartments and Old Problems
Rosalie's POV
It had been a week since I had left New York now I was back in Seattle staying with my brother. He was equally pissed as everyone else about my situation with Royce. He had even mentioned beating his ass which was soooo un-Jasper-like but still I loved him for just mentioning it. My parents were extremely mad about what happened but I think more for the money they lost in wedding stuff than actually for me. I hadn't cried since that one point in my apartment I figured I wouldn't waste tears on that piece of trash I once called my fiancé. He had tried calling and sending flowers multiple times. I think if there was a card for "Sorry I cheated" he would have bought it. But I didn't care I was over it all, him, New York, relationships, I was done with monogamy and ready for some fun. That's what you do right, when you're hot, young and rich? Why waste my time on useless, horrible men and relationships? Especially when they just end up bad.
I had decided relationships except for my best friends were nothing but facades and obvious ways to get hurt. I wasn't going to do that anymore. I was 'Rosalie 'I don't take no shit from any man' Hale' now and that's how I was going to stay after all I'm only twenty-two far to young to care about men enough to let them hurt me. I wanted my fairytale ending but since that wasn't happening now I could just deal with a good ending. I would now spend my time on me no more Royce or any of his crap or his parties or business stuff. I was free to be me and do what I wanted without being tied down and I had to admit it was exhilarating. I woke up on the morning of the one week anniversary of the worst day of my life to the sounds of a crazy pixie girl loudly screaming to 'girls just want to have fun' while vacuuming in the living room at 6:45 in the morning. If there was one thing about Alice that everyone knew or learned early on was that she was a morning girl. She used to call me at five am on school days to ask me what I was wearing; I didn't even know my name at that hour in the morning. Luckily for me Bella was a morning person so it was always two against one.
My eyes glared at the small digital clock on the night stand before I took the pillow that was under my head and threw it over my head to try and block out the sounds coming from the other room. I wanted to sleep. It wasn't much to ask for, I mean I deserved it! I was done with college, I didn't have a job or a stupid ass boyfriend who liked morning romps in the shower or on the kitchen floor. I was free; I should be allowed to sleep. Giving myself a few more seconds in bed I screamed face down into the mattress then jumped up throwing all sheets, blankets, pillows and comforters out of my way and ran out of the bedroom. "ALICE!" I screamed but she didn't come out of her singing and dancing. I looked seeing the radio sitting on the island of the kitchen turning it off quickly made Alice stop her and the vacuum before turning with a big smile. "Rose! You're up good!" I huffed placing my hands on the hips. "No thanks to you and Cyndi Lauper." The smile continued on her face and I couldn't be mad in anymore at her. "Yeah Yeah I'm up Now." she clapped her hands. "Yay because were going to breakfast I made plans with Bella last night and then after breakfast, drum roll please?" I clapped my hands to sound like a drum roll "Were going apartment hunting!"
I thought I would be more happy about this but I wasn't Shopping for apartments was so, well so ... official. It finally meant that I was moving on from the past, from Royce and from the life I had in New York and that scared me. It made my heart sink and made me anxious. I had never really been on my own before. I started dating Royce right after high school so I had him then, I had my family and friends the seventeen years before that, and now I was alone, I still had my friends but they had each other and for the first time I was the fifth wheel. "Alight sounds good." I spoke with fake enthusiasm, I wasn't sure if Alice believed it but she went a long with it all. "I'm taking a shower." I turned and went back to the guest room "Were leaving at Eight!" Alice yelled toward me before turning back to her vacuuming and again having her music back to blasting.
"Ohh here's a good one, large master bedroom, large kitchen, master bathroom, garage access, full gym, pets allowed, gated, heated pool... sounds good Rose." Alice was smiling as she held up the apartment magazine in her hands showing Bella and me the amazing building in the upper part of the Seattle while we ate our chocolate chip pancakes. I had to admit it sounded great, a lot better than the last ten places Alice had been excited about or said was a good one. "Let's check it out." I said in between bites. "It could be a good new start for you Rose." Bella added shrugging her shoulders softly.
I nodded it was strange that this is where my life had ended up going from great to bad to numb, I was still scared, scared that it would always be like this, me alone. I had realized that's what I was most afraid of while driving with Alice to the cafe we were now at. I'm not saying that I wanted to jump into another relationship, that's not what I wanted at all, fun was what I wanted now, but eventually I wanted to settle down and now I feared that maybe I'd get so stuck in the monogamy, scared to give my heart to someone again that I'd end up alone, by myself, with different men all the time that were just there to keep me warm until the next day. I didn't want to be that way. I swallowed the last bite of food my body could handle and leaned back in the booth. "I wanna check it out, it sounds really great Alice." I smiled softly at my friend.
"Good! Then let's go. CHECK PLEASE!" Alice yelled practically giving the waitress who was serving the table next to us a heart attack. That would have been the case with Bells and I but we were used to Alice's outburst especially when she was excited about something, which was everything, which meant this was a daily occurrence. "Alice calm down we have time." Her eyes widened in horror. "Not if were gonna go to the mall." "Maaaaall?" Bella whined on the verge of hyperventilating, going to the mall with Alice was like going on a safari and that scared the shit out of my clumsy little danger magnet as we all called her, I didn't help the situation I was just as much into shopping as Alice was. "Yes we need to go furniture shopping." "Al... let's wait on the shopping until..." I paused for a moment before continuing "I actually get a place." She huffed crossing her arms. "Fine... WHERES MY CHECK!?"
"And this is the apartment." The sales manager of the apartment building Alice had shown us spoke. As soon as she opened the door I loved it. It was smaller than my apartment in New York and less money but it was beautiful and quaint. It was bright and spacey and everything I wanted. Well I had to wait until I saw the bedroom and bathroom then I could find out if it was love or just nice on the outside. They were wonderful to. The master bedroom was spacious with a large window that looked out on the city with lush cream colored carpeting, best of all I could paint the rooms, because the bland white walls were its only fault. The bathroom was lovely with a huge mirror, white tile and marble along with a big tub/shower. It was perfect.
"I'll take it!" Both Alice and Bella's head whipped in my direction with shock plastered to their faces. I don't think even Alice thought I would just decide that quickly on the apartment and she had been the one wanting to go furniture shopping. But I loved the apartment, it wasn't expensive it wasn't the plaza or the Ritz Carlton it wasn't my expensive place in New York it wasn't a hotel or as high of standards as I had normally put on things, but it was perfect and that's all that I could ask for. The woman was a bit shocked but she smiled happily at my decision. "Great lets go figure out the paperwork." I smiled brightly as she started walking out towards the front of the apartment. Bella grabbed my arm turning me towards her. "Rose are you sure about this? I mean you haven't even look at any other places. I smiled nodding. "Yeah I have a good feeling about this place." And with that we left my soon to be new home. Nothing could have brought me down from that excitement high, almost nothing.
'Royce King to Marry New Girlfriend' "WHAT?!" was all I could say. We had been broken up a week, a week and he was now getting married to this girl. The one I found him having sex with in my bed! The Gossip section of the New York times was in my hands being crushed by the rage that withered within my body. Up until a week ago we were supposed to get married and now he was with her. NO NO NO! This was not happening. I was supposed to spite him, to piss him off and show him what he had lost and now he's the one moving on. I could not believe this shit, my life seriously could not get worse and at this point I was supposed to be happy since I just bought a new apartment but NOOOO he had to take that away from me to.
"Let me see that." Edward pried the news paper from my hands and sat back on couch across from me his green eyes scanning over the article. All my friends and my brother were surrounding me stunned to silence, just as shocked as I was that first this idiot had the audacity to screw me over and then get engaged to the girl he cheated on me with. Oh now it was on I was going to kill him and no one was going to stop me, okay maybe four people who didn't want to see me go to jail would. "I can't believe he did that! What kind of douche bag does that? I bet it's a publicity stunt." Alice spoke fuming I swear I could see smoke emitting from her. Bella looked at me with sad eyes next to Edward who was still reading the page length article. My heart was racing and for the first time since being in my apartment back in New York I could feel hot tears threatening to spill from my blue orbs, anger continued to build within me. After all I had done for that bastard he was actually doing this to me. My parents had actually wanted me to get back with him, so that all the money they had spent would go to some kind of use. They didn't care that their only daughter had gotten her heart stomped on they just cared about the money.
When Alice, Bella and I had arrived back at Jaspers apartment we had seen the New York times sitting on the coffee table so naturally I picked up to read it, after all I had spent the last almost four years of my life there I wanted to see what was going on. Low and behold I go to the Gossip slash Entertainment section and there in bright bold black letters with an even brighter colorful picture was Royce and that little hussy and the announcement of their engagement. Couldn't they have even waited, I don't know seven days before getting all googily eyed and talking about how much in love they were. I screamed a bit well a lot slammed a few doors, might have broken a vase not sure about that last one and then Bella called Edward and Jazz who were out doing whatever guys do to come and calm me down. It didn't really work but their presence did help. I read the article of course and that little erg mentioned me in it saying that the decision to split was mutual and we would always be friends. Mutual my ass! Oh I was so mad I couldn't even breathe. I wanted to slaughter him and his little fake blonde.
Jasper sat next to me wrapping his arm around my shoulder, he knew me the best I guess it was that whole twin thing he could tell how I was feeling like as if he were feeling it himself and knew just how to comfort me. I loved him for his effort. "He's not going to get away with this Rose, we promise." Jazz spoke softly towards me, I was so hurt and even more so now since he had just dug the knife a little deeper in my back. Furious, Angry, Upset, Pissed Off, Hurt, Sad, those didn't even cover how I was feeling at this point. This was all happening so fast I mean this was the same man that just a few days ago had sent me flowers begging for forgiveness and now he was engaged to someone else. Part of me wished I could just curl up in a ball and die from the hurt and humiliation the other part wanted to get on a plane to New York and murder that son of a bitch, jail wouldn't even matter I would be happy. "Don't even think that Rose you're not murdering Royce." I glared towards Edward who was still across from me, he always knew what I was thinking, and he knew what we all were thinking. Edward was just very perceptive that way and knew us all so well it was second nature knowing what we were thinking in different situations.
"I could get away with it." "No!" I huffed "He's not worth it Rose, don't let him do this to you." Bella spoke softly walking over to sit on the other side of me, making a Rosalie sandwich with Jasper. "We could get back at him, put out an article your own telling the truth of what happened. It could be awesome." Again like back in New York little evil wheels were turning in Alice's head thinking of all the ways we could get back at Royce. I knew that if I ever wanted to carry out an evil scheme such as robbing a bank or Royce, Alice would be right with me in matching jeweled black outfits and masks. "That won't make anything better Al." Jasper spoke sweetly to her, making her a bit upset that she couldn't write a horrible article about Royce and what really happened but with Jasper smiling towards her she couldn't stay mad for long.
"Yeah, unfortunately Jazz is right. I don't think that's the best way to do things... I should just let this go act as if it doesn't matter, I shouldn't let him get to me, and if he wants to marry her fine... they'll be divorced in no time." "That's the spirit Rosie!" Alice jumped up and down a huge grin from ear to ear before jumping towards me pulling me into a huge hug. I couldn't help but smile though a few tears fell from my eyes. I wiped them away quickly letting a deep breath escape my lungs. "Those are the last tears I use on that dog." That made everyone smile including me. Alice started skipping around with happiness clapping as she did, none of us were shocked it was purely Alice. "Let's go shopping for Furniture!" She yelled in a sing-song voice, Edward shook his head with a smirk, Bella looked terrified I knew she had hoped Alice had forgot with all the drama going on she hadn't of course. Jasper just continued to comfort me while he smiled at his little pixie girlfriend and I just smiled happy to know that even when the world was crashing down around me I had them to help me pick up the pieces. I couldn't ask for better friends.
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