The next day:
"Hello?" Bella answers her phone, her voice shaky. "I can't talk right now."
"Who was it?" I ask, standing next to her, my arms folded across my chest. I have a feeling that it was Jasper. That son of a bitch. How dare he want to talk to my wife after knowing that her husband knows about their filthy little affair? What a jerk, I think.
"Jasper", she mumbles.
"I'll fucking kill him", I swear, thinking of different ways how to end that man's life.
"No darling", she says. "Don't say that."
She's calling me darling. How wonderful. I can't and see how my parents react to this news. Mom and Dad loved this girl as if she was their own daughter and now look at how she's repaying their kindness. By cheating on their son and destroying his chance at happiness.
I walk on over to the fridge, pull out a can of beer, take a long chug and sit on the kitchen counter.
"Want some lunch?" she asks.
"Leave me alone", I reply. "I don't want ANYTHING from you. Go away."
She doesn't move at all which makes me more furious than ever. I hop of my sitting place and rush to the living room. Grabbing my car keys, I head to the garage.
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"Hi", says a quiet voice from behind me.
I turn around. "Alice", I say, taking one look at her tear-stained face. "What are you doing here?"
I'm at my workshop: Cullens' Auto where my father and I work together.
"I just wanted to talk", she says. "Do you have time?"
"Yeah sure."
She runs a hand through her long raven hair. "I feel terrible", she says.
"So do I." Nothing but terrible. This is the worst situation I could have ever imagined.
"I heard she's pregnant." She doesn't say my wife's name but we both know who she's talking about.
"She is", I sigh.
"Is she keeping him or her?"
I feel numb. There's still time for her to get an abortion. Would she do that? Would she end a life before it even starts? I remember how much she cried when her pet cat died. That was just an animal while this is a child.
An innocent little baby, someone who deserves to live.
"She has to", I snarl. "She can't kill my kid."
"I hope not."
"Alice?"
"I hate your husband."
She pats my shoulder. "I hate your wife."
We share a laugh together, sitting with our legs crossed together. "I guess we both have someone to be angry at", she says.
"Have you gotten the divorce papers ready?"
"I'm working on that", she answers. "I've found a lawyer who'll take my case and soon enough, I'll be Alice Brandon, not Whitlock. The kids have an idea of what's going on and God, they're all traumatised at the thought of not seeing Daddy every day."
"Has Rosalie said anything?"
She shakes her head. "She hasn't said a word. All I know is that she's not ready to talk to Jasper."
"He's such an idiot for throwing his life away."
"So is Bella", mutters Alice. "You're everything a woman could ever ask for, Edward. I still don't get it why she'd do this to you. Jasper, on the otherhand, this was going to happen sooner or later. Our marriage has been on rocks the last five months. I didn't think we were going to last but I hoped for the best. Now that this is out in the open, I don't know what to do."
"Do you still love him?" They've been together for fifteen years, had three beautiful children together and build lives with what used to be a happy marriage.
"How can I stop loving him?" she closes her eyes. "I can't do that now. I'll never do that."
"We're quite alike, Alice."
"That's what I think too", she smiles softly.
"What would have happened if we'd ended up together?"
"I dunno. Opposites attract and that's why I fell for Jasper and you for Bella."
I don't know where this is going. Honestly I don't. What are your thoughts?