Disclaimer: I Left Her is based upon Stephenie Meyer's novels: the Twilight Saga. All characters and situations other than my own are sole property of Stephenie Meyer.
16th May, 2001
The Medallion
334 S. Main Street, Los Angeles, CA
Edward: 20 Bella: 19
Edward was hung over from his late night out (he had gotten a fake ID when he first moved to LA) and was enclosed in an embrace from a woman (man?) who he couldn't remember when he got his first email from her. After the divorce he had left Washington, after a quick stay at his parents who begged him to reconsider moving, and moved to Los Angeles where he rented a tiny studio apartment where the weekly rent cost more than two months of his and Bella's mortgage of their newlywed home. But he had decorated it in dark wood furniture and his instruments and had stuck up a fairly content life. He tried not to think about what he left in Washington because thinking about that would lead to him questioning his divorce in which he had to remind himself that this was what he had wanted. Freedom. The rich lifestyle would come when he decided to pursue his music. For now he was gratified with his unemployed life in which his only obligations were a weekly call in with his parents and paying the bills.
It had been three and a half weeks since the divorce was concluded and he had lived those 25 days drinking at the hottest clubs in town and having intercourse with women he never intended on seeing after the deed was done. The alarm clock had woken him on that twenty-fifth day at 11am, but he was quick enough that he silenced the sound before it could wake his partner. He had hurriedly brushed his teeth and hair in his insignificant bathroom and drank a cup of coffee to wake him up though half of the day was over. He tried not to think of how Bella would react if she knew that he was not waking at the rise of the sun and gulped the rest of the coffee. The mug clanged noisily in the quiet of the apartment and he turned on his laptop to check his bank account. He knew he couldn't keep living like this but he insisted that it was only temporary and that if push came to shove, he could take his parents up on their offer of supporting him. Independence was overrated anyway. At least financial independence.
As the laptop finished its start-up, Edward clicked on the internet button and waited for his Google page to load up. When that finished he changed the webpage to his email site and logged on quickly. His breath was stuck in his throat when the newest email to come through was from Bella Cullen. He hadn't heard from her since the divorce, though she had said that she would keep in touch, and he had begun to think that she had forgotten about her promise. He hurriedly clicked on the email but felt his hope decrease as he realised that this was a chain mail. He remembered a time when the two were newlyweds and their only arguments were on who would be getting the groceries and Bella's chainmail. She had always been one to latch onto the notorious annoyance which infuriated Edward to no end when he would open his email and instead of work related mails, many of her colourful, "humorous" chainmail's. Eventually they had decreased though occasionally, when she thought they were particularly funny, she would send it to him. Not once in their marriage had he laughed at these e-letters. They were immature and wasted precious seconds he could be working or cleaning or doing anything else valuable.
Edward sighed when he realised that Bella's first attempt at contact was a chainmail that was sent to what looked like her entire contact list. Was that all he was to her now? A contact for chainmail's? Edward scrolled down the email slowly, peering at the small, adorable kittens that were positioned in ways that made them look like they were hunting dogs or about to eat a fish in the fish bowl.
And for the first time ever, Edward laughed at Bella's chainmail.
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