This will be a Bella an Edward story, even if they do lose their way for a while.
Chapter 3
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BPOV
It has been almost 10 months now since my encounter with Edward and since I had left Forks. I had been devastated at the time by his blatant rejection and how he callously just threw my feelings aside. Absolutely and completely mortified, that how I felt. I had offered my love and my body to the man of my dreams and he not only rejected me he stomped on my heart and destroyed it.
I had not told Alice what had happened and I hope that Edward had not mentioned it to his family. I was meant to stay over on Saturday night but had left early I told Alice I was not feeling well. Alice had come to see me on the Sunday after, I had not been able stop the tears as I packed up my room. I had told Alice that I was emotional about leaving; it was true to an extent. The difference was I was crying because I wanted to get away not because I was leaving.
It took me over a week to get to New Jersey, but I was in no rush. I took my time on the road and stopped at a motel every night. My dad had offered to come with me but I wanted to do this alone, and I was glad for it as it gave me time to think about what had happened.
Alice and I had stated to drift apart overtime, first we started with phones calls and e-mails everyday soon it dropped down to a few times per week and not we were lucky if we has contact more than once a month. In my defence I had a busy course load and Alice was in senior year of high school with Jasper, and our interests and conversations were no longer the same.
When I first arrived at Princeton I was withdrawn, I guess I was scared that he other students would somehow know what had happened, that was until I met Jake. Jake turned out to be one of the best things in my life followed very closely by Leah.
I had met Jake in Advanced English in my first week and we just clicked, he was the big brother I always wanted, he was another Emmett. Not that I would ever or could ever replace Emmett no Jake was added to family and Jake looked out for me. Where Emmett was the fun loving prank playing older brother, Jake was the strong silent type, the one that loved to glare at potential boyfriends and scare the living daylight out of them ad I loved him for it.
Jake introduced me to his Girlfriend Leah and she became my sister, her personality was very similar to Jake. Have always heard that opposites attract, well Jake and Leah never got that memo. They were still perfectly suited; they finished each other's sentences and knew what the other was thinking with just a look. Jake and Leah had what I wanted true Love. The kind that binds you to someone forever. The kind that you would kill for. The kind that was not mine to have or so I managed to convince myself.
The first few months at university you would have thought I was the shiny new toy on compass with the amount of guys who would ask me out. I eventually started to understand what Edward has referred to all those months ago, that chase was only fun if you actually wanted to be caught if not them it was frustrating as people did not take hints, or in some cases flat out rejection as a no.
I took my awhile but I finally forgave Edward for what he has said to me and promised myself that when I saw him away, if I saw him again I would ask for his forgiveness for what I had done. I did not delude myself into think we could be friends but I hoped that he could one day forgive me and my immaturity at the time. I guess I also owed him thanks for opening my eyes and for helping me grow up.
Leah and I were headed out on Friday night to a local club, as I was still under 21 and would be unable to drink anything heavier than a root beer I was the driver for the evening. Jake met us there with a friend of his family Chris, who was also my blind date for the night.
Leah and I had spent the better part of the afternoon going through our closets trying to decide what to wear tonight, while I tried to pump Leah for information however Leah had only met Chris once before as he was good with Sam who was Jake's older brother. Sam had asked Jake to take Chris out while he was out our way and as I have not dated since I left Forks and figured it was time I got back out there it had changed into a blind date.
The club was just a generic club loud music, a bar and people dancing. Luckily we weren't there long before Jake and Chris arrived. The night was an enjoyable one and I got to know Chris as well as I could over the load music. Leah and I had discussed this beforehand and had decided I wanted to make sure there was no way I was going home with Chris tonight whether I like him or not hence the other reason that I was the driver. If I liked him we could swop numbers and then make contact again sometime over the weekend or later in the week.
We did swop number at the end of the evening and I watched him drive away while Leah was trying to bundle a tipsy Jake into the car I could not help but hope he would contact me.
