The sound of a phone ringing woke me out of my trance like state. I got up and trudged to the other room, shoulders slumped and feet dragging.
"Hello?" My voice sounded incredibly hoarse, even to me.
"Bella? Bella?? Is that you?" a frantic voice asked on the other line. "Yea, it's me." I replied. "Oh thank goodness, I thought you were some robber! You sound terrible! Are you sick?" I contemplated this for a moment. Was I sick? Sick with loss, but not much else.
"No, I'm fine." I spoke softly into the receiver, but she managed to catch my words.
"Great! Because guess what??" "What?" "Jessica and I are going on a shopping trip and YOU are invited!!"
I stared at the phone in disbelief. How could she stand to ask such a… normal question? One that made the world seem like a brighter place. A shopping trip, what every normal teenage girl loved to do.
But I was far from normal, and for this reason I wanted to just hang up the phone and retreat back to my room and cry myself to sleep again.
"Hello? Bella? Are you there?" I was torn, go out and maybe have some fun-the thought of which scared the hell out of me- or stay in my dark room all alone. I decided to opt for the first choice. Edward was not coming back, and slowly killing myself would do me no help in trying to locate him again.
"Sure, I'll come. Thanks for the invite." "Really? I thought for sure you would have said no! Ever since Edward left you've been so depressing, I would have thought that you wouldn't have wanted to do ANYTHING, what with you being alone… and miserable… and depressed… and alone…" I hung up on her.
"This is going to be a loooong day," I muttered to myself.
I know it's short!! But I'm going to update sometime tonight, and I have some great ideas for the next chapter, but I kind of needed a filler chapter to get me there! Thanks for the comments, and remember, if you want a certain story, all you have to do is request!
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