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Previously:

He grabbed me by my arm and helped me into his shiny car. He got in the driver seat and started the car. I fell asleep to the purr of his engine,

Chapter 3

Edward's POV

Jasper, Emmet, and I walk into the club that Rose told us to meet her at and see them with the same girl that I helped into her apartment. Bella. As soon as I turned on her light in her bathroom last night, I knew who she was. I don't think she remembered me though. She was very drunk. I didn't know that her and Mike where moving down the hall from me.

Since high school I had a thing for her. We would talk in biology together and were kinda friends. I hated Mike and he knew it, he knew that I liked Bella. I was very good at hiding my feelings for her from her. She never knew. I never really thought that I would see her again.

We all walk towards the girls and I hear her say, "Hello."

"Bella Swan from Forks, right?" Emmet asks. They never really talked in school. I am surprised he remembered her.

"That's me." she slurred.

"Aren't you Bella Newton now?" I asked.

"No.... He cheated on me with a guy.... I guess I am just not pretty enough to keep a man straight." she said laughing. She can't really think that. If he liked guys it's not her fault. Mike's gay, I never would have thought.

"Sorry." I say

"Don't be sorry. I'm drunk. It helps a lot." she said. I couldn't help but to feel terrible for her. I can't imagine what she must be going through.

Rose and Alice laugh. "I have had too much to drink. I need to go home." she says.

"I will take you home. I live in the same apartment building as you." I say glad that I can have some alone time to talk to her.

"NO!" she says dramatically to me. "You stay here have fun. I can call a cab"

I look into her eyes and see that she is still hurting from what Mike did to her. "It's okay, I need to head home anyways."

"Okay" she slurs. And if to prove the point that she was drunk she almost fell out of her chair trying to get up. I grabbed her by the elbow and helped her outside and to my car. I put her in, then walked around to the driver side and got in. I started my car then looked over to the passenger seat only to see a sleeping angel. I reached around her and put her seatbelt on and drove to our building.

Once I was carrying her in my arms bridal style, I carried her to my apartment. I didn't know if I should take her to her apartment or mine. I didn't want to break into her apartment again, so I decided that she could sleep in my bed.

After she was safely under the blanket in my bed, I went in my hallway closet and grabbed a blanket and went to the couch to get some sleep.

A few hours of restlessness I decided that I wouldn't be able to sleep. I got up and took a shower. After putting a towel on I sneaked back into my room and grabbed a pair of clean boxers and one of my jersey shorts I sneaked back out of the room. I dressed in the bathroom and cleaned up my mess. Then I went into the kitchen to start a pot of coffee.

I watched t.v and drank my coffee until the sun came through the windows. I decided to make some breakfast for when she woke up. The whole time thinking about what could happen. She's not married now. Maybe she has a boyfriend now? I will call Alice later.

I was finishing up cooking when I heard the door the door open. I looked to her. "Good morning."

"Oh.... ummm.... good morning."

Bella's POV

I woke up and looked around. This isn't my room. Where an I? What did I do last night? I pull back the blanket and see that I am thankfully still dresses. I look for my shoes and find them neatly placed by the bed along with my purse. I slip my shoes on and figure I would try to sneak out of here. I don't know who I slept with but thankfully he is not here.

I open the bedroom door and am hit by the smell of bacon and eggs. I see a man in the kitchen. I must have slept with him, he's not wearing a shirt. Great! Let's get this over with.

"Good morning." he said turning to face me. He looks familiar. Not just from last night though. I don't even remember last night. Who is he?

"Oh.... umm.... good morning." I say.

"I hope you don't mind that you stayed here. You fell asleep in my car last night and I so I brought you up here."

"Oh... sorry, I was very drunk. I don't usually drink so much. Thank you."

"No problem. You hungry, I made bacon, eggs, and toast."

"Sure.. I am sorry to ask you this but who are you? You look very familiar to me." I say then my cheeks start to burn.

"My name is Edward Mason. We went to school together in Forks."

"Right, sorry. I remember you now. Alice's brother."

"Yep, we had biology together." he said while putting a plate in front of me.

"You was my partner. I remember. Thanks for everything."

"Don't thank me. Last night I wanted to give you a ride to talk to you, but you fell asleep. As for the breakfast, I made is so that you wouldn't just take off to your apartment." WOW, he is very honest.

"So.... nothing happened last night?" I have to ask to make sure.

"No. Nothing even close to that" he replied.

"Okay now that that is taken care of what have you done since graduation?" I ask

"Nothing much. I went to college and moved back here. How about you?"

"Well it's a long story. You probably don't want to hear it."

"I do, I want to know all of it." he said

"Just remember you asked for it. After graduation I went to Washington University with Mike. I went to school to be a high school English teacher. After I graduated college Mike and I moved to Seattle and got married. Our marriage started off strong, we were the perfect newlyweds. All my friends were jealous, but they didn't know after the first few months of our marriage Mike became distant at home. In public we were still the perfect couple." I pause to take a drink of the coffee he put in front of me.

"So, I tried everything I bought new nightgowns and even a few toys." I blushed. "But it didn't work. He still couldn't get it up for me, if you know what I mean. He said it was from the stress, but I knew it was me." I picked at the bacon on my plate.

"After about six months I knew there had to be someone else. I just knew it. We hadn't had sex in months. So one our first anniversary I wanted to try and show him what he has been missing." I blushed a scarlet color. I don't know why I am telling him everything. It feels nice to get it out though,

"We didn't have sex at all the next year either. I felt like it was all my fault. I wasn't good enough to keep him with me. I chased him into another girls arms. So, I told him that I was going to visit Charlie one weekend and he bought it. I stayed at a hotel waiting until the time was right to catch him in the act."

I ate some of my eggs while he drank his coffee and waited for me to continue.

"The only other person that was there all weekend was our friend, his bast man for our wedding, Eric York. I got mad. If there wasn't another girl then what is it that made him not able to rise to the occasion. I stormed inside our house and didn't find him in the living room or the kitchen. I don't know why but my legs just move up the stairs into our room." I felt my eyes welling up.

"I caught him and Eric in our bed. I knew all the answers to all my questions then." Tears started falling down my face. I felt Edward come up to me and wipe my tears away and pull me into a hug. We sat like that for a while and no one said anything.

"Bella, I know what you are thinking. It's not your fault. You are very beautiful. He was crazy not to see that." Edward said breaking the silence.

"After I found him like that, he said it's not what you think." I stared sobbing again, "He... He... said that every since we got married that I let myself go and that's why he did.... what he did." I choked out in between sobs. "I just finalized the divorce and came back here. Nobody knows all the details. I tied to tell my mom but she said that I needed to try and fix my marriage. She said Mike is perfect for me."

"Bella, you remember in school how Mike hated me?" I nodded my head yes.

"It was because I liked you. He knew it and didn't like me because of it."

I remember wondering if he liked me but I never knew that he did. Truth be told the reason that Mike hated him was because he knew that I liked Edward. I was too scared to ask. I loved Mike but I felt a strong pull towards Edward.

"He used to get so mad at me after class because he hated that I talked to you."

We were quiet for a minute before I said "I really hope that we can be friends now."

"Me too." he said

I looked at the clock and saw it was almost eleven in the morning. "Alice, is going to kill me if I don't call her."

Knock! Knock!Knock!

Right on cue "Edward, open up! I know you are in there. Bella isn't answering her door!" A pixie voice said.

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