A/N – Yay! I finished this in five hours, I am quite proud of myself.
Enjoy, Chapter 4!
Sunday morning I woke up on the floor of my room. Rose, Alice and I had fallen asleep the night before while watching 'My Best Friend's Wedding', there were pillows and blankets everywhere, but it was somehow very comfortable.
I quickly glanced at my mobile phone to check on the time.
Shit! It was almost 10.00am, I had an hour to get ready and be waiting in the common room for Edward.
After a long hot shower, I pulled on my favourite skinny jeans, a plain white t-shirt and my leather jacket, slipped into my converses and swiped on a little mascara.
As I was leaving the room, I decided that if I had to be up so did Alice and Rose. I threw a pillow at Alice and whipped the blankets off Rose.
"Good morning, good morning! And how are you todayyy!" I screamed/sang to the both of them.
After a few expletives were exchanged, some groaning and moaning, the girls finally got up. Rose somehow woke up looking just as beautiful as if she were going out for the day; Alice on the other hand woke up with her hair in every which way direction and a foul look on her face.
Mission accomplished! I thought to myself.
I made my way down to the common room, feeling quite pleased with myself. When I got there I found Edward already waiting for me.
He smiled as soon as he spotted me.
"Hello Isabella," He chimed.
"Good morning," I replied. "Let get this show on the road,"
Edward drove us to a nearby coffee shop; we ordered our drinks and found ourselves a table at the back.
"So, how was 'Girls day in'?" Edward asked.
"Yeah, it was great. Eventually it turned into 'Girls night in', there was a lot of pizza, SingStar and Chick Flicks," I explained.
"That awful singing last night. That was you three?" He laughed back.
"Awful? I'm offended, we were putting our best stuff out there," I giggled.
Oh my god! I was giggling. I never giggled.
"How was your day, yesterday then?" I asked.
"Yeah it was okay, Jasper kept fucking going on and on about your roommate. I tried to escape him by studying at the library, but then Emmett found me and started going on about Rose. Personally, I find it bloody disturbing for him to talk about my twin sister in that way," He made a face that indicated he was disgusted.
I was starting to realise that I really did suck at first impressions. Edward was far from the kind of person that I thought he was. He was laid back, funny, and I could have an intellectual conversation with him without wanting to roll my eyes.
He surprised me even more when I found out his favourite word was fuck. Don't get me wrong, I swore, and I swore quite a bit, but Edward seemed to slip at least one cuss word into everything he said.
It gave him character. I was finding it hard not to smile every time he swore.
Two hours and three Iced Tea Lemonades later and I couldn't get enough of the time we spent together.
Edward and I were becoming fast friends, and I enjoyed every moment I spent with him.
Our 'coffee date' soon became a weekly ritual. A debriefing from the week before, we plotted new ways of getting Alice and Jasper to finally become a couple and laughed at Emmett and Rose's attempt at a relationship.
According to Alice, she and Jasper were just friends. But I could see past that facade. She was falling in love. She came back to our room every afternoon with a smile on her face and she was happier than ever. Once I even heard her singing in the shower.
The six of us were becoming a tight nit group of friends; we shared most of our meals together and hung out with each other in our spare time.
Emmett would entertain us every night with his usual antics, Rose would try and tame him or would act embarrassed. Although she told me later on that his carefree spirit, mixed with his desire to achieve was what she loved about him.
Emmett and Rosalie were the perfect couple, Emmett doted on her, and it was evident that he would move heaven and earth just to see her happy. Not that Rose would ever make him go to such lengths.
On the second last Sunday of October I met Edward in the common room, just as I had done every Sunday since our first 'coffee date'. Edward was standing there, but when he saw me he didn't smile the way he usually did. I looked past him and saw that there was a girl holding his hand, looking far from impressed.
"Hi Cullen," I greeted.
"Swan," He replied in a very monotone voice.
"This is Tanya, my girlfriend," He gestured to the girl that was holding his hand, she had very long, very straight strawberry blonde hair, grey blue eyes, and the palest skin I had ever seen.
Edward mouthed the words 'I'm sorry' as I went to shake Tanya's hand.
"Hi Tanya, it's nice to meet you. I didn't know you were visiting," I said trying to be nice.
"No, well you wouldn't have. I came here to surprise my Eddie, I was completely shocked when he told me he had a 'date' this morning though. I have to wonder what kind of self respecting girl would go after a taken man." She accused.
Rose was right, Tanya was a bitch.
She looked me up and down, and I could tell right from the get go that she didn't approve of me.
I was wearing a red plaid shirt, grey jeans, Alice's black slip ons and a massive scarf. Tanya on the other hand was very Old Bella, except without all the high end couture. She was more, trashy-trying-to-look-fabulous.
I thought about giving her a smart ass comment in reply, but for the sake of my friendship with Edward I bit my tongue.
"Oh no, you have it all wrong. Edward and I just have coffee every now and then to catch up. We're just friends, I assure you," I replied in the sweetest voice that I could find.
The three of us had coffee; it was the most uncomfortable thing that I could have ever endured.
Tanya was all over Edward, she was like a dog peeing on everything, marking her territory. She never shut up about her 'fabulous' life in New York. I just wanted to vomit every time a word came out of her perfectly pretentious mouth.
When that horrible ordeal was over and we had made it back to campus I scampered up to my room as quickly as possible. Luckily for me Rose was already with Alice talking about something.
"Rosalie Lillian Cullen! You could have warned me that Tanya was a MEGA BITCH!" I accused.
"Oh but on the contrary my friend, I did. But what's it to you anyway, it's not like she's here," She replied, being a smart ass.
"Oh but on the contrary my friend, she is," I mimicked. "I just had to sit through the most awkward hour of my life. I swear that girl needs to be neutered. She was all over your brother like a fly on poop,"
I explained the whole 'coffee date' to the girls. Thankfully, they sympathised with me.
"I can go scratch her eyes out!" Alice offered.
"That won't be necessary, I'm just going to avoid her while she's here, and hope to god that she never comes back, or at the very least a house falls on her," I replied.
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It had been almost a week since I had last seen Edward; Rose had informed me that Tanya would be staying until Friday afternoon.
I kept my distance as I had promised myself. Although there was a lot of debriefing we needed to do from this past week, I was starting to wonder if I should feign sick and cancel Sunday.
On Saturday afternoon, I was coming back from a shopping expedition with the girls when my phone went off indicating I had a new text message.
We still on for coffee? – E
Now was the time for me to finally decide. I took a deep breath.
Of course – B
Two words, that's all I could type.
Great, see you then : ) - E
I spent the night tossing and turning.
"Would you stop thinking so loud, I can't sleep," Alice mumbled.
"Whatever, you have another bed to go to if it's bothering you that much," I replied. Did I mention I was also a bitch when I couldn't get to sleep?
Sometime after 2.30am I drifted into an uneasy slumber, only to be woken five hours later to Alice singing in the shower.
I rolled out of bed, quickly wrote a note for Alice telling her I had gone for a run, and set off to clear my head.
An hour later I was on my way back to campus, with too much on my mind I wasn't looking where I was going and ran into someone.
"Sorry," I mumbled as I regained my balance.
"That's okay, just watch where you going next time," I heard a male answer.
I looked up and saw a well built boy, who looked like he had been taking steroids since the age of 10, he was about my age, and he had short blonde/brown hair and dark brown almost black eyes. He was staring at me intensely.
He looked very intimidating, and something about him scared me.
Wanting to get away from him as soon as possible, I nodded in thanks and kept running.
I had all but forgotten about the boy by the time I had made it down to the common room to meet Edward.
"Swan," I looked up and saw Edward smiling at me. He looked so much happier than last week.
"Hi Cullen," I replied, trying to sound calm. "Let's get this dog and pony show on the road,"
For the first hour our conversation was very superficial, I knew that we were both trying to dodge the real issue here.
"So, I can't believe all our fucking hard work has paid off," He beamed.
"It was about time as well. It was getting so tiring," I agreed as I took a sip of my Iced Tea Lemonade.
"Well at least Alice and Jasper are happy now, and neither of us will need to hear about their pathetic excuse for a friendship,"
"I know! Who are they kidding, they were never meant to be friends, I don't even know why they tried in the first place," I laughed.
Alice and Jasper had finally decided to call a spade a spade, and realise that they worked better as a couple. Alice was still scared out of her mind, but day by day she came to trust Jasper just that little bit more.
Jasper was patient and caring with her, he seemed to calm Alice when she was in a bad mood, and put a smile on her face when she was upset.
To me, they were the epitome of 'love', or whatever 'love' was meant to be. When he moved, she moved. They were like magnets, complete polar opposites, but never meant to be apart.
Alice was right. Jasper had the potential to change her world forever, and by only being in her life for a matter of weeks he had already changed her into someone who six weeks ago would never have been recognisable as Alice.
She still hadn't told Jasper about her past, but I was confident that she would when the time was right. I knew Jasper would be understanding and not judge her for her decision, if anything it would make his feelings for her even stronger.
"Isabella," Edward said quietly.
Edward hadn't called me Isabella since our first 'coffee date', it was always Swan. So I knew he had something important to say.
I nervously looked at him.
"Tanya broke up with me; I mean I broke up with Tanya. Actually we kind of decided it wasn't working. She actually admitted to fucking cheating on me. I'd say it hurt, but the truth was I didn't fucking care enough about her to feel anything like that," he explained.
"Oh, Edward I am so sorry," I tried to be a supportive friend and be there for him. Inside, though, I was jumping for joy.
Edward deserved so much better than that witch.
"Nah, its fine. I was kinda over it anyway. I was over all her fucking drama, and jealousy. It was tiring to be with her. I couldn't have a serious conversation with her, or even be myself, with you it all kinda comes naturally," He assured me.
I wasn't shocked by what he was saying, I was happy for him.
"Well, if by the time we are 30 and we are both single, we should totally get married. Then we can have coffee, and intellectual conversations everyday!" I joked.
"Okay, but let's get this in fucking writing," He said pulling out a napkin and writing down our contract.
I had to laugh at how serious he was acting when he wrote it; in the end we had the following:
I, Edward Anthony Cullen and I, Isabella Marie Swan agree to marry one another at the end of the year of our thirtieth birthdays if both parties are single at the time.
We both signed down the bottom, Edward even got one of the baristas to witness our agreement.
"This contract is binding in the State of Washington," he said seriously before laughing at me.
I was in a fit of laughter. I couldn't believe that we had gone all out and written a contract for such an agreement.
"Any way Swan, I wanted to know if you were going home for Thanksgiving." He asked.
"I wasn't planning on it. It's so far to go for just one weekend. My mom's pissed but she'll get over it, I'll go home for Christmas instead." I explained.
"Great, well that's settled, you're coming home with Rose and I. My family and Emmett and Jaspers family get together every Thanksgiving; there will be a lot of fucking Turkey, and pudding to go around,"
"No, Cullen. I am not intruding on your family..." I tried to argue.
He cut me off. "You're not, Alice is coming with Jasper. Besides Rose mentioned to mom that you were planning on staying here over Thanksgiving and mom threatened both of us if we didn't get you to come. What were her words exactly...? 'No one should have to spend the holidays alone! If either of you don't get this young girl to come for Thanksgiving, I will cancel Thanksgiving all together! Is that understood?'" Edward impersonated his mom.
"And look, I'm not saying that I want you at Thanksgiving, but it's the one fucking time a year I can eat as much Turkey and pudding as I want without it being bloody 'lite', and after going weeks on the dining hall food I could do with a decent feed,"
All I could do was laugh at Edwards excuse for asking me to Thanksgiving.
"Well, thank you for your concern. And I have noticed that you've lost a few pounds over the past few weeks, you definitely do need a decent meal. So I guess I'm coming to Thanksgiving," I couldn't stop laughing.
From then on Edward and I went back to normal, and I went back to forgetting Tanya ever existed.
We spent the rest of our 'coffee date' planning for Thanksgiving, and catching up on 'Stuffs we may have missed', our 'coffee dates' were very much like a TV show at times.
-x-x-x-
I was walking back to my room after coffee with Edward, texting Rosalie to remind her that we girls had dinner tonight; I was just outside my door when I ran into some one again.
How can one person have such bad luck that they run into people more than once a day, and to top it off I ran into the same guy from this morning.
"If we're gonna keep meeting like this, can I at least know your name?" Scary Roid man asked.
"Ahh... Isabella," I said hesitantly.
"Well Isabella, I'm..."
Just then Alice burst through the door, she looked happy and excited, but that was changed in an instant and suddenly she looked petrified.
A/N- There we have it.
I had to physically make myself stop there, I wanted nothing more than to keep writing but I didn't want to give away everything just yet!
I drew quite a few things from this chapter from my own life.
The Good Morning Song – One of my mother's feeble attempts of waking us kids up in the morning, and it has probably scarred me for life... as such I am no longer a morning person.
First Impressions – Yes, chances are I will hate someone as soon as I meet them (Terrible I know), but more times than I can count that person has become a really great friend of mine... Although there are always exceptions and I just end up hating them forever.
Iced Tea Lemonades – I had to add that. I fell in love with them when I was in LA a few weeks ago, and despite all the wonderful things I did when I was there my fondest memory was drinking these delicious drinks in the afternoons on Beverly Drive watching Beverley Hills wind down after a busy day.
Red Hair – I really shouldn't say this, because I'm a true blue Ranga (Red Head), but I don't like the strawberry blonde look, although it might be natural it just looks fake and tacky. Personally I have Auburn hair, so again there is always an exception.
'Stuff you may have missed' – I don't know if America (or anywhere else in the world) has 'The Footy Show' but Australia does, and this is a little segment they have, it's usually full of silly little things commentators/crowd/even the players have done over the past week.
Well there is my little rant.
What was your favourite part? Anything you didn't like? My favourite part was E & B's contract and discussion about Thanksgiving.
Another update in a week, maybe sooner if I can find the time.
