Chapter 3: Traitorous

I asked Angela to stop at a kilometer away form the house; I decided that it would be better if they didn't know the exact location and the house would be kept in subtlety.

I ran. I ran fast. I tried not to trip, but sadly I tripped twice.

I rushed through their driveway, running towards their porch, opening the door instantly and running my way to the stairs. I was thinking that Edward might be in Carlisle's office and decided to 'surprise' him by being in his room.

I stopped for a while to catch my breath and then proceeded running, as I turned the knob on Edward's door, there was a blur and Alice was right in front of me, her petite form blocking the slowly opening door.

"Bella no!" Alice pleaded, looking at me with pleading eyes.

"Huh! Wha—" I was cut off, by what was behind Alice. Her petite form was not enough to cover the door; I saw everything.

It was Edward.

My Edward.

He was on the floor…or rather on the rug in the center of his room.

But…

He wasn't alone.

With him, is a very gorgeous woman and that was a stated fact.

She had long, wavy, shiny brown hair that reached just below her...from what I saw, was a C cup breasts. She had full red, enticing lips, a beautifully shaped nose, topaz eyes and supermodel-like body.

She's perfect. And she's a vampire.

Then my mind wasn't fully prepared for what happened next.

Edward had his eyes closed, as if thinking something deep. And then the girl, leaned into him, and kissed him fully on the lips. He didn't flinch, he didn't move; he didn't even react. When she pulled back, she had a smile on her lips.

I looked at the scene with big, shocked eyes. Blinking a couple of time to prevent the tears from coming down.

Then Alice was crying now, she was crying dry sobs.

The girl looked at me with an apologetic look.

And Edward…

That bastard…

Looked devastated, or maybe he tried to act to look devastated.

I did what I thought the first thing I should do.

I ran fast.

I darted out of the house but I felt a cold, steely grip in my wrist.

I turned to see it was Alice.

"Alice…" I started, traitorous tears falling down my cheeks. "Why? I thought we were best friends?" I wailed. "I trusted you Alice, I trusted you. Why?" I was shouting now.

"Bella…" She let go of my wrist, and collapsed to her knees, looking to the ground, her hands into fists firmly on the ground, and sobbing dryly.

Jasper came out to soothe his wife. Edward was on the porch, trying to apologize to me. But I didn't budge. I pretended not to notice or hear him. Then next Emmett emerges, carrying Rosalie, while she was screaming at the blond ditz.

Wow. So Rosalie did care for me.

Then, Esme emerged and went towards me; I shook my head very hard and backed up, not wanting her to come near me.

I started running again, I ran faster than I ever imagined. I felt my adrenaline rush. I reached Angela's car without tripping.

"Angela. Please. Drive. Now. And. Fast." I said slowly, emphasizing each word. Without question she drove off, as I began to sob.

"What happened, Bella?" Jessica asked with genuine concern, and Lauren was comforting me.

I kept crying that I couldn't talk so they patiently waited till I was sober enough to speak.

I sighed. "Well, I went in the house, expecting Edward to be in his father's office or something, so I decided I would surprise him when he sees me on his room." I paused, seeing if the three of them caught up with what I said.

Angela nodded, looking at me from the mirror. Jessica was rubbing my back, and Lauren was there, waiting for me to speak up while authentic worry etched her face.

"But then, I saw some girl kissing him on the lips. He didn't move, he didn't react, and he didn't even push her away." I said angrily. I clenched my hands into fists.

A few soothing words later, and we were at my place, thank god the cruiser wasn't there yet. In the middle of the sootha-palooza, I asked Angela to drop me first, and I as thankful that she did.

"Thanks guys, I'll see you tomorrow." I said as I got my shopping bags. "Save me a seat for lunch? All girls table tomorrow?" I asked them and they nodded, each having smiles on their faces.

I ran up the stairs, and into my room. Quickly getting my bag of toiletries ran to the bathroom and let the warm water forget all my problems for a while.

I dressed up in old jogging pants and an oversized t-shirt.

I brushed my hair and got my CD player and popped in my Linkin Park CD.

I went to my bed and cried myself to sleep while drowning out my thoughts with the music.

-0-0-0-

I woke up the next morning dizzy. My eyes hurt from crying too much yesterday and my hair was messier than ever. I pulled off the earplugs off my ear and got my toiletries and ran to the bathroom.

I dressed up, quickly, wearing whatever my hand touched first. Then I grabbed an energy bar, gulped down milk and ran to my truck, without tripping, seeing that I was too engrossed about getting late to school than thinking not to trip.

As I as driving my way to school, I examined myself and what I was wearing.

I gasped, as I realized, I was wearing a beige, butt hugging Capri pants, a knitted V-neck sweater with a low neckline we bought yesterday and my black Converse.

This was not Bella...

This is more of the Lauren or Jessica.

I debated to myself of whether I should return or not. I decided not to.

I reached school, to see that the stupid silver Volvo was there already, of course it was there already, the Cullens are good students.

I parked my truck as far away from the Volvo as possible and made my way to class. I got late into my Trigonometry class, seeing that it was first period. I saw Angela beaming at me as she tapped the seat next to her. I smiled to her, my heart filled with gratitude that I won't be sitting with Edward today.

After Trig we had Bio, and after that we had Government and then lunch.

Lunch was very interesting.

I sat with my girlfriends on another table. Separated from the Cullens or any of the boys for that matter. We were talking about what happened yesterday.

Inside, I was laughing because no matter how low our voices our, the Cullens could hear us perfectly, so I permitted myself a smile.

I looked into their table.

Alice was looking at me with apologetic eyes.

Jasper was looking at me with confused eyes.

Emmett, in sympathetic eyes.

Rosalie had a look that mixed slyness and smugness.

And Edward with a pained, broken look.

As I looked at him…

My face broke into a look I least expected, and my mind thought of a thought least expected.

My smile turned into a thin hard line. My stare grew cold, as if it could freeze a pitcher of water if it was placed in front of me. If he was human I wanted to go into the cafeteria kitchen, get a knife and stab him mercilessly. But I know that in doing it would bring no effect and would lead to the discovery of their family.

So my logical half, made me look away and we just talked about something else.

The bell rang and well all stood up, dumping all of my leftovers, seeing that I was unable to eat, ever since yesterday, when it happened.

The rest of the day passed out in a blur, except in the parking lot Edward talked to me.

Or rather, Edward tried to talk to me, but I would not hear him out... his pained voice made me want to hug him, but I was controlling myself not to.

"Bella, please, it's not what you think it is…"

I refuse to hear him.

"Bella, if I could just let you into my mind and show you my memory, I will"

What was there to hear?

"Bella…please just hear me out"

He was there; he let a vampire ditz kiss him. He didn't do anything. He didn't pull away; I saw it all.

"I'll explain to you why she kissed me in the first place."

I know it's unfair that I wouldn't hear him out.

"Bella, I thought we loved each other?"

But what happened to me was unjustifiable; it hurt me more. And I saw it all.

I said the three lines that left him speechless.

Don't stay.

Forget our memories

Forget our possibilities

Props: To Elyse for BETAing me.

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