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"The day after"
I walked towards the kitchen. What a mess. His clothes were everywhere. Even his underwear! Yuck! I poured myself a cup of coffee and went upstairs barefoot; didn't want to make any noise. I opened the door of his bedroom and looked at him, he was on the floor snoring heavily; covered only with a bed sheet. I kicked him softly on the stomach, and seeing that this did not work I kicked him harder. He only groaned. "Hey sleeping beauty…" which he was "time to wake up!" I kicked him even harder. He slowly sat up and ran his hand through his messy copper hair twice. "What time is it?" "Time to go home, buddy" "Huh? Aren't I home?" He started looking around, but stopped. "Ugh! My head is spinning!" "Here ya go Ed" I said giving him my coffee mug "Wild night huh?" "Yeah…" he said taking a sip of coffee "My whole body hurts" "Well that's the price you have to pay for leaving the country without telling me!" I was half-yelling now "Shh… It's still early" He said covering one of his ears with the free hand he had "Early?" I strode towards the window and opened the white curtains, light filled the room "Agh!" he said as he covered his eyes with both hands, dropping the mug on the floor. "Now, I expect you downstairs in exactly two minutes" he was still sitting down "oh! And put something on for god sake" I said pulling the sheet that was covering him. He covered himself and stood up. "Hey!" Now he was awake "It's not like there's something I haven't seen before" I said, and with that I left the room leaving a naked Edward behind me.
My story with Edward was quite complicated, I've been his best friend since, well, we were together. We felt weird after, so we didn't continue dating; we've been like brother and sister ever since, and we are both more than ok with that. We met back in college, I dropped out first and after he dropped out too, and became somewhat famous, he asked me if I could be his personal assistant. Somehow he managed to convince me to take the job, so I took the first flight and here I was, trying to bring his ass back to London.
"Al! Are you downstairs?" he yelled "Where else would I be, you dumbass?" I yelled back "Woah! No need to be hostile!" "Just come down here" "In a minute" I sighed. After all this time and after all what happened with Tanya he still was the same. "I'm ready. What do you need me for?" He said as he came drying his hair with a towel "I need you to pack your bags and come back home with me" I said slowly so he could understand "No can do, little pixie" "No! You can't do this to me! Your manager and your agent told me to come here and bring you back because they know I'm the only one who can change your mind!" "Well I feel terribly bad for them. But I'm not coming back, I have some business I need to take care of right here" he said while he put the towel down "Here? What can you possibly do in this town?" He didn't answer, only smirked. Oh Edward, I hate that I know you so well. "What's her name?" His face immediately lit up "Her name is Bella, I mean Isabella but she goes by Bella." He stuttered "I met her yesterday; well not actually yesterday, it's just that I talked to her for the first time after all these years" Huh? He sounded like a crazy man "Hold on! What do you mean with after all these years?" He looked at me and doubted for a second, but answered in the end "I went to high school with her"
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EPOV
"I don´t get it. So, big movie star Edward Masen Cullen still has a crush on the popular high school cheerleader" We were now sitting on the couch "It is not a crush. I think she actually likes me." Alice was now very inquisitive. She cared about me deeply; she didn't want me to get hurt… again. "And how do you know she likes you?" "Last night… I talked to her" This took Alice by surprise, although I seemed a very confident person, I was, in fact, very shy. "I'm impressed. Edward? Picking up girls? I just can't believe it!" "Doesn't sound at all like me huh? I guess alcohol does funny things to you…" "It does, indeed" She knew it well, because she had experienced the effects of alcohol herself, and luckily for me, but unluckily for her, I was there to witness all the crazy stunts she pulled while drunk. "So… What did she think?" She looked at me with expectation. I was confused "About what?" "About the fact that you are now as big as Brad Pitt" Was she talking for real? "Ha! As big as Brad? I don't think so" "Come on! At least you are that famous back in England" "Yeah… maybe" "So what did she think?" "She didn't know who I was and I wanted to keep it that way… So I introduced myself as Edward Cullen" "You're kidding me, right? She didn't recognize you? not even from high school?" She looked at me with disbelief "Well as opposed to Bella, I preferred to have a low profile, so I didn't go to parties nor to basketball or football games" "So basically you were a low profile drama geek?" "Basically" "Edward, Edward… This was a part of you past I did not know about" "Yeah… And the fact that puberty came to me extremely late, didn't help at all…" I told Alice anything… "Aww… poor you…" "Mock me all you want, in the end it was me who succeeded in life" I said, to shut Alice up "I bet most of the jocks are already bald" "Yeah… you're probably right…"
I wondered how my life as a teenager would've been if I had been popular… Parties every weekend, any girl I'd want… Life would've been sweet. Although it would have been a very comfortable live, I wouldn't change my past for anything. Being a drama geek was what had led me into acting professionally… and meeting Tanya…Sigh…
"Earth to Edward!" Said Alice, waving her little hand at me and bringing me back to reality "Huh?" "I'm sorry to tell you that this is not high school anymore; and that you are not the same you were back then…" "You think so? Alice, to this day I can't talk to a girl if I'm not drunk…" Alice looked offended "Um… Hello? I think that having nothing hanging between my legs qualifies me as a girl" "You know what I mean!" I said exasperated and throwing my arms in the air "Yeah… ok, whatever…" Awkward silence. "Soooo… when are we going back home exactly?" "ALICE!" "ok, ok! I see that you're feeling a little under the weather, I won't bother you anymore" "Thank you! It's just that I feel extremely overwhelmed… with the divorce and everything, you know? I think I need a vacation" "Ok… I understand… I'll see what I can do…" said Alice standing up, and reaching for her cellphone that was in the purse I had given her last Christmas. She started talking to someone over the phone, probably the agency. "So how long until your parents get back?" She asked. I was currently staying at my parents' house because they were on a cruise in the Caribbean. "Don't know… a long time probably" "Ok" was all that she said and kept talking on the phone.
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"I got you a month" An entire month just for me? "Oh! Thank you so much Alice! I love you!" "I know you do, handsome. Now, won't you buy me dinner? I'm starving" "Sure, Let me get the car keys" Alice was my favorite person right now, just because of the fact that she had managed to get me a vacation from all the interviews and castings. Now I had time to erase all the bad memories from my mind, and create new ones, that involve, hopefully, a hot brunette.
I know not a long chapter, in the next one I'll explain what happen at the bar. :)