Chapter 6

Edward's Point of View

I quietly unlocked the front door to my apartment. It was seven thirty in the morning and three days after staying with Bella. I was only at my apartment to check if the coast was clear. Usually I would check to see if Tanya had left her car, but seeing as she didn't have a car that was pointless. I opened the door and looked around, the hall looked clear. I shut the door behind me and walked slowly towards the kitchen and living room. As soon as I turned the corner I let out a groan. Tanya was sitting on the bench reading a newspaper wearing one of my shirts. She turned, hearing me groan, and smiled brightly.

"Eddie!" I flinched at the nickname. The worst possible nickname ever! "I was wondering when you were coming home." She continued as she got off the bench and started coming towards me.

"What are you still doing here?" I demanded.

"Waiting for you of course," Tanya smiled as she stopped right in front of me.

"Why? We broke up years ago, Tanya! Why are you still trying?"

"What are you talking about? Silly Eddie! We haven't broken up." I stared at Tanya with wide eyes. Was she deluded or something?

"Um, yes…we did. I caught you cheating on me and we broke up." I reminded her. She laughed and shook her head. Her blonde hair was shorter than it had been seven years ago; it was about shoulder length now and perfectly straight.

"I never cheated on you. I would never do that." I was beginning to consider dragging this girl to mental hospital. She must be seriously deluded or something…or just incredibly stupid.

"Seven years ago, Tanya. We broke up seven years ago!" I almost yelled at her. I turned around and started heading to the door. I didn't want to have to listen to anymore of her.

"Eddie! Where are you going?" Tanya whined as she followed me to the door. "Don't leave again, please Eddie! It's so lonely here without you." She continued as I opened the door and stared at her like she was the dumbest person on the planet, which she probably was.

"Tanya, I don't know what planet you are living on but we broke up seven years ago, you don't leave here. Get out of my apartment now or I will call the police!" I threatened.

"The police can't do anything! I live here, with you! We live together!!" Tanya yelled. I slammed the door in her face and made my way to the stairs. "How dare you slam the door in my face! This is not over Eddie Cullen!!" I heard Tanya yell from the top of the stairs. I raced down the flights of stairs and ran to my car. I felt bad for having to intrude on Bella for a couple more days, but was glad that she had let me stay.

- - -

I found Bella sitting on the couch eating cereal and watching a random T.V. show. I dumped my keys on the table and sat down next to her on the couch. Bella turned to me and smiled.

"I'm assuming that because you're sitting here and not packing your stuff that Tanya is still in your apartment and you need to stay here longer," I nodded. Bella shrugged. "That's cool, stay as long as you need." She turned her attention back to the television.

"Thank you," I whispered. Bella looked back at me and smiled softly.

"You're welcome."

Bella's Point of View

All of us were sitting around the café waiting for someone to come up with an idea as to what to do today. It was Saturday, which was my only day off, and we had no ideas as to what to do today. This was unusual, as Alice has usually planned out everything that we were going to do. So here we were, sitting in a café, drinking coffee and making small talk with one another.

"So has Tanya left your apartment yet, Edward?" Alice asked her brother. I sighed, thinking back to the time when Tanya had followed Edward back to my apartment and pretty much walked into my apartment as Edward was trying to get her out.

"But Eddie! Why are we here? We already have an apartment!" Tanya complained as she walked into my apartment. I was kind of glaring and kind of curiously staring at the entrance hallway where Tanya's annoying and whiny voice was coming from. Tanya walked into the living room, where I was standing at the current moment, her stiletto heels tapping against my wooden floorboards. I wanted to rip those heels off her feet. The sound was so annoying! "

"Seriously, Eddie, why are we even here? It has wooden floor boards and is just…ugly and - who the hell is that?" Tanya was now standing in the middle of my living room, looking and pointing at me in disgust.

"Tanya! You followed me here, I'm not buying another apartment and we don't live together!!" Edward was trying not to yell at Tanya. You could see the irritation on his face. I tried not to laugh. Tanya thought that she and Edward were living together? How deluded could you get? I couldn't wait to tell Alice and Rose this! They were going to get a kick out of it, as well as being annoyed.

"Wait! Is this where you've been hiding? In this awful apartment with her? When you could be in our nice luxurious apartment with me?" Tanya demanded. Apparently she thought she was better than me, well she was…in looks. But in intelligence and sanity, no. She had to be the dumbest person on the planet!

"We don't live together Tanya!!" Edward yelled at her. Tanya looked shocked and…hurt?

"You've been cheating on me?" Tanya asked, on the verge of tears. I raised an eyebrow.

"We weren't even dating!!" Edward yelled at her. Edward rarely yelled at anyone, especially women. He had been brought up to respect women; Esme was a great mother to him. So for Edward to be yelling at a woman meant only one thing; Edward was pissed.

"So you've been here? Cheating on me with this…this…ugly, fat girl?!" Tanya screamed. Tears streamed down her cheeks, her makeup running. Edward stayed silent. "Ugh! That is it! We are over!!" Tanya screamed before she made a dramatic exit, which was walking into a wall. I couldn't help but crack up laughing. She was going to have a gorgeous bruise on her forehead now. Tanya glared at me before walking off, around the wall this time. Edward let out a deep breath as soon as he heard the door slam.

"Yes, Alice, she left yesterday morning." Edward answered. Alice smiled widely.

"I'm so glad! That girl was an absolute pain in the ass," Edward glared at her.

"At least you didn't have to deal with her," he muttered as he folded his arms across his chest and sank lower into his chair. I looked at the rest of the group, Alice was holding hands with Jasper and smiling widely…at me, not normal but whatever, I looked at Rosalie and Emmett, Emmett had his arm on the back of Rosalie's chair and was looking at the back of her head in concern; Rosalie had her back to Emmett and was talking quietly on her phone. She looked rather…pale.

"Bella," I looked in Alice's direction quickly. "Can I talk to you for a moment?" Alice asked. I sighed, knowing what was coming. I nodded and reluctantly followed her away from the table and into a more private area of the café. I could feel everyone's curious gaze on us.

"What Alice?" I asked with impatience. Alice frowned at me, knowing that I wasn't usually very rude to her. But honestly, I was curious as to what Rosalie was hearing on her phone to make her go so pale and was getting really annoyed with Alice for bugging me about this topic all the time.

"What's gotten into you?" She demanded.

"I know what you're going to ask, Alice. No I haven't. And I'm sick of you always trying to get me to say it! You are always bugging me about this, can't you just stay out of this and let this run it's course? Please?"

"Bella –"

"No Alice!" I cut her off quickly, "Edward doesn't love me. He won't ever love me and you just need to accept that!" I walked away from Alice quickly and sat back down next to Edward.

"Are you okay?" He whispered. I looked at him and could see the curiosity and worry in his eyes. I nodded and looked away. Alice came back shortly after and was glaring at me as she sat back down next to Jasper. I looked over at Rose and saw that she was quite out of it, staring off into space.

"Why don't we go for a walk?" Emmett suddenly suggested, looking down at his wife in concern. Everyone agreed and we quickly left and made our way to the park.

- - -

I walked along side Edward for a while until I noticed Emmett join us. I looked behind me and saw Rose walking alone, quite a fair way back. I turned to Emmett quickly.

"Is Rose okay?" I whispered, hoping Edward wouldn't hear.

"I don't know," he whispered back. He sounded so broken. I let Edward and Emmett walk on ahead of me while I waited for Rose.

"Rose," I whispered softly as she finally reached me. She didn't answer. "Rose," I whispered again. This time she looked at me, her eyes were red and puffy, tear streaks ran down her cheeks. "Oh, Rose," I whispered and pulled her into a hug. She clung to me desperately as she sobbed quietly.

"Oh Bella! What am I going to do? How could this happen?" I just stood there and held Rose tightly as she cried. After a few minutes, she pulled away and we started walking again.

"What's happened Rose?" I asked softly as I held her hand as we walked. She wiped her eyes with her free hand.

"I have leukemia," she whispered. I stopped and stared at my sister. Leukemia? My sister had leukemia??

"But…"

"I started getting symptoms a month ago, I went to the doctor, Emmett insisted, and got tests done. The results just came back. I have chronic myeloid leukemia." I was at a loss at what to say. My sister had leukemia and we hadn't noticed because it was chronic.

A/N: I hope you liked it. Sorry for the wait. Exams are almost over for me and I shall try to start updating more!