Authors Note: hey everybody! Im terribly sorry for the long wait, inspiration wouldn't come in this chapter. Some things you need to know:
+This chapter might be a little confusing cause we'll get some snippets of their life together in the past.
+It's a little boring cause its kinda a filler chapter.
+Thank you very much for all the support and comments you've given to this story.
+Big hugs and Kudos TO my wonderful beta: TwiDi
Chapter 7: Who we used to be
I feel, feel let down, the faces stay the same
I see, see shadows of who we used to be.
When I drive, drive so slow though this memory.
First day in this God-forsaken town and he had already found a seriously good for nothing nut-case walking all over his car, what was wrong with these people, seriously?
Moving into Forks was already hard on him, due to his father's career, he moved around a lot. But people never walked all over the hood of his car as if they were taking a walk in the park in other towns before. So, maybe he had crossed the pedestrian pass, so what? It's not like she couldn't go round it, too much of a fat-ass?
And what a fine ass that was.
When he saw this petite fearless girl walking down the walkway, he decided to confront her. She had called him an 'asshole' after all, besides, she was not hard on the eye either and the biggest point of them all: she was the first person to talk to him here.
It wasn't like he couldn't make any friends because he could; it's just that this girl made an impression on him.
The audacity in her intrigued him. It was something he hadn't seen before, he had people kiss the ground he walked on for most of his life and now this petite girl taught him differently.
Bella had yet to acknowledge his presence though. She was so caught up in getting her books in her locker that she just missed him as he made his way towards him adamantly.
The minute she opened her locker, it was slammed shut again by a strong hand that reached from above her. She turned around looking incredulously up at the nerve of who ever…
This asshole!
She was surprised, to say the least, but her surprise was fully covered now with a 'no-you-didn't' look.
And Edward's gaze turned from cockiness and spitefulness to be bemusement. Her eyes had to be the best thing he had ever seen. Shock went through him in barely 4 seconds realizing the beauty in her.
At that moment he decided he wanted her for his own.
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The cold was what shook Bella out of her sleep. She sighed in annoyance. It was still dark outside and the window was open; she took Edward's arm off of her and stood up to shut it down. Her hands were freezing and she could feel her cheeks were too. Even if she was fully covered with blankets, nothing could keep away the night's cold breeze. When she turned around she saw Edward was sleeping on top of the covers, shirtless with only a jean on, she gasped. Was he totally mental?
She picked up one of his sweaters and put it on before tending to him, moving the sheets down and going back to bed making sure the sheets were now above them both, she graced her fingers to his bare back to find it dead cold freezing.
"God, Edward…" she whispered, he lay asleep like a rock.
Again, there was nothing to make Edward get up from bed.
She wrapped her arm around his back holding him tight while moving a leg up his body, was he trying to die?
Soon she fell back to slumber.
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BANG! BANG!
A loud as hell continuous slamming of a door, or was it cabinets being tossed across the room? What the hell was that??
It jolted Bella out of her sleep as she heard a woman's upset crying come from downstairs and Emmett's banging voice screaming downstairs.
"Oh my God!" she panicked, Edward stirred.
It was so loud it even brought him back to life. He was confused at first, not realizing what was happening.
"Wha… Wh?"
Another loud scream.
"Oh my God! Edward!!" Bella tried to shake him but he was already on his feet running towards the door and she followed behind not thinking whether it was the best move. Maybe it was a thief or a murderer; she just followed quickly behind Edward.
She felt enough protected.
When she got to the stairs there was a woman crying in the living room and Emmett was furiously shouting names at her and slamming the walls… typical Cullen behavior. Bella recognized her as the girl Emmett was dating before, but she didn't know much else about her to be honest.
"What the fuck are you doing?" Edward got into his face, taking his body down from pouncing on something or… someone.
"She's a back-stabbing two-faced bitch" Emmett roared loud enough for the neighbors to hear. Bella wrapped her arms around her body and watched from the last step of the stairs in horror, deciding not to step in. It got pretty ugly when one of the brothers was upset.
Edward was loud, vengeful and dark but Emmett was big.
Bella watched how the girl wiped away her tears and walked out the door sobbing hard. Edward pushed Emmett down to steady him and not have him run off and chase after the poor woman.
Bella took the sweatshirt off already feeling the heating in the room. She went to the kitchen to give them some privacy. she was scared of Emmett when he was like this, he was like a big brother to her and when he got like this, it killed her every time. Partly because she knew far well it was all out of pain and it was not directed at her but still… she couldn't help to feel uncomfortable.
She looked around the kitchen for something to eat. But when she found some sliced onions, tomatoes and jam on a wooden plate, a smile crept to her face. Emmett was making breakfast! Yes! Emmett's scrambled eggs were the best breakfast in history!
And she couldn't wait for him to get his ass down here and finish what he started.
"Oh you're totally not getting any of that" Emmett's laugh shook her out of her thoughts, she turned her head around to see him walking back inside with Edward on his tail. Edward looked stressed and kinda worried, but Emmett's smile was shown to her brightly. She knew it was a fake smile. That he was trying to get over the moment and she was not one to question him either, she'll follow his suit.
"And who's gonna stop me?" she mocked him leaning over the counter when he started chopping things off.
"All the rumors are true, Bells" Emmett smirked at her showing off his biceps, she rolled her eyes.
"Yes, you are one kind of a bear…" she started to say with a grin.
Emmett laughed.
"Oh! You noticed!"
Edward at this point was simply looking around the fridge for something to chew and a bottle of water.
"A bear, huh?" Emmett cocked his eyebrow at her, "I didn't know you were into the hot dark brother bear" he winked at her.
"I was thinking more of a teddy bear" she tried not to laugh when his smile fell off and he rolled his eyes at her.
She laughed looking at what he was doing trying to memorize anything so maybe she could do it herself, this didn't go unnoticed by him either.
"You trying to master my skills won't work, Bells, you don't know my special ingredient" he quirked his eyebrows, she gave him a smile.
He put the ingredients in the pan and started to fry them moving the pan every now and then to show off.
"Careful with that" Edward spat leaning on the kitchen counter watching.
"And what is that?" Bella laughed at Emmett's attempts to surprise her.
At this point, Edward rolled his eyes and started to walk away when…
"Extra love…" he made a move with his pan and at that moment Bella leaned over to catch a piece of tomato and he accidently burned her with the fraying pan.
She let out a yelp jumping in surprise. She was immune to the pain now, she had fallen so many times thanks to her clumsiness and tripping over stairs was a hobby by now. She didn't mind a little extra-hot pan on her forearm.
"Oh my God, Bella I'm soo sorry!" he dropped the pan on the table to attend to her when Edward stepped in once he heard her cry. He had turned around and pushed his brother off.
"I said to be careful, God-dammit!" he snapped angrily.
"It's nothing, I'm fine…" Bella smiled. Emmett couldn't come any closer as Edward took her by her arm and dragged her arm to the sink to put some well-deserved cold water in it.
"I'm sorry, Bells." she heard Emmett behind her.
"It's fine, I'm fine…" she promised looking at Edward to reassure him, "I want those eggs, Cullen" she said playfully.
"I'm on it," silence fell between them. Edward still scrubbed his hand up and down her arm trying to avoid her piercing eyes.
She pulled herself up on her toes to gain height on him trying to get in his face so he wouldn't avoid her.
"I'm fine," she whispered searching for his eyes when he finally gave in and returned the painful looking smile.
And Emmett's hot eggs weren't the cause of it.
She leaned her forehead against his and at the mere contact she pulled herself off with a shriek.
"Edward you're burning!" she brought her good hand up to touch his forehead then turned her palm to his throat.
Edward sighed taking his hands off of her arm resting it lightly on her side.
"I'm fine…" he mumbled shaking her hands off of him making a run for it.
"Edward you're coming up on something," she yelped taking his arm to turn him around when he tried to walk away, they had Emmett's full attention now.
"Awwww… do I need to call dada for Eddiiee??" Emmett teased, Edward gave him a glare along with Bella's cold gaze telling him off.
"Shut up!" Edward snapped walking out the kitchen with Bella on his tail.
"Let's go check your temperature," she insisted putting herself in his way; he rolled his eyes one more time but took her hand when she reached for it.
Followed her upstairs and let her lay him down on the bed.
"You let the window wide open last night!" she scolded at him sitting beside him when she succeeded in tucking him in bed.
"You let the window open" he pouted like a five year old.
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"And what the hell do you think you're doing?" Bella snapped at him when he sat in the seat beside her.
It's been days since she has been trying to get him off her back, but he wouldn't go away any time soon.
The theater had many and then many booths free for him to sit in, but he had to sit beside her of course!
"Sitting…" he said as if it was the most obvious thing in the world.
"Not here!" she gritted her teeth trying to keep it quiet, "I thought you didn't like school plays!" she snapped angrily, obviously resenting that he had rejected her offer the first time she had asked; making her feel like a total lame clingy bitch.
He simply shrugged his shoulders. She gaped at him.
He did this often. He kept giving her mixed-signals. One day he would be all over her, trying to get her to walk with him, eat with him go out 24/7 with him. And then, he would do whatever to avoid her and humiliate her when he had the chance; making her feel like a friggin' outsider when he was the one to waltz in this school feeling like he owned the place. And even though he was the newbie, why did she feel like a friggin' outsider on her own group of friends?
One time he made her promise to have a date with him if he let go of the poor kid he was holding and threatening. It didn't go so well. He tried with no sweet talk first to make out with her.
"You can't stay, I brought my own date." she provoked him sternly.
He turned his face to the side to give her a look.
"That's too bad…" he said giving her a warning glare.
Michael just came in that moment giving Bella a questioning look. Edward put his arm around her shoulders which she quickly brushed off of her the minute they touched her.
Michael simply rolled his eyes and took Bella's hand.
"C'mon, Bella, let's sit with the grown-ups…" when he tried to help her up by her hand. Edward rested his feet on the cushion of the booth in front of him, between the two of them; she had no way to get out with his leg resting there.
Bella widened her eyes and gave him her fiercest glare. She couldn't believe how difficult he was being, suddenly she heard it, "You wanna keep that hand, boy?" Edward's menacing warning.
Michael widened his eyes and took a step back; asking himself if that guy was for real?
Couldn't blame him, at that moment Edward looked like an infuriated beast that at any time would bite their heads off, Bella's included.
It didn't take long before all hell broke lose. Bella pushed her body against his legs to get him to put them down. He wouldn't budge, she started screaming at him and he started ordering her at to hush. Michael simply stood there watching them in amusement.
And soon enough the principal kicked them out of the auditorium, she closed the door behind her and saw a careless Edward in front of her with a nonchalant look on his face, shrugging his shoulders carelessly.
"You wanna make out?"
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"Jesus Christ, Edward!" she took some cloth and drowned it in cold water before resting it on his forehead.
"Bella, what the fuck…" he whined.
"I have to get your body's temperature down somehow," she explained trying to shake his hands off of the cloth.
"I can think of other ways you can do that…" he smirked without resisting her anymore. He didn't find the strength to do so.
She rolled her eyes and put a hand on his forehead.
"You should go see a doctor,"
"Bella, it's just a fever…" he rolled his eyes at her, grasping her arm in reassurance.
"But still…"
"I love it when you take care of me," he smiled.
She gave him a look, not returning the smile, "And who takes care of me?"
He gave her a warning glance not to start anything.
"I do."
"I need a companion not a cop,"
He sighed harshly not wanting to hear any of it.
"You can't keep doing things like that to me…" she looked down at her hands resting in her lap.
"Don't start with me," he sighed tiredly.
"The way you acted last night…" she shook her head not finding the words to say how each time they had a fight, she got even more frightened of him.
"Bella, you know where's your place. It's with me. You belong with me" he clarified this making sure she'd looked at him sternly.
She didn't say much because partly she knew it was true, but the bigger part was because this time he actually used the 'with' instead of the usual 'to', which was saying something.
She kept looking at him when she said, "I'm leaving tonight," and he laughed.
"Fine," he mumbled while laughing, turned around and went to sleep.
"Don't be mad at me," she mumbled gaining no response on his part.
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When we were only kids and we were best of friends
And we hoped for the best and let go of the rest
"It's prophase,"
"No, it's not," she complained.
"It's prophase,"
"No..." she gave him a look. He simply looked at her with his chin leaning on his arms that were resting on the lab table.
She kept looking at him and he gave her a look like he knew better and she couldn't help to check again.
"It's not!" she shook her head eying him carefully.
"Why do you like to go against my word all the time, Bella?" he gave her an amused look with a crooked grin. She furrowed her eyebrows not understanding his words, "It is as if you like to win my attention all the time," he smirked. She kept glaring at him but did not speak a word.
Maybe she was indeed trying to gain his attention, but that's because he had been totally annoying her this whole time by… avoiding her.
Why did it annoy her so much that he was finally leaving her alone?
"And what part of restriction order seemed like an 'inviting welcome doormat' for you??" she asked fiercely letting him know she lived up to her word and she didn't mind to use it against him. She would go through with it if he didn't stay away from her. But now she found herself doing the little annoying bits of things she could do to fuck with him. What was she on?
"Ohh, don't be like that, I know you want me" he shrugged his shoulders. Her mouth hung opened, "You seriously want to keep that mouth open like that? Cause I can think of one or two things I can…"
She closed it shut again.
"You know, I see all this shit you try to pull off…" she gave him a look which he returned it with a dark gaze narrowing his eyes, "It's not working. I can see past it. You're trying so hard and it's not working, you're different from what you let people see," the way he stayed silent, or the way he casted his eyes to hers fixing her in that penetrating gaze proved her point, "It's like as if you're almost afraid people will see the real you…" before she could even finish he took his stuff and walked out of the class and the bell rang.
Mr. Tanner took Bella's and Edward's paper and took a look at it.
"Prophase. Good work!" he smiled hanging her over the paper, in shock she saw how Edward had written in careful letters 'Prophase'.
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"He's asleep?"
"Yeah," Bella nodded looking down.
"What's wrong?" she pressed her lips together then shook her head.
"I just… Emmett, I have to go" Emmett gave her a look.
"You know he did put me in charge for your little 'escapades'…" the look he was giving her was a frightened one. It told her that he would stay glued to the door and prevent her from leaving and she wouldn't put it past Edward to do something like that. So, to say she was tired and scared at this moment was an understatement. She widened her eyes at him and then he busted out laughing.
"I'm just messing with you, Bells!" he laughed when she gave him a hard punch letting out a breath of relief.
"I GOT THEM!" that was Alice voice coming from the living room, she was sure of it! When Bella got near her, she was squealing and jumping up and down like a kid on Christmas morning.
"Alice is here!" Bella laughed giving her a wave.
She was engrossed in her notebooks and catalogs, her loyal blackberry in her hand ordering on ebay any sorts of things she could buy to have the party of the year. Alice was a planner and she didn't pass any opportunity to throw a good party, or just assist on other parties to diss them out and say how much of a better job she could have done. But when it came down to her own birthday party, it was as if hell was breaking loose.
"Hello, baby" she waved at Bella. Jasper looked like he was in pain sitting by the couch, but managed a good smile to her oldest friend.
"Jasper," Bella greeted giving him 'that look' the one that said 'I-wouldn't-like-to-be-in-your-shoes-right-now'. They had known each other since they were in diapers and nothing passed out between the two of them.
They shared so many things together in the past.
He glared at her playfully while rolling his eyes.
"What are you doing?" Bella asked Alice.
"Setting records straight to stupid people," she said in exasperation; trying to make a call on the phone. Bella looked at the list of things she got for her birthday and scrunched her eyes.
"Alice, isn't it a little early to be…" Jasper widened his eyes at Bella from behind Alice, like she had gone totally insane.
Bella looked at Jasper and avoided Alice's sudden waiting eyes daring her to say something about it.
"No?" she mumbled very slowly shaking her head 'no' to Jasper; to ask if it wasn't a good time.
"I think I'm going to get some water, Bella, join me?" Jasper jumped out of the couch dragging Bella with him.
"Dude, what are you doing? Digging a hole for yourself?" Bella tried not to laugh.
"Dude, it's like 4 months till Alice's birthday"
"Still!" he complained, "I still want to get laid, geezz…"
"Have you been getting any lately?" she asked in an 'I-know-better' tone, she quirked her eyebrow and crossed her arms across her chest.
He gave her a glare and started mouthing her words in a mocking manner.
"Seriously, are you crazy? I stopped trying when she said: '14:00: pick up dresses 16:00 time with jasper 16:18 doing laundry'…" he mumbled exasperated and obviously frustrated, she laughed hard at him.
"Shut up, it was embarrassing," he said this while opening the fridge and giving her the finger.
"So, you're gonna go now?" Emmett strolled to the kitchen giving Bella her plate of scrambled eggs while winking at her, she gave him a big smile.
"No, I want to wait till he gets better…"
"I'm sure he'll be fine, it's a minor flu, I mean…"
"Yes, but still he was there for me, so…"
"Aww are you ranting about the car wash, chicken soup story again?" Jasper asked.
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So the first time, Bella knew Edward was a vengeful son of a bitch. It was because he splashed her car (or what he thought was a piece of shit in barely 3 good wheels) with different colors of paint, in which among them there was that beautiful lavender-purple she wanted for her bedroom.
"WHAT THE HELL?"
"You scratched my paint" he shrugged his shoulders putting the bucket down.
She widened her eyes at him in disbelieve.
An eye for an eye right?
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Then she was stuck car washing for good part of the weekend, when on Sunday he showed up again wearing that infamous smirk of his.
He looked at her up and down and saw her with nothing on but shorts and a bikini top, thinking something good came out of this after all he stepped in and decided to help.
"I don't want your help!" she pushed his hands off of the sponge.
"Don't be stupid," he shrugged his shoulders and moved to take the sponge but she took the hose and splashed him with water all over.
What's with this guy? First he comes into town acting all mighty, he becomes obsessed with her, stalking her, being possessive of her and hailing guys in the corridors to warn them off, then he ignores her and then he gives her hell-work by ruining her truck. What's with him?
"Girl, you really shouldn't have done that"
And so it began.
What first started out as hate, became tender friendly splashing around. They were socked head to toe, he had already lost his shirt and was trying to get back at her and just when she was running off he caught her by the waist dragging her body back and quickly lifted her up to the open tailgate of her truck.
She became worried immediately; his body was standing so close to her, her legs in each side of his body as his arms rested in each side of her own body and his forehead against hers.
"What are you doing?"
He didn't respond but simply smiled making his lips brush hers lightly, she pulled away at the barely touch. She got scared, of course, he was intimidating as hell and the way he had her pinned against her truck should have been illegal in soooo many kinds of way in different countries. He breathed her in, inhaling and exhaling bathing her mouth with his breath, he closed his eyes with a grin on his face, she bit her lip nervously.
"I want to kiss you," he whispered bathing her in his scent and from that she tried so hard not to crumble.
"Please… don't?" yeah that sounded so convincing.
He cocked his head to the side keeping the short distance, brushing his lips hotly against the warm and wet spot on her neck.
She flinched and was determined not to fall for his charm, even if he gave her a hard time.
She pushed his body off but he made sure to stay at a safe distance looking away with dark-filled with lust eyes, if she knew better she would say he was trying to calm down.
She had an awful cold later and it was Edward the one stopping home bringing chicken soup with an awful cold himself.
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It was her phone the one thing to shake her out of her thoughts. She saw the caller ID and it read Angela. Figures! She walked outside to a quieter place to talk.
"Hello?"
"Bella, what happened?"
"I'll be back soon, Ang, don't worry, Edward's not feeling so good…"
"Of course, he's not" she heard Angela mumble, she choose to ignore it.
"I'll see you later"
"Bella, are you always going to let him do this to you?"
Bella sighed in response, what else she could do? She wanted to know the answer to that question more than anybody in the world.
"Look, at least help me out to set up Christmas over here, we can have a girl to girl talk without your obsessive, possessive boyfriend around all the time," she offered cause she knew far well that was what Bella needed right now and she knew it would sound like a great idea right now.
"Fine, I'll be there as soon as I can. Bye,"
She hung up and walked back inside just in time to see Edward walking down the stairs with a frown on his face, with his hair all disheveled and scratching his bare chest.
His eyes casted away from the ground to her surprised ones.
"What are you doing? Why aren't you in bed?" she opened her arms widely for him while he was getting closer. He sighed and wrapped his arms around her petite back and nuzzled her neck loving the way she smelled, she caressed his bare back soothingly.
"I can't sleep, I'm bored" he let out a deep breath.
She pulled his face back with her hands, giving him a stern look, "You should be resting,"
"I'm okay," he promised, "What are you, guys, up to?" he asked, taking her hands away from his face and holding her hand while walking towards the kitchen.
"Alice is going mad over her birthday party"
"Should I be worried?"
"She bought piñatas"
They walked inside the kitchen where Jasper gave Edward a manly handshake. Edward didn't let go of Bella's hand when he jumped on the kitchen counter and pulled her between her legs wrapping his arms around her while resting his chin on her shoulder.
"What are we doing tonight anyways?" Emmett asked Jasper, who shrugged his shoulder while gulping down his bottle of water.
"There's an opening night at the Bronze," Edward offered, but Bella clearly dismissed him.
"Oh, you're not going anywhere," she said but he chuckled in returned rolling his eyes at the guys like saying them 'to ignore her'.
"Wanna bet?" he chuckled in retaliation.
"You won't get near me with that cold, dude" Jasper warned him to get the attentions off of Bella.
Edward rolled his eyes and Bella pressed her hands on his arms that were keeping her close to him.
"I'm not letting you go anywhere" she said firmly.
"If you're gonna keep me up at night, I might change my mind…" he whispered hotly on her ear but it was loud enough for the Jasper and Emmett to hear, which she knew was his true intention.
He was marking his territory even if he didn't need to do that anymore, she was as marked as she could ever be.
Edward liked to remind Jasper, from time to time, of his place. He didn't believe in the whole girl/guy best friends' friendship, it was all bull to him.
That was because he chased girls for his own reasons. And he was a guy after all.
"Ahem, okay…" Emmett shoots in the deafening silence.
"So, you're going for real?" Jasper who took another sip of his water asked Edward, tilting his head to meet his eyes. Edward looked at Bella who was looking down at the floor silently, he sighed for he knew he had already upset her.
"Nahh, I'm not in the mood," he swings Bella both sides leaving kisses all over her neck she giggled and moved her head aside to get away from his mouth.
"Stop it," she laughed, "You should really go back to bed," she turned around to palm his forehead and check his temperature.
"I'm fine," he intertwined his hand with hers.
"Boy, you get so mellow when you're sick," Emmett mumbled with a laugh escaping his lips.
Edward glared his way but he was giving him his back instead, he simply shrugged and tucked her closer with his legs while keeping hold of both of her hands.
She smiled widely up at him.
"I like it," she responded to Emmett's observation while looking at Edward.
He smiled back at her and leaned his forehead against hers. She kept her stare on him and was quick in stealing one kiss from him, pecking him quickly in the lips. He smiled at this.
"Baby, you know you don't need to steal anything from me, it's all really yours…" he smiled while unwrapping his hands from around her and taking her face closer to his awaiting mouth, "C'me here," his lips tenderly grazed hers, before he opened his mouth to take her bottom lip in his lips, it started sweet and slow before tongues demanded entrance. His hands tilted her head back for more access which she gave.
Edward moved his head to another angle, pushing his tongue more, asking for friction. Soon they were making a scene in the kitchen.
Jasper whistled and Emmett kept doing what he was doing, it was nothing new for him to see Bella and Edward getting on it in every corner or all over each other especially when he lived with them.
And it was no surprise to Jasper either, in fact the 'whistle' it was just a sign to remind them to keep it PG-13.
"Seriously, guys, tone it down…" Jasper laughed giving Emmett a look, who just shrugged his shoulders not really amused.
This only made Edward push harder taking a hold of her head by her neck and pushing his tongue in her mouth, trying to gain a battle she refused to lose, he was already growing instantly hard and she could tell.
"Lets take this upstairs…" he finally pulled away to whisper hotly the words against her mouth.
She laughed and wriggled free of his grasp.
"I actually can't…" she gave him a pout, he looked at her quizzically.
"I promised Angela to set up Christmas today," he rolled his eyes while she took his hands in hers, "Besides, I have to set up my stuff too now thanks to you…" she gave him a look not really mad though, "And I really want to go shower, change and eat." she pouted.
"You have to go now?"
"I promised" she nodded.
"Fine, I'll help you get your stuff" he said jumping out of the counter with a scowl on his face but still taking her hand and leading her upstairs.
When they were in his room he took the suitcase and put it in the floor letting her know silently everything was there.
He sat on the edge of the bed exhausted. She bit her bottom lip and walked over to him sitting on his lap, he unconsciously found his arms already open for her, making room for her.
"Ill see you tomorrow?" she asked, he widened his eyes.
"You're not coming over later?" he asked with shock.
"I'll probably be setting up the apartment the whole night and I have some papers to work over…" he cut her off with a sigh, "Don't be mad," her temple leaned over his.
"I cannot care for the both of us anymore," his plead was heard and registered in her mind while she drove back to her apartment and strangely she didn't found tears in her eyes at the thought of it.
It meant… it took two people to work a relationship and he was slowly becoming the main protagonist and perhaps the only one to work at it.
What was even stranger, was hearing her own voice say, "No," when Angela asked her if she pictured a future with Edward in it.
Perhaps disappointments and regrets got the best of them at last.
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SPOILERS!: (dont read if you dont want to know whats happening)
+I promise I wont tease you anymore and try to reveal what the big secret is soon. Maybe two or three more chapters im not quiet sure yet.
+BEFORE Alice's birthday Edward and Bella will be broken up.
+HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYBODY