Chapter 7
BPOV
"Ok so if you could put the boxes here in this room, I'll take everything out and set it up. Sound good?" I say to Edward as he stops on the stairs to rest while holding one of my bedroom boxes.
"Yeah Bella, that's the easy part. I didn't think that you had this much stuff," Edward says climbing the last couple of steps and into my new room. Today's the day that I'm moving in with Edward. I think both of our lives have definitely changed since the barbeque.
It's been three weeks since I told Jake that I didn't want to be with him. I cringe every time I recount the events of that night…
"HEY YA'LL, WHERE'S MY FIANCEE?" Jacob shouted from the front door and strolled into the room.
"Fiancee!" Edward shouts. I quickly grab Jake by the arm and drag him outside into the backyard, leaving my stunned friends behind. We walk into the middle of the yard and I turn to face him….
"Jake what were you thinking…announcing that in front of everyone?" I ask with my hands on my hips.
"You didn't tell them? Why not? This is supposed to be a happy time for us, and you don't even bother to say something?" he says in a loud voice. I huff out a breath and turn my back on him. I have to tell him now. I have to tell him that I'm not going to marry him. This is going to suck but it needs to be done, and I particularly didn't want to do it here in front of our friends. I take a deep breath and turn back around.
"Look Jake, I've been doing some thinking and I don't think that you and I are on the same page, sure your changing little things, like night school and whatever, but I'm just not on the same path as you," I say, as nice as possible. He just stares at me and narrows his eyes at mine.
"What I mean to say Jake is that I want someone who's going to be there for me, not just hang around for an hour then take off with his friends. I feel like I don't matter much to you. I think…." He cuts me off and steps closer to me, almost an inch from my nose as to where I need to take a step back.
"I don't do that," he says, drawing out his words. I push back from him and cross my arms.
"You did it when you proposed Jake, don't you remember? Paul called seconds after you asked me, then you just left." I shrug my shoulders.
"Who've you been talking to huh? Was it Rose? Alice? Or was it Edward? You don't know what you're saying, they tell you things and put ideas in your head about me!" he rambles.
"Jake just stop, Rose and Alice didn't say anything to me, they didn't even know. I've been feeling like this for a while now. Not just since you proposed," I stated.
"Then it was Edward. I know he doesn't like me that much, he just tolerates me. What did he say to you?" I throw my hands up in the air and turn my back to him again. I'm mad now, I am seriously angry at how blind Jake really is.
I turn back to him and tell him how I'm really feeling… "Jake, you don't respect me, you don't appreciate me. You think our relationship is just some sort of game...you never take me seriously. When we have problems, you just brush them under the rug. I'm not the only one that see's it. Charlie knows it but he just lets me handle it on my own and I see now that I've handled it like shit! And leave Edward out of it!" I stare at him with the shoulders square and a glare on my face. He's quiet for a moment and then he smiles.
"You really are a snobby bitch you know that! You're so ungrateful, after everything that I've done for you and sacrificed for you…" he continues to talk but I cut him off.
"Everything you sacrificed for me? Really Jake, you're delusional. I'm not dealing with this anymore, I'm leaving," I say storming past him and back to the house. I can't help but be emotional at the lies he said. Small tears escape my eyes and tumble down my cheek….
"Hey you want to go grab something to eat tonight together, maybe Thai food?" I ask Edward, as he sets the last of my boxes on the floor.
"Well, I'm going to have to check my schedule, but uh…" he says to me while rubbing his chin. I giggle and punch him in the arm. Just as I do he turns and grabs me around the waist and throws me on the bed. He starts to tickle me on my sides and I put all my strength into my fists to try and fight him off. But in the end, I lose to the point of barely breathing.
"Edward…stop," I huff out.
"Stop, I can't breathe," I say, taking a deep breath. He stops but is still resting all his weight on me. He is literally lying on top of me. I'm panting for air and he just lies on me! I bring my hands up and over my face. I move two of my fingers a little and take a peek at him. He has this look on his face that makes me stop laughing. He's staring at my mouth and my hair. I'm not sure whether or not he knows I'm peeking through my fingers but I'm sure that if he did know, he wouldn't be staring.
A few silent seconds pass and I grunt for some distraction.
"Oh yeah I guess I should get off you hey?" he says climbing off me. When I take my hands away from my face I see him standing at the end of the bed with his hand stretched out to me as he smiles.
"I would love to go out to dinner with you," he says, as I place my hand in his and he helps me up as he makes grunting noises.
"OH, MY BACK!" he shouts. "Geez Bella, maybe you should start eating salad and forget Thai," he says, leaning over resting his hands on his knees. I stand in front of him with my hands on my hips and my head cocked to the side.
"Really Edward, you're a real comedian," I say, tapping my toe.
"Are we going or what?" I ask. He straightens out slowly and shakes his head walking past me and out of my room. More like hobbling past me.
"You're such a dork you know that?" I say laughing, as I follow behind him.
"Takes one to know one," he says giggling, as he slowly walks down the stairs taking one stair at a time. I roll my eyes and pass him.
*XXX*
"So what did Tanya say?" I ask, while stuffing my mouth full of Pad Thai noodles. He finishes his bite and shrugs his shoulders as he wipes his mouth with a napkin, while holding out his finger to me -silently asking me to wait- and takes a drink of his water.
"She's mad sure, but it's not her call. I told her that she has nothing to worry about and she told me to get lost, that I know where she is when I'm ready for a sure thing," he says, moving the food around on his plate. I feel bad for just a second, imposing myself into his house all the while knowing that he has a girlfriend. But I'm his best friend. I sigh and set my fork down.
"So what, you're not together anymore?" I ask, leaning over the table. My voice may have sounded a little high with excitement but hopefully he didn't notice.
"Don't sound so happy Bells," he says, smiling.
"Ahh….well I… didn't…"
"Don't worry about it, I get it. I do. She wasn't the most accepting person out of our friends towards the relationship you and I have together," he says, reaching his hand over the table and rests it on top of mine. I stare at our joined hands and I'm about to fold my hand into his when I hear a high pitched noise.
"What…the…hell?" Tanya saunters up to our table, grabbing a chair along the way from the table beside us and sits down.
"So you two now a couple? You ditch me and go for…sorry what's your name again?" She totally knows my name the stupid cow, I'm about to say something totally inappropriate, when Edward cuts me off and stands.
"Tanya, you know her name, and I think you should leave. You shouldn't make this any harder for yourself," he says, blocking my view of the she devil by standing in front of me. It's as if he's protecting me from her. Then it hits me, Edward is everything that I could ever imagine. Not only is he my best friend, but he…he…I don't even know how to put it into words.
I told myself a few weeks ago that it's not possible, there couldn't be anything between us, he was with Tanya, and I was with Jake. But then he said all those nice sweet things to me in Alice's room and he totally freaked out when I told him Jake proposed. I'm also not sure but I think that he broke it off with Tanya because of me. But didn't I break them up by moving in? I'm so confused. I'm brought out of my musing when Tanya points her finger at me over Edward's arm.
"You better not be screwing him, he deserves someone who can handle him and give him what he needs. You wouldn't even know what to do with him? I bet you can't even get him up!"
"Alright that's enough! Get out! Now!" Edward shouts at her, turning her around and pulling her towards the exit.
I'm not sure what I should do, just sit here and wait for him to come back or flee to the bathroom. He's probably out there right now talking to her, telling her that she shouldn't have said that to me. Then he's going to realize that she's probably right and well…I don't want to think about that. And I definitely don't want to be here when he comes back with her in tow.
I'm thinking that I should make a run for it with all the people staring towards our table, and when I say run, I mean out the back door. So I grab the wine glass throwing the wine down my throat as I grab my purse and walk swiftly towards the back of the restaurant. I throw open the back door and look both ways in the alley. I see a cab sitting at the entrance, so I jog over and make my silent way home.
