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Whoa! It has been a crazy couple of weeks! I've been way too busy with my life to update, but here I am! I'm going to try to update some more this weekend also! Yay!

Chapter Seven.

BPOV

"So, tell me about yourself," Edward said as we sat down. The café didn't have any open tables, so we ended up sitting in a pair of huge comfy chairs in the corner. It was a nice spot and I could really see why he liked this place.

"There's really not much to tell. I'm a poor model who needs this job or else is going back to working at a burger joint," I said, grimacing. "Um, I graduated from high school in Forks, Washington—it's a very small town in the middle of nowhere—and then moved here to attend college. But, I needed some cash so my friend, Alice, got me a small job modeling in a boutique. I've been hooked since."

"What college were you attending?"

"NYU, but I dropped out last year. School wasn't for me."

He smiled at that. "Well there's something we have in common! I went to NYU for a few years, but my professor told me it would probably be better if I left. I was 'brilliant,' he said, but I didn't have my heart in it. I showed him some of my early work and he got me started in photographing. That's how I got here."

Wow. So Edward was a dropout too! Maybe I didn't have to be so intimidated by him. Now that we had flunking in common, I could feel the tension lessening a bit. "So you've just gone from that and made yourself one of the biggest names in fashion?"

"Hey, all in two years' work," he laughed. "So, tell me a little more about you. Likes? Dislikes? I want to know it all!"

"Why? I've been trying to figure out just why you wanted to ask me out and I've come up with nothing." I said. It was more blunt than I liked, but I really had no idea and the mystery was eating away at me.

"I just figured I should get to know you a little better. Maybe then I would understand why every time you come near me I can't breathe and my heart rate skyrockets."

Oh my god. We were treading in uncharted waters here and it was a bit unnerving. I had never been the pretty girl or the popular one. Going out on a date was something I rarely did. How was I supposed to handle this?

"Uh, okay. Thank you?"

"That was too much. I'm sorry. I guess I just crossed that business-personal line, didn't I."

I couldn't talk, so I just nodded. I may have been overreacting, but this was sort of a monumental moment in time. At least, it was for me.

"Bella? Are you okay?"

"I-I'm fine. Just a little surprised I guess."

He smiled. "I have that affect on people." Great, the cocky Edward was back. For a few minutes there, there had been no walls up. We were closer than I thought possible, and I had liked it.

I had liked that Edward.

"I guess I had just been surprised that you—I mean. Oh, what the heck. I don't know what I mean. All I know is my heart rate gets pretty high around you too."

Crooked smile, there you come! And yep, my heart rate went up, as usual. It was almost as high as if I'd been running for hours, and right now I felt like running. Awkward situations weren't good for me. I couldn't handle them.

And just like that, the situation got a little less awkward and a little more natural. All I registered was that Edward's face was coming closer and instinctively I knew he was going to kiss me.

My luck, though, got in our way.

"And in every circle of friends there's a whore. The one who flirts and does a little more." My phone rang.

Yeah, that's my ringtone—for Alice only, though.

I jerked back from him and growled into the phone. "Hello?"

"Hey, Grumpy Gills! Where are you? You've been avoiding me and I neeeeed to talk to you. It's, like, a life or death matter!"

"Well, I guess you will just have to wait. I'm busy."

"Busy with wha—" but that was all I heard before I hung up.

"Sorry about that. It's my friend Alice. She needed me, but I told her I had something more important to do."

"That's okay. I'll let you go. I need to do some things anyway. See you around, Bella."

And just like that the walked out the door—throwing out his coffee on the way.

Well, I guess I was just born unlucky, and he was born a cocky heartbreaker!

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