A/N: So… since the Giants won last night, here is an early chapter. SM owns ERRTHING!
BPOV
There he stands, muscles and all; Emmett fucking McCarty. The only thing that I could do was stand there like an idiot with my mouth opened. As if he were just a dream, I closed my eyes shut tightly and then opened them up again. It was him! I couldn't believe that he was here, flesh and blood, in my office! I have longed for the day to see him again but I never thought that it would be this soon.
"What are you doing here?" I asked my voice shaking.
"Um…I uh, came here to discuss my manuscript with my book publisher. I had no idea it would be you." he said with wide eyes.
"Wait a minute; you're Dale McCarty?" He rubbed his neck nervously and as I was looking at his face, he seemed as if he was scowling at something. I hope it wasn't at me.
"Yeah. I changed my name specifically for this book. I'll explain later." I realized how rude I was being and quickly told him to sit down across from my desk.
As we both sat, we took a good two minutes just staring at each other.
"Cute kids." he retorted bobbing his head towards Crystal and Jeremy. Crap. Does he know? Will he ask more questions about them? I hope not because all he did was stare at them.
"How have you…"
"We need to…" I laughed when I noticed that we talked at the same time but he just sat there without any expression on his face.
"I'm sorry. Ladies first." he spoke.
"No. You first." I smiled.
"Okay," he started. "Why didn't you contact me after that day? After I left for New York?" That completely puzzled me.
"I'm sorry, but how was I supposed to contact you?" That was the truth. I may have let destiny do the work, but after finding out that I was pregnant, Emmett contacting him wasn't number one on my To-Do List. I got a tad bit frustrated when I saw him roll his eyes at me.
"Well, I don't think that it's that hard to try and ask for my number from one of my friends. I…I thought that we had a connection. I don't mean to sound blunt but that's how I feel, or at least felt." When he said feel I was over the moon because I thought that he still felt the same way, but as soon as he said or felt, I was crushed. He doesn't feel the same anymore. I looked at him with a puzzled face and he kept talking as if we barely knew each other but we slept together the first night! "But, I'm not going to talk about that. I'm here for my book and that's all." he said with a blank face. This was not the Emmett that I met three years ago. He no longer had the light in his eyes that he had when we first met.
"What happened to you? Why are you being so mean right now?" I asked in a small voice.
"Nothing but reality happened Bella. I don't want to talk about it so like I said I'm here to talk about my book and that's all. Better yet, let's act as if nothing ever happened between us. It was a mistake." When he said that, that set me off. Act like nothing ever happened? Like we didn't feel anything for each other and conceive our kids? Even though he didn't know about them, he had some nerve talking about what a mistake they were! They are the best thing that has ever happened to me ever since my mother died. I abruptly stood up and stared him down. "Is there a problem?" he asked without meeting my gaze." Asshole!
"Yes. I don't know what happened to you Emmett but you're not the same person. I don't know if it's the fame or the money or the whores you probably sleep with to boost your ego, but you will not talk to me in my office like that. I don't think that's how your mom raised you." When I said that, it was if I saw a bomb go off and he stood up too and we our faces were suddenly mere inches apart. He now looked just as mad as I did.
"You don't know anything, so mind your business!"
"Is there a problem in here Bella?" peeked in Tanya.
"No, everything's fine." I half-way growled without loosing eye contact with Emmett. She relied with a skeptical okay and went back to what she was doing.
"I think that you should find another book publisher Emmett." I quietly said in his face with less hostility.
"No problem." he said turning around and walking away, out of my office, and out of my life.
Almost as if I had the wind knocked out of me, I slumped into my seat and laid my head on the cool mahogany desk. At that point, a whole bunch of questions circled my head. What the hell happened to Emmett? I may not have known him for long, but I could feel that he wasn't the type of person that he is now. Oh my God! What if he finds out about Crystal and Jeremy? By the way he acts now, he can easily take them away from me without remorse or having to get his hands dirty. He has money therefore, he could get the best lawyers out there. What have I done? How is destiny supposed to help me out of this one? I was dumb enough to think that fate and destiny could help me in the first place. I saw the way he was looking at the picture of them. He'll find out sooner or later, but I rather it be later.
I started to pound my head on the desk thinking about what I should do. Maybe it would be better if he didn't know. He obviously didn't need the stress of being a father right now. I pounded my head a little harder on the desk, each time saying, "fuck".
EmPOV
I stormed out of her office closing the door so hard that her assistant Tanya jumped from doing her nails. I stormed away from her and right to the elevator. I need a fucking drink and I need one now! I was in such a hurry that instead of taking the elevator, I took the steps, taking two at a time.
When I got to my car, I started to drive like a bat out of hell to One Eyed Louis' for a stiff one. I was thinking about which drink I was going to get first. Whiskey…Patron…Tequila…Sangria. As I was at the traffic light, it turned red. Shit. I couldn't wait. I stepped on the gas pedal and went forward. I thought that I was going to make it across the intersection, but I looked to my left and saw a big Hummer coming my way. I didn't have time to react and it hit me with massive force.
I felt as if I was floating into another dimension. I heard voices, screams, crying and something that sounded like a flatline from an electrocardiogram or something from the show House but I couldn't pinpoint where all of the noise was coming from. I tried to open my eyes but all I saw was blackness. Nothing but me in my clothes in this room of blackness and everything went silent. I looked up from under me and saw a yellow light with a red outline shining farther away from the Darkness. It was so bright that it hurt my eyes so I had to squint a little just to make it less painful. Me being curious, I started to walk slowly to the light as of it was calling my name, but as I was about to take my last few steps, I felt as if something was pulling me back. I tried to take another step forward but it was as if I was frozen in place.
"Emmett…' I heard a soft whisper and looked behind me, but nothing was there.
"Emmett…" There it went again. Frustrated, I turned around and was shocked when I saw my mom with a beautiful pink outline around her. She was smiling with her soft plump lips and looked very sullen but peaceful. She was wearing a white tunic with off white slacks and was bare foot. I looked at her head and saw that she had a full head of hair. I was so overwhelmed that I took a step closer to her this time and engulfed her in a hug and she hugged me back.
"Mom, I miss you so much. Why did you leave me?" I asked sobbing.
"Baby, it was my time. I had to go." I slowly let her go and she wiped my tears away with the pad of her thumb.
"I don't know what to do anymore mom. I'm so lost. I have nobody anymore." I said crying harder.
"Sweetheart, that's not true. You have James, your dad, and you have Bella. You have all the love you can get." As she said that, I couldn't help but scoff at her comment.
"Dad hates me for not coming to your funeral, James just has pity for me, and I'm pretty sure that Bella hates me now too." I turned around and saw the light that was "calling" my name. "It's better if I just die. She turns my head around and fiercely looked at me.
"Now listen to me Emmett Dale McCarty; that light over there is not the one you want to go through. You do not belong there. You are still too young and dare I say naïve to understand what the meaning of life is right now. I love you and I want to see you prosper in life. If you just give up now, you will keep going down the wrong path that your are going through now. You may not know it right now but you truly have something to look forward to baby. Trust me." With that, she kissed my forehead and as I closed my eyes, the noises that I was hearing before were beginning to sound clearer as time went by. It was as if I was under water for a long time at the bottom of the pool, but as I got closer the surface, everything became clearer.
The flat lining noise that I was listening to was now a constant rapid beat and before I opened my eyes, I heard two different things: My mom whispering that she loved me and someone else saying, "Come back to me". It was…Bella.
A/N: See the rewards for reviewing! (Plus it doesn't hurt that the GIANTS WON LAST NIGHT) I know it's short but it's filler for this weekend's chapter that I promise will be longer. I hope you're not mad at me for making Emmett an asshole *ducks for cover*.
