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I worked long and hard on this chapter and hopefully you like it.
Chapter 8
This chapter is dedicated to School Librarian & Simona.gl
"Aaaagghhh!"
"Mummy what's that?" asked a little girl, when she heard the strange noise from the apartment next door.
"Umm, I think its coming from the neighbours' television dear." Said the girls' mother, who hoped it was the television.
Then they heard the sound again, "Honey I think you'd better go and get dressed for school quickly," said the mother ushering her child to her room.
Lying on the floor next door Alice rolled around on floor.
"Aaagghhh! What the hell happened?!"
Slowly crawling upright, Alice noticed the trail of wine bottles, 'oh that's what happened.'
Stumbling into the kitchen Alice took a bottle of water out of the fridge and glugged it down.
"Shit!" Alice cried when she noticed the time. Jumping up she ran into her room, chucked on a dress, grabbed a pair of heels and dashed for the door.
"I'm here, I'm here." Alice called to the ringing phone.
"Hello Cullen- who? Oh one sec I'll see if he's in." Alice said.
"Mr Cullen." Alice said peeping into Edwards' office, "Hello? Yes, sorry Mr Cullen isn't in. Sure I'll tell him you called. Not" she said once the woman hung up.
The calls kept coming for an hour straight before they died down.
"God I've got the biggest hangover," Alice said excitedly walking to the coffee machine.
"Miss Brandon," Jasper called.
Her heart rapidly thumped, 'Stop it Alice, calm yourself down and breathe.' Alice scolded herself as she walked to Jaspers door.
"Yes Mr Cullen, is there something you need?"
"Come-come in quickly, I have a special task for you to do." Jasper said excitedly.
'Oh lord I think I'll faint,' Alice thought as she skipped into the office. "What do you want?"
"Ah, you may not be aware of this so I want this information to be strictly confidential. If the press somehow find out about I'm holding you responsible." Jasper said with a threatening tone.
"Yes sir." Alice said in a confident tone, not wanting to appear weak in front of Jasper.
Leaning forward in his chair Jasper began, "I was having dinner last night and Edward arrived soon after. He had a date with him, but I could tell something wasn't right. I don't know, but whenever I looked at him, I got vibes of something horribly smutty."
As Alice listened, something appeared to be wrong with what he was saying. 'was he talking about Bella?' she though as he continued.
"So his date went off the bathroom and I went to Edward. He looked totally mad, he wasn't acting like himself. When I spoke to him he told me that he was going to be a father and that he thought he was falling in love."
Alice was shocked, it was Bella and Edward was falling in love!! She leaned in intently, desperate to know what Jasper wanted with Bella.
"The slut had gotten herself pregnant and somehow managed to make Edward think he was in love. I think it's novelty, though I don't know how it works since they've only met each other twice. So that could have prove that the woman is an experienced gold-digger. She looked like one too. The woman was pretty and she's probably using that to her advantage. She probably found out she was pregnant then slept with Edward, so she shoulder the blame on Edward for money. Edward is completely blind to her act and I plan to show him just who this woman is."
'How can he think such terrible thoughts about my friend,' despite her attraction to Jasper, Alice wanted to kick him off his chair and slap some sense into his handsome head.
"Jasper I don't think you should interfe-"
"Miss Brandon this is not your family so you will keep your opinions to yourself, besides I have work for you. I want you to find out everything about this woman, I want to know if she ever took drugs, cheated on a boyfriend, if she was ever in jail. Everything, including her family, see if she's from a stable family or a broken one. Once I'm done with her, she'll never be able to show her face in public again." Jasper said evilly.
Alice was fuming, no way was she going to let Jasper the jackass get to Bella like that.
"What if I can't find anything sir." She said in a slick, dry tone.
Jasper looked up surprised, "Ha Miss Brandon everyone's got a past and I intend on showing the world hers." Jasper sang confidently, "You may go now, come back as soon as you've found out everything. Oh and see if you can find out who the real father is. Oh and I almost forgot her name is Isabella Swan, stage name I guess." Jasper tut-tutted as Alice stormed out of the office.
She didn't have a clue how to vent her anger.
'Jasper you no good some of a jackal, I'll show you who Isabella Swan is.' Alice fumed and she began to type up a long report about Bella.
Half way through typing up the report, Edward appeared in the office, looking… strange.
"Morning Mr Cullen," Alice chirped before focusing back on her task.
"Any calls?" Edward asked.
"Nnno. I don't think, wait, yes!" Alice called as she fiddled around.
"Just the usually sir," Alice said handing him a list then turned back to her computer.
"Alice could you make an appointment at that little Italian restaurant I sometimes go to. Ask for a private booth please,"
"What time?"
"Oh, 12:40."
"Okay, anything else?"
"No, thanks Miss Brandon…" Edward stood there shuffling on his feet, looking like he wanted to ask Alice something, but couldn't find the words.
"Mr Cullen?" Alice asked, but then Edward walked into his office.
"Miss Brandon I need you to call Gibson and ask if he's done the floor on the new club, then I need you to call Richard Myer and ask him to deliver the varnish at Judy Dodgers workshop..." Jasper called from his office.
'That rude pig can't even get off his ass to speak to me!' Alice thought as she thumped in the number of the Italian restaurant.
"…Then I need you to continue your search." He finished.
The time passed by quickly, but it wasn't fast enough for Edward, who hadn't gotten a decent hour of sleep. His mind had been running though all the possible reasons why Bella, or any woman, wouldn't marry him.
His task was fruitless. As hard and judgemental as he was, Edward couldn't come up with a reasonable explanation for not wanting to marry him. He'd convinced himself that he was perfect and if he were gay, he'd marry himself.
Then he's thoughts had led him to Bella, sweet, beautiful, stubborn Bella. He tried to see reason in her motives for refusing his proposal, but it was pointless. He kept coming to a blank wall, nothing made sense to him. He began to wonder what was running though his Bellas mind.
It was times like these he wished he could read minds.
He was tossing and turning, yelling at his ceiling then when he couldn't take it anymore, he took 2 sleeping pills and was knocked out 15 minutes later.
He regretted his decision when he woke up and looked at the time.
Edward had planned to get to work early, do as much work as possible so he could spend more time with Bella. Agh who cares, he can do the work later.
'Its only 11:39. Agh, hurry up you stupid sun, move faster.' Edward cursed, as he chucked a file across the room.
Ring-ring, his cell phone rang, "Hello?"
"Ahh Edward, when are you going to come over again?" said a familiar seductive voice.
"Tanya, I saw you yesterday." Edward said, he'd woken up in Tanya's bed and spent the rest of the day in Bella's, god his like was hectic.
"I know, its just that I don't know who to screw tonight, its so hard sometimes and I thought since your not seeing anyone why not come over, that's the deal right." Tanya said as she admired her treated body.
Edward felt a little bit of regret pass though him. Tanya was an excellent lover and any man would have to be mad to turn her down, but he had to try.
"Um, I can't make it sorry. I'm kind of seeing someone at the moment."
"WHO? You haven't made an announcement yet, so it mustn't be serious." Tanya sighed.
"You don't know her, and we've still got to discuss our relationship so until things are sorted, I'm afraid you'll have to use your black book." Edward said.
Tanya giggled at the joke, "Edward take as much time as you need, but when you need me I'll be waiting for you."
"Yeah I don't think that'll happen though,"
"What, you mean you're not going to cheat on her?" Tanya cried in shock.
Edward always called her, even if it wasn't part of their agreement. He just never seemed to be satisfied in his relationships and would always turn to Tanya for that pleasure he'd been missing.
So hearing him say he wasn't going to us her was a big surprise.
""No Tanya, this is different, I think that if things work out well you'll have to use that black book of yours for quite a long time." Edward said happily, as he thought about Bella and the life he'd dreamt up for them last night.
There was silence before Edward heard Tanya's laugh.
"You'll come back to me Edward, you always come back. See you when the novelty wares off." She said before hanging up.
'Agh,' Edward thought as he began to send e-mails to various clients.
"Sir," said a voice from the other side of the door, "Sir you'd better leave for your lunch now, in order to beat the traffic." Alice said.
"Yes, I'd better leave," Edward said, pulling on his jacket and checking his watch.
Shuffling out oh his office, Edward saw Alice at the printer, "Oh if anyone calls for me, tell them I'm at an important meeting and will not be disturbed." He said before heading for the elevators.
The elevator doors dinged open and he was off.
"Knock-knock, Mr Cullen I've got that report on Bel-Isabella Swan for you." Alice said, peeping her head though the door.
Eye's lighting with delight, Jasper motioned for Alice to entre and go over to him.
"Yes, that was very quick." Jasper said as Alice boldly handed him the 'report' and sat in the chair opposite his desk.
"Ah you even managed to get a picture of her! Well done Ms Brandon."
Alice sat and watched his smile turn upside down, 'Ha ha you little slug, I've got you know!' Alice jeered silently.
"T-there's nothing in here." Jasper said, "Where is all the dirt I didn't want to know that she graduated with an A- average. This is not what I want." Jasper declared, chucking the pages across the room.
Resisting the urge to smile smugly Alice widened her eyes in innocence, "What's wrong sir, I did what you asked."
Glaring at his personal assistant Jasper said, "I said find out anything I can use against her, not everything good she's done in her life."
"Sir there was nothing bad I could find against Isabella, I guess she's not as bad as you think,"
"Agh, where is my brother?!" Jasper asked, jumping up.
"He's having lunch at his that Italian restaurant near-"
"I know where it is. Finish your work before you may go to lunch Ms Brandon." Jasper said before picking up his keys and heading for the elevators.
Might not be updating for a while, because I haven't updated my other story so I'll have to work on that and I begin school for the year tomorrow
R0b0tic vampir-
I got some help from my friend from writing my stories and later on discovered three of my storieswere plagrised without me knowing, by some books, so I got really upset and just deleted everything, I'm sorry, but it's not right taking other people's work, even if I wasn't aware of it.
Sorry to anyone I sent info to.
