It's My Life

After a long farewell with Alice, I drove James to school since his class began at ten. We still had a lot of time on our hands seeing that we just took off when Alice told us to… but thankfully saved us a ton of grief! After parking behind the pyramid at Long Beach State, James and I began chatting about everything that happened in the last three days. It's amazing that he was so easy to talk to and he reminded me of Laurent in that way. Laurent is so easy to talk to because he lets you say things when you're ready, at your own pace. James is like that too and I love not being forced to talk.

Before we knew it, it was time for James to go to class. Sadly I didn't want my time with him to end, and he never forced me to talk about Edward either. After kissing and trying to figure out when to see each other next, we finally settled on the fact that he'd call me since so far our schedules were conflicted. I finally and reluctantly said goodbye…

I began to drive aimlessly after, not wanting to go home but at the same time not really knowing where to go. I thought of plenty of places, but the only one where I had memories with James. Those memories led back to my place. On the drive back home I remembered that I'd have to talk to Rose about class and other stuff. Just as I thought it, my phone went off: HIGH MAINTENANCE MEANS YOU'RE A GLUTTENOUS QUEEN…

"Hey Rose, what's up?" I asked.

"Bells, you need to come home and get this talk with Edward over with. He's here and won't leave unless he talks to you…" She trailed off and sadly I knew there was more I to deal with than just getting my notes from class.

"How long has he been there?"

"Well he just came back, he said he was here earlier but no one was home. Alice right?"

I knew exactly what she meant by that question, "Yeah, Alice warned us and we took off without questions."

"Well come home and get this talk over with so that I won't have to kill him out of irritation." Gosh I loved Rose for that!

"Alright, you guys win. On my way, over and out!" I said as I hung up, I knew that saying this would give Rose something to chuckle about and give Edward something to wonder about.

I took the longest and most difficult way home because if I had to talk to Edward I was going to make him wait for me. Suddenly it came to me, the cryptic message that Alice gave me right before going home… that little bitch knew what was going to happen and gave me a damn cryptic message instead of down right telling me!

Sadly before I knew it I was close to home and I had to brace myself for things to come. Having to talk to Edward was bad enough, and now having to deal with angry Edward was a lot less desirable than being in a lake full of leaches and piranhas. Oh well, I guess I have to face him some time I thought as I put my SUV into park. I sat in my truck for a couple of minutes trying to get my head around what I wanted to say, and what I was actually going to say, about everything. After a couple long minutes I made my way upstairs to finally get to the apartment.

In the hallway, as I got close to our apartment, I heard yelling so I decided to lean in and listen to what was going on before I actually went in, assessing the situation if you will. As I leaned in the predominant voice became clearer, it was Rose and by the sound of it she seemed to be having fun chewing Edward out and probably giving him a new asshole in the process… because that's what, he had become Assward. I got closer and closer slowly, until my ear was pressed up against the door. Rose was telling him about how I'm so much better off without him in my life all together when suddenly there was silence, and knowing that damned cheater he was probably trying to hit on my best friend now that he'd had his fill of what's her name.

I heard footsteps get close to the door and before I could react, the door flew open and my face, specially my nose, met with our stone floor.

"SHIT!" I yelled as looked up at the shoes in front of me, "Hi Rose."

"Ah, fuck Bella! What the hell were you doing up against the door?" Before I could answer she was talking again, "Crap hon. don't move okay. I'm going to go and get the first aid kit. Somehow you've managed to bang yourself up pretty bad." I noticed the sarcasm dripping in her voice and I chuckled.

"So, Rose… how bad do you think it is?" I yelled after her as she walked to our medicine storage under the stairs.

"I don't know yet babe, it looks pretty bad but I haven't really assessed the damage yet." I knew what this meant.

The first time I hurt myself badly while living with Rose, she called me a lot of pet names on the way to the hospital in hopes to make me feel better, and the pet names are starting up again. It would soon be time to share my next bloody story with the staff.

I heard a different set of footsteps as I laid half in and half out of my apartment. I looked up; of course he'd wear his concerned mask. Ass wipe!

"What do you want Edward?" I shot him an icy stare from my spot on the floor.

Somehow the constant stream of blood going down my nose and pretty sure coming out of my mouth didn't stop the bitch in me. It also didn't stop the darkness I knew that was coming from making me lose consciousness, before I knew it, the lights went out.