Kristen and Sherry (Koshivuh and banshee69) picked through this with me. They are two absolutely amazing girls, and I am so blessed to be able to call them my red sharpies and voices of reason but, most of all, my friends. xx
...And the heart-fail begins. Hang on and hold on tight.
Episode # 2
-TLWLW-
-10-
Bella didn't see Edward before he left for college. She didn't see any of her friends, either. Her friends were Edward's friends, and they all thought that she had cheated on him. Guilty until proven innocent in the backwards, fucked up town of Forks.
She, herself, was too pissed and hurt to call him. She had a stubborn streak to her, as well. It pained her not to talk to him, to tell him her side of things, but he had made it painfully obvious he didn't give a fuck what her side of the story was. So, fuck him. He didn't deserve the truth. He didn't deserve her if that was how he was going to treat her, either.
So, instead, Bella trudged on in her life. Going to that college she once thought pathetic turned out to be cathartic for her. Staying home to care for her dad which once seem liked a forced chore was now one of the best things she could have done. He didn't have much time left, or so the last doctor said. She wanted to spend as much time with him as possible during his last days.
If it wasn't for the awful flu she had come down with, fate would almost seem tolerable to her. Almost.