Hello! I was kind of boreded out today so I decided to finish up chapter 10! Woo! Double digits! High five!

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Disclaimer: I OWN TWILIGHT! …the paperback version. But do I own the rights to it? Sadly, no.

Chapter 10: Disaster

Bella - POV

"Bella? Bella wake up!" A hyper sounding voice was trying to shake me awake. I turned over and tried to tune the voice out. No such luck. "Bella, don't make me get a bucket full of water. I will turn to drastic measures."

I groaned and sat up to rub my eyes. "What?" I whined like a nine year old, not wanting to go to school.

"Good morning." Alice said with a bright smile. She was sitting on the floor in front of me, already dressed and clearly awakened.

"Nothing is good about mornings." I said, falling back onto my pillow. "You are delusional."

"I will have none of that!" She said, swiping my pillow from underneath my head. "Get up, get dressed, we are going shopping!"

I groaned. Shopping, it was the absolute last thing on my do to list. Why can't she just let me sleep in? "What time is it?"

"A little after eight." She stated, as she jumped up and bounced into the kitchen. I wished her luck trying to find anything edible to eat in there. I honestly could not remember the last time I did grocery shopping. It is somewhat ironic how my life turned out. When I was living with my mother, I always did all the grocery shopping every week. Now, I can't remember the last time I had gone. I sure hope I am not turning into my mother…

I groaned once more. "Wake me up in three hours." I said, as I lied back down on the uncomfortable floor and squeezed my eyes shut. That was a bad choice, because the response I got was being whacked repeatedly with a pillow.

"Up! Now!" Alice said, still hitting me. "I am your employer-boss-person and I command you to wake up!"

I lifted myself up off the floor. "I'm up! I'm up!" I said, surrendering like a solider that just was caught on enemy lines.

"Good, now go take a shower and I'm going to go down to the deli and get us some breakfast, my treat." She said. I guess she figured out I have no food.

"Alice, after what you did for me last night, you really don't have to-" I was cut off.

"Ah, no. Shut up, you. I'm getting us breakfast and there is nothing you can do to stop me…do you like egg and cheese on a roll?"

I nodded my head and smiled. Those sandwiches were irresistible…especially with coffee…ugh…. I make myself sick sometimes. "With ketchup, no salt or pepper though."

She smiled. "Good. I'll be back. Hurry up!" She called as she left.

Following Alice's departure, my thoughts unwillingly clouded over the events of the previous night. I wouldn't necessarily call myself 'heartbroken' but I could be possibly considered for that category.

During my shower, I began to think up some game plans for what I'm going to do about my current situation. At the moment, the best possibility was to simply just ignore him, altogether. And, if I happen to see him on the street or somewhere, I can simply turn around and run the other way.

Of course, there is that big chance that with turning and running the other way, I will either trip over something, collide into someone, or get hit by a van. With my luck, all three would happen simultaneously.

It could happen.

Even if none of that works, I made a promise to myself never to set foot in that Starbucks ever again for the rest of my pathetic life.

Alice returned with our egg and cheese sandwiches as I was just finishing getting dressed. We sat at my small table in and ate in a comforting silence, well, at least until Alice broke it.

"Just to let you know, I fed Stewie for you this morning." Alice told me as we finished up our food.

"Thanks." I said with a laugh. I really didn't intend the laugh to be vocalized.

"What's so funny?" She asked.

"It's just that…my boss did my job, but for me." I said before I thought over my words.

"…that made no sense." She said, looking at me with a confused expression.

"Does anything in this world ever make sense anymore?" I asked.

"Hmm…no…I guess not." She agreed. "Okay, so who is up for shopping?"

"May I use my 'get out of jail free card'?" I asked with my voice in pure serious mode.

She glared at me, and without another word, I was being dragged out of my apartment and into the busy streets of New York.

"As my personal assistant, part of you're job is to accompany me on days like this to be my shopping buddy!" She explained when were in the cab, headed for Madison Ave.

I absolutely despised that there was at least four different Starbucks shops on each and every block in New York City. It was basically driving me to the point of insanity. I wanted to scream at the top of my lungs.

We shopped all morning, every time we entered a new store, Alice ended up buying more than she bought that the previous. I refused to let her buy me anything. It was nice enough for her to give me all her leftovers, but I wasn't in the mood to become a charity case.

"Alice…these bags are getting a little heavy…" I whined as we left Barneys.

"I know." She said. "That's why I called a car to take this stuff back to my place." She smiled and we ran across the street.

Sure enough, there was an outlandish canary yellow Porsche with a driver dressed in a black tuxedo waiting for Alice's merchandise. Alice handed all the bags to the driver, who graciously set them in the trunk.

"Bella, I'd like you to meet my baby." She said, patting the car softly.

"I wonder why it's not that hard to believe that this car belongs to you…"

Alice rolled her eyes. "How about some lunch?" She asked. "I know a nice little pizza place a couple blocks from here."

"Al, you already bought me breakfast…now you want to buy me lunch?" I asked.

"It's not like I'm taking you to a seven course dinner at a five star restaurant. It's pizza, Bella."

"Fine." I gave in reluctantly. It was seriously no use arguing with her at this point. And plus, she was in a good mood after a long morning of shopping. I did not want to end up spoiling it for just because I'm feeling sour.

Lunch was served at a cute little hole-in-the-wall pizza place. It had a specific Italian theme. The kitchen was decorated to look like Rome, and the dining area was made up to look like Volterra. The entire east wall was painted to portray a lavish fountain. I admitted to myself that this little restaurant was the closet I would ever get to Italy.

"Two slices please." Alice ordered. "Come on Bella, let's go get our seats."

We sat down at a little table right next to the painting of the fountain. "This place is really nice…you really wouldn't expect it by the look of the outside."

"Jasper took us here on our first date." She said, looking around the room with a dreamy gaze.

"Aw, that must have been nice…" I said.

"Actually no…the entire date was a disaster." She said looking down. There was an amused smile being played on her lips. "When we were at the movies, we ended up being fifteen minutes late, so we walk into the pitch dark movie theatre and were forced to sit down next to this old couple. Thirty minutes into the movie, these high school freshmen begin throwing popcorn at us. And it got in my hair and everything. So Jasper turned around and started to tell them to cut it out…then one of the kids got up with his soda in his hand, Jasper and I stood up as well…so the tries to throw the soda at Jasper but it hit me instead…" She paused to erupt into a fit of giggles. "Jasper beat the living hell out of that kid."

"Oh my…"

"Wait! I'm not done!" She interrupted. "So, Jasper feels so sorry for me, he gives me his jacket so I could hide the soda stain. It was so sweet…Anyway, we go to the fancy French place we had reservations for…but it turns out that the person on the phone booked us for the next day, and there were no free tables. Jasper became determined to get something right that night, so both of us walked all around to find a decent place to eat. We figured that this place was cute enough. And boy was it!" Her sparkling laugh filled the room. "They even gave me and Jasper candles for our table to make it seem more romantic…I've been in love with him ever since…"

I could not help but smile at her story. Perhaps disasters could turn out for the better.

Well, maybe not all disasters.

"Call me on the line
Call me call me any anytime
Call me my love you can call me any day or night
Call me"

I could help but let out a chuckle at Alice's obvious ring tone.

"Hello?...Hey Em…Uh, now?...No, no, I'm just finishing lunch…what?...hah! That's what you get when you make bets!...Alright, I'll stop by and get it…okay…okay…okay…oh-kay…I get the picture…I'll see you soon, Em." She snapped the phone shut and placed it back into her purse. She turned to me with a sincere smile that screamed 'I'm sorry'.

"What?" I asked.

"Uhm, Emmett and Jasper had a bet about the football game last night…and Emmett lost. Since Jasper isn't in the city today, Emmett asked me if I could go and pick up the money before he spends it."

"Okay. I don't see the problem."

"…Emmett's at work." She said, awaiting my reaction. I nearly had forgotten that Emmett worked at the same Starbucks as…Edward. Just by thinking his name, a roll of nausea made its presence clear in my abdomen. "Uhh, if he's there I promise we will jet out of there."

"What do you mean, 'if he's there'? Why didn't you just ask Emmett?" I asked.

"I didn't think of that one…" She admitted. I groaned and slouched into my seat. "I could call him back and ask him?"

"No, don't do that. I'll be fine. Let's just go and get out of there as soon as possible."

"ASAP! Got it!" She said springing from her seat.

We left the little pizza place and I mentally made a note of its location. The pizza was delicious and I would definitely be coming here more often. Alice hailed down a cab and we were setting on our journey to the place I vowed never to go again.

I was horrible at keeping promises to myself.

We eventually reached the front doors of the little coffee shop. I knew that this was unavoidable. It was either now or never. Despite my liking for 'never', 'now' turned out to be the only probable option.

The little bell above the door rang upon our entrance. I kept my eyes straight ahead; afraid of what (or who) I might see.

Emmett was behind the counter, looking bored and reading a magazine. I followed Alice to the front with little hesitation.

"Hey squirts!" Emmett greeted us with a big goofy grin. From what I know about him, he was the kind of guy who could always make a person feel better. He definitely knew how to lighten the mood in a room.

"Pay up, buddy." Alice held out her hand and Emmett reached into his back pocket and pulled out a couple twenty-dollar bills.

"And I'm trusting you to give it to Jasper, and not spend it all in some shoe store." He said. I smirked.

"Isn't that the reason why you can't hold it?" She shot back.

"…shut up." He said looking down. Alice and I burst into laughter. Maybe this little visit will not be such a disaster after all.

I spoke much too soon.

The bell above the door rang, indicating someone was coming. I turned my head and sure enough, he was walking through the door in all of his glory…

The latte boy, himself.

I wanted to crawl into a hole.

He stopped dead in his tracks when he saw me. At first, he smiled. Then the smile disappeared and turned into a look of sheer confusion. "Bella?" He said, barely audible.

I didn't say anything back, I just kind of stood there like a deer in headlights. Alice took up the perfect opportunity to be helpful. "So, it's good talking to you, Emmett. Enjoy the rest of your shift reading Cosmo Girl. We have to get going, Bye!" Alice said in such rapid speed that any normal person would think she was speaking in a different language. She pulled my arm and pushed me past Edward and onto the sidewalk and we quickly speed-walked down the street.

"Bella!" Behind us, I could hear my name being shouted. I stopped Alice and I and turned to see Edward running toward me. He stopped right in front of us, and looked at Alice, then me. "Bella…I want to talk to you."

Alice's hazel eyes went straight to me. I nodded, telling her that it's okay. "Well…" She started. "I have to go talk to Emmett about this Homer Simpson and Fall Out Boy tea party…I'll be in the shop, Bella…" With that said, she ran back into Starbucks. I could tell by the way she was looking at me that I must memorize the entire conversation and replay it back for her as soon as we got into a designated area for gossip.

I looked up at Edward. He looked perfect as usual. His untidy bronze hair was falling into his green eyes. "Bella," He said, his voice was velvety and smooth.

"Edward, I don't-"

"Bella, please. Let me explain." I stared at him, waiting for him to start. "I'm truly sorry if I made you think that I was leading you on…that was the last thing I was intending to do." He paused. "Yes, I had a girlfriend, but I was not planning to stay with her very long. My plan was to break up with her that night, and my intentions were filled last night…after you left…" He said looking down.

"So you-"

"Yes, I broke up with her. Our relationship was going downhill anyways. I just needed a motivation to go through with it." He cupped my face in his hands. His hands were soft and fit perfectly on my face. As if he was meant to hold me. "Bella, you were my motivation." He stated. "From the very second you walked into that coffee shop, you had me attached to you like a gravitational pull. You were consuming my mind. Your eyes were stuck in my head, and I could not get them out, nor did I want to. Ever since I first laid my eyes on you, I have admired you and your unconditional beauty. Please understand where I am coming from." He pleaded.

I couldn't believe that this was happening. Was he really saying this to me? Or, was it some cruel dream that I would wake up from in about thirty seconds.

But, I knew I wasn't dreaming. This was real life. And here we were. In the center of the world, standing on a sidewalk. Him telling me how much he adores me.

All the people around us, started to float away and disappear into the nearly cloudless blue sky above. I could only focus on Edward and his emerald green eyes. I stared at them, endlessly.

I had never had a perfect moment before, in my entire life. I'm sure this made the cut.

"Edward…" I started, but couldn't finish. His lips crashed onto mine. Shock waves of electricity ran through my body and he pulled me closer to him. My hands, which were awkwardly dangling at my side, reached up and tangled my fingers into his messy hair.

Our lips molded together and everything felt right. I couldn't focus on anything but him. His lips, his hands, his smile, his eyes. Everything about him had me captured in an immortal burst of desire.

I was absolutely positive that seeing him today would turn out to be the biggest disaster of my life.

However, disasters can turn out for the better.

And this disaster did.

OME! It's about time!

That's all I have to say.

I hope you are all happy now. I know I am…kind of.

So, I'm very saddened by the whole Midnight Sun thing. (If you don't know what I'm talking about I suggest you go to Stephenie's website.) I, personally, chose not to read the chapters. I love and respect SM too much. I only read that first chapter that SM provided us before.

Reviews please! They will make me feel better...Much better...