Saturday, Evenfall
"Hi Edward!" Bella chirps into her phone - actually, legitimately chirps. "How's Vegas?" She wonders if it's possible to get high on really good malt milkshakes. It sure feels that way.
(Okay so maybe she's actually happy that her claws had… sort of, retracted? About 10 minutes after meeting Emily. Bella never realised how much she loved her nails. Nails are definitely, definitely the best.)
"It was sunny," he drawls, and- Was sunny? Oh. He's back. Yes!
She settles back happily in her seat, slurping the last of her shake. Emily glances at her, smirking from the driver's seat. Ahead of them, the road is a dark, silvery snake winding into impenetrable fog. Bella thinks it's pretty great metaphor for her life.
The backseat of Emily's car is cluttered with plastic bags - t-shirts with broader shoulders, and jeans two inches wider in the waist but also a gratifying four inches longer. Converses and strappy sandals, two sizes bigger. Bras in 34C, and a single, black leather jacket, because where that would have once looked trashy and awkward, now it looks, well, just right. Hel-lo, Goldilocks.
"Where are you, Bella?" he asks, his tone urgent and clipped.
Bella frowns at that - Alice always knows exactly where she is. "Driving back," she says, "from Port Angeles."
"With?" What is this, an interrogation?
"…a friend," she replies cautiously.
"How far out are you from Forks?" he… almost snaps at her. The hell?
"About three-ish miles?"
"Get off the road, will you? Park on the shoulder. We'll meet you in five."
"Wait, Edward what-"
He hung up on her.
He. Hung up. On her.
Fuck that.
"Hey Em," she mutters, tossing her phone into the bed of shopping bags on the backseat. "Drive faster? T La Push."
Bella and Emily are never going to be very good friends, but hell if she doesn't grin sideways and punch it all the way to the Rez.
A/n: Kinda filler-y, I know, but, like, there's some shit coming up, okay, like seriously, just. Shit.
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