A/N: Awwww poor Mike, why does everyone hate him so much? Really what has he done to you?I mean Mike for me has always been about the comic relief due to his extreme clinginess. But seriously guys, if you actually think this is going to last longer than the camping trip... I'm just not about immediate pleasure, I believe in having to go through some conflict to get what you want. Since there aren't evil nomadic vampires out to get Bella in this I needed some other form of conflict. So please bear with me, it won't last long.
The voice being cleared immediately snapped me back into the real world. I pushed Mike away and shook my head to clear it. I just kissed Mike Newton.
Ew.
Utterly unbelievable.
I looked up and saw Emmett with his arm around who I was supposing to be Rosalie. "I guess you're feeling better," I shrugged my answer, I was actually a little disgusted with myself for giving in to the foul Newton so quickly. "This is Rosalie, Rosalie this is Bella and that's Mike."
"Nice to meet you Bella and Mike," Rosalie said.
I got up and dusted the sand off of me. "So what's the plan now?"
"Well, we were thinking of going to make some hamburgers over the fire," Emmett explained, "You guys interested."
"Not really," Mike replied looking at me with lust in his eyes.
"Definitely," I answered not looking towards Mike, this was starting to get way to creepy, "I'm starving." Emmett nodded and started to walk towards the Jeep where I noticed Alice, Jasper and Edward were standing. I started to follow when Mikes hand wrapped around my wrist and pulled me towards him once again.
He went in for another kiss but I smartly pulled away. I had already had more than enough of kissing a golden retriever for a lifetime.
"What's wrong Bella," Mike asked.
"This isn't right, I honestly can't do this Mike," I explained, "I tried I really did and I said told you I would, but this just doesn't feel right to me. I'm sorry, but we'll just have to keep our relationship status at friends." I carefully freed myself of Mike prying fingers and started to walk towards the Jeep, I kinda felt bad for leading Mike on with that kiss but I think I needed to do it so that I could realize myself that he was not made for me.
Mike must have been shocked stiff because I heard no footsteps following behind me. I looked back to see if he was okay, maybe he was going to drown himself because of the rejection. Mike was crying, he was sitting in the sand crying. I hesitated, should I go and comfort him or just keep walking. I stood there trying to decide which way to walk and Jasper came up to me.
"What's wrong with Mike," he asked.
"Oh," I blushed, "I kinda rejected him."
"That's not what it looked like earlier," Jasper teased.
"I know, I-I was still trying to figure it out myself. Look I can't go back there to talk to him, would you mind?"
"Not at all, I seem to have a natural ability to make people feel better. I'll work my magic," Jasper smiled.
"Thanks so much Jasper," and so, I continued towards the Jeep.
When I got to where the others were standing Alice looked at me with criticizing eyes, I guess she could see Mike crying in the sand from here, "What's wrong with Mike?"
"It's just not going to work between us, that's all. This will be one heck of an awkward weekend eh?" Edward who was at the other end of the Jeep looking for something in the trunk started to walk around back to the front.
"Is that the infamous Bella I--" he trailed off when he saw me and smiled, "hear?" He finished. Edward must have realized then that it was me with Mike on the beach and then his expression turned into a snarl. "What's wrong with him?" He nodded towards the direction of Mike.
"He got rejected," Alice interjected, "Now enough about Mike, lets get this party started."
We started throwing some wood into a fire bit, I ended up carrying a particularly large log and started to topple over. I felt a pair of hands steadying me. Before I could turn around to see who it was, I smelt a wonderful smell and I realized who it was right away. I had never smelled anything so amazing in my whole existence. I turned around to thank Edward, but he was always 15 feet away. How did he move so quickly and gracefully?
I continued to carry the log and dropped it into the fire pit. Mike was there now, apparently he had recovered from his rejection. He looked up at me with tears still in his eyes. Or not, this was going to be one guilt-ridden weekend.
I started gaze around looking for Alice, I had to escape the guilt trip. Some tapped me on the shoulder then. I spun around, it was Rosalie, thank the heavens! "Hey Rosalie, what's up?" I asked her.
"Not much, I was just wondering if you wanted to go for a walk, Emmett and Edward are coming too. Everyone else is going to stay behind and kindly cook us the hamburgers."
"Sure, sounds good to me." We headed off towards the trees where Emmett and Edward were waiting for us.
"Bella decided to join the adventure," Rosalie chimed.
"Awesome," Emmett said. It didn't appear that Edward had thought it was awesome though, he looked at me with a sour expression.
We started to walk on the path which I realized was the same path we took to get here, before I could ask where we were going we took a different fork than the one to the campsite. I decided it didn't matter, I wouldn't get lost with 3 other people who clearly knew their way around this forest.
Almost immediately into the walk, Emmett and Rosalie were entrapped within their own conversation, it was like Edward and I weren't really there. I guess it was time to talk to him, my angel in disguise.
"So, what do you do for a living?" I asked Edward.
"I play piano at a restaurant called La Bella Itali, there's always someone playing the piano there at all times," he answered, he looked pained for some reason. I didn't know why.
"Do you ever get bored of playing that much?"
"No, never. I could play for eternity and not get bored."
"That's nice," I said, "I wish I had something that I could love that much in my life."
Edward looked up at me with a small gleam of triumph in his eyes, and gave me a small crooked smile. I blushed because of this smile of course. We continued our walk making small talk, and before I knew it we were back at were the fire was being made.
A/N: Okay, so I know this wasn't the best chapter I've written, but it was post-Mike. But Edward and Bella! Yay! Finally! May possibly write another, longer chapter tonight depending on how late I stay out. Thanks for putting up with my Mike chapter everyone!