Leah's POV
Bella's restaurant has been open for a month now and it is super popular. She has hired staff obviously but she pretty much lives there trying to make sure everything runs perfectly. She's going to run herself to death. If anyone wants to see her awake it has to be there.
She moved in with Sam a month after she graduated, he got a job here and they found an adorable little house just minutes away from Mom and Dad. I am looking for a job there and I have a couple of interviews in the upcoming week.
You're visiting this weekend? - Bella
Yep. - Leah
OK you need to be at the restaurant at 3 Saturday.-Bella
Why? - Leah
Because I say so. - Bella
Oh fine.-Leah
So demanding I think. Sam has his hands full I'm sure. Bella has a lot of habits she never outgrew. Like being really sweet most of the time but throwing gigantic fits when something doesn't go her way. And she still hates to be alone for more than a few minutes at a time. It's a good thing she has the restaurant or she would go nuts when he's at work.
When Saturday comes I drive home to see Mom and Dad and Seth before heading to the restaurant. Seth tells me good luck before I leave which worries me.
"Lee! So glad you came." She makes she sound like I had a choice. She tells the hostess to sit me in the back at table 20 and smiles and says she'll be there in just a few minutes. I sit down and look at the menu, I've never actually eaten here and I'm starving when Bella comes up to the table laughing with this incredibly hot guy.
"Lee this is Paul, he's my manager. He's going to keep you company for the next oh 20 minutes until I can get a break." I know she's lying but I pretend to not notice because this incredibly hot guy is smiling at me with this incredibly hot smile.
He sits down and tells me all about how Bella told him she had this amazing girl he needed to meet and how Bella has such good taste in everything else he figured he would be dumb to not meet me.
"She's right about you being beautiful. Are you close friends?" He asks and I laugh and tell him she's my sister.
"Oh, she didn't mention that. She's odd; I mean I love her to death. We've become really good friends since she hired me but still she's odd. She told me all about her sister; she just didn't mention it was you. She talks about you all the time, you know? You're like her hero. She tells me all the time how she's the person she is because of you. And she's a good person, more than she even realizes." He tells me.
"She is odd but I love her to death too." I tell him and we both laugh.
We spend the next 20 minutes talking and laughing and when Bella catches my eye to see if I want her to interrupt I shake my head no so we sit there for what seems like hours.
Hours turn into months and one day we show up at the restaurant really late, after hours I'm sure and we go inside. I'm expecting Bella but instead the whole room is lit up with candles and Bella is nowhere to be found.
"What it this?" I ask quietly and Paul says dinner like I'm crazy or something.
Bella comes out with these special menus with all the options named after me or Paul or things that are special to us. Like the first place we went on a real date, and the first movie we saw together.
Throughout dinner I forget this is weird and I forget that Bella is floating around here somewhere.
Until my dessert comes with a ring in it.
"I know I've only known you for 3 months Leah but I already love you more than I thought was possible and I want to spend the rest of my life with you. Will you marry me?"
Holy crap.
"Yes! I love you!" I look around to tell Bella thank you but she's floated away again. I kiss Paul and I think finally I have my happily ever after and the wait was so worth it.
And maybe this is selfish but I'm glad I'm engaged before Bella even if I know Sam is planning on asking her soon.
A month later he asks her at the place with the trees as she still calls it. She never did get over her obsession with that place and she's still fascinated with thunderstorms.
A few weeks after she moved in with Sam he called me freaking out because he lost her, she never goes anywhere without telling him. I could hear the rain in the background and I asked him if it was storming and he says yes. I tell him she's probably somewhere outside with a quick Bella history lesson. She texted me an hour later saying she's fine and she was safe, she's not 7 after all. I laughed and texted her back to tell her to next time tell poor Sam she's going to sit in the middle of a thunderstorm.
She announces her engagement with the fact that even though it's 3 years from now she's not getting married until she's 21 because she wants to legally drink. We still wedding plan together even though my wedding is two years before and she still makes my dress, the most beautiful dress ever, I doubt even she can top it.
Her wedding day comes and while she can't drink because she found out a week before she's pregnant she looks like an angel and I have never seen her happier.
Paul and I try to get pregnant right away but it doesn't happen. At first I'm not worried but I get more and more worried and unhappy with every passing month. Finally after a year we talk to a specialist who gives me a label and a bunch of drugs.
I hate my sister, I hate myself and I'm really starting to hate Paul. Only Paul knows, I don't want my family to know what a failure I am.
So much for happily ever after. I guess that craps only meant for Bella.