Heres the next chapter. Sorry it takes so long between chapters. I've had a lot going on in my personal life, you wouldn't even believe how much bad drama I've been thru. It could always be worse tho, right? Anyways onto the next chapter.
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Chapter 11, True Blood and Cheese on Fritos
Bella
KNOCK KNOCK!
I was washing the dishes and heard someone at the door. "Dad?" I said loudly, turning the water off.
"Huh?" he said from the living room where he was watching SportsCenter.
"Can you get the door please? I'm doing dishes." I heard him get up so I turned the water back on.
"It's for you." he said. I nodded, not sure why, he couldn't see me. I'd barely registered what he said. A minute later Rosalie came walking in.
"Hey Bells." she smiled.
"Hey!" I said, drying my hands before hugging her.
"I just got back. Well I went home but then I came here." she said with a laugh, leaning her back against the counter next to the sink, as I turned back to washing dishes. I only had one dish left so I was gonna finish.
"Have you got my emails?" I asked her over the water.
"Uh, yea, and Alice's. What did I miss?" she asked. I had emailed her about Edward but hadn't give her much details.
"Hold on, I'll tell you." I said, motioning towards Charlie who was in the living room. She nodded. I finished the last dish, sitting it in the dish drain. I dried my hands with the towel before directing Rose up to my room. I sat on my bed, against the pillows, Rose sat at the bottom of the bed, across from me.
"So, whats up? Who are these boys?"
"Okay, what did Alice say?"
"That she met this guy, Jasper, online who is stationed at Fort Lewis and she introduced his friend Edward to you. Something about a feeling. You know how she is.." she said, I nodded with a laugh. "That they live in Tacoma, obviously, and y'all talk to them on a pretty regular basis."
"Mhm, well yes, Edward and I text and we talk pretty much every night after work."
"Is he cute?" she asked.
I smirked. "Oh yea." I walked over to my computer, opening it and it came on. I scrolled to my pictures and brung up my favorite picture of Edward, we had sent a few more within the last few weeks. I moved so Rose could see.
She nodded. "Cute." she smiled heavily empathizing the word, with a laugh.
"Yes I know." I smiled walking back to the bed, sitting back to where I was sitting.
"So what do y'all talk about?" she asked.
"Everything, work, friends, movies, our days, music, television."
"So, it's like you are dating over the phone. The whole getting to know each other thing anyway."
"Kind of, I guess so." I nodded as I realized she was right. In most ways, that is what we are doing. "Maybe thats a good thing that we're doing it this way. You know I hate the awkward beginning of dating sense anyways."
"Oh tell me about it." she sighed, rolling her eyes.
"What about that one guy? The model?" I asked.
"Yea. I'm not dating a model again. He acted like he was gods gift to women. God, I hate some models attitudes." she said.
"Rose, thats most models, most, not all, but, you just do not act like a model. You do it cause you like the job and being girly, not because your full of yourself."
"And it's one thing I can do and support myself comfortably for now." she added. Rosalie was a model yes, but not that type of model. She wasn't stick thin and she was tough and although she likes being girly and being glamored up; on the other hand she likes cars, sports and didn't mind getting dirty.
"True." I agreed. "Oh, did Alice tell you about how she found out I was talking to Edward?" I asked a second later.
"No, why?" she asked, obviously curious.
"She gave Jasper my screen name to give to Edward, we talked on there one night, then we started talking on the phone the next night. Well I was busy with work and finishing up the last week of school. So I was busy.." I trailed off.
"But you found time to talk to Edward.." she pointed out.
"Yes but that was USUALLY at night, well sometimes during my breaks or before dinner, or during the day, anyways.." I started but stopped, realizing it wasn't helping.
"You became one of those women!" Rose exclaimed.
"What women?" I asked.
"The kind that momentarily forget about their best friends when they meet a guy." Rosalie said. "Happens everyday." Rose shook her head with the last statement.
"I didn't forget, I was just.." I started.
"Busy talking to a guy.." Rose said quickly.
Ugh, yes I KNOW. "Okay fine." I admitted.
"So how did she find out?" Rose asked.
"Edward told Jasper, and Alice called Jasper then, he kind of mentioned it, thinking she knew, which she didn't, apparently people in the next town heard her when he told her." I said.
"Where did you hide?" Rose laughed.
I laughed. "I was in surgery when all this was happening, I came out and I had a bunch of missed calls from both Edward and Alice, so I called Edward.." I started.
"AGAIN!" Rose pointed out, shaking her head.
"I know, I know, I'm a horrible friend." I sighed.
"Thank you for being honest. I love you still." Rose said.
"Love you too. So, Edward tells me what happens and he asked me if I was mad and he called me baby for the first time, which, oh my god.." I started. Rose nodded, with a smirk. "Obviously, I told him I wasn't, I figured I better call Alice, well I walked into the lobby, and boom, Alice is behind me." I finished.
"Oh god." Rose said raising her eyebrows.
"She flipped out, I had to remind her we were in a hospital.." I said. Rose started laughing. "I'm serious."
"I know. I know. Continue." she said thru laughs. She was now sprawled out across the bed laughing which I kind of was too.
"She lectured me and well I had to go push the dinner cart around, so she made me promise a full shopping day that Sunday." I said.
Rose laughed. "I'm glad you survived."
"Me too."
"Do you think you and Edward will meet?" Rose asked a minute later.
"I don't know." I shrugged. I had thought about it, yes, but I didn't know when or what I'd tell Charlie when and if the time comes. I didn't know if Edward had thought about it yet. He hadn't mentioned it.
"You haven't talked about it?" she said, surprised.
"No. Not really. I mean, I assume if things progress like they are, we will eventually.." I said. "I don't even know if HE'S thought about it."
Rose snickered. "Bella, if he's even remotely interested which from what you've told me I think he obviously is." I smiled realizing he probably was. "Then he's at least THOUGHT about it."
"You're probably right." I nodded.
"You should meet him, he's not THAT far away, I mean, your truck, yea, but Alice's car.." she said, obviously implying I needed a new car. My friends hate my truck. Its old but hey, it runs. It makes it places. And I like the truck.
"Shush. I'm not getting a new car until I'm forced to. My truck can go to Seattle easily." I said.
"Luckily it can go even there." Rose snorted. I rolled my eyes. She was not changing my mind. "But, moving on, you should meet Edward before it gets too long. So you can get that out the way."
"I want to. Its just work for me, and he has work." I explained.
"And you can get days off. You haven't called out in months." she pointed out.
"I'll talk to him about it in a few weeks. We haven't discussed it so maybe it will come up soon."
"I didn't say tomorrow, I just meant soon." she said. I nodded.
Later that night.
Rose had had to go home before dinner. It was after 11 now. I was watching America's Got Talent auditions. More like they don't. It was going off in a minute. What to watch now. I flipped through the channels. I settled on The Tonight Show and layed down on the couch. My father was asleep in his chair.
About 20 minutes later, my phone rang. I was kinda dozing but picked it up. Charlie stirred a little bit but didn't wake up.
I pressed talk. "Hello?"
"Hey sweetheart." said Edward.
"Hey." I said, sitting up at the sound of his voice.
"Were you asleep?" he asked.
"No." I quickly said. Edward would get off the phone with me if I was asleep. Which annoyed me, even though it was sweet.
"Alright." I could tell he didn't really believe me.
We talked for a bit. Edward was telling me about a tank they had worked on that day. "Are you going to bed?" I asked after a little bit. It was getting kind of late.
"In a few minutes, I'm trying to figure out where they hid the tv guide." he said.
"Why?" I asked.
"I'm trying to figure out when this show comes back on. I looked on the tv but it only goes so far...ah, found it."
"Where was it?" I said slowly.
"Under the coffee table, under three playstation games." he stated. Even tho I hadn't met him, I almost knew by his tone that he was rolling his eyes. I giggled.
"What show are you looking up? Anything interesting?" I wondered.
"I'd say so. Depends what your into. It's called True Blood." he said.
"Never heard of it..." I said, trying to think.
"Do you have HBO?" he asked.
"Yes."
"It comes on there. It's about vampires."
"What else?" I said, my usual shows had gone on summer hiatus. There really wasn't any shows on lately. America's Got Talent and So You Think You Can Dance lose my interest after auditions.
"It's about this town in Louisiana and this girl meets a vampire and I don't wanna ruin it but they began to like each other that's obvious in the first episode, and there's some killings on the first season, it's really good."
"Mhm." I'll have to look that up.
"I should warn you. It's very mature."
"Mature as in lots of blood?" I asked. "Babe, I'm a nurse."
"That too but there's also a lot of-" he began.
"Oh you mean mature as in sex?" I blurted out. Edward and I hadn't talked really about sex. How the hell we had managed that, I don't know.
"Yea." he quickly said. I was surprised at how shy he was being about approaching the topic. I mean, it was expected of me to be that way and I wasn't.
"I've seen that before Edward. Hell, I've seen porn."
"Its almost pornographic some of the scenes. Theres one scene with this guy Jason who's a bit of a man whore and I swear he fucks this one girl in about 4 different positions in one scene." Edward said. Oh so we've said the word sex and we're just gonna dive into using all the words. Fine by me.
"Hey, Sex and the City is one of my all time favorite shows and those got graphic scenes." I said. Especially those Samantha scenes. "Not gonna shock me I don't think."
Edward laughed. "Probably not now."
"Plus, as far as nudity, its mostly women on anything and I've got boobs, pussy and ass too." I said. Whoa what happened to miss shy Bella? Did I just say boobs, pussy and ass in one sentence? Rosalie would be proud.
"Uh..yes you do." Edward slowly said as I heard him take a breath. "So Bella, how was your day?" he asked, clearly trying to change the subject.
"Good." I said. I wondered if I had just caused problems for him.
The Next Morning
I had no work, no school. I was getting bored with the tv. Heck, I was getting bored with most things. After a couple weeks of mostly being busy, it's weird to have time to relax. I had already watched enough morning talk shows. Soap operas didn't come on for a couple of hours but I was not in the mood for those. I had checked Facebook 10 times in the last hour from boredom. I could play Farmville. Nah, I haven't checked that in weeks, I'm sure my crops are dead.
I picked up the remote. Nothing was on tv. I went to on Demand. I looked thru the Free Movies. Nothing and nothing. I went to premium channels. HBO. Shows.
I seen True Blood on the list. Oh, it's on demand. The whole series was on there.
I'll watch the first episode and see what happens. Edward had said it was interesting. Maybe it is. Gotta be more interesting then what I'm doing right now.
"What the heck?" I said as the credits to episode one rolled. Time for next episode. Yes I said I'd see what happens but with that ending, I MUST know what happens next. Sookie, the lead character was basically being murdered and they just ended it. I pressed play.
KNOCK KNOCK!
Who could be at the door? I'm watching something. Pressing pause, I got up and went to the door.
"Hey Bella." said Alice when I opened up. Ahh. Alice, figures. I had texted her saying I was bored.
"Hey, come in." I said, going back to the couch quickly. Her eyebrows raised.
"Whoa, hey, where's the fire?" she said, shutting the door behind her. She was carrying two drinks. "I brought you a oreo blast." she said, sitting next to me, handing me a drink. I smiled.
"Thank youuuu." I said happily taking a sip.
"What are you watching?" she asked noticing my attention on the tv.
"True Blood." I told her. She looked at me.
"My parents were watching that show before, I think. What's it about?" she asked, taking a sip of her drink.
"Vampires." I answered.
She nodded. "Yea that's what they were watching. I've never watched it..how is it?" she asked.
"Interesting, I have to know what happens next.." I said. Alice looked at me weirdly. I explained to her the first episode. She nodded slowly.
"Play it then, I'll watch it." she smiled as I pressed play.
Hours later, we were now on episode 5. Yes we are nerds and have been sucked into the tv. We both had been sitting there not saying much except about the show. Neither Edward or Jasper had called.
"Do you want a snack?" I said to Alice, as I picked up the remote pressing pause during the opening credits. She nodded. I had just now noticed it'd been close to four hours. Food sounded good.
"What you want?" I asked as I got up.
She nodded her head to the side, thinking. "Fritos?"
"With cheese?" I said almost as a statement more then a question.
"Of course." she said. I laughed as I walked into the kitchen. I got a big plate and took out the fritos. My phone vibrated in my pocket.
I glanced at the caller id. Edward. Good timing he has. Otherwise Alice would bug me about it.
"Hello?" I said.
"Hey love." he said.
"Hey." I said smiling, balancing the phone with my shoulder as I opened the bag of fritos.
"What are you doing?" he asked.
"Making a snack...what about you?" I placed the fritos on the plate spreading them out as I went.
"Oh I just got a minute, we're still working on fixing that tank. I wish we'd just say fuck it but oh well." Edward said as I laughed. Edward was kind of cute when he got frustrated over work."What are you making to eat?"
"Oh just some Fritos." I answered.
"Those are good." he agreed. I went to the fridge and opened a drawer, fishing around for the cheese.. "I usually melt cheese on them." he continued. My mouth dropped, finding the cheese I grabbed a couple pieces and shut the drawer.
"Do you wanna know what I'm doing right now?" I asked as I closed the refridgerator.
"Uh..besides getting fritos?" he asked.
I laughed. "I'm currently tearing up cheese to melt onto the chips." I said as I unwrapped the plastic, breaking the cheese into pieces placing it onto the fritos.
He laughed. "How'd you learn to do that?"
"I don't really remember. I think I used to put them in grilled cheeses so I decided to try it this way. Alice and I always do this." I said.
"Thats awesome.." Edward said. "You didn't have work today, correct?"
"Nope." I answered. "For the first time in awhile."
"What have you been doing today, then?" he asked.
"Oh well to begin with I was bored. But now I've been sucked into the tv. Believe it or not I've been watching True Blood on demand. I've watched about 4 episodes, we're starting episode 5 now." I said, continuing tearing up the cheese.
"I told you it was a good show." Edward said matter-of-factly. "Obviously you like it."
"It's kind of addicting. Every episode ends your like "what the heck" so you HAVE to know."
"What do you mean we..you just said "we're starting episode 5", who is we?" Edward asked.
I smiled. "Alice. She came over during episode 2, she's been watching it now too." I put the plate in the microwave, starting it.
"Are you two having fun?" Edward asked.
"All we've been doing is sitting there with our eyes glued to the tv. But yes, we're having fun being nerds." I said.
"You're not a nerd, you're adorable baby." Edward said. I blushed. He's so sweet. GOSH he makes me melt!
"Edward.." I said sheepishly as I got two glasses out and filled them with ice.
"Whaatt?" he said sweetly.
"Nothing sweetie." I opened the refridgerator. First, I reached for the Tropical Punch, then realized it looked like blood. Knowing Alice, she might be grossed out. I grabbed the Dr Pepper instead and poured two glasses.
"Good. Can I call you in a while?" Edward asked.
"Well, of course. Why do you ask?" I answered, ending with a question. I took the food out the microwave.
"I have to go to formation in a minute. Hopefully we'll be done soon and I hope to God I don't have to go back to that damn tank today." he said.
"Well for your sanity I hope not either. It's fine I gotta get back to watching the show anyway." I said as I remembered I had left my hungry best friend waiting for food and to watch the show.
"That's why I asked. I don't wanna disturb you if your with your friend." Edward said.
"Oh no it's fine. If I'm busy I'll just tell you to text me."
"Okay baby, I'll talk to you later then." Edward said.
After hanging up the phone, I grabbed the drinks and food and went back in the living room. I sat both on the coffee table. "What took you so long?" Alice asked.
"Nothing.." I said. Alice didn't know quite how much Edward and I talked. I did not want to be taken wedding dress shopping if I told her.
Alice gave me a look. "Don't even try to deny it, Bella Swan."
"What?" I asked, acting innocent.
"You were talking to Edward, its written all over your face." she said. I smiled, unable to argue with her any longer.
"Yea, he called." I admitted.
Alice smiled. "You like him."
"Obviously, else I wouldn't talk to him very much. I like talking to him." I nodded. I knew what she had really meant.
"No you like him as in you want him to be your boyfriend!" Alice said in declarative tone of voice. I looked at her.
"Alice, what is this, 6th grade?" I said. "I guess I should have you give him a note saying "will you go out with me- xoxo, bella" huh?" Alice's eyes lifted as though I had gave her a idea. "NO!" I quickly said. "I was joking." I would die if she did that. I still remember when she had did my make-up to help get Jacob to notice me. I shuddered at the thought.
"I'm not gonna do that." she said sing-song like. "But no matter how much you deny it, you like Edward."
Rolling my eyes, I picked up the remote and pressed play. Picking up a frito, I ignored what Alice had said.
It was now after 6. Alice and I were still very much into watching True Blood. I think we might be here all night. We had taken a bit of a break when Jasper called. My phone buzzed. Edward. I hadn't heard from him since we hung up earlier.
"Still at work. We're working on the tank. FML :)- E"
I picked up my phone as I typed back.
"Sorry. Hope you finish that soon. Ali and I are still in a True Blood coma.-B"
True Blood coma. Yup that's pretty much what it is. Alice didn't ask me who I was texting, she was watching the show, thankfully. I think she knew anyways and was satisfied with herself for being right. Yea yea. A minute later, I heard the door open and knew it was my Dad getting home.
"Hey Bells." he said.
"Hey Dad." I said not looking away from the tv.
"Hey Charlie." Alice said.
"Oh hey Alice.." he said realizing she was here. My phone buzzed again.
"I hope so too. Have you took breaks to pee? Or do yall have a cup or something? -E"
I snorted. Edward and his sarcasm.
"YES OMG. We even stopped it for a few so she could talk to Jasper. It's YOUR fault I'm watching this- B."
My phone buzzed again within a minute.
"I know, I'm messing with you baby. :)-E"
Charlie looked at the tv. "What are you two watching?" he asked, seeming alarmed. I looked up. One of the vampires was drinking from a human. Alice and I tried to keep from laughing. It was obvious why he asking, but the way he said it was hilarious.
"It's called True Blood. It's this show on HBO, its about vampires." I explained.
"Uh yea, I, uh, see that." he said with a nod. He walked into the kitchen without another word. Alice and I both looked at each other and laughed.
Sooo there's chapter 11. What does everyone think? Review! Or I might have to leave Edward stranded working on the tank for awhile.
