Here is chapter eleven, I can't believe I'm already this far into the story. Thank you to everybody who has read it, it means a lot to me. I will probably be updating on weekends now only, I am a senior so these last couple months of school are kind of important. I will try to write more than just on the weekends, but just expect that. I also might come out with a new story soon, but not for a couple weeks, I haven't decided if it's worth starting.
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Disclaimer: I do not own Twilight, the characters, or anything—I don't even own a car, it's kind of pathetic.
EPOV
"What?" I asked, hoping that I miss heard her or else this was her idea of bringing Punk'd back, either way I was fucking pissed and maybe a little curious, but mostly pissed.
"Mom and I went to the grocery store earlier and Bella was there, so I went up and talked to her. After a few minutes, I invited her to go with me, good idea right?" Alice said with a smile on her face.
"Oh yeah, it's a super duper idea, gee whiz I am like so excited." I said, rolling my eyes and sitting down on the edge of my bed.
"No need to be an ass." She said, shaking her head.
"I think I'm allowed to be a little pissed off at you, I was fucking looking forward to the party tonight now…" I let out a sigh. "Shit."
"I thought you didn't like her?" Alice was always prying, she was convinced that me and Bella were perfect for each other. No, that would absolutely fucking positively never happen—again. Not that we were a couple or anything, just came close.
"Stop." I glared at her. "Stop trying to play evil matchmaker, you suck at it."
"I was not trying to play matchmaker, I'm playing being nice to another human being…you should try it sometime."
"You are so sweet to me dearest sister." I smiled evilly.
"I know." She smiled back. "You are very lucky to have me in your life."
I shook my head, "Bella really said she was going? Maybe she just said that to be nice and make you go away."
"Nope she really is going, thanks to my persuading, plus she was looking for an excuse to get out of her house tonight anyways."
"I don't blame her, her dad is fucking scary." I said, remembering the looks he gave me the night I took Bella out. I tried to push any memory and thought of Bella out of my head the last couple weeks, and now tonight—I would have to be in the same room with her. "Why did you do this to me, what the fu-"
"Fun, I know. The party is going to be awesome." She said, clapping her hands together.
"Yeah, fun was definitely the right word." I groaned, standing up from my bed, and putting my head on the sliding glass door to my balcony, it was cold on my forehead, which was good for my increasingly painful headache.
"You like her Edward." She said softly, walking over and putting a hand on my back. It was hard to yell at her when she was trying so hard to be nice to me, fuck her.
I turned around to face her, "Me and her, we don't work, we never would, can you please get that through your tiny dense head."
"Are you kidding? You two could not be more perfect for one another, I mean opposites do attract, fact of life."
"That only works if one of the opposites didn't bully the other opposite all through that person's childhood."
"Bullying is the best kind of foreplay."
"Fucking gross." I said shaking my head, and covering my ears. "What you and Jazzy do is not something I ever want or need to hear while I am still living."
"Grow up Edward." She pulled my hands from my ears. "Sex is a beautiful thing that two people can share to show their love for each other."
"Well I would love to share the door with you and show you the way out before I throw up my dinner."
She rolled her eyes. "It's okay for you to talk to Emmett about sex, but not me?"
I started pushing her towards the door, "Trust me, I tune Em out too."
When she was in the hallway I started to shut the door, but she put her hand out to stop me. "Don't be worried about the party, just because she's going to be there doesn't mean you have to talk or even look at her." She smiled. "But I think you should."
"Thank you, but I think you should leave." I said before shutting and locking the door.
I was expecting to get completely shitfaced tonight, maybe find some cute girl to hang with, now I had to be in a room with the one person I didn't want to be with, Bella fucking Swan. This was going to be such a long night.
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I left the house around nine, I was supposed to go with Alice, but I made her take her own car to pick up Bella. There was no fucking way she was going to be sitting in my car tonight.
Our parents are gone for the weekend, some doctor function where blood and diseases would be discussed—good times. This means we can stay out as long as we want to, although Bella will most likely ruin my night, forcing me home at an unreasonably early time.
I got to Newton's place and parked my car in the long row of other cars. I hated Mike with a passion, he was a dick, the biggest douche in school but he threw some sweet parties. I walked to the front door, you could hear the music from down the street, some old shitty rap.
I went straight to the keg, needed a nice cold drink, I grabbed the cup and filled it to the top. Lauren was standing a few feet away from me, I ducked out of view and walked into the living room. She was the last girl I wanted to deal with, other than Bella.
"Hey dude, thought you were bringing Alice?" Jazz said while coming up to me.
"No man, she's taking her car." I said, taking a sip out of my cup. "Guess what your girlfriend did."
"Another shopping trip?" He said slapping his forehead.
"No, but that would suck too." I nodded. "She invited Bella to the party tonight, because she thinks me and her will be perfect."
He laughed, "That is why I love her."
"That is why I dislike her." I let out a sigh.
"Look I'm not saying that Alice is wrong here, because she would hit me if that did come out of my mouth, but could you just humor her. Be civil with Bella, if you can do it in Biology everyday then you can do it here." He said, causing me to groan, which was my way of saying alright. "Civil starts now, Alice and Bella are walking in behind you."
"Yippee ki-yay, motherfucker." I said, rolling my eyes, which caused him to laugh.
Alice came up to us first, giving Jazz a kiss on the cheek, and then smiled at me. Bella was next and she looked about as thrilled as I probably did at that moment. She looked nice though, her curly hair was hanging down her shoulders and she had a tight blue sweater on which showed off her great...fuck my life.
"Hey Bella." Jazz said
"Hey Jasper." She said back, keeping her eyes off of me.
"Jasper, I really would like a drink, let's go get something quick." She said not so subtly, "we will be right back." She gave me a be nice look, and Jazz just smirked at me, trying to fight back a laugh.
Then they were both gone into the kitchen, leaving me standing next to Bella, who was still trying her hardest to avoid talking to me, while I tried to avoid looking at her, but I found it hard when she was wearing that.
"This sucks." She groaned loudly, looking around at everybody except for at me. Maybe she thought if she didn't look at me then it would be like I wasn't there.
"You didn't have to come." I blurted out, now I would get bitched at, great.
"I know." She said, looking at me with those fucking amazing chocolate brown eyes for the first time in weeks.
"Wow, she actually speaks to me." I said sounding like a total prick probably.
"Actually, I'm trying to make forced small talk with you, not because I want to, trust me I would rather stab myself in the neck with a rusty nail repeatedly, but Alice told me to be nice."
"And this is nice?" I said, raising an eyebrow.
"This is me trying to act like you aren't really here right now."
"I'll make it easier for you." I said, walking away and sitting in an open spot on the couch near a bunch of hot girls.
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The party was a complete bomb, the peak was when Newton stumbled around wasted and threw up all over Jessica Stanley. I spent my time sitting on the couch while girls clung on to me annoyingly, and then I would occasionally walk to the keg.
There was an awkward moment when Bella was filling her cup and we did that dance that people do when they try to get past one another. That was, thankfully, the only time I had seen her here tonight.
It was about eleven when I finally had to get the hell out of there before I started pulling my hair out. I walked outside, it was pitch black out which was making it hard to find my car. I spotted it and started walking, bumping into something hard, and then there was a loud thud after that.
It was silent for a second, there was no movement, although it was hard to see in the dark. "Ow." I heard a voice sigh from the ground.
"I am sorry, its dark and I couldn't see, you alright?" I said, trying to figure out who it was I banged in to.
I heard a loud groan, "Of course its you."
I ran a hand through my hair, sighing when I recognized the voice. "…Bella?"
"If I say no will you go away?"
I put out my hand, "I'll go away just let me just help you up first."
"I can do it without your help."
"Fine." I said, waiting for her to move. It had been a good minute and nothing, there was still no movement. "Why are you still lying down on the sidewalk?"
"I'm waiting for my legs to cooperate, so far…they are telling me that they don't give a shit."
"Should I get you a blanket or something, you could be here all night, might get cold. I think I have an extra coat in my trunk, definitely be good. How about some food, there's a Burger King down the street…want some fries?"
She groaned, "Just help me up Edward."
I shook my head, smiling, and then put my hand out for her. She put her hand into mine, and I carefully lifted her up. I could slightly make out her face in the moonlight. "No 'thank you Edward'?" I said with a smirk.
"Oh I'm sorry…" She rolled her eyes, "Thank you so much for lurking around in the night and bumping into me, causing me to fall and break my ass on the cement. How on earth will I ever repay you for your kind gesture?"
"Roses are nice." I smiled down at her. "Plus, if anybody was lurking around at night it was you, I was just going to my car."
"I needed air." She nodded, "Not that you need to know every single detail about my life."
"I will just have to make my own accusations about your life then." I said, walking away.
"Was that some kind of dig directed towards me?" She said from behind me.
I turned around, "Yeah it was, good job."
"Don't be an ass to me!"
I walked up to her, "You were a complete bitch to me, for absolutely no reason. You just left me in a parking lot, no explanation at all. I still have no fucking clue what I did wrong."
"You know what you did wrong!" She yelled.
"No, I don't because you didn't give me the chance to let me find out. You said that I haven't changed, but I have…but you seem to be stuck on the old me."
"Look I know about the prank okay, please don't patronize me and make me think any differently."
"Prank?" I said genuinely confused. "I apologized for everything I did to you in the past, and you forgave me, I don't get this."
"Yeah, I don't get this either, I thought the pranks were in the past too."
"Then I don't see what the problem is." I said, groaning.
"You and your need to wreck my life is the problem." She said covering her face with her hands.
"Look Bella, I don't want to wreck your life as you put it, I actually liked you." I sighed. "You were the first person to come around in awhile that I actually wanted to be with. I have no clue where you got the idea that I didn't want to be with you, because I really do, or did."
"But I heard Lauren and Jessica talking about you and how going out with me was this giant prank." She sighed into her hands.
It all made sense now, her saying how I never changed, although now when I look at the past few weeks I wasn't showing that I was different. Getting wasted, hooking up with random chicks, that wasn't me.
"They were lying." I said quietly.
She looked up at me, just starred into my eyes for a few silent seconds like she was trying to read me. "How am I supposed to believe that?"
"I can understand why you probably wouldn't, but its one hundred percent true. You can ask my brother, Jasper, even Rosalie…it isn't true at all. Lauren and Jessica are just two girls who like to start useless drama. The date was real, all of it."
"Okay." She said slowly, looking at the ground.
"Okay? That's all I get, an okay?" I asked.
"I don't know what to think anymore." She looked up at me. "A part of me is really pissed off at myself for not talking with you after I heard them talking in the bathroom and also at Lauren and her little follower, god if I had a good left hook I would just completely mess them up. Then there is this part of me that is relieved that this was all a lie, even if I did waste weeks sheltering myself from all human contact. Then there is this part of me, the strongest part, which wants me to do this..."
Then she was kissing me. Bella Swan was fucking kissing me, like I've never been kissed before. I thought knees only got weak in books or movies, but it was real. I felt good, more than good just fucking great.
