"Hey guys! Did I interrupt anything?" she said in the perkiest voice possible.
Both Edward and I just stared at her. How do you answer that question without being rude? Oh yeah. I almost forgot. YOU CAN'T!!!!
"Resa, we need to have a talk," Edward finally said.
Her expression changed. She now looked at me glaring.
"There's no need for you to be here, Bella. Everything is fine. Edward and I are just going to talk. Isn't that ok?"
I bit my lip to stop myself from completely killing her.
"Resa, don't start that. Bella has powers also. She has a shield. You cannot convince her to leave."
I then stood up and looked straight at her. She was wearing jeans and a t-shirt. Probably something Alice picked out, but it sort of proved my theory right. If she really wanted Edward, she would have worn a more appealing outfit… wouldn't she?
I said, "Edward, I think Resa and I should talk. Nobody will get hurt. You can read her mind, so you will know if we start to… well…"
Resa, still glaring at me, said, "Those are the best words that I've ever heard you speak. That's sounds like a great idea."
Her lips went from a frown to a smirk within three second. She is starting to enjoy the game we're playing.
Edward slowly walked away, never taking his eyes off us. Just as he turned around to leave he said, "I'm listening, so don't do anything you will regret. That means both of you."
Did he trust me? He must because he is leaving me alone with her. But, the way he said those last words made it sort of sound like he didn't. Or maybe it's that he does love Resa. Not in the way he loves me, but in the way that he loves Alice or Esme and even Rosalie. Maybe, even though he has to have his guard up around her, she was still his family, and he doesn't want her to get hurt. Maybe that's the reason why he is trying to not break her heart completely.
"Bella, I told you to stay away. He was doing just fine without you!"
"Resa, you need to calm down. We are going to do this maturely. I know you may have feelings for Edward, but I think that you are confusing feelings. I think you love Edward more as a brother, and you are just trying to love him because of the hole in your powers."
"You don't need to tell me how I feel! I know what I want and love, and I LOVE EDWARD!!!"
"I'm not saying that you don't love him at all. I'm just saying that you love him more as a brother, rather then a mate."
"Well, what about you? How do you know that you love Edward? You haven't seen him in sixty years! And now you have a family. You have to make a choice. Do you love Edward enough to drop your whole life to be with him? I know I would!"
"You don't have that decision, so how do you know what you would do?"
"Because, Edward is perfect! Why would you want anything else?"
"I want Edward more then anything, but I have a family! It's not that easy! You can't just drop everything, and have your happily ever after! I wouldn't be happy if I did that!"
I was practically yelling at her at this point!
"I love him so much, that I would risk that happily ever after just to be with him!"
"You don't get it Resa! He doesn't love you that way! Number one, you would be wasting your time, and number two, you can be with someone who loves someone else!"
"But, I'll get him to love me! He will get tired of waiting for you to make a choice. When that happens, I will be there. I'll be the one he will fall head over heals in love with!"
"He waited almost sixty years! I think that he can wait for a few days!"
"He's smarter than that! He knows a few days will turn into a few weeks, then maybe a few months! Finally he will get the picture. He will see that your family is so important that you can't make the choice, so he will make it for you. He doesn't want to hurt you again, and he knows that leaving your family would hurt you. So what do you think his choice will be?"
He would leave me. That sounds like something he would do. He will think that my family will be there for me, and they will be. I think I could get through it again, but I didn't want to. I wanted both him and my family.
I made sure that my face was expressionless. Partially because I didn't want Resa to see that she was right, and partially because I didn't want Edward to know that I would think that he would do that.
I finally said, "Resa, no matter what you do, Edward will always want me, he will always try to keep me happy, and he will always love ME! And I know that if he does stop loving me, it wouldn't be for you!"
Her face was astonished. She didn't think that I could fight back. I then turned around, with a smirk on my face, and walked towards my house. That was it. I just pulled ahead in our little game.
