Disclaimer: I don't own Twilight but I do own so extremely pissed off Edward haters.
*V and A suit up in their Transformers costumes ready to battle the Edward haters.*
V: I wanted to be Optimus Prime.
A: Shut up you make a cute Bumble Bee, anyways that's not important we have to gaurd our Edward right now.
V: Oh yeah why are you updating again you just did yesterday?
A: Becuase everyone started flipping out about kicking Edward's ass. I have to stand by my-I mean your- I mean Bella's man come on!
V: Well why don't we shut up so the people can read and find out if they still hate him?
A: Fine whatever *rolls eyes* Get your read on people. Oh yeah and it was totally V's idea to throw the woman's voice in in the last chapter so hurt her.
V: *Gasps* You slefish!
EPOV:
Monday was hell.
Tuesday was hell warmed over.
Wednesday felt a bit like the entrée the elementary cafeteria comes up with mid week after having hamburgers, then sloppy joes, and eventually it's a mushy surprise. Yeah leftover hell, warm with maybe a dash of cheese and noodles. That's how I felt being away from Bella.
I spent more than three fourths my time thinking about Bella. More than once I found myself following a brunette down the street thinking it was her until the woman turned around and I saw that she was nine months pregnant. Definately not my Bella.
I felt my sanity slowly slipping away and there wasn't a damn thing I could do about it. Bella at least tried to act a little more cheerful whereas I was completely wallowing in my own self pity bubble. But then she had a mini melt down when she forgot to call me.
I tried to assure her that as much as we would like to be together or even talk every minute of every day, it just wasn't logical. Sometimes things got in the way. She asked me if something was wrong and I realized that I wasn't hiding my true feelings very well.
I assured her that I was just tired. It was true, I hadn't slept more than three straight hours since we woke up on Sunday. Every night I would lay down and fall asleep only to be woken up from a nightmare that Bella realized that she could do so much better than me and finally left.
I'll be a man and admit almost every time I would have one of those nightmares, I would wake up in tears.
So sleep was damn near impossible. Wednesday night, I couldn't take it anymore so I went to the local drug store and invested in Tylenol pm trying to get a goodnights sleep. I talked to Bella that night and for once, had to get off the phone because I was the one yawning.
I woke up to the bright Port Angelas sunlight pouring into the room and realized that I had forgotten to pull the shades before going to bed. I stretched happily before looking at the alarm to see how many hours I had indeed slept without nightmares.
HOLY FUCKING SHITBALLS! 10:47!
I jumped up cussing myself as I found my phone and dialed into work. Heidi picked up the phone on the first ring with her usual cheery greeting, but I cut her off.
"Ms. Heidi it's Edward-"
"Oh Edward honey we were worried about you, are you okay?" she asked her voice full of concern.
"Yes. I'm fine, I just overslept can you inform Aro that I will be in as soon as I can." I rushed to the bathroom and started trying to fix my hair.
God damn it, I just had to fall asleep with wet fucking hair. I cursed myself.
"That's fine. Edward I don't want you getting in a wreck on the way here, so don't speed. Slow down, take a few deep breaths and calm down before you get in the car okay?"
"Will do."
I hung up the phone and tossed in on the bed before pulling out a charcoal grey business suit. I figured if Aro was going to freak out about my being late, I might as well look good. Aro didn't like tardiness. In fact he had let go his personal assistant after she went into labor in our bathroom and was late getting him his coffee.
I had spent the past few months that I worked for him with nothing in my life to get in the way of work. So I knew I was going to be walking in to get my balls handed to me on a silver platter.
Well at least you look the part of an applicant. If the old man decides to fire you, you can start that moment trying to find another job. I thought to myself as I pulled the tie over my head and straightened it before my thoughts caught up with me.
If you get fired, you can move to Seattle and be with Bella. I smiled at the thought of Bella and I being in the same city as I made my way to my car.
Walking into the office, I could tell that Heidi's smile was forced. "He want's to see me." I stated rather than questioning.
"Yes honey, he does." she frowned a little.
I took a deep breath before knocking on the mahogany door softly. I think a little part of me was hoping that he wouldn't hear it so that I could just hideaway and act like I thought he wasn't in. The thoughts were in vain as the door swung open.
"Cullen, take a seat." he said in a not so friendly tone.
"Yes sir." I cleared my throat nervously. "I want to apologize for my being late. I o-"
"Don't care. This is your first and only warning Cullen." his voice was cold.
Like his puny little shriveled up Grinch heart. I caught myself before laughing out loud.
"Yes sir." I said before standing up.
I walked to my desk dreading having to go through the files for the Grinch in the office down the hall. I pulled out my lovely co-worker aka my Sharpie highlighter and started to wonder if maybe I should write a thank you letter to the Sharpie company.
Hmm, let's see how it should go…
Ahem. Dear Sharpie company.. My name is Edward Cullen and I work for the heartless ugly ass fuzzy green thing that stole Christmas from Who-fucking-ville. I would personally like to thank you for making your highlighters. Not only are they the shit, without the companionship that I share with my trusty fluorescent yellow marker, I would have stabbed myself in the eye with one of your lovely fine point markers. Again, I thank you for your ability to turn an inanimate object into my one and only friend in this hell hole called work. Your products rock my fucking socks off. Sincerely yours truly. Edward A-
I was drug out of my thoughts by Aro's old man voice. "Cullen I need those reports, TODAY!" he stressed.
"Yes sir." I grumbled.
I could feel him staring at the back of my head and I think with the intensity of it, I could smell burning hair. I was afraid that if I didn't move my body a little bit, I would see the death ray laser that was shooting out of his eyes and straight to the back of my head on the far wall of the office.
Bringing me out of my thoughts, I heard a familiar ring tone go off. I frowned remembering that I had woken up late and forgotten to call Bella this morning. Forgetting about the Grinch, I reached into my briefcase and pulled my phone out.
I answered sweetly telling her that I had in fact overslept. Bella being the sweet angel that I know and love blamed herself because she had thought about calling, but didn't. I informed her that I had taken the medication and forgotten to set my alarm.
Mid sentence, I realized that Aro was still standing behind me and Bella noticed the change in my attitude.
"Edward you would tell me if something was wrong, wouldn't you?" she asked.
We had gone through this same conversation quite a few times this week and I knew she didn't believe me for a second when I informed her that everything was okay. I wanted to tell her the truth, but that is really hard when part of your problem is the creature standing a few feet behind you trying to mentally drill a hole through the back of your skull.
"I would." I replied curtly hoping she would take a hint that I couldn't talk at the moment.
"Edward? I'm serious." she said.
Damn it. I thought trying to figure out how to tell her that I was about to be murdered by my boss. Or worse, he could pull out those fuckingantlers and the red nose and make you pull his sleigh of stolen items from families and little chick-a-dees.
"I know baby and I'm fine. Just tired." I said trying to sooth her worries.
"Maybe you should go see a doctor, maybe you got sick when we were out at the lake." she offered.
"I'll think about it."
Ha ha fucker. Maybe you should see a doctor for your addiction to your girlfriend or better yet the fact that you're talking to yourself more then you talk to people that are either on the phone with you or standing less then five feet behind you, trying to mentally kill you.
"Well I'm going to go." Bella snapped bringing me out of my crazy ass thoughts.
"No Bella, I'm sorry." I all but begged.
Wait didn't you just want to get off the phone? Yeah but if I get off the phone, he is going to kill me. I can feel it.
"Then you got to talk to me baby. I'm worried about you." she said softly.
"I know, I'm sorry I was feeling a little sick, but I feel much better now." I lied.
We talked for a few more minutes while the old man stood behind me. After about thirty seconds, he started breathing hard and if I didn't know he was pissed, I would have thought that he was jacking off to the back of my head.
EWWWWW. Ha, my conscious took over a girly squeal that would put Alice to shame.
"I'm going to let you go baby. I love you and I'll call you tonight."
"Okay. I love you too. Can't wait to talk to you." she said meaningfully and I had a feeling that the whole 'I'm fine' charade wasn't going to blow over very well with her tonight.
I hung up the phone and felt my balls shrink into my stomach. I was afraid of a short old man that probably couldn't lift a can of peas without straining something. Pussy. Fuck you. You mean fuck yourself right? Whatever.
"Cullen." he said.
Play it cool. Play it cool. I thought.
I turned around trying to act as if I didn't know he was standing behind me the whole time. "Mr. Aro, sir." I smiled.
"I have had it up to here Cullen." he leveled his hand up to his face around his ear.
Oh man, he has had it up to your nipples. Shut up, I think we are getting fired. Shit when did I start thinking of my conscious and myself as a we? Maybe I should take Bella's advice and go see a doctor.
"I'm sorry sir?" I played dumb.
"One more strike and you're out of here. Got it." he fumed.
I felt like I was watching an old loony toons cartoon, the short bald man that looked a lot like… Elmer Fudd stood in his ugly as hell shit brown suit and I could swear I saw a bit of steam coming out of his ears.
Since when did you get so immature? Hmm, well WE got immature when this dip shit started his shit this morning. Why? Got a problem with it? No, no I kind of like it to tell you the truth. Okay well maybe we should stop talking before the old man's head explodes and the office is covered in confetti, at this rate if I don't get fired, I'm probably going to be demoted to janitorial duties.
Throughout my silence, I watched as his face turned a few shades of red I found myself highly amused until he snapped and started yelling at me.
"I do not pay you good money to talk to your friends on the phone, and I certainly don't pay you to sit there like a bump on a log when you could be doing the reports that I asked for!"
Umm, is this the part when bugs bunny starts shaking in his boots? I don't know.
"Sir with all due respect, you have never had a problem with me using my phone."
Dude keep digging, your almost to that six feet so if he kills you, he won't have to worry about the trouble of digging you a grave.
Aro's face turned purple for a second. "THAT WAS BEFORE YOU SHOWED UP LATE FOR WORK!" He screamed and for a second I thought he was going to have a heart attack.
"For the first time in months I show up late because I overslept and you act like I fucking slept with your wife or I fucking keyed your car Aro. I overslept!" I yelled back.
Dude what did Ms. Heidi ever do to you? Your in for it now.
Dig it oh oh oh (dig it)
Dig it oh oh oh (ohh)
Dig it oh oh oh (dig it)
Dig it oh oh oh (ohh) my conscious started singing the theme song to the Disney movie Holes and I smiled.
He opened his mouth to say something but I cut him off. "Shut the fuck up."
You've got to go dig those holes!!!!
"You act like your better then everyone, well you know what old man? Take your fuzzy green ass and shove my job up it because I fucking quit."
And with that I grabbed my briefcase and threw the photo of Bella and I that I had tacked to the wall, my empty coffee cup shaped like Roger Rabbit and last but certainly not, least my best friend. My yellow Sharpie Highlighter.
Oh my dear friend I could never leave you behind.
I walked passed a very pissed of Aro and a very confused Heidi.
"Edward what's going on?" she asked.
"I have decided to take my expertise somewhere else." I said pulling a sheet of paper off of her desk and a pen I wrote down my parents address. "You can send my paycheck to this address. I won't be staying in Port Angeles any longer. It's been a real pleasure to working with you Heidi."
"You too Edward. You go be happy wherever you end up."
"I'm sure anything is better than here." I mumbled under my breath as I swung the door open and walked out of the building.
And then it hit me. I just quit my fucking job. I felt the air get knocked out of me and thought I was going to throw up all at the same time, but I maintained my composure until I got to the car. I think I was in shock as I reached for my phone and called the only person I knew would talk to me logically at the moment.
"Edward?"
"Hi mom." I said in a shaky voice.
Aw, itty bitty baby Eddie called his mommy to fix his boo boos. How sweet. SHUT THE FUCK UP.
"Edward darling ,what's wrong?" she asked.
"Well I just quit my job." I tried to say nonchalantly but it didn't work.
"What? I thought you loved your job?" she asked.
"I did, but that's not important, I need you to tell me what I should do now."
"Edward. You're a grown man." she laughed.
"Yeah a man that admits he still needs mommy's advice. So advise away please." I chuckled.
"What do you want to do? Do you need to come home for a little while? Your father and I would love to see you for a little while. Have you talked to Bella about this?"
"No, you were the first person I called. I just quit my job, I can't call my girlfriend about that until I know what I am going to do about it."
"I see. Well like I said ,you could come here." I heard rustling in the background. "Hang on Alice is here and she wants to know what's going on."
Before I could tell my mom that I didn't want anyone knowing about it, I heard the phone as it was being passed over to the pixie herself.
"Hi Edward. Sorry about your job. You do know what this means right? You can go live in Seattle and I won't have to deal with bitchy moping moaning Bella every time I call her to check in. Yay. I could help you get a place. Ooh, I know someone that is hiring out there too, so I could help you get a job. You have to let me decorate your apartment though. We can go looking tomorrow. Do you think that Bella would let you stay at Angela's for a couple of days? I mean I'm good, but I don't think I could get you an apartment in a day. Maybe I could."
"ALICE BREATHE PLEASE." I yelled into the phone.
"Okay." she giggled. "So what do you think?"
"That's perfect actually. I would need to sell my apartment here."
"You should surprise Bella." Alice said and I could hear her practically vibrating with excitement.
"Okay I am going to head home and start packing. Don't you have someone out here that works in real estate?"
"Yeah let me call her and I will set you up with an appointment tomorrow morning. Do you want me to come help you pack?"
"Not really, there isn't much practically everything was already in boxes. I won't even need movers."
It was true, I had been meaning to buy a new bed and there was really no furniture to begin with so everything would easily fit in my car.
"Okay well let me call my friend and I will call you back. I'm going to head out to Seattle tomorrow and start looking for you a place." she squealed.
We said goodbye and I ran home to start packing. This was the big break that Bella and I were waiting for. I no longer had a job, but I had more than enough put away to take care of myself for a while until I found one. I would be in the same city as my Bella and that made everything worth it.
I had already started taking boxes down to my car when my phone rang. It was Alice.
"You have an appointment tomorrow night around six, Mary is booked, she has a client that has been waiting for your complex to have an opening for quite some time now. Just to warn you, she will have her son Ricky with her and he is like Emmett, only he is 3, so don't have anything valuable laying around."
"Thank you so much Alice." I said. "That won't be a problem seeing as half of my stuff is already in my car already."
"Someone's excited." she teased.
"You would be too." I growled.
"Yeah I would. Alright I have to go. Have fun packing and let me know how it goes after Mary leaves."
We agreed that when I called her after Mary the real estate lady left, that she would tell me how her apartment hunting for me went. I had almost everything in my car and decided to clean up. It was weird this place had been my home for a while now, but it felt like instead of leaving home, me going to be with Bella was going home.
I sent Bella a text message telling her that I was too sleepy to talk and that I would talk to her tomorrow and she sent one back basically saying the same thing. I passed out hugging her pillow.
I think that knowing I was going to be so close to Bella helped me sleep because when I woke up, it was two in the afternoon. I jumped up and got dressed knowing all of the shit that I had to get done.
My mother had convinced me to bring all of my furniture to Forks' so that she and my father could donate it. So I had to rent a truck, load up everything and drive it out to Forks.
The car rental place was packed when I got there. After what felt like hours of waiting, I spent an hour filling out the necessary paper work for the damn truck including the wonderful insurance. I paid two high school kids in my building to help me carry the sofa and other furniture down stairs and into the bed of the truck.
At five forty five, I sat down and waited for Mary to come look at the apartment and tell me what I needed to do to get it sold as quickly as possible. I ate a sandwich and was boxing up the last bit of my bedroom when there was a knock on the door.
I shoved the box into the closet and rushed to open the door, revealing an older woman dressed in a power suit holding onto a leash of some sort that trailed to a cute chubby boy with wild hair and a chocolate mustache and beard.
"Hi you must be Edward?" she asked holding her hand out.
"Yes and that makes you Mary." I stated shaking her hand.
"Yep this is Ricky." she pointed to the poor kid on the leash.
When Bella and I have kids, there is no way in hell we are tying them up like that. I smirked.
"Why don't you come on in. I packed everything up, so it's fairly empty already." I opened the door wide so that they could enter.
I watched as little Ricky eyed the floor most likely surveying to see if there was anything he could play with.
"It's a nice place. A lot of people like this area. My client is available to take a look tomorrow morning if you're interested?" Mary walked around eyeing the immaculate space.
"That's wonderful, the sooner the better."
"Well if she likes it we will make an offer and the papers could be done first thing Monday morning." Mary smiled as she drug Ricky through the house.
At one point, he got down on his hands and knees and barked like a dog and I felt my heart go out for the poor kid. He no doubt knew that he in fact looked like a helpless puppy.
"Wow, that is amazing I thought it would take longer than that.." I breathed.
"Well Alice is a good friend of mine so let's just say I have some connections. May I ask why you are up and leaving a gorgeous apartment?" Mary asked.
"Well my girlfriend works in Seattle at a record label and we don't like to be apart. I recently left my job and figured I would surprise her by moving out there so that we could see each other more frequently." I answered truthfully.
At that point I was reminded that I hadn't called Bella all day and that I forgot to tell her that I wouldn't be coming to Seattle this weekend.
"I'm sorry, could you excuse me for a second?" I asked Mary. "Feel free to look around."
She nodded and I stepped into the bathroom to call Bella. It rang a few times and I felt guilty thinking that she was probably excited to see me. But I didn't want to let her know of my plans to come permanently. Finally, she picked up breathlessly.
"Hey baby, where are you?"
"I'm sorry Bella. I can't come." I said simply hoping that she wouldn't ask too many questions.
"What?" she asked heartbroken.
"I can't come. Something came up and I don't think I can make it out." I explained slowly.
" Well why don't I come out th-" she said, but I cut her off quickly.
"NO. I mean no, I'm sorry, I just don't think that it would be a good idea."
I bent down to pick up a few toiletries that I could throw in the box before I took it down to my car.
"Okay well call me later." she said sadly.
"Yeah, I'm sorry we couldn't use the hotel room. I'll pay you for it since we aren't going." I offered.
"Yeah, it's a good thing that I didn't show up early or anything." she whispered.
I could tell that she was sad and I almost told her about the recent news, but I really wanted to surprise her as soon as the paperwork was done. I was about to tell her that I was going to surprise her when I heard Mary scolding Ricky for something.
"Alright well, I'll call you later. Again I'm sorry baby. I love you." I said quickly trying to make sure that the little devil didn't eat the brillo pads under my sink.
"I love you too." she whispered before hanging up.
It broke my heart knowing that she was hurt, but I kept telling myself that it would all be worth it in the end.
Turns out the kid didn't try eating the Brillo pads, he just peed his pants. Mary and I agreed that she and her client would come by to have look at nine in the morning and after they left, I would take the drive out to Forks with the furniture.
I moped Ricky's puddle up before I passed out on the only furniture I had left in the apartment, my old bed.
The next day, Mary brought by her client and the young girl, thought it would be perfect for her. We signed the papers after her parent's graciously offered me a bonus to be out of the apartment by Wednesday. That was perfect with me because I planned on my trip to Seattle to happen Monday afternoon after the last bit of paperwork was done.
The weekend flew by in a flury of paperwork ,boxes and even a little bit of apartment hunting with Alice in Seattle. We were as Alice liked to say in 'ninja mode' as we drove through Seattle extremely low key in the truck that I had rented to take the furniture to Forks.
I got a call on Monday from Mary saying that everything was ready for the final signatures and that they were waiting for me. I think I teleported to the damn office because I don't even remember driving across town. I signed the papers, wished Mary a happy life and took off like a bat out of hell to Seattle.
I figured that Bella would be at work so I drove to Angela's to surprise her when she got off. Luck was on my side, and Angela's car was in the drive way. I walked up to the front door and before I could knock, the front door swung open.
"Edward?" Angela asked confused.
"Hey Angela, I know Bella is at work, but I wanted to surprise her." I started.
"I thought you two were still at the hotel." she said.
What the fuck?
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A&V have finished their own battle between the autobots both came out victoriously unscathed but entirely wiped out.
A: Do you think they liked it? *bites thumb nail nervously*
V: I don't know but I sure did.
A: Your my beta your biased.
V: Not technically if I didn't like it I would tell you.
A: Okay so you like it, what about them? *points to you*
V: Again shut up and let them tell you. *rolls eyes and sits back in chair*
V&A: AUTOBOTZ ROLL OUT!
XOXO Ashley