The Twilight Twenty-Five
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Prompt: #11

Pen Name: rubyblue9696

Pairing/Character(s): Edward/Bella

Rating: M

Word Count: 500

Prompts: thetwilight25 dot com/round-eight/prompts

It's seriously off-tune.

"Getting' bugged driving down the hmm hmm hmm…Gotta hmm-hmm hmm hmm-hmm-hmm hmm kids are hip…My ladies 'n me get real well known…Yeah, the bad guys know to just leaves us alone…hmm HMM hmm hmm…I get around…from town to town…I'm a real cool-"

Hard-swung pillow cuts her off. Hair in her eyes, she pouts, "Hey!" They wrestle-poke, a couple of feathers float down. "You don't have to kill me with it! Just ask, geeze!"

Rose gives an eye roll, "Yeah, right. Like that would stop you're sounds-of-death. We're going to the desert, you know. Not the beach. You should be like, meditating instead." She throws the pillow in the back of the wagon and asks, "Hear from lover boy yet?"

Bella huffs back into her seat. "No." She glances at her cell. Nothing.

Rose pats her bare shoulder and Alice sympathizes, saying from the front seat as she drives their boat of a vehicle, "Well, Jazzy says he's being an emo mess, ruining their trip to the mountains."

It's messed up this news brightens Bella's mood a lot. "Oh, really? Hmm," she hides her smile, "maybe a few days apart will show him some heart. He was such a baby."

Alice scoffs, "'Heart', Bella? Really? You have that boy's heart in the palm of your hand. I think you're being kind of selfish and one-sided. Don't you?"

Rose gives Bella her own raised eyebrows of knowledge, agreeing with Alice, as she files away at her already perfect nails. She mouths you were a bitch.

Expelled breath, Bella relents, "Okay, fine! I know!" She runs her hands up into her hair and says, "It was my fault that we didn't get to see each other and say goodbye before we had to go on separate trips! Like I knew Jake would run under that ladder while dad was up there chopping away at the lattice and vine and ended up in the hospital. Edward's the one who got caught sneaking down it two nights ago. Yeah, that was not my fault." It's snarky as hell.

Rose stares serious, and cuts to it, taking no prisoners, "You're lucky Charlie still let you come. And, you told that boy to 'get the hell out' because he laughed at your vacation clothes. You bought a head wrap for Christ's sake. You're not Middle Eastern. It's your fault, you know."

Bella bites her lip. Her leg bounces.

She looks out the open window and says, "You're right. I was totally dumb." Quick glance at her cell and she thinks of Edward. He's apparently not having fun. Her chin kind of quivers.

She types then sends…Hello?

He replies quick…Hey, baby.

Guilt-ridden, she types…I'm sorry. I was such a bitch.

Again, it's quick…Not important. I miss you, want to hold you. I love you, Bella.

Eyes sting, she replies…I love you, too. Four more days.

Quiet, off-tune singing again. "I've got tears in the morning…hmm hmmm hmm…hmhmm mmm…Reminding me I'm missing you…"

Aw, gee whiz.

a/n …ehem…because I need to…#2, #14, #15, #23…*smiles*…

xxx jess