Bella's Point of View
After landing in Paris, we were escorted to a waiting limousine waiting to take up to our hotel, which happened to be the Hotel Plaza Athenee. It was truly beautiful. It almost made me forget about Edward. Almost. As soon as we checked in and I finished unpacking, I took my phone and walked to the balcony hoping to get some privacy. And to hide the fact that I was calling Edward. (I had to share a room with the girls as Alice's school only paid for one room, so we all decided to share. "It was going to be like a two week long sleepover!" Alice's words, not mine.)
I scrolled through my phonebook until I found his number. I pressed the call button and it rang for a minute before voicemail picked up. I wasn't sure whether or not I should leave a message, but in the end, I did.
"Hey, it's me. We just landed and are in our hotel. It's pretty good. Anyway, um, just wanted to see how you were doing. Anyway, call me back. Bye." I almost told him that I missed him, but I thought that that might look a bit desperate.
When I walked back into the room, both girls were glaring at me. They knew. I knew that I looked super guilty, but I decided to make it look like I didn't know what they were glaring at me for.
"Hey girls, what's up?" I knew that I sounded guilty. As soon as the words left my mouth, they came out high pitched.
"You called him, didn't you?" Rose asked while turning to rummage through the luggage.
"Well, yeah I did."
"WHY?" That was Alice yelling. Jeez! For someone so small, she sure made a lot of noise.
"To tell him that we made it here okay."
"Is he really going to care?" Rose again. I hated when they ganged up on me.
"Well, that's your problem I guess. I'm going around town to shop. See you girls later." She then walked out of the room. I could tell that she was a bit annoyed. But shopping was her way of getting over thing, so I guess that her going was a good sign. I turned to Alice who was looking at me.
"What?"
"You do know that he is probably with some other girl right now?"
"Alice. He's my boyfriend. I'm sure that he will remain faithful until I get back." I said defensively.
"Can he Bella? Can he really?" Now she was getting annoying.
"YES HE CAN! God, I sound like 'Bob the builder'." She started laughing at me. It was really annoying how they both doubted Edward's ability to become a one woman man.
"Okay, okay. I think I'm going to go out and explore Paris for a bit. Wanna come?"
I knew that if I was left alone, I would give in and call him. And I knew that Alice knew that I would call him too.
"Yeah. Give me two minutes and we can leave."
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We ended up walking into the nearest Chanel store where Alice bought not one, but two little black dresses (that looked exactly the same to me, but hey. What did I know about the LBD?) and a simple clutch. I just looked around, too stressed to really look at the very pretty, very expensive things that were just screaming 'buy me!' When she got sick of spending money, we went to the nearest cafe and bought two pain au chocolat and two cafe au lait's. As soon as we sat down, Alice started her usual routine of nagging me until I caved in and told her what was on my mind.
"I'm thinking about what you guys said. About Edward possibly being with another woman right now."
"See! We told you."
I glared at her."Stop talking before I throw my croissant in your face."
"You wouldn't." I sighed. No I really wouldn't. She'd just throw her coffee at me.
"Should I call him? Or is that too desperate and needy?"
She simply just shrugged.
"Help me out Alice!"
"I say you don't. And if you really worry about this, then maybe being in a relationship with him, if you don't even trust him. It won't work out and you'll end up locked in your room for months crying and eating buckets and buckets of ice-cream and you'll gain weight a..."
"Okay! Please just stop."
She knew me well enough to know when to drop a subject, so she told me to hurry and finish eating because she wanted to get ready for her fashion show. That was how I ended up sitting in the kitchen with a glass of expensive French wine, flicking through a copy of French Vogue. I didn't know French too well, but I love looking at the clothes.
Just as I was finishing off my first glass of wine, Rose came through the door, clutching about six shopping bags. I was jealous. All I got out of the trip so far was anxiety over Edward.
"Hey Rose." I greeted her as soon as she walked through the door but she didn't say anything back. She just nodded in my general direction. I couldn't believe that she was still upset over this. I knew just the way to fix this.
"Are you in the mood to go out? Alice is holed up in her room, working on her fashion show and I just drank about half a bottle of wine. Let's grab a late dinner and head out. Sound good?"
"Sure. But you have to pay for the dinner. I'll pay for the drinks."
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After getting dressed in our most fabulous outfits (pics on profile) we headed out to the fanciest French restaurant we could find and then out to one of the hottest clubs. It was really fun to be able to have a night out with just Rose. As much as I loved Alice, I wasn't really that close to Rose, so anytime that we could spend together alone was great. Even if she was a woman of few words.
"So Bella, find any cute guys?" I decided to humour her and looked around the club. All the guys were all hairy and weird looking, but one man that was sitting by the bar, obviously not from Paris because he was clean, caught my attention. Rose kept trying to turn her head, trying to find out what I was looking at. When she finally found him, she encouraged me to go and talk to him. Seeing as I just had two shots, I felt bold and went up to him.
"Hi."
"Well hi back. My names Mike." He said, sticking out his hand for me to shake.
"Bella." I said and shook his hand. It was kinda gross and sweaty. Ew.
"So what brings you here?"
"My friend had something to do for school here. And why are you here? You don't look like the stereotypical French man."
He started laughing and told me that he was here on a modelling assignment.
"So you're seriously a model huh?"
"Yeah." Okay. You don't sound conceited at all!
"And you don't have a girlfriend?"
"I do. But she's very understanding..." Ew. So this guy was just like every other man on this planet.
"Well, great meeting you. I just have to..." I stopped mid sentence and walked back to Rose.
"What happened with him?"
"He has a girlfriend who is 'very understanding'." I said, using quotation marks.
"Ew. Let's go home. I'm so sick of French men. I thought that they would be better looking."
Arriving home at two in the morning, which was pretty early by our standards, we found Alice on the couch talking to Jasper. When she saw us come in, she hung up the phone and turned to me.
"Bella...something's happened..."
Edward's Point of View
Going out with Heidi really wasn't the best idea. I knew that she would just try to get me drunk and try to get me to hook up with her. As soon as we sat down at our table, she ordered a cosmopolitan and she got me a scotch, insisting that she pay for our drink tonight.
"So Edward, why are you so sad?"
I took a huge swig of scotch. I needed as much alcohol in my system to be able to deal with her nicely.
"Because you really care." I took another swig and realised that the only thing left in the glass was ice. I ordered another one.
"I really do care Edward. Look, I get it, you're over me and you're with Bella. But could we at least be friends?"
"Friends? Haven't we tried that a few times? And it never worked. You always managed to scare away my girlfriends."
She reached over and put her hand on mine.
"I do care. It's Bella, isn't it?"
"Yeah."
"Are you two having problems?" She asked, perking up. Trust Heidi to feel happy about something that was causing so many problems for normal people.
"She went to Paris. And I tried to convince her to stay, but she still went to Paris."
"Oh! Poor baby." She tried to pull me into a hug, but I stood up and walked over to the toilet. When I got back, I was hoping that she had gone home, but she was still there with a new round of drinks for the both of us. I knew where this would lead. I had to get out of this without hurting Heidi's feelings. Otherwise, she'd make my life a living hell all over again.
"Look Heids, I have to go. I have a lot of work to do. I'll talk to you soon, okay?" I was hoping that the use of her old name I used to call her when we were dating would make her less annoyed about the fact that I was leaving and it seemed to work. Either that or the alcohol was starting to kick in. She nodded and turned back to her drink and started scanning the crowd trying to find a man she could go home with.
I walked to my car and got in. I knew that I should most likely call a cab to take me home and get someone to pick up my car, but all I really wanted to was go home to drink more alcohol and hopefully go to sleep. I put the keys in ignition and reversed onto the street. I congratulated myself on getting this far and continued driving home. Halfway home, my phone started ringing. It was Emmett. I picked it up, but managed to drop it on the floor on the passenger side. I leaned over to get it and when I got up, I only then saw the light of an incoming truck. I realised that I was on the wrong side of the road. I panicked and quickly tried to turn the car around. The next thing I knew, everything turned to black.