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Chapter 20
Finding out the truth
Edward's Point of View
My target was in sight. Tanya was fidgeting like crazy, trying to get her books out of her locker without any success, considering it kept falling out of her hand and hitting the ground with a loud thud. This was it, the time to put the rest of this plan in motion.
Walking over to her, I knelt down and began picking up Tanya's books, looking into her eyes to see her looking up at me, nervousness filling her eyes. As she looked up at me, Tanya tried to hide the stress from her eyes and stood up, holding her books tightly against her. "Hey Eddiekins; it's good to see you." Oh, how I loathed that name… She has been calling me that ever since Bella left and it made my skin boil.
Putting on a fake but believable smile, I nodded and took a step towards her, closing in the distance between us as the other kids walked off to class. As Alice said, I tried to picture my beautiful Bella instead of Tanya. Instead of Tanya's horribly hideous strawberry blond hair, it changed into Bella's luscious brown hair; Tanya's hideous eyes changed to my favourite chocolate brown orbs and Bella's beautiful face and smile that I love so much now became plastered to Tanya's face, changing Tanya completely into Bella. I knew that this was an illusion from my own mind but I never wanted it to end. My heart clenched at the sight of 'Bella' and a true smile erupted on my face.
"It's good to see you too…" I whispered in a sort of daze, trying to keep it together and remember that it was Tanya in front of me, not my Bella. "Are you alright? You seem a little out of it."
"I'm… I'm perfectly fine! Just been waiting until I get to see you again Eddie," Tanya responded, her screeching voice spoken through my Bella's mouth. It sounded wrong but the image of my Bella made it seem right. "What's up?"
"I was wondering if you'd like to come with me and… maybe take the next period off. I'd like to get to know you better," I said, smiling as Tanya smiled and shifted her books in her hold, smiling a little wider than normal.
"Is that so? I knew that you'd succumb to my charms soon enough," she responded, flipping her hair. Trying to picture Bella doing this felt so wrong… My Bella was better than her, acted better than her. But it had to be done if I wanted to look believable. "What made you change your mind?"
I had to remind myself that what was about to be said were just lies, that it wasn't real… Forgive me Bella. "You were nice to me ever since she left and honestly, I'm starting to realize that you are better than Swan ever was," I began saying, cupping my hand on her cheek and moving a strand of hair away from her face. To be honest, it felt as though my hand started burning, though I knew that it was all in my head. I just felt so sick at the thought of touching her. I wanted to touch my Bella, to hold her in my arms; not this traitorous bitch. "I might have been blind before—because of God knows what she did to me—but now I see clearly."
"Do you really?" Tanya said; leaning her cheek a little into my hand and making me want to wash my hand several times with detergent. Nodding my head, she narrowed her eyes ever so slightly and smiled even wider. "Then prove it to me."
What the hell? It wasn't supposed to be this way. There had to be some way that I could avoid doing this, to betray Bella this way. What did Tanya want me to do…? "Anything," I replied, trying to keep my voice from shaking with nervousness.
It seemed successful once again—Tanya really was as dumb as she looked…—because Tanya smirked slightly and placed a hand in mine, squeezing it softly. "Kiss me," was her only reply, which immediately turned my blood to ice. She couldn't ask me to do that. My lips only belonged to Bella and no one else. It just didn't seem right to do this to Bella.
There had to be some way that I could get out of it… Tugging on her hand slightly and with complete disgust, I said with a believable smile: "How about we go somewhere private and I can kiss you there as long as you want?" Hopefully she would buy it…
My luck apparently wasn't with me up to this point. Tanya shook her head and looked me straight in the eyes. "We can put aside that thought for a few minutes. But I want you to kiss me while there are still people around. I want them to know that you have changed and I want to feel that you've started to love me and not that Ugly Swan." As Tanya insulted my angel, I wanted to rip out her throat and feed it to the zoo animals. No one insulted my Bella and got away with it. But I couldn't express my anger now. It had to wait until later. Tanya placed her books in her locker, seeming to have forgotten all about her nerves, and placed her arms around my neck, making me want to jerk away from her touch. "Come on Eddie, kiss me. You know you want to." That was the farthest thing from what I wanted, I thought to myself as she brought herself closer to me, trying to force me to do her bidding.
How could I kiss her when I wanted to kiss Bella and only Bella? My heart began to race—luckily she couldn't hear or feel it at the moment—as she batted her eyelashes in an attempt to flirt with me. Bella would never do such a thing… She was more sophisticated than Tanya would ever be. If this plan were to take effect, I had to kiss Tanya Denali… There was no way out of this.
Cupping Tanya's cheeks, the only thought that raced through my mind was: Please forgive me Bella… before closing my eyes and lowering my lips towards hers and placed them softly against Tanya's flavoured ones. Tanya's lips had too much gloss on them, making them slippery as she hungrily kissed me and tightened her grip around my neck, disabling me from moving around. It was a total nightmare. There was nothing I could do to stop her. And so, to make it believable that I was indeed falling for her, the only thing I could think of doing was thinking of kissing Bella; how soft her lips were against mine, the way she moved exactly in sync with me, the delicateness of her hold, the wondrous sentiment of feeling whole…
Kissing Bella felt like I was on the heavens, in paradise. It was nothing compared to this nightmare. But soon after, Tanya released her hold on me—ever so slightly, I might add—and removed her horrendous lips from mine, smirking widely. Obviously, my little show must have been believable because she was grinning like a kid on Christmas day. "Man, do you taste good… I'm glad that you finally came to your senses, Eddie," Tanya admitted, a little out of breath. On the other hand, all I wanted to do was wash my mouth with Listerine and hope that Bella will never know of my treachery.
If Bella knew what happened, then I might have lost her forever.
"I should have realized my feelings for you earlier," I lied, trying to get this nightmare to end already.
Tanya placed her hands in mine and kissed me on the lips once again, this time short and not-at-all-sweet. "Then let's go and have some privacy time. I think I want to get to know you better as well…" she purred, which made me want to shake with absolute horror. But, once again, I held the feeling inside of me until later on. Nodding, I took her hand in mine and began walking at a slightly quick pace to the music room. Tanya must have taken it as a sign that I was in a hurry because she hugged my arm closely to her, moving closer to me as we got closer to the classroom. "Where are we going Eddiekins?"
"To the music room. Being close to a piano makes me relax…" I somewhat lied. It was true that being close to a piano did make me feel somewhat whole but these days, it didn't seem to work. The only reason that I played was because Bella was my inspiration but she was gone. And until she was back in my arms, safe and sound, I would not touch a piano again. "I like it there."
"Oh, you're so romantic! I am so glad you're mine!" Tanya practically screeched in happiness, making me want to gag even more. I believe that, once we got to the music room, I would go to the nearest garbage can and throw out my entire stomach contents. Tanya didn't make anymore comments until we arrived at the dark classroom. Once arriving inside and closing the door, she held onto me even more and seemed to dig her nails inside my skin. As soon as my hand went to the lock and twisted it shut, Tanya unfortunately seemed to get even closer to me, if that were even possible. "Oh, locking the door so no one disturbs us? I like that…" she purred, making my skin crawl this time.
Yanking my arm out of her hold, I walked to the end of the room and saw one single light open in the middle of the room, illuminating only one single plastic chair. Rosalie really went all out on this one…
"What's going on Eddiekins? What are you doing?" Tanya asked; walking towards the light and letting me see her scared face. Just as Tanya entered the light and stepped towards the chair, Rosalie came out and pushed Tanya into the chair violently, making Tanya jerk the chair a little as she fell into it. "What the hell?!"
"Shut the hell up, Denali. You'll talk when we allow you to talk, got it, you traitorous bitch?" Rosalie snapped, looking down into Tanya's eyes menacingly, which made Tanya start to shake in fear. I knew that she wanted to retort but, knowing what we knew about her, she was scared to bits. "So, you're gonna answer every single question we ask with every bit of the truth or things will go badly. Understand?"
Tanya nodded shakily and looked at me. "You just used me! You made me think that you loved me but you never did, right?! You just played me to get to Ugly Slutty Swan, didn't you?!" Tanya retorted, making my hands ball into fists. How dare she talk about Bella that way?!
Advancing towards her, Rosalie placed her free hand against my chest, trying to stop me from pouncing on Tanya's sitting but shaking form. "Don't you ever say that about my Bella again! Do you hear me?!" I yelled, trying ever so slightly to fight my sister but, even with one arm, she's quite strong.
"Easy there Edward…" Rosalie soothed, pushing me back slightly so I wasn't so close to my enemy now. After a few seconds of calming down, I stepped back but never removed my gaze from Tanya. "At least you brought her here… That's all that matters." Rosalie gave me a look that told me that I had to put my phone on recording without Tanya knowing about it. Rosalie stepped over to Tanya, making her look at her and not at what I was doing. Putting my phone in my pocket, camera looking at Tanya, Rosalie stepped to Tanya's side, putting her hand on the back of Tanya's seat and looked down at her. "So now, you're gonna start answering our questions whether you like it or not, got it Tanya?"
But Tanya never looked away from me. "You kissed me… I actually believed that you liked me… But it was all a lie!" Rosalie looked at me, shocked to hear this but Tanya continued on. "I wanted you Edward but you keep going after that stupid bitch! What does she have that I don't?!"
"She has self respect, not like you! Bella's sophisticated, smart, beautiful and kind, which you'll never be!" I explained, clenching my fists at my side. Rosalie looked at me in shock but I diverted my eyes away from her. It was too painful to know that I basically cheated on Bella with… Tanya. Walking up to Tanya, I placed both of my hands on the back of the chair, mere inches from Tanya's neck, and looked her dead in the eyes. "I don't feel sorry about what I did to you. You took the one person that I love, that we all love, and she might be getting raped at this very moment because of you. Now you are going to tell us what it is that you did to get James involved in all of this or you're going to regret that you ever lived. Got it?" With every word that escaped my lips, more venom spewed from my tongue, getting all of the pent up anger that Tanya made me feel only moments ago out.
Tanya began quivering even more in her chair, looking up at me. "You're bluffing…" she whispered frighteningly, afraid of what might happen to her, seeing as Tanya only thought about herself and no one else.
"Am I? Let's see, James likes girls so maybe he would exchange my Bella for you. In a maximum of five days, you'd be dead and out of our hair, seeing as that is what you wanted Bella to go through!" Tanya's eyes widened at this sudden statement and her shaking began to worsen, touching my hands as she shook. "Oh, didn't you know? Yeah, if we don't find Bella in the next three days, she'll die and it'll be all because of you. We know that you called James in the first place so now, my sister is going to ask you questions and you will answer them truthfully. Do you understand us?" It might have been harsh, what I had said to Tanya about the exchange, but it had to be said to break her.
And it worked.
Tanya shook and a few tears started to form on her fake face. "Please don't tell anyone… I just wanted you… That's all…" she mumbled, more tears falling down her face. "I didn't mean to—"
"Oh, save it Denali. We all know that you meant it. The question is: how did you do it? Where did you get James' number?" Rosalie asked, looking down at Tanya expectantly.
Tanya seemed to hesitate at first but then lowered her face and began speaking. "I was sick and tired of watching her walk all over you… and seeing you so in love with her. It made me sick. I guess I was just jealous. And it made me mad that I couldn't get you. So I looked around… on the internet, in the newspaper, anything that could help me in getting rid of her, at least for a little while. I tried to get her expelled but nothing I could come up with would make a difference.
"But, one day, a calling card appeared on my bed. It seemed awfully normal so I picked it up and called the number. It was James and he said that he could get her out of the picture for a while. But he never specified how long 'a while' was. So, me being me, I agreed. But I honestly didn't know that he was gonna do that to her… I just wanted you all to myself that I wasn't thinking at all.
"James said that he was gonna just scare Ugl—I mean Bella and get her away from you. But he said that he wanted my phone. I didn't ask questions, so I just gave it to him, knowing that you'd be all mine soon. Bella would be out of the picture soon. And, day by day, she got away from you and I actually enjoyed seeing her suffer… And then, when she was gone and out of the picture, all I saw was you. That's why I approached you right when we heard that Bella was gone. The thought that you would soon be going to be all mine soon made me ecstatic. But then you said today that the police figured out the number that was used to scare Bella and it got me freaking out because it'll lead to me…" Tanya finished, putting her face in her hands and sobbing noisily.
Rosalie and I looked at one another and my body let itself lean back, my eyes now turning back to Tanya's heaving form. Rosalie looked down at Tanya and placed her hand down onto the back of the chair once more. "Do you still have that card?" my elder sister asked, trying to sound as calm as possible but we were both fuming. Tanya's jealousy might get one of our family members killed… We'd have to bring Tanya to the police after this good cop/bad cop thing was done. There was no other way. As Tanya hesitated in answering, Rosalie sighed and tried something else to get Tanya to confess. "If you want to try and at least do something right in this, then you need to give us that card. I'm not ready to lose my sister so you better give us that car Tanya."
Tanya looked up at Rosalie and actually looked defeated, for once. Running through her flashy pink bag, Tanya produced a white calling card out of her purse and handed it shakily to Rosalie, letting my big sister take it, look at it to make sure it was the right one and place it in her pocket. Nodding over to Rosalie, I went to open the lights and lit up the room, seeing all of the empty space surrounding Tanya and Rosalie. Tanya was still sobbing but there wasn't much that we could do about that now. She had confessed and that was really all that we were looking for. Looking back at Tanya's form as Rosalie and I walked towards the door, I began to feel some sort of pity for her.
Sighing, I walked over to Tanya and crouched down, looking at her. Tanya looked up at me sadly and kept her gaze with mine. "What do you want…?" she asked coldly but shakily.
"What you did was unforgivable and horrible, and when this is all over, don't expect any of us to even sneak a glance at you. But I get why you did what you did. You wanted someone to love you but you can't do that. If you want someone to love you for you, you have to earn it and make him want you, not the other way around," I said, standing up and looking down at her. "When we get Bella back, you stay away from all of us."
And with that, I walked out of the room with Rosalie, going towards the parking lot for us to calm down a little. But along the way, Rosalie stated: "I can't believe you kissed her…" which made my blood run cold at the thought of what I did. "Of all people—"
"I had to get her to believe me… I did it for Bella," was my only respond and, with that, we didn't speak until we arrived outside and began planning our next move: telling the police.
We're one step closer to get you Bella… You will be back with me soon, I promise.
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