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EPOV
I woke up the next morning, my hands searching for Bella through the sheets. But I didn't find her. My eyes shot open, and I sat straight up. "Bella?" I called, my still not quite awake eyes adjusting poorly to the dim morning light. She popped out of the bathroom a second later and hopped back into bed beside me.
"Lie down," She said as she tugged on my shoulder. "We still have almost two hours before the alarm."
I leaned back slowly, and pulled her against my chest. "So today's the day, huh?"
"Yeah, but for the next two hours, let's pretend it isn't." She groaned, nuzzling her face into my neck.
I laughed, closing my eyes and kissing her hair. "I really, really don't like it when you leave me alone in bed."
"Hate to break it to you, but girls pee Edward." She informed me, laughing against my skin.
"I pee too, but you don't see me leaving you cold and lonely."
She pushed her legs carefully in between mine, and I felt her knee slide up my inner thigh. Guh. "I'm sorry. I'll try to make sure to only use the bathroom when you're around other people and warm." She teased.
"Thank you," I mumbled. "That's very considerate of you."
Bella laughed into my neck, planting a soft kiss there. "Your parents probably won't let us skip today will they? Perhaps a joint case of 24 hour flu?"
I laughed sleepily, "I highly doubt they'll believe that, love. But, it's worth a shot."
"Mmk. You call them then." She murmured in her best 'i'll fuck you hard if you call' voice.
I groaned, burying my face in her hair. "You call them. They like you better."
"No they don't." She paused, undoubtedly forming her diabolical plan. "I'll go down on you if you call them."
"Hand me the fucking phone and go make vomit noises."
She laughed and fished my phone out of my hoodie, slapping it into my hand. "Phase one complete." She squealed, flying out of bed and into the bathroom.
I rolled onto my back and dialed the house as I rubbed my eyes.
"Hello?" My mother answered, sounding chipper as ever.
"Mom? Bella's puking and I feel like shit. Call us out?"
She scoffed, "Honestly Edward. I bet the chances of you two being sick are about as big as the chance that you aren't laying in Bella's bed right now. How's that for calling you out?"
I scoffed back at her and silently shifted out of Bella's bed. "I'm not in her bed. Mommy... my tummy hurts."
"Mhm. I thought Bella was the one puking?"
I sighed, getting slightly frustrated. "She is, listen." I held the phone toward the bathroom, where it sounded like Bella had a cat stuck in her throat. "Stay strong, love," I hollered before putting the phone back to my ear. "And I told you I wasn't feeling well."
"Well," She sighed, pretending to take me seriously for a minute. "You sound fine to me. Why don't you both try going to school and see how you feel. Oh and tell Bella that furballs are a necessary evil when you have long hair like she does." She added, laughing to spite me.
I rolled my eyes, getting back into bed. "Mom? Seriously, you don't really think I'm a slut do you?" I felt like I was six again, asking my mother why Jasper's parents liked to play leap frog naked.
"No. I think you're a 17 year old boy with a beautiful girlfriend." She paused and her voice dropped to a low, soothing tone. "You're a good kid Edward - most of the time."
I hung my head, mumbling into the phone. "I'm sorry."
She laughed, "You know, if the circumstances were different your father and I would probably already be picking out a china pattern for you two. It's always a mother's dream to see her son fall in love with her best friend's daughter."
I looked up and Bella was leaning against the door frame, arms folded across her chest. "We can still have a china pattern. It just sucks that there's all this crap to deal with."
She hummed happily into the phone. "Soon enough dear, no need to rush things. You two both have your entire lives to worry about all of that." I could her hear pouring coffee for my dad before she came back to me, the stern tone back in her voice. "But I wasn't kidding, you and Bella better be at school and on time for it today. You have to keep your hormones in check Edward, there's too much at stake right now."
I laughed lightly, "Ironically I don't think it's me you have to worry about. We'll be up in a while."
I clicked the phone shut and slumped back down in bed. "She said no, Bella."
Bella shrugged, coming back to bed. "Yeah, it didn't sound like it was going well."
I rolled onto my side, burrowing under the covers. "I don't want to do this, you know. This is the last thing I want."
She slid in behind me, and wrapped her arms around my waist. "I know, but we graduate in May and we'll leave early for college and spend the summer making up for these months of crappiness."
I ran my hands over her arms, pressing them into my skin. "Promise?"
She kissed my shoulder blade and I felt her nod against me. "Promise."
She sat with me like that for a second before turning me onto my back. She grinned evilly down at me. "I think it's time for your reward."
I smiled back and her before kissing her deeply. I fucking loved my girl. She was the fucking shit and no one else would ever be better. Bella kissed her way down my body, glad that she'd hid my underwear last night.
Bella was breathing heavily against my hard on, and I swear to fucking god I thought I would die right then. "Bella..." I moaned, thrusting my hard on up toward her. "Please..."
She giggled a little, then gripped the base. "See? No more teasing."
Then her mouth was on me. It had been way too long. "Fuck, Bella..." I moaned, my fingers twisting in her hair as my eyes snapped shut.
She bobbed slowly up and down my length, taking her time and swirling her tongue around my length. So fucking perfect. I started to gently thrust my hips up into her mouth and she moaned against me.
"Shit, Baby... I fucking love your mouth on me."
She hummed, and sucked me all the way in before coming back up, pressing her tongue against the vein on the underside of my shaft. That shit did me in.
"FUCK!" I yelled, thrusting my hips deep into her hot little mouth as I came.
Once I was done Bella cleaned me up, and kissed her way back up my body. I cupped her face in my hands and looked up into her eyes. "Forever."
She nodded, smiling gently. "Forever," she agreed, resting her head against my shoulder.
We laid like that for a short while longer, before finally getting into the shower. We dressed slowly and separately. It felt distinctly like we were headed to the firing squad. This was the beginning of the end, and it fucking sucked. I took Bella's hand as we walked up to the house, where we found toast waiting in the kitchen. I grabbed mine and took our shit to the car. The last thing I needed was an awkward conversation. The last thing I needed, really, was having everyone thinking that Bella wasn't mine. I sighed, leaning my head against the steering wheel. Why? Just... why.
I heard Bella get in a few seconds later and I sat up, starting the car. "Ready?"
"Yeah."
I drove slowly through the streets, and neither one of us said a word until I felt Bella's hand on mine. "How are we going to do this?" She asked, her voice apprehensive.
I shook my head. "I don't know."
Bella let out a heavy sigh as I pulled into the parking lot. Then she turned to me and said, seriously: "Say something to piss me off, otherwise this is never going to work."
I looked warily at the people already crowded around their cars, "Bella, I--"
"No seriously Edward. If you don't say something to make me mad, I'm going to get out of this car beaming a kilowatt smile because I made my boyfriend, the hottest man to have ever lived, cum in under 5 minutes not even an hour ago."
"Hey, it's not my fault your mouth is made of win."
"Edward... come on." She lamented, turning to look back out of the windshield.
I sighed, turning off the car then running my hand through my hair. "I fucked the maid, Bella. Fucked her hard."
She laughed a little, "One, you don't have a maid. Two, so what?" She whispered, leaning her cheek against my shoulder so she was speaking into my ear. "I fuck you better."
I smiled a little, leaning my head against hers. "Yeah, you do. I feel like I should mark you before we go in."
"Meet me in the Janitor's closet before 3rd period?"
"Well, yeah. Or wait... No. Will it make you mad if I say no?"
She pulled away and unbuckled her seat belt. "Edward, be there. And no, it won't make me mad. Maybe I'll just ask Mike instead." I growled and Bella raised an eyebrow. "See, wasn't difficult to think of something. So SAY something!"
"I like Tanya's tits better than yours." I said, smirking before I got out of the car.
Yeah. Third period would be fun. I'd better not have to pry Newton off of my girl though.
Epic Fucking Win.
BPOVI clenched my jaw. I knew it wasn't true, at least I HOPED it wasn't true. But nevertheless it riled me up enough to get me going and be able to go through with this fucking sham of a breakup. I jumped out of Edward's car slamming the door hard as I hurriedly brushed past him, readjusted my backpack and hitting him with it as I walked towards where everyone was gathered.
Angela and Alice looked to one another with confusion as I approached them. "Bella...?" Angela said slowly, asking a lot more than came out of her mouth. "Hey guys." I said roughly. Rosalie looked from me then who I assumed was Edward as he approached us. "What the fuck did you do to her?" She snapped without provocation.
He shook his head, scoffing. "Why do you bother?"
"He didn't do ANYTHING." I growled, looking up at her. "Now shut the fuck up Rose, I'm in NO mood for your bitchiness this early in the morning." She looked at me wide eyed and huffed. It was amazing how easily defending Edward to Rosalie came to me now. It was second nature. It was instinct to protect him.
I grabbed Alice's hand and tugged her towards the building while everyone else just stood there.
"Bella? Bella? Bella!" She said, finally planting her feet into the ground as we made it just inside the building. I looked at her my eyes wide as I chanted his words, and dredged up the visual of Tanya hovering over him in his car. Soon I felt the tears pricking my eyelashes. "Bella..." Alice's voice was much softer as she wrapped her arms around me and she ran her hand up and down my back.
I wished I didn't have to lie to her, but if not everyone knew, not everyone would eventually know. We walked in silence towards my locker. "Bella, you know even Jasper and I fight --"
"He cheated on me." I blurted out and I was surprised at how honest that sounded.
"He did what?" She asked, leaning her head closer towards me.
"He cheated."
"On you?"
"Obviously."
"No. No." She said adamantly, shaking her head. "I'm sure it's just a misunderstanding. You two will talk it out--"
"It's not a misunderstanding. He admitted it."
She looked at me completely bewildered before I felt her arms wrapping around me again, tightly. "Bella, hunny... I'm so sorry. Do you wanna ditch and do chick flicks and pints of ice cream at my house?" She offered, pulling away and looking up at me. I shook my head slowly, smiling a little. "No, it's okay. I just... I want to forget Edward ever existed."
She nodded sympathetically and laced her arm with mine, slowly pulling us down the hall. Today was going to be bullshit on ice.
By the end of first period, the halls were abuzz over who Edward had fucked. The usual suspects' names were thrown around, Jessica... Tanya... evidently high school students weren't very original. I felt my chest tighten as I approached biology and slid as discretely as I could onto the chair beside Mike.
"Hey." He murmured, leaning over to whisper against my hair where it had fallen, surrounding my face. I moved the hair behind my ear. "Hey."
"I heard about you and Edward. For what it's worth he's the biggest idiot of all time to do that to someone like you." I curved my lips into a half smile. "Thanks Mike." He nodded and turned back towards the front of the class.
I tried being stealthy and sneaking a glance back towards Edward, but his eyes were locked in my direction and I felt my breath hitch as I spun around quickly. Mike heard my gasp and looked over at me then back towards Edward, I followed his movement and noticed Edward's head shoot down towards his notebook.
And we had to do this for 6 more months?
Ass.
EPOV
Yeah, this really fucking sucked.
Newton was completely checking out my chick, and there wasn't a damn thing I could do about it. Balls. Mad fucking balls. I stormed out of bio, and smashed right into Emmett.
"Hey, Bitchface, watch where you're going."
"Sorry, Em."
"Rough morning?" He asked, shoving his way through the crowd.
"You could say that. Bella and I--"
"Broke up, I heard." He sighed, leaning a little too close for comfort. "Wanna let you know, I'm not buying it."
I got really flustered then, "Wh-- Em, I cheated on her. She dumped me."
He chuckled, "Yeah? With who?"
"Everyone."
"Uh huh. Okay, Edward. Whatever you say. Be nice at lunch."
I sighed, and headed toward the janitor's closet. Bella tugged me in before I even had a chance to knock. I wrapped her in my arms, and breathed in her scent before letting my lips kiss their way up to meet hers. "For the record, your tits are fantastic Love."
I felt her smile under my lips, and it only made me want to kiss her more. Her lips were so fucking perfect. "And for the record, you're the only person I'll ever want to share this closet with." She murmured. She was so close I could feel her lips moving against mine as she spoke.
I laughed, then kissed her slowly. "We could make this fun." I whispered, nuzzling her nose with mine.
Bella hummed against me. "I'm listening..."
"We could... like, if we just like made a big game out of it, a real one." I kissed her again because I couldn't taste her anymore. "I'll sneak a touch, maybe cop a feel here and there."
She pulled away with the cutest fucking pout of all time. "Edward I have to essentially go all day without you. And you want to squander the few minutes in between classes we do have playing a game where you barely touch me?" Shae asked, looking slightly put out.
I laughed, kissing her again. "No, love. When we're out there. Because I can't be that far apart from you. I miss you too much."
"Oh.." She replied, "You're a fucking genius." She informed me before launching herself at me with a huge smile on her face.
I held her tightly to me, sighing into her skin. "You know what would make it even better?"
"What?"
"Get the fuck back to my lab table. Please."
Bella laughed, twisting her fingers into my hair. "Isn't that kind of backwards? Asking me to be your lab partner after everyone thinks we've broken up?"
I kissed my way down the v-neck of her shirt. "Baby, how the hell am I going to touch you if you're next to fucknewton?"
"I'm fully accessible in the halls and at lunch."
"I want you in bio. How am I going to learn biology otherwise?" I asked, smirking into her skin.
"Duh Edward." She rolled her eyes. "After school on-bed lab work, obviously."
I laughed, "Obviously. How was your morning?"
"Pre-school? Awesome. Since arriving? Mediocre at best. Edward I don't know..." Bella trailed off and looked down at the space between us. "I don't know if I can do this - not be with you."
I curled my fingers under her chin and tilted her face up. "We don't have to. We can 'get back together'. Baby, I want you to be happy. We don't have to do this."
"But will they take me away from you? Edward... I can't... they can't..." Her voice was so small and broken that it almost fucking killed me.
I held her close to my chest, rocking her gently. "No one will ever take you from me, Bella. I won't let them. We belong together." I took a deep breath, trying to keep my own emotions under control. "Baby, we can do whatever you want. What if we tell them you aren't sleeping with me because I cheated?"
"I'm not sleeping with you but I'm still with you?" She pulled away, her eyes boring deeply into mine. "No."
I laughed, kissing her nose. "Yes, Love. People do it all the time."
"Edward if you cheated on me, we'd be over. All of it would be over."
My face fell, "But I didn't."
She smiled and pressed a kiss to the corner of my mouth. "I know. But I'm saying we shouldn't risk it. Either we're together in public or we aren't. No halfway."
"Then we can do this. There's nothing to worry about this time. I want you and you want me, we just can't... be together right now."
She nodded and pulled herself back against me. "We're gonna have to think of a schedule then."
I ran my hands over her back gently, "For what?"
"Well we can't keep missing 3rd period." She laughed.
I nodded, "I know. Well, we can leave early. And then Lunch; that might be too obvious, though. What if I just grab at you randomly through out the day?"
"Yeah but it's your mouth I'm gonna miss the most." She told me, cuddling closer.
I placed a lingering kiss on her temple. "I'm no one's but yours."
"I know. I just don't like that you can't maul me against the lockers anymore." She grinned. I knew my girl liked that shit.
I laughed, "Well, I can always just force you up against something else."
"Unless your planning on driving us somewhere so we can fuck in your car, I suggest you stop putting those kinds of thoughts in my head while we're in a position to do nothing about it."
I sighed, moving back down her neck. "Okay. We can still make it back in time for the end of third, if you want."
She shook her head then tilted her face up to look at me. "no... no way in hell."
I kissed her slowly, "Okay, love. Don't worry. I'm not going anywhere."
"Good, me either." She leaned in and kissed me lazily. "I love you."
"Love you. We'll be okay, Bella. I promise."
BPOVWe continued to make out in the closet until just before the bell rang. Edward slipped out first, with me following. This was going to... not be so good. I could already feel it as I made my way down to the cafeteria to meet up with everyone. I wasn't sure how to hide how I felt with Edward in front of everyone... right there for 45 minutes. I felt an arm sneak around my waist and for a split second I thought Edward had changed his mind about us breaking up; that was until I felt the clammy hand slide under the hem of my shirt. I turned to look up seeing Mike's dopey grin. I tried to smile, but I felt like it looked more like it came out as a wince.
"Hey Mike."
"Hey Bella, I figured you prolly wouldn't want to sit next to Edward today... or ever. Why don't we sit together, over there?" He asked nudging his head toward an empty table on the otherside of the cafeteria from where my friends were. I smiled as best I could and shook my head. "Thanks for the offer, but I'm gonna go sit with my friends and just... try to ignore him or something." Yes, ignoring would be key so I didn't maul him in front of the student body.
He shrugged and led me over the where all my friends were sitting. "Then I'll sit with you and help you get through it. It can't be easy... the first day back at school, especially with what everyone's been saying about how he cheated." I shrugged, trying to play it off. "Yeah, it sucks but I don't really listen to it. I know what happened.." or didn't happen for that matter. We sat down at the round table, me between Angela and Mike and Alice on the other side of him. Edward's jaw was clenched as he glared at me from across the table and I felt my heart flutter.
"Hey Mike." Angela greeted, leaning over the table to look around me at him. He smiled and lifted his sandwich in response.
Edward's eyes and mood seemed to shift instantly as he turned to Emmett. "Did you know they bought us new aluminum bats for this season?"
I sighed, and plucked at the limp sandwich on my tray, staring intently at it while trying to watch Edward out of the corner of my eye. After a few moments I felt Angela wrap her arm around me, pulling me to her side. "I still can't believe it..." She replied softly, shaking her head. "All of us thought..." she trailed off looking from Edward to me. "I'm sorry." I shrugged and shifted my eyes back down to the table.
"It's okay. It'll be okay." Mike pipped up, interrupting our intimate conversation. "Bella just needs a rebound."
Edward's jaw clenched and his eyes remained fixated on my face as he continued to speak to Em. "You can really hear the bone crunch when you get hit with one of those suckers."
I bit my lip, trying to hide my smile as my eyes met Edward's. "I uh... I'm not ready for a rebound yet." I said, breaking my gaze from Edward to look at Mike.
"Well no...I mean... not now... of course, when you're ready... and I wasn't-- I didn't mean..." He stammered out hopelessly. My eyes widened and I bit the inside of my lip to keep from laughing as he back peddled.
"I think, maybe you were right about not being able to eat here. I'm gonna go eat in the hall." I replied, standing and grabbing my sandwich.
"I'll come--"
I shook my head, interrupting him silently. "No, stay here. I'm just gonna..." I said pointing towards the doors and sneaking a quick glance at Edward who was chit chatting away with Emmett about bats, while keeping his eyes locked on me.
I spun around and walked out of the lunch room.
This was going to be harder than I thought.
EPOV
I stared after Bella, then back at Newton. "Why the fuck are you here?"
Alice gasped, and swatted me, "Edward!"
"Because she needs to know that not every guy who likes her will hurt her."
I pursed my lips and let out a low whistle. "And you... hm, you think that's you?" I laughed, leaning back in my chair. "That's why you told her you believed that she had something to do with her parent's death? No, that didn't hurt at all, right?"
Emmett's eyes narrowed but I held him back. Newton didn't fit, and he needed to lay the fuck off my girl.
"I thought she knew about the rumor, one. And two, at least I didn't ram it into some other girl to show how much I cared." Mike the scum bucket said bitterly.
"Ouch, Newton, that stung. But at least I got to kiss her goodnight. Everynight." I stood up and slapped Emmett's shoulder. "Take care of him."
Then I walked away. It didn't take me long to find Bella, as she was sitting with her sandwich just outside the door. I held my hand out to her. "Take a walk with me?"
Bella smiled up at me, then took my hand. "Mmk."
I kept her hand wrapped tightly in mine as we walked through the halls. "How're you doing? You okay?"
"Yeah." She furrowed her brow,
"Was Mike always this annoying? I really don't remember him ever being so... slimy."
I laughed, swinging our arms a little. "Yeah. At least I always thought so. The problem is that you're a kind and descent human being and you always look on the bright side of people. I rip their hearts out."
"You do huh?" She laughed, "Should I be worried?" She smirked at me.
I shrugged. "We already did that shit. We're good to go."
I saw Bella nod beside me. "Okay, good to know." She leaned over and kissed my shoulder. "How're you doing?"
I bumped my head lightly into hers, and rounded the corner toward the auditorium. "I'm okay. Tired as fuck, but whatever. Newton needs to keep his hands to himself. Badly."
"Agreed." Bella huffed a little and it was so fucking adorable. "It's getting old having to step away from him all the fucking time. I am in dire need of a shower from him trying to slide his hand up my shirt earlier."
I stopped, "What?" My tits. My skin. My stomach. Mine.
She waved it off like it wasn't a big deal that she had come in contact with the human equivalent to an octopus. "It wasn't like... bad or anything. He just slid his hand under my shirt and pulled me against him when I came into the cafeteria. Like... I dunno. It was weird."
I fluttered my eyes. Ew. "Bella, that's like... gross."
"I know!" She exclaimed, turning to me with wide eyes as she laughed a little. "You know what I think?" I leaned over so she could whisper in my ear. "I think we should go home and you should help me wash him off."
I shook my head and we continued down the hall. "baby, you need bleach. Stat."
"It's not that bad." She said with a laugh. Then she pulled me toward the bank of lockers we were passing and pressed herself against it, lifting her tee shirt so that I could see the expanse of her flat, pale stomach. "His hand was here" She told me, taking my hand and putting it over the spot. When she looked up at me, she was smiling. "There now your hand will be the last touch I had there."
I rolled my eyes and kissed her, "Oh Bella. Now I have Newtonitis."
She leaned in and kissed me again. "Yea, pretty soon you won't be able to keep your hands off me at inappropriate times either." She paused, looking up at me with one eye brow in her hair and laughed lightly. "Actually... I kinda like that idea."
"I bet you do." I kissed her again. "Let's go home."
She nodded, a small smirk playing at her lips. "It's starting already." I swear to god, I've never seen a bigger fucing smile. "Let's go." Bella grabbed my hand and started tugging me down the hall.
"What's starting?" I asked, pulling out my keys.
"Newtonitis." Bella turned back to me, and scrunched up her face."At least, I HOPE it's starting..."
I picked her up, throwing her over my shoulder. "Oh, it's starting..."
She giggled, tapping her fists on my back. "Edward!"
I tickled her a little. "Shut the fuck up, you love it."
She lifted the back of my tee shirt as she relaxed against me, and I felt her hand start to trace patterns on my skin. "Um... I didn't hear myself complaining."
I reached up and grabbed her ass before setting her down beside the volvo. "I didn't either, but I didn't want to risk it. I love you."
She literally fucking glowed at me. "Love you too."
I kissed her one more time before we got into the volvo and I started it up.
"We should get tattoos." I said, turning out of the parking lot.
"Of what?" She asked me as though I were a nut job.
I shrugged, "I dunno." Then I laughed, "I could get your face on my ass or something."
She made a face as though this would be distasteful. "Ew no. How about... my name on your dick?" She grinned.
I shuddered, just thinking of it. "Fine, then mine on your clit."
She gave a disbelieving laugh."I know you know where it is... but I think it may be a little small to fit 'Edward' on it."
i laughed, too. "You could put like... Ed... or ward... or just make the font really really small."
"What about just, 'E'?" She suggested, but then rethought it. "Wait, cuz that could stand for Emmett too."
"Baby, your name isn't going on my cock, either way. Maybe like... my arm, but not... there."
She shook her head and gave my hand a gentle squeeze. "No, don't get my name. That's silly. If we ever broke up you'd be stuck with that. You'd be force to date only Isabelle's and Isabella's."
I shook my head, "We aren't breaking up. Don't even say that."
She smiled softly and kissed my palm. "Okay, sorry." She pursed her lips and I knew she was back at it. "What about my name on your chest, in tiny font?"
I laughed, rolling my eyes. "If you don't want me to get your name, that's fine. I'll think of something else."
Bella shrugged. "We can talk about it later. You have the rest of your life to get me on you." She said with a shit eating grin.
I squeezed her hand and pulled into the driveway. "You're in me; that's even better."
"Funny, I like it better when you're in me." She gave me a quick kiss and hopped out of the car. Yeah, good fucking joke right?
I laughed, and followed her. "I'll grab Smith and meet you at the guest house?
She nodded, coming up on her toes to kiss me softly. "Mmkay, sounds like a plan."
I swatted her ass and we went in our separate ways. I was on top of the world until I heard my girl scream.
Smith barked, my blood ran cold.
"EDWARD!"
BPOVI stood there frozen with fear. The door was ajar and inside the apartment had been completely torn apart. The cushions on the sofa had been shredded, picture frames shattered on the ground. The TV was laying screen down on what used to be the coffee table.
I didn't dare check the bedroom. I felt like my screams were a constant siren as I wailed for Edward. I didn't know what to do. I didn't know who would do this. And that was when I saw it: the old family portrait of me and my parents.. the frame perfectly in tact, the only one left on the wall; only the photo was missing.
He was back. It had to be him. The man from that night. My body shook without restraint and it felt as though my heart were going to take flight at the pace it was racing. I screamed again for Edward, afraid to step further inside and too paralyzed with fear to go back to the main house.
I heard footsteps running towards me and I turned, my breath shaky and eyes wide as I looked up at Edward.
"He's... I think... He took my family portrait." I spit out unintelligibly.
Edward's arms were around me in an instant, clutching me tightly. "Shit... are you okay?"
My breath was erratic as I just stood there, looking at him. "What if... what if he's still there?" I murmured quietly.
I heard his breath hitch and his body twist, pulling me away from the devestation. "C'mon. We're calling the cops."
I was as stiff as a rock and not even Edward's touch calmed me down. He guided me into the house, his arm never leaving my waist as we walked into the living room and he pulled his cell phone out, calling his parents first then the cops.
Seconds, minutes or hours could have passed. Edward was talking to me but I couldn't hear him. All I could see was the apartment, the missing photo, the empty photo frame. Memories of the night flashed in my head like a fast-paced movie montage and with each memory my heartbeat quickened.
I had turned into stone and hadn't even realized I was crying until I felt Edward's thumb swipe the droplets from my cheeks. He pulled me to him, tucking my head under his chin as he held me tightly.
But I didn't feel it. I was numb all over. The visions on nonstop replay even as I heard other voices around me.
I wondered if this was what being catatonic was like. Everyone moving around you, and just being unable to respond. Not catching much of anything aside from that people were speaking and moving. But everything was so blurry, so distant. And that was when I saw it: a new image from my memory of that night that I'd apparently blocked out: the beady brown eyes that were a handful of shades darker than my own, almost pitch black.
And that was when I felt myself scream. It was like a far off yelp, an echo vibrating through my body from miles away.
EPOV
I didn't know what to do, as Bella started screaming again. She wasn't looking at me, nor my parents as she tried to squirm away. I pulled her back, over and over again, trying my best to comfort her. Nothing was fucking working and it was frustrating as hell. "Baby, C'mon, let's go upstairs." I kissed her temple carefully, fighting back my own tears. I was losing her, it felt like. It was like the day I'd found her at her house all over again. I hated it. I hated that she'd had to live through this and I couldn't take it away from her. I hated that I couldn't help her, when she so obviously needed me.
I lifted Bella slowly and took her upstairs, my dad nodding to me as he spoke to yet another officer. Bella was clinging tightly to me now as I moved up the stairs and brought her to my bedroom. I placed her in the middle of the bed and leaned over her to kiss her forehead. "Bella? Baby, how're you feeling?" I asked softly.
She just looked so fucking dead as she stared right through me. Her deep brown eyes held no emotion, and it was almost like... almost like she had no idea who I was. That thought scared the shit out of me.
My heart fucking broke. I wanted my Bella. I wanted my fucking girl. I wanted her to tell me everything would be okay. I needed her to be okay. I kissed her again, before going into her room to get her something to change into. When I got back to my room, she was exactly as I left her, but with Smith pawing at her knee and whining a little.
"Edward...?" Bella called, her voice heavy with disuse.
I dropped the clothes and went to her, cupping her cheek. "Yeah, Baby. I'm here."
Her breath hitched, and her eyes began to well with tears. "Don't leave me. Please, please don't leave me."
I pulled her to my chest immediately. "Never, Baby. Not ever. No one will ever take you away from me. No one. I fucking promise."
Her arms snaked around my neck to pull me closer as she began to cry against my shoulder. "Don't leave... please don't leave..."
I ran my hands over her back, kissing her hair and nuzzling my face in her hair. "I love you, Bella. I'm here. I'm here."
I could feel her breath coming out in hot pants against my skin as her tears soaked through my tee shirt. She would sob soundlessly, but with every one her small body would shake with the effort. I fucking hated that my Bella was so fucking scared and there wasn't anything I could do about it.
That shit fucking hurt. I didn't know what to do, so I just held onto her, until she cried herself to sleep. I hated it. I hated every fucking moment of it. I changed her clothes while she was out and wrapped her up in my comforter. I paced at the foot of the bed, not sure what to do. She should eat, but what if she woke up while I was gone? I wanted to speak to my parents, but that would involve leaving her again. No dice.
Then there was a soft knock at the door.
"Edward?" My mother whispered.
She fucking read my mind. She was standing on the other side of my door with a picnic basket and two bottles of water. I fucking loved her. "Hey, what's all this?"
She handed me the basket and did her best to peer into the room behind me. "Dinner for you and Bella. How's she doing?"
I sighed, putting down the basket and running my hand through my hair. "She's the same. She mumbles every once in a while and she was crying. She's asleep now."
"Sweetie, the officer has some questions for you about what you two saw this afternoon."
I shook my head, pulling the door shut a little. "Not now. I can't leave her."
"Edward, he needs to speak with you so we can begin to resolve this. I'll stay with Bella, you go speak with him."
I hesitated, then sighed. The sooner I got this over with, the sooner I could get back to Bella. I let my mother in, and shut the door carefully behind me. I raced down the stairs and into two police officers who went back and forth asking me the same questions over and over. It was a waste of fucking time. I should've been upstairs. She needed me upstairs. I finally got too annoyed to handle tweedle dee and tweedle stupid anymore, so I just told them I was done and bolted back upstairs. I inched the door open carefully.
"Mom? How's she doing?" I called quietly.
"Edward," Bella whispered. When my eyes fell on her, she looked so broken I had to catch the gasp in my throat. "You said you wouldn't leave me."
I sighed and went to her, cradling Bella against my chest. "I'm here, Baby. I'm right here."
My mother stood, putting a comforting hand on my shoulder. "I'm going to go check and see if they need anything else." She looked down at Bella, and I thought she was going to cry. "Do you two need anything?" Then her eyes lifted to me, and she pointed to the basket. "Make sure she eats."
I nodded at my mother as she left, then smoothed back Bella's hair. "Baby, do you think you could eat something?"
Bella shook her head and crawled under the covers. "Lay with me."
I pulled off my jeans and crawled in beside her, pulling her back to my chest. "How do you feel?" I asked gently.
"Scared." She replied weakly.
I kissed her head and tangled her legs in mine. "I'm so sorry, Bella. So fucking sorry. But I'll keep you safe. I promise."
Bella curled herself into me and clung. "Don't leave again."
I kissed her forehead. "I won't, Baby. I promise. I'm here." I ran my hands over her back again, resting my cheek to the top of her head. "Do you want to stay here or go to your bed?"
She pulled away a little, her eyes wide with fear and sadness. "Don't make me go back to the apartment Edward. Please... you don't think your parents will do you?" She started to pant again, so I knew I'd have to say something to make her feel better.
I shook my head, brushing the hair off of her face. "I won't let them. You're staying where I can keep you safe. I just meant did you want to move across the hall... to your room."
She shook her head. "No... not unless.. you want me to go?" She began to inch herself away, but my body roared in dissatisfaction.
I pulled her back into me. "Bella, I'm not going anywhere. If you wanted to go across the hall, I would go too. I'm not leaving. I promise."
She let out a sigh of relief, and settled against me again. "Let's stay here then."
I kissed her forehead gently and let her settle against me. She fell asleep soon after. I didn't know what had happened out there, or why some one was after her. But the one thing I did know, more than anything was that nothing would touch my Bella.
I would die first.
