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"He told you to meet him here?" Edward inquired as he looked around before focusing on the elaborate store front. We had been here before.
Madame Tanya's House of Mysticism.
"I fucking hate this place," I listened to him grouse loudly while I watched a few afternoon matinee goers walk by on their way to the movie house.
"Listen," Edward began as he turned back towards me with a half grin that was pure irritation. "You have to know this is Emmett's go to thing."
"What do you mean?" I asked him as I watched the movie goers line up at the ticket booth in a distance.
"I mean every Sunday for the last I don't even know how many years we have spent here with fucking Madame Tanya." Edward continued on as he waved his arms in the arm while motioning towards the cheesy decorated store front. "It's pointless because he never fucking listens."
"Then why are we here?" I asked him only to receive a shrug in response.
"Bella?" Madame Tanya greeted us with a wide, pleased smile while motioning me inside. "Emmett will be here any minute."
"Goody," I replied in a monotone while earning a low snicker from the boy at my side. "May I ask why we are here?"
"Yes, why are we are outside of your burning need to collect fifty dollars from my brother?" Edward chimed in as I bit my lip to avoid grinning at his irritation.
"Emmett has been seeking answers from his brother for years," Tanya explained vaguely as I watched Edward roll his eyes.
"And if he actually listened to me that would be something," Edward sighed as I felt his hand wrap around mine.
"He's still with you I see," she commented as we walked inside of her little shop of idiocy. I ignored her as I followed Edward's lead to back to the reading room. "I can practically see him all over you."
"You know, there is an old legend that states when a soul is a created another soul is made to be its perfect match," Tanya explained as I moved to sit next to Edward on the oversized cushion chair next to the table. His hand was firm in mine as I looked over the table top covered in crystals and cards that were meant to connect with the other side. They meant little to Edward and me.
"That we spend life times seeking and finding the one that is our other half," she continued on with a dreamy sigh as I looked over at Edward who met my gaze with an amused grin. It was pretty clear he didn't believe her either.
"I told you she thinks she knows it all," he chuckled as I rolled my eyes at him. He was right of course.
"And when we find then it is only then that we actually live," she finished in with a dreamy sigh as I looked at her with as little emotion as what I could.
"Emmett told me you can touch him and that the spirit wrote that you were his girl." Tanya commented in an accusing manner that made me choke out a laugh as Edward leaned back into the cushions as if he were making himself comfortable, but I could feel the tension in his lanky frame.
"I don't see what it matters," I shrugged as I did my best to down play her reaction to the unusual circumstances that surround Edward and me.
"I hate how you down play our love," Edward teased me with a slight laugh. "Did you not listen to her? We were meant to be, baby."
"It matters, Bella," she assured me with a pitiful nod of her head as if I were the lost one in this conversation.
"Each touch, each interaction is making him stronger and more connected to you," she warned in a deep voice that was meant to be menacing, but did nothing but annoy me.
"That connection will pull you under," she continued on as she watched me with her wide ice blue eyes. "It's too strong and it will over power you."
"Thank you for the warning," I deadpanned as Edward remained silent, yet his hold on me only tightened with each grim word she uttered. I knew he took her warnings serious even though I couldn't. It was just one more threat dished out by a person who was struggling to control an uncontrollable situation. I was used to that after years of living with mom, so Tanya couldn't scare me. I had lived the worst and nothing, not even death, could be as bad as being locked up in a psych ward.
"You need to listen to me because you are playing with your own life here, girl," Tanya continued on in a harsh tone just as the bells on her door clang alerting us to a visitor.
I watched her walk away from us in a huff of agitation to greet whoever had wandered into the store. It was enough to give me a slight reprieve, yet not enough to take the sick look off of Edward's face.
"She's stupid, Edward," I tried to comfort him softly with sweet words that were meaningless. There was no time to soothe the angry look off his pale face before the woman appeared again with Emmett in tow.
"Thanks for meeting me here, Bella," Emmett greeted me with an enthusiastic grin as Tanya looked from him to me once more.
"I was just telling the girl the dangerous line she was walking," Tanya explained, but it was clear Emmett didn't care. He was only interested in one thing and that was Edward.
"I don't know why you want to meet here," I stated to him in hopes that we could move our awkward meeting to anywhere, but here.
"Because Tanya has been so helpful in the past," Emmett explained with a gracious smile towards the overly dramatic woman at his side.
"Yes, she's been very helpful at lightening your wallet," Edward mocked as I felt his hand let go of mine to grip my thigh.
"All I want to know is why you think its Rosalie," I explained to him for what felt like the hundredth time.
"It's not her," Edward stated in a flat voice while Emmett took a deep breath at the mentioning of her name.
"Because she knew that he would go up on the roof," he explained with a pleased look on his face as if that were the answer.
"And so did you, and Charlie, and Garrett, and Coach and just about everyone else associated with that team," Edward replied with a harsh tone that hinted at the anger that was building within him. He couldn't hide it from me though. I could feel it in the biting hold he had on my leg.
"Why her? Because he's saying everyone knew he went up there." I countered as Tanya tried to get the man to sit down at the table.
"Because she was pregnant, that's why," he shot back in a smug tone that silenced me.
"Her parents would have demanded that they get married. There was no way he would have given everything all up for some girl he just screwed on the side," Emmett continued on as I stared in disbelief at him. I swallowed back the bile that rose in my throat as I thought of Edward and this faceless girl who might have had his child. It was too much, but I had learned the hard way that everything with Edward was too much.
"That's not true," Edward countered back in a low hiss of words as he troed to plead needlessly with me. "Rose and I were never like that. Never ever, Bella."
"He must have told her no and when she realized that her parents would cut her off from the endless supply of cash she was used she pushed him through the glass," he continued on, not that I could truly listen to him since I had Edward in my ear screaming at him .
"Her parents did cut her off, but that had nothing to do with me and you know it," he countered back as I felt him twitch next to me. It was strong enough that it caused the table to shake with his movements.
"She killed him and got away with it because money rules this damn town," Emmett rambled on as I sat, letting the sick feeling of senseless betrayal wash over me.
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