CHAPTER 30 - The girl of my dreams.

EPOV

Previously...

"Ok I'll be brave and start the conversation. Tell me about yourself... you already know way more about me then I do about you..."

This Chapter...

Well shit... I we didn't really know each other. What if what I say makes me not like me anymore.

"That's impossible Edward."

"What do you mean."

"You were talking out loud. Well to be fair mumbling out loud... but our chairs are pretty close... so I heard everything. And I'm saying it's impossible to not like you."

I was the one that felt the slight heat on my cheeks, this time.

That's what Bella did to me. She was my everything.

"Well ok then... since I've already embarrassed myself enough I can tell you about myself - I guess I've always been a pretty laid back guy... short tempered for sure... but I was or am cool with anything. In school I was a bit of a nerd. Not the stereotypical glasses wearing one, but I loved books and I loved school. I was always so buried in my books, education or academics - that's why I love business and I'm where I am at the age of 26. Not really into athletics..."

"That I find hard to believe, not the part about you being smart - because you most definitely are amazing at your work... but... you go to the gym every alternate day... without fail." I could see the amusement in her eyes.

"Well let me finish the story then woman.." I playfully scolded her. We both ended up laughing.

"Ok proceed Edward... you have me intrigued."

"Ok ok." I cleared my throat "this was all fun and fine... till I saw this girl at the library. I really wanted her to notice me. I wouldn't say I was shy, but I never really went out or had "fun"... and I didn't know what to do. Sooo... I spoke to Emmett..."

"That must've been interesting." She was grinning. I smirked right back at her.

"You don't know the half of it. Long story short I decided to become at least a little bit more athletic to impress her, and Em also said that she usually sits on the bleachers and reads. He knew this because they were sorta friends. So I started running, on the school track.. going around the time I knew she would be there. She noticed me and we started dating."

"That's not so bad."

"Yeah... until I realized around 5 months into dating her that she sat on the bleachers because she liked my brother. And he used to practice football there. So, she only dated me to get to him. Em was shocked and cut off all ties with her along with me..."

"Woooww... that's so twisted and disgusting..."

"Yeah I pretty much buried myself into more books after that. I gave up on dating the day we broke up. The only thing I got out of that relationship was that I fell in love with working out... in a way, I found myself enjoying spending some time on something outside of books plus having a clear mind."

"I'm happy to hear that Edward... honestly good for you. And if I must say, she didn't know what she had. Her loss" Bella looked a bit angry. But her hand reached across the table, and gave mine a gentle squeeze.

Fuckkk me... this feeling... I never wanted to let it go.

She cleared her throat and was about to withdraw her hand, but I held it in place. I moved my chair even closer to her, than possible.

I knew she felt this too, and I didn't this feeling to ever stop. She blushed. I saw the red reach her chest and I had to look away. This was playing with fire...

"So tell me... more. Edward" the way she said my name. I'm going to die. Now I cleared my throat-

"Well... I guess then my actual dating life began when I was in university. 2 girls... not so serious, I just dated, because both times the girls asked me out, and I thought - why not. I guess old habits die hard, since I would much rather be reading or learning." I paused. "However there was this girl, right before I graduated... for the first time, I felt genuinely interested in her... we were together for almost 2 years... but she wanted money and fame. I was going to propose to her... that's how serious I thought we were, but she broke it off and said that she wanted to be a celebrity."

"I'm so sorry Edward... that must've been awful."

"In hindsight... I just proposed because I thought that it was the right thing to do, because we'd been together for long... I didn't feel hurt at all. And my parents and siblings didn't like her at all. That should've been a clue. I don't know I was more enamoured by her than anything else."

"Yikes... she sounds bad. I mean your family is so easy to get along with... but I have to ask... out of curiosity- did she make it big??"

"I guess... she ended up getting married to a business tycoon, almost immediately after she broke up with me."

"Gold digger bitch" I heard Bella murmur.

"Damn Bella... tell me how you really feel." I couldn't control my grin

"I'm sorry Edward. But that just makes me angry. You're such a sweet, nice, caring and understanding guy. And let's face it you know that you are handsome... but that bitch." She was hot when she was angry.

Her eyes widened almost comically, when she realized what she had said.

"I'm sorry-"

I kissed her. She did tell me I could shut her up any time I wanted, this way. So I did. She was just perfect.

I heard a throat being cleared, that's why I had to pull away from the kiss. It was the waiter with our food.

"Sorry..." she blushed as she allows the waiter to keep the food.

The waiter, who was an older gentleman, smiled and shook his head - "no problems miss... a couple as beautiful as you both, it would be understandably difficult to keep your hands off yourself." Bella blushed even harder if possible.

"I couldn't agree more." I told him. He smiled and left.

We dug into our food after that. As we were eating I asked -

"I don't want to push Bella... but I want to know about you as well. I mean I know about Riley and Mike... but that's the extent of it." As much as I wanted know more about her... I also didn't. At least not those parts... I am short tempered... but if she wanted to know more about me, I should be equally willing to know about her, and her history.

"Well that's... you know what fuck it."

I wish she had held off on the cussing, it was hot. Dammit.

"After Mike, I kinda didn't want to date... but that's close to impossible when you have Rose as a friend, who always wanted me to set me up... with someone or the other. She believed that Mike was just a useless blip in my existence... so yeah I had a boyfriend after that. His name was Jacob... sweet guy, but honestly we were better off as friends."

Well shit... I was getting angry over this guy. She clearly still liked him.

"Yeah but Edward... he's only my friend. Plus he's married now to a girl named Leah."

"Fuck... I'm sorry. I didn't realize that I said that aloud."

"No worries... I kinda did the same thing not too long ago." We were both chuckling at that.

By this time we finished our meal, and decided we could take a walk in a park nearby.

We were holding hands and strolling, when curiosity got the better of me.

"Bella sorry for interrupting you back there... is there any chance you could continue telling me about yourself."

"Definitely..."

I paused to just look at her...

She looked absolutely radiant. The glow from the moon made her look almost ethereal... the sad part was... she didn't even know how devastatingly gorgeous she looked. I mentally made a vow, to show her that she was beyond beautiful.

"Edward are you ok?"

"Yeah sorry I spaced for a bit. Please continue beautiful."

She blushed and nodded. "Well Jake was a high school boyfriend. During university I dated two guys. They were sweet.. but one was so wrapped up in his own head, that we kinda didn't last long. The second guy was nice, but he transferred to some other university... outside of Seattle. He decided that long-distance wouldn't work... but I wasn't too bummed about that. After that I was more focused on university... towards the end - there was Riley... and you know the rest of that story." She finished with a grimace on her face, which I had a feeling I was mirroring.

"I'm glad that chapter is closed."

"You have no idea Edward... it's such a relief. I haven't felt this way in a long time."

She was so excited that she tripped on a stone and was bout to fall backwards. I couldn't catch her and balance her in time, so I made sure I hit the ground first, making sure to spin her away from the pavement.

We both fell. She was looking at me eyes filled with horror.

"Oh my gosh... I'm sorry Edward." She was touching the back of my head, inspecting for any signs of hurt, along with my face and my arms.

I just pulled her in for a kiss. I swear everything in my body screamed for her. She was addictive. If there was a perfect woman made for me... it would be her.

She is the girl of my dreams.

A/N:

Edward and Bella are cute together... they have talked about their past relationships but not about their future or why they are drawn to each other...

What will they will discover about each other next?

Hope you liked this chapter.