BPOV
I guess I had overreacted!
There was no need for me to leave home like this, but well, it was too late now.
I couldn't just go back now. I'd look like a fool if I did so!
And if he wasn't going to give me the answers, well, then maybe I could try to find them by myself!
But how?
Edward didn't have any social media. How was I even going to locate this Angela? I had a very huge ego to ask anyone about her!
I looked up for 'Angela' and it seemed impossible to find from the name. But then I came across 'Angela Weber' with James being a common friend.
Could this be the one? I was glad her profile wasn't locked.
I started scrolling. She was a drummer. She liked pets, she liked bikes, she had a lot of friends, she had a horrible dressing sense, and she seemed an equally horrible chef yet she had no shame sharing her horrible dishes!
Nothing suggested if this was the same Angela, but I kept scrolling down.
And I froze as I finally saw something!
She had shared a post from five years ago with 'That was a blast!' caption! There were a couple of group photos at Coachella in that post. There were around twelve people and I recognized a few of them.
Edward was there with her, with his arm tightly wrapped around her neck and he was beaming. This was the same smile he had when he was drunk that night.
In another photo, he was kissing her head.
In the third one, everyone was dancing and he was looking lovingly in her eyes.
In the fourth one, he looked at her as if she was the only person in the world.
I immediately closed the tab. I couldn't see it any further!
He was in love with her and he was really happy with her!
He had to get drunk to get to that state of happiness now!
I shouldn't have looked up her profile. I had a feeling these pictures were going to haunt me forever now.
I realized I wasn't angry anymore. I was just miserable, and I had no idea why exactly.
I felt like I wasn't feeling anything anymore.
It's like someone had stabbed me in my heart and it was just... dead!
I stayed in the same position on the bed for I didn't know how long.
Then to add to my misery, I opened my photo gallery to look at all the photos we had. We looked like a perfect power couple in all of them, but that's about it. I couldn't find a single photo where we actually looked at each other or even smiled genuinely.
Wasn't this expected though? We had married each other for power and compatibility. Why was that not enough now? Why was I expecting something more?
And then, I received a call from Alice.
"Hey Isabella... I really want to apologize. I was feeling really low and I was just trying to make myself better," she said, "I'm sorry for what I tried to imply earlier... I'm so, so, sorry! It's nothing like what I said. They broke up a long time ago! It was just my misunderstanding... I don't know what I was thinking... I really had a misunderstanding..."
I still didn't feel anything in my dead heart.
So he wasn't having an affair. But did it really matter?
He loved her, and he was never going to love me.
I was just a compromise he decided to live his life with.
"Isabella, can you hear me?"
"Hmmm..." I said.
"I'm so sorry, honey... I'm really, really sorry!" She said, "I was really upset otherwise I'd never do something like this! I'm really ashamed of myself... I'm really feeling like shit to talk like this about Edward... Do you know he's the only reason why Jasper and I are together... I'm so ashamed of myself... I hope I haven't created any misunderstanding between you guys."
Maybe because he was just trying to live his life through them!
"Isabella, are you listening to me?" She said.
"Yeah Alice, it's... okay," I said, "Can I please talk to you later?"
I needed some time alone.
I didn't want to talk to anyone.
"Can I get those invites if you still have them? I'd love to go!" She said.
"Umm... Yeah sure," I said.
