Edward Cullen and the Infinite Sadness

[Growing Up]

A semi serious chapter introducing the second phase of Kaye in the Twilight world ...don't worry Edward is still an idiot who will be horribly beaten by the end...

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Karin: Gyah! Here's the actual story chapter. Sorry I've been gone so long from the actual story! Also, the previous chapter talking about the Quick Skit, if you request I shall write it but it will be a one shot and titled with the name of your character. An example would be:

BLANK YOUR NAME GOES HERE and the Destruction of Edward Cullen

Anyway about the main story as you can tell this is called Edward Cullen and the Infinite Sadness, this means that the story is actually evolving with more plot it wont be just about Bashing Edward-although it will still happen- it will be about life in general. This chapter takes place in Bella, Ed's, Mike and Kaye's senior year. College, jobs and exams will be mixed into the story. Kaye will try to figure out a way home if she wants to go home at all and she will come to terms with Edward and her feelings for him (whether romantic, brotherly or friendly well I'll leave it to you).

I know you lot hate Edward. Believe me I am no fan either. I look at the Edward of this story as my Edward who can change and actually become likable as apposed to SMEYER's creepy stalker pedo abusive moron virgin. So if you see Edward in this story being treated kinder please don't be disgusted and upset. It just means that he is evolving and becoming relatively normal (though still the perfect wife and still somewhat whiny).

He's not SMEYER's Edward. He is Karin's Edward-infinitely better then SMEYER's Edward, don't you think? And Bashing Edward? It's the best part, the funnest part and one of the main reasons of the story! It will still happen.

Ok. I have babbled enough. Now onto the actual story:

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College applications were strewn on the coffee table of Kaye's studio apartment. Mike went over Evergreen State reading carefully while beside him Bella bit her bottom lip and glared at the two in her hands, Evergreen and Washington State. She wanted to go with Mike to Evergreen if that's where he was accepted but Mike had told her not to follow him to a place just because he would be there he wanted her to be independent.

After voicing her worries to Kaye that if she and Mike went their separate ways Kaye had told her: "So what? If you guys breakup you'd still be friends right?"

Bella was really tempted by Washington State-College of Engineering and Architecture just sounded so...interesting!

Kaye herself merely perused. She had no idea if she should apply or not. As she fingered her galleon necklace in thought. This coin had somehow gotten her into this book world, maybe she could use it to get back but, did she have a reason to go back to a life where her mother was distant, her father ignored her. Would she be happy being around Byron Jinks, her first love her first everything who had taken her feelings and smashed them by sleeping with her best friend?

Sure there was Christy, but it had seemed that Kaye was becoming more of a nuisance with her whining. Back home she hadn't even thought of going to college. Here, it was an option. Charlie had even said he would help her too.

"Hey Kaye, can I ask you something?" Mike hadn't looked away from the application. His blond hair was not in the customary spikes as usual and his face seemed oddly serious.

"Sure."

"Where is Edward going to apply to?"

Kaye lifted a thick curved brow.

"Why?"

"Well," Mike placed the application down onto the worn wood and gave Bella a furtive glance. She shrugged. "I just figure since we're all applying to Evergreen-and others but well...I'm saying..."

Bella cut in with a small laugh, trust Mike to babble. "What Mike is saying is that along with all the other places we are applying that if we all happen to get into Evergreen that we should look for places to live together. You know since Mike and I are together," She grabbed Mike's hand and wove their fingers together. "And you and Edward cohabitate in a semi realistic marriage with none of the perks; it would be pretty easy to live in one place together you know?"

"Oh, well, I dunno where he's applying. Probably some snooty legacy place you know Yale, Harvard or Brown."

Mike shrugged and went back to what he was doing while Bella giggled.

"I thought you were applying to Brown."

Mike's brows lifted in surprise. Kaye ignored it.

"I was thinking about it. I dunno. I like Washington, I'm gonna stick with it I think."

"Oh?"

"Yeah."

As though he could sense that he was being spoken about or that Kaye was contemplating leaving Seattle, the front door clicked opened and Edward strolled in. In his hands were two plastic bags. He closed the door with a light kick and walked towards the counter.

"Hello." He greeted.

"What's in the bags, Ed?" Mike asked far too comfortably. If someone would have told him he would be friends with Edward Cullen a year ago he would have laughed. But now it wasn't so laughable. Certainly he knew that there was something wrong with Cullen in the "he's not too human sense" but he ignored it. He and Edward had started getting along since Kaye had moved to town, he wasn't going to question anything that obviously wasn't his business just yet.

Lure Cullen into a false sense of security and then ask.

That was Mike's plan.

"Thai food." Edward said with a sigh. "I had to walk two blocks from the restaurant to get here and it's pouring. I just hope the food didn't get wet."

"Don't worry about it." Mike walked towards the counter. He inspected the bags and smiled. "Naw it's all good man. Dry." He began to remove the Styrofoam boxes from the bags as Edward unloaded plates from the cupboard.

It bothered Kaye as she watched them. It bothered her because she was happy in this book world, it bothered her that she had made such great friends and it bothered her most of all that she was beginning to forget the touch or Byron in lieu for the ice cold finger of the vampire in her kitchen.

It reminded her of a conversation she'd had with Bella two days before. They'd been at Charlie's place studying at the kitchen table. Jacob had been sitting outside with Jessica and Seth talking about the convention the year before, they were laughing.

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"Kaye, you remember how you mentioned...how you got here?"

Oh she had remembered. Bella hadn't believed her at first-until she came to her own conclusions. She hadn't ever spoke of it only saying "I believe you." And that was that.

"Yeah?"

"Do you want to go back? I mean are you going to try to leave?"

"I dunno. I kind of miss my little brother's but we weren't ever really close. I miss my friend Christy but things were strained and I kind felt that she stuck around because she felt bad for me."

"What about Byron?" Bella had no problem mentioning Byron. She didn't try to pretend he wasn't real, maybe it helped that she didn't know him. "What about...Edward?"

"What about them? Look," Kaye brushed stray hairs from in front of her eyes. "Byron is a cheating asshole. He fucked my friend and expected me to forgive him. We broke up and I tried like hell to move on, and Edweirdo? The only thing I love to do to him is kick his ass with my frying pan! There is nothing between us."

Bella looked unconvinced.

"Seriously there is nothing."

"Sure, just that he cleans your place, cooks your meals. You guys tend to hang out more then Mike and me do-going to movies and restaurants and he can't even eat!" Bella said, knowing full well of his "bloody" problem. "He buys you things and teases you and confesses his feelings to you almost everyday."

"Whatever." Was all Kaye could have said before Jacob, Seth and Jessica strolled through the front door.

"Kaye!" Bella snapped directly in front of Kaye's eyes with a bemused smile. Mike was already seated at the coffee table chowing down on noodles with Edward beside him laughing at the way the blond ate.

"Huh?"

"You were zoning." Bella said with a small smile, it reminded Kaye of Christy's. "Are you ok?"

"Yeah I was just thinking."

"About how you are in love with me and would like to stay by my side for eternity? Oh Kaye! I love you too," Edward said causing Mike to nearly choke on his food. "But I cannot make you what I am I cannot end your life and prolong your fate to eternity."

Neither Edward nor Mike saw the frying pan coming but Bella did and had the foresight to shout for Mike to move out of the way.

It made a sickening crack against Edward's skull causing him to fall backward, pieces of splintering white marble flew.

BAM!

Kaye retracted her hand and rubbed her frying pan lovingly.

"And I thought that we were going to have a nice non violent night out. Oh Eddie Cullen you make it so hard to like you, you make it so difficult to try and be nice. I can't believe I thought of actually liking you as a friend." Kaye said to herself more then to him as she began eat her noodles.

"Um," Mike looked toward Edward worriedly at the cracks on his face. "He kind of cracked."

"It'll attach itself later."

As Mike placed the pieces of Edward's face back together Bella leaned towards Kaye with a smile.

"Aw! He's your friend!"

"Shut up Bell-Buggy."

"But it's cute!"

"Shut up!"

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Karin: Hey guys! Just dropping in to say hello and to thank Jaya for the first review in a while. Jaya I will write a Quick Skit involving SMEYER as soon as I am able. I will make it incredibly violent and hilarious!

Also-about Kaye's weirdness in her thought and Edward...no she does not have the romantic warm and fuzzies. She's starting to kind of see him as a friend. He'll continue to screw it up. In the next few chapters he will be severally beaten and brutalized because of his narcissism via many objects in painful ways-this way he'll learn to be normal but twitchy.

Read. Review and no flames! This was transitional-next time it will be more like the earlier chapters of Edward bashing.

-Bye!