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"Hey, when you've hit a ditch due to black ice, you learn what to do for the next time." Alice giggles and she looks at me with a sort of knowing in her eyes as Edward brings his gaze to her face.
"Explain" his voice is serious and I roll my eyes just as we pull out of the traffic circle.
Chapter 7
Jealousy
We finally make it to the store without any injuries and I'm just about to explain the whole hitting the ditch thing when, as I place my feet on the ground to get out of the car, I slip on some ice and nearly fall flat on my back. Luckily for me I grab the door and hold tight until I can obtain some sort of balance.
Edwards by my side as quickly as he can be and gently takes my hands in his own to lead me away from the ridiculously icy spot, a massive grin has etched itself across his features absorbing the worry in his eyes.
"Careful now, I don't want to lose you because of some silly ice, just tell me later and concentrate on keeping yourself up right." his voice is steady as he pulls me close to his side and tucks me under his arm, he reaches forward with his other hand to close the door. Alice is already at the back of the car with a shopping cart and an impish expression brightens her features.
"Lets get our groove on!" instead of pushing the cart forward the small girl climbs effortlessly into it and points to Edward
"You. Push me!" we both look up at Edward to see what his reaction will be and he laughs as he pulls me towards the cart, letting me out from under his arm to grip the handle,
"Alice this wont work." he eyes her and she merely waves her hand at him
"Just try! Please favorite brother!" she pouts and bats her eyelashes at him before he places all of his weight into pushing the cart forward. It doesn't even budge one inch. With a huff from Alice she jumps out of the cart and pushes me forward.
"Bella! Get in! This way you wont fall, and at least ONE of us will have fun." her eyes flash towards Edward on the last few words and she sticks her tongue out at him before almost lifting me into the cart.
Just to make my old friend happy I manage to climb into the freezing metal contraption without any injury and suddenly Alice is running nearly full tilt towards the giant brick building, she only slows because we nearly collide with another cart. I duck my head as a blush creeps over my features and I mumble a quick sorry to the elderly woman who merely clicks her tongue and gives Alice a rather harsh death glare.
The small pixie-like girl merely laughs as we make our way through the sliding doors, I glance back and notice that Edward is right on her heels and they both look around the grocery store like it's some sort of foreign country that they've never been to.
I start to laugh at their expressions as Alice wrinkles her nose
"Ewe." she mumbles and even Edward laughs at this.
"So much for breathing" she pouts once more and begins to push the cart forward into the produce section of the store.
Her honey eyes scan over everything and she turns to Edward with a look of pure disgust and distaste.
"Alright, pick you what you want." His eyes turn to me as I once again manage my way out of the shopping cart to help him choose.
"Let me do the shopping, and don't get in my way." I bring myself to my tip toes and place a kiss on his cheek. In turning my back to them I go about the aisles and begin to pick out fruits and vegetables that I like.
Alice pushes the cart behind me and more than once I catch her eyeing all the food as if it all has eyes and their staring at her mocking her in some way.
"Alice, you can wait out in the car if you want" Edward seems to have noticed this as well and his tone of voice is light and playful as he eyes his adopted sister with amusement. She scrunches her nose once more and merely shakes her head, most likely not speaking due to her not wanting to breath. I smile as Edward chuckles and I turn to place some lettuce and peppers into the cart.
"Okay! Well I think that's enough for this section, lets get some meat and fish next." I've already started my way over the deep freeze section against the back wall. It takes me only a few minutes to pile a couple of steaks and full fish into the cart before I start my way down towards the frozen foods section.
A buzzing shakes my jacket pocket and I pull my cell phone out. I stop dead in my tracks, I sigh my eyes close and I shake my head at the name that's on the call display.
"Kurt... shoot" I sigh and quickly flip my phone open to place it to my ear.
"Hello?" he's quick to answer with a hello of his own
"Hey Bells! Are you okay?" Edward places his hand on my arm and tilts his head to the side with a look of questioning.
"Hey Kurt." understanding lights his eyes and he turns to stand with Alice at the cart.
I can hear her ask who Kurt is, though I don't hear anything else as they mumble back and forth to each other
"Yeah I'm fine, why do you ask?" weird. He's not usually this concernedwhen I miss school.
"It's just that, your not here and I,uh, kinda miss you" a small smile plays across my lips and I can't help but feel something for him. Who knows maybe I could have loved Kurt if Edward hadn't come back, but he is back and so I know deep in my gut that nothing can happen between us.
"That's sweet Kurt. I'm helping out some friends who just moved into the city" silence on his end,
"Kurt?" is he still there or did he hang up on me?
"It's that Edward guy isn't it?" he sounds jealous, and I'm taken aback a bit.
"Yeah. So what?" why are boys so frustrating! He has no right to be jealous, it's not like were dating.
"If you don't want to be with me than just tell me Isabella, don't go toying with my emotions" This really bothers me, his voice has a rough edge to it and it sounds as if something else is wrong.
"Excuse me?" my voice comes out shocked, Alice pushes the cart against my back to get me to move and I quickly turn down the frozen food isle.
"You heard me" I merely throw a frozen lasagna into the cart. I can't believe he's saying this.
"I'm not toying with your emotions Kurt. Besides we. are. not. dating." I make each word an individual sentence, like I'm Captain Kirk "There is no you and I so you can stop with the jealousy." I lower my voice, but it doesn'thide the anger and frustration in my voice. Edwards by my side and I can see his fists clench along with his jaw as Alice motions for him to calm down.
"I'm not having this conversation with you while I'm in a grocery store. We'll talk about this later." I grumble into the phone and my only response is a click as he hangs up on me.
"Asshole!" I growl at my phone and slam it shut, forcing it back into my pocket I clench my own jaw and push past Edward towards the burritos.
Just as I place them into the cart Edward gently grabs my wrist and pulls me into a hug, all the tension leaves my body as he strokes my hair. Alice pushes the cart and comes to a halt beside us she leans in and it sounds as if she has a smile on her face as she whispers to us
"You and this Kurt guy will be fine... though.... No you'll just be friends and he eventually accepts that." I pull away and look her in the eyes, I can feel Edwards gaze on my face as we both pull away from each other
"Vision?" I whisper and she merely nods before skipping off with the cart down the aisle towards a till. I bring my gaze up to Edwards and his green eyes are clouded with what looks like guilt.
"I'm sorry." he mutters as he walks past me and follows after Alice.
I race to keep up with him to grab his hand, which forces him to stop and face me.
"You have nothing to be sorry for." I can feel people's eyes on us but I don't care, I'm sure I will later but right now nothing else matters except getting Edward to believe me.
Our eyes lock, his hand squeezes mine and a sad smile appears on his face.
"Hey! Lets go! We've got like... 20 minutes to get home!" Alice's voice breaks our gaze and without another word Edward pulls me behind him as we follow Alice out to the car.
"I'm driving!" her tinkling voice calls out over her shoulder as we make out way outside. It's started to snow again but I hardly notice, I'm to lost in my thoughts.
By the time Edward and myself make it to the Volvo Alice has already packed the food in and taken her seat in the drivers side. Edward opens the passengerdoor for me and lends me his hand to help me in. I look up at his face as he closes the door and its void of all emotion, within seconds he's in the back seat with the door closed and Alice starts the car. We peel out of the parking lot and race out down the boulevard to take Deerfoot South. It's silent as we speed along the icy highway passing people left and right.
My thoughts race back to what happened on my 18th birthday and I just hope a repeat doesn't happen this time.
A/N - Here's chapter 7! Hope you guys enjoyed it! I totally forgot about Kurt and a lovely reader of mine reminded me!
Loulabelle - Thank you so much for all of your reviews! I'm glad that I keep surprising you, alot of people were thinking that Izzy was going to be a car so I decided to go another route. Thank you for reminding me about Kurt, I'd completely forgotten about him. As for which werewolf/shape-shifter would die, I'm not entirely sure yet. You'll just have to wait and see!
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kakakasi - haha yeah shes my favorite out of the vamp girls so I wanted to throw her in there. LOL yeah actually. It happened to me and since Bella is accident prone I thought it would be a good way to have the good ol' truck retire
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