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Chapter Fourteen

Five Months Later

Bella POV

5 months later.

"No ma'am. I said if you plug it up first, and then let it charge up for at least 24 hours, then your battery would not die so fast"

I had been working at the call center for a while now. When I moved, I knew I needed a job, yet the only experience I've had is working a small store. Hardly experience there. I had needed night, so I went through the newspapers like crazy every day.

It took a few weeks, but finally found a decent paying night job, so I used what little cash I had left and went shopping for whatever nice job interview clothes I could find.

Now mind you, I did panic a little. Actually I panicked a lot. This was my first time alone. At all. If I were human, this would be one of those right of passage things. Learn to be on your own. Being vampire though, it was scary as hell. My biggest fear was that I wouldn't be able to live among humans. That it would be too difficult without someone there to remind me to figit, or to not seem different so easily.

But I guess, having those fears in my head, helped remind me. After trying a few stores, and getting a lot of stares, I finally found some simple clothes that would work. I payed for my things at the counter and headed back home.

I used the term 'home' loosely. It wasn't a home. I didn't particularly love the house, but it was the first thing I found that was extremely secluded and for rent. So in the end, it worked out.

"Why does it have to be plugged in for that long? I need to be able to use my phone by the morning." A whiney voice brought me back to where I was.

I rolled my eyes and exhaled as quietly as I could, trying to hide my contempt for all things and people that pushed my patience level. "Ma'am, if you want a fully charged battery that won't die in just a few hours, then it will need to charge for at least 24 hours. Is there anything else I can help you with today?" I placed my hand to the headset, closing my eyes and praying that she would get off the phone.

"No I guess not." And with that she hung up.

Rude. I as glad she was off however. I ripped off the headset and set it on the desk in my small cubicle. I was really starting to hate this job. I moaned and laid my head down on my desk, glancing at the clock to see how much long I had before I could rush home and take a long, much needed bath.

"Hey Bella. Sleeping on the job?"

My head popped up so fast that my hair dragged the headset across the keyboard and made more noise then necessary. I glanced up, and saw Connor staring at me expectantly over my cubicle wall.

"No. I just got off the phone with someone who needs to go back to school." I ran my hands over my face and leaned back in my chair. Connor was an okay guy. He had worked here a lot longer than I had and yet seemed to do his own thing. I never once saw him actually work. Which in itself, was highly annoying because my desk, was across from him, and I did have to work.

As I looked back up at Connor leering over the divider, something different was going on in his eyes.

"So, since you're having rough customers, why don't I take you out to dinner tonight so you can unwind. You never go out with any of us." he winked and his eyes narrowed slightly, waiting for me to respond.

"I'm gonna have to pass. I'm just not a crowd or group person."

"Oh come on Bella!" Connor barely pleaded with me. I glanced at the clock again and sure enough. Time to go. Grabbing my jacket and call log book, I got up and started to leave. "Sorry Connor, not going to happen."

I dropped the log on my boss' desk, then left the building in pursuit of my bathtub.

AN: I know this was a short chapter. And here's why. After chapter 13, I didn't know how I wanted to write the transistion of Bella going away. Finding a place to live, blah blah. So I skipped it and started writing later chapters because I already knew how I wanted those to go. And then now, going back trying to write those missing in between chapters, is harder than I thought and I'm honestly NOT wanting to write them, because then chapters that are already written are so good I just want to jump right into those and upload them. But I won't. Because it wouldn't make sense. *sigh*