Two Chapters in one night. I treat you don't i?
In all honesty i want to get this out of the way so i can start to post my new story ;)
A special mention to my beta tonight, becuase she's cheered me up and i love her!
Enjoy!
Chapter eight
Bella followed Edward into his apartment. The first thing she noticed was the large bay window in the corner of the room. Bella moved towards it, peering through the curtains. It didn't take her long to realise where she was. The apartment was overlooking Oxford street, all she could see were the shoppers frantically weaving in and out of each other, carrying more bags than she thought humanly possible. 'Wow.' she thought 'We're definitely not in Forks anymore'. Edward startled her by wrapping his hands around her waist, slipping his hands under her shirt and resting them on her stomach. His cold hands sent a shiver down her spine. She breathed him in, she really had missed him. She spun around and saw his crooked grin. "Edward," she sighed "You're not forgiven yet." She wiggled out of his grasp, feeling awful about what she'd just done. His smiled dropped, "You've got a lot of explaining to do, don't you think?" She whispered and moved away from him.
Edward nodded and sat down on the couch, patting the space next to him, silently signaling for Bella to join him. She stared at him biting down on her lip, debating her next move. 'Let him talk Bella, and be there for him when he does. You came here for him.' she thought inwardly. She moved towards him and took a seat next to him on the couch. Edward took a deep breath and began to talk. "Bella," he began "I had no other choice but to leave you alone. I needed to wrap my head around things. When you -" He paused "You shocked me Bella. You were my best friend and I felt like I had lost it all. I felt like you were being pulled away from me and I couldn't stand that." He stared at her, waiting for some sort of answer from her, when she didn't reply, he carried on. "I love you, Bella. You need to believe me when I say that, please." He looked down, his voice starting to tremble slightly. "I'm sorry that you had to see and hear all of that, Bella. G-Georgina, she was nothing." He heard Bella scoff but ignored her and began playing with his hands. "I never wanted to hurt you, I didn't even know if -" There was a long pause. He stared at her, she was staring at her feet. Within seconds she was stood, angrily pushing her fingers through her hair. "If what Edward?" She was pacing a short distance of the room. "If I was coming here… If I was going to travel fuck knows how many miles just to see you?" She shouted, fighting back the tears. "Either way it was a pretty shitty thing for you to do."
Something clicked in Bella's mind. "Wait, you just said you loved me, right?" she asked, she knew the answer was yes but she just wanted to make sure. As Edward nodded shyly she continued; "Wow, you have one fucked up perspective on love" her voice getting more aggravated as she spoke. "You TOLD me to come, you wanted me here and I get here and you've been screwing someone else!" she was being horrible and she knew it but she just didn't understand, the tears started to fall, there was no way she could hold them back anymore. She continued to rip into Edward, she couldn't control herself; she wanted him to feel the pain she did. "You're full of shit Edward, you were meant to be my best friend, meant to be there, but you were nowhere to be found when I really needed you. Thanks a lot"
She'd hurt him, Edward hardly ever cries but his eyes were filling up. She'd made him feel worthless and deep down, she hated that. "Bella, please" he pleaded "Give me a chance; I've screwed things up and I understand you're pissed off at me. You have every right to be.' Edward finally looked up at Bella, he grabbed her hand and stroked his thumb up to her wrist, he felt the roughness of her skin as he traced the lines of the cuts. "I've hurt you in more ways than one and I will never forgive myself; I should have been there for you. Let me be there for you again, please?" He pulled Bella down to sit next to him wiping the tears from her cheek. Bella quickly got up and walked her way back over to the window, she just wanted to lose herself and forget what had happened.
Bella finally snapped out of her daydream to find herself still sat in Starbucks still holding Edwards hand, her hot chocolate had gone cold and half an hour had past. Neither of them minded though, they were just both happy to be with each other, Bella pulled Edwards hand signalling him to come and sit on her side of the booth. He happily obliged as he slid onto the seat pulling her into him, she buried her head into his chest. "I'm sorry, I should never have shouted at you like that" Bella whispered as she felt Edward kiss her head. "You've got nothing to be sorry for gorgeous, I don't even deserve to be anywhere near you right now" he responded pulling her in close.
The pair sat there for a few minutes, remembering what it had been like to be this close to each other, just like it was before. Edward quickly stood up causing Bella to fall on her side; she picked herself up and turned to face him, staring at him blankly. "We are going shopping" he said joyfully reaching his hand out for Bella's. "I need to treat you like the amazing girl you are" he finished. She placed her dainty hand into his as he pulled her out of the booth, giving her a quick kiss on the cheek. Keeping her hand interlocked with his he pulled her out of the cafe and onto oxford street.