Edwards POV
I walked back into Bella's dorm quietly not knowing if she was still sleeping. Last night had been hell for her, and I wanted to give Jacob hell for what he did.
"Oh. Bella, I didn't know you were awake. I'm sorry for just walking in." She was sitting on the couch flipping through channels on the TV.
"It's alright Edward. To be honest I was hoping you would come back. You were a real comfort to me last night." Where did the light in her eyes go? They used to be so happy and full of life, now they only held heartache and regret. Have I mentioned that I hated Jacob for what he did?
"I've brought breakfast, if you're hungry." I'm not even sure if she had eaten last night. She had to be starved.
"Cinnabon, how did you know?" She smiled but it didn't quite reach her eyes.
"Lucky guess." Not too lucky though, there were about 5 bags from this place in the trash and I knew it wasn't from Alice.
"Thank you. I appreciate it." Her cell phone rang then and she leaned over to the side table to answer it.
"Hello? Hi mom. I'm doing fine. No everything's great. How's Phil. That's great. Um actually no he's not here right now. He won't be around for a while. No mom. Were just going through a little bit of a...rough patch is all. I'll talk to you later mom. Don't worry. Yeah, I'll let him know when I see him. Love you too." She hung up and let he head fall into her hands.
"You didn't tell your mom?" I was confused as to why she didn't tell her that there would be no wedding.
"She loves him too much. It would break her heart." She was almost whispering. I was more worried about Bella than her mother. She was the one hurting. I was baffled at how she could worry about how others would take the break-up when I knew that she couldn't handle it herself.
Bellas POV
Alice had come home late last night. I was sleeping so I didn't get to see her reaction to Edward and I asleep on the couch. I awoke alone this morning in my living room. I was watching TV when Edward slipped back in through the front door with a medium white bag that I knew too well.
All I could think was that Jacob probably brought Leah breakfast every morning. How could I have been so naive? How could I have been so stupid to think that he actually loved me? I guess I was blinded by the love that I thought was there. I loved warm cinnamon rolls in the morning. My mom called, I hated lying to her about Jacob. She loved him so much.
Edward and I ate our cinnamon rolls with a little chit chat here and there. How he knew my favorite pastry (is a cinnamon roll a pastry?) I would never know. We talked awhile after while watching re-runs of "That 70s Show". A knock on my door brought me out of my daze and I walked over to see who it was.
"Hi Bella. I'm Mike. I'm in your Journalism class."
"Oh, um hi Mike. Is there something I could help you with?" I was curious as to why he would show up at my door.
"Well actually, word got around about Jacob, and I was wondering if you were free next Friday night." He asked with a hopeful look on his face.
"Sorry Mike but I'm not up for going out right now." Wow he was really straight forward, and a little rude.
"Well, why not? Am I not good enough for you?" He began scooting closer and to be honest it was a little creepy.
"That's not it at all. It's just that we only broke up last night and I'm not over it yet."
"When are you going to be over it then?" His tone was a little rough and making me uncomfortable.
"I don't know Mike. I don't have control over these things." Yeah, definitely uncomfortable.
Edward stepped in then feeling my discomfort.
"Maybe you should just leave... Mike." Mikes eyes narrowed and looked at me accusingly. Edward seemed awkwardly calm.
"Fine, I will see you later Isabella, you can count on that." Now not only was I uncomfortable but a little scared too. I closed the door and Edward turned to me.
"Are you ok?" His brows furrowed together in concern.
"Yeah, of course, that was just a little... strange." The whole situation was definitely strange.
"Alice will be up soon, and I've got class in half an hour, are you sure you're alright?"
"I'll be fine Edward. I cont want to keep you from your awaiting knowledge." I tried to smile, but I don't think I pulled it off too well.
"Ok, I'll talk to you later Bella." I nodded and he just looked at me for a while. Soon he nodded too, and walked out the door.
Today would not be fun. I didn't have any classes and nothing else to do since my 'fiancé' officially canceled any plans that we have made for... well the rest of ever.
