Author's Note:

Thank you all who are continuously reading. I know I haven't posted a note in a few chapters so here one is. I'm overwhelmed by the number of views my story is getting. Writing this story, my story, our story, is very therapeutic. I've never told anyone the events that happened for various reasons, and being able to write about it and write about him reminds me of why I fell in love with him in the first place and why I should have stayed far away from people like Royce in this story. It gets worse, so much more worse and I've left a good portion out because it doesn't really pertain and I've forgotten most of our conversations. I just remember tidbits of here and there because it wasn't so traumatic. I'm also creating a playlist that goes with this so just hold on a little while longer and I'll post it in the next few chapters. Please review, I love knowing if you're enjoying it, what your thoughts are.

~Brandtishot

Chapter Ten: Confusion

Rosalie was in a fog at work, she really didn't know how to feel at this point. She was so confused as to where her heart lay, but obviously Emmett was seeing her best friend Tanya, so that avenue was closed as it should be. She needed to concentrate on working through her issues with Royce and make that relationship work, which is what she should be doing anyway since they were together.

When she got home, her cell phone rang and she answered it without even looking at the caller id, "Hello?"

"Hey," it was Emmett.

"Hi," she responded nervously. "Where's Royce?"

"He's out meeting up with Maria to finish signing the divorce papers. I just thought I'd call and see how you were doing."

Rosalie sat down on her bed slowly, letting her purse fall to the floor. She really didn't know how to answer him.

"I'm okay, I guess."

"Are you sure? I saw the pictures they posted from our party last night, and I know they don't look good. I just wanted to tell you I'm sorry."

Rosalie laughed nervously, "Why are you sorry? You're not my boyfriend."

Rosalie cringed at her last statement, she knew that hit a little below the belt. She listened to Emmett sigh with what sounded like defeat.

"I know I'm not, but it can't be easy seeing your boyfriend with other girls and them kissing him. So on behalf of my idiot friend, I'm sorry you had to see that."

"It's okay Emmett, really. I know he has a ton of close friends, so it doesn't really bother me. At the end of the night he's with me, you know? I'm the one he loves."

Emmett was quiet on the other end, so quiet that Rosalie heard Tanya's voice on his end calling his name and telling him to get his sexy ass inside.

"I've got to go," she said hurriedly trying to hold back her tears, her voice cracking. "Goodbye."

She hung up the phone before he could even respond. She was so confused, she loved Royce, but these developing feelings for Emmett were starting to overwhelm her.

Rosalie decided the best thing to do was not talk to him for a while, that maybe it would be best if she just separated herself from him and allow herself to concentrated on her relationship with Royce. She busied herself with her homework assignments before she had to go to work later that afternoon, throwing herself into a world of web design and programming.

When she was almost complete with her assignments, her cell phone rang beside her. Rosalie jumped as the noise broke the complete silence that had surrounded her, other than the clicking of her typing on the keyboard. She stared at the phone hesitantly, wondering momentarily if she should answer it. Rosalie slowly picked her cell phone up, looking at the caller id and saw that it was Royce calling her.

"Hey baby," she answered.

"Hey gorgeous, how was your day?"

"Long, just trying to finish up my homework for school right now."

"Do you have a minute to talk?"

"Yeah," she got up from her desk and laid down on her bed trying to get comfortable. "How was your trip to see Maria? Did she sign the papers?" Rosalie ran a hand absently over her swollen belly, feeling Megan kick and squirm around she let out a low moan.

"What's wrong babe?" Royce asked, his voice full of concern.

"Nothing, Megan is just kicking me. I think she's going to be a soccer player at the very least."

Royce laughed, "Is she kicking your butt?"

Rosalie grunted as she rolled over on to her side, trying to get a little more comfortable, "More like my ribs, I think she bruised them."

Royce laughed again, "Are you okay?"

Rosalie smiled, "Yeah, just sore and uncomfortable."

"I wish I were there instead of dealing with all of this. I wish I could feel her kick and go with you to all of the doctor's appointments. I can't wait for this divorce to be finalized and we can finally get married and be together."

"You want to get married?"

"Of course I do babe, I love you. I want to spend my life with you, you have no idea how beautiful and amazing you are. Thank you for being so patient through all of this, I know I probably haven't been the best, but I really do love you."

"I love you too," Rosalie wiped a tear that escaped her eye. "So your visit with Maria, how'd it go?"

Royce sighed heavily on the other end, "Well we went out to lunch and talked for a really long time. She told me she's seeing someone else now and I found out from a few friends that supposedly she's pregnant with his kid. So when I tried to talk to her about the divorce papers being signed, she started crying and telling me she wasn't sure she wanted it anymore. I swear sometimes I could just kill her."

"Are you kidding me?" Rosalie asked angrily.

"That's what I said, I told her I was already moving on and with someone else and that I was happy."

"You didn't tell her it was me did you?"

"No," Royce replied quickly. "So we ended up talking some more and I told her we'll meet again tomorrow, but I doubt it. She's dragging this out hoping she'll get some money out of it from when I deploy in a few months."

"I wish she would just sign the papers already. The fact that she's already with someone else and saying she's not sure anymore is ridiculous. I'm sorry this is happening babe."

"No I'm sorry, I want to tell everyone about you already and I can't. I don't like the fact that I have to hide you. I want you in Texas with me already, our own place, and married."

"I want that too," Rosalie said wistfully. There was quiet on the other end of the phone and then she heard Jessica's voice in the background calling him.

"Listen babe, I have to go. I'll call you later tonight, okay?" Royce promised.

"I have to work tonight, can I call you when I get off?"

"Yeah, that'd work. I love you," Royce whispered.

"I love you too."

They quickly said their goodbyes and hung up. Rosalie laid there for a moment in her bed, replaying their conversation in her head. She missed him something fierce, and wished that Maria would sign the divorce papers and she and Royce could start their new life together.

It was almost eleven her time when Rosalie got home from work. Her feet ached and her back was sore, her boss finally gave her more hours now that she had given him the doctor's note saying she was just fine to work, but could not lift anything over thirty pounds. She took her hair out of the pony tail she had to keep it up in for work, and with some degree of difficulty she took her shoes off. After she had changed out of her work clothes and into her pajamas and had brushed her teeth she sat down at her computer to check her emails and call Royce.

Dialing his number, she noticed a few missed instant messenger messages from Alice and a couple from Nevaeh. Alice was checking up on her and to see if she had heard from Emmett at all since she hadn't and was starting to worry. Nevaeh was bragging about how well her daughter was getting along with Jasper and wanted to know if she had heard from Royce. She put off messaging them back when Royce picked up on the third ring.

"Hey, there's my gorgeous lady. How was work?"

"It was long and hot, how was your day?" she asked gnawing on her bottom lip.

"It's been quiet, spent most of the day with Emmett, Tanya, and Jessica just watching movies. We're all recovering from the party."

"Yeah," she answered absent mindedly. "Hey there's something I wanted to ask you about."

"Ask away," Royce said chuckling.

"I was looking through some of these pictures and noticed your front tooth is missing in some of the later ones."

"Yeah, I knocked it out last night doing a keg stand. I lost my balance and fell hitting the rim of the keg," Royce replied sheepishly.

"How in the world?"

"Well I was on my third keg stand and everyone was getting pretty drunk and either couldn't or wouldn't hold me up. So I thought I could do it myself."

"Well that was smart," Rosalie snickered.

"Wasn't it?" Royce laughed.

"Are you going to get it fixed?"

"I'm going to when I get back to Texas," there was a rustling on the other end.

"What are you doing?"

"Just switching sides so I can light a cigarette."

Rosalie heard the click of his lighter and then him exhale, "When are you going back to Texas?"

"In a couple of more days," he exhaled again. "I have to meet up with Maria again tomorrow, babe. Hopefully she signs the divorce papers this time."

"Hopefully," Rosalie agreed.

"I love you and miss you," he whispered.

"I love and miss you too, why are you whispering?"

Royce chuckled, "Because I'm outside."

"You're a strange man," Rosalie snorted in amusement.

"Yeah, but I'm your strange man," Royce retorted exhaling again.

"Alright babe, I'm really tired. I have to get up early for school in the morning, I love you."

"I love you too, go get some sleep. You and the baby need it."

They said their goodbyes and Rosalie hung up her phone. She smiled softly to herself, running a hand over her stomach to which Megan responded by kicking her.

"Goodnight little one."

Emmett sat on the couch with his arm around Tanya as she snuggled in closer into his side, somehow molding against him. He cocked his head to the side and leaned down kissing her. Tanya reached a hand up to his face and slid it to the back of his head, pulling him closer and deepening their kiss.

"Hey you two, get a room!" Royce laughed from the sliding glass door.

They broke apart smiling at one another before Tanya threw a pillow at James.

"I'm going to go use the restroom," Emmett said getting up from the couch. He leaned down and gave Tanya a quick kiss, "Be right back."

"Hurry," she said grinning up at him.

Emmett made his way back to the restroom and Jessica followed closely behind, brushing against him as she made her way to her room. Emmett could have sworn her hand grazed his ass as she walked by, but he shrugged it off and went in the restroom. While he was sitting there on the toilet taking care of business, Emmett pulled out his phone and started texting Alice to see how she was doing. After he was in there a while, he told Alice goodnight and that he had to get back to Tanya and Royce, he'd been gone long enough.

When he exited the bathroom and made his way to the living room, he noticed that Kelly was back and her clothes looked rumpled and askew. Not only that, but her hair was a little messy as well. He eyed Royce suspiciously, who just shrugged his shoulders and went back to watching the movie. Emmett sat down next to Tanya and then even further noticed that her mood had changed. When he put his arm around her she shrugged it off and moved a little further away from him, and when he tried to kiss her, she turned her head away claiming she wanted to watch the movie.

When the movie was over, he walked her out to her truck.

"You know you don't have to walk me out, I can find my own truck," she all but snarled at him.

"Did I do something wrong?" Emmett asked startled at the change on her tone.

"No, I'm just tired," Tanya snapped at him. She climbed in to her truck without so much as a goodbye and left him standing there confused in the middle of the driveway.

Emmett watched her truck lights disappear down the road, going over their evening in his head trying to recall a moment where he might have offended her in some way, but couldn't think of one. Something must have happened while he had been using the restroom, maybe it was the amount of time he had spent in there that had offended her. Emmett turned around and headed in to the house.

Once inside he went to the fridge and grabbed himself another beer then proceeded to throw himself down on the couch and cracked it open, taking a long swig. Royce glanced over at him with a raised eyebrow, which had it been any other time Emmett would have found this hilarious with his one missing tooth. However, the way things had just perspired between him and Tanya he didn't find this amusing at all.

"What happened?"

Emmett shrugged, "No idea."

When Emmett had finished his beer, he grabbed another one and headed outside to smoke and text Tanya.

"I hope you made it home safe, I know you were upset about something. I wish you would tell me what it is so I can fix it, I really like and care about you. Have a good night."

Emmett sent the message and snapped his phone shut, shoving it deep in his pocket. He didn't expect a text back from her, but he hoped he got one before they left. He chugged his beer before throwing the can as hard as he could at the fence, letting his anger take over for a moment. He was angry, things were going right for a change. He was happy for a split second and he should have known better than to let his guard down for even a split second. He tried to gain control again, his chest heaved as he breathed in and out deep, long breathes to calm himself.

"Is everything okay?" Jessica called from the door.

"Everything's fine," he replied dejectedly before making his way back inside.

Once he was sitting down on the couch again, he pulled his phone out to see if he had missed a call or text from Tanya. His screen just showed the time instead, no missed calls and no missed text messages leaving him to wonder just what it was that happened to suddenly change the way she felt towards him.