Chapter 8
Okay I'm changing the formatting of the story now thanks to a comment I've received D (THIS IS NOT A POEM!)
"I can't take this anymore!" Tears were streaming down my cheeks.
"Why can you never get along?!" Emmet had arrived at the scene by now,
"Do they really have to answer that question or is it rhetorical? We're not 'spose to get along, hello?" he answered anyways. He looked like he was about to snap his fingers and say girlfriend. Edward still pinning Jacob to the wall broke his stare to look at me. Jacobs hands were next to his head trying to act cool.
"Bella, we need to settle this," Jacob was saying,
"So you're going to have to pick. Me, or him." The way Jacob had said "him" made me shudder. It made me think I should look at Edward in a dirty way, the way he did. Then again, that was the point.
"Well isn't it obvious?" Alice jumped in beside me.
"I'd like to hear it from her." He sneered.
"Edward put him down." I signaled to him. Jacob slowly dropped his hands and Edward released him to his feet.
"Jake…" I hesitated to let him down easy, because everybody in the room already knew my answer,
"Let's all talk about this tomorrow…" I stumbled. I needed to think of some sort of speech to let him down upon. As I said that sentence I almost felt the air ease, I could head everyone huff from holding their breath. I was the first to leave the room, followed solemnly by Alice, then Emmet, Jasper, Rosalie, Jacob (scowling), and Edward.
"Damn it Alice!" I was back in the suite,
"What am I gonna do?" Alice gave me a crazed look like she couldn't believe I hadn't made up my mind,
"I mean of course I'm picking Edward" I said to her. Her face relaxed,
"Then what are you talking about?" She was relatively calm,
"I mean…" I was beginning to become impatient again,
"Of course I'm picking Edward, but I still desperately want to be friends with Jake!" I realized I'd never called him Jake in front of her,
"Ob" I added flushing.
"It's…" she stumbled,
"Suppose to be hard…" I sighed,
"This hard?" I whined. Alice put her finger to her lips,
"Shh, Edward's coming" she barley whispered more like mouthed. After about 20 seconds I heard the key in the door click. I hoped he didn't hear us. Alice's hearing was amazing.
"So?" Edward seemed awful anxious for knowing the answer...
"So… What?" I asked playing dumb.
"So …" he said annoyed,
"What's the verdict?" I stalled as much as I could…
"Umm… I'm going to sleep on it…" He took a deep sigh,
"Seriously?" He was almost more than impatient now. A tear dropped on my cheek,
"I don't know Edward!" I nearly yelled. I didn't realized I'd said that so loud. I thought this kind of decision would be easy. I guess I already knew the answer but needed a way to let Jacob down. I pulled myself into Edward's lap,
"I'm sorry…" I whispered. He just smiled an understanding smile. We both pulled closer for a kiss, but when we were centimeters away from each other's lips Emmet opened the door. We stayed in the same position from each other. Emmet looked our way,
"Well don't let me
interrupt your make-out session!" he said enthusiastically.
"It's
late." I said to him,
"I'm going to get to bed." He nodded and stood up. He walked me over to the bed and gently put me down.
The next day I tried to avoid Jacob as much as possible. I got up at 11:00 just to sleep as long as possible. I ate for 2 hours with Alice, (That must havekilled her) I played competitive ping pong with Emmet for another hour, I relaxed in the room with Edward for 3 hours (so easy to do), just kind of walked around the ship with Jasper talking for 2 hours, and got my feet and nails for with Rosalie for 2 hours. After all of that I was really tired already. 10 extreme avoiding hours with the Cullens is hard work! I didn't eat lunch simply because I didn't have an appetite, but I was starving for dinner, we got to our reserved table at 9:30 and I finished by 10:30,
"Edward, it's been a long day of avoiding for me, I think I'm just going to go to bed."
"Alright," He looked back at the others,
"You all ready?" They nodded.
"I don't know where my key is…" I said jadedly.
"It's ok, I have one." Rosalie said digging through her purse. We turned the corner to our room and there stood Jacob. He said in a repulsive tone,
"What's your decision Bella?"