AN: This is a shorter chapter compared to the others and my least favorite but I needed to get it posted. This chapter actually has ties to the end of chapter 9 and the beginning of 10. Sorry if I'm disrupting the flow of chapters, but it didn't feel right posting before now.
Tanya
I could not believe that Edward Cullen didn't want me, Tanya Denali. I was the hottest thing this in this godforsaken town.
I had set a goal a long time ago for myself; I was going to marry a doctor. And I had found the one I wanted. Doctor Edward Cullen. When he showed up at the hospital in June, I knew he was the one.
The first time I saw him I just couldn't take my eyes off of him; tall and incredibly gorgeous. We were perfect for each other. With my beauty and his good looks, we would be the envy of everyone.
For months I had played cat and mouse with him. With his schedule we only went out a handful of times. It was nothing for him to work 24 hours, take the minimum 24 hours off, just to come back in and work another 12 hours.
Without begging him I had offered him my body. But he was just too much of a gentleman to take me up on my offer. I waited patiently thinking maybe he was just shy but he never came around. I couldn't wait until I discovered what was under the aloof character that he projected. He was too serious and I'm sure I could bring him out of his shell.
I started paying more attention to his time off and how it was occupied. He spent the weekends at his brother's bar. What a dive. Between his loud obnoxious older brother and his wife that thought she was all that, I didn't understand the appeal of the bar. Then there's his younger sister Alice. Oh she was good at putting on a show for Edward, being all sickly sweet to me. He seemed the odd man out in his family. If I could just get him away from them, he would be mine.
Inviting myself along the other night, hoping to make some leeway by playing nice, he did the unthinkable moments after I arrived. He ran out after some plain jane named Bella who his bitch sister called his wife. He corrected her but the comment about her changing her last name from Cullen to Swan again didn't go unnoticed. Another little tidbit, he said he hadn't seen her in six years was also filed away. Was she the reason he wouldn't commit to a relationship and what was her hold on him that would last six years?
Alice the bitch was also quick to let me know with Bella back that I needed to move on. I didn't stand a chance with her brother. Her exact words, my brother belongs with Bella and there isn't anything you can do about it.
Then to make matters worse, I discovered that she worked at the hospital. There was no way for them to avoid each other living in this same town and working at the same place.
Monday at work I had noticed that Edward kept to himself more then he usually did, almost like he was contemplating something. He seemed unapproachable so I kept my distance. I didn't want to push him further away then I already had after my temper tantrum Friday night.
I would continue to watch until I felt the time was right and make my move.
I followed him home after work Monday night to see if he was seeing her. Whatever transpired last Friday night between them didn't carryover into this week because he went straight home.
He didn't work until Wednesday so when he got off Thursday night, I followed him home. Again he went home.
Since he never left once he was home after working a shift, I decided tonight was when I would make my move. I ran home, changed into an outfit he could not refuse and went back to his place. His car was gone. I had only been gone twenty to thirty minutes max. I shouldn't have left because now I didn't know where he was.
Staking his place out thinking he wouldn't be gone long, I waited. I must have dosed off because when I wake up it was after midnight. Looking around his car wasn't there.
Giving up I went home and decided to come back tomorrow morning.
Thinking maybe he had stayed out late with his family that I hated, noon would be a good time to stop by. He's car was still gone. For the second time I regretted leaving since I missed him again.
Just as I started to pull out, his car pulled in so I stopped. Then someone I now considered my arch enemy got out of his car. Bella Swan.
I couldn't believe what I was witnessing. It wasn't so much that she was with him but what they were doing. While he was trying to open the door, she was in his arms with her legs wrapped around his waist. In between kisses they were laughing.
I had never seen him that carefree and I hated that he was acting like that with her instead of me. What did she have that I didn't?
I needed to up my game plan because she obviously was playing harder then I was.