Chapter three: gossip

EPOV

It was Tanya that brought me out of my thoughts.

"Hey sweetie," god I hated it when she called me that.

"Hey Tanya," I really didn't feel like talking to her right now.

"Did you hear that Bella is leaving forever?" she asked.

"Yes Tanya, I did." This news made her smile drop; obviously she wanted to break the news to me. I was guessing that she wanted to gauge my reaction. I was glad she wasn't the one to break it to me. She wouldn't understand my pull to Bella and the friendship that we had.

"I never really liked her," Tanya told me. What? I thought in my head, I didn't understand how someone could not like Bella she was one of the sweetest, caring people I have ever met.

Tanya went on explaining Bella's impending departure but I didn't listen. I was daydreaming about the old days when Bella and I were still friends. I couldn't believe that I let such a little thing as Mike Newton ruin our friendship. I wanted to go up to her and tell her that I would miss her, but I was stopped by Tanya. If she saw me with Bella she would freak out. It was then that I decided that I was over Tanya and I had to break it off.

BPOV

The week passed pretty quickly. All my friends gave me sad looks all week. Even Edward seemed sad, but then I thought it was only my imagination. I had wanted him to be sad that I was leaving. I didn't want to leave knowing that I had not set everything right with him but he didn't give me a chance to talk to him. He would leave class quickly and wouldn't even look at me.

I had also seen Jessica and Mike out in the car park making out a couple of times, which didn't make my week any easier. I just kept telling myself, 'we're only 14 I have plenty of time left to find my soul mate.' I was still upset seeing him with her so soon after our breakup. It made me think whether he really did like me or whether he was just using me to get to Jessica. The thought had also occurred to me that maybe all those nights that he said he was doing homework, he was actually seeing Jessica. That thought made me feel sick.

I wasn't in love with Mike, we had never even said the words but he was my first boyfriend so he still meant something to me. He had also been the reason that Edward and I had stopped being friends and that made me think. What if I had never decided to date Mike, would Edward and I still be friends? Or would he turn into the cold person he is now? I wondered whether anyone knew whether Mike was cheating on me and then came my answer.

I was emptying my locker when two girls from my year stopped a couple of meters away.

"Did you hear about Bella and Mike?" one girl had asked.

"I heard they broke up" replied the other.

"No did you hear that he's with Jessica now, and that he had been seeing her behind Bella's back?"

That's what did it that is what made me happy I was leaving this awful town. I had never felt happy that I was leaving until now. I ran into the bathroom crying. I had passed a couple of people on my way, but I didn't care who saw me I would be leaving tomorrow.

EPOV

I had seen Bella's face drop as she listened to the two girls talk. I thought it would be something about class, that we would be reading one of her favourite books next. But I was wrong. When I saw her crying my heart broke. I knew now what she had overheard, it was all over the school. She had heard that Mike had been cheating on her while they were dating. I just hoped she didn't find out how long it had been going on for. Nearly everyone in the school knew about it now and now Bella as well. I wanted to hug her and reassure her that he wasn't good enough for her and that she was beautiful and didn't deserve it, but I didn't get a chance as she ran straight past me. I saw her run into the bath room and figured that if she was the same as she was when we were friends she would be in there for awhile.