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A/N. So, I've made some changes on the previous chapters, that's why I re-uploaded them. Nothing you need to worry about, just warning here that I've returned Bella's major to Law - because they don't have dance major on UCLA -. Just that.
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[BPOV]
I woke up that next day feeling lighter than usual. I already had a realization in my mind, I liked Edward, I really did and most importantly, I would willingly give in a chance to prove me wrong, but I still had to decide when I would finally break the news to him. Maybe I should send him a message so he won't be feeling like I blew him off. But you did blow him off, messages or any kind of contact with that excuse for a human being is out of question. I told my inner voice to shut up, I had made a decision and I would put up a courageous face and wouldn't step back on it. At least I hoped so.
Joshua's snores overclouded my thoughts and my moment of bliss, now I was just annoyed. Why did I let him sleep here in the first place? He was performing the Harmonica right on my ear, so I pushed him off. . . Okay, maybe I pushed him off with a lot more strength than needed, let's just say he ended up on the floor, groaning and I made my best to put my angelic face on.
"I'm sorry Josh." I said trying hard not to laugh.
"You want me out of here don't you?" His voice was sleepy as he picked himself off the floor. "Either that or you're just mean."
"I'm not mean Joshua; it's not my fault I was hearing one of Beethoven's symphonies being played with your snores. Sometimes you can be so loud, you know?" I sustained my upper body on my elbows and tried to take a peak on the side he had rolled off to see if he was okay.
"I wouldn't have snored if you hadn't kept me up last night mumbling Edward's name." Joshua declared annoyingly.
My eyes widened and my cheeks started to burn. I had dreamt about Edward last night, in a very indecent way, doing indecent things to him, while he done indecent things with my body. The dream was great, not the afterwards though, not after I just discovered I may have moaned his name in front of my very awake older brother. Oh, my gosh, just murder me now, very slowly and painfully.
"Umm. . . No, I didn't. Stop lying Joshua." He laughed at my shaky voice and poor defense.
"Yes, you did, and if I recall it, it wasn't just one time, it was a lot. You're very lucky it was me lying on the other side of the bed, because if Rosalie and Alice had slept here last night, they would be picking on you as we speak." I was still blushing so hard and couldn't make it go away, Josh had rose fully from the floor now and was standing in front of the bed, arms crossed on his bare chest and both eyebrows raised.
I covered my head with my pillow in embarrassment.
"Why are you like that Bells? I know you like the guy, more like in love with him, 'so in love with him'!" He made the quotation marks in the air as he was evidently repeating something I had said while sleeping. You don't shut your mouth not even when you're sleeping huh?
"How did I say his name…? Exactly?" My voice was stifled by the pillow.
"Like any other day, like you were talking with him, or thinking about him, the normal stuff. Why?" He frowned.
"Nothing, nothing." I removed the pillow from my face, and got up. "Okay Super Hero, time to let your sister have some time alone to think." I was practically shoving him out the door.
"Will you at least let me grab my clothes?" He whined while I pushed him towards the door, he grabbed on everything he could get in hands and it was all a pile of clothing.
"There is your stuff! Now shoo! Or I'm going to make you dance your Outrageous choreography!" That threat always worked, before you could say 'Banana Hammocks' he was out the door.
I'm not going to lie and say that I wasn't in the mood for happy songs because I was. I grabbed my pink IPod – trust me, the only reason it was pink was because Alice had bought it to me on my last birthday – and placed it on the loud speakers. I started to shuffle through my playlist quickly finding the link that would lead me to my Britney Spears' songs. What? Judge me later; her songs were my happy mood songs, only time when I listened to pop crap. I hit the play button and soon 'Boys' started to play. I had every single album of hers in that little box, from 'Baby one more time' to 'Circus'. I made my way and hopped on my bed, grabbing a hair brush along the way, I started to dance and hop around like a mad woman, singing along with the lyrics. I'm sure many people banged my locked door to demand me to turn the fucking volume down, but I wasn't listening, I was too trapped on my non-burstable bubble. I did heard however when the door was being unlocked, I turned around to see Rosalie and Alice standing there, grinning at me like two fools. I lowered my brush and blushed, before I could notice they had kicked their shoes off and were hopping on the bed with me.
"You can come take me away, there's no pressure, play all day. Grip me tight and don't let go. Mm papa, love you. Mm papa, love you. You love it when I'm freaking out, things get rough and there's no doubt. You will always be there for me. Mm papa, love you. Mm papa, love you. Now see, I'm Mami and that makes you Papi and that makes us Lavi Ow! "Mm papa Mm papa mm papa Mmm papa Mmm papa mmm papa Mmm papa Mmm papa mmm papa Ooh." We laughed as we sang the last words of 'Hmm Papa', they crashed on the mattress and I turned my Ipod off, along with the speakers, before crashing there with them as well. We looked at each other, and started laughing, just like that, out of the blue. I had tears in my eyes by the time we stopped.
I sat whipping my tears away from my eyes, we were all sweaty now. Man how I loved having fun with those two crazy bitches.
"I take that you are happier than yesterday. What happened? A bunny humped on your leg?" Rosalie asked me.
I shook my head no.
"Then what is it? Huh? What happened to make you present me with a round of at least twenty Britney Spears' songs?" Alice was nearly pleading.
"Joshua came here last night after Emmett expelled him from his room." I looked at Rosalie who gave me an apologetic smile. "No, it's not like that. I missed spending brother/sister time with Joshua and he put some sense into my head I think." I took a moment before continuing.
"C'mon Bella! Spill!" Alice demanded. "You're torturing me."
I filled them in on everything Joshua had said to me, not leaving out a single dot. "I decided I'm going to give Edward a chance if he still wants it. I won't blame him if he doesn't though, I don't know when I'll talk to him, but it'll be soon, I promise you guys, but I need time to regroup and trust in myself to do this, so don't push me ok?" My cheeks were burning from the blush and also from my new smile that didn't seem to fade away. "I'm not ready now, but I'll be, sooner or later, preferably sooner than later."
The next thing I knew their arms were around me, Alice squealed and Rosalie said how much she was proud of me, like I was somewhat her young daughter all grown up now. I just laughed at them.
"I'm not saying that I trust him, all I'm saying is that I'm willing to let him make me." I blushed again. "I don't want make this all about me, you know? But I need to trust him before anything. Ooh and that brings us…" They had pulled away and I looked at Alice. "Do you know where he went last night?"
"Uh… Nope." She shrugged. "When I got there, Jasper said he had kicked Edward out, but never told me where he went. I guess he must have crashed in one of the team's room. I dunno." Her eyes lit up a little and I started feeling scary. "Bella, do you realize that you would make everything easier for us if you just started dating Edward?"
I smiled. "Don't go over there just yet Alice, one step at a time, please… And what happened to the no boy policy?"
"I guess that we would just have to change the sheets in the morning." Rosalie answered, we all laughed. That brought me amazing memories from my dream last night. I blushed.
"Okay, we talked a lot, and everything, I'm happy that you guys are happy for me, but I'm going to shower see if I can get anything done today instead of moping around the dorm. Maybe we could check some new housing?" Alice squealed her agreement.
I lifted myself up from my bed, took on my arms fresh new clothes - Ugh, I would have to laundry soon -, and my liquid body soap (in no mood for washing my hair). I left the room waving the girls and when I took my first step out of the room, turning to the hallway, quickly closing the door behind me… A knife stabbed my heart. Alright maybe I am being a little dramatic, but it felt like a slap across my face, a bucked of cold ice spilled on me, and all the bad things.
Edward was leaving Jessica and Lauren's room. I felt slightly betrayed even thought I had no right to feel that way, but in my head that only meant one thing: I was terribly wrong. In all sorts of ways, and in all possible manners. I. Was. Wrong. About him, about everything, I don't know how to put it in words, but I don't know how I felt right then and there, he was fully clothed , leaving their room in the middle of the morning, his hair was disrelished and he looked like a god, but still, that didn't erase the meaning of that scene. Spending the night at one of the guy's dorm, Alice said? Well, my ass! I bet he didn't even wait for Jasper to kick him out and grabbed the phone right then and there to call the skanks. I'm pretty sure that when I was done with overthinking, I was started to get mad, my nostrils inflated and I pulled my bottom lip between my teeth, starting to chew on it. I wanted to go up to him and ask him what the hell was that, but I had absolutely no right to, who was I? His girlfriend? I'm not even sure if I was his friend at that point. I didn't know where we stand and it appeared to me he knew very well where he stood. Between those sluts' legs. I felt like hitting my head on the wall and cry out loud how stupid I was and how I was being such an idiot, stupid ass. I realized that I had been standing there too long and he looked at me, dumbfounded.
"Un-fucking-believable." I whispered to myself, but I'm pretty sure he heard that. What was up in his ass? One mistake after the other, after the other, and so on. I seemed to be the only one who saw that. Newsflash my friends, I'm not blind! At that point, all of the conversation I had with Joshua the night before had gone to hell, all of my plans to try to trust him had gone downhill.
I passed by him, pretty sure he was about to say something, or even call my name and try to explain his actions, but I just kept walking.
I think that was the fastest I stripped from my clothes and got into the shower, there were strangely no girls with me, thankfully.
How could he? After all he said… I told you sweet cheeks, he is an excuse for a human being, you just told him no and then he goes and jumps in another bed? Shut up. What? It's the truth. No, shut up! That was it. How could I blame him if I told him no? I told him to back away, I am the most stupid person in the world, and he could have been between my legs this morning if I was less of a mess. I'm really starting to get angry at you now, how come you keep making those excuses up for him? Are you in love with him or something? A lump got stuck on my throat. Was I? I mean… in love with… him?
You're so blind that you wouldn't see love if it slapped you across the face.
Cannot argue with that.
[EPOV] – Previous day.
Who had I kill to deserve that? Huh? Had I threw stones at the cross Jesus was carrying? Mocked some high being? Anything? I stood there in the middle of nothing for God knows how many minutes after she drove off on Rosalie's car, I stood there looking dumb, with the stupid look on my face, wondering what had gotten into her. Why she left like she did, after the most amazing experience of my life! I am frustrated, and am experiencing a lot of other feelings that I can't seem to name right now.
I got up the other day a little after seven, tired as hell, I didn't sleep quite well, my restless mind kept remembering me about the kiss I shared with Bella, and my body kept remembering me how her body affected me. Jasper was pacing around like a mad man, and perhaps that what was made me wake up.
"What the fuck Jas? I'm trying to sleep here man." I whined, pulling my sheets over my head.
Jasper pulled the sheets down. "I'm going out with Alice today and won't be back until later tonight, and I better not find you here, you really don't wanna see me and your sister do you?"
Great. Really fucking unbelievably great. Jasper had his way with words and I would keep this fine mental image on my head for the rest of my life. "Thank you Jasper, I really appreciate your attemptive to send me to treatment. You're paying." Well, it's fair enough to say that I quit sleeping.
"No problem, as long as you're gone." The bastard smirked at me, and started to gather his things.
"Where the hell am I going to sleep?" I sat on the bed and rubbed my sleep off my eyes.
"I don't know and I don't care crash at Jessica and Lauren's, you know they always have a place for you there."
"Thanks man. You're my best friend by the way, you know that? Because I'm pretty sure you forgot." Sarcasm was heavy on my voice. Jessica and Lauren had stopped being a possibility last night. I was whipped; unfortunately the girl that whipped me appeared to not want any kind of relationship with me. I shook my head to avoid thinking about her, again.
"Anything wrong there Eddie? Couple of days ago you would have practically ran off to their room. Now you're all defensive." He sat on the bed.
Fuck. I forgot how well Jasper could read me, or anyone for that matter.
"Some things happened yesterday I'm afraid and I'm a tidy bit… confused. Yeah, that's a good word. I may have fucked some things up." I ran my hand through my already messy hair. Yawn. God, I was tired.
"Is this about Bella in any way?" He raised his eyebrows, I mirrored him, and I may have been looking a little more astonished than him. "Well, here's the thing Eddie, only a fool could ignore the way you look at each other, besides, I hear Rosalie and Alice talking about this nearly every single day! Why don't you two just get together already?"
I was speechless. "I-I… She doesn't want me, I guess. Funny huh? How the only person you want to be with doesn't want you back?"
Jasper sat on his bed. "Look, I'm not going to hold your hand or anything and after this girl session we're having here, you better leave the room, but she likes you man, whatever you did, whatever she said, whatever happened, she likes you. I mean that, like I said, I would have to be dumb to not notice this fact." He smiled and got up again, in the back of my mind, I completely ignored the first part of his little speech. Best friend right? Best friend my ass!
"Emmett doesn't know it, does he?"
"He's dumb." Jasper simply said. Poor Emmett, apparently he was the only one blinded in the whole gang.
When Jasper left, I tried to go back to my sleeping form, not happening, my mind kept replaying me last night, ongoing from the words Bella had said, to our kiss, to everything, I tossed and turned, and everything. You're so fucking whipped. It's fucking disgusting. Why this internal monologue? Why my internal voice was never coherent with my choices? Let me be whipped, I don't give a fuck. I called her that morning, trying to get her to have breakfast with me, to do something with me and talk about what had happened, I quit after my twentieth call and fifth message. I guess that at some point of over thinking Bella, I finally drifted off to sleep.
Woke up a little later, still tired from the whole event figuring out that I'd probably better get something done, I had this incredible sky height pile of homework to do. I groaned. Sometimes I completely forget how not easy pre-med is. So library would be my choice for the afternoon, after shower and lunch.
Apparently my afternoon started greatly, after I shower and lunched, I hooked up a place for me to spend the night in – nope, it wasn't on the bimbos' palace – I would spend the night with a team mate, but I did however have some things to talk to with Lauren and Jessica, I wanted to make our 'break up' clear for them so they wouldn't pursue any more of me. Not that I am full of myself, but they can be quite clingy when they want to be… which is, all the time, but I would only do so in the next morning, today would be all about school.
Shower: Check! Lunch: Check! And now library. Setting my feet there I was greeted with thousands of books shelves and the library lady telling me to keep quiet. Like I would disturb any other person around here, it was Saturday for God's sakes; nobody goes to the library on Saturdays… That is, nobody but one.
What the hell?
Why every thought I have revolves around her? I passed my hand through my hair and made my way to the tables way on the back of the library. I could always use some peace and quiet to be alone with my somewhat disturbing thoughts.
As soon as I got to them, my eye caught something. No fucking way! It was her. Bella. My eyes missed the sight, she looked like she was trying to concentrate on something, I felt like a pervert watching her from a corner where she could not see me. Observing the curves of her body, her luscious lips, her bare legs – thank you Alice – and the arcs her breasts made in the tank top in a criminal way. Should I talk to her, should I not? From the way she acted yesterday it was pretty clear to me that she didn't want to talk to me, but I decided to go so I stood up from my seat and walked up to her table, sitting in the chair in front of her.
Her eyes lifted from the laptop, she was pretty much clear someone was standing in front of her now, but when she saw me, she got up and started to gather her stuff around, I held her by the wrist.
"Let me go Edward." She demanded, her voice was sort of threatening.
"Not until you talk to me, I called you at least twenty times, and sent you messages. Talk to me Bella." I whispered softly to her, with no intention of raising my voice even thought it was obvious that we were the only two in the library.
"What do you want to talk about?" Bella sat on her chair again, closing the laptop.
"Why did you take off like that yesterday Bella? After all that was said and done…"
"I couldn't... I-I wouldn't." She looked adorable when struggling with words, but I don't know if I would like what would come up next. "I can't."
"Wha-what?" Her words were like a slap across my face, no, I preferred a lot more if she had slapped me. "You don't care about me, is that it? What you said to me yesterday… Was it a lie?"
She bit her bottom lip, a clear indication that she was nervous. "No Edward. I didn't lie, I like you, I do."But... "But I don't know if I trust you."
She got up and left, leaving her glasses behind, but I highly doubt she would come back to get them, I know her better than this, so I didn't held on to any hopes I might have built, I just got up and left a while after she did, bringing her glasses along for the ride.
So, I get to finish my homework on my dorm, it turned out shit, because my mind kept drifting off to Bella and once in a while I looked at her glasses on my night stand. I had clearly screwed up royally with her, and I didn't know what the fuck I was going to do now. I moved to fast on her, the kiss was a mistake, a good mistake, but still, a mistake.
"Hey, Eddie!" A clap and a slap on the back of my head startled me out of my thinking process.
"What the hell man! Haven't you heard of knocking?" I looked at Joshua. Wrong, wrong sibling!
"I did knock; my fist is hurting from all the knocking I did. I thought you were dead, so I just barged in."
"I see that, so did you get expelled from your room also?"
"Yeah, Emmett gave me the most horrible mental image, so, I don't think I'll be able to enter the room in another few months."
I laughed and patted his back. "At least Emmett didn't give you a mental image of him and your sister."
He raised his brows. "Oh, I wouldn't need Emmett for that. I have you."
I chose to completely ignore his words. "Jasper woke me up practically shoving a porno tape of him and Alice on my head. Thankfully, I got him to stop before it got any worse."
"Jasper huh?"
"Who would figure, that bastard son of a bitch. I'll never be able to look at my sister from the same angle."
"Well, I bet he won't." He held back his laughter.
"Yeah, yeah. Enough about my little sister's sex life. Where you crashing today?"
"I'm going to have a sleepover with my baby sister, but she doesn't know that yet. I'll put on my best puppy eyes and she won't dismiss me. She won't fucking resist." Well, he must have noticed my sad face when he mentioned Bella.
"Something wrong Eddie? Are you two on the quits again?"
I filled him in the whole story, not hiding a bit, from the kiss to this afternoon on the library. Joshua is a real good listener and gives crappy advices, I never follow them, and when I decide to do so… I get completely screwed up. When I finally finished, because I had to put my insights in everything, right? Anyway, he was pissed to say the least, I asked him if I had done something wrong, he said I didn't, but that he would be having a very serious talk with Bella, I trying to convince him otherwise, but he left the room. Really, I'm starting to wonder what will happen if I get to nail the Swan's feet on the floor… Both Josh and Bella would die, because they have this thing about taking off and leaving you, jaw dropped like no one else does.
I sighed and shook my head to put it in place. Joshua was either going to help me, or screw me over royally, or I really hoped he was choosing the first option, I don't know how much more screwed I could get around Bella anymore.
A few minutes later I packed my stuff and made my way to Paul's room, locking the door on my way out… Hopefully Jasper had forgotten about the keys.
***
The morning rose, and the birds started to sing making me want to shoot them – just kidding – I'm not a morning person, who am I joking?
I got up from the messy mattress I was lying in, went directly to the showers and as soon as I got out of there, I was on my way to the bimbo's palace.
I knocked on the door only once before they opened, but I couldn't help but notice the loud thud coming from Bella's room, I laughed to myself imagining if the one to fall on the floor was her or Joshua, probably her, with her clumsy self.
"Edward!" The high pitched voice came from the door, distinguishable, it belong to Jessica who ushered me inside their room, and put me with the back against the door, before I knew what she was doing, she began to lift the hem of my shirt.
"Jessica stop!" I put her hands away; she pouted her lips and looked at me like a lost puppy dog. Yeah, like that would work. "I didn't come here to do this."
"You didn't?" I could feel the surprise in her voice. Was I really only coming here for sexual favors? I knew the answer quite well. Yes you did. "What the fuck?" I heard Jessica saying while I was a little too lost in my own thoughts.
There was a loud, loud music coming from Bella's dorm, Britney Spears. Was Alice back already? I shook my head, I was there determined to do one thing and it would be accomplished.
"Umm, where's Lauren?" I wanted to talk to them both.
"She's showering, why? You want her don't you? You don't want me, is that it?" Oh here we go the psychotic whore.
"No Jessica, I just need to talk to the both of you, that's it." I might have emphasized the word 'talk' a little bit too much. I detached myself from the door and walked to one of their beds sitting on one, my feet firmly on the ground.
Maybe there were a few minutes without talking, which I thanked for, Jessica just kept shooting these weird glances at me, and I just avoided her, I really don't know how she went on without talking, but all we could hear was Britney Spears, I think that five or six tracks later, we heard the door knob being turned and Lauren entering the room, with just a towel wrapped around her body, I won't lie and say that she's ugly, because she's not, and she's hot too, but no reaction to my body see? My dick didn't even respond to the fact that she was just in a towel, if I didn't know I was whipped, I would say I was gay.
"Fucking God damn it! My fist is fucking hurting from banging Bella's door so hard, she won't turn the volume down!" Clearly she hadn't notice my presence because when she did, her hand went to her chest and she gasped.
"Edward! What a pleasant surprise! What you're here for?" I could see her hands working the knot of her towel.
"Lauren… Don't." I stopped her before it got out of hand. "I came here to talk to you."
She positioned herself in the bed in front of the one I was sitting in and where Jessica took a seat as well.
"So, tired of just the booty calls? Came here to know us a little better, huh?"
"Um… Not exactly." I passed my hand through my hair. What on earth did I get myself in the middle of?
"So, what you came here for?"
"Well…" I swallowed a bit more loudly than I wanted. "I came here to say that I won't be spending the evenings with you ladies anymore."
After a brief comforting silence, Jessica was the first one to say anything.
"You're breaking up with us? How can you Edward?"
"Actually, there's no breaking up going on in here. It's not like we're dating."
"But still…" She ran out of arguments. "Lauren?!"
"So it's true then? You're all whipped up?" She chuckled.
"Yes it is, and I have to prove myself to her, so I won't be coming here anymore, and I mean it."
"You mean that? I know you do Eddie. I just hope you will come running back to us once she's done with you. You're a fine piece of meat, that's what you are." Lauren's voice was balanced, but her words didn't make any effect on me whatsoever.
"Yeah, right. Okay so, I guess I'll see myself out." I started to get up and Jessica griped her arms around my waist.
"Please don't go! Don't trade us for the whore you were talking on the party. We'll be nice and better than her."
I unfastened her arms from my waist and walked to the door, noticing that the Britney Spears show had already stopped. I turned the knob and got myself out of the room, taking a deep relief sigh. Like relief would happen anytime soon. I looked up and there she was, the girl my eyes missed, she looked rather disappointed. Her teeth were working forcefully on her lower lip, making a direct connection with my cock. What the fuck? "Un-fucking-believable." That was all that she whispered, after a long time of staring at me, and I knew I had, once more, fucked up royally. She passed by me, without saying a word.
You. Are. Fucked.
***
It's been three days… Three fucking and torturing days since the last time I've seen her, or ever heard words coming from her mouth, it's like she's been avoiding me. Why the fuck I have to be the one to have the luck of getting caught in the most compromising positions? I was angry at the world for sure, for the past three days not only I've been too busy with pre-med, I was also busy with practicing, and for the past three days, none of the cheerleaders appeared on the field, my nerves were on wrack for the game, and I was going completely ballistic. I was pretty damn sure that Bella got some way of not having to practice on the field and the gym was were they were, with those lousy bastards of basketball team including… Mike Newton. I shook my head to avoid these thoughts but they were faster than me, imagining him with his eyes all over her was disgusting and I felt bad about Bella.
What infuriated me the most was that she took off that day and didn't even give me the slight chance to explain myself, not that I deserve any waiting from her side, but… God, it was like the whole fucking universe was conspiring against me, besides this whole conspiring shit, we were on blue and gold week, and each day of the week we had something to do, actually we were offered activities throughout the whole hours of the day, Rally, T-shit contests and all the 'show your Bruins pride' shit. I used to love it, but I was too irritated to like it this year, besides, I was on the fucking football team, I had to appear at at least one event per day. Nonetheless I was stuck in my dorm right now, trying to study something worthy while gathering the courage to go to the basketball game we would have in a few hours, I guess it would be a good thing to look at Bella since she was going to be unable to avoid me during the entire game, since my best friends were her best friend's boyfriend and her own brother, I just wanted to be alone with her, since last time I was, things didn't go so well.
Jasper stormed in the dorm making me jump on my seat, and making my laptop almost fall on the floor, I grabbed it before the chance occurred.
"What are you so jumpy for Jazz?" He looked at me, and then just like that, darted his eyes away from mine, this was strange to say the least, something was up, I could tell. "What's wrong? Want to tell me, or do I have to slowly torture you into telling me?"
He laughed nervously. "It's nothing Eddie, chill out. I guess I'm catching on Alice's low caffeine tolerance, no biggie." I decided I wouldn't push, he would probably get mad at me, so I just went back to my chores, and heard his relief sigh. He would eventually crack, I knew him and he couldn't keep a secret from me, he was just like Emmett, they were two peas in a pot, I'll tell you that.
After a few more minutes of silence, he was the first one to speak. "So, you're going to the game tonight?"
"Sure, why wouldn't I? Plus it's a chance to talk to Bella without she being able to avoid me and all the shit."
"Yeah, yeah. I hope you can do it man… Alice's is on me all day talking about your situation." He had sat on the bed and was doing something with his cell phone and yet again… not looking at me.
"Really, and what's she saying?"
"Shit. Too much information. Don't do this with me man, Alice will murder me if I tell you anything."
"Okay, okay… I won't push you… for now. What time is it anyway?"
"It's a little past 5, the game is in an hour, so if you wanna finish that, I'll go, we'll wait for you… Emmett is riding us there… You should probably take your car though, we'll be leaving with the girls afterwards."
I passed my hand through my head, wanting so bad to say that I was leaving there with Bella, even thought I knew it wasn't true. Why does she has to have the most thick skull in the whole world?
"Alright man, I think I'll finish this another time, maybe tomorrow. Oh, are we doing something special on Friday?"
Jasper looked at me like he didn't understand a bit of what I was saying. "Friday?"
"Yeah shithead! The auction, where we're being the objects? I'm pretty sure the cheerleaders will be up to something on their own."
"Oh shit! I completely forgot about this auction. The girls had to pull out this little fucking stunt on us, didn't they?"
"What 'up bitches?!" The door banged on the wall for the second time and Emmett got in the room, collapsing right on Jasper's side, Jasper quickly moved himself to a sitting position.
"How come you're not in your room?" Jasper asked, flipping his cell phone off and putting it on his back pocket.
"Joshua put the sock on the knob, and by that sock's size… things might take a while, so I thought…. What the hell? I'm going to spend some times with my two whipped best friends… gladly neither Alice or Bella are here… not like Bella would be anyways."
Now it was my time to look dumbfounded, how come Emmett knew? Rosalie had told him.. it had to be Rose, it wasn't like they could keep any secret from each other anyways, so I chose that for now, I would ignore the fact that he knew about the Bella whipping me thing and would carry on without talk, I shifted myself uncomfortably on my chair, plopping my feet up on the desk.
"So, what were you two talking about before I came in?"
Jasper looked at me, and saw that I still wouldn't be able to take any word away from my mouth. "The auction, Friday." He simply said.
"Oh no shit! I have this amazing routine! With stripping and everything. The crowd will go crazy and the ladies will go damp on their panties." He said proudly, me and Jasper started to laugh.
"A routine Emmett? What are you? A cheerleader now?" I mocked him.
"Hey, hey! Watch out Eddie, the hotter you look up there, more money the ladies will bid on you, simple math." He tapped his temples with the index fingers.
"How much money do you think that we can make if we learn this dance routine?" Jasper said, and I almost fell flat on the floor.
"I don't know… a lot even. We know the Eddie has two high bidders, don't we?" Emmett had a grin on his face.
"It's not like they'll want to bid on me after I turned down their love."
"Ooh, Eddie… It's this bad then? Man, you are completely whipped." I chose to ignore Emmett's words again. I was getting better and better at this.
We kept on talking and for my disgust, discussing the routine for at least another half an hour, I don't know how Jasper got into this whole thing when he is pretty much the most low-key guy I've ever met. You know, opposites do attract and he'll even step into the spot light to be with my sister, but that didn't exclude the fact that we were going to strip on stage. One of the team boys was with his leg broken, Garrett was his name, so the girls asked him to present the 'pieces' on display, everyone had to write their description, who didn't have the time to… would leave it up to Garrett, and I'm sure nobody had the time to, so we were leaning on his ability to be slightly creative and choosing his words well enough.
"Hey, I think it's time to go." I said, stopping the talking while looking at my watch.
"You guys go, I'll have to call Joshua and see if he's ready." Emmett said, making me and Jasper burst out into laughs. "What the fuck guys?"
"You sounded like a girlfriend or something, besides, you said the Joshua would take time, let the guy do his thing, he'll take a ride with whomever if he wants to go to the game." I said when I finally controlled my spasms.
Emmett shrugged and got up, I grabbed my car keys and got up from where I was sitting, and Jasper grabbed his walled and got us as well, we left the dorm room, and in a little less than ten minutes we were in the parking lot and entering our cars, Jasper rode with Emmett and left me alone with my thoughts. I turned my radio on, Damien Rice was playing one of his depressing songs, it suited my mood so I just let it play, but then the next music was Damien Rice. Had I put his CD on? God I was getting memories wiped out… Anyway, I changed the CD, Nine Inch Nails were more suitable for me at the moment, and my Damien Rice moment came and went. My car was completely stashed with CD's and all the shit, I liked my music well organized, but I had been having no time to do so, so they were all over the place.
Before I could cope with where I was, I had arrived already. The game was being held at the Pauley Pavilion, not far away from our housing, I parked and turned off the radio, getting out of the car and waiting for Emmett to park his Jeep not far away from my Volvo. They were both by my side in a record time.
"The girl's are here yet?" I could say I was a little more anxious than I wanted. Today was a game against USC, it was like this whole week was about UCLA and USC, rivalry ruled, but outside the field and the court, some of us were good friends, I just hope that we win the Victory Bell this year; it'll look stunning in True Blue.
"Yeah, sorry man, they are already inside, the game is almost starting, I'm sorry but there will be no time alone shit before the game."
I ran my hand through my hair, a little bit frustrated, we should have gotten here sooner, after the game she would do something to avoid me, I knew her all too well.
"Let's get inside." My voice was defeated and both Emmett and Jasper patted me on the back, and we started to go direct the long line of students waiting to give their ticket away and get in, I grabbed mine in my back pocket, and delivered, the boys did the same and we were inside.
The place was crowded and the first thing I saw were the cheerleaders in red, practically shoving their pompons on my face, cheering something about USC, on the other side of the court were our cheerleaders, in their fantastic blue and gold skirt and top, straddling all over and putting their legs in the air, my eyes quickly searched for a brunette, her hair was all down today, falling in waves until her mid back, she was bouncing around and moving her hips in a way that should be a crime, I can honestly say that my cock twitched while I was mesmerized by the image. Both Emmett and Jasper were standing next to me, each one of them ogling at their own girlfriend, those girls were going to be the death of us.
We detached our eyes from the view and they lingered for more, but we had to find our sits, and fast, the place was filling up more and more real quickly. Almost stepping on some people, spilling drinks and throwing some popcorn buckets down, we found our place on the bleachers, sitting down and not too long after, the game started.
I could care less about basketball this evening, my eyes were too busy, and I'm pretty sure they never left her, I was looking like some ogling bastard, or psychotic man, but I didn't care, she was there, right in front of me… well, not right in front of me, but she was there, and I would talk to her today not even if it was the last thing that I did in my life. Dramatic whiner. I rolled my eyes; here we go again with the inner voice.
"Are you okay man?" Jasper asked noticing my inner fight.
"Oh fuck! Fight, fight, fight!" Emmett started to chant, and I looked at the court, Mike Newton was enrolled in a fist fight with a tall dark man, it read Black on the back of his shirt, and they were trapped in their own little bubble, didn't even notice when they were advancing towards the UCLA cheerleaders, and with the damn luck… Fuck. They fell on Bella, she fell on the floor with them and Rosalie and Alice pushed them away from her, running to see if she was ok, I couldn't see her face from where I was standing, but it looked like she couldn't get up. I looked at Jasper and Emmett, and they noticed my agonizing look, soon enough we were out of there and into the infirmary where Bella would be taken.
"Fuck, the damn thing was so fast that I didn't even saw what was happening before that guy was on top of Bella, I hope she didn't break anything." Emmett said while we were practically running to the other side of the Pavilion.
Rosalie and Alice were outside the little room, I assumed Bella was inside there already, being taken care of.
"What the fuck just happened?" I asked, Alice glared at me with an angry look and Rosalie did the same. What had I done this time?
"What happened baby?" Jasper asked Alice and she seemed somewhat relieved that he was there.
"Mark was about to dive the ball into the basket and Jacob sort of distracted him, called him something, I don't know, but the next thing I see, they have their fists dancing around each other's face and then they were on top of Bella." She crossed her arms in front of her chest and had the most painful look on her face, it got me worried.
"What happened to her Alice?" My voice was less urgent and softer now.
"No biggie, I think she twisted her ankle or something, no… it was less than that, she won't have to put on a cast or anything like that." I was comforted by her words, because with Bella's luck, she should have gone out in a stretcher, I was damn sure those guys had turned her into a liquid form.
"Thank you. Have I said how much I love you?" We heard Bella's whispering voice and turned all our attention to her, she was talking to a guy, the one who probably took care of her, and I instantly felt jealous. The girls rushed to her side because she was bouncing in one foot. "Hi my girls! Have you met the awsomest man in the whole world?" She was noticeably tipsy.
"Bella, what happened to you?" They looked at her and then at the guy who had the most apologetically look on his face.
"I gave her two pills for the pain, one for today and one for tomorrow, but when I turned around she had already took them both. She'll be out in a bit, but no harm will be made in her system." The guy said. "I'm really sorry."
"Ohh, don't be a ba-by Elric! I feel light, and I owe all to you my darling." She looked up to him and gave him a dazzling smile. Even with too much painkillers on her system she looked fairly beautiful. Her cheeks were flushed.
"Maybe we should go." I wanted to get her out of there as soon as possible, before this Eric guy could deposit any hopes of hooking up with her.
"EDWARD!" She sang my name, detached herself from Rosalie and Alice's arms, and came bouncing to me, throwing her arms around my neck and almost falling flat, making me have to wrap my arms around her waist.
"Be careful now." I whispered in her ear so no one would listen.
"You know what would be fun?" She said when I had put her firmly on the ground, or as firm as she could possibly be.
"What Bells?" Jasper asked. Emmett's face showed he was amusing himself with the scene. I guess he never saw a drunken Bella, actually none of us ever did.
"If we could all ride with Eddie!" She clapped her hands together and tried unsuccessfully to jump. "Wouldn't it be fun?! His Volvo is so cozy and warm."
This would be definitely interesting.
"No way Bella, you're riding with us." Damn you Alice, spoil my fun.
"Then Eddie has to ride with us!" Bella set her injured foot on the ground. "OOOOW!" And then she started to whine.
"He's not coming Bella, Edward came with his own car, he has to drive it back to the students parking lot of his housing." What the hell was up on Alice's ass?
"C'mon Alice!" She whined. "PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEASE?" And then, the death of Alice, Bella pulled out the big guns. The puppy dog eyes and pouty lip, which I had to hold my immense urge to take between my lips and suck on it.
Alice rolled her eyes, she was defeated. "Alright, alright, but I'm very upset at you Bella, very, very upset."
Bella bounced off to where Alice was shoved her pompons on her face. "Thank you Ali, I love you so much." Then she turned to me, I stared at my feet. "You don't mind do you Eddie?"
Oh, fuck! I was so amused by the scene that I didn't consider her request, I looked at Emmett and Jasper, with a 'help me right fucking now' face, but they did nothing. Fucking backstabbing bastards.
"I don't mind Bells. Let's just go." My hand passed once more through my hair as Bella came back to my arms, she fit so well in there. She passed her right hand around my neck for support and I wrapped my left hand around her waist, she was less than heavy.
"BYE ERIC!" She yelled to the guy who was probably gone by now.
"Who won the game anyway?" I heard Emmett asking, probably walking hand in hand with Rosalie.
"Like we know! Haven't you noticed at all that we were standing outside as well?" Her voice was cold and harsh, a little too much.
"Easy now love. I was just asking." And he chuckled.
Our walk was a little retarded from the infirmary; to out of the Pavilion and into the parking lot until Emmett's car, I would probably arrange some way to get my car back tomorrow.
"We'll ride here early tomorrow to fetch your car Eddie, don't worry, your baby will only have to sleep outside home one time." Rosalie said reading my mind.
Once we got to the car, Bella was a babbly bubble on my arms, talking about everything and everyone, how the concrete was gray, how Rosalie's hair was blonde, how Alice and Jasper were in love and how Emmett was funny, she even manage to ask where Josh was.
"He's probably in the dorm." Emmett answered hopping in the driver's seat. Jasper hopped in the passengers' leaving me and the girls on the back seat. Bella was happily sat on the girl's laps and I was sitting right next to Alice.
"In the dorm? He's not shagging any skank is he?" She asked, dribbling on her own words a little bit.
Emmett stood silent, and even in the drunken state of mind, she understood the silence.
"It's not Liz, is it?"
"How could it be Liz sweetheart? She was cheering with us today. Maybe the new girl won't even be a skank." Rosalie rubbed her arm, while reassuring her.
"He is a mean boy who is just being mean." Alice said, looking directly at me.
"Yeah, just like Eddie." The words blurted out of her mouth, before she could stop them… I think. Maybe she didn't even want to stop them. "You know Eddie; you've been very, very mean to me. I was going to talk to you and be with you, give you a chance, but then you go and sleep with those skanks?" She really looked adorable while mad in a half-drunk state. The girls looked at me. Oh, so that was what I had done wrong? She didn't talk to me for three days because of this. I wouldn't bother to explain now; she wouldn't remember the explanation later, so instead I just gave her a half smile.
She smiled at me too. "You know, but I don't mind, I really don't mind. I'll let you go if you don't want to be with me." I avoided her beautiful brown eyes that broke my heart even now. How could she be so emotional when tipsy? She was revealing way too much.
"Bella, sweetheart, maybe you shouldn't talk about this right now." Rosalie tried to stop her, and I was glad she did, but Bella wasn't having any of it.
"No, I have to say this now. I like you Edward, I really like you… God, I even think I'm falling for you, but you don't change, I can't be doubting you when you're with me, but you give me simply no choice…. OH! BRITNEY!" Her mood simply lifted and it was like she never talked about that, we all started to laugh at the mood change, Emmett tried to flip to other radio but Bella smacked him in the head and threatened him. Alice, Bella and Rosalie kept singing for the rest of the ride, as soon as we parked in front of their housing, Bella had her head on Alice's shoulder and was asleep.
"Um… How are we getting out of here?" Alice asked looking to Rose.
"Bella, honey… We're home." She shook Bella slightly and she rose her head from Alice's shoulder looking around the car, I took her hand, trying to ignore the electric waves ushering themselves through my body, and took her out of the car, putting her in a standing position, but her legs were like Jell-O.
"Just take her inside Edward, she won't bite you." Alice suggested and I nodded.
Picking her up bridal style, I started to walk to the housing front door; the girls were following right behind me. Bella had her head lazy on the crook of my neck and her breath tingled a little in there, making me have Goosebumps all over the skin, one of her small hands tucked firmly my shirt, like she didn't want to let go. We began to walk up the stairs, and in just little time, we were done, Rosalie unlocked the door, and waited for me to come inside, as I did, I just walked to the bed and lowered my body to put her on it, I had to struggle her fingers a little bit, but managed to take them off my shirt and unwrap the other arm from my neck. "Have sweet dreams my angel." I whispered in her ear, giving neither Alice nor Rosalie the chance to hear, I kissed her forehead and lifted my body up to look at the girls.
"I guess my job here is done. I'll see myself out." I whispered walking towards the door, but Rose grabbed me by the elbow and turned me around.
"Thank you for not pushing her into saying something tonight."
"I wasn't going to take advantage of her feelings in this state, but I need to know Rose, is it true… What she said?"
Rosalie nodded her head.
"She doesn't want to come clean about it Eddie, but she will, eventually, you both just need to stop being so thickheaded and talk to each other."
"Yeah, I guess so. Well, good night ladies, take care of her."
"Bye Eddie."
I waved at them and walked out of the dorm, having the door being closed on my face. This ride was more revealing than I imagined, I just had to talk to her and hear from her sober mouth if this was true, because after today, with all the need to protect her, I knew one thing.
I was in love with Bella, and she was probably in love with me.
A huge grin spread across my face.
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