I'm baaaaaaaack!! Who missed me? x
I wrote a pretty long chapter for you guys! :D
I have been away trying to steal Twilight. As it turns out, I still don't own it.
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Never Again, Chapter 19: Fight
It was awkward, to say the least.
Who'd've thought it? Lunch with your ex-boyfriend, his new girlfriend and your current boyfriend is, in fact, awkward. Very much so.
Several times, I'd gone to speak but didn't have a clue what I was supposed to say; what would stop this…this…awkwardness.
"What are we doing tonight?" Edward asked me quietly.
Well, we aren't going to the movies. I shrugged. "Jazz isn't working."
Jazz being at home hadn't been the most pleasant experience lately. He moped. He ate. He moped. He slept. He moped. He glared at Edward and I an awful lot. Then he moped.
I spent the rest of lunch concocting various plans to make Alice take him back. He'd fallen ass over tit for her; he'd always acted like a kid again. He was never going to be the same with anyone else- not that he'd ever consider anyone else. He needed her, and as much as Alice probably didn't like to admit it, I knew she needed him, too.
As soon as the bell rang, Edward and I leapt up in the direction of Biology, muttering rushed goodbyes to Leah and Jacob.
"I thought bridges had been built," Edward muttered.
"What?"
"You and Jacob. I thought there were no problems, you keep telling me it's all in the past."
"Mmm." I didn't need this now. What I needed was a nice supportive boyfriend. Not a dick.
"So?"
"So what?"
"What did you do?"
"When?"
Edward sighed as we walked into the Biology room. We were the first ones in there, obviously.
"You and Jacob." I could tell he hated saying that, even though he knew there was no 'me and Jacob'. "Why the frostiness?"
"There's no frostiness," I told him defiantly as we took our usual seats at the back. "We're fine."
His eyebrow went up. I sighed.
"Okay, there was a little misunderstanding. But we're fine."
"What about?" he murmured, stroking my hair softly. It wasn't like he wanted to know so he could hate Jacob, it was like he wanted to know what was upsetting me, and how he could make it better. That was the Edward I'd met all those months ago. I smiled slightly, remembering.
"It doesn't matter. I'm fine."
"Bella."
"Edward." I snapped. Yeah, my bitch was coming back. It must be something they put in the water in Forks or something.
He sighed, closing his eyes. He pinched the bridge if his nose with his thumb and forefinger. "You're keeping something from me Bella."
I rolled my eyes and turned back to the front. He was being ridiculously over dramatic.
"And I don't like it." Edward finished.
"You're being stupid," I muttered.
"Am I?" He was getting louder. Jessica Stanley and Mike Newton's heads turned questioningly at us from their seats at the front.
I felt my cheeks redden. I turned and glared at him.
"Edward," I muttered quietly. "Can we not do this here please?"
"Why not? Not got something to hide have you?" He wasn't quieting down.
"I mean it Edward." God, I sounded menacing. I sounded exactly like when Jasper was in full-on cop mode, cautioning someone. He always said I'd follow in the family footsteps. "Leave it."
He glared back with just as much angst. "What if I don't want to?"
"Then you can sod off!" I near-shrieked at him.
He stood up, shrugging. "Fine."
He walked to the door and out of the room swiftly, without looking back.
"Eh up, looks like trouble in paradise," Mike muttered to Jessica not-so quietly.
I can't be sure, but it seemed Jessica replied with something like "five bucks says they've split by Friday."
Stupid bitch. What did she know?
The teacher walked in then, and started his lecture. Cholesterol? How in the hell was I supposed to concentrate on cholesterol now?
What the frigg was his problem anyway? I'd never seen him like this before. There had to be something huge up his ass. It was so unlike him not to tell me what it was and moan about it strait away. It had to be more than the whole Jacob/Leah thing…
Well, what?
And since when did he just walk out of lessons? Where had he even gone, anyway?
The rest of the lesson continued like that, random questions buzzing around my head, fifty more popping up each time I thought something different. I didn't learn a single thing about cholesterol. It was probably a Swan thing, I mean; Charlie had died of a heart attack. We were just immune to anything about it.
I wondered what Edward would've said, what jokes he would've cracked…
The bell rang suddenly, snapping me out of it. I gathered my books, and Edward's stuff he'd left, and hurried out of the room before anymore snide comments reached my ears.
I literally ran to the parking space, wanting to just get home...The empty parking space. Wherever Edward had gone, he had a very comfortable ride.
Fother Mucker.
Or words to that affect.
"Bella!"
I turned to see Jacob and Leah walking out of school towards me, hand in hand.
"Alright?" Leah asked me as they approached.
"Fine," I smiled.
"Where's Edward?"
"Oh, he's at the dentist. Had to leave early," I lied smoothly. Hmmm…"That's why he was a bit off at lunch. He's scared of the dentist."
"Oh." Jake smirked. "You need a ride?"
Things are looking up, oh finally…(Whoever tells me what song that comes from wins an oiled-up Edward... :D) "That'd be great Jake," I smiled. We started walking to his Rabbit.
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Edward wasn't at home.
Jazz was back though.
"God, what's up with you?" he moaned at me from his spot on the couch as I stomped into the house and then slumped into the chair opposite him, scowling.
"F**k you."
"Oh, God. Did he dump you? He dumped you didn't he? Well, I hate to say it, Sis, but I think you're better off without him. We should have a party or something-"
"He didn't dump me!" I wailed. But then I thought. "Well, I don't think he did."
"Oh, to be a teenage girl…" Jazz sighed. "You know, you really don't get how simple you have it. And all you do is freaking complain. So, what happened then?"
"I don't wanna talk about it."
He sighed again. "Shame. I needed cheering up."
I threw a cushion at his head. He snickered.
"What's up with you, then?" I asked, wanting to forget the whole ordeal.
"Take two failed. Epically."
Jazz had had a huge master plan to get back with Alice. But it turned out that it was just calling her. Which didn't work, 'cause she never even picked up the phone. So he moped around in his pyjama bottoms for a week, claiming he was devising a new plan.
"What did you do?"
He smiled at me sheepishly. "Well…I might've hired a private detective to-"
"You did WHAT?"
"Here me out! Just to find out where I might be able to 'accidentally' be able to bump into her, and maybe buy her lunch, and talk things over…"
I nodded. "But...?"
"She knew the freaking guy." He muttered unwillingly.
I burst out laughing. I'm sorry, but that was funny shit. "H-How?" I spluttered.
"Ex-boyfriend or something. Soon as he found out who she was, he went and spilled."
"Gutted."
"Indeed." He nodded solemnly.
"Well, what next?" I asked. "Third time's a charm and all that."
"Well, I was thinking…how easy do you think it would be to get my hands on an elephant?"
After living with Jasper all my life, that didn't faze me. "Next."
"Hiring monkeys to-"
"Pass."
"Giving her Miley Cyrus's head, that I decapitated myself?"
I blinked. "I'm sure she'd appreciate the gesture, but what else you got?"
"Kidnapping Billie-Joe Armstrong and-"
"Dude!"
"Well, that's all I have," he snapped.
"And that took you all day?"
"Well, what do you suggest? I forgot you were Washington's answer to the freaking love guru!"
"Ugh!" I groaned, jumping up and leaving the room. Was it official 'males-be-twats' day or something?
I stomped up the stairs to my bedroom, and slammed the door. I shoved my earphones in on full, and sunk onto my bed.
I must've fallen asleep, because I woke with a start when my phone started ringing.
"Edward?" I asked hopefully.
"No, B, it's Emmett."
"Oh." I sighed. "What's up?"
"Well, Rose and I just got back, and…have you and Edward had an argument or something?"
"Why? What's wrong with him?"
"Well, he's…" I heard Rosalie in the background; cutting him off, telling him something…"He's just asleep on the couch is all."
Oh. Well, I'd been asleep on my bed until very recently.
"That it?" I was kinda cranky. Well, I had just been rudely woken up.
Emmett sighed. Rose spoke again, louder this time.
"I don't want you worrying her, Emmett."
"She needs to know," he told her.
"Emmett? What's happened?" I asked. I was sick of always being the last to know…
"Rose is over-reacting, B. He's just been drinking. A lot. It's not like him, and I just figured something must be up…"
Ugh, what a mess. I needed to talk to someone. Not Emmett. I didn't want a Cullen. I wanted…
"Is Rosalie still there?" I asked him.
"Yeah…?"
"Can I talk to her?"
I spent the next hour bitching on the phone to my sister. Which is allowed. Because I'm a teenager, and even with all the crap that'd happened, I was still a teenager, and I needed a good bitch every now and then. I'm only human, for Christ's sake.
"So what's his problem, then?" Rose wanted to know.
"I dunno. I'm sure he's not just jealous…" It had to be more than that. It had to have more depth…"What do you reckon?"
"I dunno, Bella. Look…I gotta go."
"Ugh, Rose!"
"Sorry! I'm gonna be late for work."
"Well, what am I spos'd to do?"
"You'll figure it out!"
She hung up.
Bitch.
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Okies, firstly, I'm sorry! I've been really busy! But I'm back, and hopefully this story'll be getting better now..
Ever read over your work, and discover that it is in fact complete crap? Yeah... beginning to regret that now.
Secondly, I'm serious about that oiled-up Edward. ;D Lemme know what you reckon it was! XD
Yeah, soz bout that random A/N. I was listening to the song, and thought 'yeah, what the hell, that fits there!' so I put it in. If you don't like it, I don't really give two shits. NothingPersonal.
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