Okay so we really didn't see much of the dinner from Bella's POV, but there really was no reason to, must of the emotions were going to come from Edward anyways. So please don't feel like I left Bella's POV out, she will have her time to reflect on the dinner at a later time.
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I did it. I don't know why I did it, but I did it.
It was just so hard not to do it.
She is just so perfect, that when the opportunity presented itself I just had to.
I knew I could have made a giant ass out of myself, but that still wasn't enough for me to be detoured from what I was going to do.
I soon as she was close enough I was able to lean into her and whisper how beautiful I thought she looked. And it was true she looked absolutely beautiful. The way she was dressed she just looked so angelic. The beautiful shade of the pink and the way her hair framed her face just gave her an absolute glow. She was glowing and angelic and she was perfect.
When I was near her I couldn't help but to inhale her beautiful scent. She smelled like fruits and flowers. She smelled perfect.
When I pulled away from her, somewhat reluctantly, to help her into her seat I could not help but fell somewhat smug, she smelled me too and had this beautiful, goofy grin on her face. The way I smell put that smile on her face. I put that smile on her face.
Maybe tonight I can take Emmett's advise and 'ball up and be a man' as he says. Maybe she likes me too. I guess there is only one way to find, but that means I would have to tell her how I feel about her. And I want to tell her how I feel, but what if I'm making all this up. What if I didn't put that smile n her face? What if she just thought of something funny? What if I really did make an ass out of myself when I leaned in and whispered to her? Or worse, what if I don't smell good? What if I smelled bad and because she is just so polite the only thing she could do was smile.
Okay, Edward, just calm down, if I had smelled bad Jasper and Emmett would have said something.
Okay so that leaves me with two options. Either she likes me, or at least finds me somewhat attractive, or, I made a complete and total ass out of myself.
Let me just hope it is this first option.
So, I can do this. I can talk to her like a normal person. I can get to know her all over again…we can et to know each other and have a life together. Getting a head of yourself there buddy, a life toghther? Calm down a bit and just enjoy dinner with her.
We I finally made my crazy mind up; I threw myself into a conversation with Bella. And with every word and with every blush that graced her cheeks I couldn't help but fall just a little more for her.
"So Bella, what do you do for a living?"
"Well, I'm an editor for a book company that has offices in New York, Los Angeles and Seattle. I'm obviously with the Seattle office." She said with a little laugh.
"That's not all she does, come on Bella tell him about what else you do." Anglea decided to join in on the conversation. I almost forgot there were three other people her with us.
After only an hour with each other it seems we can easily just get lost in out own little world. I hope she feels the same.
But what else does she do for a living.
She was blushing again, so I knew I had to ask her, even Jasper and Emmett looked curious as to what else Bella did for a living.
"Come on Bella tell us, what else do you do?" I just had to ask because I had this feeling that I need to know everything about her.
"It's a little silly, nothing to take too serious, but I'm writing my own book, and I want to get it published, but I know that's not going to happen because it isn't that good, it's kind of my own personal thing, you know just for fun."
I instantly hated the fact that she was putting her own work down.
I had to reassure her some way, "Come on Bella, don't be ridiculous, I'm sure you are a fantastic writer and people would love to publish you and read your work."
Emmett and Jasper nodded their heads in agreement with me, but it was when Angela spoke up that I found myself hating Jake again.
"Yeah Bella, I totally agree with Edward, you're an awesome writer, she's even had some stories posted in the local paper, she is really good. Honestly Bella, I don't know why you put up with Jake for so long and him constantly putting you down. He was always such a jerk. Senior year all the way up until you dumped his cheating ass." She discussed the relationship in such a casual way… like this was a discussion they had often.
"Angela stop, I'm sure the guys don't want to hear about my messed up love life. Can we just talk about something else now?" She obviously wanted to change the subject, but I couldn't stop myself from wanting to know more.
And soon Emmett was standing up, but I think it was because he had the same idea as Jasper, and myself but before we could get very far Bella spoke up,
"Where are you guys going? I'm sorry; we ruined the night didn't we? See, I told you Angela they didn't want to hear about my love life, you made them uncomfortable."
"No Bella, we're not uncomfortable in anyway, the three of us just need to go back to Seattle really quick." Leave to Emmett to make it sound like we we're going to the local grocery store to buy some milk.
"Ummm…you need to go back to Seattle really quick? If you don't want to finish dinner with us you could just say so." Bella said with a confused and somewhat sad expression on her face.
But Angela looked like she knew exactly what we men had in mind and she was okay with it and she even gave us a nod of approval.
Wow She sure has changed a whole lot since high school. The Angela I knew back then would have tried to calm us down and keep the peace, maybe those pregnancy hormones were kicking in early.
Emmett answered Bella again, "No Bella, we really want to stay and finish dinner with you two lovely ladies, but you see, this Jake guy has obviously messed up and hurt you in some way, so as your new best guys friends we feel that it is our job and responsibility to go and kick this guys ass. So, come on guys we are killing too much time here, let's go get this job done."
"No guys really, you don't have to do that, it really not all that necessary, and he is so not worth the hassle."
Who was this girl kidding? Yes, really did have to go and do this. Doesn't she know we would do anything for her…and Angela? Can't forget to group Angela in there. Hell, Emmett threatened Angela's husband for 'knocking her up' in the first five minutes of all us seeing each other again. Silly Bella.
"Awe, come on Bella, first Angela and now you. Why won't you girls let me kick someone's ass! Please I promise it won't even take me that long. Please Bella!" And then he pulled out the puppy dog eyes, he and Alice spend way too much time together, those eyes work on everyone.
He was asking her persmission like he was a teenager wanting to go to the movies with his friends, instead of a grown man.
But apparently the puppy dog eyes do not work on Bella, I'll have to ask her about that later, I can't tell you how many times I have fallen victim to those damn puppy dog eyes.
"Emmett you know very well that I can't agree to let you leave Vegas to go all the way back to Seattle to kick someone's ass, as you so delicately put it. Let's just back to dinner and enjoy the rest of the night. Maybe when we all go home for good you can do what you want to do."
That seemed to please him a bit.
Then under her breath she added "Hopefully you kill the brian cells that will remember this conversation with the massive amounts of alcohol you will consume."
Can she get anymore amazing? I don't think so, she is fucking perfect. She let Emmett think he was going to get his way and then made a sarcastic comment. She is perfect.
After we all settled down, I notices that Angela started to occupy Emmett and Jasper's attention about various topics, so that left Bella and I to talk about ourselves.
It took us a little bit to get comfortable with each other, but once we did we talked about anything and everything. Her favorite color is green, she loves to read, she loves to write, which I could have figured out, and I tried to get her to tell me what her book was about, but she wouldn't tell me, she was still as stubborn as ever.
I told her about Tanya, at first she seemed a little upset, then amused and finally relieved. Was she happy that I was single, one could only hope? I told her I was a doctor and what hospital I was at, she seemed as interested in me as I am in her, and as much as I would love to keep the smile on her face as I discussed my life with Bella, I really wanted to learn more about her.
So I really couldn't stop myself from ask her about what happened with Jake. She seemed a bit reluctant to share with me so I quickly told her that she didn't have to if she did not want to.
"No, it's okay Edward. I can talk about it. Well, we started dating senior year."
She seemed a little sad about that, I wonder why? Then she continued telling me how they both went to the University of Washington, even thought she wanted to go to Dartmouth, he didn't want her to, and then they moved in with each other. She told me how he would always make comments about how lucky she was to be with him and she would never be able to get a man better than him. He would always tell her after a story got published in the paper that it was not really that good and he didn't know why she continued to waste her time.
With every word she spoke I got angrier with this man. It was confirmed that 'Jake' was the same Jacob Black that we all went to high school with, so he did break that promise he made to me.
I didn't want to ask, but I knew I had to and when she told me that he never hit her it was only verbal I was relieved, just a little bit, he still needed to be taught a lesson after all the horrible things he said to Bella.
My anger started to reappear when she told me what caused there break-up and her sudden trip to Vegas. At first her story was similar to mine and then, well not so similar.
"I came home from shopping, even though I hate shopping," she slightly giggled, we have had a couple glasses of wine by now, so maybe it was just that, " and he was sitting on our couch looking like someone just stole his puppy, he had his elbows resting on his knees and he had his face in his hands, he just looked so sad. My first thoughts were that one of our fathers had been hurt or something worse, so I started freaking out and then he told me that they were fine and he had something to tell me. So he told me he had cheated on me." At least she didn't walk in on them, and that is when the similarities to our stories ended.
"We yelled and I got mad and kicked him out. The next day I took Angela to her doctors appointment and while we were sitting there waiting for her name to be called, we took witness to Jake rushing through the door asking if he was late or missed anything or something along those lines, I don't remember anymore but there he was with the pregnant other woman."
"That is so not cool. So how far along was she?" Apparently my inner gossip girl comes out my sympathy goes out the door when I drink too much, how many glasses have we had now?
"I don't know 10,11 months far enough a long for the jerk to know she was pregnant and not tell me anything." She has had too much to drink. I don't even think a pregnancy that long is possible…come on man you're a doctor you should no the answer to that.
"Come on Edward lets talk about something else now."
And so we did, we talked about whatever came to mind while the drinks kept coming. At some point and I'm not entirely sure, but we turned to mix drinks after we got kicked out of the restaurant and settled at some random bar. Apparently the restaurant was closed. Who knew we could talk for that long, but then again I was with Bella so it could be possible.
Once we were at the bar, in I don't even know what hotel, I could here every word she was saying, but I really only understood about half of them, this is exactly why I don't drink.
And when in the hell did we lose Japer, Emmett and Angela?
When Bella got her third or fifth, maybe fourth drink she leaned into me, like I had done early in the night and said, or slurred, "You know Edward, your really pretty."
I could only laugh and say, or maybe I slurred and said "Your really pretty to Bella." And then she blushed. Man, I love this woman.
"You know Edward, I had a really big crush on you in high school, I was so sad when I found out you graduated early, the only reason I agreed to be Jake's girlfriend was because you weren't coming back." Suddenly I could understand every word coming out of Bella mouth.
"I had a really big crush on you in high school too Bella, I was so sad that I had to leave you."
"Then why did you leave me, we could have been so happy together." She said with a sad expression on her face.
"I know Bella. I tell you why I had to leave later."
"Okay, you better, or else I'm going to be really mad at you. And your not going to like me when I'm angry, I'm like a ferocious kitty."
A ferocious kitty…
"Okay Bella I promise." I couldn't help but chuckle at that.
"Good, I'm hot can we get out of here now."
"Yeah, do you want to walk around for a little bit?"
"Yeah, lets go."
We started walking around the strip for a little bit, well more like stumbled, we both were pretty drunk by now, we both had like four drinks after we left the restaurant and we both had wine with dinner.
At some point I ended up with my arm around Bella, and she ended up curled into my side, and it just seemed so perfect like she belonged there.
We were stumbling along in comfortable silence when I heard her mumble, "I love you Edward."
I quickly stopped and I lifted her head so that her eyes were at level with mine and I was able to breath out "Bella…"
She interrupted me, "Oh look Edward! Look at those people over there playing dress up! Can we go play dress up to…please."
I really didn't want to play dress up I wanted to continue our conversation, but we were both drunk maybe she wouldn't remember this in the morning and I know I could not dent this woman anything, but hopefully I would remember she said she loved we me so we could talk about that.
"Sure Bella, we can go play dress up, anything you want."
"Yay, this is going to be so much fun! Hey look that man is dressed up as Elvis…"
So I'm actually working on the next chapter already, and I hope to have it up on Wednesday night or Thursday morning, So I'll see you all next Chapter!
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