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"Uh-uh, no way, absolutely not!'
I let out an audible sigh.
Of course, she would answer the phone and listen in on the other side that is such an Angela thing to do.
"Angela, honey, can you put the phone down, please. I'm trying to talk to a client."
"Shut up Ben! She's not a client, she's Bella."
Now it was Ben's turn to sigh.
"Isabella Marie Swan Cullen you put that phone down this instant!"
She's really into this mom thing early on.
"Sorry Ben I guess it wasn't such a good idea for me to call you at home, is it okay if I call you at your office later on?"
"Ben, ignore her, she talking the crazy talk."
I swear I heard him mutter 'no your talking the crazy talk,' but I cant be certain on that.
"Hang up now Ben, I need to talk to Bella in private, you know best friend confidentiality and all."
"Yeah, no problem ladies, bye Bella, I'll talk to you later, I'll be in the office tomorrow."
I know I heard Angela mutter 'no you wont talk to her later.'
" Yeah I'll talk to you later Ben, have a nice night."
Great here it comes…I should probably pull the phone away from my ear now.
"Bella, what the hell do you think you're doing?" She screeched so loud I'm sure she hurt her own ears.
"Well, I was talking to Ben, having a friendly conversation, and then all of a sudden we heard you on the other end and you started to yell at us for whatever reason…
She cut me off and then started with the yelling again.
"Bella, stop, you don't so sarcasm well. Just know you can talk to Ben my husband all you want, but you are not allowed to talk to Ben Cheney, the best divorce attorney in all of Seattle."
" Thanks, I never knew Ben had multiple personalities and I am only allowed to talk to one of them."
" Since we now have your lame humor out of the way Bella, would you like to explain why you want to talk to Ben about acquiring his services."
" I told you Ang., hell I even told Edward, I would take care of this and after everything that happened at the airport, I need to take care of this, and Ben is the only one I could or would trust to handle this."
" What do you mean Ben is the only one you could trust?"
" I know Edward and I aren't going to go threw some messy divorce, but he is still a very well known and wealthy doctor, I have no idea if some lawyer out there would try to take advantage of me or Edward while handling our case."
" Bella," I heard her let out and frustrated sigh, what the hell does she have to be frustrated about. "I love you like you were my own sister, but I think, no, I know, you are making a mistake with this. I really think you should talk to Edward. I think the whole airport thing was a huge misunderstanding."
She sighed kind of loudly, like she was expecting me to say something back to her after I was quiet for a while, but there was nothing to say, I made my choice and there was no going back now.
"Bella, just please think about this all the way through, I don't want you to make a mistake and regret the decision your going to make."
" Thank Ang, I appreciate your concern, but in all of this I'm not the only one who can have regrets."
" Bella, that man has not one regret, your just being too stubborn right now to see it."
What the hell does that mean, does she know something I don't.
" I'm going to go now Ang, I'll talk to you later, and let Ben know I'll call him later."
" No you can let Ben know on your own, I'm not getting involved in any of that because I think your making a mistake, but I will talk to you later. Bye Bella."
"Bye Angela."
After I hung up with Angela I had a lot of time to think.
Was she right, was I making a mistake, should I go and talk to Edward?
Well she was right when she said I should talk to Edward, but the conversation that Angela thought we should have and the conversation I knew I needed to have with him were going to be two completely different conversations.
I knew Angela would want us to confess our feelings and have everything work it self-out magically so we could live happily ever after and we could have our happy ending.
I knew the conversation that Edward and I were actually going to have was going to be us discussing how to avoid turning our failed marriage into a headline story.
Things were really screwed up right now and I knew calling Ben would be risky, but its not like I had very many options. I was now married to Edward Cullen and I wanted and needed, or at least that's what I convinced myself to think, to end my marriage to Edward, Ben was the only one I knew I could trust with this.
Ben was the only one to know Bella and Edward from Forks and not take advantage of the situation.
Everyone in the world knew of Edward Cullen and the Cullen Family.
Father, Carlisle, the world famous surgeon out of Chicago that moved his family to the small town of Forks so that they could have a normal life.
Mother, Esme, the famous interior designer that designed Oprah's estate and nearly every other wealthy person in Chicago, gave it all up to raise her two boys and daughter in the small town, and never once regretted her choice.
Emmett, oldest son, hated the choice to move to forks, but went along with the family, was an all around athlete in high school and went to Notre Dame to play college football and was drafted to the pros right after graduation. Played for the New York Giants for four years before his career was ended with a knee injury. Emmett married Rosalie Hale a year after he was forced to retire and the two of them opened their own high-end mechanic shop and car dealer ship. They are happily married and can't wait to start a family.
The youngest, sister, Alice Cullen, married to Jasper Whitlock; Alice owns a high-end boutique in Seattle that only sells couture gowns and is an aspiring fashion designer, while Jasper owns his own architect business.
Last but not leas there is the middle child, my husband, Edward. Everyone, and I mean everyone knows the Cullen Family, but Edward is the current star of the family. His story can be read everywhere. The son of world famous surgeon Carlisle Cullen and interior Designer Esme Cullen, younger brother to Ex-quarterback Emmett Cullen, older brother to aspiring fashion designer and boutique owner Alice Cullen Whitlock. Edward Cullen, the most sought after ER doctor in all of Seattle. Women, and even some men, will fake illness or injury just to get a glimpse of him.
He was born and raised in Chicago, his freshman year of High School his whole family moved to forks Washington. He graduated high school a year early and received early acceptance to Dartmouth where he majored in Biology; he then went to John Hopkins for medical School.
We are totally messed up, but every time I hear about his accomplishments I cant help the proud feeling that comes over me, I am so proud of him, and if we actually had a normal marriage, hell a normal relationship, he might know it.
Edward is kind of a big deal here in Seattle along with the rest of his family.
And I add to the phenomena that is my husband and his family.
I totally googled Edward.
I literally have the perfect man. And then all of the Stupid Love Gods had to band together to make my life a living hell.
Was it not bad enough for me that I had been I love with Edward for ten years, then we meet up and hit it off, I mean seriously at dinner we were the picture perfect couple. And because I am Bella and things can never go right for me, we had to go and get married, and I had to realize that maybe on some deep level that Edward might feel the same way for me. But again, I'm Bella, so nothing goes right, I try to fix and airport slut shows up and ruins it all.
I did what I had to do. I had to call Ben so he could help me. Edward will be better off without me, even though that thought hurts tremendously, I know its true. It has to be true.
I need to protect my husbands name, so I need Ben to handle our annulment so we both can go living are lives. Edward with airport slut and me…well I can get a cat… or a fish.
Stupid trip to Vegas had to go and ruin everything, I was fine living my life and loving Edward in secret, now I was married to him, and I cant even be his wife the way I want to be his wife.
My life sucks.
I have a headache now, can my day get any worse.
DING DONG, DING…
Sigh; of course, when I want to see no one, someone has to show up and make my day worse, why, right, because I'm Bella.
"I'm coming."
Opening the door turned out to be a mistake and it made my already bad day even worse.
"Jake, what are you doing here?"
" Well I came to visit you, I called and you haven't called back, that's not like you, so I decided to drop by to see if you were okay and to see if, maybe we could talk for a bit."
" I didn't call you back because I didn't want to talk to you and I was out of town for a few days so I haven't returned anyone's phone calls."
" You were out of town? Where did you go? Why didn't you tell me you were leaving?"
What the hell, what is with the third degree, did he suddenly believe he was my husband.
" Yes, I went out of town, I went to Vegas for a few days, and I didn't tell you because you and I are no longer together so I no longer have to tell you a thing. By the way, how's the mother of your unborn child doing?"
" Come on Bells, don't do this I want us to work it out, I made a mistake, it was a one time thing and it's costing me my whole life."
" Come on get inside and close the door, I don't want the neighbors to see us fighting."
" We're not going to fight Bells."
I muttered 'yeah, that's what you think' under my breath, I think he heard me, but I honestly didn't care. Jake was not the man I wanted to be talking to right now, but I guess you cant always get what you want.
I walked over to the couch so we could talk and I could just feel his eyes boring into the back of my head, it was weird. I knew Jake and I needed to talk, I wasn't sure about what, but I knew we needed to, and the sooner we talked the sooner it was over and I could go on and live my pitiful no Edward life.
"So, you went to Vegas, did you have fun, who did you go with, did you do anything interesting?"
Man, did he always ask this many questions, and was he always this annoying or was I just that unobservant.
"Cut the crap Jake, you don't care and I know you don't care, so just say whatever it is you want to say and then leave."
" I do care, you know I love you." I just looked at him expectantly, waiting for him to finish whatever it was he was going to say.
"Bella, this is hard for me okay, I know I made a mistake, but it was just getting so hard, everyday it felt like you were slipping away from me, and I just couldn't take it. I know I should have talked to you, but I didn't know what to say. I met Leah one night…"
I held m hand up to stop him, it was bad enough to know he cheated on me, know who the woman is, meet her and see that she was now pregnant with his child, I so did not need the details on how they met.
"Jake I don't want to know how the two of you met, skip that part and move on before I kick you out."
I was being way too nice to him by letting him continue, but I'm Bella, that's what I do.
" Sorry. Anyways we, you know, and I swear it was a one time thing, the day before I told you I was unfaithful was the day she came to me and told me she was pregnant."
There was more to the story, I could tell, I just didn't want to hear it.
"Look, Jake, I understand where you're coming from," I really didn't, it just seemed like I should say that. "It's just not going to happen, there is no way after what happened that I can just forgive you and move on. Ten years were thrown away because of your one 'mistake.' It happened and now we are over and you are about to be a father, so just accept it and move, I already have."
"Bella…baby, please. There has to be something I can do to fix this. I want you in my life, I need you in my life."
I couldn't stand his begging and pleading looks, this was just too awkward, and I hate hearing the details
" Sorry Jake, I just can't."
" Okay, well I was hoping that this conversation would have go differently because it makes this next question kind of awkward."
He was fidgeting and now making me nervous. What the hell was he going to ask? Me to marry him again.
I sure as hell hope not.
"Well, you know that my dad 60th birthday party is next Saturday, well, I was wondering, if you," he took a deep breath and kept going "you…Bella, I want you to go with me, not necessarily as a date, but as a friend."
I internally groaned. I knew about the party and I knew that Jake's dad and my dad would expect me to be there…annulling my marriage to Edward was something I did not want to do, but this party was something I really, really didn't want to do.
Sigh… I knew what I had to do, and I did not like it one bit.
"Jake, I'll go to the party, but there are going to be some conditions." He started nodding his head up and down like a dog, it was bugging me.
"First, you are going to drive so I don't have to waste any gas, you will buy all my favorite road trip food, I have power over all music and you can not complain at all. And we will only talk when necessary."
He got the biggest smile on his face when he realized we would be driving to Forks together. And you could see realization on his face clearly, he knew he had the jackpot and he sprang to his feet and enveloped me in a giant hug.
"Thanks so much Bella, I promise you will not regret this."
I had to get him to leave before he tried to make himself comfortable.
I walked him to the door and as he was walking out, I called after him.
"By the way Jake, when we get to Forks, you are going to have tell our dad's why we are no longer together."
And then I slammed the door in his face.
EPOV
When I finally left the airport to home, I called the hospital to tell them I was ill and would be out the rest of the week, I could not work when my life was in complete shambles.
Monday blurred in to Tuesday, then Tuesday blurred into Wednesday, Wednesday afternoon Emmett came over to ask how I was doing.
What a stupid question.
But I lied and I told him I was fine.
He didn't believe me.
"Cut the shit Edward, I'm going to tell you now what I told you in Vegas 'ball up and be a man.' Just don't sit here pinning after her, if you want her, than go get her."
" Emmett, even if that wasn't a completely crazy idea, I have no idea where she actually lives and if she would actually want to see me."
" Dude, she's your wife, of course she wants to see you," he stated like it was the most obvious thing in the world. "And as far as knowing where she lives, all you have do is go onto the Forks High website and look her up."
" Forks High has a website?"
" Really, Edward, I just gave you a way to see your wife and your asking about the website."
" Your right let me get my laptop." Damn it, where are my priorities? And why is Emmett being so helpful lately, that not like him, its kind of worrying me, maybe he's sick.
Damn it Edward priorities.
I rushed to my room and almost slipped on the hard wood floor in all of my haste.
I less time than should be humanly possible I got to my laptop.
Emmett and I had located my Bella, my wife, in now time. She was a 30-minute drive away if I followed the speed limits, 15 minutes tops with the way I drive.
I ran to the front door looking frantically for my keys on the side table near the door. When I looked to my side, I say Emmett holding them above his head.
How the hell did he get there so fast?
"What the hell Emmett give me my keys back." I was ready to punch him.
" Well fine then, talk to me that way and I'll let you rush off to your woman's house to profess your love to her and undying devotion smelling like ass."
" What?"
"Idiot, go take a shower, you smell."
" Right a shower, a shower, I need to take a shower."
" Your bathroom is upstairs, to the right."
When I finally was able to clear my mind a bit and walk up the stairs, I heard Emmett complaining about me being the smart one in the family.
I would get him back for that comment later and for talking to me like I was stupid, but right now, I had to get my wife back.
I rushed through showering and shaving, I'm surprised I didn't cut myself. I pulled on a nice pair of dress pants and a light blue button up. I rolled up the sleeves while I walked to the door. I got my keys and ran out to the Volvo, I heard my name called and looked at the window in my house and saw Emmett standing there waving like an idiot while he yelled good luck out to me.
I fond her place pretty quickly, she lived in a house so it was pretty easy to find, but I noticed that once I pulled up to her house there was another man walking up to her door and he looked very familiar.
Damn it, it's him what is he doing at her house.
Before I get too worked up, I have to remember that this is Jake, she'll just tell him to leave and then I can go to her and tell her how I fell and we can start on fixing everything.
What the hell, why is he walking into the house, this cannot be happening.
He was in her house for a good forty-five minutes. I knew I should have left, I was just torturing myself waiting around to see what was going to happen, but I needed to know, why he was here.
I knew the history between the two, that's why I could not figure out why he was at her house and actually inside with her.
But that's Bella; she never does anything I expect.
He finally made it out of the house, it looked like she slammed the door in his face from where I was parked, but then the bastard had to turn around and he had the biggest fucking smile on his face, like he just won the fucking lottery.
I was too late. She took him back, because she saw me with Tanya. Stupid Tanya, she ruins everything.
I didn't notice that I was parked behind Jake's truck and as he was unlocking his door, I could here his loud voice clearly as he was talking to someone on the phone.
"Hey Sam, man I totally did it, she agreed to go with me to my Dad's for his birthday, and I'm making the drive with her, so I'll have three hours to get her back for sure, there is no way she's going to turn men down."
He had stopped talking and was listening to the person on the other end.
"Dude, I'll have her marrying me in a month tops, she is going to be mine and I'll have that nice piece of ass that's having my baby, shit, I'm going to have the both of them, this is fucking perfect."
The fucking bastard, he cannot do that to my Bella. And why would she agree to going away with him.
What the hell is going on, nothing is making any sense now.
No matter what happens between my Bella and I, I need to make sure that mutt does not get his paws on her.
I need a plan and I will have one, I will get Bella, she and I will have it all one way or another. I wont stop trying.
Sorry again about the delay, but I am working on the next chapter,I do have three tests this week so I want to get the chapter up by Wednesday, Thursday the latest.
Thank you again for all of you being so patient and understanding. I promise I wont leave you all hanging like that again.
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