A/N: I'm baaack!!! Yeah, Alice got to me, and now I'm super hyper…like freaking hopping around hyper!
Hope you all like it. And thanks to those who reviewed. Many of you were wondering why Bella ran away, but seriously, you just accidentally found out that you're in love with your used-to-be best friend, and said friend is sitting right in front of you. What would you do? And keep in mind that this is Blushing Bella, after all…
Also, I'm turning this into a slight Gossip Girl crossover, since the girls are at Yale. And just because I'm addicted. Let me know what you think. But don't worry, you'll get the story even if you're not a GG.
P.S, check out my new one-shot, National Geographic: A Fish Tried To Kiss An Eagle. It's like a continuation from Eclipse when Jake said that you never see a fish trying to kiss an eagle.
DISCLAIMER: Don't own it, don't own it…Stephenie Meyer, will you re-consider selling the rights to me??? Wait…I think my college fund is in worse shape than Bella's…(sigh)…no Twilight for me…
MATCH MADE IN HELL
CHAPTER FIVE: Awkward…
Bella's POV
Damn it! I can't believe that I just ran from Edward, whom I have a date with TOMORROW! I sped back home, thanking God that Ali and Rose were still at home…waiting for their coffee. Damn. But they'd understand.
Tears were once again welling up in my eyes, threatening to over-spill as I flashed back to the coffee house incident. I cut the engine in the garage, and rushed up to my room. Alice was making plans for the room and the furniture, while Rose was keeping her from going overboard and flipping through Sweet Rides. Normally, I would have laughed at that. Yet another car, Rosalie? How many do you need? But now was no time for laughing. I let out a sniffle and they spun around to face me, my sadness mirrored in their eyes, though they had no idea for its presence. That's just us. When one of us is down, it automatically translates to three moping girls, not one.
Alice was the first to reach out to me. Rose followed her lead after a while. I couldn't control myself anymore, so I let the waterworks flow. "Oh, girls!' I sobbed.
Between the two of them, they managed to drag me to my bed. Alice asked Sarah, our housekeeper, to bring up three cups of hot chocolate, and Rose instantly booted up her laptop, which she'd brought with her, going on to Gossip Girl, checking to see if there was anything there that could upset me. There was some news about Blair, and Chuck, as usual, and I was mildly surprised to see that Serena and Dan were over…again, but there was nothing about the three of us, other than the announcement that we had arrived safely at Forks (as if anything could have gone wrong) and a few pictures of us and the new house. Which was nothing big. We'd found out that Gossip Girl had informants here in Forks the first time we'd come back, so we tried to not let it bother us that much.
Suddenly, the page refreshed itself and a second later, a few shots showed up, revealing me and Edward at Benji's. I was shocked, since the pics were fresh, taken no more than 20 minutes ago. She had put up a caption along with the update:
"It seems that BS (I was BS, and Blair was BW) has snagged a guy just two days into her return. The million dollar question now is, who's Mr. Greek God, and what will S, BW, A and R have to say about this? You know you love me. Xoxo, Gossip Girl."
I groaned. Serena and Blair. The other two who made up the five of us. What would they have to say about this? As if they could actually read my mind, Serena's face appeared on Rosalie's screen, along with Blair. Rose and Alice sat on either side of me, huddled close together, each of us cradling a cup of hot chocolate.
"Oh, Bells," Serena sighed. "What happened?" Both of them seemed very concerned, and I knew that they were. Even Blair, though others thought she was a ruthless Queen B.
I sighed myself, and prepared myself to share the story. "Remember Edward, my ex-best friend?" They nodded. Despite the fact that they'd never met him, they'd heard the stories a million times and they knew just as much as Alice and Rose…or just as much as Alice, anyway.
"Well, turns out that little pixie here," I gave Alice a death glare. "Freaking set us up!" I screeched. Alice winced.
"I didn't set you up," Alice reasoned. "Your moms did." She said, triumphant. We gave her a 'whatever' look, and I continued.
"Anyways," I continued. "I ran into him today at Benji's," They nodded, having already figured that out. "And he invited me to sit with him. So we were making small talk…bla bla bla," -I waved my hand dismissively- "When all of a sudden, -BAM!- my brain tells me that I'm in love with him." I finished quietly and sadly. There was a collective gasp of shock and joy, but Blair was the first to speak.
"Then go get him!" She encouraged. That made me smile a little. Blair was always so confident and bold, but she didn't know that the rest of us weren't always that bold, especially when it involves our child-hood best friend.
"Okay, okay, we get it, Blair." Serena said, rolling her eyes. "But what do we do now?" We. Not you. I smiled again. The girls were with me all the way, and they would help me as much as they could. "When's your date?" She asked, pretending to be casual so as to not upset me.
"Tomorrow," Rose replied flatly. Then she turned to me. "Do you still want to go? We could always cancel." And let Edward think that I was a coward and hunt me down. I shuddered at the thought.
Alice was psychic, I was sure of that. Because the next words out of her mouth were: "And if you're scared that he'll hunt you down, we'll just run away to LA for the rest of the summer, and he won't meet you till next year. He'll probably forget about it by then, though."
We smiled, cheered by the thought. But then I sighed again. "I have to go." I said. "But LA does sound good. Why don't we meet there next week?" I suggested. It wasn't as if I was going to hang around for the next two months after our date- I cringed at that thought- to be on the receiving end of the looks and gossip.
"But you will set up your webcam the minute you're back and tell us every single detail," Blair stressed. I nodded.
"Good," Serena said, and her tone was final. "We have to go now, but we'll catch you tomorrow, okay?" We nodded.
"Bye," we all chorused, and then the screen returned to Gossip Girl. Great. I groaned again, then hid my face in my pillow.
"Come on, Bells," Alice said, dragging me up. "We've gotta make space for our stuff!" She said, excited. I groaned again, but teasingly. "No!!! The hour of death!" I said dramatically. Rose grinned, and Alice rolled her eyes.
As we were descending the stairs, Alice nearly killed me. "But you do know that LA means another shopping trip, don't you?" Then she smiled angelically, as if she were doing me a favor.
Urgh…I hate that pixie!
Edward's POV
I was left there, dumbstruck, as Bella's car retreated from its spot and raced up the winding road. What the hell had just happened??? I thought.
The girl I loved-yes, I was in love with Bella- had just left me, for no reason at all, as if I had told her that I had cooties. And she didn't even run away from that when we were nine and I jokingly told her I had been infected. Instead, her eyebrows had scrunched up and she'd checked if I was running a temperature before towing me by the arm to Renee to insist that I was brought to the hospital.
I laughed at the memory. How I wished that we were nine again, and best friends, with no worries in the world. Life was so simple then. The biggest problem would be figuring out what Esme was making for dinner, and the worst heartache was going to school. I grinned, remembering a certain bronze-haired nine year old who would throw a fit every single day before another brunette girl would show up, bright and shiny, ready for school. Then I, the bronze-haired boy, would feel embarrassed, and race against time to get ready for school while Bella waited patiently downstairs, chatting with Alice.
Yes, being a nine-year-old certainly did have its perks, even if my allowance was way too insufficient back then.
So, didya like it??? Didya???
Next chapter, ALICE!!! And her force of internet shipping.
The 7th chapter will be the date.
Hope you all liked the GG conference…
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Xoxo,
Nessie.