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Chapter 8 I need you now

It's a quarter after one, I'm all alone and I need you now.
Said I wouldn't call but I lost all control and I need you now.
And I don't know how I can do without.
I just need you now.

I think Edward was trying to tell me something this last weekend. I could see it in his eyes. However the one thing I figured out was I love him and I was ready to tell him. I had it all planed. I'm going to make it special. I had a dinner planed of his favorite things and a really nice wine. I even want and bought same really nice lingerie from Victoria's Secret. I had a plan.

The one thing about all this, is it feels right, somehow I knew this is what I was supposed to do. There was no doubt in my mind at all. I knew Edward and I were meant to be. I knew our lives were destined to be intertwined together. I knew he was made for me. I felt this so strongly, it just had to be right. How could something that felt so right, so strong not be meant to be.

On Friday I left work early. I rushed home and started dinner, set the table, and took a shower. I finished dinner, dressed, and did my hair, and make-up. I got a special dress for tonight. A skin tight, midnight blue, strapless dress, with strappy heels. I left my hair down with large curls. I laid out the sheer white see through night gown and the sheer white see through matching robe out on my bed. It will go nice with the new lace strapless bra and match thong I was wearing.

I was just lighting the candles when I heard a car door outside. I took one last look around. Yep, everything was ready. I went to get the door for Edward. I stood at the door and looked myself over one last time before went to open the door.

I open the door and felt my heart break. I must have made some kind of noise because their heads turned to look at me. I choke back a sob and swallowed the lump in my throat.

"Victoria, Edward." My voice cracked as I nodded my greeting.

"Oh, hello Bella." Victoria said with an evil smirk on her face as I turn and walked back into the house.

I was able to hold back the tears until I made it to my room. I was not in there for 2 minute when Edward stormed in.

"Bella that's not what it looked like, I swear it wasn't."

"It sure and the hell looked like you kissing that skank." I yelled as I grabbed a bag from my closet and started throwing clothes in it.

"I really don't know what happened. I turn to thank her for the ride home because my car wouldn't start and she threw herself at me."

"Come on Edward, if you really wanted me gone, you could have just said so. You didn't need to throw HER in my face." I zipped my bag and to look at Edward standing there with a deer in headlights look. With tears still streaming down my face I walk to stand in front of him.

"Please make sure my put the candles out. I don't want the house to burn down. Goodbye Edward."

"Bella, please don't go. You have to believe me, I don't know what happened. She had nothing to do with me until today. She never even talked to me outside of work things." Edward bagged me as I walked out to the door.

"Edward, don't, I can't handle this right now." I turn and kissed him as tears ran down his face. Then turned and walked out the door.

I was able to hold off a total break down until I got to Alice's. I cried silent tear all the way there. I could not hold back when I walked into the house. Everyone was shock to see me there. My appearance must be terrible. My mascara and make-up must be running down my face.

"Bella, what happened to you?" Alice asked as I just stood there looking at the 4 of them.

"Her." Was all I said as I walked over and curled up on Emmett's lap. I needed my big brother to tell everything was going to be okay.

Everyone let me cry it out. Alice was on one side rubbing my back and Rose on the other rubbing my head and hair. Emmett just held me tight. When the tears finally stopped and my breathing evened out, Alice asked what happened. I told them all what happened and how Edward said Victoria threw herself at him. All I knew was I was broken. It was Emmett who put a sliver of hope in my mind.

"Bella, I know you are hurting right now. You don't know what to believe, but you must think it over, Edward might not have done this to you. You know how Victoria has had it out for you since College. More than likely she use Edward to hurt you, again."

"I'll think about that. Right now, I need a hot shower and bed."

"Okay, I'll put your thing in the guest room." Alice said as she helped me off Emmett's lap.

I just stood in the shower letting the hot water pour over me. How could he do this to me? I know we have not been together long, but I really thought we had something special. I really felt broken. I never felt this bad. I didn't feel like I could ever be put back together. Not only did I feel broke, I also felt like parts of me were missing. It felt like my heart and lungs were missing, I could not breath. No matter how hard or how deep I took a breath it still did not feel right. I just wanted to go to bed and never get out.

The water finally ran cold. I dried myself and found Alice put cloths in here for me. I dressed and then went to the guest room. I guess it is now my room. My cell phone was beeping on the nightstand. 4 missed calls from Edward. I turned the phone off and covered myself up with the comforter. I was out as soon as my head hit the pillow.

The tears slowed down after 3 days. Now I was in a daze most of the day. I only left my room to use the bathroom. Alice would bring me food and sit and watch me eat. It took 2 weeks of pay time off from work. Edward's phone calls went from 10 times a day to 4 times a day. I never answered his calls. He would leave a message once a day. I eased them without listening to them. I think he was calling Alice to check up on me. Now I was crying myself to sleep ever night.

I felt lost without Edward. I was empty. How am I going to live without him? He was my life without me even know it. I knew I could not see my life without him. I never thought I could not live without him. I hurt all the time. I was in real pain. My chest hurt. It hurt to breathe and I swear my heart hurt. I could not think straight. No matter how hard I tried I could not stop thinking about him. I replayed ever moment of the last 4 months through my head. All I wanted was for all of it to stop. I did not want to remember what his lips felt like on mine. I did not want to remember want it felt like to have his hands on me. I did not want to remember what it felt like to have his arms around me. And most of all, I wanted to stop waking up in the middle of the night crying.

The first couple night's Alice would come into my room and calm me down. Then she and Jasper took turns. Come on, how pathetic was I. A grown woman of 28 lying in bed for 6 days because of a man. I was the definition of a loser. I don't remember the last time I changed my clothes or shower. Wait a minute; Alice forces me to do that every other day.

I just woke up from one of my crying spells. Jasper came in and calmed me down. But I just could not go back to sleep. I need Edward so bad. My body and mind were needing him so bad it hurt. He started calling only twice a day 2 days ago. I think he is giving up on me. He calls once in the morning and once at night. I think before he goes to bed. It has been over a week now and I'm really falling apart. Edward was home for the weekend. He came by everyday he was home and I told Alice I did not want to see him. On Monday is when he started calling twice a day. The change in his calling hurt. It is like he is giving up on me. That thought brought on a whole new round of tears. I just needed to hear his voice. I needed him to tell me we would be okay.

It is 2 in the morning, he should be sleeping now. Hell I should be sleeping now, but just needed to hear him. Maybe if I called him. He doesn't answer his phone at night. He turns it on silent when he sleeps. I could listen to his voice mail message. Maybe that would be good enough so I could go back to sleep.

So of course I pick up my phone and call him. The phone rings four times.

"Thank god you called." Edward answered the phone. He sounded as miserable as me. Hearing his voice brought a new wave of sobs.

"Shh, shh, beautiful don't cry. God I miss you. I wish I was there to hold you."

"I know Edward. This entire thing is my fault. I'm so sorry." I said through my sobs.

"No, sweetheart. I'm so sorry. I had no idea who Victoria was. Baby, I'm so sorry, if I had known I would have got someone else for an assistant. Please believe me, I did not mean for any of this to happen." I think I could hear tears in his voice. That just brought more tears on my end. I was breaking him. How much more pain would I cause us.

"I know Edward. Please tell me we are going to be okay." I cried into the phone.

"Yes, love, we are going to be fine. I'll be here when you are ready."

"Thank you, Edward. I miss you."

"I know, love. I miss you, too."

"Good night, handsome."

"Good night, Beautiful." With that I ended the call.

I stop the tears with a new wave of hope. We were going to okay. I knew now we would. I laid down and fell into the first peace full sleep I had since this all started. I woke in the morning to a new plan. I was going to make it all better. I sat down with my lap top and sent Edward 2 e-mails.

EPOV

I made up my mind, this weekend when I go home I'm going to tell Bella I'm in love with her. I called and reserved the terraces at one of the fines restaurant in town. I had it planned for the restaurant staff to have tons of flowers and candles set up. It was going to be gorgeous. It was going to take Bella's breath away. I had just left my meeting when my assistant came running down the hall with my ringing phone. I knew it was Bella. I had a ring tone for her and I had a beautiful picture of her that came up when she called.

"Hello, love. How was your day?" I asked her as Victoria and I walked out of the building.

"Great and your day?"

"Good. I just got out of a meeting. Hey, I got a special night for us planned for Saturday night. Why didn't you go get a special dress."

"Okay, do I get a hint?" Bella asked. I know how she hates surprises, but she was not getting a hint.

"No, but you will love it." I told her as a huge shit eating smile spread across my face.

"You know I hate it when you do this."

"I know, love. Hey, my flight home tomorrow it a little earlier then normal."

"Okay, Will you be home when I get off work?"

"No, I'm thinking we should be getting home about the same time. So I'll see you at home."

"Okay, I'll be there."

"Okay, love. I'll call you tonight."

"I'll be waiting." I ended the call. God I love that woman.

I was so lost in talking to Bella I did not notice Victoria was still standing beside me.

"When do you want to get together to go over our notes, Mr. Cullen?"

"Why don't you meet me in the lobby of our hotel in 2 hours?"

"Okay, Mr. Cullen. How is your wife doing?" That question took me back; she has never talk to me about anything but work.

"Bella is not my wife. We are just dating, but she is doing well. Okay I'll see you at at 7. Did you need a ride back to the hotel?"

"No, I'll get a cab. I'm going to grab something for dinner. See you later Mr. Cullen." With that she hailed a cab and left.

What the hell, I have never had a problem with my car before, now it won't start. I just got off a long flight home and really just wanted to get home to Bella. I was just getting ready to call Bella to pick me up on her way home from work when Victoria pulled up beside me.

"Are you okay Mr. Cullen?" Victoria asked.

"My car will not start. I'll just call Bella to pick me up."

"I can give you a left. It will not be problem." I looked at my watch, Bella should be home already. I would hate for her to come all this way.

"Sure. Thank you." I said as I grabbed my bag and got in her car.

Victoria drove me home with us just sharing small talk. I told her where to turn here and there. Besides that we really didn't talk about anything big.

"You can just pull up in the drive way." I suggested.

"Wow, nice house. I see Bella is here to see you already." She commented pulling in beside Bella's SUV.

"Bella lives here with me. Thanks you for the ride. See you Monday." I said as I opened the car door.

I had just reached the front door and was disarming the alarm when I heard Victoria walking up the walk. I turn to thank her again and send her on her way. The next thing I knew she had her lips on mine. I did not quite figure out what was going on until I heard a gasp from Bella. I mean it was like 2 seconds. It all happened so fast, it had to look bad to Bella.

"Victoria, Edward." I heard her voice crack. Oh, this is not good.

"Oh, hello Bella." Victoria said giving Bella a "If looks could kill." look. Then Bella just turn and walked away.

"What the hell was that about? Have you lost your mind?" I yelled at Victoria.

"She is not good enough for you, Edward." She told me rubbing her hand up and down my chest.

"That is not your call. I do not want to see you Monday. Now leave." I said with as much hatred as possible. I stood outside and watch her storm off and leave.

I went straight to Bella's room to find her stand there crying. My heart broke to see her cry. I walked in to talk to her.

"Bella that's not what it looked like. I swear it wasn't."

"It sure and the hell looked like you kiss that skank." Bella yelled as she got a bag from her closet.

"I really don't know what happened. I turn to thank her for the ride home because my car would not start and she throws herself at me." It scared me to see her packing her stuff. I could not lose her. I manage to choke back my tears. I was so stung to see all this happening.

"Come on Edward, if you really wanted me gone, you could just said so. You didn't need to throw HER in my face." How could she think that? I loved her, how could she not know that. How could she think I did not want her. I was shocked by her words. "Please make sure my put the candles out. I don't want the house to burn down. Goodbye Edward." Then she walked always.

"Bella, please don't go. You have to believe me, I don't know what happened. She had nothing to do with me until today. She never even talked to me outside of work things." I begged her as she walked to the front door.

"Edward, I don't, I can't handle this right now." She gave me one last kiss and walked out the door.

I stood in the door way watching Bella throw her bag in the back seat of her SUV and drive off. I step back into the house in a shocked daze. What in the hell just happened? My whole life was just turn upside down in just under ten minutes. I shut the door and stood there replaying what just happened. Then more I thought about it the madder I got. The madder I got at Victoria. I was so mad I turn and punched the wall. Why the hell would she do this to me? I have only known her for 2 weeks. How did Bella know Victoria? The more I thought about what just happened, I noticed a few things.

Bella was dressed up. She looked gorgeous. She had on a beautiful dark blue strapless dress. She said something about candles. She must have had something planed. I walked into the dining room to find the table set with all my favorite things for dinner. Bella had candles lit and my favorite wine chilling. After standing in the dining room for some time looking over the special dinner she made for us. I roamed back to her room. My body ached for her. I needed to be where her scent would be stronger.

I stood in her room look around when I noticed something laying on her bed. I walked over to Bella's bed to look at what she had laid out. It was the most beautiful white see through nightgown and robe set. It all clicked into place. The dinner and the nightgown, I think I'm pretty sure what she had planned for us tonight. That did it. I fall to my knee by her bed and cried like a baby.

I'm not sure how long a sat there crying when I heard the front door close, but the footsteps were to heave to be Bella's, so I just sat there. I listened to them walk around. Then I heard Emmett's booming voice yell out my name. I did not reply, I just sat there.

"How are you doing, bro?" I look up to see Emmett standing in the door way. When I didn't say anything, he spoke again.

"Dude you have a hole in your wall by the front door."

"I know." I choke out. I watched him look around the room.

"Looks like Bella had a big night planed for you two."

"Do you have to rub it more? I figured that out after she left." It just brought more tears.

"How could you do that with Victoria out of all women?" Emmett asked. How does everyone know Victoria?

"How in the hell do you all know my assistant?"

"You're kidding my dude, right? Victoria is you assistant?"

"Yes, she my assistant who hardly talked to me outside of our meeting until 2 days ago. Still how do you and Bella know her?"

"Man, you really don't know, do you?" He watched me nod no to him.

"Victoria was dating James. He broke things off with her to date Bella in college. She made Bella's life a living hell all through college. Victoria finally got James back. She is the reason James dumped Bella and kicked her out."

"Oh my god, that explains it."

"Explains what?"

"Why Victoria started talking to me outside of our meetings. I forgot my phone in a meeting the other day. She brought it me when Bella called me. I have it set so a picture of Bella comes up when she calls." I thought about the whole Victoria and Bella thing, and then it hit me.

"That is why Bella thought I did want her here anymore. God Em, what am I going to do?"

"It's going to be okay, Bro. I already talked to Bella about the Victoria thing. Just give Bella sometime."

"How is she doing?"

"From the looks of you, about as good as you are. Dude, she ruined my shirt." I took notice of his shirt to see make-up all over it.

"She curled up on my lap and cried for a hour. We talked it through with her, and then she took a shower and went to bed. She is staying at Alice's. Give her a few days to sort thing out in her head, but don't give up on her."

"I called her like 4 times. She did answer or call back." Just when I thought I got the tears to stop, and then started again. "I guess I better call and cancel the planes I had for tomorrow. I was finally going to tell her I love her. I had this whole special night planed out."

"From the looks of the dining room and what Bella has laid out on the bed, she was going to beat you to it. I guess Victoria couldn't time this one any better if she tried. When is she going to stop messing with Bella? Let me help you clean up the dining room." Emmett put out his hand to help me off the floor. "You two will get through this. I know you will."

"Thanks, Bro."

We cleared the table and put the wine away. We did the dishes and then pick up the clothes that got thrown on the floor in Bella's room. Then Emmett help clean up the mess I made by the front door.

"I'll come over tomorrow with the stuff to patch the wall. Do you need me to take you to get you car?" He asks getting ready to leave.

"That would be great. I didn't get a chance to pop the hood to see why it wouldn't start."

"We will take a look tomorrow. I'm sure it is nothing big. You take good care of it. Okay, I'll see tomorrow, Bro. If you need anything before then, call me." He slapped me on the shoulder, and then headed out the door.

I tried to call Bella again, but she had her phone turned off. I got myself something to eat, then I took a shower, then to bed.

I couldn't sleep, I missed Bella. I was supposed to be holding her in my arms and my arms missed her. I knew everything was going to okay. I just needed to give Bella time.

Emmett came over in the morning and patched the wall. They we headed out to get my car. It didn't take long to fix. When I popped the hood it was pretty easy to see what was wrong. Someone unhooked my battery cables. I think I know who.

Once I got home the events from yesterday seem to crash down around me again. No matter what I did I could not stop thinking and missing Bella. I just barely made it through the day.

I called her every day, many times a day. I would leave a message everyday. I hoped Bella would listen to them. I started calling Alice everyday to check on her. Alice said Bella was not doing well. She was staying in bed all day. Alice was making her eat and shower. God all this was killing me. Bella did not deserve this. Alice said Bella came to realize this was all Victoria doing and I did not want any of this to happen. But now Bella was being hard on herself for her reaction to all this. Bella was coming around; I just needed to hold on just a little bit longer.

I was miserable. I needed her so bad. I never realized how much I needed her before. I really considered not go home for the weekend. What was the point, the one person I need to see was not going to see me. But I tried, I was turned away. I kept calling, once in the morning and once before I tried to sleep.

Sleep was not happening any more. Most night I slept about 3 to 4 hours of broken sleep. Tonight I fall into a good sleep. I guess the exhaustion caught up with me. I had slept about 4 hour when I woke up all of a sudden. I took me a minute to figure out my phone was ringing. It was Bella. Oh my god it was Bella. My heart beat suddenly sky rocketed, my hand broke out in a sweat, and my hands were also shaking.

"Thank god you called." I answer the phone to hear her crying.

"Shh, shh, beautiful don't cry. God I miss you. I wish I was there to hold you."

"I know Edward. This entire thing is my fault. I'm so sorry." Hearing her take the blame for this whole mess brought me to tears.

"No, sweetheart. I'm so sorry. I had no idea who Victoria was. Baby, I'm so sorry, if I known I would have got someone else for an assistant. Please believe me, I did not mean for any of this to happen." I tried to reassure her. I needed us to make this mess better. I die a little more inside every day we were a part.

"I know Edward. Please tell me we are going to be okay." I had to fight back a sob as more tear streamed down my face.

"Yes, love, we are going to be fine. I'll be are here when you are ready." I choked out.

"Thank you, Edward. I miss you."

"I know, love. I miss you, too"

"Good night, handsome."

"Good night, Beautiful."

I put the phone down and fall asleep with a smile. I felt real hope for the first time in almost 2 week that everything was going to be fine.