Chapter Two.
Tomorrow, Tomorrow- Elliot Smith
The next two days at home with Charlie passed quickly, as I had thought they would. And they were enjoyable. Nothing in Phoenix compared to reading in the forests of Forks or cooking for Charlie. But two days at home before leaving to stay with Edward hadn't been the original plan.
I was supposed to go straight to Edward's.
I was supposed to be picked up from the airport by Edward.
I was supposed to spend nine days with Edward, instead of seven.
I was supposed to, but I couldn't.
Because of her.
Edward and I had planned this little trip months ago. Ever since we'd started attending different colleges, mine in Phoenix, his in Seattle, we hadn't seen each other more than once or twice a year for coffee. It was a drastic change from what we were used to. Here in Forks, Edward lived just down the street from me. Growing up, we had walked to middle school together every morning, and once we'd gotten our drivers licenses, we took turns driving each other around. There was nary a moment when Edward and I weren't together. And then we just couldn't anymore. Sure, we spoke on the phone and instant messaged each other more than anyone else, but our physical presences in each other's lives had dwindled to almost nothing. So when Edward had come up with the plan for me to come stay with him this summer, I was ecstatic. Nine days with Edward was going to be beyond amazing.
And then it became seven.
I was crushed.
Bitchface, otherwise known as Tanya, Edward's girlfriend, completely fucked everything up. Apparently her brother came into town two days before me, and she was freaking out about having two guests at one time. I was not her guest, mind you, so our plans should not have been disrupted, but Edward was the guy who did anything to make his girlfriend happy. This time it was cutting down the amount of time he spent with the best friend he hardly ever saw anymore. No big deal.
He had always been very non-confrontational, and as such, he didn't come right out and ask me to come two days later until I came to the conclusion myself. A few hours before my flight, Edward had called and asked me if I was going to be bored spending so much time with him. I assured him that was most definitely not going to be the case, that he was my favorite person. Throughout our conversation, though, he continued to bring up the possibility of my boredom and how concerned he was with having enough planned for us to do. That's when I caught on. Edward was never concerned with making plans for small stuff; he was a spontaneous, laid-back kind of guy. The kind of guy that didn't bother planning out each day of the week in advance. But that was most definitely up Bitchface's alley. Or so I'd surmised from Edward's vague description of her. I asked him what was going on, and he told me about Tanya's brother, then asked me to push my stay back by two days.
And because he was Edward… I agreed. I wasn't jazzed about it, but I said I would, for him. That didn't stop me from thinking about how absolutely convenient Tanya's brother visiting was. He just decided to come two days before me, out of the blue. And Edward had just flown to Chicago earlier in the summer to see that same brother graduate from high school, so it wasn't like he was meeting anyone new. No, he had to play host to Tanya's family before his own best friend. And I don't think he was too happy with that idea either.
Besides all his apologizing, the rest of our conversation consisted of very subtle hints that Tanya would eat him alive if I didn't do what he asked. Torture by way of Bitchface was not something I would wish on anyone, let alone my Edward, so all bets of mutiny were off. Before we hung up, we went over a few last minute details, including where I'd be sleeping. Edward had already told me I was sleeping in his bed– I had no choice, not that I wanted one. We'd slept together platonically a few rare times before, so it wasn't a big deal. To him, anyways. To my heart and other parts, it was a huge fucking deal. Which was why I was basically crushed at when that too was deftly snatched away.
Edward made some joke about me talking in my sleep, and then laughed nervously, following it with what seemed like a fake cough. That's when I heard her for the first time.
"What are you talking about, Eddie? You're sleeping on the couch. Right?"
I just about died from the amount of anger that welled up in me.
That.
Fucking.
Bitch.
She'd been right there the whole time, listening to everything he told me.
Making sure he made me come later.
What the fuck?!
My mounting tantrum was interrupted by Edward clarifying to me, but mostly to her, that he would indeed be sleeping on the couch.
With that, he hung up and I was left to deal with the unfathomable amount of hatred I had amassed for Bitchface in such a short amount of time. Add that to the times Edward had called me to vent about something she had done to upset him, and there was no fucking way on god's fucking green earth that she was getting the Bella Swan stamp of approval.
As I recalled the last time she'd wronged Edward, my anger grew ten-fold, if that was even possible. When you're a little kid, you learn to make 'I feel' statements to express your emotions. Bitchface had made a really hurtful comment about one of Edward's compositions, and he told her how that made him feel. And what did she say? She told him that she didn't make him feel anything, that anything he felt was his fault.
Seriously?!
I didn't know what made me more upset– the fact she completely invalidated his feelings, or the fact that he didn't break up with her on the spot.
No, that bitch was most definitely not getting my approval.
Lying in my bed, I realized I was losing precious sleep to thoughts about her. Fuck that. I rolled over, reading the bright red numbers staring at me from my nightstand. 3:26 AM. I was taking a bus back to Seattle in the morning, so I needed my sleep. Sweeping all thoughts of her royal bitchiness out my mind, leaving only those of Edward, I began to drift off to sleep.
Tomorrow was going to be interesting.
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