"They've got a position open in Seattle. Lincoln High..." I said printing out an application form and tucking my pen behind my ear.
"You've got a Masters degree, you could teach at a community college... They have an opening for a pathophysiology professor." Alice nodded, showing me the computer screen. I bit my lip and furrowed my eyebrows.
"I don't think I should teach anything I've never heard about..." I said shaking my head, she scoffed and put down her coffee cup.
"Are you kidding?! My English Lit. professor graduated with a degree in fashion design. All they want is a degree." I seriously doubted the legitimacy of the college Alice graduated from, good think she had a knack for teaching or there'd be some messed up kindergarteners coming out of Thompson.
My door swung open and the sound of keys hitting my side table made my head snap up.
"What's up, ladies?" Edward asked, sauntering through the door way.
"Job hunting." I groaned, palming my forehead. Edward pursed his lips and kissed my temple before collapsing in the seat next to Alice. Speaking of Alice, she sat staring at Edward as if he were the most gorgeous man on earth.
Which... Was true.
After realizing I was glaring at Alice, Edward turned to her and winked, making her blush and snap her gaze back to the computer. As much as she tried to fight it, Alice was just as taken with Edward, as everyone was.
"You're lucky you're attractive." She mumbled under her breath.
"Speaking of desperate guess who called today." Edward said leaning forward and turning that gorgeous gaze on me.
"Who was talking about desperate?" Alice asked, back to her normal self now that she was released from his unintentional lusty stare. I don't think he could control the raw sex he exuded some times.
"Who called?" I asked turning back to my notepad of phone numbers I needed to call to set up interviews.
"Tanya Denali. She left a drunken voicemail about my magic cock-" Alice mock gagged and we ignored her. "Then she told me to find her when I was done messing with the-" His eyes widened, and he caught himself. "you." I scowled, wondering why he was telling us all of this.
"The Bella?" Alice asked, raising an accusatory eyebrow.
"The Prude," I rolled my eyes before narrowing them at Edward. "Do you call me that behind my back too?" I hissed. 'The Prude' was what Tanya and the rest of her skank gang called me when we were in school. She told me it wasn't supposed to be mean, it was just an easier way to refer to me. Then after the prom incident I was referred to as 'The Skank', but again, that wasn't a bad thing. Apparently my old friends weren't mature enough to move past the juvenile nickname phase.
"Of course not. I know you're no prude." He winked and Alice's mouth dropped open.
"If she goes home with you, make sure you find a way to get her home without me knowing." I bit with way more venom than I'd expected. Alice nudged my calf with hers and gave me a sympathetic smile. Edward's eyes, meanwhile, were as wide as they could go.
"You were pissed about that? I didn't fuck her." He shrugged, I nodded, feeling stupid as I looked to my computer. I had no right to be upset about Edward's sexcapades. He wasn't mine to be upset about.
"Babe," his finger slipped under my chin and he lifted it so I met his eyes. "I didn't."
"It's none of my business." I whispered, he searched my eyes for a second before his own locked on my lips. I lifted a hand and snapped, making him jump.
"What is the significance of Tanya calling?"
"Oh, I'm just done with her…" His eyes flicked to mine and away quickly. "It's too much shit, and you two don't get along."
"You're just going to give up on her because I don't like her?" I lifted an eyebrow and he shrugged.
"You know what? I'm done wasting time with flings and hot one night stands. I'm gonna get serious." He decided abruptly, sitting back in his chair and linking his fingers together. "Alice," he turned as she snapped out of her ogling. "wanna go steady?" She blushed and shook her head, flashing him her wedding ring.
As much as I realized he was joking, I really wanted those words, albeit slightly outdated, to be directed my way.
Edward reached around the tiny table and grabbed the leg of my chair, pulling me next to him.
"If you say yes, I'll throw in a gorgeous Bella for you."
"Pretty much the ultimate package." I nodded, inwardly screaming and outwardly blushing at the compliment. We both beamed angelically at her and she snorted before shaking her head.
"Uh, no. Thanks."
"Apparently her husband and kids are more important than us." He pouted, turning back to me. Alice furrowed her eyebrows at the mention of her nonexistent children.
"Blasphemy." I mock pouted right back at him.
"Well, Alice, you should probably go now." I rolled my eyes and slapped Edward's shoulder. "The sting of rejection is forcing me to goad Bella into licking my wounds." He shook his head and hooked his arms under my legs before standing and lifting both of us, tossing me over his shoulder.
"No, I need to work-" I slapped his ass.
"You're unemployed, what could you be working on?" Alice sucked in some air between her teeth and I smacked the small of his back. The nonchalance of his tone made me seethe.
"Get out!" I yelled, wiggling on his shoulder. "You're such a dick!"
"We'll pick this up tomorrow." Alice said shaking her head as she packed up.
"I need your help!" I whined, using my hands to push against Edward's back so that I was almost upright.
"Tomorrow." She said with a short wave.
"Not necessary. She's going to be working for me, but thanks, Alice."
"No, I'm not, now put me down and you get out too!" He shook his head, nuzzling my exposed stomach. As soon as my apartment door closed I was flung onto the couch, before Edward's body covered mine.
"I was serious about you licking my wounds." He said, settling between my legs and lifting one of my legs and hitching it over his.
"As was I about you leaving." I groaned, arching my back to get him off of me. He moaned as my breasts pressed against his chest, as I bit my sigh down.
"You help me, I'll help you." I scowled at him and he smiled, his green eyes twinkling mischievously. "You can start here." He pointed to his neck and eyed my own. "Let me show you how it's done."
He ducked his head and I groaned, "I'm assuming that as some point you're going to want me to suck your dick, are you going to demonstrate that too?"
"I wouldn't think otherwise." He said rubbing his hips into mine. "You see, the anatomy is very different, the technique, quite the same." We both rolled our eyes at his words. He surprised me by dipping his head and nipping my neck.
Friends don't do that.
But Edward does.
And damn if it didn't make me want to hump his face.
"You aren't gonna get with this, because your FWB is a raving, sexually demented, stalker." I said wrinkling my nose. He hummed into my neck and fingered the bottom of my shirt.
"What would get you to help me out?" He whispered, trailing his nose up my cheek.
A flick of a button.
"Oh I don't know," I shrugged, "you could try out that accent."
"It's not an accent, Isabella. It's a way of life." As much shit as I'd given him, the accent was flawless, sending tingles down my spine. The way my name rolled off of his tongue made my heart skip a beat. "You look wondrous today, ducky-" I giggled at the name and he smiled, sitting up and pulling me with him. He tossed my legs into his lap, pulling me in until my ass touched his leg.
"One day, I shall take you to London, love. Then you'll be able to see my delightful home and birth place." Even though he wasn't dry humping me anymore he still extremely close me.
"Yeah?"
"And maybe by then, you'll be open to some proper English lovin'." He put his forehead to my temple and I giggled.
"Don't hold your breath." I pursed my lips and he rolled his eyes leaning back against the couch.
"Two rejections in one day. That's a first." He deadpanned, though it was true. His phone rang and he scrambled to pick it up. "Oh hey..." He showed his teeth and gave me a wide eyed, panicked look. I shrugged, I didn't know her name. "Beautiful?" There was a feminine giggle on the other end of the line and I rolled my eyes. The random girl babbled in his ear for a while and he winced.
"Yeah," he kissed my forehead and gave me an apologetic frown. "Of course I didn't forget, I can't wait to see you... Cutie." She giggled again and I pulled my legs from his lap, my heart sinking a bit as I watched him stand. He covered the speaker and looked at me, furrowing his eyebrows.
"You don't remember her name do you?" I asked, pursing my lips.
"Hey, I remember yours, that's all that matters." A smirk tugged at his lips and he pointed over his shoulder. "Do you mind if I...?" My door opened and in stormed Alice. When Edward saw her he used that time to end the call with his flavor of the night.
"Left my phone!" She called walking past us to the kitchen.
"Do I mind if...?"
"If I go?" He jerked a thumb towards the door and I shook my head even though I wanted to pull him down and never let him go.
"Of course not, just use a condom." I said with a roll of my eyes. Of course I wanted him to. "Oh and stick to the nickname thing if you never remember her real name."
"I can stay with you, if you'd like." He shrugged moving to sit down.
"Go." I sighed, regret flowing through me.
"Look, you're much more important than her anyway. I can stay-"
"Edward, I'm fine."
"Are you sure?" He asked putting a hand on my thigh.
I reached up and patted his cheek. "Positive." Lie. He nodded and leaned in, kissing my forehead before searching my eyes again and then standing.
"Bye." He said softly, turning and grabbing his jacket. I waved and he disappeared. As soon as the door closed Alice was at my side, pursing her lips. I pouted up at her and she rolled her eyes.
"Are you crazy?! He wanted you to stop him!" I rolled my eyes and pulled my legs up, hugging my knees. She knocked lightly on my head. "Hellooo?" I moved away from her bony ass knuckle and wrinkled my nose.
"He's getting laid. He wouldn't miss that for the world." I shook my head.
"He would've missed it for you if you hadn't forced him out of the door." She huffed, throwing up her hands.
"You just don't know Edward... He's different."
"Different or not he was a second away from begging you to let him stay." She plopped down next to me and grabbed my chin so that I'd look at her. "He wants you to show interest, Bella!"
"Oh okay. Then I'll do that!" I said, my tone sarcastic. "I'll show him how head over heels I am so he can ignore me and tell me blondes are his type."
"He only dates blondes?" She asked with wide dreamy eyes as she crossed her hands over her heart. "Oh my god."
"What?" I asked, furrowing my eyebrows.
"He only dates blondes and you're brunette." She cooed, batting her eyelashes.
"Um..." I rolled my eyes to the ceiling, failing to see how this was cute in anyway.
"You're his quarter among pennies!"
"Is that, like, a saying…?" I questioned.
"You're special, Bella! Different from all the rest because you're his one and only!"
"Or he's just attracted to blondes..." I rolled my eyes and she gasped.
"No! Bella, these are all the signs you need! They're looking you dead in the face and saying "Relationship come hither!"" She said putting one hand on her chest and extending the other arm.
"There is no relationship. We tried," he took my virginity, "it didn't work."
"Trying in high school is a lot different than trying in your mid-twenties." She rolled her eyes. "Go for it! You should make him come back and claim your undying love for him." I blushed and shook my head.
"How about we wait until tomorrow for that declarations?" She sighed and nodded before patting my thigh.
"I've gotta go, but I'll see you later, Bella." I waved and sighed once she was gone, flopping onto my back on the couch.
Quarter among pennies…
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