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And I Don't Even Know His Last Name

"Cullen." It rolled off his tongue so easily and casually. Like it wasn't my death sentence.

"I see." I didn't want to repeat it, didn't want to hear it ever again.

"Bella Cullen, I love it." He was opening his menu while he made his comment but I quickly snatched it away from him. Once I saw that I held his attention I spoke as if he had a hearing problem

"My. Name. Is. Bella. Swan." Once I Finished I pushed the menu back to his side of the table and took a sip of coffee.

"Well I suppose you could hyphenate."

"No, no, no! No Hyphens nor changing last names, my name is Bella Swan get used to it cause it's not changing." For a moment he looked like he was going to argue with me, but then he just sighed and resumed looking at his menu.

"Well ok if that's what you want."

"It is." Sure he hadn't agreed to a annulment but I was sure winning this battle was a step in the right direction.

After our meal we had started to head back up to his room. It had been an awkward affair after our disagreement, but I was starving so I soldiered through it, but now I was ready to head back to the apartment and sleep off this nightmare.

"Um… look I think I'm going to head home." I stopped and turned to him, hoping he would let me go relatively easy. Sure I knew that even if I ran away now and never saw him again it wouldn't solve any of the legal issues but it was still a tempting thought.

"Home?"

"Yes I need to change and I still haven't even unpacked so I think I should go." I looked at the gaudy carpet that lined the casino floor, it was only twelve but already the slot machines were being played by enthusiastic players who were drinking. It would be so easy to just start weaving between them and head for the doors, but something told me (perhaps it was the massive headache I was now sporting) that Edward would catch up to me with ease, seeing as I would probably fall with my first step.

"Great let me just get my keys and we can go." He began to place his hand on the small of my back to lead me towards the elevators that headed to the hotel rooms on the top floors but I quickly moved away from him.

"Oh no that's not necessary. You should stay, I'll go."

"Bella, let me escort you to your house, I understand you need some time to think, I'm not a complete Neanderthal, I don't want to push you into anything you don't want." I started to speak but he quickly continued talking as to not give me a chance to speak. "That being said I'm not going to give you up without a fight." He smiled what would have been a charming, drool worthy smile had it not come at the end of such a horrible statement.

"Fine I suppose you can escort me home." I shrugged my shoulders in defeat, he would eventually know my address anyways how else would he know where to send the divorce papers.
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I concentrated on the shiny leather interior of his stupid shiny Volvo, it was better than focusing on the electric feeling that was buzzing all throughout my body. I did not enjoy being in close quarters with this guy, but apparently my body did. I blushed as I wondered if it was due to despite the fact that I couldn't remember anything that had occurred the night before my body did? I shook that thought off before I could start to imagine what might have/could have/apparently did happen last night.

"New to town?" I looked up from noticing how much this guys glove's box gleamed in the sunlight.

"Huh, oh yeah." It was only a five minute drive from the casino to the apartment, or at leas it should have been. But from my bad directions which apparently lead Edward to head to far deeper into the suburban community than he needed to I had been stuck in the car for nearly twenty minutes. Finally I had just gave him the address where he had quickly turned the car around and gotten us to the apartment complex parking lot in less than ten minutes. "Sorry, I just got to town the other day, I'm from a small town and I'm not really used to having to worry about not knowing where I'm going. Do you do a lot of business here?" I wondered how quickly he would leave and how soon I could find a lawyer.

"Business? Well yeah I mean all of my work involves this town." He seemed at little confused at my question.

"So you must come here often."

"Come here often?"

"Yeah travel back and forth a lot?"

"Bella I think your confused I don't just work in the Vegas area, I live here."

"What?"

"I live here."

"Then why did you have a hotel room and luggage?" I racked my brain wondering if I was wrong in what I saw, but I clearly remembered the small black luggage suitcase that had been near the bed.

"Oh that, well my house actually had a bit of a plumbing issue so I decided it would just be easier if I stayed at the hotel while they fixed it."

"Plumbing?" I must have sounded dumb I know but it just wasn't making sense.

"Yeah water heater broke and I guess they had to order a new one, you know how it is a small issue takes like days to be corrected." He chuckled lightly while I drowned in realization.

"That means that you're not leaving…" and I'm stuck. I groaned as I covered my face with my hands, my beautiful perfect plan of avoidance crashed before me. It was useless I was going to have to deal with Edward Cullen and this marriage issue now.

"Of course not Bella, till death do us part remember… well I guess you don't but you know what I mean." Yes I was going to have to deal with this soon.

A/N: I do plan to continue this story, unless of course there is no longer any interest in it which I would understand since I haven't updated in forever. But I hope there is still someone out there interested in this.