Oh, my mama would be so ashamed

Edward had finally relented and I was able to walk up the stairs to the apartment door without his presence, but he waited till I was at the top and had opened the door before I heard his car drive off. I sighed as I entered the air conditioned apartment, it had to be like a hundred degrees outside and although Edward's car had AC with him so close I was unable to stop feeling so … warm.

"Bella!" I heard the shriek and felt her arms around me before I could fully register that it was Angela, Ben popped out of the kitchen relief covering his face, quickly coming to throws his arms around me too.

"Ugh guys? Not that I don't appreciate the welcome but it's a little too hot to make a Bella sandwich." They both untangled themselves from me (Ben a little sheepishly) before Angela began what could only be called a lecture.

"Bella what happened to you! I was so worried, and then I knew it was my fault I mean I told you to have fun and relax, but then you just disappeared I wasn't worried at first but then when a hour passed and there was no sign of you I got worried, plus the fact that you were dancing with that guy one minute and the next poof Bella became a magician and disappeared. What happened?" I was so very tempted to say… what? I sucked at lying and really what excuse could I say that would make sense in why I didn't make it home last night and why I didn't show up until the afternoon the next day. But the truth was so horrible, seemed like such a lie in itself I didn't know exactly how to explain it without sounding like I was playing an early April fools day joke on them.

"Ok I'm going to tell you guys, but you both have to promise that what is said here is left in this room, and you cannot mention it to anyone ever again. Got it?" They both quickly nodded their heads. Sighing I sat on the couch and took off my shoes while I waited for them to do the same.

"I guess what happened was… I got married?" The words sounded so unsure, so foreign coming out of my mouth that Angela's next words didn't really surprise me.

"Bell, quit joking you know we wont judge you. We're all adults here whatever happened is your business. We were just worried that you just disappeared, you don't have to tell us exactly what happened if you don't want to."

"No Angela, I mean really I'm married." I lifted my left hand up and showed them my gold band.

"Oh my gosh!" Angela seemed truly aghast as realization hit her, while Ben went to her side. "But how?"

"Honestly I don't remember." That's when I began to tell her how the last thing I remembered was dancing with who I now presume was Edward and then waking up with him the morning.

"I thought he would leave, and then I could just deal with an overly expensive lawyer. But no, Edward lives here, he's not going to just give me the divorce easily. Gosh what did I do to earn this bullshit Karma?" I moaned into my hands. I was so ashamed of having to tell Angela and Ben my story.

"Look Bella it's ok it was a crazy night, this should be easy enough to mend any judge should see that you were not in your right state of mind when you got married. An annulment should be a sure thing."

"Angela are you sure?" Things likes this didn't happen in Forks, the only people who ever had a quick discreet marriage ceremony were the pariahs of the town, or barely legal high school students who think that it would solve all their problems. I had never heard of anyone annulling their marriage quickly and quietly.

"Bella, this is Vegas things like this happened, usually only to tourists but… it's fine I have a friend who's brother's a lawyer I'm sure he can help." Ben patted my back, I almost smiled, if I could smile at a moment like this.

"Ben, Angela thank you so much. I'm so sorry you guys invited me out here and the first night I go and do this."

"Haha well at least now that you got that out of the way the rest of your time here shouldn't seem that bad." Ben chuckled while Angela slapped his chest.

"Ben!" But before she could continue her lecture the ringing of the phone cut her off. She went to answer it but as she looked at the caller ID she froze.

"What's wrong Angela?" I asked as she looked as if someone had murdered a puppy in front of her.

"Don't hate me, please don't hate me. But I was so worried and all I could think of is that something must have happened to you and I guess it did, but I thought more along the lines of in two days we'd find your body in a dumpster." She had begun to wring her hands and looked as if she wanted to cry.

"Angela breath. What did you do?" I said as I stood up and gripped both of her arms tightly.

"I called your parents." Fuck. My. Life.

"Bella is that you?" The shriek that answered belonged to none other than my mom.

"Yes, mom it's me." I mentally prepared myself to answer with some half truths, sure I sucked at lying about the phone gave me some relief at least they couldn't notice the way my cheeks would inflame or my the way I would habitually bite my lip.

"Honey are you alright, do you want to come home, it's ok if you do?"

"Mom I'm fine, no I don't want to come home."

"I know you called earlier is everything ok, I'm so sorry we went out to get some stuff for the house. Had I known you were going to call I wouldn't have left the house." Thank God Angela might have called my parents but apparently they hadn't answered.

"Mom really feel free to leave the house I just called to tell you that I've settled and that so far so good." I was lying through my teeth but oh well, hopefully this was something my parents would never, ever have to find out about.

"Honey…. Oh here you're father wants to talk to you." I could hear Dad's incessant demands for the phone.

"Hi dad." I hated lying to my dad, sure we weren't the most emotional of people but we understood each other and he had always trusted to me to be the intelligent and smart decision maker, daughter he raised and for the most part I had happily complied. After the whole Jacob debacle and making the decision to move out here I knew that if he ever found out what happened last night it would push his limits of understanding.

"Bella, are you sure everything's fine?"

"Yes Dad."

"Well… fine but I just wanted to let you know that just because you moved all the way out there doesn't mean we don't expect you here for Thanksgiving." Thanksgiving? Really Dad that was like more than a month away.

"Ok Dad, I will make sure to show up and make the mash potatoes as always." I almost rolled my eyes but that was my dad for you he wouldn't say I miss you, but I understood that by bringing up Thanksgiving he was telling me that.

"Good… I guess just be careful."

"I will, listen can you tell Mom I send my love I kind of have to go."

"Sure thing Bella." I hung up as quick as possible and tried to calm myself down. My dad was a police chief of course they were bound to be overly worried about me it didn't really mean that they thought anything wrong had really happened. Still the nagging pit my stomach couldn't help but tell me that my life really was that horrible and somehow they knew, well not actually knew what happened, but they knew something was wrong.

"Are you ok?" Angela asked as she before she lightly patted my back.

"Yeah," It was all I could utter, before walking into my room and collapsing on my bed. Maybe if I slept long enough the issue would just resolve itself? Yeah right. I sighed and decided that getting at least a couple hours of sleep wouldn't hurt.

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