A/N: Believe it or not, we are winding down to the last chapters here and because of that(and my failing at updating) I'm going to enter a legit drabble mode which means shorter updates but very frequent. I'm thinking one every other day or something. That way you guys get more content and the chapter number goes up making me look like less of an updating flake. Everyone wins. We cool, bro? Good.

4 days...

Chapter 13:A Snatch and A Tickle

My time with Edward winding down and down and the closer it got to the day I was supposed to leave, the more things started to seem...off. I mean, nothing had changed between us. He was still Edward. We kissed, we laughed, we had fun and he was sweet...sincere. But when he'd look at me, I felt a snatch in my chest and a tickle on my brain. Like I was forgetting something; missing something. But I couldn't pinpoint what it was. But something was wrong.

"Where's your head, Bella Swan?" Edward asked as he poked my temple, a sweet smile on his face.

I blinked and smiled back at him. "Nothing. Just thinking about stuff," I explained. "Unimportant," I clarified when he looked worried.

He nodded and went back to spreading sunscreen on my back. "Deja vu," he laughed and I grinned, thinking back to the day he'd first put sunscreen on me. It was hard to believe it was only a little more than a week ago.

"It seems like just yesterday," I said aloud.

"Yea, it does."

We fell into more silence as our thoughts consumed us both. As always, he broke the quiet first. "So, I was thinking last night and it's stupid..." he trailed off.

I turned around, shrugging off his hands and looked at him. "Tell me."

He scratched his neck uncomfortably. "Well, you know how in the movies...and those books girls read...you know, how people write to each other when they're away and that keeps them close or whatever..."

"Yea."

"I was thinking we could do that..."

"We could," I agreed but the snatching in my chest only started up again, not liking that idea. "But..."

"What?"

"Those hardly work. The distance things..." I stopped, leaving that thought there. The pressure of the snatching subsided but I was beating myself up at the same time. Why did I say that?

"I know," he agreed. "I thought even if we're not...if it doesn't keep us...as close like this..." he paused, gathering his thoughts. "I'd like to know you years from now. Even if it's only as a friend."

I wanted to blush but didn't. That wouldn't be enough. And that sentence right there was basically him saying he'd never come after me and we'd never last. I knew I initiated the thought and I knew that I was yanking the both of us back and forth but dammit if something didn't always feel wrong. No matter what was happening with us.

I was waiting for something to happen. Something epic that would change everything and make it okay. My head was rejecting the thought of perfection while my chest-my heart- was demanding it. I was in a battle with my own body. Torn between desires and reality.

"Yea, I'd like that, too. Even as friends." Lying through my teeth. That was the only way to navigate through these next 4 days.

A/N: Short, yes, update should be on Thursday though and it'll still be day 4. Bella's pretty torn huh? It's pretty hard to settle sometimes. Sometimes you just want what you want and nothing else...spoiled.

Bella's an only child...cut her some slack.

~LazyMasochist(Marie)