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Ch 10: Taken

EPOV:

I couldn't believe she said yes. I was going to lunch with Bella today and I was nervous as hell. It wasn't like I was good at talking to her or anything. At first I was too friendly towards her, and then I freaked and was a total ass hole towards her for days and now I just wanted to be friends again? I was giving myself whiplash; let alone what I was doing to Bella.

I was a horrible person and I knew it, I shouldn't even try and be friends with her, but fuck I was selfish. I wanted her more than anything I'd ever wanted before. The one thing that I could never have of course. I needed to keep my cool with her. I couldn't freak her out again, because I knew if I was an ass hole again, I wasn't going to get another chance with her and for some fucked up reason. I needed this chance with her to prove that I could be friends, and maybe help her with the issues she had buried deep inside. I didn't know what was going on with me lately, I knew that we wouldn't be more than friends but I couldn't help that she was on my mind constantly.

"Mr. Cullen. Care to partake in this lesson?" Mr. Runk said loudly, breaking my out of my train of thought.
"Not particularly, but if I must I guess I can" I said in my playboy voice making the girls giggle from the back of the classroom. I turned and gave them one of my grins and Mr. Runk cleared his throat. I looked back up at the front of the class with the smirk on my face.
"Mr. Cullen, do I need to send you to the principal's office?"
"Nope, I'm paying attention." I said as calm as I could.
"Good. Now come up and answer this question on the board please" he said in a rude tone. So I got up making a motion out of it and got up to the board. It was simple algebra so the question was easy so I finished and Mr. Runk huffed as I sat back down.

The bell rang and I was happy to get out of there and head towards the biology room. This class was by far the easiest because my dad was the chief of surgery in Seattle, and I had been taught all about the human body before I could recite the alphabet. I sat down and took out my phone to send Bella a text.

Thanks for giving me a chance-E

And I waited for a response. I figured that she didn't text in class because she was busy, but I couldn't help but watch my phone until it lit up. I looked down and couldn't help the smile that broke out.

Well you did bring my coat back before I froze to death. That was kind of you I guess… just maybe this time, can you not yell at me for being in the library? - B

I guess I can manage not to yell, I really am sorry about that. Sometimes my mood gets the best of me.-E

You're forgiven, but if you do it again, just remember who my father is in this town ;)-B

Your something special Swan… see you at lunch!-E

See ya-B

By the time we were finished texting there was only 20 minutes left in class. 20 minutes until lunch with Bella. I couldn't understand why I was so excited. Sure I was attracted to her… a lot. But I did have other people I could mess around with at any time I pleased, that didn't have major issues and that actually wanted to be with me. Being hung up on her was crazy, but I couldn't help that I wanted to at least talk to her. I could be friends with her, I'm sure I could. Either that or I'd scare her away for good and I couldn't do that again because I didn't want to deal with Jessica anymore. The frustration I caused in myself with the issues with Bella made me need the release Jessica could give more than ever and I hated needing a girl, but my hand just didn't do the trick. Pounding into Jessica on the hood of my car let out a lot more frustration than whacking off in the shower.

When the bell finally rang I got out of my seat and headed towards my locker to drop my books off quickly so I could go and get Bella. I figured I could take her to the one small burger joint we had in town to get burgers, fries and milkshakes. If she even liked that kind of food… I didn't know much about her and that was definitely something I wanted to change. I walked up to her locker and stayed a couple feet away while she fumbled with her books until I went up to her to help.

BPOV

I felt him behind me before his hands shot out to help me with my books right before I dropped them all onto my toes. I blushed and turned slightly to thank him.
"Don't need to be dropping these on your toes. A hospital trip would damper our lunch date" Edward breathed into my ear. I almost let myself shiver before I caught myself. I laughed slightly.
"Wouldn't be the first time you had to bring me to the hospital…" I remembered that and shivered slightly. How caring he had been and how he had taken care of me.
"That is very true… ready to go to lunch?" he said with one of his cocky grins. I half smiled and nodded. The only reassurance I could give him was that. "Are you okay with burgers and milkshakes from the joint in town?" he asked kindly.
"Yeah that sounds delicious" I said with more excitement than I meant to. I loved burgers and milkshakes reminded me of the Saturdays my dad took me out for lunch when I was a kid.

"Awesome, let's go. I'll drive" he said with a smirk. I just quietly followed beside him towards his Volvo. Once we got there he opened the passenger door for me like a gentleman, which still surprised me and I got in. He went around and got in and quickly sped off towards the burger joint. He put on some music and we didn't really talk on the way there, but the silence wasn't awkward, it was just comfortable. We got to the burger joint in record time as Edward drove like a speed demon. We got out and out of the corner of my eye I swear I saw his hand come out to take mine and then shoot back towards his side like he got electrocuted. I swore that I must be seeing things because why would he want to hold my hand? Isabella Swan, the cluts, the geek, the insecure girl I was. I kept walking towards the doors, hungry as hell as I never had time to really eat anymore. I was lacking in many things of taking care of myself, and I knew my body was taking the toll.

I had lost almost 30 pounds since my breakup with Laurent. I hadn't really been eating, and then with all the stuff with Edward I guess the stress just got the best of me. My curvy body was looking more and more like a skeleton, but nobody would notice anyways. I wore more clothes than necessary, but I didn't want people seeing my scars. I could tell by my sunken eyes, and showing cheekbones on my own face that I was losing weight, but nobody cared to look at me anyways so why would other people notice? We sat down and ordered milkshakes—both chocolate of course. What other flavor was there good enough to drink? Surely not vanilla! He took a long drink of his milkshake before sitting back in his seat and staring at me. I immediately started to blush and feel insecure.

"I love it when you do that" I heard him whisper. I looked up from my milkshake.
"What?" I asked, completely shocked.
"I love when they do that, make the milkshakes perfect" he mumbled and looked down at his drink, taking a large gulp, ignoring the straw completely.
"Ready to order?" he asked abruptly. I just nodded at him. He waved the blond waitress over and she immediately came running over, shaking her butt in the process and put her pen in her mouth to flirt with Edward. I wanted to scoff and roll my eyes, but I kept my eyes trained on the menu instead.

"What can I get for you handsome?" she tried to sound sexy as she leaned over the table shoving her tits in his face to get the menu.
"What do you want Bella?" he turned towards me and asked. She looked at me and glared. I wanted to laugh.
"Uhm a cheeseburger and fries please" I answered, giving her my best grin. She wrote it down quickly and turned back to Edward.
"Same for me" he said, handing her my menu and almost shoeing her off. She huffed and stocked off towards the counter. I giggled and took a sip of my drink.

"So I realized that we don't know a whole lot about each other" he said suddenly. I looked up and smiled.
"What would you like to know?"
"What's your favourite colour?"
"Out of all the questions you could ask, you want to know my favourite colour?" I laughed.
"Yes, now answer and you can ask me one" he said with a wink. I just laughed again. I liked this, how easy it was between us right now. How he could make me laugh.
"Purple. What's yours?" I said with a giggle.
"Blue, but only when you wear it" he said looking me straight in the eye. I inhaled sharply, surprised by his answer. "Sorry! Was that too forward? I didn't mean for it to be…" he said looking down again.
"No, it was very sweet." I mumbled, very embarrassed. I was wearing blue today, and I know I didn't look good. We sat in silence until our food came out to us and I dug in immediately.

"This is soooo good" I moaned as I took a huge bite. This time it was him that laughed.
"Girls that can eat hamburgers without a care in the world are my favourite" he commented with food in his mouth. I threw a napkin at him while laughing and swallowing.
"Don't talk with your mouth full you pig" he then took another huge bite, chewing with his mouth open.
"So Swan, what's your favourite thing to do" he asked, mouth still full of food. I scowled at him.
"I love to draw, and sometimes I paint. I guess it gets me out of my head. But when I'm too tired to be artistic, I just read" I finished and took another bite.
"That's awesome. I'd love to see some of your paintings." He smiled. "Oh that reminds me, I have your drawings that fell on the floor yesterday. I picked them up and put them in my bag"

My face went white. My drawings. Could he have looked at them? He would have seen I had drawn a picture of him! Many times over and over again. I drew him when he was angry, and when he was smirking with those beautiful lips. There was a drawing of when he was smiling and the time when he was just finished kissing me and his face was lit up like a Christmas tree. I had captured every picture of him that I never wanted to forget after they had happened while they were still fresh in my mind.
"M-my-my dr-aww-ings?" I mumbled and stuttered. I had never been good when I was nervous.
"Yeah, I didn't look at them if that's what you're worried about…?" he said trailing off. I immediately breathed a sigh of relief.
"Oh my god that is awesome! It's just that they're rough copies of stuff and not very good… just random sketches…" I said looking at my food. Trying to cover up why I was stuttering over something as simple as my drawings.

He could never know that I drew him. Why did I bring them to his house anyways? How could I have been so stupid and reckless? What if he had looked at them? What would I have done if he had seen the drawings and asked about them? I couldn't very well tell him that I was in love with him. That I loved him with every last bit of my heart, as much as he angered me, and hurt me and as many cuts on my arms were because of him. I loved him, but he could never know that.

EPOV:

I couldn't believe how white her face had gotten when I brought up her drawings. She looked like she might pass out, so I lied. I told her I hadn't even looked at them. Obviously she wouldn't have wanted me to see the ones she had drawn of me but she shouldn't be ashamed. They were the most amazing, life like drawings I had ever seen, and she had so many of me, portrayed with so many different emotions. She must have drawn them when things were good between us and when they were bad because there was ones where I was smirking and happy, and then the ones near the back I was scowling and angry. She had such a talent, being able to remember every feature on my face and drawing them when I wasn't around. She couldn't have done them when I was around because she never had her sketchbook with her, and I hadn't been there to model for her.

It shocked me that she had drawn me so many times and I couldn't help but wonder why. Why would she want to draw someone that hurt her so bad? That had made her upset and angry. Maybe all those emotions made her draw me so she could throw darts at my head. Were there more of these pictures? Ones that were on her wall at home with darts in the eyes and funny mustaches drawn on them. I laughed out loud at the thought and Bella gave me a puzzled look. I vaguely listened to what she was saying. The excuses she was making and blamed my laughing on that.

"I'm sure they are amazing, but I didn't want to invade" I said as I grabbed my bag and pulled out the stack of drawings. I had been sure to put the ones of me near the bottom but I wasn't worried about order because they did scatter everywhere.
"Thank you so much for giving these back" she smiled brightly at me again. I couldn't get enough of that smile. I heard my phone go off and I wanted to groan. I took it out of my pocket and looked down.

Eeeddddy. I want you sooo much right now! Where are you? Lunch time quickie? I think so ;) - Jess

Cant right now. Busy. Maybe later.-E

I didn't want to see her and she couldn't know I was with Bella. Jessica and all the other bitches would surely give her hell and she didn't need that. Not for coming out for lunch with me. She would never come out to lunch again, that was for sure.

"Sorry about that, mom wanted to make sure that I was going to class this afternoon" I lied.
"That's okay. Are you ready to head out?" she asked and I noticed she had only eaten half her burger and half her fries. I knew girls weren't huge eaters but they could definitely eat more than that. I looked at her face and she was looking out the window. I saw how much her cheek bones had been sticking out lately and how weak she looked when she walked.
"Aren't you going to finish?" I said looking at her eyes. She looked deeply back and mine.
"No, I'm full now" she mumbled. I just nodded because I definitely wasn't going to argue with her. I signaled for the waitress and asked for the check. She didn't flirt with me anymore after I had pretty much told her to get lost and I was relieved. I wish for once I could go out and not have some girl all over me. I didn't need Bella thinking I fucked everything that walked when I was trying to get on her good side.

I paid and we walked towards the car. I opened the door for her as my dad taught me to when I was young. I may be a player, but being chivalrous helped with that most times. She just smiled at me and I went around getting in with a smile her way.
"My turn for a question." She said as I sat down. I smiled and nodded as I started the car.
"How long have you been playing the piano?" she asked and I could feel her eyes on me.
"Since I was 3 years old. I use to get really frustrated but then my teacher told me that frustration is a good muse and from then on the frustration didn't bother me as much and I realized how much I loved to write and play music" he explained to me, only glancing at me once and keeping his eyes on the road.
"You are really good at the piano Edward…" she said softly and I laughed
"14 years of playing really does that to a guy" I joked and she smiled my way again. I couldn't believe how comfortable she seemed with me.

BPOV

I didn't know where that jerk from the library went, but I was glad her was gone. When Edward wasn't being a complete asshole he wasn't actually a bad guy. He had his moments where I noticed that he was the old jerk face Edward. But I really did enjoy it when he opened the door for me and made jokes. He was like the friend I never really had in Laurent. It was all about sex to him and I hated it. Edward was nothing like Laurent and the main reason was that I wasn't dating Edward and he wouldn't ever even want to date me. It didn't matter if he wanted sex, he wouldn't date fucked up Bella because it wasn't worth the hassle of getting into my pants. Sure he could play nice and be a friend and maybe eventually try and have sex with me, but going the relationship route never ended well for anyone that tried to date me.

It was definitely nice to have a friend, but I couldn't help but wonder how long it was going to take until the ass hole in him came back. He was nice to me for the first bit too until it all turned bad, and sadness overcame me as I realized it wouldn't be long before our friendship had to end due to one of us messing it up. The drawings had almost blown it, if he had seen them he wouldn't ever want to be near me again. He would think I was some stalker or obsessed with him and wanted to date him and we all knew that Edward Cullen didn't just date. I tried to keep a smile on my face until we got to the school with my epiphany because I didn't need him getting all crazy now on me, I still had school for the rest of the day and I had already missed enough.

When we got to school I got out and pretended that I was okay. We nodded and smiled as we said out goodbyes and went our separate ways to class. We had last period together so it wasn't like we were actually saying goodbye for the day so it was quick and painless and I rushed off. I got inside the school doors and realized I needed my calculator out of my car for math. I rushed out the doors and ran to my mustang and grabbed my calculator. I locked my car and went to head to the school when someone grabbed my wrist and pinned my back to the car. The air rushed out of my lungs the second I was face to face with him.
"I don't think we've formally met. My name is James" the man whispered into my ear. "Don't make a noise, because I am much stronger than you. Just remember that" he growled as he yanked on my wrist. I felt a pop and tears threatened to fall down my face.

"What do you want with me" I said as I glanced up at him. It was him! The guy from the convenience store! Oh shit, oh shit, oh shit. I needed to scream. I needed to get out of here, and fast! I didn't have the strength to fight him on a good day, let alone when I'd hardly been eating lately. I felt tears start to pool when I realized there was no way out of this. This was how I was going to die. In the arms of a man I didn't know, without any goodby

Was it really such a bad thing? I didn't have anything really to live for. Sure my dad would be upset, but he would get over it. Alice and Angela would cry but they would come to my funeral and mourn and move on with their lives. Nothing was going for me right now, I cut myself and I was miserable. What was there to live for? I let my body go slack and I felt him smile against my ear. He could have me if this was what he wanted. As long as he killed me afterwards. I felt him yank on my wrist again and I cried out in pain he slapped my face hard and told me to shut up as he pulled me towards his pickup truck. He took my bag and my phone out of my pocked and pushed my into the backseat in the cab.

"Sit here and shut the fuck up. Got it?" he growled and then half smiled at me. I nodded quickly. He got in and started the truck up. As he drove away I looked back at the school and said a goodbye. Not knowing whether it'd be the last place I saw or not.

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