The next day

I woke up with my phone buzzing annoyingly in my ear. Remembering my encounter I jump quickly to pick it up. Foolishly assuming it's the beautiful stranger I met. I was wrong it was my over exuberant best friend.

"Ally it's 9:45 in the morning do you not sleep?" I say frustrated.

"Bella darling you said to take you to brunch to make up for the little snafu yesterday. This is me waking you up to join me and rose for brunch at 12." She finished patiently.

"Al I meant lunch like at a normal time 2 or 3. I'm up now though so I'll do brunch. You my dear friend will be paying for all the mimosas I drink." I reply jokingly.

Not being much of a drinker, but the events that transpired in the last 24 hours has me rethinking everything. Part of me is intrigued by Edward and what could come of the date he insisted on. Another part of me is a bit hesitant.

"Of course I will Bella! We'll see you at blend 12 o'clock! Bottomless brunch!" She responds excitedly.

"I was totally joking about the mimosas. Got it 12 at blend see you guys there!" I hang up. Like a fool I check my phone to see if I might've missed a text or call while I was drooling. Only call I see is Alice. Not putting much thought into the fact that I haven't heard from mister mysterious. I put some music on and start cleaning up my modest little abode. Caught up in cleaning and the music time got away from me and I notice it's already 11:20.

"Shit Alice is going to kill me." I mutter to myself. I run to the shower to do a quick wash or as Rose would call it a hooker bath. By some sheer miracle I'm decent and have an uber waiting by 11:40.

Strolling into blend at 11:56 I see my two best friends sitting at the table waiting for me.

"You know Bella for someone who likes to plan things down to the second. You sure do like to cut things close." Rose says with a raised eyebrow. Sitting down I smile at my sometimes too honest best friend.

"Thank you guys for waiting on me. Though I'll have you know I'm 4 minutes early. Thank you very much." I say smugly.

"Big whoop 4 minutes." She says though she smiles so I know she's just messing with me.

"So Bella what happened last night I got the foot notes version from Alice over here. Want to give me your version or should I stick to the foot notes." She says sipping her mimosa.

"Honestly Alice foot notes version will probably be better than any version I could give you. So stick to that." I tell her scanning the menu. While Alice is pouring me my first mimosa of the day.

"So what do you think happened? He saw you and left? Or didn't bother to show up at all?" She says jokingly. Dropping the menu fast I look up at her shocked and a bit hurt.

"What is with people thinking he saw me and left? Or that he didn't even bother. Couldn't it have been that he got his days confused. That he was nervous. What am I not pretty enough or worth a blind date." I say ranting not even bothering to catch a breath. Shocked spread across both my best friends as I finished my rant. Taking a deep breath.

"Whoa whoa honey calm your tits. I was just kidding. I didn't actually think saw you and left." Rose says apologetically while putting an arm around me.

"What did you mean by people Bella?" Alice asks. Damn. I hoped she didn't catch on to what I said mid rant.

"I didn't want to say anything because I don't even know if it is anything to be honest. Yesterday when I was leaving that debacle of a date. I kinda sorta of met a guy." I finish quickly. Alice face lights up while rose looked a bit hesitant to get excited.

"What do you mean by kinda of sorta? It's either you did or didn't babe." Rose says knowingly. while looking at me daring me to go against her comment.

"Ok I met a guy his name is Edward. He is so handsome and has the most gorgeous green eyes. Honestly there's just something about him meeting him felt right. Almost like it was meant to be.. He pretty much said same thing you just said but added he didn't realize people were desperate enough to do blind dating. Some shit like that." I finished. Rose face goes from listening intently to annoyed and Alice looks shocked.

"What a dick he said that?" Surprised that Alice was the one that said it and not Rose.

"Yeah what Alice said." Rose agreed.

"I know I was completely thrown off by it. Clutch your pearls ladies. I gave him my number after he realized that I was insulted he insisted on taking me out tonight." I told them awaiting their reactions to what I just told them.

"Wait What? Let me make sure I got this right. The guy implied that you're desperate. You then give him your number and agree to go out with him, because he batted his pretty green eyes at you and asked nicely." Rose finished puzzled. Alice just nodding along agreeing with her.

"Uh yeah well when you put it that way it doesn't sound great. I mean he hasn't even bothered to call or text me. Maybe it was just a fluke." I say evenly. Feeling a bit disheartened at the reality of that being a possibility. My girls just smile sadly at me and we finish up our brunch and mimosas.

"So how long are you giving bozo to reach out before we can call this a bust." Rose says.

"Uh I'm not sure why?" I question. Alice suddenly perks up.

"Well if he doesn't call then you my dear can come out with us tonight to the Brooklyn whiskey!" Alice says happily.

"What the hell why not! I'm sure if I get stood up fo a second night in a row. A night out is just what I need." I respond. Thoroughly enjoying the shocked look on both their faces.

We say our goodbyes with tentative plans to meet later. All depending on whether or not Edward decides to use my number. Willing myself not obsess over why he hasn't called or even a simple text as the hours begin to pass. Suddenly my phone goes off at around 8:30 pm like the eager beaver that I am I jump to check it. Once I read the text from the unknown number I know it belongs to him.

The text simply says " I didn't realIze I double booked. Maybe we can try this again sometime in the future."

I feel like a complete dumb ass for wasting my time discussing him at brunch. I feel like an even bigger ass for giving him my number, and for believing his pretty eyes. What's really bothering me most is I allowed myself to hope that there might be something there. Rose is right I could be so hopelessly naïve.

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