Getting sleepy, so this is it for tonight.
Bella and Edward are not mine, any mistakes are. Thx!
A Broken Hallelujah
Stop…
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Two weeks. She made it two weeks without running into him.
Oh, she'd run into more than a few others she wished she hadn't, and they were sure to give her every vapid detail they could utter before she shut them down.
Jessica Stanley was the only one to take issue with her lack of interest in him.
"So it's true, then? You really walk around pretending as if he died back in L.A.? You don't have anything at all to do with him anymore?"
"No, I don't," she'd answered simply.
"Wow… you are some cold-hearted bitch, Bella Swan. He almost died. He's practically brain damaged now and all he wants is to forget the past. You could at least—"
"It was nice seeing you, Jessica. Please give my regards to Mike."
Bella couldn't pretend that she didn't get any pleasure from hearing Jessica shout after her that they'd divorced last year. At least Bella wasn't the only twenty-nine year old divorcee in town now.
Thankful to be putting Forks behind her once more, she hugs her father and Sue goodbye then thanks them for the Kona coffee and collection of leis they brought back for her.
Rusty barks ceaselessly from the front window as she gets in her truck. Charlie and Sue wave from the front porch, the sight of their sun-kissed faces making her smile as she turns the key. They yell for her to call when she gets back to Seattle, she agrees and pulls out of the driveway.
Relief floods her as she passes through town, but then she's stopped at the only red light in town.
Where's he's stopped as well.
She doesn't recognize the car he drives, it's some shiny Volvo he wouldn't have been caught dead in ten years ago, but the hair is unmistakable.
As are the eyes.
Blue eyes capable of looking like the sea in any weather- grey, green, or aquamarine. Blue eyes that are now staring right at her.
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