The dom next door | By : saritat9 Category: Twilight Series > AU/AR Views: 5217 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0 |
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The dom next door
Chapter 2: Bella - I miss you
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Don't waste your time on me you're already the voice inside my head
Blink 182 – I miss you
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The day felt like it had gone on forever. For some reason, the Forks library had been very popular among high school students today. This naturally gave us librarians more work – not necessarily with our usual duties but with keeping the peace and making sure there was no necking going on in the quieter sections. They sure didn't have that in the job description. My head already ached and my shoulders were sore. If only I had someone to massage them, I dreamed. Someone with messy copper hair and wild eyes…
"Bella? Where are you? I'm standing right here but you're somewhere else."
I blinked and the little fantasy I had been enjoying vanished. I raised my eyes to meet Jake's dark brown ones above the library counter and saw that he was both frustrated and amused by my zoning out.
I had known Jake for a few years now, Actually, I think I met him around the time Edward moved away. I inwardly grimaced at my way of keeping track of the passing time by Edward's actions or his role in my life. Pitiful! Anyway, I had known Jake for a long time and you could say he was my best friend now that Alice had moved away. He was a couple of years younger than me, but mature for his age. He was quite playful though, and liked to show his affection for people in general and me in particular by hugging excessively. He lived with his dad in the Quileute reservation near town, so whenever we saw each other we usually hung around my place. We had more room and privacy there. Besides, their house was really small and they didn't have a DVD player. That was fine in itself, I thought it was great that they didn't need one to entertain each other or themselves, but that kind of put a damper on movie nights.
"Sorry Jake, just…daydreaming. And I have a headache." I tacked on as an afterthought.
"Poor Bella. Can't you leave early?" he said, petting my hand that was laying in the counter.
"Nah, it's okay. We're only open for little over an hour anyway. So, what were you saying before?"
"Well, I was trying to ask you about your plans for the weekend. It's Friday, you know."
I rolled my eyes at him. I might be a bit absent-minded on my best days but I wasn't a zombie.
"I'm aware that it's Friday, Jacob. I don't have any particular plans for the weekend. Unless laundry counts."
"No, laundry definitely does not count. I was wondering if maybe you wanted to rent a movie. Or something?"
I hesitated. Some part of me that had been activated a few weeks ago when Esme told me that Edward would come back to Forks made me think of him and what he would have to say about this. The thought was ludicrous; I knew he would have no say in anything I did. Not only did he not have the right, he also had no interest in my business. And Jake was just a friend, wanting to watch a movie with me.
I made my decision.
"Sure, a movie sounds good. Just…don't pick anything too gory."
"You know me."
"Yes, I do. That's why you needed the reminder."
"Don't worry; I will pick just the right movie for your innocent eyes."
"Lassie or Bambi?" I asked sardonically.
"You'll just have to wait and see." he winked, and blew me a kiss.
I smiled despite myself. Jake was such a flirt! Most people in Forks who were interested enough in the issue probably thought we were dating.
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As I drove my old truck home I noticed a shiny silver Volvo parked in front of the Cullen house. The house that had now been empty for a couple of weeks.
Oh. My. God. Was he really back? Had Edward Cullen finally returned after all these years?
I turned the ignition key down and leaned my head against the wheel.
I wasn't ready for this.
I had been waiting for this moment for a long time, no matter how stupid that was of me, but now that the moment was here I didn't know what to do. How did you act towards someone you had obsessed and mooned over for years and years and who had ignored you just as dedicatedly? Pretended they weren't there? Went over with a basket full of warm cookies to welcome him back with? I had to do something; he had been my neighbour for years before he had left for college and finally moved away. It would seem like a deliberate slight or a little girl's attempt at payback if I didn't welcome him back.
Hmmm. Maybe cookies weren't such a bad idea. If my memory served he had always been a sucker for Esme's home cooked meals and baked goods. I just hoped he wouldn't take that as a sign of me still harbouring feelings for him. Though I did. Lusty, unrequited, I-know-I'll-never-have-you- feelings. But I was grown up enough to know better than to have any intentions towards him or any realistic hopes of him returning my crush.
And it was a crush. Even if he sometimes seemed to reside in my head, it was still nothing but infatuation that I would eventually get over. Okay, the last seventeen years hadn't exactly cured me of it, but maybe seeing him again would make me see the real Edward instead of the idol I had made him up to be. And someday soon I would meet the man of my dreams, I just had to believe in it.
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