Time continued on. It wasn't the end of the world. It was just the end of hers.
Yet, he barged in and forced her to fix it like it was his job to.
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Or, in which, Edward asks out a girl that he doesn't stalk.
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"God sho...
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Edward didn't come to school that Monday, or Tuesday, or Wednesday. The rest of his family had come but he didn't. The weather was positively gray, so him being far away was due to a simple reason. She snuck far too many glances at the empty spot of his body in the corner of the lunchroom with his family. Alice had caught her staring more than once and could only offer the heartbroken girl a small smile of sympathy. And Abby just smiled back at her.
She didn't know if she had broken up with him since technically they weren't a couple. But god, did it feel like she did. As the days went on since Saturday, she didn't know if she had made the right decision. He was a vampire. Edward was a vampire but she was in love with him. She wasn't in love with Edward Cullen the vampire, but Edward Cullen, the man who was always protecting her. And everyday he didn't come to school, her heart broke a little more.
Logic trumped the ruptured pain in her heart most days. Logic reminded her that the future remained cold and unsure if she chose to be with him. She would condemn him to a life that wasn't limitless because she knew in her very soul that if she chose to love him, if she chose him, their love would be everlasting. She felt it so deep within her to go back to him. Being apart from him was proving to be harder and harder with each passing day. But she was meant to grow old and die. She couldn't possibly leave him alone after her death. And she had no desire to live an eternity.
Edward was there Thursday morning, in her English class, sitting in the farthest seat away from her - leaving the seat next to her and her heart vacant. He left swiftly the second the bell rang without sparing her a single glance. He didn't walk her to the cafeteria as he always did when it was lunch time. He wasn't even inside the cafeteria with his family.
She sat with her friends at lunch as she always did when she wasn't in the library with Edward and ignored the curious looks Angela and Jess had sent her. They hadn't bombarded her with questions as of yet but Abby had a nagging feeling they were going to eventually. She just hoped it wouldn't be today. She didn't trust herself to not burst into tears - not yet.
Biology II came with a sick feeling in her stomach, wondering where Edward would be - if he'd even be at the same lab desk as her. To her astonishment, he was sitting in his regular seat, staring out the large windows to the left of him and watching the downpour. She took the seat next to him with extreme wariness, with a single thought of whether he'd say something to her or not. And she dearly hoped he would. Just something - anything.
He didn't. He didn't speak a single word to her. He ignored her very existence.
Edward sat rigidly in his seat and she was sure he was desperate to be anywhere that wasn't close to her. But he was forced to be here, forced to be in this classroom with her - sitting next to her. He was leaned away from her with his head facing the board as though he hadn't learned about this topic for the hundredth time. Even with the minimal space within the lab desk seats, he managed to sit as far away from her as possible. He continued to ignore the fact that he even had a lab partner to begin with.
