The Newest Moon

The Break-Up

Chapter 6: The Break-Up

Bella POV:

I turned around, got into my car and drove away. Stupid Edward. What kind of talk was that? So apparently he needed to leave. Since when? Couldn't he have told me that sooner? Something was off about it, I simply couldn't believe it. Or I didn't want to believe it, a nagging voice at the back of my head whispered. Maybe it was all too good to be true. To think that such an interesting and special person could ever love someone bland and ordinary like you? Foolish girl you are!

I shook my head to block out the nagging thoughts that kept coming. I needed to stay calm. For my own sake. There was always an explanation for everything. No need to rush into stressful thoughts. Everything will be alright again. Maybe this whole conversation was the result of some kind of stupid vampire hormones. Something like that. You'll never know. It wouldn't be the weirdest thing that had happened to me. I actually had to laugh at that. Everything would be alright again, I knew for sure.

I drove to my house and opened the door.

'Dad?' I yelled. No one answered. Maybe he had to work a bit later than usual.

I went inside my room and I thought I went mad. I knew for sure I left the CD that Edward had given me for my birthday, right next to my bed. It wasn't there anymore. But I knew I left it there, I knew it. I also knew Charlie would never enter my room, not even to quickly pick something up.

It will be as if we'd never existed.

That son of a... He wouldn't really go inside my room to remove something like that, would he? Something so dear to me. My most precious gift. He wouldn't really take that from me? How could he? How could he take something so important to me? What gives him the right? I knew he hadn't had a beating heart since the 1900s, but this was just plain cruel. Who would do such a thing?

Someone who clearly only thinks about himself, my inner saboteur said. However, she was right. He couldn't just do that. I really mustn't have meant much to him, if he could be so cruel. And that last thought hurt, more than I let Edward see. More than I wished it hurt. More than it should hurt. Maybe I loved him more than he loved me. I could look past him being a vampire meanwhile he couldn't look past me being human. I am human. We don't fit. That's what he said.  

Suddenly, I felt the hard wooden floor under my kneecaps. Did I fall? I couldn't hold my weight anymore. I heard Charlie coming home. I heard him running up the stairs. I heard him entering my room. He never does. He must have seen me on the floor. I felt his arms around me, soothing me.  

'It's alright, Bells. It might not feel alright right now, and it will not feel alright for a long time. But it will feel alright again.' He comforted me. Oh, just my luck. Of course, he already heard the Cullens left Folks. The perks of a small town! But I couldn't really be bothered. I heard some sobs, before I realised they were my own. I cried in Charlie's arms for the first time since I was a baby. I cried until my eyes hurt. I cried until I could not cry anymore. I cried until I was tired. It was exhausting.

'Thank you, Dad,' I spoke softly. 'He left. He really left. It's over.' I was devastated.

'That moron,' he murmured. Despite everything, I had to smile a little bit by that statement. He was right though, that moron. Suddenly leaving, who does he think he is? Instead of the overtaking sadness, I also felt a little bit angry. Yeah, that moron!

'I want the cheesiest and greasiest pizza you can find. And I want to watch a comedy on TV tonight,' I ordered my dad. Post break-up comfort food is exactly the kind of thing I need right now.