Lacuna ¹

45

At last the weekend came around and Bella couldn't have been more thankful. The entire week had been long and boring, it dragging out longer and longer anytime Edward was near. Bella had thought that Edward would be sweet and loving towards her, like Benedict was to Amélie, but she had never been more wrong. Anytime Bella tried to near him, for either a kiss or a hug he would curl back into himself and hold his nose, as if she was a wretched smell. On top of the lack of touches, Edward rarely spoke to her, letting her do all the talking and not bothering to comment when she was done, Bella eyed when Amélie and Benedict spoke to each other in their native language, always playfully bickering back and forth with one another. As well as barely speaking to her alone, he refused to sit with Bella's friends at their table calling them 'disgusting mortal rats' and so the two sat in their own table, away from the Cullens, and Bella's friends, secluded from them, something that Bella disliked to a degree.

The entire week Bella was comparing her relationship with Edward to Benedict and Amélie's beautiful relationship. As well as comparing the two relationship she also watched what Amélie did with Benedict, trying to do the same with Edward. She picked up on how Amélie always made Benedict smile with a kiss to his cheek and so she tried that with Edward only for him to back away from her like the plague. She always saw Amélie delicately rubbing Benedict's cheekbone with the pads of her fingers and when she to do that with Edward he hissed at her like a cat. Bella saw how Benedict always pulled Amélie to sit down on his lap, whether that was in the Swan House in the morning, or at school, he always did it and so when she hinted it towards Edward he turned her down, saying 'He was uncomfortable doing that' which made Bella blow up at him in the middle of the cafeteria. Only apologising at the end of the day.

Bella did not like Edward's company, she did not like Edward's words, she did not like Edward's actions..Bella did not like Edward. She was obsessed with the Cullens for multiple reasons, beauty, eternal life and more but the main reason was she was obsessed with Benedict Cullen, not Edward Cullen and yet Edward was the only single one, so she took her chance. She is in a relationship with the dreary Cullen boy to become a vampire. It was the truth, and the truth that she would only keep with herself for eternity.

BANG

Bella jumped in fright. She looked up and sighed, in relief or annoyance, she didn't know. She popped one of her earbuds out of her ears and dropped the yellow sponge in her hand before turning all her attention to the chestnut haired vampire she was thinking about moments ago.

She let out a small chuckle, as to make it seem she was happy to see him. "Could you act human?" She shook her head almost as though she was a mother scolding her child. "I have neighbours!"

Edward ignored her and hopped down off the truck, landing on the tarmac of the driveway with a huff before stating his reason for coming to the Swan House without an invitation.  "I'm gonna take you to my place tomorrow."

Edward leaned over and pulled out the dent that his brothers hand had made the day of the fateful incident that had caused Bella to become even more obsessed and curious than she was before. Bella looked on in surprise. "Thanks," it was only then did Edward's words click in her head, only finally hearing them. "Uh..wait..with like your family?"

"Yeah," Edward nodded as though that was the only answer.

"What if they don't like me?" Bella decided to play the innocent card, deciding to be nice, especially when she was so close to become what she wanted to be as well as hiding her fear of being eaten by a family of vampire's.

Edward chuckled, deciding not to tell her that his family didn't not like her very much because of the fact that she was his bloodsinger not his mate. "So..your worried, not about being in a house full of vampire's but because you think the want to prove you."