Postcards

Chapter 13

A/N: Sorry this is coming to you a tad bit later than normal. RL gets in the way of things sometimes. A huge thanks to my beta, Heather, for reading and fixing my chapters, and a huge thanks to all of you for reading and/or reviewing.

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Later that evening, we were all hanging out in the Cullen's living room, playing a game of Cards Against Humanity, when the doorbell rang. Carlisle and Esme had gone out to dinner and wouldn't be back until later, so Emmett got up to answer the door.

"Oh, hey, Tanya," he said, loud enough for all of us to hear, and my eyes widened. I couldn't help but wonder what she wanted.

"Hey, Emmett. Is Edward here?" she asked before telling Emmett that she knew he was since Edward's Volvo was in the driveway.

"We're busy at the moment. Why don't you come back later?" Emmett suggested, his voice taking on a slightly cool tone.

"Because I'm here now, and I want to see him," she said, and seconds later, I heard what sounded like heels clicking across the floor.

A tall strawberry-blonde came stalking into the room with an arrogant look on her face, stopping short when saw Edward and me. The two of us were snuggled up close together on the floor in front of the coffee table, and I wasn't about to move. Neither was Edward.

The hand that had been resting on my thigh continued to do so, and I saw her eyes drawn toward the slight movement of his hand.

"I need to speak to you," she demanded, ignoring not only me but Alice, Jasper, and Rose.

"So talk," Edward said with an air of indifference that had her eyes hardening.

"Alone," she said through gritted teeth.

"Tanya," Edward began with a sigh, "whatever you have to say to me, you can say in front of everyone, or not at all. Your choice."

I guess she decided if she couldn't talk to him alone, then she wouldn't say anything because she stomped out of the room, but not before shooting both Edward and me dirty looks. I rolled my eyes at her behavior.

"God, what a cow!" Rose snarled after the front door had slammed shut.

"What in the world did you ever see in her?" she then asked, and Edward shook his head as he shrugged.

"I honestly have no idea. Maybe it's because we've known each other forever. I don't know. She didn't use to be such a shallow and mean person. She used to be really nice," he said, and Alice nodded her head in confirmation.

"We were best friends until junior high. After we started seventh grade, she became someone else," Alice told me.

"Well, I want to know what she wanted," I said because I was extremely curious as to what was so important that she just had to talk to Edward alone.

"She probably came to beg Edward to take her back," Emmett said as he sat back down on the floor. "I figured that's why she didn't want to say anything in front of everyone, but we all know Eddie's not going back to her."

"Damn, right I'm not," Edward said, leaning over to kiss my lips.

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"I'm sorry, she did what?" I asked Edward Monday afternoon as I lay on the couch flipping through channels on the TV.

I'd finished my homework an hour earlier, and Dad wasn't going to be home until seven, so I'd been channel surfing until Edward had called.

"She cornered me outside of the gym and tried to kiss me," he told me over the phone in a disgruntled voice, and a wave of jealousy washed over me. "I pushed her away."