ROSE

53. Sobs

"Of course yeah. Thank you." I smiled then hung up the phone.

"Who was it?" Rita asked as I sigh and rub my forehead.

"It was Clifford. He said the publishing house read Dylan's book and wants to finally meet him." I explained. "So we're going tomorrow together to Richard's magazine for them to meet."

She nodded and took another bite of her full sandwich.

Finally, I was able to help Dylan with his book and now all I have to do is find him and convince him to come with me to the meeting. I had a small feeling inside of me that tells me that he wouldn't want to. When he gave it to me, he gave it for me to read it, not to give it away and help publish it.

"I need to call him." I said, more to myself than to anyone else. I grabbed my phone and called him.

"Bella!" He answered right away.

"Hey." I smiled. "I have a good news for you." I started. I didn't know how to bring it up to him. I knew he wouldn't want to but I knew I had nothing to lose trying.

"What's up?"

"I have to say it face to face." I bit my lip and looked at Rita. She nodded at me.

"You're scaring me." He giggled.

"Common. I'll wait for you at my house. Come as soon as you can. Bye." I hung up before he could come up with an excuse to not come.

"He's coming?" Rita asked.

"Yeah, I told him to come as soon as possible to my house and Noah told me that he will finish something and will come." I reminded myself and told Rita.

Rita and I started cooking since Dylan was coming and Noah was coming later on. I asked her to stay with me so we could have all a good dinner. I also wanted her to have new friends since her only friend made some stupid stuff to me and Rita took my side. Tia tried to call her several times but she wouldn't answer. I was totally fine with Rita talking to her though but she told me that she wouldn't be able to trust her again. I could have never thought Tia, the little innocent girl, would do that to me. All because of something that Anthony did.

Only thinking about him changed my mood and made me sigh.

"What's wrong?" Rita realized. I shook my head. I chose to not tell her what I was thinking about. "Anthony?" My heart sank. I looked at her alarmed and she scoffed and looked back to the eggs she was making. "It's totally normal for you to think about him, Bella."

"I don't want to." I started. "Thinking about him gets me more attached to him." I was going to keep explaining myself but the door bell rang and interrupted me and I was sort of thankful, until I opened the door.

He was standing right there, waiting for me to open. He was wearing all black and even if it was cold outside, he wasn't wearing something warm. Even if I saw him just a few days ago, I felt like I missed him as soon as our eyes met. It's been awhile. We both stood there, having nothing to say at all. Or maybe there was nothing to say at all, or maybe we just didn't want to say anything. We were enjoying the silence because we knew that as soon as one of us says something, we will start fighting and he will end up leaving.

But then this knocked me back to reality. He has to leave and I have to move on. Being around him will bring so much drama that I really don't need in my life.

"Hey." He broke the ice. He dug his two hands in his pockets and waited for me to say something. I pushed down the lump that was rising up my throat, gulped and charged some confidence in me.

"What are you doing here?" I finally said.

"I came to see you." He sounded broken and even if he didn't say anything adorable or sad, my heart skipped a beat. It was like he has this contact with my heart that I, myself, didn't know about. I wouldn't understand it. I wonder if I have the same effect on him that he has on me. I shook my head.