Broken Heart

BH 48

Edward felt like a bucket of ice was dumped on his back.

He shivers a little from the coldness in her voice.

His shoulders droop in defeat.

They wordlessly got out of the house.

As he locks the door of their house, Dale glances around.

This looks like her dream house.

"Could it be?" she thinks to herself but mentally shakes her head.

"No, it can't be! How would he know anyway?" she thought.

"Wait here, I'll bring the car around!" Edward tells her.

She just nods.

As soon as the car is in front of her she tries to open its door to get in.

It's locked so she signals to Edward to open it.

Edward gets out of the car and walks to her side to open the door for her.

"Thank you." she says without looking at him.

As soon as Edward gets in the driver's seat, they drove off.

Edward kept glancing at Dale.

"Spill it!" Dale tells him.

She feels that there is something Edward wants to ask him.

He clears his throat before he could ask.

"I wanted to ask if you could come with me tomorrow to visit my mom." he blurts out before he chokes on the words.

"Yo...ur...m...om?" Dale stutters.

Edward glanced at her and sees how pale she looks and a bit scared.

"Scared? Why would she be scared?" he asks himself.

"Yes! I want to introduce you to her!" and he smiles a bit.

Dale wrings her hands.

"You want to introduce me to her?" she couldn't hide the tremor in her voice

She kept remembering the encounters she had with his mom five years ago.

Edward reached out to touch her trembling hands but didn't dare look at her.

Dale didn't notice it.

"It's okay if you don't want to!" he reassures her.

Dale mentally admonishes herself.

"You're a different person now, Dale! She can't look down on you anymore!"

She feels her chin go up a bit at the thought.

"No, it's okay! I'd love to meet her too!"

Edward smiles at that.

He gave her hands a squeeze and says, "Thank you, Dale! You don't know how much this means to me!"

That's when Dale noticed his hand holding her hands.

"Ahm, Edward, you can stop holding my hands now." and she's back to being cold hearted Dale.

Edward takes back his hand and positions it on the steering wheel.

He still has a long way to go if she is ever going to forgive him but introducing her to his mom is the first step that he wants to make.

It will explain a lot actually.

He pulls up to the restaurant's front.

"We're here!"