Trouble : Twilight (Edward Cullen x Bella Swan.)

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How could Edward have set me up with my best friend? It made no sense. It was like everything I knew and had been so sure of was wrong.

He had good intentions.

I sat across from Edward, not saying anything. He continued to try and explain himself but his confession had already done too much damage, and I was no longer listening.

He should have spoken to me himself instead of supplying me with a best friend who wouldn't have even been interested in getting to know me in the slightest if it hadn't been for Edward.

Why wouldn't he just befriend me himself?

What did he mean by he would hurt me?

What could have possibly changed in the past couple of months that now suddenly makes him so such he won't hurt me now?

What else is he hiding?

Even though I was upset, a small part of me was also warmed by the way he was so interested in me back then. He knew just as well as I did that the girls I ate lunch with were only focused on gossip, and had only befriended me because I was the talk of the town.

He was right, just as he usually was. They weren't real friends, and I was unhappy with them.

Even without knowing me, he thought I was good and deserved to be happy.

But is Alice really all that trustworthy if she never told me about the real reason we're friends? She just let me believe Edward wanted nothing to do with me for months, and watched me miserably dread my classes with him. She'd watched him scare me off for months, and make me feel unwelcome in the Cullen home.

Everything felt confusing and wrong.

"Bella, please don't be upset with me." Edward pleaded as we sat across from each other. My arms were crossed tightly over my chest, and I was trying to make sense of my feelings. I knew that the two of them hadn't meant any harm, but even still any normal person would be upset to find out that their relationship with their best friend had been built on lies.

I had to think about all of this alone.

"I think I need to go." I frowned quietly, no longer as upset as I had been before. I was hurt by the way I had been lied to and by the way they'd let me believe it for so long.

"Bella, don't leave." Edward took my hand from across the table, but I pulled away. If he had been lying so comfortably about my friendship with Alice how did I know he wasn't hiding anything else?

What other secrets did he keep?

"I'll see you at school tomorrow." I pushed out my chair and quickly scooped up my purse before standing up. I knew that walking out on the date was rude, but I couldn't stay in the café with him. I was upset, and he knew I was.

I had to decide if the Cullen family was really as trustworthy as I had originally thought, and I had to decide it without the influence of Edwards charming beauty.

"Let me drive you home." Edward offered as he stood up. Of course he was going to follow after me. We had taken his car, and I didn't exactly have a way home without him. I had to sit in a car with him trying to think all the way from Port Angeles back to Forks.

It would be uncomfortable but Edward was my only logical option.

"I need some fresh air." I sighed. I didn't want to look at Edward, so I kept my eyes glued to the floor. I was positive that his beauty would captivate me, and the fact that I was on a date with him would intrude my thoughts and sweet me off of my feet. I would forget about what he had done, and I knew that I couldn't do that. "Stay here, I'll be back."