Only time will tell who she called (Less than a week, to be almost exact) :P

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Edward is in the kitchen making something to eat when I finally make my way downstairs. He hears me enter the room and turns to me with a smile. “Hey. Get everything squared away?”

“Yup,” I tell him. “Um, I broke down the boxes and left them in my closet, though.”

With an arched brow, Edward turns his head toward me as I sit at the island. “Planning a midnight move already?”

I laugh, and a blush ravages my cheeks. “No. I just didn’t want to leave them lying about.”

He turns back to the stove and chuckles. “No worries. It’s recycling day on Thursday. I’ll grab them and put them out for pick up.”

“Thanks.” I push my stool back from the island and prepare to stand when Edward turns around with two plates in his hands.

His eyebrows furrow slightly. “You’re not leaving already, are you?”

“Um . . .”

Edward sets both plates down on the island, one in front of me and the other next to it. “It’s just, I haven’t cooked for myself in so long and I wound up making too much. I was thinking maybe you’d like to join me?”

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LMAO! You know, it's bad enough I had this poor girl's boyfriend cheat on her, and to find out she was already emotionally scarred by them . . . ONLY to walk in on them AGAIN! On the same day she's forced to overhear her roomie and BF go at it?! It was harsh, but made for a good laugh . . . Wow, how twisted does it sound now?! LOL!

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I’m starting to lose all hope that I’ll find a place, and contemplate not calling the one ad I have left for fear of being disappointed, yet again. I look at the ad I’ve circled and read it again:

Rm w/ a Vu

Looking for roommate

to share 2 bdrm house in newer

Phoenix suburb.

Must be tidy. No pets.

If this is you, please call (480) 555-1367

I don’t know why I do it—habit at this point, maybe?—but I dial the number and hold the phone to my ear as it rings. The fact that it goes on ringing leads me to believe that no one will answer, but just as I am about to remove the phone from my ear, I hear a light click.

“Hello?” The voice shocks me at first, mostly because it belongs to a guy. So far, all the ads I’ve responded to have been females. I’m not sure how a male/female roommate situation is supposed to work, and I’m also not sure I’m entirely comfortable with the idea either.

“Damn it.” The irritation is clear in his voice, and I realize that I haven’t yet spoken.

Before he can hang up, I jump off my bed and begin to pace the floor before I speak up. “Wait. Sorry . . . Hi.” I run the fingers of my free hand through my hair and take a deep breath.

There’s a light chuckle from his end of the phone, and there’s something about it that forces me to sit back down on my bed, the hand in my hair dropping into my lap. “Hello.”

The corners of my lips turn up into a smile, and I exhale a relieved half-sigh-half-laugh. “Hey.” I can’t help but let the smooth sound of his voice envelope me like a warm blanket.

“Can I help you with something, Miss . . .?”

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I'm writing an outtake of the Edward/Jake interaction, but we'll hear a little from Edward in chapter 7 after Bella deduces a few things after seeing Jake at school the next day ;)

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Finding an available table, we sit down while we decide what it is we want to eat. Naturally, Alice keeps the conversation flowing. “How did everything go last night? You didn’t call, so I assume it went well?”

My face scrunches up, and Alice’s expression falls. “Oh no. What happened?”

I begin to tell her how I found Jake lurking outside my old room. She was a little hurt that I didn’t call her . . . until I explain how it wasn’t anything personal; I just didn’t want to talk about everything that had happened between Jake and me.

“So what did you do?” she asks.

“I called Edward,” I explain. “I guess I figured maybe he could act as some sort of buffer, and was hoping Jake wouldn’t talk about what he and Leah were doing behind my ba—” I stop talking instantly when my eyes find Jake less than thirty feet away. I’m immediately irritated, and I can feel the fury over his unwavering persistence beginning to bubble in the pit of my stomach.

Alice turns around to see what’s distracted me, scowling the minute she sees the source of my ire. “What the hell is his deal?” she demands, glaring daggers at him.

He’s just standing there, which confuses me a little. Up until yesterday, he’d have come over to try and make me forgive him. All of a sudden, he turns on his heel and takes off, but something still lingers in my memory. Then it hits me like a . . . well, like a fist to the face.

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Okay, the first three of your questions will be revealed in the next chapter. The rest . . . well, they will be answered in due time :P

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“Hey, honey,” Dad says as I lean down and kiss his cheek first, then Mom’s. “Your mother tells me you went to look at a place today?”

I take a seat next to Mom, nestling up against her as she wraps her arm around me and hugs me close. “I did. It was beyond perfect . . . and the price was more than reasonable. I probably won’t even need you guys to help out,” I tell them excitedly.

“Oh?” Mom inquires.

“Yeah, it’s only four hundred a month. For a house. It even has a pool . . . and my room has a balcony that looks out toward the desert. It’s stunning.”

Dad’s inner-cop is showing all of a sudden. “Sounds a little too good to be true, don’t you think?”

What I think is he just likes having his baby girl home again. “That’s what I thought, but that’s what the guy said he wanted,” I tell him, shrugging slightly.

Mom squeezes me supportively. “Well, that’s great, sweethear—”

“Wait a minute,” Dad interrupts, his voice low and interrogating. “He?”

Shit.

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