"Bella" I hear my name being called. I hate living in such a tiny town! Why can't I go to the grocery store without seeing someone I know? I turn around and I'm shocked at who I see.
"Edward! What are you doing here?"
"I'm here for the wedding."
"Wedding?"
"Alice and Jasper's. They wanted to get married and Mom and Dad's house. It's this Saturday. I assumed you would have heard."
I haven't heard in anything in the last two months. Not since…
"Nope."
"Oh, well how is Jacob."
… Since Jacob died. Leaving me, his 22 year old wife and unborn child all alone in this horrible world and even more horrible tiny town.
I start crying and run out.
Later that evening my phone rings and this is the voicemail.
"Bella, this is Alice. I talked to Edward and I am so sorry. He didn't know. Well I didn't either. Mom and Dad did of course but it hadn't come up. Oh Bella I am so sorry. Sorry about Jacob, sorry we lost touch after you broke up with Edward. I was more mad than he was. He knew how much you loved Jacob. Oh God I'm rambling. My number is ###-#### in case you want to call me back. Maybe we could meet for coffee or something."
Did I want to talk to Alice? She used to be like a sister to me. I started dating Edward my freshman year of high school. He was a sophomore. We dated until he graduated and went to college 3 states away. I missed him so much. Then I met Jacob. We were just friends but Edward crossed my mind less and less and when he came back on Spring Break it just wasn't the same. So we broke up and soon after Jacob and I were a couple. He was a year younger and we got married the summer he turned 18. He opened up an auto shop with a few of his friends and I got a job at a daycare.
We were basically broke but happy. I'm taking community classes so I can eventually be daycare director and he was slowly building up his business.
The day I found out I was pregnant we were scared to death but so incredibly happy. And now I'm going to have to raise this baby alone.
I decided to call Alice. I never blamed her for shutting me out after the break up. Edward was her brother and they always stuck together. But Edward was definitely the more forgiving of the two. They had another brother, Emmett, but he was older and already in college when we started dating so I didn't really know him.
I called Alice and we set to meet the next day for lunch at the diner. And I went to bed but barely slept like I had for the last two months.
The next day was Thursday, my day off from the daycare, so I laid in bed until it was time to get up and get ready to meet Alice.
Lunch was great. Like we had never stopped talking. She didn't know I was pregnant. Even at 7 months I barely looked it. She was excited but wasn't sure how excited to be. Typical response. She invited me to her wedding and when I declined she burst into tears. So now I'm stuck going to a wedding for a friend I haven't seen in years, with a bunch a people who all feel sorry for me and with no date.
If it weren't for this baby I would really hate my life.