Forgotten

Chapter Four

Forgotten

Chapter Four

Previously on Forgotten:  "Tell me how we met," She said quietly.

Bella waited in silence for Edward to begin telling the story of how they met. He told her that she used to work for him but then she had quit. She wanted to know why.

"Well, I wasn't exactly honest with you from the get go," Edward admitted.

"What do you mean? You lied about something?" Bella asked.

"Sort of," He seemed reluctant to tell me what had happened exactly and that got me worried. Different scenarios jumped around in my head about what happened. Had he been married when we met? Did we have an affair? That was the one that stuck, but it also made me cringe with disgust. I couldn't imagine myself getting involved with a married man, I just couldn't. But what if I hadn't known he was married. Was that what he meant? He lied about his marital status?

"You're letting your imagination run away with you, again." Bella started when Edward spoke.

He looked at her as though he knew exactly what she was thinking. He'd been doing that a lot. It was a bit disconcerting.

"Again?"

He half smiled, "You always do that when you're worried about something."

Bella nodded mutely.

"What really happened was that, well, you didn't know that I was the CEO. You thought I was an assistant. A very highly paid assistant." He laughed.

"How did I find out the truth?"

"Well, we'd been friends for a while, a few months, when you were offered a job somewhere else, so you came into my office to hand in your resignation. You were going to give it to my secretary when I walked out of my office at that moment. I always had incredibly bad timing." He said with a shake of his head.

"I imagine I was very angry."

"Royally pissed would be a more apt description. You refused to speak to me for a whole month afterwards, despite my frequent calls, e-mails, visits. You wouldn't have anything to do with me." He looked at her intently, "I think that was when I realized I was madly in love with you."

Edward couldn't remember the time when Bella had cut him off completely without inwardly wincing. It had been the worst month of his life. He'd been so close to going over the edge at the end of three weeks, that he hadn't been able to work, sleep or even eat. He'd been a total mess, until he'd had a sudden epiphany. He was actually in love with his best-friend.

Ofcoarse, fate had to intervene right then and there. By the time Bella was finally ready to forgive him, she was already seeing someone else. It had broke his heart being so close to her, hearing her talk about her boyfriend and being unable to tell her his own feelings for her. In the end, he decided that having her in his life as a friend was better than not having her in his life at all.

So, he kept his feelings to himself for a whole year. Edward still thinks it was worth it, though, because after that year was over, everything was suddenly right with the world. Bella broke up with her boyfriend, who had been a complete ass, in Edward's opinion, and guess whose shoulder she cried on?

Edward had never been one to take advantage of a girl in a situation like that, but he was only human after all and he'd been in love with her for over a year. Enough was enough.

One day, a week after the disastrous break-up, Edward took Bella out to cheer her up. Amidst one of her usual tirades about how she hated dating and men and she wasn't going to open her heart to anyone ever again, Edward blurted out, "I love you." Before he knew what he was doing, she was in his arms and he was kissing her senseless. The total surprise, however, was that instead of pulling back and slapping him, like Edward expected her to, she kissed him back.