Running Into Bella

Emily's POV

Every day on my way to work as the school therapist at the local high school, I stop for a cup of coffee. It's five minutes where I can have time to myself without Liam and be alone with my thoughts.

It's a small café with three tables and four seats per one but today seems busier than normal. When ordering my coffee the women behind the counter smiles at me and I smile back. It's an innocent smile, not a smirk or a pitiful smile, but a genuine innocent smile. It's been a long time since someone gave me a smile like that.

As I sat at my table I started to remember my wedding day. I can remember the smile of regret from my sister, the happy smiles of my parents and the cunning smile on Liam's face happy to be owning me at last.

I snap out of my thoughts when I hear a voice say my name. It's a voice I haven't heard in a long time. A sweet, scared, beautiful voice. A voice of a person I loved some time ago. A voice belonging to the one person I miss most on this world. The exact voice I wish to hear every day of my life. The voice of...

"Bella?"

-2-

Bella's POV

When I see Emily I know I should leave her alone. She ruined everything for me and married the one man on earth I called my enemy. But if I'm being honest how could I resist?

"Emily" I say but she seems so lost in her own thoughts.

She's wearing a long black jumper with denims and a scarf around her neck. Her hair is long leading down to the bottom of her spine and her eyes hold more pain than I remember them ever having.

"Emily?" I ask again in a more concerned tone.

"Bella?"

She looks up at me in shock but with guilt at the same time.

"Wait, what, how, when,why?" Emily says not giving me a chance to answer.

"Well I, I came back yesterday and I'm back for a while possibly forever. Me and my kids drove back here and are back in my old home. Is that enough?"

I have spite in my voice trying to hide the fact that everything I ever felt for her is all coming back at once. I'm scared, terrified even, of letting her back in my life, of risking myself to get bad again. I can't let her ruin my life not again, not when I just got rid of the problems.

I stand there for what seems like hours and so does she. Before it gets worse I say goodbye and leave.

On my drive back to the twins I contemplate being friends with Emily again. I know if I want to all I need to do is ask. She will be, I know she will. She seems different though. She never used to cover her skin as much as she does now. Maybe I'm just imagining things but something doesn't seem right.

And I blame Liam.

Emily's POV

I return home that night to Liam on the couch waiting for me with an angry look.

"So anything interesting happen today?" He says firmly.

"No I just went to work and back like Normal"

He slams his hand on the table in front of him.

"DON'T LIE TO ME"

"I...I saw Bella. It was an accident I swear! I- I didn't mean it she just turned up and we barely even talked. Please Liam don't do this"

His face became evil. His eyes staring at me like he was about to kill. His body tensing ready to through a punch.

He throws a punch and I dodge it. Liam then pushes me into the wall and slaps me in the face hard.

"Don't ever lie to me again!" He says giving me one last kick in the rub before dragging me into the bedroom, locking the door and leaving.

Leaving me to only imagine what he's going to do next.