please don't cry (edward)
“Your cousin? Are you fucking kidding me?” Edward blinks hard and slow when you whirl on him, swallowing the rush of venom that came with the scent of your raging blood coming so close. He says nothing, eyes black as night as he stares you down and you wished you had the strength to shake some sense into him. His face warbles and warps in your bitter tears.
“The one who came to the wedding? Edward, are you serious?” Your throat is closing, words pitching up, chest tightening, making it harder to breathe as you work yourself up. If you keep going you know you’ll end up in the middle of a panic attack but you just can’t seem to close your mouth.
“Please...don’t cry.” Edward implores you, standing exactly where he had been from the moment you’d shut the door. Selfish enough to ask the tears not to come but too callous and cold to not have caused them in the first place.
You take a moment to appraise him for any sign of cracking but you find none. Seeing him like this, still and untouchable while your heart is in pieces? You get it now. For the better part of a year, he had been everything to you, but him? You’d just been a plaything, something to pass the time on another one of his infinite passes around the sun. Something that he’d eventually grow bored of while she would ever be eternally gorgeous and impressive in her infinite wisdom. The memory of his passionate reassurance the night of your introduction now makes your stomach turn.
It wouldn’t have worked even if she hadn’t come back in the picture. That much is obvious.
“Get out.” You turn, unwilling to face him, coveting the privacy that you can’t have when he can see your anguish like it was his own. In the frigid silence that follows, you know he hasn’t moved. The air remains still and thick and all you can see is red.
“I SAID GET OUT!” in your anger you grab the nearest thing to you and lob it as hard as you can where he was last standing. The wood floor groans as the object hit the wall, your window left wide open in his absence. And for the first time in a long time-
You were alone.