Chapter 29: Not a Birthday Party (3) *** Current time… “I wanted to ask you now before its too late and we both regret it… Do you actually like me?” Emma asked as she looked into the other’s eyes with the most serious of expressions. At that moment the room was dead silent as Edward was desperately rummaging through his brain to find an answer to the woman’s question. An answer that wouldn’t make all his hard work up until that moment go to waste. Yet nothing came up in fact it felt like the more he tried to figure something out, the less possible it was for him. “Why would you ask something like that?” Edward questioned, it was the next best thing to telling the truth… denial. “It seems like such a silly thing given all that we’ve been through…” “It’s exactly because we’ve been thr