EPOV
Bella. My Bella, was sitting on my bed scrutinising a CD she was trying to get to work. It was one of her old favourites, she had said, and insisted on showing it to me. Her enthusiasm was making Jasper light headed, but he hadn't complained until the disappointment came. Bella had placed it in my Stereo but her smile faded as it read 'No Disc' in bright green letters.
She was now trying to clean it, rubbing it with her sleeve, licking a tissue and wiping it, willing it to work.
I played with her hair, enjoying the scent it gave off when I let the pieces fall back down to her face. I felt my brow furrow as she sighed, obviously admitting defeat to the large scratch that covered the CD. She let her face hit my covers and she groaned in annoyance. My breathing stopped for a moment at the unexpected feeling the noise gave me. I then lay beside her resuming breath intake.
'It's okay, love.' I assured her placing my hand on her skull. So easily I could crush it. I frowned at the thought but smiled crookedly as she turned her head to stare at me through the wall of hair that I quickly pulled away from her face.
'I really wanted to show you. It was one of my old favourites. I mean it. I used to listen to it when I went through my skater phase.' She huffed. I raised an eyebrow.
'Skater phase?' I asked dumbly. She sat up staring out my window wall for a moment then turning her gaze back to me.
'Yeah everyone has one of those. Well, I mean , not everyone. I guess you never had one.' She guessed and I chuckled lightly.
'You're right. I've never really been one for phases. But tell me of yours?' I asked my interest sparking. She smiled dazzlingly and it took my breath away. I could stare at her forever. She sat cross legged and I positioned myself so she was in my lap. I slowly kissed the exposed part of her neck breathing in her scent. She had a different idea. She turned in my lap so she was sort of straddling me and placed a finger on my lips. I immediately knew what she wanted me to do, to keep quiet so she could tell me her story. It's not like I didn't care, of course, I cared about her more than anything but that didn't stop me. I licked her finger and clasped her hand in my two much stronger, much colder ones. She stared at me dumbfounded as I found myself lightly sucking on her finger. I closed my eyes, smiled and pressed her warm, small hand to my cheek.
'Breathe darling.' I reminded her and heard her inhale. 'Please tell me about this phase of yours.' I opened my eyes to stare into her beautiful brown ones.
'Well,' she began cheerfully. 'When I was maybe fourteen I met this girl. She was new in my school and a real tough nut. There were so many rumours about her. One that was true was she had gotten expelled from her last school for provoking a gang. She got in huge shit with this gang beating them up and the like. She was really strong and a really good fighter. The gang eventually got back at her, leaving her in the hospital for months and her brother got two of his friends and they went and wiped out the whole gang! Of course the police knew this but they never went after her brother.
'Anyway enough of that. Her name was Amy and she came to our school nobody liked her. The third day of her being at our school a guy had trapped one of my not very close friends in the gym storage room and rumour was he was going to rape her.' I furrowed my brow. What I'd like to do- what I have done to guys like that, I thought smiling. She looked at me in confusion so I gestured for her to go on, I loved to hear her voice.
'Well Amy had heard the news and apparently my friend had been nice to her during class so Amy rushed to the Gym. She then beat the hell out of the guy. Of course I followed her unsure of her intentions at first, I didn't know much about her at all. When I saw her beating him up I screamed, I couldn't help myself. I was a real scaredy cat back then.' She smirked at me, obviously referring to how true she thought that still was.
'I find that hard to believe.' I mumbled into her palm. Yes, I'll go fall in love with a vampire who could easily kill me. I'll go to cheerfully meet a sadistic murderous vampire to die. I think I may befriend a werewolf who could blow at any moment. Maybe I'll even choose to go face a vampire coming to kill me with an army of newborns. Better yet I'll get the idea to go to be there myself! Oh and I may go jump off a cliff and ride a motor bike that could both kill me. Oh and THEN I'll try and kill myself to save a friend! How cowardly I am! I frowned, trying to decipher how exactly her mind worked. She saw the disbelief in my face but ignored me and continued her tale.
'Anyway the guy who was now on the floor bleeding had friends and they came and grabbed me just so I wouldn't be able to spread that their friend got his ass kicked by this chick.' I stiffened. She felt it and looked at my concern covering her features.
'And then?' I choked out. Though I knew no harm had come to my beautiful angel, it was hard to imagine all the things that could've happened to her. It was much easier to imagine all the things I would've done to those guys. A sadistic smile sprung to my face and Bella relaxed.
'Then she kicked the shit out of them too and introduced herself. We were best friends from then on. She influenced my attitude and style a lot. Believe it or not, despite my being a clumsy fool I could – can skate very well.' She grinned at the shock on my face which I quickly hid. 'Then we met Rin, she was a year level lower than us but her smarts got her put up to our grade. She was from Japan, very pretty. She was shyer than us but we got along well and she was really fun once we got her out of her shell. Then one night at a party we met a scheming little chick named Eva. She never said much, I hadn't even known she'd existed till I caught her taping the embarrassing moments of everyone at the party. She was extremely depressed. She uh… she cut herself. Everyone thought she was really weird and avoided her. But when we met her we clicked and there you go. We all became inconsiderate, anti-authority, non respectable persons right there and then.' She finished with an unusual twist of a smile on her face I hadn't seen before. It looked like a mischievous yet evil smile. A wicked twist of her usual features. I ruffled my hands through her hair slightly, not wanting to break her from her reverie. I failed. She turned to me and kissed me softly. Oh how I loved kissing my beautiful Bella. We pulled away from each other grinning.
'That was… interesting.' I made a mental note to buy Bella a skateboard next time she allowed me to spend money on her. Her expression turned quizzical for a moment. 'What's the problem love?' I asked, knowing fully that there shouldn't be a problem right now.
'Nothing. I just remembered a dream I had.' She turned to the pillow which laid messily on the large bed I had brought just for her.
'Tell me about it.' I urged, she gave me a 'Why should I' look and turned away quickly. 'Come on Bella. I heard you talking last night, I can almost guess what you were dreaming about.' Of course this was a lie, her words had confused the hell out of me last night, I smouldered my eyes at her unfairly.
'Uh.' Was all she said. I frowned, disappointed.
'If you're not going to talk I am going to assume that it is much worse than it actually is.' I had used this line before, I was sure it worked last time. She turned to me, glowering.
'I dreamt that I was at a university and you were the wealthy son of the owners of the uni and I was there with Alice, Jasper and Rosalie. Alice was in her underwear the whole dream I don't know why. Anyway, we were all really poor so I gathered up my courage went to speak to your parents, it wasn't Esme and Carlisle. And they were repulsed that me and Alice were wearing sandals. Then I was having classes and I noticed that every step I took on the stairs my left foot hurt so I raised money and bought myself one shoe. It was really easy and didn't hurt anymore. When you asked me why I was wearing one shoe I told you the truth then I went back to my dorm and got lost in a huge Toilet complex thing and Alice, Jasper and Rose laughed at me.' She finished and I couldn't hold it in much longer. I broke into hysterical fits and found myself on the floor laughing so much my stomach actually hurt. I knew that if I could I would have died from laughter right there and then. Apparently the rest of the family had heard this and I could hear their booming laughs from the floor boards I was stuck on. When I had recovered enough to stand Bella's face was crimson red with embarrassment.
'Bella, love, don't be embarrassed.' I slid my arms around her muffling my chuckles on her shoulder. So that's why I'd heard 'One shoe' the whole night. She sighed and relaxed into my embrace. Suddenly a thought crossed my mind at Bella's smile as she recounted the story of her friends and her now blank expression. 'Love, do you miss your friends from Phoenix?' She nodded and I felt my heart sink somewhat. 'Would you like to go see them?' She nodded again then turned to me.
'Of course I do but you're not paying for it! Don't you dare get the idea in your head I want to take you to a place so sunny!' She ordered. I smiled, she hadn't even considered the thought of me not going in her head. God I loved her.
BPOV
Edward kissed me gently and I melted into his lips.
'Still, you should go see your friends.' He insisted. He was obviously thinking that this is something I should do while I was still human, though he was trying to hide it.
'Not if I wont be able to show them my fiancé without him glittering in the sun.' I saw his eyes smoulder at the word and I smiled. I was getting good at this. Good at making him the weak one. I kissed his lips hungrily and he complied, enthusiastically pushing me down so he was over me staring into my eyes before kissing me again.
Suddenly he was off me, a shocked expression on his face.
'Hurry Bella.' He said and held out his hand. I took it and he flung me into his arms as he zoomed down the stairs. I hadn't even had enough time to panic yet. 'What is it Alice?' He asked my sister.
'Eh,' she turned to me then back to him. 'Charlies future just well it didn't disappear. It's sort of faded. I can still see him but through a blur like lots of fog.' She sounded angry at herself for some reason.
'Charlie's future is clouded?' I asked, panic in my tone.
'Come Bella lets go check it out.' Edward said.
'Wait!' Alice held her finger up to us. 'I can see now. These girls just knocked on his door asking for you Bella. One was... in my head. She was the one clouding my vision. He told her that you'd be here. Their on their way.' She rambled. I nodded, trying to look like I understood. No one was fooled. Edward placed my feet on the ground.
'All is well then?' He asked and she nodded still deep in her own thoughts. 'Tell them that people are on their way.' He said meaning his- my family. We returned to his room waiting in anticipation. I was still quite confused until I heard a car pull up outside, loud heavy metal rock were blowing from the speakers. I ran down the stairs, tripping and being saved twice.
When Edward and I arrived in the living room the music came to a stop. We heard low mumbles of chatter and my family and I exchanged glances. Alice seemed frustrated. Edwards head cocked to the side like he had encountered a problem. The doorbell rang and we heard a few giggles. Carlisle answered the door and peeked outside.
'Hey, we're lookin' for Bella.' One said in a light yet defiant voice. Carlisle smiled.
'She is here. Who might you three be?' He asked gesturing for them to enter. They didn't answer. As soon as I caught site of the three a girly squeal escaped my lips. They stared at me, massive smiles covering their faces. They ran to me and we hugged tightly as a group. The first girl was dressed in a short black and red skirt with a black short sleeved V neck body hugging shirt on with black arm warmers. Her hair was a very dark brown with red tints all through it.
The second had Black skinny leg jeans on with a simple blue singlet and silver jacket. It matched her icy blue eyes and her blue-black hair.
The third had long, sparse light brown hair with a full fringe. She wore an above-knee length white dress with a large black ribbon around her waist and black lace arm warmers.
I suddenly felt out of place in my ripped denims and blouse under a brown jumper. I stuck up my collar so I would fit in and they laughed.
I turned to the bewildered Cullens.
'This is Amy, Rin and Eva.' I introduced. Edward's eyebrows furrowed deeply.
'Bella can I have a word with you for a moment?' He asked me and I walked out of the house with him.
'What's the matter?' I asked.
'Bella I can't read their thoughts. Any of them just like you they give off a silence. And Alice can't see them. Bella, what exactly are your friends?' He asked. I was stunned. Edward shook his head and lead me back inside.
'-lie, Emmet and that is Edward.' Carlisle finished smiling politely. Amy looked at them scrutinizing their appearances.
'You're the "vegetarian" coven, right?' She asked making quotation marks with her fingers. Our jaws dropped.
'Amy you know-?' I stammered. Eva sat in the love seat looking bored while Rin rolled her eyes at me.
'Bella. It's pretty obvious. I mean look at their eyes.' Rin said softly.
'No, how do you know their vampires?' I gasped.
'Bella, Bella, Bella.' Amy shook her head. 'Marcus, my brother… you didn't suspect anything?' She asked me, disbelief clear in her tone.
'Marcus… was… a …. Vampire?' I managed.
'I guess we're all just destined for weird.' Amy sighed and returned to my side. We giggled though my laugh was shaky. I was still in disbelief as were most of the Cullens.
'We just have to catch up!' Rin said excitedly yet still her soft voice didn't carry far.
'You don't mind, we invited ourselves to yours for the duration of our stay.' Amy winked at me.
'You're staying? For how long?' I asked suddenly bursting with excitement.
'As long as we can, we're gonna attend Forks High with ya for a while.' She smiled innocently. I frowned.
'Did you get expelled Amy?' I asked.
'Hey don't look at me! It was Rin's idea to shave Mr. Roberts and Eva taped it and put it on the internet!' I tapped my foot at them.
'But who did the actual crime?' I raised an eyebrow. Amy muttered something under her breath. Rosalie had left the room, followed by Emmett to continue what they had been doing before we had interrupted. Alice was positively bouncing at the new girls' amazing and peculiar sense of style. Jasper hung in the back, he wasn't breathing. My eyes were wide as I took in his appearance. His eyes were hungry and he was gripping the wall to hold himself back from my friends. He was on the point of losing control when Edward obviously heard his plans. Carlisle and Edward had him before he could even try to do anything.
Amy looked him up and down smiling in a way I knew too well. Amy was evil. Not in the way that she made us confess to our crushes in a game of truth and dare or the way a bully physically abused kittens. Amy was too smart, too cunning, too sick. She loved to torment people, mess with their heads. She grinned at me flashing her brilliant teeth. She then brought her finger to her mouth and without hesitation bit herself. Piercing the skin the red blood came oozing out. She then brought her finger out in front of her face and blew the scent in Jasper's direction.
Then he snapped.