Author's note:
I know this isn't the next chapter of The Serpent but I had laying around for a while and decided to post it. The next chapter of The Serpent will come soon. Concept is mine. All characters belong to Stephanie Meyer
Prologue
Sticks and Stones
May break my bones
But words will never
Harm me
That is a piece of shit! Words hurt just as bad as sticks and stones and I would know. I've been hit with them all…
At home, my twin brother Emmett and I were beat up for every little mistake. By the man who was supposed to protect us…
"A 97%! You can do better Bella!"
BAM!
"You could've made that pass if you focused Emmett!"
CRACK!
No one ever knew…
School was worse. The comradeship Emmett and I had at home suddenly disappeared. Suddenly, we were enemies, a geek and a jock would not, Should Not, COULD NOT associate.
Rosalie Hale. Queen bee, leader of the preps and my tormentor. Everyday new insults, new pain. I couldn't escape! I did the only thing I thought I could do. I turned to a knife. It helped the pain better than crying, better than anything.
At school, I only had Mikey D. and Jasper, Rosalie's brother. My two best friends, the only thing keeping me alive…
. . .
It makes me that much stronger
Makes me work a little bit harder
Makes me that much wiser
So thanks for making me a fighter
A fighter. That's what I had to be my entire life. It kept me safe, but not just me, my twin sister Bella too. I had to be strong to protect her. I take the fall for her when I can and when I can't I'm there to dry her tears. She's all I have at home.
School is different. I'm different. Every day I make Jasper Hale's life a living hell. I beat him up and throw him trashcans and lockers. I don't want to, but I'm afraid if I don't I'll lose my friends.
My best friend is Edward Cullen and he isn't a jock. He's a gangster. I walk with him to and from school every day. He doesn't care what people think about him and I admire him for that. At school, I can't protect my sister. I see her bullied every day and I can't do anything.
At home, I'm her hero.
At school, I'm her enemy.
. . .
I know they've got a plan
But the blood's on my hands
This time it's man to man
I'm drivin, fightin, inside a world that's
upside down and spinning faster
A doctor. That's the future my parents picked out for me, but I want to be a musician. They say that's not a stable career that it should just stay a hobby.
A hobby, well, they don't know my other hobby. No one does. Not my mother, my father, my twin sister Alice, or my little brother Mason. I do crack and weed. That's my "hobby". NO! not a hobby an addiction!
The stress I'm under from my parents pushes me to do it. When I snort or light up the stress just leaves and I'm in a happy world. A world free of stress.
My best friend Emmett has no idea what I do either. He's way to busy throwing Jasper Hale in trashcans and lockers to notice. My drugs and his bullying strain our relationship, though he knows nothing. I started avoiding him after school so he probably knows something's up.
The truth, the truth would hurt him.
. . .
Cause you want to belong
Do you go along?
Cuz his pain is the price
Paid to belong
Cheerleading, it used to be my passion. Then I realized that being a cheerleader meant changing myself. I had to become a person who would do anything to cling to popularity, even hurt someone I didn't know.
I tried not to care but it was hard. Especially watching my best friend and head of the preps Rosalie Hale bully Bella Swan. I knew Emmett Swan quarterback of the football team was her brother but he did nothing. I understand though. It's a risky move…
Emmett is my brother Edward's best friend. Watching Emmett bully Rosalie's poor brother Jasper hurts him a lot. It hurts me too.
I want to belong.
So, I go along
Jasper and Bella's pain?
It's the price paid to belong.
. . .
Through the wind and the rain
She stands hard as a stone
In a world
That she can't rise above
Uncaring, bitch, cold. That's how people describe me. But they don't know the real me. What they see is my disguise. I am really, weak, vulnerable, and scared. But I have to act strong, not just for myself but for my brother Jasper too.
At home, we're abused by our dad. I am only abused emotionally but poor Jasper was abused mentally and physically. At school, Jasper is bullied and I can't help. I am a bully myself. I bully poor Bella Swan and just like me her brother Emmett can't do anything.
My best friend Alice doesn't like how I treat Bella. I have to, so I can hide the truth.
I stand hard as a stone
Through everything I can't rise above.
. . .
It's not like you hate him
Or want him to die
But maybe he goes home
And thinks suicide
I have done that many times. Sometimes I think suicide is my only way out. Bella and Mikey D. always stop me. One of them always calls in time.
In elementary school there were two Mikes. Mike Newton and Mike Daniels. Everyone started calling Mike Daniels Mikey D. after a Social Studies project where we made up raps and he called himself Mikey D.
Bella's brother Emmett bullies me every day like my sister Rosalie bullies her. I've told her that Rosalie doesn't mean it and she says the same about Emmett. At home though my dad does mean everything he says and does. I've come to school with broken bones and just told Bella and Mikey:
"Accident."
If I lost her and Mikey, I don't know what I'd do.
. . .
couldn't escape
don't want
addiction
belong
stone
suicide
This is our story written to
Help others be strong
Show the results
Stop the bullies
Tear down the walls of pain
Stop the deaths
It's our time!
Authors note:
The code for who was speaking at the end: Bella Emmett Edward Alice Rosalie Jasper All