HEY Guys, I'm new at this, I started writing the story a while ago and I decided to ask a couple of tell me what you think.
Bettina is made up but it's my best friend's name, pretty cool yea?
Love, peace and Chicken grease.
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I woke up when my 6 year old sister jumped on my bed. She could barely walk from all her clumsiness but boy could she be annoying with those little legs of hers.
I knew she wouldn't give up and when I looked at the clock it was only 6:00, way to early to get up. My mom died at her birth so, I was in charge because my dad was always drunk or missing.
I got up with a 'humph' and she fell on the bed. "What is it you want Bettina?" I asked a bit irritated. "I wanna play." She said.
"Well, I guess I'm up so, let's go play." I said. I walked out my door and right next to me I could still hear my brother sleeping, the kid snored worse than anyone I had ever heard.
No way was he going to snooze while I need to keep this little monster occupied. I open his door flippantly, not to wake him just yet but when I saw his face I decided to let him sleep.
His tussled brown hair sprawled all over the pillow. I would never ever agree that I thought it but my brother was really fine-looking, well of course we were twins but he was always the better looking one.
He looked tired and it was Saturday after all. I closed the door again and walked with Bettina, hand in hand downstairs.
On the couch my dad Charlie was passed out in one of the single chairs. His brown, oily fuzz hair and disgusting face was not a nice sight.
Bettina looked scared when she saw him. How could a child be afraid of her own father?
"Bettina, what about we play at Alice and Edward for a bit?" I asked. She laughed and nodded. She liked them just as much as I did.
I wrote Jasper a letter telling him where we were and stuck it on his door. Then I decided to take a quick bath and I helped Bettina afterwards.
I looked out the window into Edward's bedroom and saw he was awake and sitting on his bed, already dressed and like I knew him on his way here.
Jasper was still asleep and it was about 7:00 now. We hurried out the house passing the snoring gunch on the couch. We walked to their front yard and to the door.
Having a best friend for a neighbor was truly a great thing. We could climb through each other's windows when we wanted to. We did that, frequently.
Without even knocking, Edward opened the door. He was the most beautiful creature I ever saw. His dark brown hair, witch was messy on top of his head and his green eyes witch could burn a whole into you.
He was long and lean and gay. I reminded myself. Next stop: Gay Ville, Population: My best friend Edward.
I laughed at my thought and when he smiled at us, his perfect white marbles glared back.
Bettina was getting impatient.
"Edward, I came to play because my dad is drunk again, so squeeze Me." she said pushing him away to get to Alice.
I went in after him and we sat on the couch. Alice came downstairs with Bettina in her arms.
She was also very beautiful; she looked almost exactly like Edward, except she had short black hair hugging her face and a more feminine build.
I imagined Edward with long hair and started to laugh. "What's wrong, why are you laughing?" He asked amused.
"Well I actually thought about you with long hair." I said and muffled another laugh. "I'm not that gay, geez." He said and smiled.
He didn't act gay though and to be honest a lot of girls still wanted him and threw them onto him. We would just laugh afterwards.
He never had a girl or guy before and I could swear sometimes he wasn't gay. We would act like a couple actually. We did everything except of course for the kissing and such.
"Wow young lady, you're getting to heavy." Edward said putting Bettina down in front of me and she immediately jumped into my lap, her long curls waving around her face.
She got my mothers curls and so did I. "What have you been feeding her?" She asked, pretending to hold her back when she sat on the ground in front of us?
"Well at least someone is feeding her." I said and smiled. Alice and Edward knew very well what the uhm . . . situation was at home.
Since my mom died, Jasper and I took care of Bettina. I bet he didn't even know what her name was.
He started to drink long before my mom was pregnant with Bettina. Then afterwards he resented us or something.
He has nothing to do with us. We take care of everything in the house. When my mom died she left us a lot and I mean a lot of money so at least we didn't suffer.
"Bells it's okay, you know were here right?" Edward reassured me. I didn't notice I started to cry.
"Yea, its just hard practically being an orphan." I shrugged. Bettina buried her face in my neck and hugged me tight.
"Hey can I leave Bettina here for a sec? I just want to check up on Jasper." I asked.
"Sure, Bettina lets play hide and seek. Bells, tell your sexy brother to get his cute butt over here." Alice said and winked.
I laughed and walked out the house. Those two were dating since they were in diapers.
I opened the door and soon enough Jasper and my dad was fighting in the living room. "You can't be drunk all the time; you should take care of us." He said pointing a finger at my dad.
My dad rushed to close the space between them. This was getting out of order.
My dad didn't mind slapping me around a bit every now and then. Why me, I didn't know but he wouldn't really touch Jasper. I walked closer to them.
I hated the fighting. We would always watch a movie and I would think that the lovly family you see on the tv, I wanted to be that family.
I wanted to go and buy Christmas presents and surprise my dad with a nice dinner.
I just wanted a family again, I wanted to be a kid for once.
"Dad, Jasper can you please stop this?" I asked. I wasn't mean at all. Jasper hated my dad for what he was and to be honest so did I but I didn't like confrontation.
Sometimes Edward would say its my motherly instinct. I wanted to keep Bettina happy so I would be the lesser one.
I was suddenly very glad that I left Bettina with Alice. "Jasper maybe you should calm down." I said putting my hand on his shoulder.
He didn't look what he was doing and he slammed my hand of his shoulder with such a force it landed against the wall, next to the couch.
I could feel it burning and almost see it swelling. Then he looked at me with hurt. "It's okay Jasper, its okay." I said hugging him.
Jasper was scared, every day he prayed he would never become his father. Now he would blame himself for months.
When I released him my dad lifted his hand and hit Jasper so hard he fell over the couch, lying very, very still. "Jasper. . . " I broke of rushing to him but my dad stopped me and I felt a blow to my face. This was nothing new I thought before I closed my eyes.
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Beep, beep, beep.
What the hell was that irritating noise and where did it come from. I didn't remember falling asleep. I didn't put an alarm on my phone. I don't even know where I was.
Beep, beep, beep.
Urg, I hate that sound, maybe it was my alarm, if I could just find it. After I struggled to get out of the sleep I heard the terrible sound again. This time I heard something other than that.
Beep, beep, beep.
"Edward, I want to talk to her why wouldn't she wake up." I heard a small voice in the distance.
"Honey, I'm sure she will wake up soon enough." I heard a bigger, stronger voice.
"Bells open your eyes." The same voice said.
Then like he said, I tried to open my eyes but they were very swollen. I saw Edward first, beautiful as ever and then Alice with a very worried Bettina on her lap.
I shrugged at the pain as I breathed in and out. Why was I in the hospital? Think Bella think, Owh, yea my dad.
Jasper, oh so help me if that thing did something to my brother. "Where . . . Jasper" I said and turned to my side but turned right on my back again.
"He's in the room next to you." I heard the strong voice again it was definitely Edward. I could feel his hand on mine.
Later that day, I woke up and everything was clear. Al the sudden Edward and Bettina stormed into my room. "Jupy . . . Bells I missed you." Bettina said and ran to the side of my bed.
"What, how long have I been out?" I asked surprised. "Ten days actually, and Jasper woke up yesterday but his in for a scan now, just to check if everything is fine and all." Edward explained.
Wow, ten days. I couldn't even remember getting here. Bettina looked like she was thinking very hard with her little eyebrows pulled together. "What's wrong honey?" Edward asked her when he saw it to. "I want to touch her." She said pointing at me.
"Okay well hop on." I said. He restrained her. "Bettina, really I rather you didn't because you'll hurt her." He said. Instead she climbed into Edwards arm and he placed her on the bed next to me at a safe distance.
"Urg what happened?" I asked. "We were kind of worried about you and when my mom came home we left Bettina with her to see if you were alright." He said.
I nodded for him to continue. "Then we heard your dad's car screeching out of the driveway." He said. "After that we practically ran to your house.
We found Jasper lying on the floor behind the flipped couch and you in the corner in a much worse state." He finished.
Thank goodness Bettina didn't see that. "Yea, they told me you were hurt and then I stayed with Esme till they came to fetch me to visit you and Jasper." Bettina added.
These people were closer to us then my family. I shrugged and then Jasper came into the room, with Alice pushing him.
Oh no. "Oh gosh, please tell me I'm thinking wrong." I said closing my eyes. "You can open your eyes Bells it's just the hospital rules." Jasper said getting up.
Oh thank the lord for that. "When can I go home?" I asked. Just when I asked the doctor came through the door and answered my question. "Well about another week." He said writing on his board thingy. "Why that long?" I asked confused.
"Because of all the broken bones" He said. "What broken bones?" I asked again. Then his beeper went off. "I would love to be in the beautiful ladies company but they need me. Explain to her please." He said patting Edward on the back. "Bella, where to start" He said examining me with his beautiful green eyes and touching me with his tanned skin.
Stop it idiot, his gay. I mentally scowled myself. "You broke your right hip and a couple of ribs. You have a fractured skull and bruises where you didn't break your bones." He laughed and I laughed with him.
"Then you also broke your left hand, but Jasper explained why." He said. I looked at Jasper and he shot an apologetic glance. "Hey Jasper, it wasn't your fault." I said and he smiled, so fake.
"Well, no wonder I'm gonna be here for another week." I said snorting. "Did you seriously just snort?" He asked. "Sorry, yea I did." I said and laughed again.
This time everybody joined in. With all the commotion, Bettina fell asleep by my side, slightly gripping my waist. "She looks like an angel. She looks so peaceful." I said.
"She looks like you, beautiful." Edward said and I blushed. She did actually a lot; we had the same pale skin, beautiful brown curls and long, lean figures.
"Well, well aren't we getting al up in Bella's grill?" Alice laughed. Just then a nurse came in and smiled at me.
"Guys you need to get out, visiting time is over and Jasper you need to sign the release forms." She said.
"Please, can she stay?" I asked pointing at Bettina at my side. "Only, if she is family." She said. "Yes, she's my little sister." I said and the nurse went out pushing everyone but her through the door.
Falling in love, it's such an easy thing to do . . . Birds can do it, bees can do it let's get to it, let's fall in love. I thought while I waited for my brother and friends to pick me up from the hospital.
A week passed, terribly slow and I was ready to go home. I had a cast on my hand and a bandage across my stomach to keep my ribs from throbbing. I had this feeling inside witch sent my guts in a knot when I thought about Edward.
Maybe it was love. I did love him but like a - your – my – best – friend - / - brother – kind of love. I thought and laughed. He was very good to me since we met our first day of kinder garden.
The earliest memory I could thought of was the two of us in the sandpit and then a guy called Jason threw ants down my shirt. I remembered how Edward punched him and helped me to get the ants out.
Then he got kicked out and I remembered crying until my mom moved me to where he was. Then I remember when my mom died and he crawled through my window to comfort me.
I knew he was gay by then. I remembered I had kissed him once, only pecking. We were about twelve and it was a dare but it was very good. He told me he was gay when he was sixteen.
His mom and sister didn't know until last year when we were seventeen. They didn't reject him; instead Alice was thrilled to share girl stuff with him.
She was wrong though and he never acted gay at all. Not even wearing tight close. I laughed when I imagined him in a tight jean and tight spaghetti top. Of course he would look like a Model in it. "Do you need a penny for your thoughts?" Edward brought me back to reality.
"Nope I sell them for a dollar. "I joked but I jumped at his voice, which was very close to my ear and I blushed.
"Oh, I'm sorry I startled you, honey." He said and leaned away. "It's okay; I just let my mind wonder." I said.
"And to where did your mind wonder, if I may ask?" He asked and took my hand. "Well actually about us, since we were little and such." I said and smiled.
"No explanation needed." He said. Bettina turned at my side and opened her beautiful brown eyes.
Since a week ago she slept with me every night. She would go home at day and come back in the night. She was just as stubborn as me and when she set her mind to something, there was no stopping her.
So she had her way and slept next to me every night. Not that I complained at all, she was technically my mom's but I sometimes wonder if she thought about me as a mom.
Since I did everything for her but she exchanged the favor by smiling and being grateful for everything we did for her.
"I guess it's time to go Bells, unless you want to stay." He said and smiled, clearly making a joke.
"I think, I will, I like it here, no goofs to make fun of me." I joked. "Goof, hey that hurts." He said touching his heart.
"I'm sure it would have, if you had one." I joked again. I got of the bed slowly and Edward took Bettina in his arms while he swung my bag over his shoulder.
He was so . . . gay. I had to remind myself again. Falling in love, it's such an easy thing to do, birds can do it bees can do it, let's get to it, let's fall in love. I sang in my head while I got pushed through the hospital door to the porch.
I got up slowly and limped to the car. Most of my injuries were better, except for the hand and ribs. I got in front after strapping Bettina in at the back.
We didn't drive to fast because we didn't have to rush. Apparently my dad hasn't been seen since the accident so we were now, thanks to the Cullen's permanently living there.
They had a very big house and a lot of extra rooms; even with me and my brother they had two spares. We arranged for Bettina to sleep in my room.
When we got to the house we got out and went in immediately. We went to his room first and then to mine.
It was a beautiful, big room with lime green and silver everywhere. My favorite colors in. I had a double bed and across from the room was a single bed, pushed up against the window.
It was beautiful and Bettina jumped out of Edward's hands to jump on her bed. We both Laughed. Esme came into the room after knocking.
"Bettina, would you like to go get you some clothes and afterwards ice cream?" She asked. Bettina ran to her. "Yes, can I Bells, please?" She asked. "Sure you can but you better behave." I warned.
I never really knew why she asked me if she could do stuff. I was more her mother then I realized.
"Okay, bye." She said. "Bye, we won't be too long." She said. "Hey what about we get ice cream to, you know that nice Italian place?"
He asked. "Owh sounds nice." I said. "I need a quick bath though." I said. "Okay I'll wait in my room." He said and I nodded. I tried to hurry as much as I could.
I wrapped the towel around me and went into my room. I decided that I didn't need the bandage around my waist anymore, it wasn't that bad and . . . oh, I forgot my bags in his room. I peeked into the hallway and the ghost was clear.
I rushed to his room and he wasn't there. I stood in the doorway, wondering where he was and then a cold finger touched my shoulder. I shuddered and turn around and then my towel tripped me and I fell on top of Edward.
This was so embarrassing. I held onto the towel for dear live. Edward just laughed and helped me up. "I'm sorry; I forgot the bag into my room." I said. "Well, it's okay. I'm gay remember." He said and swung his hand like a gay person.
If only you weren't. I thought. What, no. he looks so nice standing there. Bella, get a grip. I said.
"Why the heck are your hands so cold?" I asked him, "I went downstairs to get some ice to eat, sorry." He said.
Good explanation. He always ate ice, so weird and freaky. "I need to get dressed." I said.
"Okay be right back." He said and jogged downstairs. I got dressed and went downstairs. I had a plain skinny jean and t shirt. He was sitting on the couch and watching SpongeBob.
"Wow, real mature Eddie." I laughed getting down the stairs. He turned the television of and walked to me.
"No calling me Eddie, Smella." He said in a fake whinny voice. "wanna watch SpongeBob, I call you Eddie." I shrugged.
"You look good, let's go." He said and we walked to his car, his eyes lingered. How strange Edward.
The ice cream parlor wasn't far and we got there quickly. We ordered and decided to go for a walk. It was nice walking and eating the ice cream.
I could relax with my best friend. No worries for a change.
Edward had some ice dream on his nose and I started to laugh. "What now?" He asked.
"Well, there is ice cream on your nose." I said. He wiped his nose but still missed it. "I got it." I said wiping it off with my thumb.
"Bella," He asked. "Yes?"
"I dare you to kiss me." He said. "Why would I do that, you're gay?" I asked.
"Because I never kissed a girl before and I want to know how it feels." He said again.
"Well that unfair, I haven't kissed a guy . . . straight guy either but you would be kissing a straight girl." I said.
"I just want to know." He said pulling me tighter. "Fine but I swear no tong or I'll bite you." I warned he laughed and leaned closer.
I kissed him and the electric sparks flew through me. It was like nothing I ever felt. The world stopped spinning for a millisecond.
He seemed to enjoy it because he placed his hands in my hair. I did the same and it got even warmer than it was.
This wasn't supposed to happen. I t felt like hours and then he released me, probably to get some breath. There was tongue involved though.
"Wow . . . I . . . this was . . . wow." He said and waved his hand through his hair. It pained me to say it. "So, now you know. See nothing, lets head home, it's late." I said.
He nodded in amusement and we drove home in silence.
AN: I just want to know if I should continue with my story. Please tell me.
