Author Notes: Here's a Growing Pains outtake and sequel to "Bella's Hamster". I haven't been writing much since I have gotten writers block, and when I do write, I feel as if it's not good enough. I'm also working on a novel, which isn't going to well. I'm hoping to kick my writers block and start writing again. Anyways, I hope you enjoy this fic!
Disclaimer: Mrs. S. Meyer owns Twilight, I just borrow the characters to torture them a bit! ^_^
Bella's Pet Rat
"Are you talking to me yet?" Alice asked her little sister. Bella pretended that she didn't see or hear her. Yes, she was still mad at Alice for eating her hamster. The little girl sniffled, got up and marched passed the pixie vampire.
Alice frowned and looked at Jasper for help, who shrugged. "You did eat her pet, sweetheart." He said. "She has every right to feel as she does." He wrapped his arms around his wife, pulling her into his lap. "She'll get over it in a while."
Two weeks passed and Bella was still upset, though she now acknowledged her sister. She came home and went to her room, there she saw the cage set up again with a new pet inside. She peeked and saw a small, black and white baby rat just two months old. She squealed and went to take it out, but the small creature ran to hide, afraid of it's new surroundings as most new pets are.
Bella managed to catch it and looked at the small critter. It was a female and she thought of a name for it, then grinned. "I'm going to name you Jane. Jane the Rat." She giggled. She got the name from one of the many Volturi stories Carlisle had told her.
Bella took her rat to her mom and grinned, "Look, mama! Look what I found in my room! Who got me this pet rat?" Esme looked at the tiny rodent. It was amazing how cute animals start out as and grow into hideous things.
"Alice did sweetheart. Keep…that thing away, alright?" Esme was cringing. She did not like rodents. "Better put her back in her home." The little girl ran off to her room.
Bella did everything with Jane. Took her for walks while the little rat would sit upon her shoulder or in a pocket. Took pictures of her during the holidays. Made little special holiday meals for the rodent. To say that Jane was a spoiled rat was an understatement.
Jane turned up missing one afternoon in October two years later. Bella was turning the house upside down looking for the rodent. "Jane! Jane! Here ratty, ratty, ratty!" She called as she shook the container of yogi treats, but the rat didn't respond. "Mama is gonna be mad if I don't find you!" The girl was on the verge of tears. "I hope no one ate you."
No one said anything at that last comment, though this time if someone did eat Bella's pet, Alice wasn't to blame. She had been gone all weekend in Portland, Oregon, shopping with Rosalie and Jasper.
"Well…" Emmett said. "I didn't exactly eat it…" Everyone stared at him, expectantly, waiting for the reason that yet another one of Bella's pet has gone missing or has died. "I went to give it a treat you see and I found her already dead. I didn't want Bella to see her dead. So I buried her next to Edwardian Emmetto Jasperin Cullen the First."
Bella looked at him skeptically, but accepted it. She wouldn't be able to handle another one of her pets as her sibling's victims.
"I'm swearing off pets." She finally decided. "Until I move out and get a place of my own."
The end.
End Notes: Hope you enjoyed this. Jane is based off of my own rat, Twit, who is only 7 months old :D