This is a story that is based off of "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" with my own changes to it. It's not going to be exactly the same but there will be some similarities to it since that's where my idea came from. This is a story that test to see if Edward and Bella can make it through the toughest shit life can through you. Are they meant to be together or is he in fact all wrong for her? Well let's find out!
Okay, so this was an idea that I had for another fansite for Instant Star characters Jude and Tommy but I thought that you guys might like it a lot for Edward and Bella because I see it more for these characters. So basically, I already have ten chapters written for it in the "Jude/Tommy" form but I'm composing them together and changing some things in it that wouldn't fit into the Bella/Edward character so it's not exactly the same but it's pretty close. Anyway, if you want to read the Jude/Tommy one in case you are also a fan of them, let me know. Here's the first chapter and I hope you like it!
Summary: What happens when a group of friends road trip goes drastically wrong and they are thrown into a fight for their lives? Can Bella trust Edward to get them out alive or is he really working with the ruthless killers that won't stop at anything to have them dead?
Chapter 1
"Bella! Come on, we are all waiting on you!" Alice whined as four people sat in the travel van waiting on Bella to load the rest of her stuff. All five of them where best friends. Ever since Bella's year in fourth grade. She was getting picked on at school during recess when the next thing she knew, two girls a grade before her came to her rescue. Apparently that made them some sort of "super hero" because two boys came up to them right after and telling them how "cool" they were. That's secret code for "I like you" back in Elementary School. Of course, since Bella didn't defend herself, she didn't have a boy running to her side. Ever since then, they stuck together. Bella was now 18, freshly graduated from high school. Alice and Rosalie were 19, leaving Jasper and Emmett both almost 20. They all agreed in Bella's Sophomore year, when the boys were graduating, that they would go on a road trip when she was an adult. Well, guess what. The time has finally come.
"I'm coming, I'm coming. Geez!" she called back, cramming her last duffel bag in the back and climbing through the open doors.
"It's about time!" They all said in unison. Bella couldn't help but laugh at this watching her best friends already settled in their seats. Jasper was in the driver seat with Alice sitting right beside him holding his hand, their fingers intertwined. Rosalie was already rested on Emmett's lap, her arms around his neck and his loosely around her waist. Yes. You have it correct. They are couples. Which leaves Bella....well a fifth wheel. Sometimes Bella didn't mind it but she could tell this was going to be a long ass ride.
"So guys, what's our first stop?"
Her question seemed to raise more questions in the others minds as they all just gave her confused faces.
"Oh my God! You guys don't know?!"
"Hey hey now Swan, whatever happens, happens. You just enjoy the ride and leave the destination to me." Jasper said with a huge grin on his face. Apparently, he was trying to use his "calming" technique that normally worked on anybody but today, Bella wasn't biting.
"Whatever, if we get lost, I'm hitchhiking" she replied to him and she leaned back in her sofa-seat placing one of her pillows underneath her.
"Oh no Missy! You are not going to sleep right now!" Rosalie said as she snatched the pillow from under Bella's head, making it flop hardly on the arm rest.
"Bitch" Bella hissed under her breath as she sat back up rubbing her temple. "I can't believe I let you guys drag me into this. My mother doesn't even know!"
"What she doesn't know won't hurt her." Emmett said with an evil grin on his face.
"Yeah, but she will notice sooner or later and what am I going to do then? She'll probably have half of Forks looking for me!"
Just then, Alice turned around in her seat shooting Bella a look. "So she'll call you and you'll tell her the truth. There's nothing she can do about it then and besides, you are an adult now. Get used to making your own choices. Stop being so paranoid!" Alice finished her rant and turned back around in her seat to face the front and brought Jasper's hand back into hers. Bella loved Alice to death but sometimes, she spoke her mind to much. Most of the time it wasn't a bad thing, but right now, she needed to shut the fuck up.
"Fine. I'll just tell her I was kidnapped against my will. That way I can bring you guys down with me." she mumbled crossing her arms over her chest.
"Good!" Jasper said as she turned the key, bringing the van to life.
Two hours had past and Bella still had no idea where the hell they were going. The van ride so far had been pretty fun, other than the randoms times Rosalie and Emmett would just start making out out of no where. That was one of the many reasons it took months for Bella to agree to a road trip in the first place.
They played the "ABC" game pretty much the whole way. It was simple and fun yet got annoying at some points when Emmett would decide to cheat and call a letter from the middle of the word instead of the beginning when any sign passed.
"Okay, I think this is a good place to st-"
"Z-ZONE! I WIN!" Bella screamed as she started doing the victory dance in her seat.
"Oh blow me!" Emmett huffed earning a smack in the chest from Rosalie. "Ow! It was only a joke!"
"It better be." she said with a smile as she swooped down and placed a gentle kiss on his lips.
"Oh for Christ sakes! Get a fucking room already!" Alice whined as she hopped out of the car. Bella just realizing they had stopped, looked around and found they were at this place called "The Meat Diner". It was a 50's fashioned diner with neon lights running up and down the building. Not many cars were parked outside and it didn't look like many people were inside.
"What the hell is this?" Bella asked, completely startled at Jasper's choice of food. Usually he wanted tender cut steaks with baked potatoes and a nice garden salad. Not sloppy burgers and fries.
"It's time for a change. This road trip means a lot for all of us. I thought you guys might like this better. In we go?" and with that he climbed out of the van walking over to Alice.
"Great." Bella said sarcastically, dragging herself out of the van and following the others inside. When she finally made it past the front doors, she found out that everyone else was already seated in a rather large booth. She dragged an abandoned chair up to the end of the table and took her seat.
"Wow, seating didn't take long."
"Well, it isn't really busy if you hadn't noticed Hun." Alice responded back handing her a menu. Taking a look at the food selections, she quickly found her choice and set down the menu.
"Let me guess Bella, chicken finger basket with fries and a Mountain Dew?" Emmett said without skipping a beat.
"Hey I happen to like my decision. Makes me satisfied everytime." she retorted back scowling at him.
"Yeah, well since that's the only thing..." Rosalie mumbled, looking down at her menu to avoid eye contact. Yes, it wasn't a surprise to anyone. Bella was never particularly fond of "one night stands". Though she has had a couple, she tries to avoid them with no help from her four best friends that practically shove downs down her throat at every party they've attended. Lately Bella hasn't been getting any action at all because she decided back in April that she wanted to wait until she found someone she wanted to be with. And boy was that taking long.
The waitress came over within the next five minutes and took their orders.
"Alright! It'll be out in about ten minutes!" she said while spinning around and walking away.
"So you guy want to hear a crazy story?" Emmett asked leaning in close to everyone.
"Oh stop Em, not another one of your stories." Rosalie said pushing him to the side crashing him into the wall."
"No, I'm serious. Legend has it that this very town is home to one of the most notorious serial killers ten years ago. There's this house in the middle of bum fuck Egypt, bodies were found everywhere in it. I'm talking limbs hanging everywhere in the kitchen, teeth in ja-"
"Oh come on Emmett! Gross!" Alice squealed with a disgusted look on her face.
"Let me finish! It's a true story. Might save our asses." Bella couldn't help but laugh at the serious look on his face realizing that he really believed the story himself. "Anyway, when they got there, the house was already deserted. All the furniture was still there and even the chainsaw that was used to kill the victims. It's said that the guy who killed all these people was different. Deformed or something. He never forgot it and decided to take his revenge. He was never found. Only his lifeless victims. All 136 of them."
"How do you know this?" Jasper asked.
"Who doesn't know? I'm surprised you guys don't even know. It's one of the biggest legends of all time." he answered leaning back in his booth. Just then the waitress came out with their food and drinks and sat it in front of their respectful owners.
"Okay, let's stop talking about this creepy shit and eat now please? I was actually looking forward to this until my shithead of a boyfriend ruined my appetite." Rosalie said turning to glare at Emmett. "Enough of this crazy talk. It's not real. It's just some fictional story."
Everyone agreeing with a nod, they turned to their food and started to devour it, not knowing what was in store for them.
An hour later, they had their food paid for and were all climbing in the van once again. There lunch conversation consisted of high school memories and how many more memories they wanted to make during their road trip. No one else spoke of the chainsaw legend, fearing that Emmett would add more bullshit in it to scare them.
"So that was good eh?" asked Jasper clearly disappointed.
"Oh shut up babe, you know you would have rather preferred a five course meal any day. Next time, we'll stop where you want." She stated with a pleased smiled and kissed him tenderly on the lips.
"So what was this about a room hypo?" Rosalie rang through the van at the site of them mimicking what her and her boyfriend were doing only an hour ago.
Bella picked up her lonely pillow and threw it at her missing her face by inches. "Oh shut up Rose." she laughed. "So where are we off to now gang?"
"Well, there's this really cool show going on at five. It's three twelve right now. I figured we could roam around for a little bit, maybe hit up some souvenir or antique shops and then head over and see if we are digging it. If not, we can continue the road trip. Sound cool?" Jasper asked turning around to face everyone. No one even knew why he bothered asking. They all knew why he was suggesting it. To make his girlfriend happy. She would never turn down a chance to shop and he knew that. And now that he brought it up, no one stood a chance disagreeing.
"Like we have a choice now." Bella stated sarcastically, staring straight at Alice.
"Okaaay...Well off we go." and with that, Jasper turned around and started off down the road.
Walking out of their third shop, Emmett was filled head to toe with random objects. Anything he found that was remotely shiny, well, he bought. It was surprising to the gang of friends that it was Emmett that was stocked up with fresh items instead of Alice. It seemed like this town had nothing to offer her and that upset her. Too bad they couldn't say the same about Emmett.
"Okay I think that's it for us, we need to get going if we are going to catch that show." Jasper ordered as the gang settled back in their usual spots. Jasper, feeling a little bit in control, did a burn out as he sped away.
"Baaabe! I can't cuddle with you if you have all this shit all over you!" Rosalie whined as she tried to rest her head on his shoulder.
"I'm sorry honey, but I'm looking like a stud right now. This is my prime. Don't ruin it for me.." he caught the glare that Rosalie was shooting him that clearly read "what the fuck did you just say to me" and hurried to cover his tracks "I mean...I love you darling?"
Bella couldn't help but laugh as she turned her head towards the front of the van. "Whoa! Look out!"
The went swirling in the riddle of the dirt road they had taken as the three amigos in the backseat went rolling around with the force of the abrupt stop. Alice, not being able to control herself, screamed as she grabbed onto the dashboard fearing she would fly out the windshield. Jasper, loosing his sense of control, gripped the wheel tighter in an effort to gain it back. Finally coming to a stop, everyone was breathing hard, at a lose at what just happened.
"What the fuck?! Who the hell just runs out in front of a car in the middle of nowhere?" screamed Alice as she gained her voice back.
Bella, catching sight of the man in the middle of the road, jumped up from the floor that she thrown on and started to open the door.
"Oh no you don't!" Rosalie grabbed her arm and stopped Bella from hopping out.
"What?!"
"Bells! Come on! This is like out of a horror movie. You can't go out there to him. He could be dangerous!"
"Look, clearly he needs help, we have a huge van. He was running out of the woods for God's sake! There are five of us and one of him. He won't be able to do anything." and with that she yanked her arm free and hopped out of the van onto the dirt road. Deciding it was too risky for her to go alone, Emmett jumped out after her and jogged to catch up to her. When they reached the mystery guy, Bella stepped in front of him putting one hand on his shoulder. He jumped at her touch and she stepped back.
"Hey, hey, I'm not going to hurt you, I want to help you. What's your name?" Bella asked, with pure shock and fear in her eyes.
He just stared at her which made her uncomfortable. Not knowing whether or not he should give his name. What he has seen and endured these past fews months has been almost too much for him. Would it be safe for him to go with them? He knew that if he did, they would be next. Next on the list.
"My name's Bella....and this is Emmett. We want to help you. You can trust us..."
"Edward" he said blankly.
"Okay Edward, will you let us help you?" she asked, taking a glance at Emmett, then the three people staring out the front window of their ride.
"Yes..yeah" Edward said letting her take his hand to lead him to the van. She let him climb in first earning him horrified stares from the rest of the group. Seeing him glare back at him with pure hatred written in his eyes, they all looked away.
Bella settled down next to him, taken in his features. His face was bloody and bruised, his clothes a little torn. She couldn't very well read his face. He wore nothing but blankness, his eyes not telling his story. She looked down at his hands and noticed they had blood stained all over them, his clothes also splattered with it. Obviously, not his own since his torso wasn't cut. What the hell happened to him? she thought to herself as she slide away from him a little more feeling uncomfortable being so close to a stranger.
Jasper finally finding the balls to speak got the words out of his mouth. "Where to? Would you like to go home?"
"No! Not my house! It's dangerous there! Anywhere but here....anywhere but here..." he trailed off.
"Whoa, whoa, okay. We'll bring you somewhere else. Just let us know when to stop." Jasper said sending Bella a glare, cursing for getting them into that.
Edward then stared out the window knowing that they were in for a lot more than they bargained for, none of them would like it either.
I hope you guys liked and please review! I'll have the next chapter up in probably a couple hours since it's already written.
Madisson :)
