A/N: Hello! So here I am again, putting up my second chapter. Really quick before you read the chapter: First of all, I wanted to upload the chapter much sooner, but in a matter of days I decided to move out of my house and into another city XD ! So you know, between the moving, setting up, and so on, time went by very quickly and I didn't finished the chapter as soon as I expected.
I obviously don't own any Twilight material, the only thing I own is this little creation based on it's characters
Enjoy!
It's curious how minds react to every message they receive through any of our senses. You'll never notice, but sometimes -when we get the right message- our reactions come truly instinctive, and our true nature comes out in its pure way.
I felt my head still burning, and the adrenaline was still making my heart go a thousand miles per hour, but now my mind was controlled by my rational part. Jasper was dealing with all the people to take them out, while Emmett was holding me as hard as he could. I don t know how I did it, but a few moments before I was able to release myself from Emmett s hug to run and try to catch that pricks that came to fight me.
The next day I was able to understand their rage; I guess that I would have reacted the same way if suddenly some whisky and glasses jump into my face and almost leave me blind and the guy who did this also push me out of his way and knocks me down. But I was not thinking about anything at that moment but in Bella and that ass that took her away from the party. I felt the rage getting me in every single muscle of my being, and I had the urge to go and take Bella from the asshole that pulled her out so violently, but I had to expect a reaction from the violent push I gave to that guy. I think his name is Mike Newton, and he plays with the football team. He pulled my arm near the hallway and turned me back to him.
"I was about to call you dead Edward!" said Emmett, excited by the fight that nearly ends in a massacre.
"You're a prick Edward!" said Rosie, furiously. "Those guys are twice your size and Emmett is the only one relatively bigger, you fucking dumbass!"
"Calm down Rosie, Edward gave Mike a nice uppercut!" said Emmett, with a really wide smile. "You really surprised me dude, I thought he was going to pound you good!"
"Thanks Emmett, although I don't know where that came from" I said, trying not to whine about the big headache I started to feel. I think that the headache was because of the ridiculous amount of whisky I drank earlier.
Everyone started to pick up all the stuff on the house while I was given a bag of frozen peas to put into a bruise I had below my eye. The bruise was very light and it was hurting me a little bit, but I guess that Mike took the worst part of all. When he pulled me back he had his fist prepared to punch me, but out of nowhere I reacted pretty quickly and evaded the jab, he took his arm back and I instinctively raised my fist to his jaw and gave him a nice uppercut that basically knocked him down, although he did reached to punch me below the eye. That's where two of the guys behind him moved closer and tried to surround me, but Mike stood up and stopped them. When I noticed that they were looking behind me, I realized that Emmett was there and Jasper beside me.
Rosalie came closer to me when they finished and asked me if I was feeling better.
"I guess I'm better" I said, still with the big headache in my head that couldn t even allowed me to think.
"I'm sorry about calling you dumbass" she said, while sitting beside me. "Jasper just told me that he saw everything; that the glass and whiskey over Mike was just an accident and that you ran to clean your hand and without noticing you pushed Mike very hard."
I was glad to hear that; Rosie now thought that I was going to the bathroom to clean my hand and nobody realized about my real intention. Maybe Jasper thought that I was going to the bathroom because Mike pulled me in front of the door for the bathroom.
"Don't worry about it, I guess I deserve it anyways" I said while pulling her closer to hug her.
"Well, I guess we must go out of here" said Alice, after taking the last few cans to the trash.
"Yes, we should leave before it gets later" said Jasper, while coming closer to were we where sitting.
Jasper and Alice said goodbye, and Emmett stayed a few more minutes and then left. I took my clothes off and went to sleep, but I just kept rolling over my sheets. I was confused, my head hurt, and I was about to go crazy about what happened with Bella. I couldn't even understand why I was so frustrated with what happened, but I certainly knew something: this was not love. Definitively. I had so many problems by thinking that I loved someone that I was certain that this feeling was almost the same as the others, and I couldn't handle any more love problems.
The headache slowly went away and until then I could close my eyes and get some rest.
The next morning I woke up at 1 p.m. and still feeling tired. I took a shower, changed, and took my guitar to play some music. I usually play the guitar when I need to go away to my own world, and today I was really looking for somewhere else to go. I was letting myself to go wherever I wanted, and my hand just flowed over the fret with no real direction. I was not conscious about what I was playing, but the sound coming out of it was somehow pretty expressive. The door opened and Rosalie came in with her cell phone in hand.
"I just got a call from Alice" said Rosie before a big yawn. "She wants us to go to a barbeque on her house"
I was now feeling terrible, both physically and mentally, so I just kept quiet and keep playing the guitar.
"I think that Alice wants to play cupid with you and her new friend" said Rosie, sitting on my bed and smiling, almost like approving the idea.
"I'm not in the mood Rosie, my head is banging pretty hard" I said while turning off the amp.
"You should go at least, if you don't you'll screw all the planning that Alice went through"
Alice and the rest of the guys felt pretty bad for me because they saw all of my failures with the girls I dated, and they knew that every time I dumped each one of them was because I was really confused about my feelings towards them and not because I was a player. I got to the point that I couldn't handle any other date with a girl; it was not healthy for me or for the girls I dated. But is difficult to stop thinking about love and a relationship when my best friends are in love with each other and clearly happy about their feelings, and I was just miserable looking at their joy with no happiness for myself.
"Please, come with me just for a couple of hours, I don t want to come back home alone and Emmett is not going to take me back here" said Rosie after getting down her knees in front of me.
Rosie had an awful experience with her ex-boyfriend some months ago after coming back from Alice s house; the ex pulled her into an alley and she almost gets rapped, but Emmett found her while getting out of a store. Since that moment, Rosalie finds in Emmett not just a handsome guy, but a big protection from any danger near her. But each time Emmett isn't near Rosie and she has to go through that street, she depends on me to go there feeling safe.
"Okay Rosie" I said after a while. "I'll go for just a couple of hours"
"Thank you so much bro!" said Rosie while running out of my bedroom and into her room.
Rosie changed really fast and we drove to Alice's house on my car. My wrist was still bothering me from the cut I made myself with the glass, so I tried to rely on my left hand as far as I could.
The day was a little warm, no clouds were at sight on the sky and the sun was shining as hard as it could. These kind of days are the ones that you have to enjoy in Forks, and probably the reason why Alice picked a barbeque for today. Rosie kept quiet on the road, looking somehow nervous, so I just left her wondering there and made no attempt to make some conversation, even when I was dying to get into one. My thoughts were barely letting me drive, I was still furious about the way Bella left and the way that bastard pulled her out almost violently from the house. I could see that the thing that bothered me the most was that I didn t even knew if that guy was her... something. And now I had to see her today - Damn it! -
"Arghh!"
"What's wrong?" asked Rosie, snapped off her thoughts and quickly turning into me.
"Nothing" I said, surprised that I actually said that out loud. "I just got a sudden chill"
I turned the car into Alice's street and parked in front of her house. We walked into the house and I could feel my breathing faster and faster by every step. I had no idea if what Rosie said about Alice's idea to play cupid with Bella and me was true, and if so, if Alice knew something about the asshole that took Bella away, all I knew was that I was about to fall apart again.
Alice opened the door and took us into her backyard. Jasper and Emmett where already there, and they where setting up the grill by lighting up the charcoal. I looked around and felt both relieved and sad; Bella was not in there. At least now I was able to breathe normally. I helped Emmett setting up the grill while Jasper helped Alice getting out all of the food. Rosalie just sat and took some lemonade; she excused herself by saying that she had enough with all the stress she went through on her house the day before.
We settled everything and the meat was almost ready, so I called everyone into the grill to give them some of the meat that was already cooked, but Alice stopped me.
"Wait! we must wait until everyone is here to eat!" said Alice, smiling at me.
"But, who's missing?" said Emmett, looking impatient over the meat cooking over the grill.
"I invited Bella, the girl that went with me yesterday" said Alice while holding her eyes on me.
Crap. I knew that it was too good to be truth.
"Hey I'm dying in here, if I don't eat already I'll rip someone's head off" said Emmett, feeling really angry about waiting anymore to eat.
"Okay, Okay!" said Alice "Just let me go to her house and check how long is she taking, I won't take long"
Alice ran into the street and to Bella's house, and everyone else just sat on the table and waited. I wasn't happy about Bella coming to join us but at the same time I had the urge to see her again. Just curiosity, I guess, but it was there.
About a couple of minutes later, Alice got running into the backyard holding Bella from her hand. Alice may be really tiny and may look really weak and fragile, but the truth is that she really has a strong will and may tend to be stubborn sometimes. Bella just waved her hand to everyone when she arrived, showing a little uncomfortable about the way she was just dragged into the house. Alice showed her a spot on the table and sat her down.
I took the rest of the meat that was on the grill, put it into a bowl and took it to the table. Everyone else seated and we all started eating. Bella sat in front of me, Jasper and Alice sat beside me and Rosalie and Emmett sat on the other side of the table. Emmett was the first one to take some food into his plate, not caring about what to put in or how much, just filling his plate and digging up as fast as he could. Everyone else just looked at him and we all dropped a laugh at unison by the remarkable manners he displayed.
"So, Bella" said Rosie after a while "How much time are you going to be here, in Forks?"
"I'm not sure" said Bella "I guess I'll be here until I go to college"
"Great!" said Alice, almost jumping out of her seat "That gives us a year and a half to go to college, and by that time we can decide to which university we can go to"
Bella just turned her face to Alice, and somehow she reacted with a smile.
The rest of the dinner we basically spoke about everyone's embarrassing moments, trips we spent together and the universities everybody wanted to go to. Bella kept quiet most of the conversation, occasionally adding some laughs at the memories we shared to her and sometimes adding a few words. I kept silent throughout the whole conversation, just nodding at the questions any of the other guys asked to me or barely smiling every time that the rest laughed to tears. I was not happy with my doubts and I couldn't ask her all the questions that filled my mind because everyone else was there. Even when they weren't there, I couldn't ask her something like Who's the ass that pulled you out of the party last night? Is he your boyfriend or something? I don t think that someone would take that nicely.
"Ok, so everyone brought your bathing suits?" said Alice, showing a bikini below her shirt.
Alice had a swimming pool on her house with a roof and the pool had a heater, so we could basically swim on it most of the time.
"Sure, I was waiting for you to go dive into the pool!" said Emmett, taking his shirt off.
Jasper and Emmett went to change clothes into the bathroom and Alice took us to the pool.
"Alice, you didn't told us anything about getting into the pool" said Rosalie, a little bit angry about the fact Alice forgot about that detail.
"Really?" said Alice, looking both to Rosie and me "Well, I can help you Rosie, you can take one of my suits, but I don't think that Edward would like to use a two-piece bathing suit"
"That s fine Alice, don't worry" I said, laughing "I'll watch you play, besides, I still have a headache"
"Alright Edward, but what about you, Bella?" said Alice, looking at Bella standing behind her with no bathing suit
"I think I may get sick" said Bella, frowning "Flu" she added.
"Well, then I guess that we shouldn't go into the pool if you two are going to be..."
"Don't worry Alice" I said, interrupting Alice before she could finish "I don't mind if you go into the pool, there's no problem with me"
"Yeah" said Bella "I don't mind either, you go ahead and swim"
"Okay" said Alice "I'm sorry, but I'll make sure that nobody's sick the next time and that I tell everyone to come prepared"
Alice took Rosalie upstairs to her room, and Emmett showed on the pool with Jasper behind him. They both ran quickly inside and jumped into the pool to do a cannonball dive. The water splashed all over and Bella and I moved away to avoid the splash. A few moments later Alice entered with Rosalie and they both moved to the border of the pool. Rosalie was entering into the pool slowly, first feeling the water with her toes and then slowly diving her foot, but Alice came behind her and pushed her in. Rosie reacted and turned to catch Alice s hand and pull her before she fell inside the pool. After that they took a ball and started to play with it inside the pool. I just turned to look for a chair inside the pool area but there was none.
"I guess that we should go outside if we want to seat" said Bella, looking at me while shrugging her shoulders.
"Yeah, let's go"
We went outside to where we had dinner, and the weather was nice, so we just pulled some chairs closer and sat there.
"What happened to your hand?" said Bella after we were both seated
"Just a little accident" I said "A glass broke near my hand and I cut my wrist"
"And what about your eye?" she asked, somehow worried.
"Is what happens when your accident splashes a guy with whisky and pieces of glass"
She dropped a contagious laugh and we both laughed for a while. After that she raised her hand into my face and reached for the bruise below my eye.
"Well, I think that the bruise is very light, so I guess that the punch was not that hard" she said while passing her fingers into the bruise
"You should see the other guy" I said "I think I knocked him one tooth and cracked another"
"Guys" she said, frowning "they always have to prove who's tougher"
"So, where did you left yesterday at the party?" I said "I went back to the pool where we sat but you where gone already"
"Yeah, well I had to go, sorry" she said, looking down into her feet
"Did you left with the guy that sat with you when Jessica pulled me away?" I said
Shit. I knew that was too much, and I had to be careful not to ask any more questions, but I really felt the urge to know what was going on with her and that guy. I was burning inside with all these questions on my mind and now that I was letting them go I felt a relief that slowly calmed the burning.
"His name is Jacob, and yes, I left with him" she said, looking to the other side.
"And why did you left so early?" I asked, trying to sound barely interested on the answer.
"Well" she said, and then paused for a minute "he knows me since I was 5, and we were very close; when my mother left Forks she took me with her and we barely saw each other, basically when I visited my father for the holidays." She then paused and looked at her arm, and I noticed that she had a big bruise all around it, the bruise basically formed the shape of a hand holding her around, just like the way he hold her firmly when he pulled Bella out of the house.
"I don't think that's an accident" I said, reaching to her arm to lift it so that I could check all around it, she complained a bit when I accidentally touched a part of the bruise and then took her arm out of my hands.
"He's not so good controlling his strength or his temper" she said, smiling "But he's not a bad guy, he just tries to protect me"
"I don't think that's fair with you anyways" I said to Bella, lifting up her arm again so that I could point what I was talking about.
"He really feels very protective of me, and I know he exaggerates too much, but since I came back to stay he insists in keeping me safe, especially since..." then she paused.
"Since...?" I asked, trying not to push to hard to get an answer.
"Well, like I told you, I only saw Jacob on holidays, when I came to Forks to see my dad. One day we went out to play, I was about 12 and we both liked to get into the forest to hide around and explore. He left me behind for a while and I couldn't find which way he went to, so I got scared and started crying for him"
She took a pause and then took a deep breath, looking at the stars that showed near the full moon.
"All my crying must have called the attention of two guys that were near, and soon I saw then getting close to me trying to look like nice people. They asked me what was wrong with me and promised me to take me home, so I followed them. Luckily, my father was pretty worried about me and moved some cops to search me on the forest. Even some of the neighbors joined and they all started looking for me, and one of them noticed me going with those two guys. The neighbor who spotted us yelled to alert everyone else, and the kidnappers lifted me and started running. When they noticed that they had to run faster to escape, they threw me away and I flew straight into a big tree and hit my head"
"That must have been a pretty hard bump" I said, really impressed
"It was" she said "The bump sent me to the hospital with my skull fractured on 3 spots, and the doctors feared both head trauma and brain inflammation; the two guys ran away and I was never able to give a description of them, I totally erased their faces from my mind" she said, and then started playing with her fingers, her sight straight down.
"I m sorry about it" I said, after thinking for a while what to say.
"Don't worry, I don't care about them anymore, and everything went well with my brain" she said, smiling to me "The only thing that bothers me is that Jacob regrets a lot for letting me alone in the forest, and he s been very protective of me since then"
"I wouldn't call him protective" I said, letting a disturbed tone go away with my sentence. "I wouldn't go out with someone that does this kind of things"
"I get it" she said, while rubbing on the bruise on her arm "And we are not going out or anything, we re just good friends, that s it"
A sudden chill ran through all my body and then I felt how all the burning inside me disappeared right away. Those words where like rebirth, and I felt peace inside me.
"And what about you?" she said while taking a soda from the table "Are you dating someone with a freaky habit?"
I looked at her basically showing a question mark all over my face, and she just laughed at my reaction.
"I m joking!" she said, still laughing about my reaction.
"No, I'm not dating material anyways" I said, a bit disappointed because I saw a flash of my awful love life while answering.
"Um" she said, thoughtful. "Bad luck maybe?"
"Ey guys, come over!" said Alice, with a towel around and coming out of the pool area.
"I guess we should go, I don't think that you want Alice pulling you around again like she did a few hours before" I said to Bella, rather relieved that Alice came to interrupt on this moment.
"Okay, I guess that we will have to follow this conversation later then" she said, somehow upset that we were interrupted.
She went ahead to where Alice was, and when she passed beside me she tripped with a hose on the ground. I instinctively picked her before she fell, and my face came pretty close to hers because of the motion. We kept there and looked at each other, and my heart felt like it was going to go out of my body. After a while she pulled herself up and I took my arms from her. She kept walking while looking at me, and half way turned to run to were Alice was. I followed them and we went into the living room. When we entered, Rosalie, Jasper and Emmett were there, waiting for us already.
"We should watch a horror movie!" said Emmett, shaking a DVD box in the middle of the group.
"No, it's chick flick time!" said Rosalie, taking away the DVD box from Emmett and then turning into the stand to look for the DVD collection.
"Hey guys, we should let Bella choose the movie!" said Alice, turning into Bella.
Everyone else looked at Bella and she just shrugged her shoulders; immediately after that everyone else surrounded her and started waving DVD boxes and yelling movie titles. She just looked at everyone and lowered her head, looking like there was no way to stop the madness around her.
"Everyone, just stop!" I yelled, freezing everyone else and forcing them to look at me. "Why don t you let Bella choose?"
"Well, I was actually planning on going home" she said, still with her shoulders shrugged.
"Why Bella?" asked Alice, upset. "I's just 10 o'clock, come on!"
"I'm sorry guys but I really have to leave, my dad is getting home in half an hour and I want to serve him something to eat before he gets to sleep" she said, with a smirk on her face.
"Well, then I guess that we should say goodbye" said Alice, looking really disappointed.
Bella left, and everyone else took their discussion back on track. I just sat on the couch and saw the whole discussion come into an end when they finally decided that an action movie would be the best choice. The movie began, and I just closed my eyes and slept throughout the whole movie. After that Rosalie woke me up and we drove back home.
When we got home, I went straight into my bedroom, and into my bed. I closed my eyes and I felt a sudden joy inside me about everything that happened today. Everything we spoke about that day was spinning on my head and I felt that maybe something good would come. Finally, the fatigue knocked me down and I fell asleep profoundly.
A/N: So... like it?, love it?, best literature piece you've ever read? well, I don't guess so (LOL), but please comment anything you think about it.
Next chapter may take me the same time as this one, specially because I have nothing yet written. But posting comments may encourage me to go faster!
Greetings
Crazylear
