Alrighty! Chapter 2!!!! YAY!!!

I know it's Wednesday but after school tomorrow I have a dance thing until six and then a school open house from 6:15 to 8:00 and I definitely won't have time to post in between because it is my eating/ changing time.

Before we get started let's give a warm welcome to….

Mr. Matthew Madrid Marcs…

ME: Yay! I own Twilight!

Mr. Marcs: Uh… No you don't. Stephanie Meyer does.

ME: You just have to ruin my fun don't you?

Mr. Marcs: DUH!

ME: Well at least I own the OCs and plot… Yay me!!!

So here it goes…

Chapter 2- Marmalade Lip Gloss

BPOV-(Bella)

My beeping alarm woke me at 7:15. Breakfast was in forty five minutes. I glanced at Angela's bed. She was still sleeping. She didn't have to wake up until 7:30. Lucky girl, her hair obeyed her. One look at the set of bunk beds across the room and somehow I knew I was in trouble. Both Alice and Rose were wide awake. How I didn't wake up from their alarm was beyond me.

"Rose have you seen my green L.C. bag? That's where all my T1 stuff is." What did Alice mean by T1? And why did she have an L.C. bag? Those bags didn't come out until the end of the summer. Believe me, I am not that into fashion but when it came to my favorite clothing line… Let's just say it's worse than SpongeBob on Krabby Patties.

"I think I saw it by my trunk!" Rose shouted from the bathroom. I could hear the shower running.

"Alice? Rose?" My voice was groggy.

"Oh! Bella you're awake! Ummm… I was just looking for my marmalade lip gloss from T1." Alice was stuttering. Wait! Alice was stuttering. I had known the girl for less than 24 hours and I already knew that Alice Cullen never stuttered.

"Marmalade lip gloss?" I asked. "Alice marmalade doesn't have much of an actual flavor, much less one that would make a good lip gloss. And what the hell is T1?"

"Oh T1 is… just this… really cool… retro accessory shop outside of Rome." Lots of pauses plus saying something really fast at the end like Alice did equals trying to come up with an excuse.

I let it go with a soft "Whatever Alice" and got up to gather my stuff and wait for Rose to finish so I could use the bathroom. I decided to get changed. I pulled on a dark blue tank top and over that I put on my well worn and much cut up(courtesy of my cousin Elizabeth) Camp Swan t-shirt. I stripped my flannel pajama pants and pulled on my 'Cheerleaders Kick Butt' shorts. You know the ones with the foot on the butt. [A/N picture on pro. The only difference is that they say 'Dancers Kick Butt' and btw Alice is actually lying.]

Ang began to stir as her alarm went off. Alice was brushing her fingers through her hair. Apparently she had found her marmalade lip gloss and with half an hour until breakfast she began reading a gossip magazine.

I heard the shower snap off and Alice's head shot up. She quickly claimed the bathroom and as soon as Rose opened the door she rushed through it. Rose and Alice were dressed much the same. Same Rome Raiders t-shirt with 'Hale' written across the back of Rose's and 'Cullen' written across the back of Alice's. Under Rose's last name was a VERY large number 1 and under Alice's was a VERY large number 2. They both wore maroon shorts to match the lettering on their shirts. I could see that they also had matching necklaces and bracelets as well as anklets. They each had an intricately braided, multi-colored, obviously hand-woven anklet circling their ankles. They also had matching chains around their necks each with one charm dangling. Rose's charm looked like a bear and Alice's charm looked like… those drama masks thingies? Odd. But they also each had a bracelet filled with charms probably seven or so on either bracelet.[A/N pictures of as much as I could find on profile!]

Alice came out several minutes later. Ang was dressed like me and ready to go. We had 25 minutes before breakfast and Carlisle and Esme always wanted Ang and me there at least 10 minutes before. We used those fifteen minutes wisely and shared the mirror in the bathroom.

"Alright ladies," Ang announced, "Let's go." Obviously Angela loved being the oldest in the cabin, especially by six years. It gave her a little weight over the rest of us. We left and Alice locked the cabin door behind us. She was still fidgeting when we sat down at the table with Carlisle and Esme. The boys were there with Ben… well at least Emmett and Jasper were. Edward was nowhere to be found. At least it looked like the guys were getting along.

Esme kissed the top of my head and sat down to begin the morning meeting that we had every morning. I droned them out only answering when I was asked a direct question.

Five minutes later it was finally time for breakfast!

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APOV-(Alice)

I read the little meter thingy. 77. Dammit! I was low. I jotted down the number and popped a few LifeSavers gummies into my mouth. That should help.

Angela and Bella took over the bathroom as soon as I was out. Rose was relaxing on one of the purple beanbags I had thought to bring. I smiled when I saw she was wearing the same outfit as me down to the jewelry. I wasn't surprised because it wasn't a coincidence. We had called each other to make sure we had packed these outfits. We had double checked we had all our jewelry too. That wasn't a problem; we never took our anklets off and only took off our necklaces and bracelets off to cheer. I dug through my chest and tossed her a pair of maroon tube socks each with three gold stripes at the top.

She smiled. "Where are your levels?" Oh great! The one question I had been hoping to avoid.

"They're a little low," I admitted softly.

"Why? You took nine units of insulin last night right?"

"Yeah," I said grimacing. It was hard for me to take any shot over eight units. Which basically it means it's hard for me to take most shots.

"Well then why would you be low? I did the math for you. It came out nine units even. What did you have last night anyway?"

"A slice of pizza and 3 chicken wings."

"Right. That's what I counted f..." Rose froze suddenly. "Wait how many slices of pizza did you have?"

"One." She glared at me. "Okay, okay. Plus Jazz's crust."

"That's it! A slice of pizza plus the crust of two other slices of pizza equals the carbs of two slices of pizza but you wrote down three! And a cookie!"

"Oh," I said flatly before nearly shrieking at her, "You mean I took two extra units of insulin!" She nodded. I froze. Two units too much.

The last time that had happened my body had gone haywire. But that was the summer before I started cheering. With all the workouts I would be doing today I was just gonna have to hope and pray I didn't go too far under.

Bella and Ang finished soon after my little blow up (that thankfully they hadn't heard) and we were off to Cockram Lodge.

I listened politely while Esme held her morning meeting and contributed as much as I could. When I was sure I had both Emmett and Jasper's attention I pretended to bite my nails, something I never did. They knew something was wrong and looked to Rose who tucked an imaginary piece of hair behind her ear to signify that I was low. This was our code. Emmett sniffed loudly and Jasper gave me a reproving look while tapping his foot three times fast then three times slow. Good, I thought, they understood. I waited for Edward's low whistle telling me that he understood but I remembered that he wasn't there.

Soon everyone began filing in for breakfast and I caught sight of Edward. He had a blonde girl on one arm and a brunette on the other. I rolled my eyes. Being captain of the football team did not help Edward's ego. I glanced at Rose and giggled as she completed an eye roll of her own.

Esme stood up and began calling tables to the line. I pulled out my Calorie King book and flipped through the cereal section trying to find which cereal would give me the most carbs. I was low and I needed them.

"What's that for Alice?" Bella asked curiously.

"Alice has…"

Emmett cut Edward off with a glare. They knew I didn't want to share my problem. Yet.

"Just watching what I eat." It was believable. I saw Ang flipping through one of her own and a few other girls at different tables doing the same. She nodded and let it drop. Esme called North Star and Red Jacket. We all rose to get some food.

I filled my bowl with Lucky Charms and waited for Rose to get her honey nut Cheerios. I munched happily on my cereal getting to know Angela, Ben, Carlisle, and Esme a little bit better.

"So," Esme was asking, "Where have you guys decided on college?"

"Actually we've all decided on U of R," Jasper shared. "Edward for medicine, Emmett for engineering, Rose for engineering, Alice for film and media studies, and me for business and government. Edward and Emmett received football scholarships and I received a full academic scholarship. Alice and Rose both got partial academic scholarships."

"Wow," Carlisle said obviously impressed. "Bella received a full academic scholarship there as well."

"Yeah. I'll be studying literature. And maybe education. It would be cool to be like a middle school English teacher. My 7th grade teacher really inspired me."

"That's awesome. Maybe we'll be in some of the same dorms." Rose sounded so excited.

"Yeah. Wait we haven't gotten our dorm assignments yet right?" I said getting into the excitement. Sometimes Edward said I got too excited but I don't really think so. "It's probably not too late to ask about sharing a room."

"You're right. I have a friend that works in housing so I'm sure I could help with that." Esme looked almost as excited as I did. She jotted something down in a decorated notebook. It was obviously hand decorated but looked amazing. I wondered if Bella did it.

We finished breakfast and Carlisle got up on stage to remind us where to meet for our first class. We headed back to our cabins and had thirty minutes to get ready before our first class. Angela bade us good bye after ten minutes and went to go help Esme. I took my shot in the bathroom making sure that Bella wasn't suspicious and then we headed off grabbing a few bottles of water from Cockram on the way.

We started with stretching for half an hour. Then Angela decided we needed to have some fun. There were 51 cheerleaders here. Angela decided that we should figure out who could do push-ups the longest without collapsing. Rose and I smiled at each other. We did this kind of stuff at home with the boys to prove that we could do most things better. Even in heels.

Most people collapsed after a minute or and then it was down to ten. Angela called each of us to the front. "Lauren, Jessica, Kelsey, Irina, Kate, Tanya, Carmen, Bella, Rose, and Alice. Front and center form a horizontal line and start when I say go."

Kelsey and Irina collapsed almost immediately probably from exhaustion. Tanya and Jessica were the next to go, then Lauren and Kate. Carmen bowed out gracefully when she realized she couldn't go for much longer. Angela blew her whistle and told Bella, Rose, and I to form a triangle facing each other. We did as we were told and started again.

After five minutes of the other girls bugging their eyes out and none of us showing any signs of slowing, Angela called it a draw and we moved onto tumbling. We had another contest. Esme would call out a pass and Angela would demonstrate it. If you thought you could do the pass you would stand on one side of the matt but if you couldn't do the pass you were off the matt completely. You then had to complete the pass with Angela and Esme scoring you. You had to get at least an eight out of ten to move on. They started off with a medium hard pass to move the pace along faster and then went to some easier stuff.

Finally it was down to the same ten as before. Rose and I smiled. Even before the cheerleading and my diabetes we had been gymnasts. And every once and a while after beating the guys a few times wearing heels they would dare us to tumble in heels. The first time Emmett, the sorest loser, had done it, I had twisted an ankle and Rose had sprained her wrist trying to catch herself as she fell. Now though, I didn't know why they bothered. We could each execute a round off back handspring back tuck back handspring back tuck front handspring back tuck in 3 inch heels.

Carmen was out first this time. Then Kelsey and Jessica, Lauren and Irina following close behind. Kate over rotated and lost her balance landing on her butt at the end of her pass and she was out. Tanya's feet landed off the matt and she was out too. Bella, Rose, and I high fived each other and walked to the other side of the matt. Esme decided she would demonstrate this time.

"Don't do it mom!" Bella called out.

"Yeah, coach Swan. You know what happened last summer!" Angela shouted after joining us.

"Calm down," Esme called back. "I'll be fine."

Yeah she was fine. Actually she was great. She did four back handsprings and then a back tuck. Seemingly simple but then she started over again. She did it three times across. This would be hard. That was twelve back handsprings, something me and Rose could do without a problem. But then there was the part about having to count every four and then doing a back flip. Oh and keeping them small enough to not tumble off of the matt.

Bella did it no problem and so did Rose. I took a deep breath and started. One, two, three, four, flip. One, two, three, four, flip. One, two, three, four, flip. Finish. I almost stumbled off the matt but managed to stay balanced and stick my landing. Everyone applauded and again it was called a tie.

We took a lunch break and were back an hour later. My levels were good and I double checked my list of food I had ate before giving it to Rose to do the math. Only six units. Phew!

We went back out to the matt after saying goodbye to the boys. How I wished I could watch Jasper practice on the field and to be there to kiss his sweaty forehead when he first got off the field.

Esme and Angela got us working fast. We stretched for a few minutes to warm up again and then we started stunting. We were put into groups of six. The eight groups gathered around the map. Bella seemed to growl as her mom assigned us to be with Jessica, Kelsey, and Lauren. I was flyer for obvious reasons. I was only four ten and last time I checked I was under 100 pounds. I caught major air back in Rome. But that was with people I trusted and with Bella's obvious hatred for these girls I didn't exactly trust them. The girls took their places, Bella basing to my left and Lauren to my right. Jessica in front spotting me from that direction and Rose in the back with her hands on my hips ready to hoist me up.

Before I caught full air on the basket toss Esme had instructed us to do, Angela came jogging over, claiming Lauren's attention. Great! My right spotter was gone. Thankfully Ang realized it in time and was able to catch me.

"Now girls," Angela said once I was safely on the ground, "Coach Swan is aware that you are all not the best of friends." Bella seemed to be in a 'glare down' with Kelsey, Lauren, and Jessica. "But you are the six best cheerleaders at this camp, the four Denali girls coming next. You will be the demonstrators for stunting so for now we are going to work on a split lift into a high kick and then a scorpion."[A/N I'm not sure if this is actually possible. It's something along the lines of a stunt my cousin's team does.]

Wow. That was hard core. We managed to get the lift almost perfect in 20 minutes and I had to say I loved it. We demonstrated for the rest of the girls and Esme sent them to work while we had a quick thirty second water break.

We attempted several more stunts and then Esme and Angela spilt us into three teams of thirteen and one team of twelve. Angela worked with two teams while Esme worked with two teams.

We learned some kick ass choreography and put it to music. We ran through it again and again and again. And then performed it. I took my opening pose and as soon as that music began I put on my cheer face, winking smiling and changing expressions from happy to euphoric to happy every eight counts or so. I felt a bit off coming out of the opening stunt, a basket toss but thought nothing of it. It went away quickly and I began to feel the beat pulsing through the body. After being thrown, lifted, and flipped several more times, the hardest part of the choreography arrived. It was something most pro hip hop dancers would struggle with. But then a dizzy spell hit me and I felt my body drop down.

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RPOV-(Rose)

All of the sudden the music stopped and Angela called out Alice's name. I knew exactly what happened. I told her she wasn't going to be able to make it through the day with her blood sugar low but no, Alice could do anything. Anything my ass.

I rushed over to wear our water bottles and bags were. I grabbed her kit and a bottle of water.

"Alice? Alice! Can you hear me?" Esme nearly shouted going hysterical.

"Move," I commanded. Rude, I know but I would apologize later. Esme moved out of my way.

Alice was beginning to slip farther and farther into diabetic shock. I pulled out a pill and placed it in her moth, forcing her to swallow. I held out the water and when she didn't reach for it I squirted some into her mouth. I scooped her up and ran to the nurse's office. The football players had already finished practice and they were hanging around. I saw Emmett and Jasper as I passed the beach. I called out to them and they began running after me. Bella, Angela, and Esme were also following. We passed a gazebo where I could just barely make out Edward's bronze hair against the blonde of Lauren's.

"Edward!" I called, "Stop sucking that slut's face. Alice. Shock. Now. Get off your ass!" He gave me the finger but then realized what I had said. He pulled away from Lauren, apologized and was running after us.

We burst into the nurse's office and the surprised nurse looked up from her desk.

Rushing over to Alice she asked, "What's wrong?"

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APOV-(Alice)

I woke up to see Jasper's face.

"Jazz?"

"Mary Alice Brandon Cullen! Never ever do that again!"

"Huh? Where am I?"

"The nurse's office. You went into shock." Emmett's normally bright voice had a paternal edge to it.

"Oh," I looked up at the rest of the faces. Emmett, Edward, Rose, Bella, Angela, Ben, Carlisle, and Esme. "I'm sorry I didn't tell you about my diabetes. I didn't want to be different."

"It's alright honey," Carlisle said, "We understand."

"Don't worry Esme and I have diabetes as well," Angela told me in a sweet voice.

"Yes, that's why I had the Calorie King book and I'm assuming that's why you have one as well."

"Yeah," I said, "So wait, you're not mad?"

"No, of course not, Alice. You've only known us for a few days and I can understand if you don't trust us yet."

"Thanks, Bells. I do trust you. It's just I wanted to be normal for a little bit."

Edward snorted. "Normal, Alice? You're a four foot ten pixie on pixie stix and energy sticks." Rose glared and smacked him on the back of his head. "Sorry, bad comparison."

I laughed and stood up.

"I love you guys." And with that I gathered everyone into a group hug.

Awwww… Sorry guys it's kinda filler-ish but I wanted to get some small drama in there before the major stuff. And just to point this out! BEING DIABETIC DOES NOT MAKE YOU EMO!

Okay, now that I've stood up for my cousin, this is my longest chapter EVER! Yay!

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