Title: Friends for Eternity
Summary: What if Bella and Edward have been best friends since they were born? This is a story on how they grow up as kids and into teenagers where their feelings for each other start to blossom. All Human.
Disclaimer: I (unfortunately) do not own Twilight, New Moon, or Eclipse they are all owned by the very talented Stephenie Meyer.
Chapter 2: Jealousy
I sighed as I sat in the crowd watching the most boring sport ever. Why did Edward and Jacob have to be interested in baseball? I mean, come on. If you're going to play a sport then you should at least pick something remotely interesting. Baseball: Throw ball, hit ball, catch ball, and run. What's the point? You just get all muddy and dirty with grass stains and sweat. Gross.
"Hey Bella." I was greeted by Jessica, basically one of my only girl friends. What can I say? I just like hanging out with guys better.
"Hi Jess." I smiled, standing up and hugging her.
"How long has the game been going?"
"I don't know, like ten minutes. Ten very long, terribly slow minutes." I whined.
"Oh, calm down. You know what the good part is though?"
"What's that?" I asked, stuffing a huge cheese covered chip into my mouth. Okay, that was the good thing about baseball: the food.
"Hello, look at all the really cute guys down there."
I shrugged. "I guess. I mean, I'm friends with most of them, but I don't think they're cute."
"Bella, you have problems… Let's see… Look at Edward. Doesn't he look attractive?"
"Eww! Shut up, that's sick."
"Oh, come on. I know you like him. You're with him 24/7."
"Yeah, because he's my best friend."
"If you say so…" She said sarcastically.
"I do say so."
"Okay, well… then what about Jacob? When you're not with Edward you're with him."
"Jake, again, is just another friend. That's it."
"Well, he likes you and I think you like him too." Jess said. I could feel my cheeks starting to burn.
"Oh! See, I knew you liked him!"
I looked down. "No, I don't."
"He's not a bad choice, Bella! He's very hot."
I fidgeted in my seat and smiled, ignoring Jessica and continued to watch the game. A while later, we were down by a point which had everyone on the edge of their seats. I decided that I couldn't sit down anymore and walked over towards the fence right in front of the game and leaned on it, watching. I started spacing out and finally came back as soon as I heard everyone cheering and jumping up and down. I realized that we had won and ran out of the fence. I ran towards Edward, almost tripping in the process, and pulled him into a hug.
"Yay! We won!" I shouted into his shoulder.
"Yeah, we did." He hugged me back. We pulled back from each other a few seconds later and he has a smile on his face, but it wasn't directed towards me. It was something that was over my head. I turned around to see what was catching his attention then immediately stepped back when I realized who he was grinning at.
He turned and looked back at me, placing his hand on my head and patting me like a dog. A dog! What was that about? "I'll see you later, kid." Kid? What the heck was that? He walked away from me and started walking towards Lauren. I sighed when I saw him hug her.
"Bella!" I heard a voice come from behind me. It was then that I realized I'd been glaring at Lauren. Whoops. I hope she didn't notice. I whipped my head around and smiled at Jacob who was coming towards me.
"Jakey!" I yelled back playfully because I knew he hated it. He came over to me quickly and scooped me up into his arms.
"We won!" He shouted.
"I know! I'm so proud of you guys!" I gushed.
He smiled when we pulled away from our hug. "Do you wanna go get some ice cream?"
"Sure, but let me go ask my dad really fast," I skipped over to Charlie and asked. He said sure and gave me some money. I thanked me then walked back over to Jacob. We went toward the concession stand, hand in hand, which I thought was a little awkward, but didn't say anything. We ordered our ice cream then sat down at a picnic table and began eating.
"Has Edward been acting weird lately?" I asked him, and then licked the side of my cone where the ice cream was dripping.
"Not really. I mean, he's always weird but no weirder than normal."
"Be nice!" I laughed.
"Well, he is."
"But he's still my best friend."
"It sure doesn't seem like it anymore."
"Why do you say that?" I asked.
"Well, since he has a girlfriend now, doesn't that sort of leave you out?"
I started chocking on my ice cream. I didn't even know you could choke on ice cream. I mean, it's liquid, shouldn't it just slide down? "He has a girlfriend? How come I didn't know about this?"
"I thought you did, sorry. You guys tell each other everything."
"Well, he didn't tell me," I said, looking down, and feeling slightly hurt.
"What's wrong?"
"Oh, nothing. I just… I don't know, I just thought he would have told me this."
"It's okay, Bells." He said, leaning across the table and placing a hand on my shoulder.
I smiled at him. "I'm fine… Thanks for telling me." I said. We got up and threw our trash away then Jake offered to give me a piggy back ride to the field. I eagerly jumped on his back and placed my arms around his neck.
"Put me down if I'm heavy." I said, self-consciously.
He snorted. "You're kidding me, right? You're lighter than a feather." I blushed at what he said and got a better grip around his neck.
"Where to?" He asked.
"Hmm... I don't care."
"Okay," He answered then started to lightly jog towards the middle of the field. I giggled. As soon as we got there, Jake let go of my legs and I jumped down, or tried to anyway. As soon as my left foot hit the ground wrong, I was falling back. I grabbed Jacob's shirt because it was the only thing I could reach for and he came crashing down on top of me.
He chuckled then moved his arms to take his weight off of me. "You're such a klutz, you know that Bella?"
I blushed again. "So I've been told." Before I knew what was happening, he was leaning his head into me. Was he going to kiss me? I was only in the sixth grade for crying out loud! But… I guess I sort of wanted to kiss him too because I found myself leaning forward too and as soon as our lips were about to touch, I heard someone yell which made us both jump.
"Get off her!" I recognized that voice and he did not seem very happy. I immediately felt Jake quickly roll off me and stand up. Edward turned to me and held out his hand, helping me up.
"Edward, it's not a big deal. It's not like he was hurting me." I tried to say, but he ignored me all together.
"If I ever see you on top of her like that again, I swear I will put your head through a wall. And don't even think I'm kidding."
"Dude, calm down. We just fell, that's it." Jake said.
"I don't care. If you ever…" I cut him off.
"Edward! Stop it," I grabbed his wrist and pulled. "Come on, let's just go."
I heard him let out a breath then shake my grip off of his wrist. I had to keep a steady jog just to keep up with him. "Why did you do that?" I asked.
"Do what?"
"Threaten Jake like that? Why would you do that?"
"Because he was hurting you." He still hasn't looked my way yet.
"He was not! And don't you think I could have taken care of myself if he was? I'm not four anymore, Edward. I can take care of myself."
He spun around and stopped dead in his tracks, towering over me. Man, he's gotten tall in the last year. "Fine. If I see you drowning to death the next time we go to the lake or bleeding to death from one of your stupid clumsiness falls, I'll just walk right by like I didn't see anything."
I started to feel bad for what I said. "Edward…" But he cut me off.
"No, I'm going home." He said then left me standing on the side of the baseball field.
I went home with Charlie where we started making dinner together. I didn't trust him to make it alone and he said I was too young to be cooking by myself so we had a compromise. He would do the cutting and getting things out of the oven and I would stir and basically do everything else.
"So, did you like the baseball game, Bella?" He asked me.
"I guess… You know I don't really like sports very much."
"I know, but you seemed like you were having a good time."
"Yeah, when the game finally ended."
He chuckled at me. "Well, you seemed like you were having a good time with Jacob Black."
My cheeks started to burn. "Yeah… I did."
"You remember our rule right?" He asked me suspiciously.
"What rule?" I asked, avoiding eye contact with him. I knew exactly what he was talking about.
"No boyfriends until you're sixteen."
I smiled. "I know daddy, calm down." I said then stood up on my tippy toes and kissed his cheek.
We put everything on the table and had a good dinner together. Afterwards, we cleaned up the kitchen and did the dishes. Charlie moved to the living room when everything was finished and I went upstairs. I changed into my pajamas and pulled on one of Edward's shirts that he had left here. I smiled down at it even though it was three times bigger than me. He had left this shirt here last summer when he was going to summer camp. I told him that I was going to miss him and started crying. He felt bad and left me one of his shirts to wear at night. He had told me that whenever I wore the shirt at night that it meant he was one day closer to coming back to me.
I sighed and picked up my dirty clothes and put them in my hamper. I walked into the bathroom and pulled my hair up into a ponytail and washed my face. I went back into my room afterwards and tried to decide what I should do. It was too early to go to bed… I settled on reading. I grabbed a book off my book shelf and settled in on my bed.
After about an hour of reading, Charlie had gone off to bed and I still wasn't tired. I turned and looked at the clock, it was ten. I sighed and turned my lamp off and rolled over. I tossed and turned for about twenty minutes then threw the covers off me. I put some socks on and threw on my tennis shoes. As noiseless as I could, I went down the stairs and out the back door. I ran towards Edward's backyard and climbed up the latter of his tree house. As soon as I got inside, tears were flowing down my cheeks. I'm not sure why exactly; probably because I couldn't stand to be in a fight with Edward. I curled myself up into the fetal position and cried.
After a few minutes, I continued crying, but felt like I was being watched. I tilted my head up and saw that Edward was standing on one of the latter legs with his hands balancing himself on the tree house. He quickly pulled himself up and scooted toward me.
I sat up all the way this time and wiped my eyes, not wanting him to see that I was crying.
"Bella," He whispered. I didn't reply, but looked up at him. I knew he could see me because it wasn't so dark outside; the moon was really bright tonight.
"Hey," He whispered again and I felt the tears coming back. "Come 'er." He said then reached out to me and pulled my head down so that it was lying on his lap. He stroked my hair as I cried again. "Shhh, it's okay Bell. I'm here, it's okay."
We stayed like this for probably a good fifteen minutes until I sat up and wiped my eyes, embarrassed.
"I'm sorry for what happened earlier. I didn't mean to make you upset." I said.
"There's nothing for you to be sorry for," He shook his head. "I was the one that was being a jerk and I'm sorry for freaking out."
I smiled lightly. "It's okay. I forgive you, on one condition."
He sighed. "And what's that?"
"You have to promise you'll tell me the next time you have a girlfriend."
He rolled his eyes. "Well, you have to tell me the next time you have boyfriend."
My eyes were probably bulging out of my head. "What are you talking about? I don't have a boyfriend!" I whisper-yelled.
"Then why did Jacob look like he was going to lick your face?"
I shuddered. "He did not!"
"Bella, I'm a guy, I'd be the one to know if he was about to kiss you or not."
"Well… maybe he was."
"Well… maybe I didn't like it." He said in a mocking tone.
"And why not? It's not like I can just say I don't like your girlfriend, which I don't by the way, but still."
"I don't get you point."
"My point is that I don't like Lauren."
"I don't like Jacob." We were quiet for a few seconds.
"Okay, how about this, the next time one of has a boyfriend or girlfriend, the other one has to approve of them. Deal?"
He sighed. "Alright, deal." He said then we shook on it. He leaned over and hugged me and I hugged him back, smiling. He pulled away and smirked.
"What?" I asked.
"I thought you said this place was haunted."
"That was like a year ago, but yes, it's still haunted."
"And do you mind telling me why that is, again? I must have forgotten." He said in a joking tone.
I rolled my eyes. "You know the story! You already know why it's haunted."
"Humor me."
I sighed. "Two years ago you kissed me up here! I don't count that as I kiss though because I was like nine, right?"
He was laughing uncontrollably. "Oh man, I can still see your face. You were somewhat terrified and furious at me for doing that."
"I still am!" I yelled. He laughed again and I gave him the evil eye.
"I'm going back to bed." I said then started to leave, but he grabbed my hand and pulled me back.
"Do you want a repeat?" I rolled my eyes.
"Maybe when you don't have a girlfriend, you player." I said jokingly.
"Ouch! I am hurt Isabella Swan." I ignored him and moved to the other end of the tree house and lay down. "Are you sleeping up here?"
"Well, I don't think I'm going to make it back to my house before I fall asleep." I responded.
"I'm not going to let you stay up here alone."
"Then stay with me." I said then closed my eyes.
"Okay," He said then lay down next to me. "Night Bella."
I opened my eyes and leaned over and pecked him on the cheek. "Thanks for being there for me today."
"Don't mention it." He said then we both fell into a deep and comfortable sleep.
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