Title: Discover Yourself

Chapter 2: Stand Your Ground

Rating: T

Summary: Bella and Emmett Swan have grown up with Alice, Ronald, and their older brothers. What happens when in 8th grade, a big change leads to a very interesting high school adventure? Going through the changes of growing up and discovering yourself for who you really are. Crackfic lol.

Type: AH AU OOC; Pairing: Bella/Edward, Other Canon Pairings.

Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters. They all belong to the wonderful Stephenie Meyer. I just grabbed them and drove them crazy for my own entertainment.

A/N: Surprised I got positive feedback for this crazy thing lol. Well here's the next random chapter. Enjoy :D

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BPOV

Freshman year went by quickly. People thought that Rosalie was simply Jasper's cousin, or that's what we had been telling them and that's how we wanted it stay. Teenagers could be cruel and unwilling to care about other's feelings. They could've easily broken her. This didn't become a problem until the middle of our sophomore year.

Tyler Crowley had somehow found out that Ronald wasn't really away at boarding school and cornered poor Rosalie in the gym class she had with Edward, Alice and me, on the way to the dressing rooms.

"So, do you happen to know where Jasper's brother Ronald is?" Tyler sneered at her.

"O-of course I do. He's at boarding school. I-in Sea-Seattle." She stuttered out, feeling uncomfortable.

"Oh really? My uncle works at that boarding school. Says there isn't a Ronald Hale on the roster. Sure you know where he is?" he smirked at her, trying to get her to spill her secret.

Rosalie was starting to cry now as her lip trembled and he knees gave out, but Edward caught her in time.

"Leave her alone." Edward growled out menacingly.

"Oh why? So 'she' can go on pretending to be a girl? We all know it's Ron. He's not at boarding school, he just became a girl!" Tyler said in a smart aleck tone, laughing at his own words.

He was immediately silenced by a fist to the face. Jasper's to be exact.

He had realized we weren't out of class yet and had heard the last sentence of Tyler's obnoxiousness and decided enough was enough. Poor boy didn't even see it coming.

Coach Clapp walked him to the nurse's office, while we all walked out to Edward's and Jasper's cars.

I climbed into the Volvo with Edward and Alice, while a mad Emmett climbed into the BMW with Jasper and Rosalie.

"Think she'll be okay?" I practically whispered.

Edward sighed beside me, not taking his eyes off the back window, as he backed out of the parking lot.

"We can only hope. It was bound to get out sometime." he said dejectedly.

"The only thing we can do is be there for her. Knowing these puny minded students, it'll be old news by next week." Alice said, trying to seem optimistic from the back seat.

"One can only hope." I said mostly to myself.

We drove to the Hales and immediately told them what had happened in class. Lillian, their mom, was going to call the school in the morning to press harassment charges for Rosalie.

We all went into Rose's room to comfort her and take her mind off the incident.

"I knew it was too good to be true." she said quietly, from her spot on Emmett's chest on her bed.

"What baby?" he asked.

"Being a girl. I'll always be a stupid, awkward boy, trying to be the girl I'll never really be." she said, trying to smile through her obvious pain.

"Rose. Don't talk like that. You are a girl. A beautiful girl. You make us girls want to be you and that in itself, makes you a better girl than us." I said, not daring to even say that we were "real" girls, whatever that meant.

She nodded and sniffled and hugged me.

"I love you guys. You always know how to make me feel like I really fit in." she said, trying to smile.

We all hugged her again and decided it was time for a much needed sleepover. I would just have to deal with the Alice make-over for Rosalie's sake.

The rest of the school year and the following summer seemed to pass without incident, even though most of the school now knew that Rosalie had once, in fact, been Ronald. It never really came up, unless major jealousy issues arose, like in junior year.

Homecoming was going strong. It was coming time to vote for homecoming kings and queens and all the other royalty. Mike was sure he'd win with Jessica as his princess, but was sorely beaten by Rosalie and Emmett. This brought on fresh jealousy and the whole school was now in on the secret. They had a field day.

"Hah. Rosalie can't win princess. She should be crowned prince! She's not really a girl! She's just a wannabe!" Jessica yelled as the principal walked over to crown Rosalie. The principal immediately pulled Jessica off the field, but the damage had already been done.

There was a collective gasp in the crowd. Rosalie stood proud though, not wasting her tears on the wretched high schoolers anymore. We had taught her to stand her ground. Sadly, she also seemed to be distancing herself from us. We were still there for her, but she didn't show as much emotion or share her feeling as she used to.

We slowly drifted throughout our last two years, as we planned for college. Graduation was only weeks away. Edward had proposed to me on my 18th birthday, but we were waiting to get married after I had graduated. He had just been excited I had accepted. Silly boy, how could I have refused him?

You could see that Rosalie was slowly building a heavy cold shoulder towards me, especially ever since Edward and I had won prom king and queen the year before. It's like she was always needing big titles, to prove to everyone she was just as much a girl as Alice or me.

Alice and Jasper got engaged the day after graduation. Jasper couldn't hold it back anymore. This pushed Rosalie over the edge. The last night we were all hanging out together before we all went a trip to visit our colleges, Rosalie had had enough.

"Why the hell am I alone here? Edward proposed to Bella, Jasper proposed to Alice, what's wrong with us, Emmett? Do you not want to marry me? Is it because I wasn't born a girl?" She said that word with such acid, we all gasped.

"What are you talking about Rose? You know I love you. I would love to spend the rest of my life with you. I don't care if you're a boy or a girl." he said trying to appease her. Wrong choice of words.

"Oh, so you don't even know what I am? Boy or girl? What am I to you? Am I your boyfriend or your girlfriend?" she said, on the verge of angry tears.

All the rest of us has slowly backed away, letting them deal with their own issues, afraid of having her wrath turned on us. Emmett fought back valiantly and succeeded, barely.

"Rose. You are my woman. You are my girlfriend. You are my one and only. Even if you were a goddang animal, you would still be the love of my life. I haven't proposed yet, because I'm still working on how to do it!" he yelled at her.

She sat there shocked, her jaw dropped.

"I—I'm sorry Rose. I shouldn't have yelled. Are you okay? Do you still love me?" he spoke frantically, trying to make sure she wasn't too mad at him.

She broke into tears, but she was smiling.

"Yo—You were gonna propose? Oh, Em, I'm so happy. I love you." she sobbed, as she threw her arms around his broad shoulders.

We all seemed to let go of the breath we had been holding during our fear. We all smiled and enjoyed our last night together. We spent the whole night discussing wedding plans, courtesy of Alice.

She actually had a notebook for each of us, with pictures of wedding dresses, colors, receptions, and everything else needed for the perfect wedding. We were all giggling and happy again before the night was done.

We figured things could only get better. Rosalie seemed to be opening back up to us and we would still hang out during holidays and rare weekends even though we'd all be separated once we left for college.

Edward and I would be at Dartmouth, Alice and Jasper would be at Alaska State, and Rosalie and Emmett had decided to stay in Washington at Seattle University. College apart could really decide our friendship in the future, so we were all prepared to work hard to keep in touch.

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Hey guys, sorry it's kinda short. It's barely 3 and a half pages. Didn't really want to take this chapter further. Hope you guys like my crazy crackfic. Tell me what you think! R&R and check out my other stories :D

-DL