A/N: i didn't really do grammar check, i just had fun with it :D
I hope you enjoy ;)
Chapter Two// A rainbow of sexy colors!
BPOV
'I'm on a mission and it involves some heavy touching yeah!'
….
let's play a love game
play a love game
do you want love
or you want fame
are you in the game...'
I turned off or music when we pulled up into the tattoo parlor's parking lot.
"Okay we're here, you get down first." I motioned to Edward to get down, and he just gave me a freaked out look.
"What?.. Come one those guys aren't going to hurt you." I rolled my eyes, waving off the huge tattooed bald guys that were shooting daggers at Edward with their eyes.
"Fine, but if I die right now" he gave me a pointed look, "Esme & Carlisle know that your my only friend. So you will be the first suspect."
"Edward please. My dad is the chief of police in this town, I would be ruled out immediately. I think Alice would be the first suspect. They would probably make up some story that she killed you, because your grades were always better and your parents always loved you more. So she couldn't take the pressure coming at her from every corner. Not only from family, but from school as well and one day she just snapped and you were just at the wrong place at the wrong time." I smiled at him and got off.
We walked in and the whole place stunk of ink. Yeah you heard me, ink.
Edward was looking all around him freaking the freak out. You see Edward is not a full blown out germaphobic, but he's kinda close.
"Bella do you even know if this place is sanitary?"
"Edward of course it's sanitary, look." I said pointing at the counter, "they have Febreez and Shout wipes!" I walked up to the counter where there was a girl with pitch black hair, she was wearing tons of eyeliner. I think she over did it a little but I was no makeup guru so I wasn't one to judge.
"Hello there little lady." I smiled and waved but she just stared, as if her soul were dead.
"Well aren't you just a big ol'bowl of sunshine!? Any who, can we get two piercings please?" That's when I felt Edward pull at arm.
"Hey I was putting in our order!"
"Bella, what do you mean by two piercings?" he searched my face quizzically.
"I thought you were gonna get one with me?" Isn't that what he had said at school. I brought my hand to my chin and tapped it as I tried to remember, but he wouldn't shut up so I couldn't concentrate.
"No no no, I said I would come with you not that I would get one as well."
"Edward, but if we do it together, it would bring us even closer we would have an even deeper bond than we already do." It looked like he was considering it, all I had to do was bring it home. So I stuck out my lower lip and put on my sad puppy eyes.
"Fine."
"Yaay!!"
"Okay two please." I told the lady as her dead soulless eyes looked at us.
"Follow me." She responded with her dead monotone.
We followed her into a back room where there was a huge guy finishing up a tattoo on another guy that said 'Low Rider For Life' it looked pretty bad ass. That was for sure next on my to do list. Maybe I could even get this guy's number and once I had mine, we could take pictures together.
"Alright who's next?" the man asked surprising me with a British accent. He was starting to look kinda sexy all of a sudden but then I remembered, I was here for Emmett. I would have to forget about this guy forever, maybe in another life but for sure not in this one. I pushed Edward forward and plopped him down on the chair.
"Bella!"
"What? Your not gonna make me go first are you? I'm like your soul sister!" He rolled his eyes at me and let out a loud sigh.
"Where do you want it boy?"
"Oooh, nipples!"
"Bella! NO!" He shouted butting his shirt back up, after I had already yanked it open.
"Um, I'll do my lip. The right side." The man put some kind of liquid on his lip and Edward hissed.
"Will you hold my hand please?" He asked me,
"Uh, no sorry I'm going to hold Edward's hand. I don't even know you." I held Edward's hand as he shut his eyes tight and waited for the pain. I wanted to look, but I was such a wimp when it came to needles going through skin. So I shut mine too and squeezed his hand as tight as I could.
"There we go." The man said a second later.
"That was it?" I asked opening my eyes and letting go of my Eddie's hand a bit.
"Wa do you mean, is da wit?! Dat hoot" Edward tried talking, still adjusting to his new lip piercing, I didn't even know why he was talking like that, it wasn't like he got his tongue pierced.
"Okay my turn!" I pushed Edward aside and jumped on the chair. I unclasped my overalls and let them fall down to my waist, then I rolled up my t shirt exposing my belly button.
Edward's eyes lingered on my exposed stomach, I hope that's why he came. Trying to get a free show or something. I wasn't that type of girl, but then again I was getting this piercing. Pretty much anything goes after this. I was going to be officially a bad girl. Hey maybe I could be in that show on Oxygen channel...
I watched as the man did the same thing to me as he had done to my buddy. I felt the cold liquid dab over my stomach, and then I felt him pull on my skin. I suddenly felt nervous and like I was going to fall into a comma. So I did what first thing that came naturally to me.
"NOOOOO!!! STOOOOOP!!!" He let go of my belly and my skin snapped back in place.
"Are you okay?" The man asked me again in his sexy British voice.
"I changed my mind I don't want it!" I pulled my overalls back on and jumped off the table.
"Bewa!"
"I'm sorry Ewwie. I just can't do this to Charlie, he's gonna kill me!"
"Das wa I tow you!"
"I know I know. You were right, come on let's go I'll pay for your piercing." we walked back out and the dead soulless woman all of a sudden looked...alive when she saw Edward. What was her deal? She saw him when we had walked in, what was different this time?
"I'm gonna pay for only one piercing, only one went down in there." She's still could not tear her alive eyes away from Edward!
"Hey there missy! Eyes on the register!" I pointed two fingers at my eyes and then pointed them back at her. Making sure she knew I was watching her.
I handed her a twenty and told her to sleep with one eye open as we left.
"Why did, you wo da?" He asked looking confused.
"Oh my dear boy, that woman in there looked like she wanted to eat you. I had a weird feeling about her since we walked in so I just made sure she knew I had your back." I smiled and skipped ahead of him. We drove back with Lady Gaga's speechless on repeat, since Edward really couldn't talk I thought it was appropriate.
So I sang at the top of my lungs to him
'I'll never talk again
oh boy you've left me speechless,
you've left me speechless, so speechless ...
I can't believe how you slurred at me
with your half weird broken jaw...'
"Alright, here we are," I pulled up in front of the Cullen house, "I'll see you tomorrow. That way we can think of a new way to approach this whole situation, if you know what I'm saying." I winked at him as he got off the car.
"Ba Bewa, wanks fow da wide." He smiled and headed into his house. I drove to mine, so I could brainstorm ideas, and maybe even make a a diagram with different ways on how to make this whole thing work.
* * *
I woke up kind of sad that it was already Friday. That meant that I would have to wait all weekend to see Emmett again. Pretty freaking sad if you asked me.
I rolled off of my bed and threw on some faded jeans and a purple t shirt that read TGIF in bright yellow letters. I couldn't let the world see I was falling apart inside...
I waited by my kitchen window for Edward to pull up. It was his turn to pick me up, we alternated every other day on who drove to school. Mean while Charlie tried feeding me cheesecake like always.
"Here take Edward a piece." He handed me the usual huge slice, and I headed out the door.
Ready to throw it out like always, when I saw Edward pulling up already.
"Hey, what do you think you're doing?! Is that my cheesecake?" My hand froze above the garbage can, as I looked up at him.
"Oh I was just um... stretching my arm, yeah that's it. Here you go." I handed him the plate and walked around to the trunk of his Volvo.
"What's that?" He pointed at the huge rolled up poster I had with me, as he stuffed his face face with cheesecake.
"Wait." I held my hand up to him before he came any closer. "You got the goods?" He stopped and reached around to his back pocket and pulled out the sandwich bag filled with organic fruit. Throwing it at me, I caught it like the pro I was and put it in my back pocket.
"Okay what we have here is a diagram with all the possibilities we have for Emmett and me leaving together after the game tonight, and on this side are all the possibilities of you leaving with Rosalie. Basically, I leave with Emmett and you leave with Rosalie, then we get in on" He eyed the board as he took another spoon full of cake.
I pulled out my pointer from my back pack to make things a little more clear for him, but when I swung it for it to extend, I accidentally hit Edward in the face. Knocking off his glasses causing them to break.
"Awe man! how am I suppose to see now." He whined
"I'm so sorry Edward...wait you don't even need glasses. You only wear them because you think they make you look smarter." I raised an eyebrow at him, and he just took another bite out of his cake.
"I know but, they also make a fashion statement." He added frowning, and finally finishing the cake.
"Come on I'll buy you some new ones later, but if I were you I would just stop wearing them all together. I mean it's not like you need them, and with out them your eyes look much greener. They're really pretty you know?" He flashed his crooked grin and ran a hand threw his messy locks.
"Okay, I'll stop wearing them." He said, and for the first time I caught that he was talking normal again.
"Hey your talking normal again, you know like a human."
"Yeah my mom told me to put some ice on my lip, and the swelling went down pretty fast. Then she started telling me that it reminded her of her youth in the seventies when everyone pierced everything, and then she started singing kumba-ya so I left the room."
"Awe that Esme she is too sweet. You know, you might not like it but it actually looks pretty good. I'd tap that, if you know what I'm saying" I winked at him. I was starting to think that maybe I winked a little too much...Ah who am I kidding guys love that stuff.
"Really?" He asked, with I think was hope in his voice or maybe it was excitement, or maybe even a gassy voice. I don't know, but we all know what cheesecake does to ya.
"Really." I told him reassuringly.
We got to school and Edward parked in his favorite parking spot, next to a huge oak tree. I stepped out of the car and took a deep breath and closed my eyes. The sun was actually out today, and it smelled good.
I opened my eyes to find Edward staring at me.
"what?" I asked, the boy was gaping at me like I was some sort of huge ice cream Sunday.
"oh..ugh nothing I just never noticed your hair had red In it, that's all" he said with a slight blush. All of a sudden in that lighting and without his glasses he sorta looked...dare I say it? Sorta handsome...
Ewww! What's wrong with me!? that's like my brother!!! He'd be ashamed if he could read your thought right now Bella. Hmm...reading people's thoughts, that would be frekin cool, I've always wondered what Oprah's thinking or no! Better yet! Obama! I'd be a trip to go in to their mind. Oh darn! I just read my own mind!....oh wait everyone can do that..
I busted out laughing at myself
"what?" Edward asked confused.
I quickly recollected myself and threw on my poker face " you had to be there."
We walked inside, the Friday morning buzz in fool swing. I decided to join in by talking to Edward in a overly loud high pitched voice like everyone else.
"OMG! Edward it's like Friday, like what are we like going to do this like weekend like" I added an extra like at the end to make it sound a little fancier. All the cheerleaders did it, I'll be darned if they think they can own all the cool words.
"whatever you want" he answered with a shrug
"I was thinking we could like have like a like slumber like party like I think that would be like really like cool, don't you like think? Like" 9 in one sentence, Ha! Try and top that cheerleaders!
Edward's eyes bugged out "like...i mean, a slumber party? as in sleepover?"
"yeah, what else dumbow?" I said with a pout at the end, I wasn't sad or anything but when you say a word like dumbow your mouth just does it for you, and then I'm too lazy to move it.
"it's just that, wouldn't your dad get mad? I mean I am a guy, don't sleep overs only work for girls?"
"Well yeah, but it's just you,he'll have nothing to worry about. I mean if it was Emmett, oh boy! I wouldn't even trust myself. But come on, I could literally lye naked on top of you and nothing would happen, you'd probably start playing a game of hangman with yourself on the side because you'd be so bored."
"yeah, I would be totally bored..." he said with a shaky nervous laugh...or maybe it was just the cheesecake again...i don't know.
"Alright, well I'll see you at lunch Edwardian" I said before I walked away. I liked changing him name every time I saw him, I think it kept things fresh, you know?
I walked in to the lunch room, and quickly scanned the room for my conpadre
Ha! found you! I started running toward our table when I noticed a girl sitting next to him, and she wasn't me!
If he was secretly trying to find another best friend behind my back, this fool had another thing coming.
I quickly hid behind the salad bar, I grabbed an empty tray and hid my face with it. I felt like a total spy right now, damn! I knew I should have worn my black patent leather ansomble
I peeked from behind the carrots, the girl had a textbook in front of her. It looked like they were doing homework, but..but....I was his homework buddy...
what kind of sick twisted game were they playing!? And why couldn't I play too!? I was a great team player!
I moved to the side so the bowl of tomatoes was covering my face. I watched as the girl ran her index finger down Edward's chest, he recoiled from her touch.
Oh so now she was trying to molest him or something!?
I was outraged! No one! And I mean No one! Touches my BFF like that!
Seriously, one time Alice did it just to piss me off and I slapped her, I slapped the shit out of her!
I mean then she she slapped me back and threw me against the wall and threatened me that I was going die a long painful high school musical less death if I ever hit her again.
Needless to say I never bothered her after that.
I was weak back then, but that was I long time ago. Let me tell you, I've watched a lot of Jacky Chan movies since last week.
I was ready to take this bitch down!
I came out from behind the salad bar and was ready to take charge of the situation.
I started walking towards the table, like a civilized person. Suddenly she got real close to his face and leaned in as if she was about to kiss him. Something in me just snapped I threw any civilized I had left in me out the frekin window. Thats when I went total animal Planet, I'm talking Lions versus Bears shit.
I just frekin lunged at her.
I quickly took her out along with the chair she was sitting in. We were on the floor so I just pinned her wrist down, I finally got a good look at her. It was Jessica or as I liked to call her extra slutty Stanley pickles. I added the pickles at the end to distract from the fact I was calling her a slut, plus pickles were good on everything! This was no exception.
Just as I thought I had a good hold on her, she narrowed her eyes at me and as fast as you can say 'Simon Cowl is my favorite judge on American Idol, and I think Sangia should have won!' she had me flipped around on my back.
She quickly pinned my wrist above my head, and started kicking my stomach with her knees. Every kick, my breath was kind of taken away making a loud uggghhh sound.
I started kicking, successfully pushing her off, I started to crawl away when she grabbed my left foot and yanked me back.
By now you could hear people yelling "Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight!" then Edward's voice in the distance "I'm gonna go get help! Don't worry Bella!"
But I was worried, apparently Jacky Chan movies were a scam. Right now Jessica's fist was headed directly towards my face. I felt her knuckles jam in to my right eye hard. Immediately my vision blurred and the right side of my head started to throb. Then just fast as the first one, she threw another blow to my nose. As soon as her fist lifted from my nose it felt completely numb, but I could feel warm liquid running down. Ugh really bad time to have a runny nose, now everyone in school is gonna know I have allergies! Great, just great!
Then I looked at Jessica's hand it was covered in blood. Oh no!, that wasn't a runny nose, it was a bloody nose! Crap! I was about to die, I was going to pass out from the smell in my nose and I was going to die.
Her fist were headed towards my face once again, and then I noticed she wasn't holding my wrist down anymore. I quickly rolled to the left before her hand could come in contact with my face again. As I expected, I was quicker than her. She ended up punching the floor, crying out in pain "ohhh! You bitch! Ugh!" I took the opportunity of her grabbing her hand in pain to stand up and grab the chair that had fallen, I picked it up and more on instinct than cohesiveness I threw it as hard as I could at her. She immediately fell back with her eyes closed, I took a deep breath, at least I had taken her out. I dusted my hands and was ready to bolt when out of nowhere she jumped up "ahhhh!" she growled at me as she lunged at me like a frekin linebacker. This bitch was crazy, she was like Micheal Myers, she never dies!
She threw me on my back ten times harder than last time, but at this point everything hurt so I couldn't really tell any difference. Immediately she started kicking my stomach with her knees again, she got in a few hits before some one pulled her off of me.
I saw her still kick and scream as Jasper dragged her away. So he did care! I knew it. I'm just too darn lovable.
Just when I thought I might make it out alive after all, I realized Jasper had probably just dragged her away from my lifeless corpse. I was dead, for sure. I was starting to see a glimpse of heaven already. Emmett was leaning over me protectively with a concerned look on his face. Why was he concerned about anything? We were in heaven for crying out loud!
"are you okay?" he asked still looking concerned. I reached out and stroked his cheek, it was just as soft as I had imagined before I died. He looked confused. I decided why the heck not? I reached out and ran my hand through his cute short black curls, oh god they felt soooo good. The confused look didn't leave his face.
"ugh, I think we should get you to a doctor"
just then I heard another familiar voice, of course my best friend was going to be in heaven too.
"Get away from her! I'll take her, my dad's the doctor after all."
"well I'm sorry for trying to help out, when you couldn't even protect your own damn girlfriend, so you went and snitched instead."
"I went to go get help! There's a difference. When there is a fight in school a school administrator has to be informed! Ans she is not my!...you know what? Just get away from her, and don't touch her."
I definitely had to be dead, because alive I would never have allowed Edward to talk like that to Emmet.
As I thought about that, my eye lids started to droop down. When I closed my eyes everything felt all warm an fozy. So I kept them closed and let sleep take me.
***
I squinted against the bright ass light coming from the ceiling. I looked around around, oh chunky monkey! I was in the hospital.
I frantically sat up. That's when I noticed Edward asleep on a chair in the corner of the room, a small pool of drool next to his face on his shoulder. I always thought he looked so peaceful asleep, I didn't want to wake him up but I needed to know what the hell happened. Oh well, I'll do it subtlety …
"Wake up you Lady Gaga loving Fool!!!" I shouted at the top of my lugs, yup that should do it.
He immediately jumped up quickly wiping the side of his mouth looking around disoriented. He finally spotted me on the bed and he stood up and came to the side of my bed.
"Bella! You're finally awake."
"Oh my god! How long was I out! How old am I!? Where are my kids!? Is my husband dead already!? Did I have grandchildren!? Edward!? Answer me man!!" I yelled in front of his face, I hadn't even realized that I had grabbed his arms and I was shaking him violently.
His eyes were wide, I dropped my hands.
"I'm sorry, I uh... panicked"
He rubbed his arms up and down were I had grabbed him before. "it's okay...and um you've only been out for 20 minutes, you're 17 and your not married or have any kids so no grandchildren ether..sorry, I guess."
I shrugged it off "no worries, the time will eventually come right?"
"yeah I guess...so do you remember what happened?"
"didn't I just wake up from a comma?" I asked dumbfounded
"ugh, no. You got in a fight with Jessica Stanley at school...remember?"
Just like that all the memories came flooding back, me rolling around on the floor with Jessica wile people yelled fight fight fight fight!...and I think there was pudding involved...but then again that could be my mind playing games on me.
"Oh! Hamster weels! I remember! Did she knock me out or something?"
"no, not really. You passed out from the smell of your own nose bleed."
"Oh my god did she give me a nose bleed?"
"well technically, but my dad said your just get nose bleeds easily."
"Where else am I hurt!? Oh my god, will I be able to walk after this!?" I asked panicked again
"Yes. You weren't hurt at all, she just gave you a black eye. It's turns out you're pretty durable...who would have though."
"so when can I go home?" I asked with little hope
"oh, actually it'd be better sooner than later. Since technically absolutely nothing is wrong with you, you're just taking up space.."
I threw off the covers and jumped out of bed. "Alright let's go!"
We walked to the door "wait!" I stopped dead in my tracks
"what?"
"don't I get stickers or something?" I asked putting a hand on my hip and lifting my left brow.
"oh! Okay hold on." he said and ran back to a cabinet next to the sink.
He walked back with a handful
"do you want Troy Bolton? Gabriella Montez? Shapay Evans? Cars? Cat in the hat? Clifford? Or Mickey Mouse?"
"What do you say you hand over the entire pile, and we'll act like this never happened..." I said slyly
"fine...but that's not fair you know I can never deny you anything"
"and that's why we're best friends." I said with a huge grin before yanking the pile of stickers from his hand and running off.
He ran after me quickly catching up. Suddenly I remembered a critical part of today, I had almost let it slip. I stopped and turned around, suddenly I was really pissed at him.
He stopped too
"what?" he asked as if he didn't frekin know!
I jammed my index finger in to his chest and poked him
"oww! What's that for?"
"why the hell were you kissing Jessica today!?"
"what? I was not."
"Why do you think I jumped her in the first place?"
"i don't know...i thought she had taken the last brownie or something. Plus I was about to push her away before, you flung yourself at her."
"last brownie!? Last brownie!? You know I'm a vegan now just like your mom, how could you even think that?"
"i don't know, you ate pizza yesterday..."
"oh don't try and turn this around on me mister! This is all your fault, for doing homework with her, I thought we were homework buddies!?"
He smirked "so you were jealous?"
"HA! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Me jealous? Yeah right! I don't do jealous, jealous does me baby." I said looking away.
"whatever, moving on! are we still doing the game tonight?"
"i don't know, your dad was pretty mad. You got suspended from school for two days for starting the fight."
"Damn it, I need to go to that game. I had the craziest and best hallucination ever!"
"what was it?"
"Emmett was over me, asking me if I was okay. I got to touch his hair and everything. I didn't think it was possible but I actually fell even deeper in love."
I looked over at Edward, he was looking at his shoes "wow, that is some crazy hallucination alright."
"yeah and now I need it to happen, air go I need to be at that game tonight!"
"but your dad's never gonna let you go"
"oh silly silly little Eddie. Don't you know by now, I never tell my dad the truth! That's what's so great about it!" I said excitedly as we made our way out to his Volvo.
We jumped in the car.
"I don't know Bella, this doesn't feel right."
I started tunning him out, when he went all mature and responsible on me. I got enough of that shit from Dr. Phil I didn't need it from my best friend too.
I pulled down the mirror from the over head, I was curious to see how bad ass I looked now.
I lifted the flap to the mirror and looked up
"OH FREAKING BALLS!!" I screamed when I looked at my reflection.
Edward screeched the car to a halt "What!?"
"How come you didn't tell me how freaking sexy I looked?"
"ugh, what are you talking about?" he said as he started driving again.
"I mean look at me, I just look like I'm a hot sexy dangerous bitch with this black eye. I'm surprised you haven't thrown yourself at me yet. I'd definitely tap this right now" I said winking at myself through the mirror with my good eye. My other eye was slightly swollen and purple black and blue. It was like a rainbow, a rainbow of sexy colors!
I closed the mirror, completely satisfied with my appearance.
"So are we doing the game tonight or what?"
"what? Didn't you hear anything I just said?"
"was I suppose to? I though you were just venting...sorry"
"just forget it, I know when it comes to 'Emmett' nothing else matters" he said gripping the steering wheel tighter. I watched his knuckles turn white as I thought. I don't know why he was upset, but this was I good I idea I just knew it!
I reached over and placed my hand on top of his
"Come on bestie, I can't do this without you. Trust me, by the end of the night Rosalie will be at the palm of your hand." I said quietly looking directly into his bright green eyes, they reminded me of the peel on cucumbers in my salad. Suddenly I was hungry...
He looked at me, and it looked like he gave up.
"okay fine..." he said with a sigh
"yes!I knew I could count on you! Now I just have to pretend that I'm going to sleep early then I sneak out when he's not looking"
"How are you going to sneak back in in the middle of the night? That's gonna be kinda hard since your dad's a cop and keeps a loaded gun under his pillow." He made a valid point...hmm
"you can climb my to my window right?" I asked with a mischievous grin.
A/N: next chapter is gonna be from Edward's point of view
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