Author: Jasmin's Ninja (Formerly Cat Onyx )
Story: Monsters
Rating: M for Sexual References, Abuse and language
Chapter 2: The Bad Influence?

Author Notes: New character is introduced in this chapter!

I live inside... my own make believe, I sacrifice... what you can't see.

Where was she? Where the heck was she? I hadn't seen Alice at school all day and it already last period. I did however see her brother Edward a few times just staring at me and her boyfriend was in this class sat behind me. I tried not to pay attention to him and focus on my work but then I felt something cold tapping my back, like someone was touching me with an ice cube which in turn totally killed my focus. I turned around and it was Jasper with the same pain filled look on his face. "Ma'am I have your hoodie. You left it in Alice's car yesterday and she asked me to hand it back to you" He said in a southern accent. Ma'am? Who says that? "Oh, thanks" I muttered taking my piece of clothing from his hands. He was a nice enough guy, maybe I'd talk to him or something some other time when I wasn't in so much worry.

A few minutes later the home bell went and I got up and walked out to my locker putting the hoodie I got back off Jasper and my books and bag in there. I continued on front door where I saw Jasper holding it open for me. "Here you go Ma'am" he forced out a smile.

"Thanks." I also forced out a smile for him and walked out to the parking lot to see Charlie hadn't come yet to pick me up. I sat there for a while before this group of girls called my name. I turned to them a little nervously and a girl with skin that could match the paleness of mine, but not compete with how pale Alice was smiled. She had blonde hair reaching just past her chin "Hey, want to hang out with us for a while?" she turned her head to the side to a girl who was behind her and it was then I realized her hair was side parted and the hair that covered a smaller area of her head was cut much shorter. She had piercings all in her face too. I saw three on her bottom lip, her nostril was pieced, she had the area between the upper part of the bridge of her nose pieced, her eyebrow and had a implant one on her cheek and about three or so in her ear. How did metal detectors not go off when she went near them?

"Uh, sure" I said probably against my better judgment but I'd never been allowed to do anything before, I wanted to be a normal teenager was that so bad? "Great, my name's Riley and my mates back here are Christina and Sarah" she pointed at each of them as she said their names and I saw that Christina and Sarah looked pretty much the same except for their hair style and colour. Christina's was past her shoulders and was dyed orange whereas Sarah's was shorter in the front they were both shorter than Riley and I wasn't surprised, they were probably taller than me still It's just that Riley was extremely tall and lanky. I estimated she was at least 6 ft, if not 6'5 as opposed to my 5'4 she was about a good 30 centimeters taller than me.

"Hey man, Sarah and I gotta' go. Some shit down at the cemetery or something" Christina said grabbing her what I figured to be twin sister away. "See ya' tomorrow?"

"Yeah, I'll see you tomorrow." Riley called out after them before turning to me, "well I guess it's just me and you then eh Shorty?" What was with the nickname? I mean, Shorty? Alice could be called that but me, I wasn't THAT short. "Don't call me that" I said just firm enough to let her know I was being serious. "Aw, you don't like that name then do you? How about beautiful?" she had a smirk on my face, that smirk getting bigger the harder I blushed. "I'm not beautiful though" I looked down as I mumbled that.

"You can keep telling yourself that but I don't agree beautiful" Riley said grinning. "So what can we do? My mates having a party tonight, wanna be my date?" She chuckled. I guessed she was just playing around so I said yes. "Where is it?"

"Down at the reservation." She said. I must have looked like I didn't have any idea where that was so she continued, "near La push. The beach. It's at Corey's. I heard Leah and Jacobs gonna be there. I kind of remember Jacob mentioning something about a Bella here or there. Do you know him?"

I shook my head and grabbed her hand she reached out. "Oh well, let's go. You don't have a problem with motorbikes do you?" She giggled walking me over to her ride. An old looking motorbike. "Um. Is that thing safe?" I questioned eyeing it as if I was going to die the moment I even touched it. "In the right hands it is, and believe me when I ride it my hands are right." She got on patting the back of it, "jump on and wrap your arms around me so you don't die. Oh, and get out the spare helmet from the carry bag at the back"

I did as I was instructed and got on wrapping my arms around her slender waist closing my eyes so the darkness would serve as a comfort, not seeing the trees around me whipping past. At last, we were there and I had no idea where 'there' was. It was just a place with loads of people but hey, this is what teenagers do isn't it? Anyway it could be fun... I hope.

"Um Riley, I haven't really done this before. I'm not very good at… Social… Things. So what I'm trying to say is…" I paused knowing I'd come off as such a big loser saying what I was going to say, "please don't leave me alone here." And like magic my face went red.

"Aw, beautiful I wouldn't do that. Now, how 'bout a drink?" She asked grabbing my hand leading me to the party. There were people everywhere and I didn't recognize any one of them. Some were already drunk, lots were kissing and when I saw two girls kissing I felt myself smile. Why was I smiling? I still couldn't get the stupid little smile off my face.

"Like what you're seeing eh?" Riley chuckled a little seeing what caused Bella to smile. I blushed looking away and up at Riley's face. "I… I dunno." I confessed.

"Ah, your confusion is so cute you know that?. So, a drink yeah?" She asked looking at me suspiciously, "you have drank before right?" I pursed my lips together and replied "social retard you're talking to remember?" I then looked away from her face and down at the floor suddenly finding the grains of dirt beneath my feet interesting.

"Well, as I've said I'll be with you all of tonight. Why wouldn't I? I have a little crush on you beautiful" she grinned and my mouth looked up, my jaw hanging open in shock. Wow. How did she so casually say things like that. Must be a pretty bold upfront person but I wasn't sure if it was just a playful thing to say, like because she was so bold and out there with it that it was hard to think she actually meant it. "So, should I go get a drink. Do you want to come..?" She asked obviously not wanting to leave my side. "yeah, I'll just stay standing here" I said with a smile wondering what I got myself into. I stared at my hands for a while as if they'd do something more than just be hands but they didn't and soon I became bored of them so I looked around at the people again. They were entertaining.

'Hey, she was short .' I thought to myself seeing a girl standing over at the direction Riley went. Wait. Alice? Yes it was and she was dancing towards me, well not dancing but hell, with the way she walks it may as well be and then there was Riley behind me coming towards me. It was like a race and wow did Riley look tall stood near Alice. Alice only stood about up around where Riley's breasts were.

I saw that Alice's mouth had opened about to say something but as soon as it did "Hey beautiful!" Riley called out leaving the smaller girl wordless. When she reached me she handed me a bottle of beer. My nose went to the bottle neck and sniffed. It smelled kind of foul kind of like how he…

I drowned the bottle in a matter of seconds and looked back at Riley. "Woah, are you sure you haven't drank before?" Riley chuckled a little nervously taking a few gulps of the bottle she had in her hand. I nodded. "I know how it works though. Is there anything else? Like other than beer?" I asked looking around to see if I could see Alice again but she had disappeared. "Yeah babe, inside there's jello-shots and some other shots." She said with a grin on her face, her eyebrows raised a little in shock. "Let's go then" I was just aiming to keep my mind off everything I didn't even think about how this was a bad idea. I knew it was but I didn't want to think it was.

I took it upon myself to grab Riley's hand and lead her in the house and yes, there were looks from people as we did but I didn't care. I found the table. "Riley, lean down for me" I asked and she did so I moved my head to whisper in her ear "let's play a game. You know who Alice is right?" She nodded. "Well you or I see her let's take a shot and since we've already seen her.." I took a shot glass off the table and drowned it all in one go. "Your go." I watched as she followed my lead drinking the strong liquor. My mind was screaming NO! But I wasn't listening this time. I watched as Riley looked around, obviously looking for Alice and she must have saw her. "Round two Bella!" She called out handing me another one. It burned as it went down and I coughed a little.

"Hey let's sit down or something" I said pointing over at a chair. She grabbed my hand and maneuvered me through the people trying to dance and we sat down. "So Bella, why do you dress like that?" She asked looking me up and down which earned a blush from me.

"Like what?" I asked defensively with a smile on my face as I fiddled with my top.

"Well, you're wearing guys jeans a few sizes too big for you which make them baggy, a plain shirt and then a checkered button-up shirt over the top of that." She smiled before looking down at the ground. "Oh, and converse. Nice" She grinned her goofy grin.

"Well, I didn't have much clothes when I came here and these are my dad's. He offered to take me out to buy some stuff but I would have probably got something similar to this anyway. I don't know. It's comfy."

She leaned in so her face was just inches from mine and whispered "well, I think it's sexy" she kept her face near mine and I felt my heart rate increase. Was I nervous? If so, why? I mean, I wasn't… Was I? I couldn't be. I liked… men. Well why did I just mentally shudder then? Shut up brain! I was just Bella, that was all. Just plain old boring Bella.

"Bella!" A soft yet harsh voice called out. I turned to see who it was and as I did I heard Riley sigh. I still was hesitant to whether Riley liked me or not most of that was the fact I couldn't believe anyone could like me though. It was Alice.

"Huh?" was all I could manage to say. "Can I talk to you?" She asked calm as anything. "I.. Uh.." I had no idea what to say. I looked at Riley as if she had the answer but she was just as confused as me. "I'll be back beautiful" Riley said without a smile going over to the drinks leaving me some time with Alice but I wasn't sure I wanted time alone to talk to her. I was still nervous and worried that she had been avoiding me.

"I really shouldn't be here at all. Which brings me to the question why are you here? I'm sorry about the other day, I'm really sorry but I get ahead of myself. It's a bad flaw, I just never met anyone like you and I know, just know you're going to become important to me and I know I sound like a creeper but just be careful and did Jasper give you back that jumper? Oh and sorry I wasn't at school today. I just had to think about things and it kind of hurt when you yelled at me, I know I did the wrong thing but I don't know. I was… Scared to see you today. Haha! You wouldn't guess that, someone like me, scared to talk to someone but there you go and I really shouldn't be here. I'm really not allowed here and if someone sees me that knows about certain things well, I'm going to get in trouble and…" She trailed off and I saw Riley sit back down handing me a shot glass.

Wow. Did Alice even take a breath saying all of that. I forgot most of what she said but somewhere in my head registered it as she wasn't angry with me and it was all good. "Hey Alice, want a drink?" Riley offered. "No, I don't drink I'm afraid" Alice muttered turning away. "I'll see you tomorrow Bella, come sit with me" And then Alice was gone.

"I think she likes you Bella" Riley teased punching my arm playfully. "She does not!" God no, I was blushing! Why was I blushing! "She has a boyfriend"

"Yeah but that doesn't mean she doesn't like you."

"Well I don't know" I said as I drank the shot Riley gave me. "I think she's left now anyway." I got up shortly followed my Riley over to the shot table and turned to Riley "want to have a competition, lets see who can take the most shots in 10 seconds" I grinned wanting to get my mind off all the stuff running around me mind.

"Uh Bella, this is your first time drinking. I don't think that's such a good idea" Riley said a little hesitant.

"I want to though" I murmured running my hand around one the rim of one of the glasses. "Well, okay then but I'm pretty good" She looked like she knew she had this in the bag. "Hey, Corey mate, come here and count us down from 10" She called out and this guy who stood a few inches shorter than her with shoulder length blonde hair came over. "Who's this then Riley?"

"Bella, beautiful isn't she?" Riley grinned. "Okay ready bella?"

I nodded having my hand ready to pick up the glass.

"Go!" Corey shouted and I instantly picked it up and drank it as fast as I could. Onto the next one… and the next, and the next, and the next, and the next…

The sound of glass hitting the table was the only indication I had of how fast Riley was going and I still had no idea who was going to win when Corey shouted stop I looked down at the empty glasses and counted them all.

13 empty glasses. I knew enough to know that that's more than enough to get you drunk. I looked over at Riley's and saw she had 14. "Damn you win" I muttered holding onto her a little. "Okay Bella, I think that's enough alcohol for you. Go sit back down I'll get you some water so you don't feel so terrible tomorrow. "Oh, I don't feel bad. I'm fine" I said not wanting her to bother but I went over to where we were sat before anyway. "Oh, believe me you will feel the effects later" she called out after me going into the kitchen.

I was fine really I was… Wait, why was I starting to feel dizzy. I really shouldn't have drunk so much. I felt the couch move as someone sat down next to me and turned to see it was Riley. "You don't look as bad as I feel" I muttered looking over at her taking the glass of water off her sipping it slowly. "I'm used to it, where as you… Well you really shouldn't have drank so much" She chuckled a little resting her head on my shoulder. "Bella is a great name for you. It means Beautiful and that's exactly what you are." I felt her head move and I looked over and felt her moving closer to me "So beautiful…" Riley murmured, her face moving closer to me. She was going to kiss me and I.. I… wasn't totally opposed to that thought. I felt as her lips made contact with mine and felt as mine moved with hers. I felt as her arms moved to around my waist and mine moved around her neck. I felt her tongue trailing across my lips, I felt her piecing's slightly tickling my lip and then I felt as she was pulled off me.

My eyes shot open and saw Riley on the ground and Alice standing above her. Was she yelling? I couldn't focus I closed my eyes trying to regain my hearing and heard "don't you ever touch her when she's drunk! You took advantage of her!"

How did Alice even manage to get Riley on the ground? Someone behind Riley helped her up and she stood towering over the small girl. "You shouldn't even be here. You should really think about leaving before my friends see you" Riley told Alice "Bella, I think we should go back to my place. It's not too far. We'll walk" she walked over to me and helped me up wrapping her arm around me to steady me as we walked out of the house. I saw Corey on the way out and he looked worried. "Hey Riley, you okay?"

"Yeah, can you look after my bike though?"

"Sure" he gave an apologetic smile to Riley as we continued on. About ten minutes of walking and some stumbling we made it to her house walking into the front door and into her room and then it was that 'oh god she's going to kiss me' moment but instead she whispered "are you tired?" I nodded and looked over to the bed which began my dangerous journey over to it. Of course on the way I fell face first into the ground. "Shit Bella! Are you okay?" I heard Riley trying not to laugh as she tried to help me up but as she was drunk she managed to fall onto the floor again her chest now heaving with her laughter. I couldn't help laughing at our misfortune as well all the while my face red.

Once we did make it to her bed, and believe me it took a while in-between the stumbling and giggling I watched as she lay there, her feet dangling off the bed since she was so tall and I watched as she closed her eyes smiling sleep taking over her. It wasn't long after that that I felt my eyes starting to close and I feared what I saw next.

Where was I? I stood in this clearing surrounded by trees and more trees. The sky wasn't moving on bit and it was blue. Actually blue.. In forks, I thought that was impossible. The closer I went to the trees the further away they seemed and in the end I sighed dropping down on the ground.

"Bella, it's fucking time!" Oh no. I froze. I knew that voice. It was Phil's. He was here! I looked around but I couldn't see him at all. My body went into panic mode, thrashing left and right looking for the source of the voice but there was nothing. I was alone and I couldn't get away and then he was right in front of me naked, disgusting and foul, his hands moving and violating my body. My eyes closed not wanting to witness what was about to happen but my ears could still hear the disgusting things he was whispering to me but what was that crashing sound? Like trees being bowled over?

His hands were gone and a breath of relief came from my lips. I opened my eyes to see him under a huge white wolf. The wolf looked wrong though, as if it was deformed somehow. It was ripping Phil apart from limb to limb right in front of me though, blood spraying all over me as the body parts were flung I got some of the blood splattered on my face and so there I was looking and witnessing a brutal attack covered in the victims blood but really could you call him the victim after what he did to me? The wolf stood up on its hind legs. It looks like a mutated human it looked like a… Werewolf.

Werewolf… No it couldn't be. This must have been a dream! The wolf-thing started walking closer to me dropping down on all fours inching its way closer when a small figure pummeled into it knocking the beast to the ground. The figure went to bite the werewolf. How was that going to work? The wolf kept dodging the bites before kicking the small girl off with its hind legs. I saw the girls face. It was Alice! Her ribs or something would have broken with the force of that kick but she stood right back up running toward the werewolf who was charging toward her. When their bodies collided there was a huge crash and the werewolf got Alice between its teeth throwing her away back toward the forest. It's sights were now set back on me walking closer but then it got tackled once again by a group of people and I saw Alice come running back attacking it too. The people were biting it over and over as it whined in pain. It looked like they were drinking from it.

The werewolf started jerking around howling in pain and it got smaller, it was morphing into a human and there she was. It was Riley. She was screaming in pain, it was ear and heart shattering. The people looked towards me, their chins covered in blood and their eyes red. It was the Cullens. They looked hungry, growling at me inching closer until they attacked.

I woke up with a jolt breathing hard I looked over at Riley. She was still sound asleep. She must be out like a light. I went to get up but then collapsed back on the bed. Oh god. My head. I groaned forcing myself up. My head felt like it was going to explode. I stumbled to the door fumbling my way around in the dark and down the hallway to the kitchen turning the light on. I wish I knew where the painkillers were all I had was loads and loads and LOADS of water. I couldn't believe how thirsty I was. It was like I was in the middle of the desert and about to drink my own urine because I was so thirsty.

After I was done drinking what seemed like an endless amount of water I trotted back to Riley's room and flopped back down next to her falling asleep, this time without any nightmares.

So, I'm not really happy with this chapter but there you go.
Also, in my opinion the 'werewolves' in Twilight were pretty pathetic so I've changed the look of them a little so they're more werewolf-like. If you don't like that, you can imagine them the same as they are in Twilight.

And what do you guys think about Riley! Hate her? Love her?