Chapter two, chapter two of Josie's story. Yes, in this chapter I will actually start calling her Josie. Cute, right?
Anyway, nothing but Josie in this story is mine. All Stephanie Meyer's. EVERYTHING!
Josephine Elizabeth Florence.
"Let's go outside today!" I pleaded with Rosie.
"Not now, Josie! I have to watch Bella today." Bella. I sighed. She was very pregnant now, not that she hadn't been when I first showed up about three weeks ago, But I mean, she's seriously huge now. And she has to have this yucky stuff put in through a tube into her arm so she can like, keep living and stuff. It's gross!
"Oh, puh-lease? Pretty pleaseee?" I pleaded. No one else would play with me. Edward wouldn't leave Bella's side, and neither would Rose. Alice and Jasper had gone hunting without me, and Carlisle was at work. Esme was in the kitchen, so I ran to her next.
"Esme, can we go outside? Let's do something!"
"I can't right now, Josie baby I'm sorry. I need to make Bella's medication." She had some white globby stuff she was mixing with a bunch of other liquids in a plastic bag.
"After?" I pleaded.
"Mhm, sure." Esme said. She kissed the top of my head, petted my wild and curly brown hair, and then went to the kitchen cabinet to get more liquid-y stuff. I smelt the concoction she had made already out of curiosity. It smelt terrible!
"Ew! What is that?" I shrieked. Esme nearly fell over laughing, Rosie ran into the room. Seeing my face, she too started laughing.
"What's going on…?" A weak voice called from the living room. Everyone but me ran into the room, leaving me standing alone holding the bag. I sighed and put it down.
"I'm gonna go play with Seth." I announced and ran outside. The air outside was cool and crisp, perfect for a late August day. I ran around the yard a while before going to find Seth. It wasn't hard. His pack of dogs smelt terrible.
"Heyya Seth!" I said happily.
"Hey Josie. How's your day?" He asked. He was in his human form for once, lazing about on the grass near the house.
"Good I guess. No one will play and I'm bored and Bella is getting annoying. I know that's mean and everything but…" I fell silent. It was true. I hadn't minded at first, that Bella took everyone's natural curiosity away from me. But now that I had been there a while and all anyone ever talked about was her, and all they did centered on her, I just wanted to play.
"I'm sorry, Josie. What do you want to do?" Seth always like playing with me!
"Let's race!" I said and he smiled.
"Okay, but I get my wolf form!" I nodded, and he pulled off his shoes. He changed easily, almost like slipping into a new skin. I counted off until three, and then we took off across the lawn. We went around the house three times, and then came to a stop where we had started. I had won by a clear three inches.
"You cheated! Definitely! How did you win?" Seth asked as he changed back, grabbing the extra set of clothes he always had.
"I'm fast." I said and stuck my tongue out at him.
"You lie like a rug." I laughed and ran away from him, and we played tag for a while until Leah called him back and Esme was calling for me. It was dark out by now, and probably very late. Seth needed to go home, so I raced to the house.
"Josephine Elizabeth Florence, where were you all day?" Rosie asked as I ran into the house.
"Out playing with Seth. I told you guys that's where I was, but you were all so preoccupied with Bella…" I looked down, knowing I had hit a nerve.
"Josie we are worried about Bella because she is in a serious condition! She could die, Josie! She's not a vampire! She's a human, a frail human who has a monster inside of her! That baby is killing her and we are here to protect her! One false move out of any of us and she could-"
"Stop." Edward had come into the room. It was the first time in days I hadn't seen him with Bella. "Stop right there Rosie." If I had wanted to, I could have pretended he had told her to stop for my sake. But I knew it was because he was so riled up about Bella.
I ran out of the room, my arms wrapped around myself. Why was everyone so mad always? Why was everything bad? When I first came here, and Bella could walk easier, it wasn't so bad. Everyone was happy, too. Now everyone's just mad and sad and miserable and… I walked into my room. It was a nice, light blue with clouds painted on the walls. Books covered one whole wall, and pictures of the Cullens and I stood on the drawers that held my clothes. A big closet was built into the wall on one side, and a bed was placed neatly in the corner. I went to it and lay down. I had asked for a bed because I had always wanted one the 85 years I had wandered alone. The Cullens had complied, and now I had a small bed with a butterfly coverlet and fluffy throw pillows in the corner of my room.
"Rosie didn't mean to yell." Alice had come back from her hunt. "And Edward's just worried about Bella and the baby."
"I know." I said and tried to calm down. "I just wanted to play. And no one would listen." Alice picked me up and walked me around my room, humming. I relaxed in her arms, and my arms went around her neck.
"Alice." She nodded. "I'm scared for Bella, too." The humming stopped for a moment, then kept on going. "She'll be okay, right?"
"No one knows." She replied.
"But…can't you see her being alright?"
"I see many things. Some are good, some not. We can only hope." I nodded. I wished I could cry, even if that wouldn't solve anything.
"Josie? Rosie wants to apologize." Jasper stuck his face in the door way. He smiled at Alice and me, the picture of calmness. I nodded and Alice squeezed me tight before setting me down on my bed again. She smiled secretly at me and then left the room with Jasper.
"Josie?" Rosie poked her head in.
"Hi Rose." I said and looked down.
"I'm sorry for scolding you so. I am just so worried for Bella, and then I couldn't find you and …I'm sorry." I nodded.
"I'm sorry, too. I understand, really I do, that Bella is sick and stuff. That she might die. But I just want to…do stuff. Her smell is bad for me…it's too sweet and good. I can barely control myself and so I can't spend all the time with her like you guys can. And so I need to do something and no one else wants to 'cuz you're all always with Bella." I looked at Rosie's eyes. She nodded once, then came over and hugged me.
"I'll spend more time with you, if you'll let me spend time with Bella, too." She compromised. I nodded, and then she picked me up and we went downstairs. She had me on her hip, and I held on to a piece of her blonde hair.
"You girls at a truce?" Emmett asked. I nodded and he smiled. I couldn't see, but I think Rosie smiled, too.
Chapter two! I know these chapters are pretty short, and I promise to make them longer, but this is just like…the introduction.
Chapter three is where it gets interesting. You'll see!
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