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Chapter Two
When Bella and Angela got to where they had arrange to meet Michael and Sam only the younger brother was there. "Where's Michael?" Angela asked.
"He went off after some girl he was making eyes at," Sam answered with a smirk.
"How about we go cramp your brother's style?" Bella asked, grinning and slung her arm around Sam's shoulder. Angela followed them smiling.
It didn't take long for them to find Michael. Bella jumped on his back and Michael caught her easily. Bella chuckled as she wrapped her arms around his neck. Michael paused waiting for Angela and Sam then carried on after the girl. He paused as she approached a guy on a bike. Bella recognized him as the guy from earlier.
Star climbed on the back of his bike and Bella struggled keeping her face neutral. She was a little disappointed he had a girlfriend. David and the other guys all turned to look at them. David felt the same disappointment Bella did when he saw her with Michael. Bella grinned despite feeling disappointed. "Come on, she stiffed you," Bella whispered to Michael. He nodded and set off walking again with Bella still on his back.
The two boys walked Bella and Angela back to their apartment before heading back home themselves. "Those guys tonight we're hot," Angela said once they were alone.
"Yeah, but the blonde one looked taken to me."
"You could be wrong," Angela told her. "Just because he gave her a ride doesn't mean they are a thing."
"I suppose," Bella whispered.
The next night the two girls returned to the boardwalk, though neither of them voiced it they both were hoping to see the guys again. "I'm just going to see my aunt Lucy," Angela told Bella. Bella nodded and lit the cig in her mouth as she carried on walking. Bella was in her own world and didn't even notice the boys lounging around by their bikes.
A girl walking passed shoved into Bella sending her staggering back, knocking her cig from her hand. "Hey, watch it," Bella said reflexively. The girl, who Bella realized stood a good foot taller than her, turned round. "Oops." Bella's voice was so quiet the Lost Boys only just caught what she said. The other girl gave Bella a shove. She flew back, David turned catching her as she fell.
She looked up into his eyes shocked. "Thanks," she said. Tall girl too one look at who she had pushed Bella into and vanished into the crowd. Bella pulled herself gently from David's hold and straightened. "Sorry about that."
"Not a problem. You got a name?"
"It's Bella."
"I'm David. This is Dwayne, Marko and Paul," David introduced gesturing to them. "You must be new in town."
"What makes you say that?" Bella asked.
"Because I'd remember if I had seen you before," David told her and Bella blushed. "So where you from Bella?"
"Washington. Me and my friend Angela moved here after we graduated."
"That the chick you were with last night?" Paul asked. Bella turned to look at him as she nodded. Angela stepped out of the video store then her eyes scanning the crowd for Bella. She smiled when she saw who she was talking to.
Angela approaching saving Bella from answering. Paul smiled at Angela who resisted the urge to chuckle girlishly and looked down. "This is Angela," Bella introduced, linking their arms.
Paul watched Angela thinking how beautiful she was when she blushed. David kept his eyes on Bella. "Would you like a ride?" Paul asked Angela. Her eyes snapped up meeting Paul's, they stared at each other for a long moment before she nodded approaching him.
David still hadn't taken his eyes off Bella. "What about you, Bella?" David held his hand out and Bella looked from it to his eyes. A slow smile spread across her face as she thought about what Edward would say if he could see her now again. She nodded and stepped forward taking David's hand, slid on his bike behind him and wrapped her arms around his waist. Her first thought was that he smelt good, amazing in fact. She felt his muscles ripple underneath her hands as he kicked started his bike.
They didn't travel far before they came to a stop. Bella leaned around David and saw Michael with the girl from the previous night. "Where you going Star?" David asked. Laddie ran for Dwayne who took his arm helping him on the back of his bike.
"For a ride, this is Michael," Star told him.
"Let's go," Michael said, reaching for her hand. Star moved closer to his bike.
"Star," David repeated her name. Star turned and David gave her a hard look. She hesitantly stepped away from Michael and approached Marko's bike climbing on behind him.
"Do you know Hudson's bluff? Over looking the point?" David asked.
"I can't beat your bike," Michael told him.
"You don't have to beat me, Michael," David said. "You just have to try and keep up."
Michael turned heading for his bike and David set off with the others behind him. He turned at the top off the stairs bouncing down them onto the beach. Bella wrapped her arms tighter around him and David smiled. He pushed his bike faster as they set off down the beach, weaving in and out of the people and bonfires. Bella let out a shout of laughter and David whooped in front of her. The raced under a pier and through some woods before they reached the bluff. Michael over took the others trying to catch up with David. The stayed side by side head straight for the edge of the cliff. Michael pulling back loosing his nerve and skidding sideways on his bike to the edge. He stopped with his front wheel hanging over the edge of a five hundred foot drop. David slammed his breaks on bringing them to a dead stop at the edge.
Bella peered over the edge. During her depression stage after the Cullens left she had become a bit of an adrenaline junkie. "That was awesome," Bella said, laughter in her voice.
"You think so beautiful?" David asked, turning to look at her over his shoulder. She froze, he was so close. David suddenly broke eye contact with her and turned his head as Michael punched him.
"Michael!" Bella reprimanded him but he ignored her.
David turned back to Michael and smirked. "How far are you willing to go Michael?"
David stepped off his bike and turned lifting Bella off as the others disappeared down the steps. "Are you okay?" Bella asked, looking up into his eyes. She cupped his face in his hands examining his face.
"Yeah, your boyfriend doesn't punch that hard," David said.
"Michael? He's not my boyfriend," Bella told him.
David wrapped his arms around her pulling her to him. "That's good news for me," David told her smiling. He put an arm around her shoulder and led her down the stairs after the others.
A/N: Posted on 05/10/2015. All outfits are on my profile. Violet x.
