~*The Aubergine Of Despair*~
~Chapter Two~
*Bella Isn't So Special*
*Role-Reversal, Devious Deals and Pulling Off Poses *
"What the fuck?" Edward shouted at me, his topaz eyes glinting with fury.
No way was I taking this.
"What? You expect me just to stand back and watch that psycho bitch-slap my friends?"
Edward narrowed his eyes and took a step towards me.
"Who the hell do you think you are?" He growled.
"Surely you would know, you're the mind reader." I said, I saw Alice smirk as the words came out of my mouth.
Edward took another step towards me so we were only inches apart, oh geez.
He was really fucking pretty... awww man...
Then shock flitted across that perfect face of his.
"What? Why? How?" He stuttered, stumbling back a little.
Just then Alice started laughing again and Edward whirled to face her, glaring.
"You saw this? You saw this and you never told me? Why the hell wouldn't you tell me?" Edward was livid.
God he was HAWT when he was mad.
"I thought it would be more fun this way." Alice said grinning.
"More fun? What the hell is wrong with you Alice?"
"Nothing really. Oh apart from being a future-seeing vampire with an unhealthy obsession for shopping and pretty much anything pink." Alice mocked.
"Oh hilarious." Edward said sarcastically and turned back to me. His topaz eyes locked with my green ones and he stepped towards me again. He took my face in his hands and held my gaze, his sweet breath fanning across my face.
"Why? Why can't I read you?" He whispered.
It all clicked.
Edward couldn't hear my thoughts, he couldn't even read them on my face.
"You can't?" I grinned.
"It's not funny..." He said pouting and dropping his hands from my face.
"Oh contraire my dear Edward, I find it very amusing indeed." I laughed and turned to high five Laura who was also laughing.
'Who the hell uses that kind of language nowadays? What a freak.'
I whirled round to face Edward again.
"Sorry Edward, but I think you'll find it's you that is the freak." I replied smoothly.
Edward's mouth just dropped right open.
I didn't understand what was wrong until I heard Edward's voice again.
'She just read my mind. She just read my mind! What the fuck is going on here?' I heard these words, clear as day, inside my head in Edward's voice. I was facing him the whole time, his lips didn't move, no sound came out his mouth.
Holy mother of flying Jebus... Edward was in my head...
I couldn't think, I couldn't even breathe.
I slowly looked up towards Alice and Rosalie and their eyes were wide, both of them looking from me to Edward in shock.
"Uh... eh, Ali...blugh, Rose...eh?" Yeah, that was me, I was THAT confused.
"EH? You... what? Huh... eh." Laura spluttered from behind me.
I heard a gasp from Jasper and he started spouting off words at vampire speed.
I could have sworn he used the words "minds", "barriers", "never before" and possibly "cabbage".
Once Jasper had stopped his general mutterings a deathly silence fell upon our group.
Then Emmett gasped and pointed from me to Edward and back again rapidly.
Trust Emmett to be the last to figure it out in a bunch that included two humans.
Rosalie hit him.
'This is impossible, she can't, she can't. Its coincidence. It has to be. It's coincidence.' Edward's voice rang through my mind once again.
"It's not." I stated bluntly.
'It has to be. We can't be having a conversation where I'm not the one mind-reading.'
"Well we obviously are. How much evidence do you need Edward?"
'Bella's gonna flip, she loved being the only one I couldn't read. Now there's you, but you can read me.'
"I'm sure Bella will get over it." I said while smirking.
"Sure I'll get over what exactly?" Bella interjected. She had come round eventually from me smashing her in the face.
In all honesty I never meant to hit her that hard, I just wanted to teach her a lesson.
I heard an 'Oh shit' cross Edward's mind as Bella approached us and I laughed.
"Edward can't read me. Not even my face. He can't tell anything about my thoughts whatsoever. Yet somehow, I can read your darling Edward. Clear as day." I laughed. I was over the initial shock of it and was now overjoyed, ecstatic even.
"What! NO FAIR! I'M SUPPOSED TO BE THE SPECIAL ONE!" Bella screamed and flung herself on the floor in tears.
"Oh you are special, just not in a good way." I heard Laura mumble from behind me and I burst out laughing as did Rosalie.
I expected Edward to comment on what Laura said but instead he suddenly turned to stare at Jasper.
"What do you mean you think you know what happened? Tell me damn it!" Edward shouted at him while thinking 'Please, get her out of my head!'
"That's not very nice Edward. You shouldn't talk to Jasper like that. And this is how all your siblings felt at first I bet. I can't control it. You just have to deal with it. It's extremely weird for me as well you know."
"No, I don't know." He said dryly. I laughed.
"Hah, I guess you wouldn't." I said and then stuck my tongue out at him.
"I think that something happened when you tried to connect your mind with Seraphie's. Maybe you pushed against her barriers far too hard and broke your own in the process, or maybe Seraphie's mind didn't like the fact that you tried to intrude it and so to defend itself, it broke your defences before you could break hers." Jasper said calmly. Edward looked ready to kill.
Just then Laura cleared her throat loudly from behind me and I whirled round. She was staring at something across the gym.
"Looks like we have trouble." She laughed and smirked at the band of whores coming our way.
Of course it had only been a matter of time before Lauren Mallory, head cheerleader and number one bicycle of Spazzy Academy, would come and try and dig her claws into the newbies.
"Step away from the new kids losers!" Lauren said while glaring at me and Laura, "They are way too cool to hang out with you freaks!"
Her little group of skank-faced wannabes laughed and snapped their fingers.
I didn't even bother wasting my breath on her, I just eyed her critically and smirked.
Laura knew she wasn't worth it either.
"Hey guys! Let me introduce myself!" Lauren said in her disgusting nasal voice. "I'm Lauren. Head cheerleader, amazing student, great person to be around. You're lucky that I'm willing to be your friend." She purred.
I couldn't help it, I laughed. I tried so hard not to, it's better not to interrupt Lauren because she makes even more of a prat of herself if she's allowed to continue, but it was just too funny.
"Something funny lemo?" Oh yeah, I was the 'lame emo' according to her so she shortened it to 'lemo' because she thought she was clever.
I swear I had seen snails with more brainpower than her.
"Your face." I blurted out without thinking. Force of habit I guess.
Tanya piped up. Tanya was Lauren's second in command.
"Her face isn't funny. There are a lot of things funnier than her face."
"Like your mum." I laughed.
"Excuse me?" Tanya looked genuinely confused and Lauren glared at her.
"Anyway!" Lauren practically shouted getting all attention focused back onto her. "Like I said, I'm Lauren. This is Tanya, Jessica and Victoria, my besties and half of my amazing cheerleading squad."
Me and Laura introduced the whores to Alice, Jasper, Rosalie, Emmett, Bella and finally Edward.
"So, Eddie, wanna do something fun tonight?" Lauren said huskily. I guess she meant to sound seductive, but she just sounded ill.
"Eh excuse me? I'm his girlfriend, back off." Bella said, grabbing Edward's arm and glaring at Lauren.
Oh Bella, such a wrong move.
Even though I didn't like Bella I didn't exactly want her to die on her first day at Spazzy Academy for getting between Lauren Mallory and a guy she wanted.
"Well, now he's met me he won't want someone as plain as you will he?" Lauren sneered in her face.
I could see that Bella was hurt by that, and even though Bella wasn't my favourite person in the world I hated Lauren more.
"Shut the fuck up Lauren." Laura sneered.
Just then I thought of a deal that Lauren wouldn't be able to resist, but also wouldn't be able to win and would successfully keep her away from Edward.
I'm so evil. I love it.
"Lauren I have a deal for you. Dance-off, here and now. You win, you get Edward. We win, you leave all of us alone for the next three months. Okay?" I said loudly.
Bella looked horrified, she actually thought that there was a chance we would lose and she would have to give up Edward.
"Okay. But it's got to be a group dance-off, four versus four. Two songs, one of our choice, one of yours. Audience decides the better group. No breaks, no switches and no violence." She had been up against me playing basketball before. She never did it again.
"Deal. Who are your four and what's your song?" I said calmly. Bella was still freaking out. Alice looked smug. I was betting that Alice had already seen that we were going to win.
'I swear to God if you lose this I will never ever forgive you Seraphie.' Edward's voice said in my head.
And Alice apparently hadn't informed Edward of her revelation. I grinned at Edward. He didn't look convinced.
"I choose myself, Tanya, Jessica and Victoria. Our song will be Disturbia by Rihanna. You?" Ooh, she made a rookie mistake there. It was such an easy song to dance to.
"I choose myself, Laura, Alice and Rosalie. Our song will be Comatose by Skillet." I didn't bother asking Alice and Rose if they would do it, if Alice had already seen that we won then she must have known that she was one of the ones dancing. Also there was no way that any of our opponents had ever listened to the song that I chose, they wouldn't be prepared. We would be. Comatose wasn't dance music, it was rock, so they would be completely thrown. It was their own fault for not specifying that it had to be dance music. This was going to be easy.
Until Laura started to freak out.
"What the hell Seraphie? You actually can't expect me to dance in front of all these people can you? What if I muck it up? What then? We won't win this, we can't. What are we going to do? They are cheerleaders, they'll probably put flips and stuff into their routine. Did you see their last one?"
"Laura. Chill. Seriously. There is no way we are going to lose this. The last one they were prepared for, it was announced three days in advance, songs and everything. This one is going to be won by us. We have practiced, we have an absolutely flawless routine to our own song and we've done enough spazzy dancing to get us through theirs. Plus, we have two stunning vampires on our side who can totally take care of themselves. We will win this. Go to the locker room with Alice and Rose now. I'll be there in a minute."
I walked over to Lauren and her posse.
"Right, we have fifteen minutes before we gather back in here and start the dance-off. You can do whatever you want during those fifteen minutes but you have to be ready and beside the stereo system straight after okay?"
"That's fine. Cya in fifteen minutes loser." Lauren sneered. The other three giggled.
I just rolled my eyes and walked away.
Alice opened the locker room door for me.
I laughed because she had saw me coming.
"Seraphie, what the hell are we going to do? There is no way that I can dance in front of all those people. I know we have an amazing routine and we can totally include Alice and Rosalie in it, but not in front of our gym class!" Laura whined, starting to panic again.
"Actually, it's going to be more than just your gym class, it kinda looks like the whole of your year or more are coming to see this." Alice said cautiously.
"You can't be serious." Laura said in a monotone, she looked ready to faint.
"Laura, listen to me. This will be the only time that we actually have to dance in front of people, you won't ever have to again, you just need to get through this and humiliate Lauren. Who cares if there are people watching you? Ignore them, focus on not letting Lauren win. She's never won against us before and we aren't going to let her start now. Okay?" I said semi-desperately. We needed Laura to get the confidence to go out there and kick Lauren's ass.
Laura grinned at my mini-speech and nodded enthusiastically. Alice and Rosalie high-fived each other and I sighed dramatically.
Alice then went and opened my locker and threw my bag to me. Thank God I caught it.
"I believe there is something in there that you need." Alice laughed and I grinned at her.
I dumped the contents of my bag onto the floor and handed Laura a black vest, a red one-shoulder top, a red fishnet glove, a pair of red converse, a pair of black ¾ length dance sweats and a black beanie hat.
"What's all that?" Rosalie asked me. I laughed.
"These are mine and Laura's hip hop dance outfits. I had a feeling we might need them today. Mine is nearly the same as Laura's. Just that the style of the top is a little different and everything that is red in her outfit is blue in mine."
Me and Laura got changed when Alice magically pulled out two tube tops, two black beanie hats and an assortment of accessories from her bag.
"What are those for?" Laura asked.
"For me and Rose." Alice said casually while throwing the red tube top to Rosalie.
I laughed as Alice put on what me and Laura would call her "fashion face".
You know the face she gets whenever she sees an opportunity to make someone look absolutely amazing and plans everything out in her head and she kind of dazes off a little, but not like when she has her visions. You can't bring her out of her visions. You could bring her out of her fashion-daze, but she'd probably kill you.
Yet Alice never fools around when it comes to fashion. The big grey cloud that was Alice's fashion forwardness had a teeny silver lining and that was Jasper's ability to distract her.
'Oh my God. Seraphie what are you doing? You can't lose this, please. I'm begging you, if I fall into the clutches of Lauren I'll never be able to get out of them again. You didn't see what she had planned for me, what she wanted from me. Please don't lose this.' Edward's voice rang through my head.
I laughed at the broken sound of Edward's voice compared to how cocky he always seemed on the outside. Alice, Rosalie and Laura all gave me a queer look at the same time.
"Edward." I said and they all nodded in understanding, "He's scared that we are going to lose and he's going to fall into the clutches of Lauren Mallory. He was begging me not to lose."
Rosalie lost it, she laughed and laughed, the sound was like bells, and she managed to choke out two words.
"Edward begged?" Was all she was able to breathe out and then started laughing again.
'Thank you Seraphie. Remind me never to talk to you again.' Edward sounded maaad...
"He's not going to like what you're about to say." Alice warned me, I shrugged and said it anyway.
"Alice, tell Edward that I have a tap into his brain, everything that he keeps a secret I can find out, he won't be able to not talk to me. I'm superhuman."
Then a feral growl ripped through my head.
It hurt like fuck.
And so did me falling on the floor because of it.
"What the hell? Seraphie, you okay?" Laura said at the same time that Rosalie crouched down beside me. I looked around and realised that Alice wasn't here anymore.
"Yeah, just got a major headache. Edward thought it would be funny to growl and it ripped straight through my brain." Just then I tried to get up with Rosalie steadying me. I stepped gently onto my left ankle and winced.
My left ankle has always been weak, but ever since I fell down the stairs a year and a half ago I was always twisting it at the most inconvenient times. It was the reason that I ended up on the floor quite a lot.
"Sit down and I'll bandage it for you." Said a calm velvet voice from behind me, "It's the least I can do."
I turned slowly to see Edward and Alice standing side by side against the door. It was almost comical how different their postures were. Edward looked downtrodden and ashamed and Alice looked blissful and utterly triumphant.
My guess was that Alice had shouted at him. I went to voice this but Alice just nodded at me and grinned so I sat down on the bench next to Laura quietly.
Alice handed him a first aid kit from her bag and then I laughed. I would have guessed that she hadn't seen that she'd need it today, I was betting that she carried it around with her for Bella's sake.
"See if I bugger my ankle half way through the dance-off and we lose then you only have yourself to blame Edward." I said calmly, trying to distract myself from the fact that an Adonis was bandaging my ankle gently.
Edward gulped audibly and us girls burst out laughing.
Ten minutes and one bandaged ankle later Alice, Rosalie, Laura and myself were all standing beside the stereo system. Alice was wearing a blue tube top, black skinny jeans, black heels, black beanie hat and an assortment of jewellery. Rosalie was dressed the same apart from the fact that her tube top was red. Me and Laura were in our nearly-matching hip-hop outfits and Lauren and her gang of hussies were nowhere to be seen.
Although it seemed like half of the school was here to watch the dance-off. I couldn't believe how fast news travelled around this school, and I also couldn't believe how they were all here, shouldn't they be in classes?
Laura looked horrified as her brown eyes roamed across the sea of faces all crowded round the small basketball court that we would be using as our stage. The bleachers were packed and there were still more people standing around, or sitting right next to the court.
The weird thing was that they weren't split into groups or cliques as they would normally be in the cafeteria, or at one of the school's basketball matches or at anything that required them to be in the same room together. Maybe they were all united against the whores. I hoped that they were.
At that point the double doors to the gym were flung wide open and in marched the four bimbos of the century. I laughed as they strutted to the court, swinging their hips madly. I also realised that they had all changed... into exactly the same outfit.
Surprise, surprise, they looked like sluts.
Denim mini skirt, tight pink V-neck top, pink heels, and the same make up smothering their faces. The only difference that you could see in any of them was their hair colour. Lauren was light, fake, bimbo, barbie blonde. Tanya was deeper blond, but it looked like she washed her hair in custard. Jessica was brunette, slightly lighter than Bella's brown but streaked with blonde highlights. Victoria had naturally curly, vivid red hair which stuck out in every direction, no matter what she tried to do with it.
To be honest, they looked ridiculous.
They took their positions on one side of the court, the two bimbo blondes up front with Jess and Victoria behind and to the sides of them.
We walked over casually and I thought we were all going to stand in a line but Alice and Rosalie stepped backwards so we were in the same formation as our opposition.
I looked back at Alice and grinned, she winked at me and I laughed.
"Are you ready to RRRRUMBLE!" We heard Emmett shout and the crowd around the court started cheering and clapping.
"Alright, settle down. I am Emmett Cullen, your official commentator and referee for this very unique event!" He hollered and everyone settled to hushed whispers, Emmett grinned and continued with his little speech.
I rolled my eyes at him, it was typical Emmett style to do something like this.
"Right, the first team of dancers I would like to present to you are Victoria! Jessica! And Tanya!" All of them waved to the crowd and posed when Emmett said their names, "And their team captain Lauren!" Some of the crowd cheered when Lauren waved and posed in their direction but I saw a few laughing.
At least that was encouraging.
"And now for the other team of dancers!" Emmett said with pride and gestured to us with a flourish.
The crowd were now frantically whispering to one another, looking at the four of us curiously.
"I would like to present to you Rosalie!"
Rose mimicked Lauren's posse by waving over dramatically and posing with her lips crazily pouted. The crowd laughed and cheered.
"Alice!" Emmett boomed.
Alice mocked the bimbos as well by waving with her hands above her head, crazily pouting her lips like Rosalie and then doing a perfect cartwheel. The crowd went crazy, it was amazing.
"Laura!"
Laura waved idiotically and then did a perfect Michael Jackson moonwalk in a circle around me. Me and Alice cracked up and Rose applauded her along with the crowd.
"And their team captain Seraphie!" Emmett shouted and gestured to me with hilarious Jazz Hands and I waved at the crowd while laughing. I then grabbed Emmett and span him round and dipped him. The crowd was ecstatic, laughing along with us.
Lauren and the other three didn't look amused in the slightest, and neither did the rest of cheerleaders who had gathered at opposite side of the court to the rest of the crowd.
Then I noticed that Edward, Bella, Jasper, Mike, Eric, Sam and Sarah were all standing at our side of the court, balancing out the cheerleaders on the other side.
Emmett went back to his position by the side of the court.
"The songs for this event are Disturbia by Rhianna, which will be started by Lauren's side, and then Comatose by Skillet, which will be started by Seraphie's side! Now without further ado let the battle commence!"
Emmett's ending statement was met with cheers and shouts from the crowd and the first 'dum, dum, de dum' of Disturbia was met with Lauren and Tanya strutting out to the middle of the court and the crowd going deathly quiet.
A/N: Hey guys, sorry I haven't updated in so long.
I've been crazily busy with exams and stuff.
But they are over now! So happy :D
I hope you liked this chapter.
Review pleasey!
BTW Please note that I DO NOT think that all blondes are bimbos, just Lauren and Tanya, please dont be offended if you are blonde.
Its the dance-off chapter next!
That's gonna be aweshum to write :D
And if anyone has any suggestions for dance moves (for either side) then please tell me.
All reviews will be rewarded with cookies :P
X Seraphie X
