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Dusk Chapter 4: You're The One That I Want
( Saturday)
Bella woke up on Saturday morning to a missed call from three am. This was the fourth missed call from an unknown number at three am she had woken up to. She was getting so tired of it. The first night she had left her sound on, and it had woken her up, but after that she had kept her phone on buzz at night. She figured maybe it was a scam, just someone trying to get her credit information, but she wanted to stay up late that night to find out.
Bella sat at the kitchen counter, Charlie reading his newspaper. " So what are you doing today?" He asked. Bella's heart beat faster. Her father never liked it when she went out with boys. Not that that ever really happened, she turned down almost every last one of them. Sometimes she would give in for the hell of it. But she never actually kind of liked a guy before. She liked Matt.
Charlie was suspicious. He knew that his daughter was up to something. He was a good cop, which made him good at knowing when someone was up to something. And in Bella's case, that something had to be her indulging in boys. This didn't happen very often, but when it did, Charlie was miserable. He wished she could've stayed an innocent little kid forever. It was so much easier then.
" Ahh...Going out to lunch." She replied reluctantly. Charlie frowned. He was right. " Who with?" He asked, he at least should know who the boy was that was taking his little girl out.
" Umm...Matt Newton." She replied, she knew what his response would be. Isn't he a little old for you? Yes, that would be it for sure.
Charlie hummed while thinking about who this boy was.
" Isn't he a little old..." Her father started saying, she cut him off, " No! No, he's not too old. He's perfectly young still." She said. She couldn't help it, she was actually interested in this particular boy.
" Fine, but isn't Mike a little more suitable?" He asked. Bella thought that Charlie must be completely oblivious. Mike was not her type. Not that she really had a type. Well, she supposed her type was a gorgeous Quileute werewolf with a six pack and anger issues. Paul, to be precise.
" I tried that with Mike already dad, remember?" She asked. Charlie huffed and nodded. " It wasn't exactly a date...Jacob was there." Charlie argued. He was very stuck in his ways. " It was horrible either way." She told him.
After a few more minutes of arguing, Charlie finally gave up.
There was nothing he could do to stop his daughter from going on a date with the older boy. So later that day, when she left in her big old truck to head over to the diner and meet him, Charlie didn't stop her. She had won the argument. She always did.
Bella met Matt outside the diner.
Bella wanted to try being in a relationship. She wanted so badly to be able to get around the imprint. So what if Paul was attractive and exciting, he didn't want her, and she never wanted to be in a relationship where someone didn't truly want her. She knew that if she went to Paul and told him how she felt he would instantly do whatever she wanted. But that was because of the imprint. Paul didn't want her. His wolf did, the imprint did.
She wanted to beat the imprint so badly that she was willing to ignore her every thought of Paul, she was even willing to ignore the tug at her heart she felt as Matt took her hand and bought her inside. Matt wasn't Paul, but Paul wasn't hers. Matt could be hers if she played her cards right.
She could fall for him and they could be happy, she would be safe, human, normal. She would never feel completely happy, but she would never have to worry about the other person's happiness.
Her date with Matt went smoothly, almost perfectly. He was funny and nice and everything she would have ever wanted. But he just wasn't Paul. Bella didn't care though. She would keep trying with Matt. She actually really liked him.
" Why don't we go see a movie?" Matt asked as they exited the diner. " A movie? Is there any good ones out?" She asked. She knew there probably wouldn't be in the tiny little town theatre.
" Umm...there's some cheesy shark movie out, horror." Of course they had a cheesy horror action movie. They always did. That reminded her of when she went out with Mike and Jacob, which reminded her of Jacob, which reminded her of Paul. It was a vicious cycle.
" Okay, let's see it, I'm feeling brave." She said with sarcasm. The movie most likely wouldn't be scary. " Great." Matt replied with a grin.
They walked to the theatre, since it was right in town like everything else. This was the perfect date. She wished that her body wouldn't betray her and tell her that all she wanted was Paul.
After buying tickets and settling down with a huge jug of popcorn, Bella and Matt sat through ten minutes of commercials and a two hour screening of an obvious fake shark biting people's limbs off. Some of the other girls in the theatre were all tucked into their boyfriends sides, playing the scared card, but Bella was laughing her head off every time an ' attack ' happened.
Matt loved that she wasn't like other girls. She wasn't scared or weak or ridiculously girly. She was tough and funny and somehow mysterious, and Matt loved it.
Bella felt free for the first time since the imprint, for the first time since Edward left. She felt happy and she hadn't felt that way in a long time.
Exiting the theatre after the movie's ending, Bella and Matt both were still laughing their heads off.
Bella was laughing away when she noticed Matt staring at her with a look she couldn't describe. " What?" She asked. He smiled, taking a step closer. " I love your laugh." He stated. She smiled. " Do you?" She asked with a twinkle in her eye. He nodded and leaned down to capture her lips in a kiss. Bella felt a stabbing pain in her chest, which she ignored as she kissed Matt.
It was small, sweet, and the perfect first date kiss. But it wasn't perfect because it wasn't Paul. She hated that.
Hand in hand, they walked back to their cars which were back at the diner.
( Two thousand three hundred and eighteen miles away in Alaska)
" She's moved on Edward. You should do the same." Alice advised her brother. Edward turned his head to give a menacing glare at his sister, shocking her. Edward had hardly moved in a long time. He never got out. He never fed. His skin was chalky and underneath his dark eyes were baggy, bruised ovals of skin. He looked like a human who hadn't slept in days. " She's moved on with what? A human? The boy will never be good enough for my Isabella. She's different, Alice."
" I know she's different. We all do. We all felt it, Edward."
He tried to forget Bella for so long, and eventually gave up. His obsession with her had been unhealthy. She was drawn into him and became attached because of the drug-like effects their allure caused, but Edward had been deleteriously infatuated with the young girl.
At first it was just because he couldn't read her mind, but after watching her he grew obsessed. She wasn't like the average human, there was something else there. Something underneath it all that had been so alluring.
Even Jasper felt it. He had described it as tasting baked goods in the air but not ever being able to eat them. Just barely a hint of that flavor.
It wasn't her blood he was talking about, no, it was her emotions. Her soul. Jasper had never in his long lifetime ever felt anything like it. His best guess was that Bella was some sort of angel, or belonged to something else. Something...inhuman, something that was completely beyond him and what he had so far come to believe. The devil perhaps, or even a god of some type. He suspected that she didn't belong to whatever it was just yet, it was a sense that was under the skin, something not quite there yet.
Jasper was the only one with the ability to feel another's feelings, but every member of their family had felt whatever it was inside of Bella. It was the mystery that drew everyone else in, but it was the feeling that had drawn Jasper in.
Edward had become addicted to Bella, to discovering what it was that made her different. He watched her always, he was always at her side, just trying to see what it was. Jasper tried to intervene, but it never worked. Edward was an addict.
Jasper was watching Edward, feeling what he felt. He could sense that Edward was at his tipping point. He would no longer be able to stay away from the girl. Within a months time at best the family would be moving back into Forks. Despite the fact that Bella had moved on with the human. Despite the fact that she seemed better, different, somehow.
Despite everything, the Cullens would be back in Forks. They would be coming back for Bella.
Sorry for a shorter chapter this time around guys. I just finished writing out the full story plan for this story! Yay! Leave a review to let me know what you think of it so far.