AN: Thanks to my wonderful Beta, my friend Cara. She is wonderful in every way. Even though she hates twilight, she is willing to read through my chapters and make corrections for me. Disclaimer: I do not own Twilight, just the plot bunny!
Chapter 4
"So, tell me about my new brother Adair!" Emmett turned towards me with a cheeky grin. I looked at him with a smirk on my face. I kept picturing Emmett with a small cap on his head with the little propeller and holding a giant lollipop. He looked at me weird and I finally realized that I was laughing while looking at him.
"I'm sorry; I was just having a mental picture of you that cracked me up." I said with a smile.
"Care to share me in on the joke?" He asked.
"No, but anyway, I am 18 years old, I have a sister...which you already know. Also I love every animal except for snakes, I love men, I like to read and writ-"
"– What?" I was interrupted by Emmett's question.
"What?" I asked back.
"What did you say before you like to read and write?" He asked.
"Mm...That I love men? I hope it's not a problem for you." I said with worry etched on my face. He looked at me with a thinking face on.
"No, it's not a problem with me, it's none of my business and everyone should love anyone they want to." He said. I looked at Emmett with a smile on my face. He looked back at me with a 'what' expression.
"You are just the sweetest person anyone could ever want to meet." I said with my eyes misting over.
"Hey, don't cry, it's honestly my opinion. I hate to see someone judged because they love someone that is not 'normal'. I mean, what is normal anyway? What is considered normal now may not be considered normal in 50 years from now." He said with a serious face. "I mean, I was judged because I am bi-sexual, and at the time I couldn't understand why people were so upset over the fact! But now I am a part of a loving family and a wonderful wife…well, now it seems that she is not so wonderful anymore." He finished with a sigh. This wonderful man was married and bi? But their marriage seems to be not so perfect after all.
"If it helps Emmett, you are a wonderful person, and if your wife cannot see that then it is shame on her. I just can't see why she is not seeing you in the same light that I am." I said with a wistful expression. Conversation kind of fell into a nice silence then, and when we reached my house a little later, we parted with a 'thank you' and a 'no problem' answered back I headed to the door.
Once I walked inside I noticed Bella and Charlie sitting on the couch with worried expressions. They rushed to give me a hug once I entered the house. "Adair! Where were you?" Charlie asked, his cop coming through the facade.
"I was with Jake until I had a little spat with his father, then one with Jake – effectively ending a possible friendship – then I started to walk home until Bella had Emmett look for me." I said.
Bella looked at me confused, "I never had Emmett look for you, I didn't even tell his-" she stopped at the realization and a whispered "Alice!" with a chuckle followed. After my explanation Charlie parted with another hug and a 'never do that again' look. Bella pulled me upstairs into her room and shut the door. She pointed to her bed "Sit and explain." I sat down with a sigh.
"What do you want me to say? That Billy couldn't accept me for who I was and accused me of trying to change Jacob? Or that Jacob refused to be my friend because I wouldn't go straight or even because he was too afraid of his dad." I said with tears in my eyes.
She sighed and sat down next to me and patted my leg. "Look Adair, I knew that was a possibility, he had to of learned homophobia from someone. I was just hoping he was pretending to just please his dad, but now with your explanation, I now see that he may be a lost cause. If you want my opinion, Jake is really a nice guy. But he just needs to grow up a little bit, to figure out his own beliefs and such. Don't take it to heart Aiden; you are better off without his friendship anyway." She finished, while rubbing my back.
"I just don't get how someone can hate something without fully understanding it themselves!" I said to near sobbing point.
"I know, but hate and homophobia is learned, you are not born with it. It'll take Jake time to re-learn years of hate. I can't promise that he will though, so just forget about him and live your life. Now get some sleep, we have school tomorrow, your first day!" She said and I groaned my displeasure at the word 'school'.
The next morning I woke up to the horrid sound coming from my left. I hit the button to the alarm clock to give myself a few more peaceful minutes. It was short lived when my sister came in to the room yelling "Good Morning!" with a mouth full of tooth paste! When the hell did she even get up? I am a light sleeper, I would've at least heard her close the door! With a groan at her volume, I went under the covers but not without sticking a certain finger at my rabid looking sister.
"DAD! AIDEN GAVE ME THE FINGER!" She screeched.
"Don't yell Bella, no wonder you got the finger." I heard Dad grumble, coming out of his room. I chuckled at his reaction.
I eventually got up and got dressed into a 'Monday' outfit. You know, the one where you try to make it somewhat fashionable, but it is half assed because you absolutely hate Monday mornings that you just throw anything on? Well yeah, that is what my outfit looked like.
About 20 minutes later Bella pulled up to the school and she started to drag me to the office to get my schedule. When we got here no one was here so the school was relatively quiet except for the random teacher walking in to set up for the day in their classroom. Finally reaching the main office, Bella pulled me up to the desk. "Hello Mrs. Cope, this is my brother Aiden, he is new!" She said to a middle aged looking woman with wide rimmed glasses.
"Oh! Well hold on one second while I get his packet together." She then rushed around the office grabbing different papers. After a minute she walked to where we were and handed me a bunch of papers. "Okay, here is your schedule, map, and a paper for all of your teachers to sign. If you need anything else please do not hesitate to ask!" She said with a perky smile. If it wasn't for the fact that she was an authority figure I would've punched her in the face for her Monday morning perkiness. With a thank you, Bella and I left the office to go sit in her car for a good 20 minutes until she spotted her boyfriend's car heading into the parking lot.
We got out of the truck and headed towards a shiny silver Volvo. Edward got out of the driver's seat, and two others got out of the car with him. One was a girl, with short spikey hair, the second was a gorgeous male, with chin length blond hair and toned muscles. All three of them came up to us, but the spikey haired one literally bounced in front of me.
"Hi, I'm Alice, you and I are gonna be the best of friends. You being gay is just gonna solidify our relationship, since your sister hates my shopping sprees." She finished with a glare toward my sister whom in question rolled her eyes at the comment.
The hunky one smiled in my direction and held his hand out. "Hello, I'm Jasper, it's nice to meet you." He said it with a sexy southern twang. My heart just about melted. He was too good to be true. I almost just about soaked my 'panties'.
Alice giggled at my expression and came up to my ear "I know, he does that to me too when he talks." She whispered. My cheeks flamed fire red from embarrassment. I looked over to Jasper to see him chuckling.
At that time, Emmett came up behind me with a blonde bombshell of a woman who sent a glare my way. "So who is getting embarrassed?" Emmett asked with a huge smile.
"Nothing Emmett, so Aiden what are your classes?" Edward asked getting me out of the situation. I sent a grateful smile toward him.
I kept seeing the blonde send glares my way, and annoyed with her, I whipped toward her snapping, "Do you have a problem?" It was laced with attitude.
Everyone seemed to fall silent after my outburst. She answered with a sneer "Yes, you." She said flicking her blonde mane.
"Well that is just too fucking bad, if you can't stand me – which I don't know how you couldn't since you just met me – then just ignore me bitch!" I growled out, getting up in her face.
An emotion seemed to pass over her features, and then she broke out into a smirk. "Well at least you have good taste in clothing for a Monday morning." She told me looking at my clothing choice. I looked at her outfit and noticed her shoes.
"Oh my gosh! Are those the new season Gucci heels?" I asked in a near shriek. I looked at her with my jaw dropped.
She looked up at me then at Alice, "This one is a keeper Alice, he can hold himself up pretty well and he knows his designers." She looked at me and slinked her arm through mine and started walking with me toward the school. "Don't wait up Emmett!" She yelled.
At the same time I swear I heard Emmett say "What the hell just happened?" Dismissing that thought Rosalie and I walked to a classroom, when I pulled out my schedule I realized we were in the same class and in the right room.
"How did you know this was my first class?" I asked curiously. She was looking at me with a smile.
"Well bitch, I looked at your schedule when Bella said you were coming to live with her, I was the one who persuaded Mrs. Cope to give you the classes so that you would have at least one of us in each class." She smirked and pulled out her notebook and pencil.
"Oh, well thank you. I'm glad I won't be sitting alone in any of my classes. I'm assuming we all have lunch together?" I asked.
"Yup, with a school the size of this, they are able to fit everyone in the cafe at one time, so everyone's lunch period is the same." She told me with a bored expression.
"Oh, okay." With that said, I noticed the class was already filled up with most of the students looking at me. It was awkward. And on that awkward note, Calculus started.
After calculus, Rosalie and I walked to my next class – which was AP Physics. I noticed Bell and Edward sitting in there together. With a wave goodbye to Rosalie, I walked in and took a seat next to a girl with long black hair and cute square framed glasses.
"Hi, I'm Angela, and you must be Bella's brother Aiden." She said with a sweet voice. I already knew I was going to like her. I shook her hand and we started talking about our likes and dislikes.
After Physics, I said goodbye to Angela and walked with Bella and Edward to my next class which was gym. I knew Bella hated this class because she and I were in it together. She gave the entrance to the gym a look so hateful you could see the gym disintegrate. She gave Edward a kiss goodbye and we parted ways to our respective changing rooms. While in the locker room, I was approached by this blond haired kid that looked like he was trying to get jacked but had about a lot of weight lifting to go.
"Yo!" He said with a nod.
"Yo!" I said mocking him. He looked at me shocked.
"Are you mocking me?" he asked.
"Yup, one thing you need to know about me, I hate when people cannot speak proper English." I said.
"Whatever, so what's up?" He asked.
"The sky." I answered with a bored tone.
"You know what? Fuck you." He said walking away with anger.
"Sorry, I don't go for little boys." I called while he was walking away. After that whole ordeal, I met Bella in the gym and told her about the encounter and was answered with her laughing. I found out his name was Mike Newton. Ew, who wants a last name with the word newt in it? He was glaring at me from across the gym and talking to a built African American kid. I could tell he was talking about me, but I chose to ignore him and laugh at my sister's lame attempts at sports.
A sprained ankle and a black and blue cheek, I was in near tears from laughter. She was glaring at me while I was helping her to the nurse's office. I could see Edward walking toward us with a worried look. "What happened?" He asked picking Bella up bridal style. All I had to say was Bella and sports in the same sentence and he chuckled knowing what exactly I was talking about. Bella was still glaring at me.
"Bella honey, glaring gives you wrinkles." I said walking to my next class which was according to my schedule, European History. Once I got to the class I noticed that both Emmett and Jasper were in the class room. I was happy to see that there were three seats to a table. Of course there was a seat in between them. Once I plopped down on the seat blowing air out of my cheeks, I pulled out my notebook and pencil.
"So Aiden, how has your day been so far?" Jasper asked me. I almost slid off the chair from getting soaked in my own goo.
"Oh, umm, very good so far. I've been approached by Mike Newton today. I'm just trying to figure out if he is the type to start trouble." I said with pensiveness. I heard Emmett growl, can you say sexy?
Ignoring that lovely thought I noticed Emmett squeezing his pencil and had a glare on his face saying, "If Newton knows better, he will leave you alone, or he will have to answer to me!" I nodded and proceeded to take notes in the class.
The very last period of the day was lunch and my stomach was making some noises by that time. Once Emmett, Jasper, and I reached the cafe, I told them I would meet them at their table and quickly got in line for lunch. I noticed there was a wrap station and quickly looked at all the choices. My favorite wrap, which was 'Buffalo Chicken', was up there and I chose that one without a second thought.
Grabbing my finished wrap and an chocolate milk, I headed to the lunch table. I noticed everyone except for Bella and I had just an apple which they were just picking at anyway. Before I knew it, I devoured the wrap and burped really loudly.
"You know, for a gay man you really have some straight man tendencies." Alice said with an odd look.
"Well I'm not your typical gay man. But this is just Monday. Wait until the rest of the week, where I'm more awake. I can get really flamboyant, just ask Bella." I said, pointing to said person. She nodded her head in affirmation. I heard a really loud clap and noticed Emmett with a smirk on his face.
"Aiden my boy, tell me something-" He was interrupted by Edward's warning "Emmett."
"Calm down Eddie boy, I am pretty sure he won't mind me asking. Aiden, do you pitch or catch?" He asked. I dropped my mouth in shock at that question. I know he was curious, but how rude! So I rebutted with my own.
"I'll answer your question if you answer mine, which one of the three holes of Rosalie's gets used the most?" I asked. He looked at me in shock and I could tell he was getting angry with the glare he was sending my way.
"That's none of your damn business!" I just looked at him with a perfectly manicured, lifted eyebrow. It took a few seconds for him to make the connection. He rubbed the back of his neck awkwardly. "Sorry dude, I didn't realize how rude that question was. Please forgive me." He said.
I smiled and forgave him, I then looked to Rosalie and I said sorry to her, but she replied with, "It's okay Aiden, he needed the wakeup call." Some pleasant conversation ensued after that. Once lunch was over, we all walked toward our respective cars.
"Hey Aiden, my parents are inviting you and Bella to our house for dinner, would you like to go?" Edward asked.
I looked to my sister and saw that she didn't care so I said "Sure, I just have to get home and do my homework, and then we will be over." I said. He nodded, gave Bella a peck on the lips and drove off with the rest of his siblings. Bella and I walked to the truck and my last thought was 'what am I going to wear?
AN: Well there it is! The next chapter. After the month of April I should be able to update regularly. Also, The reason Rosalie is so nice to Adair is because he connects with her better, since he is gay and all. Plus you might realize that I don't mention Bella that much, it's because I do not like her character that much, since she is basically a push over for Edward and never stands up for herself. But I might change that. Review, I like to hear everyone's thoughts about my story and such.