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Previously
"Okay well let's go home so we can get ready for tonight." Paul said as he gathered his stuff and mine.
"'Kay then." I waved "Bye boys."
"Bye Bells" was my chorus goodbye.
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Paul and I got to the beach just before 6, the sun was still shining but it was clouding over. The Boys were setting up the bonfire and there were about 20 people all there with some music playing. I could see Mike and his friends over to the left; Mike was trying to appear like he wasn't staring at me. It was really obvious he wasn't even facing the way into his circle of friends. It was sad really. I shook my head and walked over to wear Jake Embry and Quil were throwing a football.
"Hey, Guys." I said when I was about 5 meters away; they all turned their heads at the same time with the same smiles on the faces.
"Hey bells!" They chanted. All in sync.
"Whoa, creeping me out with the whole in sync thing there!" I joking started backing with my hands raised.
"Naw, we don't scare you bells. You love us!" Quil shouted to me as he went to retrieve the ball
"Yeah, of course I do." I rolled my eyes.
"Jake! Man I told you she loves me!" Quil yelled at Jake bouncing up and down like a little kid.
"Uh, Quil, dude hate to break it to you, but she was being sarcastic." Embry chuckled, Jake joined in.
"Yeah, Quil we all know she loves me most." Jake said glancing over at me with a grin on his face.
"Uh, Guys, I'm sorry but I love Mike Newton more then you guys." I joked. All there laughing stopped and they all turned to be with hurt faces.
"Bells."
"Your"
"Not serious are you?" Finishing each other's sentence that was cute. Unfortunately for Mike heard my joke and he obviously hasn't been taught sarcasm and thought I was serious. So he walked up beside me and slung his arm around my shoulder.
"Yeah, boys she's serious, I am the love of her life." I looked over at him.
"She has a name you know."I said. It was annoying me that they weren't saying my name.
"Of course Bella, I know you have a name. It's a beautiful name." Mike spieled. I glanced over at my boys, their faces were hilarious, and their jaws were dropped.
"Mike, dude remove your arm from my shoulders before I remove it for you." He smelt really bad and it was worse considering I was tucked under his arm. I don't think he's heard of a shower either.
"Bella, you could never hurt me baby." He had a smug look on his face until he peered down at me. The smile slid from his face.
"This is your last warning. Remove the arm or I do it for you." He clearly thought I was still joking; he just chuckled and left his arm there. I took a deep breath. I saw Jake out of the corner of my eye, getting everyone else's attention to watch what I was going to do. Thanks Jake, that's what I wanted an audience. For god's sake boys never learn.
"Mike Last chance." He just shook his head. "Fine your fault; you leave me no other choice." And with that I grabbed his arm and flipped him over my body using his own weight as leverage he hit the ground with a massive thud, I saw all the air rush out of his lungs. Winded, barely anything, I broke a couple of Paul's ribs once.
"You were warned." I said as I stepped over him towards Jake and the others. I could hear mutterings like "dam that was hot." Or "Oh my god, were did she learn that." And "OH MY GOD IS HE OKAY?" I assumed the last one was from his fan club of whores. Okay well whores may be to strong of a word, but they had bleach blonde hair, cake faces and the all were all over mike and his friends, Yeah whores seems appropriate.
"Dam, Bells that was hot." Jake said as I walked past in a lowered voice for me only. I smirked and went to the esky that had randomly appeared. I grabbed two drinks out and threw one to Jake who had followed me over.
"So, reckon anyone will bother me again?" I questioned Jake. As we sat drinking our drinks and watching the sun set.
"I don't think so, and nobody's ever gonna cross you, not after that." He ruffled my hair.
"You had to mess with the hair didn't you?" I sighed Boys never learn, he'd done this once before. I threw him to the ground that time. I wasn't really feeling like hurting him so I pushed him backwards of the log we were sitting on. He fell without a problem but he took me down with him. Laughing his head off at the whole thing.
"Your plan failed there bells." I glared at him.
"Not funny Jake." He grinned
"Pretty funny actually Bells" I sighed and rolled onto my back the boys weren't too far away and bonfire was behind us. "So what happened between you and Leah she seems to hate you."
"Uh, I don't know I met here once you remember we were all at yours and we were play fighting when she rocked up and I just happened to have you pinned at the time, with me on top of you. And when we looked over she glared at me. So the real question is what happened between you and Leah?" I looked over at him his face was guarded. (A/N: I know she dated Sam and what not in the books but I'm changing it because I'm cool like that.)
"We dated for about 6 months, then some stuff happened and well we fell apart and to was messy to say the least. I think she may still have something for me." He confessed in a tiny voice.
"May? I think she does bub; I don't think she's over it. When did you break up? So for prying but I'm interested now."
"That's ok, it was about 6 months ago. Actually I think we hooked up for the first time at this bonfire so yeah that would make sense."
"I see. Well you wanna hear about some of my bad break ups, there pretty funny." I saw him smile and nod. "Okay then well, I dated this guy called Tim; you know classic jock, big muscular blonde hair blue eyes, Very cute. So we'd been dating for about a month, when he finds me one lunch time and we go for a walk around the school, and he seemed really nervous, I was quite worried too. So eventually we sat down and talked, we broke up that day. Turns out he was gay and he'd only just realised. We are still really close friends." Jake was laughing his head off I giggled as well. WAIT! WHAT! I do not giggle. Once we both regained composure I continued. "Okay, there was this other guy, Jack. Absolutely stunning he was a muso, played drums, and he had awesome hair. Okay at one party we got separated and extremely drunk, like as I don't know who you are or where I am but I really wanna fuck you drunk. So I may of hooked up with this guy, Troy, that was Jack's seedy best friend at the time, he also had a girlfriend that I was alright friends with. So Troy and I go to some room you know both completely out of it about to fuck each other, and guess who stumbles in. Jack and troy's girlfriend stumble into the room clearly trying to find a place to hook up. I see who it is and not caring that I'm almost naked start yelling at him for cheating on me with his best friend's girlfriend. We got in a screaming match I called him a jerk and he called me a slut so I hit him and told him if he ever came near me again he'd lose a lot more than his dignity and walked out still blind drunk in nothing but my bra and undies."
"Dam, that woulda been a sight." Jake sighed. I looked over at him
"Excuse me." I said in a mock angry voice.
"Bells, I was just saying that you woulda looked smoking hot while yelling at a guy in nothing but your underwear." He smiled at me.
"Oi, You two!" Jake and I both looked towards who was yelling at us, it was Sam "It's time." I looked at Jake who just smiled at me and jumped up pulling me with him.
"Jake, time for what?" I followed him confused.
"Nothing bells, just a traditional thing, we all gather round our bonfire and names are randomly drawn out of a hat to do stupid things usually with someone else." It's always fun and games nothings ever taken too seriously. Come on it'll be fun." I sighed and let myself be pulled over too were the guys were.
Everyone was gathered near the bonfire but were facing some guy that was standing on the small sand dune behind it.
"That's Jace, he holds this party each year. So he does the dares." Jake informed me as we wove through the crowd to were the boys were.
"Okay everyone, welcome to the Fifth back to school bonfire." Everyone cheered. Jace smiled. "Okay we will be doing the dares a lil different this year. What will be happening is you will separate into your cliques and dares will be chosen from there including member and sometimes other cliques. Alright then everyone spilt into your cliques." Everyone did. And Jace came round to each individual cliques and made us choose out names and dares, we only picked them out then, he went to every group then back to his sand dune.
"Okay, I'll read out each cliques dare then, after every dare has been read only then can you attempt to complete each dare. "He started reading each dare, I zoned out until he reached our group. "Okay finally, The Quileute tribe. Your dare, includes, Bella and Paul." My jaw hit the ground. WHAT! I was new how the fuck did my name get in there."The dare is that Paul will choose four guys, From Four different cliques, for Bella to kiss, her choice on best kiss get one date. Paul gets to choose the guys." I stood there with my jaw open, staring at this Jace, I'm pretty sure I could kill him right now.
"Paul, please don't make me do it." I turned pleading to him.
"I can't Bells, we have to do it, or its streak around the school tomorrow at Lunch." I stared at him.
"What?"
"That's the deal with the dares. If you don't do them you get humiliated in front of everyone." I thought about it.
"Fine, but no-one exceptionally gross. Please." He nodded his face in thought. It took him about five minutes to decide who I was gonna have to kiss. Eww. God I bet he gets back at me with Mike Newton, god he would do something like that too.
"Okay decision made, I gotta find Jace. I'll be right back." With that Paul ran off to find Jace.
"Bad luck there Bells, that's gotta suck, First school party and you have to do the dare." Embry called out to me. I turned around.
"What do you reckon would happen if Jace went missing?" I asked and innocent look on my face.
"Well, at the moment I think you'd get the blame, I saw the murderous gaze there Bells, Don't worry nobody will call you anything because of this. And if they do will, I think we're more than capable to make them stop."
"I guess but still, doesn't mean I want to do this, can't I just punch them instead?"I glanced up at Embry who had come and put a comforting arm around me.
"No, because you'd probably do that anyway. But if you're lucky Jace will allow Paul to pick someone from your group and then you can just pick them as the best kisser and done."
'Hoping Paul will pick you them Em?" Embry flushed and turned away. I chuckled. "It's okay Em, I love you, and if he does pick you, I'll let you take me to the movies and buy me popcorn." I smiled at him and he smiled back.
"Okay I'm back; I've got this whole thing planned right. I'm picking Mike Newton, from the jocks, Tyler from the "cool" clique, Eric From the nerds, and Jake from us. You'll kiss them in that order, and then choose. I'll go with you so if they try anything I'll knock them out." Paul returned still with a look of utter concentration on his face. He looked at me. "Sorry Bells, I hate doing this to you but I picked people that can be scared easiest and I don't think Mike's gonna try anything. Not after you completely ruined his ego and all that." He smiled at me. I smiled back, I started thinking I was gonna have to kiss Jake, It made me feel nervous I mean he was really hot and tank and tan and awesome and he made me laugh, He'd seen me cry, he'd seen me beat the crap out of Paul, He'd even given me blood after I got hit by the car, He stalked me, He made me feel safe. So why was it such a big deal that I had to kiss him? Mike, Tyler and Eric didn't bother me, just kind of annoyed me but Jake, it was different. I felt vulnerable; besides Paul he knew the most about me, out of the boys at least. I was so wrapped up in my thoughts I barely heard Paul saying my name.
"Bells, Bella, Bella, Isabella Marie Swan answer me." I snapped out of my thoughts when he said my full name.
"Really Paul my full name?" I glanced up at him.
"Well, how else did you expect me to get your attention you were off deep into your thoughts, and that's what it takes to get you out of them." I sighed.
"Okay, so what did you want?"
"Time for you dare." I frowned.
"Okay then lead the way." Paul grabbed my hand and led me over to Mike's clique. Eww, Mike Newton I'd known him for a day and I disliked him a lot.
"Okay, Clique number one, guy number one, Mike Newton, one kiss and that's it hands, go anywhere there not meant to I'll personally break them." Paul said glaring at Mike, He looked scared, but stepped forward. I sighed and stepped in front of Paul. Waiting.
Mike looked really nervous. He quickly stepped forward and pecked my on the lips then retreated. That was it a peck. Whatever.
"Okay, next Paul." I said slightly disgusted that Mike's lips had touched mine. He grimaced and led me over to the next group.
"Tyler, Same threats I just gave Mike, Hands go anywhere they're not meant to I remove them. One kiss only." I stepped forward, Tyler looked cockier then Mike had, he had short dark brown hair and his eyes sparkled as he smirked like, this was gonna be easy for him. He walked up to me so we were inches apart then roughly pulled my face to his and kissed me, it was horrible, he tried to force my lips apart with his. His hands were sliding down my back, it took me a few seconds before the shock and horror wore off, and before Paul could step in I stomped on his foot. Tyler recoiled from me very quickly.
"Try that again and it'll be something else you like a lot more than your foot, that I'll step on got it?" I hissed at him. He just nodded. "Paul next person." I said as I stomped off. This night was not making me happy at all. When we came before the next group, the "nerds" my mood didn't improve.
"Eric, Try anything I don't think I'll be able to stop Bella from killing you." He nodded and stepped back as I stepped forward, Eric was tall and lanky, and he had greasy black hair and bad acne. EW I thought this night could not get any worse. I sighed and waited for him to kiss me. Eric looked nervous as he stepped in front of me and put his hands on either side of my face and carefully pressed his lips to mine, and then he was gone. I smiled that wasn't so bad I guess. Though still disgusting his hands had been all sweaty. I shivered involuntarily. As Paul and I walked back to our group. Time for Jake's kiss, I felt my stomach doing little flips, damn it I was nervous again. We reached the boys and Paul spouted out his spiel again. Jake just nodded and walked over to me I glanced up at him. He smiled, well half smiled, it was an easy smile. Just as if it was a dare from the boys when we were at Sam's.
"Relax, Ballerina." He whisper as he put his hands on either side of my face. I took a deep breath and closed my eyes as his face got closer to mine, then his lips were on mine it was soft and sweet, it had meaning. His hands were incredibly warm; he was incredibly warm, my hands on their own accord slid up into his hair. One of his hands moved into my hair as the other moved to the small of my back and pulled me closer. Somewhere in the back of my mind I heard Paul say something. SHIT! Paul. I broke the kiss abruptly, Jake looked dumbfounded, I just looked down and mumbled "Jake wins." I flushed a deep red.
"Oh yeah, I'm awesome." I glanced up at Jake as he flung an arm around my shoulder and grinned like and 8 year on Christmas.
"Yeah, keep thinking that, Jake. You can now take your arm off my cousin it's late we've got school tomorrow and I want bells home now." Paul said acting all older brother-ish.
"Paul, chill, Jake's the last person that would hurt me, but you're right I think it's time we went home, I'm kinda tired." I shrugged jakes arm off my shoulder and immediately missed his warmth. I smiled up at him and mouthed txt me. He smiled and nodded slightly. With that Paul dragged me back to the truck. It was silence until we were half way home.
"Was kissing Jake really that good?" Paul asked eye still on the road.
"Huh?"
"Just, you were really into kissing him then any of the other guys. And you looked liked you enjoyed it."
"Paul, you do realise that Jake's kiss was the only decent kiss right, Mike was scared, Tyler's a prick and Eric, I think I was his first kiss. So that's why Jake's kiss was the best, and I don't know it... um..." I faltered could I really explain what I felt to Paul?
"Bells, you know you can tell me anything."
"Well, it felt right when I kissed him, like I may like him, like, like like him. You know?"
"No, I don't know what it's like to kiss Jake, that's your area." He sniggered. I smirked trust him to turn a heartfelt convo, into something funny.
"Thanks, Paul." I rolled my eyes.
"No prob, and by the way, I'm pretty sure Jake's got something for you too. I mean he does follow you around a lot." He glanced at me. "But if you too do end up together, I may just have to remind him, that I can and will kick his arse, if he hurts you."
"Paul what good would you be if I can beat you up?"
"But, you'd be all loved up and stuff, completely useless really."
"Bullshit, I could take you down if I was completely smashed, and you were all you and stuff."
"Sure sure, Bells of course you could." He nodded. Our playful banter continued until we got home. Where we had to be quite so we didn't wake Pauls parents. After a lot of laughing and play fighting up the stairs we finally said goodnight and went to our rooms. I collapsed onto my bed and drifted to sleep.
