(Yeah I know I promised a chapter earlier but this is when it got done. I once again tried to cut back on the exclamation points. It was hard. A lot has been going on with me lately. You know how my computer is crap and has a broken laptop screen so it's hooked up to a monitor? Well my dad put his laptop screen on my laptop and it works! YAY! I also got two new puppies! Enjoy reading and please review!)
Disclaimer: The only thing I own that is twilight related is the soundtrack, the movie, and a BUNCH of posters!
"You're riding with me today. I'll bring you home too, don't worry." I got in her car and we drove to school, bitching about Emmett the whole way. We were around ten minutes early for school but Edward *sigh*, and Jasper were in already here. I saw, with satisfaction, that Tanya wasn't standing with Edward today. Alice got out of her car first and ran over to Jasper. His eyes lit up as soon as he saw Alice and I had to smile for my best friend. I saw Jasper whispering into Alice's ear and Edward was cringing. I got out then and started walking over. Edward saw me and smiled, I walked straight over to him.
"Hey stranger." I beamed and he smiled back.
"You look nice." He commented and I rolled my eyes. "What?"
"Alice," I sighed and took a drink of the coffee I brought to school.
"Just say thank you and smile. Don't complain Bella it's not attractive." Alice scolded me and I laughed.
"Your one to talk." I smiled and she smiled back, we both knew we were joking.
"But I can make it look attractive. You can't." I threw my head back and laughed and she joined me. I was then hugged from behind.
"Damn you were right Em!" Rose laughed and I broke her hug to look at her.
"What was he right about?" I scowled. When she saw that she laughed.
"You do look really hot!" I laughed with her, Emmett then showed himself.
"I'm sorry Bells, it's just…"
"Your not my father Em." I told him as gently as I could. "It's time our family returned to normal."
"Ha! Us? Normal? Never were, and I hope we'll never be." He laughed and I hugged him.
"I forgive you Em." We were soon interrupted.
"Aw how sweet." An annoying, sarcastic voice that I would know anywhere, said. Ah, Tanya. I tightened my hold on Emmet with a scowl on my face and Emmett laughed. I pulled away and looked at him and Rosalie. As soon as they saw my face they took a step back. My mom always did call me her open book.
"Down tiger," Rosalie warned me and I nodded my head. I took deep breaths in and out about three times until I felt ready. I turned around and put a fake smile on my face.
"Hello Tanya," I said while resisting rolling my eyes.
"Hello," she said snidely. I looked at Edward with my eyebrows raised and he rolled his eyes at Tanya. I started laughing. "What?" She demanded while looking between my huge grin from laughing and Edwards's huge grin. "What did I miss?"
"Oh nothing Tanya!" I said with a smirk while leaning up against Emmett. Emmett leaned to whisper in my ear.
"Your pissing her off! Good Job lil sis! I will never again doubt were related." I just rolled my eyes.
"Thanks," I said dryly. Tanya then decided to hang all over Edward. She started kissing his neck with side glances toward me. Then she started licking his neck, up and down. I couldn't stop starring! Neither could any of my friends. Edward was starring down at her in shock, but not stopping her. My mouth fell open and stayed that way.
"EW!" Alice screeched and Jasper hugged her closer.
"Damn," Jasper muttered while shaking his head.
"She has no shame!" Rosalie said with disgust evident in her voice.
"I could kill them both!" Emmett said with hatred in his voice and that pushed me over the edge. Sure I was hurt, disgusted, and murderous, but this whole situation was just so funny! Tanya was such a slut! Yes you have it right. I started laughing. So hard. Everyone's head turned to me to look at me in shock. Tanya was shooting murderous glares at me, Edward had his eye brows raised, and everyone else was starring at me with worry in their stares. I looked at them, still laughing, exasperated.
"Oh come on! It's funny." They looked at me, then each other, and then started laughing.
"Your right it is! God! She's such a fool!" Emmett laughed loudly. Edward pressed his lips together, I wasn't sure whether that was to stop from laughing or from screaming. Tanya's face fell and she looked at Edward expectantly. There was an awkward silence and I decided to get out of there NOW.
"On that note, see you guys later! Love you!" I turned to leave but got stopped by Alice insisting on hugs, then Rose, then Emmett. I walked over to Jasper and hugged him goodbye, one person left. Edward. We looked at each other; I noticed Tanya wasn't touching him. I went over and wrapped my arms around his neck to hug him but instantly pulled my arms away. He looked down at me, confused. I started laughing.
"What is it this time?" He asked, amused.
"Your…neck…has…slobbered on it!" I chocked out between laughs, Emmett, Rose, Alice, and Jasper all started laughing with me. Edward took his hand up to feel his neck, letting go of me and I stepped back. He felt the slobber.
"Tanya!" He groaned and I walked away with a smile on his face. Serves him right for being with that stupid jerk.
"Bye Bells!" Alice yelled across the parking lot, drawling eyes to me. I think that was her point, to make more people notice my outfit today. I didn't not like being whistled at by random guys. I made a mental not to scold Alice. I kept walking, with my head down. I forgot about havening to go past Jacobs locker until I saw him, I turned. But I was too late, he obviously saw me.
"Come on Bella! If you go any other way you'll be late!" I thought about that and realized he was right, I turned back away and did something I already learned from Rose. Walked with my head held high not letting anyone see how much I was hurting on the inside. Jacob started walking with me.
"I don't regret what I did Jacob." I told him straight up.
"I don't regret what you did either." That surprised me.
"So, um, why don't you go to La Push School?" I asked him, really curious. He laughed.
"There was a bad storm earlier this year and it damaged the school. It's closed for now." He looked so sad, It wasn't right for someone that usually cheerful to look sad.
"I'm sorry."
"Don't be. Bella…" We stopped in front of my English class.
"Don't." I said forcefully knowing he was going to ask about me being raped. He looked at me with sad eyes.
"When did it happen?" He asked gently.
"Early summer. I had to stay in Arizona for the trial and once it was over I needed to move."
"What happened to the bastard?"
"Sentenced to 50 years of prison, he can get out on parole at 25 though." I was looking at the ground.
"Who was he? Did you know him? Why you?" I looked up into his eyes and he looked shocked and I knew why. The look in my eyes was the same everytime I thought about James. Pure fear and pure unadulterated hatred. Oh and the love I'm sure still showed up.
"He was…James. I knew him very…well. He was…my…boy…boy…boy friend. And my…first…love. He said he wanted to teach me a lesson. About life. About trust. About…" Jacob interrupted me. He looked furious. What did I do?
"Stop." He roared and I flinched. He saw this and his eyes softened. "I'm sorry. I just can't believe that bastard! Teach you a lesson my ass! I could kill him! Don't listen to a word he says! Ok?" I just nodded.
"Bye Jacob. Oh and you better watch your girl. Rosalie wants to kill her and I would help Rose in a second." I said while I turned my back and started walking away.
"Stupid fucking Leah!" Jacob groaned and I laughed. A bitter sound. School went very slowly and boring until lunch. I remembered that I had to tutor the James look alike after school. I groaned. When the fifth period bell rung I rushed to Lunch and got my food. I sat at Jessica's table after I got my food. Everyone of my friend were seated accept Jasper. I knew it was hard for him to sit away from Alice; it was also hard for Emmett and Rosalie. I wondered why they still had this weird five minutes at different table's thing. Jasper walked in the room and Alice's searching eyes automatically found his. A relieved smile spread across her face. He saw this, looked at the clock and groaned.
"Screw this!" Jasper roared out loud and eyes turned to him. He started stalking towards Alice and her table. He stood right in front of her. "Alice I can't stand not sitting with you! Not having you in my arms. Even if it is just for five minutes! That's stupid! I love you. Come sit at the table with me?" She squealed a yes and jumped up. She looked over at me and saw I was smiling huge at them. That was so romantic my best friend deserved the best. I was so happy for her. She pulled on Jaspers hand and he followed her line of sight – me. They both smiled and Alice started leading them towards me. She stopped in front of me and offered me her hand.
"Sit with us, Bells?" I could tell she really wanted me to so I took her hand and smiled at me. We sat at the table, but it felt oddly empty. I looked at the clock 3 more minutes, then I looked at my three other best friends. Edward was smiling widely at me and I smiled back, Emmett was joking around with his friends, and Rose was staring at her food. It made me cold to see her like that. It was breaking my heart. So I did something I usually wouldn't do, I drew attention to myself.
"ROSE!" I yelled across the cafeteria, everyone's eyes turned to me and I felt myself blush. I was standing up so it was obvious who called her. She looked at me with a sad smile. She was hurt Alice chose me and no one invited her. Well I was changing that. "Get your skinny butt over here!" I called to her with a smile. She grinned at me, happy to be wanted. But honestly how could no one want her. She flipped her hair cockily.
"Well, I don't know. Are you guys sure you want me? You look pretty cozy with your little group." She called back to me. I threw my head back and groaned causing Alice, Jasper, and Rose to laugh.
"Rose, Rose, Rose! How could we have a little group without Rosalie Hale? That's not possible! Come on! Do I have to go over there and drag you over here? You know I'll probably trip and fall on my face!" That caused laughter to abrupt throughout the cafeteria. She got up.
"Well I wouldn't want to cause you to injure yourself. I'm not that mean!" She started walking over.
"Ha yeah you are sis!" Jasper laughed and she scowled. She stopped halfway through the cafeteria.
"Emmett are you coming?" She called sweetly. He ran over and lifted her up, causing her shirt to ride up and show everyone her flat stomach. The girls scowled and the guys drooled. I was laughing. Emmett sat Rose down and turned to Edward.
"When ever your ready, Eddie!" He called happily.
"I told you not to call me that." Edward growled and I threw my head back to laugh. Rosalie looked over at me.
"Jacob Black is starring at you," she said with a roll of her eyes. I looked over and sure enough he was but then he had to look away because it looked like Leah was complaining.
"I told him this morning to watch his friend." She looked over at Leah and glared. Leah just had to choose that moment to look up.
"You have a problem Hale?" She called over to Rosalie and Rosalie stood up.
"I would back off dog!" She called to Leah causing Leah to standup herself.
"Clever insult," Leah hissed.
"Shut up Leah!" Jacob shouted.
"Excuse me? Your suppose to be on my side not the Leeches! Or the Leech lovers!"
"Ha ha your so clever," I said dryly with a yawn. Rosalie looked down at me with a smile on her face. I was standing, now, but was still shorter than her.
"I'm so proud of you! I'm rubbing off." I snorted a laugh. She laughed because of that and then soon we were both dying of laughter. I could only imagine how we looked. We composed ourselves but then Leah came stalking by us and out the door.
"Damn freaks!" She called loudly and we sunk in our seats in laughter. Edward came over to the table then.
"She's right you guys are freaks." He said with a laugh.
"Thanks," I said while rolling my eyes.
"Any time." Then something I really didn't want to happen, happened. Mike Newton came walking over to our table, right next to me.
"What Newton?" Emmett demanded.
"I was, um, wondering if, um, Bella, would you, um, I know it's in a month, but Prom?" He asked nervously.
"Hm, what about prom?" I asked lazily, I saw Rose beaming at me. Oh God, she really was rubbing off on me!
"Would you like to go, with me? Would you go to prom with me?" I saw Edward stiffen but that was probably just wish full thinking.
"Sorry Mike but I can't dance," I said with a shrug…
"I could teach you!" He said hopefully.
"Mike, uh, well, I don't…" I couldn't think of any reasons to say no but I didn't want to say yes.
"It's a no, Newton." Rose said while examining her fingernails.
"You don't know that!" He persisted and I sighed. Rose lifted one perfect eyebrow.
"Yes she does. I'm sorry Mike," I said while looking at the table.
"No, it's, bye!" He literally ran away. Alice looked at me with sympathy in her eyes.
"It sucks doesn't it?" I nodded. I started joking around with my friends for ten minutes until we got interrupted again. Someone sat on my lap. I looked at the person, Ben.
"Your sitting on my lap," I told him dryly and he chuckled, I was not surprised to hear that it reminded me of James. Everything with this boy did. I shot a look at Emmett and saw he was glaring at Ben. He saw the resemblance.
"I see that teach." Ok so Ben acted a lot different from James. Better. Once you got to know him that is.
"What's up Ben?"
"Are you going to introduce me to your friends Teach?" I groaned.
"Everyone this is the freshmen I tutor, Ben."
"Oh, you finally learned his name?" Jasper teased me. Everyone but me and Edward laughed. I looked at him and saw he was glaring at Ben.
"Yes I learned his name."
"Not before calling me, what was it, Billy, I think. Great first introduction teach."
"Thanks."
"What do you want Billy," Emmett growled.
"You must be her big brother Emmett. Well Emmett, I want to ask teach out, what do you think teach?"
"No." I said bluntly and he shrugged.
"Well I though I'd ask, you see that blonde over there?" He pointed to a cute blonde. I nodded. "Do you think she would go out with me?"
"Get over me that fast?" I said with a smile.
"No teach you'll always be my true love but it's time I tried to move on." I laughed.
"Any one know the girls name?" I asked my table.
"What you doin teach?" Ben asked me warily.
"Her name is Amy Bartlette!" Alice smiled at Ben and me. I turned my head to her table.
"AMY BARTLETTE!" I called to her table.
"Teach," Ben hissed at me. Amy stood up looking around.
"Um, yea?" She asked warily.
"Over here!" I waved her over the best I could, since Ben was on my lap. She looked, well, honored. Wow. She saw who was on my lap and glared at me, but then shook that off and put on a fake smile she stood next to me.
"Um, yea?" She asked while also checking out Edward. I pushed on Ben.
"Get. Off. Of. Her." Edward growled menacingly. That made Ben smirk at me and Amy look at me with double the Envy. Of great.
"Get off and ask her!" I hissed at Ben that made Amy look at me differently. Like, hey, maybe I wasn't the enemy! Ben stood up.
"Ok I'm just gonna spit this out because I don't wanna be like Newton and be stuttering just because I'm asking an amazing girl to the prom. Yes you heard right. Amy will you be my date to prom? I really like you." Ben asked sweetly and I had to smile. Amy looked down at me.
"Your not going out with her?" She asked.
"Who Teach? No, no, no! I like you Amy. She's my tutor and friend, nothing more. Will you go with me?" To my surprise she hugged him.
"Of course I'll go with you!" She then drug Ben away to her table and I laughed. He turned around.
"See you after school teach!"
"Bye Ben." I turned around to look at my friends then. Emmett was starring at me, hard.
"He looks just like him but doesn't act like him. Tuesday when I walked in and saw I was suppose to tutor him I almost died. But I got over it. Bens cool. He's a good friend." I told Emmett and he smiled slightly.
"I almost killed him just because of the resemblance to that son of a bitch." I reached out and touched Emmett's hand.
"I know, Em. I know."
"What is going on!?" Alice screeched and I sadly smiled.
"You saw Ben right?" They all nodded. "Imagine him looking about 5 years older, because he looked older than he actually was, and Ben looking harder in a way and cockier and you have James Nomad." I said in a so-what kind of way and they all gasped.
"I'm sure you exaggerating a little," Jasper said sweetly.
"No, she's not." Emmett assured them.
"Really?" Alice asked.
"Here follow me to the Library, I'll show you." So we all left lunch and went into the library. I got on the computer and went onto . I went to Laurent's (James best friend,) MySpace.
"No I warn you guys, you might read some horrible stuff about me. This is James's best friend's page." They all nodded. I went into his pictures and found the Album called 'my hommies!' I clicked on it. The first picture of James I found way one where me and James were kissing so you couldn't see his face. I read the caption before I could stop myself. 'My best friend, James, and his whore Bella before he took wut wuz his!' I heard all my friends gasp and I sighed.
"I warned you." I reminded them and kept searching through the album. The second picture of James I found was me and him posing in front of the camera, just smiling.
"You were right." Rosalie laughed. "He's a hot bastard, but you, wow. You, even back then, are breathtaking." Rosalie Hale just called me, plain ol' Bella Swan breathtaking. I again read the caption 'Pretty lil prude isn't she?' I scowled at the computer. I got out of the seat.
"You can fool around if you want, I'm gonna look at the books." I left and Edward followed.
"I can't believe someone could do that to you." He said, flabbergasted. I didn't get what he meant. I couldn't believe someone could do that to anyone. I turned to look in his eyes.
"What do you mean, Edward?" I asked him honestly. He took a step closer and my breathing stopped for a second. So did my heart. Ah, Edward.
"Bella," he sighed. "How could anyone hurt anyone so perfect. You, Bella, are amazing. If I could I would kill James." We were both taking steps closer to each other and were now very close. Centimeters apart. His head was bending down, to kiss me I realized. I got excited. Happy. Then the bell rang.
"Saved by the Bell," I joked and he laughed, we then walked to class together. We walked by Jacobs locker and he was there waiting for me. He saw Edward and frowned but still walked over to me. He slung his arm around my shoulders.
"Hey Bells, sorry about the Leah thing I told her to back off but she never listens to me." He laughed.
"It's all good Jacob." There was an awkward silence then.
"I'm trying out for football next year, what about you Cullen?" Jacob asked conversationally and I grinned at him, he just rolled his eyes at me.
"Me too." Edward answered shortly and I glared at him. He smiled his crooked grin that made my heart skip a beat. "What about you Bella, any sports?" He laughed and I smiled sheepishly. He laughed harder and Jacob joined in. "Really what sport?"
"No before either one of you gets too excited, remember I'm a klutz. I do not think of this as a sport. Rose and Ali and making me! Oh yeah and I would kill myself if I even tried! They'll see when they start my 'training' which will be Friday they say."
"What are they making you do Bells?" Jacob asked softly.
"Cheerleading," I sighed. Edward and Jacob were quiet for a moment and we stopped outside Biology and Jacob's class which were right next to each other. They then started cracking up laughing. "If your quiet done," I said as I walked into Biology. I sat down at our table and Mike sat on top of it.
"What are they laughing about?" He asked, pointing to the two people who supposedly hated each other. Jacob and Edward.
"You don't want to know," I sighed and saw Edward walking in the room.
"I'm sorry I'm I embarrassed you in lunch, Bella." Mike said while standing up.
"It's fine Mike but you know I'm pretty sure Jessica would love to go with you," I said with a smile on my face and saw his face light up.
"You think?"
"Yea you should ask her." He started walking away.
"I think I will bye Bella." I just shook my head. I looked to Edward who was now seating and he was still laughing lightly.
"Are you going to be done anytime soon?" I asked him, agitated.
"I'm sorry, Bella. You have to admit, it's kind of funny."
"Hilarious," I said dryly but with a smile. Biology went uneventful I just talked to the amazing Edward Masen the whole class period. He insisted on walking me to gym and we ran into Eric on the way.
"B…be…bell…Bella." He stuttered out and I raised on eye brows at him, while Edward just glared.
"Yeah Eric?"
"Will you go to prom with me? I mean I know it's a while away, but I thought I would ask you early. Will you go with me?" I groaned.
"I can't dance. I don't like to dance. I said no to Mike because of that reason and it's a no for you too, I'm sorry." I know it was a little harsh but my patience was fried. Eric walked away with his head hung.
"You do know that Alice is going to make you go no matter if you have a date or not, right?"
"Yeah I realize that, have fun in 7th period." I told him since we were in front of the gym.
"Oh I will." He then walked away. Gym went slow, and then I got to tutor. I liked Ben so I was excited. I was almost to the English room when I got a text from Alice.
"Get out side! NOW!" I went outside and automatically found her.
"What Alice?"
"Just watch!" She cheered happily. Then Tanya came storming out of one of the buildings, fuming.
"Edward Masen! NO ONE breaks up with me!" She screamed and got everyone's attention. My mouth hung open. Edward came out of the building running his hands through his hair. He saw everyone staring at him.
"Tanya," he said softly – warningly.
"No, Edward." She strutted over to Edward then. "Come on baby, don't do this." She purred. "You know you don't want to. You'll never find anyone like me, again." She was hanging all over Edward and my eyes were wide.
"Tanya, I want more then what we have. Tanya, I do not love you anymore! You deserve to be loved but you changed in front of my eyes! Your not even the woman I fell in love with. And I'm sure I wont find anyone like you." Both Tanya and Edward were looking down at the ground and everyone else was real quiet, then Alice started laughing. My eyes, and everyone else's, turned towards her.
"Yeah, no one could fine quite a conniving bitch as her," Alice said so only I would hear and I started laughing. I had to put my hand over my mouth to stop from laughing too hard. When Alice saw this she started laughing harder and had to do the same thing. Soon everyone in the parking lot were dying of laughter and Alice was on the ground shaking with laughter. Tanya came stomping over.
"Is there something funny?" She demanded of me and Alice stood up. I saw Edward sigh and start walking towards us.
"Nope nothing at all." I said with a smirk and Alice stood up and looked hard at Tanya.
"You know Tanya there really is! Your attitude." Alice said smugly. What happened next really shocked me. Tanya bitch slapped Alice. Alice's hand went up to her cheek and she had a shocked expression on her face. I couldn't stand my best friend looking like that. I brought my fist back and punched Tanya in the face, hard. She staggered back, wobbling.
"You do not touch Ali." I warned her coldly and Alice hugged my waste. Edward was no over to us.
"What the hell did you do Tanya?! You punched my baby sister! I cannot believe you did that. Get out of my face." He then went over to Alice and pulled her from my side to his. "My poor baby sister," he crooned over and over again, making me smile. Tanya was still standing in front of us, holding her nose that I punched.
"Tanya I would get out of here," I said gently. Edward and Alice looked over at us. Tanya took a step closer and started jabbing her free hand at me.
"This is all your fault. If you never came I would still be with Edward, and damn it I think you broke my nose." I heard snickers and had to smile, causing Tanya to take another step closer to me.
"Tanya back the fuck off my girl," Rosalie said with a smirk and wink as her put an arm over my shoulder.
"What the fuck ever, you guys aren't worth it. Not even you Edward Masen." Tanya turned around and stalked away.
"Wow my sister is bad ass!" Emmett laughed loudly and my friends joined in. I looked at Edward and he had his eyes focused on the ground. I sighed.
"Are you ok, Edward?" I asked softly. He looked up and I saw that he was happy. Truly happy. He chuckled.
"Never been better." I smiled at him and then remembered Ben.
"That's great. I gotta go though. Tutoring and all." I turned to walk into the school but was grabbed by the waist and lifted up. Then twirled around. The person put me down and I saw none other than Ben, I threw my head back and laughed. I then linked my arm with his and started laughing.
"Damn teach!" He laughed.
"What?"
"I saw that out there." I sighed.
"Yeah."
"That was awesome! I mean come on. So cool, teach."
"Thanks," I said dryly and then we went into the English room to start out lesson.
(So did you like it? I hope you did! A good book series to read is the Southern Vampire Mysteries series/Sookie Stackhouse series/True Blood series. Called many, many things! :D reneesmay is my first shout out: for being a new reviewer and having a cool name! :D My second: lizziechicken for supplying me with ideas! I used on in this chapter! :D That's all folks!)
