The Twilight Twenty-Five
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Prompt: Exposed
Main Character: Bella
Rating: T
Word Count: 498
"Get out." Bella orders her step-sister Leah but Leah just stands there. I think she might want to get killed. "You never wanted them to be happy! You're making this up!"
"I was bitter about it at first yes but I love Charlie. I wouldn't lie about this and you know it. You're my sister but she's my mom. I have to tell her Bella."
"Are you sure Leah?" I ask her all the while holding onto Bella so she doesn't attack.
"I wouldn't have said anything if I wasn't Jacob, not even to you two and I definitely wouldn't be telling my mom."
"Let me talk to him Leah. He's never lied to me."
"Fine. I'll give you till this weekend. Then I am telling her."
"He's coming over for dinner tonight. I will talk to him then."
After Leah leaves Bella starts crying and saying how Leah has to be wrong but even as she says this I know she doubts it or she wouldn't be so upset. There was a time when she and Leah couldn't stand each other but things happen and now they are best friends. This could tear them apart though.
"Why would he do this to her?" She finally asks me. I convince her to just wait and talk to him because while I'm pretty Leah is right I still want to pretend that maybe she's not.
"Leah wouldn't lie and she wouldn't say anything unless she was sure." Bella tells me as if she knows what I'm thinking.
Charlie comes over a couple of hours later and Bella is trying to act normal but acting is not her thing and when Charlie finally asks him what's wrong she bursts into tears and asks why he's cheating on Sue. Stunned into stupidness he is trying to find a good explanation.
"If you don't want to lose all of them the truth it your best bet." I tell him.
"We're not in love Bella. We never were. I'm still in love with your mother and Sue will always only love Harry. We only got married because in one mistake of a night she got pregnant then she miscarried before we could even tell anyone. That's why it all happened so fast. She has always been a good friend but nothing more. But we were already married and lonely so we stayed together. Then your mother needed money and of course she comes to me. Sue and I had been fighting because she wanted to have a baby and I think we're too old and well… you know your mother." He trails off and Bella is thinking about it all and then she completely flips out.
"You ruined your relationship with the best mother I ever had and the only sister I have for that selfish, greedy, pathetic woman? You've spent my whole life being sad over her and Sue is the best thing to happen to you!"
"Bella, Sue knows… we're fine."