Previously on IRON GRIP:

"Has the jury come to a unanimous decision?"

"Guilty," the juror answered the judge.

I am sentencing her to a 10 months in boot camp."

"Ready for your first dinner here, Miss Bella?"
"Looks like the little girl can't wait to get back to her dollies,"
"Emmett, why would I play with your toys? Get over here so I can whoop your soon-to-be sorry ass,"

And taking away his manhood was the only way I thought I'd be able to get away,"
I lied. I did see something. And I liked it. No. I loved that view.

"Time for our fist class of the day,"

"Okay, class, let's begin today with the Pythagorean Theorem. That's easy enough,"

"Now c'mon. I'm starving," he whined, and his stomach growled in support.

Just then Emmett came from behind and bumped into Edward, who nearly fell upon impact.

"Oh, shit!" I looked back at him and smirked victoriously.

Oh yeah! Oh yeah oh yeah oh yeah! I won! I won! Happy dance time! Dun duh na nuh! Uh huh, oh yeah, that's right! I totally beat your ass, Cullen!

"Shitake mushroom." What?

"Excuse me, Cullen?"

"Exactly what I said. Shitake mushroom."

I blinked back with a blank look on my face. What the hell?

"I said shitake mushrooms. Shitake mushrooms."

"No! that's not fair! Cheater!" Damn it! He found a loophole! Well, two can play at that game.

"I am not! It's a real word!"

"Fine, Cullen. We'll play it your way. But you'll see; I will win." I grinned cheekily before walking away from him.

Ben and Eric were fooling around outside the 'classroom', so I quickly caught up to them.

"'Sup guys?"

"Not much."

"Actually, we were headed over to watch Tyler finish his laps with Sgt. Banner. Wanna come with us?" Eric asked, grinning.

"Nah. I got a bet to win." I skipped off to the mess hall for the slop they called lunch. Sigh. I would most definitely die of this poison.

Edward slid in across from me and next to Emmett, who dug into his food like there was no tomorrow.

"Ew, Emmett, that's disgusting," I told him pointedly as he splayed mush all over. Emmett opened his mouth to come up with his retort, but ended up spitting his food onto Edward's lap.

"Emmett! You're so nasty! You got all this cra-," he trailed off when he noticed my gaze before continuing, "cra……ab cakes on my clothes," he mumbled.

"Very good, Edward!" I said sarcastically while he rolled his eyes and tried getting the food out of his clothes.

"Hey Edward. Sergeant Banner wants to see you. Now," Jasper added as he slid onto the bench to sit beside me.

"What did I do now? Fu… fudge him." Edward got up – looking very pissed, might I add – and stomped out the doors of the mess hall.

"Who's this Sergeant Banner?"

"A dickhead!" Emmett answered. Jasper simply nodded in agreement, so I just rolled my eyes at their cryptic answer.

Edward was gone all throughout lunch, and I was starting to worry.

Before I could ask Jasper if he knew something, I felt a tap on my shoulder.

"Ah, Bella, here you are. I've been wondering who you would be sitting with at lunch," she said, giving Emmett a pointed glance. "I see you have very good, um, 'buddies' here," she grimaced as she watched Emmett practically breathe in his second overflowing tray. "Anyway, I'd like to have a word with you." She started walking towards the door and threw over her shoulder while I sat, "In my office."

And this caused all the guys at the table to 'oohhh', to which Esme glared.

Pretty impressive for such a heartfelt woman.

I got up and followed her, practically running to keep up with her fast pace.

"Bella," she turned to me once her office doors were closed, "have I thoroughly explained how our visiting days work?"

"Um, I guess," I shrugged, not really recalling.

"Well, we like being able to surprise you kids, so visiting days are quite random. But, your visitor said it was very urgent, so I decided you deserve a little treat," she said with a smile.

I must have looked pretty damn confused, because she just chuckled to herself.

"Bella, I'm trying to tell you that you have a visitor."

"Oh! Who?!"

She just chuckled. Yeah, keep it up; we'll see how funny it'll be in a few seconds.

"Why don't I let you see for yourself?" She nodded towards a door on the side of the room – not the door we had entered – so I got up and walked over to open it. Just as I was about to turn the knob, Esme spoke up.

"Just remember: you only have a few minutes. After this, right back to Sergeant Banner." I nodded impatiently and swung the door open.

"Bella! I've missed you so much!"

A/N: Sorry, I know it's super short, but I've got no time at all, and I really wanted to have something. Maybe I'll review next Friday if I can reach 70 reviews! Okay, I'm being ambitious, but whatever!

I opened a poll for Iron Grip on my profile for which character(s) should be (re)introduced to the story. I hope it's already showing! Thanks, sorry, umm... okay!

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