Chapter 1 of the the week!

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We're leaving Forks and the family for a little bit. Time for some Rosalie and Bella bonding.

The other side of Bella is going to show itself, also I grew up in Brooklyn and I like the idea of Bella have that BK edge.

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Rosalie glared angrily at her phone, she was by no means sneaking off to join Bella in Phoenix but she wasn't exactly advertising it either nor had she told any of her family. She had simply just packed a bag and informed them that she would see them in a few days and that was that as far as she was concerned. Of course that was not the case when you had a psychic in the family, Alice had been happy to inform her that they'd talk later when she and Bella were back and not to worry because her secret was safe with her.

Which was fine, she had no problem talking to Alice, it was the secret part though that she did not like because Bella wasn't a secret for her. If she was being honest with herself she'd admit that she was afraid, because acknowledging their thing outside of just she and Bella meant there would be expectations and disappointments and unnecessary labels and she didn't want any of that.

She was still talking herself out of the uncharacteristic guilty thoughts she was having when she spotted Bella standing at the bottom of the escalator with a giant sign that read, 'Aphrodite' boldly. The blonde had to admit it was a well designed sign and she wondered where Bella had managed to get all the needed supplies. People were looking at Bella curiously but she ignored them as she strode up to the brunette,

"Who is this Aphrodite?" she questioned with a cock of her eyebrow

"Not a who, just a description" Bella shrugged and she rolled her eyes rewarding Bella with a shoulder bump as she strode by the younger girl.

Bella only grinned and grabbed her duffle bag as she quickly strode to catch up with the blonde as they headed for the car rental spot. Rosalie had refused to ride in a taxi and Bella had promptly rented a car, eventually she'd ask the girl about her seemingly vast funds but tonight was not that night.

Bags were quickly placed in the Nissan Altima, the sign tossed into the back and the door held open for Rosalie to slip into the passenger seat before Bella was slipping into the driver's seat and hooking up her phone. 'Shake Your Tailfeather' from Bad Boys began to play, a movie she knew well because Victoria had an unnatural obsession with it. She was ready to yell at Bella to change the damn song but she was appreciating Bella's mini performance too much to be annoyed.

The blonde also took the time to take in the brunette, she wasn't sure yet if she liked what Phoenix did to Bella. This Bella was different, she was more guarded, her eyes hard and that edge she'd only seen present when she was dragging that annoying human across the lunchroom table was ever present here. The songs almost seemed like a way to pump the girl up and prepare her for the upcoming days.

The closer they drew to their destination the more Bella's eyes hardened, the more everything about Bella tightened and closed in on itself, and the more the blonde fought the urge to just grab Bella and run straight back to Forks. She felt cold suddenly, because Bella was cold now and she knew she could not let it continue. Except she was not Alice.

Alice, or hell Emmett or Victoria would know what to do and it annoyed her. Bella was...hers, and her siblings knew how to handle her better than she did. The idea was ridiculous and quite honestly her ego felt battered and never one to let it last for long she sucked it up and reached out awkwardly to put her hand on Bella's thigh.

The brunette jumped slightly before she was turning to look at Rosalie, the blonde had always been incapable of showing her feelings on her face except in special cases but an otherwise dense Bella had learned to read her at some point she realized and she had the utmost confidence that Bella could see the emotions that not even she could name anymore written on her face.

Bella sighed as she reached forward to turn down the volume,

"We'll spend the night, then we're out of there. We won't have to go back until about 3 on Thanksgiving day since dinner's at 6. We'll stay for a plate and then we're out of there, go where the real stuff matters. I'm...sorry, I'm like….this"

"You hate it here"

"I preferred when Ms. Nan was in New York. I don't like the goods being tainted by the shitty"

"New York?"

"I spent every summer after 12 with Ms. Nan and Jamal in New York City. The last two years while Renee was travelling with Phil, I was with Ms. Nan full time, and she moved us to New York to go to school there. Then all of us sudden Renee got a conscience and so I jumped ship and headed for Forks, at least Charlie doesn't hover"

"Where'd you live?"

"Bed Stuy mostly, you learn a lot living in Brooklyn. Manhattan is the tourist attraction, Staten Island is forgotten about by nearly everybody but people from Staten Island, Queens is the suburbs of New York City if there ever was one, Bronx is kind of dangerous but it's got it's nice spots here and there, and Brooklyn is like the Bronx, Queens, and Manhattan had a love child and let it be its own person. Bed Stuy or Bedford Stuyvesant, it's crazy and the summer is like everything has a green light, it was the hood, people got shot and stabbed and shit happened and Jamal and I got in our fair amount of trouble but every lesson was a life lesson and you learned how to survive real quick. Ms. Nan made sure they knew not to get us into too much trouble and beat our asses red when she had to pick us up at the precinct. She had to pick us up a few times in Brownsville, shit's scary over there, Jamal and I couldn't sit for days afterwards"

"You're not serious"

"It's a good thing we learned like we did, fucking Trish would've got us killed by now otherwise"

"...what?"

"Trisha is how I met Jamal, the guys I helped him fight off were there fucking with Trisha"

"So that's her fault?"

"Yes and no"

"Excuse me?"

"Rose, no, please don't do that, if you met her you'd get it"

"Well then help me get it"

"Trisha doesn't have a bad home life, if anything maybe her parents don't pay attention to her as much as they once did but they're good people. They're hand out the ass rich, but they try not to spoil their kids too much, Trisha is the second youngest and doesn't agree with that. She likes attention and she decided that the amount her parents were providing wasn't enough so she decided to piss them off. Piss them off by deciding to hang out with actual gang bangers and shit, she got in way over her head with these guys. The first time Jamal met her it was because her boyfriend Rodney, head honcho, wasn't paying attention to her and she tried flirting with one of the other guys. You don't do that and anyone with half a brain would know that, they were arguing and he was manhandling her and Ms. Nan always told us that if we saw someone getting bullied or anything of that nature and didn't step in, she'd beat our asses when she found out. Jamal stepped in for her and he got her home, Jamal was fucking 10, this was just days before we met. She was 13 fucking around with a bunch of 16 year olds for attention, the problem wasn't even that she did that it's that her ass won't learn. She craves the attention so she keeps going back and from then up until I moved she had us stepping in, fighting fights, dodging knives and shit because she won't park her ass somewhere and fucking stop"

"And now?"

"Ms. Nan doesn't want her at the house but she comes around anyway because she knows Ms. Nan won't turn her away. We didn't know it at the time but Ms. Nan had moved us to New York for those two years to get us away from Trisha, up until that point, nearly all of the violent trouble we were getting in was because of Trisha and she'd already fucked around and got a guy killed because he stepped in for her and Ms. Nan didn't want that call about Jamal or I. Last I heard, she's been MIA for the last 3 months so she's due for a pop up"

"How far have you gone for this girl?"

"Knee deep into a drug den in Mesa because she got in an argument with Rodney and he left her there"

At this point, Rosalie wasn't sure who she hated more, by all accounts based on Bella's parents her background shouldn't be anything like it was. She shouldn't be this familiar with being arrested and sitting in holding cells, shouldn't know the ins and outs of inner city gangs the way she did, she shouldn't have been in so many dangerous situations all before she was even fucking 18. Part of her wanted to question this Ms. Nan on how she was any better than Bella being with Renee but she knew because at least there was someone to come home to that would care that Bella had walked through the front door, that would be upset with Bella for getting in this kind of trouble all the time, neither were ideal but Ms. Nan was by far the better choice clearly.

She looked over as Bella lifted her hand and placed a sweet kiss on her hand, immediately ruining it with the long languid lick she then proceeded to give her hand. Rosalie hissed as she smacked Bella in the shoulder and wiped the spit off her hand.

"You're disgusting" she hissed giving Bella a crippling glare but like every time before the brunette only gave her that sweet awestruck smile

"You have the best glares" Bella studiously informed her and she felt like shoving the girl out of the moving car.

The house they pulled up in front of was a well sized two story house, with a well manicured lawn and a small front garden. She didn't miss the way Bella rolled her shoulders in preparation before she was stepping out the car and walking around to open the door for her. She slipped out and they briefly brushed against one another before she was offering Bella her hand to take, although it almost felt symbolic for something else. She didn't care too much to find out as Bella locked the car and lead her to the front door,

"Got to get my keys from Jamal" the brunette grunted as she rang the bell

"Renee get that, I'm still trying to find the extra beds in this thing you call a closet" she heard a man yell then there was scrambling feet and then the door was being opened.

Rosalie wasn't sure what she expected but she was a little underwhelmed and slightly confused, other than having the same kind of auburn hair highlighted in her own hair, Bella looked nothing like Renee, other than the dark hair she didn't look much like Charlie either though. She was still pretty for a human, average height, with beady blue eyes, but even as she declared Bella's name and pulled the unwilling brunette into a hug she could see that she herself was uncomfortable with the contact. Something that was further proven as she practically pushed Bella away once she was done. Bella didn't look any better as if she wanted to desperately go scrub her skin clean, Rosalie agreed, she didn't like Renee's scent on Bella.

There was a beat where Renee seemed to regard her with utter awe, yet she didn't bask in it like she normally did, too much of her wanted to bludgeon the woman or chuck her into oncoming traffic...whichever spilled more blood

"Wh….and who is this?" Renee questioned eyeing her, she hated beady eyes, Royce had beady eyes

"This is Rosalie Hale, my plus 1, I told you about" Bella explained tightly, the blonde squeezed her hand softly as she could actually feel it tremble a bit

"Oh yes, of course, it's nice to meet you Rosalie" Renee declared, Rosalie was quick to offer her hand to shake as she was not keen on letting the woman hug her, she wasn't keen on many people hugging her

"Come in, come in. Phil, Bella's finally here and she brought a friend" Renee declared as she shut the door behind Bella.

Rosalie was quick to figure just which one was Phil as he was not the only one to appear, clearly a few of Phil's family members had arrived early and made themselves at home. Watching Bella interact with them made her uncomfortable, everyone touched and hugged and their smiles were genuine and Bella's could've easily been mistaken to be genuine too except she'd seen Bella's genuine smile and this was not it. All the while Renee stood off to the side watching everything like a hawk, as if she expected Bella to randomly strip down right then and there or something. Then she was being introduced and shaking hands all the while she was being appraised and ogled...nothing new there.

"Bella give Rory those keys and he'll go get those bags of yours" Phil informed Bella who tossed one of her two cousins her keys as she led Rosalie up the steps and to her room, Rosalie had seen more personality in a hotel room

"We've got our own bathroom" Bella shrugged pointing to the door, the bed had new sheets and there was a bookshelf filled with a few decorative things and a chest of drawers that was bare but that was it, the scent that hung on the sheets were Renee's and she wasn't surprised

"Bella" Rory grunted as he entered dragging Rosalie's suitcase while he hefted Bella's duffle bag of clothes

"Thanks" Bella nodded as she took them from Rory,

"So she just your friend?" Rory whispered to Bella with a grin and wiggle of his eyebrows

"None of your business kid" Bella chuckled as she pushed him back out the door, slipping him a $20 for his troubles as she took her keys

"Just your friend?" Rosalie mocked, she needed to see Bella really smile, thankfully she was rewarded with such things as Bella shook her head and kissed Rosalie, if they weren't lying in bed with Bella about to fall asleep, holding one another was an ungraspable concept for either of them...which somehow extended to hugging.

Bella put on music on an iPod dock she fished out the back of her closet as they began to unpack everything, it was nearly 11 so showers were taken and pajamas donned before she and Bella retreated to bed.

It was well past 11 when the rest of the house had finally settled down, all except Renee whose approaching footsteps she could hear,

"Your mother is coming" she informed the brunette who sighed and rolled off the bed and to her feet, she frowned noticing that Bella had not untucked herself for the night and loathed to think what that meant

"What do you want Renee?" Bella questioned as she slipped out the room and shut the door behind her, she knew the girl was dirt tired, but not even her presence was taking Bella's mind off of just exactly where she was

"How dare you?"

"How dare I?"

"I try to be a good mother and love you despite all of your shortcomings but you have the audacity to bring that poor clueless girl in here?"

"My shortcomings...right, what are you talking about, Rosalie is not clueless"

"Oh please Bella, no way does a girl like that knowingly get involved with someone with your handicap"

"She knows"

"What?"

"She knows about my handicap and she's just fine with it"

"Well, then I wouldn't go falling in love with the girl. She might mess around with you but she won't marry you, you have nothing to offer, you're sterile and she'll want children"

"I'm a girl, I don't think she'd go into a relationship expecting to get impregnated by a girl to begin with"

"You look like a girl Bella"

"So what am I then?"

"You're you Bella, we've been over this, not girl, not boy, just Bella"

"Right, good night Renee"

"Good night"

Rosalie glared at the ceiling, she couldn't handle being here and she wasn't even in Bella's shoes. The door was locked then she felt the bed shift slightly as Bella moved to climb back in and she stopped her,

"You need to go get ready for bed" she mumbled

"I am ready for bed" Bella grunted confusedly

"No, you're not" Rosalie replied as she gave a look to Bella's lack of bulge

"Rose"

"Go"

"Fine" Bella huffed as she headed for the bathroom

Bulge now present, Rosalie pulled Bella onto the bed and to her lips because she somehow felt the need to reassure Bella that everything she'd just said was not true.

Because she would marry Bella….one day.