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Chapter 10
Ugly fight
Bella's Point of View
I'd been sick all weekend but, thanks to Esme and Alice, my immune system beat the tar out of that stupid cold and I was on my feat by Sunday night. But… no one could have healed my broken heart. No one could help me regain my status of friendship with Jacob.
Going to school on Monday just sucked. Alice came rushing at me right when I entered the parking lot. "Hey Bella." She chirped as she enveloped me in a strong hug.
"Hi Alice." My voice was completely lifeless, although it was obvious that the break-up with Jake was hard on me. There goes another person breaking my fragile heart. "Um… thanks for everything… you know, this weekend." Well, it was the best thank you I could muster at this point today.
"Oh come on, did you really think we were going to just do nothing? You were sick. We just had to help you." Alice explained with a smile plastered on her face.
"Could you… um… pass the message along to Esme as well? It was very generous what you two did. And also to Carlisle."
"There's no need to thank us Bella. We'd do anything for you." That made me smile slightly. So they did care about me. "Are you alright?"
"Um… yeah, totally. Just… didn't want to come to school today." I lied. Of course being happy wasn't on the top of my to-do list today. I've known Jake for years and never once did he hurt me this way. Why would he now?
"Bella, I know you. It's because of that Jacob Black isn't it? He doesn't deserve to be your friend in the first place. He's just and idiot who said all of those lies to you."
"Oh, kind of like when Edward supposedly lied to me and you left me heartbroken? You know, somehow I expected him to just leave me for someone better but you, the person who's supposed to be my best friend, just ups and leaves without a single word of goodbye. It hurt Alice, just like Edward hurt me, just like Jacob hurt me." I explained. She just flinched at my words, knowing they were true. "Face it; I'm just a person who gets hurt easily." And what that said, I left her standing there with those harsh words. Never in my entire life did I want to say those things to Alice Cullen but my heart hurt, and it didn't want to feel rejected once again.
Angela met me at my locker with the biggest smile on her face. But when she saw me, her smile was erased in an instant. "Bella, what's wrong?" She asked worriedly as she placed her hand on my arm reassuringly.
"Ang, you know my friend from La Push right?"
"Jacob Black? Yeah, what about him?" She asked, trying to figure out what I would say next.
"Um… he came over on Friday and just told me we couldn't be friends…" I said lifelessly while getting my books.
"What?! Did he give you a reason why he just dumped you like that?!" She asked angrily. She was upset about this already. Great… one more mistake.
"He just said he didn't want to hang around a selfish, inconsiderate, depressed girl all the time." My voice broke at that last part. It was hard to repeat everything all the time. And it just broke me to think that I was acting like that constantly for months.
"Bella, he's wrong. You are none of those things. And he is wrong in the head for thinking anything like that." Angela reassured me as we walked to class.
"Thanks Angela, but I doubt it's going to be that easy to get over this." And with that, we went to class and didn't say a word until break. Angela tried to cheer me up during the day but it was a challenge. Even her lame jokes and the story of her weekend with Ben couldn't cheer me up. I told her it was nothing to worry about but she still wouldn't listen to me.
Lunch came by in a rush. I really felt bad about saying all of those things to Alice and the only way to make it right was to apologize. Making my way over to their table, all five of them looked my way. Although, why Rosalie and Emmett were here was a complete mystery to me. Probably a visit.
"Yo Bella!" Emmett burst out and it made me smile slightly. It's just hard to believe he is this excited to see me. I mean, he should be slightly ticked that all I ever did since they came back. But he's just… Man, I will never understand him.
"Hey." My reply was weak and his smile was erased in an instant. My gaze turned towards Alice and she was looking straight at me, although she probably knew the reason that I came here. "Look Alice, about this morning, I just—"
"It's alright Bella. I understand." She said with a sympathetic smile.
"I didn't have to take my anger out on you. I'm really sorry." That was the best apology that could be mustered at this time. But she just smiled at me, like nothing happened.
"Bella, I understand. You're going through a lot. Just don't worry about it." Alice reassured me as she lay back in the rusty cafeteria chair. Man, this pixie was a really good friend, even though she did leave. Why was I always going back on this subject?! It was the past. They made their choice. It was for the best.
A smile came onto my face and my eyes gazed on her and the rest of them at the table. "Thanks Alice. I'll see you around." But as I turned around, something collided with my face. And it was hard. My eyes closed and some others things collided into me. It was food. Some of them were drinks and some were cans. The cans sliced into my skin and my face hurt. Damn… why does it have to be this way? I didn't do anything to these people. Suddenly, there was laughing. Not only from the kids in the cafeteria but also from… Rosalie?! I knew she hated me but, to laugh at me when this happened? It hurt. This wasn't new. Bullying has become a part of my life now. It's no shock that it continues when the Cullens return.
"Bella! Are you alright?!" Edward asked from right beside me. I must look hideous at the moment.
"Um… yeah. I'm just going to go clean up." I mentioned, placing my tray of food on the Cullen table and walked towards the bathroom. Once entered, my body turned straight for the counter and what my eyes saw disturbed me. There were juice stains everywhere on my shirt and in my face. Small cuts were forming on my cheeks and forehead where the metal cans hit my face. That was going to hurt later on…
"Bella, are you alright? I'm sorry. I didn't see it coming. All Edward heard was smirking. He didn't think it was going to end like this. He wanted to apologize as well." Alice rushed in with all of this. She started helping me take the stains out but it didn't seem to help.
"Alice, you don't need to apologize for anything. It's been happening for a while now." I mentioned while taking the fries out of my hair.
"How long Bella?"
"Since you guys left. A few days after, Mike started making fun of me and then, everyone joined in." She gasped at what I said. "Don't worry Alice. I'm used to it. I can take it." And then, she did the unexpected and hugged me. I would have figured that she wouldn't want to touch me because my clothes and hair were a complete mess and had plenty of juice and food all over it but she did anyways. "Alice, you're going to get your designer clothes all juiced up. Look at me, I'm a mess."
"Bella, I don't care. I'm so sorry for leaving you like this. Edward would have never made us leave if he knew what he was leaving behind. He figured that you were going to be safe." Alice babbled on. It made me chuckle.
"Alice, how many times am I going to have to say this? I don't blame you guys. I still can't forgive him but you know that I forgive you guys." My voice held only the truth as we separated and it was obvious that if Alice could cry at the moment, she would be gushing out water works. Man, that wasn't my intention…
"And about Rosalie back there, she usually—" She started but my finger interrupted her.
"Alice, I know how Rosalie is. It doesn't matter. She can say or do whatever she wants." Alice just looked at me and shook her head. "What?"
"Bella, you're so selfless. You don't even care that others were laughing at you." Alice explained. I got used to the teasing. It's been happening for a while now so why should it bother me now?
"What's the point of being upset? It's been happening for a while." I mentioned while trying to take the food and drinks out of my hair but it was a hopeless battle. Maybe it would be better to go home. My other classes weren't that important. And besides, my future was still very distant. I didn't know what to be in the future. Taking a thirteenth year wouldn't be that bad. Angela would probably take my notes for me. What am I thinking?! I've never skipped before, why start now? Thinking like that was stupid. "Alright, my hair won't cooperate. I'll just go to class like this."
"You want me to help?" Alice asked happily. I rolled my eyes at her. Of course she would ask that. Anything to give me a make over, even at school. But now, she just cut a piece of paper towel and placed it under the faucet. Once the paper towel was wet, she placed it on my now-bleeding cuts and scrapes.
"Thanks but I'll just deal with my clothes and hair when I get home." Her eyes went from happy to sad in an instant. My sigh made her lip quiver but she didn't stop dabbing my cuts, trying to make the bleeding stop. "But you can give me a makeover some time this week. Alright?" And with that said, she squeaked in happiness and started bouncing up and down.
"Thanks Bella!" She squealed.
"Doesn't it make you uncomfortable to be around me when I'm bleeding? Remember my party?" I asked and she flinched. Alice never liked it when someone brought up that dreaded birthday party all those months ago. Back then, she couldn't even be in the same room as me when my blood was involved. And now, here she was, cleaning my wounds like she wasn't a vampire.
"It's fine. Slightly uncomfortable but I can deal with it." She said as she finished dabbing my cuts.
"Well, I'm not going to make you uncomfortable. You should go to class." And with that, she chuckled.
"Bella, I'm not going to kill you, if that's what you're implying. You're my friend. I won't hurt you." She said as she hugged me and dragged me out of the bathroom and off to class. Now, my mind finally registered everything. She didn't want to leave Forks all those months ago, she just had to. She was forced to disappear like that, all because of Edward's decision. She really was my friend.
The day went by slowly and painfully. My presumptions were right. There were a lot of stares in class and some murmuring around my desk, but nothing more. Edward tried to apologize at the break but I just told him that it was fine and that no harm was done. Angela came and apologized also for what happened at the lunch table. Now, why she was apologizing was a complete mystery but, since my clothes were all dirty, all I did was smile at her and thanked her.
Running out of the school as fast as my legs could run after the last bell, Alice came over to my truck and told me she would stop by today around five to give me that makeover I had promised her in the bathroom—man, should have kept my big mouth shut about that—but there was no point in arguing so my answer was short and simple. "Fine Alice. I'll see you soon." And with that, Alice pranced off towards Edward's silver Volvo and I got into my car and drove home.
In at least ten minutes, the Swan residence was in sight and I pulled my old truck into the driveway. Shutting off the engine, grabbing my bag and running to the house, my mind first registered that I needed a shower, like now. So, once the front door was unlocked, my legs ran upstairs and went straight for my bedroom to get some new clothes. Next stop was the bathroom for a well deserved shower. The hot water on my skin felt extremely good. It helped me forget how bullying changed me somehow. I was stronger, mentally. My mind had made a strong wall all around my heart, a wall that was hard to break. Alice had found a way around it but Edward wouldn't. Now that Jacob isn't my friend anymore, that wall was stronger than ever.
If I broke down, it wouldn't be because of my wall. It would be because of my weakness. Letting people into my life this easily was my weakness.
After my short shower, I walked into my room and was encountered with a piece of paper on my laptop. It was the latest email Renée had sent me, asking me to come to Jacksonville for March Break, which was in two days. Today was Friday. Man, how could I forget about that? At first, my answer was no but there was no courage left in me to reply to it just now. She had just sent it to me yesterday.
Just as my hand reached the paper, the doorbell rang. Checking my watch, it read four o'clock. Huh… Alice is early. "Coming!" I screamed while running down the stairs and opening the door, only to find someone unexpected. "Jake…" My voice cracked when my eyes spotted him.
Jacob stood there, still shirtless and in one of his grey shorts, just looking at me like a few days ago. "Bella. Can I talk to you?" He asked in his husky voice, his dark eyes boring into my scared chocolate brown.
"Um… sure Jacob…"
"Come take a walk with me." He said as he walked a few steps back. My broken heart was now pounding so hard it was difficult to breathe. That's exactly what Edward said before leaving me in the woods. Could my heart take another rejection like that?
"Um… alright." Alright, I guess it can.
We walked in silence until the house was out of sight. Oh no… this couldn't end well. Crossing my arms, I waited for the final blow to my broken heart. He turned to face me and sighed. "Bella, I want to apologize to you. The way I acted was… just… There are no words to describe how horrible I was!" Jacob said as he placed his hands on my upper arms. I shrugged them off. This couldn't happen right now. It can't be that easy to forgive him for what he said.
"But Jake, you said the exact same thing as Edward did. And what you said hurt me, badly. You destroyed my heart after all those months of healing it." My heart hurt even worse with all the words spoken out loud.
"I know, and I'm absolutely sorry. I broke my promise. And that wasn't my intention."
"Wait, what promise?" But after that came out of my mouth, I regretted asking it. It was what Jake told me in his garage. "Oh… That promise."
"Yeah… I wish I could tell you. But… I can't. You know, it'd be so much easier if you knew…" He kept mumbling as he ran his fingers in his extremely short hair.
"What in the world are you talking about?"
"Bells, do you—"
"Don't call me that, not after what you said to me on Friday." I warned him as he looked at me apologetically.
"Alright, I deserve that. Bella, do you remember that story I told you the first day you came to La Push with your friends? You know, we sat on the log and…" He stopped right there.
"Yeah, I remember." It took a little digging into my memories but I remembered. "The story about the Cold Ones."
"Is that all you remember?" Um… now that he mentioned it, it wasn't the only thing that popped into my mind. Jacob had mentioned many things that day that made me think. He told me that the Cullens were called 'the Cold Ones' but he also mentioned something about wolves, that Quileutes were descendants from wolves.
"Yeah, you said something about you guys being descendants from wolves. But Jacob, what does it have to do with our situation right now?" I asked him while shaking my head in complete confusion. What was this leading to?
"Everything! Alright, now think about all the myths and legends you think aren't real." Jacob said as he pleaded with his eyes. He wanted me to think, hard. So, my mind went through all the myths that I knew. There was Superman, vampires, ghosts, shape shifters, were… I couldn't continue.
My gasp made him smile. "Werewolves." Could it be that obvious to figure Jacob Black out?
"Bella! You just figured it out! I'm so proud of you!" He said as he ran up to me and hugged me so tightly that I couldn't breathe properly.
"Jacob… can't breathe…" And he let me go without any problems. His smile was the best thing about his situation right now. "Jake, you're not a werewolf. You can't be."
"But—" He started saying but stopped abruptly and looked past me.
"Bella!" A high-pitched voice said from behind me.
"Alice?" What was Alice doing here? And how did she know that we were here? "What are you doing here?" I asked while she came towards us with a worried look.
"I came to your house a little earlier but you weren't there so I decided to look around. Hello Jacob Black." She said as she eyed Jacob carefully, like she knew something was wrong. "Bella, I think we should get back to the house. There's supposed to be a big storm tonight. We wouldn't want to get caught in the rain, now would we?"
"Alice, what's—"
"She can stay here if she wants to, bloodsucker." Jacob snarled at Alice before she started dragging me away. What was going on? And what did Jacob just call Alice?
"Oh yeah? And who's going to stop me, mutt? She's not going to get anywhere near you." Alice said as she stepped towards Jake angrily. This was going to end badly, I could just feel it.
"Don't get me upset." Jacob warned her as he started to tremble violently. What was wrong with him?! He never acted this way in front of anyone. Why the sudden change? It couldn't be because of Alice… She'd done nothing wrong.
"Guys, don't fight." I pleaded but even my own voice couldn't break the awful glaring moment. They were almost at each other's throats.
"You hurt her once; I'm not going to let you do it again." Alice said menacingly before walking towards me and grabbing my elbow softly but urgently. Something was troubling her but I couldn't figure out what it was.
Suddenly, a hot hand grabs my right arm and yanks me out of Alice's grip. "She can stay if she wants." Jacob said with venom clearly recognizable in his husky voice. He pulled me closer to his extremely warm chest and my body started shaking uncontrollably, but it wasn't because of me. It was because of Jacob.
"Jake, stop!" My shout hadn't even affected him. His stare was focused on the vampire in front of me.
"Jacob Black, let go of her before you lose control." Alice said as she yanked me out of his arms forcefully and pushed Jacob backwards. But something changed in the atmosphere. A deep roar was heard from behind me, followed by a ripping sound and a deep snarl. I turned my head to see what had happened in the last few seconds and gasped.
A large russet wolf with dark black eyes was snarling at Alice and me; spit gushing out of his mouth. But this didn't look like a wolf. No, it was taller than a person and obviously larger than a horse. Oh my god… Jacob was a werewolf! He was telling the truth. Obviously, something had changed him.
The werewolf snarled once more and prepared to pounce. I ripped myself out of Alice's strong arms and extended my arms. "Jake, stop!" I warned him but he jumped in the air, claws extended, and extended his paw to attack me. This is it. He's really going to kill me. My thoughts kept going over the fact that Jacob had turned into a werewolf right in front of me and was now ready to cut me in half just to get to Alice Cullen.
Closing my eyes, I waited for the impact of Jacob's long claws on my skin, but it never came. Someone pushed me out of the way and my body hit the hard forest floor before any kind of pain came my way. The fall hurt but it wasn't as bad as what I saw when my eyes opened. The scene in front of me was so devastating that there were no words to describe it.
"ALICE!" I screamed at the top of my lungs. Alice's normally perfect figure was now sliced from her cheekbone to her hips. Her eyes closed unwillingly as she fell to the floor, unconscious and maybe even… No! That wasn't even a possibility. Alice couldn't be dead.
I forcefully lifted myself off the ground and ran to her lifeless body. "Alice! Come on! Wake up!" I screamed at her. Turning her over, my eyes looked at the damage and it was horrifying. Her wound was extremely deep; the claws had cut into her marble skin and had gone deeply inside her cheek, neck, chest and stomach. She had just saved my life but risking her own.
Looking over to the monster who used to be my friend, I could see the sadness in his dark eyes.
"How could you Jake?" I was crying now while clinging to Alice's body. She couldn't be dead. Right now, tears were being shed not just because of what Jacob did but I cried for Alice, cried for the Cullens, cried for Edward. They wouldn't accept me now, not after what just happened. This was all my fault…
"Bella." A velvety voice asked from beside me. The tears stopped as my tear-stained face looked at Edward. He looked at the russet werewolf with daggers. Edward extended his arms so he could take Alice into his grasp and I willingly gave her to him. My friend… No, better yet my sister was probably going to die because of my ex-best friend. How could I have let this happen? "She's badly hurt. I'm going to take her to Carlisle."
"How did you get here?" I asked shakily as we both got up, Edward holding Alice firmly in his arms and carrying her bridal style, just like he did with me so many times in the past.
"Alice told me to wait at your house if anything went wrong. She didn't like not seeing you in her visions and wanted back-up." Suddenly, he looked at Jacob, who now looked horror-struck. Wow… the russet wolf looked sorry for once. "The treaty's broken." Edward said before running humanly out of the woods with me behind him. Never again would I trust Jacob Black.
Once we arrived at his Volvo, he delicately placed Alice in the back seat and hoped in the front seat. I couldn't stay in the same car as Alice, not after what I did to her. "Is she going to be alright?" My frail voice asked as she turned on the engine.
"I… I don't know." It was the first time Edward was uncertain about something. That just meant that things weren't looking good.
"I'll take my truck. Meet you at the house." And with that, my legs ran as fast as they could to my truck and once inside, I got my truck out of the driveway and slammed my foot on the gas pedal, pushing my truck as fast as it could go. How could Jacob have done that? To someone that I cared for deeply, that was almost like my own family?
The tears began pouring but who cared at the moment? All that was right was getting Alice to Carlisle so he could help her.
After many tears and hitting the steering wheel in frustration for minutes, I drove into the Cullen driveway and rushed out of my car, running full speed into the large house. Everyone was around the couch, looking down to what I presumed was Alice's mangled body. And it was my fault.
Edward was at the end of the couch, looking distraught. Jasper was holding Alice's frail hand, looking like he could cry for his beloved. Carlisle was looking at the damage and the rest of the family was behind the couch, looking at their sister and daughter. Rosalie's head whipped up and looked at me, sending murderous daggers from her eyes. "Well, if it isn't you! Why am I not surprised that you're behind this?" Rosalie asked sarcastically and furiously as she approached me.
"Is she alright?" My voice was hitched with worry as my eyes tried to peek through the crowd around Alice. If my best friend died because of me, I wouldn't be able to forgive myself.
"The wound is very deep and might take a while to heal. There's only one way that she could—" Carlisle started saying but was interrupted by Edward's shout.
"No! That would go against what we've been working on for decades!" Edward screamed at his father.
"There's no other choice!" Carlisle screamed back in fright and concern.
"What? What is it?"
"The healing process could take weeks if we don't do anything and it could be very painful." Carlisle explained before closing his eyes. "The only way she can recover in the next few hours is to drink human blood."
Alright guys, I know you probably hate me now for doing that to Alice and to leave you like that but it's for the best. Review fast and a lot and you will get a lot more for the next chapter!!!
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