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Chapter 12: Problem On The Reservation

(Bells Pov)

I woke up early in the morning to some movement and I scrunched my face a bit as I grabbed the moving object and pulled it to me. It was warm, and I could feel it moving up and down as I held it close to me. I realize that it was a body and I smirked a bit.

"Can't leave yet." I mumbled as I kissed her neck gently.

"And who said I was leaving?" She asked and I moved my hand to grab hers.

"No one…. I just don't want you to leave just yet." I whispered and she turned to face me. I smiled as I once again moved my hand, but only to cup her face gently.

"You're a very beautiful woman, Alice." I whispered and she looked at me.

"And you're a handsome young man, even if you've got a bruise on your eye." She said and I chuckled a bit as I kissed her gently. She moved her body on top of mine and I grabbed her hips a bit as she laid on top of me.

"Want to just stay in bed all day?" I offered and she looked at me.

"As much as that sounds good, We can't, but we can cuddle and make-out for a few hours." She said and I kissed her. I felt her hands slowly move up my shirt and I closed my eyes and moved from her lips to her neck. We stopped kissing and I looked at the time and groaned a bit as I sat up and looked at her.

"Why must we wake up so early?" I asked as I put my head on her shoulder.

"Cause we have school." She said and I groaned.

"Let's just fucking skip this day." I said.

"Sure." She said and I looked at her.

"Oh wait now you want to skip school?" I asked and she nodded.

"Sure but we have to do something else." She said.

"I guess I could get Leah to workout with me." I mumbled and she nodded.

"You want to start working out with Leah in the early hours, which by the way have bulked you up a bit." She said and grabbed my arm. I smirked at her and then picked her up.

"Wanna come with?" I asked and she looked at me.

"If Leah doesn't mind me being there." She said and I nodded as I set her on the bed and grabbed her bag and looked through it.

"What are you looking for?"

"Workout clothes for you to wear…… if you come Leah's gonna make you workout too." I chuckled as she grabbed her bag and I looked up at her. For some odd reason she was blushing like crazy.

'Hu? That's weird.' I thought but then shrugged it off and grabbed a clean pair of clothes and went to the bathroom. I looked in the mirror and shook my head as I grabbed my razor and shaved my face. Now I didn't completely get rid of my beard I just made it really short. I walked out and looked at Alice and she smiled a bit.

"Nice trim." She joked and I kissed her cheek.

"So I heard that Transgendered people have to take these hormones shots….is that true?" She asked and I looked at her.

"Kinda, I mean they did about five years ago but they've developed them a bit more to where they only need to be taken once a year, and with a pill or needle….. it's just an experiment for now, maybe later once we just need one shot or one pill and that's it….. no more, we don't have to worry." I said as I grabbed my Axe Spray and deodorant and put them in my bag and I grab it by the strap.

"So it's developed that much?" She asked and I nodded.

"Yea….. but hey I'm not complaining, and hey maybe I won't be to old if they somehow find a way for me to…… have kids of my own." I mumbled and looked at her. She smiles at me gently and kisses me. I kiss her back and drop my bag and hold her waist as we keep kissing each other. We pull apart after a while though and I smile.

"Ok, breakfast then to Leah's home." I said and she nodded. We both headed down the stairs after she changed and I was making some waffles for us.

"So what will you and Leah be doing today?" Alice asked and I smirked

"You, Leah and I will all be going out for a run, and lift a couple of weights." I said and she looked at me.

"That doesn't seem much." She said as I handed her a plate.

"Oh not for you, I have to run with weights on my legs, or chest." I chuckled and she looked at me.

"Well….. I want to do that too." She said and I smiled.

"If you want, that is up to you." I said as we are our food and I finished drinking my orange juice as she cleaned her plate.

"Alright, lets go I'm pumped up." She said and I chuckled. I grabbed my keys and our bags and she ran to the truck and I smiled as I got in with her. I turned the truck on and began driving to Leah's home, giving her a call.

"Hey Leah me and Alice are on our way."

"Alright, So I'll get some extra weights out for her right?" She asked.

"Yea, and another weight vest for Alice, she wants to try that with us."

"Is she sure? I don't have a light one, maybe she can jog with the dumbbells." Leah suggested and I looked at Alice.

"Hey Ali, want to run with some dumbbells before you try the vest?" I asked.

"No I can do the vest." She said and I nodded.

"Alright, just make sure she's ok while we run." Leah said and I nodded as we hung up. I drove all the way to Leah's house and as I parked the car Leah came out and I hopped out the truck with Alice.

"Alright you two lets get going." Leah said and I chuckled as I grabbed a weight vest and so did Leah and she handed one to Alice. We stretched for a bit and I watched as Alice did her stretches. She was wearing just a sports bra and sweatpants, along with Leah.

"Hey big boy, why don't you take your shirt off and show Alice how muscular you've gotten." Leah joked and I rolled my eyes and smirked.

"She sleeps in the same bed as me, she's probably felt my muscles at night." I joked.

"Oh har, har Bell, don't get your ego all up." Alice said and she shoved me gently.

"Hey what can I say, you cannot resist." I said as I flexed a bit and we all laughed.

"Alright who's ready for a run?" Leah asked and I got up and put the vest on.

"I am."

"Let's do this." Alice said and I chuckled as we all began to jog in the woods. Not to worry there's a well beaten trail that we can follow so we don't get lost. We ran for a good twenty minutes and I was ahead of Alice and Leah. I heard them start to talk to each other.

"So are you gonna be exercising with us everyday from now on Alice?" I heard Leah ask.

"I mean if it isn't a bother to you two." Alice responded.

"Doesn't bother me one bit, I need a few exercising buddies anyway." Leah said.

"Does it bother you Bell?" Alice asked and I turned around and was running backwards.

"Nope, come if you want, I just need to bulk up." I said and Leah picked up a rock and threw it at me and I ducked.

"Ha Nice try." I laughed as I sprinted off.

"Hey don't go off to far there have been some bear sightings." Leah shouted and I rolled my eyes. I ran far ahead of them and went off the trail a bit so I could scare them.

"BELL?!" Leah shouted and I chuckled a bit.

"BELL?!" She yelled again.

"Bell this isn't funny come on." I heard Alice say and I come out from behind them.

"BOO!" I yelled and Alice screamed as she turned and punched me and I stepped back as I held my nose and laughed.

"Bell what the hell?" Leah asked and I moved my hand to see blood and I laughed a bit more as I grabbed a cloth from the side pocket of the weight vest.

"Admit it, seeing Alice punch me was hilarious." I chuckled out and Alice helped me a bit.

"Be That as it may, you still should be careful in these woods." Leah said and I rolled my eyes.

"Come on I know there's wildlife in this area Leah we've been running this trail for a while, and if you haven't noticed my home is in the woods too." I said and she looked at me.

"Yea but the bears have been acting a little….. off, for the past few days." She said and I nodded.

"Ok….ok let's head back….. and see if little Pixie broke my nose." I chuckled as we all began to walk.

"If she did, you deserve it." Leah said and I chuckled. We finally got back to Leah's house and I went and washed my face a bit and was careful with my nose. I took the vest off as well and Alice came over to me.

"Alright lover boy let's look at that nose of yours." Alice said as she checked it a bit. It stung but not to badly.

"It's not broken, lucky you." She said and I chuckled.

"Lucky me."

"So what's the diagnosis doc? Grounding for a month?" Leah joked and I looked at her.

"Hmm two weeks." Alice said and I looked at her shocked.

"What? You're actually gonna ground me?" I asked and she nodded.

"Of course, you need to be taught a lesson." She said and I shook my head.

"You can't ground me I'm an adult." I said and she looked at me.

"You acted like a child." She said and I sighed.

"I'm not grounded." I mumbled.

"Sure." She said and I saw Sue who smirked at us.

"Someone getting grounded?" She asked.

"Yes Bell is." Leah said.

"I am not." I said and they laughed.

"You are and that's final." Alice said as she got up and we all headed into the kitchen where Sue had lunch ready for us. I grabbed a sandwich and looked at Alice.

"Do you like the sandwich?" She asked and I nodded and so did Alice.

"Yea thanks Sue." I said and she smiled.

"Enjoy, oh and Leah, Seth needs a lift to Paul's, he forgot his bat." Sue said and I grabbed another sandwich and chuckled as Alice looked at me.

"Alright, that boy would lose his head if you didn't remind him about things like that." Leah said and I smiled.

"Well if that's the case me and Alice need to head out then." I said.

"Nonsense, stay tonight for the bonfire, Uncle Billy will be telling his old stories." Sue said and I looked at her then Alice.

"That's up to Alice really ma'am." I said.

"Gonna let a woman control your life?" I heard and saw Seth.

"And so what if I do hu? Ain't nothing wrong with that." I said.

"Sure there is." He said and I looked at Sue who glared at Seth, trust me you don't want to see Sue mad.

"Now listen here boy, what Bell and Alice do in their relationship is none of your business, if Bell wants to listen to Alice that's all him." Sue said.

"It shows he's weak." Seth said.

"So you think your dads weak? Cause he listens to me, and I don't think you want to tell your own father that he's weak just for compromising with his own wife." Sue said and Seth looked down at the table.

"How about as punishment you do tell your dad that he's weak, see how fast you get in trouble." She said.

"No…. no thank you mom." He mumbled.

"You don't get the option to say no boy, when he gets home you're gonna tell him what you told Bell, that's final." She said and I felt a bit uncomfortable.

"Well, maybe we can go, it seems like fun." Alice said and I looked at her.

"If you'd like." I said and she nodded. After a while Alice and I went to my truck and we got in then headed to my home.

"Is there anything specific to wear?" She asked and I chuckled.

"No just not formal and at least have clothes on." I said and she nodded. When we finally got to my house I saw that mad Dad was still gone.

"Hey after the bonfire do you want to….. have a little fun?" Alice asked and I looked at her.

"Fun?" I asked and she looked at me and grinned and I smirked.

"Oooooh….. wait really?" I asked and she nodded.

"If that's fine with you." She said as I parked the truck and she got out. I shook my head a bit and got out the truck and I followed her inside. We decided to stay in my room a bit and I laid on my bed.

"Well this has been an eventful afternoon." I chuckled and she snuggled up against me.

"Oh yea, and wait till tonight, Uncle Billy has these stories, I mean on the reservation it's their legends and stuff." I said.

"What kind of legends?" She asked.

"I'm not telling, you just gotta wait." I chuckled and she looked at me.

"Aww just a little taste." She said and I chuckled.

"It's not my story to tell." I said and she smiled at me and we just looked at the ceiling.

"Just trust me when I say this, you'll enjoy the story." I said and she nodded. I held her close to me as I closed my eyes a bit and nuzzled her. A few hours passed and I heard my dad pull up and I looked down to see Alice still asleep. I slowly pulled away from her so I didn't wake her up, and I went downstairs to see my dad putting his holster up.

"Hey Bell." He said.

"Hey Dad…… um Alice and I are heading to the reservation later tonight, Uncle Billy is gonna tell his story…. And Sue's gonna make her fried fish." I said and he smiled.

"I can't go this time, I have to finish this file, another person was…… never mind." He said and I looked at him.

"The guy wasn't caught hu?" I asked and he sighed.

"No, he hasn't been caught, but now they're thinking he is a she, So this changes everything." He said and I nodded then rubbed my neck.

"Dad….. what if it was a team….. or a group?" I asked and he looked at me wide eyed.

"We didn't think about that." He said and looked at the papers then grabbed his holster.

"I have to go back." He said and I watched him run to his cruiser and drive off. I looked down and sighed a bit then looked at my phone and saw the time. I headed up to my room and saw Alice getting ready and I rubbed my neck.

"Did your dad leave?" She asked as she came up to me as she did she held my cheeks gently and made me look at her.

"Yea….. I probably helped out in the uh…. You know." I said and she looked at me sadly.

"He's trying to keep you safe, he wants to get the bad guy." She said and I interrupted her.

"There might be a group of people." I said and she looked at me.

"That makes him want to get them faster Bell….. he doesn't want you to get hurt, or worse." She said and I nodded.

"Think about it, after this he's probably gonna take a week off or more to spend time with you." She said and I smiled.

"Yea….. Yea you're right." I said and kissed her and she kissed me back.

"Now get changed, or stay in these clothes I don't mind." She said and I chuckled as I changed out of my workout clothes and into a pair of black jeans, and a red polo shirt.

"Handsome." She said and I fixed my hair a bit and then we went to my truck. I began to drive back to the reservation and I held Alice's hand.

"You look very handsome Bell." Alice said as she kissed my cheek. I blushed a bit and smiled as I drove more.

"And you're looking mighty fine yourself." I said and she smiled too. We finally reached the reservation and I drove to Uncle Billy's home where the bonfire was. I parked my truck and helped Alice out and walked her over to my Uncle.

"Hello Bell." He said and I smiled.

"Uncle Billy, oh this is my girlfriend Alice, Alice this is my uncle Billy." I said and they shook hands.

"Nice to meet you again Mr. Billy." Alice said and we got seated. I saw that Jared, Paul, Seth, Leah, Jacob, Sue, Mr. Clearwater, Mr. Uley, and a few other people here.

"Alright, so let's see, oh who wants to know about Imprints?" He asked and Alice looked a bit confused. Everyone else raised their hands and I just watch Billy get ready to tell his tale.

"So we all know what a soul mate is, that's basically like an imprint, but for our tribe when we see our imprint, they are the ones who hold us to this earth, they are our new source of gravity, and we look at them as if we were once blind and now we finally see the sun for the first time in years. It's a wonderful experience for many but a curse for others." He said and I looked at him.

"Uncle billy I have a question about the story you told us a few years back." I said and everyone looked at me.

"You think he's gonna remember a story he told years ago?" Sam mocked.

"Well he does have a good memory, I mean he did recite every swear word in order that my mother said when she was giving birth to me and that was almost twenty years ago." I said as I looked at Sam and he glared at me a bit.

"What's the question?" He asked.

"Could girls be shapeshifters?" I asked and he looked at me as the boys laughed.

"A girl being a shapeshifter? Holy hell you are an idiot Bell." Paul laughed.

"Actually Paul you're an idiot." Sue said and I silently gasped to myself, like a little kid who hears a swear for the first time. And I mean hearing Sue call someone an idiot is like she said the F-bomb in a kindergarten classroom.

"The hell you talking about? Only men can be shifters, they're stronger, faster, smarter." He listed off and I saw Leah look down and I patted her back.

"Actually Paul women could be shifters, and they were a lot more stronger than males, and faster, and if a woman did shift she was basically like a god, her vote in anything counted more than five men's vote." Billy said and I looked at Leah who smiled a bit.

"Whatever you're just trying to make the women feel like they have more power now." He said and I glared at him.

"Hey there are women out there that's got more power than you, Hell with the way you're going you won't even be able to go to Washington State college, with your piss poor grades." I said and he got up and so did I but Jacob got between us.

"Calm down you two, no need for another fight." He said.

"Oh is Paul gonna be a bitch and throw a rock at me again, or is he gonna actually fight me this time." I edged on. Yea ok that's a bad thing to do but I'm not giving a shit right now.

"Fuck off freak." He said and I damn near shoved Jacob.

"Ok calm down." Billy said and I still glared at Paul.

"No come on let's fight." Paul said and I felt Alice grab my hand.

"Bell lets just go." She said and I backed away from Jacob and looked at Alice and nodded as she gave me my keys and we began to walk.

"Yea listen to your bitch." Jared called out and I stopped.

"Bell it's not worth it." Alice said as she got in front of me and I looked at her.

"But they-." I tried to say but Alice cut me off.

"What they say doesn't matter to me, they're just pissed off because I have a handsome man who loves me, and is willing to leave and not get into a fight over something as stupid as name calling." She said and I nodded as we walked to my truck. We both got in and I looked at the steering wheel and turned the truck on.

"Bell." She said and I looked at her and shook my head as I began to drive home.

"Come on please talk to me." She said and I gripped the wheel.

"I fucking hate this." I mumbled a bit and I drove more.

"I fucking hate it when they think they can call you those words and I know I shouldn't get into a physical fight over it, but that's fucking uncalled for." I said and I felt her grab my hand and I moved it away from the wheel and held hers.

"Bell you know it's not true, they're just pissed cause I made a simple mistake that's all." She said.

"No fuck that, they have no god damn right to say it just cause Paul isn't fucking clear in his texts, I'm not fucking clear in my texts sometimes I know that, I'll fucking admit that shit, but I don't get pissed off and start calling girls bitches just cause I wasn't clear or they didn't understand my fucking piss poor text." I ranted and she looked at me. I took a breather and just drove.

"Bell I don't care, they can call me that all they want, I don't care, words are words, let them be pissed off, their ego got hurt somehow, over something stupid and simple that could have been talked out…… and you starting it up again doesn't help, when you stand there and bring back the whole issue back up it doesn't help either." She said and I had the look of shame on my face.

"I….. I didn't mean to."

"I understand that you're trying to help me but I can take care of myself when it comes to words Bell, that's all it is….. I've got tough skin."

"But I don't." I cried.

"He fucking called me a freak and my fucking emotions right now….. I fucking hate it." I said and wiped my eyes a bit.

"….. you're not a freak, Bell….. I know that it's different between us, the issues and all that…… but please don't take it to heart….. I don't know how you're feeling, I can't and I'm sorry." She said.

"Don't be, look….. at least you aren't acting like you know what I'm feeling like most people do…… and you're trying." I said as I drove more. We sat in silents and I pulled into my home and looked at her.

"I'm sorry for acting out….. I was wrong, I know I was wrong to try and start a fight and I shouldn't have edged it on…… and….. and thanks for talking and letting me rant." I said and she looked at me.

"That's what I'm here for." She joked and I smiled gently and I grabbed her hand and kissed it gently. She smiled back and we both got out and we both went inside the house and I looked at the kitchen.

"Um…. Dinner?" I asked myself and I looked at her.

"What would you like?" I asked and she thought a bit.

"You pick." She said and I rubbed my head a bit and went into the fridge.

"Could make some stew." I said and she nodded as we got the ingredients and I grabbed the pot, broth, meat, and Alice grabbed the vegetables, pepper, and I looked up the recipe. We began cooking and I grabbed some biscuits for us to make and I smiled down at Alice. We finished after thirty minutes of cooking and I grabbed us some bowls and spoons. We sat down at the table and I sat next to Alice and held her hand and we ate our food.

"You know the funniest thing about this day is." I chuckled and Alice looked at me.

"And what would that be?" She asked.

"My dad not asking me why I didn't go to school." I chuckled and she smiled.

"Oh god I forgot about that." She said and we both laughed a bit and I looked at her.

"He's gonna be so pissed tomorrow." I laughed and laid my head down.

"It's ok we can talk to him." She said and I nodded. As we finished dinner we cleaned our dishes and we headed to my bedroom. I grabbed a towel and decided to take a shower and I looked at Alice.

"Hey wanna join me?" I joked and she looked at me. And smirks.

"Sure." She said and I started to blush as she came up to me and I looked at her and gulped.

"R-really?" I asked and she nodded.

"If you want." She said and I rubbed my neck.

"I um, I….. uh…. Heh." I mumbled and she smiled and kissed my cheek.

"Did I break you?" She asked and I nodded.

"Go take your shower." She laughed and I nodded as I went and took my shower and came back after about ten minutes. I grabbed some boxers and went to change as Alice went and took her shower. I laid in bed as Alice came back in and she laid next to me and I held her to me. Placing my head on her chest.

"Night Bell." She said and I nuzzles her.

"Night Alice." I mumbled and closed my eyes falling asleep to the sound of Alice's heart beat.