A/N: First I would like to say Feliz Cinco de Mayo to any of my Hispanic readers. Now, I just want to start off by saying ya'll just have a smile on my face! I don't think I've ever been this proud of something that I've written before until I posted this story. I'm so glad that ya'll enjoyed the last chapter. It just warmed my heart. I'm definitely doing some hard core multi-tasking right now I'm studying for the American Literature End of Course Test, Typing my Resume, cover letter and thank you note, doing my ceiling tile project, Spanish piñata project, my picture portfolio project for business class, and typing this chapter. Wahh, I'm really swamped right now! But I still find time in between all of this to get my story done for ya'll. But good new is that I only have 15 more days until school is out and my junior year is over. M'kay I think I'll get started on typing the chapter up but first I would like to give huge thanks to:
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Chapter Six
I was barely conscious as I peeked through my eyes that were squinted. Someone was carrying me, but who? I looked up and croaked out "Where am I?" someone giggled and I realized it was Ali as she spoke "No worries Bells it's me I'm letting Felix carry you into the house." I nodded and snuggled into his chest. "Mmm you're warm." He chuckled as I was shuffled and laid down. A pair of hands began pulling my shoes off and a blanket was drafted over me. Someone kissed my forehead and I assumed it was Alice because she whispered "Sweet dream my superstar, Ali loves you." That was the last thing I heard before I was sucked back into a state of unconsciousness.
~FLFCM~
Waking up to a sudden burst of light would have been a great thing any other morning but my head was pounding. Groaning I rolled over and instantly regretted it. I felt like I had been punched in the gut by a heavy weight champion. Jumping up I quickly ran to my bathroom and flipped the toilet seat up. I gagged loudly as the barf flowed out of my mouth into the toilet.
I felt a hand hold my hair up on top of my head. I looked back quickly to see Ali. She smiled wirily as I leaned down to retch in the toilet bowl again. When I was done I lifted myself off the floor and brushed my teeth making sure to get rid of the vomit taste in my mouth. My head pounded as I groaned. It felt as like a crazy chicken fight was going on in my head. I made my way to the couch and laid down as Alice crawled up beside me. I laid my head down and whispered "Ali what happened? Ugh, I feel like I was hit by a train." She giggled as she handed me two pills and a glass of water from the coffee table. "I'm surprised you have that bad of a headache I gave you two aspirin and made you drink a glass of water once Felix and Alec left. You have a hangover."
I took the pill and downed the glass of water. "No duh Sherlock, are you serious!" she rolled her eyes nodding her head as she grabbed the remote "Smartass, plus it is all over ENews." She flipped on the Television and lowered the volume. I watched as the scene played out before me. Me being carried to the car, yelling at the paparazzi and then there were dozens of pictures of me as I walked and then as fell to the ground. But that wasn't the worst of it all. They were playing the part over and over of me hitting the ground and bursting out laughing. I groaned as Ali flipped the Television off.
My head was already starting to feel better, I was still sensitive to sound and my body was a little stiff but my headache was subsiding. "Ali I really embarrassed myself!" I twanged as Rose came into the living room. She was dressed in black skinny jeans, a dressy red blouse and red pumps and her hair was on the side into a waterfall braid. I smiled as I saw the star bucks cup in her hand. I smiled as she handed me the cup. "Yummy! Aww thanks' Rose, you and Ali take good care of me." I sipped my iced coffee as Ali laughed. I arched my brow questionably "What?" she giggled "You said the same thing to me last night when I pulled you away from the party."
I sighed "I totally messed up." She sighed and her smile vanished "Yes you did! What were you thinking? And did you know you were talking in your sleep?" I looked at her skeptically as I sipped more of the coffee "Really? Was it that bad." She sighed "You tell me? You kept saying over and over 'At least I know Jake was wrong. You still have some knocked around insecurities over Jacob." I sighed and waved my hands "Maybe but it's whatever." She nodded and stood up. "Come on you've got to go get ready."
I yawned "Why?" she giggled "You have a meeting with Peter." I groaned "Why me!" she giggled as we headed to my room so I could get dressed.
~FLFCM~
An hour later I was dressed in a pair of White Vila leggings, a black Roxett one shoulder top, Red Stuart Weitzman heels, matched with a red Alexander McQueen Britain clutch, accessorized with my momma's old pearl necklace, earring, and bracelet set, Straightened hair, twisted it and pinned a few pieces to the side as we walked into the record company. We walked to the desk and Angela greeted us. "Hi Bella, Mr. Whitlock is waiting to see you." I nodded and groaned as we headed back.
Peter being my publicist and label manager could be a pain but I loved him like a brother. Well a brother who was holding my job in his hand. When I walked through his office door he was sitting in his desk chair looking out the window. I knew he was beyond pissed. He turned the chair around slowly and glared as Rose and Ali took a seat in the chairs in front of his desk. I flinched then he spoke calmly "Isabella what was that little stunt you pulled last night! You were the last person I would have expected to see like that!" Sighing I sat on his desk.
"I'm sorry; yes I know I screwed up. I have no clue what was going through my mind. Okay maybe I do but I was clearly not thinking right. You know this is my first time ever doing something like this." I knew he was trying to keep from looking over at me. But he ended up sneaking a peek over and that's when I pulled out my major move; pouted my lips and looked up from under my lashes. I knew he couldn't resist it. He groaned "Isabella don't look at me like that! You know I can't resist that face. Fine you're off the hook."
I squealed and hugged him "Peter I promise it'll never happen again." He smiled and glared "It better not, I don't want you to be the next Lindsey Lohan." I nodded "It won't happen again." He hugged me back and we left. When we made it outside Felix and Alec came to Escort me to the car. Before we knew it I was surrounded by Paparazzi. I slipped my Ray Bans over my eyes and hopped into the car. Ali climbed in and we pulled off. "Ugh, I hate Paparazzi!" she nodded "Me too! Hey Benjamin said that he is coming over today for your exercise and training session. Then you have to do your rehearsal for the talk show."
I groaned "Ben is going to kill me! I've probably gained some serious pounds from all of the alcohol and then I've had Star Bucks two days in a row." Ali and Rose giggled as Rose spoke "Yeah he probably will work you to death."
~FLFCM~
Once we arrived back at my place I was happy to see that there weren't any paparazzi. Garrett was a kick ass owner! Ali and I quickly threw away our star bucks' cups and I ran to get dressed. I pulled on a pair of brown Sofee shorts and a camo sports bra. I slipped on my Vibrums and threw my straightened hair into a messy bun. Right when I popped into the living room my door bell rung. I ran to the kitchen and splashed a little of water on my face, neck and belly. I grabbed a work out towel from the laundry room, draped it around my neck and ran to the door. I smiled and quickly pulled open the door.
"Ben!" he smiled "How's my favorite superstar?" I smiled "Great! I just worked up a huge sweat doing crunches and push-ups." Ali walked into the room dressed in a pair of pink Sofee shorts and a white sports bra. "Bells why are you wet you just got dressed not even 2 minutes before Benzie walked though the door." I glared at her and Ben looked over Ali giggled and spoke "Your trying to pull the wool over his eyes by throwing water on your body to look like sweat. I love you to death Bells but I think Benzie is smarter than that."
Ben winked and smiled "Ali-kinz is right Bella. I am too smart for that. You out of all people should know that." I shrugged my shoulder "I know but hey it was worth a try." Ali laughed as we headed down the hallway to my workout room. Rose was dressed in a pair of red sofees and a matching red sports bra stretching out on her yoga mat. "Rose you didn't do yoga this morning? We always do yoga in the mornings." Ali walked over and laid her mat beside Rose and started stretching. Rose smirked "Well someone was feeling kind of sick this morning and slept in." Ben laid out my yoga mat. "Is that so? Okay start with your warm ups. Start off with three sets of crunches fifteen each." Groaning I laid back and started on my crunches.
Rose did a bridge stretch and spoke "Yep. Bella had a hangover this morning." I continued my crunches breathing deeply from my abdomen like Ben had taught me. "Bella arch your body in some." I did as he said. "Good job. Your almost there one more set." I continued "so you had a hangover. That means you would have had lots of alcohol because one thing I know about you is your definitely not light weight. But that's great new because that means we have more calories to work off." I rolled my eyes closer to the last few crunches as Ben counted down.
"Fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty. Hold it." My body was arched up holding the last crunch. Ben could be one evil trainer when he wanted to be. "done." I flopped back and gasped "You're trying to kill me, Murder by work out that's exactly what my gravestone will say!" Ben rolled his eyes and chuckled "you're over exaggerating. No! I'm not trying to kill you I'm trying to keep you in good health. Now start on bicycles." Bending my right leg, leaving my left leg straight, pulled my head off the floor, clenched my abdomen and began to switch legs back and forth. "How many?" he chuckled "Ten sets of Two." Bicycles were a great workout but I hated them even if it worked magic on you abs.
Making sure to do quick, fast, and precise movements was the key to bicycles. Soon enough I was done and Ben tossed me a bottle of water and I drunk greedily from the bottle. After I was cooled Ben spoke "Roll over it's time for push-ups. You only have to do five over your personal best and that's 85 so you have to do 90." Rose and Ali giggled as I started "Stupid me, never ever am I drinking again!" "So…Bells why'd you get drunk last night?" hissing I spoke "Shut it Ben." He laughed "I'm just really curious. You know it must have been a butt load of alcohol." Pushing myself faster I made it pass 50. "And I'm just asking for you to shut up." He smiled and I plopped down "See it wasn't that hard to do 90. Nice job now you're going to take a 10 minute stretch break consisting of right and left leg stretches, middle and front stretches, and butterfly stretches. Afterwards we will get started on weights." I nodded and started stretched out my body.
~FLFCM~
The work out session with Ben lasted for two hours. Two straight hours of none stop torture! Draining the last of my water I flipped through the television channels "Rose hurry your butt up, I need to show!" Ali laughed from her spot on my bed "Bells your hilarious! You have the late show tonight at 12'oclock with David Letterman." Nodded I flipped to ENews and stopped dead in my tracks. I couldn't believe what I was seeing. I quickly turned up the volume as Ryan Seacrest spoke:
Chelsea: "It's official America our number one hottest couple Black Swan are history. Paparazzi spotted Bella Swan crying from the back of her SUV Monday night of the breakup. But it seems this country cutie rebounded pretty quickly the night of her best friend and country star Taylor Swift's 21st Birthday Party. She was spotted drinking and dancing with L.A's hottest dance choreographer Riley Biers, Speaking of Riley here he is now."
Tossing the empty bottle into my bedside trash can I almost flipped over when I heard Chelsea say Riley's name. I jumped up and made my way back to the bed just in time to see Riley walking into view of the camera. Riley flashed a smile to the camera as Chelsea spoke.
Chelsea: "Riley so you and Isabella? What is the deal with that? You two together so early after her breakup with Jacob Black are you not afraid that you're just a rebound?"
Riley chuckled as he spoke.
Riley: "No there is absolutely nothing going on with Isabella and me. I'm sorry to say but Isabella is not my type. Did you not see her the night after Taylor Swift's birthday party? She is clearly not stable enough to be in a relationship. I would not be surprised if her manger has not called a rehabilitation center; it is not her first time being drunk like this. Isabella and I have been friends for a while and she has a serious drinking problem I am not the only one who saw that. Her Ex-boyfriend Jacob Black knew of it too, he asked her to seek help or he would end the relationship but she went ballistic and refused to so he ended the relationship months ago. There whole relationship was just an act for America. I as her friend only care for her well being and health that is why I took it upon myself to let you, America know about her problem."
I was utterly speechless; there was nothing I could say. My mouth was open but I could not form any words. Ali was the first to break the silence and when she did it was not pretty. "What the hell is wrong with that guy? I have every piece of mind to drive over to the studio and rip him a new one! You unstable! This is your first drink in God knows when. You've barely had time from work to make it home to sleep let alone pick up a bottle of booze. Hell no this is not about to happen while I am your manager." Alice grabbed her iphone and blackberry quickly dialing numbers as she paced around my bedroom.
Chelsea: "Well America you heard it from the source of it all Riley Biers."
She turned to look at Riley as she pulled him into a hug.
Chelsea: "Thank you Riley for being her and America tune in next week to hear Isabella's side of the story."
Sitting there starring at the screen I realized that my life was falling to pieces. Why had the last few months been total chaos? There was so much stress with the new CD arriving in stores in a couple of days, starring on talk show after talk show, Rumors, and the loud noises of the city. It was all too much and I knew what I had to do. I was upset and wanted to get away from it all. Like a rocket I stormed off of my bed and into my closet yelling and dragging my suitcases out. "It's just all too much I've had enough of it all I need a break!" Rose rushed into the closet and so did Ali as she was on hold with someone on the phone.
"Bells you are not saying what I think you are saying, are you?" I nodded and smiled as I pulled another bag out of the closet. Alice and Rosalie were both speechless and I took that time to speak. "Yes I am saying exactly what you think. I'm going home."
A/N: That's the end of Chapter Six! Picture links are on my profile from earlier chapters. Okay I know I originally said that this chapter would be longer but when I was writing I ended up coming up with way more than I planned for this chapter so I decided that this was a good enough place to stop. Plus I wanted to get this chapter out because in the next few days I'm going to be busy with End of Course Tests, Finals, work, dance and flag team tryouts. Also I'm really tired because I had to wake up early this morning to take the SAT which was a six hour test! I can barely keep my eyes open so if I don't post this now I'm going to fall asleep on my keyboard. Please excuses any errors because I did no editing or proofreading. Almost for got no weekly recommendations because I'm so tired. First four reviewers get a sneak peek of the next chapter. Hope you enjoy it and show some love! I love ya'll my StarReaders!
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