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This chapter isn't as long as I would like, but I really wanted to get something up!
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"Alice, what's going on, what's the problem?"
"I think Dylan and Bella….I think Dylan's hurting her."
EPOV
Please tell me this is a dream. Please tell me this is some sick joke and I'll just wake up in my bed and role over to hit the snooze button.
Calm down. Just close your eyes really tight and open them again
I took a deep breath, did it, but when I reopened my eyes, I was still in the cafeteria and Alice was still there, all tear eyed, wondering if I was having hearing problems.
Oh…shit…well that didn't work…Btw, you're allowed to panic/freak-out now
Thanks a bunch you shitty inner monologue. All right Cullen, pull yourself together, Alice could just be over exaggerating the situation, she could be all wrong about what's going on. You need to be the strong one here. As I was about to speak, my voice escaped me completely and I managed to just barely squeak out, "What? What are you talking about? Are you sure?"
Good job there tiger, or should I call you kitty?
Alice let out a breath she had been holding and quietly sobbed as she answered, "Yes I'm sure. At least, I think I am. I don't know. I just know that there's something bad going on and I don't know what to do. I'm seriously worried about her." She was breaking down with each word and I needed to hear this story. I guided her over to one of the lunch tables and pulled two chairs of the stacks in the corner for us to sit.
"Ok Alice, I need you to take a deep breath and tell me what's going on."
It took her a couple of tries before she was able to calm down fully and concentrate on what she was saying. "They've only been going on for like two almost three weeks now. Everything happened so fast and under the radar I didn't even notice all the signs. Granted I wasn't looking for them, I mean she looked so happy. For the first time since you left, she looked really genuinely happy."
Well thanks for that Alice. Now excuse me while I go remove the stake you just stabbed into my chest.
"Wait, what signs?"
"They were just a lot of little things. Like I said, I didn't notice any of them before, but now, looking back it's so obvious. Her ditching class every now and then, her bipolar emotions, all of the long sleeve t-shirts, even with the past really nice warm days…" She was silent and stared at nothing in particular in the distance.
"Alice…please come back to me here."
"Edward, he's clearly abusing her." She put it so bluntly that it hurt to hear. "He's hitting and controlling her and she won't leave him or let me do anything to help her."
"I'm not taking his side Alice, but are you really sure? I mean, this is serious, are you one hundred percent positive about this?"
She stopped to consider and then looked me straight in the eyes, "Positive," was all she said.
"Have you confronted Bella at all about it?"
"I tried and when I told her what I though, she yelled at me, went into full blown freak-out panic mode. That was three days ago Edward, she hasn't even looked at me since."
"Well what did she say?"
"She told me that I was crazy and a little nosy bitch for getting into her business. When I told her about how I had seen her bruised wrists-"
"You saw those too?"
"Ya, and when I made her look me in the eye and tell me he wasn't hurting her she pushed me and started yelling about how Dylan was amazing and the only person in her life that actually cared about her. She said that she knew I didn't care about her anymore because I was spending too much time with Jasper. But it's not like that at all! Every time I try to talk to her, Dylan always butts in."
"Alice, he's doing it, he's trying to make her think that all of her friends are turned against her. That's why she isn't telling anyone. One, she doesn't want to upset him so he leaves her, and two because in some sick, messed up way, she doesn't want to leave him because she thinks that he's all she has. She must be scared and terrified out of her mind."
Sherlock Holmes at your service ladies and gentlemen.
Alice let out a cry and jumped into my arms, wrapping her own around my neck. Even when we were friends, Alice and I were never close like this. It felt weird, but she was scared too, for her best friend, so I wrapped my arms tightly around her back and held her to my chest and tears poured onto my shirt.
After she had finally let it all out, she pulled back and looked at me and said, "Thank-you."
"No problem Alice, I'll always be here for you. Now enough with feeling sorry for ourselves, we need to help Bella before she seriously gets hurt."
"But how Edward, she won't listen to me and she definitely won't listen to you. Jasper thinks I'm being silly because I miss hanging out with her so much, who else is there to go to?"
"What about her dad, can't he help?"
"I tried that. I went over to her house when she was out with the a-hole and guess who was there with Charlie watching the game?"
"Who?"
"None other than Charlie's new working partner, Oscar Grayson, Dylan's dad."
"You've got to be shitting me! But that doesn't matter; we've still got to tell him!"
"Edward, Charlie's relationship with Dylan's dad is very important. He's his supervisor, if we tell him; he might end up losing his job." Why the hell does everything end up coming back to Charlie and his job!
"Then what else can we do Alice, we're running out of options here."
"You can try and talk to Dylan and see if you can come up with anything. You know, try to dig up some dirt about him. We don't have any valid proof here. I mean there's Bella but she would never go against him…"
I sighed and ran a hand through my hair, "Fine, I can do that. I'm going to also try to talk to Bella again, you should try too."
"Wait again? When did you talk to her before?"
"Right after the basketball try-outs, I came out early and she was the only one there." I told Alice the rest of the story and that just reinforced her feelings that all this has started from when they first begun dating.
"The thing is, I don't know when I'll be able to talk to Bella again."
"Why not, you have Biology with her, don't you?"
"Ya I do, but I can't really talk to her in public….it's complicated." In flash Alice was out of her chair and hovering over me menacingly.
"Are you serious? Bella's being hurt by her crazy abusive boyfriend and all you can think of is your popularity image! Forget this! I thought I was wrong about you Edward, that you weren't a complete jerk, but this just takes the cake you arrogant bastard!"
"Alice it isn't like that ok! Will you stop yelling at me for two seconds so I can explain myself? You may think you know everything about me, but you don't ok? I don't give a shit about being popular or about any of this stupid social food chain bullshit. I can't tell you everything, but you have to trust me that I'm like this for a good reason. I never wanted any of this. I want to be normal again like it was before, but….I just….just can't. It's seriously complicated but there's really nothing you can do but trust me. I want to help her as much as you do."
"You really like her don't you?"
"More than you could manage. She means everything to me."
"Alright. I trust you. The past is the past. Let's focus on now."
"Really? You're forgiving me just like that, after everything's that happened? After everything I've done?"
"Yup, it doesn't matter anymore. You care about Bella….so you're good with me."
"Bella wasn't joking; you really are her best friend."
"She's my sister, now enough with this mushy love fest; we've got work to do." Just then the bell rung indicating that 4th period had ended. "We can't talk later can we?"
"No, not openly, but do you have an IM?"
"Ya, here let me give it to you." She dug out a slip of paper from her bag and wrote down the address for me.
"I'll make a separate account that we can talk on." I took our chairs and placed them back where they belonged and walked out with Alice. Before we went to our next classes she turned quickly and grabbed my arm before I could leave.
"Thanks Edward. Thanks for believing me."
"No problem. I know we never really got off on the right foot, but I'm glad to have some part of my old life back. We'll talk later, I promise…see ya…Ally." To this she just smiled and walked off in the opposite direction.
Wow you used her 'Bella only' nickname and she didn't kill you…impressive.
Walking to my fifth period class I passed by the school bulletin board and noticed that coach had finally posted the team roster. With everything being so crazy I had completely forgotten about it.
2010-2011 Boy's Varsity Basketball
First 5 are starters, come see coach in his office to pick up schedules and jersey:
Eric Yorkie
Tyler Crowley
Dylan Grayson
Edward Cullen
Jacob Black
Mike Newton
Riley Biers
James Bentley
Laurent Samuels
Josh Pierce
Robert Griffin
Sam Uley
Daniel Rodgers
Greg Davis
Seth Nolan
Well that was a little bright news for my day, the only down side was that Dylan had made the team as well. It was going to take some major effort to be civil around him. The halls were begging to clear up since the bell was about to ring. I turned to get to my class as well when I bumped into someone and stumbled backwards a little bit.
"Sorry I didn't see you there," then I finally looked up, "Dylan?" Well just my luck. I needed to talk this guy but right now all my impulses in my body were screaming at me to pounce on him and beat him to a pulp.
"Watch where you're going Cullen."
"Woah, why don't you watch yourself Grayson?"
"Please you think you can take me, you want to do this now?" As much as I would have loved that, I had to play stupid and keep it calm.
"Chill man, what's your problem?" Immediately he took a step closer and got right in my face. We were about the same height so his eyes were at perfect level with mine. He practically shot daggers at me with them.
"My problem? My problem is you Cullen? I'm so sick and tired of seeing you walk around this school like the big shot you clearly aren't."
"Dude, what are you talking about? I thought we were friends?"
"Friends? Please get over yourself," he shoved me back and I lost my footing and fell back on my ass. "And stay away from my girlfriend alright? I see the way you look at her and I don't like it. Let's get one thing straight, she's mine; you hear me? She belongs to me."
And then I just snapped. His stupid smug smile said it all: he knew that I knew about Bella. If there was any doubt in my mind before, it completely disappeared. He was practically admitting it straight to my face. I shot up off the ground and tackled him again the lockers. The halls were empty and silent and the ring of the crash echoed through the halls.
I had my hand around his neck holding him up right on my tip-toes. Anger and rage pulsed through me and all I saw was red. I don't even know what really happened, it was just one giant flash and then here I was pinning him to a wall. The little bastard still smiled at me.
"You think this is funny punk? I swear to god you hurt her and I'll make you wish you were never born."
"Ple…ease, " he said struggling to breathe, "I'd…li…ke, to see…you….tr…try."
"Don't tempt me Grayson, or I'll put you in the hospital permanently and you'll be drinking through a tube for the rest of your life."
"Bring it on." That was it I couldn't take it anymore, I pulled my right fist back and just when I was about to let it swing forward to knock him clean in the face-
"Edward! Stop!"
I turned my head down the hall and saw Bella standing there holding herself together with her arms tightly wrapped around her body. "Put him down, let him go."
All at once, all the adrenaline left my body and I loosened my grip on Dylan's neck. My right arm fell against my body limply and I felt disgusted with myself. As much as hitting him would've felt good, I couldn't do anything like that in front of her; even if it was to protect her.
"Edward, how could you….why would you-?" But she was cut off while Dylan got free and punched me in the stomach. My breath was knocked clean out of my body and I fell forward while he shoved me down. I was crippled in pain on the floor while Bella gasped, ran over, and knelt by me. "Edward! Edward are you alright? Dylan why would you-"
"Shut up bitch! God do you always need to say something? Now get your ass off the floor and go to class."
"No."
"What did you say to me you little whore?"
"I said no. Get out of here." I was so proud of her for standing up to him, I tried to lift me head to look at her more clearly, but it was extremely hard. Damn that boy knew how to through a punch. He rushed to her and before I could even move my arm to stop him, he grabbed onto her ponytail and yanked her onto her feet.
"Ow! Let go of me!"
Where the hell are any of the teachers? What kind of crap security school is this?
He pulled her closer to him and hit her across the face. "Shut up, just shut up!" Tears were streaming down her face as I tried to turn onto my stomach to push myself up with no avail. "After everything I've done for you, this is how you repay me? Everyone leaves you and who was the only one left around to pick you up? Was it this dirt bag? No. It was me. It's always been me. You help him now and tomorrow he's going to throw you out like garbage again. Then where will you be? Crawling back to me, that's what. And you know what; I'm tired of picking your sorry ass up all the time.
So now it's time to choose, me or him? The one who has always been here for you, or the one who cast you off like you were nothing?"
Well ok! Sorry for the cliffy, or whatever it's called in the fanfiction world, never done one, I really hate leaving my awesome readers hanging, but honestly it's because I don't know what to do!
I usually plot out my chapters and since I didn't really have a definite one for this one, it kind of just came out as I went!
SO here's my challenge to my amazing super duper readers/reviewers/fellow twilight fanatics!
I've never had more than 7 reviews for any give chapter, so let's shoot for 8 on this one!
Tell me what you think should happen next! Who should Bella choose? I'm a little dry on ideas so I'd love some ideas or any input at all!
Until next time
~Ketzchexmex
Oh and also quick Q – what yall think about Edward's inner monologue? Keep it or get rid of it?