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BETA: MIST

A/N: If you guys do not know already it is possible you might find mistakes but I hope you enjoy the chapter despite them. Also, can't wait to read your responses to this chapter and the next one. Xoxo August

Forks Chapter 17 Part One:

When the dance came to an end other couples began to join the dance floor. Bella felt parch. She was in great need of a drink and some privacy. She was sick of all the eyes on her. Although some seem to look at her with awe while a few others look like they could slap her. She was so exhausted, mentally and physically.

"I'm thirsty." Bella lifts her head up, Jake nods his head as he leads them to the concession area.

"What is your flavor?" Jake ask as he pours himself a drink, waiting for her answer.

"Anything." Bella watches his hands as he holds the two plastic make believe martini glasses. She can not hold back the laughter.

"What is so funny?" Jake asks curiously.

"You look so, I don't know, not the type to hold a martini glass." Bella explain as she sips on the drink.

"Yeah, I agree not my thing." Jake laughs along with her as he sips on the cup.

"Congrats." Paul smacks Jake hard against the back causing Jake to nearly choke on his drink.

"Damn man." Jake coughs.

"Sorry. I never took you as the choking type." Paul teases as he smiles at Bella.

"So, you had to go off and make yourself even more popular with the ladies." Paul shook his head with a snotty snort.

"What the hell?" Jake was confuse.

"You broke tradition to dance with your latest girlfriend. Most of the girls think that is the most romantic thing they will ever experience in their lives." Paul explains while sticking his finger down his throat pretending to gag himself.

"Shut up." Jake rolls his eyes.

"I'm serious dude. It's the talk of your peers. Look around you, over half of the female population at Forks High wants to fuck you." Paul exhale heavily as he gave Bella an apologetic smile.

"Dude your sick." Jake shook his head, then look at Bella as if he was asking for some form of forgiveness for being so damn sweet.

Bella looks at Paul and they both burst into laughter, causing Jake to throw his arms up in defeat.

"Don't be sorry for being so damn irresistible Jake. Besides why would I be mad at you? I am the only girl who will get the chance to fuck you." She states with such a serious expression that Paul's mouth drops wide open nearly hitting the floor while Jake chokes for the second time in less than two minutes.

Bella only laughs even harder at the both of them before walking away from them.

Rose watches as Miranda and Edward walk off the dance floor holding hands, smiling mischievously at one another.

Rose can not stand it for one more second. She is still furious as hell that her sister beat her out of the crown and took her man at the same time. She was about to set her sweet little sister straight. She still knew how to put some fear in her sister. She would never be with out ammunition to hurt Miranda. She knew her sister better than anyone.

"Congratulations Miranda." Rose produce a big fake smile as she glare up at the happy couple.

"Thank you Rose." Miranda lifts her head up higher, the stones sparkling as the lights reflect off of it.

"I just hope your happiness lasts as long as you planned." Rose licks her lips as she cocks an eye brow.

"What do you mean?" Miranda takes the bait despite Edward trying to pull her away from Rose.

"I know the truth now. I get it. I was wondering why you were acting so strange of late. At first I blame it on your unexpected heart break. I then thought you were just hurting so much that you would lash out at anyone, even your sister to make the pain go away. Now, well…now I know why you are really acting so strangely." Rose sigh sadly as she clasp her hands in front of her, looking past at Edward with open contempt at him.

"What? What do you think you know?" Miranda roll her eyes but her body began to tremble with the anger that was boiling over at the center of her stomach.

"I know that my little sister is going crazy." Rose cluck her tongue against the roof of her mouth like their mother use to do when they misbehaved.

Rose watch as Miranda took in what she had planted in her sensitive little brain.

"Your not crazy Miranda. She is just jealous." Edward hope like hell that Alice had not confided to Rose about her their earlier theory of why Miranda was acting so oddly of late.

"I am jealous. I am jealous that I did not have the guts to lie and possibly cheat on my boyfriend with my sisters boyfriend the whole time I was dating the suppose love of my life." Rose roll her eyes as she gave Miranda a look of disgust while looking at Edward with the same disappointment.

"That is not true. I never cheated on Jake!" Miranda shook her head causing the stones to flash brighter.

"Really? Do you believe for one second he will believe that? Come on you two have probably been fucking behind his back the whole time. Don't pretend to be so damn innocent Miranda. I know you and Edward have fuck in our garage." Rose was lying through her teeth but she knew she was sounding confident in her accusations that she could sell it, especially to someone as naïve as Miranda.

"You bitch! I did sleep with Edward in our garage but not while I was dating Jake." Miranda yank her hand free from Edward's hold.

"What?" Jake and Bella had just caught up with the scene that was causing a small crowd to gather around their friends when Jake heard Miranda announce she had slept with Edward recently.

Edward look directly at Bella with a set of eyes that warn her he was trying to tell her this earlier before they were interrupted.

"That's right, tell Jake. Tell him now see if he gets jealous or hell if he would ever take Edward's sloppy seconds." Rose knew she was going over the top with the scene she had created but her heart was breaking to learn that the bluff she had challenge Miranda with had been true after all. It hurt her to think of Miranda and Edward fucking in their house, right underneath her nose.

"I hate you!" Miranda slap Rosalie so hard that the whole room echoes with the sound of it.

"Miranda damn." Edward grab her by the waist holding her back from causing more harm to her sister.

"Tell her Jake, do you want her now?" Rose held her redden cheek but she was not done with what she had started. She knew how to hurt Miranda with out even touching her.

"Did you Miranda? Did you really do it?" Jake look astonish as Miranda's eyes sadden, you could tell she wanted to lie to him. But it was already public knowledge, she could not take it back now even if she try.

"Yes, but I swear it was after you broke up with me for HER!" Miranda pointed her finger straight at Bella. Bella took a step back fearing that Miranda would be after her next with that killer swing. She already knew that Miranda would not hesitate to hit her if she was given the opportunity.

"We were broken up for what like ten minutes before you pounce the first guy? You gave it up to someone who doesn't even love you Miranda. What the hell? See, I was never good enough for you." Jake cluck his tongue like Rose had then his eyes went directly to Edward's face. It was no secret that he wanted to hit Edward but Bella took his arm, pulling him back.

"Let's go Jake. Please." Bella beg.

"Fine. " Jake was half way turn away when he turn back toward Miranda who had tears streaming down her face.

"She is right, I would never want you now. Your nothing to me." Jake shot Edward a look that clearly warn him they would talk about this later as he walk past the crowd and out of the dance with Bella by his side.

"YOU did this to me, you did it." Miranda turn toward Edward shouting angrily and pouncing her fists against his chest before she fled from the room as well.

Edward stood there speechless.

"I hope you feel good about yourself." Rose step up slapping Edward across the face, identical to the way Miranda had struck her before she march across the room to where Emmett stood looking not too surprise by the outlandish scene.

"Take me home." Rose's eyes express her pain and need to be away from it all.

"Let's go." Emmett put his hand on her neck as he led her out of the dance.

Paul stood in the back watching as his date for the evening had left with another man. He did not really mind. It was not like she was going to put out to him anyhow. He had already rode that ride once before and he did not like it.

He watch as Edward stood there speechless, rubbing the pink cheek that still had the outline of Rose's handprint across it. For once he was glad he was not the first or second most popular guy in school.

"Bella, I'm so sorry." Jake chants as he paces back and forth in front of his pick up truck. Bella leans her back against it, while she waits for him to work himself down from the furious state that Rose and Miranda had put him in.

"Why?" Bella was a little vex herself. She was feeling a little insecure. If Jake was this angry that his ex girlfriend had slept with someone after him, then what did that mean about them? Did he think Miranda would stay a virgin until he was ready for her to join him in his life again?

"I promise to show you a good time. I just…it was a slap to the face, you know. I mean, the very idea that she slept with Edward. EDWARD. God! All those months she told me she love me and wanted it to be so damn special between us." Jake shouted as he stop abruptly staring up at the starry sky above him.

"What if it was all a lie. What if they had been lovers even that night of the party." Jake growl as he curl his hands into fists, dying to hit something but knew if he hit the truck he would cause a ding and would be grounded from using it in the future.

"So what? What if they did? I thought you were over her?" Bella felt her heart aching as she watch him slowly fall apart before her eyes.

"I am over her. I AM." Jake swore under his breathe.

"Really, because I am starting to have my doubts now. I mean, earlier tonight NO, but now hell yes." Bella snap angrily as she push off the truck, starting to walk away from him and toward the road that beckon her to leave all of this. To get away. Far away.

"Where are you going?" Jake shouts at her as she picks up her pace, walking faster, hearing the clinking of her heels against the pavement.

"Leave me alone Jake." Bella bites the tip of her tongue so hard she can taste the coppery liquid that oozes out of the inflicted wound.

"No. Bella, damn it no." Jake jogs to her side, grabbing her by the arm, swinging her forcefully around to look him in the face.

"I do not love her. I do not. It's all about my ego. Nothing more." Jake swears to her as he cups her face in his hands.

"Are you sure?" Bella does not look so convince at him.

"I swear it to you. Bella, you're the first and last thing I see when I sleep and wake up each morning. I am so crazy about you. I love the way you make me feel. I love spending time with you. I…am in love with you." Jake kisses her passionately before she can react to his declaration of love to her for the first time.

Alice runs out after Miranda, finding her at last in the shadows of a stair case with her face in her hands.

"Miranda." Alice whispers as she steps pulling Miranda into her arms.

"I hate him. I hate her. Both of them." Miranda cries as she shakes uncontrollably in her friends arms.

"Shh…I know." Alice's voice soothing her pain, helping her ease the pain in her heart. The pain is so unbearable. It consumes her from head to toe. She felt like she was going to literally die.

"It's my fault. I should have known not to do it. I could not stop myself. I was stupid for getting off the medications." Miranda at last confess to the truth that Alice and Edward were sure they already knew was the cause for her outbursts.

"Honey, it's okay. You can get back on them." Alice hope she would now finally listen to some sensible advice.

"It's too late now. I already screw up everything." Miranda shook her head in disagreement when they heard a sound come from above them, follow by the sounds of heels clinking on the steps as Rose made a sudden appearance in front of them.

"I knew it! Mom and Dad are going to be furious as hell. They warn you this would happen. Your just lucky you did not hurt someone." Rose points her finger in Miranda's direction like she was a naughty girl.

"Please, Rose, don't tell them. You were right I was acting horribly but it was not the real me." Miranda cries out as Rose rolls her eyes at her sisters pleading.

"Sure it was. It was the real you not hidden underneath the drugs. You see, your worse than me." Rose flash them both a victorious smile.

"Stop it Rose! Damn it!" Alice shouts at Rose who only gives her a look that dares her to say one more word to her.

"Here, take the damn crown. You can have it. I never wanted it." Miranda yanks off the crown shoving it in Rose's hand.

"I do not want it now. Like Jake I do not want your tainted belongings." Rose snicker as she slung the crown down the rest of the stairs, landing on the ground with a loud clattering sound.

"I hate you." Miranda pushes out of Alice's arms, using both of her hands she presses them against Rose's backside, pushing her hard with all of her strength and anger.

In slow motion Alice and Miranda watches as Rose looses her footing, slowly, precisely falling toward the stairs, tumbling , hitting the wall, the stairs until she lands in a heap on the ground with the crown lying next to her head.

"Oh my god!" Alice shouts out as she races down the steps to check on Rose's condition.

Miranda stands there with her mouth cover by her hands as they convulse. She can't believe she hurt Rose. She can't believe any of this was happening to her.

"Go get the principal. Go get help now!" Alice shouts frighteningly to Miranda who stands there like a statue.

"NOOOOOWWW!" Alice shouts louder.

Miranda finally makes her brain do what she can not do herself, she lifts her legs and begins to move forward. Kneeling down in front of her sister's body she sees the blood pouring out of her sisters head where it had struck the sharp edge of the crown.

"I'm so so sorry Rose. Please do not tell Mommy and Daddy. Please." She cries like a child as she rocks back and forth on her heels.

Alice looks up at Miranda with complete shock. She can not believe that Miranda is not trying to do more for her sister than plead not to tell on her.

"Miranda, I think she is dying." Alice warns her trying to shock Miranda out of her frightening state of mind.

"No, she is not dead. She is just playing. She likes to scare me. She always has." Miranda shook her head as she push the hair out of Rose's face, watching as the blood continues to gush harder.

"Rose! Where are you Rose? I'm tired, let's go." Emmett calls out as he tries to locate where his girl had ran off too. She said she needed to go to the restroom before they got in the limo. He had been too excited about spending some quality time that he had gladly agree to wait a few more minutes.

But a few minutes had turn into nearly ten and he was starting to fear she had stood him up again.

"Rose! Where the hell are you?" Emmett shouts.

Alice and Miranda both stare at each other with frighten faces.

"We have to go, now." Miranda yanks Alice up, dragging her away from her sisters limp body.

"We need to go back Miranda. We have to help her. It was an accident. Your not going to get in trouble." Alice hope she could make Miranda do the right thing for a change but she was refusing to listen to Alice yet again.

"NO. She will tell mommy and daddy and I will have to go back to that bad place." Miranda whimpers with a almost child like voice as she drags Alice out through the back of the school.

Jasper felt the cold eerie presence of death cross against his skin as he walk up the driveway of his house. Shaking his head, he knew that someone had been kill tonight. He knew that he could have done more to prevent it but after the way Alice had spoken to him and her refusal to believe in his gift he knew it would not be worth to try to help anymore.

He understood her fear about his unordinary talent. It had not exactly been the sort of thing you could get while shopping, but it was what he was curse with despite not wanting it. He also sense that things between him and Alice were never going to be the same after tonight.

It broke his heart thinking about how she was spiraling down a dark pit of hell that he was no longer able to save her from. He knew when it was tie to cut loose from something that no longer wanted you. Alice's strange connection with Miranda had prove to him that he would never come between those two girls. Not that he wanted to keep Alice from her friends, but he did not want to be treated like a second thought when she was bore with her ordinary life.

No, it was time to turn his back on her. It would hurt. It would be harder than hell but he knew if he wanted to stay out of trouble and graduate to get out of this simple minded town he had to stay clear of Alice and her friends from this night on.

Jake watch as Bella took in his declaration of love for her. She look like a doe caught in a set of high beam headlights.

"Really?" She whisper as if she fear she was dreaming it all.

"Really. I can not deny this feeling I have for you. I try to label it with lust or curiosity but in the end I knew it was both of those things plus soo much more." Jake answers honestly as he places a tender kiss against her smooth close mouth.

"I do not know what to say." Bella knew in her heart she love him back but once she said it to his face rather than his chest she would seal their fate. There was no going back from such strong words of endearment.

"I hope you feel the same." Jake look uncomfortable as he stare into her eyes hoping to see the truth for himself.

"I do." Bella nods her head, her lips curling into a smile.

"Good, now let's go find us some alone time." Jake picks her up off of her feet and carries her back to the truck.

Bella giggles as she nuzzles her nose into the nape of his neck. She knew that eventually she would have to reveal just how deep her feelings were growing toward Jake. She just did not expect it to be on a night like this. She was scare. She was seriously frighten out of her mind about feeling like this. She once allow herself to feel like this and it had ended her in some serious trouble.

Shoving her fears aside for the night, she climb in on his side sitting straight in the center of the truck while Jake climb in next to her. Smiling from ear to ear he turns on the truck driving them out of the parking lot and heading for a destination where they can be alone in the dark so they could express their love in a physical way.

Edward walks out of the gym in search for Miranda and Alice. He hopes Alice has calm Miranda down enough so he can take her home. Although he had made plans to explore their physical relationship on a more deeper and leisure level, after what occur tonight he just wanted to go home and rest.

His whole body was achy. He felt lousy. He knew that Bella was hurt by the news that he had slept with Miranda. He also knew he was going to be in some deep shit with Jake later. It was not like he had set out to fuck her when he first show up at her house. He never imagined that Miranda would give up her virginity to him so easily. He never intended to take it.

Yet he hurt so much that night. When he look at Miranda's pain that was identical to his he could not fight the surge of desire that hung between them. When they began to touch, kiss one another he found himself thinking of Bella. When he close his eyes he saw her face. When he open his eyes he would see flashes of Bella's face across Miranda's. He knew in his gut it was wrong what he was doing with her while he pretended she was another girl. A girl he would never have. A girl that would hate him for what he was doing. Yet he did it anyways. He could not fight the darkness that had consume him.

Rose was right, he could not change his true nature. He was a taker. He took what he wanted when he wanted it. It was harder than hell to give and not receive in return. Bella's friendship had been about giving rather than taking from her. She had made it fun. She had made him enjoy the look on her face whenever he surprise her with something so simple. He had been giddy with excitement when she thank him. He was such a chump. A stupid weak ass man when he was with Bella.

Miranda on the other hand, like her sister, brought out his true nature. They both knew how to make a man feel the desire to take and hurt others. They knew how to use their own personal unhappiness and strike out at others so the pain they bared was a little less. It was a fuck up way of coping but he could totally relate.

He was growing piss off at the girls when his search came up empty for either of them when he heard the sound of Emmett's voice screaming up and down the hallway. Edward had a feeling in the pit of his stomach that warn him that this night just got a little worse, just as feet pick up and ran toward the sounds of the screams.