Remember how I used to have something in a different language? Well, I'm gonna do it again! So here goes… "Ciao! E dia il benvenuto a al capitolo 22 di come ho trovato l'amore! Speri ya' il ll gode del capitolo!" That is Italian for, "Hi! And welcome to chapter 22 of How I Found Love! Hope ya'll enjoy the chapter!" I told peeps I would say why I killed off Mike and Jake so here's my explanation. Okay, well if Bella had gone to Italy it would have been pointless since her bros were already dead. And it was a trap since Edward would have been killed too! So I think how I did it is WAY better than what would have happened. Well, on with the story!
Disclaimer: I OWN NOTHING!
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BPOV
"Please excuse this interruption. Attention Forks High, Principal Greene has called for an immediate assembly. Please make your way to the gymnasium for further information, thank you." the crackly intercom quieted and the classroom erupted into excited chatter, being excused from class indefinitely today was cause for excitement even if it was bad news, kids hated class that much.
Edward and I joined hands immediately and followed the sheep-like flock of humans out of the classroom to the gymnasium where the event was taking place. As we walked, ever so slowly behind the large swarm of human teens, faces of teachers formed into looks of disgust as they took in my hair, which was still its normal black and teal green with pink streaks, but now was teased so much that it looked like a person itself.
It also may have been from the fact that the large long sleeved black shirt I wore said "Blow Me" in yellow letter printed on top of a big red tongue licking a pink popsicle that looked suspiciously like a wiener, clearly an innuendo for oral sex(I was borrowing it from Edward). I had paired it with faded grey skinny jeans with shredded knees that revealed my milk white skin.
I heard snippets of other people's conversations, whether it be about the unexpected assembly or just their everyday lives, I didn't know since I wasn't paying attention to any of them until one caught my interest. Jessica Stanley and Lauren Mallory were not so conspicuous as they gossiped to each other, Edward and me being the hot topic.
"You know he is only with her for the sex." Jessica muttered behind her hand, looking pointedly at me and then giggling wildly into her palm, Lauren following her lead. My hands curled into lethal fists but a kiss on my temple quickly relaxed them and I looked up to see Edward smiling brilliantly down at me, effectively brightening my day. That is, of course, until the terrible twins started talking again.
"Oh I know, I mean, sure she's pretty and all but, that's not that's not what's keeping him down if you know what I mean." that sent them into a fit of snorting giggles and only a stern glance from Mr. Banner quieted them. We were now seated in the gym on the bleachers waiting for the principal to say whatever it was that was so important that it had to have its own assembly.
"Well they both are freaks, don't forget what happened in March." Jessica reminded Lauren and they both turned around to stare at us uneasily and shuddered and then Jessica's gaze flickered to the shiny silver pendant around my neck and shivered. I rolled my eyes and saw Edward shaking his head in mock sadness his hand over his heart, as though their scaredness of us actually made him care, too bad it did not.
"Hello Forks High!" Mr. Greene decided to start the assembly and was awarded with shrieks and yells, greeting him a 'Good Morning'. He actually rubbed his ear before giving us a Colgate commercial smile and also wished us a "Good Morning!' before he started talking.
"Well, I pulled you all out of class to tell you a very important announcement." this had captured everyone's interest and all the humans unconsciously leaned forward so they wouldn't miss his next words. It was then that I noticed Alice, Emmett, Jasper, and Rosalie sitting in cheap plastic chairs to the right of the podium where Mr. Principal stood.
They each wore nice clothes, the kind you would wear if you were going to be standing in front of about three hundred high school students and giving a speech. Alice was nervously reading her bubbly pink note cards and Jasper was trying to calm her down and take the cards out of her hands, so far he was losing.
I scanned the crowd and saw the rest of our friends, Angela, Ben, Saera, and Eric, at the front of the bleachers, 10 rows below us as we were at the very top. That made me wonder; why were they down there when we had arrived before they did? Perhaps they had not seen us and thought maybe we were not at school.
"The prom committee has put together a speech informing you of the upcoming all grade Prom. Please give a warm Spartan welcome to your fellow classmates Mary Alice Brandon, Emmett McCarty, Rosalie Hale, and Jasper Whitlock." there was a wild applause as the group rose from their chairs and nervously made their ways to the microphone.
It was strange seeing bold Rosalie Hale flush with nervousness, her cheeks were stained a blood red blush and she fanned herself with her hand, blowing a few strands of hair around. Alice was no better, she gnawed on her shiny French manicured nails, scraping the pristine white polish off the tips.
Only Jasper and Emmett appeared unflustered as they greeted the student body, introducing themselves again along with their girlfriends. Rosalie was holding her stomach self-consciously, nearly everyone had their eyes trained on the large bulge underneath her purple long sleeved maternity shirt. Emmett noticed this and, before he continued with the speech, he said something so embarrassing I would have blushed if I had been human.
"Really you guys? She is pregnant, we know. I know she's bangin' and all but, that's my future wife you're gawking at." the teacher's gasped at his boldness and the students became flustered from being reprimanded by Emmett. It was only Edward and I who started laughing our butts off and had everyone crane their necks to find the source of the musical laughter that sounded like the chime of the Notre Dame bells.
"Uh, anyway," Jasper cut in, "who here is excited for prom?" he shouted and the previous incident was forgotten as the one night of drugs, sex, and partying all done for school was mentioned and they went crazy, screaming and whooping. The football team was the loudest, bragging about "bringing the fun", which, in case you didn't know, meant they were bringing booze and drugs.
"Alright, well this year is going to be the best. We rented out the Hilton Hotel ballroom in Port Angeles(a/n: I know there is not one but who cares, this is fan fiction) and we have a live band performing, a DJ, snacks, punch, and just about the best damn night of our lives!" Emmett shouted, raising his fist to he ceiling. Shouts of outrage were heard from the teachers at Emmett's use of profanity but the students went absolutely nuts and it was a good 3 minutes before it was quiet enough for Alice to say her part.
"Yeah, so you can purchase your tickets at the main office for $40 for couples with ASB, $50 without and if you are going alone it's $20 with ASB and $30 without. Tickets go on sale as soon as we are done and prom is scheduled to be in 3 weeks!" Alice seemed amazed that she had survived through her part and she immediately regained her peachy color for her previously pale white complexion.
Mr. Greene approached the stand and took the microphone after thanking the committee and babbled on about "no illegal substances will be allowed at the dance" and "Abstinence is key" before dismissing everyone back to class and wishing them a wonderful rest of the day. The whole thing had taken about 25 minutes and many people were already rushing to the office to purchase their tickets.
Edward and I didn't move to leave until mostly everyone was gone and when there were maybe 10 or 15 stragglers we stood up and noiselessly traipsed down the usually clanking steps. Rosalie and Emmett were the first to notice us and they motioned for him and I to join them by the chairs they had been sitting in before.
"Did you like it?" Alice asked once we were standing in a circle in front of the chairs. Her expression was hopeful, begging to know if she had completely and utterly humiliated herself or if she had successfully delivered the intended message.
"Oh yeah," Edward answered her, "you definitely looked like you belonged on Broadway." he put the back of his hands to his forehead and did the signature fainting pose causing Alice to smack him on the arm and blush like mad. I chuckled along with our small group at the friendly exchange and suddenly got a chill up my spine and the feeling that someone was in here with us that meant to harm.
Edward must have felt it too because his shoulders stiffened up and his neck tensed but he never broke his façade of cool calm as we chatted with the four clueless humans standing before us. I sent out a mind search, listening in on everyone's thoughts within the area surrounding the gym and found quite a few, maybe 7, and they belonged to humans.
They were behind the bleachers and in their minds they were… what? For some reason I was seeing in their minds… no, it couldn't be… what I seemed to be seeing was… a bucket of… pig's blood? Yes, I could see it with perfect clarity, the thick scarlet tone of about 3 gallons of pig's blood. But what one earth were they thinking about pig's blood for?
Unless, they were… Oh gosh. Seriously? They were planning on going Carrie on us. You know the movie of the teenager with telekinetic powers who was tormented by her peers and Christian mother and on the night of prom the populars dumped pig blood on her and she ended up killing everyone. Yeah, that one. They were seriously planning on dumping pig's blood on Edward and I at prom and humiliating us in front of everyone, idiots.
I don't know how I didn't hear it before, they were talking at a volume slightly lower than normal speech and just so happened to be discussing how exactly they would obtain this pig's blood. Apparently there was a pig farm a couple miles outside of Forks and they were going to steal a pig, kill it, drain it, and then dump the blood on Edward and me.
Edward looked disgusted when I looked at him but I sent him a reassuring glance and he smiled tightly, telling me we would discuss this later, after school. Jasper must have noticed this because he abruptly stopped talking of how nervous he had felt as they stood before everyone.
"What's wrong?" he demanded. All eyes were on me or Edward in effect of Jasper's question and it became blatantly obvious to them there was thick tension in the air and Edward and I knew what was causing it. I bit my bottom lip and Edward rubbed my shoulders before he decided to answer them, speaking quietly, so as to not alert the group that we had discovered they were back there and what they were discussing.
"Have you all seen the movie Carrie?" he asked them. Everyone nodded wordlessly, curious as to where this was leading. I know if someone had been asking me this I would be confused, why was someone suddenly asking me if I had seen a movie from the 70's? No doubt that is what they were thinking since they had equal looks of confusion painted on their faces.
Edward nodded to himself, grateful he would not have to describe the movie to them, before continuing, "Lauren Mallory, Jessica Stanley, that Jeremy kid, Tyler Crowley, um, Kate Stevens, that one guy who looks like Harry Potter, you know, Max, and Jared Mink are all behind the bleachers. They are planning to dump pig's blood on Bella and I at prom. Just like in Carrie, which is where they got that idea from." he explained.
Much to my surprise, and probably Edward's too, they started laughing raucously, gripping their sides and struggling for breath. Emmett had to hold Rosalie up so she wouldn't fall down even though it looked like he was going to collapse on the ground any second too. Jasper tried to muffle his loud guffaws but lost in the end and belted out his laughter, filling the gym with the happy sound.
Alice was the only one who semi-kept her composure but, like the others, she was red-faced and gasping for breath. Hearing this loud laughter the group that was crouching in the dark grimy space coated with soda and other unmentionable substances suddenly quieted and tried to remain hidden.
It was a few moments until the humans had to stop and breathe properly before they passed out but even then they let out a couple small chuckles, like when you laughed really hard over something that wasn't really that funny and when you thought about it again you wondered why you laughed in the first place. Yeah, like that.
Alice wiped a tear from her eye and jasper straightened out his shirt as me and Edward gaped at their huge laugh fest over something that was really not funny. But it was pretty hilarious watching them gasp for air and clutch onto each other as they cracked up. Once they finally quieted Edward asked them what that… incident was about.
"They're seriously going to dump pig's blood on you guys? That's so unoriginal." Emmett scoffed keeping his voice low so as not to alert the group behind the bleachers. I furrowed my eyebrow and nodded my head, still not getting what was so funny.
"I don't get it." I whispered.
"You don't need to. It's just, well it's weird that they had to get an idea of how to humiliate someone from a 70's horror movie." Jasper explained and I had an "Oh! I get it now!" moment and I wagged my finger at him, shaking my head and chuckling.
Edward thought that was funny as he wrapped his arms around my shoulders and pressed my back to his rock hard front and placed his chin on my head, his deep laughs vibrating my whole body. We stood for maybe 4 seconds of silence before the bell rang, a long whining sound, signaling the end of 2nd period. Oops, we had missed the rest of class. Oh well, it was only the last 10 minutes of it.
We said our goodbyes to everyone and Edward and I went to 3rd which was French with Madame Alford. Edward and I took our seats in the back of the classroom, as per usual, and waited for class to begin or for the teacher to enter the room. Madame Alford came bustling into the room, a purple scarf around her head and a large stack of papers in her arms.
She set the papers downs and turned to face the room, "Bonjour class!" she greeted us and all the humans groaned out the usual, "Bonjour Madame," before zoning out. She scanned the room and had a calculating look in her eye as she searched for someone to interrogate.
Her eyes landed on a slouching boy in the middle of the room and she smiled quickly before asking him, "Monsieur Don, si je devais vous demander que vous faisiez cet été, comment répondriez-vous ?" the boy got a scared look on his face as he turned to look at me for help but I shrugged my shoulders, pretending to be clueless for the answer.
"Hmm, il semble comme si quelqu'un n'a pas fait leurs devoirs. Mademoiselle Laroche." she called to me.
"Oui Madame?" I replied with perfect articulation, even though an idiot could say those words without trouble. I was showing off, a little. She repeated the first question and I thought a while before answering her, again in flawless French, it isn't like she knew that I grew up in 15th century France.
"Bien, cet été je passerai sans doute presque quotidien avec Edward ici, autre que qui je ne suis pas sûr." the only word anyone could understand was Edward but other than that they all gaped at me, the boy glaring at me for not helping him earlier. Madame Alford thanked me and continued on with the proper technique of articulation.
Edward then turned to me with a dazzling smile on his face, "Spending your whole summer with me? Mmm, I like that idea." he said, subtly hinting at some of the more dirtier things we could accomplish in the few vacation months. I rolled my eyes playfully at him, but telling him with my eyes just how much I really loved that idea.
TRANSLATION:
"si je devais vous demander que vous faisiez cet été, comment répondriez-vous?"
"if I were to ask you what you were doing this summer, how would you reply?"
"Hmm, il semble comme si quelqu'un n'a pas fait leurs devoirs."
"Hmm, it seems as if someone has not done their homework."
"Bien, cet été je passerai sans doute presque quotidien avec Edward ici, autre que qui je ne suis pas sûr."
"Well, this summer I shall probably spend almost everyday with Edward here, other than that I am not sure."
A/N: THE TRANSLATOR IS BEING RETARDED, FIRST IT TOLD ME SOMETHING MEANT ONE THING, NOW IT'S TELLING ME ANOTHER. IF YOU ACTUALLY UNDERSTAND FRENCH AND YOU KNOW THE MISTAKES, I APOLOGIZE.
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Alright well, there is chapter 22! I hope everyone enjoyed it! Please please review! They make my day(s)! Bye for now!