HLAG

Chapter 11

By the time we get out of the store, a police van is driving up. "Alice, take Jennifer to your car," I say harshly. Loosening Jennifer's grip on me is a task in itself.

"Princess, you're going to be okay. I'll fix this, just sit in the car with Alice," I whisper in her ear, but she doesn't let go. Needing to see her, I pull back looking her in the face, but even her eyes are lifeless.

Pulling Alice closer, I speak into her ear, but the words come out through my calmed mouth." Call mom." She bobs her head and I let her arms go, and walk away, but the anger I feel only intensifies.

My eyes stay on Bella as I walk over to where she is. Her eyes keep bouncing from me to Alice's car. "Can you give me a few minutes?" My eyes don't leave Bella, they don't have to, Mike knows the question was addressed to him.

"Sure," Mike says looking to Taylor and Eric, who are standing outside the van they just put Bella in.

I jump in and close the door behind me. I sit across from her and just look at her.

"Are you going to stop staring at me and say your piece?" Bella grits out.

Shaking my head, there is not one part of her showing any remorse for what she was caught doing. "I defended you, to my mom, Mike, everyone at the station, but you..." the words come out of my mouth in a harsh yell, making Bella's eyes get hard.

Bella snorts at me and her mouth sets a hard line as she starts to talk. "You told your mom that she was wrong, that you were getting through to me? Changing the bad girl, making her good? You did that for you not for me, so I owe nothing to you."

"Jennifer was there, how could you do that in front of her?"

Bella shakes her head. "What do you want from me? To say I'm a crappy person? To say I'm sorry? That will not happen because what happened in there was an impulsive choice, a choice that I would do again, in a heartbeat."

"Is that a fact?" She bobs her head at me and gives me her bitch brow. "All this, the trouble why, why the hell would you want to cause Alice and Jenny this pain? Is it because you feel abandoned by your mom?"

Bella's eyes narrow at me and I can now see the fire in them. "I do not have a mom. If you're talking about the bitch that gave birth to me, then no, this has nothing to do with her," Bella spit the whole thing out at me. "Can we get this van going, because I've got shit to do!"

"Shit to do? What more stealing? Do you have another heart to break?"

"Whose heart did I break, yours?" Bella asks, but her voice gets shaky at the end.

"You need to grow the hell up and realize that the world doesn't revolve around you."

"I've owned up, what more do you want from me?!" Bella yells back at me.

"I want you to start fucking behaving like a human being. For this stunt, you are going to be spending the weekend in jail! Do you get that?"

"Yes," Bella says through her clenched teeth, "now, can we go?"

Looking at her in shock as she talks, I can't speak. "Look, Edward, I don't need saving, I'm happy with my life." I snort and stand up.

"You're happy getting carted off to jail?" Bella shrugs a little.

"Some of my friends live there, it's been a while since we last spoke face to face. It'll be really good for us all to catch up, don't you think?"

"You sound like the waste of space they all tell me you are."

"Well, at least I didn't disappoint you." Having heard enough, I open the door and jump out slamming it shut.

I look over at Alice and Jennifer to see my mom has already arrived. "Take her away. Mike and I will deal with her when we get there," I say walking away toward my mom.

"Hey honey, how are you?" I ask Jennifer as I crouch down to her. Her eyes flick to mine then she drops them. "Honey?" I say trying to hold back my sob. "Please just sign something so I know how you feel?"

I stand up knowing she isn't going to sign. I close my eyes rubbing my face before turning to my mom. "Please take them to my house." I look at my watch seeing I have three hours of my shift left.

"I am dealing with this," I say pointing at the van, "then I'll be home."

~HLAG~

When Mike and I get back to the station, we interview Bella. She refuses to have a lawyer present, but again she takes the blame for stealing, but doesn't give us any reason to why. Our desk Sargent formally charges her. Mike and I bring her to booking. Once she is ready for transfer, we meet a female officer outside waiting.

"Edward," Bella says, but I don't reply to her. "You don't need to talk, but I need you to do me two favors."

I snort and just look at her. "Can you make sure Alice stays away when I am seen in front of the judge." I raise my eye brow at her and she drops her head. "Could I write Sue a letter? She..." Bella stops talking, taking another breath and looks at me. "Please, she needs to know where I am. She doesn't answer the door or the phone, please? All you have to do is slip it through the kitchen window, it will be open a little." Bella pleads and I sigh and nod.

"This way, Miss Swan," I hear a deep female voice say.

Bella holds up her hands so that I am able to remove her handcuffs. "In return, I want you to stay away from Alice and Jenny, they don't need this in their life."

Bella swallows and then closes her eyes walking away with the guard. I take her silence as her agreement.

Bella's point of view

I flinch hearing the clang of the door closing. There is a part of me that wants to look back, but I know I can't. If I see his face, the face that holds so much hurt, disappointment, and above all disgust, I will crack and break down and that's something I can't do, not in here, not with these girls.

"Get a towel, night wear, underwear, and a uniform," the female guard says nudging me into the stock room.

"Oh, such choices," I mock as my eyes run over the nylon, gray shit they have. I pick up the panties that are made for old people that will go to my tits. I turn looking at her. "I didn't know they shopped at Victoria's Secret, if I did, I would have been here earlier."

"Move."

"Wow," I say picking up the sports bra, and my lovely outfit.

"Strip and put your clothes in the bag," she says placing the clear bag down.

"Do you mind?" I say and she looks from her clip board and looks at me.

"I have to stay." As she talks her eyes drop back to the clip board, but I have a feeling she can still see me.

I smirk and nod my head. "I know, but I was wanting some music," I say winking at her.

Striping down, I put on my itchy new clothes and start to fold my own clothes, placing them in the bag. "Necklaces too."

"What?" the word comes out sounding pained. This is something I don't want to do.

"Your necklace, take it off," she demands looking at me as she points the pen toward it.

"My dad gave it to me when I was five. I've never taken it off." The entire time she gives me a sad look. "I better get it back," I say as I drop it in the bag.

"That is the mess hall," she says as we pass a room. "Shower room, bathroom, and rec room," she says pointing to each room as we pass. "Meals are at seven, one, and six."

"Oh, I love filet steak, medium," I joke out to her, but like my other comments she just ignores me.

"This will be your new home, bottom bed," the female guard informs me. "Lights out at ten." She turns and starts to walk away.

"What, no enjoy your stay?" I say with a smile. She gives me a 'bitch please, I've seen it all before'.

"Honey, I don't want you to enjoy your stay. I aim to make your life here a living hell, so that when you get out, you don't come back." I am a little taken aback, as she looks hard as nails, but her statement holds nothing but the truth.

"Sorry to break it to you, but I lived in hell, deep hell, even spent time with the devil's spawn, and she was and still is a thorn in my side." I do my best to stop talking, no point in talking about Renee, it will only get me pissed off and I'm sure that is the last thing I need.

"Can I make a call?" My voice has softness to it now, but that needs to go, my wall has to stay up, more so in here.

"I'll find out if I can arrange it for you," she says walking away.

Taking a deep breath, I walk into the room. It's small, around five foot by seven foot. There is a bunk bed, and a small table, nothing else, not that anything else would fit.

I move to the window and look out to see a wall. "I'm sure I asked for a room with a view," I mutter aloud to myself.

"What the fuck are you doing in my room?!" A voice yells out. Taking a deep breath, I turn around.

"You're mistaken, this is my room." As I talk, I size the girl up. She's older than me by a few years and has at least six inches on me. She even has small abs that would make some men jealous.

The girl sneers at me, and I stand my ground. "Listen good, bitch, this is my fucking room, that's my bed," she says hitting the top bunk. "And that's my bed, too," she says hitting the bottom one. "You can fuck off. If you don't, I will fucking cut you." She brings out a small silver thing, but before I can make out what it is, the guard is back.

"You have a call," she tells me and she eyes up the girl and me.

"I see you've met your roommate, Joy." As the guard talks, my roommate, Joy, grins.

"She won't be here for long. You guys should know by now that I don't share my room," Joy sneers, but the guard snorts.

"No, you know that one more fight and you will be in solitary for a month. Isabella." I move to the guard and Joy just snarls at me like she's a dog.

"Well, she's a bundle of Joy," I chuckle out as we move down the hallway.

The guard pulls on my arm and makes me face her. "She has badly hurt a lot of her peers. I wouldn't have you in the room with her, but there's just nowhere else for you to go. You chose the wrong weekend to visit." I give her a smirk and she shakes her head. "You may fool others, but I know a good kid when I see one and you, young lady, shouldn't be here."

"Not like I could have let Alice come," I mutter making the guard side glance me.

"My call?" I say trying to move us on.

"In there. You have thirty minutes, so you can end this call and make another if you choose to."

I bob my head and walk to the desk picking up the hand set.

"Hello?"

"Bella." I close my eyes hearing Sue's worried voice. "Why, why did you do it?" I know by her voice that she's been crying.

"I didn't have a choice."

"Yes you did, you could have let Alice take the responsibility for what she did!" Sue argues.

"Sue, you know she wouldn't last in here. She's not tough enough. I didn't want my only friend to be hurt." I hear Sue take a deep breath.

"She needs to see someone, she's losing herself."

"I know, I was planning on taking her to therapy with me, but while..." I close my eyes having no idea how to help Alice anymore. Her random behavior is getting more and more out of hand.

"Can't you talk to her parents? Her dad's a doctor, he must see she's depressed."

I shake my head at the phone. "Sue, I think she has manic depression, and after today, I think she's going to down spiral fast! As for her mom and dad, I really have no idea how they can't see Alice is screaming for them to help her. As for me, saying anything to them," I snort. "I tried remember? They showed me the door."

Sue sighs again. "Do you need clothes? I don't know how to get them to you. We need some food too." My eyes close hearing Sue's fear. I fucking hate this! I hate that I am not there, but I know I did the right thing, my roommate proved that.

"I am going to call Jasper and get him to bring you what you need, he'll knock on the kitchen window. Don't worry about any clothes."

"Okay," she says, but there's fear still there.

I hang up calling Jasper. "Heeeyyyyy," he drags the word out making me shake my head.

"Are you stoned, Whitlock?" I ask him with a chuckle. It's a silly question really.

"Nope, but that sounds good to me, Swan. Are you wanting some?"

"No, but I need to cash in on two favors." Thank God he owes me about ten.

"All ears, Swan."

"Go to the store and pick up some bread, milk, eggs, chicken, anything that Sue can use to make a meal."

"Er, why aren't you doing this?"

"Alice stole something and I made the guard tell the police it was me. I'm locked up for the weekend."

"No shit, Swan?"

"Whitlock, just do it. Knock on the window so Sue knows it's you." My voice wavers again. I take some deep breaths calming myself.

"Okay, keep your mouth shut and head down, Swan."

"Jasper," I say stopping him from hanging up.

"Don't worry I'll keep an eye on Alice, want me to take her to therapy?"

I chuckle, but a small sob comes out too. "Please, tell her I fucking love her, but she's not to do anything stupid, like turning herself in. Make sure she knows I got this."

"I will."

"Time's up," the guard says having come back in.

"I'm done, anyway."

I walk with her back to my room praying that whatever judge I get on Monday, lets me get the fuck out of here.

"Good night," the guard says after I walk through the door. She gives me a weak smile as she pulls the door closed.

"Welcome back, bitch."