The next morning we stood beside each other at the parking lot while I examined the skid marks on the pavement. If sparkle-pants didn't safe us I would have died for sure. Maybe it would have brought me back to my world though.
"Look! They're moving. They're ALIVE!"
Mike came up to us making moves like Dr. Frankenstein.
I glared up at him, not thinking that this was funny. Come on...this could have taken another turn because I interfered.
"...yeah...bummer huh!" I said annoyed seeing his amused look change into one of guilt.
"Actually, I'm glad that you guys are not dead 'cause...well, well that would suck, plus I wanted to ask you something Gen...even though it's like, a month away..."
Oh hell nah!
"Would you like to go to prom with me?"
No fucking way! I am so NOT going to prom with this dude
"Actually we are not going. We have to go to Jacksonville." Bella answered for me. She must have gotten the message since I was probably too quit. Besides Jessica was already glaring at me from a distance.
But Mike wouldn't be Mike if he weren't persistent: "You can't go another weekend?"
"Non-refundable tickets. Maybe you should ask Jessica." Bella saved me once more and Mike turned around to look over at Jessica seeing her smile at them. Mike takes off to Jessica and I sighed out in relief.
"Thanks Bells! You're the best!" She rubbed my shoulder in a comforting way letting me know that she got my back.
"come on we need to get into the bus."
I groaned in frustration: "Do we really have to go? Like come on...those field trips suck!"
Bella only ignored me and walked into the bus passing the permission slip from both of us to Mr. Molina.
Boring! Boring! Boring! That's what this field trip was! Who cares about compost? Who? Freaking no one but Mr. Molina. I walked in the back trying to not get any attention. Edward was looming after Bella so she was taking care off, Mike was leaving me alone as well...what else could I ask for right? RIGHT?
"Hey." A soft voice suddenly startled me. I turned around to see the tortured face of Jasper and the giddy one of Alice.
"Hi, Alice, Jasper. How are you guys?" I chose to be polite. Okay the truth was she was like the only character (besides Jasper and Dr. Cullen) that I thought was interesting. Sadly the movie showed nearly nothing of them.
"shouldn't we be asking you that?"
I waved her concerned face off: "oh no, I'm alright. A bit shaken up but that's normal I guess." suddenly I felt my body relax as I talked to them both and I nearly looked accusingly at Jasper. He with his freaking power...it was kind of cool though.
"Why aren't you trying to catch up with your sister? We nearly never see you two separated but today?"
I looked towards Bella seeing her flirt with Edward and I immediately grinned: "Well, I think she is in good hands right."
"Yes, Edward is a good guy." she said as if she wanted me to belief her. I did...I mean come on that dude saved Bella's life and mine as well and not to mention those four books of Edward being endlessly in love with Bella...lol...
"You met our father yesterday?" She suddenly asked and I looked towards them.
Where did this come from? Why would it even matter. He is a doctor I will be seeing him more often right?
"Yeah, he was very kind and nice."
"I know right!? It's so hard to belief that he's not married yet."
Wait what? ….he is not married? O.O?
Where was Esme? I'm more than sure that he had a wife since I was able to remember her name. I even thought that her name was kind of cool.
I looked at Alice shocked: "Wait? What?" I asked, not believing it.
She nodded as if she was proud of it: "Yes, he kind of keeps waiting all the time. We hope that he'll soon find his match. He seems a bit lonely."
Holy shit! Where was Esme. Maybe Everything will change. Maybe...oh god what will happen if Dr. Cullen don't has a wife. Will he turn bad? As in evil? Will he still accept Bella now? Oh God what have I done? Wait! It's not my fault. Something just chose to drop me here...
Maybe Esme will soon appear or something.
I looked at them both seeing Jasper furrowing his eyebrows. Probably feeling my distress and confusion.
"Well, I'm sure he'll find someone soon."
"I do hope so. He is after all a good catch. Well, you met him, so wouldn't you agree?"
We started to walk towards the buses as I tried to think of an answer. Like come on...What's with this awkward question? How exactly would I know. I just met him once and he was creeping me out with his staring contests.
"I guess..." I said silently, trying to prevent my face from looking confused.
We walked towards the first bus seeing Bella and Edward talking.
"...it would be better if we weren't friends." He said to Bella while we came closer.
I could clearly see Bella being hurt now but she still managed to answer: "Too bad you didn't figure that out earlier. You could have let the van crush us and saved yourself all this regret." That's my girl!
"You think I regret saving you guys?" Edward suddenly snapped as we came closer.
"I know you do."
I nearly oohed as Bella said that.
"You don't know nothing." Edward answered painting heavily and than he saw me and Alice approaching making him furrow his eyebrows.
"The bus is leaving. Hey Genesis, Bella...will you be riding with us?" Alice asked us, trying to ease the mood but Edward wasn't going along with it.
"No. Our bus is full."
this little ass and I thought for a second that he was okay. I totally forgot this scene in the movie.
"Hey!" I suddenly called out to him without me realising what I was doing, but seriously...he is doing it too many times...playing ping-pong with Bella.
Edward looked towards me while I could see Alice and Jasper grinning secretly as if they knew something that Edward and I didn't. Oh wait...that's right. Alice is a seer. I kind of totally ignored this.
"No one likes guys with mood swings! Either you keep your distance or you get over yourself and let it happen that my sister befriends you, but this is not an option alright! You can't keep on pulling her towards you and than kicking her away again like a dog...she is human too!"
Edward blinked several times before his eyebrows eased up and a soft expression spread on his face.
I nearly said to him that she couldn't know that he was a vampire, so he should just fucking chill...so yep, that was close.
Edward looked up at me, nodding as if telling me that I was right and he would change it before he shoved a grinning and beaming Alice into the Bus, entering himself while looking at Bella once more.
I turned towards Bella seeing her still staring at the entrance of the Bus. I turned her towards our Bus and walked in with her.
"Thanks Gen." she said before she looked out of the window and letting herself getting depressed again.
Come on...who wouldn't get depressed if a guy builds up your hopes and then crushes them over and over again
I kind of felt sorry for her.
Bella was not just depressed but angry...I never thought that she could get angry to be honest. We finally reached home and the first thing she did was throwing her book bag and coat randomly down in the middle of the hallway. She was just about to go upstairs when Charlie came out of the kitchen.
"Your mother called...Again."
Angry Bella was surely not pleasant as she answered: "Your fault, for telling her about the accident."
Charlie sighed before he rubbed his neck: "She always did know how to worry. But...she's changed, too. She seems happy. Phil sounds all right."
Bella's anger vanished as she looked at Charlie now. I could see her thinking of an answer but she soon gave me a short glance before she just continued to run upstairs to her room. Yeah, great! Leave me alone with a man that probably still loves his ex-wife and now realizes that she is more happy without him...
I walked into the kitchen taking a glass out of the cupboard and filling it up with water before I turned around seeing Charlie sit down while putting the news paper away.
"I think she was always happy." I started, making him look at me confused.
"It's just...that she is now more happy. Sometimes it's just like...something is missing. It don't has to be a person, it can be anything. Mum...she was for adventure which Phil is up for."
Charlie nodded understanding where I was going with this.
"When she left she told me that this was not the life she expected. That this life is not her."
I took a deep breath. I was so NOT good with such situations. Maybe I was really related to Bella. I felt so sorry for this man and I couldn't belief that I was going to say those next words, only to make him feel better: "Yes, but this is you, dad...and quite frankly it's me too..."
Yes,...I said that I liked it here. Don't judge me he just looked so sad. I couldn't leave him hanging...and I really doubt that I will get out of here any time soon and even if I do get out...I don't think that he will even remember me...which was kind of...sad.
He looked up at me surprised: "I'm happy to hear that, Genny. I really am." he said but couldn't bring himself to hug me. Well, I wasn't expecting it anyway.
I smiled at him before I turned around to the sink putting my glass in it: "Soooo, any wishes for dinner?"
It was the next day and school again. I was getting tired of it. I could feel all this drama taking a tall on me. I just wished to curl up in my bed and stay there for the whole day...or the rest of my life...here.
But nope. Bella made sure that I was going even if she had to drag me here with the whole bed.
We headed towards the Cafeteria as Bella pushed through the doors. I looked at her seeing her glance over at the Cullen's table...well of course she was. And of course Edward was sitting there with his siblings and guess what. He didn't even look at Bella. Not once. Alice however waved a bit while grinning. So I guess we're friends...because she is doing this quite often. I waved back like always suddenly realizing that Bella left me standing there while she joined Eric and the others.
I rushed up to them throwing my book bag on a seat beside Angela.
"La Push, baby. You guys in?" Eric asked me and Bella.
"should I know what that means?" Bella asked confused though and I just rolled my eyes while helping her memories out: "It's on the rez. The La Push beach."
As Angela stood up Mike didn't lose time to sit down right beside me making Angela hit him onto his shoulder but keeping it cool and sitting on the other chair.
"Exactly. We're all going after school. Big swell coming in." He said while looking intensely at me and then at Bella. Uuuuuugh that guy!
Suddenly Eric jumped up, standing on his chair now: "And I don't just surf the internet."
Oh my god. I started to laugh so hard at this making Angela and Mike go along while Bella only held a grin. Like seriously, that was so lame.
"Eric, you stood up once. On a foam board." Aaaand Jessica ruined the moment by breathing...lol.
"there's whale watching too. Come on girls." Angela tried once more to convince us.
"La Push, baby." and Eric had definitely too much fun with that name.
I heard Bella chuckle for a second before she finally gave in: "I'll go if you stop saying that. Gen you in?" She turned towards me. I could see right through her. She asked out of politeness but she counted me in already without caring if I wanted to tag along or not...and yet again I couldn't be angry at her for this. She was so clingy. Like she was scared that she might lose me or anything.
"come on Genesis. I'll let you ride my..." I interrupted Eric before he could even finish.
"Okay stop right there. Don't even dare to finish this sentence because it will sound strange even if it had a whole different meaning."
The group already started to laugh at this while Eric glanced with a grin shyly around at us. He's sometimes just so innocent and clueless...or I'm just too dirty minded.
"So?" Mike asked once more and I sighed in annoyance.
"Yeah, alright, I'm in."
Their attention soon was occupied by something else when I felt Bella tugging at my shoulder.
I looked up to her seeing her motioning for us to get something to eat.
I stood up and followed her. Each of us grabbed a plate and we started to put some salad on it. Bella artfully deigned an architectural salad, while I just threw everything onto one pile. It's only salad come on.
She reaches for an apple when suddenly sparkle-pants appears behind us: "Edible art..."
He totally jump-scared us and I laid my hand over my furiously beating heart while Bella dropped her apple. But sparkle-pants being sparkle-pants did an amazing trick by catching the apple with his foot, hackeysacked it and bounced it back into his hands. Show off!
We looked up at him seeing him grin as if he was proud of himself.
"Yeah, that was amazing and I'm sure this is some kind of talent but please, don't scare us like that again."
He chuckled a bit at my comment: "I'm sorry about that. It wasn't my intention."
"Apology accepted." I answered while trying to get some more salad onto my plate.
I could see Bella taking the apple from his pale cold hands: "Thanks...but your mood swings are
giving me a whiplash."
"I said it would be better if we weren't friends, not that I didn't want to be." So he did thought about what I was telling him yesterday.
"What does that even mean?"
"It means if you were smart, you'd avoid me."
Why would he even say that? If you tell a girl something like that she totally gets interested because the guy seems mysterious. Which he actually was but come on. It's like he was doing this on purpose, just to make her more interested in him.
I gave a short glance to the Cullen's table wanting to see if they were even cool with Edward talking to us. Well as expected Alice was waving again, which I returned, while blondie and her bear beside her were observing.
"So let's say, for argument's sake, that I'm not smart...would you..." Bella was about to answer when freaking annoying Mike stood beside me with a plate. Wait, I'm pretty sure he had one already.
"that's surely a huge pile of salad. Want me to get you another plate? Or you can have mine?"
seriously?
"Why would I take yours when you are hungry enough to eat one more plate of salad?"
He chuckled awkwardly while rubbing his neck: "Actually I didn't want one I just wanted to help you."
I sighed in annoyance: "I'm good Mike, thanks. I'm starving, so let's get back to the table and eat."
I looked towards Bella catching her eyes and motioning that I was going to take a seat. She just nodded and I continued with Mike at my heels.
I shortly glanced towards the Cullen table seeing all of them glaring after me and Mike. Even Alice glared. I guess this mood-swing-thingy was running in the family.
And annoying Mike made me miss out the conversation of Bella and sparkle-pants again. Thanks Mike!
I glanced over to Bella and Edward trying to get something out of their reactions but Edward was making his way towards the table already when he suddenly turned towards us. He waved a bit at me with a slight smile but soon stopped smiling and instead started to glare at Mike who was sitting beside me.
Edward reached his table and kept on looking towards us the whole freaking break...and his siblings not being any better. Thanks for the pressure, to not make a fool out of myself while eating, guys.
I knew it! It was a bad idea to head down to La Push. It was freezing cold and wet and instead of just going back, our so called friends started to suit up for a surf.
We were sitting in a van while Angela was fumbling with her camera.
"I keep thinking that Eric's going to ask me to prom, then he just...doesn't" Angela announced.
oooooh yeah riiight...I totally forgot that they were kind of a thing.
"You could ask him. Take control. You're a strong independent woman." Bella told her sounding slightly like a feminista with her speech.
"I am?" Angela asked unsure if she should trust Bella's words.
"Sure you are. Genesis is the one that always told me this. It worked out so far I guess."
…...o.o...okay I sounded like a feminista at her speech.
"Bella! Gen!" A male voice suddenly interrupted us.
Jacob made his way towards us with two friends by his side.
"Hey Jake." I immediately greeted him as he sat down between me and Bella.
"You guys stalking us?" Bella asked him playfully as she shoved him a bit with her shoulder making him bump into me a bit.
"That's my rez remember? Are you guys surfing?" He looked left and right at me and Bella.
"Nope, it's already freezing cold and wet without me having to go into the water." I answered making Jacob laugh and the two friends of his grin amusingly at me.
"Well you should keep Bella company. Her date bailed out." Jessica's annoying voice interrupted the peaceful atmosphere.
"What date?" Eric suddenly asked. He seemed a bit distressed.
"She invited Edward."
I couldn't help but nearly snarl at her while answering: "She was being polite. Have you thought about it once in a while?" She looked at me dumbstruck not expecting me to be rude about it. She totally overdid it. Like come on...I dislike her too but I'm not making fun of her. She on the other hand disliked me and Bella and was constantly trying to embarrass us in front of the others.
"I think it's nice she invited him. No one ever does." Angela tried to ease up the mood which she actually did and I glanced at her smiling softly to thank her silently.
"Cullen's are freaks." Mike joined in. I totally could see now why Jessica was into him. He was just as annoying and rude as she was.
Suddenly one of Jacobs guys chose to join the conversation: "You got that right."
Mike made it's way towards me and Jake: "Hey, could you make some space so I can sit down?" he asked Jacob rudely. Okay, this was uncalled for! Was he being so rude because Jake was sitting beside me or what.
Jacob was about to stand up, since this was the only way to actually 'make some space', when I laid my hand onto his arm: "It's alright Jake. I wanted to go on a walk anyway."
But Jake stood up anyway.
"You know the Cullen's?" Bella asked now a standing Jacob and ignored the rudeness that was currently occurring, but the same friend of Jacob that previously butted into the conversation did it again.
"The Cullen's don't come here." Jake immediately shot his friend a look and shook his head before he turned towards me: "You still up for that walk?"
I grinned and nodded happily. Finally I could get away from Mike and Jessica.
"Can I tag along?" I expected Bella to ask us but instead it was Mike who stood up abruptly.
"Sorry Mike but Jake and I are childhood friends and we kind of want to catch up a bit. This is why Bella will come with us. Right Bells?"
"Yes." Bella gratefully joined us and we left a super annoyed Mike behind.
We walked off so we were a good distance away from the rest of the group.
As soon as we kept on walking I felt warmer and felt free to wander near the water. Jacob and Bella joining me while looking out to the sea for whales, but nope nothing.
"So, what did your friend mean about the Cullen's not coming here?"
Jake looked uncomfortably away while answering: "Caught that, huh?"
"Well, that friend of yours was making sure that we all heard it." I said while stumbling a bit making Jacob steady me by gently gripping my arm. As soon as I was on steady feet again he let go and buried his hand into his pocket.
"I'm not supposed to say anything."
He said it in a mocking way as if it was true (which it was) but he thought of it dumb. Like the idea of keeping something stupid a secret, was dumb.
"We can keep a secret..."
Jake started to laugh a bit: "It's just an old scary story. Did you know the Quileuts are supposedly descended from wolves?"
Wait! What? Wolves? What does he mean by that? Did a wolf raised the first Quileuts or what?
"Like fur, fangs...doggy breath?" I asked confused.
Jacob chuckled a bit again and continued: "Yeah. Well, that's the Legend of our Tribe."
Bella gave me a glance as if she wanted to ask if I had any clue what this was about but I just shrugged my shoulders. No clue on this one Bells.
"Ok..ay. So, What's the story about the Cullen's?" Bella asked Jacob as we came to an halt.
"Well, they're supposedly descented from this like...'enemy clan'. My great grandfather found them hunting on our land, but they claimed to be something different. So, we made a treaty with them. If they promise to stay off the Quileute land than we wouldn't expose what they really were to the...pale-faces." He chuckled a bit at the end.
"Didn't they just move here?" Bella became now very interested in this legend and I totally understood that. Like come on, sparkle-pants is a freaking Vampire and he totally exposed himself to Bella.
"Or they just moved back." Jake answered and a cold shiver ran down my spine. It really sounded like a scary story to be honest.
Suddenly out of nowhere a blood-curdling scream erupted and I turned around giving away a scream myself. Angela was running from Eric because he was chasing her with a dead crustacean.
"Are you kidding me? You nearly blasted my eardrum out! It's not a god damn snake it's a fucking dead crustacean!" I tried to catch my breath after the outburst and mumbled still angry at this jump-scare: "Idiots! Fucking childish idiots!"
Jacob chuckled and laid a hand onto my shoulder: "You okay, Genny?"
I nodded, still a bit shaken up. Well, come on! He with his dramatic story time and suddenly out of nowhere such a scream.
Jacob chuckled once more before he was about to join the group again.
"Wait...what were they really?" Bella desperately tried to find out the answer but thanks to the movie I knew that Jake was a lost cause at this.
"It's just a story, Bella." It seemed like he saw that Bella was taking it too serious, even though she should. While it was just a story for him, it was the reality for Bella...and sadly for met too.
