Hey peoples! I'm sick! What joy! X)
Obviously, I was being sarcastic there. I hate being sick. Good news is that when I went to school today, I didn't have to perform my project during theatre class. :) And, thank goodness it's the weekend.
So, I was just recently inspired to write a new chapter for the story, even if I don't like this little inspiration really all that much.
Anyways, I loved the little reviews - one reviewer was extremely close as to who recently discovered Bella's secret.
Now, let's begin.
Previously from Chapter 16:
"Well, as long as you're happy with Edward, I won't have to beat him to a pulp." Angela joked with me lightly, making me smile happily at her. Have I mentioned how much I loved Angela?
"What?" Angela and I gasped upon hearing that sudden voice, and we whipped our terrified gazes to the petrified girl standing in the doorway.
Chapter SEVENTEEN
Bella's POV
"Who - wha - where - why - when - how - umm..." Jessica stammered in a dazed stupor, her dark eyes wide as saucers. "Jess, what are you doing here?" Angela asked, unsure of how to handle this situation. "What am I doing here? I was coming up to get you two for the celebratory dinner! But what do I walk in on? I walk in on my friends talking about how nice Edw - whoa!" Jessica yelled in surprise when Angela and I had sprung up from my bed, and yanked her into the dorm bedroom, closing the door and locking it.
"What is going on?" Jessica asked us accusingly, looking between us with suspicious dark eyes. "Listen, and don't ever mention this to anyone. We need you to solely swear on keeping this a secret." I pleaded with her. "Okay, fine, you have my promise." Jessica gave in quickly, raising her left hand minutely before dropping it. "...I'm dating Edward Cullen in secret." I admitted, not beating around the bush as they say.
"WHAT?" Jessica screeched, causing both Angela and I to wince. "YOU'RE DATING EDW-" the rest of Jessica's second scream was lost for Angela and I both slammed our hands over her loud mouth, to make sure that none of the girls would be able to hear us on the third floor. Jessica continued screaming against our hands, her surprise unable to be restrained. "Jessica, Jess, please, just Shut. Up. For. One. Second!" I hissed to her, pausing in between to emphasize the importance of keeping this secret, a secret.
After Jessica had become silent, we removed our hands to have her stare at us wide eyed - again. "Explain. What do you mean -" she paused to clear her throat. "You're dating Edward CULLEN?" Jessica asked me, pointing a finger at me. "Look, it would be best for both Angela and I to tell you what I am saying. It's a really long story." I explained to her. With that, we sat down on my bed, and Angela and I told her my story of my secret dating with Edward so far, of how he had apologized to being an ass to me in the first week of school, and how he wanted me to be friends with him - which had abruptly turned into him and me kissing each other after only knowing each other for 3 to 4 days.
"Wooooow!" Jessica drew out the word, flopping backwards on my bed from all of the information Angela and I had given to her. "Now, remember, keep this secret, and we will all be happy." Angela warned her. "I don't understand why you won't tell Alice and Rosalie, Bella. I mean, they are your closest friends; I'm sure they would forgive and forget about this. Plus, who can help but fall in love with that hunk - der, I mean, handsome and smart boy?" Jessica stuttered when she noticed my glare at her for I knew where her thoughts had been heading.
"That's my secret boyfriend you're talking about, Jess. Just watch what you say about my man, alright?" I asked her, though I smirked. I could understand where Jessica was coming from. Edward was an irresistible man - it seemed like an insult to call him a boy - so it was no surprise if there were women falling for him.
"I will, don't worry. And, I promise to keep him a secret from the other girls." Jessica stated, before she left the dorm room.
The next day, Jessica had kept her promise well. No girls were yelling, screaming or clawing my eyes out with their manicured nails. Everything around the school was the way it should be, which clearly meant our relationship was still a secret.
However, there was something different today. I kept seeing random clusters of students that I've never seen before in my life. They could be new students to the school, but a whole boat load of new kids coming to their new school all on the same day? You would think there would be spacing here and there, right? At one point, during passing time, I had seen some angry looking kids who were dressed in very expensive clothing arguing quietly with Mr. Horris, who looked flustered.
"Do you know who those weird kids were?" Irina asked us when we walked out onto the stage for a singing rehearsal for the Talent Show, dressed out to workout. "No. Who were they?" Lauren asked. "Beats me, but whatever they were doing, they were stressing out Mr. Horris." Irina commented, shrugging her shoulders.
"Alright everyone! Gather around the stage. Boys, in the back; ladies, in the front. Ms. Swan, step forward to practice singing Kelly Clarkson's song, "Walk Away". This is a nice practice song for you, where you can sing while the others around you dance; basically, it means that if you can sing this, you can sing this without being distracted from the surrounding activities." Mrs. Idle explained, Mr. Kartachna and Mrs. Looseily down beside.
The music started soon.
You've got your mother and your brother
Every other undercover
Tellin' you what to say (say)
You think I'm stupid
But the truth is
That it's cupid, baby
Lovin' you has made me this way
"Out of my way. Move it or lose it." an unfamiliar female voice hissed, while I heard the girls moving aside before I was pushed down. "Ow!" I yelled, pushing myself up with the help of Alice and Rosalie who rushed to help me up, to glare at the mystery girl. The girl who pushed me out of the way was a girl with silvery blond hair, pale skin, and bright piercing green eyes, while wearing a light pink tiered dress, black leggings, a black shrug, and lace-up light pink peep toe boots. She had light pink rose stud earrings, sparkly pink manicured long nails, and was wearing hot pink lipstick and hot pink eye shadow.
"If you hated my singing, all you had to do was say so, not fucking shove me!" I screeched at the blond bitch, who looked over me once before sniffing. "Fine; I hated your singing. Happy?" the moron said daintily, before she smirked a smug-ass smirk at me. "You little..." I growled, clenching my fists. "What is the meaning of this?" Mrs. Idle cried while a full group of students who were dressed in a fancy like fashion such as Blond Bitch, filed onto the stage, making our group move off to the side, behind where Alice, Rosalie and I stood. Emmett, Jasper and Edward walked over to where we waited, as if they knew that we would need their help.
"The meaning of this is for us to stop this amateur from ruining the meaning of music." A rude redheaded boy with bright blue eyes, pale skin with a light stubble, who was wearing a dark blue plaid short sleeved button down with dark wash jeans and light blue Converse, stepped up beside Blond Bitch. "You better shut the hell up, dude." Edward defended me with a snarl, thrown at the guy. "Or what? You going to throw a punch at him, Copper Head?" Blond Bitch taunted, with their group laughing mockingly at Edward. My secret boyfriend snarled, and with his fists clenched, lunged for the Rude Redhead, but he was held back by Emmett and Jasper. Rude Redhead's and Blond Bitch's group all flinched backwards from Edward's fury, but stood back straight when he was held back.
"Ignore Raggedy Ann's remark, Ed." Jasper said calmly to Edward, who was fuming visibly still.
"Well, I see that your kids are getting along well with my kids." a sudden voice said, causing us all to look over at where Mrs. Idle, Mr. Kartachna and Mrs. Looseily were, with Mr. Horris and a unfamiliar man in a dark suit and with slicked back salt-and-pepper hair. "Mr. Horris, who are these bozos?" Mike asked. "These bozos," Mr. Horris paused to roll his eyes at the nickname for the group of dickheads before us. "Are the musical group from Seattle Prep School - the Harmonicals is what they call themselves." Mr. Horris explained.
"You six are arguing with my two best singers, Candace and Reid." the unfamiliar man added in, where Candace and Reid waved tauntingly at us. "Mr. Wittman and his group have come over to our school, to challenge us on the same night of our Talent Show." Mr. Horris informed us. "What? You're just going to let them storm in here, and ruin our Talent Show that we've been working on, for the first semester?" Rosalie barked at him, glaring menacingly at Candace, Reid and their group.
"Oh, I bet even with as many hours of your practice, you still aren't even good." Candace taunted, with three girls laughing beside her. "Shut the hell up, bitch! No one asked for your worthless opinion!" Rosalie screeched back, and with that, Candace finally became quiet, a look of unsatisfied feelings on her face. "Unfortunately, Ms. Hale, I must let them. Mr. Volturi had made it official that we let this battle of music take place." Mr. Horris stated. "Wait, Mr. Volturi - as in the Mr. Volturi of Volturi Records?" Edward asked.
"Indeed. I had heard of wind of his coming to this school, to see if your group was worthy of winning his donation for the school." Mr. Wittman stated. "But, I didn't think that was fair. Mr. Volturi only comes out to talented and well-dedicated schools, once every three years. So, I made some phone calls, talked to some people, and was able to convince Mr. Volturi for us to have a Music-Off with your group of musical students, against our musical students. Mr. Volturi was thrilled with the idea, and had made sure that we could come to your school and inform you." Mr. Wittman added, smirking.
"But, we never agreed to this!" Alice cried. "I'm sorry, kids, but with Mr. Volturi, he made us agree to it by default." Mr. Horris apologized; he didn't seem too thrilled about this as well. "What's the prize entail to?" Emmett asked. "The prize entails school funds, and if really thinks some of you kids are good, then he might give out recording contracts with his company." Mr. Horris informed us.
"Hope you enjoy being amateurs, losers." Reid taunted, snickering. "We won't be the amateurs, you pompous jerks." Emmett growled at him. "We're pompous because we're good. And what's your reason for being so horrible?" Candace asked, and her group laughed out from the cruel joke. "Later, losers!" Reid yelled, laughing along with their group, before they left our auditorium, their laughs echoing.
Mr. Horris gave me a knowing look, and stared at Edward, before he too left.
I knew what he was thinking.
"Cullen, we need to talk." I ordered her over the flurry of our Talent Show group's arguing. "Wait, where are you two going?" Rosalie asked us suspiciously when she noticed Edward and I walking off stage together. "We need to discuss over some business that involves the Talent Show, Rose. Don't worry." I assured her, before we disappeared behind the curtains.
"So, what is it?" Edward asked me. "We need to convince everyone here to work together now." I began. "With us arguing this way and that, we won't be able to work together in order to show those pompous asses that we're not amateurs. Their teasing and taunting and mocking us was really getting on our nerves, so the only way for us to efficiently win this competition that we're now in, is for us work together, not separately." I explained. "You know they're going to argue with us about this as well, right?" Edward mentioned, shaking his head.
"Of course they will. But, they won't want to lose to these Preps, will they?" I asked, and he nodded. "Alright, let's give this a shot." Edward stated, before we walked out to see everyone was still there. "Gather 'round, everybody. We need to talk." I told everyone, and waited until we were all in one circle. "We need to set aside our differences to work together on this competition." Edward said to them.
"Okay." they all agreed; which was surprising. We thought they were going argue on our decision. "Wait, you guys didn't argue?" I asked them incredulously. "We know what you're thinking, Bella." Lauren inputted. "But, we know that we have to work together in order to beat those Prep Jerks." Mike added. "So, while you and Edward were talking, we came to a quiet agreement that we are going to need to work together on this." Alice told us. "But outside of here, we're still not friends altogether." Emmett included, and just to prove it, he and Rosalie glared at one another.
"Okay, so we're all agreed?" Edward asked, and we all nodded.
With that, we dispersed, ending the seriousness of the competition. It was unfortunate that Edward and I were still going to be in hiding of our secret, but at least when it came to the Talent show, we're all together on this one.
Okay, so who thinks that sucked? I hated this chapter and how it was written out, but even though it wasn't my best, I wanted to get the next chapter out sometime soon. I decided that after every week for a while, I'll be updating on the weekends, or at least try to, and since the week was over and it was the weekend, I wanted to update.
So, if you readers liked the chapter, please review, and tell me honestly if you like this! Also, if you read DoT, please vote on the poll on my profile. And one last thing, I have two new little banners up for my stories - one for "Bloodied, Broken and In Love", and one for "High School Never Ends". They're both on my second website, in the Banners album. :)
Bye for now; sorry the chapter sucked,
~*Lady Lily of Darkness*~
(Plus, you can find Candace's outfit on my second website as well, in the HSNE, A Remake Album.)
