A/N: Warning:This chapter has a dark, morbid theme that may be extremely disturbing to others. I only put this in here to thicken the plot and add some more depth to the character(s). This also gives further back story to a certain character's animosity towards another.
~Lockdown in Detention~
IV
*Edward*
I heard a sharp hiss behind me, and turned to find a rebellious girl who's been sticking close to my side ever since lunch holding her injured arm in her other hand.
"Is it getting worse, Bella?" I asked her, walking over to take her arm in my hand.
"Eh, a little bit." she grumbled, glaring down at her arm.
I took my scarf off of my neck and told her to sit down at one of the tables. "What are you doing, E?" she questioned me, using my new nickname, eyeing me as I made a makeshift sling for her. "You sit out on cleaning. I can take care of it for you." I murmured, and she shook her head. "Edward, no. I'm fine. I can still clean." she muttered stubbornly. "Admit it - you can barely move that arm of yours. It's fine, Bella. I can take care of the rest." I told her just as stubbornly, and before she could argue, I went back to cleaning.
"Damn, Iz. I was that bad at driving?" I heard Emmett ask her, and turned to look over my shoulder and found him hovering near the table. "Nah, Em. Just a sprain. Though, E is adamant in me sitting out." she grumbled, and I chuckled, mopping up some more of the soda.
"Thanks, Edward." Emmett said in thanks, looking relieved that I made his best friend sit out to recover. I nodded my head and went over to the bucket that was several steps away, to wring out the soda, before getting some more water into the mop.
"You like Bella." I looked up upon hearing this, and looked over to find the new girl - Alice - standing next to me, wringing out her washcloth. "What?" I mumbled, blinking at her.
She giggled and replied back, "You heard me, Edward." and then she skipped back over to Jasper.
I shook my head and went back to cleaning.
It took another hour or so for the cafeteria to be finally clean from the food fight fiasco. We were exhausted - well most of us. Bella was forced by me to sit out on the cleaning, so she wasn't as tired. When we were done, Principal Greene looked over our areas with speculative eyes. "I swear to god, if he says it's not clean enough, I'll explode and unleash a can of whoop ass." Bella muttered to me in a hiss as Principal Greene looked over the area that I was mopping at with Bella.
"Don't you think you would get arrested for that?" I asked her, and she shrugged.
"Okay, this is clean enough for my liking." he called out, and we sighed with relief.
"Now, time for you all to finish the rest of your detention with the extended hour." he added, and with a wave of his fingers, he led us in a line out of the cafeteria and towards the main school building.
"Uh sir, why aren't we going to the library?" Rosalie questioned out loud when he led us past the library center and towards a classroom. "I can't obviously trust any of you in there again. We found the broken down door, as well as the door that was tampered with that led to you all escaping. So, we've decided to move you to a new room." he replied curtly, causing the blond to jump.
Finally, Principal Greene stopped in front of an old metal door. "And what the hell is this?" Emmett asked out loud, crossing his arms. "This, Mr. McCarthy, is your new detention room with your friends." he said, smirking while he opened the door with a loud Creeeeeak!
I could see inside, and it was not pretty. Dust, old desks, an open window that was too high for us to reach and escape out of, an old chalkboard, and grime. "You've got to be kidding me." Bella stated, glaring. "No, I am not kidding you, Ms. Swan. This is the storage room for old classroom things and we thought it would work for you all as this won't allow an easy escape for any of you. You have air, there is a bucket in there for a toilet; now,file in and be quiet." he ordered, scowling.
This had to be abuse or something, right?
We filed in, dispersing inside the old room and hearing the door slam shut behind us, before we heard the locks tumbling.
"This sucks balls, man." Emmett grumbled, sitting down on the old, dusty teacher's desk inside here. "Ugh, there's no damn air conditioning in here." Rosalie complained, fanning herself. "At least we have a window, right?" Jasper muttered, flopping to the ground where he held his head in his hand.
"We might as well get comfortable; we'll be here for awhile." Bella stated, sitting down on an old bookshelf that seemed mostly sturdy.
"You know, we still wouldn't be in this shit if you didn't have to start that damn food fight, Swan." Rosalie grumbled, walking over to the other side to hover near a seemingly calm Alice who sat Indian style on the floor. "Would you fucking let that go, Hale? You've been on my ass about that all day. Just suck it up and shut that mouth of yours." Bella snapped.
Rosalie huffed and said, "No. I'll be on your ass for it. Because of you, my dad is going to be so pissed at me and my brother for this. We've been perfect students and haven't gotten in trouble once. And now, you go and screw everything up." "Oh, boo-hoo, Hale. Like I give a fuck about you and what your precious daddy thinks of you and Jasper." she growled back, rolling her brown eyes.
Rosalie huffed again, and this time looked away, glaring at a dusty broken locker.
"Man, I need some of my stash now. I'm going to die of boredom." Emmett groaned, lying back on the desk. "Same here, bro. I need a lift from this drag." Bella muttered in agreement.
"Would you two stop fucking thinking about getting high?" Jasper hissed, running a hand through his curly hair. "You have a stash, Emmett?" I asked him, raising an eyebrow. "Course, Ed. I've got a stash in my locker." he replied, and Bella placed her hand on my shoulder. "Why do you want to know, E? Want to finally take a whack of some of my bro's dope?" she asked, and I chuckled.
"I've taken some stuff before - whenever I could get my hands on it." I told her truthfully, shrugging my shoulders. "What? Edward, don't you know that stuff is bad for you?" Rosalie gasped, looking over at me in shock. "Not all of it is bad. Some actually takes away the pain of things." I informed her. "Yep; Mary-Jane* is the best kind of pain-killer." Emmett chirped in, raising a hand towards me. "Amen to that, dude." I high fived him, smirking at his laugh.
"What about some of that Meth? Man, I've had serious results from that." Bella told me, and I nodded my head to that. "God, I can't believe this! I thought you were better than that, Edward." Rosalie huffed at him, scowling. "Excuse me, ice queen, but who died and said you could fucking decide on what Ed takes or does?" Bella growled at her, glaring.
"Why is it that you guys always have to fight with each other?" Alice asked out loud, speaking up finally, groaning while she lowered her head.
"You wouldn't understand out animosity towards each other, Alice. This feud has been going on for a long time." Emmett told her, looking up at the ceiling. "Years. We've hated each other for years." Jasper included, looking at the door. "When we went to a summer camp a long time ago." Rosalie added, sighing angrily. "When we met each other for the first time." Bella concluded.
"So? Why not bury the hatchet or something? You guys are older now, so why is a little childhood spat keeping you back from at least trying to act civilized around one another?" Alice questioned. I looked up at Bella, to see her eyes get a distant look in them. I was curious too like Alice, as I was growing tired of this constant bickering.
"Something happened that will never let me forgive these two." Bella growled, her eyes growing teary-eyed.
I took her hand in mine. "These two did an unimaginable thing to my Izzy, and I'll never let them slip by this event." Emmett growled, glaring at the twins.
"What did they do...?" I questioned Bella, looking up at her softly.
"She did an equally unspeakable thing to us before we repaid her back! She deserves no fucking sympathy from you, Edward." Rosalie hissed, scowling darkly at us. "But what you did to Bella was something that's even worse, Rosalie! You're lucky my mom came to get us before I could fucking kill you and your brother!" Emmett snapped out loudly, bolting up to snarl at the blond. She jumped and cowered backwards.
"And you're just as equally lucky I didn't fucking strangle you when I had the chance, McCarthy. Don't even fucking think about touching my sister." Jasper growled back, jumping up to stand protectively beside his sister.
"What happened?" I whispered to Bella, gazing up at her. She opened her eyes, a single tear slipping out of her eye.
"It was a day after we all arrived at the camp together. Emmett and I were separated from another to go to boys and girls cabins. It was there that I met Hale. She was a definite popular girl amongst the others, with fancy clothes, hair, shoes, and was an overall worshipped person among others. Even though we met each other again on the first day of school, she didn't remember me. Trying to forget the fucking horror that you did to me?
"Anyway, Hale came up to me in the cabin, asking me if I wanted to be her friend. She seemed nice enough to me and all, so I said sure. I couldn't have been more stupid in my life to agree to it. She and her other bratty friends tripped me, secretly put bugs in my bed, ditched me every chance they could get, and did all sorts of nasty things to me.
"But the worst she could've done to me - it was something I couldn't tell my parents." she paused to suck in a deep breath. "Like I could fucking tell my parents what you did to us!" Rosalie hissed, and Bella whipped her fiery brown gaze at her. "Oh really? The worst I did to you two was having Em and I tie you to a tree naked in the middle of the camp for everyone to laugh at you. But what you fucking did to me, Hale - I can't even tell my parents, the police - no one! I can't fucking have you reported for it period as I'm so damn ashamed of myself of not fighting back." she growled.
"Only Em knew about it, but I made him promise to not tell a soul."
"What did she do to you?" Alice asked softly, standing to walk over to where we stood. Emmett too joined us, his fists clenched.
"She... One night, she managed to sneak me out of the girls cabin while I was asleep, and took me into the woods. When I woke up... she was raping me with a stick." she whispered.
"WHAT?" Alice screamed, looking over at Rosalie with disgust. I growled and whipped my angry glare over at her. Jasper and Rosalie looked ashamed, deeply, where they avoided our glares.
My stomach was churning up bile, from the disgusting thing they did to her, to the severe anger and want of wanting to murder this bitch with my bare hands. It had gotten so terrible that I pushed my way around Alice who had joined us at the desk, and rushed to the bucket, spilling my guts in it.
"You're fucking sick, Rosalie! That's god awful of what you did to Bella!" Alice screeched as I listened over the roar of my puking. Soon a loud argument between Emmett, Jasper and Alice took place, while I heard soft footsteps approaching me. Once my stomach was emptied, I sat back heavily and saw a pair of lovely legs I knew standing beside me. "Ed?" she murmured, kneeling down beside me with her wide brown eyes gazing down at me.
"I'm good." I grunted gruffly, wiping the back of my hand over my mouth. She nodded and made her way between my legs, curling into me. I wrapped my arms around her and let her cry softly into my chest, ignoring the arguing that went on behind us.
The time passed by then, with the arguing between the three now done and over with. It was silent in the room, with only a minor breeze blowing in. I had looked around after awhile as it seemed Bella had suddenly taken a nap in my arms. (Like I was about to complain.) Emmett was still at the desk, glaring at the dusty chalkboard. Alice was sitting on top of the desk, Indian style, where it looked like she was meditating while trying to ignore the blond twins. Jasper was by the door, glaring at it. And Rosalie was off in the corner, her back turned to everyone, crying silently to herself.
Suddenly, in the silence, I heard one of the ACs outside that was built on top of one of the classrooms, crackling to a stop. "What the...?" I questioned, and softly resting Bella on the ground, I went over to the bookshelves. "What's up, dude?" Emmett asked, breaking the silence. I stood on top of one of the bookshelves, and looked out the open small window, looking outside.
The sun was low on the horizon, where it seemed like the school was deserted except for a janitor who had large headphones over his ears, and was locking up the gates.
"Shit!" I hissed and jumped down. "Wha? We gettin' out?" Bella asked sleepily, waking up from her nap on the ground where I placed her. "No. We're screwed." I grumbled, walking over to the door. "What's happening, Edward?" Alice asked me, and I sighed. "The school's deserted. I saw the janitor outside, with headphones - listening to music - and he was locking up the gates. Plus, sun is setting." I told her, while I began pulling on the door. "What's that supposed to mean?" Jasper asked quietly.
"It means we've been forgotten in here, and we're getting locked inside the school, inside this room - without food, water, or anything - for the weekend." I told him, and everyone gasped.
"You've got to be shitting me, man!" Bella cried, standing hurriedly to her feet.
"Afraid not, Bella." I told her, and they all groaned.
"Trouble or not, we've got to get the fuck out of this room." Jasper stated. "No shit, Sherlock. But how? Door is a thousand years old, with a rock hard lock to boot. We've got no hope of kicking it down." Emmett grumbled, standing from the desk. "Well then how will we get out?" Alice muttered, and I walked away from the door, walking to the center of the room.
I looked up, and smirked. "Through there." I said, pointing up at our means of escape.
An old vent, probably from an old AC that is connected to the school.
"How will we bust it open?" Bella asked me, coming over to where I stood.
I hummed, and then said, "We'll need a object that had a flat edge, that we can use to unscrew those nails." Suddenly, there was a loud SMACK! and we turned to find Rosalie, standing with her head turned away, tears still falling from her eyes, and standing in front of an old desk; on top was a silver nail file where the bottom had a flat enough edge.
I cautiously walked over and began reaching for it, looking up at her with one eyebrow raised. She gestured with her hand, silently saying that I could use it. I sighed and took it, before walking back over to Bella. Emmett then came over, dragging the desk over with it creaking. "This should be enough height for you to reach it." he said.
I nodded my head in thanks after he placed it directly underneath the vent, and I hopped up onto, standing with my head almost touching the ceiling. I then took the nail file and began working on unscrewing the nails as hastily as I could.
Once the last screw was gone, I dropped the file down and pushed up on the vent door. I managed to grab onto the mostly sturdy edge on the inside, and looked around in the dark vent. "How is it up there, E?" Bella called from below. "Dusty," I paused to cough after I began speaking. "And dark. But it's large and wide enough for us to make our way through." I continued, and turned to look down.
"E, you're a life saver." Bella said to me in a approving tone, as she stood up on the desk. "Thank you, Bella." I said, smiling while I reached down with my hand and lifted her up into the vent. "Damn, this place is so fucking messy." she hissed, coughing. "My turn!" Alice chirped from below, and Bella and I reached down to lift her in here. "Fuck, my clothes will be ruined."
Jasper was next to come into the vent after Bella and I helped in here. Rosalie was next after Jasper helped her, along with Emmett. She was still upset and silent when Emmett climbed in next, with the vent groaning under the weight. "You sure this will hold all of us?" Alice asked me worriedly where I was up in front. Bella was right behind me, Alice behind her, Jasper behind her, his sister second to last, and Emmett bringing up the rear. "It should, as long as we move quickly." I replied, and then began crawling forward.
Bella was close behind me, and she giggled. "Nice ass, E." she whispered, and I blushed.
"Stop drooling over Ed's ass, Izz, and get moving." Emmett teased from the back, with Alice and Bella laughing.
We came to a crossroads then, with three ways to go - forward, left or right. "Which way?" I asked the others. "Forward; the rest of the school is in front of us." Bella instructed, and I nodded, continuing forward. Soon, I started seeing other vent doors and began looking down. One was in a bathroom, another was in a classroom. Finally, I saw one for the hallway. "Alright, let's get down." I instructed, and flipped the vent door off. I shifted around to where I threw my legs through the opening, then slipped down, falling onto the linoleum floors below us. I grunted from the impact and stood slowly up straight.
"I give that landing a seven!" Bella yelled down from the vent, where when I looked up, I saw her feet dangling down, and her peeking around to look at me. "A well deserved seven." I said, laughing. I then spread my arms out to catch her, and she fell through. I caught her easily in my arms, and she smiled at me.
"Thanks Prince Charming." she murmured, kissing my cheek. I blushed and muttered, "Uh, you're welcome."
"Hey lovebirds, I'm about to come down - and I don't think Bella wants to be squished by me." Alice called down. Bella laughed and I set her down, where she stood off to the side. Alice then fell down and landed in my arms. "And the pixie stuck the landing! Ten points for her!" Bella cheered, where I set the little pixie down on her feet; she giggled at Bella.
"Bombs away!" Jasper cried, and then suddenly I found myself on my stomach on the floor.
"Damn it!" I howled, and Jasper groaned. "You asshole!" I growled, and heard Emmett laughing in the vent. "Dude, sorry about that." Jasper muttered apologetically, where he stood before helping me up. I winced as my back was throbbing in pain. "Man really sorry about that." Jasper muttered, scratching his head awkwardly.
"Yeah... Ow." I muttered, letting Bella pull me off to the side.
"Don't worry; I'll give you a nice massage later." she purred, wrapping her arms gingerly around my waist with her hands kneading into my flesh. I hummed and hugged her close to me.
"Please, Iz, don't give us an exhibition with you and Ed." Emmett sarcastically said, and I looked up to find him now with us in the hallways, where it seems that Jasper caught his sister after she exited the vent. Bella giggled, and said, "Don't worry about that, Em. I'm more of a private gal."
"Alright, now that we're out of the vents and back into the school, I say we should try finding an exit out of here." Jasper suggested, and we all nodded.
"There's a door over there." Alice pointed out in the direction behind us. We looked and saw a door leading to outside. We hurried over to it, where Emmett tried pushing on it. But it wouldn't budge. "Shit. Looks like we're really stuck in here." Emmett said with a push on the door again, angrily this time.
"Well what do we do now? It looks like we're only stuck in this one building." Alice asked. "I think we should go exploring," Bella suggested, and just then I heard my stomach growl. I looked down, my face heated. And I heard some quiet growls then as well. "And find some food." Emmett finished, laughing.
We all began walking back the way we came from, and then turned the corner of the large, long hallway. "Look!" Alice squealed, pointing to a wooden door that had a golden plaque on it. We went over and saw that it was the Teacher's Lounge. "Sweet; they got to have some shit in there for us." Emmett victoriously said, and then went over to the door, where he tried opening; and as expected, it was locked. "Any more hairpins, Blondie?" Emmett asked Rosalie. She was still silent during all of this, eyes downcast. Upon him calling for her, she seemed surprised but otherwise raised her hands to her hair, feeling around for another hairpin.
But, she came up empty, and shook her head, dismayed. "Well then how will we get inside?" Alice asked, looking down at her gurgling stomach. "E?" Bella asked me, looking up at me with a knowing look. I then remembered my kick back at the library and gasped, "Oh! Right."
Bella made sure Emmett was out of the way, and had the others stand back. There, I stood facing the door, before I raised my foot and gave it a good rounding kick. It came crashing down on the other side, as this door was much easier to break through than the one at the library.
I patted my chest, and turned back to the others. Jasper and Emmett whistled, looking impressed. "Excellent." Jasper muttered, while Alice and Bella rushed inside the room. We followed after them, where I was surprised to see the interior to be quite comfortable looking. The carpet was a weird light green, with the walls a beige. A long, large sofa was against one of the walls, a medium sized fridge, a sink, a microwave, a small round table with some wooden chairs, and a little TV was also in here. And in one of the corner, next to a door, was a vending machine filled with yummy snacks and gums.
"There's some food in here in the fridge!" Alice squealed, pulling out some frozen pizza. "And some drinks." Bella added, pulling out some cans of soda. "Any more food though?" "Nope, besides fruit." Alice replied to Jasper question as Rosalie went to the table and sat down, still sulking about something, while Emmett made his way over to the couch, plopping down to check out the softness of it.
"Well, looks like we need to break into the vending machine." Jasper said, walking over to it. "I got that handled, bro. I know my way around these hulking things." Emmett boasted, standing right back up and heading over to the machine. Jasper chuckled and then rushed over to where Alice was, who was trying to put the door against the wall. I made my way over to Bella who had taken Emmett's spot on the couch, where I relaxed against it. This had to be the only comfiest thing I've ever sat on.
"Pop?" her voice came to my mind, and I looked over to find her offering me some of the soda she snagged from the fridge. I took it and took a savoring sip, sighing happily from the cold, sugary, carbonated goodness. "Enjoyed the drink?" she asked then, curling up into my side. I nodded my head, taking another sip. "The best drink for me, I guess." I murmured, and she nodded her head, resting it on my shoulder in sympathy. "I know, E." she whispered sadly, and I rested my hand on her shoulder softly.
"You think you'll ever tell me what happened that made you homeless?" Bella asked quietly, looking up at me with those brown wide eyes of hers. I took another sip, smacking my lips to where I noticed her watching me intently when I did that. I blushed, but it soon faded away when I focused my mind back on her question. "How about this," I began and looked down at her.
"I'll tell you my story tonight, in exchange for that massage of yours?" I offered, and a red tint came across her cheeks and adorable nose beautifully. I knew she has been basically flirting with me ever since we met, and escaped the first time from our detention. And I'll admit, I enjoyed it all so much.
You see, being homeless and all, I tried not to get involved with girls all that much. Why? Well, to begin, I was afraid they would find me disgusting, for bathing is a rarity. Whenever I do bathe, I make sure I'm free of any germs from the harsh outside world, and that I'm sparkling clean everywhere. And I mean everywhere. Plus, if I were to have one, it'd be really embarrassing and utterly humiliating for them to find out I'm homeless if I were to take them home with me. And lastly, I don't like to be pitied by anyone, so it was really hard for me to tell Bella I was homeless in the first place.
But, this girl right here was much different than the skanks and sluts in this school.
She was smart, witty, teasing, bold and never beats around the bush. For one, she is always straight up telling Rosalie how she really feels about her. Plus, girl has some strength and could hold her own. But let's not forget she's a beauty on the outside as well. Her beautiful pink-white creamy skin, with some baby fat and curves there. Her face is small, round, with pouty succulent lips so deliciously pink, and she has laugh lines already forming on her face. There was a splash of freckles across her little button nose, and those eyes - god, those eyes! So big yet not too bugish, with long curled lashes that framed her face every time she blinked. Those large cow brown, doe- eyed, milky irises that stared so innocently up at me, but they held some fire.
Her hair was silky to boot, even though it was in a razor cut style. I honestly think longer hair suits her better - especially curly, shiny hair. But, I like the short style as well; gives her the edgy look that fits her to a T. Moving on, I get to the best part because hey, I'm a man remember? Her curvy yet not overly round body made me want to hold her in my arms forever, and touch them with my bare hands. Plus, those boobs weren't large that made me question they were real or not. And trust me, here at this high school, besides her, Alice and maybe even Rosalie, you'll question the other girls' obvious assets.
So, since she has been throwing me signs of liking me, I might as well as let her know the feeling is mutual.
I was brought back from the gutters of my mind by her sweet giggle, and saw her leaning towards me, pressing herself against me. "That sounds like a fair deal, E. Let's make it happen." she purred, her eyes heavily lidded with lust.
Tonight couldn't come any faster.
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A/N: Another update, readers. Man, I've wanted to post this for a long time.
I have to say that this is one of my favorite stories. I absolutely love how these characters are in this plot.
And I just love fleshing them out~
Anyways, reviews would be greatly appreciated everyone.
Bye for now,
~*Lady Lily of Darkness*~
