YOUNG AND BEAUTIFUL
I've seen the world, done it all, had my cake now
Diamonds, brilliant, and Bel Air now
Hot summer nights, mid-July
When you and I were forever wild
The crazy days, city lights
The way you'd play with me like a child
-Lana del Rey
All characters are S. Meyer's. I'm only playing with them in my mind.
"Bella! Fucking hurry up or I'm leaving without you! I have a meeting with the team!" My brother Emmett screamed at me from the bottom of the stairs.
"Give me like… 2 minutes Em!" I shouted back. I kept readjusting my mahogany long wavy curls to look effortless.
It was in the middle of the school semester, and we really had nothing to do, except if you were from a sports team or a cheerleader, which I'm not. Who cares about actual learning? Our dad, Charles Swan, was the owner of a Law Firm famous in Seattle. Of course, to "lay low" he decided to send us to school here in Forks, and since here's the town house we spend here most of the year.
Deciding that my hair was all set, I look at my outfit one last time. The mini denim skirt matched my green tank top, and my pink cardigan matched my pink platform wedge sandals that look straight out of the 2000's.
I went downstairs and found Emmett outside on his jeep. I got in, slamming the door and going directly for the auxiliar cable.
"You better not put Ariana Grande again, sis. I'm fed up with her and her switching positions". I snuck my tongue out to him and put on my playlist. "Have you talk to Rosie?" he asked me.
"Nop. I'm not telling you how to fix your problem up. You made that little stunt and expected her not to get mad at you. Her new Versace shoes are ruined!" I cried out, dramatically.
At the party on Saturday, he and Jasper got so drunk that spilled red wine all over the place, including Rose's new and expensive shoes. She got so mad that the rest of the party she didn't speak to him nor her cousin, Jazz.
"Common! How was I supposed to know that her shoes costed like the entirety of the Kardashian's whole closet?" He kept grumbling the rest of the way, until we reached the school parking lot.
I got out of the car and waited leaned on the drivers door, while Emmett tried to call Rose still inside. I checked my Instagram realizing my new photo with my boyfriend was receiving a lot of comments on how cute he was. "As if!" I was about to open twitter to diss on the girls that were still trying to get to my boyfriend when someone hugged me.
"Hi Alice" I greeted my best friend. She waved my brother and then turned to me.
"Bitch! Did you see Jessica's copycat version of your Channel green shoes?" I shook my head "Well, you better throw them away because she has been wearing them for like three days now. She's like a grey sprinkle on a rainbow cupcake" In that moment I decided to gift them to Jess. I hated her but I wasn't about to waste a thousand dollars in leaving them in the trash. It would be like another type of "Screw you" anyways, giving her the real ones "Anyway, did you know that Jazzy is staying at your boyfriend's house?"
"Yeah, Edward mentioned Jasper got in a fight with Rose's dad and left at like two in the morning" I tell her.
We kept talking about that and some other gossip, waiting for the rest of the group. By the time Emmett got out of the car, Alice and I were in the hood of the Jeep and my brother leaned into the side of it.
We heard the hum of Edward's Volvo. I got down just as he parked in the spot next to us. He got out, along Jazz and Rose.
"Cullen"
"Swan" when he got close to me, he reached down to my lips and made me swoon "I've been informed you have been cheating on me with Black" he said mocking me. Rosalie kissed my cheek in a hurry and went to Emmett, Jasper nodded at me and followed her.
"I swear to God I'm going to kill that bitch. How dare she?" I knew Lauren was desperate enough to like, get in between a guy with a girlfriend but not to make up lies.
He laughed and shrugged it off. We kept making out with Jasper and Alice flirting and Emmett and Rosalie fighting in the back.
When Emmett and I first "moved" here we were told that we better not cross path with queen bitch Rosalie Hale and her "whore" of a brother. They were the most two-faced people in the school. They were the worst of the worst, we were told. They mentioned that Rose's sidekick, Alice Brandon was a total gossip and backstabber and stuff like that. Jasper's best friend, Edward Masen-Cullen, was believed to be a flirtatious piece of crap, and that he never would talk to anyone, since anyone seemed to "reached his level".
Three days later Emmett and Bella Swan-McCarthy had rumors of their own. See, my brother apparently impregnated like five girls, and we had to move because of that. An myself… Huh! I was a total spoiled bitch and "I believed my crap smelled like roses"
We have money. We have families with powerful names. And we were labeled because of that. It also helped that we really stand out in between our peers.
I was on my way to the table were my brother said he was waiting for me at lunch, when Jessica what's-her-name intercepted me. She had been annoying me with her presence since I first put my foot in school territory. She actually begged me to sit with her little friends and told me how they were top of the top and bull like the type.First, I declined with class. But she kept going telling me how she liked my outfit and where do I buy it and stuff. She wasn't moving and I was anxious to get to my brother. I was sure my face showed how sick of her I was by this point. But when her comments turned out to be like "I can't wait for you to introduce me to your brother" I lost it. I knew what she wanted.
"Enough! Oh my God! Shut up, girl. Don't you know how the get a clue? I found you utterly annoying. Shit! Please move and let me go to my table. And do not come close to me again, get it? Go get your roots retouched or something! Find something better to do and get the hell out of my way!" … I'm a bitch, okay? I get annoyed really easily. Don't judge me.
"What has crawled up in your ass? I'm only trying to be kind to the needy".
Oh, she did not.
"I'm glad to see you're not letting education get in the way of your ignorance. Get your face out of the way. For real. You might have a god complex, but you don't know me. I have a bigger ego than you, and I'd be caught dead before destroying it by doing you the kindness of siting at your table with your group of two. You think I haven't notice how people rolled their eyes in your presence? Nobody likes you. I've been here a total of four hours and o already don't like you. Piss off, clown!".
"You heard her, barf bag. Get to your table" said a girl with gorgeous blonde hair, and a perfect manicure. Jessica almost ran out and I turned around to face the girl. Beside her, was another girl, with spiky short hair and stylish clothes. "Rosalie Hale, this one right here is Alice Brandon. You're Isabella Swan, right?" she asked me directly.
"Yeah" I answered, I heard the rumors. If this bitch wanted problems, she was going to get it.
"I like your style, and you're like really pretty" Alice said, almost jumping. I thanked her and complimented her as well "Come sit with us. We noticed you are annoyed by Jessica, and everyone that doesn't fall for her shit is our new best friend" she said giggling.
"Annoying bitch" Rose murmured "So what do you say, Seattle?"
They were… nice. Enough.
"I would like to, but my brother is waiting for me there…" I looked where he was sitting and find him with two boys. A blonde and another guy with really sexy hair but unknown color… I mean he looks like a penny.
"That's our table. Common" Rosalie took the hand that wasn't holding my lunch box and guided me through the tables. I wasn't going to be caught dead eating cafeteria food, thank you very much. Gorgeous girls have stomach problems "Guys, this is Isabella Swan, Isabella, that's my cousin Jasper, and that is his bestfriend Edward" I wave at them and sat down after the girls.
"Swan, eh?" Jasper asked "So you're like brother and sister?".
"Yeah, I'm legally obligated to smell his farts" I tell them, sitting besides my brother.
That is how our group came to be three years ago. Now, we were in our final year, and you can say we are the "it" group. We were popular enough to make anyone's reputation a total fail.
The truth is… we were all that and then some. The rumors? Well, they are there for some reason, don't you think?
We don't care.
We were waiting for Rose to finish retouching her lipstick at her locker when Lauren and Jessica approached us.
"What do you want, dick-breath?" spat Alice. My friend had like zero tolerance to those two. They were pick me girls with absolutely zero personality, and if something makes Alice irritated, is people like that.
They had the attention of the six of us. Twelve eyes looking at them inquiring and intimidating.
"Um..., we wanted to ask you if you knew something about the new girl. Tanya Denali" said Jessica, clearly shaken.
That name sounded weirdly familiar. I looked at Rose to see if she had an idea. We stared at each other for like it seemed a while when I suddenly got it.
Uh.
This was going to be fun.
Tanya Denali was some stupid girl that had the balls to believe to be better than Rosalie when they met at some summer rich bitches camp. I remember when she told that story to Alice and me. They got on each other's nerves, and to be fair is weird the occasion when Rosalie is in a good mood.
"We don't. Disappear" I told them, flicking my pink nails at them.
"Aren't you like threatened, Bella? A new girl that might be prettier than you, and take your place as the it girl, and maybe steal your boyfriend that's known to be… flaky". Said Lauren twirling her cheap extensions on her fingers.
"Fuck off" answered Edward bitterly.
"Learn to take a joke, Eddie"
"Learn to make one, and please, don't worry about me. Worry about your eyebrows, one is darker than the other. Ridiculous." I finished the conversation, putting my back to them, flicking my hair.
I heard them retreat and then I turned to Edwards chest, to quietly scream. I heard the rest of them laugh, but damn. I swear, that whore has been all up in my grill since I first got here.
"So, what's the deal with that Tanya girl?" asked Jasper. I felt Edward flung me up his shoulder, putting a hand in my ass, and began walking.
"Some girl with a frog ass. I swear, she was like, in love with me or something. Almost like fucking Lauren with Bella." I mumbled my reply and felt Edward slap my ass. "So, if you se her, fucking ignore her. She even made a fake Instagram account to watch my stories. What is her deal anyway, coming in the middle of school year? Maybe she got pregnant…" she kept spitting venom while we where on our way to class.
My first class was Math. I sat with Jasper, the only one who I shared the first period with.
Mr. Varner began to introduce the topic, when I felt jasper start playing with my hair. I started to drift of to when I first became Edwards girlfriend…
"What are you looking at?"
"Fuck!" I shouted, when Edward poked my ribs, scaring me. I turned around from the campus, where I was staring at Alice and Rose talking to some annoying first year wannabe me. They were trying to get her to do their homework by being nice to her and inviting her to sit with us. I so didn't like her because I always catch her making googly eyes at Edward. And I wasn't like, his girl or anything, but she smelled like hot dog water, I wasn't about to let her get near him.
I had a crush on him since I first had like a real conversation with him. We shared daddy issues and everything. He got me in a way not even Emmett could. And he was like my best friend, we talked about things I couldn't tell to Rose or Alice. And he was my number one supporter, even when if what I was doing was all kinds or bad. Not even Jasper, who's my partner in crime, was all in it for me.
I was in love with Edward.
"I'm watching how my best friends are conspiring with the enemy" I stumped my foot, then turn away, once again to watch them "That top notch airheaded Polly-Pocket is trying to be friends with to get near you… guys, and it's getting on my nerves" I tell him, blushing.
"I think you're paranoic" he told me "What are we planning?" OMG! I loved how he knew I was a conniving bitch.
"What? I'm not always trying to get people down!" I said, indignantly. He arched a brow and crossed his arms across his chest. "Okay, I am but like, she's a total loser, and her hair is flat and meh… she should carry a plant around with her always, to make up for all the waste of oxygen" I said in one breath. It's so difficult to be me. Being the only one sane enough to not get involved with turds like her. Even if it mean doing my own homework.
He laughed and put his hands on my waist, dragging me closer to him. With one hand he pushed a strain of hair that was in my face, behind my ear. I blushed. Smelling him was making me so dizzy.
"Wanna hang out later… just us?" He asked in a seductor voice. I nodded "We could go to my place, and watch some shitty show and make out" he whispered in my ear "You smell like strawberries" he planted a kiss on my cheek, and finally got out of my face, giving me space to breath.
I squinted my eyes, and studied him. Then started to hit him. A lot of people looked at us amused, but I didn't give them much thought.
"She's doing your homework too! Traitorous handsome shit!" I hissed at him while he laughed. He then grabbed me, once again, in my waist, but this time lift me up in the air, and squished me for like 7 whole seconds before letting me go, safely in my feet.
"She is, but I'm not trying to distract you" he chuckled "I'm serious. I'm sick of watching a bunch of weird-looking jerks trying to catch a handout of your attention. I'm a man enough to admit that I'm jealous when James gets to brag about how he fucked you. I want to be the one knowing I made you cum. We both know that he didn't" Is this really happening? Someone pinch my ass! "What do you say, love?".
Jasper pulled my hair hard, getting me out of my daydreaming. He pointed at the board and then saw Mr. Varner waiting for an answer that I obviously didn't have.
Fuck.
"I've been utterly humiliated, Edward! And what the hell is a binomial distribution?" I cried on his chest, while he laughs.
We were at our table in lunch when Jasper started to tell the story on how I murmured his name in class and the teacher called me out on the topic. How needs math anyway. I'm only passing thanks to the principal getting in a sticky situation and my daddy getting him out of it. We own him. So he makes sure to upgrade my D's to B-'s. And all Emmett's F's to C's so he can win all football games and actually make a reputation for this school. And to be clear I only need help in math. I'm a Swan. I succeed in everything else.
"Oh no. Oxygen blonde incoming" hisses Alice when she sees Tanya getting closer. I sit up straight and accommodate my hair. I only know this is going to be fun. I watch Alice get a boost of confidence and Rosalie smirk.
"So Rosalin… we finally meet again".
"It's Rosalie, and… who are you?" she asks, knowing exactly who she is. Emmett laughs at her side.
"Only the girl who stole your thunder in Bracknell Camp for debutant ladies. You thought you were the shit. You weren't, got mad, and here we are" she said with a glossy smile.
Ew. Who uses gloss with stars made out of paper? That has to be unsanitary.
"Glad to have made a big impression in your pathetic life, then. You can move on" she said bored.
I giggled.
"Oh. So here you have minions. How cute" she said. I snorted.
"Bitch, first off: Brush your teeth. I can smell the tuna sandwich you ate when you were five" I said condescendingly turning my head, not completely but enough to see her from my periphery, she subconsciously covered her mouth with her hand "Second of all… there's no second. Go be bitter somewhere else".
"Whore!" she screamed at me, making a scene. Making students from other tables look at us. The ones that weren't, it is.
"Skank. Name calling is so cancelled" said Alice, knowing well that sometimes we do. It isn't even slut shaming. We were all once a slut. But we have our better half's now.
"Whatever, I'm getting cheese fries" Tanya said, storming off.
We stare at each other and then laugh.
Why do people keep getting in our nerves? Well, know damn well.
They want the attention that being in our presence gives them. They get humiliated by the people whose cousins in other schools talk about.
They don't care how many names they get called. How many times Rosalie puts them in their places. How Alice critiques they're style. Jasper's snobby looks. Edward's patronizing insults. All the jokes Emmett does at their expenses, not even my smug slander.
They thrive with their 5 minutes of fame. And we honestly don't mind the charity work. It amuses us.
We are mean, we don't care.
We are backstabbers to everyone but ourselves.
We are that shit and more.
