A/N: If you don't like the characters or plot, then don't read. This is slightly AU as fair as Lana and their ancestry and stuff like that. But the main premise will not change.
DISCLAIMER: I only own my OC, nothing else.
WORD COUNT: 2, 588
Chapter 4
Human?
A couple days had passed and the excitement over the Swan sisters had died down sufficiently for them to lead their lives without being stared at. Of course, Lana calmed down over her raging hormonal incident with Jacob. She never told Bella what the reason for her moodiness was, but Lana was certain that Bella hardly realized, nor Charlie.
Well, good.
She didn't want them to.
Lana hadn't seen Jacob for a few days, though they did text back and forth, all he seemed to want to talk about was Bella, unless she probed for another subject, which was incredibly often. Though, it didn't take long for Lana to notice that Bella's mind was far from where it should be; and she knew exactly who she was thinking about:
Man-journal Cullen.
He didn't seem like the type who would be incredibly rude to people unless he had good reason, and to Lana: Bella wasn't an awful person. She was too good, too pure for someone to think she was horrible and the fact that this walking, talking can of hairspray didn't see that; well that just irked Lana.
Of course, when they went back to school, Bella was more than a bit socially awkward, she didn't really talk with everyone else, despite sitting on the same table. Lana had been out with them a few times, and they had gotten closer. Especially Mike and herself, even though she had reassured Jessica that she had no intention of being with Mike.
A few more days had passed and Bella was becoming increasingly frustrated. Lana tried to talk to her but she didn't want to speak so the younger Swan sister gave up, not understanding why Bella would care so much for a guy who was just staring at her and it pissed Bella off so much that she wanted to switch classes!
Rolling her eyes, Lana walked downstairs, to see her father nursing a can of beer, watching some show that obviously didn't interest him much considering that his eyelids were starting to get heavier. The young girl smiled at her dozing father, so she turned off the TV, put the half empty can on the table beside the sofa and threw the afghan on the couch over Charlie, who sighed in relief, his eyes opening halfway to see his baby girl looking after him. "Thanks, sweetheart." He mumbled softly, taking her hand and kissing her knuckles gently in thanks.
"It's okay, Dad. You rest. I'll order some pizza tonight." Lana whispered gently, walking out of the living room so her father could rest and she called the pizza place and ordered a few pizzas, before going upstairs, calling Jake to see how he was.
(..)
Monday.
Ugh.
Maybe Lana could fake sick and just hide out at the Rez for a couple of hours until Jake got out of school, but she didn't want to leave her sister with Creeper Cullen, so she dragged herself out of bed and got ready. It was too cold to be wearing tops, so she dressed in a warm long sleeve shirt that complimented her figure and would keep her incredibly warm, shrugged on her leather jacket and a pair of tight cargo pants that were well insulated and kept heat in. She pulled on her black boots and her gloves and wrapped a scarf around her neck and put minimal make up on.
As she was walking out, she noticed that Charlie was helping Bella up, "-ice doesn't really help the uncoordinated." Bella finished her sentence as Lana helped brush her sister off. "Thanks, Lana." The younger Swan nodded, yawning softly.
"No problem, Bells." She said mid-yawn as all three of them walked to the truck, where Lana's bike was in the back.
"Yeah, that's why I had some new tires put on the truck and bike. The old ones were getting pretty bald."
"Thanks, Dad." Lana yawned again as her and Charlie pulled the bike from the truck while Bella didn't say a word.
"Well, I'll probably be late for dinner. I've gotta head down to Mason County. Security guard at the Grisham mill got killed by some kind of animal." As Charlie walked away, Lana's eyes widened.
"Dad, are you serious?!" Lana asked, looking up at her Dad worriedly. What if he gets mauled?!
"An animal?" Bella asked, not able to comprehend the fact that their father is heading somewhere dangerous.
Charlie opened the door to his cruiser, "you're not in Phoenix anymore, Bells. Anyway, figured I'd lend a hand."
"Well, be careful." Bella said, obviously a bit too awkward.
Lana couldn't hold back and she ran to her Dad, hugging him tight. "Always am." Charlie said, offering his eldest a slight smile as he hugged Lana. "I'll be okay, Lana. Promise."
Lana, who was satisfied with his response, pulled back and went to her bike as she looked at Bella, worried. "Thanks for the tires." Bella said as her father got in the cruiser.
"Yeah." He said, driving off.
"He'll be okay, Lana. Don't worry. He's Charlie." Bella offered her sister some reassurance. Despite Lana's exasperation at Bella's tendency to call their father 'Charlie', she smiled at her big sister.
"Thanks, Bells." Lana spoke softly, before putting her back in the truck. "See you at school." Lana zipped up her jacket, tucking in her scarf, as well as pulling on her gloves and helmet.
"Yeah." Bella said as they both got on their respective modes of transportation and they went off.
(..)
Well, she lost the golden onion, but that was hardly the most important thing; it was a close second.
Eric almost asked Bella to the prom, to which Mike thankfully saved the Asian boy from total humiliation even though he didn't know it yet. And she got wet from Mike, having to playfully tackle him before they sat down. Mike had given the girls nicknames. Bella was now 'Arizona' while Lana was 'Harley' even though she didn't have a Harley Davidson model, it's not like Mike cared though. Then Bella sat next to Edmund. . or was it Edward? She had been calling him Creeper Cullen for so long, she actually forgot his first name.
Well, apparently he apologized for his actions, considering Bella relaxed around him, so she continued onto her work, explaining the work to Mike, considering they were going to have a test on it.
What really shocked her was the fact that Bella and him were walking together.
That didn't sit well with her. Running to catch up with them, she stopped on Cullen's side. "Yo. . .Edmund. . .?" She asked, mentally kicking herself for her lack of brain-to-mouth filter.
"Lana!" Bella snapped, unimpressed with her sister's absence of manners.
"It's alright, Bella." Cullen said in a soft alluring voice that Bella seemed to melt to. It made the hairs on Lana's neck stand up. She was instantly alert. His golden eyes turned to Lana and she tensed. They weren't gold the last time she saw him. "Hello," he addressed her with a soft smile, "you must be Alana. I'm Edward Cullen." Edward held out his hand for her to shake. An oversight on his part.
Lana smiled sheepishly. "Just call me Lana, and I'm sorry for getting your name wrong." 'Creeper Cullen alert.' She lifted her hand and her warm skin touched his freezing cold and she pulled back almost instantly, before his fingers could even twitch. Her entire being tensed and she took a step back, her eyes wide. Bella looked at her sister pleadingly, not wanting to hear her problems at the present moment.
"Lana, is something wrong?"Edward asked, looking Lana with worry, though his eyes conveyed something else. Danger. Threat.
Lana clenched her jaw. "No. Nothing's wrong. Excuse me." Lana clipped and walked off quickly. His hand was cold. Colder than any normal person could be. He didn't feel normal. Hell, he didn't even feel human. She walked right outside the front door, threw her bag in the back of Bella's truck and tugged on her gear, starting her bike and she sped off, skipping the rest of the school day. She needed to get away from him. She was too out of sorts to even continue her day. Whatever work needed to be done, she'd get the questions off Angela. She drove straight to the Rez and entered La Push, she took off her gear, lifting her scarf to cover her head, so she wouldn't get wet and she sat on a rock, just trying to calm herself down.
Her hands were shaking and she could hardly see straight. Her instincts were telling her to go back, confront him, demand his intentions and order him to stay away from Bella, but she couldn't. The pleading look on Bella's face tapped into her compassionate side, she didn't want to hurt Bella. Yet, her instincts were screaming at her, roaring to screw what Bella felt, this was something that a puny average person could never understand. Lana was the only one who could really take on what was about to come. Bella was insignificant at this point in time. He was a threat.
Edward Cullen was not a good person.
He was not good for Bella.
The ringing of her phone shocked her out of her reverie and she dug around her pocket before pulling out the purple Motorola flip phone, she had been sitting there, contemplating her emotions for at least an hour and a half. School had just ended.
Charlie was calling, so she answered immediately.
"Lana, where are you?"
"I'm at La Push, before you say anything, you know my school attendance record is-"
"Sweetheart, I don't care that you left early. If and when you do, you have good reason to. I'm not calling about that. Just get to the hospital. Bella was in an accident."
Lana flipped her phone closed and she was already on the bike, flying down the Rez paths before she hit the road and flew down the highway, her gloves and helmet be damned.
(..)
Lana flew into the hospital, her heart beating about fifty miles a second and she more or less ordered the front desk for information. When she received the relevant facts, she jogged to the elevator, and when she got the floor she needed to be, she ran to the observation room, not even seeing Edward or his sister Rosalie in her haste.
"Bells!" Lana cried, seeing her sister on one of the beds with her father next to her and a Doctor in front of them, having looked up when he saw a frazzled Lana.
"Lana, I'm okay- oof!" Bella didn't get to finish before her sister was hugging her tightly, holding her close.
"I'm so sorry I took off. I should have been there." Lana's big hazel eyes shined with tears. "Oh, God. I'm so sorry."
Bella held her sister close, trying to soothe her. "It's okay, Lana. It's okay. I'm alright. I'm okay." Bella whispered, stroking her sister's soft hair, enjoying the hug, no matter how much she didn't let it on or she didn't show it. She loved her sister and she was glad that Lana hadn't been there to witness it, because poor Tyler might have been worse off that a cut to his forehead.
"I'm so sorry, Bella. I'm really-" Tyler didn't get to finish as Charlie pulled the curtain shut sharply, not wanting to listen to the teenagers feeble apologies.
Lana, having calmed down, sat next to Bella and Charlie made hasty introductions. "Doctor Cullen, this my youngest daughter, Lana. Lana, this is Doctor Carlisle Cullen." Carlisle gave her a soft, kind smile to which she returned, somewhat hesitantly.
Bella looked up at Carlisle, saying, "you know it would have been a lot worse if Edward wasn't there. He knocked me out of the way." The name brought chills to Lana's spine, but she suppressed it. At the moment, gratitude took over her instincts at the time. She was glad her sister was alive.
"Edward? Your boy?" Charlie questioned, looking surprised, while Carlisle hardly made eye contact.
"Yeah it was amazing. I mean, he got to me so fast, he was nowhere near me." Bella continued, while Carlisle closed the clipboard.
"Sounds like you were very lucky." Carlisle smiled, walking away, "Charlie." The doctor acknowledged before walking away.
The Swan family walked out as Charlie took Bella's bag. "I gotta sign some papers. You should. .you should probably call your mum."
Lana cringed, anticipating the infamous Renee Dwyer panic mode.
Bella looked at her father, exasperated. "Did you tell her?" The best answer Charlie could give was a sheepish expression and a shrug of the shoulders. Bella sighed in frustration, pulling out her phone. "She's probably just freaking out."
Lana took Bella's phone. "I'll calm her down so you don't have to deal with it."
"You always do it." Bella said, looking at her little sister who grinned up at her.
"Because I'm better at it than you," Lana quipped, making Bella chuckle and bump her teasingly.
"What was I supposed to do? Just let her die?" Edward's frustrated whispers wafted over to them and Lana stopped mid type. Both Swan sisters, now intrigued, slowly turned around the corner to eavesdrop.
"This isn't about you, this is about all of us!" Rosalie whispered back, angered.
'Um, excuse me, isn't my sister's life worth something? I'll cut your blonde hair off at different lengths while you're asleep. See how you like that. You'll be looking like young Elizabeth from Drop Dead Fred when he cuts off half of her hair.' Lana threatened in her mind.
"I think we should take this in my office." Carlisle stopped, realizing that the Swan sisters were eavesdropping and then both Rosalie and Edward turned to look at the two.
Oh, crap.
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