Hello, I'm GAY

Chapter Three

Alice coordinated between us three, setting a time and place for us to give Bella a tour of Forks. I had a feeling it would be a very short and unsatisfying tour. And I was right. We meet with Bella on our one and only main street, the girl standing by her red monstrosity of a truck, and hands in pockets, rain jacket on even though it wasn't raining. But given the overcast clouds, I wouldn't be surprised if it broke out into a thunderstorm at any second. Forks was unforgiving like that.

"So where to, friends," she asked and I cringed at this. We weren't friends. Alice of course, was delighted by this. She let out a happy squeal and grabbed Bella's hands in her own. "We are going to be the best friends ever," she exclaimed and Bella shared her enthusiasm.

"Does that extend to you and me?" she asked me, a touch hopefully when Alice let go of her.

I thinned my lips, because I would naturally say no, but I did not want to make Alice upset. Because Alice would yell at me in vampire speed about how I was ruining her chance to be friends with Bella.

"We'll see," I settle on and this seems to satisfy Bella. And Alice for now.

The tour is short. Alice leads it, her and Bella engaged in conversation as I walk behind, hands in my leather jacket's pockets, letting my thoughts wonder about cars and a new model that I want to pick up at some point before it sells out.

Eventually we reach the end, stopping at an ice cream parlor. "Wanna get ice cream?" Bella asks.

"We have a very specific diet to keep," Alice explains. "But we'd love to accompany you inside."

I would not. The smell of human food is something I like to avoid when I can. Still, it's too late to refuse and I enter, following them. We take a booth by the window, Bella ordering vanilla ice cream. We sit there as she eats it.

"Rosalie, you haven't said much today," Bella comments as her tongue swirls along the ice cream. Almost swirling...too much. I am momentarily distracted by that before I manage to answer her, trying to figure out if she eats ice cream like that or if it's something she's doing on purpose.

"I don't talk much," I respond with and I can hear her heart hammering harder in her chest as I respond to her directly.

"You the silent brooding type?"

"That she is," Alice inputs unnecessarily. I give her a side glare. "She broods almost as much as Edward. They're like two sides of the same coin."

"Except Rosalie's the hotter side," Bella adds on, letting her tongue run down her bottom lip, each time she looks at me. I've noticed she doesn't seem to be so engaged with her ice cream when she's talking to Alice. Is she...? I frown minimally. What is going on?

"That we can both agree on," Alice confirms.

"I am not like Edward," I snap back, annoyed at this deduction.

"Thank God you're not," Bella breathes under her breath. I cannot figure this girl out. Does she really not fear me? I'm a vampire. We are attractive but we also unease humans if they get too close to that. Could Bella not sense any of this?

She continues eating her ice cream, and now that there's less of it, her tongue has to dig deep into the cone to get the last traces. I find myself growing hot under my collar as I watch her dexterous tongue flex and lick up the white traces. Shit, what is going on? I try to distract myself by looking out the window but Bella calls my attention back to the table.

"The both of you are juniors, right? Have you thought about what college you want to go to?"

I let out a silent snort, before turning my head back to the table. We've all been to college a dozen times over. It's boring by now, lost all of it's meaning. We finish and then wait a couple years before starting again. I have at least a degree in each major. Alice finds herself sticking to art majors and even has several degrees in the same major just because.

"Um, maybe somewhere not far from here, is what I'm thinking," I tell Bella.

"Seriously? You could go anywhere you want and you're staying somewhere the sun don't shine?" Bella exclaims, surprised by this.

The whole no sun part was the whole point of us staying here. Either that or night classes.

"Where do you want to go?" Alice interrupts, before we can go into a conversation about our peculiar habits.

"I don't know yet. I'm only a sophomore. But I'm thinking I would like to major in English. I've always been good with writing," Bella answers. At last she's done with her ice cream cone and we get up to leave. Alice and her blab away on majors Alice is 'considering' (as I know she's already set on getting another degree in fashion design) before we head back to Bella's rusted truck.

Honestly, who let her drive around in that? It was a hazard! If I had a chance I would fix it up for her even more. With my vampire speed, it would take less time than it would for her human hands. I had no doubt she knew what she was doing, but as I quickly assessed the truck, there was still so much to do and with school for her and the human need for sleep, she might not get it done quick enough. And I didn't want her to get hurt-

I stopped my train of thoughts there. What did I care? She wasn't my responsibility. I shook my head free of those thoughts.

"We should hang out more," Bella concluded on. "I had fun today. You two are great gal pals to have."

"Thanks...?" I questioned, not entirely sure if I liked this outcome.

"Sure, Bella," Alice smiled and waved her off as she went her own way to get to her truck. Alice's smile stayed fixed in place until Bella had rumbled off, casting one last glance at me. Then Alice turned around and snatched me by my wrist.

"Rosalie we have to hurry and get home," she told me very serious, eyes dark. "The way Bella ate that ice cream made me think of Jasper eating me out and I need to go home. Now."

Before I could even respond to her shocking confession, she was hauling me off to our car. She practically shoved me into the passenger seat and then gunned the gas pedal. We drove so fast I was surprised we didn't get a speeding ticket.

When she pulled the car into the parking lot, I decided to stay outside the house because I did not need to hear all that in the house. Edward cleared out similarly. Everyone else must be out already. He had a disgruntled look on his face. In one hand he was clutching his homework. In his other he had his headphones. Guess they were so loud not even his music could help now.

"They might be a while," I informed him. He scowled as if this was somehow my fault. "I'll be in the forest," I told him and then zoomed off.


If I thought Bella was done trying to befriend us, boy was I wrong. The next day I spotted her and Alice hanging out in the hallways. Jasper and Emmett were there sometimes too. She was steadily weaseling her way into my family. I didn't know how to feel about it. Something must be off about her if she wasn't afraid to be this close to vampires.

Edward too had his suspicions.

"She must be a succubus," he told me as we watched from our spots on the bleachers, the cold wind buffeting our hair, as Bella sat below us with the rest of our family. We were far away so that she wouldn't hear us, nor would the other humans. We made sure to have our space, always the two loners of the group. But I was not like Eddy! I was not nearly as emo.

"A what?" I turned in shock to him. I had heard him, of course I had. But I was shocked by his utterance.

"A succ-"

"I'm not deaf," I snapped at him. "What do you mean, succubus?"

He tightened his jaw, eyes hard as he stared at her. She was laughing at something Emmett said and I restrained myself from listening in, even as her laugh floated all the way up through the other noise and into my ears, burrowing into my brain. I wanted to hear more of it. Unconsciously leaning forward, I forced myself to sit back. I could see a hint of what he said making sense.

But only a hint. A morsel, really.

"She is here to tempt me into sin," he said, knuckles white as he clamped his hands together.

I could not help it. I let out a bark of laughter. "You are so melodramatic."

"I am being serious. She has charmed our whole family. And the way she...smells...and just looks. I...I find myself thinking of her more and more often. I can't even read her mind," he confessed to me, looking anguished. So tormented, that I almost felt bad for him.

"So you think she's a demon, come to make you have what? Sex?" I asked him, trying to keep my grin small.

He nodded his head solemnly and I held back another bark of laughter. I clapped him on his scrawny back. "Edward, she is gay. Super gay. Was that not established the first day she came here?"

"I know...but..." cheers erupted from the crowd as the football team scored a point. Bella whooped loudly and my eyes followed Edward's to her. This time, she seemed to feel our stare and she turned around and waved. At me, but Edward didn't know that. His lips peeled back from his fangs.

"You see this. She attempts to seduce me."

"Edward all she's doing is fucking waving at you," I told him. "Just because she's being nice, doesn't mean she's into you."

He furrowed his brow, thinking over my words. "Maybe...maybe I am overthinking things."

"You might be going through your dramatic phase again, where you think every woman is out to get you naked," I inform him. "Of all people you do not have to worry about Bella doing the same to you. She's gay." I emphasize this once more for good measure.

He nods his head. "I think I shall do some introspection on my odd feelings for her. I certainly did not have them a while ago." And then he zips away.

Good thing he does, because I let out a tense breath, having to had held my thoughts at bay. Thoughts that screamed in anger that he dare express interest in Bella. He would not have her. I don't know where these strong feelings of mine came from and I lean my head back to look up into the dimming sky. Maybe she is a succubus, I think in joking amusement, because ever since she came here, I've been feeling weird around her. A bit feverish.

A goofy grin paints my face. Perhaps that would not be so bad, to feel something once more?

I don't let myself answer my own hope.