COUNT ON ME

I'll sail the world to find you
If you ever find yourself lost in the dark and you can't see,
I'll be the light to guide you

Find out what we're made of
When we are called to help our friends in need

You can count on me like one two three
I'll be there
And I know when I need it I can count on you like four three two
You'll be there

-Bruno Mars-

This story has a lot of type and one of other grammar mistakes. They are all mine and this would be edited once is done.

ST. MARCUS ACADEMY

"Cullen?" Edward could not believe what he just heard. This was some prank the world was plating on him. How could he feel an instant connection with the daughter of the responsible for his dad's death? How could a creature as hers, so elegant and angelic be related to that type of monster? Does she know the kind of business Cullen does to keep her in this school and give her all her fancies?

Isabella… Is she a vapid child? Edward could not match her lovely face to a man whose money comes from scamming honest men, separating families…

"Do you know her?" Jessica asked. Her mask was on, but she's not stupid. She knows this kid has some issue with her bestfriend. Or at least had.

"Uh… no. No, I j-just… she looked familiar, that's all. But I don't know any Cullen's" he said mumbling.

Jessica said she was going to thank Bella for lending her money to buy her uniforms, even though Mr. Cullen actually sent money through Jacob's to buy her attire too, not only Bella's, as a gift. The Cullen's were too kind to her.

Once her blonde friend with pink highlights left she stayed getting to know Edward. She realized he was a very quiet guy. When she was about to ask him if he had a girlfriend a tinier girl than Bella, with spiked short black hair came running to him an hanged herself in his arm. Bitch, Lauren thought.

"Hey, this is Alice, she's on our group too, she entered with me. Alice, this is Lauren". Lauren did not stay long after that introduction. She went in search of her friends since this guy seemed to be well cared for.

Alice and Edward started talking about nothing, none of them wanting to touch the topic of the uniforms and both of them with other things in their minds.

Alice missed her sister and felt guilty for crushing in a blonde guy she saw just a few minutes ago. He was the guy she described in her diaries and imagined when she was about to sleep. She wondered what his name was and how he smelled like. He was dressed funny but to each their own. She was not here to judge. Edward was thinking of his—the brunette. Go figure this was going to be his luck. He came to destroy the spawn of Cullen and he fell in a trance with his target. But this could not stop him from his intention; he came here with a purpose he intended to fulfill.

He got distracted when a blonde girl came in the way on a huge guy accompanied of that imbecile, Peter.

Emmett grabbed the pretty blonde. He considered her hot but he was not going to let the daughter of a wannabe Madonna insult and bathe his best friend in RedBull and let her get away with it.

"I was looking for you!" he voiced. He sounded more angry than he actually was "You're the daughter of the vedette right?"

"She's not a vedette and yes, I am. But if you wanted information for castings I suggest you to go ask she and I can't get you autographs. If that was all, go grab the oldest of your house like this, you troglodyte!" Rosalie pulled her arm from his grip forcefully. Who did this guy think he is?

She tried to keep going but this giant, kind of handsome caveman, was on her way still.

"That's not why I'm wasting my time with you. I want you to apologize to Bella" he said. Emmett was mad when his friend came to him and cried over her father and for her ruined hair. He knew this was not a behavior Bella would have condoned but he couldn't let this girl pass over her. In Peter's opinion, Bella cried for everything and Emmett had suppressed issues with his father he wanted to let go. That's why he told him about the new red haired guy. What he didn't know was that the naïve Bella had beef with one of the news too.

"Who do you think you are, huh? You have some kind of superman complex to defend airheads or something? I think you forgot you cape, my dear" Before Emmett kept fighting with her Edward and Alice came forward. Alice took the blonde's hand and led her to other place, away from that guy as Edward stepped in in the path of this boy.

"Easy man, she's a girl, okay? I don't know what your problem is with her but I advise you to cool down a bit and then you can talk to her again" Peter recognize the guy immediately and whispered to Emmett this was the fucking nobody who dared to talk to him the way he did. He felt kind of sorry for adding more fuel to the matter but he felt insulted.

"And you… If there's something I hate the most is all the new students who want to be seen as tuff guys, just like her. This is not a flea market where you must've been raised. You're between decent people now! Try to walk unnoticed if you don't want any problems" Damn, Emmett was freeing past tension. If Peter wasn't dumbfounded he would've let some 'uhh's' and 'ahh's'.

"Look, hormone induced Schwarzenegger; I don't even know your fucking name, but it seems you're looking for a problem and you just found one. So you tell me when, where and at what time?"

Emmett and Edward started to size each other and before this could get out of control, Mike Newton who was going up the stairs to find him, came to take Edward away and talk some sense into him. He was telling him how inconvenient would be starting some fight with any of the already established kids. He informed him he almost punched the son of a politician. Edward insisted that no daddy's boy was going to make back up from his ideals.

"Hey guys" a dirty blonde guy dressed like the prince of Bel-Air came to them, they greet him too "I'm Jasper Withlock" he informed them. Edward almost told him to fuck off but he kept talking "Are either of you Michael Newton?" Mike stepped forward and asked him what did he needed "The secretary told me to find you and tell you your parents already bought your uniform and that you need to go get it and the receipt too" he thanked him and introduced Edward. They started talking and Edward realized something. Mike was here since last year. He must know something of Cullen's kid… Isabella.

He only hoped Mike wasn't a friend of her's.

Fuck, this was going to be hard.

"Hey, do you guys know something of Isabella Swan?" yeah… ask the both of them, he was going to play it like that.

"Why?" asked Mike as Jasper said something along the lines of her already having someone behind her bones.

"Just curious".

"She's the daughter of a very important business man… uh, she's like the most popular girl in the academy and… almost every guy wants to date her" Mike informed him.

"Hey, and she doesn't happen to have a sister or something… like a consolation prize?" Jasper Withlock, everybody. The man with no respect whatsoever for women.

"No, she's only child" Edward said out loud without noticing. Jasper shrugged it out, not caring enough but Mike did ask him how he would know that. Without missing a breath Edward answered him "Oh, I read it in a magazine… those of economy and finances, stuff like that" he said. They kept walking until they arrived to the dormitories.

…

Rosalie didn't want to talk about that asshole who manhandled her. Instead she took this Alice girl with her to wait for Angela in the principal's office. Alice Brandon, Rosalie learnt, was her other dormitory mate.

She find out, Alice was very shy but friendly and kind. All that Rosalie wasn't. He was going to teach her one or two things about life.

"Can you believe that wannabe Malibu Barbie?" she was annoyed and resentful. Yeah, she got it, maybe that Bella girl wasn't the one messing with her, she was just dumb, but she was the one closer to her. And now she was sending her boyfriend to intimidate her. The audacity.

Alice did not know who the girl was talking about, she just listened to her complain. She didn't know all the sides of the story so she just shut her mouth refraining her opinion. The classes haven't even started yet and is already madness.

Once they arrived they sat down in one of the sofas. The secretary barely spare a look at them, focusing in her computer. The girls didn't know but she was playing Plants vs Zombies and she was almost out of ideas on how to kill those goddamn zombies.

Inside the office, Angela was a mess, she couldn't stop her tiers.

"It is true, you aren't here by a scholarship".

"Then why everyone made me believe I was?" she could not believe this. Even the nuns in the grouphouse told her she was sent here thanks to her sport ship abilities and know…

"Because that was how the person who's in charge of you wanted it!" Charlie said. God, why couldn't kids just accept what the adults decided? Angela begged him to tell her who was the responsible. How could this man not understand that she know no one! Who would pay the amount of money they charge in here for here to study? She had zero family and all her friends were poor, like her "I can't give you that information, Miss Weber, but know is someone who's worried about your future, eh. You are in the best academy in the country!"

"Please, I need to know who is it!" she was desperate. She could not accept this just like that. What if it was dangerous?

"Resign yourself with that person helping you. Just think of the millions of kids who wish to come here"

"I do not accept charity!"

She was indignant, angry… exasperated with this man, with this school, with the grouphouse, with the person behind all this! WITH HER FUCKING PARENTS FOR ABANDONING HER!

"You have to! If not there's the door and you go back to the group house" Charlie was tired and this, honestly, was not on his field of knowledge. He just got the letter and admission request. The one on charge was a power superior to him He was just a peon of all the higher authorities and parents.

Angela gave up and stormed off the office slamming the door, Zafrina got startled and closed her game in panic. Damn! It wasn't the ogre. The Weber girl passed by Rosalie and Alice without noticing them and they followed her. They asked her what was happening. Again, Alice shut her mouth. When Angela told Rosalie, she didn't comprehend what the problem was. She got that she didn't know who was paying but at least she was now in a safe place, right?

Rosalie told her to suck it up. The black haired girl, took off her glasses and tell her no. She could escape this place without anyone noticing. She did learn that in the orphanage.

"Don't be stupid Angela! At least you have roof and food here!" Alice open her eyes wide when she heard the blonde girl. She was kind of right but Alice understand this was a pride matter more than a survivor one. Angela got mad.

"You know what? Not everything is roof and food. There's something called dignity!"

"Of course, you prefer to die of hunger and cold in the streets… of course, with your dignity intact" Rosalie bitterly chuckled "You are missing brain cells just like that Bella bitch, right?"

"You know what, Rosalie? If you don't have anything intelligent to say, shut up!" she walked away from the girls and went to her room. She could not keep talking with anyone.

"Fine. Do wherever you want!" she yelled after her "Is official Alice, there's no single intelligent soul in this damn place!" Alice said nothing and followed Rosalie.

…

Emmett wanted to cool down in his room. He was informed Peter and him got a new roommate so he wished he didn't dome right now. He now realized he almost got in trouble for second time in a month and he hasn't eve paid his due for the car accident.

The girl was just in his way and he decided to tell her to back off on Bella. His friend tends to say hurtful stuff without noticing, she had zero filter. And she was like a babe in the woods; once, in their childhood, he promised he was going to take care of her, she promised to take care of him and "pamper him with hugs and love". See what he means?

And then that guy… He honestly had no problem with him, but he got in the way.

Emmett had to be honest with himself. He was mad about his dad and having to go tomorrow at noon at that town to do community service had him very stressed out.

"Good afternoon, my friends" a blonde guy, with blonde hair entered their room, wearing ridiculous clothes, forcing Emmett out of his mind and Peter to look up from his laptop. The friends exchange a look between them as Jasper making his name known and chucking. He made an inappropriate comment of his family ready to vote for Aro McCarthy in the elections for president and went to settle in his assigned bed. They were now complete.

…

At The Bellisima's club room, Bella had changed into pajamas at 1:00 pm. See how difficult It's to be her? Her bestfriend crushing in the same guy. Go figure

Jessica was there, in Bella's bed hugging her. She already confessed it to her and made her promise not to tell a soul, and obviously not to tell Lauren. This could make her mad and hurt.

"Jess, would you lend me your phone, please?" Bella asked in a mournful tone. Jessica gave it to her and closed her eyes, still, caressing Bella's waist long hair.

In times like this, Bella wished she had a mom. She could ask her what to do or maybe advised her in a way only moms can. So she decided to text her dad. But she would not text him from her own phone; no… she's not stupid.

"Mr. Cullen, hi.

I'm Jessica, Bella's best friend.

I'm writing to you because I worried about Bella.

She's not eating, sleeping…

And she has spent a lot of time crying.

Her heart is broken, Mr. Cullen.

Your daughter needs you

– Jessica"

Good enough, Bella thought. Now she has to wait her father to give a s—to actually care for his only daughter's death bed. She knew dramatic was the only way to proceed to make her father notice her and give her attention and ignore a least for a minute his work.

Was she being a brat? Maybe, but her only potential love interest was called for, a girl almost killed her hair… and she misses her mom and dad. She knows her mom was dead, but her daddy was alive.

"Who did you texted to?" Jessica asked her.

"My daddy. I want him to come to senses his only daughter is dying" she cried into her friend's shoulder.

"What did you do honey?" she giggled.

"I'll tell you later, right now I want to cry myself to sleep" the brunette said. Jessica laughed at her friend's tantrum. She had told her the guy asked for her and then Lauren came here to tell us how he was hugging another girl before going to the cafeteria.

That's why she preferred kissing without commitment.

…

While Mike went to talk with some friends Edward stayed in the room, with Ben, in order to relax and chill a little bit. What a day.

A knock on the door was heard followed by Zafrina carrying a garment bag.

"Which one of you was Edward Masen?" she asked clearly annoyed. Edward got up and wet to meet her by the door "Your aunt sent this to you, she kept the receipt so if you have issues with the size or something asked her to send it to you. And for the next time, I'm the school's secretary, not your messenger. Do you know how difficult is to walk in heels?" she said after giving the gala uniform to the owner and head back to the office.

He was confused. He put the thing in his bed and opened finding a black suit with the academy's logo on it.

"Hey, Ben… do you know for what is this?" The boy got closer to see what he was talking about.

"That's the gala uniform. You use it in Mondays and Fridays or when there are special events or assemblies in the auditorium" Ben enlightened Edward. The bronzed haired guy didn't know this school used uniforms, which explained why people was carrying bags with the school logo since yesterday. He asked him if this was the only uniform they have to use "No, there is this one, the blue uniform that we use Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, sometimes when we have to attend classes in Saturday… oh and the P.E one. There's also a jacket" he informed him. Edward was screwed. He thanked him for letting him know and went to grab his saving's box. He had in total $100.00 bucks. Well, damn.

"Hey… do you know if the uniforms are expensive?" This got Ben's attention.

"Uhm… the gala one is, is like a hundred with shoes included. Like yours" he motioned to the bag in his bed "The other two are like… I don't know, maybe $75.00" he said. Ben watched Edward's face crumped. He excused himself saying that he needed to call someone to thank her.

The curiosity took the best of him and went to his bed. He saw a tiny bucks and counted barely a hundred dollars. As he put the money back in his place Mike entered the room and asked him what was he up to.

"Look, uhm, do you happen to have your old P.E uniform?" Cheney asked him.

"Yeah, why?" Mike was watching him odd. The Cheney's were almost as rich as the Cullen's, so why was he asking for his old uniform.

"Masen had no idea of the uniforms and his aunt just sent him the gala one. And when he left to thank her I came here and found only $100.00 dollars… I was thinking… Edward is a very proud guy and I happen to have my old blue uniform so I thought to sell it to him for $50.00? Do you get where I'm going?" Mike nodded.

They started to plan how they were going play this and by the time Edward came back, Mike was upstairs looking through the closets as Cheney got both uniforms in order. Edward followed Mike voice and asked him what was he doing. Mike told him some lie and then Cheney came to them.

"Hey, now that I find you both here I wanted to tell you I'm selling my old P.E and blue uniform, if you are interested"

"Nah man, my parents already bought me mine" Mike said.

"I don't have much money, but let me save some money so I can buy them" Edward said. Hopefully Ben hasn't sold them by then.

"Well, if you find anyone who needs them I'm selling them both for $40.00" he said back.

"$40.00 Ben? Are you sure?" Ben nodded "Please, don't sell them to anybody else, I'll buy them right now" Edward clearly got excited, Mike and Ben bumped fists and the last went to collect his payment for the attire.

Thoughts?