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Emma dashed out of Rikki's in search of her rival to apologize; even though she really had nothing to apologize for. As soon as she went through the beads, she caught sight of Bella, who was slouching on a bench and crying hysterically into her hands.
"Hey." Emma greeted, in an awkwardly sympathetically way. Bella slowly slid her hands off of her face, sending a sharp glare towards Emma, as she rudely murmured,
"Hey?" Emma bit her lip, and cautiously sat down on the bench, and focusing her eyes on the soft grass.
"Listen, Bella. I am really-" Emma gnawed on her lip, the words did not seem to flow out of her mouth naturally. Bella watched her expectantly.
"I- I am really sorry," she muttered, as Bella kept her stare, as if waiting for details of how "really sorry" Emma truly is.
"Will- I- I don't know what's wrong with him! He kissed me!" Bella crossed her arms in disbelief.
"Will is the best thing that has ever happened to me. He would never do anything to hurt me! You however..." Bella yelled in disagreement, pointing her finger at the other girl's face as she ranted. The singer cleared her throat a little bit in the silence, as Emma slid away on the bench from Bella's finger, just enough so that it wouldn't poke her eyes.
"I swear, Bella!" Emma's angry tone broke the silence, "Will leaned in and that idiot kissed me! I guess he's not that "best thing ever" that ever happened to you, considering the fact I am the one apologizing to you!"
Strangely, letting loose of the anger towards Bella that Emma struggled to contain felt somewhat comfortable. She didn't care Bella was crying hysterically moments ago, and she had a feeling that Bella wasn't going to cry any more after the lash of insults towards her boyfriend.
"Excuse me?" Bella stood up rather shakily from the bench and clenched her fists, hoarsely replying, "How dare you talk about my boyfriend like that! Don't you ever call him an idiot, especially in front of me!" She sniffled a little bit to prevent her nose from running.
Emma eyes widened as she snarled, "Are you crazy? Your perfect blond boyfriend made out with me while you were performing! Now you're defending him?" She stood up as well, towering over Bella with her eyebrows slanted.
Bella put her hands on her hips, "I can believe whatever I want to believe, and my own eyes saw you kissing Will! No matter how many lies you spit-"
Emma's eyes twitched, "You know what? Just stop. I tried forcing myself to apologize to you, and guess what? You should be apologizing to me! Your boyfriend attacked me, and you stole my best friends-or at least tried to!"
Bella's eyes widened, staring at Emma with her stunned face. Her lips twitched, as if wanting to snap back an insult, but strangely holding back from unleashing her claws and scratching Emma's face. Instead, Bella simply kept a cold stare towards Emma for a few more moments before turning around and slinking off into the crowds, with a smirk forming on her face.
Coughing into her sleeve, Bella began to swiftly run on the sidewalk, looking for her boyfriend. She eventually spotted him; he was leaning on the outside wall of the cafe, with his arms crossed. To say the least, he did not look happy, but rather out of touch with the present time.
Bella grinned playfully, "Will!" she laughed, which evolved into another loud cough.
"What now?" Will snapped, "Here to tell me you want me to kiss Cleo and Rikki too?"
Bella rolled her eyes, "Stop it." She punched his shoulder softly, grinning widely. "That idiot Emma, oh my God, she threw such a fit- and in the end, she actually believed she told me off! But that annoying brat better watch, because I am going to-"
"Bella," Will sighed, but Bella ignored his quiet plea to stop as she continued to rant,
"- I mean seriously, she acts all though when really she sounds like a whiny 2nd grader-"
"Bella," Will sighed, with much more edge to the sound of his voice.
"- Well, let me tell you, she has no idea what's going to happen-"
"BELLA!" he finally got the confidence to raise his voice, "WILL YOU JUST SHUT UP? FOR A SECOND?"
Will's shout certainly did shut Bella's mouth. Sighing once again, he put his hands on her shoulders and directed her away from the crowd gathering at the cafe.
He frowned, "It really makes me sick, Bella, that you don't even seem to care to ask me how I felt about doing that stupid task for you."
Bella sighed, "Will, I-" she began to go into a coughing fit, as Will frowned at his girlfriend's attempt at receiving attention.
"I have to go." The blond murmured quietly to his girlfriend. Bella didn't have the time nor the strength to continue to argue with her raspy voice as her boyfriend stomped away. Bella's face, which was once full of excitement and pride dropped as she awkwardly looked down at her shoes. She glanced around the cafe, her eyebrows scrunched as she tried to gather her thoughts. God, why is Will such a little kid sometimes? Whatever, I'll deal with him later... She was making her way over to her two best friends when a certain redhead grabbed her wrist and pulled her aside.
"Why is my brother upset?" Sophie asked the blonde girl.
"Is that some of your business?" Bella asked wearily.
"Being that he's my brother, yes." She replied glaring at the mermaid.
"We just had a disagreement, that's all." The blonde replied curtly shaking her wrist free from Sophie's firm grip. Bella turned on her heel and started to look for Rikki and Cleo. Striding inside of the cafe, she found the two were having a conversation. Cleo fiddled with the straw in her drink, looking very concerned.
"Hey guys," Bella sniffed wetly, sitting onto a chair next to Rikki. "What's up, Cleo?" she stretched a smile.
Cleo and Rikki exchanged glances as they turned in their seats to greet Bella.
"So...Bella," Cleo asked rather softly, "You are...okay, right?"
"Not ready to burst into tears, are you?" Rikki sneered.
Bella's eyebrows scrunched once again as she muttered quietly, "I'm..I'm completely fine...It's just that," she pursed her lip. Emma was nowhere to be seen in sight, and this might as well be Bella's only chance.
"It's just that-" she sniffed once again, preparing herself to hysterically cry once again. "-Emma leaned in and kissed Will! And- and- then she came up after the performance and made fun of him-"
"Wait a minute, Bella, Emma didn't kiss Will-" Cleo tried to interrupt, as Rikki then hissed,
"Hold on, Emma began making fun of Will?"
They paused for a moment, waiting for Bella's reply. Now I have them, Bella laughed in her mind.
She forced a tear to roll down her cheek. "She called Will an idiot, and basically told me that Will wasn't the perfect boyfriend-"
Her voice trailed off, glancing at the girl's faces. Rikki began to lose interest in Bella's defense towards the situation, as Bella swallowed. Even though Cleo revealed how they know Bella's wrong, she knew she still had the chance to lie of what Emma exactly said.
"And then she called him a moron and a desperate loser!" Bella exclaimed, as Cleo sighed, uncomfortably shifting in her chair.
"Well..Maybe it was right for Emma to call Will those names in front of you-"
Bella's eyes twitched, as she snapped abruptly, "Then she gushed to me that she liked how he kissed her! She told me she always had a huge crush on him, and called you two overly dramatic retards!"
"What? Really? Emma said that? But she has a boyfriend! I think we all need to talk about this." Cleo said, confused. Emma wasn't usually one to call her friends insulting names and she also didn't cheat on her boyfriend, Ash. In fact, they just had a date yesterday.
"Yeah, this is getting ridiculous." Rikki agreed, looking at Bella suspiciously.
Bella nodded, then with a fake, smooth honey voice added, "Why don't we invite her over here to talk? I really just want to settle our differences."
Rikki and Cleo slowly nodded, which left an uncomfortable silence.
"I'll, uhm-" Cleo bit her lip, "I'll text Emma that this is an...important meeting."
"Don't tell her I'm here!" Bella quickly snapped, as Cleo raised an eyebrow.
She quickly replied with her explanation, "If..If you tell her, then she won't come."
Rikki's eyebrows raised, nodding her head and Cleo sighed, and began to text Emma.
"Just..There's just one thing I'm confused about," Rikki lowered her voice, staring at Bella's sick face. "Why would Emma call Will a desperate loser and then claim to have a crush on him?"
Bella's face paled for a moment before steadily and slowly answering, "I think it was to say that he was so desperate that he dated me."
Rikki shrugged her shoulders, and then leaned forward with her arms against the table. The way Bella described the situation just didn't seem to click, but she wasn't about to interrogate her any further. At least not until Emma arrived...with-she strangely hoped- a different perspective.
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