Toxic Rose
Chapter Two: The Cullen's
That night Bella slept fitfully her dreams filled with the Cullen's, laughing and pointing at her as she tried to run down the empty school hallways. "Your ugly eyes, your ugly eyes," they jeered in unison, although their voices all sounded like Rosalie's.
"Stop it. Leave me alone. I swear I won't stare again!" Bella sobbed near tears as she tried to run towards the exit down the hall that would take her far away from them. But the hallway just stretched out the harder she tried to run, her legs instead propelling her backwards and closer to the Cullen's. Their laughs and taunts grew louder and louder as Bella found herself growing ever nearer to them.
"Stop it!" she hissed and stopped running, instead focusing on clamping her hands over her ears. She shut her eyes hoping to block them out completely but then they were circling around her, their jeers now muffled. Bella could feel their cold bodies as they pressed closer against her, until she felt cold elegant hands on her hands. Bella opened her eyes in shock only to find that the Cullen's had all disappeared, along with the hallway. She was now floating in empty blue space. Then whose hands where these? She turned around slowly, taking deep breaths in the sudden silence and found herself face to face with Rosalie. She was smiling a cruel smile, her face still beautiful nonetheless.
"Your eyes," she whispered letting go of Bella's hands and cupping the sides of her face. "I'll take them," and with a snarl she plunged her red manicured thumbs into Bella's orbs.
Bella awoke with a scream, just in time for the alarm to go off. Bella sat on her bed, covers drawn to her chest for comfort as she took deep calming breaths. "What the fuck," she whispered to herself, as she wiped away tears from her cheeks. Had she cried in her sleep? This was ridiculous. She hastily reached to turn off the alarm and got dressed for school with shaking hands. She really didn't want to go back after a nightmare such as that but what choice did she have? She was a good student and was expected to attend all her classes. Besides it was just a stupid dream, no one would stoop to doing that just because someone had stared at them, right?
With great trepidation and reluctance Bella made her way to school in her old truck, that her dad had bought for her as a welcome gift. She parked it in the parking lot and was about to exit when she noticed a sleek gray Volvo pull in. The car parked right down from hers, and who else would come out of the car but the Cullen's. Ducking down and hiding behind the drivers door, she kept her head between her legs listening for the sounds that indicated they were leaving.
"Yo Edward, let me drive next time," a booming voice, that could only belong to Emmett, poised.
"Your out of your mind." Edward grumbled slamming his car door closed, or at least Bella assumed it was him, as his voice sounded effeminate and did not match with his brooding, sexy guy appearance.
"Quit your yapping and let's get to class." An icy cold voice, that could only belong to Rosalie growled out and Bella hunched down closer to her knees, holding her breath. The slamming of closing car doors stopped now, as everyone had finally exited the car.
"I'm just asking, there's no harm in that-" Emmett started but was cut off.
"You ask every time and the answer is still no." Rosalie pointed out. There was footsteps and the arguing voices sounded to be getting further away now. Once they were completely gone, Bella let out a long breath and sat back up. This was ridiculous, why was she acting this way? Rosalie hadn't even done anything to her yet. Bella shook her head. Honestly she was so pathetic sometimes. She blamed it on social anxiety. Finally exiting the car she made her way to class just as the bell rang. She was going to be a good student and stay far away from the Cullen's. They could only mean trouble.
Yup, they only meant trouble.
Well Rosalie specifically. Bella swallowed hard, the cold locker doors behind her back chilling her through her thin tee. She stared into Rosalie's golden brown eyes which were narrowed in anger, her perfect brows furrowed over them. "What did I tell you bitch?" she hissed, her breath billowing over Bella's face. It smelled like mint and Bella wondered if she would ever get to eat mints again without having flashbacks to this potentially traumatic experience. Depending on how she played this perhaps she could still escape unscathed.
This had all happened when Bella had left her class to go to the bathroom. She had unintentionally stared at the Cullen's again during lunch and gotten caught by Rosalie and Alice for staring. Double embarrassed she had left to class early. She didn't want to have to pass by Rosalie again and experience getting threatened. She waited the rest of the lunch period there until it was time for class. Students filled in and she was careful to keep her gaze averted to her desk when Rosalie came in. She couldn't tell if the blonde had glared at her, but she was too scared to do so, only lifting her head up, when class was well on its way, to take notes. But she had neglected her full bladder and now she had to pee. She let herself out of her class and used the restroom but on her way back someone had pulled her by her arm. She turned around to catch a glimpse of golden locks before she was slammed hard against the lockers. Rosalie's beautiful but very pissed off face glowered at her and she placed her left hand by Bella's equally confused and frightened face.
"Huh, what did I do wrong this time?" Bella breathed out, despite knowing what, her heart thumping hard.
"What did I tell you bitch?" Rosalie hissed, and her right hand dug into her back pocket. With a smooth motion she flicked the object open and the light from the hallway lights caught on it, causing Bella to gulp loudly. Rosalie had a knife. Shit, she has a switchblade and I am so fucked now. Aren't those things illegal to carry? Bella looked from the blade to Rosalie's face whose expression of fury had not changed.
"I told you I would pluck out your ugly eyes, and now I will. Don't take my words lightly." She whispered this, her gaze absorbing every single drop of fear on Bella's face.
"Rosalie, cut it out," a high pitched and bubbly voice made the blonde and captive brunette both turn their heads. Alice was coming down the hallway, hands behind her back and a smile on her face. "What did I tell you about scaring the new students in school?"
Rosalie let out a huff. "Alice..."
"Put the blade away. Those things are dangerous. You wouldn't want to hurt anyone, now would you?" Alice had drawn close to them and focused her gaze on Rosalie solely, until the blonde relented.
"It's not like I actually was going to use it," she protested, her voice losing it's dangerous edge as she closed the blade and put it back in her pocket.
"Really? And what would have happened if I hadn't stopped you?" Alice crossed her arms over her tiny chest and stared up at the blonde. Rosalie made to answer but Alice put up her hand. "Don't answer. Honestly it's so annoying having to watch over you constantly. Now go back to class."
Rosalie let out another huff but didn't make to move. "Rosalie..." Alice had a warning tone in her voice.
"Fine," Rosalie snarled all of a sudden hitting the locker next to Bella's head hard. The loud noise startled her and she dropped to the ground, hands over her head to block out the sound. Rosalie stomped away angrily but Bella stayed on the ground in her position long after the sound had disappeared.
"Are you okay?" Alice's soft voice caused Bella to hesitantly look up. The pixie had dropped down to Bella's level and was looking with concern in her eyes. When Bella didn't say anything the pixie spoke again. "I'm sorry about my sister's behavior. She can be a handful sometimes and doesn't think things through. She thinks it's funny to be bitchy to new kids. She didn't mean anything, she was just teasing you."
Bella looked up at Alice's eager face. The poor girl had to put up with such a bitch for a sister.
"I"m sorry," Alice added and put out her hand. Bella took it and the two girls stood up. "I want to make it up to you, what do you say?"
"It's fine" Bella stammered out at last. Her heart had finally calmed down and she could speak. "I shouldn't have been staring anyways."
Alice tsked. "Well we are beautiful, your not at fault there. Everyone used to stare at us, but I guess they got used to it already. You still haven't." Alice was silent as she appraised Bella who was blushing slightly now. The fact that Alice was trying to justify her creepy behavior made her embarrassed. "It's still not reason for Rosalie to act like this. So what do you say? Will you let me make it up to you?"
"No really I'm fine. I just-"
"Nonsense! It'll help cheer you up and besides I'm curious about you. Your the chief's daughter after all. I'll treat you. What's your number?" Alice pulled out her phone excitedly.
"Umm, I-I-" Bella found Alice's energy very draining and overwhelming.
Alice looked up from her phone screen expectantly, her thumb hovering over the screen and ready to start typing.
"It's XXX-XXXX-XXXX" Bella said at last and Alice copied it down. Bella couldn't let this girl down. Besides she looked to be very nice. At least maybe one of the Cullen's will be.
"That's great! I'll see you on the weekend then!" With that Alice bounced away and disappeared down the hallway.
Bella stood silently for a while, contemplating what had just happened. She had just been threatened and then she had been threatened again, but to hang out. She was so confused and drained. Shaking her head she decided to head back to class when the bell, signaling the end of the period, rang and Bella cringed. Great, now she had just skipped a whole class period and she was sure she would get detention for that. However, what she didn't know was that it would be the least of the problems.