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Chapter 13

Bella sighed as she listened to the other girls talk about how excited they were to have a normal night away from all of the chaos that was going on in their lives. She was too but she couldn't help but feel a little annoyed that they didn't want to get ahead of the witch hunters. Yes, Bella understood that they should be living somewhat normal lives but under the circumstances they couldn't do that.

"Baby B, come over here so I can finish your hair and makeup and you can get dressed." Liz called to her.

"Coming Honeybear." Bella sighed before doing what she was told.

"Oh buck up Buttercup." Maria teased the younger girl.

"Easy for you to say, you don't have to dress up in leather." Bella grumbled making the other girl laugh.

"Very true but Baby Boy does." Liz smirked at her.

"Why did we do this again?" She whined more than asked.

"Because no one could agree on a group costume that we could all wear." Angela said fixing her costume.

"Ok and I agree that having matching costumes was a good idea," Bella started,"But really couldn't you guys have tried to talk Reid out of picking this for me and Tyler to wear?"

"Sorry chica." Maria smiled at the younger girl.

They had all decided to draw names so that someone else could pick the costumes for the pairs. Pouge had drawn Reid and Angela, Caleb Pouge and Maria, Tyler Caleb and Liz and Reid Tyler and Bella. Pouge had chosen Beauty and the Beast, Caleb Tarzan and Jane, Tyler Superman and Lois Lane, and Reid Batman and Cat woman.

"I'm gonna kill Reid for this." Bella muttered under her breath.

"No you wont, you'll just make him suffer with the silent treatment after the party ends." Angela said laughing when the younger girl flipped her off.

"Oh, don't be like that." Maria said. "At least you're not Pouge."

Bella grimaced a little. She really didn't like Caleb or Reid at the moment. She subtly gone out of her way to make sure that she and Puge were never left alone. They hadn't talked about what had happened that day at Nicky's and she still wasn't ready. Not only had they made out but he had nearly beat Aaron Abbott to death over a disrespectful and stupid comment made at her expense and she didn't know how to feel about that seeing as her last two experiences with the male variety hadn't gone so well.

"All done, now lets go meet our partners." Liz announced before heading towards the door.

Maria and Angela followed after her while Bell hung back. She was more than a little nervous about going down stairs. She'd never been the most body conscious but she wasn't all that confident about herself either. Wearing all leather wasn't helping her and the fact that Pouge was down stairs a little more exposed than she's seen him outside of swim meets isn't helping either.

"You ok?" A voice came from the doorway. Looking over her breath caught seeing Pouge there.

"Not really, I can't believe Reid thought this was a good idea." Bella mumbled looking away blushing.

"That's Reid for you." Pouge said before walking in and closing the door.

"What?" Bella asked nervously.

"It's been a while since you and I have had a conversation just the two of us." Pouge murmured watching her shift a little.

"We've both been busy Pogo." Bella said not meeting his eyes.

"Yeah, you with avoiding me and me with trying to get you to talk to me." He said getting a little frustrated.

"What do you want me to say?" Bella snapped.

"Tell me why you've been avoiding me." He snapped back.

"Because if whatever we're doing happens now then we'll be distracted from the fact that we've got witch hunters trying to kill us." Bella yelled at him. Pouge tried not to let his anger show.

"So what you're saying is that we can't be together because your mom, step dad and both of our exes as well as Caleb's are trying to kill nearly everyone we love." Pouge said looking at her with a guarded expression.

"Yes, it would be a mistake that we would both regret." Bella said trying to keep her emotions in check.

"Ok." He said simply before leaving. Bella jumped when the door slamed behind him letting a few tears fall.

She hadn't wanted to hurt him and by telling him that they would be a mistake she had made sure he wouldn't push the issue. Walking over to the chair she had been in earlier, Bella sat down and cried. Even when Edward and Mark had completely disregarded her feelings, they hadn't broken her heart the way she had just broken her own.

"Hey, you ready?" A voice asked making Bella jump slightly. Wiping at her face she looked and saw that it was Tyler.

"Yeah, lets go." Bella smiled at him before letting him lead her out of the room.

"You ok?" Tyler asked noticing how forced her smile was.

"No, but I will be." She told him figuring that lying to him wouldn't do her any good.

"Wanna talk about it?" He asked her.

"After the party?" She suggested.

"Sure thing Baby Girl." He smiled softly at her.

"Damn girl you look fine." Reid whistled before Maria smacked him in the back of the head.

"Oh, that's it." Bella muttered before launching herself at him.

"Fuck." Kyle groaned before going to detach his cousin from his idiot friend.

"I'm gonna kick your ass into the next millennia Reid Alexander Garwin." Bella swore making Caleb snort.

"What the hell Belly?" Reid asked looking at the younger girl.

"You do know you did it to yourself right?" Tyler asked taking Bella from her cousin.

"I just picked out what they were going to wear tonight." Reid defended himself making the girls roll their eyes and the guys to chuckle.

"You are such and ass and I don't know why I put up with you." Bella snarled at him.

"Because you love me?" He suggested.

"Bullshit." Bella muttered making Tyler snort.