A/n: Now how cruel was that?
Sorry, I've forgotten to disclaim, I don't own twilight. Dur. I own Lynne, Tina, Georgina, Laura (YES I OWN YOU LAURA!), and of course, Finn. You'll meet those last two this chapter.
Chapter Five
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Just then, I was pounced on by two cold arms wrapping around my face. I tensed, scared. Next someone said gravely, "Isabella Marie Swan, if you would like to live, you need to…"
"… Turn around and give your best friend in the world a big hug!!!" It was Laura, frozen solid by the odd weather, and attacking me. I hadn't seen her in while, but she hadn't changed too much since graduation. She was in eighth grade, but she was my life support. Throughout the summer, when I was distressed by the first round of Lynne leaving me, she had constantly called my house and left long ecstatic messages. She constantly made my day. She was smart, but she had that tinge of "blondeness" that haunted her everywhere. To match her hair.
"Guess what, guess what, guess what?!?!?!" Laura was obviously happy. Intriguing, she was always happy, but there was hint of something else in her eyes.
"What?" I asked genuinely curious.
"There are three of the HOTTEST guys ever are here. Well, two have girlfriends, but one looks single. Isn't that perfect? Oh. He's so gorgeous. They all are." She was in boy land. Her favorite place.
That left me to drift. This new guy couldn't be half as beautiful as my angel. No one could even compare. I was a taken woman. Taken by something that didn't exist. Shouldn't exist.
"Oh, and Bella? Did you notice who else happens to be here?" Laura snapped out of it, and so did I. She motioned behind me, and I whipped my head around to see LYNNE, kissing Greg, her boyfriend of a day, passionately on the lips. My lunch was starting to threaten me.
I couldn't believe her! First Tina, then THIS!
Play it cool. Play it cool.
I decided to turn to another topic Laura had brought up. New kids. That were probably older and uninterested. In me anyways, Laura was just a guy-magnet.
She purposefully sat us behind them, sneaking me around in an odd path, so I didn't get a peek at their faces, but I saw their types.
There was one, a more football-type guy, big built. And naturally, he had a slight blonde with him. Then there was a very tightly huddled, not for the cold, but more for each other, couple. The girl petite and thin to the extreme, and had black spiky hair pointing in every direction. With her was a dirty- blonde haired man, wrapped up in a scarf and jacket, but still not seeming cold. Something about the last guy caught my eye. And not that he was obviously the only single one of the group, but his HAIR, it was that same copper bronze, that glorious shade, as Anthony's. Not only his hair, but him. His entire aura. Me kiss that?
Impossible.
As we sat down, the lone one tensed. He didn't even turn around. The hairs on his spine just stood straight up.
It was the blonde boy who broke the singleton's stress, turning towards him and asking, "Are you okay, what's wrong?"
The beautiful bronze haired boy, flustered with something I couldn't comprehend, turned toward him, "I'm leaving. I'll see you at the house."
The girl with the spiky hair ran to him, gave him a hug, looking thoughtful.
Out of nowhere, he replied, "Yes, that's it. And I can't talk about it. I just need to leave."
He got up and walked away. But before, he quickly turned and face me with coal- black eyes, and then I saw his face.
Anthony.
He was not only identical to him; he was even more glorious and beautiful in person. His face was troubled, though, and it reminded me of the dream where he had kissed me.
How had I made this angel sad?
Laura, obviously seeing my confusion, changed the subject. "So, who're you going trick- or- treating with? What are you being?"
"I'm not going with anyone, I'm staying home. And I'll probably just dig through some of Renee's old costumes. She and Phil are going to a party, so I'll be the handing out candy."
"Oh, that's not fun. You should just go out."
"No, it's okay. I don't need candy anyway. Renee will get enough for the entire street." Halloween was Renee's favorite holiday, half because of the candy and the other half because she got to dress up. Her best costume ever was the Mad Hatter, and she even went around singing, "A Merry Unbirthday" and drinking tea.
"Oh, well, I'll see if I can get my mom to drive me and Josh around to your house when we trick- or- treat." Josh was Laura's boyfriend, and I had long ago decided not to get in the middle of that. He had liked me, but then fell for Laura, and I had helped him get her. Now they were VERY much together. I mused on that for a second. Together. To-get-her. Hmmm…..
"That's okay. You go and have fun."
"Well, if I come to your house, you ARE giving me candy." Laura had a massive sweet tooth, and loved candy.
"You wish."
"Okay, well then you WON'T recognize me. I'll be in disguise.
"Okay then."
Most of our conversations were like this. Witty banter, ending in meaningless statements.
The football game continued inconsequentially. The two couples in front of us we just sitting talking, a normal activity that seemed so odd for such beautiful people. I still hadn't seen their faces, only I could tell, with a brother so gorgeous, they were equally striking. Well, not equally, but near close.
Laura, being the flirt that she was, even though SHE HAD A BOYFRIEND moved her way closer to the group, as if to smother them. As we got closer, I started seeing something in each of their faces. Well, I started to see that I had seen their faces before. Every one of them, except the beautiful blonde girl, was in my dreams. They were the angels.
"Jasper, can you do without me for one minute, I have to go see how he's holding up."
JASPER!!! No, it couldn't be the same. There had to be many jaspers in Phoenix. But the name was genuine, and these people seemed high school age. What were they? Criminals? Convicts? And where ----
I was stopped mid- thought when very abruptly the entire group of angels got up and left. They didn't even seem fazed by all the longing stares that were directed at them. Well, in the second it took them to leave. They had sped down the full-length of the bleachers in the time it would've taken me to run five steps. In the next moment, they were in the parking lot, speeding away in a….PORSCHE?
Could they be thieves on the run? Possibly? My mind was in a flurry. My angel, the forger, in Phoenix.
Laura notices my visual concentration on the family. "Bella, are you alright?"
"Umm, just feeling a little cold----"
"Aren't we all?"
"And I think I'm gonna start on my way home before it gets colder."
"Aww, can't you stay?"
"I don't think so, I'll talk to you later though, I promise." That was a promise I knew I couldn't keep, Laura was never available.
"Okay, and Bella, stay safe; you seemed real…well distant tonight, like you had something on your mind. Is Lynne at it again?"
"I don't know, why don't you ask her?" I motioned toward Lynne and Greg, who were definitely NOT watching the game.
"But I'll see you soon, right?" She sounded almost sad.
"I'll try, but high school, is well hard."
"Okay, bye Bella." She enclosed me in an enormous hug, nearly squeezing me to death.
"Bye Laura," I said, hugging her back.
Laura did have a soft side. Well, she was that kind of friend you could always count on to be there with ice cream and Oreos for your troubles. Life-support, as I said.
I walked down the bleachers, hastily, but being me, on the last step I tripped, pitching face first, ready to impact with the track surrounding the football field. Something caught me, two cold arms. No, it couldn't be, not the angel. And it wasn't. As I steadied myself, I picked up my head to see a grinning face. Finn. Ah, one of my favorite people in the entire word. (A/n: Elle, I couldn't think of a new name for him!!! So I chose Finn!) Finn was like my little brother, only in the 7th grade, but he was one of my best friends from middle school. (A/n: Finn IS real, but doesn't he seem a bit like Jacob?)
"Hey Bella," Finn said with a grin. "So, I'm guessing you're still a klutz? Where are all the bruises I'm expecting?"
"Hey Finn, "I replied, giving him a big hug. Wow, He'd grown tall. He was rather lanky, with tan hair and skin, but now he was…wow, he had to be over 6 feet by now. He towered over me, and he didn't miss that either.
"You shrink?"
"Hey, don't make fun of the vertically challenged," I faked pouted at him, over exaggerating my puppy dog eyes, and playing our classic game.
"Don't worry, you'll grow one day."
"Finn, I'm just about to go, but call my house if you need me, kay?" I knew he wouldn't. He was one of those people who worked off of seeing people versus just talking to them.
I walked out of the stadium, and towards my bike.
Agh, today had been one of those days that doesn't click, Bella.
From seeing my angel to snapping back into reality, it was. I needed a break, so when I got home, I went upstairs to finish my homework for tomorrow. We were reading yet another book I had read before. And an essay came very easily afterwards. Even though I was happy to be preoccupied, my mind would still wander to what I had seen today. WHO I had seen today.
To get my mind off those glorious creatures I had seen today, I went to go take a shower. The hot water was comforting in the oddly strange weather, and my shampoo's scent was very pleasant. Strawberries. Which in truth, I had no hankering for, but were Lynne's favorite. Especially with chocolate. Oh no, I'm back there again. Shampoo wasn't even a safe topic for my brain.
With that I shut off the faucet. And I instantly chilled. I hate cold days in Phoenix. A lot.
I put on some pajamas and curled under my homemade quilt, even though it wouldn't warm me up. My mind began to wander to a place I had visited so many times before. The land of fairytales. Westley and Buttercup. Cinderella and Charming. The princess and the frog. Wait, that's odd. How could a girl fall in love with something that's not… well, not human?
I don't know, but they've done it.
I was falling for an angel.
That night I fell asleep to the image of his face in my mind.
A/n: I'm sorry this chapter is so scatterbrained. just had to intorduce laura and finn. whom I absolutely love with all my heart.