How in Hell could I own Twilight?

What Happens When Dog-Breath Clearwater Asks Me Out

Chapter 2

The next week everything went the same. Just another week of dodging Stella's infectious nice personality, Seth's stare downs, and the majority of the student body. Home was in a tizzy worrying about the new knowledge of Bella's existence. She was going to become like us, so who knew how we were to know her. It was all anyone in my family discussed all weekend. Monday came around and I was regrettably ready. I grabbed my bag and winter coat, I kept my Red's hat in my back pocket.

"Tabitha, Your riding your bike today right?" Rosie yelled from a distance walking over.

I nodded hiding my disgust at it being Monday. Rosie put her hand on my shoulder. Rosie seemed to others like she was stuck up, but to me she was just another big sister. I looked over to see Ed walking in through the door. The others rushed to tell him about what had happened with Alice's vision. I always felt left out. Being younger, I couldn't go to the high school, for another year at least. Then I had one year with Ed and Alice, then one year by myself again. We would move the next year. One part of being a vampire I hated, never having one place to call home.

"You have never explained why you can't go to the slumber party!" Stella exclaimed while rubbing snow out of her hair. It had started a light snow outside, all the kids where having snow ball fights. I wished I could have too, but someone might get hurt! Right now though, I tried to think of an explanation for Stella.

"We are going hiking. As a family, then I am helping my big sister get ready for the dance she is going to." I made myself look convincing. I didn't lie, I was going hunting and they did have a dance, but when did Alice ever need my help?

"You are hiking?" She looked at me like I was crazy. "I wish my family did that stuff." She looked down as she walked. Don't breath Taby. She flipped her hair. I wasn't minding to awful much anymore. If I wanted to go to the party, I would need control. I rolled my eyes at her. "So if you can't come to the party, at least sit with me and the other girls."

I looked out over the cafeteria to where she pointed. It was over the border line. I walked away saying nothing. I hate being a good liar. I ran over to my usual seat and sat down without saying another word. I reached in my bag and grabbed what was supposed to be my lunch. I couldn't get cafeteria food because the line was on the wrong side. Esme had understood packing me a lunch kindly everyday. I played with the ham sandwich. I would throw it away afterwards.

I looked over to the table of girls giggling. Stella looked over at me with pity. Last thing I wanted, she felt sorry for me and wanted to be my friend. I really wished I could be her friend, go to her party and make friends. I remembered when I did have real friends, few, but not many. I hadn't had many back then either. I did when I lived in Cincinnati. Then dad had to move to Chicago and marry Christa. A few years after, he died in the war. Christa showed her true colors, physically abusing me daily and starving me as she used my dad's money. I hated her, I had no self esteem. No life. Not even more than two friends. She used to make me lie to store owners and people for money hand outs. I was pretty good even back then. I looked again at the girls. They didn't know how well they had it. They were alive and probably had loving families. I did now, but when I was growing up, that would have been my dream life.

My thoughts were interrupted by the sight of Dog-Breath Clearwater getting up from his seat at his table and walking towards me. My chest felt that flipping feeling. I still didn't know what that meant. He strode in my direction and placed his hands on my table and stared at me.

I looked up from my uneaten sandwich.

"Hey Stony!" I should have killed him with his jerk like features. "How are things in the world of Snow white?"

I wanted him to go the other way, though the back of my head didn't. I hate conflicting feelings. It was kind of fun to bicker with him. I looked at him with disgust and rolled my eyes.

"I know you can talk. You do every day in class!" He was hitting a nerve point. He smirked then looked over to his jerk friends. "Ok, look Cullen, The guys dared me to ask you out. They just don't understand that I hate your guts!"

I stared at his unexpected redundancy. It was funny though, good thing I could keep myself from laughing. "Yeah, you know I would love to disembowel you every blasted day!" He looked at me smirking at his triumph of getting me to talk. We stared each other down, and not in a good way. "So what do you need me to do to get your friends to stop badgering you?"

He rubbed his neck with some expectancy. "Well you can't say yes! I just need you to have this exact conversation of hate except louder. You're the best actress in the whole school. Shouldn't be too hard!"

I stood up. I looked at him then projected my voice loud enough for the entire school to hear. I just had to hold back so I wouldn't kill anyone. "Seth Clearwater, you are the last boy in the entire school I would ever date! How dare you ask me out! Go up a creek without a doggy paddle!"

He turned redder than a beet. I wanted to laugh at his childlike tendencies. He raised his voice as well. "Well I am sorry your highness. Your heart must be made of stone. You refuse everyone, are we all really not good enough for you?"

I almost laughed at the heart of stone comment. "Not everyone, just you!"

He picked up my applesauce and chucked it at me, he hit me right in the neck. "Well how do you like them apples?" He was a good shot. Must play baseball, most likely pitcher or shortstop.

"Well I am not immature enough to play your little games!" I wiped the applesauce off. "But if I was, I wouldn't even throw you a bone!"

"Really cold stone? Or are you just chicken?" He crossed the reservation line. I stayed back.

Just in time to see the screaming, Tallulah Jenks from English and Science, ran into the room with a teacher. Not good.

I only had a two day suspension. I had changed into my extra clothes that Alice had forced me to bring. I acted like nothing had happened. Even though everyone would find out. I tried thinking about stuff other than that, so Ed wouldn't hear me.

"I can't believe you Little Tabitha!" Carlisle looked over my shoulder while I did my homework on the kitchen counter that looked over the main room. Carlisle's expression was one that did terrify me. "Your principle called explaining that you have a two day suspension."

Rosie looked up at me along with the rest of the room. She was the only one loud enough to talk. "Tabitha why?"

"He started it!" I told them under my breath.

"How?" Carlisle asked with concern and disappointment.

"He asked me out then when I told him no, he dumped Apple sauce on me. I never even got near to him. I yelled, so he went over the reservation line."

Emmet laughed. "So he dumped apple sauce on you and you yelled at him?"

I wanted to laugh along with him, it was rather comical. The tension in the room was calming down. It wasn't coincidence!

"As long as no one was hurt." Carlisle said calmer. I finished my homework and ran over to the stairs. Jasper sat by and smiled as I leaned over the railing.

"Thanks Jasper!" I smiled.

He smirked at me as I ran up the long stairs.

It was around 4 am the next night. I was just listening to Elvis on my MP3 player. It was awesome. I loved Rock and Roll. I love the 80s music best, but the fifties and Elvis were what I had loved when I was going through my newborn years. It had always, according to Carlisle calmed me down. I tried to think back before then. I remembered the few good things I could of my life. My few friends. The one guy I liked. Jack Crawford. I would have married him if he asked me. He had always made something inside me stir. I didn't know what. He didn't know I existed though. I noticed him, he just didn't notice me. Every time I looked at him he would look away.

"Taby" Alice knocked on the door to my room. "Can I talk to you?" I got up opened the door. I sat down with her beside me. "I just wanted you to just consider the guy when you get asked out on a date."

I looked at her realizing she didn't know who it was. "Alice, it was Dog-Breath Clearwater! He did it on a dare! I would never have said yes!"

She laughed her overtaking laugh. "Someone has to catch your eye!"

"No! No one in this age group is even mature enough to consider. Damn it Alice. Just leave me alone about this, I don't even have normal friends other than my family!"

She got up and had a look of benevolence towards me. "Just you wait, my vision hasn't changed!" She left the room with me hoping that it would change.

Another day at school was finally over. After my two day suspension I began to plan new ways of getting more. I waited at the curb for Ed who was really late to pick me up. If he didn't show up soon I was going to ride my bike home. I read up on some homework until my thoughts were interrupted.

"Hey you!" A group of older boys who lived on the reservation yelled. They were picking up their younger siblings. I guessed that anyway. They came striding towards me. They were bare backed and had a smell that was two times stronger than Seth's. Werewolves. "Little Cullen!" The largest one yelled at me. "Do you know how close you are to the line?"

I closed the book I had been reading and stood up. "Far enough away!" I shouted back.

They began to inch closer. "Just stay on the right side, ok?"

I urged back the desire to destroy them. I wouldn't, no matter how much I wanted to.

"Sam, lay off of her!" Seth bounded over to the guys who wouldn't take their eyes off of me. "She hasn't done anything!" For the first time ever, I was glad he was there.

"Fine!" The one named Sam discontentedly said. "just stay on your side!" He and the two others walked the other way.

Seth walked over to me laughing. "They have this weird belief thing about you and your family, Cullen!

"Yeah I know!" I said sarcastically.

He smiled and walked in the other direction. I watched him. Unlike the others, he still seemed like a boy. A very sweet boy. He had yet to hit the time when innocence was withdrawn. My tummy flipped again. I didn't get what it was. It felt like my heart, but I didn't have a beating heart. It puzzled me.

Emmet's jeep, pulled up to the curve and he opened the door. I was surprised to see him. I just threw my bike in the back and climbed in not asking questions.

"So did Dog-Breath ask you out again? You seemed upset." He told me with no smile on his face.

I told him about what had just happened. He clenched his fist around the clutch and changed gears.

"Don't break the clutch!"

"I won't!" he muttered as he hit the gas. "It has been a hard enough day as it is." He almost ran a red light. "Edward stopped a van from hitting that girl, Bella Swan today! With his own hand!"

"He did that?" I asked furiously, "Did anyone see?"

"No one but Bella herself. He said he didn't want her blood everywhere."

"It would have exposed everything!"

"Duh!" He said with a hint of sarcasm.

That night I watched a three hour documentary trying to get over the fact we almost moved again. The documentary was on the writer, Bram Stoker. He had gotten a ton wrong when writing about us vampires. Still I have to give him credit for the amazing imagination. I took the remote flipping through the channels after it had ended. There seemed to be nothing on. I turned it off taking in a deep breath. I looked around my room. It was once a plain room. I had kept the old white colors, but I had decorated it with light blues and black. I reached onto my coffee table and grabbed my computer. I had protested the thought of getting a computer. I didn't think I would be able to work one, but Alice had insisted. I went online. I checked my emails knowing that I had never been sent anything. I was right.

I suddenly stopped to listen to my surroundings. I had heard the sound of someone running. I didn't think much of it, but I thought I ought to tell someone about it. I went to Ed, but he was gone.

"So Taby?" Alice stepped out in the dress she was considering for the dance. She had asked Jasper to the ladies choice dance the next weekend. Like she would have gone with anyone else? "Do you like it?" It was dark purple, with spaghetti straps. It had a silver band about the waist. It looked amazing on her. What wouldn't? I made myself look convincing.

"It looks amazing!"

She looked ticked at me. "I wish I knew if you were being truthful."

I smiled then went back to reading the book I had scavenged so as to not be fully bored. She sat down beside me and caressed my braids taking them out and letting the kinks fall on my shoulders.

"You need to go to something like a dance soon! The Junior High does have dances!"

I nodded trying to look uninterested. Hoping she would drop the subject.

"Your hair would be great in long kinks like your hair does because of the braids. Oh, and a romantic inspired dress would be great!"

"Alice!"

"Yes Taby?"

"I don't go to dances because I have no friends to go with or gosh forbid, a date!" I looked at her gold eyes.

"Well how else?" She said like it was obvious. Don't kill your own sister Tabitha!

"Your still hoping for that vision aren't you?"

She smiled and stood up. "I still have two more dresses for you to see!" She went in the other room. I slammed my head down on the couch pillows. Just in time to save me from more torturous dresses, Carlisle knocked.

"Little Tabitha!" Carlisle said waiting at the door. "Have you seen Edward?" He looked concerned. I told him he had gone out in his Volvo for the night.

Carlisle looked unsurprised. He half smiled then looked back at me. "Also, Emmet said something about your time being due!"

I knew exactly what that meant. Arm wrestling. It was apparently my turn to go up against Emmet. I wouldn't win this time. He was the strongest, I was the smallest in the family. Not good statistics. I would probably loose my arm. I didn't care, as long as I got to get out of trying on dresses. I yelled over to Alice explaining where I was going and ran down the stairs.

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