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It had been a stressful week for Bella, two days before James had decided to take his bad boy character more seriously than ever and ended up in the principal's office for smoking illegal substances and by that she meant weed.

She had been so pissed off, she couldn't afford to lose him as historian for the council and he knew it, the bastard.

She as the president of student council had the right to pardon students who misbehaved and thank God for that she truly didn't know what would have happened if he got expelled, truth was she couldn't afford it and the bylaws of the council clearly stated that no member could be replace hence the pardon policy.

"What is wrong with you?" She asked him still pacing around her desk.

Bella snorted when she noticed he didn't look the last bit ashamed about his actions.

"Bella look I was just trying it besides what would happen if me as the bad boy of the school didn't smoke weed? People would get suspicious." He nodded to himself relaxing against the sofa cushions.

Bella shook her head, "James we are in our senior year and this barely occurs to you?" She asked him suspicious that this wasn't the first time he tried.

"Well no but I never been cornered like that before, those stoners are pushy." He got goose bumps just thinking about all the crack heads around school.

"Oh shut up you know perfectly well that only five percent of this school does drugs." She told him sitting down on her desk and writing a note to herself about dealing with that, it happened every year, someone feel like they were shit around school and brought drugs. She wasn't able to stop it, controlling something like that was hard but she tried with all the different programs and counselors she had hired to come to the school.

"Yes but the ones that do are hard core." He remembered cornering him and calling him a pussy, James wasn't going to have someone called him that and now he was paying for it.

Bella sat back and crossed her arms staring at James, "So what did they say to make you do it?"

James stood up and opened the mini fridge getting a water bottle; Bella rolled her eyes at his stalling.

"James." He winced at the threatening tone.

"Nothing he just said I wasn't man enough and that I was all talk and it got on my nerves so I did it." He told her settling back on the couch.

"You mean you almost got expelled because of your ego?" He didn't answer, he knew a rhetorical question when he heard one and he wasn't dumb enough to answer with a sarcastic comment he had no wish to die so young.

"I should hit you, or better yet let Rose do it." She smiled when she saw him coughing back the water he almost chocked on.

"Rosalie?" He asked in a squeaky voice.

Bella raised her eyebrows, "You're scare of Rosalie?"

He looked at her as if to ask 'yeah who isn't?', everybody was scare of Rosalie and he didn't blame them, the girl had send two guys to the emergency room after they hit on her, he didn't want to know what would happen if they had actually touched her, he suddenly wanted to ask Bella if Washington had the dead penalty.

"James although you will not get expelled or punish by our lovely principal that doesn't mean I don't have something in store for you." Bella told him as she grabbed her phone texting Jasper to come in.

"You have a punishment for me?" He asked her with unease.

"Well it's not an actual punishment to most people but it will be for you." He heard the knock on the door and closed his eyes when he heard the chuckle.

"Did you get in trouble James?" Jasper asked him teasingly.

"Shut up." James sneered at him.

"I struck a deal with our lovely principal Mrs. Reid, you will join a sport for a month and stick with all its requirements, training, diet, everything." He was already complaining before she could even finish.

"But Bella I can't do that I hate sports." And he did although he was great friends with Jasper the guy who loves sports; he loathed even watching a game no matter what sport it was.

Bella gave him what he considered to be an evil smile, "I know."

He almost shuddered, "Can you at least tell me what sport I'm playing?"

Jasper chuckled again, "Mind if tell him this one Bella I want to see his face." Bella nodded for him to continue, "Football."

James groaned and buried his face on his hands.

"See the great thing is that they are still looking for players on the varsity team and even though I doubt you will actually get to play the training is going to be the same for all the players whether they are on the bench or not." Bella told him grabbing a piece of paper from her desk and handing it to Jasper who laughed after reading it and finally giving it to James.

The paper, James discovered, was an application to join the football team already filled out except for his signature.

"What no essay?" He asked sarcastically and he almost chocked on his saliva when he heard her response.

"Oh yes the essay that has already been sent to Coach Clapp so don't worry and the physical exam you require has already been approved thankfully the papers from the doctor that did you physical last month still had copies so you don't need to worry about that." She stood from her chair and gave James a pen.

"Now if you sign at the bottom, you two will be free to go to practice."

James gave a mortified sigh and signed the paper; Jasper was quick to grab it and almost pushed James out the door in his excitement.

Bella laughed a little humorless laugh and shook her head at Jasper antics, she could only gather he was glad one of his best friends would get to do something he enjoys that didn't happen often within their council and she regretted that.

"One more year just one and all this will be over."

She couldn't wait for that day, when they all graduated and they could leave the council behind, she always heard people say how much of an honor it should be in the student council but to her the whole thing had been a burden, a burden she was forcefully subjected it to, shaking her head out of the memories she went back to her desk and settled for the long afternoon ahead.

**

"So what do you think man?" Jasper told James as they walked to the field.

James looked sullen and discouraged by the whole thing and Jasper felt sympathy for his friend, he knew it had to be hard for James to play the sport but he brought it on himself.

"I think this a cruel and unusual punishment." He told Jasper looking around the field once they reached it.

Jasper laughed and shook his head, "I don't know what else you expected from Bella."

James sighed again when he saw all the players stopped their walking towards the middle of the field to stare at them.

"Not this that's for sure." He really didn't think she would do something like this but then again what else could he do? All other normal punishments he had master like a pro, the thought of making school history as the person with most punishments in the history of the school brought a grin to his face.

"Come on we have to go see the coach." Jasper directed him to the end of the field where coach Clapp and several assistant trainers were gathered, James did not miss the fact that it was dead silence and everybody was staring at them.

"Mr. Tracker so glad you could join us today." Coach Clapp told him with a smile, if it was a sincere smile James couldn't see it.

"Principal Reid asked me to bring him here coach." Jasper intersected for his friend who looked more pissed off by the second.

"Oh yes do you have your application Mr. Tracker?" Coach Clapp told him holding out a hand for the document, James almost snorted at the collective gasps behind them.

Jasper handed the paper to coach Clapp and turned around to see all his teammates in what seem to be shock well everybody except Edward who seemed to be rolling his eyes.

"Whitlock why don't you show Mr. Tracker around get him some equipment and what not and I want you both back here in twenty minutes ready for practice." He told them, Jasper nodded and both boys retreated to the gym, not giving second glances to the still dumbfounded boys on the field.

"Oh the rumors tomorrow." Jasper told him in a whisper as they entered the vacant gym, James rolled his eyes at him.

"Yay for rumors." James told him clapping his hands unenthusiastically.

"Come on let's head to the locker room and get you all set up for your first football practice ever." Jasper told him trying to imitate his hyperactive girlfriend.

James chuckled at his stupidity but continued to walk, stopping in his tracks when he saw the cheerleaders coming out of the girls' locker room all ready for practice it seemed.

"Tracker didn't know you knew what a gym was!" Tanya Denali yelled to him even though the gym was empty and her voice echoed a couple times.

James winced at her voice; he hated her voice of course when she had been yelling his name under him was a whole different thing.

"Denali how could I not know what it is? This is after all the place I used to bring you to screw you." He said while walking towards them, he try not to look at Victoria otherwise he would lose his cool, once he reached them he continued, "She has a mole underneath her left breast."

He smirked when he heard the collective gasps around the girls confirming his statement as true.

"This is not true!" Tanya said after a minute but it was clear that she knew it was true.

"Jasper why are you with the loser?" Rosalie asked trying to diffuse the tension around the room; she had no time for this.

Jasper had been trying to contain his laughter since the moment James opened his mouth, and he looked wildly at Rosalie at the mention of his name.

Jasper cleared his throat and shook his head, "Well I can't tell you not until tomorrow anyway but it is a good reason and I was forced into it." He finished knowing full well that he was hanging around James voluntarily the 'popular' crowd would leave him behind as yesterday's news; Bella would have his head if that happened.

Rosalie and several of the girls behind her nodded.

"Yes well we must leave but Denali when you feel the need you know where to find me." James pointed with his thumb to some of the bleachers who had clearly enough room behind them to fit a person or two people who were very close together.

James laughed when he saw Tanya fuming from her ears, he gave them a waved and continued to walk, the last thing he heard what the slamming of a door and hurried steps behind it.

"That was priceless." Jasper told him as they entered the boys' locker room, he of course knew of James little adventure with Tanya during their sophomore year but he thought only the council was aware, now the whole school would be.

"Yes it was I bet Rosalie is dying to burst out laughing out there." James told him smirk in place.

"Don't doubt it, wonder what Bella will say about this?" Jasper snooped around the locker room closet looking for the spare equipment for James.

"Bella will mostly likely rolled her eyes at me tell me I'm a dumbass and continued on with her day." He almost rolled his eyes himself when Jasper handed him all the football equipment.

Both of the boys jumped and almost yelled when they heard the voice coming from one of the shower stalls.

"Yes but not before she smacks you on the head." The newcomer told them with knowledge.

James was the first to respond, "What the hell Kate? You scared the shit out of me." He told her with a hand to his overbeating heart, it wasn't the fact she had just come out of a stall when the guys thought they were alone no her dressing accessories however could scare Rosalie herself.

Kate was the gothic kid at the school that person who just loved to dress in all black and wear skulls any where she could fit them or worse draw them wherever she could find, James had been dealing with her for three years and he still couldn't get used to her ways of dressing in public.

"Sorry I didn't mean to disturb you, I was simply putting itching powder in the boys' clothes I will gladly spare you both." She told them as she walked towards the exit, she stopped at the entrance and looked back at them, "You have to careful where and when you talk about the council we don't want anybody finding out our secret right?" And with that she left.

"No shit." Jasper said once she was gone, thankful his beating heart was slowing down.

"And no shit we are late for practice." James told him checking his watch, Jasper swore under his breath as both of them hurried on getting dressed.

**

"How dare he?!" Tanya was furious that James would throw back at her face the mistake she made almost two years before, she regretted she really did, they were both drunk and the incident was blurry from her mind but she had hoped he would keep mouth shut for the rest of his life.

"Tanya calm down we all make mistakes." Victoria told her distractedly while she texted on her phone with her boyfriend Riley telling him all about the incident in the gym hopefully he would rely the message to the rest of the football team.

"Why have you been taking advantage of by him?" Tanya looked like she was at the verge of crying, she was being fan by some of the freshmen girls who loved to kiss ass, Rosalie rolled her eyes hoping they could cheerleading practice outside with the boys instead of inside in the biggest hallway, most of the girls had complain about ruining their makeup either from rain or sweat and not that they were going to do any actual practice with Tanya's dramatics in the way.

"No I haven't." Victoria responded, but I want to, she thought to herself.

"Then you don't know what I'm going through." Tanya told her wiping her face with a tissue, where the tissue had come from Rosalie didn't know but she suspected insides one of them girls' bra was a good guess.

"It's going to be fine." Jessica Stanley another senior told her, trying to fix her makeup, "Besides you want to look your best for when Edward crosses through the hallway."

At the sound of Edward's name Tanya perked up nodding her head and snatching the mirror from Jessica's hand.

Rosalie almost gave a snort of disgust, you would think that being raised as the guy's cousin even though they weren't related would mean something to the girl, apparently it didn't, Edward however seemed to be another matter he wasted no time reminding Tanya that they were cousins blood relation or not.

Rosalie saw movement on the end of the hall and a flash of black passed through without any of the girls noticing, she almost smiled when Kate told her what she was planning to do earlier in the day, she could never believe how different Tanya and Kate seemed to be since they were sisters.

"If you are done crying could we go back to practice?" Rosalie told them as she turned on the music for their routine, most of the girls nodded and proceeded to follow Rosalie's example.

Tanya however stayed back with Jessica and Lauren while she fixed her make up to look presentable.

Rosalie was looking forward for tomorrow because all hell was going to break loose.

**

"Is that itching powder?" Bella asked Kate as she came through the office door.

"Yes ma'am." Kate told her not offering any more information.

"Ok… so mind telling me our budget for this month?" Bella told her resign to the fact she wasn't to get any more information from Kate.

"Yes madam president our budget for this month is 4,500 dollars." Kate told her removing her black coat exposing her red and black shirt with a metal skull in the middle.

"That's a little bit higher than last month; I'll have to check on that." Bella really wanted to ask what the itching powder was for but usually if Kate didn't tell her it was for a good reason, didn't mean she wasn't going to try and find out.

"Ok Kate I give what is the itching powder for?"

Kate gave her a smile and shook her head, "You'll find out tomorrow or even later in the day."

Bella sighed and stood up from her desk.

"Well I have to go good luck with whatever prank you pulled." Bella shook her head again at her friend's antics and left the room making sure her face was covered as she exit the parking lot, it had started to rain rather heavily and she was wondering whether James had his first practice or if it had been cancelled, as she drove she swore she could hear high pitched screams and wonder if the itching powder was for the cheerleaders.

A/N so some of you might be wondering why I changed the rating? Well simply we are dealing with high school and this chapter already has enough mention of drugs and swearing to not worry me if it was rated T so I did a change just in case.

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