A/N:IM SO SORRY FOR THE LATE UPDATE, THE ENDING OF SCHOOL AND ALL THE OTHER STUFF REALLY HAD ME ON WRITERS BLOCK FOR A COUPLE OF MONTHS AND IT SUCKED BUT I GOT MY MOJO BACK AND HAVE TWO ALMOST THREE CHAPTERS FINISHED AND EDITED AND WILL BE POSTING THE REST WHEN I GET THE CHANCE.

I'M HOPING NOW THAT I HAVE MY LAPTOP I WILL BE UPDATING FREQUENTY BUT I DON'T PROMISE ANYTHING.

I STARTED SCHOOL ALREADY AND MY SCHEDULE IS HECTIC WITH THE AMOUNT OF CLASSES I AM TAKING BUT THE UPDATES WILL COME. I WILL NOT LEAVE MY STORY UNFINISHED I HATE WHEN THAT HAPPENS.

I AM ALSO WORKING ON ANOTHER STORY, I GOT THE IDEA AFTER WATCHING AGAINST THE WALL (AWESOME SERIES I WATCH IT EVERY SUNDAY) AND I REMEMBER READING SOMETHING SIMILAR IN A BOOK, BUT I CAN'T REALLY REMEMBER BUT IM TWISTING IT AND MAKING IT MY OWN.

DISCLAIMER: I DON'T OWN TWILIGHT STEPHENIE MEYER DOES, BUT OH HOW I WISH I OWNED EDWARD! * I'LL OWN HIM BUT IN MY DREAMS*

Ch 5 Aftermath and Conversations

BPOV

After I calmed down and Maria removed herself from the picture, we still decided to go hang out.

"Are you sure you're still up for it Jazz?"

"Yea B I'll be ok." He said

I nodded and headed to the girls dormitories with Angela right behind me.

"I can't believe that witch!" Angela said after getting a good distance away from Jasper.

"Yea I know… but did you see her face! That slut will need reconstructive surgery if she ever wants to look a fraction of what she used to look like." We looked at each other and both bend over laughing knowing that it was the truth.

"Aren't you worried though?" Ang asked after we both controlled our laughter.

"About?" I asked

"Her 'Promise' I mean she looked thoroughly pissed"

I scoffed. "Yea like that bitch can do anything to me even a fraction as bad as I can do to her."

By this time we had gotten back to the room and I was getting ready to take a quick shower.

"That's true." Angela said while nodding.

"Ok well I'm going to take a quick shower and then we'll go ok?" I asked

"Sure no problem." She said while lying on her bed.

After I was done I walked out and started getting ready while Angela looked through one of her magazines. When I was done we headed towards the corridors where Jasper was already waiting for us.

"Damn and I thought I took long to get ready." He said

"Shut it Whitlock it takes time to look this good." I said with a mock serious face.

"Yea and… whoa B if I thought my hands were bad look at yours." He said while looking down. I followed his eyes to my hands and sure enough I had cuts and bruises on my knuckles.

"Shit I didn't even notice, but now that I think about it, they are throbbing a little bit." I said

"Are you sure you're still up for going to hang out?" Angela asked

I waved her off "Yea it's no problem I'll just put some ice on them when we get to the warehouse, don't worry I'll be ok."

I looked at Jasper and saw that he was still staring at my hands, I put them down.

"It's nothing really Jazz." But he wasn't listening.

"It's my fault I'm so sorry, I make mistake after stupid mistake I I-" he was rambling

I cut him off "Jasper listen to me ok it's not your fault. What that bitch did and what I did to her it's not your fault ok."

He nodded but I knew he was going to beat himself over it for a long time. I sighed and started walking toward the warehouse, we had found the warehouse our freshman year, we pulled some strings and made it our hang out spot, and we had everything there that we needed.

Four microphones, an electric guitar, bass guitar, acoustic guitar, a set of drums, and my favorite an upright piano. Our spot was well hidden behind a wall of boxes. We also had a mini fridge filled with junk food and drinks and some bean bag, and a box full of notebooks and music sheets.

It was like our own small studio except for all the recording equipment that was missing. We always came here when classes ran short or when we had an off day and just needed a quiet place to write music and try it out. When we got there we Ben was sitting on the drums and Edward was on the piano, while the burly guy and Alice where sitting on the bean bags.

"Hey guys, what took you so long?" Ben asked

"Yea we thought you guys ditched us or something." Alice said

"Nope we ran into a problem and took care of it no worries." I said waving them off. Bad idea Ben caught sight of my hands.

"Whoa B what happened to your knuckles." He asked. I sighed I really didn't want to get into an explanation even though I knew I had to tell him sooner rather than later, I just didn't want to make Jasper even guiltier. "Long story short I punched Maria in the face a couple of times." I finally said.

"A couple of times? Yea sure with the reconstructive surgery she's bound to have I wouldn't say a couple of times." Oh Angela how I loved her so so much. I'm guessing someone caught the sarcasm right. No? Well it was there.

I rolled my eyes at her and looked over at Edward and the big burly guy whose name I still didn't know. "Hi I'm Bella." I said completely ignoring Angela's last reemark. The burly guy came over and instead of just saying his name he picked me up and crushed me to him. I gasped "Uh I can't breathe." He let me down and I gasped for air.

"Sorry about that. I'm Emmett McCarty." He said as I waved him off.

"It's ok just warn a girl next time." I said smiling. I turned to Edward and noticed him staring at me with a weird expression on his face. I shrugged it off not knowing really what to make of it.

"Hi, I would shake your hand but yea-" I said while lifting up my hands to see them closer. I had some cuts and bruises and they were throbbing.

"It's fine, I'm Edward Cullen." He said while sitting down on one of the bean bags. In that moment Angela came over with an ice pack from the refrigerator and handed it to me to place over my hands. As soon as the ice pack touched my knuckles, the pain seized a little.

We lounged around just messing with the instruments and getting to know Edward, Alice, and Emmett. We learned that Alice was an only child, but that her parents were really wealthy, with them both being entrepreneurs.

"If your parents are entrepreneurs then why did you ask for a scholarship instead of them paying for your schooling?" Angela asked her. I kind of wanted to know as well.

"They didn't believe that performing arts were jobs, I want to be a dancer. They think I'm incapable and ungrateful for not choosing to follow their steps in entrepreneurship." She said with a shrug. "That's why now I'm living with my aunt, I think it's pathetic actually how they single me out just because I don't want to be bitter all my life like they are." I smiled, for a small girl Alice sure was tough.

We learned that Emmett had a younger sister named Kaure and that his dad practically disowned him when he found out that he wanted to attend VAA because he thought that the performing arts were only for girls.

It didn't really bother Emmett so much because he didn't get along so well with his father anyways, he was only worried that now he couldn't look after his mother and sister like he would like to, but that for once he was doing something to make himself happy and not something to make his father happy.

"I got tired of 'Emmett when you grow up you will be this' or 'Emmett you have to go to this school' or my favorite 'Emmett you have to date this girl because of her social status.' That's where I drew the line; really he was telling me who to date? That was low even for him." Emmett said.

We all nodded I sympathized for him but at the same time I was jealous. I wished my father would at least tell me or show me he cared an ounce of the things I wanted, or at least put his two cents in and give me advice, but I knew that would never happen.

"I just hate that we ended how we did I love my father I really do but enough was enough I wasn't going to let him dictate my life any more than he had. I just wish that my mother and sister had come with me, that munchkin is my life, I would do anything for her and to know that I left her behind kills me, but at the end of the day I know that I am doing this for her as well to show her not get pushed by our father, to pursuit her dreams like I am and to really follow her dreams." He shrugged

Hearing him say that was really touching, you could tell that he really missed his mother and sister by the way he talked about them with so much love and adoration.

"So why are you, I mean what is it that you like?" I asked.

"Singing mostly but I can play the guitar, drums and I like to act, I love the theatre, my mom used to take us a lot, but stopped when my father found out. I still took Kaure behind my father's back though, she loved it." He responded.

"That's cool." I said.

"So how about you Edward what's your story?" Ben asked. Now there was the story I really wanted to know, I wanted to know who this guy was that I couldn't for the life of me get out of my head, and out of my thoughts.

"Well there's nothing to big really. It was actually my father's dream for me to come to the city and study at VAA. He knew my passion for the arts and thought it would be an awesome idea to come here." He said while sort of looking uncomfortable.

"Oh that's cool that you have a supportive father, I bet he must be proud that you got in." I said.

The look he gave me when he turned to look at me would have literally crawling under a rock for my life. I didn't know what to feel, if fear was the better option of confusion. I learned the reason behind the look with the four words that followed my statement.

"My father is dead." He said, and got up and left the warehouse without looking back at any of us.

I think we were all shocked to hear that, but for some reason I ached for him because I knew how it felt to lose a parent. I didn't pay attention to anything the others said after that, my mind was wandering to Edward and the way he had looked at me with so much hatred; it felt like it was directed to me. I didn't know why but, I felt the need to go and look for him and make sure he was ok, I wanted for him to be ok. With that last thought I was mad at myself and also mad at him, how could it be that he could make me think these thoughts without doing anything to me physically. I decided to just go and get things straighten up in my mind.

"Well guys I'm out of here I'll see you guys tomorrow." I said and got up.

"Are you sure B." Angela asked me with a worried look.

"I'm sure." I said. She nodded and went back to talking with the others. Alice looked up at me and smiled. I smiled back and she looked away.

I got out of there and started walking all the while thinking of Edward and what he had said. I had been spacing out for a while I didn't register where I was going until I was at the soccer field we had. I sat down on one of the benches and looked out towards the field. I was so ready to go back to the practices and the games.

I don't know how long I was there when I saw movement from the corner of my eye. I looked to the right and four rows down I saw a figure just sitting there like I was doing. I squinted my eyes and noticed that it was Edward. I contemplated going down there and talking to him, when I remembered that if it wasn't for him, Jasper would probably not be here. Swallowing the lump in my throat I got up and walked towards him.

I think he heard me coming because his whole composure changed the moment he heard my footsteps draw nearer and nearer.

"Hey." I said while sitting down next to him. He didn't acknowledge me. I looked at him and started to speak again. "Listen I'm sorry for back there I had no idea that your father had passed away." He still didn't say anything; he kept staring out towards the field.

"Do you play?" I asked.

Nothing.

I was getting kind of tired of being ignored; it was actually starting to piss me off. I threw my hands up in the air and groaned.

"Ok fine if you are going to be that way I'll leave you alone." I got up and started walking away, I got all the way up the stadium stairs and then I remembered why I had bothered with him in the first place. Resigning myself, I turned around and headed back towards him. When I was next to him again I didn't sit down I just looked at him for a while not saying anything. I bit my lip trying to figure out the best way to say things when he finally spoke up.

"Do you always do that?" He asked.

I looked at him confused. "Do what?"

He pointed to my lip that was still wedged between my teeth. I released it without thinking twice about it.

"Uh yea it's a habit I picked up from my mom when I was little." The thought of my mom made my heart ache. I didn't know I was holding my chest until he pointed it out.

"Are you ok?" I nodded not saying anything else. I sat down and took a deep breath.

"Look I just came back to tell you something." He didn't say anything so I continued talking.

"Thanks. For saving Jasper I mean. That means a lot to us, I just don't know what I would do if he had actually jumped. You don't know how grateful I am that you were up on the gym roof tonight and saved my brother." I wiped some tears that escaped. He turned to look at me

"I didn't do it for you." He snapped. I looked at him confused.

"I didn't say that you did it for me. Where did you get that from?" I asked. I was suddenly getting pissed at him.

"The way you speak, makes me think that the whole world should bow down to you or something." He said.

"Are you fucking kidding me right now? You did not just say that. Who do you think you are making assumptions of me like that, you don't even fucking know me." I had literally jumped to my feet.

We stared at each other for a while not saying anything, I was trying to calm down before I did something stupid, but he had pushed me too far and I didn't even know him.

"I don't need to know who you are, to know your kind." He finally said.

"My kind and what kind is that?" I asked through clenched teeth.

"Stuck up spoiled brats who get whatever they want because of who their 'daddy' is" he said like if it was an obvious thing.

"You don't know a thing about me or who my 'daddy' is, so I would appreciate it if you didn't go around making assumptions about something you know nothing about." I spat out.

I got up and started walking away without looking back. I was fuming, I was pissed, it was literally to the point that I wished Maria was there so I could beat the shit out of her again, to use her like a punch bag and get rid of all that pent up anger I had, to let some steam out.

But what frustrated me the most, what pissed me off even more was that while I was walking back towards the dormitories, I couldn't stop thinking about Edward fucking Cullen!