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8. Surprises, Laughs and vomit.
Bpov:
I walked to the Cullen's front door knowing all to well that Edward was still watching me. This little fact would have seemed strange and I would have thought that Edward was sick or even crazy but those thoughts where far from my mind. The only thing that occupied my thoughts now was the fact that he and my brother were going to speak to my mother in a short while. I missed her allot and now I can't even speak with her, I opened the front door and entered the strange unfamiliar house, closing the door without even looking back at Edward.
"Edward is that you?" I heard Esme call from the kitchen. I walked over to the kitchen and stop in the doorframe looking at her while she bustled around making dinner.
"Smells nice, what are you making." I asked leaning on the doorframe.
She turned around and smiled. "Chicken Lasagna, would you grate some cheese for me please?" She asked. I walked to the counter where the said cheese and grater were already laid out.
"So how is your piece coming along?" She asked as I started to grate the cheese.
"What piece are we talking about?" I asked not really concentrating on the conversation.
"The music piece you're going to play to the scholarship committee next week, what other piece would I be talking about?" She asked looking at me quizzically.
Oh yeah, that piece.
"It's coming along nicely. It just needs a few finer touches here and there."
I said as Alice walked into the kitchen wearing the dress I had picked out for her. It was topped of with silver high heels and matching pair of silver earrings and a bracelet. She also finished the outfit off with a black stylish leather jacket that somehow managed to compliment the dress rather than ruin it.
"So what do you think?" She asked turning around so Esme could see the whole outfit.
"You look great honey, are you going on a date with Jasper?" Esme asked as Alice sat down on a stool across from me.
"No mom with the Easter bunny, of course with Jasper. I only have one true love after all."
Esme rolled her eyes. "Your young honey, first loves are usually just that. The first of many, take your father and me for example. I had to go through four frogs before I found my prince." Alice eyes began to twinkle as she processed this new piece of information of her mother.
"So who are the four mysterious stooges?" I asked before Alice could get a smart remark in.
"Well let's see, there was my high school sweetheart Johnny, then Marc, Eric and Bella's father Charlie." My hand slipped and I grazed my knuckles on the grater by accident, Alice gaped openly at her mother, she glanced at us and I could have sworn there was a slight blush on her cheeks.
"You and my…err Bella's father dated?" I chocked out and checked my injured hand for bleeding.
"Only a couple of time's, it wasn't really a serious relationship. I was the new doctor and he was a rookie in the police force. I met your father soon after and broke it off with him. He met Renee and it was a big coincidence that they bought the house next to ours after they got married." Alice had finally recovered enough to have found her voice again.
"Wasn't it weird living next door to one of your ex's?" Alice asked and neither of them noticed that I was caught in a semi-shock.
"No Renee and I became good friends and it came somewhat of a shock to me the day she just upped and left.
Esme and my mother where friends? Esme and my father dated?
There was a sudden knock at the front door and I jumped with fright. "That's my hot date, love you mysterious woman who I call mother." Alice beamed and blew her a kiss. "Don't think for one minute that this conversation is over." She waved in my direction and walked into the living room. I looked at Esme who has gone back to making dinner. "Oh don't you look grand Jasper, you look like you just walked out of a western movie". We heard Alice say excitedly when she opened the door.
"Why, thank you darlin'". We heard Jasper reply in a fake southern accent before Alice could close the door behind them.
Esme shook her head laughing. "That Jasper is a fine young man. Alice could not have done any better." Esme said chuckling to herself.
"So says the shady lady". I joked and she chuckled again. "So were you and my…Bella's mother really friends?" I asked handing her the cheese.
"Yes, we were about married at the same time. We lived next to each other and both of us were expecting twins, so naturally we became friends."
I calculated quickly, Emmett and my birthday were in September and Alice and Edwards was in August. I could picture them sitting with swollen bellies in the living room eating whatever they craved at the moment.
"So you gossiped like old woman and discussed your pregnancies?" I joked again wanting to keep the mood light.
"Something like that, I remember the day that she came to tell me that she too where expecting a boy and a girl. We joked that our kids would one day fall in love and live next door to each other and they would become great friends just like we were." She said and placed the lasagna in the oven to bake. "Of course that didn't work out. Alice fell in love with Jasper and Emmett's with Rosalie, Bella is with Jacob and you still need to find that special someone."
I frowned I didn't know that Esme knew so much about us. "I…Bella was with Jacob. She broke up with him a couple of days ago." I said absent-mindedly wondering how it would have been if Alice was with Emmett and I was with Edward. I only thought about it for a second until I realized that it was very absurd.
"Bella is not with Jacob anymore? Well maybe you could still make two crazy women's joke come true. I laughed and Edward's laugh guffawed through the kitchen.
"Ed…Bella and I are like water and oil mom, pigs would fly before Bella and I ever got together."
She smiled and touched my shoulder as she passed me. "You never know, I must get ready to go to work. Will you take the lasagna out of the oven in about twenty minutes and just place your father's in the microwave. He will be home in about an hour." She left and I set the oven clock to go of in twenty minutes before I walked to my room.
Esme knew my mother, Charlie never talked about her.
I sat down on Edward's bed. I was going to seize the next opportunity to interrogate her about my mother.
I decided to start on my or rather Edward's homework and only stood up to take the lasagna out of the oven. Setting it on the table to cool, I finished his math before finally settling at the dining room table to enjoy dinner. About halfway through my dinner Carlisle arrived home from work. He nodded in my direction and warmed his food in the microwave before joining me at the table.
"Where is Alice?" He asked breaking the silence.
"On a date with Jasper, she'll be home later."
He nodded. "Did you fight with anyone at school today?" He asked quietly.
The man was clearly out to get some form of a reaction out of me or rather Edward.
"Did you receive any phone calls from the school?" I asked concentrating on the fact that I had about five bites left of my dinner.
"No I hadn't."
Four bites left. "Well then obviously I didn't fight with anyone." I saw how the vein in his head began to pulse lightly.
"Don't get cocky with me Edward."
Well I'm not Edward so it doesn't really apply to me.
Three bites left. "Then don't ask me stupid questions Ca… dad. I don't start fights and you know that." The vein in his head looked like it was about to pop.
"The son that I knew wanted to become a doctor, you are not the son I once knew."
How right you are about that.
I ate the last of my dinner and stood up. "The only thing that has changed is that I don't want the same things that you want dad. You wanted to be a doctor, you wanted to help other people and you loved your job. When did your job become all about the money?" I said and walked to the kitchen, placed my plate in the dishwasher and walked to my room.
I glanced at the clock it was around eight-o-clock, I showered quickly and when I stepped out of the shower, I was calm again. I finished the physics homework an hour later and looked around the room for something to do. I spotted the book Edward was busy reading the other night before all this madness happened. That night seemed so long ago now. I glanced at the cover, 2nd Chance by James Patterson.
I smiled I didn't know that Edward was a fan of "The Woman's Murder Club". I walked to the windowsill and sat down making myself comfortable. I began to read and got so captured by the book that I fell of the windowsill in fright when Edward's phone began vibrating. Dammed stupid little heart attach causing phone. I mumbled as I made my way to the phone.
It was a text message from Edward. I glanced to my room window and saw that he was also seated in the windowsill stifling a laugh. My long brown hair seemed to shine in the soft bedroom light. He lifted his hand and gave me a small wave, I waved back and sat down again on the windowsill and quickly read his text message.
I see you found my book, who said you could go through my stuff? I stuck my tong out at him and replied quickly.
Since I'm you it's technically my stuff, so what are you going to do about it? How did the phone call go? What I really wanted to know was if my mother was ok.
No she-man it is still my stuff but you can borrow it for now. It was ok, Emmett talked to her for, like, an hour and then we just talked for about five minutes before she had to go. I read the words repeatedly, trying to get as much information from them as possible.
What did she have to do that was so important? I sat there in the windowsill waiting anxiously for his reply and almost fell of the sill again when the phone vibrated in my hand.
Jazz dancing classes and she stopped art classes and Phil are now a coach for a High School baseball team. I smiled my mother was constantly doing the one crazy thing after the other.
That all Sherlock?
I wondered if I should tell him about our mothers being friends.
Yes, that's about that. Oh, the red tide has finally arrived. I smiled. It was a bit sooner than I thought.
How are you holding up? Did you do what I told you to do? I had to ask since it was my body after all.
Yes, I did what you told me to do and may I just say that it was the grossest thing I had ever done in my life. How do you girls go through this every month? I smiled as I read his text.
We just can, and I remember that you ate sand when you were little and that is much grosser than what you're going through now. I stood up, turned of the lights and climbed into bed.
I did not and even if I did why did you watch what I did in anyway? I smiled.
Back then, I didn't know just how irritating you were going to turn out to be. I turned on my side facing the window and saw that he too has turned of the room light.
Good irritating or bad irritating? You turned out exactly as I thought you would. I sighed and frowned a little.
Now it is mostly good irritating, what did you think I would turn out like? I asked but he didn't reply. I dozed of when the phone vibrated again.
You turned out to be the only person who could steel my…. Never mind sleep well Bella.
Now what was that supposed to mean?
Whatever Edward, goodnight.
I woke early morning before the alarm could even went of, I tried to sleep but not surprisingly, I couldn't reach the deep endless pools of unconsciousness. I walked to the bathroom. I shaved without nicking myself and dressed in jeans and a white shirt. It had a funny saying in the front. I'm still a virgin and then in smaller lettering at the back of the shirt unfortunately this is a very old t-shirt. I smiled wondering where he bought it and pulled on a black hoodie.
I stuffed Edwards done homework in his schoolbag and walked to the kitchen, Alice was already there busy making breakfast. Eggs, bacon and toast. She was humming and didn't hear me come in.
"You had a good date then I take it." I said sitting down at the counter.
"The best, why are you up so early?" She said with a beaming smile.
"Couldn't sleep, can I help you with something?" I asked indicating to the breakfast.
"Yeah make and butter the toast." I did what she asked. "Was Bella acting strange yesterday or am I just imagining things?" She asked frying the bacon.
"What do you mean weird she seemed like the same annoyingly person to me?" I said buttering the first slices of toast and watched as it melted and turned the bread yellow.
"She reacts differently to situations and you two seem to spend allot of time together. I thought that you might have seen the same changes. Do you think she could be on drugs or something? Just the other day I read about policeman children getting involved…."
Drugs, Alice thought I would actually get involved with drugs? "Alice!" I interrupted her little ramble. "This is Bella we're talking about and all of us know that she thinks drugs are for losers. Maybe she is just going through a tuff time and needs some time to deal with it." I said placing the last of the toast on a plate.
"Yes maybe you're right and I'm over reacting. Maybe if I had a sleepover with Rose and her we could take her mind of from whatever she going through." I shook my head and laughed helping myself to the breakfast she had just prepared. We made some small talk during breakfast and finally left for school, it was raining when we stopped in the lot at school and we ran for our first class to escape the freezing falling water.
I slumped in to my assigned seat and greeted Angela who sat beside me. Her jacket was over the back of her seat and was dripping water on to the linoleum. "Got caught in the storm, did you?" I asked pointing to the small puddle that was forming at the bottom of her chair.
"Yeah my mother had to drop me a few blocks from school, my brother got violently ill in the car and she needed to take him to the hospital."
I smiled sympathetically at her, her parents were also divorced and she was the older sister to her much younger brother. He was about four years old and she usually was his baby sitter whenever her mother was working her second job. This never seemed to bother her since she loved him but sometimes you could see her struggling to keep up with everything. I really liked her since she was one of the kindest persons I know and never talked bad about anyone.
"I hope he is going to be ok, four year olds tend to be a handful." I said and she half smiled at me.
"How do you know what age my brother is?"
Crap, how would Edward know that? Think Bella think, this would be a good time for you to talk yourself out of this.
"Uh I think Bella might have mentioned it." This time she smiled at me genuinely.
"You now Edward, you're not as bad as everyone says. And thank you for caring."
I leaned over to her and whispered. "Don't tell anyone. This side of me is very hush, hush."
She nodded. "Of course." She looked around as if to see if anyone was listening to us. "I don't want to destroy your reputation now do I?" I winked at her just as our class finally started.
My morning was going slower than usual, that is until gym started. We switched from rope climbing to basketball. The problem wasn't playing basketball. I was good at it. I could even handle the sweating bodies bumping into you. The thing that bothered me was that Edward although having an athletic built body wasn't good at sports, especially not basketball.
Everything was going great, I passed the ball to my teammates, I lost the ball a few times and I even got a goal. After the game Jasper and Emmett, who had Gym with me, walked up to me quickly before I could enter the locker room.
"We need a big favor Edward, you see Jacob over there talking to coach."
Emmett grabbed my shoulders and turned me to see what he was talking about. "Yes and what about it?" I asked.
"Well we want you to keep him out of the locker room for about five minutes. Can you do that for us?" Jasper asked innocently as Emmett was already pushing me in Jacob's direction.
"How am I supposed to do…?" As I turned towards them, they were already gone and Jacob was coming my way. I took a deep breath and walked towards Jacob, "Uh… Jacob, can I… uh quickly talk to you?" I asked and he paused to look at me annoyingly.
"What do you want Cullen? Come to apologize for hitting me did you?"
He said folding his arms.
Great just what am I doing? Just roll with it only a few more minutes.
"Uh… yeah my father said that I had to but that doesn't mean I was wrong. So, uh… I'm sorry…" I glanced over his shoulder to the locker room doors. "That I uh….." I spotted Jasper opening the door. "Uh… hit you and uh…." Emmett and Jasper walked out smiling to each other.
The next thing I saw was total blackness and a force hitting me right on my nose. I fell to the ground and felt a warm fluid running down my face. "Apology accepted, never wound what you can't kill Cullen." He walked of to the locker room and Jasper had to hold on to Emmett to keep him from pummeling Jacob.
Jacob walked into the locker room and Emmett and Jasper came to help me up. "I hope you are satisfied now, what the hell where you doing in there in any case. I said trying still frantically to stop the bleeding. Jasper handed me a handkerchief and they began to smile again.
"What the hell did you talk about? We said keep him busy not get your-self beaten up. Anyway just wait and see it won't take long." We walked over to the bleachers and sat down so that we have a clear view of the locker room.
My bleeding nose had finally stopped bleeding by the time Jacob emerged from the bathroom. I immediately started laughing. We stood up and watched as he walked to the coach's office. When he opened the door, we could perfectly hear what the coach was saying.
"What the hell happened to you?" The coach asked trying hard not to fall from his chair laughing.
"This is not funny sir". With that we and the ring of boys that formed around us, started laughing. Jacob's hair was bright blue and he was scratching his entire body. Some form of goop was coming out of his shoes and to top everything of, the back of his pants covering his ass was cut out so the entire school could see his tighty-whities.
"Of course not…" We could see as the coach was struggling to control himself and then as Jacob scratched his rear the coach saw the cut from his jeans and just lost it.
"Moehahahaha". The coach's laughing sent out a new fit of laughter from the crowd around us.
"Do you have a spare change of clothes?" The coach finally asked when he calmed down enough.
"They're full of honey sir, I already checked them." Jacob said now scratching his chest.
"Then you have to wear the extra Janitor overall and take a shower before you leave for your next class. In the future my I suggest you pay better attention to your clothes before you dress and you better dye your hair back to black tonight at home". Jacob sauntered out of the office still scratching his body all the way to the locker room. Coach came out to glare at all of us. "Let's just say I don't have time to figure out who is responsible for Mr. Black's condition but if it ever happens again, the ones responsible will wash jock-straps for the rest of the year."
We all nodded and made ourselves scarce. "What did you guy's do?" I asked as we walked out of the gym.
"Jasper changed his shampoo with blue hair dye, I shook itching powder on his clothes, Jasper poured honey over his spare clothes and we both broke an egg in his shoes. It was a last minute decision to cut out the back of his pants. You seemed to take it the hardest though, how is your nose?" Emmett informed me glancing at the dried blood on my face.
I smiled as we entered the cafeteria. "Forget my nose, you guy's are geniuses." We laughed all the way to the table, where Alice, Rose and Edward all looked up curiously wanting to know what's going on. We told them what happened and just as we came to the part about his hair, he entered the cafeteria and everyone immediately began to stare and giggle. Jacob's hair was still blue and the Janitor overall was a bit short, plus he was for some reason barefoot.
As he sat down everyone started to laugh. Edward looked at me and frowned. "Do I want to know why there is dried blood on my face?" He asked softly so that no one would hear.
"Probably not, it was worth everything though." I ignored the glances he kept giving me as I ate quickly before the bell could go for the next class. Since I spent most of Lunch in the gym.
Where boys always this hungry?
I stood up and went to throw away the remains of my lunch just as the warning bell sounded. I quickly grabbed my bag and headed for my next class, as I walked past Lauren at the storage closet she beaconed for me to come to her.
"Lauren what do you want?" I asked irritated, as I didn't want to be late for class.
"I need to get chalk for my science teacher and I can't seem to reach it. Can you please just get it for me?" I glanced around at the deserted corridor and sighed.
"Fine."
I walked into the storage closet and glanced up at the chalk. Just as I reached for it, Lauren walked into the closet. "Uh Lauren it's a little crowded in here don't you think?" I said as she suddenly closed the door.
"That's the idea." I spun round and stared in the dim light at her.
"What are you doing?" I asked trying to push past her.
"You are always surrounded by your friends and I just wanted to get you alone." She was surprisingly strong and she somehow pushed me back into the rack.
This can't be happening.
Her hand began to travel up my thigh, I instinctively jerked away. "Lauren, stop that and open the door." I grabbed her hand and held onto her wrists.
"I just love it when someone plays hard to get, it's such a turn on." She stepped forward and closed the almost non-existent space between us. She placed my hand over her boob. Vomit began forming in my mouth as I yanked my hand away.
"Lauren, stop this now". I said and tried to create some space between us.
"Don't be shy Edward here let me help you. I tried to push her away just as she gripped the bottom of her shirt and pulled it over her head letting it fall to the door.
"Lauren put your shirt back on." I said trying to ignore the vomit taste in my mouth and reached for the door handle. Lauren suddenly snaked her arms around my neck and kissed me. I froze as she forced her tongue into my mouth.
Suddenly the door opened and we fell into the hallway, I fell onto the half-naked Lauren and spotted a pair of shoes.
"Why is it that whenever something happens you are involved Mr. Cullen?" I barely recognized the headmaster voice as things kept running through my head.
Lauren trying to seduce me, Lauren taking her shirt of, Lauren kissing me. Lauren's tongue in my mouth.
I rolled of off Lauren and she scrambled to get her shirt back on.
I couldn't fight the sickening feeling in my stomach anymore and the next moment I was vomiting all over the headmasters shoes.
A/n Next chapter will have some real Bella and Edward bonding and maybe even a girl slumber party.
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