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In Six Months I Lost My Mind But Found My Heart

Chapter Seventeen: Arrested

25th March

3 Months & 1 Week Left

Edward's POV

Someone please remind me why I'm friends with these two. I have to admit Jasper isn't that bad but Emmett, well he just asks for trouble.

When they arrived at school just before the end of the day I was happy to see some familiar faces and glad they made the trip to help me out with the guys giving me a bit of trouble. I would never ask for help since I can hold my own but since there are four of them it made sense to call in some reinforcements.

I met up with them at the end of school by Emmett's Jeep and all we had to do was wait for the other guys to turn up. Two girls, one of whom was dating the main jackass of the group, were also waiting on the guys to turn up. Deciding that they best way to get their attention would be to hit on her I made my way across the school grounds to where they were sitting.

Emmett and Jasper stayed in Emmett's Jeep keeping out of sight, so not to spook the guys away when they arrived. Well our idea worked miraculously, the second I started talking to her the four of them walked out from the main building and headed straight my way, with their backs to the car park.

"Cambridge! What the hell do you think you are doing? She's with me." The burliest of the lot yelled. The four of them approached and the girls took this as their cue to leave.

"I'm not doing anything wrong, just having a conversation." I said innocently, holding up my arms in mock surrender. He moved closer as his three lackeys stood still a few feet behind him. Over their shoulders I could see Jasper and Emmett making their way over. I couldn't help but smirk at the satisfaction I'd gain from beating the crap out of these guys.

"What the hell are you smiling at Cambridge? Do you think this is funny?" He shoved me backwards but I still couldn't help but smile.

"Is there a problem here?" Emmett asked wrapping his arms round two of the guys closest, putting them both in headlocks. Jasper went and stood behind the other lone member in the group.

"No. No problem at all." I said before hitting the guy square in the face, making him stumble backwards. For once I was enjoying the look of worry etching across his face when he noticed his friends couldn't help him.

Emmett had happily scared off one of the guys by shoving him away, telling him he had a five minute head start before he came after him. The other guy was two feet off the group being held up by the collar.

"What do you want me to do with him?" Emmett asked as Jasper's guy sprinted away, terrified of what was going to happen next.

Before I could answer the main jackass lunged for Jasper. I didn't have time to react but Emmett did. He dropped the little guy then stepped forward and punched the guy in the jaw, knocking him to the floor.

"Asshole. You okay Jazz?" Emmett asked shaking his fist slightly, flexing it.

"Yeah I'm fine. That was easier than I thought it was going to be."

"Well it's not like we could pick a real fight, the bruises on our knuckles would be enough to derive questions that we couldn't answer."

I was listening to them talking but was watching the guy Emmett punched, he hadn't moved and was just lying there. Frowning I bent down and shook him, trying to get some response. Emmett was still blabbering on about something but Jasper had taken an interest into what I was doing.

"Eh...Emmett?" Jasper said quietly.

"Yeah." He was looking down at us confused about the unconscious body at our feet.

"You knocked him out." Jasper said gauging was Emmett's reaction would be. Instead of him worrying about the guy on the floor he burst out laughing.

"Oops, I must have hit him too hard."

"Well geez Emmett what the hell do we do with him now?" I asked slightly rattled. There we were with an unconscious body lying next to us.

"I don't know. Let's take him home." With that he helped Jasper lift the guy so his arms were over his shoulders and they dragged him to the Jeep.

"I don't know where he lives. Hell I don't even know his name." I confessed when they dumped him on the back seats.

Shutting the doors we got in the car. Jasper was in the back with the guy and Emmett was driving. Jasper rooted around in the guys pocket and pulled out his wallet and phone. There was nothing helpful in there so Jasper started looking around in his phone for his address or at least his name.

"No I can't find anything here." He said, handing the phone to Emmett who wanted to have a look.

"Why don't we just call his home and tell them we will drop him off, but ask for where he lives." He started searching through the contacts.

"What do we tell them when they ask why he's unconscious?" I asked irritably. This was a simple task; we did not need all this fuss.

"We tell them we found him like this. They'll buy it and we'll be fine." Not waiting for our answer Emmett hit the call button. "Hi look we have your son...no he unconscious so can't come to the phone...no it's not like that...we don't want your money...ransom? What are you talking about?...wait...no...where do you live?...it's not like that...he's fine-"

He pulled the phone away from his ear and looked at us. "She hung up." I sighed as Jasper asked Emmett what went on. "Well she went hysterical when I told her we had her son. Then she starting banging on about money, as though we wanted paid. I think she's crazy."

"She wasn't crazy Emmett but you made it sound like we had kidnapped her son. Why did you tell her he was unconscious?" I asked getting more frustrated by the second.

"She asked."

"Well that's just great, we have a hysterical mother doing god only knows what and her son is unconscious in the back or the car. What do we do with him?"

"Take him back to Bella's, maybe she knows where he lives."

"Yeah let's drag another person into this fiasco." I grumbled as Emmett started driving towards Bella's after Jasper gave him directions.

At that time I thought it was going to be okay from there on out but of course nothing is that simple. It's safe to say that we all like drive fast and most of the time it's over the speed limit. The good thing is that we rarely get caught. Due to the luck I was having recently we just had to be pulled over. We pulled over to the side of the road and a male police officer approached the vehicle.

"Quick hide the body!" Emmett called to Jasper who was trying to get the guy to sit up in the back seat.

"You make it sound like he's dead." I pointed out.

"Well he looks it, Jasper check if he's dead." Said Emmett just as the officer tapped on the passenger window for us to roll it down.

We went through the usual license and registration process and he went back to his car to check if the car was stolen. On return he handed back Emmett's details then frowned as he looked into the back of the car.

"Something wrong with your friend?" He said pointing to the unconscious guy. Jasper had him propped up but he had fallen and his face was on his knees.

"Oh him, no. He's fine." The officer didn't buy it though and asked Emmett to step out of the vehicle; he feared we may have been drinking. As Emmett was taken back to the police officers car so he could do the breathalyser test the other officer came down to check on our 'friend'.

"How did he get in this shape?" The female officer asked after opening the passenger door and checking him over. The question took us by surprise and we didn't know what to say so both of us paused for a second before both replying at the same time.

"He's drunk."

"He's really tired."

"Okay, what's his name?"

"John."

"Marcus."

We both looked to each other as though to say 'crap we messed up'. Obviously not believing why he was in that condition and who he was she asked us a few more questions, his age, where he lived etc. then she just walked away and left us.

"What are we going to do?" Jasper asked as I was watching the female officer quiz Emmett on our 'friend'. Great, she was asking him the same questions and checking our answers with him.

"I have no idea." I admitted as the female officer called something in.

It was just going from bad to worse.

Emmett was kept in the police car and we had to stay where we were for about five minutes when a police van pulled up. Jasper and I both looked at each other making sure the other one noticed it. The two male officers approached us and asked us to step out of the vehicle. Before we knew 

what was happening our rights were being read and we were cuffed before being put in the back of the police van.

Just bloody brilliant.

Apparently they thought we had abducted/kidnapped the guy in the back. His mother, the woman Emmett called, called the police claiming her son had been taken and gave a description of what he looked like. So when they found said guy unconscious in the back of our car it didn't look too good.

That's how the three of us ended up in single holding cells at the local police station. Remind me never to ask for help from them again.

My cell door opened after about three hours of us waiting there. The second I saw Charlie enter the cell I wanted to crawl up in the corner and have the floor eat me. Standing up quickly I waited for him to say something.

"Edward." He nodded at me, still standing in the doorway.

"Mr Swan."

"I thought it must have been some kind of mistake when I heard that you and two of your friends had found your way into these cells, turns out I was wrong. Good news for you is that the family involved aren't pressing charges as their son explained it was just some misunderstanding. Bad news is that I don't trust you. More to the point I don't trust you with my daughter. You seem irresponsible, cold, rude and frankly I just don't like you. Bella is going to stay with very shortly and I'm having doubts about her care." He paused for a second to let what he was saying sink in before carrying on.

"Alice is great with Bella and I can see that those two are very good friends but you...well I don't know what you are to my daughter but if it's anything more than friends you better start running. I won't be there to see what goes on between you two but believe me when I say I'll find out if you two get more than friendly." He stood there glaring at me; I thought he was thinking about hitting me.

"You can leave now." With that I practically ran out the small cell just in time to say goodbye to Jasper and Emmett who were getting a taxi back to his car before heading home. That left me getting a ride with Charlie. One word: awkward.

I sprinted into the house and was greeted by Alice who sent me a knowing stare, obviously Jasper called her, and almost a hug from Bella. Unfortunately for her Charlie walked in as she was going to hug me so I ended up darting out the way and pushing her backwards slightly. She stumbled into Alice and they both sent me death glares.

"I'll explain later." I mouthed as we all headed to the dining room for dinner.

Later that evening when I was hunched over my desk doing homework Bella came in scowling. I smiled crookedly knowing that she usually calms down a bit but instead I was met with a slap across the arm.

"Explain why you practically shoved me earlier." She was not happy.

"Your father is going to kill me." Bella groaned then plopped herself down in my lap.

"Edward enough of this already. Charlie won't kill you, he can't kill you."

"Yes he can. He has a gun. I'm terrified." She rolled her eyes at my antics.

"Well if you're that worried get your bullet proof vest." She was kidding but I was not.

"That's a great idea." I went to stand up, kind of hard with where she was sitting, but she grabbed my shirt to keep me where I was.

"Don't be sill-" She never got to finish that sentence as the door opened and I automatically thought it was Charlie so scooped Bella up and threw her onto the bed. She bounced and went right over the other side, landing with a thud.

If her father doesn't kill me she most certainly will.

"Where's Bella?" Alice asked after shutting the door. Good thing is it wasn't Charlie. Bad thing is Bella's furious that I chucked her over the bed.

"What was that for?" She said shooting daggers at me.

"I thought it was your father. Bella seriously he's going to kill me if he knows something's going on between us." I blurted out, completely forgetting Alice was standing there.

"There's something going on between you guys? Oh that's so great!" Alice squealed loudly.

"Shhh the whole house can hear you!" I told her pointedly, receiving a glare back. "Bella I'm sorry I threw you. It wasn't very gentlemanly of me. Forgive me?" I held my arms open, hoping she would come into them. Instead she just stood there with her hands on her hips looking oh so cute.

"Nope you're going to have to do some serious grovelling to make up for this." Alice smiled wickedly, probably loving how much power Bella had over me.

Getting up I walked over to Bella and wrapped my arms round her waist. I kissed her gently and she started to relax ever so slowly. Bringing my lips away from hers and along her jaw I made my way over her neck.

"I'm sorry. I'll do whatever you want in order for you to forgive me." With that I kissed my way back down her neck. She was now putty in my hand.

Alice coughed loudly, breaking us away from what was surely about to be a hormone and passion filled kiss. "Sorry but I don't really feel like watching you two make out. I am so glad you two are together but I don't want to watch your togetherness. Okay?" We both nodded as Bella removed herself from my arms.

I sighed as I sat down and watched the two of them chat away about God only knows what. After the whirlwind of a day I was tired and couldn't help but think a few things over. First of all, Charlie, if he found out about our secret 'relationship' I'm certain he would pull Bella from the exchange as he hates me. Second, we'll be going home in a week and Bella will be joining us, I hate to think what's going to happen there. I guess on the plus side it'll be easier to hide our 'relationship' from Charlie since he won't be there. And third, I'm in way over my head with this girl.