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The morning after

Part 14

Day 62 (In the library)

When I came back from Alice's place yesterday I took one look at Charlie and Renee's face and knew that something was wrong. I found the two of them sitting around the kitchen table talking to each other in hush tones. When I walked in they quickly sprung apart.

I looked suspiciously from one to the other, the silence growing awkward by the second. "So are you guys going to tell me what's wrong or are you going to leave me hanging?" I asked slowly.

I saw the quick brief glance Charlie gave Renee before he smiled. "Silly Bella, nothing is wrong. Go and rest, I know your tired" and that was all he said. I stood there for a minute contemplating my next move when mum spoke.

"Please Bella? Just go to your room" she said gently. For once Renee looked exhausted. She had dark rims under her eyes as if she hadn't been sleeping. I gave them both a worried glance and went straight to bed.

I fell asleep thinking about it, actually, I'm still thinking about it now. Whatever it is, I need to get it out of my mind. I have play rehearsal in 15 minutes. Besides…I don't know, maybe it's nothing, and I'm just being very paranoid.

Things hasn't been that great since the dance. I've been very jumpy lately. The last thing James said to me two nights ago was so loaded with threats. The very thought of it made me shiver.

When I woke up the morning after, everybody was still sound asleep. Edward had fallen asleep next to me. I had stared at him until the sun was actually up outside. He was sleeping so serenely, his breathing was light.

All I could think about was cuddling up to him. The very thought made me shiver and I decided to get up and roam around the house.

I lightly closed the door and tip toed down the stairs. I was concentrating on not making a sound that I sort of slipped. I was falling head first, the wind rushing really quickly. But I never felt the blow. I looked up and found Jasper staring down at me, his face crumpled in to a frown.

"Uh..Hey…awkward much?" I said, laughing nervously. "Why are you up so early?" he asked in a deep voice.

I shrugged and smiled, "meh…um Jasper?" I started, but then looked down.

He looked at me searchingly. "What is it?" he asked.

"You can put me down now" I said awkwardly.

He blushed deeply and set me down. Then picking a completely bad timing, my stomach grumbled really loudly. I turned a deep crimson as I stared at my stomach irritatedly. Jasper started laughing while I kept turning redder.

"I think it's breakfast time" Jasper nodded matter of factly. I giggled slightly and we both started heading towards the kitchen.

As we sat down on the stool I looked at Jasper's face. he was staring blankly outside the window.

"Umm Jasper?" I said hesitatingly. I knew it wasn't perfect timing, but I knew that this was the only time that I would probably catch him alone.

"What is it?" he asked, mystified.

I started stalling for a little bit but I ended up blurting it out.

"Umm, well, I'm really sorry…For you know…Going all psycho before, and for all those stuff that I said" I squeaked. It was true. Come to think of it, I was so overprotective of Alice that I kind of attacked Jasper.

Thinking about it now makes me flinch.

He laughed gently. "Hey, I'm over it, you were only protecting Alice, I understand" he said softly. Then he looked out the window.

"How is she these days anyway?" his voice seemed to hesitate as he continued to look at anything but me.

"Alice…she's strong. I mean she's not the same before. You did hurt her you know. But she's coping" I started. I looked at Jasper and gave him a sad smile. "She pretends to be happy all the time, but I can see that she's still hurting. She saw you and your girlfriend last week you know?" I continued tersely. I looked at the pain that crossed Jasper's face and knew that he still had feelings for Alice.

"I keep trying to talk to her, but she wont even look at me. All I want to do is to make everything right, but I keep fucking everything up!" he said chokingly. Jasper buried his face on his hands and fell silent.

My stomach chose that moment to complain once again and I flinched. He didn't seem to hear it.

I looked at him worriedly and closed my eyes. When I opened them I placed a hand on his back and tried to console him. "Jas, if you really want to make things right with Alice then maybe you should set her straight. It's obviously that you like her, and she obviously likes you" I said rationally, then he looked up and stared at me, "Stop playing mind games with her. You're only hurting her even more" I said bluntly.

It was true, I've seen Alice cry several times, and all because of Jasper. It hurts seeing her all broken up. Jasper was still staring at me with wonder in his eyes.

Then he started chuckling. "What's so funny?" I asked, puzzled. He was shaking his head, then he looked back at me. "Nothing kid, it's just that its weird you know. You've changed so much. You use to blush a lot. I mean, I'm not saying you don't blush anymore, but you seem so much more opinionated" he said casually. I stared blankly at him. Really? was the last thing I thought about before we heard the kitchen door opened.

Edward stood in front of us, looking confused. "What are you doing here?" he asked me. He obviously forgot that I slept over the night before. I instantly jumped to the conclusion that he also forgot sleeping right next to me.

Hurt flooded through me as I jumped off my stool and brushed past him. He grabbed my arm and gently turned me to face him. "Uh I have to go gather all of my things. I'm going home" I said casually. Giving him a bright smile which brought way too much pain.

"Oh, okay. I'll give you a lift then?" he offered. I smiled again and nodded. I rushed back to the spare room and took a deep breath. I felt like crying, but I pushed it down. I had no reason to cry, none at all.

Edward dropped me off. He pulled over right next to my dad's cruiser, we were both quiet, the silence was deafening. Edward cleared his throat and I looked expectedly towards him.

He was staring at me so intently that I couldn't look away. He held my face with one hand, then my stomach rudely interrupted once again. He chuckled gently then leaned in and gave me a kiss. Just half an inch from my mouth. "Take care alright? Eat some food, I'll see you on Monday" he said gently, his velvet voice leaving tremors of electricity bouncing up and down my stomach.

I don't know how I feel. I love Edward, but I'm scared. I'm scared to be with him, but I know I'll be lying to myself if I said theres no bone in my body that didn't wanted to jump him. I'm not afraid of sitting next to him, holding hands, and going out. I'm afraid of what's going to happen when the wrecking of my heart starts up again.I'm afraid that all the memories will be bottled up...But I wont see any future between the two of us.

Day 62 (At home now)

Forget about rehearsal. Things have taken a turn for the worst. Nothing much happened in rehearsal so I'm not even going to talk about it.

After school Sean and Sam were waiting for me in the car park. I looked at both of them through slit eyes. I'm not one for playing the blaming game, but everything that happened in the dance was entirely their fault.

I walked past the two of them and ignored them both. "Bella, please were really sorry. We know that we pretty much screwed everything up by coming here in the first place. But you have to understand that we couldn't just let you walk away" Sean pleaded, his blue eyes going round.

I stared at him with a deadpanned look. It was those eyes again. He was staring at me with those stupid puppy dog eyes. I am so weak!

I sighed and looked at him then at Sam. I felt my eyes watering up and I'm afraid that I wasn't able to hold it. I felt the tears stinging my eyes and I hastily brushed them away.

"What do I do now? I mean, I worked so hard to build up this little peace, now you guys pretty much just came in and crashed my little party. Tell me what to do, because I don't know how to help myself!" I said harshly.

Sean came closer and bear hugged me, a couple of moments later I felt another arm as Sam joined in. After a while I could hear whispers coming from behind. I turned around and found that we were blocking some student's path. The three of us moved away and started heading towards The twins black convertible.

I could feel random peoples gaze on me, but I ignored them. I sniffed some more and Sean gave me another squeeze. "Don't worry, we'll work something out. We wont let anything happen" Sean had said. I had agreed and for once I actually felt hope.

But my hope were dashed when I got home. I walked inside the house to find Charlie crying. Renee was trying hard to console him but he wouldn't budge. He had his face buried in his palms as he continuously sobbed.

I stared at Charlie, absolutely horrified, then at Renee. "Mum…" I muttered, my voice felt hoarse. Renee looked up her face had been contorted in to an unhappy scowl. "What's happening?" I asked nervously.

Renee looked up to the ceiling and almost rammed her fist through the table, her anger was obviously bubbling up in the surface.

"The police department is under new management now, they've decided to let your dad go for some bull reason about him being old!" she said angrily. I stared openmouthed at mum.

Who in their right mind would let Charlie go? He wasn't even that old (a/n sorry guys, I don't know how old Charlie is suppose to be). I sat down next to Renee and held Charlie's hand. Then something dawned on me.

"Mum…Who's head of the department now?" I asked slowly. Somehow I felt like I didn't really want to know, but I still had to ask.

"I don't know Bells, something like Maloney or something-" I cut her off halfway, "Sgt. James Michael Malone sr.?" I asked abruptly. Renee looked at me with a mystified look in her eyes. "Yeah that's him, how do you know?" she asked incredulously. But I didn't answer.

Instead I rushed out of the house and ran to my red Chevy truck and started heading towards the twin's house. They gave me the address before I left school, just in case I needed to see them.

Damn it! What the hell! Wasn't it enough that he was hunting me down, but did he really have to involve my dad as well?

I speed towards the Striker Manor and was blown away when I saw the mansion. I knew the twins were reach, but the house was two story and about the same size as the Cullen's monster of a house.

The mansion was made out of white marble with one gigantic white metal fence that towered over me. I flinched slightly, I felt like I was standing outside the ice queen's mental palace. I felt breathless and not in a good way either. I momentarily forgot the issue at hand and my mind started doing mental calculations of the cost.

I shook my self and thought, is this really necessary? There's only two of them! I shook my head then jumped when I heard a cackling sound. "Miss, please remove your car from the drive way" a voice said, and I jumped again.

I looked around my surrounding and found the intercom. It was disguised as a rock. I moved closer to it and tried to push a button that said 'speak' but the intercom buzzed again, "Miss, remove your hands from the button, I repeat, remove your hand from the button!" I stared at the intercom as if it just offended me.

Then there was silence. After a minute or so I heard laughter coming from the other side of the line. I came close to hitting myself when I realized that I've been had! And badly too!

I heard a click and the gates suddenly swung open. I thundered my way inside the estate and started walking furiously towards the twins who were both standing out front, laughing hysterically.

I stood in front of them for what seemed like forever, just waiting for them to shut up. I stared crossly at the two of them, keeping the silence until as usual, I cracked. "Shut up!" I yelled, and in the process, I ended up stamping my feet.

"Oh my God! She just stamped her feet" Sam said hysterically

"I thought girls only did that in the movies!" Sean added.

Then they both looked at me and the they both fell quiet. I was on the verge of tears when they finally caught on that something was wrong.

I explained what was wrong, and they both stared at each other darkly. "I knew he was mad, but this is just low" Sean said menacingly, "Yeah, what the hell, he's using his family's power to bring you down? Why can't he fight his own battles for once?" Sam said maddeningly.

It turned out that James Malone's family were very powerful indeed. They owned all kinds of companies up and down the East and the West Coast, and last time I heard, his father was going for Governor in the City of Salt Lake District.

I'm not surprised. The old school that I went to were filled with rich kids who were the future successors of their families. Even the twins had a very powerful family, his mum owns a fashion label that was taking this generation by storm, but their family wasn't as strong or as old as The Malone's. The Striker's were considered as 'new money'.

Going to West Brighton Academy for girls had been such a pain in the ass, mostly because of all the stuck up kids that went there. So I wasn't entirely surprised that West Brighton Academy for boys was exactly the same.

"I know! We'll get our family to help you!" Came Sean's offer, I snorted at that, "What? What are your parents going to do? Chuck clothes at James and brand him as an official fashion train wreck?" I said sarcastically. The twins were quiet. I looked at them both, and they were both smirking.

"Even during these situation, you're still as sharp tongued as ever. Were glad you didn't change" Sam patted my back and I let out a huge growl. "This is so unfair…" I couldn't think of anything else to say.

"It wasn't even me who dubbed you in…" I said dejectedly. The twins looked down and started fidgeting.

"I don't get why you even joined his gang" I said, mostly talking to myself.

"We had no choice, our parents wanted us to be friendly with him, since our family needed them as an alliance. But they never knew the kind of twisted stuff James made us do. Because of it we couldn't even talk to you or anything. Now you're caught in the middle…Sorry" Sean said weakly.

Sean looked so dejected and guilt ridden, my heart nearly melted. No matter how much I hated them at one point, I can't help it. Having them as friends in boarding school was what kept me sane. They were practically my very own brothers.

I felt my pocket vibrate and I looked at the number. The caller id said 'Edward' I looked at it for a while and was about to hang it up when Sam snatched it from me and picked it up. "Hello, sorry who ever you are, Bella is just having a daydream. Leave your name and your number and she'll get back to you soon" he said in an operator voice, the whole time I was watching him incredulously.

I smacked his head and grabbed my phone away from him. "You're an idiot!" I yelled. I put the phone on my ear and took a deep breath.

"Hey Edward, sorry about that, that was Sam being a loser" I said weakly. I heard a chuckle on the other line. "It's fine, is something wrong?" he asked. It's as if he has telepathy or something. I shook my head despite the fact that he can't see me.

"No…nothings wrong" I said softly. What was the use of telling Edward. I don't want to mix them up with my problem.

"So…What's up?" I said in a tiny voice.

"Oh, well, um the guys wanted to ask whether you want to come and play baseball with us. You don't have to play, you can watch if you want. Carlisle and Esme will be there too. You can ask Sam and Sean to come if you want" he said hesitatingly. The boys had only been in Forks for a couple of days, so all Edward's seen them do was make me cry and jumpy. Not a very good impression.

Despite everything, I actually want Sam and Sean to fit right in. I don't know why but those two are my best friends too. They're in my world. When I was alone and lonely they were there to welcome me in their world.

"We'd like to come, when is it?" I asked casually. I heart clicking from the other side and Edward spoke. "Tomorrow night, at 7. But were meeting over at my place, were all going to our special baseball spot" he said excitedly. "I really wanted to take you there, but I've had no time these days, so I'll see you tomorrow then?" he asked. I closed my eyes and sighed. "Yeah, I guess so. But I'll have you know, I suck at sports" I said , he chuckled then the line went dead.

I looked from Sean to Sam. "Why did you tell him we were coming? We never agreed on going. And what about this whole thing with James?" Sean said crossly. I stared at him skeptically.

"I need to get my mind off of him, or else I'm going to end up committing a homicide!" I barked. The twins both looked at each other. "Besides, a game of baseball might do you both some good"

So I'm sitting at home now. Not really looking forward to tomorrow night. I'm a joke when it comes to sport, the only positive thing about tomorrow would be seeing Edward. Hey, I know that I can't touch him or anything, doesn't mean I'm not going to take advantage of any opportunity of ogling him.

I just received a message from an anonymous sender.

Fr: no number

I hope you liked my little surprise. I'm going to destroy you.

God, who could it be from?! Note: Sarcasm intended.

Sorry guys, I know this was a crap chapter. Well at least I think it is, this is just a filler chapter to get you guys ready for what's about to happen. In here you got to find out more about James and his family, then more about the twins. JxA is about to get together lol. I was wondering whether I actually should have put it in this chapter. But I thought I might as well save it for later! This series is almost finish!! Oh no! Please review!! You know how much reviews cheer me up!! :0)