So, it's been a week or so, since I've met Bella. We've gotten pretty close surprisingly. Yes I do have lots of friends, but few close ones that I would share my secrets with. Bella has become one of them.

And I'm talking like BFF status here. Like, I'll let her drink out of my water bottle, even if I think that's gross in most cases.

Whenever Quinn comes over she'll sometimes bring Bella with her and we'll hang out the entire time.

I wish that was what I was doing right now. I'm just sitting in the armchair in the living room watching some stupid kids show on tv. But the remote is on the other side of the coffee table, and I'm too lazy to get up. Texting Bella would be way more fun than this. I do just that.

Me: Hey

Bella: Hi!

Me: So wassup?

Bella: Nm, watchin sum random thing on tv

Me: Same

Bella: Quinn is at ur place right?

Me: Ya her and my Tía r talking and making googly eyes again :P

Bella: Don't you wanna fall in love someday?

Me: I guess...

Bella: Exactly. Anyways can I like come over or something sooo boring over here.

Me: :D YES PLEASE. I AM DYING OF BOREDOM! Havin my bestie here will def make things more fun!

Bella: lol k. Tell my sis or ur aunt to come and get me.

Me: YAY ugh I'm gonna hav to break ther bubble...

Bella: hehehe have fun!

Me: bye jerk.

I put my phone in the back pocket of my jean shorts and look up at Quinn and Tía San, who sit on the love seat across from my arm chair, they are whispering things to each other then giggling.

"Hey, can one of you guys pick up Bella and bring her here?" I ask, and they turn towards me.

"Well, that's quite the demand isn't it niño?" Santana asks, and I shake my head, "No, we were just texting and she was wondering if she could come over."

"Haven't you two been hanging out a lot lately?" Quinn asks me and I scoff, "It's only been a week Q, and besides we are both bored out of our minds!" I say the last part dramatically, hoping that it'll get the point across better.

They both roll their eyes at me, before turning towards each other and discussing something in whispers.

I smile despite myself. I love these moments, when it feels like they're my parents. Like we're one happy family and everything is perfect. Even though I know they're not married, and I know I'm not their daughter. A girl can dream, can't she?

They finally reach a decision and turn back, Quinn speaks up, "How about, we all to to the park? You two can have fun and San and I can walk around and have some time to ourselves?" I smile, "That's awesome! I'll tell Bella!"

Me: Guess wat?

Bella: they cant pick me up?

Me: Wat! No! We r goin to the park!

Bella: YAY!

I chuckle and put my phone away, when I look up they're both looking at me. Well, more like studying me... both look away when I meet their gazes.

"Alright! Lets go!"

We get to Bella's place in a matter of minutes, Tía San has gotten the route down now by now.

When the car comes to a stop on the driveway, I hop out and go to the front door.

I ring the doorbell and just a few seconds later the door opens, and before I can say hi Bella jumps into my arms, "I missed you!" I giggle and hug her back before pulling away, "We saw each other like two days ago!"

"Yeah, right of course." She looks down, embarrassed and I just giggle again, "Oh come here!" Then I pull her into a big hug.

When we get into the car, Quinn and my aunt look at us for a while before driving. Bella and I exchange a glance that both mean the same thing, 'weird'.

When we can see the park in the distance, San and Quinn start telling us to be safe and to call them when we wanna leave. It's as if they know the minute we get there Bella and I are gone.

As soon as the car stops I fling the door open and pull Bella out by her hand. I run off with her hand still in mine, to make sure she keeps up with me.

I stop when we reach the playground, despite it being summer the park isn't too crowded, just a few younger kids here and there.

I turn and smile at Bella, "Man, I miss recess. It sucks that there isn't any in middle school." I see that she is blushing, but it's probably just because we've been running.

I drag her over to the swings. I get in one and start swinging. "Come on Bella, get on the one next to me!" She sits down in the swing but doesn't move, I stop swinging, "What's wrong?"

She's fiddling with her fingers, "Well, no one really taught me how to swing myself..." My jaw drops. "What? How is that possible?" She just shrugs and I can tell that this is soft spot.

"Well do you want me to push you?" I offer, but she shakes her head, "Could you maybe, teach me?" I smile, "Of course!"

I get up off the swing and go over to her, "Well, first you gotta get off of it." She jumps off and stands in front of the swing. I take her hands and bring the back to hold on to the chains, when she turns her head, she's blushing again. I smile at her.

"Okay so hold on tight." She does as I say and grips harder in them. I take a few steps back, "Okay now walk backwards until the seat is touching your butt."

"Then when you feel like you have enough energy, sit down and push forward." She does so, and I quickly add, "Now swing your legs with the swing, when it goes up kick forward, and when it goes back, pull them under you."

"Oh my gosh! I'm doing it! I go back to my own swing and start swinging, "Bet I can go higher than you!" "What! No fair! I just learned!"

After I let her win the contest, we go back to swinging leisurely. I suddenly remember something, "Bella go faster!"

"Why? I already beat you!" I chuckle, "Just do it!" We start going faster and before we can gain any more momentum I stick my hand out to her, she looks at it then at me.

"Grab my hand!" Before she can question me I add, "Trust me!" She gives me her hand and I hold on tight, "Now keep swinging!"

As we continue swinging our timing changes and before too long we're both swaying out of control and giggling and laughing like there's no tomorrow.

"Let go!" This time she doesn't question me and does lets go right away. We swing side ways, away from each other, before the swings come back and we hit each other knocking both of us off and into the grass.

We're still laughing hysterically.

"What in the world have you two been doing?" I open my eyes when I hear Quinn's voice and see her and my aunt hovering above us.

Bella and I look at each other at the same time and break into laughter again. I get up though and offer Bella my hand as help.

I pull a little too hard though because she basically launches off the floor and at me. She knocks me off balance and I fall backwards with her on top of me.

Again, we start laughing.

When I open my eyes I see her blue ones, she's blushing again. She laughs awkwardly, "Sorry..." I chuckle, "It's fine, but if you can just get off now..."

She springs off of me and I'm very surprised at how fast she managed to do that. I get up and brush the dirt off of myself.

"Dios mio, Angie, look at the grass in your hair," San says then starts picking the plants from my head. Quinn laughs then starts on Bella as well.

When Tía San finishes, I poke her arm and yell, "Your it!" The three of us simultaneously start running away.

"No, ninguno!" She starts chasing after me.

When we get back into the car, its as if all the energy that I had was pulled out of my body. I was suddenly feeling very tired.

We start to drive away and I yawn. A few seconds later, Bella does too. My eyes are starting to feel heavy, when suddenly I feel a weight on my shoulder.

Looking down, I see that it's Bella's head. I lean my head on hers and let my eyes close.

It feels like I'm floating, I can tell that there are arms around me and a body close to me. I can hear muffled voices then later what seems the sound of a door closing.

I'm on something soft now, and start drifting back.

Crash!

My eyes shoot open at the sound of something hitting the floor and shattering. I've gotten pretty keen to that sound. Though since moving to New York I haven't heard it.

Past memories come rushing through me. I push them away and notice that I'm in my room, it's probably the middle of the night.

I turn my head and see that Bella is, or was asleep next to me, holding onto my arm, though now shes awake too. She looks scared and holds onto my arm tighter.

"It's okay, it was probably just my Tía or Quinn." I whisper. "Why would they be up in the middle of the night?" She whispers back, asking a good question.

I don't answer because I don't have an answer.

Crash!

We both jump. I swallow. I hate this. It's bringing up so many bad memories that I've worked so hard to forget.

"I'm going to see what's going on out there," I whisper then start to move but Bella pulls me back, "No! What if it's a robber or something?!" She whisper yells at me.

I stop. This is a possibility. I mean, we do live in New York after all. I shake my head and get out of bed.

I walk over to door and put my ear up to it. I can hear footsteps, but they don't sound normal. They go way too fast and too close to the last. Its like a pitter patter.

I open the door a crack and peek out. I don't see anything. I take a few steps out of my room and a blur of gray comes shooting at me.

I scream as something that feels like a claw scratch my face, I fall backwards and land on the floor with a thud. Something lands on my stomach.

Within a matter of milliseconds the lights turn on and my Tía comes running with a baseball bat. She's waving the bat around but drops it when she sees me and comes running over.

I lift my head up and see a cat on my stomach. "Oh, Dios mío! Angela, ¿estás bien?!" "Si, si, I'm okay."

As she comes closer she jumps when she sees the cat. "Did that thing attack you!?" But before I can answer the cat turns to look at me and hisses.

I scramble to get away from it, standing up and pushing it off me. I run and hide behind San. The cat sprints away to some other part of the apartment, and Tía San turns around, her eyes widen.

"Dios mío, your bleeding honey." I reach up to touch the place on my cheek where it clawed me, and sure enough there was blood.

Bella comes bursting out of my room, at the exact same time that Quinn comes from Santana's. "Angela!" Bella runs towards me, "What is going on!?" Quinn asks and comes to us.

"Some cat broke in and attacked Angela!" My aunt explains because I'm still in shock.

Quinn's attention turns to me,"Oh my gosh, are you okay honey?" I nod, "Yeah I think so, but it clawed my face." "Okay come on Angel, lets go downstairs and I'll patch you up."

We follow my aunt downstairs and into the living room. She tells me to wait and goes into the kitchen, bringing back bandages and a dark pours out some liquid from the bottle into a rag, the liquid smells like hand sanitizer.

When she dabs it over my cut I pull back, "Ow! That burns!" "I know A, but it'll disinfect the cut, now come here," I shake my head.

"It'll only hurt for a little bit, if you don't let me it can get infected sweetie." I sigh but lean forwards again, flinching when it comes into contact with my face. I don't pull away, but still have to keep in my tears because this really does burn.

"Okay, all done." She takes the bandage out and puts it over the cut. Then she kisses it.

I love it when my Tía acts all caring and "Momish" it gives me a warm feeling on the inside. "So can you guys tell me the full story please?" Quinn asks.

I take a breath before speaking, "So I woke up when I heard a crash and find out that Bella is sleeping with me and is also awake. We start talking about what it could be and I decide to go out and see. When I stepped out the door a ball of fur comes shooting at me and before I know it, its pounces on me and I'm on the floor."

"I told you not to go out!" Bella scolds me and I huff "No, don't get mad at me I didn't want you to get hurt and now you did!"

"Well at least it was me and not you." I mumble, and I guess that she heard me because she visibly softened.

"What time is it?" She asks, Quinn looks at her wristwatch, "Five am." We all groan. "Well there is definitely no way I'm going to be able to go back to sleep," Santana says, and I nod in agreement.

"So Q, you wanna have some fun?" Santana asks as she puts her hand on Quinn's thigh, Quinn just rolls her eyes but kisses her anyways. Santana's hands come up and wrap around Quinn's neck and pulls her closer to deepen the kiss.

I watch them for a little, smiling, but when Santana deepens it I grab Bella by her hand and pull her upstairs and into my bedroom.

She flops onto my bed and sighs, almost dreamily. "Aren't they so cute?" She asks, I move and sit down on the bed next to her, "Yeah."

"I wanna be experience that one day," she pauses to sit up and look into my eyes, "love."

The way that she's staring into my eyes makes me feel weird, I take in a shaky breath before saying, "Don't worry you'll find the perfect guy one day." She suddenly looks away from me and her mood changes, "Yeah, the perfect guy." I am so confused. What happened? Did I say something wrong?