AN: Okay you guys, here it is, I decided to put this up already because I have gotten more reviews in just one day then I did then in those weeks when I didn't update. You see what could happen when you review.
Anyways, so this will be the last chapter for pranks, and you will see why. Also big thanks to all those who did review, you guys are the reason why you are getting this now. Another thing, for those of you who want to know why Edward is such an ass, the answers are coming soon. You are going to start seeing what has been going on with Edward, and the truth of what happened to him during those 5 years will come out, and then you will know what he thinks Bella did. Just be patient.
READ THE NOTE AT THE BOTTOM!!!
Sorry for the long note, so read on, if you really dare.
AN 2: Chapter has now been re-edited thanks to dihenydd.
Chapter 9: Haunt my mind
Now once it sets its eyes on you
But I won't run,
Have to stare it in the eye
Stand my ground, I won't give in
No more denying, I've got to face it
Won't close my eyes and hide the truth inside
If I don't make it, someone else will
Stand my ground
-Stand my ground by Within Temptation
Flashback
I hate PE, scratch that, I loathe it beyond all belief, just as much as I hate Edward, maybe even more considering all his douche bag friends have this class as well.
Here I am sitting on the bleachers waiting for class to start after getting changed.I watch people slowly come into class, in groups, talking and laughing. There is always a group of two or more people who would come in, look at me, and start to laugh. I really wish that Alice or Rose were in this class, because they'd have the guts to kick them in the ass without thinking twice.
I remove my gaze from the doors and stare down at my feet. I hardly notice someone sitting down near me until I see their shoes. They aren't sitting too close to me, but closeenough. Nobody usually sits this close to me.
Tilting my head a little I see who is sitting next to me. It's none other than Felix.
The last few weeks I've noticed a slight change in him. He doesn't seem as obnoxious, well at least around me. Hestill acts like a dick around Edward and pulls shit on him as usual, but he doesn't do anything to me, which I'm grateful for. What I hate though, is that when Felix does something to Edward or teases him, his brother James always tell him off. I really think Edward deserves the shit that Felix does to him, but don't understand why he lets his little brother tell him off.
Whenever Felix is around me, he just sits quietly and looks around. It always seems like he wants to say something but he never does. It annoys me at times, especially in Biology where he is now my lab partner. I used to be with Edward, but we switched and he got Tanya, and I'm with Felix.
I lift my head fully, the back of Felix's head faces me and his eyes dart towards the doors. I follow his gaze towards the gym doors, and wish I hadn't.
Walking in are the king and queen themselves. Tanya holds tightly to Edwards arm, while Edward looks unhappy. His eyes scan the gym and find mine only to look away quickly. Tanya must have noticed as she gives me an amused look and pulls Edward towards the bleachers, sitting her fat ass three rows directly in front of me.
Edward wraps his arm around her waist and she looks over at him. Tanya leans in to kiss him, actually it is more like slobbering on him. I make a disgusted grunt.
God, that is just fucking grotesque.
"Get a room will ya!" I turn and look over at Felix who is staring at the two chimpanzees going at it in on the bleachers. I catch him glancing at me.
Just then James and Victoria come in through the doors followed by the rest of their group.
"Felix, relax. You need to quit yelling at everyone else just because you can't get any." James rolls his eyes at Felix.
"No James, Felix is right." Two people are heading towards us.
It is Kate and her boyfriend Garrett. Kate is Tanya's sister, but her complete opposite. Kate is kind and smart while Tanya is a bitch and dumb as a fucking doorknob.
Kate and Garrett are the only ones in this class that help me. If James or anyone else tries to hurt me in anyway, physically or mentally, and Alice, Rose, Emmett, or Jasper aren't there, they stick up for me.
"Who the hell shoved a stick up your ass Kate?" Tanya scowls at her sister.
"The person in front of me who is about to have my foot shoved up her ass. So shut the hell up." Kate growls back at Tanya looking as if she is about to slap Tanya across the face, but Garrett is holds her back.
"Why don't you listen to your sister, Tanya?" Edward asks her.
"What? Are you going to take her side, and let her defend that little bitch! After all she said about you?! After she went behind your back!" Tanya starts yelling at him.
What the hell did I say about him? What did I do? What is she talking about?
"No, no, that's not it, it's just that we don't really want to get into trouble, we still have the rest of class." Edward says to her glancing back at me. Tanya does the same and gives him a knowing smile.
Oh shit this isn't going to be good for me.
James notices their glances and stares at me. I wish I was invisible.
"Ahh, lookie what we have here!" I feel James' eyes staring at me and it makes me shiver and shake to my bones.
"Looks like we all have a little snack." James snickers. "So precious, do you want to do something fun?" He reaches over and pushes my hair behind my ear. I flinch back cowering away.
"James, leave her alone." Felix hisses at him in a harsh, brutal tone. Edward looks up at him in shock and disgust.
Why's Felix being so nice to me anyway, what's happened to him?
"Oh don't listen to him he's just annoyed because dad took away his car, so now he has to have his lil bro haul his fat ass around." James rolls his eyes and looks back to me, while Edward keeps his gaze on Felix.
"Now, how about we-"
"James, leave her alone!!! Seriously why don't you go fuck a dog or something?" Kate sneers at him. Garrett comes over and helps me up from the bleacher.
As we walk away from them, I can still hear them calling out to us, but I ignore them and so does Kate.
"Bella, you should talk to Coach Clapp and see if you can get out of here, because I don't know how much longer I can keep them off your back." Kate suggests.
"Yeah Bella, I heard some of the things they're planning to do with you today in class when I was in the locker room and none of them sounded good." Garrett declares.
"Really? Because I thought all the rest of the shit they've done to me was a fucking blast!" I shout sarcastically at them. I don't mean to be so rude to them. They're just trying to help me, and I'm taking my frustration out on them.
"Sorry guys"
"It's alright we understand." Garrett gives me a sympatric smile.
"Alright everyone. Time to start!" Coach Clapp calls out.
"Well, I guess I better go talk to him." Both of them give me a nod as I make my way over to Coach.
"Hey coach?" I walk timidly towards him.
"What's up Bella?" he's checking off things on a clipboard.
"Umm…I'm not feeling too well, can I go to the health office?" I play with my fingers while I plead with him with my eyes. I don't think this will work as I have used this card too many times. I always try my hardest to get out of this class.
"Bella" he sighs, "You can't miss anymore class. If you do you will fail." I know he's right, I've missed way too much of this class, I'm surprised I'm evening passing at the moment considering how much I have already missed and how poor I am in the class. I can't fail this class or I won't graduate, and I don't want to do that to Charlie. It would upset him too much to know that things are so bad that I won't be able to graduate because I don't want to take a class. He still doesn't know what's happening, even though he has pleaded with me to tell him. I just can't though, it's too hard.
I just nod my head at Coach and he decides to proceed.
"Okay class, today we are going to play some floor hockey, now I'm dividing you into teams." I groan. This isn't going to be good.
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I end up walking to my truck with a limp, a few bruises on my arm and a really bad ache in my side where I'm sure I'll see a big bruise once I get in the shower.
"Are you sure you're okay?" Kate asks as she and Garrett help me into my truck. I want to get out of here before Alice or Emmett see me, because I know if they see me like this, I will have to deal with their endless questions and sad, angry eyes. I understand their feelings but I have too many of my own to deal with at the moment.
"Yeah I am, thanks you guys, I am sure it would've beenmuch worse if you weren't there." I give them a reassuring smile as I climb inside my truck.
"Yeah, and thank god Felix was there to kick some ass." Kate says.
It's true. Felix did kick some ass, quite literally. Kate and Garrett tried their best to protect me from flying pucks or people pushing me against the brick wall with force, but when someone did manage to do one of those things, which they did a lot, Felix would smack them with his hockey stick "on accident" or ram them against the wall. It was really surprising, but I didn't think about it too much because most of the time I was concentrating on not getting hurt, especially by my own team mates.
Edward was of course the worst. He would ram me into the wall saying he was trying to get the puck, which was a bunch of bullshit, but what hurt the most was him just standing there watching as I was beaten up. His face showedno sadness, no remorse, no guilt, - nothing as he watched someone who used to be his best friend getting attacked.
End flashback
My alarm went off at three in the morning. At first I just turned it off and lay down to go back to sleep, but then I remembered my plan. I jumped out of bed, got dressed and grabbed the things I had prepared earlier.
Luckily I had kept hold of the key Rose and I had borrowed earlier knowing I would probably need it. I had borrowed Emmett's jeep, without his permission, because the road was slick from the wet and cold; and also because my truck would wake up the whole neighbourhood. I hated my truck, but I loved it too, we had been through a lot together and I wasn't ready to give it up.
Soon I was parked in front of their place sitting in Emmett's jeep. I took his jeep, without him knowing, as the road was slick from rain and I knew my car would wake up the whole neighbourhood.
As I parked in front of Edward's place I started thinking. Should I really do this? Maybe it was time to end this now? Maybe that's what Edward is trying to do by not freaking out about his hair? Or maybe that was his way of getting back at me?
Ugh, who cares anymore? I'm already here; I might as well do it anyway.
I jump out of the car being careful not to slip and fall as I head towards the front door.
Once inside, I make my way silently towards Edward's room trying my hardest not to knock into anything and wake him. I'm doing a good job until I stub my toe. It hurts like hell. Stupid wall.
"OW" I whisper hiss as I hit my foot against something, yet again. It's a desk, the desk with the journal on it. I look at the desk in the dark and feel my way around trying to see if I can find it. I want to read more of it. There is so much I want to know. I think if I read it I will find out so much and have all my questions answered.
I keep looking and as I make my way around the desk I notice a light coming from down the hall, from Edward's bedroom. Is he still awake? Did I wake him?
I forget all about the journal as I approach the door and open it. Lying on top of his sheets with open books and notebooks surrounding him is a shirtless Edward.
I feel my breath catch in my throat as my eyes scan his sculpted and chiselled chest and look into his face. His eyes are closed and he looks so peaceful. He doesn't look as he normally does, with a harsh face, always either angry or smug. He looks relaxed, his face smooth. I let my eyes drift down his chest and his tight, but not too tight, 6 pack. He must work out a lot. My gaze carries on to his little bronze happy trail and lower-
WHAT THE HELL AM I DOING?! I hate this man! I am not supposed to be checking him out.
No, I'm not checking him out at all. That is not what I'm doing.
I need to get on with this. I pull out the giant fog horn Emmett bought a long time ago and the can of shaving cream with the nail in it that I put together earlier.
I shake the can, pull the nail out and book it out of the room as fast as possible. The can starts going insane spinning around, shaving cream is being spread all across the room covering Edward, his books, and pictures he had on his drawers, - everything, with thick heavy white cream.
I point the horn in the direction of sleeping Edward and push it long and hard.
A loud noise busts through the room making Edward jump 5 feet into the air screaming. I can't stop laughing. As soon as he recovers from the noise he notices the shaving cream covering him and everything else. He spots the can spinning around and runs to cover it, to stop it.
I can't control myself. I'm laughing hysterically.
"WHAT THE FUCK, BELLA?! WHAT THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING?!" He keeps yelling while holding the shaving cream can tightly in his hands. I can tell he's afraid to let it go. I turned and leave a stunned Edward standing in the middle of his room.
"Where the fuck do you think you're going?" Edward shouts after me. I can hear him stomping out of his room.
As I walk down the hall I run into a startled and sleepy Jasper.
"What's going on? Bella what're you doing here?" Jasper rubs his eye with the back of his hand.
"Oh nothing, just giving Edward a wakeup call." I shrug as I walk away, back towards the jeep with a confused Jasper and a screaming Edward behind me.
Time to go home and get some more sleep, Alice and Rose should be here in a few hours so we can go shopping.
--
"Did you seriously do that?" Alice asks as we head back home from shopping.
I just nod my head.
"That is so bad ass Bella, good job." Rose gives me a pat on the back.
"Thanks, you should have seen his face, it was priceless."
I look over at Alice who is driving. She has a concerned look on her face.
"What is it Alice?" I sigh. I know she hates this and that she's worried about Edward or me taking this too far.
"Well, you did two stunts on him in a row, aren't you a little worried about what he is going to do to you?"
I just shake my head and purse my lips, "No, not really, I can take whatever he brings."
"Okay" Alice sighs uncertainly.
--
Soon we arrive back at my place. Rose and Alice help me unload my bag, which really isn't that much, so we get it done in a single trip.
They stay for a little while longer waiting for Jasper and Emmett who are still at work, so we pass the time playing Rock Band.
"Girls, are you ready to go?" Jasper calls as he comes in followed by Emmett.
"Wait, are you guys going together?" I ask, pointing between the two couples.
"Yeah, we decided to go out on a double date." Jasper said kissing Alice on the temple.
"Great way to make me feel left out you guys." I huff. I hate being the one left out of things, but I know I should let this slide, it still annoyed me though. It always will, knowing that they can go out together and do couple things while I'm stuck at home.
"You could come with us, but only if you bring Edward." Alice smiles wickedly at me.
"Okay you guys have fun." I push them out the door.
"Be safe Bella!" Rose sings out as they get into the car, "If you get too scared, just remember Edward is home alone too!"
I just slam the door and head upstairs to my room and grab my books to work on my finals.
--
I am in the middle of typing up a paper on the aspects of digital photography for my photography class. I try to stay awake, but I keep feeling my eyes droop and my head drop down. Eventually I just give up, shut my laptop and lie down on the couch to get a little bit of sleep.
--
Bang, bang.
What the…?
I wake up to the sound of something banging and I have no clue what it is, so I lie back down on the couch thinking it is all in my head.
BANG!
I shoot back up and stand up from the couch. My heart is pounding in my chest. Seriously what the hell is going on? I listen for the sound once again to see if I can figure out where it's coming from.
BANG
I jump in the air at the sound, my heart beating faster than ever before.
What's scaring me is that it's coming from inside and *gulp*…upstairs.
I'm breathing rapidly, and heavily, "Hello?" I call out sheepishly as my voice shakes.
Of course no one answers.
I take a deep breath and steadily make my way towards the stairs.
"Whoever's there, you better answer me or I swear to god I'm going to pull out a gun and shoot you as soon as I find you." I call out as bravely as I can. As I near the stairs I open the closet and grab an umbrella.
Great, I'm going to fight off some creepy predator with a fucking umbrella, and it's not even raining.
"SHOW YOURSELF NOW!!" I scream up the stairs.
"BANG!"
I jump yet again. I am so close. Maybe it's just my mind playing tricks on me?
I can hardly hear anything correctly because of the erratic beating of my heart.
I take a deep breath and place one foot on the stairs, then another. My heart beats faster and faster with each step I take. It almost feels like an Aliens wants to burst out of my chest.
I continue to make my way up the stairs holding my umbrella as if it were a hard metal baseball bat.
I am near the top of the stairs when I see something.
I take another step and view of one of my worst nightmares.
There in front of me crouched down is the fucking scariest clown I have ever seen, holding out a giant colored lollipop to me.
"Want some candy" it says in a sick demented voice.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!"
I chuck the umbrella at the creature as hard as I can, and turn to run down the stairs. I lose my footing and instead I trip and roll down the stairs, over and over again I hit the walls. I feel my ankle twist and something snap in my left hand.
As I'm falling I hear someone calling out to me in a scared voice.
When I land on the ground and stop rolling, everything is spinning. I can't make out up from down, but I faintly hear someone calling out to me.
"BELLA!" I would recognize that voice anywhere.
"Edward?" I call out in a soft whisper as everything spins.
"Bella! I am so god damn sorry." I see a blurry shape in front of me. It's the clown's outline but he has taken something off his head and it's Edward's hair underneath.
That god damn mother fucker!
Then everything goes dark.
AN: OH MY GOD!! You have to go to my profile to see the picture of the clown costume he was wearing! It is god damn scary, and you guys got to understand that I HATE clowns, so when I was looking for a picture that would be perfect, I found this one, and it scared the shit out of me. SO GO TO MY PROFILE and see it! The link is on there. Oh and the way the clown is crouched down handing that kid the lollipop, that was how I pictured Edward sitting at the top of the stairs.