A/N: Oh your lovely reviews have made me feel i owe you a chapter ASAP. so here you go hope you enjoy!
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Jesus sauce, this sucked.
School's biggest slut. What was that Alice was saying again? Oh yes this is what she said.
Everyone will get over it by next week.
Mary Alice was wrong,. People couldn't believe Chief Swan's daughter let Edward Masen take her cotton candy. Of course I was the slut, while Edward was the one who would be considered a legend. That's how it would work wouldn't it? It felt as if people were laughing every second they saw me in the halls, and I for one had enough self taunting going on already. Couldn't they find something just a bit more exciting than me having sex with Edward Masen.
"Ow." I yelped as I shoved into someone, my books spreading all over the floor, along with the other person's books. Like I needed more attention at this point. Good job Bella. I thought sarcastically, putting my hair behind my ears and squeezing my eyes shut, sulking in my own horror. Why me? Lord. Out of all the evil people here in Forks high, and I'm not even evil, why me?
"Are you okay?" His silky voice, made me want to vomit, and his question made me want to punch him the face. My eyes flew open, and Edward Masen was bent down in front of me, picking up both of our books. I didn't want his grimy, disgusting, beautiful, big, hands all over my books. I wanted nothing to do with him. I wished he would disappear off this planet, and just evaporate. So what I was acting like a 5 year old. I had all the right to. He stood up straight, his bronze hair all over his head as usual, and his green eyes actually filled with concern. I grabbed my books out of his hand.
"Being the school's slut? Yeah its great Edward." I said sarcastically, walking away from him, trying to get far, far, far, away from him.
"Bella wait!" He called and could here him coming up from behind me, I almost felt like running away, and I thought about it for a quick moment, but it would have made me look like a real 5 year old.
"I don't give a shit." I called back in a sing song voice, glad I hadn't tripped yet.
"What did I do"? He was now by my side, and really asking this question. I watched as the words slipped out his beautiful lips, and tried to stay focus. I was mad. Focus.
"Really Edward?" I asked, trying to walk faster, but he kept up with me.
"Really? What did I do?" It was almost as if he was begging.
"You told everyone." I hissed in a whisper and thanked the dear lord, my class room was right here. He opened his mouth to say something but I was quicker than that.
"No need for explanations. And I will end this discussion. I hope your penis falls off Edward Masen.." I said in a very professional tone. His face was shocked, speechless and other emotions that made me smile in victory. I entered my class room, with out another word to Edward. I bit my lip reviewing what I had just said, and really it made me quite happy as I took a seat next to Ben.
Could my life really be getting any worse? I'm sick, and it's a weird sickness, that my mom is going to call the flu for now, till we get me to a doctor. Which will be in 3 days. I woke up with a headache and as soon as I got to my feet, I was highly aware I was going to vomit all over my bedroom floor, if I didn't make it to my restroom. But I did, and in record time. I skipped school today, but other than this headache I feel absolutely fine. I wont tell my mom that though, staying home from school, has been the best thing that has happened to me these dreadful three weeks. So now I lay here in my warm bed tossing and turning, getting comfortable, thinking of other things than school, and listening to it rain.
"You feeling any better?" My mom walked into my room, her tiny hands holding a cup of hot tea, I cant remember the last time I had tea, but I bet it not something like when I got high with Tyler. I cant believe I did that.
"No." I half lied. But its only because I have too, other wise, I would have to go to school and face the stupid teenager at Forks High. Sometimes teenagers made me look so bad.
"Oh, I'm sorry." She cooed and sat the tea down on my night stand gently, her eye looking at me concerned.
"You feel sick again?" She put her hand to my head.
"A little." I completely lied this time.
"I'm sorry." She said again and patted my head softly.
"You need anything?" She fixed my covers.
"No its okay mom, you've done enough." I smiled up at her, wondering when she became mother of the year. She looked a little tired herself, her eyes seemed a little darker, probably with her working so hard lately. She worked the post office, and just got this job recently, after Alice's mom, convinced her a woman working is a god idea. I have no comment on that, but of course Alice's hippie of a mother, would have a million.
"Alright, well just call me when you need anything love." She kissed my forehead, and I played with my charms, on my bracelet. She got up and left the room, leaving me alone to my thinking again. My thoughts were still on Alice's mother, who got me rollerblades for my 7th birthday. We had just found out how clumsy I really was. Alice's mom was just about as crazy as Alice is. She goes to all these protests, and comes back with all this ridiculous ideas. She's kind of like my mom, except she doesn't take it as far as Alice's mom. We keep things to a level in this house. And to be honest, my dad doesn't like Alice's mom, for one she's broken the law more than once, and she is almost always at the police station protesting or what not. But I like her, I love her like a 2nd mother, she gave me the frog charm that dangles on my bracelet today. I lifted my hand to examine the bracelet on my wrist. My cell phone vibrated next to me, and I struggled to reach for it for a while, but finally got it.
"Hey Alice." I picked up the phone, and she was breathing hard.
"Bella!" She rejoiced, and I looked out my window, making sure she wasn't climbing the old tree outside my window. I didn't look away though, the rain had captured me in its beauty and I for one second wished I was out there in it.
"Are you okay?" I asked slowly, quickly looking at the time, then back out my window. "Its 7:00"
"I know that. I'm running to your house stupid. I missed you at school." She blurts into the phone and I was surprised I understood what her chirpy voice was saying.
"Why are you running?" I rolled my eyes.
"Well I stopped now. Remember, my mom is anti-car this month." She sighed.
"Oh yeah huh? So why are you on your way here." I twisted in my covers and I could hear her breathing had gone back to normal now.
"Well.." Her voice had suddenly changed, the one of fun and understanding, was gone.. It was now scared, unsure, worried. It wasn't Alice's regular voice, nor a voice that calmed me. Instead it scared the crap out of me.
"Are you okay?" I almost shouted into the phone.
"NO! .. I mean no, no, I'm fine Bells." She almost shouted like I did, but by the end of her short sentence, her voice goes back to that worried tone.
"Did something happen at school?"
"No.. its just.."
"What Alice tell me."
"No I cant .. I .."
"Alice , how long have we been best friends?"
"Birth."
"Exactly, shouldn't you be able to tell me anything?"
"Yeah."
"Or did those 17 years mean nothing to you?"
"Shut up, you know I love you Bells."
"Than you should tell me Alice."
"I'm just worried about you."
"Oh Mary Alice, its just a cold. Calm down." I sighed in relief.
"No you don't understand Bella. I'm worried about you." She sounded deadly serious.
"Please do explain." I'm couldn't stop squirming in my bed now.
"When you and Edward.. Ya know… did it.-" She started.
"No, I completely forgot about that." I joked trying to lighten the mood, only it lightened nothing at all.
"Did you use protection?" She ignored my joke. Her question made me freeze in my bed, and although I was wrapped up in all these quilts, maybe even sweating, I felt chills go down my spine and to my toes. My teethe clattered, it felt like someone had pored ice cold water all over my body and I was frozen. Literally. My hand went to my mouth absentmindedly, and the charms on my bracelet were hardly, audible as they would if my body was responding. The only thing I could really hear was Alice's loud breathing, and my heart pounding in my chest. I blinked a few times, but I was still frozen, and a strange stinging stung at my eyes, making the strangest, slowest tears well up in my eyes. I don't even know what I was realizing or suppose to be thinking, but I guess my body was way ahead of me. Protection, as in a condom. Like the condom, Alice and I bought at the liquor store and blew up, like a balloon, 2 summers ago. A condom, the thing they go on, and on about at school during Sex Ed, because of all the different viruses, you could possibly get.
Viruses I could possibly get.
My thought echoed in my head, but like it was on a mega phone, loud in my ear. Repeating, and repeating.
"I'll see you when I get there." Alice's voice finally spoke again, and I heard her hang up, but I kept the phone to my ear because I was frozen, completely still. Still no movement in my body, as my body reacted in its own mysterious way.
Virus, possibly something I could have now because Edward Masen didn't wear protection, when he took my cotton candy.
Virus, something that could be the reason why I felt sick today, and vomited in the morning.
Virus, such as HIV? AID ?
Oh my goodness, I should have known! I mean lets not beat around the bush, I'm definitely no the first girl Edward Masen, has mysteriously, stolen, cotton candy with his charms, from. And no I defiantly would say I wont be the last. Does it anger me, no, does it bother me a little, but all around I don't really care.
HIV and Me don't belong in the same sentence, I never thought I would say it, I never thought I would have to, but I should have known Edward Masen gave me something, or passed down something he got from one of the other sluts up the list. But I have to get tested first, right? So we are not sure, and I feel fine now, remember I was lying about being terribly sick. People throw up in the morning all the time. I don't know how long I laid there frozen, speechless, out of thought, but the next thing I knew Alice was gently knocking on my bedroom door, and just as she let her little pixie self in. It clicked.
Bella, Bella, Bella, you don't have HIV you don't have any virus, at all. You're perfectly fine and healthy, and that's the way it should stay. Don't eat sushi, and if you were planning to jump on a trampoline anytime soon, you wont be able to do that anymore. And if your thinking about running away after we tell you this, I wouldn't find that necessary, because your problem will follow you.. Literally.
Sorry to break the news to you Teenage Bella, but you just might be pregnant.
NATIONAL TEENAGER WAKE UP CALL ASSOCIATION.
Just Found Out You Might Be Pregnant And You Haven't Even Graduated, Department.
As it clicked, Alice's eyes new, I must have had it all over my face, all over my guilty, slutty face. Alice rushed to my side immediately.
"Oh GOD!" I sobbed into my hands.
I was just as stupid, and maybe even stupider than any teenager, at Forks High.
A/N: Hope you are not confused, but if you are, the whole 'NATIONAL TEENAGER WAKE WAKE UP CALL ASSOCIATION' , is just another way of showing what Bella is thinking. :] So review to me what it is you feel abou this chapter. Thank you!
