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Welcome to Writing Camp

Chapter 3: Drunken Medusa

Bella POV

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Eventually I was able to go back to sleep. This time, much to my gratefulness, my sleep was dreamless… or, so I thought.

"So, you think I'm good-looking?" Edward asked as we were getting ready for class the next morning.

"No, what gives you that idea?"

"You did." He smirked in my general direction.

I scowled and threw a pillow at him. Of course I thought he was good-looking, but his cocky attitude pissed me off. I am female, after all. His bronze hair that you just wanted to run your hand through over, and over again, and those green, green eyes that seemed to burn into you were just downright hot… but his personality was anything but appealing. And he listened to me in my sleep, the pervert.

He caught the pillow and threw it onto my bed in one swift motion, the smirk on his face growing even wider.

"Where's your girlfriend?" I asked, and the smirk instantly faded, a scowl taking its place.

"She left at around, oh five in the morning. About the time your sleep-talking began." The smirk was back on his face, scowl on mine. "See you later, Barbie." And then he left the room, waving good-bye to me in a mocking way.

I huffed and gathered up all of my materials. It was seven in the morning and I was getting ready for mine and Alice's first class of the summer. It was on the beach, which was news to me, considering that I didn't even know we had a beach anywhere near here. The lesson was on how soothing sounds helped bring out your best writing.

This was also one of those days that the boys were being mixed with us girls. They were learning the same thing, but without the writing part. It was to help them keep better control of themselves with soothing sounds, therefore stopping them before their tempers got in the way. Ha! Good luck with that one, teacher!

I threw my bag on over my shoulder and got out of the room, locking it behind me. Alice was already there, literally boucing with excitement. Sometimes I wondered if she had ADHD or something, because of her hyperness.

After I had her calmed down enough, she hooked her arm with mine and we went downstairs using the elevator, and out the doors of the building. A red ribbon was tied to a tree trunk outside, a note attached to it, written in bright red SHARPIE.

Follow the red markers through the woods and you'll be to the beach in no time. Class starts at 8:30, so try to not be late.

See you there!

-Mrs. Noland & Ms. Esposito

I put the note back where I found it and motoned to Alice to follow me.

Like the note had said, we found the beach pretty quickly. It was a nice beach. The class sat on logs that were positioned in a triangular shape around a bonfire, Mrs. Noland stood next to the unlit teepee. She interrupted what she had been saying to talk to us—the late ones.

"Glad to have you join us!" She said it with no sarcasm that I could place, like most people would. She was as cheery as ever. Mrs. Noland was an older woman, the kind with the friendly voice and face and was always smiling. The kind that was easy to like. "Please take a seat next to Mr. Whitlock and Mr. Cullen." Now I didn't like her. She motioned towards Jasper and Jerk-off with one hand. Alice gladly skipped over and took the seat next to Jasper, only leaving the one next to Jackass open (I refused to call him Edward). Angrily, I took it.

I crossed my legs, folded my arms across my chest, and huffed, glaring straight ahead. I'd ignore him as long as I possibly could, I decided.

"Now, I want everyone to speak with the person beside you about what your own personal favorite place to be alone is now!"

I turned to the girl next to me, but she was already talking with the boy on her other side. I glanced at Jerk-face out of the corner of my eye to see him looking at Jasper desperately. He, however, didn't notice because he was too busy talking animatedly with my best friend. After a while he turned to me, his green eyes nearly black, he was that angry.

We didn't talk at all, just glared at each other. It wasn't long before Mrs. Noland called the class back to order.

"Alright everyone! I'm sure you probably learned about some interesting places to relax, right?" No.

Jackass and I never did look away from one another. I didn't hear a word Mrs. Noland had said; none of it registered in my mind at all. We continued our glaring contest, never looking anywhere but straight into each other's eyes. I was almost too angry to notice how his eyes sparkled whenever you looked at them just right, or what interesting a color they were when he got angry… almost.

It seemed like only minutes later that sge announced, "Okay, that just about wraps up everything for today's lesson. Please come back here again for tomorrow's lesson. You are dismissed!" Everyone stood up from their places on the logs, but jst sort of hung out, talking, not really leaving just yet.

We still didn't stop our scowling at each other.

Over his shoulder, I saw jasper come up behind Edward. He grabbed his sides and yelled "Boo!", causing Edward to jump up.

"Holy Sh—!" he exclaimed as he jumped up out of his chair and swatting at his hands. Alice, Jasper and I began to laugh harder than I ever had in my life.

"You alright, Princess?" I asked him sarcastically.

"Screw you!"

"Yeah," I shrugged indifferently, crossing my legs and checking my nails. "I know you'd like to, but I don't sleep with dick-heads."

There were lots of "Ooooooh!" 's and I smirked at him, standing up. Alice grabbed my arm and started to pull me back through the woods.

"Come on!" she cried, "It's time to do your hair!"

I groaned, and I swear I heard him chuckle from behind me. I ignored it as best I could and tried to keep from falling down over branches and holes, and whatnot that was located in the forest.

She led me straight up to our rooms and into mine, plopping me down on my bed and producing the dreaded hair kit from her bag. I instantly knew that I was screwed.

"Ta-daa!" she yelled, pulling out the plastic box that held all of the necessary tools to highlight my hair.

Including the dreaded hair cap.

There are reasons that no one uses the cap method anymore. But Alice isn't just anyone, and according to her, it is still, and always will be, the best method for highlighting anyone's hair.

She wasted no time sticking the cap on my head. I've learned over time that you don't argue with Alice, so I didn't struggle… not that it stopped it from hurting as she pulled locks of my hair through the little holes in the cap.

Ten minutes later she was done pulling on my scalp. Fifteen minutes later she was putting the blue goop on my head. And twenty minutes later, as she was just about getting ready to smear it on the cap, Edward, Emmett, and Jasper came through the door. The minute they saw me, they began laughing their heads off.

"Since when do I share a room with Medusa?" Edward asked sarcastically, still laughing his ass off.

"Oh, Edward, be nice!" Jasper exclaimed, wiping a tear from laughing so hard from his eye.

"You're one to talk!" I yelled, standing up and grabbing Alice's arm. "Come on, we're finishing in your room."

I ran down the hall and into her room faster than I'd ever ran without tripping on my face. Unfortunately, though, in my haste to get out of the room, some of the bleach fell from the top of my head and onto my shirt. My favorite shirt, I might add.

"Crap, crap, crap, CRAP!" I screeched, flicking the bleach on the carpet. "This is not funny!"

Alice giggled from behind me. "I think it is!"

I stuck my tongue out at her. "Alright, it's getting hot—why is it getting hot? Is that supposed to happen?!"

"Yeah, why?"

"IT BURNS, THAT's WHY!"

"Oh, stop being such a baby and let me help you." I nodded and sat on her bed, letting her spread it around on the cap.

Fifteen minutes later, I was allowed to take it out. She let me use her shower.

She helped me blow-dry my hair so that I could see what I was going to look like for the next coupld months, and I was happy to say that I rather liked the outcome.

My normally boring brown hair was lighter now, or at least it looked that way, what with the many caramel-colored streaks throughout it. I'd be stupid to say that it didn't make me look… prettier than usual… not to sound vain or anything.

"Wow, it's really nice; thanks, Alice!"

She smirked. "See? Told you that you wouldn't look like a freak!"

I turned around and hugged my best friend tightly. She returned the gesture.

By this time, it was time for lunch, so Alice and I headed down for ours.

We ate in the cafeteria. The room looked almost identical to the one back at home, which made it kind of creepy… but still kind of good, because I was really starting to get homesick. Alice and I sat with the boys, but Edward was nowhere to be found… not that I minded.

Once that was over with Alice and I went back up to her room to room and watched movies until around nine o'clock, which was when she turned the television off halfway through The Scream.

"What was that for? It was just getting good!" I asked, stuffing more of the buttered popcorn in my mouth.

"Jasper invited me to a party down at the beach, and I really want to go! We're already late!"

She didn't even re-do her make-up, which was surprising, considering it was Alice, and pulled me along the hall and back to the beach, almost where we were before.

The party was actually on the beach, though—as in, basically in the water. Boys and girls were in their bathing suits, slapping water at each other, others were drinking. Emmett, Edward, and Jasper just happened to make up one-third of the drinking group.

I huffed, and followed Alice over to them.

Alice basically hopped right into Jasper's lap and took his beer from him, chugging it down like no tomorrow. Everyone around them were cheering her on, whereas I just looked disgusted. Edward seemed to take notice of my turned-up nose, for he said, "Whatsa matter, Barbie? Don't you ever drink?"

I folded my arms across my chest and huffed. "No, I don't actually."

Everyone began laughing. Even Alice.

Normally I wouldn't give in to peer pressure or anything like that, but seeing Alice laugh at me drew the line. I yanked the beer out of Edward's hand and tried my hand at it.

First off, it smelled horrible and second, it tasted even worse, almost burning as it went down my throat. I shuddered, but took another sip.

"How do you guys stand this?" I asked disgustedly.

They all shrugged, and said at nearly the exact same time, "It's an acquired taste." And then everyone began to laugh. Man, they were already drunk of their asses.

Apparently this was true, though, because after a while of sipping the beer, I became used to it, and began to almost… enjoy it, if that were possible. After that, I'm pretty sure I got drunk as well, and the rest of the night passed in a blur. I think I even made out with one guy…

I remember dancing with a drunken Edward to the music that someone was playing from their iPod, and that was about it, until…

"And that is the story of how I chased away a hobo and won back my pants in a videogame contest at two in the morning!" Edward declared. Everything had been cleared out, the beach pretty much trashed. Edward and I were the only two left, and we lay out underneath the stars, shoulders practically touching and the water from the ocean tickling out toes we were so close to it. He turned his head to face me, making our foreheads touch. "Don't you just love Spring Break?"

I giggled and a hiccup escaped my lips. We both froze up, just staring at each other in shock before engaging in laughter that I'd never experienced in my life—even worse than at the lesson that morning. It's amazing what you thought was funny when you were drunk.

"Y-y-you hi-hiccupped!" he exclaimed, words slurring. We began to laugh even harder. Then we calmed down… right before beginning to laugh again, still harder.

"Alice is gonna be sooo mad at me," I said, flopping onto my back again to look up at the stars. They would have been pretty, I decided, if they would have just sat still. They kept spinning and spinning round and round, making me dizzy… not that I wasn't dizzy already. And I knew it would be five times worse in the morning.

"You know what? I think I… I think I know Alice!" he slurred again.

"Ya, I know you know who my bestest bud is. I mean, you know, 'cuz we're roommates and all."

He ignored me. "I think I had a cousin named Alice one time. I don't think I talked to her in, like…" he looked like he was thinking very hard. "In, like, ten years!"

"How old were you?"

"Uhh, four?"

"Wow!"

"Yeah, I know, right?"

"Why don't you talk to her?" I asked, genuinely curious even though I was a little too drunk for my own good.

"I don't even, like, know where she is anymore! We were, like, best buds and then I started, like, you know, being all bad-like."

"You're hot," I decided to say. "You're, like, super pretty."

He laughed. "Haha! Is that, like, a good thing to be, like, pretty?"

"I think it is."

"Oh. But, like, yeah… I think it was, like, a car accident! And then I started being all mean to, like, everyone after that, so they, like, moved away! I don't even think she remembers me." He sounded sad.

"So, you don't talk to her?" He shook his head. "I'm sorry." And I think I really was, too.

He waved his hand dismissively. "It was, like, my fault though because I, like, was really rude to everyone, including her! So, like, yeah."

"What was her last name?" I decided to ask.

"Uhh… I think it started with a 'B'…" I knew someone with a last name with 'B'! I just couldn't remember at the time.

"Oh…"

"Yeah."

I sniffed for no reason, and turned back to look at him again.

"You know how you said I was hot?" he asked.

"Yeah?"

"I think you're, like, super pretty too."

"Why are you so mean to me all the time then?" I asked.

"Because! You're, like, really pretty and I, like, like-like you and, like, you show, like, no preference in me at all!"

"There were way too many 'likes' in that sentence," I pointed out, and we both giggled. "You sounded like Shaggy, from Scooby-Doo!"

"Shaggy is my favorite character," he said. He sounded far away…

"I like Velma," I said. "She's real smart."

"Who do you think I'd be if we were in Scooby-Doo?"

"Fred."

"Why?"

"'Cuz you're really cool, I guess." I shrugged.

"You'd be Velma."

"Why?" I asked.

"'Cuz you're real smart."

"Alice would be Daphne."

"Emmett would be Shaggy."

"And that leaves Jasper with Scooby!" we said at the same time, and then giggled… a lot.

"You know what I just realized?" I asked suddenly.

"What?"

"That one dud in The Scream, the one who said his motive for killin' people was because of peer pressure, because he's sensitive, that is the dud who plays Shaggy, just younger!"

Edward gasped. "It is, isn't it?"

"Yeah!"

"How do you know that?"

"We were watching that earlier today."

"Oh."

"Yeah."

"I like you," he said.

"I like you, too."

"Enough to kiss me?"

I pretended to think about that, but I didn't really, because I already knew the answer. "Yeah, I like you enough to kiss you." And then I added, "When you're not being super-duper mean to me."

"Am I being 'super-duper mean' now?"

"No…"

"Kiss me, then."

"Okay!" I bent in farther and pressed my lips to his. I'd be lying if I said that it didn't feel nice… a little too nice.

"So, did you really watch The Scream today?" he asked once I pulled away completely.

"Yeah." I waved my hand dismissively. "Alice and I were channel surfing today, and The Scream was on, and I was all like, 'No, leave it on!' so we watched, like, the last few minutes of it. That movie is, like, sooo not scary!" Something rustled in the bushes and I yelped, jumping into his lap –making him sit up—and wrapping my arms around his neck. "Edward! The cream, he's going to get us! Wait, you're a virgin, right?"

"Yeah, why?"

"Whew!" I sighed. "Because that means we'll live! According to the movie, if you're a virgin, you always live."

"High five!" he yelled, and held his hand up. I smacked my hand against his, and we giggled.

In the light of the moon, I saw him glance down at my lips before leaning in real slowly. I closed my eyes right before he pressed his lips to mine, and they moved together slowly and –surprisingly- lovingly.

We eventually had to pull away from lack of air. Once we were able to breathe again, he spoke.

"Bella, there's something I have to tell you."

"Yes?"

"Uhh… okay, before I say it, you're awesome and all, and you're, like, really pretty and fun to hang out with and everything, but… if we were to get chased by vampire monkeys, I'd trip you."

I gasped and punched him in the arm. "Thanks! I thought you were about to announce your undying love for me or something! That makes me feel good!"

He grinned cheekily. "Sorry!"

I smirked. "It's alright, because if you tripped me, I'd grab your foot and take you down with me!"

This time, it was his turn to gasp. "Evil girl!" And we began to laugh again.

I rolled my eyes, but it hurt real bad. I slid off of his lap, and buried my face in his chest. "My head hurts, really bad," I whined.

"Let's go get some coffee," was his master plan.

"We can't."

"Why?"

"First off, I'm Mormon, and Mormons don't drink coffee. And second, it's, like, two in the morning, so nowhere is going to have any coffee!"

"Oh, yeah, huh? Well, then I guess just go to sleep, and we'll get some in the morning."

"I can't!"

"No one will know, Bella!"

"True," I sighed. "Fine, I'll go to sleep."

And I don't remember anything after that.

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Poor, unsuspecting Bella and that blasted highlighting kit! A similar thing happened to me once… and yes, those caps really hurt, in case you've never used one! There's a picture in the STORY LINK section on my profile to give you a visual… if you need one!

And I know that the drunken part seemed random, but trust me; their conversation was a bigger part of the story than it looks like now! Lots of stuff came out that wouldn't have come out anyways; like the fact that he's still a virgin (keep that in mind!!) and his admitting to knowing Alice. Yes, it's the same one.

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