This is the last of the story that I had already written so updates will take a few days after this one but I'll try and do it as fast as I can! :) Hope you like it.
The Cullens stayed until about 11, then they made their way home. We spent that time just talking, sometimes making hints about my love life or Edward, but I just ignored them. I wasn't ready to talk about him yet.
Now it's the next morning and we're on our way to school once again, we were in my car which was a black BMW; Rob had brought it me last year for Christmas. I pulled the car into our usual parking space and sighed.
I grabbed my bag and followed the rest of my family out of the car, and we all gathered at the front of my car as class didn't start for another half an hour. Other students were stood around waiting for class to start too, and I noticed that the Cullens were stood across the car park, near Rosalie's car.
I sighed and sat on my car bumper and Hayley sat next to me. I put my head on her shoulder and she offered me one of her earphones and I put it in.
I heard a girl next to us complain that it was really warm and she took her jumper off so she was just wearing a shirt, then I noticed that her friends were also wearing minimal layers. We didn't even feel the heat, I looked at us and noticed that we were all wearing jackets so I shook mine off, and Hayley copied me.
Leo and Josh noticed and then took of theirs too, throwing them into my cars boot. I gave Leo ours and he shoved them in too. I noticed Josh looking at my arm and I looked down and noticed he was looking at the faint scars on my arm. I pulled the earphone from my ear, stood up and pulled him into a hug, he'd always felt bad about what had happened in Italy.
Nothing much had happened but I fought back a lot, and so they fought back too. Jane attempted to use her power on me, but because I'm a shield, it didn't work so they resorted to other ways of 'torture' because I refused to co-operate with them.
I was bitten a lot, and I vaguely remember Jane scratching me with her long nails which left straight, but really faint scars on my arms and some on my legs. The scars weren't visible to a human, but we all could see them clearly.
Josh froze but then pulled me closer, hugging me back. I felt Leo stroke my back but I didn't pull away from Josh. I looked up to see the Cullens looking, Alice looked curious but I didn't say anything. Josh pulled away eventually.
"Sorry Bells." He said. "I don't see them often and when I do, it makes me feel awful…"
"It wasn't your fault, you know?" I said, touching his arm. "It wasn't anyone's fault."
"I know but I was meant to come hunting with you that time." Josh said. "I bailed on you to go to a soccer game, so it was my fault." He said looking guilty.
I slapped his arm. "That has nothing to do with it, it would have still happened even if you had come, they had planned it thinking you were there, they were going to kill you."
He looked up, wide eyed and I saw Hayley and Leo walk over warily.
"They were going to kill him?" Leo asked calmly.
I bit my lip and looked around; humans were looking over watching us but couldn't hear what we were saying.
"Aro told me that he'd planned to kill him to get to me." I explained. "That's why I was glad that it was only me they got to."
Josh hugged me again. "Why didn't you tell me?"
"I don't know." I said honestly, biting my lip again. He sighed and rubbed the top of my arm.
The bell rang then, ending our conversation and we all sighed and walked off to our first class. Leo and I had maths together and Hayley and Josh had Biology. We walked off to maths not saying anything, and then we sat in our seats which weren't together, unfortunately. I sat next to a guy called Mark who was really annoying but our teacher was stupid and set up a seating plan.
I sighed and laid my head on the table, waiting for Mr Tate to come in and attempt to teach us something. I felt Mark sit beside me and clear his throat. I looked up and he was looking at me intensely. I growled quietly and he looked away.
I saw Alice walk in and smile at me as she walked past and sat on the spare seat behind me. I gave a small smile back then put my head down again.
Mr Tate walked in and put his stuff on the desk, which unfortunately was right in front of my desk and then cleared his throat at me so I lifted my head.
"I'd appreciate it if you were awake for my lessons, Miss Devine."
I nodded, holding back a small chuckle.
"His zipper is undone again Leo." I said quietly so only he and Alice could hear.
I heard him chuckle quietly and heard Alice laugh too.
Mr Tate got on with the lesson, and I was zoning out because we'd done this about 60 times before.
"Miss Devine?" Mr Tate said and I looked at him with one eyebrow raised. "Since something else is interesting you more, would you answer this question?"
I chuckled, the rest of the class was finding this incredibly difficult, and he was trying to make me look stupid.
"It's -9, sir." I said boredly and he raised his eyebrows.
"That's right." He said, irritated and I chuckled softly so he couldn't hear.
The lesson ended quickly, and then I walked over to Leo so we could make our way to Gym, which was our next lesson. When we got to the changing rooms, Hayley was stood outside the female one so I went in with her.
We changed into the ugly Gym kit then went into the sports hall for the lesson, Leo and Josh were the only people in there, minus the coach and were throwing a basket ball around.
Hayley smirked and stole the ball from Josh then dunked it into the net. I smiled, watching Josh scowl. Hayley threw the ball to me and I threw it into the net from where I was stood, about 30 feet away.
Coach Bradford didn't see but Leo gave me a look, and I shrugged my shoulders. He then picked me up over his shoulder and I laughed, making Coach Bradford look over as students came into the hall to see Leo holding me over his shoulder.
He apologised then put me down and I just laughed at him. Josh threw the ball back to Coach Bradford, who nearly fell over when he caught it. We just chuckled and then the Cullen's walked in, wearing gym kits.
Coach Bradford told us to sit down while he explained the lesson so I sat down next to Hayley and then Alice sat next to me. I turned to her and she smiled, and I gave a small smile back.
I tried to pay attention to what Coach Bradford was saying but I was distracted because Edward had decided to sit directly behind me, and I could feel Alice's gaze on my arms. When he finished talking I sighed and stood up, grabbing Hayley's arm and walked to Leo and Josh so we could be a team of 4, as we were playing 4v4 basketball.
I noticed that Alice, Jasper and Emmett were together, teamed with Mark, and Edward and Rosalie had teamed with two guys who I can't remember the names of. Coach Bradford put us against Alice, Jasper, Emmett and Mark. I sighed; it was typical of him to put us against them.
We stood in the court while the rest of the students watched, waiting for Coach Bradford to go and get a pump for the ball. I tied the bottom of the shirt so it didn't ride up; I didn't think that would be good considering that the rest of the class had to watch while we played.
I was subconsciously rubbing my arms while I stood next to Hayley and looked to the other side of the court and noticed Jasper watching the movement. I looked away quickly, why did they seem to have some kind of obsession with my scars?
Coach Bradford came back in with a few balls that were inflated, and threw one to me. I raised an eyebrow at him.
"Your team might as well start; you always seem to end up with the ball anyway." He said gruffly and I looked at Leo and he chuckled.
He blew the whistle and I saw Mark come up in front of me to try and take the ball. I just smiled at him and he smiled back, dazzled so I took the opportunity to throw the ball to Josh who was stood near the net and Alice and Jasper were stood near them. He easily jumped up to catch it, avoiding Jasper and Alice's attempts to stop him getting it, then dunked it into the net smoothly.
The game went on and we got 5 more, and they got 2. The game ended with us in lead, so he told us to sit down and let another 2 teams go on to play. We sat on the floor next to the rest of the students who weren't playing. Edward and Rosalie weren't playing yet so Alice, Jasper and Emmett sat with them.
I was sat next to Leo and a few humans were next to me, having a conversation about shopping. Josh turned to me.
"Is Jake visiting soon then?" Josh said.
"He said he wants too but we didn't discuss it further." I explained.
"We're free this weekend, aren't we?" Hayley said.
"I'm assuming so." I said.
"Ask him to come this weekend, or we could go to him." Hayley said and I nodded.
"I'll text him at lunch." I replied. "What should we do?"
"We should ride the bikes again, but after last time…" Josh said, eying me.
"Shut up." I said to him. "I didn't mean to flip the damn thing."
Hayley laughed loudly, earning glares from Coach Bradford and I frowned at her.
"Seriously that was the funniest thing ever, and that guy came running out of his house because he thought you died." She said, laughing and I frowned as Leo and Josh laughed too.
"That wasn't funny at all." I argued. "I broke my baby."
Leo sniggered. "We brought you a better one."
"No." I said. "That was my baby."
I huffed and turned slightly and noticed that the humans sat next to us were listening to our conversation. I just chuckled and they smiled back slightly.
Coach Bradford blew the whistle for the game to finish, and then Edward and Rosalie went up to play with their team. I saw Alice motion for me to come over to her, Jasper and Emmett so I looked at Leo and he motioned for me to go so I stood up and walked over to her. She pulled me down next to her and I complied and sat down.
She grabbed my arm and I heard her gasp and Jasper was looking too.
"What happened?" She said, looking up. "I noticed them while we were playing but I didn't want to mention them."
"The Volturi did them…" I explained. "I don't like talking about it."
Jasper scooted closer and looked at the bite marks and long straight scars.
"How?" He said, tracing them gently.
"Jane scratched me a few times, stuff like that." I explained. "They tried using their powers on me because I wouldn't co-operate, but none of their powers worked because of my shield. They felt this was nessicary even though I still wouldn't do what they wanted."
"What did they want you to do?"
"Join them, and convince my family to join them too." I told them. "I told them that I would rather die, but they didn't want to kill me and 'waste' my power. So they did this hoping I would give in."
"I'm glad you didn't give in." Emmett said, speaking for the first time.
I smiled weakly at him, and he smiled back.
"They'll come back one day." I said. "They let me go too easily; they obviously have something up their sleeve."
Alice frowned. "I guess you're right."
"Leo always said that if they came back, they'll expect a fight." I said. "I've began to believe that he's right, they wouldn't give up so easily until they have at least one of us."
"Well we'll help too." Emmett said.
"Thanks, I guess." I said. "Hopefully it's not something my family and I have to think about soon."
He smiled and I heard Coach Bradford blow the whistle and Edward and Rosalie came back and sat down. I smiled at Alice, Jasper and Emmett then walked back to my family.
The next two teams had gone onto the court so I sat down quickly next to them, where I was sat before. The girls next to us were quiet now and were silently watching the basketball game, but probably listening to our conversation.
"What did they want?" Leo asked and I saw the girls next to us lean towards us slightly, a movement only visible to us. I chuckled and turned to him.
"They just wanted to ask about… something." I said and he nodded, understanding what I was saying as he saw that I was rubbing my arms slightly. "I just told the truth."
We sat back for the rest of the lesson watching the humans run around playing basketball, and then Coach Bradford sent us away to change and go to our next lessons.
Our next few lessons passed and we didn't share any with the Cullens.
At lunch we went into the canteen, and our usual table was taken.
Hayley nodded towards the Cullen table and Alice was waving us over.
I sighed and Leo walked in front of me, pulling me towards the table. When we got there Alice moved her chair up leaving a big gap then Josh grabbed some seats from a spare table and put them next to the table.
Leo pulled me down and sat me on the chair next to him, which was also next to Alice. Josh and Hayley sat next to Leo, and Hayley was sat next to Rosalie.
I looked up and saw that Edward was sat opposite me and I sighed, making him look in my direction. When we caught gazes, he sent me a weak smile then looked away.
Josh realised that I felt awkward so leaned in front of Leo to talk to me.
"Weren't you going to text Jake at lunch?" He said and I sent him a grateful smile.
"Yeah, I'll do it now."
I pulled out my phone and went to text him I sent him a message asking him if he wanted to visit this weekend, and then put it away again.
"Are we riding the bikes again then?" Hayley said, smirking and I just glared at her, knowing that she was trying to annoy me.
"No." I said bluntly. "I refuse to even sit on that thing."
They laughed and the Cullens watched curiously.
"Don't snap at us, Bell." Leo said. "It was you who did it."
I huffed.
"What should we do then?" Josh said.
"Cliff diving again?" Hayley said, picking at a sand which. "That was fun last time."
"Nah." Josh said. "We always do that."
"We always rode the damn bikes too." I murmured.
"Shut up, Bella." Hayley said, chuckling.
"I didn't even want to ride that weekend." I explained. "If you three didn't make me then it wouldn't have happened, would it."
"It's not what happened that's funny, it was that guys face because he knew that any normal person wouldn't have survived that." Hayley said.
"It wouldn't have been funny if he pressed it further." I snapped and she stopped laughing.
"Leo said his thoughts we fine, he didn't suspect anything." She said. "He just thought you were incredibly lucky."
"Lucky." I huffed sarcastically, crossing my arms.
"Yes, he did think you were lucky because there's no way you would have survived that if you were human. Your bike flipped about 30 times." Josh said, laughing.
I groaned and stood up. "I'm getting some food."
When I came back, I could feel the tension between my family and the Cullens. They weren't talking but they weren't even looking at each other, but despite this, the tension was obvious even to humans. I sat down again and threw the food onto the table.
"So has Jake replied yet?" Leo asked as I sat down.
"No, not yet." I replied. "He's probably on patrol or something."
"I hope he can come, we could go skinny dipping again." Hayley joked.
The Cullen's all looked up at her, shocked.
"Hayley…" I started. "We have never gone skinny dipping."
I saw the Cullens relax slightly at this information.
"We should do." Josh said, playing along.
"No, we shouldn't." I said stubbornly.
"Chill Bells, we've seen you naked before." Josh said, winking.
I glared at him, he wasn't telling the whole story. He had 'accidently' walking in on me showering about 20 years ago and he happened to be naked too.
"You make it sound worse than it was, Josh." I said. "And the term we wasn't the right one, considering only you have."
"You just made it sound worse, Bella... Jeez." Hayley said.
I sighed and leant my head on my arms on the table.
"I hate you all." I said and they laughed at me.
"Give over, you saw me naked too."
"Don't remind me." I snapped.
He just laughed and threw a chip and me, which I just threw back.
"You liked it." He snapped and I just glared at him.
I just scoffed and ignored him, then felt a tap on my shoulder.
I turned my head to see Kelsey Jenkins, Daniel Cosgrove's girlfriend. Daniel Cosgrove, yeah. The guy who flirts on me everyday even though he has a girlfriend and she seems to really like him but he's oblivious to that. He's oblivious to everything though, to be honest.
I didn't like Kelsey that much though. She reminds me of the plastic bitch from Mean Girls, she seems to think the whole school revolves around her. She was stood next to her two 'followers'.
"I heard you've been flirting with my boyfriend, is that true?" She said and I raised an eyebrow and turned to Josh, who was sniggering.
"Which one?"
She scowled at me and I just raised an eyebrow again. I heard a few people laughing behind me including Edward.
"The only one I have, Daniel."
"Oh him." I said and looked over to him, and he smirked at me so I just scoffed at him.
"Yeah, well can you back the fuck off please?"
"That won't be a problem as long as he stays the heck away from me."
"Get real; we all know you're a slut."
I scoffed and turned to Hayley and gave her a look that said 'did she really just say that?' Hayley was wide eyed then she just shrugged.
I turned back to Kelsey who was looking smug, mainly because the whole cafeteria was watching now, and she loved the attention.
"You believe that then but we both know it isn't true."
She laughed then leaned in to whisper in my ear.
"We all know you want Edward in your pants."
I didn't reply instead just watched her and her posse walk out like they owned the place.
I turned back to the table slowly to see that Edward was staring at me intensely. I just shook my head lightly at him then stood up and left the cafeteria, my family following close behind.
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