CHAPTER EIGHT.

SM owns everything. Sheesh.

Facebook was something I really hate at times. All there was to do was let people know about you and to mind other people's business. I never really understood the concept behind it. I had like only two friend requests and some random guy I had added earlier this week only because he went to school here tagged me in a video. Apparently a lot of people had commented on this video.

I hit the play button and waited for it to play. The camera was all over the place when it finally settled on to people shouting and hitting each other on the ground.

NO! It can't be…it hadn't even been a proper three hours! Okay that was kind of long but still.

That dude had already posted up the video with me and Cullen fighting. Everyone must have seen this by now. I checked that list with the people online thank god only nine persons were online. Earlier this week I had already added Alice and shockingly she was online.

It was only a matter of seconds before she rushed in here and jump on my case. If she sees this… I quickly logged off and ran out the room. I didn't know where I was going but it had to be away from here. Imagine how many people have already seen that video. This, This is why I hated facebook.

I kept half running through campus ignoring some stares. Is saw Emmett but I didn't stop. Jacob's bike was there and I hopped on mine and sped around the building back on to the freeway.

I didn't exactly know where I was going but riding got my mind of things. I drove around aimlessly for about what seemed like half an hour and every time I made the complete circle I kept drifting in front of Jacob's hangout spot. About the third time I came around by the bar Embry was out front with a bottle in his hand. He saw me and flagged me down. I gladly stopped and followed him into the bar.

"Hey guy look who I found." He called when we walked in.

Paul looked up from his task of wiping a glass and smiled.

"Hey it's Badass Bella, alright!" Quil called and rose for a high five.

"That's what they call me." It felt so go to be in a place to be welcomed and appreciated for once. Every one around here was so friendly and war and ….huge.

I walked up to the table by Paul and took a seat right in front him. To be honest I found his job to be cool.

"So what are you doing here?" he asked.

"It's a crime to come here and check out some people I knew for a day or two? Well I sorry."

We both laughed at my out of timing comment.

"Embry flagged me down and plus I had nothing to do."

Quil and Embry had both joined each other over few beers on the other table.

"So where's Jacob."

"I don't know maybe back at school." And I brushed my hair back from my face. I immediately remembered the bruise but Paul caught a sight of it. I put down the glass and leaned over to move my hair.

"What happened to you?" He said that a little too loud. Quil and Embry from the table behind us heard and abruptly stopped their conversation and looked at us.

"It's nothing I got into a little fight."

"It looks bad." Paul stated. "Who was it?"

"Some other guy. You might not know him."

"Shoot." I guess I could tell him. There's a one in a million chance that he'd know who Edward Cullen is. I hope it's not that one.

"Edward Cullen."

"Nah. Beats me."

"Edward Cullen? As in the electrician son that guy owes me." Quil said.

"No smartass that's Edwin Collins. She's talking about the Doctor's kid. Right?" So they did know.

"Yeah."

"Jacob says that guy is a real pain in the ass."

"Yeah he is." I always spoke the truth. Okay so that's lie but this isn't

"Did you hit him back?"

"Of course!" Why wouldn't I?

"Dude you're talking to Badass Bella. Did you forget?" That answered his question. Everyone went back to what they were doing. I kept watching Paul serve drinks and his constant tricks that he tried to impress me with.

"How do you do that?" Seriously I was impressed. He made it all look so easy.

"It's easy. You wanna learn?"

"Sure." You bet!

I ran around the counter and followed his instructions.

"Now one of the most important secrets is to always keep the glasses chilled so you put them in here." He showed me under the counter where there was some sort of built in freezer. In it had dozens of glasses.

That when some guy and a chick walked up to us and asked, "One beer and a cosmopolitan."

"You wanna do it?" Paul asked me. I nodded with a bright smile across my face. "Well you know about beerso go ahead." I poured the rum into the chilled glass and gave the man.

"Now a cosmopolitan is one of the easiest drinks." And he gave me the instructions and helped me through the course of the drink. It was a complicated mixture but I got through.

"There you have it. Your first ever Cosmopolitan."

He served the drink and the guy said, "Take one for the little lady there." I blushed furiously. Paul nudged me to go ahead. I went through the step a second time proud that I made it on my own this time. To be honest I didn't know what had alcohol and what didn't. So when I gave Paul he said to drink it.

"I…um…don't drink."

"Are you serious?"

I nodded. The guy had already left and there wasn't anyone who could drink it so he took it.

He held the glass up to me and said, "Cheers to Bella's second cosmo." And he drank it.

I felt really proud but sad that I didn't drink it. Damn my father.

"You should come around and help me on busy days. You learn fast." He complimented.

"Really?" Was he serious.

"Yeah why not?"

"Alright then. I will."

If my dad was here he'd drop dead. But he could go right to hell. He didn't care about me then why would he care now. All he really cared about was his rules. Well Mr. Charlie Swan, Chief of Police, and his precious badge could go to hell. To the deepest pit in hell.

I spent the next hour learning to make common drinks. Around half nine Paul turn up the music and the bar slowly began to fill. I became busy and I gladly helped with the few drinks I learnt to make.

Jacob strolled in with both hands in his pockets. I was filling a glass of beer when he yelled over the music to Quil.

"Quil! They're here!" Quil blushed furiously under his evenly tanned skin. What was that about. Paul started howling with laughter and Jacob made his way over to us.

"Hey Bella." I smiled.

"Who's here?" I was curious. What would make Quil blush so much?

"Claire and her friends. They're our coyotes." Huh? Paul saw the confused expression on my face. "They keep some of these dunks in here entertained." Jacob kept grinning when I understood.

"So Bella who'd you end up here?"

"Quil flagged me down." I ducked under the counter to grab another glass but as I rose the hair I had used to cover my face slipped away. Jacob happy attitude was twisted away.

"Did…Is that from today?" He said in such a low voice that could barely hear over the constant thudding of the bass of the music. I nodded in response. "I'm gonna twist that bastard so…Why didn't you let me take care of him."

"Because I can take care of myself."

"I'll say. That was a pretty damn good fight. Cullen has this scar on his face straight down to his neck." I grimaced. I never imagine that I'd leave such a scar. Jacob pointed with his finger along his skin to show me where it was. It did feel relieving that a left a nasty mark. A reminder. "Does it hurt?"

"A little." He grimaced a little. He really felt bad that he didn't do something. It was all over his face. I lightly slapped him the stomach. "Hey cheer up. Let it go."

At that minute three girls walked through the door. All of them well dress with the sparkly kind of dresses and plenty lip-gloss. They all walked up to Paul and only the first hugged him the others just smiled. Jacob leaned into my ear and whispered, "That's Claire."

Wow. She was pretty. Quil had good taste. Her skin was a light shade of tan compared to Quil's and her eyes accented her face perfectly. Her round face was bored with her loose short dark brown hair. She wiggled her behind as she walked and her hour glass body said it all. If Quil wasn't falling head over heel for this girl the first impression I'd get was "Whore!." She had it written all over her face but she's got to be nice for Quil to like her.

Quil stood at the other side of the table grinning and biting his lip and when the music changed and all of them jumped up on the table. In the next second the all started doing some routine dance but not the kind of dropping down low just the knocking of the heel and clapping and singing trying to get everyone to join in.

"Aren't they considered something like strippers without the stripping?" I whispered into Jacob's ear. What? I wanted to know. Well they just came in here and started dancing on the table.

"Nope. They just do it for fun. It's not like they come every night. They come when they're bored. They help Paul serve sometimes when it gets too busy." Ohhhhh!

The night flew by fast and before I knew it I had dragged myself into my bed back on campus. Quil had built up the courage to go close to Claire and talk to her hours after we harassed him. I helped Paul serve for the rest of the night. The bar was still open but I was already beat by midnight. Lauren and Jessica both were in their beds and I was too tired to even open my eyes back.

Surprisingly I awoke in time to get ready for class. Jessica and Lauren had helped me apply concealer to my face to hide the purple bruise where he slapped me. I had another purple mark right on my shoulder where he had grabbed me but I didn't bother to apply concealer there. Jessica and I had our only class together this morning. We were seated in the back of the class and as usual she started some gossip. She went on and on about some kid's life but when she mentioned Edward Cullen I snapped back into her conversation. All I really heard was the name.

"What did you just say?" I asked trying to make it sound like if I wanted reassurance.

"I just wanted to know why you and Edward Cullen got into a huge fight yesterday."

"Oh, you know about that, huh?"

"Who doesn't." She had her hair pulled back into a high tie and every time she moved her head she made it toss a mile behind her.

Jessica was a cup for gossip so if I didn't tell her she'd try to squeeze it out from me or make up some lie. Either way she'd still turn the truth around. "Okay just promise me you won't turn the story around." She nodded impatiently. Her eyes sparkled and her lips were kept in a tight line. "So Cullen and I had already fallen out earlier this week and we were in class when it all happened. Simone walked out every two minutes and you know how much Emmett talks. So both of them are there and one minute they're both laughing and the next minute they're both on the floor punching each others face in. So when both of them stop they continued quarreling about each others girl and then Cullen tells Emmett shouldn't talk because he was going around his girl's back fucking me." She gasped. "So yeah then I walk up to him and put him in his place but then he grabs my wrist but then free myself. Keeps talking so then I tell him shit about Tanya and he hits me so I attacked him." She acted so surprised.

"Tanya is the biggest whore I've ever met." Was all she had to say. "But still he's sexy you have to admit."

"He is but he's only good for his looks."

"But he's hot."

"Yes." If I didn't agree with her two things would have happened. One I'd be lying to myself and two she'd pressure me until agreed. "He is hot but he does have to act so hopeless and ignorant all the time."

"He doesn't act he is so. Didn't you here what people said what happened with him."

"Nope." Whatever it was I wanted to know. I wanted to get to know Edward Cullen. I want to figure him out. And I will not rest until I did. Not matter how much it'd hurt me I wanted to understand him. I hated him but I was attracted to his looks but there was also something. Something dark and I wanted to know.

"Well the talk goes something like when he was little his father was murdered but I don't know how but his mother got blamed and she went to jail. She came out when he was sixteen but by then he had already inherited his father's wealth which apparently is a lot and he threw it away. I don't know on what or why but my guess is on drugs. Yeah so when she came out she died three months after who also left money from him. So he got rich and threw it away again still don't know on what."

For the rest of the class Jessica and I gossiped continuously. It wasn't like me to do that but I did. I could not believe some of the ridiculous things she was telling me.

The rest of the day went by smoothly. I did not bounce into Emmett or Edward and right now I was looking for Alice. She had planned our little shopping plans for tomorrow night. Angela said to check up in their room. Angela was too busy to leave her math sum to help look for Alice.

I pushed the door open only to find the little room still crisp clean. The curtains were drawn in and a slight shadow was casted over the floor from the window.

"Alice?" I called knocking on the door. She didn't answer. "Alice?"

Slowly she turned around to face me. She looked hurt and confused. "Are you alright Alice?"

Still no answer. She walked up to me and pulled me on the couch to sit with her. Her small figure looked burdened and her eyes glinted with remorse. She dragged in a long breathe pumping her small chest.

"Bella? Aren't you my friend?" Huh? Where was she going with this? What kind of question was that?

"Of course." And I swung my right hand over her shoulder. She was so small that my hand made a complete circle around her shoulders. "Why would you ask a question like that?"

She pulled away a little to look me in the eyes. "Then why wouldn't you tell me that it was Edward who did that to you?" Oh. I pulled my hand away and leaned back into the sofa. "Bella! Why?"

I fiddled with the edge of the sofa's cushion trying to distract myself. I simply shrugged my shoulders. "I…I…didn't know…"

She softly tugged my hand to grasp my attention. "Why Bella?" Her voice became a whisper.

"Because…" I sighed heavily. "Because I didn't want to involve his family."

"So you had to let me find out on facebook? Do you know how much that hurts?"

"I'm sorry Alice but I wanted this just to between me and him and not his family. Just don't tell your dad will you?"

Is this why she was up here all alone? To contemplate how to deal with her cousin and my fight? She was truly a creature that didn't allow things to slip by.

"I won't but this will never happen again. Will it?"

"No Alice it won't." There really wasn't any other answer I could give her. She was small but her personality was huge. "Alice forget about this. I won't happen again I promise. So cheer up and lets go shopping!" I tried to put aside my dislike for shopping and added a huge amount of effort in saying the last part. I grabbed her wrist before she could say any more and dragged her out of campus.

Alice didn't exactly take us shopping in the area. The drive was an hour long and she was bouncing in her seat which was the driver's seat babbling about how great this was going to be. Her driving was safe except for every minute when she took her eyes off the road to talk to us. She'd swerve which made my heart palpitate. But the next swerve she took made the blood fall of my face. A cold shiver passed through me.

I was not going to die in the front seat of Alice's car!

"Alice damn it pull over!" My both hands were clutched onto the seat and the seat belt. When she pulled over on the shoulder I rushed out and opened the door for her to get out. She pouted her lip and quickly gave in. When both of us climbed back in in each other's seat Angela whispered in the back seat with a hand over her heart.

"Oh thank God."

"My driving is not that bad." Alice defended.

"Oh believe me it is." She folded her hands and ranted on again.

"But dad lets-"

"Oh I love this song!" I cried and rose of the volume to tune Alice out. I saw Angela giggling in the back from the mirror. Immediately I began to sing along to the song. This was a song everyone knew. It's been playing for ages on the radio. It was 'Your love is my drug'

Alice was thrown into a fit of laughter. She nearly choked when I reached the high notes and went off key. But when she regained her self she began singing along as to Angela. Alice began making weird signs in the air that corresponded with the song. She pretended that she held a mike in front of her and when she hit the high notes we heard a big ugly croak from Angela that made us laugh but Alice wrinkled up her little face and opened on eye bigger than the other. I guess none of us could sing.

Alice had kicked off her shoes and was kneeling in the seat going higher and higher with every note. It was hilarious. Angela had tears running down her check and her face red as hell! We kept going song after song and every time and advertisement came on she'd mouth the words and act it out. She was beyond crazy. We were laughing so hard! It was to let go sometimes.

We were walking in and out of stores. We already had three bags with our clothes but Alice just wouldn't stop! I was never going to shop with Alice ever again! My feet were killing me and Angela's face said it all. Her both hands were full and every time her glasses slid to the tip of her nose she'd ask me to push it up for her. My high ponytail had fallen and I felt the concealer slowly sweating off. Alice promised this would be the last stop but I didn't believe her. She said that for the last five stores.

The three of us walked in and just like any of the stores they had a plethora of clothing and accessories on display. Just that this one was a little more professional. Mannequins graced the front show and the black sign with the french name hung valiantly over the door. Alice twirled up to the cashier and whispered something which brought a smile to his face.

Alice followed him to the back of the store where was another secret part of the store. Angela and I stared at the wide variety of clothing from long tops and sophisticated dresses to lingerie.

"Alice what are you thinking?" I asked suspiciously. She turned around to the both of us and smiled wickedly. She was not…We weren't going to buy…No!

When she saw the look on my face she defended, "Well I can't have you wearing granny panties under such tight clothing!" She said pitching her voice at the end.

"Alice you made us buy clothes that could last us for the next two weeks!"

"Be understanding Bella. Some of those clothes even I snuck in for you are too tight or to thin to wear baggies under. Would you feel proud that a guy saw you in grannies or some nice, expensive thongs?" She said wiggling her eyebrows.

She was such a hard person to beat down! I rolled my eyes and sat on one of the soft chairs. I can't believe she even bought clothes and snuck it into my bag without me even knowing. I sat their allowing her to pick out everything like she did in the last twenty stores. There was no way I could argue now. I argued for every store and if I did now she might rip my head off.

Alice went through every rack possible of lingerie. While she held out each she painted some embarrassing fantasy for either Angela or I. She was unbelievable. There was not a moment when she did not bring a smile to your face.

By the time we reached back it was about ten due to the fact that Alice had a hundred stops to make and we were hungry too…so…yeah. I hauled myself to my bed room and drop my new things and myself on the bed. Lauren and Jessica were already in their beds.I didn't even bother to change. I was too tired. My heels were killing me and my hands hurt from all that toting of luggage.

Okay I know this was nothing compared to my other chapters but I have the cold and it's really hard to type and sneeze at the same time. So I'm sorry for being the lazy ass person I am and not updating fast enough. But I'm telling you from now I would not, I repeat would not be updating for the whole of August. I have my reasons so I'm trying to write as much as I could right now and that's why there are so many mistakes because I don't have the time to read over the chapters to correct them. My finger tips are beginning to bleed with all the typing I'm doing right now. So I am really, really sorry.

A big shout out to Tayras! Don't worry sunshine your planned chapter would be like two chapters after this. Tayras and I have planned that particular chapter since like the beginning of June. Don't worry I'll have a big head line on the chapter.

So once more people please, please, please review!