Chapter 3
Through Bella's eyes
"Spaghetti?" Bella asked.
"It's the only thing I know how to cook." Cassie admitted sheepishly as she set the plates down.
"I'm not all that hungry, but thanks." Bella said. Cassie rolled her eyes.
"Please eat?"
"No, really, I'm fine." Bella insisted. Twirling a fork in Bella's food, Cassie held it up for her.
"Here comes the chew-chew train." Bella laughed half-heartedly.
"Cassie, stop."
"Airplane is coming in for a crash landing! Clear the runway!" She shouted, now just playing with the food. "Ah! Crash!" She made the fork collide with the plate. Bella was rolling her eyes.
"Captain, we are ready to leave the port! Aye, move, men, move! Yoho, yoho, a pirate's life for me!" She sang. Bella was in hysterics now.
"Pirates, really?"
"Yes, really." Cassie rolled her as if it were obvious and shoved the noodles into her mouth.
"Okay, pirates or ninjas?" Cassie asked, pulling her legs into Indian style on the chair.
"I'm not sure." Bella shrugged. "What about you?"
"I don't know either. I kind of want to be on both. Maybe a pirate with the skills of a ninja." Cassie pondered.
"Why not just a ninja?" Bella asked.
"Easy, pirates are rebels. How much fun would that be?" Cassie laughed.
"You think about this stuff too much." Bella laughed.
"It's true, I over think things." Cassie shrugged and lifted the food to her mouth.
"Hey, Cassie?"
"Hm?" She chewed on the noodles.
"How did you get that scar?" Bella asked.
"Which one?" She asked automatically.
"Um, the one on your hand. You have more?" Bella referred to the burn marks that disappeared into her sleeve.
"Only a few, mostly from tripping in my childhood, running into a glass door, and getting skin caught in metal." Bella grimaced and Cassie laughed. "I was a klutz."
"So what did you do to get that one? It looks like a burn, not a cut." Bella referred to the deformed skin that stretched over her left hand.
"Oh, cooking accident. I accidentally poured boiling oil on it when I was little." She shrugged. Bella felt a twinge of pity. Cassie had to live with her mistake for her whole life.
"Hey, at least you're right handed." Bella said, trying to be positive.
"Actually, I'm ambidextrous, but thanks!" She smiled. "Hey, you want to watch a movie?" Cassie asked suddenly.
"Um, sure." Bella laughed at her sister's random outburst and the two brought their food into the living room.
"I think Dracula is on." Cassie offered. The words sent Bella into a downwards spiral. She could feel the despair taking over her body. Of course, Cassie would pick a movie about vampires. Cassie only had to spare a glance at Bella to realize something was wrong.
"You know, I used to be afraid of vampires too. But I was really little when that happened. I was afraid they'd come take me away in the night and turn me into one of them." Cassie smiled at her memories. "Of course as I got older I realized how irrational I was being." Bella could only think of how rational that fear had been.
"You want to watch something else? I think I have Edward Scissor-hands." Again, Bella felt as if Cassie had accidently stomped on her heart.
"Or not." Cassie amended. "How about…" She tried to think of something Bella wouldn't cry at. "Um, some action movie?"
"Yeah," Bella breathed, "action sounds safe." After the bloody movie, Cassie and Bella worked on Cassie's homework because she was just so bad at it.
"Hey, Bella. Come outside with me." Cassie said the next sunny morning.
"I'm more of an inside person." Bella said while her nose was buried in her favorite book.
"Please?" Cassie begged.
"I really don't want to…" Bella dragged.
"Fine then, I'll just go clean it up." This got Bella's attention.
"Clean what up?" Bella got up to follow her.
"Well, you seem all frustrated so I just thought you could use some anger management since you've snapping at people and such." Cassie opened the door and walked outside. Bella quickly followed.
"Cassie, there's nothing out here." Bella realized, suddenly mad Cassie had made her go outside for no reason.
"Take this." Cassie handed Bella a bucket which dragged her to the ground. Peering into the grey container, Bella was curious with what Cassie wanted her to do.
"What are these for?" Cassie rolled her eyes at Bella.
"Water balloons are usually for throwing." She informed like it was the most obvious thing in the world.
"At what, Cassie?" Bella asked.
"That wall." Cassie pointed to the house.
"This makes no sense!" Bella shouted.
"Watch." Cassie picked up a yellow balloon and aimed at the wall. "This is for assigning me so much math homework!" She beamed it at the wall, and it splattered.
"So I'm suppose to say something I'm angry about and then throw it?" Bella questioned.
"Yup."
"Fine." Bella picked up the balloon, feeling utterly ridicules. "Um, how about, this is for ignoring my phone calls?"
"You're not even mad about it." Cassie folded her arms.
"Trust me, I am." Bella laughed.
"Doesn't look like it." Cassie muttered.
"This if for ignoring my phone calls!" Bella threw the balloon with as much force as she could muster. The water splashed against the bricks. Bella realized how truly amazing it felt to break something, even though it was just rubber filled with water.
"This is for not leaving me alone, Mike!" Bella whipped out another one.
"This is for having to do the laundry!" Cassie yelled, sending her balloon with much more force than Bella had. This continued for a few minutes. They would yell things, becoming sillier with each balloon. When they came to their last ones, Bella knew what she wanted to say.
"This is for leaving me." She said soberly and threw it at the wall. Cassie glanced at her two balloons left. Then, so quietly, Bella wasn't sure if she heard it correctly, Cassie said, "Ditto." She threw it with so much force it looked like the balloon exploded before it even hit the wall. Then, with her last balloon, Cassie grinned and became the silly teen Bella knew her for.
"This is because we have to clean this all up!" With a laugh, she catapulted the balloon through the air.
Chapter 3! Wahoo! You guys got to see some sisterly love and what not.
RXR please!