Chapter 34:

Cursed

He left her broken, pregnant with me and just about dead in the soul type sense. All that pain. The pain that my mom could never erase from her eyes. The pain as she sometimes looked at me and saw him in my features. All the times she sobbed at night over him. Then he comes here and lies to her again and again to her face, killing her more each time! I no longer felt confused and sad. I was furious. He caused all this. Him! I took a gulp of my water angrily.

"Whoa Nessie! Anger rush! Big time!" Sophie said as I got up.

She tried to grab me but I was already out of her reach. My goal, the Cullen table. Jasper seemed to sense my anger because Edward looked at me uncertainly, got up, and walked out of the cafeteria. I followed out after him quickly.

"Get back here you chicken!" I yelled after him.

He ran off into the woods and I took that as a challenge. I ran off after him only to be caught by a pair of arms.

"Nessie, calm down" Will said as he pulled me back.

"Let go and let me kill that bastard!" I said as I struggled, nearly getting out of his grip.

Then, he did something that really surprised me . . . he shocked me. I fell into his waiting arms, paralyzed. He got a good grip on me and carried me over to a bench where I saw my family waiting. My body felt completely frozen yet my anger was still there, waiting to burst out and kill that coward.

He sat he gave me to Sophie who grabbed me. I could feel my body trying to be calm and angry at the same time. Eventually, Sophie's powers won and I calmed down. I still wanted to kill him, but I wouldn't . . . for mom. They sat me on the bench, hovering around me. When I was finally no longer paralyzed, I stayed still. My eyes locked on Will. Quickly, I splashed him with a rest of the water left in my bottle.

"Whoa!"

"That's for shocking me" I said as I turned on my heels.

The bell rang then, and I headed off to Architecture.

"You are now cursed" Will said as he caught up to me.

"Uhuh, okay Will . . . I'm cursed" I said sarcastically as I walked in the class.

"Hey Nessie!" Alex jumped in front of me.

Where our arms touched, a shock went through us.

"Ow!" I rubbed my arm as I sat down. When I sat down, the chair shocked. "Ow!"

"Mr. Will, why are you all wet?" asked Mr. Buildenstein.

"I tripped into the water fountain" he covered.

He walked to his seat. When he brushed past me, he shocked me. I leaned back and the chair shocked me again.

"Okay! Cut it out Will!" I yelled at him.

"You're cursed" he said with a smile.

"You're gonna be cursed soon if you don't quit it" I threatened.

He raised his eyebrow in challenge.

"Mel" I whispered.

His eyes widened and he looked away quickly. See, when I was growing up those first years, Will liked to mess with me a lot so one day Melinda said he would find dirt and water in very unpleasant places if he didn't quit it. That was a long time ago but it still stuck with him.

"So, am I cursed?" I said as I started painting the building.

"No, your free" he murmured a he sanded out the structure.

It was another quiet period. They let me do the painting but didn't ask about anything. Thank you! I was happy to have some peace. The anger kept swelling inside me, building and building. Occasionally I would let out an angry breath and both my brothers would turn to me worriedly. When the bell rang, we ran to gym.

"Gym! Finally!" I exulted as we walked.

"Looking forward to gym?" Alex asked with a laugh.

"Totally. Very affective anger relief" I said as I walked into the locker room.

I changed quickly and left but in my haste, I slammed into Rosalie. Oh, that's just great.

"What the heck you stupid girl?!" she spat at me.

Okay, she really needed to get a comebacks book.

"I'm stupid? Uhuh. I could probably keep you busy for days by giving you a paper that says Please Turn Over on both sides" and with that, I left.

I had quite an accumulation of blonde jokes that applied perfectly to her. I walked out and headed to the coaches table.

"Hey coach, what are we doing today?" I asked.

"Dodge ball" she answered.

My eyes sparkled. Perfect. She left to go get a drink and I glanced down at the teams. My family was on the same team as the Cullens . . . no way, that's not happening. I quickly circled all of our names and drew and arrow to the other team. Then I left quickly, my back to the coach who had just sat down.

"Hey Sophie!" I said as I walked over to her.

"Umm . . . hey Nessie . . . you seem . . . different . . . happier" she said suspiciously.

"Oh, I just love gym" I said as we were joined by the rest of our family.

"Listen up guys! Team 1 is the Cullens . . . " she continued calling out names.

"Team 2 is the Masen's . . ." she finished our team.

"What's this for?" Mel asked.

"Okay guys, split up onto opposite sides of the courts" she ordered. "Dodge ball day" she said as she put 10 dodge balls on each side of the court.

I looked over at Emmett who was smiling like crazy, probably like I was. I couldn't wait to bonk Edward a couple of times. Everyone's eyes lit up as she said this including my family's. Sophie's eyes narrowed just as quickly when she turned to me.

"What? Effective anger relief" I said.

She rolled her eyes but otherwise followed me onto the field. We took our positions.

"GO!!!!" the coach yelled.

Suddenly dodge balls were flying all around me. I moved constantly and randomly to prevent anyone from getting a good hit. I could tell which ones the Cullen's threw, they were faster and landed harder. One whistled past my ear.

"DUCK!!" Mel yelled.

I slipped down just as a ball sailed right over my head, hitting the wall hard. I looked up and saw Emmett's hand extended. This was war! I grabbed 2 dodge balls. I threw one towards Emmett's feet and then one over him. He jumped up just like I thought he would, avoiding the first dodge ball but getting hit square in the forehead with the other one.

His eyes blazed but I didn't' care. I turned my attention to Edward. I grabbed another dodge balls and threw it at him. He dodge it neatly, smirking. I got an idea.

I walked closer to him. Sophie once said my mom's voice and mine sounded freakishly alike when I tried. I close up my throat a bit and thought of my mom talking to me.

"Edward?" I said in the best impersonation of her voice as I could do on such short notice. It worked.

"Bella?" he said as he turned, receiving a dodge ball square in the forehead.

While he was still dazed, I threw another 2. One at his chest and the other at his legs. It had the wanted affect . . . he fell to the floor. Happy that I had made a point, I went in search of Rosalie. I spent the hour trying to pelt Rosalie and Edward. Near the end of the period, I started to look for mom because I hadn't seen her. I mistakenly put my back to the field.

"Nessie!" Mel called.

I whirled around and got hit straight in the forehead with a dodge ball, making me fly down.

"Ow" I said as I rubbed my forehead.

I looked up to see Edward right across from me on his side of the field, eyes wide. I welled up with anger and grabbed a dodge ball and launched it at him. He seemed to unfreeze and he ducked as it whistled. past. I got up, wiped my probably red forehead and went back to my routine, pelting Edward and Rosalie. I'm happy to say that by the end of gym, I was feeling a lot better.

"Ah, that was fun" I said as I changed back and headed to my car.

"Yeah, did you see how many times I got Emmett?" Sophie exulted.

I laughed but it quickly turned to a frown when I saw somebody waiting by my car.

"I'll meet you at the house I guess" I said as I headed toward the figure.

I already knew who that was. I could see his . . . my bronze hair from very far away. I got to my car and crossed my arms as I faced him.

"Nessie, I'm sorry about gym, I thought you were Melinda . . . I mean . . . are you okay?" he asked, genuinely worried.

Why should he care? "Um . . . yeah, I'm fine" I said in a sort impatient/annoyed manner.

He let out a sigh. "Good, you might want ice for your forehead though, you have a bump" he said.

Naw! Like I didn't already notice the throbbing in my head and the bump. Why does he care all of a sudden? Then it occurred to me he was probably using me to get to mom. I bit my tongue so I wouldn't yell at him and eventually kill him, I could see my mom still in the parking lot.

"I have to go, bye" I said harshly as I climbed into my car and left.


A/N

Hey Guys! Nessie lost it, I'm sorry but I wanted her angry and I thought this was the best way. She was cursed, ha, I got that from a friend who said she got cursed by a kid and now, everything shocks her. Don't kill me! I had to put in a moment with Nessie and Edward. It's after school next chapter though, which means Edward is probably gonna go talk to Bella. Hahahaha, something for you to look forward to. I have huge state-wide tests coming up so updates might be a little off these next few weeks. I updated today though! So, what do you think? Tell me and I will lift the curse Will has now placed on you. Mwahahahahaha!

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