Chapter Number 17 Chapter Title: Three Musketeers
A/N: hey people this chapter is made possible by my new beta icul8er. I like to give her a big shout out. She's great.
Bella POV
I hastily my mouth closed before everyone could see my reaction. I couldn't understand why I was upset. My mind had made the connection that second when I heard Tanya saying the name Eddie. The beautiful boy, the popular one, I saw on the first day of school; he was none other than Edward Cullen. However, it still angered me to think that I was around him and didn't know it. Weren't people like him rude and arrogant? They were meant to be in the hated group; the popular group. However, Edward had yet to show that side. He was nothing but nice and friendly the entire time I had seen him. Angela did say the Cullen's were nice, but now I had the sneaking suspicion that it was all because of his parents; that was why he was well behaved. Maybe they were just acting around me, while behind my back they acted in another personality.
My suspicions were halted when, beside me, Alice fumed. "How the hell did you get my brother's number? Don't ever call again. And you better not give this number to anyone. You know what forget it; I bet you posted his number all over Facebook or something. I am getting my brother's number changed and having callers like you blocked!" she spoke quietly, not to disturb the adults around us; who were busy talking to one another. The only people who were watching us, we're Jasper and Edward. Well, Jasper was watching Alice, but Edward just stood there like he was dead.
After a few more threats Alice shut the cell and gave it to me without looking at me; she was glaring at Edward, who was squirming. "Edward can you tell me how Tanya got your number? Do you know what her dad said to Dad about us? You know Tanya found out and told her dad about us. Give me one good reason why I shouldn't rat you out and make dad take away your cell?" from her expression, I could tell she wasn't lying.
Edward groaned, "Come on Alice, I got her number, so that I could avoid it; not answer it. And I didn't give her my number. I don't know where she got my number from, but I'm not surprised since she got Emmett's number too and why am I getting yelled at! What did I do wrong?" He whined.
I felt like taking his side but right now I felt too angry with him. He knew the entire time that I was using his cell phone, but he didn't tell me. All of this time I was feeling guilty for using some stranger's cell to text, however, now I couldn't help but feel a little joyous at the thought of Edward saving Tanya's number to avoid it. It did say delusional on the caller id.
"It doesn't matter Edward; I don't want to hear her anymore. This whole week she has been crossing the line. If I have to get grounded by Dad one more time because of Tanya, so help me, I will..."
Jasper didn't let her finish her threat; he wrapped his arm around her waist. "Calm down Al, this isn't the first time Tanya called; she somehow gets the number of everyone on the varsity and annoys them. She must have gotten our number from Tyler or someone from the team. We mostly keep our number blocked. I have Tanya's number too so I could avoid it. I think every guy does." He started to chuckle.
Alice's face softened watching Jasper's laugh, she nodded sighing, forgetting about the whole thing. I looked at the cell phone in my hand and turned to Edward, who was too busy glaring at Jasper's arm to notice me looking pointedly at the cell phone. I snapped my fingers to get his attention. Edward broke out of his daze moment and looked at me then noticed his cell.
Edward smiled sweetly and shook his head, "keep it. I don't use it anyway."
I shook my head frowning. He should have told me, it wasn't mine. I gestured at the cell phone again; moving it closer toward him.
His smile wavered and he shook his head, "keep it Bella, it's okay"
It was hard to keep from changing my mind, when he said my name. Was it, me or did my name sound different when he said it? I shook my head and moved the cell phone toward him.
His face turned from scorn to mischief, he folded his arms infront of his chest and shook his head with a smirk, "I'm not taking it."
I smiled, understanding his challenge. I mimicked his posture and raised my chin in a silent way saying I wouldn't either.
"I won't take it," he promised.
I shrugged in response. I wasn't going to either. Beside me Alice and Jasper started laughing, I turned to them in question.
"Here I thought that Edward was the most stubborn person in the world." Alice laughed; dropping her head in Jasper's arm.
"I guess Edward finally met his match" Jasper smirked chuckling.
"I guess I have" Edward smirked; watching me the whole time.
I blushed in response, and dropped my eyes down to my plate. I had met my match too.
Esme's POV
I laughed at Liz as she teased Emmett about his muscles. At first when he started to work out, I was worried about him using his strength on Edward, but now I see that I had been worried for nothing. He took Edward, against his will, to work out with him. I was still worried about the fights that they could get into, but I was glad Carlisle kept both in line.
Alice suddenly called me, trying to get my attention "mom…mom!"
I turned to her with wide eyes; worried something had happened to her.
Alice jumped up and down on her chair, "mom, I have to take Bella shopping today; remember she said she wanted to go shopping? We have to go now!"
"Shopping? Aren't you grounded?" Carlisle raised his eyebrows.
Alice's face fell into a heart-breaking expression; her lips trembled and her eyes blurred the precursors of tears. She clenched her hands in front of her chest gasping, "Are you stopping me from being friends with Bella?" she was sobbing now.
Carlisle's eyes widen in horror "No honey, never I was just saying..." he started to defend himself when Emmett started to talk.
'yeah munchkin, he doesn't want you to have any friends." Emmett smirked.
Carlisle immediately turned to scold Emmett when Edward turned toward Alice.
"Yeah Alice, dad doesn't want you, he doesn't love you, he doesn't want you to have friends. He will never let you go shopping; EVER AGAIN" Edward moved his face in front of her.
Alice started to sob loudly, jumping from her seat, "How could you dad?" she screamed; stomping up the stairs loudly and slamming her door shut.
Carlisle turned to glare at his two sons; who were sitting as if nothing happened.
"How could you do that Dad?" Emmett accused his dad with incredulous expression.
Edward gave his two cents. "Yeah, first stopping you sweet daughter from shopping; then making her cry; how could you?"
Carlisle glared at his two sons, "both of you can add another week onto your grounding."
"Alice! Did you hear that? Dad said you're a pain in the ass." Emmett yelled loudly.
Alice opened and slammed her door twice in response.
"Emmett!" Both I and Carlisle snapped at him. I was about to add more when I heard the doorbell ring. I threw my napkin on top of my plate, and went to answer the door. I checked the peek hole to see who it was. I smiled when I saw that it was Charlie. I opened the door.
"Esme, hi, how are you?" Charlie cheerfully walked inside. I smiled following him to the kitchen. My smile fell off when I saw that Carlisle was still arguing with Emmett and Edward.
"What's wrong with you two? Why did you make Alice cry?" Carlisle exclaimed.
"Alice is crying?" Charlie asked confused.
Emmett and Edward nodded shrugging, "yeah, dad made her cry by not letting her go shopping with Bella."
"Yeah he even said that he doesn't want her to be happy." Emmett joined.
"I never said that" Carlisle raised his voice, "you both told her that. I was just asking if she was grounded! I never said anything more!" Carlisle defended.
"You stopped Alice from going shopping?" Charlie sat down and looked at Carlisle while eating a piece of bread off of one of the plates in the middle of the table, "Can you do that?" Charlie asked.
'He did that, and made Alice's cry.' Edward looked at Charlie matter-of –fact.
"I did not!"
Bella POV
I looked from Edward, to Emmett to Carlisle in confusion. I didn't know what was happening. Against my better judgment, I took Edward's cell and typed my confusion to Jasper, who was eating his food peacefully without a care in the world.
What's going on here?
Jasper read it and instead of answering, he took the cell phone and typed back, before giving it to me.
Nothing, just sibling stuff
I typed in a question mark.
Jasper sighed and started typing, after a few minutes he gave it to me to read, the guys r jus pulling Carlisle's leg 4 stopping Alice. It's a game to trap Carlisle into letting Alice go. If Alice wins, she won't buy Emmett and Edward any clothes. If she doesn't go then she will bug Carlisle until his ears bleed. It's just a strategy.
I raised my eyes widely and typed back but what about Alice crying?
Jasper smirked responding Alice is in drama club. She is the best actress.
I shook my head, hiding a smile while reading the message. The little pixie was horrible. What about you? Aren't you going to check on Alice or something?
Jasper shook his head and typed giving it to me; no this is between Alice and her brothers. I have no say. Alice is fine, if I did anything, both Edward and Emmett will beat me up, not to mention that Alice will take their side, like I said sibling stuff; all three of them together are the three musketeers. You don't want to mess with them when they are together.
I nodded smiling it was very convincing
Jasper smiled too and went back to eating.
Watching jasper made me realize how wrong I was. The whole time we talked, I didn't feel any pity from him. He was normal around me. He was sweet and very calm guy. His personality brings comfort to me; unlike others.
I started to eat again in order to stop my laughs from bursting out. Alice was dramatically slamming her bedroom door again.
"You see what you did." Emmett accused Carlisle while continuing to eat.
Carlisle stood up and went to the upstairs. After a few minutes, a bubbly Alice skipped coming downstairs. "Hey Bella: come on let's go shopping!" She squealed while grabbing me, she ignored the fact that I was still eating and just took me by the elbow with her out the door
Edward POV
Poor girl, she is going to kill herself. Oh well, I rubbed my left ear to signal Emmett that the mission was accomplished. I was very happy internally, now Alice won't buy us anything and she'll be busy with shopping instead of bugging us. I thought about going to the park or something since it was the weekend, but I knew dad wouldn't let us off the hook for all of that crap we had just pulled. But, he couldn't do anything in front of Liz, so we were safe for now.
"Wait I needed to talk to Bells!" Charlie exclaimed from his chair.
"Well you can always go with them." Liz smirked, while all of us chuckled.
Charlie paled, "actually it can wait." He turned to dad. "Carlisle I actually wanted to ask you about Leah, can anyone see her? Is she okay?" his voice changed to serious.
Dad sighed, "Actually I was going to discharge her. There isn't anymore treatment I can do. Her blood is getting stronger, her bruises are minor. The only reason I am still letting her stay is because she is too afraid to leave. I am afraid if I release her now, she might do something to harm herself. She refuses to meet anyone and goes into panics quickly. I was thinking of putting her on some meds, but I think what she really need is therapy. I am going to talk to her about it but Sue might take it the wrong way..." dad sighed running his hands through his hair.
Charlie nodded thinking, "I could talk to Sue, and I know something that might change her mind. I wanted to record Leah's statement about the event. I made a lot of calls and state police are coming to take the criminals, but they might not get charged with the criminal acts of the fair day. I need evidence and statements to make the case stronger, that way they won't be out on bail."
Dad nodded, "I have the medical report and pictures of the bruises and scars. Did you get statements from other people at the fair?"
"Yeah, that's why I went to La Push; I got the statement from the main people. I thought I could take everyone's statements here too."
Dad nodded. "Sure I know Cole can tell you more since he reached Bella before she ran to you. I don't know if Leah will give her statement though; she refuses to see anyone. How are Sam and Seth?"
"Honestly, they are out of control. Sam just stays in his garage while Seth yells and screams at everyone. Harry is getting fed up. He calls Sue when she leaves Leah to get some food. Sue doesn't let him visit either. They are both worried about her. Plus, school with cheerleading; if Leah doesn't recover soon she might lose her scholarship, she was getting for college. Sam was already accepted but he might not leave either now. It's a complete mess." he slammed his hand on his leg.
"I'm sorry about that but I don't think Leah is ready to be going to school plus the physical activities will be harder to do now too. I could talk to the school in La Push. I was going to go there anyway; the mayor took it as a community issue, about the day I ordered everyone not to come and see Leah or Bella in the hospital. He complained to the La Push elders about letting my kids stay. I don't know how he found out, but he didn't to bother to get the whole story. My kids snuck their way inside." dad glared at us. My eyes instantly fell to the ground in embarrassment. I was a little angry at Mayor Denali; he was taking this too far. I looked at Emmett, who was thinking the same thing by the looks of it; his hands were balled up in fists.
"Don't worry about that. I will talk to Billy and Harry. Anyway I'll have to talk to Angela too; she also met Leah that day. She already told me that she was the one who forced everyone to go with her to meet Bella and Leah. She was working during the fair day. She didn't get to meet Bella because you were still treating her. And Denali is already on my suspect list. Being the mayor, he should have done something, instead of running back to his home, when James and everyone got involved. I plan on getting even with him for the little show he did in front of Bella." Charlie smirked with a threatening glare.
I smiled in response. I had never seen this side of Charlie; but I liked it. There's more to Charlie's Swan that meets the eyes. I thought about what he had said about Angela. I would have to thank her for this. She might have just saved all of our ass's from dad.
"What about Leah's recovery? How long will that take?" Liz spoke up.
Dad sighed, "Honestly, it's up to her. If she is strong enough to overcome this, she will be ready, but the way she is reacting... I think it will take months or years for her to recover."
"Well, we will help her. I can take her to female counselors, if she would be more open and comfortable." my mom took Liz's hand.
Liz nodded in agreement, "I also think that Leah should go to an out of the state university, it will give her a new start. So should Sam. They should both be together on this."
"Yeah that is a great idea; I will talk to Harry about it. It upsets me that everything is happening right now. Harry and Sue were planning to ask Leah and Sam engage this summer since Leah and Sam is so close. Leah was having a hard time dealing with Sam going away for college without her." Charlie took a glass of water from Liz. "How is Bella? From the looks of it, she seems great but her cheek still looks bruised."
Dad nodded. "I gave her some more ointment, since she keeps hurting herself, I don't know if she put some on today. However, she ate some food; so I guess her jaw is okay. I will still call Alice and ask; although, she seemed perfectly fine to me this morning." dad grimaced causing us to laugh.
I bet he was remembering how she made him agree with her. Now that I too was thinking about it, she really was stubborn. The thought brought a smirk on my face. I noticed when Emmett and I were busy messing with Dad, she had been using my cell to talk to Jasper; yeah, score one for Edward.
"Well I never expected her to be so tricky. Her mind is really something else." dad pretended to shuddered making mom and Liz bubble with giggles.
Charlie turned curious, "why? What happen?"
Liz laughed getting animated, "Bella just thought of something, she wanted to take the kids in the wheelchair somewhere. She wanted Carlisle to let her take some of his patients and some from other hospitals. Carlisle refused." Liz laughed and started again. "She stood Esme in front of him!" mom and Liz broke into laughter when dad groaned. Charlie shook his head, trying hard not to laugh. "After a few convincing arguments Carlisle agreed. Oh my god, you should have seen Carlisle's face when Esme took Bella's side." Charlie finally laughed off when dad rolled his eyes.
"It wasn't a big deal. I think this might help patients too. It seems like she has a lot of experience with kids in wheelchairs." Dad words sent everyone into a somber expression.
Charlie nodded, "yeah her best friend is in a wheelchair. Renee or Bella sent me pictures of all her friends together. Bella used to help think of quick ways to use the wheelchair."
Dad stood up suddenly, "Charlie can I talk to you in my office."
Charlie's eyebrows rose but he nodded his head following behind him. I don't know why, but I didn't like Dad's tone. I hope everything is okay.
A/N: hey everyone. Yes I finally updated! I have soo many things to say. First I want to thank everyone who requested banners from me. It was fun to do them and I am still getting request which is making me busy but happy at the same time.
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