Chapter 2: Romeo

Bella was doing something on the computer when she heard a strange noise… It was like the sound of a car, but that couldn't. Her dad was downstairs and he always said something when he left. She looked back at the screen of her computer. She fiddled a bit with her night gown.

Suddenly was there the sound of a falling flower pot. Bella's eyes went wider and she got up from her chair. She slowly walked to the window on the other side of her room. She inhaled very silently. She looked outside but saw nothing. She looked at her left, but suddenly was there a hand on her arm. She screamed, but stopped when she saw it was her boyfriend.

'Hey, it's me,' said Mike.

'What the hell are you doing here? And then through the window?' whispered Bella. She was so scared that her father might discover this.

Mike watched her and he said: 'Do you sleep in that?'

'Yes, I sleep in this gown! My father is next door! You can't be in here!' answered Bella in a whisper.

'Just a sec,' replied Mike and Bella agreed.

But then someone was knocking on the door… Her father!

'You have to go!' said Bella and rushed to the door.

'What's going on in there?' asked Bella's uncle. He pushed against the door, but it only opened for a bit because Bella always used a special trick – with the help of her closet's door - so that no single person could come in uninvited. 'Are you alright?'

'Can you knock?' asked Bella a bit angry. She hated it when her uncle came in her room without knocking.

'I heard screaming,' said Charles to his niece.

'No, you didn't!' replied Bella.

Bella moved the closet's door and her uncle smacked the door of the room completely open. He only saw her room and the computer that was on. Bella searched for Mike. Did he already leave?

'Oh! Well… I'm going to sleep. My flight leaves first thing in the morning. I'm going to stay away the whole weekend so there's money on the table. I'll be back to Sunday. And I'm staying…'

'In the Hilton!' completed Bella his phrase.

'Uh… yes, correct. Did we already had this talk?' asked Charles.

'Over and over again, dad!'

'Well, but when something's wrong, you just…'

'Call the Hilton and ask for Charles Swan, I know!'

'But I would have sworn that I heard screaming,' said Charles and he gave a look at Bella.

Bella just smiled and gave him a kiss on his cheek. 'Bye, uncle Charles! Have a good trip!'

'Good night!' said her uncle and he walked away.

Bella closed the door again and she looked around. She immediately locked it. Just in case Charles would return. He could be very sneaky sometimes… She and her dad lived in their own house, but their uncle came living there because he was divorced from his wife and didn't knew where else to stay. Charlie and Bella agreed that he could live here.

She looked around for Mike when she came out of her thoughts. Did he already left? Or was he…?

'That was close!' said a voice, but it looked like it came from the red teddy bear that held someone up behind Bella's bed. It was Mike of course!

'Mike! What are you doing here?' sighed Bella.

'Well, it did occur to me that I never snuck through your window to see you,' whispered Mike.

'Right, well, hit it now that's out of your system,' said Bella in reply.

'I was watching television and 'The Exorcist' was on TV. And I had to think of you,' said Mike.

Bella thought that it was cute that he thought of her. 'It did?' But it was a scary movie so why did that film remind him of her?

'The goriest stuff was cut out because it was on TV and that reminded me of us,' began Mike. 'Two years ago we started all fun and heavy. Just like a film for people above sixteen years. Now… things have changed.' He stepped closer to Bella and looked her right in the eyes. 'The "goriest" stuff was also cut out our relationship.'

Bella's eyes went wide. 'Oh, so you thought you'd just climb up my window and reveal some gory stuff.'

'No, I wouldn't break the underwear-rule,' said Mike and smiled. 'But we can do other stuff…'

Bella just stood there and then placed herself on her bed. 'Okay,' agreed Bella in a whisper.

Mike was suddenly alert. 'Yeah? Are you sure?'

'Yeah!' whispered Bella.

Mike got closer to her and his lips too. He kissed her after that and they bended over. They were laying in Bella's bed now. They held each other's hand, but Mike suddenly let go. He stroke Bella's right leg and she moaned just for a bit by the touch of his warm hand against her cold leg. But his hand went closer and closer to that what she didn't want him to do… yet!

'Alright, your time is up, stud!' said Bella and pushed him off of her.

'Don't you see what you do to me?' said Mike in a whisper. His dick twitched in his pants. He wanted her… He wanted her to be his… And no one else's…

Bella just smiled and said: 'Don't you know what my father would do to you?'

'Yeah, true!' replied Mike. He stepped towards the window. 'I'm going!' He putted one leg out of the window and then the other. He almost didn't mind it, but then Bella said his name and flashed him. She giggled and he laughed for a bit. Then he was gone and Bella was just so in love with him! She could almost hear him saying it to the world that he loved Bella Swan with all his heart. She fell on her bed and almost fell asleep if she didn't saw the computer: still on!

The next morning there were many reporters on the high school's terrain. Police was there too. There were at least two cars with police officers and twenty cars that belonged to reporters from each a different radio or television station.

Bella asked herself what was going on. When did all this commotion started? She saw a man interviewing a class mate and another reporter - but a woman – interviewing a police man. Suddenly she picked up another conversation

'This little town Forks was devastated last night when two teenagers were found brutally murdered. According to our portfolio of sources, the killer is still out there,' said a woman with long brown hair. She was that successful reporter on channel 7.

'Do you believe this shit?' said someone next to Bella. Bella jumped from terror, but calmed down when she saw it was her best friend Jessica.

'What is going on?' asked Bella.

'Don't you know?' replied Jessica. 'Angela Weber and Ben Cheney were killed last night.'

'What? No way?'

'Way!' replied Jessica. 'Well, it's not exactly killed, more splattered. They were ripped open from end to end.'

'But Angela sits next to me in English!' said Bella.

'Not anymore,' replied Jessica. 'So sad for her mom and dad. They found her hanging in a tree, her insides on the outside.'

'Oh my god! Do they know who did it?' asked Bella curious. She wanted to know who would do such thing.

'No, they're fucking clueless. They know nothing. But there going to interrogate the entire school,' answered Jessica.

'Wait! They think that someone from school did it?'

'Well, they don't know it. I mean, your dad said that it was even worse than…' Jessica stopped in the middle of that phrase. She couldn't say that in front of her best friend. '…well, it's just bad.'

The school bell rang and everyone went inside. But Bella was so sad. She felt sorry for Angela. Angela was always so sweet to her in English class. In fact, she missed her. She was one of her first friends when she moved from Phoenix, California to Forks, Washington DC. She felt alone back then and Angela was one of the minor people who first made friends with Bella. Bella looked at the empty seat next to her in English class. This would be the saddest and creepiest day in the school year, she thought.

'Bella,' asked the teacher in front of the class. 'It's your turn.'

The whole class watched her as she left the class room. Bella felt so weird and sick at the same time. Who would do such thing? To such a sweet girl? Well, her reputation changed a bit when she started dating that Ben dude. But that was all, wasn't it?

'Who's up next?' asked the police officer.

'Bella Swan,' answered the principal.

The police officer and his help watched the principal. 'You mean the Bella Swan?'

'Yes, the daughter of uh…'

Just then Bella walked in the principal's office. The principal let her in and she placed herself on the chair in front of the two officers that she knew. The one on the right was the new chief.

'Hello, chief Biggle. Dad.'

'That's deputy Swan today, Isabella,' said her father. God, Bella hated it when her father said her full name. But she also felt pain. He made a mistake with a case some months ago and another chief came in his place. But he was still very important for the police and also for the new chief. She shared the pain of making a mistake with him.

'How is everything?' asked chief Biggle.

'Good,' answered Bella.

'We're going to keep this very brief, Isabella,' said the principal.

Great, thought Bella, another one who says my full name.

'The police just wants to ask you a few questions,' ended the principal his sentence.

'Bella,' began Biggle, 'did you know Angela Weber very well?'

'She was a friend of mine,' answered Bella. 'She was the nicest person when I just moved here. She was the kindest and friendliest person I've ever seen all my life. I miss her.' That last phrase was in a whisper, because she didn't want her dad to know all of her things.

'Remember: your principal loves you. And I want you to be safe. All students must immediately go to their homes after school is out. Avoid strangers too!' The voice of the principal was vague in the students' ears. They didn't care for the principal. They cared for Angela and Ben. Those poor fellow students….

'What did they ask you?' asked Jessica to Bella.

The group friends of Bella were sitting on the marble edge of the new placed fountain on the school ground. Bella, Jessica, Mike, Sammy and Eric were there. Sammy was the boyfriend from Jessica after Mike broke up with her. A year later came Bella. And a month after that came Sammy. Sammy and Mike were friends since kindergarten.

'They asked if I knew Angela,' answered Bella. She laid between the legs of Mike who was laying too.

'They asked me the same thing,' replied Jessica.

'Did they ask if you like to hunt?' asked Sammy to Mike.

'Yeah, they did. Did they ask you?'

'Yeah!'

'Hunt?' said Jessica in disbelieve. 'Why would they want to know that?'

'Because their bodies were gutted,' said Eric.

'Thank you, Eric,' said Mike. He hated Eric sometimes. With his over enthusiasm if he came to Bella's house.

'But they didn't asked me…' said Jessica to herself.

'That's because you're girl. Girls don't do that!' said Sammy.

'That is so sexist. The killer could be easily a female. Remember 'Basic Instinct'?' replied Jessica with pride.

'That was an icepick. Not exactly the same thing,' said Eric.

'Yeah, Angela and Ben were completely hollowed out,' went Sammy further. 'It takes a man to do this.'

'Or a man who thought!' replied Jessica with a laugh.

'How do you gut someone?' whispered Bella. But she didn't knew that she said it so loud.

Everyone went silent for a while… Well, almost everyone.

'You take a knife and you cut 'm open from groin to sterol,' said Sammy.

'Hey, there's something like that, you fucker!' said Mike. He did this because Bella's eyes went wider and she inhaled deeply.

'Hey, Sam,' said Bella using Sammy's nickname, 'didn't you used to date Angela?'

'Yeah, for like two seconds,' answered Sammy.

'Before she dumped him for Ben,' said Eric in Jessica's ear.

'Wait, I thought you dumped her for me?' asked Jessica.

'Because that's the truth. He's just shitting and lying!' replied Sammy.

'Does the police know that you dated the victim?' asked Eric quickly.

'Why? Do you think that I'm the killer?' asked Sammy in return. But he gave to much attention for the "I" part.

'Well, that would improve your reputation,' said Eric.

'Sam didn't do it, because he was with me last night!' said Jessica and kissed Sammy on the lips. The innocent kiss turned into one full of fire and tongues.

'Was that before or after he sliced and diced?' asked Eric a bit louder.

'By the way, where were you last night?' asked Jessica.

'Working! Thank you!' answered Eric while eating a peanut.

'I thought that they fired your sorry ass,' said Jessica and cuddled closer to Sammy.

'Twice,' replied Eric with a big smile.

'I didn't kill anybody,' added Sammy.

'Did anybody say you did?'

All the heads turned to Mike and Sammy just nodded and said: 'Thank you.'

'Besides, it takes a man to do something like that,' said Eric with the intention to insult Sammy.

'I would rip all your insides right now, buddy,' joked Sammy.

'Tell me something,' began Eric.

Suddenly a cell phone rang: Tell me, tell me, tell me something I don't know, something I don't know, something I don't know, tell me, tell me, tell me something I don't know, something I don't know, how many inches in a mile, what it takes to make you smile, teach ya not to treat me like a child, baby

'Sorry,' apologized Jessica and stopped the music, but she didn't answer the phone. Why wouldn't she do that?

Eric started over again: 'Tell me something: did you really put her liver in the mailbox, because I heard that the liver was found in there.'

'Nice,' said Jessica. 'I'm trying to eat here.'

'She's getting mad, man,' said Sammy. 'You better liver alone! You get it?'

Bella packed her stuff. She had it with all this shit. Mike got upset by that while Bella went to the school bus.

'What? It was just a joke. You know: "liver" and "leave her",' said Sammy, but it didn't help the others to laugh or at least smile. They were all very serious about these brutal murders.

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