Summary - "Bella is an average girl, struggling with her homosexuality and her life at home. Can the love of not one, but three vampires help show her that she shouldn't be afraid? A/B/R/V".
A/N: Re Edited
Author's Notes - Also Take Note This great story wouldn't be Happening if it wasn't For my dear Friend HG or as some of you know him Hollowgo.
Rating - Older Teen to Mature
By: WDG and Lash_Larue
The Garden of Four - Chapter Six - Fight
Bella had pulled up into the parking lot of the school and was locking up when cool hands wrapped around her midsection, making Bella almost jump out of her skin. Looking over her shoulder she saw Alice and smiled.
"Hey," was all Bella could get out with the pixie this close to her.
Alice smiled and held Bella close a little longer before letting her go. "I missed you, Bella, we should really have a sleep over sometime, now lets go and catch up with the others, then I will walk you to your first class."
Bella nodded and followed after Alice. Walking to the school beside Alice, she got quite a few stares. Bowing her head a little to avoid some of the stares, Bella soon found herself meeting up with the rest of the Cullen family. She looked at them one by one, and she smiled at the safe feeling that she had while in their presence.
After a few words with Alice's family, Bella was escorted to her English class by Alice. Once they were in front of the class door, Bella frowned at the thought of being too far from Alice, and as if sensing her thoughts Alice quickly got on her tip toes and kissed Bella's cheek. "I will see you at lunch, Bella."
When lunch did roll around, Bella found herself meeting up in the hallway with Edward, one of Alice's brothers. "Hello Isabella," said Edward, offering her an arm.
Bella smiled "Please, just call me Bella," and taking the arm she began her walk with him to the lunch room.
"So, you're Edward, right?" Bella asked, making small talk as they walked. Edward nodded.
"Yes, that's right, we meet yesterday at the house, and I'm sorry we did not get to talk much."
The two were still in conversation when they walked into the lunch room. Bella grabbed her tray and began to make her way to the Cullen table; sitting down. She saw that Edward had gone to sit beside the blond male Cullen, whose name was Jasper, if Bella remembered correctly.
Seeing an open seat Between Alice and Rose, Bella began to make her way to that seat. She set her tray on the table, and sat herself down. Looking around, she found herself still quite mesmerized by the beauty of the Cullens. She shook her head, grabbed her plastic fork, and began to eat while listening to the last Cullen male finish telling his joke.
"So, this dude and his friend had just gotten pulled over by a cop; the officer walked up to the window and was shining his light into the car, spotting the driver the cop said, Sir, your eyes look red. Have you been smoking pot? The driver didn't say anything for a moment, then suddenly, with all seriousness on his face, he spoke." Emmett paused for a moment then said "Well your lips look glazed, have you been eating doughnuts?" Bella almost choked on her food when she heard the joke.
Coughing and wheezing a bit at the food stuck in her throat, she heard Alice's startled yell of, "Emmett!" before two hands began to lightly pat her on the back.
Once the food came unstuck and made its way out of her throat and on the right course down to her stomach, Bella began to laugh at the joke and asked, "Where did you ever hear such a joke? It was so funny!" Rose looked at Bella for moment more before removing her hand from the girl's back, and her hand tingled a little from the left over warmth from the human girl's body. Alice left her hand where it was, still lightly caressing Bella's back, and she could still feel the slight ridges of the cuts on Bella's back.
Victoria looked at the confusion written on Rose's face, and looking over to Bella and then back to Rose, she place her hand on her lovers thigh. Rose put her hand down and turned to look at Victoria, and on seeing the look in her lover's eyes, she shook head, telling her that nothing was wrong. Bella meanwhile let the cool feeling of Alice's hand on her back soothe her, while she talked with Edward and Jasper about some more of Emmett's dirtier jokes.
After lunch Alice offered to walk Bella to class. "If its okay with you, I kind of promised Angela I would walk with her today. It's kind of the only time we have any time to talk with each other," said Bella. Alice smiled and nodded, and then left the lunch room headed to Chemistry class.
Bella meet up with Angela and talked with her as they headed to her next class of the day. After parting at the door, Bella made her way to her seat beside Alice, smiled and went to work when the teacher gave all of the students a group project for the day. As they where working Bella asked Alice once more if she minded her walking with Angela to classes today, with the promise that she would walk to Chemistry and Gym with Alice tomorrow.
When the class was over Bella tugged her back pack over her shoulder and walked off to gym with Angela, they were talking some more about their classes when Angela said something that made Bella freeze - "So, what's the story with you and Alice Cullen?"
Bella cleared her throat, and then resumed her walk to gym with Angela. "Nothing, really, she just…" Bella paused slightly before going on, "she's just a really good friend." Angela smirked.
"It didn't look that way to me this morning when she was with you at your truck before you two walked off, yes, I saw that hug she gave you. Also she had her hand on your back all throughout lunch." Angela paused and glanced around, "which Lauren didn't like one bit, by the way, she seemed really pissed."
Bella froze once more, and blushed before resuming walking. "Its nothing, she's just real, uh…touchy-feely…ya know, but she is just a good friend." Bella held the door open for both of them. "Well I don't really care what Lauren thinks, she can be as pissed as she wants, she won't get to me," said Bella before going over to the coach to hand her the new note from Alice's father. After getting the coach to agree to the note, Bella walked off and looked around the gym, noticing for the first time that Rose, Alice, and Victoria were in this class.
Walking over to stand beside them, she waited for the class to start up, after a few warm ups that weren't too hard on the students Bella found herself playing a fun but very slow game of volleyball with Alice, never mind what the note said. She enjoyed it, but being Bella she still fell down a lot. Rose and Victoria were playing a game of one on one basketball, while still keeping an eye on Bella and Alice.
At the end of class all the girls and boys headed for their locker rooms. Bella didn't have to shower and change with the other girls, but nonetheless she was a little sweaty and dirty after spending most of the volleyball game on the gym floor. She had waited until she thought the other girls were finished and gone, and then slipped into the locker room to wash her face and hands. She was on her way back out when she heard the last voice that she wanted to hear.
"Oh, there you are, Bella," Lauren said with false friendliness, "my, you did have a rough time today in gym, didn't you? We can't possibly let you go home without a nice shower, now can we, Jess?"
"Lauren" Jessica began, "let's just leave her al-"
"Can we, Jess?" she repeated menacingly.
"Whatever you say Lauren," Jessica mumbled.
"Right, whatever I say. You hear that, Bella? And what I say is, it's time for a nice shower, hmmm?"
Bella felt a rising panic, there was simply no way in the world that she was going to undress in front of Lauren and Jessica, for more than one reason. She thought briefly of begging them to leave her alone, but knew that would only make things worse. Besides, she was truly tired of being afraid of Lauren. She lowered her shoulder and attempted to force her way past.
Of course she tripped, and then found herself pushed up against the lockers by both Jessica and Lauren. They each had one of her wrists pinned, and they stood so close that she had no room to maneuver. She realized to her dismay that they were stronger than she was, and the panic rose in her throat.
"I'll wait for my chance, and bite her," Bella thought, but as if she had read her mind Lauren put her arm to Bella's throat. She didn't even let go of her wrist.
"Time to see what you've been hiding, Isabella," Lauren said as she reached for the buttons on her shirt.
"I don't think so," said a musical voice that set Bella's heart soaring with hope.
Around the corner of a row of lockers stepped the Cullen sisters, all three of them. They were all wearing skinny jeans and midriff-baring tops, and in spite of her desperate situation Bella felt her body respond to the sight. To be fair, it was indeed something to see. Alice was in front, Rose and Victoria close behind flanking her, and they all had bright smiles on their faces.
"Let go of my friend, Lauren," Alice said calmly. Jessica had already let go and moved to the side. Lauren didn't want to, but she wasn't stupid enough to try and take on all three of them, besides, there was something in their postures that was menacing, despite the lovely smiles.
"I was just kidding around," Lauren said as she released Bella.
"Funny way to kid," Victoria replied, "a forearm across the throat doesn't seem too funny to me." Lauren looked at her feet and kept silent.
"Come on, Bella," Alice said soothingly as she put her slender arm around her, "let's get out of here, Rosalie and Victoria have something to discuss with these ladies." Bella gratefully allowed herself to be lead out of the locker room.
"Now then,"Rosalie said as she walked up to Lauren, she kept advancing until Lauren was pressed up against the lockers. Lauren tried to slap her, but Rose caught her hand easily and effortlessly pinned it against the metal. Lauren gasped as the elegant fingers tightened on her wrist. Jessica was trembling in fear, even though Victoria did nothing but stand in front of her and smile. "That wasn't very friendly, Lauren," Rose said quietly, her face a bare inch from Lauren's.
Rosalie's scent surrounded Lauren, and had her head spinning; even her breath was intoxicating. She gasped as Rosalie leaned forward, her lips nearly touching Lauren's ear.
"Bella Swan," Rose whispered, "is ours. You would do well to remember that, understand?" Lauren just stared blankly ahead.
"I'd tell her you understand," Victoria advised.
"I - I understand," Lauren choked out.
"Good," Rose said happily, and she turned to look at Jessica.
"I understand too," Jessica said hurriedly.
"Well then, I guess we're done here," Victoria declared, "let's go home, Rosie."
The two Cullens left together.
"That slutty bitch, I'll fix her ass," said Lauren bitterly.
"Screw you Lauren," Jessica replied, "I'm done with you, and if you mess with Rosalie Cullen you're even dumber than you look, and that would be really hard to do." Jessica walked out, leaving Lauren alone with her bruised ego and tender wrist.
She really wasn't that dumb, though, and she decided that her best course of action was to pretend nothing had happened at all, and to act as if Isabella Swan simply did not exist.
Victoria stopped Rose after she knew they were away from the two humans and still far enough away from Alice and Bella. "So…Bella Swan is ours, huh..since when, Rose?" Victoria grinned and leaned in a bit more. "You'd better not let Alice hear that, it seems more like Bella is Alice's mate, not ours…although if they don't mind sharing, I don't either". Giggling at the look Rose sent her she pulled on her arm and began to walk once more.
Rose still was in a sort of thoughtful mood when they caught up to Alice and Bella, she kept thinking of what had made her say that. Why did she tell Lauren that Bella's was 'theirs'? She had no right, she had a mate already, but something just came over her and the words had left her mouth before her brain could catch up with them.
The End of Chapter Six