AN: Sorry for the long wait on this chapter, I had major writer's block with it as I tried to remember it's original storyline. I'm going to be sort of slow on updating this story mainly because UD is my baby and my main story I want to focus on.
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Chapter Two
Dysfunctional Family
Bella's PovWow! That's all that I could say about what happened today. Not only did Jayden and I meet two gorgeous girls, but I think we met our mates too. Then our stupid ass cousins just had to go and attack us today again and ruin it. I swear that the next time I see Sam that I'm going to rip his head off for what he did to my little sis! We've already been traumatized enough by them. They started to torture us when we were eight and six, and it's been that way since then. Jayden and I already have enough scars and horrifying nightmares to prove it.
People at our school always called Jayden an emo, because of the way she has her hair styled. The truth is, is that when she was fourteen, Jacob got mad when Jayden started to date a girl that he liked. He confronted her at our house in the same field we got attacked at today, and shifted too close to her. One of his claws raked down the left side of her face over her eye. Luckily she can still see out of it perfectly, but now she has a jagged scar that runs over it. The scar starts a little bit above her brow and goes all the way down to the middle of her cheek. On top of that, she has a scar that Paul put on her stomach. He left a scar in the shape of a small 'x' over her abs, and now her side is ripped up.
Now me on the other hand, I have a giant x on my back, along with bite marks too. They happened when I was taking a walk in the woods by myself, and then Paul and Sam ambushed me from behind. Paul bit into my right shoulder to hold me down as Sam scrapped his claws across my back. The scars run from my shoulder blades down to my hips, and the bite marks are on my right shoulder blade and just above my right breast. After they attacked me, they left me there to practically die. When Paul bit down on me, he punctured my lung. I'm very lucky that AJ decide to follow after me, and brought me back to the house so that uncle Carlisle could fix me up.
If you're wondering why there's all this hostility between my family, it's because of who we are. Let's just start off with saying that I'm royalty, and I'm the next up and coming alpha of my family's pack. My grandpa and grandma were the king and queen of our clan up until I turned seven. My uncle Billy was the oldest between him and my father, but apparently my grandparents gave my dad and mom the titles to the thrown. They decided that uncle Billy would've made a terrible leader because of his power hungry attitude. Since that happened, he told his sons to go ahead and go after me and Jayden and do anything they wanted to us.
The main reason being that my brother didn't want to claim the alpha title, so I did and Billy went to the family council about it. He didn't like the fact that he was passed over for the thrown, and he was outraged that a girl should lead the pack. He tried to reason with the council that one of his sons would be better for the job, but they rejected him completely. They said it had to do with prophecy fulfilling itself, or something crazy like that.
So here I am now, all grown up and awaiting to take the alpha position when I turn twenty. Since I accepted to take the position at the age of eight, I've training my ass off. My father's been training the members of the group I had called the Wolf Pack. Yeah it's a pretty obvious name, but what do you expect, I made the group when I was nine! I think that we're up to about seven, but that's all friends and no family. If you want to add family, then we have quite a few members. We normally all train together over the weekends and over the entire summer. To say that my dad kicked our asses with training this summer was an understatement, I swear I have never felt my body ache so much that I'm still recovering to this day.
Now I'm here with a brand new family living with us, with one of the daughters currently sleeping beside me in my bed. I swear when I first saw Alice, my heart stopped, and I knew instantly that she was my mate. Now this wasn't some fake thing that my cousins from uncle Billy called imprinting, this shit was hardcore. With imprinting, they say that both people fall in love at first sight, but with finding your soul mate from our family's history, it's completely different. Imprinting was just an excuse for my cousins to get what they wanted out of their flavor of the week and then dump them. Imprinting is just a stupid game that the guys play with different girls just to break their hearts in the end.
With finding your soul mate, however, you have to work at your relationship with your partner. The cool thing is, is as you grow in your relationship with your partner, so does the soul mate bond. The bond starts off slow with just being able to feel like you're being drawn to your mate, but when it's in its full force, you know the emotions and thoughts that are running through their head. I think the most interesting thing that comes with finding a mate, is their scent. It's so appealing, it's like the one perfume that you cant live without. Alice smells like chamomile and lavender, and it smells amazing!
What can I saw about Alice? I haven't known her for more than a couple of hours, but she captivates my very being. From her disarray of jet black, spiky, hair, to her beautiful blue eyes, and then down to her silky smooth, bubble gum pink, lips. Her personality's cool too! There's just this aura around her that screams that she's a down to earth girl. I love that in any girl that I meet, especially one that I want to date. She's kind of quiet though, and I also detected a bit of fear and nervousness in her as well. Hopefully being around me, my friends, and my family will help her chill out and let her true self come out to play.
I looked over at Alice's form one more time before falling asleep myself. I was only asleep for about four hours at the most, before I heard a commotion going on in the room. I was jolted awake by a frightened Alice, and then heard screams coming from the couch, and knew that it was Jayden. I knew exactly what was going on. From being traumatized so much from our cousins, Jayden would get these nightmares that would get so bad that she would start having seizures in her sleep.
I only had a short amount of time before her body would over exert itself, and would cause her to go into a coma. I ran over to her, and noticed that AJ and Lexi were already restraining her body. I looked over at Max, and saw that she gripping onto one of Jayden's and had tears in her eyes. I went into the bathroom and got the pills uncle Carlisle prescribed for Jayden. It was a strong muscle relaxant that stopped the seizures almost immediately. I went back over to Jayden and had AJ hold her head steady.
"Jayden, if you can hear me right now, I need you to open your mouth so that I can give you your medicine." I said. I saw that she was able to open her mouth a tiny bit and took my chance. I stuck the pill in her mouth, followed by a little bit of water. The affects happened immediately. Her body stopped convulsing and relaxed completely, and then her eyes opened up with tears slipping out of them.
"Bella!" she cried out and wrapped her arms around me. She cried into my chest as I cooed to her and stroked her back. I was really going to kill those jerk offs that have the right to call themselves our cousins now!
Jayden pulled away a couple of minutes later, and was soon pulled into a hug by Max. Jayden pulled Max tight up against her body, as if she was never going to see her again. I knew that Jayden and Max were soul mates. I just hope that both she and Alice could accept it and choose to be in a relationship with us. Jayden and Max pulled back away from each other, and I could see how much this ordeal exhausted Jayden. Just as Max was about to say something to her, she collapsed back against me. This normally happens after she takes the pills. Max's eyes widen in fear, and she began to try to get Jayden to wake back up.
"Max, it's okay. Jayden's body is taking effect to the pill that she had to take. She's just really tired right now, that's all." I said. She looked at me, still unsure if that was the reason, but accepted it with a nod of her head.
"Hey Max, I'm going to go stick Jayden in the upstairs bed. You can sleep up there too if you want." I said to her.
She looked over at Alice warily, and smiled when she saw Alice nod in agreement. I picked Jayden up and carried her up the stairs, and then set her down on the double bed. I pulled down the covers and positioned Jayden so that she was on her left side as she slept. Max scooted in behind her and wrapped the blankets around the both of them. She gently pulled Jayden back against her front, and I didn't miss the kiss the Max placed on Jayden's head as I was walking away.
I made my way back downstairs, to still see Alice sitting down on the couch. I walked over to her and saw fear in her eyes. I crouched down in front of her and clasped her hands in mine. I felt the little shocks go up my arms again and settle in my heart. I gently caressed the tops of her hands with my thumbs, and I saw the fear in Alice's eyes disappear, and a slight blush form on her cheeks.
"Are you okay?" I asked her quietly.
"I am now, but what was that?" she replied.
I stood up, her hands still in mine, and I led us back towards the bed. I climbed on and laid down in the middle of the bed, and then patted the spot next to me. Alice climbed on and laid down next to me. We flipped so that we could face each other, and I was met with her gorgeous blue eyes again. I breathed in deeply and exhaled slowly. It was the best way to keep me calm, and I was also hit by Alice' s scent too. It made my mouth water at how delicious she smelled.
"Jayden has had this problem for a couple of years now. She gets these nightmares, where she's always being physically hurt. She says that the nightmare is so real, that she can feel the pain that she's going through. Well, her body reacts to the pain and causes her to start having seizures." I answered.
Alice gasped and pulled me into a hug. I hadn't even realized I was crying, until I felt a wet spot on Alice's t-shit. I pulled back away from her and then yawned. I heard Alice giggle at this, and it was the sweetest sound I've ever heard. Alice switched to laying on her side, her back now facing me. I laid on my back so I could stare up at the ceiling and it's twinkling stars I put on there. I pulled the blankets up over our bodies, but felt Alice start shivering beside me. I didn't get it, seeing as the blanket was very warm and cozy, but I didn't want for her to be cold all night. I flipped over on my side and slowly began to inch towards her. I had to contain my chuckle as well as a moan, as she snuggled back against me. She wiggled her ass which was against my crotch, and I felt a burning in my stomach start to form. I pushed the feeling away as best as I could, before falling asleep myself.
Jayden's Pov
After my whole seizure ordeal and taking that pill, I was so tired. I remembered crying on Bella, and getting pulled into a hug by Max, and then passing out against Bella. I could hear Max trying to wake me back up, but I was just to tired to do so. Those damn pills could knock out an elephant if they wanted to. I felt somebody pick me up, no doubt it was Bella, and then I felt a very soft surface underneath my body. I guess she took me upstairs and put me down on the bed up there.
What I didn't expect to happen though, was feeling a small body slide in behind me in the bed. I realized that it was Max when I smelled her scent. She smelled like rain and honey. It's such a refreshing and calming scent. I felt her shift closer to me, and wrap her arms around me. My heart was beating a million miles a minute as I felt Max pull me gently into her small body. She planted a kiss on my head, and then grasped one of my hands in one of her hands. Although I was dead beat tired, I still managed to lace our hands together over my stomach. I heard Max gasp, and that was the last thing I heard before Max and I both fell into a deep sleep.
At one point in the night, my mind started to produce another nightmare. I must've woken Max up, because she clasped my hand tighter and massaged my head with the other. My mind was reminding me about what happened today, and I could feel pain start to erupt in my side. I whimpered when the pain in my side began feel like fire. I knew that my body was starting to recover from the scratch. My body was getting rid of the stupid ass werewolf venom from Sam's claws. The venom coats our claws and teeth.
"Shh, it's okay, Jay. I'm here for you." she said with her quiet voice.
When she said those words, I felt all of the pain in my side leave me. Instead my body was overcome with this warm fuzzy feeling that made butterflies erupt in my stomach, and little shockwaves make there was across my entire being. I heard her giggle softly as I snuggled back into her body. We were both able to fall asleep again, finally able to get the rest that we needed.
I woke up when I felt the sunlight from the window hit my face. I looked over at the alarm clock on the table, and it read that it was nine in the morning. Just as I began to stretch my body out, I noticed that I couldn't because something was lying on my chest. I looked down and saw Max's head resting comfortably on my chest with her right arm thrown over my stomach. I stroked her hair, amazed at how soft it was. She stirred awake and looked up at me with her beautiful hazel eyes. The sunlight reflected off of them perfectly. I did something that I never do in that moment. I blushed, I actually blushed when our eyes connected with each other.
We got up and went downstairs, to see everybody getting dressed. I saw Bella wearing a pair of athletic pants and t-shirt, and remembered that we had a work out day today. So Max and I got dressed, me in a pair of athletic shorts and an underarmor cut off shirt. Normally after we work out, we go for a swim in the indoor swimming pool, so we all brought our bathing suits along with us.
We all took off towards the gym and when we got there, all the girls along with uncle Carlisle, Mr. Rockwell, Mr. Brandon were chilling by the pool. Today was going to be a football workout day, so Dad and Emmett were going to play defense against Bella, AJ, and me. Our girls headed over to the pool, while we went over to the practice football field we had in the gym. It was a fifty yard practice field that was right across from the indoor pool. We also had a basketball court, a boxing/ fight training area, and a track that went around the huge pool we had. Upstairs we had all of the floor equipment like treadmills and weight benches. It was all open upstairs, the floor was surrounded by railing so that we could all talk to each other and know where everybody was.
Dad made us start off by running a mile around the track to warm us up. Me being the fastest of the bunch got finished first, and I headed over to the field to stretch out. When everybody else got done with stretching and running, Dad made us do one hundred push ups and sit ups before we could start doing running and passing drills. After doing all of these warm up drills, we got down to the hard stuff. We started to go over actual plays with Dad covering me cause he could match my speed, and Emmett with Bella cause she always versus muscular guys in her position. We did this for a half and hour to forty five minutes, with the occasional cheering from our girls by the pool. Surprisingly, Dad let us cut our work out off after that and let us go hang out with the girls.
AJ, and Bella got into their bathing suits and jumped into the pool with Alice and Lexi. I was going to put mine on, but I didn't want Max to see all the scars on my body, especially my eye, so I just went upstairs instead. I laid back on one of the weight benches and tried to clear my thoughts. I had a really nice body, so I've been told by everyone, and I agree with them. The only problem I had was my scars. I get very insecure over this issue, because girls might think I'm hot for right now, but I'm afraid that when they see all my scars that they'll reject me. That they'll see how ugly I really am and feel around my friends and family. Bella has no problem with showing off her scars, because she treats them like battle wounds. She says that they're sexy scars and she likes showing them off on occasion, but for me they're just ugly lines that are plastered to my body.
As I was lost in my thoughts, I didn't even hear anybody come up the stairs. I did, however, hear a slight knock on one of the walls, and I looked over and saw Max standing there. I smiled at her and motioned for her to come over. I pulled another weight bench over close to mine so that she had a place to sit down. She gave me a shy smile back and sat down.
"Aren't you going to go swimming, Jayden?" she asked. I shook my head and a frown made its way across her face.
"Why not?" she asked. I sat up and clasped her hands in mine.
"Because I'm not comfortable with people seeing the scars on my body." I replied.
"Can I see them?" Max asked so quietly that I almost didn't hear her. To say I was scared was an understatement, but I knew that if Max and I were going to get into a relationship with each other that this was bound to happen. So why not do it now instead of later.
I nodded and took off my shirt, leaving me in my sports bra. When I heard her gasp I tried to turn around, but she wouldn't let me. She slowly reached out her hand and ran her fingers across the x on my stomach. I shivered as she traced all of the contours of the scars on my abs, and it felt like she was trying to memorize how it felt. She then traced the ones on my side, and then she found my most sacred one that I tried to keep hidden from everyone. She brushed the hair out of my left eye, and placed her hand against my cheek as she softly ran her fingers down my scar. I nuzzled my cheek into her hand and placed a soft kiss on her palm. We both smiled with blushes adorning our faces.
"Let's go into the pool, Jay." she said and pulled me up to my feet.
"Okay, let's go, Maxie." I replied, causing her blush at her new nickname. I put on my bathing suit, and then jumped into the pool with Max. I do have to say I did a once over on her, and she's so beautiful. She has amazing legs along with a slightly toned stomach, and a really nice chest, not that I was staring at that for a while or anything. I couldn't wait until I would be able to call her my girlfriend.
Bella's Pov
AJ, Lexi, Alice and I were all hanging out in the pool with each other, when I noticed Max go upstairs to where my sister was. I knew the way she felt about her scars, and felt really bad that she couldn't look past them enough to come and have a good time in the pool. I wasn't complaining though, because I used to be like her, until I started dating Lexi and she told me my scars were sexy. From then on I was able to put my scars behind me and instead, show them off to the ladies.
While Max and Jayden were upstairs, all of our parents left to go chill out at the house and left all of us to hang out alone with each other. Whenever I turned around so that my back was facing Alice, I could feel her eyes on me, score! AJ and I were sitting on the steps leading into the pool while Lexi was teaching Alice our school's cheers for football. About five minutes later Jayden and Max came downstairs and hopped into the pool with us. We all played a couple of games with each other, and then we started to tricks off of the diving board.
We were all having a good time, until I smelled a very familiar scent come from the glass sliding door at the end of the pool. I heard Jayden growl and I knew exactly who it was. It just so happens that Paul and Jacob come through and start walking towards us. All of us got out of the pool quickly to stand our ground in front of them. Paul and Jacob laughed at all of us and stopped walking when they were in front of us.
"What the fuck are you guys doing here? Your not allowed on our land." I said angrily.
"Jake and I just thought that we would come visit our favorite cousins, and it looks like we came at the right time to." Paul replied and began to eye Alice up and down. A low growl erupted from my throat when I felt Alice shift behind me.
"I cant agree with you more, brother. I think I just imprinted on this lovely lady right here." Jacob said. He approached Max and was about to reach for her hand, but Jayden slapped it away. She gently pushed Max behind her as Jacob got right up in her face.
"You better get your punk ass, bitch, face out of mine, because it's about to get ruined." Jayden growled out. I saw Jacob's face get red and he lashed out his hand to slap Jayden across the cheek, but she caught it in her hand.
"Don't you ever try to touch me, asshole!" she said and then kneed him in the groin. Jake fell to the floor groaning in pain. I stared down Paul, challenging him to see if he wanted to try anything.
"Fine, we'll leave, but watch out for yourselves tomorrow at school. Jake and I cant wait to see you lovely ladies tomorrow." Paul said eyeing Alice and Max once again before helping Jacob get up and leave.
"Who were those guys, Bella?" Alice asked as she came out from behind me.
"Those guys are Jayden and mine's cousins. Not by choice though." I replied. She nodded and didn't ask anymore questions about them, to which I was very grateful for.
I suggested that we go ahead and head to the showers so that we could get rinsed off real quick. Now what I was talking about, was leaving our swimsuits on and just rinsing off the chlorine from the pool, so Jayden, Max, Alice, and I went into the open shower part. AJ and Lexi on the other hand went into a closed shower together, which are directly across from the open showers, so we could see and hear them. I didn't really care until I heard them start moaning. I turned around and saw Lexi pushed up against one of the walls with AJ sucking on her neck.
"Didn't you guys get any last night?" I asked, causing them to break apart.
"No, because we were helping you out with Jayden last night, Bella." Lexi replied. I nodded and motioned for everyone to go out into the gym, letting AJ and Lexi satiate themselves. I saw that Alice and Max's faces were both beet red, causing Jayden and I to chuckle.
"Sorry you guys, but if you're friends with them, you have to get used to this kind of behavior." I replied. They nodded with their blushes still on their faces. About ten minutes, and two cried out names later, AJ and Lexi came out with half lidded eyes. I chuckled at the two of them, and we went back to the house. We decided to spend the rest of the day giving Max and Alice the lowdown on our school, and getting their supplies ready for tomorrow.
I was just worried about what Paul and Jacob meant by watching out for ourselves tomorrow. Hopefully they didn't do anything that involved Alice and Max into their plans. I also hope that Paul keeps himself away from Alice, or things are going to get ugly.
AN: This is not my best work whatsoever. This chapter was pretty much all forced, so let me know if I did a good job and you guys want me to continue it or not.