My Paper Heart
Chapter 2
It'd been two weeks since I arrived and things were still tense in the house.
Emmett was gone most of the time due to football practice and that meant Jasper was too.
Alice and I wanted to go, but Jasper asked us to stay away, due to Edward being an ass and Rose and Jessica talking shit.
Alice then had the bright idea that we should spend the last couple of week's clothes shopping, getting me ready for Forks winter. I reluctantly agreed and let her torture me with a day trip to Port Angeles and then a weekend trip with her mom to Seattle.
I had an entire new wardrobe for back to school and a new haircut to go with it, not too much off though, Jasper enjoyed running his fingers through it and I enjoyed when he did it.
Alice and Jasper were due to come over tonight and hang out since dad had the night shift, Alice was spending the night, because I knew Emmett would be home. Dad had lifted some of his restriction, but not all of it, just enough so we weren't stuck at home together all the time. The night's dad worked the late shift, Emmett was allowed to go out with his friends, but had to be home by 11:00pm, and his friends could stay, but had to be gone by midnight.
Tonight was the first test of this policy, to say I was less than thrilled would be an understatement.
I made dinner for Alice and Jasper, we had fajitas and virgin margarita's they were in heaven, we cleaned up and were watching a movie when Emmett and his friends came home.
Emmett, Rose and Edward to be exact.
"Do they always have to be here?" Emmett snapped.
"They're my friends, so yes." I said calmly.
"Well, we want to watch the movie we brought." Emmett walked over to the DVD player and stopped ours.
"What the hell?" I stood up.
"You don't own the house Bella." Emmett snapped.
"Come on Bella, we can just watch it in your room." Jasper grabbed my hand.
"That's not the point. That point is Emmett thinking he can run me out of my own home. He wants me to go running back to Florida, well it's not going to happen. I'm better, I'm healed." I shouted.
"Bella, come on." Alice tried to calm me.
"No Alice, maybe it needs to be said. Maybe they need to find out." I let out a shuddering breath.
Jasper tried to wrap his arms around me and I shrugged him off.
"No, I need to do this on my own, you might want to have a seat or leave." I look at him with tears rolling down my face and Alice at my side.
"You're always such a drama queen." Rose rolled her eyes.
"Rose you don't even belong in this fucking conversation, why are you still here?" I asked.
"She's my girlfriend, she has just as much right as Jasper or Alice." Emmett snapped.
"Alice? Please, Alice knows exactly what happened and why I went. Did you ever stop and think that's why she changed so much after I left? No, no you wouldn't because all you cared about was what happened to your precious Edward. You only cared that I 'broke his heart', broke his heart so much that he dumped ME, to go and fuck Jessica. That's a REAL broken heart. Give me a break! You didn't even think or care about your baby sister's broken heart or how bad she was freaking out when she found out she was pregnant." I stopped and let that sink in and broke into tears.
I was sobbing and felt Alice wrap herself around me, again.
I took a deep breath and continued, my hand on my stomach.
When I told dad, he didn't freak, he suggested we call mom and talk to her.
She offered the Florida solution, so I did online school. I was going to give the baby up for adoption, but I had a really difficult pregnancy, the doctor said due to my size and stress levels, that why I lost the baby at three months. I couldn't come home though, I got really sick and depressed. Alice came to see me, she helped me through it, but then she had to come back here and there was no one here for her. You didn't even care what the fuck was going on with me! Not once did you ask what was going on with your sister when dad would take trips out to see me, instead opting to stay with your precious Edward! If I didn't know you were fucking Rose, I'd think you were fucking Edward!" I slid down the wall and cried, my hand on my stomach. Crying for my unborn child. For my missed time with my stupid ass brother whom I still loved, but was so wrapped up in his friends that he couldn't see how much his little sister needed him.
I felt two strong arms wrap around me.
"I'm so sorry. Can you ever forgive me?" Emmett asked.
I nodded into his chest.
"I need to take care of something, I'm sitting you with Alice on the couch. OK?" he asked and I just nodded again through my tears.
"You, I can't believe that I out up with your shit for all these years and then to find out you knocked up my sister!" Emmett was shouting at Edward.
"Hey, I didn't know man. She never told me either." Edward tried to defend himself.
"Why would she? You royally screwed her over." Emmett yelled.
"Oh give me a break! You're going to act like your sister is the innocent here? You've been talking shit about her for a year and now everything is OK?" Edward laughed.
"Because I thought she left over you just fucking Jess. I thought she was being stupid. I didn't realize that you'd gotten her pregnant. Had I'd know that you'd been sleeping with my sister, I'd have kicked your ass sooner." Emmett landed a punch on Edward's face and that's all it took for those two to go at it.
Thankfully it moved outside rapidly and Rose ran out after them.
I sat on the couch crying in Alice's arms before I realized that Jasper wasn't around.
"Alice, where did Jasper go?" I asked while trying to calm done.
"He needed to process what you had said. That was a lot for him." She smiled sadly.
"Go to him please. You can answer any questions he has. I'll be fine, promise." I wiped my tears.
"Bella…" Alice hesitated.
"Seriously." I told her and she called Jasper to come get her. I'm guessing they argued about it for a few minutes, but he finally agreed.
I waited with her outside and walked with her to the car.
I walked to his window and waited for him to roll it down, he just stared straight ahead, red rimmed eyes, and then I walked to Alice's side and hugged her. "Remember what I said, anything he wants to know." I looked in the car to him.
I watched them drive away, tears streaming down my face.
I ran up to my room, locking my door and running a hot shower so I could cry in peace. And cry I did until the water ran cold.
I then got out and dried off, slipping into my pajamas and crawling into bed.
I awoke to my phone ringing.
Alice.
"Hey, can we go out to breakfast?" she asked.
"Yeah, give me about twenty minutes." I said and crawled out of bed to get dressed, throwing my hair in a ponytail.
I drove up to Alice's in my Metallic Blue LR2, I wasn't going to get something so expensive, but when thinking about the snow and the slush and my accident prone self, I called Phil and asked if I could get this and he was delighted I'd decided on something better and told he'd foot the entire bill. I tried to argue, but he wouldn't have it. I gave in and got what I wanted and loved it.
I honked my horn and Alice came running out, hoping in and smiling.
"So, how did the talk go?" I asked.
"He wouldn't talk to me. Said he needed to work it through on his own and talk to you and only you." She shrugged.
"Great. That sounds ominous." I sighed.
"Just relax. Let's eat breakfast and go get a mani/pedi. School registration is in two days, we want to look good, right?" She smiled.
"Right!" I tried to smile a genuine smile.
We had our girl's day and that night I spent with Emmett.
"Can you forgive me?" he asked.
"It'll take some time, but yeah. You're my brother and I love you." I smiled.
"Good. I feel like a complete ass." He sighed.
"I'm just glad you finally stood up to Edward. That's all I ever wanted. I just wanted you to step up and protect me when he broke my heart." I shrugged. "I think that hurt just as bad as losing the baby did. Because I lost my brother, my protector." I started crying.
Emmett came over to my chair and wrapped me in a hug and whispered I'm sorry over and over.
We talked some more and I told him I forgave him, but Rose was a different story, she still wasn't talking to me.
"I'm still trying to get through to her. She and Jess have become best friends and she's pissed at me now because I punched Edward." He shook his head.
It was registration day.
Alice told me she was riding with Jasper and would meet me there.
Emmett decided to ride with me, since Rose said she was going with Jess and Edward.
I dressed in an outfit mom had bought for me when we'd went shopping before I left.
It was a jacquard print shorts, with a hot pink cowl neck halter top and heels, leaving my hair down in soft natural waves and light make-up. I felt very powerful in this outfit and had this in mind for registration day all along, not knowing if I'd run into any of my past before this day. I wanted to show them that they would NOT intimidate me, I was bigger than them and I would not let them ruin my life.
I walked down stairs and Emmett was sitting at the kitchen table texting someone.
Looking up he about choked.
"What in the hell are you NOT wearing?" he asked.
"Mom helped pick it out." I shrugged.
"Well there's the problem. Mom would want to borrow it he laughed. I'm going to have to beat the guys off of you. Shit sis! You do realize that Mike is STILL going to try and ask you out, right?" he sighed.
"UGH! He's still around." I shook my head.
"Uh, yeah. He's a senior." He laughed.
"Great. Another reason for Jess to hate me." I shrugged.
"You've got Jasper." He assured me.
"Not so sure about that." I sighed.
"Give him time. That was a lot to take in. You were pregnant, you lost it…." He let it hang there.
"I guess. I have a hard time letting people back in, I spent a year basically closed off." I told him honestly.
"You need to fill me in on your life in Florida later, OK. I want to understand." He rubbed my shoulders. "You ready?" I nodded and we headed out to my car.
Arriving at school, everyone was looking at my car. Usually it was Edward's car everyone was staring at, I didn't even think about that.
"Shit, Em. They're all staring." I said frustrated.
"It's OK. You get out and hold your head high." He smiled brightly at me.
I took a deep breath and rubbed my angel wing necklace mom and Phil had bought me in remembrance of losing my baby and got out with Emmett.
We walked inside and everyone seemed to stop and stare.
"Bella! You're back." Angela, one of the quiet girls like me said.
"Yeah, I am." I smiled and offered her a small hug, Ben walked up and took her hand. "Come on Ang." He gave me a look.
"Nice to see you too Ben!" I spat his name, he was one of Edward's friends. Angela waved and walked away.
I sighed "Have they all went to the dark side?" I asked.
"Here comes Mike." Emmett chuckled.
"Bella, looking HOT! Florida did you good." He smiled and wrapped his arm around my shoulder. Before Emmett or I could do anything about it, Mike was sailing across the floor.
"Hands off my girl." Jasper snarled in Mike's face. "Don't touch her again."
He then walked over to me and placed a chaste kiss on my lips. "Can we talk after this? We need to talk." He had his head buried in my hair.
"Yes." I whispered and smiled at him.
"Thank you." He kissed me a little more forcefully and led me to enrolment.
We enrolled and noticed we had P.E., English and lunch together.
"It's a start, at least you're not stuck alone with Edward in every class." He smiled.
"This is true." I sighed.
"Oh and um, don't freak when you see him today." He grinned.
"What did you do Jasper?" I asked.
"I taught him a lesson." He stated matter of factly, showing me his knuckles.
"Shit, are you OK?" I asked grabbing his hand and kissing it.
"Fine." He pulled me towards him. "But I won't be if you keep dressing like this." He shook his head.
"Hey, where is Alice?" I asked.
"Oh, she is off with Riley. He grew some balls and asked her out." He laughed.
"Riley? Wow. I'm surprised, I thought he'd remain neutral, he seems like a wuss." I giggled.
"He is a wuss. But if anyone can shape him up its Alice." Jasper shrugged.
"C'mon, let's find Emmett so we can get out of here." I pulled Jasper down the hall.
I heard him before I saw him. Yelling with Rose.
"Em, come on." I nodded.
"You two go. We've got to work this out." He nodded his head between the two of them.
I gave Rose the stink eye "Don't hurt my brother because of Edward, Emmett is the much better choice. You used to me smart Rose, what happened?" I shook my head and walked away with Jasper.
AN:
OK…
Chapter at a close…
They made up in this chapter… Which was going to happen in the next chapter, but worked great with Mike putting his arm around her…
Jasper is quite possessive of our Bella… But not in a crazy way… Just b/c she was hurt so badly… He FEELS the need to protect her…
Jasper's POV of his thoughts from learning she was pregnant and losing it… To him beating the shit out of Edward…Then we'll have their talk… :0)
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