Hello once again to another chapter of HSNE, A Remake.
Now, this chapter will be longer and I'll go into more detail for Bella's past with Joshua and trust me, there might be a tiny little surprise after the secret is revealed.
Recap of Chapter 2:
~It was the first day of school and already, the fiery burn was beginning to ignite between Edward and Bella. From Edward's action in the hallway, Bella's past is starting to seep from her mind and now, it's getting harder for her to keep her tough act against Edward. What is Bella's secret? How will the girls take it? Will Bella's secret somehow get told to the boys? ~
Of course, most of you who have already HSNE the original version, you already know Bella's secret, but this is for people who don't know it. XD
And now, we begin Chapter 3! :D
Music:
~Bad Romance by Lady Gaga~
Chapter THREE
Bella's POV
After P.E. ended, the girls and I went back to our dorm room before we left the school campus and headed off into Forks by taking a taxi cab or van really. Anyways, the driver took us into town and dropped us off. We went towards a little cute diner that sat at the corner, and went inside. It was designed like a 50's diner with black and white photos of 1950's events and people. The seats were of slippery white and red leather that was squeaked when you would sit on it.
The hostess – short, perky and with blond hair – greeted us and led us to a table. We slid into the squeaky booth and she handed us menus, before she disappeared. For some reason, it felt as if something or someone was watching us. "Bella?" Rosalie's voice sounded from across the table, pulling me out from my slight paranoia. I turned towards her and my friends to see that they were staring at me.
"What?" I asked them, feeling my face begin to blush. "What's wrong, Bells?" Angela asked me, making me sigh. "Sorry guys, it's just it feels like someone is watching us right now." I told them, sinking slightly in my seat. "I agree with you, Bells. It does feel like we're being watched." Alice chirped unhappily, sighing.
We ordered our drinks and after they came, we ordered some food and waited for it arrive. Just then, we heard the hostess take in a sharp breath when the door of the restaurant opened. We all turned towards the doors before groaning. Stepping into the restaurant was Edward, Jasper and Emmett, with two friends behind them. One of them had messy blond hair that would fall into his face, over his baby blue eyes and his boyish face. He wore a white t-shirt with dark jeans and shoes. The other boy had dark hair that would get stuck in his face, or at least in front of his square dark glasses that shielded his dark eyes. He was short – about a head taller than Alice though – and wore a black button down shirt with dark jeans and matching dark shoes.
"We'll be taking the table behind theirs." Edward told the hostess silkily, pointing over to our table and winking when he caught my glare. The hostess nodded dumbly and led them over to the table, giving them menus. When she left them, Edward and Jasper – who were sitting behind me and Alice – popped up from behind us. "Hello, ladies." Jasper greeted us, winking down at Alice. She huffed and crossed her arms.
"What the hell are you doing here?" Rosalie asked them menacingly. Emmett's head then popped up from beside Edward's head. "We're just showing our new buddies, Ben and Mikey here, around Forks. They just came from Seattle and want to know the happenin' places in Forks." Emmett explained, smirking at her. "And you had to show them this place first, why?" I asked them angrily, glaring at Edward. "They were hungry." He simply stated, chuckling.
"Couldn't you go somewhere else?" Angela spoke up, glaring murderously at all of them, making them actually grimace. Ha! They were scared of her now! "No, the other places were too far away." Jasper recovered first, rolling his eyes. "Whatever. Just leave us alone." Alice growled at Edward and Emmett. "Or, I'm going to spill your secret of your magazines." She added sickly-sweet, smirking at her brothers' terrified faces.
They went back to their seats and didn't bother us. Our food came and we began eating our food. The boys would occasionally look over our booth seats and look at our food, but Alice, Rosalie or I, were able to get rid of them. We had just now finished our food, and then suddenly, a French fry out of nowhere came flying and landed right in Rosalie's face. She gasped and the fry dropped, getting stuck thanks to her… mentionables.
"What the hell?" she hissed, snatching the fry and throwing it back over at the boys, where I could hear them laughing. Then suddenly, a wad of paper came flying out from above our heads and landed on Alice's outstretched arm that was resting on the table top. And, it was chewed up, nonetheless. "Ew!" she hissed, flicking the chewed up paper wad off her arm. Again, I heard the boys snickering. Next, another spit wad flew over our head and landed on Angela, but instead like what happened to Alice, it landed smack dab on her lips. She spluttered and got it off of her face. Uh oh; three out of four got something. I'm next…
Just as I finished thinking that, something landed on my head and exploded. It splattered and got me and Alice; I saw that goopy red stuff was on her arm. It looked like ketchup. I touched my hair and growled; now there was ketchup in my hair. Now I heard the boys full out laughing at our situations. One laugh was more louder than the rest – and it was Edward's. Oh, he just crossed the line!
I jumped to my feet and got out of the booth, with Rosalie following me. Angela and Alice got out as well, but got out on the other side. Rosalie and I went over to where Edward and Emmett were sitting at the edges, while Alice and Angela went over to where Jasper and the two boys – supposedly Mike and Ben – were sitting. Ketchup was seeping from my hair, where several drops of it landed on the table.
The boys were still laughing when we came up to them, but they stopped after a while, their faces red. I smirked and asked, "Done?" Edward nodded, chuckling, his face red from laughing. In fact, all of their faces were red. I looked at Rosalie who nodded, and then to Alice and Angela, who also nodded. "Girls, I think these boys need to cool off, don't you agree?" I asked them, my voice feigning sweetness. They giggled and nodded.
I grabbed Edward's drink and then, threw the drink in his face. He closed his eyes from the impact and came up, spluttering from the drink that was now dripping from his face. "Ah, shit! Soda!" he hissed, furiously wiping at his stinging eyes. Rosalie followed suit with Emmett, along Alice and Angela doing the same thing for Jasper, and the two boys. "There, all of you should be cooled off now, right?" I asked Edward sickly sweet, with a hint of a growl slipping through. His eyes – his oh-so emerald eyes that were now wide – glared at me.
"That's what you get for the hallway incident, and the ketchup bomb." I growled, getting dangerously close in his face. He glared back at me, and I smirked, losing my glare. "Buh-bye boys!" Alice sang to them as we strutted out of the restaurant, laughing at their soaking faces. Ha! Serves them right.
We got back to the school grounds and went to our dorms, heading up to our room. "Ugh, I swear, Edward better protect himself tomorrow, or otherwise he's going to wish he hadn't met me." I growled when we reached the junior level. "I need to shower too." I added, sighing angrily. "Maybe we should all shower. Just thinking of them, that close to us, makes me feel dirty." Angela added in, shuddering.
We reached our dorm room, and got our pajamas for the night, before we headed off towards the showers. Afterwards, my hair was now clean and free from the ketchup and smelt like strawberries thankfully. We dried off and got dressed in our pajamas before heading off to our dorm room again.
My sleepwear was made up of a striped blue and white lace cami with knit Nike sweat shorts and blue striped slip boots. Alice's sleepwear consisted of a lacy pink cami with Nike pink shorts and bright pink faux fur boots. Rosalie's sleep outfit was of a v-neck lacy red cami with bright scarlet mesh shorts that stopped at her thighs and knit red slip on socks. Angela's outfit was made up of a lacy striped green cami, that was paired up with Mike green shorts and she wore sweater knit green socks that had white snowflake designs into the stitching.
"Alright, so ladies, I believe it is time for our first sleepover!" Alice announced when we entered the safety of our warm dorm room. "Why not? We're all dressed for one and I think it might be fun." Rosalie commented, smiling. Angela and I agreed with her, and we began setting our room up into "Sleepover mode" as Alice had put the term.
Alice then turned on the stereo when we were done, and then, the beginning of "Bad Romance" by Lady Gaga came out from the stereo. "Oh, I love this song!" Alice squealed happily, jumping up and down. We laughed and she began dancing to the song. I decided to sing just for the hell of it.
(A/N: Normal = Bella Alone; Italics = Alice, Rosalie and Angela TOGETHER; Bold with Italics = ALL OF THEM; Italics with stars (*) = Bella and Rosalie; Bold with exclamation points (!) = Bella and Alice; Normal with stars (*) = Bella and Angela)
Oh-oh-oh-oh-oooh!
Oh-oh-oh-oooh-oh-oh-oh!
Caught in a bad romance
Oh-oh-oh-oh-oooh!
Oh-oh-oh-oooh-oh-oh-oh!
Caught in a bad romance
Rah rah ah-ah-ah!
Ro mah ro-mah-mah
Gaga Ooh-la-la!
Want your bad romance
Rah rah ah-ah-ah!
Ro mah ro-mah-mah
Gaga Ooh-la-la!
Want your bad romance
I want your ugly
I want your disease
I want your everything
As long as it's free
I want your love
Love-love-love
I want your love
I want your drama
The touch of your hand
I want you leathe-studded kiss in the sand
I want your love
Love-love-love
I want your love
Love-love-love
I want your love
You know that I want you
And you know that I need you
I want it bad
Your bad romance
*I want your loving*
*And I want your revenge*
*You and me could write a bad romance*
(Oh-oh-oh-oh-oooh!)
*I want your loving*
*All your love is revenge*
*You and me could write a bad romance*
Oh-oh-oh-oh-oooh!
Oh-oh-oh-oooh-oh-oh-oh!
!Caught in a bad romance!
Oh-oh-oh-oh-oooh!
Oh-oh-oh-oooh-oh-oh-oh!
!Caught in a bad romance!
Rah rah ah-ah-ah!
Ro mah ro-mah-mah
Gaga Ooh-la-la!
Want your bad romance
I want your horror
I want your design
'Cause you're a criminal
As long as your mine
I want your love
Love-love-love
I want your love, uhh
I want your psycho
Your vertigo stick
Want you in my room
When your baby is sick
I want your love
Love-love-love
I want your love
Love-love-love
I want your love
You know that I want you
And you know that I need you
('Cause I'm a freak bitch, baby!)
I want it bad
Your bad romance
*I want your loving*
*And I want your revenge*
*You and me could write a bad romance*
(Oh-oh-oh-oh-oooh!)
*I want your loving*
*All your love is revenge*
*You and me could write a bad romance*
Oh-oh-oh-oh-oooh!
Oh-oh-oh-oooh-oh-oh-oh!
!Caught in a bad romance!
Oh-oh-oh-oh-oooh!
Oh-oh-oh-oooh-oh-oh-oh!
!Caught in a bad romance!
Rah rah ah-ah-ah!
Ro mah ro-mah-mah
Gaga Ooh-la-la!
Want your bad romance
Work-work fashion baby
Work it
move that bitch crazy
Work-work fashion baby
Work it
move that bitch crazy
Work-work fashion baby
Work it
move that bitch crazy
Work-work fashion baby
Work it
I'm a freak bitch baby
I want your love
And I want your revenge
I want your love
I don't wanna be friends
J'veux ton amour
Et je veux ton revenge
J'veux ton amour
I don't wanna be friends
Oh-oh-oh-oh-oooh!
(I don't wanna be friends)
Oh-oh-oooh-oh-oh!
Caught in a bad romance
(I don't wanna be friends)
Oh-oh-oh-oh-oooh!
Oh-oh-oooh-oh-oh!
(Want your bad romance)
Caught in a bad romance
(Want your bad romance)
I want your loving
I want your revenge
You and me could write a bad romance
(Oh-oh-oh-oh-oooh!)
I want your loving
All your love is revenge
You and me could write a bad romance
Oh-oh-oh-oh-oooh!
(Want your bad romance)
Oh-oh-oooh-oh-oh!
Caught in a bad romance
(Want your bad romance)
Oh-oh-oh-oh-oooh!
(Want your bad romance)
Oh-oh-oooh-oh-oh!
Caught in a bad romance
Rah rah ah-ah-ah!
Ro mah ro-mah-mah
Gaga Ooh-la-la!
Want your bad romance
(Bad Romance by Lady Gaga; I hope the Lyrics didn't get messed up.)
When the song ended, we were breathless and laughing from our dancing and singing. "Damn, I didn't know that you could sing like that, Bells." Rosalie commented, giving me a high five. I laughed and nodded, accepting her praise. We continued singing with various songs that came on the stereo, before we collapsed to the ground in exhaustion.
"Wow, who knew could sing for that long?" Alice asked rhetorically, laughing breathlessly. "So, I have a question, Bella." Rosalie began, looking over at me. I nodded to her for her to continue with her question. "Why were you so mad at Edward today? You told us that you would tell us when we would get to our dorm." Rosalie asked, looking at me with concern swirling in her blue eyes.
"Do you guys really want to know?" I asked them, pulling my bottom lip between my teeth in my nervous state. "Of course, Bella." Alice told me, placing her hand on my arm in comfort. Sighing to myself and taking a few deep breaths, I stated, "The reason why I'm so mad at Edward is that he tried to rape me in the hallway before our lunch detention."
All of them gasped from this bit of information, before Alice and Rosalie clenched their fists angrily. Angela moved over to my side and took me into her arms, stroking my hair softly while I cried into her shoulder.
"I swear, he's going to be dead when I'm through with him." Alice growled, looking away furiously. "When I'm through with him, no one will be able to find his dead body." Rosalie snarled, burying her face in her hands.
"Girls, it's okay, I guess. I mean, this isn't the first time that it has happened…" I trailed off, sighing. But, I then realized that I said something that I shouldn't have and quickly slapped my hands over my mouth, my eyes wide. "Not the first time?" Angela questioned, looking down at me. "Bella, what do you mean, not the first time?" Alice asked me, glancing at me with worried eyes. I rapidly shook my head; I couldn't risk getting shunned from them. They were my only friends in this school and I didn't want to lose them already.
"Bella, you can trust all of us. Just tell us, please. We want to be there for you." Rosalie assured me, matching Alice's expression. I sighed again to myself, before I wiped off my tears. I might as well tell them this secret. They may accept me, but it'll never change the fact that nothing could've prevented it from happening.
"Alright, I'll tell you." I began, looking down at my lap. Here goes nothing…
"It all started when I was only five years old. It was in the summer time when I came to my dad's house for a visit. I wanted to go outside and play in the sprinklers for a bit, which I did, while my dad watched me from either the kitchen window or the front door windows that were off to the side of the door. Anyways, I was just jumping and running back and forth in the sprinklers, when two bullies – one boy and one girl – came up to me.
"They started making fun of me for playing in the sprinklers when I should be swimming in a pool. I couldn't really swim that well back then and my dad didn't like going to public pools. They made me cry from the teasing, and wouldn't leave me alone. I didn't want to go inside though. I didn't want to look like a huge baby in front of my dad. So, I stayed outside and took the verbal abuse from the boy and girl.
"Then, someone came to my rescue. A boy came running up from behind the boy and the girl, pushing the boy down and scaring the girl off. He came over to me and asked if I was alright, which I sort of was. He turned to the boy and said, "If you ever mess with her again, you'll have to deal with me." After the bully left, the other boy turned towards me and gave me just a little friendly smile. He told me that his name was Joshua, but I could call him Josh. He learned my name after that, too.
"Joshua and I were together most of the time. Whenever I was at my dad's house and it was raining there, he would sneak into my house and comfort me throughout the storm. We went to school together and made sure that we sat next to each other during classes. At recess, he protected me from the school bullies who would pick on me daily. He was the best friend that I could ask for.
"In middle school, Joshua was starting to get a little more worried every day; the reason was unknown to me. He still protected me from the bullies in the school like he had done for me in elementary. It was going great for me, until Joshua started missing some school days. Joshua was one for not missing so many school days, and he never really did because if he did, then he knew that he was leaving me unprotected from the mean kids.
"When he did come back to school after a few days of being sick – as he had told me – I noticed that whenever I would hug him, he would wince in pain, and if I were to ever touch his arm, he would flinch. I started asking him if he was alright and he would simply say he was fine. But, one day, he didn't come to school, and was out for the whole week.
"And when he came back the next week, he was in horrible shape – physically and emotionally. He didn't have that little spark in his blue eyes when he would see me, and it was a daily task for me to make him laugh or smile. He also had a black eye, bruises as far as the eye could see, and normally have a limp. I knew that I couldn't take it anymore and I told my dad about Joshua's situation. Being the chief of police, he took action and went down to Joshua's house with other police officers after school.
"There, he found Joshua and his mother being abused from Joshua's dad. The place was a mess of broken furniture and beer cans littering the floor. Joshua's dad was arrested for domestic abuse, and Joshua and his mother were now free from him. They got on with their lives and were happy again. Joshua's mother was able to get back to her job with a smile on her face and eventually married an old friend of hers from high school, whom she really loved.
"But, when it came to high school, I thought that things couldn't get any better. Joshua had asked me to be his girlfriend, which I accepted, and there, we were two lovesick teenagers. What I didn't know was that Joshua was seeing other girls behind my back, telling them that I was a terrible girlfriend to him. He told them that I never treated him right and I never did what I should be doing for him.
"I had confronted him after I heard this from one of his alleged girlfriends, and he denied before he accused me of cheating. I don't know how you call visiting my guy friends as cheating. It made no sense to me, but then Joshua wouldn't let me see any of my friends anymore. I was normally cooped up in my house, or by Joshua's side. I was no longer the free person.
"Joshua was changing throughout our school year, getting more hormonal when around me and wouldn't stop touching me. He would kiss me roughly, and let his hands roam until I couldn't take it anymore. He would start yelling at me whenever I would refuse him for kissing me, because I know what he was trying to do to me. He was trying to force sex on me, when I had my morals straight. I was waiting for my future wedding night to have sex, but Joshua wasn't having that.
"He abused me and beat me senseless each day. It was difficult for me to hide those bruises and scars that he would leave behind. I knew that this relationship between us was no longer the same relationship that we had when we were children. He was no longer nice to me, and no longer protected me from people who would tease me and pick on me. He said that I should be strong enough to battle my own battles without him, instead of showing weakness.
"My life turned upside down one night at a party during the end of freshman year. Someone had snuck in alcohol and drugs into the party, where Joshua was one of the many people who drank. He had gotten sickly drunk and it was getting harder for me to protect myself from him, for he wouldn't keep his hands off of me. That's when he dragged me upstairs in one of the bedrooms at the house we were at, and raped me.
"When the party was over, I ran home to my father, shaking and frightened. He saw the state that I was in and immediately arrested Joshua after there was enough evidence to arrest him. My dad was extremely furious at Joshua, and asked my mother if she could take me in for the summer while they would change everything – phone numbers, email addresses, while adding plenty of security systems in their homes. My parents didn't want me getting hurt anymore and made sure that they would meet my guy friends from now on.
"I finally realize why my dad didn't want me going to this school all by myself. He didn't want me to get raped again from one of these bastards. He was only trying to protect me, but he changed his mind after I had fought for the girls' rights to come to this school. He was only trying to protect his only daughter from the harms of men in this world. He just never thought that he would see his own daughter trying to go to an all boys school, but when the rules changed, he was happy.
"That's why I'm never going to trust men, ever again." I finished my story, with tears falling heavily from my eyes and me, trying to suck in air through my ragged breathing. Alice, Rosalie and Angela all surrounded me, giving me a large, comforting hug. Alice stroked my hair in a sisterly way, while Rosalie stroked my back while I continued to sob.
"Don't worry, Bella, I just know the perfect little punishment for Edward. He won't know what will hit him." Alice assured, giving me an encouraging smile. I nodded, smiling through my crying.
Suddenly, I heard someone whispering outside our door – whoever was out there was not good at being quiet. "Well, girls, why don't we get out of this sad mood and do something fun?" I began loudly, wiping my tears away and getting up, heading towards the door. I silently told them that someone was out there and they nodded, giggling. "What do you think we should do, Bella?" Rosalie asked me back loudly. "Hmm, I don't know. How about," I began, before wrenching the door open.
Edward, Emmett and Jasper fell through the door, landing in a huge heap on our dorm floor. "How about we bust these boys for listening in on us?" I asked the girls, snarling slightly as I leaned down towards the boys. I hope they hadn't heard my story. "We weren't listening in on you ladies." Emmett grunted, falling off the pile and staring up at us. Jasper followed suit, while Edward – who was at the bottom – looked up painfully. "Then what were you three doing here in the middle of the night?" Alice asked them, growling.
"We were uh…" Edward began, trying to think up of an excuse. "That's what I thought." Rosalie concluded when he couldn't come up with anything. "How about you tell us what you were talking about earlier, and we won't bother you anymore." Jasper challenged, looking up. Okay, so they didn't hear my story. Thank god…
"No dice, boys. Now, how about you three leave now, or will make sure that our dorm advisor catches you, so you can have a little chit-chat with the principal tomorrow morning. Sounds good?" Rosalie asked sickly-sweetly at them, smiling a fake smile. They all looked terrified from that idea. "Now, get lost." I stated angrily. They leapt to their feet and dashed out quietly; when we were sure that they were gone, I closed the door and locked it.
"So, Alice. What's your plan of revenge for Edward?" I asked Alice when we were all lying down in our beds. "Well, my plan was…" she began telling us her plan, and eventually when she was done, all of us were laughing our heads off. "That's genius, Alice!" Rosalie exclaimed, desperately trying to talk through her laughter. "I know. It's time that these boys know what girls can do." Alice stated, still laughing.
Afterwards, we fell asleep, dreaming glorious dreams of our revenge for tomorrow.
What's Alice up to? What is the plan for the revenge?
I decided to end there for this chapter, because it was getting extremely long for me – 11 pages and over 5,000 words.
And, I'm pleased with writing Bella's past. :D Much longer than the original story in HSNE, the original version. I also think that the chapter may seem longer because of the song there; it was really long.
Question Time:
~Have you ever pulled a prank on someone? If so, what was the prank?~
Soon, I'm going to need to think of prank ideas for this story, because really in the original version, there weren't that many pranks within the story. Just mostly romance and drama.
So, if you liked this chapter, tell me if you did in a review. They're greatly appreciated to me and my beta reader. :)
Bye for now,
~*Lady Lily of Darkness*~
NEXT CHAPTER:
"Alice, why did I get a phone call from mom and dad?"
"Oh, maybe because, a little birdie told them about your magazines."
(By the way: Angela's, Alice's, Bella's and Rosalie's Sleepwear are on my website – the link is on my profile – and if you want to know what they look like, go ahead and look at them.)