The Garden of Four [2/?]
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".
Rating - Older Teen to Mature (For later chapters)
By: WDG
Beta: Hollowgo and Lash_Larue (Who will also be co-oping with me in this story)
The Garden of Four - Chapter Two - School Daze
Bella woke the next morning feeling like crap, her head hurt and her eyes were still red from crying. From downstairs she could hear Charlie yelling at her to get up and get ready for school, yelling back down that she was up, she began to get ready for the day. Grabbing all her clothing she was going to wear she went to take a shower, the hot water eased some of the tension she had in her shoulders, but she hissed a little when it touched the two cuts on her back. They were still a little fresh, but had stopped bleeding. Her whole back was covered by one big bruise, her mother had thrown her against the wall when Bella had told her the news about her sexuality.
Whimpering a little at the thought, she shook her head and began to wash herself off gently. Once done she dressed in plain white socks, bra, and panties. Throwing on some blue baggy jeans she grabbed a dark gray sweat and pulled it on over her head. Brushing out her hair and drying it she went to pull on her shoes. Coming down the stairs she saw that her dad was gone and that it was early in the morning. Bella Looked at the clock and saw it was about 7:12 in the morning. Grabbing some bread she put it in the toaster and waited for it to pop up before spreading some butter on it and eating it. Once done with breakfast she went to brush her teeth.
Grabbing her jacket to wear she went to get her bag and headed out the door, looking around she and saw that she would have to walk to school. Sighing she went down the street and shivered at the cool air. When she arrived at school there weren't that many cars there thank god. Walking into the building she saw another girl standing in the hallway, her shirt was raised up a bit exposing the soft flesh of her stomach to Bella; Bella was looking so longingly at the girl she almost ran right into the door to the office. Blushing she quickly looked away before she could get walks into the office to get her classes. The lady that gives it to her is rude and doesn't want to deal with her, so she stuffs the paper into her face and tells Bella to move along. Bella grabs it and exits, reading the sheet and memorizing it as best she can. She then stuffs it into her pocket and walks off to class alone, accidentally running into somebody and falling.
Lauren looked down at the girl on the floor with disgust in her voice. "Why don't you what where you're going, you fucking ugly bitch?" Walking off she stepped on Bella's hand. Bella held back on crying out but she did wince. Getting up, she saw that outside more and more students were piling in she deiced to move on to her first class English.
Walking in she noticed she was the only one there besides the teacher walking up to him she got him to sign the paper the woman in the office gave her. Moving to sit down she sighed and waited not to long after more students filled the room until the finally bell rang. She sat there and began to listen to the teacher when a boy that was setting beside introduced himself as Mike Newton began to flirt with her rather openly. Bella declined him properly and tried not to hurt his feelings; he nodded and just began to talk with her when class was over.
As she was about to get up and leave class Mike walked up to her clapped her on her back saying he would see her at lunch. Bella wince and swore she saw stars swirling before her eyes. Shaking her head she took a deep breath and tried not to think about the throbbing in her back and the headache she was sure was turning into a migraine. Walking into her next class, she met an Asian boy named Eric he seemed more interested in her story then her looks, thank God. Still she declined doing an interview for the school paper. Angela, a girl she met in the same class, seemed nice and was very friendly if a little shy.
Bella got along great with her, she didn't seem like the rest of the girls she had meet so far. She even thought Angela was pretty, but Bella just didn't feel that spark of love from her.
"So how do you like Forks so far Bella?" asked Angela
"It's alright, I could do without the cold air and rain though," said Bella in a soft voice.
"Yeah it does get cold here a lot, sometimes so cold the rain turns to snow and ice," replied Angela.
"Well that sucks for me, because ice and I don't get along. I fall on my ass every time I try to walk on it," Bella mumbled angrily at the ice.
Angela covered her mouth and let out a soft giggle. Reaching over her shirt rode up a bit bearing smooth tan skin to Bella's eyes, Angela patted Bella's shoulder softly, "Oh you're so funny Bella".
Bella blushed as her eyes took in the soft skin of the other girl, she didn't feel a spark but Bella still thought Angela was pretty and just like before, her eyes were drawn to the skin she found before blushing and turning away.
When Lunch rolled around, she met up with Mike again. It turned out Angela and Eric sat with him and a couple others, including the girl from earlier, Lauren.
Bella gulped when she saw Lauren. She decided to site between Angela and Eric because she felt safe between them. Angela went on to introduce the rest of the group. Lauren just sneered and watched her like a hawk. Halfway towards the end of lunch, Bella had learned all of the group's names Lauren, Jessica, and Tyler. She could still feel Lauren's green eyes boring into her like they could see what Bella was trying to hide, and what was worse was now she could feel Jessica doing the same. Bella shivered and felt her heart begin to race.
Looking away from the green eyes of Lauren, Bella turned her head towards the other students of the lunch room, only to feel her breath give way and her heart clench inside her chest.
"Ah, noticed the Cullens have you?" Bella turned to look at Angela who had spoken.
"The Cullens?" Bella asked, looking at Angela curiously before her eyes went back to the table.
"Yes, the Cullens. They are Dr. Cullen and his wife's adopted children, none of them really related by blood," Angela replied. She then paused. "I guess with your being the new girl and all, you don't know any of them." She gave Bella a small smile before continuing. "You see the really big guy with the short curly hair? That's Emmett. The blonde haired boy is his brother Jasper, and lastly Edward is the one with the bronze hair."
Bella nodded and looked at each male Angela named off, "Then there are the girls. The blonde girl is Rosalie, the redhead is Victoria and the girl with the short, spiked hair is Alice." Bella took in the three females as Angela named them off, Bella had never seen so much skin in her life, the blonde and the red head showed so much off it, that Bella swore she could almost fell her nose start to bleed from all the blood rushing to her face as she blushed. She was busy taking in all the cullens especially the females when she finally stopped on the pixie looking one, Dark butterscotch eyes meet hers and Bella about fell out of her chair from turning around so fast.
Bella could feel herself blush even more and took a deep breath, when she could feel her cheeks turn back to a normal color she looked back up once more to her own table and almost jumped when green eyes almost pierced right through her. Bella took a deep breath and held Lauren's gaze until a foot slammed on top of hers, wincing she wanted to cry out but held it in. Lauren gave a small smirk, Bella knew instantly its was Lauren who was smashing her foot under the table. Bella bowed her head in defeat to the other girl hoping this would get her to stop, it did, but what came after surprised Bella greatly.
The foot lifted off her own, but Lauren did moved away instead she began to gently play footsy with her, Lauren's foot began to rise up her leg and was almost to her knee when the bell that signaled the end of lunch rang. Lauren stood and her and Jessica left, Bella let out a sigh of relief, when a hand gently touch her shoulder jumping a little she turned to see Angela's concerned gaze on her.
"You okay there Bella you look as if you have a fever" Angela asked as she helped Bella stand up. Bella nodded her head "Yeah I am fine, just a little ummm surprised is all" Angela looked over to where Lauren and Jessica had left the lunch room. Before grinning "Oh I see" Turning to Bella Angela gave her a small smile "Lauren did something didn't she" Bella only nodded in response.
Angela frowned she knew all about Lauren and Jessica when it came to knew meat in the school, the only ones that didn't get to go through the hell that was Lauren's hell was the Cullens, looking to Bella she said "Bella be careful with Lauren, Jessica as well they can be some mean girls if they don't get what they want, even meanier if they both want it bad enough to play dirty and trust me they can play pretty damn dirty."
Bella looked at Angela in surprise and sighed "Can life get anymore unfair" Angela patted Bella on the shoulder "Don't worry Bella as long as they don't catch you alone by yourself you should be pretty safe from them, as a matter of fact I can walk with you most of the time to keep you out of their clutches if ya want" Bella looked at Angela with a smile "Yeah I would like that, thanks Angela" Bella hugged the girl before looking around seeing they where the last two in the lunch room "Oh we better be off, or where going to be late, What class do you have next, I have Chemistry"
Angela smiled and began to walked out with Bella while replying "I Have Bio next but my class is right beside of yours so i can walk you to class then meet up with you right after" Bella nodded and said "Yeah thats sounds great I think after Chemistry I Have Gym" pulling out her schedule Bella looked it over "Yep I have gym, well i better be prepared to get myself hurt, god knows i can't walk across any flat surface without almost killing myself" Angela laughed softly and smiled "I have gym too so it looks like we have two classes together, History and Gym"
Booth girls soon parted when they reached their class rooms, waving good bye the walked to their class room doors and entered their rooms. Bella walked up to the teacher at the desk just as the bell rang and gave him the little slip of paper for him to sign once done he told her to set beside Alice Cullen. Bella looked up real fast only to see the only empty seat was indeed beside the one and only Alice Cullen.
Gulping she walked over to the table and sat down beside the pixie like girl. She was getting her books out when a sweet sound voice chirped out a "Hello, there You must be the new girl, I am Alice, Alice Cullen" Bella turned to look at the girl and blushed red,"Ummm...yeah that's right I am the new girl my name is Isabella Swan, but i prefer Bella, its nice to meet you too" reaching out to shake the girls hand Bella was surprised at the cold hands before a soft shock went through her system it wasn't painful far from it really more like a pleasnt tingling sensation.
Letting go of Alice's hand Bella immediately missed the touch. Bella then realized what she was doing and had to keep herself from feeling ashamed. But Alice noticed her golden eyes taking in the new girl, something had happened just then when they touched she was certain as to what is was but, she knew it felt right. So when she saw Bella look as if she had done something wrong she said "Hey, are you okay you seem kinda sad" putting her hand on Bella's back to get her attention.
Bella almost jumped when Alice's hand touched her back, her back screamed in protest at the touch, Bella bit her lip and let out a whimper of pain. Alice jerked her hand back as if it had touched fire. Bella took a few deep breaths and mumbled "Yeah I am fine and sorry bout that my back is a little sore from uh ...some heavy lifting" Bella hoped Alice bought into the lie.
Alice looked at Bella once more, the girl was hiding something but who was she to interfere, nodding she went back to work on what the teacher was putting on the board, but ever now and then her golden eyes would look at Bella, watching the girl like a hawk.
When Chemistry was over Alice left the class quickly as possible without so much as a look back, she need to speak with her family. Bella watched Alice go with a soft forlorn look on her face, before getting up and shaking her head, what was she thinking it was this thoughts that had gotten her into trouble before, she need to stop.
Meeting up with Angela they made their way to gym. Bella gave to little slip to the coach and watched her sign it before giving her another slip, this one from Bella's personal Doctor from back in Phoenix. The Coach looked at Bella at gave a soft smiled before saying quietly "Okay you don't have too change and use the showers, but you still have to participate in this class okay". Bella nodded and slipped back into the crowd and waited for class to begin.
At the end of the day Bella could feel her back throbbing with ever step she took, making it outside to head home. Walking up into the drive way, she made her way inside, seeing that Charlie wasn't back yet, she went about doing her homework and tidy the place up in hopes of Charlie not asking her anything more about her troubles. Once done she made supper, eating her own share she left Charlie's in the microwave to stay warm. Heading up stairs, she went about changing for bed, collapsing onto her mattress she groaned and pulled herself up into the middle of the bed. Curling up she drifted off into a troubled sleep.
End
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