The Garden of Four [3/?]
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 and Lash_Larue
Beta: SomeRandomBastard (Yes that is is username)
The Garden of Four - Chapter Three - Something About Her
Bella looked around and saw that she was back at her mother's house. She remembered this; it was just the day before she left to live with her father. She was getting yelled at, and even though it was just a memory, Bella could still feel the pain at the words.
"I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU BELL!," Renee yelled at her daughter. She was pacing back and forth in the kitchen area and turned to point at her daughter once more, "We knew you were born different then others, but that doesn't mean you have to add more to yourself and become more of a freak. Isabella, for the sake of this family you are to stop, do you hear me?" she walked up to her daughter and grabbed her roughly.
"I mean it this time girl, don't think I haven't caught you staring, this is the last chance you get. Or, well, let's just say it's the last chance my dear. Now go clean your room, Phil should be here any second to pick me up, now go."
Bella awoke from her dream in a sweat; grabbing her pounding heart she looked around in fear only to let out a sigh when she realized that she was in her bed at her dad's house. She recalled her dream and shivered, she remembered what happened the day after too, Renee had caught her looking at some girl, and when they got back home she dealt out a beating so severe it left Bella aching and bleeding on the floor. Renee then sent Bella out to Charlie for him to try and deal with.
Bella's back still ached from the beating too. Feeling it throb she hoped it wasn't infected or anything. She hoped that it was just sore because it was still a little fresh. Getting up she saw the clock beside her bed, and realizing that she was up a little earlier than yesterday she took her time getting dressed. Once done in the bathroom she made her way to her bedroom to get dressed. After pulling on her bra and underwear she grabbed some dark jeans, a white shirt that was a little long on her, and a jacket.
Walking downstairs to where she left her shoes she saw that Charlie was still home. "Hi Ch...Dad." Bella had almost called him by name. She grabbed her shoes and put them on, and then went to make herself a bowl of cereal.
Sitting down, she had just begun to eat her cereal when Charlie began to speak - "Uh, Bells I realize I was a little hard on you yesterday...so I sorta forgot to give you something, here," sliding a pair of keys across the table he said, "It's to the old pickup outside, now I only want you to use it when going to school, so no late night rides, you hear me?" getting up Charlie patted her softly on the head and left.
"Oh, and Bella, remember, don't do anything that will require me and you to have another sit down like yesterday...okay?" with those last words Charlie walked out the front door and left.
Bella looked at the keys, and finishing up her cereal she put her bowl in the dishwasher and headed outside. Looking at the old beaten down pickup outside she smiled a little, it looked like crap but Bella liked it. Getting inside she started the beast up, it made a roaring sound followed by a soft rumbling. She pulled out and made her way to school.
Pulling into the parking lot, she parked as close to the building as possible, and upon getting out she noticed a silver Volvo not too far from where she had parked. Shrugging her shoulders, she looked at it one more time before making her way into the school. Not many kids had made it there yet, thank goodness, so Bella roamed the halls for a few moments before spotting Lauren. Seeing the other girl, Bella turned on her heels and made for the closest exit. Rounding on a corner she bumped into a hard body and fell backwards onto her ass, she let out a soft whimper and looked up only to meet the golden eyes of Alice Cullen.
Alice smiled down at the girl and helped her up. "You okay there Bella?" Not letting go of Bella's hand, Alice checked her over a bit. Bella blushed and looked down at their intertwined hands, quickly pulling her hand from Alice's.
"Uh yeah, I am fine, thanks for helping me up though. Well, I am - uh - I am going to find Angela, see ya Alice". Bella quickly took off, not noticing the slight frown the pixie girl had as she left.
Bella finally found Angela as she was making her way to her first period class, and together the two of them headed for their classrooms, Angela to hers, and Bella to the room a little ways on down the hall. After a quick goodbye hug Bella made a beeline straight towards her first class.
Sitting down she pulled out her books and began to get ready to take notes from the teacher... after spending forever in her first two classes, lunch finally rolled around. She walked into the lunch room with Angela and Erica, got her food, and went and sat at their table.
She was talking and laughing with them and having an all around good time, when Jessica and Lauren showed up and sat down. Bella licked her suddenly dry lips and pushed her food around on her tray.
She didn't say a word to Lauren or Jessica, but that didn't stop Lauren, because not too long after they sat down, she could feel Lauren's foot giving a repeat performance of the one she had yesterday. She stepped down on Bella's foot, making Bella almost cry out, and then moving her foot along she began to drag it slowly up Bella's leg and back down again.
Bella was about to make a break for it when the whole table got quiet, and Bella looked around curiously. She wanted to know what had them all so quiet. She felt a soft tapping on her shoulder, and turning around she was meet with three pairs of golden eyes, one pair belonging to Alice Cullen.
(ALICE)
After her first block class had ended, Alice made her way to her two sisters pretty fast and told them they needed to meet up right after second block classes, because she needed to talk to them. After getting both to agree she sat and waited for the second block class to end. It felt like hours to her, but was probably only a few minutes before Alice stood outside waiting for her sisters.
"Okay Alice, what's so important?" Rose demanded after Alice had hustled her and Victoria off into the woods near the school parking lot.
"Isabella Swan," Alice replied.
"What about her?" Rose pressed while Victoria looked on in amusement.
"I'm not exactly sure, but something about her pulls me to her," Alice said slowly. "And she's hiding something, she winced when I touched her back yesterday, said it was sore from lifting. That's a lie, I could smell the cuts and bruises."
"Not our business," Rosalie said flatly.
"It can't hurt to help the Chief's daughter," Victoria put in.
"No? Suppose he's the one that did it to her?" Rose countered. Alice was shaking her head before Rose had finished.
"Not him, it happened before she got here, it smelled older than that," Alice assured them.
"You sure it's the injuries you're smelling, Alice?" Victoria asked, one red eyebrow arching strongly.
"She appeals to me," Alice admitted, "Frankly I've never felt anything like it. She could be the one."
"No she couldn't!" Rosalie corrected emphatically. "Alice, you know how dangerous it is to get involved with an ordinary human girl, and now you want to get tangled up with the Police Chief's daughter? That's a pretty big chance to take just because her scent smells good to you."
"It's not just that," Alice insisted, "and whatever she may be, she's not an ordinary human girl. There is something different about her. I tell you, she could be the one."
Rosalie snorted, but Victoria regarded Alice seriously.
"Did you see anything about her, Alice?" Victoria asked.
"That's another funny thing, I saw three possible futures for her, and that's never happened before."
"The future can change," Rosalie reminded her, "you always tell us that."
"Yes, but like I said, this is different. I can see three futures for her at the same time, and I don't understand it."
"Tell us then," Victoria encouraged. Rose nodded in agreement.
"One, I see her with us, as one of us. She's beautiful like you wouldn't believe, and we're happy, whole."
"Okay, next?"
"This is the strangest one, she's just gone. Not moved away, not dead, just - gone." Alice seemed quite disturbed by that one.
"Right, the last?" Rose asked, clearly still doubtful.
"I see her dead with her throat torn out. And no vampire did it," Alice said grimly.
"So what can we do about it? That's not much to go on," Rose inquired.
"We can look out for her, and we might start with that bitch Lauren. She thinks Isabella is easy pickings," Alice informed them.
"And your concern is not just because her scent smells good to you?" Victoria asked bluntly.
"No," Alice answered shortly.
"But it does smell good?" Victoria persisted.
"Oh, God, yes," Alice confirmed.
"I'm in," Victoria said with a feral grin.
"Oh hell, me too," Rosalie agreed reluctantly, "somebody's got to keep Alice out of trouble."
Alice nodded and the three of them made their way back to the school and into the lunchroom with little time wasted. Looking around Alice spotted Bella, and she hissed a little when she saw Lauren trying to pull some moves under the table. She got Victoria and Rose to follow her over to the table. Walking up behind Bella she saw the whole table go quiet, and after glaring at Lauren she moved her eyes back down to Bella, tapping the girl softly on the shoulder.
When Bella turned around Alice was met with those deep chocolate brown eyes. If her heart could beat it would have skipped one at that moment. Alice took a deep breath and let it out, thinking yes there was definitely something about Bella Swan that no other girl had.
Smiling she asked "Bella would you like to join my sisters and me at our table today" Bella quickly nodded seeing away out of Laurens clutches getting up she smiled and walked away with Alice and her sisters to sit at there table.
Looking at the other two girls Bella noticed they both had the same eye color as Alice. Bella blushed and looked away there was definitely something different about these girls.
End Chapter 3
Yeah i posted it once, then had to take it down because i forgot to put on some of the stuff, so if yall that have this story set for alert get two alerts thats why. Sorry bout that.
So more and more of Bella's past is coming up, chapter 4 is in the works of getting beta done on it so it should be posted...as soon as i get it back.