Twilight Restless Minds

Chapter:25

Before Bella arrived in Forks, I spent my Friday nights doing the same fucking thing- getting high and drunk at First Beach… making mundane conversation with the guys… watching my brother almost hook up with someone, and ignoring all of the girls who would get shit faced enough to muster up the courage to speak to me. I often wondered if it was a dare, like being challenged to run up and touch the front porch of the neighborhood haunted house.

It was usually Jessica, Makenna and Lauren that hung out with the guys in my group. Not that I had an actual group, but the guys who sat at my lunch table were the ones we usually hung with at the beach and at parties. I was like an extension of them...not really friends, but present none the less.

Occasionally, if I was drunk enough, I'd respond to the girls when they made petty conversation, but I tried to steer clear of them. They were bitches and I didn't like them. Makenna was all right, though. She just followed everything Lauren and Jess did, and that made me feel like she had no backbone or identity of her own. I couldn't respect that.

Anyway, now that Bella was here, I had something to look at…and something else to be pissed off about. Jasper's arm around her... Mike showing her his shitty fake ID… Alec chatting it up with her about God knows what. I was officially obsessed with this girl and she was barely giving me the time of day.

She disappeared to the other side of the sitting area, talking with Angela and Ben and some of the guys on the JV football team. That pissed me off too.

A few hours slipped by, and the beers went down easily. I remained stationed on the picnic table, chain smoking, brooding and glaring at Bella. The more I drank, the angrier I grew. She hadn't said one word to me, not that I had attempted to talk to her at all either after our embarrassing encounter, but still.

I left with Jasper to take a piss in the woods across the street and when I got back, Bella was with Alice, Rose, and Angela sitting at the picnic table where I had been seated for the past two hours.

Before I could even get close to her, the music changed to a girly pop song with a heavy techno beat behind it and all of the girls squealed, "I love this song!" I rolled my eyes as they began dancing in the middle of the picnic area. Alice grabbed Bella's hand, dragging her to the makeshift dance floor.

The guys, including myself, stared incredulously, as coats were shed and tossed onto nearby tables. They were all having such a good time, and a little part of me was jealous that I would never be able to have that kind of carefree, uninhibited fun. One, because I hardly even let my guard down and two, because I lived in a constant state of unhappiness.

Bella and the other girls laughed and pursing their lips while they swayed to the heavy beats of the music. They were carefree and drunk, giggling at each other without a concern in the world. When a few random guys jumped into the mix with the intention of grinding, I felt my whole body tense. My fist gripped the neck of the beer bottle so tightly I thought the glass would shatter under my fingers.

Because I would kill a motherfucker if he touched Bella. And then it would be all over for me.

I watched as Mike moved closer to Bella, snaking his arms around her waist. Jessica gave Bella a nasty glare before she gritted her teeth at Lauren and I felt a cat fight ensuing. I braced my hand on the edge of the table, ready to stand to rip Mike's head off for touching her, or Jessica's…whoever messed with her first. I was not concerned with the fact that I had absolutely no right to cockblock anyone who had interest in Bella, nor that I could probably take Jessica and Lauren down with one hand, but would get arrested doing so.

What the fuck was I even doing?

I made a mental note to properly warn Bella about Jessica and Lauren. They could be vicious bitches, which I had witnessed first-hand in June when some freshman crossed Lauren one time too many. The girl lost a chunk of hair, her front tooth and all of her dignity by the time they were done with her. She had also peed her pants in fear which inevitably led to the transfer to another school by September.

I reigned it in as soon as Rosalie grabbed Bella's wrist and lifted her up on top of the picnic table. Bella tossed her little coat on the bench, fluffing her hair around her shoulders. The two girls danced together, not overtly sexual, but sensual and beautiful. Bella's arms snaked gracefully above her as her feet moved to the techno beats of the music.

Bella's soft black sweater, fuzzy and obscenely tight, hung off one shoulder, exposing a whole lot of tanned, smooth skin. I had my eyes fixated on that shoulder, wanting nothing more than to kiss her skin there and make my way up her neck and then to her earlobe and jaw and eventually to her sweet mouth, leaving the best for last. But I was distracted by her ass, as it wiggled in her tight low cut jeans.

Jasper nudged my arm nodding in her direction just before Alice joined them on the table. He muttered something I couldn't make out, that I probably would have decked him for, and then opened up another beer. He slithered up on the table next to me, snickering as he mumbled incoherently. His head slumped down, and he ran his hand through his hair.

"When did you smoke?" I asked, smelling the distinct odor of weed on his clothes.

"I dunno. Before…you were pissing I guess."

"You didn't think to ask me?"

"No. You wanna go smoke?"

"No forget it," I snapped.

Bella turned around, suddenly making eye contact with me. Even though I was piss drunk and my reactions were sort of numbed and delayed by the alcohol, my heart leapt into my pants, and I could not break her gaze. A smile spread across her face and she lifted a finger up curling it forward.

Come here please.

Thinking she meant my brother, I looked to Jasper.

No…you.

My knees went completely weak. I inhaled deeply, zipping my leather to conceal my arousal. I slid off the table, gripping the neck of my beer and took a few long, wobbly steps toward her. She crouched down, her hands gripping the worn edge of the table, like an animal waiting to pounce on her prey.

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