Bella MacLeod's Twilight Fanfiction

A Good Thing

By Momma2Fan

Chapter 09:

I hung at the bar before heading back to the dressing room to…do what? What the fuck am I doing? Once in the back, I heard raised voices followed by what sounded like a crash. I immediately reached for the doorknob, only to find it locked. I pounded on it, letting Bella know I was out there and waited until she opened it. Never going far so that I could hear what was happening. What I heard took me by surprise.

“What do you mean you fucked Edward!? I thought you said you were just friends!” Garrett’s voice came through.

Oh, shit! I didn’t know she was gonna go there.

“Don’t take that tone with me, Garrett. You just got done telling me that you fucked your business partner. You’re a hypocrite.” I heard Bella come back.

He fucked Kate. Well, I have nothing to feel guilty about now. This was never going anywhere for them.

“At least I’m not a whore!”

“Fuck you! I think it’s time for you to leave. Don’t ever call me again and don’t come back to this club, I’ll make sure you aren’t welcome.” I quickly backed away when I heard the door unlock and burst open.

I watched as Garret came out the door. He stopped and looked at me like he wanted to hit me. “What? You got something to say?”

He looked at me again, and then back to Bella. “Have a nice life. I can’t believe I thought you were worth the effort.”

“I think it’s time you left, before I ram my fist down your throat.” I threatened.

He took one last look at us and then walked away. I turned to look at Bella, “You okay?” I asked.

She looked up at me, “Peachy. I love being called a whore. You?” 

I smirked. “I’m good. We need to talk.”

She nodded. “Yes, we do. Not now. Breaks over. We can talk at home.”

I nodded and we both made our way back to the stage, joining the rest of the gang. Jasper, always being in tune to people’s feelings, spoke first. “Ya’ll okay?”

“We’re good, Jazz.” I strapped on my guitar as Bella spoke to the crowd.

We opened to another cover, this time to Evanescence’s Taking Over Me. Bella rocked on the lyrics. It was a little harder than what we usually did, but we wanted to change things up a bit and the crowd was really getting into it. We followed up with Call Me When You’re Sober, Rose and Bella’s voices melded great together.

When the final notes drained away, we jumped right into the next song. I took over lead vocals and did a duet with Bella, while Jasper was on acoustic.

I wanted you to know

I love the way you laugh

I wanna hold you high

And steal your pain away

I keep your photograph,

I know it serves me well

I wanna hold you high

And steal your pain

‘Cause I’m broken

When I’m lonesome

And I don’t feel right

When you’re gone away

You’re gone away

The worst is over now

And we can breathe again

I wanna hold you high,

You steal my pain away

There’s so much left to learn,

And no one left to fight

I wanna hold you high

And steal your pain

‘Cause I’m broken

When I’m open

And I don’t feel like

I am strong enough

‘Cause I’m broken

When I’m lonesome

And I don’t feel right

When you’re gone away

You’re gone away

You don’t feel me here anymore

We went from playing some serious music to having a little fun for the next few numbers, and then finally called it a night. The applause and screams continued until we were well off the stage. We sat back in the dressing room for a bit and I got my first glance at what had been thrown when Bella had been talking to Garrett.

“He threw a chair! Shit, Bella, why didn’t you tell me this? I would have knocked the motherfucker out.”

Emmett looked at his sister. “This guy was violent with you?”

“No, Emmett. He got mad at the chair.” Bella replied, sarcastically.

“Bella, now is not the time for your snarky attitude. What the fuck happened?”

I watched as Bella took a deep breath. “He told me he had slept with Kate. He was apologetic, but I thought with both of us sleeping with other people we weren’t very devoted. He got pissed and threw the chair. Don’t worry about it, Em. He isn’t coming back.”

“Wait a minute.” Emmett held up his hand and shook his head. “You said both slept with other people. Who are you sleeping with?” Bella slid her eyes over to me and ducked her head. I just braced myself.

“Come on, Emmett. Are you deaf? We were home when she and Edward got their groove on. Fuck we were just down the hall!” Rose to the rescue.

“YOU FUCKED MY SISTER!” Emmett roared. I held my hands up and backed toward the wall. When Emmett roared and went into big brother mode you had better watch out.

“Now, Emmett. I asked your permission…” Emmett’s large paws wrapped around my throat, cutting off my sentence.

“To date her! Not to fuck her!” Emmett squeezed.

“EMMETT!” Bella came over and tried to get her brother’s hands off me. “Let. Him. Go!” Emmett dropped his arms, while I leaned over gasping for breath. “Back off! I’m a big girl and I can decide who I want to have sex with. You’re not my father, you’re my brother.”

Emmett sighed. “I’m the closest you have to a father now, Bells. I’m just looking out for you.” He looked at me and shook his head. “Please, just tell me you changed your sheets. I would hate to have my sister lay there after that slut Tanya did.”

I looked up at him and laughed. The rest of the group joined in and the tension was broken. I looked at Bella to see she had a smile on her face, so I thought all was okay.

Wrong again.