Bella MacLeod's Twilight Fanfiction

A Fresh Start

By BetterInTexas

Chapter 23:

Sam POV

“Would you slow the fuck down?” I was going to be sick.

Bella laughed. Emily, Paul, Rachel, Quil and I were currently in
Bella’s truck/tank. I got the pleasure of sitting up front. I’m not sure if it that was good. At least I could see what was coming, I suppose.

We were currently on the road to Charlie’s bachelor party. Actually it was just a party for Charlie. Sue’s was tonight. The problem was the party was in the middle of some pasture. We were going to a
makeshift firing range that Charlie, Bo and Bella liked to come to
occasionally with Bo and Bella’s friends. Basically Charlie wanted to spend the day shooting guns. Bo said something about arrows and dynamite.

Another problem besides the lack of road was that it had rained
recently, making large mud puddles. Puddles which Bella was hitting at very high speeds while turning, causing her very large truck to fishtail. Bo was in front of us. He was doing the same throwing mud into Bella’s windshield. Apparently this is a thing they do.

Driving trucks through mud and slinging mud at each other’s
vehicles.

“Lighten up Sam. Jake is in that truck with Bo and Dad. We don’t
want to let them out of our site. You might be a wolf down. My man and your alpha don’t play well together in case you haven’t noticed. I promised Sue I wouldn’t let you boys get hurt while you are all down here.”

“Isn’t this truck a little large for you?” I asked over the blaring radio. Sweet Home Alabama was currently playing. At least Bella’s taste in music had gotten better even if her English had gotten damn near unrecognizable.

“Doesn’t appear too large for me, does it Sammy?” she winked.

“Besides marriage has gotten me used to… big things. You know
what I’m talking about, right Emily?”

“Leave her alone Sam. This is fun.” Emily said from the back.

“I think I’m going to puke.” Quil added.

“Man up, Quil.” Paul said.

Rachel felt the need to comment, unfortunately.

“Yes, man up Quil. God forbid Bella Swan do anything wrong. If you are feeling sick it must be you and not the scrawny pale face bitch driving like a reckless idiot.”

Oh shit. Bella just stopped the truck. She placed it in park.

“What did you just call me?” Bella whispered.

“What?”

“Oh I’m sorry. I forgot you don’t have super hearing. I asked what
you just called me.” Bella said loudly turning in her seat and glaring at Rachel.

“Bella Swan or scrawny paleface bitch? I know you have a problem
being called your real name so I’m not really sure which one has you upset.”

“Get out of the truck.” Bella said, opening the door. Shit. Paul
couldn’t let Rachel get hurt. I looked at him and he was panicking.

“I can’t get out of the truck. You have us in a mud puddle.” Rachel
said.

“It’s all right. You’re gonna get dirty when your ass hits the ground. May as well start with your pretty shoes.”

“Bitch, it is on. Paul, stay in the truck. I realize you have to protect
your imprint but there won’t be any protection needed.”

Rachel and Bella both got out walking around opposite sides to the front of the truck.

“Ladies, let’s calm down.” I tried.

“Mary?” Emily said, calling her by the name that Emily hates, trying to calm her down. Bella just went from giggling to pissed off in a second. This was going to get out of hand if I didn’t step in.

I was getting out of the truck. Rachel and Bella met in the front of the truck. Rachel threw her hands in the air. I suppose to yell something at her. Bella hit her in the mouth before she could say a word. Fuck. I guess Bella isn’t much for small talk. Rachel dropped to her knees.

Looked like her nose was bleeding.

Now we were all scrambling. Except Paul. He just sat there, shaking. He didn’t want to get involved. He felt the need to but he didn’t want to hurt Bella.

Bella had no problem hurting Rachel. Bo had pulled back up.

Bella just called Rachel a fucking whore and hit her in the face again. Looks like she busted her lip this time. Rachel made a halfhearted attempt so swing back from her knees. Oh shit, Paul was coming out of the truck.

“Quil, get Paul. Emily…”

Bella had her hands in Rachel’s hair and was about to plant her knee in Rachel’s nose. I moved to stop her, but Bo had her in the air.

Bella’s knee missed Rachel’s nose by an inch.

“Calm down there Rocky! What’s wrong?” Bo was holding Bella
back.

“She called me a scrawny pale faced bitch.”

“You crazy fucking bitch! I’m bleeding!” Rachel yelled. She tried to
stand and slipped down farther into the mud. She looked at Paul and stuck her hand towards him. He reached out and pulled her over to him.

“You were supposed to protect me!” Rachel yelled at Paul.

“You said you didn’t need protection.” Paul shrugged his shoulders.

He was calming down now. Thank God he didn’t phase. He must
really love Bella to fight the need to phase when his imprint was
getting her ass handed to her.

“Why did you call her that, Rachel?” Jacob asked. He was not happy with his sister.

“Seriously, shut the hell up Jacob. She has plenty of people to stand up for her without your obsessed ass getting involved. She has you all! All of you are so up her ass it is unreal and she doesn’t give a damn about any of you! Don’t you see how she plays you all? What the hell is wrong with you people?”

Charlie stepped in. Bo had finally put Bella’s feet on the ground and she looked like she had calmed down. Sort of. Maybe.

“Why don’t we all take it down a notch? Mary, I’m sure Rachel didn’t mean to call you that. She is probably…”

“Go to hell Charlie! She assaulted me! I want charges pressed
against her.” Rachel yelled.

“Bitch please. You wouldn’t live to see the trial.” Bella commented
not helping the situation.

“She just fucking threatened me! Right in front of you, Deputy Swan! What about you, Paul? Do you only protect your imprint from threats, unless it’s Bella Swan doing the threatening?”

“Rachel, just please drop it. Apologize for calling her…” Paul started.

“No! I am not going to apologize. She… she…”

“Kicked the shit out of you? Knocked your skank ass in the mud?”
Bella laughed. Great.

“Look, nobody is pressing any charges. You girls had an argument.
Let’s get back in the trucks and go. We are almost to the range.
Rachel you can ride with Bo, Billy, Jacob and I.” Charlie offered.

“I’m not going anywhere near that crazy bitch around guns.”

“I thought I was a scrawny pale face bitch? You started this shit.
Don’t get mad because your body can’t back up your mouth. I
survived vampires and a serial rapist and you think you could take
me? You must be out of your damn mind!”

“Bo, if you will let me borrow your truck, I will take Rachel back to the house to get cleaned up.” Paul offered.

“Why the hell did you call me that? What have I ever done to you?”
Bella asked.

“Nothing. You are just you. Everybody loves you. My fucking brother worships you and my supposed soul mate is in love with you. He stares at you when he thinks you aren’t looking. Do you know he says your name in his sleep?”

That shut us all up.

Apparently Paul didn’t know this either, judging by the look on his
face. Bella gave her a chilling look.

“Well sweetie, I’m sorry about that, but I ain’t sayin his name in my sleep. I ain’t calling your brother or your man on the phone and I damn sure ain’t starin. If you got issues with your man, don’t blame it on me. My man sure as hell don’t look at other women and mine is the only name he says in our bed. Sounds like you got some issues, not me.”

“Would you speak English?!” Rachel yelled. It wasn’t that bad. I think I got the gist of what Bella was saying.

“Paul you should probably take her back to get cleaned up.” I didn’t add bandaged up. Bo tossed his keys to Paul and Jacob got Billy out of Bo’s truck and into Bella’s.

“You want me to drive babe?” Bo asked.

“No. I need to let out some aggression. I got this.”

Oh goody…

Bella POV

That fucking whore! It’s my problem she can’t satisfy her man? She wants to talk shit to me? God, why did Bo have to come back? I could have smashed her nose into tiny pieces. I was so fucking
pissed. I needed to calm down.

“Sweetie you need to slow down. We have people in the back of the
truck now.” Bo said quietly.

He was right. I looked in my rear view mirror and saw very scared
looking werewolves in the back.

We finally reached the clearing. Todd’s parents owned this place. I
learned to shoot out here. There were a lot of paper targets all over the place in the shape of people next to trees. There were some old washers and dryers. A couple old water heaters. A rusted truck that was damn near dust. Todd and some of the other guys were already here.

This was a fun place to cut loose. Problem was I didn’t trust myself
around weapons right now. I needed a beer.

I was sitting on the tail gate watching the boys shoot guns and
drinking a Shiner.

I knew Jake was in love with me. I thought with me living in another state he might get over it. But Paul? Bo mentioned it to me once. I didn’t believe him. I should have known better than to doubt Bo.

I could see the problem. If I was supposed to be some soul mate to
some guy who had absolutely no choice than to be with anyone
other than me and that guy started saying another woman’s name in his sleep, I would probably be pissed to. But I would take it out on him. Not the girl who has nothing to do with this.

The guy named Quil walked up.

“Hey there slugger. How you doing?”

“I’m great. I’m not the one with the busted face.” I finished my bottle and popped another top.

“You want one?” I asked, figuring I should be polite.

“No thanks. It would be wasted. Our bodies’ burn off alcohol long
before it can affect us.”

“That sucks.” I said.

“Yeah. A lot of things about being a wolf suck. But there are good
things too.”

“Like what?” I had never heard one of them actually talk about being a wolf. I wondered what they looked like.

“The speed. The strength. The excitement. It’s all such a rush.”

“Sounds like a blast.” I admitted. Course I think I will keep the life I have now, than you very much. Furless. Literally. Great. Now I was horny.

“It…”

“Hey Jake! Why don’t you run around and give us a target?” I heard
Bo say from the firing line. Oh shit. Thankfully Jake ignored him. I
needed to remind Bo that not everyone around here knows about
wolves.

“I’ll be right back. I need to tell my man to be good or put him in a
time out.”

“Yeah….he talks a lot… Holy Damn! What the fuck?”

I jumped at the sound of the explosion. Bo and Todd are playing with fucking dynamite again. That is so dumb. Dammit, Charlie just shot a pressurized canister with an armor piercing bullet. That fucker is still in the air.

“Yeah things get a little loud around here.” I mentioned to Quil.

“Oh fuck, the police are coming.” Quil said.

I turned and saw two Smith County Sheriff’s Department 4 wheel
drive SUVs driving up with lights and sirens on. Behind them was
Teddy in his Jeep. Seth was with him. Two ladies were standing up
in the back of the jeep in cutoffs and Texas flag bikini tops. Oh shit.

He didn’t. Of course he did.

“Charlie Swan! Place your weapons on the ground and have a seat
in the chair.” Someone said on the loudspeaker from the police unit.

Todd pulled out a fold out chair. Charlie looked confused. Bo was
smiling. This couldn’t be good.

Charlie sat in the chair and one of the officers got out of the unit.

“Steve? What the hell? Why do I have to sit? What the hell is going
on?”

Deputy Steve tossed a pair of cuffs to my husband who quickly
placed my father’s hands behind his back. Todd then proceeded to
duct tape Charlie to the chair.

“What the hell? Dave?”

I turned and saw more cops were pulling up.

Steve spoke.

“Charlie Swan. You are accused of having the lamest bachelor party in history. It’s the day time for God’s sake. This cannot stand. All you ladies who are present may want to look away. This is going to get rough.”

I sure as hell wasn’t looking away.

“Boys. Place the accused on the bed of the truck.”
Bo, Todd and Teddy grabbed the chair and carried Charlie over. I got out of the way. They placed him in the back and Bo turned on the radio.

The girls in the bikini tops got into the back of the truck. My truck. Ho’s better not rub any body parts on my baby.

“Now wait a damn minute…” Charlie began to protest when it sunk in what was going to happen.

“No, you wait a damn minute.” Dave responded. “I don’t know how
ya’ll did crap in Washington but if you think you are getting married in our County without strippers the day before, you are out of your damn mind. Mr. Walker if you would?”

I turned and saw Jake and Sam seemed to be frozen. Seth walked
up grinning. His hair was messed up and he had lipstick on both his cheeks. I guess he had a fun ride over here. Bo turned my stereo on full blast. My speakers were awesome. This was going to get loud.

Charlie stopped cursing 10 seconds into the first song. We sat and
watched two butt naked women grind up against my dad while he
was duck taped and handcuffed to a chair. We were drinking beer
with his coworkers. After 15 minutes they finally had mercy and let him up. He had a dopey grin on his face and was blushing. I saw Bo pay the girls some amount of cash, I didn’t want to know how much, and assist them getting off… my truck. Teddy helped them back in the Jeep and Seth jumped in the back between the two blondes.

They drove off and Charlie was still blushing.

“That was…” he began.

“No need to thank us Charlie. Your son in law planned the whole
thing. We just gave an assist. Now everybody off duty start drinking. Everybody on duty get your asses back on patrol.”

A few of the cops patted Charlie on the back while Todd cut him out of the chair. They left. A majority of cops stayed behind and began pulling out weapons. I love when these guys show up. They have the automatic weapons. The radio stayed on in the background of round after round being fired into targets.

Sam got to shoot an AK 47. He wouldn’t stop grinning. Jake was
even smiling a little.

The sun started going down and we all wrapped it up. Charlie had to go with the guys to our home. I had to go pick up the stripper, Leah and I had found in Tyler for Sue. She thought we were having a dinner party. Poor thing should have known better. I wonder if
Rachel’s nose is swollen. I bet she won’t be calling me a bitch
anymore.

Bo POV

“Am I dead?” I asked. The sun was shining.

“Nope.” That wasn’t Mary’s voice.

I turned my head and saw Charlie Swan lying next to me, thankfully fully clothed. I looked at myself and saw I was fully clothed to.

Problem was we were both on my living room floor.

“What the fuck happened last night?” I whispered.

“We had a fucking awesome time!” Chris yelled, jumping over the
couch.

“How much did we drink?”

Charlie moaned.

“Enough that I got the IVs set up. Get up Charlie. YOU got to get
married in four hours. That means we need to get you hooked up
right now.” Chris and Travis began pulling Charlie up off the ground and sat him in the kitchen.

“OWWW!”

“Sorry. I’ll get it this time.”

“Son of a bitch!”

“Stop moving.” Chris complained. It’s frightening that someone’s life could be in his unsteady hands.

I pulled myself up and found my phone. I then noticed I had a Smith County Sheriff’s badge pinned on my shirt. Guess I got deputized last night. When I could see okay I noticed I had a text from Mary.

‘Don’t get 2 drunk.’

“Too late.” I whispered.

I walked over and found the gallon of water Mary keeps in the fridge for the mornings after we howl at the moon a little bit. I walked outside and saw the Wolves of La Push were playing catch with a football. Seriously?

“Hey Bo! How you feeling today?” Jake asked, smiling.

“God, I feel horrible. This is the first morning I can remember that I didn’t wake up naked on top of or under Mary. I will make up for it tonight though.” I winked at him.

Took the grin off his fucking face.

“I can’t wait for the wedding. Walking her down the aisle. It will bring back memories of our wedding. When she said those beautiful vows to me. Get with me sometimes and I will tell you all about the honeymoon. But hey, I bet you are excited about walking with her at Sam’s wedding right? Always a groomsmen, never a groom, right Jake?”

Now he was getting angry. Little bitch. Alpha my ass. I chuckled a
little and walked back inside.

I saw Charlie sitting at the kitchen table. He looked like shit. The IV was at least dripping.

“You doin all right there old man?”

“Yeah Bo. I’m doing all right. I haven’t…”

“Gotten that drunk in a long time. Don’t make a habit out of it.
Waking up next to you was scary as hell.”

Charlie laughed lightly.

“Look on the bright side. I can practically guarantee Sue’s dad and a group of angry large men won’t try to crash the wedding. You already have one less problem than I did.” He smiled and I patted him on the back. It was time for a shower. Jake walked in glaring. I smiled and shot him the finger.

Bella POV

The wedding was beautiful. They had it at the Rose Garden.
Charlie’s new coworkers and their families were there. Renee
showed up because Phil told her she had too.

Mine and Bo’s reception was a little wilder than Charlie and Sue’s.
But Sue was happy. We may have played fast and loose with the
bachelorette party but we gave her what she wanted for a wedding. It was simple. Elegant. They finally left for their honeymoon to Cancun and we got to party.

The next day we said by to the La Push gang. I hugged Emily. We
had kind of bonded over the long weekend. Rachel had a broken
nose.

Oops.

Paul stayed away and Jacob did as well during the wedding. I
danced with my husband all night long. It was a good time.

One more wedding to get through.

For now though it was enough that is was finally the two of us. Bo
and I snuggling on the couch. Relaxing after a hard day of…
working… in the shed.

We got a lot of work done. Completed some orders. Started on some new ones. We had recently hired Seth to sand part time. But he wasn’t in today. So we polished my desk a little.

“It’s nice isn’t it?” I whispered into his chest.

“The quiet? Yes it is. I hate having to share you with others. I need
too much attention.”

“So Esme wants us to come over one day and meet her new man.”

“That Gary guy?”

“Garrett.”

“He’s the one who did the thumb thing she told you about that you
like so much?”

“Yes…”

“Cool. Can’t wait to meet him.”

“He feeds from people.”

“Okay. I will wear a turtleneck.”

I laughed.

“You’re an idiot.”

“Maybe…”

The doorbell rang.

The fucking doorbell rang.

I was about to blow my husband on the couch and the motherfucking doorbell rang.

“Esme.” Bo said.

“I guess. I haven’t seen her in a week. Maybe she finally stopped
having sex.”

“Yeah, maybe he pulled his…”

“Stop Bo!”

“I was going to say thumb…”

“I said stop. Let’s see if it’s Esme.”

I walked to the door. I was confident it was Esme so I didn’t worry
about the fact that I only had underwear and a t shirt on.

I opened the door and it was…

“Who are you?”

“My name is Garrett. Esme is right behind me.”

“Oh… oh shit! I’ll be right back.”

I ran to the bedroom and threw on a pair of shorts. Walking out I saw Bo was shaking Garrett’s hand and Esme had walked in.

“So…”

“Opened the door in your underwear again, didn’t you Mary?”

“Shut it Esme.”

“I thought I would come over and introduce Garrett. I told you about him. He is…”

“Your boyfriend?” I asked, smiling.

“The reason I get to keep selling you so many beds?” Bo asked.

“I suppose both of those.” Esme grinned.

“Well glad to meet you, Garrett.” I told him. He was a good looking
guy. Kinda wild. Not like she described Carlisle. He had shoulder
length dark hair with streaks of blood red running though and the
cutest little goatee.

“I have heard a lot about you both. Mary I have to say you have had the most interesting life.” He smiled. He was cute. Go Esme.

We talked a while. Garrett gave us a little of his background.

Revolutionary soldier. Nice. I wonder if Esme ever plays his English prisoner.

We finally decided to play poker.

Bo broke out the cards and the card table. We were about to start
when the doorbell rang again. I looked at Esme.

“No heartbeats. Vampires. I got it.” She said, immediately tense.

“No, I got it.” Garrett said. He was at the door in a split second.

“What the hell are you two doing here?” I heard him say. I couldn’t
hear the response.

“I’m visiting. Were you invited?”

“Let them in Garrett.” Esme said.

Jasper and Alice walked in.

“Guys.” I nodded. Bo smiled. If he thought he was running outside
this time he was out of his mind.

“We uh… I mean Alice saw that Esme would be playing cards
tonight. Alice really can’t see your future Mary, for some reason but we figured it must be you. We were wondering if we could play as well?” Jasper asked.

I looked at Esme and she shrugged her shoulders. I looked at Alice.
She looked scared, like she was afraid of rejection. I hated to see
anybody like that.

“Sure. Long as you understand we are playing for very low stakes
here.”

“I think that would be fine.” Alice said.

“Bo would you pull out a couple more seats?”

“Absolutely. We can see if vampires are more fun than werewolves.”

“You bet your ass we are Bo.” Garrett said winking at me.

Jasper and Alice sat down. Bo was about to deal when I stopped
him.

“Alice?”

“Yes Mary?”

“Do not use your powers. If you get a vision you have to fold. And
Jasper, no reading any emotions to see who is bluffing. We hang
cheaters around these parts.”