Bella MacLeod's Twilight Fanfiction

Faith, Hope, And Love

By Momma2Fan

Chapter 02:

They grew up…

“Hey, Bella! Wait up!”

Bella spun around and watched as Jasper sprinted over to her. She stopped walking and waited, wondering what he was going to tell her now.

“What, Jaz?”

Jasper flung his hands in the air. “I’m sorry, Bella.”

Bella relaxed her posture. She wasn’t so much mad as she was hurt. “Look, Jaz, we’ve been friends since we were ten. When you asked me on our first date, you knew I was afraid it would ruin our friendship. You swore to me it wouldn’t and I believed you. Now, I find out you’re sneaking around with Alice!”

“Bella, it’s not…”

“Don’t tell me it’s not like that, Jasper!” Bella tried to reign in her temper. “If you wanted to be with her, you could have just told me. I would have backed off. Instead, I feel humiliated.”

“We never meant for it to happen, Bells.” Jasper looked down at the floor of the hallway. He hated hurting Bella, but his heart belonged to Alice. He finally looked back up at her. “What do you want me to do?”

Bella sighed, “I need some time. I know you didn’t love me as anything other than a good buddy, and you know I felt the same, but this…” she looked down and fought the tears that threatened. “It still hurts. I just need you to give me some time.”

Jasper nodded, “What about Alice?”

Bella’s eyes clouded. “Tell her to stay the hell away from me.”

Having said that, Bella turned on her heel and stalked down the hallway toward her locker. Jasper felt like an ass. He had never meant to fall for Alice, but being with Bella wasn’t like a relationship. It was just like their friendship, except he got to hold her hand and go places just the two of them. With Alice, it was passionate and nothing he had ever experienced before. With a sigh, he walked toward the cafeteria where the rest of their friends were.

Rose saw Jasper walk in without Bella and wondered what the hell had happened. “Where’s B?”

“Umm…we’re…uh.”

Edward piped in, deciding to reveal what he had figured out. “Did she find out about you and Alice?”

Alice squeaked beside him and looked at Jasper. He was staring at Edward in shock.

“Oh, come on. You two aren’t exactly discrete. Is she pissed?” Edward wanted to know.

Jasper shook his head. “Not really. She said she is humiliated. She said if I had just told her I wanted to be with Alice she would have backed off. Man, I really fucked up.”

Alice sniffled from beside him. “Jasper? What did she say about me?”

Jasper looked at her with a sad expression. “She said for you to stay away from her.”

Emmett banged his fist on the table. “Fucking fantastic! We’re supposed to be camping this weekend. I’ll bet she won’t go now.”

Rosalie looked at Emmett in shock. “Would you?”

Emmett looked at her and shrugged. “I guess not, but man, this is gonna make Senior year awkward.”

Edward looked around the table at his friends. He had grown up with these people. When Bella had joined them seven years ago, it was like they were complete. Now there was a rift because Jasper couldn’t decide who he wanted to be with.

Pushing back his chair, he decided to go ahead and go to class. He just hoped Bella was there.

**FHL**

Bella sat at the table in biology, swinging her legs on and off the stool. After she had seen Alice and Jasper kissing in the hallway, she lost her appetite and skipped lunch. After her confrontation with Jasper, she decided to hide out in her next class. She still had ten minutes before the bell rang, so she was surprised when the door opened and closed with a soft click.

“How’re you doing, Bella?”

She looked over at him and shrugged her shoulders. She went back to swinging her legs and didn’t say anything. Edward sat beside her and waited. He knew she would talk eventually.

Finally, Bella sighed. “I’m not mad at them. Well, I am, but not like I should be. I feel more betrayed than anything else. If either of them had just talked to me, I would have backed away. But they didn’t, Edward. I thought they were my friends.”

“They are your friends, Bella. They made a mistake. Alice feels terrible and was crying when I left them. Jasper feels guilty.”

“Alice should feel terrible and he should feel guilty. I didn’t do this, they did.”

Edward nodded, “I know, but are you really so mad you want it to ruin seven years?”

Bella shrugged. “I don’t know. I just need some time away from them.”

“What about the camping trip?”

“I don’t know. It’s only Monday. We’ll see what happens by Friday, okay?”

Edward nodded, “Whatever you need, Bella.”