Chapter 5 – Blond Wigs and Black Leather

The next day, it was around lunch time.

Filene and Bella walked into the cafeteria and headed straight for Jessica's table.

After the field trip, the guys were closer to Filene than they were with Bella. Filene, out of curiosity looked over to the Cullen's table, Edward did not have a happy face on him, but, Filene wasn't surprised since he always looked like that anyway.

The two girls sat down.

"Hey!" Eric greeted the two. "La Push, baby. You in?"

Filene raised an eyebrow. 'What's with him and calling me baby?'

Bella looked confused. "Should we know what that means?"

"La Push Beach down at the Quileute Rez." Mike explained. "We're all going tomorrow."

"Yeah and there's a big swell coming in." Jessica said.

Filene blinked. 'Swell?'

"And I don't just surf the internet." Eric added, making a surfing movement.

'Oh! Surfing, swell probably mean waves.' Filene thought. 'Wow, I just had a blond moment… even though I am a brunette… confusing!'

Head: Duh!

"Eric, you stood up once, and it was a foam board." Jessica said, shooting Eric down.

Mike also made a surfing position, making Filene laugh. Tyler dragged Mike back down laughing.

"But there's a whale watching, too." Angela said. "Come with us."

"La Push, baby." Eric said. "It's La Push."

"Okay, we'll go if you stop saying that, okay?" Filene said.

Everyone laughed as Mike added. "Seriously, dude. It's creepy, man."

"What? That's what it's called." Eric said looking confused.

Filene sat down as Bella went to get her food, which was when she saw Edward heading for her.

"Okay, this guy is now seriously pissing me off." Filene growled.

Mike, Jessica and the other looked as well, some were shocked, jealous, or feeling awkward. Filene, as she said before, felt pissed.

"I swear to god, he has the mood swings of a pregnant woman." she said turning back and taking Mike's peanut he had just thrown into the air to catch with his mouth.

"Hey!" Mike said, but had a smile on his face.

Instead of watching Bella and Edward, the girls were talking about prom while the boys and Filene talked about surfing. Filene knew that Bella will be telling her what she talked with Edward, and would you know it, on the drive home Bella told Filene what she and Edward had talked about.

Filene shook her head. "That dude is going to make my brain cramp."

"Well he's giving me whiplashes with his mood swings." Bella told Filene, laughing a little.

It was quiet in the truck, and then Bella spoke. "So."

"So?" Filene asked.

"What are your theories?" Bella asked back. "What about your hunch?"

"My hunch keeps on telling me to stay away from the Cullens, Bella, and my theories involve crosses and stakes." Filene said.

Bella looked Filene for a moment, ten seconds later, the Filene began to laugh.

"You just imagined Edward as Buffy, didn't you?" Bella asked catching her breath.

"With the blond hair, leather and mood swings!" Filene continued to laugh.

It was super cold, that was all Filene thought as she sat between Angela and Bella. The others were whining about how cold it was and Jessica was calling the other guys babies and Tyler was already off to go surfing. Filene thought he was nuts.

"So, I keeping thinking that Eric's going to the prom, and then he doesn't." Angela told Filene and Bella.

"You should ask him." Bella said.

"Yeah Angela," Filene added. "Take control! You're a strong, independent woman."

Angela looked unsure. "Am I?"

Bella and Filene nodded together, smiling at her, which made her smile back, gaining confidence.

Jessica came up to Angela. "Hey, will you do me up?"

Angela nods and does it, not really showing her independence, but she was getting there. That was when Jacob and two other boys came up.

"Bella!" Jacob greeted.

"Hi Jacob." Bella greeted back.

Hormones/heart/head: JACOB!

Filene mumbled. "Hey."

Jacob nods to her before sitting beside Bella as she introduces him to their friends. Filene waved to the other guys; they waved back at her in amusement.

Bella looked over to Jacob. "What are you, like, stalking me?"

Jacob scoffs. "You're on my Rez, remember?"

Filene and Jacob laughed when Bella realized that.

"Nice Bella." She said.

"Shut up." Bella nudged her.

"Are you two surfing?" Jacob asked the two.

"Definitely not." Bella answered, passing liquorice.

Filene passed some to the other guys since she had the tub on her lap.

"You guys should keep Bella company. Her date bailed." Jessica told the guys.

Angela and Filene were going to whale watch and look into tide pools and Bella didn't want to go so Bella was going to stay in the van or something like that.

Eric looked scared. "What date?"

"She invited Edward." Jessica said laughing.

"To be polite, that's it." Bella explained.

Angela, the sweetheart stood up for Bella. "I think it's nice she invited him. Nobody ever does."

"Yeah." Filene replied chewing down on liquorice. "'Cause the Cullen's a freak."

"You got that right." one of Jake's friends said to Filene.

"You guys know him?" Bella asked him, a little put out at what Filene said.

"The Cullen's don't come here." was the answer.

There was a silence, and then Bella and Jake looked at each other before walking off together on the beach. Angela and Filene, bored out of their minds watched the two as they walked off together, talking.

"So Filene, are you going to prom?" Angela asked as they walked a little behind the two.

Filene was silent before she talked. "I thought about it, and I just might… but I don't think I'll bring a date."

She looked up to where Jake and Bella were, Angela followed. Her eyes widened in realization, looking back to Filene, she saw a bit of disappointment in her eyes, her body slouched a little.

"You like Jacob." Angela stated, rather than asked.

"Really, it's more like a crush, I mean I'm not nuts about him, but he did catch my attention, but, like the other guys, they rather be going out with Bella." she said.

Angela raised her eyebrows. "Do you want to tell me about that?"

Filene looked back to Angela for a bit, as if thinking whether or not to tell her, then she shrugged and looked to the ground.

"Ever since grade seven, the guys, that I crush on, always like Bella, and one time a guy went as far as going out with me so that he could get closer to Bella." she said.

Angela gasped. "That jerk!"

"Yeah, one of my guy friends actually went as far as punching him in the face when it happened, and he didn't tell me about it till I was coming here, answering the question of why my boyfriend broke up with me." Filene said. "Bella doesn't know, thank god."

The two girls were quiet, and before either knew it, Angela grabbed her hand and squeezed in reassures. "I know you are going to meet a guy who will look at you first and only you."

Filene smiled in thanks, when suddenly; Eric came out of nowhere and showed Angela a seaweed plant, but Angela being who she was, screamed.

"It touched my hand! A snake! Stop!" She screamed and ran away, with Eric following behind.

Filene laughed, running after them to 'Save' Angela. "Very mature Eric!"

Filene was once again on her wolf covered blankets, contemplating on what Bella had told her of what Jacob said to her. Bella was on the computer, trying to find a book shop anywhere close by Forks that had the Quileute legends.

"I found it." Bella told her, "In Port Angeles."

Filene looked over to her sister, who was picking up her backpack and headed towards the door. She sighed and did the same; she thought Bella was going a little crazy with this obsession with Edward. Scratch that, not a little, a lot, and Filene was getting worried over her sister.

It shocked Filene that it was sunny, but she wasn't about to waist the day away, so she laid beside Jessica and soaked up the sun like a lizard.

"Oh sun." Filene sighed. "How I miss thee."

"Amen." Jessica muttered.

Jessica looked over to see the other Swan, Bella looking around them. "He's not here."

Bella looked back to Jessica and Filene, seeing them eyeing her as she laughed nervously, looking embarrassed.

"Whenever the weather's nice, the Cullens disappear." Jessica continued.

"What, do they just ditch?" Filene wanted to know.

"No, Dr. and Mrs. Cullen yank them out for, like, hiking and camping and stuff." Jessica explained.

Filene liked how Jessica knew these things; you can always count on her to have the information you need on someone. Even the secretive Cullens.

"I tried that out on my parents." Jessica told Filene, "Not even close."

This was Angela came into the picture, hugging Filene. "Guys, I'm going to the prom with Eric. I just asked him, I took control!"

"I told you that would happen." Bella told her as she hugged her as well.

Jessica raised an eyebrow before looking to Filene. "Wasn't it you who told Angela that?"

Filene shrugged. "Let her think it was all her, makes it less embarrassing for her."

"Are you sure you have to go out of town?" Angela asked Bella.

"Oh, yeah, it's a family thing." Bella said.

Filene looked at her sister. 'First it's Floridians, now it's a family thing? What's next? It's a girl thing?'

Angela looked over to Filene, tilting her head in confusion, once again, Filene shrugged, closing her eyes and put her face back to the sun. "I just got the notice this morning."

"Okay, we should go shopping in Port Angeles." Jessica notified Angela. "Before all the good dresses get cleaned out."

At that moment the bell rang. Unwillingly, Filene got her stuff, and then Bella got an idea.

"Port Angeles? You mind if Filene and I come?" She asked.

"Yeah." Jessica said. "I need your opinion."

Filene looked over shoulder. "I'm doing what now?"

"You're coming with us to buy dresses for our prom; we may need your opinion." Angela answered, smiling at her.

"Okay, I wanted to see what your dress looked like anyway." Filene said as she followed the girls back to class.

And so here they were, dress shopping. Filene was the only one paying attention to Jessica and Angela while Bella was in a daze once again.

"Okay, I like this one." Jessica said to Angela and Filene. "It makes my boobs look good."

There was a knock on the window, the girls looked over to see four frat boys looking in, very gross.

"Nice!" one of them said through the glass, looking at Jessica before they walked away.

"Oh, god." Angela said blushing.

"That is uncomfortable." Jessica said looking everywhere else.

"That's disgusting." Bella whispered in disgust.

"Well, at least you got an opinion out of it." Filene told them. "In a gross kind of way."

Jessica and Angela looked at her before they began to laugh. Yes At least they got a male opinion of they're dresses. Jessica looked over to Bella whom she thought was feeling left out.

"Bella, what do you think?" Jessica asked.

"Yes?" Bella looked up from her book, she the dress. "That looks great.

Jessica and Filene looked at her.

You said that about the last five dresses, Bella." Filene told her.

"I thought they were all pretty good." Bella said smiling a little.

"You're not really into this, are you?" Angela asked.

Bella shook her head. "No, more Filene is, not as much as you guys but yeah. I actually really just want to go to this bookstore."

She got up, taking Filene's arm. "We'll meet you guys at the restaurant?"

"Are you sure?" Jessica asked.

"Yeah, yeah. I'll see you in a minute." Bella told them, dragging Filene out with her.

The book store was a pretty interesting one; Bella got her Quileute Legends book while Filene got herself BloodFever by Karen Marie Moning. A very awesome writer in Feline's opinion.

They were heading towards the restaurant that the two were supposed to meet Jessica and Angela, but when they came to the ally way, the two of the four guys from before were there. Filene got bad vibes with these guys; it was okay since the girls were in fours now it was just two of them.

'I knew I should have brought Livy with me.' Filene thought sadly.

When they began walking towards us, Bella and Filene turned into the other direction. They followed us, holding a case of beer, and stumbling on themselves.

"Saw you in the dress store." one said.

"Hey, where are you off to?" another asked, laughing a bit.

When the girls looked to their front, there were the other two.

"There she is." one said.

'Oh my god, they're like a pack of wolves; those guys are the distraction and leading us 'dears' to the trap!' Filene thought, finding Bella and herself surrounded.

They began closing in on them, taunting them, toughing them. Filene could feel her adrenaline coming on. One touched Bella.

"Don't touch me." she said trying to get away from him.

They ignored her, asking the two to have a drink with them, saying how they were cute, one tried to touch Bella.

"Don't touch her!" Filene shouted as she kneed the boy where the sun doesn't shine.

One boy was down groaning but the others just laughed at him before he came right back up like a punch me clown.

Suddenly, a Volvo came screeching to their direction. Filene recognized that car anywhere.

'Cullen?' Filene thought.

The Volvo screeched to a halt right in front of the guys, splitting them from Bella and Filene. And out of the car came Edward Cullen himself, and boy did he looked pissed!

"Get in the car." he ordered.

He didn't have to tell them twice as the Swan sisters did as he ordered, with Bella taking the front and Filene taking the back. From the inside, the two saw the guys walking towards Edward, but suddenly they began to back away from him as if in fear. Once they did, Edward walked back and got into the car, turning it on, revving the engine. He kicked the gas and almost ran over the guys, making them fall over, including Filene who hit Bella seat face first.

"Ow." Filene groaned.

Then Edward was driving backwards and dangerously swerving the car for it to drive forward. Filene was once again thrown around in the car.

"Batten down the hatches!" Filene shouted as she flew by to the right when he swerved to the left.

As Edward came to a busy road, lots of cars were going by, and one of them coming straight for them

"Car!" Filene shouted, but the blasted boy wasn't listening! So the other car had to hit the break, saving the both from a car crash.

"God bless you!" Filene shouted to the car as it honked, when she was thrown to the side again. "Wahhh!"

"I should go back there and rip those guy's heads off." He growled.

'That's a gruesome thought.' Filene thought as she was once again thrown onto another seat.

"No, you shouldn't" Bella told him.

"Yeah, you shouldn't, it's called murdeeerrr!" Filene said, only for Edward to swerve harshly again. "For the love of god man! Slow down!"

"You don't know the vile, repulsive things they were thinking." he told the two.

"Ooh, big wooords!" Filene shouted as Edward swerved again.

"And you do?" Bella asked ignoring her sister.

"It's not hard to guess." he answered. "Can you talk about something else? Distract me so I won't turn around."

Bella began to think before she took notice. "You should put you seatbelt on."

At that moment Filene yelled. "Ahhh!"

Edward began to laugh, looking back to Filene whom was now on the right side of the back seat with one of her legs sticking up. "You should put your seatbelt on."

"Shut up." Filene mumbled.

Of course Edward had to do another manoeuvre, making Filene fall onto the floor of the ground.

"You know what; I'm just going to stay right down here." Filene said, giving up on sitting on the seat and staying on the floor where she knew was much safer.

Filene a solemn promise to herself. Never, under any circumstances, is she to ride with a Cullen again.

'Your life is more threatened by them than anything else.' she thought.

Finally, they made it to the restaurant, only to see Jessica and Angela coming out. Bella and Filene had a lot of explaining to do.

"Hey, you guys, I'm sorry. I just…" Bella tried to begin.

"Where were you?" Angela said looking worried. "We left you messages."

"Yeah, we waited, but we were, like, starving, so we…" Jessica stopped when she saw Edward walking up beside Bella, passing Filene's book to her.

"You left your book in the car." he said, looking amused.

Filene scowled at him before taking in and holding the book close to her chest.

Edward looked over to the other girls. "Um, I'm sorry I kept Bella and Filene from dinner."

"We just sort of ran into each other and Bella and I got to talking while Filene was looking for a book." Edward explained to the girls.

Filene looked annoyed. 'What is with Bella and Edward using me as an excuse?'

"Yeah."

"No.

Angela and Jessica looked at each other while the three watched them.

"No, we totally understand, I mean, that happens right?" Jessica said. "Yeah, we were…"

"We were, yeah, we were just leaving. So…" Jessica babbled.

Angela spoke. "Let's get this…Bella, if you want to…"

"I think I should make sure Bella and Filene gets something to eat." Edward said, cutting the babbling. "If you'd like?"

"Hells no!" Filene practically shouted. "I am in no need of your driving anymore, I'm going home, Bella, and do whatever you like."

And with that she headed to Jessica's car, with Edward chuckling, Bella scowling, and Jessica and Angela looking confused.

Getting into the car she waited for the others, looking down at the book, she saw a book mark that wasn't there before. Taking it out, she saw that it was a wolf howling at the moon shaped bookmark and on the back were elegant letters.

To Filene,

I heard you like wolves, so I got you this as a gift of friendship!

Alice Cullen.

P.S I love this book too!

Filene blinked, how Alice Cullen knew about that, and how did… She looked over to where she saw Edward, walking with Bella now to the restaurant and the two other girls walking towards the car. Filene hid the book mark back in the book as they came in.

Angela turned around and looked to Filene. "Alright spill, what happened?"

Filene told them, and buy were they shocked that Edward Cullen came to the rescue. So was Filene, but more like puzzled than shocked, so many questions flitted through mind.

'How did he know we were in trouble? What is he? How did Alice know Edward would meet us?' and so many more questions, but very little answer. She was going to have to wait for Bella to come home after her dinner with Edward.

When Filene got home, no one else was home, so she went into the kitchen and got herself some leftovers from last night, and had herself a feast. When she was done, she dragged herself to bed, and dreamed once again, of running with wolves, only this time they were huge!

This time, she awoke to the light of Bella's laptop; Filene slowly got up from her bed and yawned.

"Report, sergeant Swan." Filene joked as she rubbed her eyes.

"Filly… your theory..." Bella was mumbling.

Now that Filene got a better look at her sister, she saw that she was shaking. "Bella? Are you alright? What theory?"

"The Buffy one." Bello replied.

"….. Edward wears blond wigs and leather?" Filene blinked in disbelief. "Huh, I thought the leather stuff was all Rosalie's style what with her looking like a dominatrix and all… Okay and I just imagined Emmett tied up on the bed… dear lord now I am never going to sleep now."

"What? No! Filly! He's a vampire." Bella said looking at her. "His whole family are vampires!"

Filene: OoO

'Okay, another thing to keep me up all night!' she thought glumly.

The day of confrontation, as Filene would like to call it.

Bella and Filene couldn't sleep that night, so they had little shadows under their eyes as they waited for the Cullens, Edward to be specific. Filene looked over to where her friends were and waved at them as they headed inside, she wanted to go with them, but, she didn't trust Edward. She even went as far as putting Livy into her backpack, and since her bag was big enough, she was able to sneak it in.

Edward finally showed up, looking towards the Swans. Bella grabbed Filene's hand and walked towards him.

'We know who you are.' Filene told him as they went by him.

They began to walk towards the forest behind the school; Filene knew that Edward was following them. Bella lead the two deep into the wood before stepping into a small clearing, throwing her bag to the side and stepping into the middle of the clearing. Filene walked towards a tree and leaned against it as Bella spoke, with Edward coming up behind her.

"You're impossibly fast, and strong." Bella began with a trembling breath. "Your skin is pale white and ice-cold, your eyes change color."

This made Filene have a flashback when she was with Emmett.

"And you speak," Filene continued. "Like you're from a different time."

Bella finished the rest. "You never eat or drink anything; you don't go out in the sunlight. How old are you?"

There was a silence with the three. "Seventeen."

"How long have you been seventeen?" Bella asked.

"… A while." he answered.

"We know what you are." Bella told him.

"Say it." he ordered Bella, "Out loud, say it."

Filene had a feeling this was for Bella and Bella alone, so she walked away, hoping it was the right way to school. As she walked away, she heard her sister whisper.

"Vampire."