𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟏𝟑

𝘌𝘥𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘥, 𝘐 𝘴𝘢𝘪𝘥 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘮𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘦! 

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╰┈˚ · ° .   A CULT. THAT WAS WHAT THE RUMOR MILL at La Push High School said about our group now. That we were all in a cult. Apparently the matching tattoos that the guys had all on their right shoulders and the too similar necklaces that us girls wore, had not passed very much unobserved. I didn't know what was worse, being called Circus Freak or that everyone thought that we had formed a cult.

Paul's distance from every of his old friends had not passed under the radar, and was much more talked of when either Jared or Amelia or Kim started to hang around.

It was hard going all morning, through classes, when walking through the hallways, with all the eyes on you knowing that people all around were talking and probably creating the most absurd theories about you.

It wasn't the first time that had happened to me, though. I remember being the object of the gossip around La Push High School thanks to the 'lab accident'. It wasn't the best thing but I could say that it didn't bother me much since I had gone through it more then I would have wanted, the others though, each had their own feelings of it.

Kim had kept her eyes down almost since coming in that morning, people had actually had the guts to approach her and ask her about it. Jared had passed the morning glaring at everyone who even thought of approaching his imprint again or that was talking too loudly near her. He had tried not to leave Kim's side since coming to school, only for lessons, which he begrudgingly agreed to leave once Sam had told him that he would just make things worse.

Amelia, she was angry but maskered the emotion with flirty smiles and icy remarks whenever she felt people too close. Even at her own twin, who had approached her first thing first after the first period demanding some explanations and telling her to dump us. It wasn't a new thing Jacob dislikeness for us. It had all begun when Maddison had started spending time with us a bit more. But Amelia was probably the last person to demand anything from. She would just bite back twice as hard.

Sam was calm and collected, like none of those rumors had ever arrived to his ears. And the fact that he couldn't care less, was actually real because I could not feel any anger or other heightened emotion coming from him.

Paul was usually familiar to be on the gossip mill of our school, but apparently this had touched some nerve because his anger had made a comeback in all vengeance after weeks of him working steadily on it.

Fortunately, the lunch bell rang after a long and very boring lesson. Literally throwing my books in my locker without a care, I made my way towards the cafeteria. Just at the beginning of the hallway for it, near a water fountain, stood Amelia. Her feat tapped on the floor giving away her impatience and next to her, Jared and Kim where locked in a too long kiss.

The air witch heaved a relieved breath once she saw me, fake gagging at the couple. "Thank god you are here." She said.

"Why are you waiting for me here?" I asked confused. We usually just met at the table.

"Because I was with Kim before Jared sneak-attacked us, and now they are not moving." She said, gesturing to the couple that was still kissing.

"Damn it. Not again. Disgusting." I sighed. Jared and Kim had a bit of a problem. If their lips touched, they couldn't move from each other for at least ten minutes. If lucky. They were sickly in love and had no care in showing us for how much time they could make out.

"What are you doing here?" Paul said, he too stopping as he saw us.

Both Amelia and I both just pointed at the couple as a reply. I don't know if he was disgusted, angry or if he was trying to contain a laugh but nevertheless, he shook his head. He grabbed both their arms and literally detached them. "Let's go. I'm hungry." he demanded of the two. But something in Jared's eyes lit up. His shoulder started to shake slightly.

"Jar?" Kim asked in a whisper as he looked at his boyfriend. But he wasn't looking at anyone. His eyes were locked on Paul's hand still grasping Kim's arm.

"Paul-" Jared stuttered out trying to calm down.

"What?" The third-in-command asked in confusion.

"Your hand. Take your hand off Kim's arm." I said as I understood what the problem was. Paul, noticing where his hands were, still on both Kim and Jaredn's arm, quickly took them off.

"Man, why the fuck are you acting like this?" Paul asked. I could feel the echo of anger.

"Do you want me to show it to you?" Jared said, almost as if it was a challenge. Well that definitely didn't help with Paul already there anger for sure. His body snapped tight, shivers running down his back.

"Don't you dare." Paul said through clenched teeth stepping closer to his pack brother. I wasn't really following them now since I wasn't really understanding them.

Exchanging looks between us girls, Kim grabbed his boyfriend towards him as Amelia did the same with Paul.

"Can we go now? Today is definitely not the day to fight between each other." I told the two guys with a narrowed glare. "And I'm hungry."

"Let's go." Paul replied after a second after rolling his eyes and shrugging off his excess anger from his coiled body. "The last thing that we need today is actually having you being hangry."

He took my wrist in his hand dragging me with him. I turned around towards the other three mocking him, earning a snort from the girls. Jared was still trying to calm himself down or I knew he would already be mocking him with me.

"Are you really mocking me?" The boy said, one side of his lips tilted almost to create a half smile.

"Are you having hallucinations too now?" I asked, acting like he wasn't actually right. For once. His smirk definitely said that he didn't believe the bullshit that just came out from my mouth. "Weren't you hungry too?" I asked with a huff seeing as his smirk never faltered.

"Sure." he chuckled

Ultimately, with a glare at him and the three traitors that laughed behind us, I ended up dragging him towards the cafeteria.

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╰┈˚ · ° .   The Swan house didn't change much with Bella's arrival. It had been some time since I had gone there, and the most notable difference was the more items in the bathroom and the door of the oldest sibling bedroom ajar since she wasn't home at the moment. It always used to stay close, probably to not have a constant reminder that Bella hadn't used that room for too much time.

Slumber parties were always the best way to pass a night in my opinion, and they were far more enjoyable at the Swan residence. There were no boys or mothers to take care of there.

"So where is your sister?" Kim asked as we passed her room to enter Maddison's. "Does she want to hang out with us?"

"Bella is not home." Replied the Swan girl as she entered after us all in her room, shutting the door behind her and dropping on the bean chair carelessly. "Edward invited her to play baseball with his family."

"So I assume that their relationship is going well?" I asked as I sat down on the floor covered by a fluffy white rug at the end of the bed.

"I suppose? I know for sure that he is coming into her room at night." Maddison said, rolling her eyes.

"To fuck?" Amelia asked with curiosity and amusement. She was sitting on the chair at the desk, shuffling through the page on the self-made cooking book of the owner of the room.

"Gross." Maddison grimaced. "They barely even kiss."

"What do you mean?" Kim asked, making herself comfortable on the floor next to me.

"I mean exactly that. It's weird, they barely kiss." The girl shrugged her shoulders not knowing more. "Maybe he still has the mentality of a hundred years back when he was turned, who knows."

"Could be." I agreed.

"So she is with someone that doesn't even kiss her? That is very sad." Amelia commented, clearly not understanding how she could do it.

"Not everyone is as obsessed as you are with sex, Mia." Kimberly teased.

"You can't talk, girl. You and Jared can't keep your hands to yourself for more than a couple of hours." The air witch snarked back.

"She is not wrong." I said pointing at Mia with my head. She definitely wasn't. And Kim and Jared were definitely okay with PDA too, unfortunately for us.

Blushing furiously, Kim decided to change the subject. "What are we eating tonight?" She asked randomly.

Snorting at my friend, I couldn't help but tease her more. "It's okay, Kim. No need to get all shy now."

"Shut up." She snapped. "So, dinner? Italian?"

"Chinese?" Amelia asked.

"Indian?" I asked

"Pizza." Maddison proposed. "And I have all the ingredients to make brownies."

"Good with me."

"For me too." Kim and I agreed

"Ice cream?" Narrowing her eyes jokingly to the human girl, Mia asked. "And not the strawberry flavored one."

"Vanilla, and I'm pretty sure there is the cookies and cream one that you bought last time."

"Pizza and brownies it is, then." Amelia grinned. She placed the cooking book back on the shelf before getting up with a smirk. "C'mon girls. Time to bake."

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╰┈˚ · ° .  "How are they still alive!" Amelia shouted pointing at the TV. We were watching Gray's anatomy, the romance, the friendships, the traumas and most of all, the drama, made this series what it was. We were all hooked on it, we couldn't help it. "They are literally impaled on a metal pole!"

"I'm pretty sure Meredith and Derek are the train crash in this episode." I muttered, eating a spoonful of vanilla ice cream.

"McDreamy is starting to get McAnnoying as of now. Don't worry girls, he will get better." Maddi scoffed. She was the most obsessed MerDer shipper ever. And it was the third time for her watching the show.

"They are even talking!" Amelia continued. Her loud tone covered the voices of the actors.

"Shut up, I can't hear them over your yapping." Kim snapped, her eyes intensely trained on the television.

"Rude." Snarked, Mia.

The front door suddenly opened revealing a crying Bella and a devastated looking Edwards.

"Edward, I said leave me alone!" Bella shouted at her boyfriend.

We looked at each other, quickly pausing the show as we intently watched the drama happening in front of us, while eating ice cream and bundled in blankets.

"Bella, don't do this, please." Edwards pleaded.

"It's over. Get out!" She slammed the front door close in her boyfriend, or I guess, ex-boyfriend's face. Turning around angry, she stopped for a second in her tracks as she noticed us. But her shouts had made Charlie worry, he stood on the stairs looking confused at her.

"Bella, what's going on?" He asked his daughter.

Quickly running up the stairs bypassing her father in a rush, Bella answered. "I just have to get out of here. I'm leaving. Now."

Maddison quickly stood up from the couch wanting to run up the stairs to get to her family but Mia stopped her by grabbing her arm.

"Amelia?"

"He is here." She said.

"What?"

"Edward is upstairs with her."

"How do you know that? Is she safe."

"We just know." I said as the other two witches nodded their heads. "And yes, she is. Something happened that they had to do this" I motioned with my hands around.

"No, I want to drive. It'll give me more time to think." Bella said. She jogged down the stairs with a duffle bag and her bag. Charlie walked closely behind her as the girl entered the kitchen. "If I get really tired I'll pull into a motel. I promise."

"Look Bella, I know I'm that much fun to be around, but I can change that. We can do more stuff together." Charlie tried. He loved his daughters so much, both of them, it was clear that this was hurting him.

"Like what? Watch baseball on the flat screen? Eat at the diner almost every night steak and cobbler? Dad, that's you, that's Maddison, but that's not me."

After that, Maddi walked to the kitchen. Her forehead furrowed and her eyes shined a bit of the pain that she was feeling.

"Bella, why are you doing this?" She asked in a soft tone.

"Leave it, Maddison." Bella snapped. She passed her little sister, their shoulders meeting as the oldest sibling walked towards the front door.

"Bella, c'mon. I just got you back." Charlie whispered to his daughter.

"And you know, if I don't get out now, I'm going to be stuck here like mom." That seemed to hurt Charlie and Maddison enough to leave them gaping and freezed as Bella slammed the door behind her.

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╰┈˚ · ° .  "How is he?" Kim asked as soon as Maddison entered her room after helping her dad.

"Hurt." She said with a tired sigh. "How could she say that?" Tears brimmed her eyes as sat down on her bed. "Mom said the same thing when she left."

"Oh Maddi." Kim was quick to wrap her arms tightly around the girl, their heads meeting as the earth witch caressed her back in comfort.

Amelia and I joined them on the bed. I wrapped my arms around Maddison too, mimicking Kim's position.

"She was out with Edward's family, right? Something might have happened for her to act this way."

I nodded my head at Mia's words. "She loves Edawads too much to let even a little fight get in the middle of their relationship. So it's not possible that she just broke up with him. You told us that, remember? And she loves you and your dad, she would never say something like that."

"If she had to go then couldn't she say something else?" Maddison asked swallowing a sob.

"Maybe she was panicking and didn't know what to say?" Kim said as she thereded her fingers in the girl's wavy brunette hair.

"It still hurts." Maddison's shoulders trembled as she let out her cries and sobs, trying her best to not be loud and wake her father sleeping in the room next door.

It was a night filled with emotions, painful ones. Even if she never said it out loud, Maddison missed her mom. And hearing the same words spoken by her mother when she left her and her father, hurt her. And they hurt the child in her that was left behind and abandoned by her mother.

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˗ˏˋ 𝐀𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐫'𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐞 ˊˎ˗

Hello everyone!

Almost at the end guys, just one chapter left.

I had so much fun writing the first part, and I hope the last part passed as a bit more emotional. lmaoo

I love the first like 8 seasons of gray's anatomy. Years ago, when I started watching it, I had the dvds of the first 8 seasons. I was obsessed, it was one of the first shows I ever watched.

Anyways, thank you for reading this chapter, I'll see you on Thursday!

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