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                chapter twelve: happiest of birthdays

                                     ~ 💋📣⭐️~

the music was loud. blasting.

she could barley hear her own thoughts over the swaying of the drink in her hands.

yet her body was still. the liquid was just toppling. she looked around as she tried to look for a familiar face. which lacked at a party that should have been full with familiar faces.

lucien didn't have that many friends. more enemies or loose cases that was filled with how far he could pull a girls underwear down before they gave in.

the brunette girl moved her way through the crowd as she had the overwhelming go get a drink. a new drink. not the one in her hand.

she set it down on a table as she walked past everyone. saying a few " excuse me's" as she moved.

she eventually made her way to the bar as she asked for a coke.

as she waited to looked to her side as she saw blaise approach the bar. accompanied by a frezzy red hair girl.

beatrice worth.

bella could have sworn the girl was dead or worse. even if there is nothing worse then death.

bella looked at the two as she saw blaise's annoyed expression before he turned to look at the girl as beatrice walk away for a second.

" bella" he spoke. she smiled. " you know blaise if you needed a date so badly you could have asked me" she let out. he gave her a sarcastic smile at her words. " funny" he spoke, before she watched him scan the crowd with his eyes before landing on scott's moving body.

he was dancing with a girl with a seriously bad haircut.

even feet away bella could sense the tension. it was sexual. but yet she wasn't surprised. she almost swore she heard moaning coming out of blaise's room one day.

and it most definitely wasn't a women.

" you should stop starring" bella spoke loudly over the pounding rage music. " it's not polite to stare" she told blaise as the boy looked back at her before then looking back in scott's general direction.

" you need to get over him" bella spoke to the boy. " i'm not into scott" he told her. " i never said scott's name" she told the boy before blaise snapped his head towards her.

" how long" the boy asked. " what" she questioned. " how long have you known about me and you know" blaise asked her loosening from his usual tiff interior.

" since the first week back" she told the boy. " are you going to tell anyone" he asked her. " it's none of my business to tell" she told him patting the boys shoulder before disappearing back into the crowd.

she needed to leave the boy alone. maybe scott wasn't the one for him? maybe scott likes girls ? who knows at this point bella thought.

the girl moved her way through the crowd as she went to try and find caroline befote she bumped her way into someone else.

her brother.

with a stripper.

she could just tell the boy was drunk and wobbly as she saw him told onto the strippers hips as the women gave him a lap dance. the boy not even noticing his younger sister as bella walked away disgusted.

not of the stripper. but of her brother. it's not something she would ever want to see.

the brunette girl eventually found caroline. the girl sitting on the floor by a bunch of seat cushions.

" where's your brother" bella asked the blonde girl. she definitely put extensions in her hair. " step brother" caroline corrected her. bella rolled her eyes. the wicked witch of the west was back.

and a snake was there to prove it.

" where's lucien" bella asked the girl. " i don't know, i assumed you do" caroline spoke. bella shook her head before typing on her phone. " what are you doing" caroline asked her. " i'm calling him" bella spoke. " you know for someone who try's to act so smart you are incredibly stupid you know that" bella contuined. caroline only left out a smile to her as bella placed to phone on her ear.

she heard the phone ring multiple times before eventually flatlining.

" no answer" bella spoke hanging up the phone. caroline nodded her head as she pet her snake. " you know where he is don't you" bella asked the girl. caroline shrugged.

" unbelievable" bella spoke before leaving the tent area. she was slowly growing more and more annoyed at the girl. she walked down the stairs before she felt her body pumped into another person.

the second one tonight.

" oh my gosh i'm so sorry" she spoke before picking her eyes up from the ground and looking at the figure.

lucien belmont. the boy of the hour. yet he looked extremely furious.

" hey are you okay" she asked him.

" i'm great" he spoke. but even she could tell he was lying to her.

" lucien are you sure you see—" she was caught off by his voice. " i'm fine just get out of my fucking way bella" he told her harshly. yet when she looked into his eyes she could tell that we meant every word of his burst.

" whatever" she spoke moving bast the boy and away from him.

she needed a drink.

and a strong one if that.

the boy had never raised his voice at her in anyway. even if he was upset. or if she did walk in on even having sex with those skunk hair dyed girl.

he just never spoke to her that way. until now.

it didn't take long for bella to also run into annie shortly afterwards on her way over to the bar there. " oh my gosh bella i'm so glad to see you" the girl spoke panicked. " what's wrong" bella asked because as much as she didn't want to care she knew she would.

bell williams would always care.

" it's lucien, i think i messed up a lot and it's just that" annie babbled. " annie do you ever notice how whenever you speak with me recently it's always about lucien" bella stopped her. annie only looked at her weird.

she never noticed.

" yeah that's what i thought, honestly annie go find someone else tonight to dump your lucien problems over i'm not in the mood" bella spoke brushing past her and back to where she was going.

as much as she wanted to feel bad she knew she shouldn't. she didn't say anything that wasn't the truth. she was just saying factual information.

no matter what way it came out in.

the brunette girl arrived at the bar and ordered a drink. her only request was to make it strong.

she was annoyed caroline, lucien, and now annie. at least she still had blaise and cece. even if they both are equally insufferable.

but tonight they weren't. tonight they weren't the brunettes problem.

she grabbed her drink from the bar before walking futhur away in the crowd with it.

she didn't even notice the fight that would happen two minutes later with lucien and scott, involving annie. she wouldn't even know at first that the cops had ransacked the place until she saw people fleeing.

she didn't know any of this.
and she simply just didn't want to.

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haven't updated since last year so hello !!!!

thankyou for 20k reads, y'all are so cute i swear.
umm hopefully i'll upload way more this month.
since this book WILL be finished this month. and
i might upload another lucien belmont fic
( same plot as the previous one i uploaded then
took down since that was TO GOOD )

okay that's all now bye !!!! oh and happy new years !!!
YAY 2025 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉