A/N: Hey guys. Would ya take a minute or two to read this?
So sorry if ihaven't updated until now, it's just that I've been having problems, with school, family, best friends, ex-best friends and I'm sick right now :( boo hoo and what not …
But ido have a question: Have you ever been bullied?
iask that because this story relates to my life, except I'm not Bella, nor am I a wolf and idont have Paul :'(
Sigh. Anyway, this story was made when iwas in a dark place, well, you could say I was in a dark place. But iwas just thinking of a girl getting bullied, then ithought of Paul and Bella and all that jazz.
But anyway, the whole thing started with my bullied life. iwas best friends with a girl in primary and now it secondary - at the start - I broke up with her because she went to different classes than me and I met new people, but then her cousin started being rude to me. From the last two years, ihave been bullied by her. But it stopped. On the 2nd of March. All because of my new best friends (Who are amazing by the way!) told my head of year! How weird or whatever you'd call it, it all sounds, it feels like all my emotions are lifted off my shoulder and heart :) So pretty much, this story and all you guys reviewing makes me feel like imma on cloud nine, it makes me think that iactually have a talent and that ishould follow my dreams!
Anyway ... Back to the story ... Sorry if I had to tell y'all that, but I just wanted y'all to know :) XD ... So here is chapter 9 :D
Oh warning: Lots of cussing and swear words in this chapter ... You have been warned XD
Chapter 9
Joshua's Secrets
I never knew my father was that much of a bastard. But I guess I had to learn that the hard way.
"Joshua, what are you doing here?" I asked him, so confused. I heard a growl from the kitchen. I looked back at the door and raised my eye brows, and then to Joshua who was smirking. "Joshua-"
"Isabella, would you be a darling and go get your brother?" Did he just order me to do something for him?
"What-"
"Get out of my house!" Sam snarled when he got to me.
"Technically, I'm not in your house." He's actually got the curtsy to joke around in this situation. "I'm on your porch ..."
"Get the fuck out of my house now! Because I-"
"Sam!" I interrupted him, half angry half annoyed, at Joshua and Sam. I slammed the door shut in Joshua's face and dragged Sam into the living room. "Can you calm him?" I asked Emily. She quickly got to work, rubbing her hands onto Sam's arm, saying smooth things to him.
"You okay?" Paul asked, trying to calm me down himself.
"My dad's right outside!" I all but shouted at him. "I've met him before! I'm so stupid not to actually remember him! Not to see through his bloody lies and his bloody -"
"You do know it's rude to talk about someone when they're behind the door!" Joshua yelled.
Sam started shaking again. Thanks Joshua, thanks a lot.
"Sam, just calm down now, calm down." Emily said to Sam.
"You want me to talk to him?" Derrick asked me. He was worried for me and the others.
"Define talk." Paul asked him.
"Normal talking, asking questions and whatnot, maybe throwing a few punches and kicks here and there if he pisses me off." He casted a look at me and Sam. "If you want me to of course."
"That fucker could die for all I care." Sam snarled.
"Okay, first of all, Sam: calm the fuck down, you don't want to hurt anyone if you phase. So calm your shit down." Then I pointed to Derrick. "Second, yes Derrick, please talk to Joshua, and find out what he wants." I told him.
"We'll go as well." David declared.
"Hell no!" I shouted at him. "Derrick can handle this."
"Come on mum! Derrick needs us!" Kalen said, dramatically.
"When I say no, I mean no boys." I warned them, in my mother position; eyes narrowed, with hands on hips.
"Hello? Anyone home?" Joshua mockingly asked.
I growled deep in my throat. I nodded to Derrick as I leaned into Paul's chest, wanting him to comfort me and wanting myself to calm down, I really don't want innocent people getting hurt.
Derrick nodded back and went to Joshua.
"Ah, Derrick Sage, long time no see." I heard Joshua say to Derrick. That got me interested - not that I wasn't already anyway. But how did Joshua know Derrick?
"Keep walking you asshole but kept your mouth shut, or else." Derrick threatened.
"Or else what?"
"I said keep your gob shut - I'm actually in a mood to deal with assholes like you, and that's not a pretty sight to see."
That was the last thing I heard before it was total silence in the house.
"Damn, ain't he a fucker." Jared said.
"He's my dad, he's supposed to be a fucker." I told to him, knowing that Joshua being here would cause a lot of trouble - for me, Sam, the pack and probably the whole of La Push and maybe Forks.
Derrick P.O.V
"Alright Uley, listen good and listen well." I said to Joshua as I threw him to a tree. I smirked as I heard the satisfying crunch of his back. Broken back. Perfect. "You leave now, and you won't get hurt - much."
"Ha! So funny Sage! You've just like you're dad." Joshua growled out.
"Fucker!" I yelled out as I smashed his head to the tree. I held onto his throat, squeezing it tightly. "You better shut up or else."
He tried to talk, probably trying to get some air but I ain't letting him.
"Now, be a good dog and do as I say or I'll end up killing you. No one will care anyway, huh?" I asked him. "Fuck!" I yelped as the fucker kicked my stomach - hard. I kneeled down, holding my stomach. Dawn him for being a big ass werewolf. He having to be stronger and older than me. Joshua suddenly kicked my face with his foot. I felt blood in my mouth. I spat it out onto the ground. Joshua took my face onto his hands and made me look at him, straight into his eye.
"Listen good and listen well Derrick Sage." He mocked my words. "You think you're so amazing and brilliant, but in reality, you're not. You think your secret's all covered up but think again! You think that everything's fine and dandy while it's not." He suddenly had a thoughtful look on his face. "I wonder how Bella would feel if she knew that her whole family is in danger because of you. I mean, the only point I'm here is to make your life hell like I did to your dad's. Man, it was fun to see Nick struggle with himself. He felt so much regret for himself after what he did to Mina." Joshua paused, a small smirk creepy to his face, then it turned into a shit eating grin. "Isn't Mina a Lahote? And isn't Bella's imprint Paul Lahote? Mina's son? Oh how perfect! I wonder how Paul will react to finding out that your dad practically raped Mina! Oh, and let's not forget that after the raping, both Mina and Nick made you!"
"It was your bloody fault anyway! You made my dad do that!" I snarled at him.
"But your dad took it himself. He raped Mina - not me. I only planted it in his head. He finished it all for me."
"You fucker!" I snarled at him.
"I know, I know. I'm this, I'm that. I agree and all." he said, thinking that it was a compliment.
Far away, I heard some paws on the ground.
Joshua suddenly threw me to the ground. He smirked at me and waved his hands.
"I'll see you later Derrick Sage - or rather Lahote. Remember: I'm here to make your life hell."
I coughed and hugged my body to myself.
"Derrick!" I heard Paul yelled. I winced at him. We had the same nose, ear and mouth. We really were brothers. "You okay man?" He got me to sit up. I nodded. "Come on." I stood up slowly and walked - actually limped with him to Sam's house.
Bella P.O.V
"Yeah, I found him on the floor of the forest. He bleeding and all." Paul said to me as he laid me down onto my bed, on top of him. "But he's better now anyway." He said after seeing the look on my face.
"I know, it's just - I hate Joshua for hurting Derrick like that." I told him.
"Yeah, me too." Paul replied, agreeing with me.
"Look at you, being all friendly to my best friend." I teased him.
"Yeah, well, yeah." Paul stuttered.
I kissed his cheek. "Thanks." I whispered to him.
"So, why the change of heart?" Paul asked me after a few seconds ticked by.
"Of what?" I asked him, but I knew the answer. He wrapped his arms around my waist and I leaned onto his chest.
"Why are you suddenly all nice to me - not that I want you to stop or anything, I just really want to know."
I shrugged my shoulders. "I guess it was the fact that you were hurting. That I couldn't just stand there and watch you get hurt by me. I guess the hurt I was bringing to you made me think that you'd had enough. I mean, you love me now -"
"I have always loved you." Paul confirmed. His grip on my waist tightened. "I was just stupid and jealous. You had a mum while I didn't. You had people who loved you while I had none. You also had my heart." He pecked my lips. "When I saw you in school with your overgrown trousers and your too tight t-shirt, you still looked beautiful. Even right now, you still make my heart beat faster than anything and anyone could."
"I was not wearing overgrown-"
"Yes you was!" Paul interrupted me, grinning like a fool.
"I was not!" I pouted, arms crossed.
"Yes you were." He said, pecking my lips again.
"So you forgive me?" Paul asked quietly.
I cupped his face with my hands. I rubbed his cheeks, giving him a smile. "If you forgive me."
"Why do you need to be forgiven?"
"I've hurt you Paul, so bad." Tears unwillingly went down my face.
"But I hurt you as well." He replied.
"Not as much as me." I retorted.
"Bella." He sigh out. "I forgive you if forgive me. That's fair and square."
"If you say so." I whispered, my head down.
"Bells?" He asked, tipping my chin so I could look in his eyes. "Do you want me to get flowers? Jewellery? Chocolate? A Car? What do you want?" He asked jokingly.
"Nothing Paul, nothing." I said, giggling. "It's just, you forgave me so easily."
"It's cause I love you." He whispered.
"I know." I said to him, not saying what he wanted me to at and not reacting the way he wants me to react.
"Hey, I can wait. I can wait when you say I love you as well. I don't mind Bella. I love you, so much that I'll go along whatever you want to go along. I'll be whatever you want me to be."
"Can you be my boyfriend, knowing that I can't say I love you back." I asked him.
"As long as your here, breathing and eating, that you're not with someone else or that you're not in my arms, I'm okay, I'm happy." He told me.
"Thank you Paul." I said to him. I leaned my head forward to his. My lips soon met his and our lips danced along together. Paul nipped my lower lip. I opened my mouth so Paul could enter -
"Oi lover birds! Derrick's awake." Quil's voice echoed. He banged on my door. "And stop the smooching and get patrolling. Sam's orders!"
I rolled my eyes at Quil and gently pushed Paul off me. He pouted. I pecked on his lip and dragged him downstairs.
"Finally, sleeping beauty's awake." Pail said as we saw Derrick on the sofa, with Leah dabbing a cloth on his face to wash away the blood.
I sat next to him. "You okay?"
"I'm alive, that's good enough for me." Derrick replied.
"Not good enough for me." Leah mumbled.
"Aw, it's okay Lee Lee, I've got a good and very nice nurse like you to get me back to walking and talking." Derrick said to Leah.
"Well, you've mastered the talking, let's get you walking." Leah joked.
I raised my brows at them. Leah got a nick name from Derrick ... It could only mean one thing ...
"What's up with the grin Bella?" Kalen asked me as he saw me.
"Nothing." I lied, innocently. "Anyway, I've got patrol, so bye." I waved and pecked on Paul's cheek and quickly dashed outside before anyone could say anything. If my guess is right, my plan would work. I thought as I phased into a wolf.
I lay down in wolf form once I was in my clearing.
Look here, it's Isabella. A familiar but sickening voice said behind me.
I turned my head to see a black wolf that looked like Sam, but it wasn't. It was Joshua. He can communicate with me through mind? Damn! I have to tell Sam and the others.
Are you alright Isabella? He asked again.
Fuck off Joshua! I said to him.
"That isn't something you say to your father, now is it Isabella?" He mocked me.
My father died with my mother in a car crash. I informed him, trying to get the memory away from my head. I didn't want him to see anything of my mum.
He snarled as I mentioned my mother and father. I am your father!
You left me! You left me and mum and never returned. You're not my father!
I am you father by blood, not love Isabella!
But what matters to me most is that love! Something you'd never know! I snarled at him.
Be careful Isabella, you might lose your beloved ones. You might even have to choose between them. He said to her, smirking a tiny bit.
What the hell? I asked him.
Goodbye. He only said then walked away him me.
Get back here Joshua. I growled at him but he didn't listen. You prick! I yelled after him.
"Stupid mutt, little shit, fucker of the century -"
"Swearing much?" Jared asked me as I walked home in human form.
"I saw daddy dearest again and he said some words that makes me want to push him off a cliff." I sarcastically told him. Then thought for a second. "Actually, I think I will push him off a cliff next time I see his good for nothing face of his."
"You do that Bella." He said to himself.
"Honey, I'm home!" He shouted as he stepped into Sam's house. I rolled my eyes at him but stopped when I noticed that Paul wasn't in the house. Derrick wasn't also. It wasn't a bother really, they must be talking or something. But what bothered me was what Joshua said to me.
"Be careful Isabella, you might lose your beloved ones. You might even have to choose between them."
His voice rang through my ears. Paul was missing. Derrick was missing. Something in my gut was telling me something was different, too different. I bit back a sob as I ran to Sam.
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