Grey Skies and Blue Eyes

Chapter Twelve

The night that Bella and Evie went to the beach was the first night that Carlisle didn't stay with her. The entire family needed to go hunting, and Carlisle had warned her of this a few days prior when she noticed his increasingly dark eyes. He had been putting off a hunting trip so he could spend time with her, and Evie had told him off immediately. While she knew he had to go hunting, however, it didn't mean she had to like it. So, in the absence of her favorite vampire, she chose to bother her sister incessantly instead, which is how she found herself hiding under her sisters bed at 11: 34 PM, waiting for Bella to get out of the shower. When she heard the water shut off, Evie grabbed the can of silly string and waited patiently for the perfect opportunity. Times like this had happened frequently over the years, but had slowly been dwindling as the two sisters grew older, but Evie felt that her sister had been ignored enough, hence the silly string.

Stifling a giggle at her childish actions, Evie watched as her sisters bare feet padded across the floor of her room and to her closet. When Bella moved back to her bed, Evie silently moved to the far side and got ready to jump up with an aerial attack. As soon as the bed dipped, Evie sprung up from her position and pressed the top of the silly string, watching in sick satisfaction as Bella squealed and tried to block Evie's assault with her hands. After mere seconds, though, Bella had had enough and she launched herself across her bed and leapt at her sister, managing to take both of them to the floor laughing the whole way. A brief skirmish later found Evie sitting on top of her sisters back, grinning victoriously at the agitated brunette beneath her. "Will you get off me? You weigh a ton!" Evie rolled her eyes, knowing full well that her dearest sister was over exaggerating.

"What do you say?" The loud 'humph' from Bella was her only answer, making Evie run her finger over the back of Bella's neck. Not a lot of people knew it, but Bella was extremely ticklish on the back of her neck. "Come on, Isa, you know you want to say it," Evie sang.

"Argh, fine! I bow to you, High Priestess Evelyn, Queen of the Amazon Women!" The sister's laughed at each other for a few minutes, both of them remembering the story behind Evie's 'title'.

Flashback

The brightly lit house was packed to the brim with preteens on a sugar rush, excluding the subdued sisters, Evie and Bella. Renee had forced the girls to invite the entire school for a Halloween party. Evie wouldn't have minded so much if they didn't invite Paula and her gang. Paula had it out for Evie, and in turn, Bella, and Evie didn't even know why. It wasn't like she spat on Paula's dead mother's grave, even though her mother was very much alive, the thought still passed her mind. Paula was the 'it' girl, and her followers were her partners in crime. Wherever Paula was, one of the followers was close behind. Paula had learned early on that Evie didn't care what was said about her, but anything they said about Bella would be met with a fist and, sometimes, her shoe. In learning this, Paula had taken it upon herself to tease Bella as much as possible, in turn causing Evie to be suspended… twice. Renee thought that a good party would make them put their differences aside. 'As if,' Evie thought with a huff.

The whole party, Paula had taken to calling Bella 'Twinkle Toes'. It wasn't the fact that they gave Bella a nickname that really pissed Evie off, however. It was the fact that they had purposely tripped Bella as they called her that name. Evie had immediately tried to punch the lights out of the fake blonde bitch, but Renee had pulled her away and said that it was probably an accident. Bella now sported a black eye because of the royal bitch that is Paula, and Evie now only saw in red. At the moment, Bella stood across the room near the snack table that Renee had painstakingly set up, getting herself a cup of what looked to be punch. Evie watched with narrowed eyes as Paula and her gang made their way over to the snack table, smirking at Evie's unsuspecting sister. Pushing off the wall, Evie got to Bella a moment too late, and watched in horror as Paula pushed Bella into the table, knocking the bowl of punch and the food everywhere. Bella, now soaked in red punch, had tears in her eyes, and Evie, sporting a bit of lettuce and some kind of chocolate pudding on her head and dress, stepped between her sister and Paula.