Ch3
Bella walked into her house to see her family all sitting around in the living room, watching TV. “Hi.” She said flatly and plopped down beside Blakely.
“Hey boo, what’s wrong?” She asked as she put her arm around her. On her other side sat Travis.
Bella cut Travis a quick glance then looked back at her and shook her head. “I’ll tell you later,” she said. “What are y’all watching?”
“Duck Dynasty, now shh!” Ryan demanded as he leaned forward.
“So what did you and Luke do for your friend-iversary?” Blakely asked in a hushed whisper.
Bella wasn’t in the mood to talk about Luke, especially with Travis sitting right there. She knew that whatever she said would make it back to Luke, and she wasn’t willing to do that. No matter what her feelings were for Luke, she knew he was happy with Candice and if she did anything to jeopardize that relationship she could never forgive herself.
But Blakely, hearing the tension and edge in her voice, knew something was wrong. “Hey, well I wanna show you something. Come on.” She said with a playful smile before dragging her off to her room. “So, what’s going on?”
Bella’s cover up smile fell to her frown as she crashed onto her bed, smothering her face with a pillow. “Mmmffhh mahgieff.” She mumbled into the pillow.
“What?”
“Mmmffh mahgieff.”
“Bella, sit up!” She demanded. Bella sat up and sighed.
“He’s proposing to Candice.”
“What? Seriously?! He’s only been dating her for 6 months! He can’t be proposing to her already.”
“Well he is, and he wants me to be his best-woman.”
“Gosh, the nerve of that boy!”
“He also wants me to be there for him when he proposes…he’s proposing on my birthday.”
“So, he forgot?”
“I guess so.”
“Gosh, that boy just keeps getting dumber by the minute!” She plopped down beside her with a sigh. “I’m sorry Boo. I know how much you love him.”
“I just don’t get it…what did I do to deserve this?”
“Hey, you didn’t do anything…well, besides the fact that you kill people on a weekly basis.”
Bella cut her a look. “I like to think of it as protecting my country and the lives of innocent people.”
“Hey, I’m not judging……I think you should tell him how you feel.”
“Blakely, I can’t. He’s in love with Candice. If I tell him it would ruin everything between us, maybe even between them…He’s happy with her. I couldn’t live with myself if I came between them.”
“I’m sorry.”
Bella took a long pause before she replied. “Yeah…me too…Guess I’ll just have to…move on…”
“So how’d you get those stitches?”
“It’s a long story.”
“I’ll be here all week.” She smiled softly.
Bella looked at her and smiled then frowned at the memory of being tortured. “I went on a mission to get a toxic elixir, but I got caught. The guy who created the elixir tortured me. He pulled out my back teeth, electrocuted me, dunked me under water…he was going to kill me.”
