Love Bite

Chapter 2

I DO NOT OWN CHARACTERS OR TWILIGHT.

For a solid week after the incident she saw and heard nothing of Alice. Her friend did not come to school and did not drop by to see her, leaving a dull, miserable ache of shame settled over her heavy heart. Not to mention that was probably the worst time for that to occur, because that was when Bella needed her best friend the most.

Things with Edward had only gotten worse after their first fight. Bella half the time couldn't even tell what they were fighting about, only that he was being an absolute jackass. She got the main idea to be something about him wanting to leave for two entire months and go to Alaska to visit his 'friend' Tanya.

Who he'd once dated.

Two months to see his ex.

Why in the hell did he think she was being unreasonable about this?

Every time Bella asked him about why he suddenly wanted to up and leave her completely for two months to go see her, he would skirt the answer and start a fight.

And Bella was so sick and tired of it.

They had finally reached the breaking point, and Bella was mildly turning over drastic measures in her head to finally get some definitive answers or-or she didn't even know what. Break up with him? The thought was definitely there because he was proving himself to be a truly shitty boyfriend at that point. But she didn't really think she could. She still loved him, but now he was making her wonder why.

But, of course that was not the only thing once more keeping her from really focusing on studying Algebra on a school night.

To be honest, she missed Alice dearly.

The girl was literally the highlight of her day at school half the time, constantly a diamond in the rough on otherwise dreary days and nights. Plus, she and Alice just clicked. Whether they were staying up all night discussing deep subjects like love, theology, and even utterly random crap like the benefits of abstract art versus realism, or being goofy and cracking each other up with their shenanigans, Alice was so easy to talk to.

Even if some of those shenanigans had ended quite badly last time.

Bella felt awful for having bitten her friend. And stupid. Quite stupid, actually. She should have known better than to bite a vampire. Of course it would set off Alice's instincts. And she also felt dumb for wrestling around with her like that in the first place, which no doubt didn't help the girl's control in the end. Alice had a hard enough time clamping down on her bloodlust when everyone knew Bella was the best smelling human to walk this side of Forks, Washington, and adding even a modicum of...Of, well, sexuality to that was only bound to make it worse.

Bella felt her cheeks flame.

Okay...She wasn't a homophobe by any means, but it was no secret that Alice was bisexual. The girl had been open about it from day one, discussing girls as naturally as she discussed boys, and Bella never even blinked about it.

But, it was different now.

It was different now that she'd spurred Alice into kissing her.

God...Even thinking about it sent a shiver up her spine that Bella desperately tried to ignore. She wasn't surprised that the action stirred a hunger in her that she never should have been feeling for her friend, especially when they both had boyfriends but she didn't believe it was her fault.

Or at least, that's what she told herself.

Vampire pheromones do crazy things to not only their owners, but to the humans they're designed to attract, and they certainly didn't differentiate between genders and were completely unrestrained by societal boundaries like sexuality. After all, what better way to capture your prey than by turning them on and making them come right to you? And what predator would actually deign to half their pool of prey based on something as ultimately inconsequential as gender?