Love Bite

Chapter 6

I DO NOT OWN CHARACTERS OR TWILIGHT

Fuckity fuck fuck fuck! She internally screamed.

She could not catch a freaking break! It was just one thing right after the next!

Bella let out a noise of despair and looked at Alice as if she'd been personally betrayed by her.

"And you all never thought it was prudent to tell me that before now?" she cried, her voice high enough to hurt a dog's ears.

"We thought it was kind of obvious," Alice winced. Apparently her hearing had become strong enough again to be affected.

The logic of that made Bella do a double take before she made another anguished noise that made Alice screw up her face in sympathy.

Please tell me she's joking, Bella thought desperately.

"Are you serious?" she groaned, one hand running through her thick brown locks.

"As a heart attack," Alice confirmed reluctantly and Bella made another sound like the one of a dying animal. "Bella," she admonished at the pitiful noise and tried to shift on the couch to drop one leg over the edge of it to better face her friend, but the sling made her arm awkwardly bump into the back of it and she growled.

Bella watched her tear it off with a horrible feeling in her gut, torn between telling her not to in case she hurt herself further and curling up in a little ball to continue wailing like a kicked cat.

This isn't happening, she thought. It's not.

"Stupid thing," Alice muttered under her breath and threw it away, rolling her shoulder again as she moved to the position she had been wanting in the first place. Her arm looked fine which soothed the fresh guilt stirring in Bella, but she still held it across her lap carefully.

"I always thought it was just a universal thing! I didn't think your pheromones picked out people based on gender!" Bella told her, her lips pressed together tightly in frustration, her guilt giving way to frantic anxiety.

"They don't. They just have different effects depending on the person. If you...Well, if you weren't capable of being attracted, you probably would have been sent running the opposite way instead of...Ya know, right at me. You would have been terrified, not enticed," Alice told her. She was saying everything like it had the capability to send Bella off the deep end, but it was too late for that.

Bella made another pathetic noise, a muffled moan of desperation.

"Will you quit it?" Alice demanded, but she sounded on the edge of laughter as Bella slumped down so far on the couch that half her body fell off of it and she put her hands to her face.

"So what, I'm gay now?" she whined, knowing she was being horribly melodramatic but unable to stop herself.

"I didn't say that. Oh my god, you are such a drama queen!" Alice broke into a sudden fit of giggles when Bella only moaned again and slid all the way down to the floor and buried her face in her knees, her back to the seat of the couch now.

"It's not funny!" she objected, her voice muffled as Alice snickered.

Alice's sniggering cut off for a brief moment as if she was trying to hold it in, and then she burst into laughter a second later.

Blatantly offended, Bella lifted her head and glared furiously at her. The pixie's hand flew to her mouth and her giggling stuttered, but at the look on the brunette's face she threw back her head and howled with mirth, the room quickly filling with her gorgeous laugh.