Love Bite

Chapter 11

I DO NOT OWN CHARACTERS OR TWILIGHT

Angela and Jessica had been pretty supportive after they'd pried most of the truth out of their friend. Bella had tweaked it anyway, saying that yes, she had recently been having some thoughts that she was into girls, but gave a very vague answer as to why. (Hint: Alice, Rosalie, Victoria. No way was she getting into that, though.) She babbled a lot, but Angela and Jessica had just shrugged at her and reassured her they didn't mind, thank God. She told Mike and Eric the same thing with Angela and Jessica right by her side when she did. They both asked if they could watch.

Bella had never heard a lovelier douche-baggy question.

After her female friends smacked her male friends for their lack of tact, they grew serious and told her they did not care either. Mike had seemed uncomfortable with his cross hanging around his neck, but when he told Bella it did not change anything about their friendship, he didn't flinch a bit as he said it. His reasoning was somewhere along the lines of Jesus wanting them to live and let live or whatever, and love people, and that the bible said a lot of things that people didn't follow. (Eric made a jacking off motion behind him when he said that which made everyone laugh. Mike didn't get the joke.)

They also asked about what had happened to Edward, and she gave them the bitter truth about that. He'd left her like trash for his ex, and their reactions had been much like Charlie's, except more violent and less concerned with her consent to the matter.

Basically, castration if they ever saw the jerk again.

It was nice to see so much of their support.

Whenever they pursued questions of Alice as they were like to do, however, she shut them down or changed the subject.

There was no way to discuss that with them without getting an ache in her heart. Alice had called her twice in the course of the new couple of days and texted her once demanding she pick up her phone, but she didn't. After talking to Emmett once on Monday, she learned Alice had been suspended for each cuss word she had aimed at Mr. Gordon, and that added up to three days, not just Monday, and she wouldn't be returning until Thursday.

That only made the ache in her chest worse because it reminded her of Alice sticking up for her, and now she did not even want to hang out with Bella anymore.

So no, she refused to talk about Alice with them.

And god damn it, she did not know why everyone was so determined to believe she and Alice had a thing. Just because they both liked girls now didn't mean they were always secretly together or something. Their suspicions made Bella uncomfortable and embarrassed and hot between the legs if she thought too much about it, and her heart was miserable enough without all that other talk of Alice, so she never let them get too far with that conversation topic.

Yet her friends were still the only thing that made the uproar about her sexuality bearable.

They also began squashing all the wild ideas that began to float around the admittedly dry rumor mill of Forks about Bella's sexuality every chance they got. Angela and Jessica warded off any staring in the hallways with vicious protective female friend glares, but from then on there, the gay jokes had not stopped. Bella supposed she should have expected that from friends that close, where humiliation was as good as crack, but still, the support was appreciated and it was an undeniable relief that her friends didn't seem to care in the slightest.

The only thing she had to deal with completely on her own was Victoria hovering around, being her usual lascivious self. However, like before, she did little more than wink or smirk Bella's way, which was rarely considering how much Bell avoided that devil, and well. Without any of the other Cullens around, she made a much more intimidating presence, and Bella could always feel her hovering around when she walked the halls.