Chapter 9 of Taking Chances

By Jacqulin

Authors Note: Happy Late Thanksgiving!! It was hectic at my house and I have suddenly realized my strange addiction to honey baked ham. Yum! I hate bacon…. But I love honey baked ham. Weird I know.

Disclaimer: I don't own Twilight.

Dedication: To my sister, who got me an i-pod for my birthday!!

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Normal Point of View

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"Will you please stop doing that?" Bella asked her friend that was sitting across from her.

"Stop what?" April asked a little too innocently.

"That," Bella said. She was too frustrated and she already had a head ache so there was no way that you could get her to deal with this right now.

"What," April asked. "Oh, you mean this." She poked herself again. "Ow…"

"I don't see why you hurt yourself over and over again. I mean, come on, if you have a sunburn most people wouldn't dare touch it. But you just go on and keep on poking yourself." Bella said sarcastically.

April looked at Bella and smiled. "Oh, ok."

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"Jeez! I was just kidding, April." Bella said. She was too frustrated with her friend.

"I know. But what I don't get is why you didn't get sunburned while I did." April had a small frown on her face as she said this.

"Maybe it was because I used that new invention called sunscreen." Bella said.

April stood up and walked to her friend. Even though she had only known her friend for a little over a week, she knew when something was wrong. "Bella, what's wrong?" April had a serious face when she asked her friend this.

Bellas Point of View

I sighed as I bowed my head down so that my eyes were covered by my hair. I didn't want to look at her eyes. One week. It had been one week and not even one thing from Edward. I think that my subconscious expected him to find me by now. Maybe I should have left a message to where I was going.

No. I shook my hands as they tremored with anger that passed through my body. He lied to me. Was I just a replacement for someone that he had lost a long time ago?

"Bella, are you alright?" April asked me again.

I snapped out of the trance like stage and looked at my friend. "What? Oh, I am fine." I said as I put a small smile on my lips.

"Really…" April said still not believing me.

"Yes, really. Now, stop worrying over me." I said.

"So.. Bella remember that little favor that I asked you to do for me." April said.

"What favor?" I said with the most innocent face that I could come up with. I prayed that she would forget.

"Oh, you know. The favor. Since, my boy friends friend from camp is coming in and he needs a date since we are going on a double date and I asked everyone from school and they are all busy. So Bella…. Please pretty pretty please???" April said as she pouted.

"Oh fine. But just as friends ok?" I asked her.

"Fine, just as friends." April sighed. She walked over and hugged me. "Thanks, Bella. You are the best. I was going to get one of my sisters to go with him, but they are still at camp."

"How many sisters do you have?" I asked her.

She held up two fingers and said, "Two. They are twins. Jennifer and Jessica. I guess you can say that they kind of look like each other, but they are fraternal so they have their differences."

I smiled at her. I would have loved another sibling. Sometimes seeing Edwards family always made me a little jealous. My heart wrenched as I thought of Edward. Everything that I thought of or saw some how connected to Edward.

"They are both at camp. It's a tennis camp and I think that my parents just send them over so they could get some kind of exercise. Jennifer is a total guy magnet and she is always flirting with guys. I think that Jessica is the one with the brain that actually works. She always gets Jennifer out of trouble. I think they were supposed to get home sometime this week, but I don't know what happened to them."

"April, where is their camp?" I asked.

She scrunched her face together as she thought of it. "I think that it is in the middle of this forest. Anyways, it is in the middle of nowhere."

I suddenly remembered what Edward had told me. "Remember Bella, don't go into the woods alone. I am not the most dangerous thing in there." I shuddered at this thought.

April saw me shuddering and asked, "Bella, are you cold?"

"No," I said, "I was just remembering some bad memories."

"Oh, ok. So you are ok with this date thing?" she asked me.

"Yeah, what's his name?" I asked.

"Um, Scott I think. He is supposed to super cute."

I glared at her.

"Ok ok. I know that this is just a friendship date, but you might not know what happens in the end." She said excitedly.

She got up and was getting ready to leave. "Wait, whats his full name?" I asked her.

"Scott Jones. Any reason why you are asking?" she asked me.

"No reason," I said. "Just wanted to see if I knew him."

"Alright Bella. I will see you tomorrow so we can get ready for our outing with the boys."

And with that she left my house, while I pondered over what this Scott Jones was going to be like.

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Authors Note: I think this was a pointless chapter and that I wrote it on a whim. JUST TO LET YOU KNOW THIS STORY IS EB ALL THROUGH!

TO THE PEOPLE WHO FLAMED ME:

At least be smart enough to sign out and leave it as anonymous. Can people get any dumber? Wait, don't answer that. I really don't want to know.