34As promised, it is Sunday and here is the next chapter!
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So I like this chapter cause now you have Bella, James, and Edward interaction
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(EPOV)
Shit! My eyes flew back and forth between Bella and James. All I could think of was my conversation with Bella a few days ago.
"It was a tattoo, on the back of one of the guys neck. It was an arrow."
When James first got that damn tattoo his hair was long enough that no one could see it. He had the 90's douche bag look of bleach highlights and a ponytail.
Now, of course, his hair was shorter and the tattoo was now visible.
"You know him?" Bella questioned quietly at my side.
James smirked and held his hand to Bella. "Of course I know Eddie. He is my little brother." James ran his hand across my hair. "Now, who, my dear, are you?"
Bella looked between the two of us. "Bella." She spoke quietly, lightly shaking James's hand.
"James Hunter at your service madame."
Bella's eyebrows scrunched as she turned to me. "I thought your last name was Mason."
I was about to answer her when James beat me to it. "Oh, it is. His father was Edward Mason, my father was Gus Hunter. Our mother was a whore." James shrugged his shoulder nonchalantly. "What 'ya gonna do?"
I closed my eyes and took a deep breath, trying to control my anger.
"James," I spoke though my gritted teeth, "get the hell out of here. Now."
"Aw, brother, where's the love? I want to get to know Bella over here." He turned to walk past me but I grabbed his arm.
"I'm not kidding, leave." Not only was he pissing me off, the moment Bella saw that tattoo it would be all over.
James looked me in the eye and made an eye motion. One thing about me and James was that we knew each other well enough that we could talk without talking, like right now.
I sent him a look back telling him to fuck off, but of course, he ignored me.
"How about we grab a seat and get to know each other better."
"Sure." Bella's voice spoke out before I could answer.
James stepped forward to lead the way but I took his arm causing him to fall behind me and Bella as we headed back to our table.
Bella took a bench by herself while I sat next to James.
"So, Bella, is that short for something?" James placed a fist under his chin, as if he was amused. He was.
"Yeah, Isabella."
"Isabella. That's such a pretty name. Not to common either." James sent a side glance my way. Bella offered him a soft smile but it was clear to see how uncomfortable she was.
"So what do you do for a living?" Despite this being such a normal conversation, I was sweating while my knee nervously tapped under the table.
"Well, I was a bank manager, but I recently quit."
"Was?" James and I said at the same time. What the hell happened during the few days I haven't seen her.
"Uh, yeah." She swept a piece of hair that had fallen loose well dancing behind her ear and she nibbled on her lip again.
"Which bank?" God dammit James.
Bella paused a moment, hesitant to answer. "Acela Bank."
James face looked completely shocked. That fucker.
"Wait, the one that was just robbed?" James looked over to me. I rolled my eyes, causing him to smirk.
"Yeah, that's the one." The table fell into silence, the chatter of other festival goers and the music the only sounds.
"Well," I slammed my hands down on the table, tired with this shit, "it was nice seeing you James. Bella and I are trying to dance and you're interrupting us. It's time to leave." James smiled and nodded. Thank god.
James stood from the bench and offered his hand out to Bella again. "Well, Bella, it was a pleasure meeting you." When she placed her hand in his, he brought it up to his lips and kissed it. I gritted down on my teeth well Bella offered and awkward smiled and nodded him a goodbye.
He started to turn away from us and I quickly jumped up and placed my hand on the back of James's neck, covering the tattoo, but looked to anyone else as nothing out of the ordinary.
"James, you seriously need to back the fuck off." I whispered as I walked him behind Bella and pushed him away.
I went back to my seat and made sure Bella kept her eyes on me while I watched James's retreating figure.
"Well, that was interesting." Bella laughed.
"Yeah, interesting is definitely one word I would use to describe that encounter."
"Well, I've had a lot of fun tonight but I think its time I headed back home." Shit. I'll be sure to thank James for that little stunt later.
"Yeah, sure." I stood up and walked over to her, helping her up and wrapping her hand up with mine.
We started walking back to her apartment but instead of going back they way we came, I decided to take a short cut. When we got to the corner of Herman Street Bella paused.
"Hey, what's wrong?" Bella's eyes glanced up the street several times before looking at me.
"Uh, why don't we just go back the way we came?" I could hear her voice shaking and it bothered me.
"Seriously, Bella, what's wrong?"
She took a deep breath then sighed. "I use to come down this way when heading to the library but there's some guys down there that would always bother me so now when I go there I take the long way."
"What do these guys look like?"
"One has longish blonde hair and the other has spiky black hair. They always sit on the steps of some apartment building, I think its called like Shady Grove or something like that."
Demetri Palentine and Felix Drower. Those fuckers.
"Hey, I don't want you ever be scared okay. I know the guys, I'll talk to them and get them to back off."
"Edward, you don't have-"
"Yes, I do." She smiled and hugged herself to my arm as we walked down the street and back to her apartment.
"How'd the date go?" Can't even get five fucking minutes to myself. I threw my keys on the table and walked in to my family room, finding James in the same position as a few days ago.
"What the fuck do you want now?"
"How'd the date go? The asshole smirked.
"That has nothing to do with you." I started to walk away when I heard a crash. I turned around to see my coffee table flipped over.
"Dude, what the fuc-"
I was cut off as James crashed into me and landed me in the wall with his elbow across my throat.
"This has everything to do with me. You're dating the fucking hostage. What the hell is wrong with you?"
"Get off me." I wheezed. James backed off and the moment he did I pushed him into the couch and sat on top of him and holding him down.
James and I have been fighting since we were seven. He was usually stronger, and I was always faster, but now I had him.
"Don't fucking worry about it, kay?"
"Kay." I pushed off him and sat against the couch.
James pulled out a cigarette and lit it, passing it over to me. Usually I don't smoke, but I was fucking wound up so I took a drag.
Once the cigarette was out I spoke up.
"I need your help with something?"
"What something?"
"Something where two somebody's are going to get hurt."
"I'm in."
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