⚠️TRIGGER WARNING⚠️

⚠️suicide and homophobia⚠️

"Can we go outside?" I ask the table.

"Why?" Conner asks me looking bored. I look around the lunch room to see Emmett looking at me, he smiles and I turn back around.

"Please?"

"It's wet outside, I don't like to be wet." Vivian says.

"Well that's the first time I've heard that from a girl." I joke, she throws a grape at me and I catch it in my mouth and spit it out.

"Who the hell eats red grapes?" I ask her. That shits nasty. "Why would you feed me a red grape?"

"I didn't I threw it, you chose to eat it."

"Whatever, outside please?"

"Fine, but if I get wet you're fixing it."

"Gladly doll." She pushes me and I laugh along with Alex and Conner. We walk past the Cullen table and I can feel Emmett staring at me, I turn my face into Conners shoulder so I don't have to look at him, because apparently I'm a little bitch now. Stupid.

"Ok so why are we out here?" Conner asks as he sits on the hood of Vivian's car. I hold up my hand to tell him to wait, and I reach into Ruby and turn on the music to avoid busybodies.

"So um you know how we have the art project." They all nod okay, good. "So like Emmett's my partner."

"Girl if you don't speed this up." Conner's impatient ass says.

"And like I was gonna say we can work at the dinner but he just like said we'll do it at his house, and planned for that for the next week, except for Friday and the weekend."

"You gonna get the dick?"

"Conner stop." Alex says, thank you. "She definitely gonna get it tho."

"No."

"Exactly she barley knows him." Vivian cuts in. I hug her and nod she's my favorite right now. "But 50 bucks says he asks her on a date within the week." I sigh and let go of her and go pout while leaning on Ruby.

"You're on I say he does it tomorrow the latest." I flip Conner off and we all look to Alex for her bet.

"I say he gets her number and asks her over the weekend." They all nod.

"You know I could just make you all lose and ask him out myself." I tell them.

"No that's not fair." Alex whines, roll my eyes at her.

"Fine. But seriously I've like never hung out with a guy I found attractive and I'm don't want to be the awkward sister, that's Bella's job."

"Didn't you have a girlfriend before?" I nod.

"Same shit like that, well not the sex part at least." Conner says, I hit him with my binder.

"I knew that whatever if I make a fool I'll just drive off a cliff."

"Not with Ruby you won't. She's mine when you die." Wow Alex nice.

"You mean if I die."

"If?" Conner and Alex ask. Vivian grabs me and Conner and starts pulling us inside muttering about being cold and I grab Alex to come to.

"Hello Vampires."

"Don't exist." Vivian cuts in, as she stops at her locker. I shove all my textbooks in her locker because I don't even know where mine is and I don't have homework tonight.

"You have no proof that they don't."

"You don't have any proof that that they do." Touché.

"Whatever, I don't want to go to physics."

"How about we go to physics and skip study hall?" Alex suggests I nod my head super fast in agreement.

"I'll skip gym too so all three of us should meet by the cars." Conner says we look at Viv.

"Can't I've already missed to much Math this semester." We nod and go out separate ways. Me and Alex walk into Physics to see and sub and immediately backtrack before he sees us.

"And where are you two ladies going?"We turn around and see Emmett, Calvin and Rosalie looking at us.

"Not in there." I answer Alex is still uncomfortable around them.

"Skipping is bad." Emmett says, Ok dad.

"Well then I'm." Alex cuts me off.

"You know he's right inside we go." Alex grabs me and yanks me back towards the classroom.

"Coward."

"Whatever." She pushes me into my seat and sit in hers. I let out a sigh and put my head down, if I must be here I'm going to nap. Why is someone tapping me?

"Celeste." Little boy needs to be grateful he's cute. I sit up and look at him. "You're coming after school right?"

"She better be Esme's probably cooking for her right now." Calvin says.

"Esme?"

"Our adoptive mother."

"Oh ok. Um yea I'm going." I tell Emmett. "Do you have supplies?"

"Yup." Wow color me impressed. "My sister Alice is really into that and she said she'd give us some things." Yup that makes more sense.

"Alice?"

"Tiny pixie like." Oh.

"She's cute."

"No stop hitting on my sisters."

"It's not my fault your family is attractive, except for Edwin, he's like ugly, like really ugly." I pause. "Like super fucking ugly I'm sorry if this is offensive."

"It's not you're right and you need to tell him he thinks he's the shit." Rosalie says in between laughs.

"I would if he didn't stop coming to school. Is he gonna be at your house because I will yell at him for being creepy and making Bella creepy in turn."

"Nope he's away for a while."

"Did you kill him?" I ask her.

"No but one day maybe."

"I knew I liked you for a reason. Also I have to take Alex home first so what's your address?"

"You won't be able to find it." Um I can follow a map besides where in this small town can you really live. "I'll follow you to Alex's house then you can follow me to our house." I nod at this cause it's whatever.

"Well then I'll see you later because I'm not going to study hall." I wave as I walk out the room and meet Alex who's waiting for me outside. "Ok to the cars." We start to walk towards the parking lot when someone jumps on my back. "Hey Conner."

"Hello ladies." Alex jumps because she didn't know he was there. "So anything interesting happen?"

"Nope." He jumps off my back and we get into Ruby.

"Nothing with lover boy?"

"Don't call him that." I tell him and open a bag of m&ms. "And again no."

"Boring. When are you gonna pay Alex?"

"Pay Alex for what?"

"She won you're first bet." Did she? No.

"Actually the bet was that I would fuck him."

"No just that you would want to, therefor pay up and I'll be driving Ruby here this weekend." Fuck me reach past her and into my glove compartment to grab $100 and I hand it to her.

"Oh look there's lover boy." Conner says as he leans up in between me and Alex and points. "He's not my type but he's cute for you."

"So what's your type?" I ask grabbing a Twizzler from him.

"Tall tan buff daddy issues." I couldn't help but snort.

"Sounds like my best friend."

"Does he like boys?"

"No idea, maybe if he stops being a bitch I'll ask for you."

"Please do." Me and Alex laugh at him. "Oh there's Viv let me out." I get out the car to let him out of it, Emmett's walking toward us. "Get that dick." He whispers as he winks at Emmett and walks off to Vivian's car.

"Ready?" I nod at him and get in Ruby and he walks back to his car.

"Alright lets get you home." I start to drive while she messes with the CDs, she picks one and hits play. "Anything for Selenas." I say, I love her voice. She was hot too. Shit I gotta call dad. "Hey grab my phone and call my dad for me." Alex grabs my phone and puts it on speaker.

"Hello."

"Hey dad."

"What's up Celeste?"

"I'm gonna be home late today, I have a project to work on at a friends house."

"What friend?"

"Emmett Cullen."

"A boy?"

"Yes dad a boy." Alex is trying to suppress her laughter I flip her off.

"Mmm alright I guess. I want you home by 9 though."

"Yes sir."

"Alright be safe and make good choices."

"Bye dad love you."

"Love you too." Alex hangs up the phone and and turns the radio back up. We sing along to Selena until I pull up to her house.

"See you in the morning." She says before she shuts the door. Emmett's Jeep pulls in front of me and starts to drive and I follow.

Holy shit this house is amazing. I park next to the Jeep and get out. "Dude this house is beautiful."

"Esme will be pleased to hear you like it." I was standing there staring at it for a while before Emmett grabbed my arm and started to pull me towards the door. "Close your mouth before you swallow a fly." My mouth is closed. Holy shit this place is beautiful and it's so light and open. "Esme this is Celeste, Celeste this is Esme." I wave at the women, she radiates happiness and warmth, she comes up and wraps one arm around me.

"Hi I hope you're hungry."

"I can eat." She smiles at me and leads me to the kitchen and sits me on a stool. Emmett sits next me.

"Go get the supplies so we can start the project." He rolls his eyes and gets up and Esme brings me a plate of food. "This looks great, thank you."

"Of course, it's not often we have guest." I smile at her and she walks away.

"Alright choose a canvas." Emmett says while he holds up two canvases, a square one and a rectangle one. "I say we get a smaller one Alice just suggested these."

"Smaller means smaller details thus making it harder to paint so Alice made the right choice. The square one." He nods and puts it on the counter and disappears again.

"Okay where do you want to do this?"

"I don't know if you realize, but this isn't my house, also I don't know where food is allowed."

"Then let's work in my room, an yes food is allowed there." I nod and follow him up to his room. Is that a bunch of graduation caps? Not my business. I walk into his room and it is both exactly what I expected and not at all what I expected. i go and sit at the desk so I could put the plate down. "So what are we going to paint?"

"No idea." God his mom is a good cook. Maybe I should learn how to cook. Nah seems like a lot of work. "Oooo what if we painted some type of supernatural creature in like a everyday setting."

"Supernatural?"

"Do you want the definition or an example?" He opens his mouth but I cut him off. "Let's just go with this idea. Can you actually paint or draw or do you take art because it's easy?"

"Easy, but I can draw pretty well." I don't believe him. "Look here's one of my sketch books, don't get food on it." I roll my eyes and grab the book from him. I start looking through it while i carefully ate and he was setting up the stuff on the floor. He's actually really good, especially at scenery which is hard as fuck. Ha hard as fuck. "I'm gonna startt he rough sketch ok?"

"Oh wait!" He looks up at me and raises his eyebrows. "I want to do a Medusa painting."

"You really like her don't you?" I nod my head really fast and he laughs. "Alright how about a deal?" I let a out a loud groan and let my body slide out of the chair to the floor like I was slime. "Calm down. Well do a Medusa painting if you tell me why you like her so much." Um I don't think you know me well enough to know that story sir. "Deal?"

"Fine, but I'm painting her you paint the background I'm horrible at scenery." He nods and starts to sketch out a background, I think it's the New York skyline but I'm not sure. "Alright it all started in eighth grade." Yes I'm dramatic deal with it. I lay on the floor and let out a sigh time to dig up all my trauma. "I met my best friend and my first love, her name was Addison, she was a lot like Rosalie actually and you too. She was the best person I ever met." I was watching him he started to pick paints up and put them on the pallet. "I fell in love with her in my freshman year of high school. I didn't realize I was in love with her until my sophomore year though." I let out a laugh god I miss her. "Anyway she was obsessed and I mean obsessed with Greek and Roman mythology. And she used to tell me all the stories and her take on them."

I stopped for a minute, I didn't want to start crying. I watched as he steadily painted a straight line of grey. "And then we started dating and people well they were dicks. They judged and made comments and I am a very mean person." He laughs at that and I flip him off. "And apparently she saw Medusa in me, because every time someone pointed or stared I would glare at them and people were afraid of me or whatever." I hated that school. "So she started to call me that." I stop talking and watch him paint more.

"Come on Tell me the rest."

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"It's depressing." He looks at me and I sigh. "I guess her parents found out and they didn't take it to well. They said all these things and sent her to a conversion camp over the summer." Don't cry don't cry. Ok I'm good. "She came back and she seemed fine." I should've known. I could've helped her, saved her. "She killed her self after my birthday. Her letter said that she wanted to see me smile before." Emmett didn't stop painting, good I didn't want his pity or stupid apologies I hate that shit. "I got the Medusa the next day. And the date of her death a month later."

"I'm sorry I was insensitive about the tattoo."

"It's fine." I smile a little it felt good to talk about Addison. "I'm just a bitch." He laughs a little and I sit up to look at the painting. "Dude this is epic." It wasn't a city it was a river in a dark forest and the river looked powerful and strong. "Wait how did you? What time is it now?"

"Almost 9."

"Shit I gotta go." I stand up and grab my plate from earlier. Emmett gets up and walks me downstairs, we go into the kitchen where Esme is and. "Dr Cullen?" Oh shit duh.

"Hello again Celeste." Esme takes the plate from me. "How's the hand?"

"It's completely healed now." I hold up my hand as proof.

"That's good." I smile at him as Esme comes back and hands me a Tupperware full of food.

"Oh thank you." I smile at her. "Also you're cooking is amazing."

"Thank you." She gives me a hug which I return. "I'll see you tomorrow."

"Right well bye, Dr Cullen." He nods and Emmett and I walk out the house. "Well I'll see you tomorrow and thanks for listening."

"Anytime."

"Also if you tell a single soul what I told you today, I'll hit you with Ruby." He lets out a loud laugh. "I'm serious."

"I know you are. Later Celeste." I nod and get into my car and drive away. Well today wasn't what I expected at all. But maybe that's a good thing.

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Hey sorry this took so long, It's been a crazy week. LMK what you think.

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Also if you came from my other Emmett book LEGENDS, I started a new version of it and took down the old one. So if you were reading that book or want to it's up now.

-Rebel