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It had been a few days since the incident with Bella and Cedric’s mothers re-appearance along with the return of their grandmother.
Needless to say neither twin knew had to respond, how to even react to what had just happened. So they avoided most people. Sure people came to check on them and even Luna herself was making sure that Bella was okay. Cedric shook off the shock faster and went back to work while Bella struggled to put herself back together.
“Bella?” The voice was soft, almost as if they were afraid of her reaction. However said woman looked over from where she was standing in her yard and raised an eyebrow. “Higgins? What is it? You rarely come down here.” Said man was silent for a moment while he decided on what to say. “I was in the area, you haven’t come into the guild lately.” Bella shrugged. “No, I go, just after most people aren’t around.” He nodded slowly. “Come with me.” Now she was shocked, why was Higgins trying to get her into town. “Trust me Bella You’re gonna wanna see this.” So Bella put down her hammer grabbed her bag and followed said man into town only to feel her eyes widen as she heard Sonia.
“I still don’t get how the Fuck You abandoned her!” Crystal flinched, she knew that she should have made sure she was alone before she spoke with her mother. “I wasn’t mentally capable of caring for her.” “So let me get this right. Bella, your child who had believed she lost her twin, her legit other half was left behind because you couldn’t handle it!?” Crystal was silent, it would seem that no one knew the full story and she couldn’t blame her children for not saying anything. “I- yes that’s correct. I could not handle raising her, I couldn’t think straight. Had I known what I know now..” she trailed off as she Looked around until her icy blue eyes landed on her daughter.
“Bella?” That even made Sonia look over and she frowned. “Bella go inside Django made you those pancakes you like.” Bella arched an eyebrow surprised at how Sonia was acting. “You should go in as well Sonia. My mother isn’t worth losing your temper over. I’ve long come to terms with what she had done.” Sonia blinked before she sighed and slung an arm around her shoulders. “You’re right and you know I’m really sorry about how I treated you.” “I know, I forgave you quite some time ago.” She then glanced at Higgins who nodded. “You should go eat. I mainly brought you to diffuse the fight.” Bella nodded and walked off with Sonia. The entire time she had a weird and nagging feeling.
As the pair walked into the Round table did Bella finally freeze. “Bella? Girl what’s up with you?” Django looked over with wide and hurt filled eyes before he tried to get Bella to look away. A feminine giggle finally reached Sonia’s ears and looked over before paling. Her gaze quickly switching to Bella in concern. However it was to late to try and get Bella to leave, to late to have her look away because within moments it was like the light that was Bella went out.
Arlo had leaned over from where he was sitting and kissed Nora straight on the lips. Causing the entire room to pick up an eerie chill. Looking over at what could have caused it he paled. “Bella?” She didn’t know who spoke to her, her icy silver blue gaze never left the couple in front of her. Taking a deep breath she closed her eyes against the onslaught of emotions and turned on her heel and left. She didn’t care that Sonia was yelling for her. She didn’t care that Django had looked down in shame, that Arlo called for her to wait up. She didn’t see the slight guilt in Nora’s brown gaze.
All she knew was that she needed to leave, to get somewhere else before she finally snapped. “Bella?!” Someone else called for her but it was like she didn’t hear them. To lost to her own pain. And that’s when a mistake was made. Arlo had ran after her and grabbed her arm just as she made it to the gates. “Bella wait please…” she immediately stiffened. “I….I know it looked bad but…” and that’s when she turned and snapped. Yanking her arm away she fixed her cold gaze onto the man who was responsible for her pain. “It looked bad? That’s a Fuckin understatement! You Fuckin led me on!” “No! Well..I- Bella please! Let’s just talk in private!” He tried to grab her again and froze as she backed away. “Do not touch me! I should have noticed something was wrong! I should have seen how much you changed! I should have Fuckin seen the way your eyes followed her and the way you aways spoke of her!”
At this point they had a group of people watching them, each one worried about what had happened. “And then I see you kiss her!
Then you try and tell me you know it looked bad. But no, it looked as if you were a cheating bastard.” The second she said that did everyone turn and look at not just Arlo but Nora who had also finally caught up. “Bella…” Bella just held up a hand as she spoke. “No, you two need to shut the fuck up and stay as far away from me as possible. I trustee you Arlo, and I trusted you Nora. But I see that was a mistake.”
Arlo frowned before he snapped back this time making a massive fuck up. “Oh, so I’m at fault huh? How about you? You who kept massive secrets from everyone!” Bella felt her eyes widen in fear at this point. “Arlo shut up!” “No! You’re like a witch or something because no normal human being can use magic the way you do! No normal person should be able to manipulate ice and create blizzards out of nowhere! You’re a freak-“ however he was quickly stopped as Remi punched him in the face. “Remi what the fuck?!”
Bella stood there frozen to the ground. He had outed her, outed her secret, called her a freak. Was she a freak?” “That’s for being an asshole. You shouldn’t have said shit about Bella’s gift!” Higgins crossed his arms. “Even I wouldn’t stoop that low.” Sam was frowning what the fuck had happened? However it was Sonia who spoke up. “So what if she can use magic? I think that’s pretty damn cool. And if someone has an issue with it, they can deal with me.” Bella however still didn’t move, everything was becoming to much. “And as for cheating on her, well that’s your fault you sleazy bastard. Now stay the fuck away from her Arlo.” “Or what?” “Or I’ll Fuckin arrest you.” Several people gasped, Remi rarely swore and when he did it was shocking and the fact he said he would arrest Arlo.
“Can you even do that?” Sam turned to Nora and glared. “Yeah the fuck he can. Especially if it’s considered harassment. So you stay the fuck away as well.” Yet in that brief moment Gust walked over, wrapped a protective arm around Bella and led her out of the town. Looking back at Albert the two shared a look and Albert nodded as he went to close the shop for the day. After all he had a friend who needed him and nothing would stop him. So with one last sigh he locked the door looked over at the screaming people and took off for Bella’s. He could only hope that the damage this time could be fixed.