Fear vs. Love

Chapter 2: Memories

BELLA'S POV.

As soon as I follow Kiyko, my Great Pyranise puppy, into the kitchen I see him. The one boy who can make my breath hitch, is standing in front of me.

Except he's no longer a boy.

With his broad shoulders, and through that white-cotton T-shirt, I can see his eight-pack, and those legs! OH MY GOD!! That's all I can say. And I have never been one to have feelings for anyone. But my god, he is ALL man.

And that man is Skyler Hill.

"Skyler!?" Is all I can say before I run and jump into his arms. It takes some effort and practically scaling his 6'6" frame before I get my hands around his neck and whisper, "Sky!"

Almost immediately his arms wrap around my waist and I wrap my legs around him while we continue to repeat our names to each other like we can't believe we are here together.

I can feel something hard poking the bottom of my v****a but I ignore it. Because I quite frankly, don't care.

Sky's home!

SKYLER'S POV.

The last time I saw Ella was the summer before my Junior year at college and that was a fun summer. Mia was off looking for a place to live during college and Ben was at training so we spent most of our time here.

One of my favorite memories was when we were watching a movie at 8 p.m. and she was throwing popcorn in my mouth...

FLASHBACK

"I'm gonna catch it!" Is all I say before all I see is her hurtling a handful of popcorn at my face. "You little asshole!" I say as she starts running around the coffee-table and into the kitchen. It's been 3 weeks since she moved into my best friend's place and it's been just us for the week. And it's never been more fun hanging around this place.

"Hey, that's unfair! Your faster than me!" She screams as I grab her around the waist and throw her over my shoulder. "OWWW! THAT f*****g HURT, ASSHOLE!" Is all she says as she beets my back.

"What the hell is going on here!?" Says a voice I'm all to familiar with. My girlfriend, Sasha.Yay! If you can't tell, that was sarcasm. I f*****g hate the b***h for multiple reasons:

Reason no. 1: She's a b***h and treats people like s**t and no f*****g way is she gonna treat my Ella like that because I've seen first hand how much damage Ella can inflict on people. And if I cared about the b***h, I would feel a little concerned about how she'll survive this fight.

Reason no. 2: She's a slut and has slept with almost 3/4 of the male population at SNHU.

Reason no. 3: She is only using me to get to the top and to make her ex jealous.

Reason no. 4: Not only is she a slut but she dresses like a slut and today is no exception. She is currently wearing a skirt that I bet if she bent over, you would be able to see her panties. Topped with a shiny crop-top that her plastic surgery boobs are hanging out of. Oh yeah, I went there. Not only are her boobs fake but so is half her face. It's just the truth.

There are a lot more reasons, but if I continue we will never leave the topic. And that's why I was planning to break it off with her next week, when her actual visit was scheduled. God dammit!

Quickly, Ella slides down my chest and turns to face Sasha. As soon as she whips her head around, she puts her hands to her hips and walks towards her. "Who the hell are you? I don't remember inviting a slut to hang-out with us. And I sure as hell know that Sky didn't invite you, 'cause if he did, he was planning on being buried tonight." Damn! Babygirl got additude. It takes all of my self control not dubble-over laughing.

Sasha looks like she was just slapped across the face. "Well b***h," Dear lord, I DID NOT sign up to bury a body tonight. If Sasha knows what's best for her, she'll backtrack, leave, and never, and I mean never, come back here. Like, ever. "I'm Sasha, Skyler's GIRLFRIEND!" She puts emphasis on the word girlfriend like it'll make Ella step down. From what I've seen, she'll only take it as a chalange. Oh well. I guess that's my cue to go get the shovels. Oh, but I really want to see this play out! I'll just stay for a little bit more and finally see Sasha get her ass handed to her. "Who the f**k are you and why are you hanging on MY BOYFRIEND like he's a f*****g jungle-gym?!" There's an excessive amount of venom in her voice. Well s**t, let's add about 6 more feet to her grave.

"Well, SLUT! I am Bella, but you can call me the owner of this house and I don't know what Sky ever saw you! Clearly you've already f****d the whole football team." She bites back. Ok, I don't care what her cousins say! I'm going to marry this f*****g woman. She is gonna be the death of me and my sanity!

"b***h!" Is all I hear Sasha say before she lunges at Ella. Before either Sasha or I could get to her, she has a handful of Sasha's hair and is bashing her face into the table. "OWWW! OK I'M DONE I WON'T TOUCH YOU! IT WAS A MISTAKE! I'M SORRY! JUST LET ME SPEAK TO SKYLER AND I'LL BE ON MY WAY! I PROMISE!" Is what Sasha manages to sputter out. As soon as Ella lets her go, she goes limp and falls to the floor.

"You have 10 minutes until I come back and finish what I started! Got it? b***h!" Quickly, Sasha shakes her head and Ella stands to her full hight of 5'1" and says, "Good, you now have nine minutes." And with that she walks out.

"Bitch." Is all Sasha says before we hear foot steps headed our way and before I can turn back around to face her, Ella comes running through the door like a mad woman.

"OK, THAT'S IT! LET ME AT 'ER!" Is all she says as she runs in the direction of a pale Sasha. But before she could get any closer, I wrap my arms around her waist and spin her towards me and look into her beautiful gray eyes with specs of blue and green in them and for a moment, I have the random urge to kiss her and take her up to my room and do some things to her that Ben probably would't agree with. Whoa, OK! Calm down for like a second before I actually do it. Not that I don't want to, but concentrate on the task at hand please. Ok, now that I can see that she's calm and I'm on my way there, we can worry about Sasha, who is currently lying on the floor with a bloodied nose and bruises on her face that will probably take a few weeks to heal. "Ok, ok. I'm chill." She says as she lifts her arms in surrender. "But, I'm staying here. Just incase little miss bitchy face starts to act up. But if she does something stupid or something I don't like, I can't promise she'll make it out of here alive. Deal?"

"Deal." I say as we shake hands. And over my shoulder I can here a scoff and I watch as Bella swivels around the side of me and gives Sasha a death-glare. Yup, there goes my sanity. God is she f*****g sexy when she's mad! I can feel myself getting hard just thinking about it. It takes everything I have not to toss my head back and groan. "So, Sasha. Why the f**k are you here?" I need her out of here so that Ella and I can finish what we were doing before we were so rudely interrupted.

"Well, what else would I be doing here?" She says as she flutters her lashes at me. And if I'm being completely truthful with myself, I want to puke. "I'm here to see my boyfriend silly." She says as she giggles and tosses her hair over her shoulder. Ok, this has to stop before I actually start to puke.

"Oh, yeah! Sorry, I was gonna do this next week, but since your here." I lean down so I'm in her line of sight. "I'm breaking up with you." Is all I say before I stand to my full height and look at her.

Immediately, the crocodile tears start to falling and she starts to complain. "W-What? But I-I love you! I thought you were different! I thought you were the one..." She starts but Ella interrupts her blubber fest.

"Yeah, yeah! Hey, b***h, he said beet it! And if you don't, I would take great pleasure in kicking your ass out the door. So I'll say this once and only once, GET THE f**k OUT OF MY HOUSE BEFORE I DO IT FOR YOU!" And that is all Ella has to say before Sasha is nodding and grabbing her phone from her purse and calling her driver to pick her up and is rushing out letting it close gently behind her. Ella fallows behind her and locks the door and comes back into the kitchen saying, "And that my friend, is how it's done! Thank You, Thank You! I take payment in cash only."

After that whole fiasco earlier, we ended up finishing our game popcorn in a hole. We watched all of the Disney movies ever made and we ate about 17 boxes of popcorn in the process. And when Ella was right about to fall asleep she bolted upright and quickly relaxed when she saw me, she turned over so her head was lying on my chest and I wrapped my arms around her. Quietly she got up to my face and says, "Thank you, Skyler. I had a lot of fun today. Goodnight, I love you." And with that she kissed my cheek.

END OF FLASHBACK

That night, my fate was sealed and I was officially, for the rest of my life, her property. To this day, it surprises me that I didn't at least kiss her. But now, I have to try. Because I love her and 7 years ago, I sold my soul to the one devil that should never have access to it. And that devil is Bella Jon.

BELLA'S POV.

We've been hugging for about 5 minutes and so far my stomach has been twisting for about 20. You see, he's had this affect on me since I was 15, so since I moved in with my cousins. The summer before he went off to college never to be seen again, we really bonded. Before that summer, like in school, he would always rub me the wrong way. Our school was small, so the elementary and high school were attached and the middle schoolers went to all the same teachers and classrooms that the high schoolers did.

Ben and Skyler took a lot of pride in walking me from the bus to the classroom or my locker. So every day they would walk me from the bus, to my classroom, and as I got older, all the girls in my class would swarm around me and pretend to be my friends and then later proceed to talk about my cousin and Sky. And every night when it was time to go home, they would make me stay at the football field until they were ready to leave practice. When I joined sports, it only got worse. If they had their practice on days I had mine, they would sit in the gym after their practice was over and ever one on the team would try to push out their chests and make it seem like they had boobs. It got annoying. Really fast.

I've tried to get rid of my feelings for Sky, but every time I try I just end up liking him more. The only problem is that he sees me as a little sister who is broken and has a lot of bagage.

So far, we've been hugging and I can barely breath. I look up to see him staring at me and my knees almost give out for those beautiful green irises with hazel flecks. God dammit! I should NOT under any circumstances be feeling like this for him! Like at all!

Ok, but, and this is a very, and I mean huge but, but what if I like him and he likes me? All I know is that Mia already approves of me dating him. And how do I know that? Well, she's made less than subtle hints, like, every time he'd talk to me she would elbow me in the side and then, proceed to whisper not so quietly. You know what, looking back on it, she was probably trying to let him know that I like him. Benny, I don't know how he would feel about us dating.

Back to the present, "Hey, Sky?" God it is so f*****g hard not to just run my hands through his long, thick, curly, auburn hair. It's shorter than I remember. It used to reach his shoulders, now it's all sits on his head.

"Yes, babygirl?" God dammit Sky! He gave me that nickname after I kicked his ex's ass. And every time he calls me that, my panties are immediately ruined. And now is definitely no exception.

"You know I still have to breath, right?"

"A little longer. Please." God, I hate it when he begs!

I sigh, "No, I'm sorry but..." Just them my phone goes off and it's Mia's ringtone, again. Don't get me wrong, I love the woman, but my god. "Ok. Let go. I have to see what Mia wants."

He reluctantly puts me down with a huff, "I hate her sometimes." I snort.

I put my hand on his biceps and those wired tingly things shoot up my arm. I look up to see if he noticed, apparently he did because he is starring strait at me. I shake my head and say, "I know you do, sweetheart. But, get over your self."

"Finnnnnnne!" I roll my eyes. For a 27-year-old, he sure acts like a child.

As soon as I look at the text my eyes widen, 'Hi Ella. I will be there in about 10 minutes. Love you! ;)'

Sky must have sensed my nervousness because he leans over my shoulder asking, "What did the b***h wa..."

But before he can finish his sentence, we here a giggle from behind us, "Did he just call me a b***h?!" It's Mia!

Soon after she finishes her sentence, I whip my head around to see to familiar faces, and the one closest to me just stares at me. "Bella?" He asks with question in his voice, "No f*****g way! It's Bells! Mia, can you believe this? She grew up! And damn did god gift her a nice bod too. God damn I missed you, Bells!" I can't believe it either! I'm looking into the eyes of someone that I thought I may never see again after he left. After a few moments of just staring at each other, they both run towards me and wrap me in a big hug. And I wrap my arms around them. After I do I feel another pair of arms around me and I close my eyes letting this strange feeling of happiness overwhelm me.

It's Benny.

And Mia!

It's been over 5 years since I've seen them and not only are they home but so is Sky. I missed this, the only family that ever helped me is all in one place again! Finally!