LL Chapter 24

LL Chapter 24

Saturday Night Fever

I could tell that Bella was utterly exhausted about a half hour into our work. It did not take us long to finalize everything and ensure that we had all of our materials organized to present and turn in this week. Our presentation was not due until Thursday but Bella was an overachiever like I was, so both of us reveled in having it done early.



As we worked, I worked on convincing Bella to stay for dinner so no one was going to be home at her house. It wasn't until I enlisted the help of my mom that she finally agreed to stay. Dad went out to fire up the grill to BBQ some steaks while the rest of us made some side dishes. Let me rephrase that, while the rest of us made healthy side dishes.



After a dinner filled with laughter and joking we settled into the living room to watch a movie. Since Rose and Jasper were attending a dinner with their parents, Alice was spending a rare Saturday night at home with us. She and Mom were sitting on the floor playing with Tanya; Dad took the easy chair; while Bella and I each took separate ends of the couch. It was not long into the movie before we all heard the soft snoring coming from Bella's end of the couch.



"The poor dear is so exhausted," Mom commented as she covered Bella with the blanket from the back of the couch.



"Let's let her sleep in peace," Dad spoke up as he turned off the TV as I grabbed Tanya off the floor and quietly asked Alice to help me get her stuff upstairs to my room.



Once upstairs in my room I turned on some classical music and Alice flopped down on my bed to continue her game of peek-a-boo with Tanya. I sat down next to them and played with them and watching Tanya smile, laugh, and flail her little arms and legs in delight.



An hour and a half later Bella's phone went off with a ringtone that I recognized as being Jasper. She left the room to talk to him in private and that was fine with me. It just meant that I got some one on one time with Tanya.



I was standing there a few minutes later playing with Tanya and the stuffed dog that I had bought her and getting her to laugh for me some more. I sat there watching her smile and laugh, "You know you are just as beautiful as your mama when you smile. You are both so beautiful. I know you are going to be just as smart as your mama too."



Bella walked in a minute later with a bottle for Tanya and knelt down by the bed near us.



"Did you enjoy your nap?"



"Yes, I did, thank you Edward. I didn't mean to fall asleep."



"Mom would say that your body must have needed the rest. It was fine. Tanya and I were having a nice chat."



"Thanks again," she said and then reached down to pick up Tanya and feed her the bottle.



" It's after ten, I guess I'm going to have to take you home soon?"



"Umm, no. My Leah called me. That's what woke me. Anyway, she's coming to get me."



"She doesn't have to. I can drive you home."



"She said he wanted to tell me something that you and Alice would be interested in hearing too."



Twenty minutes later, we were all sitting in the living room only with Leah with us.



"Well, you know how I said that there was no way that I was going to let this shit with Lauren and Jessica drop?"



"What did you do?"



"Relax Bella," Leah smirked, "the only thing I did was give an official tip to the police."



"What kind of tip? Everyone knows those two are addicts," I spoke up.



"Yes, that is common knowledge. But what isn't so widely known is what's going on between Lauren and David Stanley and how she's been "earning" her drug money from him every Saturday night."



"What?" we all exclaimed stunned.



"Oh yes. Every Saturday night she meets him behind Newton's store and after a couple of "work" in his backseat and she get paid.



"Oh my God!" I could not believe that that little fact wasn't more widely known.



"So, what did Dad do?"



"Both Mr. David Stanley and Lauren are in the city jail under arrest for solicitation."



"How did you know about it?"



"Apparently she had propositioned a couple of the guys down on the reservation, including Sam, but she let it be known that she had a standing client appointment every Saturday night. And she may have let it slip to one of the boys where she can be found if they wanted a go a round or two after she was done with the other client."



"Ew, gross," Bella shuddered. I had to agree that was just nasty.



"Oh and Charlie may have "accidently" dropped copies of their mug shots in my purse earlier. And the guys from the reservation may be, at this minute "accidentally" posting them on every light pole in Forks, the rez, and every other town around here."



"Damn girl," Alice laughed, "Remind me never to piss off you or Chief Swan. That's so vicious!" Leah was an absolute genius. What a brilliant way of getting revenge without laying a finger on Jessica or Lauren. And both of them were going to be suffering repercussions from the public humiliation.



Then the girls had to go home, but not before Bella asked me if I would mind driving her to Port Angeles for her doctor's appointment after school on Monday. Was she kidding me? There was no way that I was going to say no to getting to spend two hours alone in the car with car. Now, I really could not wait for Monday to come. After they left, I went back to my room and sank into the best sleep that I had had in a week filled with dreams of Bella.



A/N:



Happy Saturday! Leah and Charlie got their revenge for they attack on Bella, and they stayed within the law! Have a great night! I am off to take my son to a professional minor league baseball game! As always, enjoy! And oh! I am absolutely still doing a happy dance that I got 14 reviews last chapter. It was a new record for me and I am extremely thrilled, so thanks everyone. Next update Monday.