This is my second go at writing and Ihope you all like it. My first one didn't go very well and I kind of lost what I was meant to be writting about. I also learnt that when writing a story you need to write it on your own or id oesn't work so that's exactly what I've done with this one.
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I don't own these characters I just make up their life
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Chapter 1 New Beginnings
Cause without you I cant sleep
I'm not gonna ever, ever let you leave
You're all I've got, you're all I want
Yeah
And without you I don't know what I'd do
I can never, ever live a day without you
Here with me, do you see,
You're all I need
And I will be, all that you want
And get myself together
Cause you keep me from falling apart
~ Leona Lewis I Will Be ~
Starting a new school is always the most terrifying thing to do but starting as a new teacher is just as scary.
I stepped out of the shower and towel dried my hair before wrapping it up. Today I was going to focus on being someone I hadn't been in forever, just me. I got dressed and fixed my hair, blow drying it straight and pulling the front of it back in a clip so it didn't fall in my face all day. I took a deep breath as I looked myself over in the mirror. I could do this. New beginning. It was going to be a great day. I hoped.
Masen High wasn't far from where I lived and it would only take 5 minutes to get there, it didn't really matter if I was late today as it was the day before all the children came back from the summer holiday.
I drove there and pulling into the car park I parked next to a shiny silver Volvo and a bright yellow porshe. I picked up my hand bag from the passenger seat and got out of my car. I walked to the boot opened it up and got my trolley (basket with wheels) out.
I closed the boot and pulled the handle up. I pressed the car fob and heard the beep as it locked and I started to make my way toward the main office. I had been here only once before and vaigly remembered my way to the office, I soon found the signs leading towards it and started to follow them.
When I arrived at the main office I opened the doors and walked up to the desk where a woman with unnaturally red hair, and wore thick glasses was sat behind it. Mrs S Cope her sign said.
"Hi I'm Isabella Swan, I'm the new English Teacher, I was told to come here when I first arrived." I said to her when she looked up at me expectantly.
"Ah yes my dear, Ms Cullen will be here shortly and she will show you to your room and around the school, she is the head of the english department so you will get to know her very well over the time you are here" she informed me. "Mr Cullen will probably want to welcome you to the school at some point in the day so he will probably come and find you in your class room, Your room is in block 2 and you are room 3". Are they married?
I now knew where my room is but I either needed to wait for Ms Cullen to come or wander around hoping I find block 2. I didn't know who she was but her and Mr Cullen were both out when I had my interview and when they accepted my job application. Then I got the job and I guess I'm going to meet them soon enough.
The desicion was made when a short woman walked into the office, she had spikey black hair and I could tell she was into fashion. She walked straight over to me and started talking.
"You must be Isabella Swan, Hi I'm Alice Cullen, I'm the head of English and I will show you around the school and make sure everything in your room is right and if you need anything then ask me or Mrs Cope here, and I can tell we are going to become the best of friends" she said all in one breath.
I stood there trying to figure out how she could be this hyper this early in the morning. But I couldn't figure it out so I just smiled and said "Yes I'm Isabella Swan but I prefer Bella and I'm sure I will get to know you well" I couldn't remember what she started with so I just replied to the bits I remembered.
"Ok well lets grab your stuff and I'll show you to your room, Please call me Alice, Mrs Cope can I have Bella's keys please" Alice said, I found it hard to follow some of her sentences they all seemed to switch topic all the time.
Mrs cope handed the keys over and smiled at us as we started to walk away.
As we walked out of the main office building I noticed that it had the Head Teachers office and the Deputy Head Office.
Once we got outside Alice started talking again. "Is that all you have for your room? That cant be, there has to be more, even my office has more although I shouldn't even have a office but I needed it for the Head of English stuff I couldn't have it all in my room or my room would get over crowded. I'm in the room near yours, I'm in room 2 so only across the hall" she smiled once she was finished, there was something about her smile that when she smiled you just wanted to smile back.
"This is all I have today, tomorow I will be bringing more books and things that I use sometimes in lessons but I just brought the basic stuff today".
We walked around the side of the main building with Alice telling me random things about the school and the grounds it was on, what she didn't know was that I used to live here with my mother when she first left my dad when I was 10. We moved here to Arizona first, I used to love it because of all the sun compared to Forks the wettest place I have ever lived and I have lived in a lot of different places.
We came here first where mom met her first boyfriend Will, he was a great guy but it turned out someone else thought that aswell and had married him 4 years before he met my mother, so of course we had to move, Renee was not the type of person to stay and face her fears, she prefered to run away from them instead.
Then we moved to California, then Connecticut, then Colorado, then Florida, then Hawaii, then Houston, Texas where I met my best friend Jasper Hale, he's always been there when I need him, weither he was a 10 minute walk away or 588 miles away, then we went back to Florida, then we ended back in Arizona where mum met her latest boyfriend Phil, Phil's a nice guy but he'll never be my dad.
I ring Charlie most nights just to hear his voice, It's been 5 years since I've seen him because it was too expensive to travel to him all the time and by the time he had the time off from work we had moved again.
We arrived at Block 2, I knew this because there was a big Blue 2 on the wall by the door. "This is my room" Alice said as she pointed to a door just through the main door and on the right "This is your room" she said as she walked across the hall and unlocked my door. I walked into my room to find that all the desks had been taken out and that I had no projector.
"They can't have got the message" Alice said when she noticed it aswell "I'll get the tech guy to come up and sort the projector out and I'll get Luke to bring the desks back, originally we were going to have less english teachers but then we found you so Luke cant have got the memo to leave the desks in here, Is your desk ok or do you want a different one and if you want anything in a different place let Luke know when he comes and he will move it for you, I'll be just across the hall if you need anything Bye" she said it all in one breath, I have no idea how she does it!
If I was to even try to do it then I would probably faint and knowing me hit my head hard and then end up in hospital, If I was still in Forks the Doctors probably would still recognise me I was in there so often that they just used to ask 'What have you done now?'
I looked around my room, there was a whole wall of glass and opposite that wall on the other wall there were a few windows to see into the hallway, I could see Alice moving around in her room with a smile on her face.
At the back of my room I had a walk-in cupboard which would be useful to store books and things like that but the door was missing for some reason, I'll have to mention it. At the front of the class room next to my desk on the wall was an interactive whiteboard and to the side of that a normal white board, I must remember to stock up on whiteboard pens.
I also had a filing cabinet. The only things I needed to ask Luke for was the desks and chairs for the children, chair for my desk and a door to put on the walk-in cupboard.
I wheeled my trolley over to my desk and started getting things out of it.
I got my laptop out first and put it on top of my desk as I needed to ask the tech guy for a computer to put there aswell as a projector for the interactive whiteboard, I got my graduation present from my dad out, it was a me to you graduation bear that said 'class of 2009' I put it on my desk leaning against the wall, although I didn't see him often I always spoke to him and always recieved a birthday present and christmas present through the post although know that I am settled down here in Arizona he said he might come and visit at some point but I cant see it happengin any time soon.
I got my planner out of my trolley and then realised I had forgoten to pick up my package of classes and things from the office, oh well I will go back there when I have unpacked the rest of my things.
By the time I was finished putting up posters and putting books in the cupboard and sorting out my stationary and putting them in my pots, Luke had turned up. He knocked on my door and I called to him to come in.
"Sorry about taking all the desks I didn't know until just that there was a new teacher, is there anything else you need?" he asked whilst not being able to keep his eyes off my chest.
I crossed my arms and said "It's ok and the only things I need are desks and chairs for the kids, a chair for my desk and a door for the cupboard over there".
"ok I'll get right on it, I just need to get the desks out of the lock up and then bring them here" he said whilst walking out.
Ten minutes later he was back with 3 trollies with 10 desks on each, he also had 2 other male teachers helping him bring them up.
The one was very handsome with dimples and slightly curly, dark brown hair, giving him a childish look, he was incredibely musuclar and if I didn't know how to defend myself after the self defence lessons Charlie insisted I get I would be really intimidated.
"Hey I'm Emmett Cullen, I'm the P.E teacher aswell as the football coach" he said whilst he held out his hand for me to shake. Great another Cullen, I wonder what relation he is.
Then I saw the other helper, my eyes traced over his pale white features: the hard square of his jaw, the softer curve of his full lips- twisted in a smile now, the straight line of his nose, the top of his forehead- partially obscured by the tangle of rain-darkened bronze hair, he held his hand out to me "You must be Isabella Swan, I'm Edward Cullen the head teacher of this school, I'm sorry I wasn't here for your interview but I trust my deputy head to make the right decisions and from the information I have read about you I think they have".
I shook his had and all I could do was nod and smile, I couldn't quite speak yet.
Whilst they were putting the desks and chairs out the tech guy came and setup the computer on my desk and the projector on the ceiling, he gave me my username and password and said that if I had any problems to let him know.
The guys had just about finished putting the desks out when Luke came back over to me and started talking to me.
"I just need to get you your chair but you will have to have mine until the one thats been ordered turns up and I will go and get a door today after work so I will fit it in the morning so you have one before first lesson" he said whilst staring at my chest which made me cross my arms again, I was starting to get uncomfortable with him especially when he cant stop staring at my chest.
"Luke, she can have the spare one out of my office until her order has come, there's no point in you not having a chair when there is a perfectly good one Miss Swan can borrow" Edward Cullen said.
"Bella" I automatically corrected.
"excuse me" Edward Cullen replied looking slightly confused.
"I prefer to be called Bella, I forgot to tell you earlier sorry Mr Cullen" I said whilst blushing.
"Well Bella then you must call me Edward, Mr Cullen is my father" he said whilst giving me a lop sided grin.
"And you must call me Emmett, as Eddie said Mr Cullen is our father, who I'm sure you will meet soon, although he is retired he never seems to have a day when he's not around here somewhere" Emmett said, I had forgotten he was here until he spoke.
"You can go and get the chair now if you want, my office should be open just tell Mrs Cope what you're doing before I get a phone call telling me you are stealing my chair" he joked to Luke.
Luke faked a laugh and walked out. Something was off about him, I keep getting this funny feeling when he's around.
"He's new aswell, I hope he doesn't treat all the female staff the way he treated you just" Edward said.
"It's fine I'm sure I probably wont see him much after everything in my room is sorted out, thanks by the way for putting the desks out for me, knowing me if I did it I'd probably end up injuring myself in some way" I said to him as a reply.
He laughed and told me he didn't mind helping out in his own school.
A little while later the guys had finished and Luke had come back with a really comfortable black swivel chair, it had two armrests and the comfiest seat ever, Edward said he needed to go to his office and I said I needed to come back to the main office.
So me, Edward and Emmett left my room and headed for the main office, on the way around the building I managed to trip over thin air and I was bracing myself for the impact but it never came, I opened my eyes and found green ones staring back at me.
"Are you ok Bella?" Edward asked.
"yeah I'm fine thanks, I guess I should have warned you at my interview that I am quite the clutz" I said.
"I'll try and remember to tell the school nurse to have plenty of plasters" he joked. I laughed along with him until we reached the main office.
"Hi Mrs Cope, I think I left my evelope here this morning with all my classes in" I said when Mrs Cope looked up to me.
"Yes you have dear, here you go, Mr Cullen there was a package from Miss Denali by the door this morning and I have put it on your desk" Mrs Cope said.
"Thanks, I wonder what Tanya's sent me" Edward said.
"UHHH are we really talking about the wicked witch of the west already, school hasn't even started yet" Alice said as she walked through the office door.
"Leave her alone Alice" Edward warned.
"You know my opinions of her Edward so I'm not gunna stop voicing them just cause your going out with her" she replied. For some reason I felt disappointment to hear that Edward was going out with this Tanya Denali person.
"I know you don't like her but sometimes I just don't need to hear it sis" Edward replied sounding fed up. I looked over at him and noticed he had changed, he's gone from all jokey and funny to serious and upset.
"Whatever, Bella do you need me to help you look through your classes and give you heads up on some of the kids?" Alice asked turning her attention to me.
"Sure that would be great thanks" I said to Alice.
After that we walked off and Alice told me about some of the kids I had in my lessons and I told her of my get to know you lesson, which is where I get the students to write a essay about them selves and then they have to read them out so it also gets their speaking and listening assessment finished for this semester.
She thought it was a good idea and she said that she would like to hear some of them so I said I'd let her know when they were reading them out so she could come and listen to them.
She left near the end of the day and I left, locked up my classroom and walked to the parking lot with her, I found out that the yellow porsche I had seen this morning was hers and we went our seperate ways.
When I got home I rung dad like normal, told him everything was fine and that my classroom was set up, we had a short conversation but that was just the way Charlie did things, he wasn't a man of many words.
Once I finished with him I rung Renee and was on the phone with her for nearly 2 hours, by the time that was over I was getting hungry and tired, I cooked some simple pasta with a tomato sauce.
When I finshed eating I got changed and got into bed. I set my alarm and lay in bed looking at the ceiling thinking of how good tomorow is going to be and fell asleep looking forward to the start of school for a change, I couldn't wait to meet all the kids, I couldn't wait to meet the rest of the teachers and most of all I couldn't wait to talk to Edward again.
So I hoped you liked it.
Please review with any suggestions or critism's because they are always useful and as I said before I haven't been to successful so far.
The next chapter shouldn't be too far away
Until next time cya
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