Bella Swan 14 years old
"Shut up!" I screamed, tears of anger welling up in my eyes.
"Ooh, I'm so scared. What're you gonna do, Swan? Sit on me?"
"Screw you, Cullen!" I shrieked, not being able to see through my tears. I turned on my heel and stormed off. In my haste, I tripped and fell flat on my face.
"Earthquake!" Edward yelled and pretended to duck. I just wanted to pound his face in, but the principal said if I got into another fight again, I'd be expelled. When will the jackass ever learn that I will always kick his ass in the end?
"Are you okay?" I looked up into a pair of ocean blue eyes. The person offers me a hand, which I took and got up.
"Yeah, I'm fine." I say.
"Hey Jazzy!" Alice Cullen bounced up and grabbed a hold of the boy who helped me up. "What are you doing with her?" I hated the little snot with a passion. Almost as much as her brother.
"I was just going." I grumbled, looking at my feet. 9h grade is killing me. I stomped to my locker, which was right next to my best friend Leah's.
"Leah, help me." I whimpered as I slid down the wall of lockers.
"What happened this time, Bells? Do I need to get Em?" Emmett was Leah's older brother.
"Man, I'm seriously thinking about leaving and going and staying with mom in Phoenix." I put my head in my hands and started crying again.
"No, not here, you don't." She pulled me up and into the girl's bathroom.
"Why do they hate me so much?" I sobbed.
"I don't know sweetheart." Leah wrapped me in her long arms as I cried.
"Bells, Leah? You guys in here?" Emmett stuck his head in the door.
"Yeah." Leah waved him over and he sat next to me on the floor.
"What the hell Cullen do this time?" He growled. I chuckled at him. He was always playing big bad, scary older brother to me against Edward and Alice Cullen.
"Nothing out of the ordinary. Em, I'm honestly contemplating going to Phoenix and living with mom. I can't take it any more." I shook my head and sighed.
"You can't leave us!" They cried at the same time.
"We have to get to second period." Leah said, pulling me up with her.
"Give me your bag." I said, looking at my horrifying makeup in the mirror. She handed me her little makeup bag as I washed my face and re-did my eyeliner and mascara. I fluffed up my long, shiny, chocolate brown hair. It was the only thing about me that actually looked good.
"Let's go." I sighed again.
My day went by pretty seamlessly compared to this morning. We were playing baseball in PE. Edward 'I just don't know when to quit' Cullen was pitcher. He made a big show of explaining to me how to hit the ball.
"Oh, you mean like this?" I held the bat, cocking my head to the side. He pitched it and I angled the hit just right. The ball hit him in the stomach and knocked him on his ass. I laughed all the way to first base.
I was chuckling as I entered my house. I worked on homework until it was time to make my dad's dinner.
"Hey dad." I smiled as he walked in the door.
"Hey, hon."
"Dad?"
"Hm?"
"Can I go live with mom?" I asked in a rush. Mom had been trying to convince me to move in with her since I was nine.
"Are you sure you don't want to think it through?"
"I've thought. And thought. And thought. Daddy, please. I can't take living here any more." My eyes welled up at the thought of being denied this.
"You'll have to call your mother." He sighed, rubbing his forehead.
"Thanks, dad. This means so much. I'm gonna go call mom." I tackled him in a hug. I was smiling so hard I thought my face would break.
I called my mom and we set a date for me to fly down at Christmas and stay, it was October now. The next morning I woke up and went to school.
On my way to my locker I heard someone call my name.
"You're Bella, right?" It was the boy who helped me up yesterday.
"Yeah." I eyed him suspiciously, thinking the little snot put him up to it.
"I'm Jasper. I just moved here. I wanted to see whether you were okay. You looked like you hit the ground pretty hard yesterday."
"Yeah. I'm fine. Why do you care? You're hanging out with the Cullen's. One of them must have, like, dared you to talk to me, or something." I said, shuffling my feet towards my locker.
"No, oh god, no. I'm sorry if you thought that." He shook his head as I opened my locker. I let out an ear-piercing scream as hundreds of 'Twinkies' tumbled out of my locker.
"Are you that hungry, Swan?" Edward yelled, drawing attention to me.
"Fuck off, Cullen." I yelled. This was going to be a repeat of yesterday, isn't it?
"How about, no?" He smirked.
"I'm just going to ask you one question, and I want you to be honest, okay? What did I ever do to you? Hm? It's not like I deserve this!" The whole time Jasper was right behind me, and I'm pretty sure he was just as pissed as I was.
"I don't know. I just don't like you." He shrugged.
"Dude, just leave her alone." Jasper said.
"And if I don't?"
"You're gonna get your ass kicked." A very menacing looking Jasper growled, coming from behind me.
"Let's see about that." Edward smirked, charging toward Jasper. They threw punches and kicks at each other.
"Guys, stop!" I got in between them, not knowing what else to do. A stray punch from Edward caught me in the jaw and everything went black.
"Bella! Bella honey! Wake up!" I heard Leah saying to me. My eyes fluttered open and I stared into four pairs of eyes. Three I knew one I didn't.
"Bella, I'm so sorry. I shouldn't have let you in between us. This never would have happened." Jasper said from beside me.
"What happened?"
"Edward was being his normal, shit for brains self and him and Jasper got into it and you got in the middle trying to break it up. Edward accidentally got you in the jaw." Leah explained.
"I've got to go to mom's sooner. I'm calling as soon as I get home. I can't stay any longer. What time is it?"
"4:30." The nurse said warmly.
"Shit! I've got to make Charlie's dinner in an hour." I jumped out of the little bed in the nurses office. My head spun from the rush.
I grabbed my bag and gave Em and Leah hugs and thanked the nurse.
"Bella!" I heard as I was halfway across the parking lot. I turned to see Jasper running across the lot to catch up with me.
"What?"
"I'll walk with you. I live down this way too." He gestured down the way to my house.
"I'm curious." Jasper mused.
"About what?"
"Why they don't like you so much."
"I don't know. Just because I weigh more, have a sharp tongue and hard fists is never a reason to hate someone who never did anything to you." I shrugged.
Over the next two months, Jasper and I were attached at the hip. We had each others backs. When it was time for me to leave, I had to promise to visit every so often and always be signed in on my Messenger account.