Everyone Has A Choice
Sam- 20
Paul and Jared- 19
Bella and Leah- 18
Jake, Quil and Embry-17
Seth-16
Pairing- Bella/Paul
So far Sam is the only one that has phased and Bella lives in La Push and goes to La Push high. None of them apart from Sam know about werewolves and vampires.
Summary- Bella isn't the way she was in the Twilight books, she's different. She lives in La Push, her best friend is Leah Clearwater and she would rather hang around with Leah and the guys than do anything else but that all gets ruined when she gets expelled and forced to go to Forks High
Bella POV
I sat in my chair waiting for Mr Brooks, the head teacher of La Push High School, to come in and give me the verdict of what punishment I was to receive.
It wasn't my fault. I was provoked. It was Cara who was saying a load of shit. It was Cara who was sitting being racist and telling me about how I was a pale-face. It was Cara who didn't know when to keep her mouth shut. And it was Miss Lopez's, the art teachers, fault for giving me scissors even though she knew what happened after the last incident, so really who could blame me for cutting of Cara Taylor's ponytail off and putting it in the shredder? NO ONE!
But no, she had to get all upset about it and cry and shit, I don't understand the problem, she had been saying she wanted her hair cut for the past month, I was just speeding up the process.
Oh well, everyone else seemed to find it funny. Leah just about kissed me and all the guys couldn't stop laughing. Cara had it coming since the first day of high school, if she had just kept her mouth shut and stopped mouthing off about the fact that I was only half Quileute and that I was 'a pale-face' then I would not be sitting in the head teachers office waiting to hear how many weeks of detention I was going to be getting.
The door opened and Mr Brooks walked in.
"Isabella" He greeted me
"Hiya Ted" I greeted him happily and was met with a glare, "Good afternoon Mr Brooks" I corrected myself with fake enthusiasm
"Isabella this is not the first time you have been sent to my office for disrupting a class" Ted stated
"No but it is the first time I've been sent here because I cut off Cara Taylor's ponytail, I think this calls for celebration" I said
"I think this calls for expulsion" Mr Brooks said
I stared at him. He couldn't be serious, if I got expelled Charlie would kill me. My dad was the Chief of Police in Forks but he was born and lived in La Push which made him Quileute and me half Quileute as my mother wasn't. My dad could put up a lot from me but not this, he would kill me.
"I'm sorry, I think I heard you wrong, what did you say?" I asked
"Expulsion" He repeated
"That's what I thought you said" I sighed, "Um, i can't get expelled, I mean it's my fifth year, I have exams..,"
"No, you have misunderstood me; you will still be going to school, but not this school"
"But the only other school is…"
"Forks High School" He said and my heart sunk
"You've got to be shitting me" I said and he glared at my use of language
"You are coming with me to apologise to Miss Taylor and then you are getting your belongings out of your locker and are leaving school premises" He said
"Well this should be fun" I said sarcastically, no point in arguing with him it wasn't like I really wanted to stay here anyway, no that was a lie I did want to stay here, I had friends here that would miss me.
I followed Mr Brooks down the halls and stairs, my bag slung over my shoulder and my combat boots clunking with every step I took. I wasn't exactly the girliest of girls but I wasn't like a complete and utter boy either.
Ted stopped outside I'm assuming Cara's math class, which happened to have Leah, Paul and Jared in it. Mr Brooks opened the door and walked in. Miss Barr looked at him and then her gaze hardened when her eyes landed on me. I looked over and saw my seat next to Leah was empty.
"Hey Bells!" Jared shouted happily
"Hey Jared" I said laughing
"Why aren't you here? I had to copy Paul's answers and we both know how that ends up" Leah asked making everyone laugh
"Isabella, I believe you have something to say" Ted said
"I do?" I asked and I heard some of them trying to choke back laughter, this was just going to be humiliating, the majority of the people in my art class were in this class.
"Yes you do" Mr Brooks said just short of a growl
"I don't remember" I said
"Bells, what did you get into trouble for this time?" Paul asked. Paul was my best friend next to Leah. We had known each other since we were born because of our dad's but that kind of ended when Paul's dad walked out on him and his mum but me and Paul had always stayed friends.
"You remember what happened in art?" I asked and he started laughing so Leah took over his side of the conversation
"Yeah, you cut off Cara's ponytail because she was being racist and calling you a pale-face" Leah said
"See Ted, really it should be Cara apologising" I said and everyone tried to hold in their laughter when they heard me call him by his first name
"Isabella, it has already been decided, your father is waiting for you downstairs so I suggest you hurry up" Mr Brooks said
"What's happening? Why's Charlie downstairs?" Jared asked
"Nothing Jay, I'll tell you later" I said and walked over and stood in front of Cara's desk
"Right…" I sighed and looked up at the ceiling, "Everything I'm about to say to you is a complete bunch of shit and as soon as I say it you will forget it ever came out of my mouth, got it?" I asked her and she smirked, fucking smirked at me
"And if I don't?" She asked
"I'll shave your head next time" I told her and the smirk fell off her face because she knew fine well I wasn't kidding
"Good, now that's sorted" I said sweetly, "I would just like to apologise for cutting off your ponytail and putting it in the shredder, it was un-called for" I said through clenched teeth
"You done?" She asked and I all but growled at her but to keep me from physically abusing her I imagined shaving her head in the middle of the class room, maybe I needed to see a therapist…..
"Come on Isabella" Mr Brooks sighed
"Hey guy's, I'll get you after school" I said looking at Leah, Paul and Jared
"What's goin' on? You have class here" Leah asked
"I have news that is basically the most crap I have ever heard to tell you" I said and they laughed
"See ya later" Leah said and I walked out of the class and down the stairs not waiting for Mr Brooks.
I got to my locker and pulled out all of my books and my jacket. I walked over to the school office and saw my dad waiting outside of the door for me, he did not look happy.
I walked into the office, Charlie's eyes boring into my back the entire way, I walked over to the lady behind the desk whose name I had forgotten long before. She looked up at me and she stared
"Miss Swan, what can I do for you?" She asked politely
"I got expelled so here are my text books" I said and handed her the books
"Only a matter of time" She muttered thinking I wouldn't hear her
"Only a matter of time until what?" I asked even though I knew exactly what she was talking about but I just wanted to hear if she would lie or tell the truth
"Only a matter of time until the computer crashes, hasn't been working for hours now" She answered, she's a really good liar I'll give her that
"Should get one of the teachers from the computing department down, sure they'll fix it for you" I said, why was I being nice? "Bye"
I turned and walked out of the room to see Charlie still standing waiting for me. Now I wasn't scared of many things, that's actually what I was known for, for not being scared of anything. I had learned that at a young age it was better not to be scared of things that were not important, like people are scared of…Spiders, no wait, I'm scared of spiders, they freak me out, right, like people are scared of thunderstorms. A thunderstorm will only hurt you if you are stupid enough to go and stand next to a metal pole when it is lightening, but if you're not scared of it, you will see there is nothing to be afraid of if you are smart enough to stay away from the metal pole.
But my dad, he was one of the few things I was scared of. It's not like I'm petrified of him or anything like, but when he was pissed or in full 'police chief' mode he will be the scariest man ever. Right now he was pissed. My dad didn't expect a lot from me. I know that sounds bad but it wasn't really, he didn't mind what I did as long as I was happy, didn't get into any legal trouble, didn't take drugs and stayed in school to get a good education so I could get a good job when I was older but the thing that mattered most to Charlie was that I was happy and that I was healthy.
"Bella, what have you done to get expelled?" Charlie asked. Yup he was pissed
"You know Cara Taylor?" I asked him
"Yes, the girl who has bullied you since you started school" He answered
"I cut her ponytail off and put it in the shredder" I said quickly and waited for his reaction
He stared at me for a moment before laughing. What the fuck?!
"You did that?" Charlie laughed
"Yes" I said uncertainly
"Well, Karma's a bitch" Charlie said and now it was my turn to laugh, "You're still grounded though" Charlie said, immediately making me stop laughing
"What?!" I squeaked out, the year was nearly over, just a couple of weeks left of school and then it was summer and he was going to ground me
"You're grounded until the summer holiday's" Charlie said
"You can't be serious, isn't it punishment enough that I won't be seeing Leah and Paul and everyone at school?" I asked and Charlie seemed to think about that
"Ok, point taken but your curfew will be shortened and you're getting more chores" Charlie said and I sighed, at least I could still see my friends
"Alright, I'll see you at home then" I sighed and walked out of the school and over to my motor bike that was in the far corner of the car park. It was a black Ducati 848, I had used all the money I had saved up from about eight years of birthday and Christmas's to get this bike. It was my baby; I think I loved it more than I could love any man.
Yup, that therapist was getting more and more likely with every second.
I got on my baby and started the engine, I looked up and saw Charlie pulling out of the car park. Charlie didn't really like my bike, when I bought it he just about had a heart attack but he couldn't really stop me because I was buying it with my own money and also like I said, he wanted me to be happy and healthy. He didn't mind the bike because it made me happy and also I had to promise him I would wear the helmet otherwise he would take the keys off me for a month. So far I had kept the helmet on.
Speaking of which, I should probably put it on now…
I pulled it on over my head and pulled out of the car park. I found it quite funny people's reaction to my bike or more importantly when they found out I drove it. I was the clumsiest person on the entire planet so it was a wonder I had not crashed the bike.
Even though Charlie had gotten quite a big head start I was behind him in a couple of minutes. I so badly wanted to overtake him but I didn't think that would be a good idea as he probably would have a heart attack.
He stuck his hand out of his window and motioned for me to overtake him. Did I ever say that I loved my dad?
I zoomed past him and every single time I did that my heart seemed to go into my throat but I loved it which kind of confused me but it was good for waking you up at half eight in the morning to go to school.
The thing I loved about La Push was that just about every single road seemed to go on for ages and was flat. It was so fucking good! But it was over way too quickly for my liking as my house soon came into view and I slowed down and pulled into the drive.
I cut off the engine and jumped off the bike taking my helmet off as I did. I pulled the bike into the garage and just as I was walking out Charlie pulled into the drive.
He got out of the cruiser (one of the other reasons I made it my life goal to get my own transportation) and pointed to the house
"In, I know you have homework and then you can go out with Leah and the guys" Charlie said
I nodded my head and walked into the house Charlie close on my heels
"How did you know I have homework?" I asked him
"Head teacher told me, didn't tell me what subjects though" Charlie said
I nodded my head and walked down the hall to where my little room was. It wasn't my bed room, it was originally an office but Charlie said I could have it as anything I wanted as he had his own office at work so I made it into my music room.
Music was the thing next to my bike that I counted as my baby. I loved music, I mean literally loved it, I would marry it if I could. I could barely go an hour without listening to music. When my mum first lived with me and my dad one of the things she thought to learn was piano and because even when I was younger I was a, I guess you would call me a 'tom-boy', she thought that me learning how to play piano would make me more girly. It didn't. I was still me but I just had a new love of music. That was something I was going to miss about La Push high, the music department was AMAZING. Music was the one class I got straight A's in every single year. I guess some would call it an obsession, I like to call it a passion.
I dropped my bag off my shoulder and sat down on the little bench in front of the piano. It wasn't like I was into classical music or anything like that. Most people thought I was into all the rock and goth music because of the way I dressed but I wasn't, I liked just about every kind of music as long as they didn't scream, seriously what the fuck was up with that?! No one could really figure me out between the way I dressed and the kind of music I listened to. At first glance you would automatically call me a Goth or an emo or some shit but then you would look at my iPod or something and then probably faint. I liked it that way, I didn't really want anyone to be able to figure me out. Someone being able to understand everything I felt and thought and understand me was one of the other few things that scared me.
I was flipping through my note book when I realised Charlie was staring at me from the door.
"Yeah?" I asked
"I said you were to do your homework" Charlie said
"And I'm doing it, well I will be when I figure out what I'm doing" I said
"What are you talking about?"
"Music class, for homework we have to compose our own song for the last piece of homework of fifth year" I told him
"Bells, you don't go to La Push High anymore" Charlie stated
"I know but I haven't missed a single piece of homework for that class the entire school year and I got given that homework so I intend to hand it in" I said
"Why can't you feel that way about your math homework?" Charlie sighed and walked away
"Because math's is shit!" I shouted down the hall
"Language!" Charlie shouted
"Yeah, yeah" I laughed and started playing my piano. I sat there for nearly two hours. I couldn't think of anything. I was currently playing one of the songs that Mr Kelly, my music teacher, had given me.
"…I wanna sing, I wanna shout, I wanna scream till the words die out" I sang quietly
"That's really good" Leah's voice came from behind me
I screamed as I didn't know anyone was even in the room with me and fell of my seat. I looked up and saw Leah, Paul and Jake laughing at me
"Haha, hilarious" I said sarcastically, "How did you guys even get in? Charlie's away back to work" I asked them
"Front door was open" Leah laughed
"You honestly didn't hear us? We weren't even trying to be quiet" Paul asked
"I don't really pay much attention to noise when I'm playing" I said, "Where's Jared?"
"Don't know, he wouldn't answer his phone and when we went to his house he wasn't in" Paul said sounding slightly worried for his best friend
"That was good by the way, you gonna do it for your end of term project thingy?" Leah asked, she didn't know I was getting expelled
"Uh, yeah about that…I got expelled" I said and everyone either groaned or gasped
"What's all the intake of breath about?" Quil asked as he, Embry and Leah's little brother Seth walked into the tiny room
"Bells got expelled because of what happened in art" Jake told them
"What?!" Embry shouted
"You're kidding!" Seth shouted even though he was a year below us in school and two years younger than me and Leah he was still one of our best friends which people just couldn't seem to comprehend how Leah and her little brother could have the same friends and be friends with each other
"She's been fucking making fun of you since first year and you do that to her and you get expelled?" Jake asked
"Seems like it" I said
"What about school? You can't not go to school Bells" Paul said, he was kind of like my big brother like that, he was always thinking about the most important shit but other times I had to do the important thinking
"I'm going to the one in Forks" I groaned and went to kick the closest thing to me which turned out to be my piano so I stopped mid-kick and groaned
"You're going to Forks High?" Leah asked
"Yeah" I sighed and sat down on the bench again
"Fucking hell" Leah sighed and sat down next to me, "You're leaving me alone with them?!" Leah exclaimed making us all laugh
"Way to sort your priorities Leah" I teased
"You know I'll miss you, it isn't fair that you're having to leave La Push, seriously everyone's going to miss you, no one would miss Cara" Leah said
"I'm gonna miss your bike" Paul said and I looked at him, "What? If you were having a good day you let me drive it to school, can't do that anymore"
"I'll miss you too Paul" I said and he laughed
"When you starting?" Jake asked me
"Tomorrow I think" I told him
"Forks, isn't that where the Cullen's live?" Quil asked
"I think so why?"
"Apparently they're really weird. They don't talk to anyone other than their relatives and are all like the most perfect people you have ever seen" Quil said sounding annoyed
"What'd they ever do to you? You don't sound like you like them very much" Leah asked
"You know how my mum works at Forks high?" He asked and we all nodded, "I had to go there one day to give her somethin' and when I was walking out the big guy tried to run me over"
"He tried to run you over?" Embry repeated trying to hide his amusement like all of us
"Yeah, I didn't even do anything" Quil said
"Quil, people don't try to run others over for no reason" I stated
"You must of done somethin'" Paul said
"I didn't, I was walking out of the school and looked over and he tried to hit me, I don't even know the fuckers name!" Quil said
"Do you want me to beat him up for you tomorrow Quilly?" I teased
"Shut up and I told you not to call me that" Quil said
"So Seth, how's the lovely third year?" I asked, he was two years below me, Leah, Paul and Jared and in the year below Jake, Quil and Embry but that didn't bother him that we were older
"It's good, you realise the entire school is talking about what you did, right?" Seth asked
"Well, at least I shall be remembered" I said, "Come on, I want to go and find Jay so I can break the news to him"
"You just want to rub it in his face that you're leaving La Push and he needs to stay" Paul said
"Not true, I would happily stay at La Push High but apparently Ted cannot handle me"
"You should of seen his face when you walked out of the room, I think he just about had an aneurysm" Leah laughed
"My work at La Push High is complete. Cause head teacher to have a mental break down, check.
Make an enemy, check
And get kicked out, check. Now I need to do it all again at Forks, I've got one and a half school years there, you think that will be enough time?" I joked
"Nope, if you get kicked out of Forks before you graduate, I'm taking your bike" Paul said
"No! NO, what did my baby ever do to deserve that kind of abuse?!" I asked and he just laughed
"Chill out, I'm not going to steal your bike. Come on let's go find Jared"
A/N So, what do we all think? First chapter, I know maybe not a lot happens in this chapter (you all might think differently?) But it's because it is the first chapter and I just kind of wanted you all to see what kind of person Bella is and her friends are like. So please tell me what you all thinkx