Sometimes it's hard to push past the bad… but you have to know… that only good is coming. If you persevere it is magical.

ALAS! I do not own Twilight or any of it's characters… It doesn't have my sparkle… ;)

CHAPTER ONE

This was it. The first day of high school. I had waited for this moment for so long. So many things could finally change. I wouldn't be the middle school loser who had no friends and only read books. I would be Bella Swan a strong Freshman who would let no one stand in her way. Today I was going to be new and improved Bella. Not old no friends Bella.

I quickly threw on the clothes I had laid out for the day and made my way downstairs to make myself some cereal. I kissed Charlie on the cheek when he said good morning and quickly scarfed my cereal.

One quick tidbit. Charlie and I had been living together alone ever since my mom left us three months ago. She had some mental health thing going on and said she had fallen in love with a minor league baseball player. No word on where they were or what she was doing now.

But that part of my life was over now. Charlie and I moved to Forks Washington from Arizona about a week ago since he was offered a really good job as chief of police. It seemed like they just didn't have anyone with qualifications here and no way to train them. It really was a small town.

Charlie had left while I was deep in thought and I saw that the bus was coming down the road, I quickly ran to get my bag and skidded out the door. Charlie had tried to convince me that he could take me in his car but there was no way that I was starting off the year with everyone knowing I was the Chief of police's daughter. One thing at a time.

I got on the bus and realized that there was only one seat left and I sat next to an incredibly tall boy who carried a huge instrument so he had to move it over so I could sit down. I smiled at him and sat. "Thanks." I said and situated my bad on my lap. I turned back to the boy and held out my hand. "Hi, I'm Bella." I said.

He smiled at me and looked surprised that I had talked to him. "Hi there." He spoke very softly I couldn't hardly make out what he was trying to say. "I'm Mike, Mike Newton. New freshmeat- I mean freshman." He said and laughed after shaking my hand and grabbing his instrument again.

I laughed with him and looked at a few people looking at us oddly, I turned back to him and spoke. "Well then I suppose I am freshmeat too! It's okay I'll have your back if anyone tries to throw you in a dumpster." We both laughed, clearly that would not be a problem for him, he was huge! Definitely no one would try anything with him.

"I would like to see them try." He said and winked.

I smiled and looked out the window for a bit getting the route to school figured out. "So are you in band?" I said after the silence in our conversation was lasting a bit too long.

He straightened up and smiled wide. "Yup. I play the trombone as you can see. The best instrument around." He winked after he said that. I laughed again and nodded.

I smiled and laughed unzipping my backpack and pulling out my flute. "I disagree with the whole best instrument thing, and will certainly fight you if you keep up that train of thought." I smiled putting my instrument back in my backpack, trying not to show too many people for certain that I was going to get thrown in a dumpster myself.

"Woah how long have you been playing? I totally wouldn't have pegged you as a band kid… definitely not a flute player. Then again I've only known you for about three minutes and thirteen seconds." He said again amused with himself.

"Yeah I've been playing for three years now. Started in 6th grade and stuck with it seeing as I wasn't actually completely terrible at it." I said and rolled my eyes at myself and then saying the next sentence with the best valley girl "prep" accent I could muster. "And I know right usually flute players are like total preps." I batted my eyelashes while I turned a piece of my brunette locks around my index finger.

He looked mesmerized for a moment and then turned his focus at something behind my face seeming a bit uncomfortable he cleared his throat and laughed a bit before he continued. "Yeah you're right though, most all of our flute players are total preps all two of them." He laughed for a quick moment and then turned back to me suddenly realizing something dire. "Oh! Are you going to be in marching band? We already had band camp so you might not get a spot on the field but he would totally let you march in warm ups and stuff maybe if your good enough even take one of the other ones spots!" I wasn't quite sure why he was so excited about this fact but I nodded smiling truly thinking about the offer. After all marching band did have to deal with movement and that was a dangerous concept when it came to me but I might be able to work through it… Extra band practices would give me a lot of time away from home and to make new friends, which was definitely a necessity just starting high school.

I took a while to reply since I was deep in my own train of thought and looked back at him and nodded. "You know that actually sounds like a lot of fun. I think I will go ask the band director today after class." I said feeling a little bit better about my first day of school.

It seemed like we had only been driving for five minutes when we pulled up to school and all the kids stood up scattering to the front of the bus trying to get out as soon as they could. I stayed in my seat until one girl with long brown wavy hair like my own decided to be kind enough and let me by. "Thanks!" I said letting Mike out before I started towards the school.

"Hey you need me to walk you to the office to get you situated? It's right over there but I can still show you if you want. I have to drop my trombone off first anyway." He said and smiled at me with a charm I hadn't seen back on the bus.

"Uh sure if it isn't a problem." I replied. He nodded and walked me up a few stairs and there we were. Main Office. I turned towards him and smiled saying thank you and he was off to the band room. I took a deep breath before walking into the office.

After I had retrieved all of my belongings which only included my schedule, bus number, and a few forms I had to give to my dad to fill out, I was on my way to Culinary 1. I wasn't sure if I was looking forward to this class or not because I had already taken three culinary classes in my middle school but who knows, maybe it was different.

It took about three minutes after walking in the door for me to figure out that it was not any different and it was the same as it was when I was 11 in 6th grade. Fabulous.

Culinary seemed to take about three hours where it was really only 45 minutes and then I was out to freedom… aka band class. As soon as I stepped out of my classroom I stopped in place as I saw the most handsome human being I had ever seen before. He had the most fabulously messy auburn hair that seemed to be styled by professionals. Surely he was an actor that just flew to Forks to film a new movie and I was being punked. He was flanked by two men but neither of them were even close to looking as good as this Auburn haired masterpiece that was currently walking in front of me. I was startled out of my drool fest when I was bumped from behind by a blond with a definite attitude that stomped past me to push one of the men out of her way that was next to gorgeous and linked her arm in his.

I had begun to start walking again and was a good distance behind them but I could still see everything that was going on. He unlinked his arm with hers and switched his backpack over to that side to make sure she didn't grab him again. I hadn't noticed I was smiling at this until a red headed girl passed me and rolled her eyes at me knowing what I was looking at. I quickly changed my expression but kept my gaze set on the group. They seemed to be talking about something but he didn't seem very interested in her as he kept looking away and kept saying he needed to get to class but she kept on him like a leech. Fuck give it a rest blond bitch!

I tripped on a piece of sidewalk and decided I needed to get out of my trance and get going to band seeing as I was definitely going to be late. I took what I thought was a short cut behind school and sure enough as soon as i walked down a flight of stairs I was right at the door to the music hall. I went quickly to the band room and walked in the directors office to find out where I needed to be. The band director wasn't in his office yet so I got to look at all of the activity happening as all of the kids made their way in the band room and set up their chairs, stands, and instruments all while goofing off with each other and making tons of noise.

The director came in as soon as I was in the middle of my people watching and introduced himself as "Mr. Murdock" and told me where to sit and gave me a marching number and a schedule for marching band practice, I didn't even have to ask. I quickly went to the front row where he instructed and sat next to two girls each holding a flute of their own.

One of them, the same redhead I had seen in the hallway to roll her eyes at me smiled politely and held out her hand to me to shake. "Hi, I'm Tanya. And you?" I shook her hand smiling back.

"Bella, nice to meet you Tanya." The other girl on the other side of her reached her hand towards me also and smiled. "I'm Irina, Tanya's sister. It should be fun to have another flute player I'm not related to! Hopefully you're a little better." She laughed as Tanya elbowed her in the side.

I was caught off guard as in the middle of my watching them I saw Mr. Gorgeous walk over to a chair with a trumpet and sit down laughing with his followers I saw earlier. Tanya saw who I was looking at and laughed. "Yeah, that's Edward, and his blond minion over there is Jasper. The boulder on the other side is Emmett. They are inseparable and it is really no use getting to know Edward because he only dates girls for like a month and gets tired of them. Although he never even kisses them or goes any farther with them. Strange." I didn't falter my gaze and in the middle of a laughing episode from the three boys Edward looked over at me and stopped laughing seeming to get caught off guard. Probably just because I was the new girl in town. I quickly tore my gaze away from his feeling my face turn the color of the bright red music book sitting on Mr. Murdock's podium. When I slowly turned my gaze back towards Edward's he was staring at me and when he saw me watching him he quickly turned away turning an equal shade of red which made his green emerald eyes shine perfectly which elicited a sigh from me as I started warming up my instrument as everyone else was.

Class went on much the same way, chatting with my fellow flute players and with a few of the clarinets and saxophones behind me which I learned there names were Tyler and Tanya and Irina's sister Kate and the saxophone players name was Jessica and Jacob Black. Jessica stated we were going to become best friends after I told her I had Algebra 1 next which apparently she shared with me. Jacob didn't say much but kept staring at me. There was also the blond I saw from earlier who was following Edward around and her name was Lauren, she also played Clarinet and tried to keep up conversation with me but I wasn't having any of it, purposefully turning away from her and playing something on my instrument to stop the conversation. I really didn't know why, it wasn't like Edward was my territory… I didn't own him… hell I didn't even really know him! Quicker than my previous class went by it was time to leave and head to Algebra. I put my flute in my new locker and made my way to Algebra with Jessica and Jacob following quietly behind me. We hadn't even made it half way to Algebra and I had already learned that Jessica had 7 dogs, and a million cats and both of her parents were lesbian and gay. When they had her they were straight but her mom started to hang around her dads adopted sister and badabing badaboom they were both attracted to the same sex… She also told me her older brother was gay and he was also a history teacher here at school but he only taught the juniors and seniors so if I did have him it would be a while away.

"Yeah sometimes he flirts with Mr. Ta-" Jessica was cut off by Mike running over and tapping my left shoulder and when I looked that way he was actually on the right side. Clever kid. I laughed and elbowed him in the arm.

"Hey Bells, Sooo how do you like school so far?" Mike asked ignoring the fact that Jessica was giving him the death glare for cutting her off.

"It's pretty good so far, already made a ton of friends!" And an enemy… although she doesn't know it yet. I thought that last part to myself because I was sure not going to tell Jessica that I didn't like Lauren after I had seem them walk in together and gossip with each other like the teenage girls that they were.

"That's great where are you going this class? It would be cool if we had some more classes together seeing as I can't even see you in band! Couldn't even tell you were in there except every time I looked over to ask Edward a question he couldn't keep his eyes off you." Mike said rolling his eyes and seeming annoyed.

He stared at me the whole class? Woah. I wonder why…. I'm not that good looking and I didn't even put make up on today… I didn't even wear the v-neck shirt I was planning on this morning… I'm sure he was just trying to figure me out.. who knows maybe I had something stuck on my face during class and i got it off before it was over…. hmmm…

"Yeah that's cool and all and she has Algebra with Tanner next." Jessica said before I could say anything. She didn't really seem annoyed anymore she was really kind of flirty towards Mike when she talked to him. They would be cute together….

Mike nodded not even looking at Jessica and his smile grew. "That's awesome I have that class too!" I smiled back still thinking about Edward and his emerald eyes that looked like they were designed to be in a jewelry store in a locked vault. Sigh.

The next two classes flew by as most of the time I was listening to Jessica talk about her life and all the cute boys at school and she told me that she has had a thing for Mike for years but he has never noticed. She talked about Lauren and how we had to have a sleep over ASAP so they could show me a ton of movies that she was shocked I had never heard of before. I mostly just nodded not needing to say anything as she had that department covered. The next class was English which I had with Edwards two buddies Jasper and Emmett. Jasper sat right in front of me which Emmett sat next to him. Emmett turned around looking at me for a moment and flashed me a huge toothy grin holding out his hand to me. "Hi there beautiful. I'm Emmett, what's your name?" He asked with as much rasp and sex as he could ooze into those eight words.

I shook his hand quickly not holding it for too long. "I'm B-Bella. Nice to meet you." I stated not really sure why I was nervous. It wasn't that I was new to this talking to guys thing I mean it was super easy to talk to Mike. But something about Emmett was different. Was it the way his eyes were currently undressing me or was it just that he was Edwards friend and I didn't want to say anything dumb that could get back to Edward? Twas the question….

"I'm Jasper." Jasper stated with a bit of a southern drawl which if I wasn't listening to closely I would have missed. I shook his hand too and nodded to them both.

"So how long have you lived here Bella?" Emmett said and when he said my name it practically rolled out of his mouth bouncing off his tongue and teeth in a seductive almost growl.

"She just moved here and she isn't interested Emmett." Jessica said pulling my attention back to her away from the hormonal teenage boy. Jasper didn't say much just continued to laugh as Emmett turned back around a bit defeated.

I listened to Jessica as much as I could, god dammit that girl never breathes! Just a constant rumble. How does her brain even work that fast? There was a lull in her conversation as she decided to start doing the classwork and I decided to ask a few questions myself.

"Hey Jess, so you said Edward dates a lot of girls? But he isn't like a womanizer or anything though right?" I asked quietly hoping that Emmett and Jasper couldn't hear me. The last thing I needed was drama starting that the new girl had a thing for the cutest guy in school. How pathetic right? I sighed waiting for her answer.

"No I don't think so. He just has a problem keeping them I think. Although he doesn't always pick the cute ones, I don't know why." I could tell Jessica was fed up with the subject of my auburn emerald god, I wonder if he rejected her at one point. Wouldn't surprise me.

I nodded to her and didn't want to make her say more than she wanted to so I decided to find something else to focus my physical attention while my mental and really emotional attention was towards Edward.


And that is all for this installment of bubbles. I will get to why it is called bubbles probably in the next chapter.

I am warning you now that I do plan on making this story go on for the rest of Bella's high school life and even after because I am writing this story about an actual persons life. I'm not sure how often I will update but I am hoping for at least twice a week although that might be asking a little bit much for me because I have a job and am in school but I will try my best!

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