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Bella's point of view
Chapter 1
I wasn't special. I wasn't anybody. I kept myself to myself, spent my afternoons doing school work and – as my parents continually told me – 'I had no life'. Every day to me was pretty much the same; go to school, work, come home, work, sleep. I was focused entirely on getting good grades, not because I was forced to (on the contrary my mother always tried to urge me to leave the house) but because I simply had nothing better to do. I knew I had other options but school was a way for me to leave reality, sinking myself into work came naturally to me – it wasn't something I had to think about. This is in way was good because I came out of high school with good grades, but after I met him I realised that I was blinkered. It was possible to do well at school and socialize with people as well; I just hadn't realised this yet.