I know this may seem a little strange, but everything will be explained as it goes along. Thank you so much for giving it a chance!
No Ordinary Girl
Chapter One
"Bella, I'm sorry but Jacob isn't here so you need to leave." Billy slammed the door in her face which added a little salt to the wound. Everyone was acting weird ever since that night she went to the movies with Jacob and Mike Newton. No one really wanted her on the reservation it seemed.
She thought about just going home, but she would do what she had been doing for the past week. Sulk and clean every inch of the house.
She wasn't going to put herself through that again, but what else could she do? She was about to get back in her truck when she saw a couple of reservation boys with camping gear running down the road. Then it clicked to her.
It was a beautiful day out, clear skies and nice warmth in the air. She smiled for the first time in a week and got in her truck. She drove down to the beach and parked next to the cliff. When she climbed out of her vehicle, she pulled off her jacket and undid her button down. She took off her jeans, only leaving on her exercise shorts and a tank top. She took off her tennis shoes and replaced them with her hiking boots.
Now, she was ready for a day of nature fueled fun.
She clapped momentarily before walking up the cliff side towards the top. Why hadn't she thought to do this sooner? It was refreshing. The view was gorgeous. She heard some howling deep in the woods but she wouldn't worry herself about that. If she came across a wolf, she could just jump off the cliff into the water, which was why she was staying close to the cliff side.
It had rained recently so the grass was still slick. It was gorgeous out. The birds were singing and the dolphins were playing not far out from the surf. The mood was very upbeat. She had forgotten how much she loved the outdoors. Maybe she needed to talk to Charlie about a camping trip.
She kept walking until she saw that the full moon was rising. That told her that she had exactly enough time to walk back to her truck before it got dark. The Forest was beautiful at daylight, but when you are alone, it can be scary at night time.
She turned around and started her trek back. The moon looked beautiful rising over the surf as the sun started to set off into the distant.
Suddenly, Bella's feet were pulled out from under her from the wet grass. She slid down the steep hill, gasping from fear. There was a huge rock in front of her that had an opening in the middle. She feared she was going to hit the rock, but failed to grab onto the slick blades of green pasture.
She didn't hit the rock, but slide down into the ground opening. She spiraled and swirled for at least a hundred feet before she hit flat ground.
She looked around in amazement. She was in what looked like a small cave. The walls were a dark rock with heavy metallics in them. It shimmered from the light illuminating from a small tunnel off to the side of the cave. She stood up and dusted off the sand from her legs and shorts.
She looked at where she slid in through and saw very little chance of her being able to walk out the way she came in. Maybe there was another way out.
She walked through the short tunnel and found stair-shaped rock steps to another area. It had the same rock walls, but there was also a pool in the middle of the cave. The water wasn't clear or the gray color out at the surf. It was a bright blue. She leaned down and scooped up the water in hands to see if maybe it was just perception.
The water in her hands was blue. She dropped it back in the pool and looked up.
There was a huge hole in the top of the cave that allowed her to see the darkening sky.
This place had to be an old volcano, she thought. From the looks of it, it hadn't been active for at least a thousand years so she had no worries about it acting up while she was inside.
Her only worry was getting out and back to the surface.
She thought of calling Charlie for help, but she had no reception so she sat and thought. She thought for so long that it was dark out when an idea finally popped into her head.
She was surprised she didn't think of it earlier.
The pool was constantly having ripples. This could only mean one thing. It was connected to an extended body of water from that cave.
It could only be the ocean.
Her only worry was the long swim to shore but this was her only chance back to the surface. She took a seat at the edge of the water and took off her shoes, tying the shoes together and throwing them around the back of her neck.
Keeping them on her feet would only slow her down and make the swim longer.
She was so glad she had her first job as a lifeguard. They had taught her how to hold her breath properly so she could last a long time. She slid into the water with a shocking surprise.
The water was very warm. The ocean water at that time and place was only warm enough usually to where she could only stand it. This was like a hot bath. Not even the summers at the beach in Florida were this warm.
"Wow." She started to swim into the middle of the pool and just floated, enjoying the warm water. It was so comfortable it made her want to never leave, but she had to.
Suddenly, the water got a lot hotter and the water started to bubble like a pot on the stove.
"What? What's happening?" She looked all around the pool and then looked at the hole to the sky to see the big, bright full moon beaming down on her.
Its beauty was drawing her in like a moth to a flame. It was as if it had control over her for a moment.
She snapped herself out of it and quickly dived down. She had to get out of there before something weirder happened or it got too dark.
It was a thirty-second swim to the underwater cave opening to the ocean. She swam and swam as fast as she could to the surface and then moved as fast as her feet could kick.
She was scared a shark might see her. When she got to shore, she saw her friends from school, Eric and Angela.
"Bella, where did you come from?" She panted as she sat on the sand, trying to catch her breath.
"I got trapped in a cave from the cliffs and had to swim to shore from the ocean entrance." Angela gasped and grabbed a towel from her beach bag. She wrapped it around Bella's shoulders.
"You poor thing. We need to get you warm. That water is freezing. No one would go in so we just had a bonfire." She only saw Eric and Angela. She didn't notice the hundreds of others on the beach. Some were from the reservation and some were from her school.
One person stood out when she scanned the crowd. It was him. He was sitting by the fire, surrounded by friends.
Jacob seemed on the outside to be having the time of his life, but inside he missed his best friend. His Bella.
She could never possibly understand what was truly going on with him, deep down.
He felt eyes on him and looked to her, amazed to see her. She could feel his shock and turned back. If he wanted to talk to her, he would have to come to her. She was done chasing him.
He listened very closely to what Angela was saying to her.
"Bella, why didn't you call for help?" Bella shrugged. He was on alert now.
Help? What happened to her?
He stood up and walked over to her. He hoped she would tell him what happened to her.
"Hey." He couldn't think of anything else to say.
"Jacob!" Angela instantly recognized him and stood up. "You won't believe this. Bella was trapped in a cave and swam to shore from the sea entrance to it." That scared him.
"What? How did that happen?" They were both surprised by the protective tone in his voice.
"It was nothing. I slipped on some wet grass and fell in." He reined in his anger that she was in danger. It was his fault. He wasn't there for her.
"At least you're safe." That's all he could muster. "See ya." He felt the change coming on and walked off towards the cover of the forest.
"See you." She whispered. Honestly, it hurt that he was staying away.
At least he talked to her. That was progress.