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Chapter One
Bella's POV
"Are you sure you want to do this Bells?" My mom stared at me with unhidden disappointment.
"Positive." I said, full of undisguised excitement.
"Okay then. I can get you a break of one year then we'll come back and discuss it again. Remember you have one last video shoot in a month though, which I moved to the Seattle studios because its closer to Forks." Marie interrupted before my mom could speak her mind. I was grateful. "Have a great normal-ish life." She smiled and hugged me tightly. "I'll keep in touch." She whispered in my ear. "You never know, you might miss your life here." She smiled brightly and walked towards the front door, pausing at the door to speak to me over her shoulder, "Love you Bells, I hope you truly have a good year. I'll see you soon." I smiled.
"Thank you. Love you too Marie." She was much more than a manager to me. She was like my second mom, one that was actually grown-up. I turned back to my mom only to see that my mother was now brooding in Phil's lazy-boy chair.
"Why Bella?" She asked. Everyone close to me called me Bella. Too the rest of the world I was Izzie. "I thought you loved your life." I sighed.
"Mom." I walked over, sat on the arm of the chair and hugged her close. "I do love my life, you know that. But I've been doing this for around five years now. I'm seventeen and have yet to see the inside of an actual High School."
"I know Bella, but trust me your not missing out on much. High School can be boring." She tried to persuade me.
"And that's the beauty of it. I want that. I want boring! I've never had boring. I've had lonely, exciting, happiness and every other emotion apart from boring. I don't just want it, I need it." I emphasized. "I need to feel normal again even if it is just for a year." I gave her my best puppy dog eyes. "Please don't be upset with me mommy." She caved.
"Oh, alright. I'm just going to miss you so much." I knew that deep down she wasn't going to miss me so much as hanging around me with my glam lifestyle, but she had Phil. She was always pushing me to do more. Get more money, but I didn't understand it. We had everything. We would have had everything even if I wasn't famous, considering Phil was a major league baseball player. One of the best around too.
"Its only a year." I said feeling sad now that all my thoughts had turned to the fact that she probably loved my career more than she loved me. I meant it when I said I needed this, but what she didn't know is that I need people who loved me for me, not my career. That's were my dad and Jake came into it. My dad didn't care as long as I was happy and Jake, well Jake has been my best friend forever. His dad and my dad have been friends since they were in school together and we just kind of followed in their footsteps. I was heart broken when my mom told me we were moving to California, leaving dad and everything I knew and loved behind when I was 10. It wasn't long after we got there that my mom started pushing through the doors of major record labels, but it wasn't till I was 12 that I finally got an album out. The rest as they say is history. I looked back at my mom who was now currently looking at me as if there was something wrong with me. Crap! I must have been so caught up in memories that I hadn't heard whatever it was that she said.
"Oh, sorry. I must have zoned out."
"I'll say."
"What did you say?" I asked.
"I said…" She emphasized, "Your car will be shipped out for before you get there."
"Great!" I couldn't wait to start my new life, even if it was just for a year.
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