Making Headlines
I know I know another new story. This one has been in my brain for a while now and I have finally decided to put my thoughts onto paper and post the story. I am posting the first chapter to see how it is received before I decide to put everything into getting this story up. As much as I love writing I only want to write if people are reading. I'm going to try writing an M rated story, not sure how graphic the lemons will be at the beginning as I have never written one before and I am a little nervous too.
I am currently searching for a beta so if anyone is interested please message me I would love for someone to look over my work before it gets posted.
"Alice hurry up we're going to be late!"
"We are not going to be late Bella, we have a whole twenty minutes before the show even starts and you know they will not have it right in the beginning. They will probably put it at the end just to make us watch all the boring news they use to fill the hour." Alice struggled with her bag behind me as I pulled her through the crowded hall.
Normally it was Alice who did the dragging and me who did the clumsy following but today was different. Today was the day I would finally here the music of the Gods. Today was the day that Celebrity Gossip would be posting their video of Edward Cullen playing piano. Today was the most important day of my life so far. Cause that's not an exaggeration. Well not the most important but it was very high up on the list. Stupid inner dialog always jumping to through its opinion out there.
"Alice we need to be in front of a T.V. at least five minutes before the show starts, and what of the traffic is bad, look how busy the halls are getting out of the parking lot is going to be horrible. What if we get caught at a red light and have to wait." I pushed through the doors leading outside, completely forgetting to hold the door for Alice.
"Seriously you need to relax. We are outside done with hallway traffic, most people are still at their lockers and are not even thinking about rushing out of the parking lot, and are you really afraid of being stuck at the one set of traffic lights we have in this horribly small town. Oh and next time please don't let the door slam on my face it's a painful experience when I don't have any hands available to stop it from hitting me in the face." I turned around to see Alice trying to balance her science project in one hand and struggling with an overloaded backpack on her other arm.
"I don't know why Jasper asked you to bring his homework to him, it's not like he's going to do it or anything. He probably just wants an excuse for you to come and see him because you and him are all lovey dovey." I smiled, reaching out to help her with her science project. "What grade did you get on this anyway?"
"Ugh, stupid Banner gave be a B can you believe it. I know he knows it's at least A- work. I can't believe he said my work was below the personal standards he had for me and that was why he gave me a lower grade. Personally I think he needs to get laid, I mean I will gladly give him the money to go find a prostitute." Alice ranted throwing the less than stellar model volcano in the garbage as we passed it.
"Did you hear about the new movie Edward is supposed to be a lead role in?" I asked her as we got into my truck. It was a huge pile of rusting metal but it was all I had and I loved it none the less.
"For the millionth time, yes, I heard about it. From you actually on Monday I believe, and then again on Tuesday, once more on Wednesday, I think you may have mentioned it at lunch yesterday, and looky here, you mentioned it again today, which means you have told me about it five times in as many days. Seriously Bella, if he ever met you he would probably think you were a crazy stalker." She grumbled at me as I pulled out of the parking lot. I chose to ignore her comment because in reality I probably seemed like a stalker. I knew everything there was to know about Edward Cullen. My room was adorned with posters, and pictures o him. My favourite being the one I had taken of him when Alice and I drove to Seattle to a mall appearance he was doing. It was framed on my bedside table and was the first and last thing I looked at every day.
The drive home should have been fairly short but there was an insane amount of large trucks, trailers, and expensive looking cars driving slowly down Main Street. There was absolutely no reason for the roads to be this crowded, maybe the highway had a bad accident on it and everyone was being forced to take the back roads.
" What's with all the traffic?" Alice asked, staring down the line of seemingly endless vehicles.
"I'm not sure." I grumbled growing more and more pissed off at the parade of trucks blocking my route home.
The light finally changed allowing me to cross Main Street and quickly finish the drive home. With the truck barely in park I jumped out of the cab and ran up to the front door. "Alice hurry!" I yelled finally managing to calm down enough to get the key into its slot. Not bothering to wait for Alice I ran up the stairs, flung myself onto my bed and switched the T.V. on just as Celebrity Gossips theme song started to play.
"Geeze Bella you could have at least waited for me"
"Sorry Al I would have died if I missed something."
About half way through the show we started to get bored, neither of us were really into the gossip and Alice wasn't even a huge fan of Edwards so we decided to put up the new poster I had gotten of Edward the night before.
"He is so damn hot." I laughed fanning myself as Alice pressed the last piece of tape into place.
"I will say he looks above average in this shot, but I don't really see the appeal."
"How can you not see it. Gorgeous green eyes, perfect body, velvety voice, a little bit of that bad boy thing going on and you cant forget about the sex hair." I rambled, jumping at the chance to defend my love for Edward.
"Like you even know what sex hair would look like Bells, you're a virgin remember."
"Just because I didn't get trashed and throw myself at the head of the football team last year." I snapped turning my head to look at the television.
"That was low."
It was and I knew it. Alice regretted that night every day. The night of her sweet sixteen she found out that Jasper had lost his v card in the ninth grade with none other than Lauren Mallory, who was soon labled the slut of Forks High. In a drunken attempt to equally forget about Jasper and make him jealous Alice drank way more than her tiny body could handle and seduced Dustin, the quarterback of the schools football team. She said she couldn't remember much from their night of bumping uglies except for the pain, and awkward fumbling. It's no wonder you've never had sex you cant say the word, you barley even think it. Common say it Sex, sex, sex
"Sex"
"What?"
Oh God please don't tell me I said it out loud.
"Bella did you just say sex?" Alice questioned, using her finger to turn my head making me face her.
I was saved by the T.V. when the commercial advertising some new environmentally safe cleaning product ended and a picture of Edward showed up on the screen. "It's on, it's on! Turn up the volume quick!" I yelled at Alice as I jumped off the bed sitting right in front of the screen.
After a quick introduction the screen faded black and his name appeared in a beautiful script before it faded and showed Edward playing the piano. It was a beautiful song, but I couldn't quite get what emotion he was trying to get across, at some points it seemed happy and at others it seemed pained and wanting. As the song began to climax I felt Alice take my hand knowing that she was equally moved by the piece of music. As the camera pulled away and the song came to a close neither of us spoke. W e just sat there holding hands and letting our thoughts dance around in our heads.
Alice was the first to speak, "I should probably get going, Charlie will be home in an hour, and Jasper needs to get his homework."
I nodded my head and walked with her down the stairs, when we got to the door she gave me a quick hug and shut the door quietly behind her. Now I was left to battle my thoughts on my own until Charlie came home in an hour. I ran up to my room deciding I would need to have Edwards song on my ipod so I could listen to it whenever I wanted. After a few minutes of searching I was able to find it and once it started to download I went back downstairs to prepare dinner for the evening. I only had half an hour before Charlie was supposed to arrive home so I decided to make us spaghetti. It wasn't long after I put the pasta in the boiling water that he walked though the door, looking grumpy and stressed.
"Long day?" I asked while putting our glasses of water on the table.
"Oh yeah, the whole town is all excited with that new movie being shot down at La Push beach, might have some scenes filmed in the town as well." He grumbled pulling his boots off his feet.
"There's a movie being shot here?" I piled the pasta and sauce onto our plates as Charlie sat in his chair.
"Uh huh, some love story, big actors in it." He shoved his full fork into his mouth.
"What's the name of it?" I tried not to sound excited but I was really dying inside, not wanting to think about the possibility of it being the new movie Edward was the star of.
"Name doesn't matter, all I know is that it is going to cause some big problems for this little town of ours. There's some talk about the actors taking classes at the high school, they are trying to keep the shooting location out of the media and don't want anyone from LA down here unless they have to be here."
"Dad I need to know the name of that movie, it's a life or death situation."
"Shades of Su-" I let out a high pitch squeal cutting him off as I jumped out of me seat and ran upstairs. "Bella please don't tell me that's the movie that Cullen character is in. You were obsessed enough when he was living in a different state."
"I am not obsessed dad, just in love!" I yelled down the stairs before I shut my door.
"Just don't make me have to arrest you for attacking the poor boy." I hard Charlie laugh from downstairs.
I quickly dialled Alices number barley able to control myself. "Guess who is living in Forks!" I screamed into the phone the moment she answered.
"Edward Cullen." Was her bored reply.
"Just got posted on the Celebrity Gossip website, I was checking to see when Jaspers favourite bands new CD was coming out and it popped up. How did you find out?"
"Charlie was complaining about all the trouble it's going to cause. Why didn't you tell me an article had been done on it."
"Check your email, I linked you to it, and there's not an article, just a picture and a line stating that he is in Forks for the new movie. There's also one on Emmett and his girlfriend. I wonder if Edward brought his girlfriend too, they've been dating for so long."
"Stop talking about her Ali, I hate her, they are not right for each other at all." I quickly opened the email Alice had sent and clicked on the link, waiting as my ancient computer brought up the screen.
" You can't just ignore the fact that he has a girlfriend, and he has been dating her for the past four years, that's not likely to change anytime soon." She sighed on the other end of the line. "Has the link loaded yet?"
"Yep, just finished. No girlfriend with him."
"He's probably enjoying his last moment of freedom now that everybody knows he's here."
"Charlie said they might be shooting some scenes at the high school? Think I'll get to meet him?"
"If you promise not to attack him, I will promise to find a way for you to meet him. But I have to go I need to get up early tomorrow." Alice laughed
"Night Alice see you tomorrow." I hung up the phone and started to find an outfit for tomorrow. If I did see Edward tomorrow I would want to look nice and put together. After pulling out clothes and trying on a bunch of different outfits that just made me feel like I was trying too hard I settled on a simple pair of jeans and a camisole with a light cardigan on top. If I didn't see him tomorrow people wouldn't think I had dressed up for no reason. I glanced at my clock and was a little surprised to see it had taken me so long to find something to wear at it was almost eleven. Wanting to get a good nights sleep with the possibility of seeing a God tomorrow I wandered down the stairs to say goodnight to Charlie only to find him already asleep, TV remote still in hand. I grabbed the blanket of the chair and draped it over him and gave him a quick kiss on the cheek.
I quietly went back up the stairs and went through my bedtime routine of teeth brushing, face washing, and packing my bag for the next day before climbing into bed. It felt like it took forever for me to fall asleep, but my brain just wouldn't shut off with the possibility of seeing Edward Cullen tomorrow.
Hope you liked the first chapter and want to continue reading. How quickly I put up the next chapter will all depend on the interest of the story. Also sorry if the first chapter seems a little slow, I'm one of those people who likes to take the time to develop characters and relationships.
Will Bella meet Edward tomorrow? Only time will tell.
What's the craziest thing you have done when meeting a celebrity?
