Lucky
Summary: "Lucky I'm in love with my best friend… lucky we're in love in every way…" A story about love, friendship and growing up.
Disclaimer: I do not own Twilight or any of its characters.
Hi, guys! So, yeah, here's an experimental fic. A lot of it is written and I'm looking at one to two updates a week. I've been reading a lot of coming of age stories lately - my favorite being the Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls - and I decided to write one of my own. This story will go through Bella and Edward's life as kids, then teens, and then finally adults. The story starts when Bella and Edward is in fourth grade, and the time is about 1997.
The chapters are really short. I'm not trying exceed 1000, but they'll range as high as that to as low as a hundred words.
So, enjoy!
Chapter 1
I met Edward Cullen in fourth grade.
The sky was clear and it had been my ninth birthday, but no one knew that. Even then I hated attention and a spotlight shown down on me. That day, coincidentally, a new kid was invited into our classroom, so I guess not many of my classmates would pay attention to me anyway. Kids were on the edge of their seats, propped up on little knees as he walked in with his mother, but the excitement quickly bubbled down once they saw him.
Edward Cullen was wearing pajamas. With guinea pigs on them.
A few kids laughed, but I thought it was cool and the teacher just rolled her eyes and told him firmly that there was a strict dress code each kid needed to follow.
I thought that was stupid.
Edward Cullen sat across the classroom from me, near the C's, so I only got to talk to him during snack time. He was sitting alone at his table, playing with his slightly curly, auburn hair. I pulled out the seat next to him and plopped down into it, staring at his freckled face and pretty hair.
"Hi," I said.
Edward Cullen looked up at me with his green eyes, slumped over in his chair. "Hi," he said back quietly.
Then we just kind of looked at each other.
"Do you like guinea pigs?" I asked.
He nodded. "I have two," he shared. "Oreo and Chubbs."
"That's so cool," I said honestly. "Do you have a snack?"
"You ask a lot of questions," he observed softly, but did pull of a pack of celery sticks and carrots. My face instantly screwed up in distaste. I may have been a weird kid, but I still didn't enjoy my veggies like the next kid. "You like celery?"
He nodded and bit into the stringy treat. "I'm a vegetarian."
"Oh, cool. I want to be one when I grow up too."
Edward grinned and set his celery stick down, looking up at me with mirthful eyes. "I'm a vegetarian, not a veterinarian. A vegetarian is someone who prefers to exclude meat from their daily diet."
I frowned. "Meat? Like… even bacon and stuff?"
Even yummy, juicy hamburgers?
"Especially bacon. Did you know that people chop pigs up and torture them? They suffocate in their own feces and are hung upside―"
"Okay, I get it," I said, eyes wide and mind suddenly smothered with poor images of pigs suffering and being chopped into little, miniature slices. I shiver and think about the bacon and eggs I had this morning.
That's disgusting.
"Are you okay?" Edward asked.
"Yeah, I just…"
My sentence was cut off as my mouth opened and I spilled out about everything in my stomach and onto the desk and floor. Edward reeled back, saving his celery and carrots just in time.
"Ew! Isabella threw up!" Jessica Stanley shouted out from somewhere, and the kids all joined in with her. The teacher sent me off to the nurse's office with a blotchy face and fast paced tears.
So that's the first chapter. Drop a reviews if you want to tell me how it was :)