A.N. Hi All… here is the re-written version of the first chapter for 'For You In Full Bloom'. I have kept the original A.N. at the end of the chapter.
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"Bells, are you sure that you want to do this,"
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"you have other options you know."
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"I know"
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"I can't stay here, not now; I don't think I could handle the attention if I went to forks the way that I am," said Bella, turning her head to the side to inspect the back of her hair.
"That's fine and all," reasoned Mel, one of Bella's longest friends, "but why are you going to Forks dressed as a BOY?"
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Chapter 1
Bella's POV
Sleeping on the plane has to be one of the hardest things to do.
Bella knew that she wasn't an easy sleeper to begin with; no matter how hard she tried she just couldn't fall asleep on a bus or in a car. But with all the stresses that she had been under in the past few weeks, she'd thought that just maybe she would be so tired that she would pass out as soon as she got into a semi-comfortable seat. No such luck.
Sighing as she tried to re-arrange herself in the small seat, her mind wandered back to the cause of her stress. The whole mess started two weeks ago, last Friday. She should have known it would be a bad day; Friday's just didn't seem to like her. Everything bad that could happen always happened on a Friday for her.
So, it was a Friday, and the last day of the state wide track and field competition. She had been competing, as she was one of the best female long-distance and sprint runners in the state of Arizona. It was the last day of the competition, the most important of the three day long competition, and she was entered in the 100m sprint. Some people might think 'oh, it's just a race', but in Phoenix the 100m sprint was like… the crème de la crème of track and field. The winners were treated as celebrities amongst the high school community.
Her mother, Renee, had been working in the morning, but she'd somehow managed to get the afternoon off so that she could come and watch her compete. Renee had promised that she would be there by the time Bella was to compete, but she never showed up. Bella had been so angry with her; she'd broken her promise, to be there when she won. Bella had held up her end of the bargain and won the race, but her mother was nowhere to be seen.
It wasn't until much later that afternoon that the reason for her mother's absence was revealed to her. It was nothing that she could have ever have been prepared for.
It was just before the end of the day when three police officers turned up at the competition grounds. Everyone thought that there had been some kind of fight in another area that needed breaking up that some over-concerned parent having called it in. How wrong everyone was.
It wasn't until they approached Bella that she thought something more serious than her scatter-brained mother's absence might be happening. She couldn't remember what the officers had looked like; from the time they told her what had happened, everything else became hazy. They told her that her mother was in the hospital; she'd been involved in a car accident on her way to see her compete.
She didn't remember the trip to the hospital in the back of the police car; it was like one second she was standing in the team tent on the sports oval and the next thing she knew she was in the emergency room and there she was. Her mother was just lying there, bloody and pale on a hospital bed while a swarm of activity buzzed around her. There were doctors, so many doctors working on her, trying to get her heart started again, trying to bring her back to Bella.
But they couldn't.
It's funny how time tends to jump when something bad happens. Like one of those bad TV shows where it jumps all over the place and by the end of the show no one has any idea what the hell just happened. That is what those two weeks were like for Bella. Winning the track competition, to standing in the middle of the ER, to watching as her mothers' coffin was slowly lowered into the earth as Charlie told her that she was going to forks to live with him from now on.
The first clear thought that she remembered having is the reason she was currently sitting on a plane to Forks, Washington with short, spiky hair and dressed in boys clothes. Three days ago she had, what she thought was, the best idea she had ever had. She wanted to start over, to be a new person, so she'd decided to become to the Forks community the brother she never had. It wasn't that she didn't love being a girl, she did, it would just be easier this way. She wouldn't have to worry about boys hitting on her – thank goodness; she didn't think she could handle that at the moment. She was so glad that she'd not been to Forks since she was three, she didn't think anyone would really remember her. She knew who whole town knew Charlie had a kid, but that was all people knew. She could control what people knew about her, how much or how little.
Leaning back into the chair, she hoped she could spend the last half hour of the flight resting; she was so tired. She knew she wouldn't be getting much rest in the next few days, there was a ton of things she needed to do when she arrived and there was school tomorrow as well. Charlie had said she didn't need to go to school right away, but she had missed two weeks already and she didn't want to miss any more. Charlie told everyone before they'd left that his ex-wife was in a car crash and that he was going to get his 'kid'. Well, at least people would at least know she was coming.
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A.N.
Hay all…I am going to update my other two current stories within the next few days so don't worry! And I am sorry for the boring first chapter of this chapter… I had to give you all some background for the character!
Also sorry for any mistakes that I have made, I am currently well on my way to being drunk and I am finding it very hard to type at the moment… all that I have left to say is Read and Review!
Disclaimer: I do not own Twilight or any character descriptions and whatever related to it! (I bet you can tell I am drunk from that sentence alone!)