Passion with Complication

Chapter 1

Bella POV

It's the start of my senior year

I hope it will be a great one, better than the other years. The only thing missing here with me is Jacob. He graduated last year when I was a junior. I smiled to myself, remembering the days of when we first started talking, the way we would stare at each other during lunch, and the sweet nonstop texts we would send to each other. He is the best boyfriend anyone could ask for, and it is obvious that he is in love with me, although I still can't understand what it is that he found so fascinating about me. After all, I am just a plain 5'5 brunette, with brown simple eyes and petite body. Nothing extravagant, nothing really gorgeous. But Jacob was very nice to me, he did the most romantic things any girl could ask for, candles on the beach while watching the sunset, giving me flowers when I wasn't in the mood, writing our names on the chair where we first kissed, he never paid attention to the other girls. We talked every single day. I felt so safe with him. I knew he would never hurt me. I wish he wasn't a year older so he wouldn't graduate earlier than me.

At least I had Alice and Rosalie with me here, even though Alice is obsessed with her new boyfriend Jasper, who seems like an awesome dude, we're still best friends and I know I can always count on her…especially when it comes to fashion. In fact, that's something that is out of my control, she is the fashion and make up freak and once she wants to make you her play doll there is nothing you can do to save yourself.

I looked down at my schedule and sighed.

First period, - English. I wonder who I will have it with. Sadly, I didn't have any classes with Alice or Rosalie except 6th period. My phone buzzed and I already knew it was Jacob.

"Have a great day babe, I'll pick you up after school :) 3"

The thought of seeing him later made me feel better and I quickly responded back.

"Thanks. Can't wait to see ya :)"

I put my phone in my pocket as I headed to my first class. The cold breeze gave me goose bumps on my thighs and I cursed under my breath. What a perfect day to wear shorts. Hopefully the weather would get better; it was supposed to be hot today. I walked in and instantly wished I could close it and go home. Jacob's ex, was sitting in the back. Her blonde hair was covering her face, so I quickly found the seat farthest away from her and sat down hoping she wouldn't cause drama when she saw me.

I used to be friends with Jessica but then started to stay away from her when she lost her virginity to a random guy and changed her boyfriends every week. Jessica and Jacob dated last summer for a month, until Jacob realized who she really was and broke up with her. Jessica has always searched for a reason to show her hatred towards me so it was a perfect opportunity for her to start talking shit about me once she found out that Jacob and I liked each other.

I know.

Typical high school drama.

One of the reasons why I couldn't wait to get out of here.

The bell rang and I turned my head to my right when a girl with similar color hair like mine sat next to me.

"Hey, I'm Angela" She smiled at me. Her eyes looked kind, even though it was hard to notice through her thick glasses.

"I'm Bella." I smiled back, relieved to have a normal person sit next to me. "I haven't seen you before." I added.

"Yeah it's my first day, I just moved here from Canada." Oh that explains her accent. We chatted for a bit until the teacher started the class.

When the bell rang I headed for the door and the devil bitch was standing in front of me. I raised my eyebrow at Jessica as I waited for her to move so I could leave, I wasn't going to talk or fight with her, and I hoped my cold attitude would make it clear. She just snorted while glaring at me and left the class. Angela looked at me quizzically and I just shook my head.

"Boyfriend's ex." I sighed and she nodded in understanding.

The rest of my classes were the usual boring ones, with nothing special or interesting. There weren't any cute guys in our school, and even if there were, I doubt I would notice them. I didn't want anyone else but Jacob. Jacob was the one, he was everything I ever wanted in a boyfriend. Trustworthy, loyal, always made me happy. Jacob was like my sun.

It was time for 5th period as I walked towards the end of the school building; I chose art because I wanted something simple and easy. I didn't want to have too much pressure on my shoulders now that I've started working to save money for college. Art seemed perfect.

As soon as I walked in I saw Mike's overexcited face smiling at me and waving to go sit next to him. That boy was never going to give up, even after I told him I'm with Jacob. I looked around to find somewhere else to seat and I saw two empty seats near the girl that looked like she just came from a rave and a boy that was probably on drugs. I could tell from with red eyes.

I decided to seat next to the rave girl. She had red lipstick on and was wearing a black outfit from head to toe. But I didn't care. I wasn't planning on making new friends anyways. The tables were big enough for a group of 4. The chubby guy on drugs was sitting in front of me and he smiled lazily when I looked at him. I've never tried drugs before; Jacob would get a heart attack if I ever told him I wanted to try it. He barely even drank alcohol, and he never even smoked or cussed. He was a good guy, and I was a good girl. We never had any problems. Never even fought. I can't wait till I tell him all about my classes.

The bell rang and the teacher started giving out some papers. She told us to start drawing the person seating next to us. So the rock lover girl and I starting drawing each other. We were quiet for a while until I saw her drawing of me.

"Ok I know I'm not gorgeous but that is like worse than the grudge girl." I smiled hoping she wouldn't get offended. She just laughed though.

"I'm sorry, I'm not good at drawing, you're prettier than this." She smiled and tried erasing my humongous nose. I smiled in relief, appreciating my luck of sitting next to nice people today. No complications, nothing. Everything was good.

I heard the door open and seconds later a guy pulled out the chair next to mine and sat down. I looked up at him and my eyes widened as I saw his handsome face. I've seen him before like once or twice at school, Alice used to have a crush on him. I think almost every girl did. His name was Edmund…or Edward. I'm not even sure. The first time I saw him was nine months ago, when I've already started talking to Jacob so I didn't pay to Alice when she would rant nonstop about his looks and how yummy his face was. But damn, this guy really was hot. Dark brown hair, almost reddish. Green eyes, masculine jaw line, a little bit skinnier than Jacob, but he definitely had muscles, and damn did he smell good!

I gave him a small smile and quickly looked down at my paper and continued on drawing.

"Hey Leah." I heard him say to the girl sitting next to me. Ah, now I know her name. "Didn't know you were taking art."

"Did you forget I want to be a fashion designer? What else would I take." She rolled her eyes at him. A girl dressed all black wanted to be a fashion designer? "Didn't you take this last year?"

"Yeah but I failed." He smiled, as if he was proud or something. "I'm only taking it for the first semester though." He. Has. A. sexy. Smile. Jacob's smile was sweet, but this boy's smile was hot! Ok relax Bella. It's not like you've never seen a sexy boy before. Jacob is hot too…well he's good looking. He's like a teddy bear…yeah he's ok.

He noticed me staring at him and looked back at me, his green eyes shining with amusement.

"Aren't you Alice's friend?"

"Yeah." I said quietly, kind of shy. "we're best friends." I don't know why I mentioned it.

"You're ...um, Bella right?" He furrowed his eyebrows trying to remember correctly. I nodded.

"Yup... You're Edward?"

I feel like I blushed when I said his name. Wow I can't remember the last time I blushed when talking to a guy. I rarely blush when I'm with Jacob. Actually he's the one who always feels shy. I'm the bold one in the relationship. In fact, I was the first one mentioning to go on a date. I was the first one mentioning about kissing. He was always scared of making a wrong move and disappointing me. Sometimes It gets annoying, because I'm always the one deciding where to go or what to do. Every time I ask him to choose how to spend the date he freaks out that I might not like it. But at least he isn't self conceited like the other guys who only thought of themselves. Jacob really cared about making me happy. But it was too much sometimes.

"Yup" He grinned, showing me his white pearls. Even my teeth weren't that white. "I always see you and Alice together; I used to have a class with her last year." Uhhh was he trying to have a conversation with me? I felt awkward talking to a guy, Jacob wouldn't like that.

Thankfully the teacher came over to our table to give him the paper and explained to him what we were doing. I went back to my drawing without responding back to his last comment because I honestly didn't know what to say. Leah started talking to him, excited that she had his attention, and I finished my picture by the time the bell rang.

6th period was fun with my girls; we were planning about going to the beach next weekend with the guys.

"So it's Jacob, Jasper, you and I, and we need to find a guy for Rosalie!" Alice squealed, her plan of finding Rosalie's soul mate still stuck in her brain. She set her up on a blind date several times which were all disasters. Don't get me wrong, Rosalie had many admirers. Too many actually. But that was the problem. She was too attractive. Most of the guys didn't care about her personality, her loyal heart, or her career dreams. All they saw in her has her super model body, fabulous long blonde locks, big blue eyes and sexy luscious lips. Sometimes I felt bad for her, because she really wanted a relationship with a decent guy but they all turned out to be pigs.

"Alice your last guy used to be a strip dancer and he kept asking if I wanted to touch his abs." She glared at Alice, clearly tired of the same topic. I was thinking of telling Jacob to bring one of his friends but before I could open my mouth Rosalie added. "And Jacob's friends remind me of dogs for some reason which creeps me out so don't bring them either."

"You're like reading my mind." I widened my eyes in fake amazement. "Of course I won't!"

Rosalie just rolled her eyes. The conversation continued on with the same topic while Alice was trying to convince Rosalie to give her another chance of finding a guy and Rosalie threatening to shave off her bangs in her sleep if she didn't stop sticking her nose in her love life. I was laughing my ass off and thinking about Jacob. I had so much homework to do already, I hope he doesn't feel bad if I tell him I can't hang out for too long today.

After school he came to pick me up and when I sat in the car he leaned in to give me a kiss.

"How was school baby?" He whispered before coming closer to press his lips on mine one more time.

"Amazing, the people that were assholes last year suddenly changed over the summer and now everyone is living in peace and making heart shaped cookies for each other."

Jacob laughed as he drove out of school parking lot. "That bad?"

"It's school, and you're not there with me." I pouted.

"It's just one year, next year you'll come to college with me." He winked at me, his smile making me smile back. He's right, next year I was planning on going to the same college so we could be together. Alice and Jasper were moving in together after high school and Rosalie was going away to some university for car mechanics or shit. I don't even know. "Where do you want to go now?"

"Actually I can't stay for too long today." I looked at him apologetically before adding. "I have too much homework so let's just park few streets away from my house and talk for a bit before I go."

"That's alright." He nodded quickly. In my mind I was curious if he wanted to ask me to stay longer but he didn't because he didn't want to annoy me. Yeah, he was anxious and self-conscious a little bit. If he wanted to do something, he would just wait until I suggested it because he was afraid maybe I wouldn't want to do that. I wish I could read his mind sometimes or I wish he could just be a little more dominant. I wasn't going to eat him after all. But that's alright, at least he wasn't controlling or wasn't mean to me. That's all that mattered.

He did as I said, and we talked for a bit. Made out for a bit. Which was kind of the same usual routine. And then I told him I should go home now. He dropped me off and waved goodbye before driving away. Charlie was at work, he didn't come home till later at night and sometimes he stayed with Billy so they could go finishing in the morning. Sometimes I felt like I'm just living by myself. My mom is with her husband in Arizona, we call each other maybe once a week and e-mail each other sometimes. We never really had a close mother daughter connection.

I got out of my shorts and tank top and put on fluffy sweatpants with Jacob's t-shirt. I ate a slice of leftover pizza from last night with coke before starting on my homework. I don't know how I drifted off to sleep but when I woke up it was already 5 am.

School again.