New and Improved
Chapter 1 – Ready, Set, Go!
BPOV
"Hey Swan, Why don't you change your name back to "the ugly duckling," and Hey watch… out … for that … Oops there she goes AGAIN boy's!"
A loud boom shook me from my nightmare. Trying hard not to freak out, I sat up in my bed just in time hear Charlie's police cruiser pull off down the street.
Throwing off my covers, and climbing out of bed in just a thong and tank top, I am so glad I remembered to buy an electric blanket before coming to live back in Forks. I had completely blocked out just how damn cold it is here.
Grabbing my towel and fresh panties from my drawer, I pad off to a hot shower and then on to my first day at Forks high. It's the middle of the year, but the first day of a new semester. Fitting in shouldn't be too much of a problem. I just hope that everyone doesn't recognize me.
To say that this "ugly duckling" has grown into a beautiful "swan" is the understatement of the year.
This thought is confirmed as I run a hand though my freshly washed and dried, silky brown locks with their mahogany highlights. I can see it in my sparkly white, straight teeth. However, I do believe that my creamy pale skin and flashy deep brown and glowing eyes cement that fact.
Attention all, Bella Swan … I mean Marie Dwyer … I decided to takes Phil's last name, my mom's husband and my financial benefactor, and use my middle name so that I could be welcomed back with out having to be "the ugly duckling" again. Marie Dwyer is going to be the hottest girl in school. Watch out competition. I am here to stay.
Besides I have to stay I can't go home. Not after everything that happened.
A slight frown adorns my beautiful face just long enough for me to notice. I brush it off and continue my morning ritual. After finishing my make-up I take a long look in the mirror and prepare myself for a "swan's on a mission pep-talk", after sykeing myself up for an awesome day, I head to my room for the finishing touch. Clothing, it not only makes the man, but on a sexy body is makes him go crazy. I send a kiss to my perky ass, turn up the tunes and start rummaging in my closet.
My nightmare from this morning pray's in my mind again. It's the same one that has plagued me my entire life.
It was 5th grade. I was chubby, with mousy, tangled, and blah brown hair. My matching brown eyes didn't hold any luster either. I was off to my first day of school, recently fitted for new braces, and sporting a stupid Snoopy cast on my right arm from a new fall at the end of summer. The usual students were attending their first day too, namely the Cullen boys, big brother Emmett, and his bratty and cruel younger brother Edward.
Edward teased me relentlessly, every day of every year that we attended school together.
UGH! Just thinking about him spurs me to select my tightest pair of skinny jeans with an extra low back, so my butterfly thong can peek out, and low cut, short around the middle crystal blue sweater with the fitted sleeves. That way my diamond belly ring, and wonderful push-up bra cleavage can show. I grace my feet with a pair of black stilettos. Then I grab my messenger bag and coat on my way out the door.
Taking the doorknob in my hands, a small voice speaks out. A younger voice that says,
Bella do you really want to do this? Five years have passed, people can change, they can mature and grow up you know?
I shake my head reminding my inner voice that she is too young to know what is good for me anymore, and that I am going to do this! With or with out her, I prefer with out.
After locking the door, I turn to see my baby, sitting in the driveway under a protective cover I don't want the elements getting to her. I Opt, to take my dads old beat up truck for my first day. I can drive my baby tomorrow.
I laugh to myself. If they think seeing the "new girl" in the flesh so to speak isn't enough, wait until they get a load of "Bella Swan reformed little rich girl"!
Whoops, I mean the new student Marie Dwyer, the distant niece of Charlie Swan.
