Thoughts

"Speaking"

(Author's Note)

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5th Grade…

Edward Cullen. Why did he choose me? I haven't even said anything except for: "Hi, I'm Isabella, but I like to be called Bella, what's your name?" An he chose me for his target?! Totally unfair!

Unfortunately for me, I am not at all brave.

So, I don't say a thing to him, and avoid him at all costs. Stupid jerk. (You have to remember, she's 10, so no GOOD names are in her vocabulary yet…)

"Thank you so much for letting me go live with mom in Phoenix! I promise to stop by at least every summer! And, dad, can you please not tell anyone where or why I'm going?"

"Of course Bells, after what happened, I won't speak a word."

"Thanks, dad."

"Now go! You don't want to miss your plane! Love you! And, Bells, try to at least have SOME fun, okay?"

"Okay dad. Thanks again. I love you! Bye!"

After I boarded the plane, today's events kept replaying over and over again in my head.

Memory of today:

Edward ever-so-slowly walked up to my in class today. It was an indoor-recess, and I chose to sit at my desk and do tonight's homework so I'd have none to do after school today.

At first I didn't even notice him, but then he made a slight mistake. He grabbed my book.

I looked up.

I glared.

He didn't notice. His nose was in my book, his grubby hands all over the new paper-back cover.

That was the last straw. I'd put up with everything he threw at me, but this was just too much. We had boundaries for our little war. His was his hair; mine was my books.

He NEVER took my boundaries seriously. And I was through with it.

I slammed my pencil down, stood up, and he had a look of genuine fear on his face for a split second when he lifted his eyes off my book.

"Okay, Edward. Give me my book back, and I will end this war, right her, right now. But if you don't, I will personally make your life hell. Your choice."

"Oooh, I'm sooo scared!"

"Alice! I need your help with your parent's child!" She doesn't like to refer to him as 'her step-brother'. She hated him just as much as I did. ESPECIALLY after his dad married her mom. She refused to turn her last name from 'Brandon' to 'Cullen'.

"What did he do THIS time?!"

"HE. HAS. MY. NEW. COPY. OF. INKSPELL."

"Oooooh, my dearest sibling. BIG mistake there."

"Oh yes, get the PIXE to help you."

"ROSE!"

"WHAT?! I'M IN THE ZONE HERE!" she replied. She was a flirt.

"ITS. ABOUT EDWARD." She was there in a split second.

"Oh, yeah. Because the THORN is much better help than the pixie."

He then proceeded to tear my book apart. Page by page.

I punched him.

I thought that ended it. But NOOOOOO! The world HAS to be against me!

So, at lunch, he decided to get Tanya (his girlfriend) to pour maple syrup on my head. He then got his fan club (which consisted of Tanya's sisters) to put confetti in my hair, take several pictures, and put them on the internet.

It couldn't POSSIBLY get worse.

But, nope. It could.

He then decided that I needed public humiliation on the school's PA, for those who didn't see the website. He also added a 'little extra fact about Isabella Swan'. (I'll spare you the details, pretty much what happens is he announces that Bella is a whore, then gives out her cell number telling them to tell their older friends and parents about her 'services'.)

Fortunately, I didn't have a cell phone, so I didn't have to explain to my dad all this, because, him being police chief and all, he answered the phone most of the 39 (yes, I had counted) times I got a call about that.

I will never forgive him. EVER.

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