Hello! It's JennsEmeralds! I am proud to say that I just loaded my second FF story. Bella and the gang are Seniors and they are about to have the time of their lives. I have been reading FF for about a year. I fell in love with as soon as I found it. I am up after midnight posting this. What can I say. I am a FF addicted. There, I admitted it. I would like to give a shout out to some of the authors that have inspired me: Mishief_Maker1, Fiberkitty, BrownEyeddGirl and more. You guys are my inspiration. And you do an awesome job.
Remember I do not own SM or Twilight. I just wish I did. TTFN. So read on!
Beep, Beep, Beep, Beep.
Why won't that incessant sound recoil from my head! What is that! My thoughts were reeling about the new school year starting today as I pulled up to Jefferson High. I was going to be a Senior! Yay, me! Odd, the parking lot is empty. Did my clock get set wrong? Strange. Oh, well. It's good to get an early start on the first day, I thought. As I opened the car door, I turned my
waist to collect my shoulder bag carry my books. When I stepped out, I was still throwing the bag over my shoulder, not really looking at my feet. All of the sudden, the ground felt soft and squishy as if I was walking on sand. I stumbled forward only to see that I indeed was on sand.
What the…? Just then, I heard a soft growling, and felt something brush against my neck. I swung around behind me only to see the rocks against the cliff's edge. "I've been waiting for you…so long," someone said in a soft voice, almost too hard to hear. I instantly turned to look forward again. Still I saw nothing. My shallow breaths were getting heavier by the second. My chest was heaving up and down at an alarming rate. I was starting to feel a fear that was indescribable. "So, so long." The male voice whispered.
"Where are you!" It sounded more like a statement that a question. For some strange reason, the stronger the fear became in me, the angrier I got. I was starting to get impatient. "Just get it over with if you are going to kill me! Show you face!" "You are a unique one." He said again softly. "I am not going to kill you. I just wanted to smell your scent. Feel your skin."
Just then, I saw a blinding copper colored light. It looked almost like a penny glaring in the hot sun. It streaked in front of me so fast that I could not figure out who, or what, it was. "Who are you!" I bellowed out thinking he was probably too far away for me to hear. "Oh, you will find out soon enough." He yelled back from the distance. Whoa! How could he hear me? He
sounded too far away. And it sounded like he was…laughing? "Soon enough," the voice echoed silently.
Beep, Beep, Beep, Beep. The beeping got closer. "Oh, and one more thing. Wake up!" That voice would be my undoing.
"Wake your sweet ass up, Bella!" It was Rose yelling at me while beeping her horn. She was parked outside of my window sitting in her bright red BMW. "She is going to make us late for our first day. Let's say we go inside and pull her 'sweet ass', as you so lovingly put it, out
of her comfy little bed, so we can get a move on." That was Rose's twin brother Jasper. He always wanted to make the perfect first impression. "Besides, I need to get a look at the new Freshman hotties." I almost forgot to say he was a vulture at heart swooping down on new Freshman blood. "Don't worry brother dear, I will make sure we get to school in time for you
to check out your newest victim. Besides, I wouldn't mind checking out the view for myself. I hear there are some newbies this year." She smiled. Jasper looked at her with a smirk and muttered, "I would bet," as he turned to open his car door. "Let's go get her."
Before I knew it my bed was shaking and they were pulling me up by the arms. My head was still slack falling backward. "Let me sleep five more minutes. Please. The penny was keeping me up…" I droned. "What is she talking about?" Jasper whispered to his sister like I couldn't hear him. "With Bella, you just never know. She has strange dreams sometimes. That's it. She was talking about a dream." She stated. "You're right," I groaned. "But it was so vivid." My eyes popped wide open. "What time is it?" I yelled. "Uh it is 7:15 A.M. on the first day of our senior year. The best year of our lives. Hellllloooo." Rose Chided. "Oh crap! I need to get dressed!" I said hurriedly as I started to throw my clothes off in a blur and run to the closet. "Meowwww." Jasper was ogling me with his eyebrows raised staring right at my ass. "Your right, Rose. She does have a sweet ass." He laughed.
"Get out, Perv, before I throw you out!" I screamed at him as Rose pushed him out of the door. "I swear, Rose, I don't know how you put up with him." "He's my brother, Bella. He doesn't eye me like a piece of meat. He protects me. And I love him for it." She smiled. Rose was right, Jasper would take a bullet for her. He would kick the ass of every member of the football team if they spoke ill of her, or made her upset. In fact, he has kicked some of the team members' asses for doing just that. He wasn't a very big guy, but he was solid muscle, and toned. He was fast on his feet. He was tough.
Jasper also looked after me. We had all known each other since the third grade. That's when I moved here with my Dad from dreary Forks. My mother had left him to run off and get married to a member of some Baseball team. It nearly killed him. So he decided to make a change, and we packed up and moved here to sunny L.A. I don't really miss her. It was miserable when she was around. She was miserable and all they did was fight. It was nicer and quieter this way. My dad was all I needed. He was always there for me even when she was still around. Well, I also needed Rose and Jasper. They befriended me the minute I arrived here. They lived at the end of our street, so when the moving van arrived, they started running after it to see what all the excitement was about. Well that, and their mother telling them that there was a new playmate moving in. It was a nice, upscale housing community. Nice houses, nice cars, nice….everything. But everyone knew what everyone's business was. And speaking of that business, there was a buzz going around about a new family moving in across the street, from my dad and me, with three kids around my age. The father was a doctor who was transferred from Seattle to L.A. He was supposed to be a fantastic surgeon. I thought it strange when I never even saw a moving van, but it looked like there was someone there already. Maybe it came at night. Maybe I would see them in school today.
Rose and Jasper's mother was also single, like my Dad. Like my Father, their father was also a police officer. Be he was killed in the line of duty when they were just four years old. Their mother is still trying to get over his loss. She and my father had that in common, because he never got over my mother leaving either. They would sit together sometimes, and have a pity fest, consoling each other about each other's losses. Rose, Jasper and I always thought someday that my dad and their mom would get together and just forget about the past. We couldn't be the ones to push them though. It had to be them.
"Bella, Belllaaa!" Rose was waving her hand in front of my face. "Oh, yeah, I am getting ready." I was daydreaming again. Crap! She just smiled, "That's my Bella." I went to the closet and pulled out my little red and black uniform. We were on a dance team called the Red Hots. And we were good. We have been undefeated for the last three years. That's when we joined.
And those uniforms were hot. This was the one we wore to school. We also had one that wore to night games. I pulled on the red supportive halter top that stopped just above my belly button. It had black scriptive lettering that showed RH. And then the skirt, which went just below my ass, was also red with black in the pleats. My black bloomers had red script letting in the back that said "Red Hot." "We are twins again." Rose laughed as she helped me get my bag that held my books and a change of clothes for later. We always had our team rally on the first day of the school year to welcome in the newcomers. We had to show them that we were the best at what we did. And what we did was win!
Once we were in the car, Rose rolled down the windows and blared her stereo. We would get so many looks, and she liked the attention. I surprisingly did too. It was an awesome sound system with sub woofers and a separate amplifier that she had in the back. Rose and Jasper each got one for their cars for their sixteenth birthday. Rose BMW and Jasper's Audi. I am no audiophile, but it was pretty cool. I think it was a Pioneer system with Kicker subs. That is what I remember Jasper saying. He was the most excited about the specifications, and how well it produced. I thought I would go deaf the first time I heard it. But now I loved how it sounded. I was able to daydream about my dream I had. I couldn't get that glaring copper out of my mind. It was haunting.
We pulled up to the school. Dejavue. I thought, trying to shake the dream out of my head. Good thing my dark auburn hair was naturally wavy, with the open windows in Rose's car. I just had to shake it upside down and finger through the curls. When I looked over at Rose, she was doing the same thing. We really were twins in the sisterly sense. "Ok, all good, let's get to it. We've got some meeting and greeting to do." Rose was already half way up the walk way. She was always so good at public speaking. Everybody loved her, no matter what group they were in. She owned them all. And under her tough demanding exterior, she was the most giving of us all. I think everyone saw just that.
I looked across the campus and saw that Jasper was already hovering over some freshman blondie, dazzling her with his sky blue eyes. He had her backed up against the wall with his hand resting also on that wall at the front of the school. She was looking up at him with wide blue eyes. I couldn't tell if she was being mesmerized by him, or just scared shitless. I smiled knowing he would have her fainting or running soon. He had a very magnetic personality. His personality was so direct and strong, that people would either love him or hate him right away. He was down right terrorizing to some. But I knew he was just a marshmallow at heart.
"Hey chickies, ready for the new year?" It was Lauren, Jessica and Angela, a couple other members of the Red Hots. We kind of all hung out together like a gang or something. I laughed at myself when I thought of it like that. We were such girls. Always fixing our makeup, or checking for blemishes. You know, girl stuff. "Hey guys. I am glad we are together again. I missed you guys." I said as I hugged each of them. "Yeah us too." Lauren's parents took Lauren, Jessica and Angela on a trip to Paris during the summer. Rose and I wanted to stay close to our parents. We still worried about them getting lonely.
"Whoa baby! Take a look at that hottie! He could be a model. I'd like a piece of that." Lauren whispered a little too loudly. "I second that for sure," Jessica whispered just as loudly. They were getting closer and I think they heard them because they were both smiling at each other knowingly. I swear both Lauren and Jessica were salivating on there uniforms! God, girls can be such pigs, too. At least these two.
It was then that I saw them. There were two kids coming our way. They did both look like they walked right out a fashion magazine. The girl had dark, short spiky hair. She was smiling from ear to ear. She actually looked excited to be here. And the boy. The boy had dark hair. With copper highlights! Copper of all things! "Ohmygod," I barely breathed. I couldn't get the air to breath, let alone, talk out loud. My insides were constricted. I couldn't move. I think I was hyperventilating. "Are you Ok. Bella? I think you need to sit down." Rosalie looked at me, concerned. I was still standing? I thought I was sitting. I was surprised I wasn't falling straight over right onto my face.
"The penny that kept me awake" I muttered slowly. Rose looked at me and then the two kids walking our way. "What? Bella. Is that who you dreamed about?" Rose had always thought my dreams meant something. She would by stock in my dreams if she could. A few times through my adolescence, I would have a dream that I would tell her about. Once I dreamt that our close knit neighborhood turned into a lake, and I was fishing in it. And three days later it rained so much that it flooded our neighborhood. And then Charlie decided to go deep sea fishing with some of his police buddies. The two coincidences meant nothing to me. In fact, they really weren't the same. But Rose thought they were. She really listened when I told her my dreams. She knew everything about me. And she didn't think I was strange for doing it. I never felt like an only child after I met Rose and Jasper. Jasper knew about my dreams, too, but he didn't really see the connections like Rose did.
"God, Bella, get a grip. I saw him first." It irritated Lauren that Rose and I were so close. She was actually jealous I think. All of the sudden I heard a tiny, but vocal voice. "Hi." It was the girl who spoke first. Her voice sounded almost like she was singing. "We are new here, and I have seen you before." She was talking straight to me. "I'm Alice and this is my twin brother, Edward. Edward, say hi."
"Hi." The copper haired boy blurted out. He was staring at me! Oh my god, I am losing air again. "Hmmm Hmmmm!" Rose cleared her throat. "I'm Rose and this is Bella and this is…" "Lauren Mallory, nice to meet you," Lauren interrupted trying to grab Edwards's hand, but he backed away from her. Ha! Take that, Lauren. Was she still…drooling? "And this is Jessica," Rose cut in again, giving Lauren a look that said, "Do that again, and I'll rip your throat out." Lauren backed off. She was afraid of Rose. She actually though Rose was capable of doing it. Actually, Rose was capable of doing it. That though made me smile. "Oh I'm sorry. Hi. I'm Alice and this is….." "I heard you the first time." Rose recalled. "You look familiar also. Oh yes. I saw both of you on our new street. We are your neighbors." Alice beamed even more at the recollection. "Oh yeah, you guys just moved in. Hey, we didn't see the moving van, or else we would have come over to welcome you to the neighborhood." Anytime someone new would move into our neighborhood, Rose and I would bake something and take it over to welcome them "home".
"We hired movers, and they got their in the middle of the night of all things. We arrived shortly after. They were very good at setting up the house though. They were done before daylight. You'll have to excuse my brother. We haven't had much sleep. I think he is becoming comatose." Alice laughed. It was a beautiful laugh. So genuine. "Is that why he is still staring at Bella? Is he falling asleep or something?" "Oh, sorry!" He looked the other way so fast. He looked embarrassed.
"We can show you around if you would like. And after school we will bring you some baked goods to welcome you to neighborhood. Bell, here, is a great baker and cook." Rose smiled at me. "Rose! Stop!" Now I was starting to get embarrassed.
Just then the bell rang and we started into the building. I was still thinking about the dream I had and the copper haired boy in front of me walking. I didn't see his face in the dream. But, I knew it couldn't be him. I shook that thought off quick. My dreams didn't mean anything. It was just like any child having a nightmare, or dreaming about a fairytale. Suddenly I ran into something and it through me back out of my thoughts. "Owww!" I heard someone gasp. I looked up and it was Edward who was doing the gasping. "Oh. I am so sorry! Are you ok?" I had run right into the back of Edward, and stepped on that back of his foot. "No blood, no foul." He smiled at me and patted me on the shoulder. Suddenly, I felt a jolt of electricity pump through my body right where he touched me. And by the look on his face, I think he did, too. We jumped apart at the same time. "I think you should walk in front of me and help me find my first class," he said teasingly. "It's Room 308. Biology." "Oh, funny, that is my first class, too." I said. This is going to be the best year of my life.