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"Alright class today I have a special project for you, Bella smiled at her freshman class as she sat her bag down on her desk.
"I'm sure it's far from special." Mike Newton grumbled from the back row." Bella threw him a look.
"Actually it is. Mr. Newton." Bella pulled her bag towards her and pulled out a pile of letters. "This is a pile of letters written by Military men and women each of you will be given a letter and you will be expected to write to this person for the rest of the semester. "I'll have you turn in the first few for a grade but after that it's up to you."
"Great just what I want to write to complete strangers." Mike scoffed.
"Mr. Newton you will show respect." Bella narrowed her eyes at her most disruptive student.
"Whatever." He slumped in his seat scowling. Bella marched down the aisle her heels clicking against the linoleum floor. She leaned over his desk slapping a letter down.
"First of all you will do it." She pointed at the letter second of all you will go to the principal's office this moment." She straightened and pointed at the door. Mike scowled at her as he pulled his bag off the floor grabbed his letter and stalked out of the room slamming the door behind him. Bella felt some of the excitement she'd felt over this project waning. She walked back to the front of the room and turned to her students. "Well let's get these passed out." She smiled as she passed a letter out to each of her students. She sat at her desk and watched as her students read over their letters. She felt her energy draining she was glad this was her last class of the day.
The bell rang, "Have good day." She said as her students packed up. As soon as the last one was out the door she started to pack up her own things that's when she noticed it, one lone letter stuffed in the back pocket of her bag.
"How did that get here," she sighed sitting down and pulling out of her bag and flipping it over. The front read Sargent Edward Cullen. Why did that name seem so familiar?
She sat in her chair and contemplated the unopened letter she didn't know how she'd ended up with one extra but all the students in her class already had someone to write to.
"You could always do it." Her subconscious whispered. She thought about it before slipping her finger under the flap and opening the letter she pulled the paper out, unfolding it she looked at the writing scrawled across the lined paper. She sat back and read the words written by this man.
Hello My Name is Sargent Edward Cullen I'm 32 and have two siblings Emmett is older than me by two years and lives in Seattle, Alice is younger than me by six years and her and my parents just moved to a tiny town called Forks actually it was Alice who convinced me to write this letter interfering little pixie anyway.
Bella gasped and the letter fluttered into her lap, that's how she knew the name and when she got her hands on Alice she was going to strangle her. Alice must have stuffed the letter in her beg when she went in to give her coffee this morning on the way to work.
"Oh Alice." She shook her head and picked the letter back up. She chuckled at the interfering little pixie line. "Oh how true." She said.
"Talking to yourself now. You know they say that's a sign of insanity." Bella's head shot up.
"Alice Cullen you are dead." Bella clutched the letter in her hand as she stalked towards her friend.
"What why?" Alice feigned innocence though her eyes lingered on the letter in her friends.
"I don't know Alice let me think." Bella stopped and pretended to contemplate the issue. "Maybe just maybe it's because you convinced your brother to join the pen pal program and then you swiped his letter and stuffed it in my bag so I wouldn't give it to any of my students thus feeling compelled to read it and answer it."
"Actually you're wrong you had the letter all along though I may have called the branch to make sure you'd get it. I just sorted through the pile and hide that one." Alice smirked.
"Interfering Pixie." Bella rolled her eyes.
"Oh and sounding like Edward already." Alice giggled.
"You're impossible." Bella threw her hands in the air and went back to her desk shoving the letter into her bag and pulling the bag over her shoulder. You ready to go?"
"Yup." Alice walked out the door and Bella followed locking the door behind her. "So are you going to write back?"
"As much as I want to say no just to annoy you, you know I will." Bella sighed Forks was small enough that she'd walked to work this morning but her and Alice were going Apartment hunting today so Alice had picked her up from the school.
Alice had moved to Forks two months before with her parents from New York and Bella had moved back home when a job opening at Forks had opened up two months ago also. They were both living with their parents but at twenty six they needed to get out of those houses and on their own.
"Charlie still trying to give you a curfew." Alice giggled as she started the car.
"Yes and its not funny." Bella wined.
"Oh it's a little funny." They pulled up to a little house close to the school and Alice's store. Getting out they were met by the realtor.
"Hello I'm Lauren Mallory." The blond held out her hand.
"Lauren I went to school with you I know who the heck you are." Bella reminded her.
"Right." The blond flushed. "Well this house has three bedrooms and two baths and a half, Its $1200 a month that includes water and garbage."
She opened the house and Bella and Alice followed her inside. "Its got a nice layout." Alice said looking around.
"The kitchen is nice." Bella said running her hands over the garnet countertops.
"yeah lets check out the rooms." Alice said walking down the hall.
"Mine." Bella heard Alice squeal. Bella made her way into the doorway to see Alice spinning around a light pink room.
"Now this room and the one across the hall have attached bathrooms, the other room does not."
"Ok so if we take this I'll take the one across the hall." Bella said walking across the hall and seeing the room.
"What do you think?" Alice asked.
"It's a good place doubt we'll find better lets take it."
"Right." Alice nodded the girls filled out the rental agreement and handed it to Lauren.
"I'm sure everything will be in order, this should all be processed within a week and you can move in two."
"Thanks Lauren." Bella said shaking her hand.
"Well that was easy." Alice said as she slipped into her car.
"Yeah, now just get me out of my father's house and we'll be good." Bella joked.
"That desperate."
"Yes that desperate."
"Want to grab dinner?"
"Can't I have a ton of grading to do?" Bella sighed.
"Ok." Alice nodded as she turned down Bella's street.
"I'll see you tomorrow." Alice waved as she pulled away. Unlocking the door Bella sat her things down and started dinner for her and Charlie. As the spaghetti was cooking she sat down and started to grad the papers. Her eyes kept wondering to the letter in her bag. Finally she couldn't take it anymore and she pulled it out along with a fresh sheet of paper.
Edward
Your sister is an annoying pixie also known as my best friend. She's sneaky she's devious and she stole my letters for my students hiding yours so only I would find it and after all the students were gone. So I'm writing to you. Sorry disappoint I'm not a high school student. I live in Forks with my father for the moment but will be getting a house with Alice soon. "Pray for me.
Oh yeah my name is Isabella Swan I'm a high school teacher and I go by Bella.
She finished with the letter and found an envelope sealing the letter and stamping it Bella stood up and finished dinner setting it on the table she cleared her work away and slipped the letter into her bag. "Sometimes Alice can be a pain in my ass." She grumbled.
"What was that?"
"Nothing dad." She sighed. "Dinners ready."
"So how was your day?" Charlie asked as he took some of the food.
"Ok me and Alice got an apartment we'll be leaving in a Two weeks. I'm going to freeze meals for you before I go and I'll try and remember to bring food around every once in a while can't have you starving." Bella joked.
"Ha-ha." Charlie said sarcastically. "I'm not that bad." Bella begged to differ but didn't say anything. After she washed the supper dishes and put away the leftovers she took a quick shower and crawled into bed the letter far from her mind but that would be one of the last times Edward Cullen would be far from her mind.
A/N ok so what do you think let me know please review.