Chapter 1

Sick

"Bella!" my best friend Jessica Stanley yelled. She had been my best friend since I first moved here in the middle of my sophomore year. It was over two years later now and we were seniors. I felt a wave of pride crash over me as I thought thins. We were almost done, and in a mere matter of months we would be free. But it was more than that to me, but I don't know what made it more. "What were you doing?!" She squealed. I hadn't realized I had fallen asleep.

"Uh, I guess I fell asleep waiting for first ball to ring."

"Well it rang five minutes ago," she ranted. "I wrote a pass to come see where you were," her voice saturated with self-pride, most likely from knowing she did something to help someone other than herself. Even though I loved her to death, I had to admit she could be very selfish.

"I'm so sorry, Jess," I answered honestly. I felt bad for making her come to my rescue when she didn't have to. I didn't usually do things like this. I have felt kind of off lately. I've been so tired lately, and I'll find myself freezing in the 80-degree temperature classrooms.

"How are you feeling?" she asked sounding sincerely concerned.

"I'm fine, Jess."

"Come on, Bella. You always say you're 'fine,'" she said making air quotations in the air at the word fine, "but you never are."

"Jess I am honestly fine," I said giving her a stern look.

With that she just turned around heaving a huge sigh. We then walked to our first period class, trigonometry, with Mr. Banner. We had him our sophomore year, but he moved up to teaching 12th grade trig.

My class after that was Spanish. The teacher was giving a lecture about conjugation, which I already understood, so I spent most of the class doodling in my spiral or finishing the worksheet she gave us.

After that I had gym. Ugh, gym! I always hated gym because I found myself stumbling around and inflicting injuries to the innocent players around me. Coach Clapp finally blew the whistle to excuse us and I hurriedly went into the locker room to change and go to lunch.

I was glad to be away from studies and with my friends again. As I walked in I noticed the empty table in the corner as I always did. I always felt something was missing from it but I could never put my finger on it. It was like there was something that was supposed to be there but wasn't.

"Bella!" Mike yelled pulling me out of my thoughts.

"Hey, how's it going?"

"Good, and you?"

"Good," I answered. I was glad Mike got over that whole insistent on being my boyfriend thing, and same for Eric. They proved to be really good friends and I don't know what I would do without them.

I got my lunch and went to sit at my normal table with Mike, Eric, Jessica, Ben, Angela, Lauren, and Tyler. They were all sitting around gossiping and chatting just like they always did. It was nice get away and just sit down, relax, and listen to their stories of the latest "drama crisis."

After lunch I was of to biology with Angela and Mike. We all took our normal seats m being alone (after ten minutes of convincing Mike to sit with Jessica, his girlfriend.) and the others their partners. I always felt like there was somebody supposed to be with me, but I just shook it off like all those other feelings.

The rest of my classes went by uneventfully so by the end of the day I was more than ready to be home. I was on my way to the parking lot when I saw3 a very familiar '86 rabbit waiting for me in the parking lot. My mood was automatically lifted when I saw Jacob Black, my current boyfriend waiting for me in the parking lot.

"How was your day today?" I asked

"good, and you?" he responded kissing me on the cheek

"Long, but getting better," I told him getting into the car as he climbed into the drivers side. We spent the rest of the day talking and watching some game on the flat-screen.

Charlie, my dad/chief of police, came through the door at around six yelling "Hey kids!" so I figured Billy, Jacob's dad and Charlie's best friend, told Charlie about him coming over. I swear they gossip like old women sometimes.

After an hour of small talk and watching some game on TV Charlie said "Well, it was nice having you over Jake, but I think its time you head home."

"Yes sir, and ill tell Billy you said hi," He replied respectfully, and turned to me. "By Bells, I'll call you tomorrow," he said pecking me swiftly on the cheek before turning to leave.

"Bye!" I yelled and turned to Charlie, "okay what do you want for dinner?" I asked him disconnected.

"Uh, we haven't had spaghetti in a long time," he replied trying to be subtle with his hinting he wanted spaghetti.

"okay sounds good to me," I replied turning towards the kitchen of our small little two-bedroom house. I got the ground beef out of the fridge and the pasta out of the yellow cabinets. I was Browning the meat when my knees buckled. I felt my legs slip out from under me, and everything went black.

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