Chapter 1 Chapter 1
Disclaimer: I don't own twilight (weeps) or Edward (sobs)
In this story everyone is human, Edward and Bella are both only children
Bella is new
Edward came from Alaska a year ago
It is not meant to follow the events of Twilight exactly, it will just be similar, Bella WILL NOT be hit by Tyler's van and die
I will do this story in both Edward and Bella's points of view, sometimes I will cover the one event from both points of view, other times I will just alternate at different points in time
I am Australian and our school system is really different, so I know that I have gotten heaps of things wrong about timetables and such, but please ignore that, think of the classes as nothing more than a backdrop for stuff to happen
This chapter is BOTH Edward's and Bella's point of view of the first Monday she comes to school.
Edwards POV
I sighed as I stepped out of my Volvo, quietly slamming the door, another day of school, bound to be as boring and frustrating as the last. As if on queue Jessica came bounding up to me, "Hi Edward"
"Hi Jessica" I replied already bored with our conversation and from the look on her face I could see that my irritation showed,
"Anyway" she continued, "I was wondering if you wanted to see a movie with me this Friday" she asked hopefully.
I didn't know what to say, she had asked me that every Monday for the last two months and clearly 'sorry I'm busy' wasn't enough of a hint. "I'm sorry Jessica, but I'm not interested in seeing a movie with you EVER". I regretted the words as soon as they came out of my mouth, they were true enough but probably a little harsh. She obviously thought so too.
" Edward you are such a jerk" she yelled at me, halfway to tears already. I opened my mouth, ready to rephrase in a nicer, less heartbreaking way when she yelled again
"Oh just shut it"
"But Jessica…" I tried to interrupt, but she wasn't done.
"Just get over yourself Edward, I wouldn't want to date someone with an ego as over-inflated as yours anyway". Now I was confused.
"What?"
"You think you're too good for all the girls here, honestly just go back to Alaska and date an Eskimo", I bit my tongue to hide my laugh and decided not to tell her that there are no Eskimo's in Alaska, making fun of her probably wasn't a good idea in this situation.
"Well" she continued, "Don't you have anything to say for yourself". I stayed quiet, praying she would just go away.
"Arrgh, what, now you're so great you can't even talk to me. Edward Cullen you are a jerk and mean and self-centered and arrogant and you have a superhero complex" Jessica half shouted and half sobbed. I knew she was upset and I knew what she said wasn't true but what she said still made me mad.
"Jessica, I am not a jerk, and my ego is NOT over-inflated, I would just prefer to date someone with at least half a brain". I had definitely gone too far, and before I knew what had had happened Jessica had raised her right hand and slapped me across the face, before spinning away, and flouncing off to her friends.
Still rubbing my cheek, I walked away from my car, and met up with Emmett and Jasper in the hall. "Dude what happened" asked Emmett, pointing at my evidently still red cheek,
"I dumped Jessica" I replied
"But you two weren't dating" said Jasper, clearly confused
"I know that" I said, "I just told her I wasn't interested in dating her and she overreacted majorly"
" What exactly did you say" questioned Emmett. I quickly recounted the story, leaving nothing out. Emmett hit me over the head.
"Ow, what was that for" I groaned rubbing my head.
"Do you not know anything about girls at all?"
"Apparently not, what did I do wrong"
"Never ever be mean to a girl when you're shooting her down" Jasper said joining in on the Edward abuse.
"She started it", I defended my self.
"Grow up man" said Emmett, "don't you ever want a girlfriend?" he asked, as Alice and Rosalie walked up to there respective boyfriends and kissed them on the cheek.
"What's going on guys?" asked Alice, when I had finished recounting the story yet again both her and Rosalie were laughing.
" Oh Edward" Rosalie giggled, "did I ever tell you you're an idiot". I raised my eyebrows, questioning her statement.
"Jessica's going to make this sound even worse than it already was, and before you know it you are going to sound like the biggest jerk, and like the most self-centered person that has ever existed" Alice explained as we walked to class
"I hope not" I replied
"She will bro" said Jasper
"Why don't you date anyone here anyway?" asked Emmett yet again
" I told you guys, you two", I pointed to Emmett and Jasper " have already got the only girls with brains at this school", I pointed to Alice and Rosalie,
"I just don't want to date someone incapable of intelligent thought, none of the girls who have asked me out have even tried to get to know me, I mean I just want to date someone who gets me, and likes me for me"
" Dude you sound like a twelve year old girl" said Emmett while Jasper smirked
" Well I think its sweet" said Rose
"Definitely" agreed Alice "Just hold out for the right girl Edward".
Before the guys could hassle me anymore the bell rang, and we all parted ways to our classes. I sat through English bored out of my mind; I had studied Midsummer's Nights Dream at my old school in Alaska already so this whole semester would be a bludge. After History and Calculus it was finally lunchtime.
I walked to our table and sat down, joining the others. Lunch passed without event, as usual Rose and Alice discussed going to the shops after school while Jasper, Emmett and I talked about escaping them. Before I knew it the bell had rang, and I was off to biology.
I sat down at my desk, and looked at the empty chair beside me, when I had come from Alaska almost a year ago, everyone had already had lab partners so I sat on my own. A couple of airheads had tried to swap partners to be with me, but thankfully Mr. Banner had rejected the proposition. Just then Angela Weber walked in, talking quietly to a girl I had never seen before. This girl was beautiful, her long brown hair tumbling down her back in soft curls, her brown eyes warm and welcoming, until she saw me.
She was looking for an empty desk when she spotted the seat next to me; she walked towards it and then glanced at me. Those warm brown eyes I had admired so much flashed cold and she sat down with a groan and began studiously ignoring me. I was instantly taken aback, I didn't want to sound full of my self but I had never got a reaction from a girl like that, normally it was more like instant adoration, rather than hatred. I wondered what I had done to deserve such behavior, I stared at her, completely forgetting about class. Obviously she could tell I was looking at her because she looked up and said with a voice as cold as ice "Yes". I really was confused, why did she hate me so much
" What did I do?" I asked
"Why don't you ask Jessica" she replied, still glaring. I instantly understood, Jessica must have told the new girl what happened this morning, no doubt exaggerating immensely. If that was all then there was nothing to worry about, this girl seemed sensible, I just had to explain.
"Oh that" I said, answering the unspoken question in her eyes, "What did she tell you?". As she told me what Jessica had said with emphasis on the words jerk and egotistical I had to admit it was a little funny how much Jessica had made up. Alice and Jasper were right, now it was all I could do not to laugh.
"Is something funny?" she asked, outraged
"Alice and Jasper were right" I said, she looked confused so I explained further "she did make me sound like a jerk"
"Well you are, I can't believe you would call a girl stupid when you are rejecting her" she concluded. I opened my mouth to explain but just as I was about to the bell rang and the girl jumped up, and started to storm out. All of the sudden she tripped, seemingly on nothing, and before she could fall I reached out and grabbed her, pulling her upright. It was pretty funny
"Are you okay?" I asked
"I'm fine" she spat, clearly embarrassed as she turned bright red. I watched her stalk out of the lab and realized I didn't even know her name
"Wait, what's your name" I yelled after her
"Bella" she answered, confused by my question and left.
I sat there, watching the other students pour out of the class, thinking about Bella. Bella, which means beautiful. I had found the right girl.
Bella's POV
I drove to my new school even slower than I usually would, terrified of breaking my new slash really really ridiculously old truck. I followed the signs to the Forks high school, and drove into the car park, pulling up next to a silver Volvo, which looked to be the best car here. That at least was a relief; I didn't need to worry about people teasing my poor old truck. Now I only had three hundred and three things to stress about. As I walked out of the office after collecting my timetable and map of the school, I walked around for a while, when I ran into a girl who looked to be on the verge of tears. " Are you okay", I voiced my concerns. She looked up surprised,
"Well no" she answered "but who are you"
"I'm Isabella Swan, but please call me Bella"
"I'm Jessica" she sniffed, " wait, Swan, as in Chief Swan?" she asked, suddenly so curious she had forgotten to be upset.
"Yeah, he's my dad" I replied
"I didn't know he had a daughter"
"Well I lived with my mum in Phoenix, but some stuff changed, so I came to live with Charlie". Not wanting to have to explain the situation any further, I quickly changed the subject "So why are you crying" I asked
"Oh, that" she sniffed, instantly reverting back to devastated, "I asked this guy out and instead of just being nice and saying yes or at least politely telling me he was busy, he totally yelled at me and called me stupid" she said hysterically.
"Oh my gosh" I said, honestly shocked at this guys behavior, "That is so mean, why would he do that"
"He just thinks he's so great…" she raved, Jessica kept talking but to be honest, I had tuned her out, I think I got the gist of what she was saying "…I mean what a jerk…", I nodded sympathetically, she was going on about it a bit, but I completely agreed, that guy must be a real jerk.
"What's the guys name?" I asked
"Edward" she spat, "Edward Cullen"
Before she could continue the bell rang, "What do you have first?" she said
"Government, Trigonometry and Spanish" I replied
"Well I don't have Government but I'll see you in Trig and Spanish", said Jessica, visibly brightened by that thought. She walked off leaving me alone in the hall, completely lost. As I started to pull out my map a lanky guy with pimples and black hair approached me. He showed me to class, definitely trying to hit on me. Lets just say I wasn't interested,
"Bye Eric, maybe I'll see you around" I said, trying to get rid of him
"I hope so" he said, and before he could make anymore advances towards me, I pushed the door open and entered class.
Government was boring but tolerable. What wasn't, was Trig and Spanish, its not that the subjects were particularly awful, although Trig is never fun, It was that Jessica was in the same class. I felt bad for her definitely, if I ever met this Edward I would have just ignored him, but her whining was a little over the top. It was never nice to be dumped but for two whole classes she bitched about Edward. And by the end of that time if I ever heard the words jerk or egotistical again I was pretty sure I was going to shoot myself.
We walked to the cafeteria, and it finally seemed like we were straying off the topic of Edward, when she broke off from her sentence about the shops in Port Angeles to nudge me "That him" she said, pointing across the cafeteria.
As I looked at him it was all I could do not to gasp, he was without a doubt the handsomest boy I had ever seen he was tall, but underneath his long sleeve shirt his muscles were evident, and his bronze hair was untidy.
"Oh, wow" I said, instantly understanding why Jessica was so upset about not dating this boy.
"I know, right" she agreed, " but he still shouldn't be such a jerk" she added
I quickly nodded in full agreement, good looks did not excuse his behavior, but it did make it understandable. The minute that thought crossed my mind I scolded my self and gave my consciousness a mini-lecture about how the fact that he was good looking probably just made him more of a jerk and how he was the stereotypical guy who thinks he's too good for anyone. By the time I had finished lecturing I hated this Edward at least as much as Jessica, but I was still curious about him.
"Who is he sitting with?" I asked gesturing towards his table, where he sat with a huge almost bear-like guy, who had his arm around a beautiful blond and a short pixie-like girl, who was sitting on the lap of a tall blond boy.
"That is Emmett" she said pointing to the huge muscled guy, "the girl he has his arm around is Rosalie", she pointed to model-like girl, "The short girl with dark hair is Alice, and her boyfriends name his Jasper" she concluded. I nodded my understanding. "Edward, Emmett and Jasper are best friends, and Rosalie and Alice are best friends too".
Again I nodded taking everything in, I saw Jessica looking at me and added
"Who'd want to be friends with a guy like that." She quickly agreed with me, and we spent a few minutes talking to her other friends, Lauren, a guy named Mike and Angela, who I thought I would get along with well, probably better than I would with Jessica.
Just then the bell rang, and I pulled out my timetable again, "I have biology with Mr. Banner" I announced.
"Oh me too" said Angela, "come on I'll show you the way", as we walked to class we chatted a little about how I was settling into Forks, before entering the labs
"Sorry Bella, but its assigned seating" Angela said walking to the back of the room with apologetic smile. I looked around for an empty seat, all the tables seemed full, until my eye caught the one next to the center aisle, I walked towards it and let out a small groan when I saw who my lab partner would be this year. Edward Cullen.
I slid next to him, not even giving him a glance out of the corner of my eye, studiously ignoring him, as I took notes on the subject we were about to start, cellular anatomy, which unfortunately I had already studied. I could feel Edward's eyes on me as I wrote and after a while I looked up at him and said coldly "yes?" it was no mean feat trying to act non interested in him when his eyes looked so deep, emerald green and sparkling. I pulled my self out of their grip, and glared at him, noticing the perplexed expression on his face.
"What did I do?" he asked confused
"Why don't you ask Jessica?" I replied making a great effort not to look directly into his eyes
" Oh that" he said, sounding relieved, "What did she tell you?" As I filled him in he looked like he was on the verge of laughing
" Is something funny?" I asked even madder at him than before
"Alice and Jasper were right" he said, "she did make me sound like a jerk"
"Well you are, I can't believe you would call a girl stupid when you are rejecting her" I concluded. His mouth opened to argue, but before could say a word the bell rang, and I quickly jumped up, ready to flee the room. Because I was Bella my dramatic exit was somewhat spoiled as I tripped on… nothing. Before I could hit the ground Edwards arm shot out and he grabbed me, pulling me upright.
"Are you okay" he said, slightly amused
"I'm fine" I shot back, blushing twenty shades of scarlet as I walked out of the room
"Wait" he cried, "What's your name"
"Bella" I said, wondering why he even cared.
What did you guys think, please review, this story is only my second fanfic, and my first serious one, so let me know what you thought, next chapter should be up soon