Day 70

The birds chirping happily in the large tree's surrounding me, I found actually peaceful. The location was an anicent park that nobody visits anymore, which I also found peaceful. Alone. I've always been used to be alone. Until the day I met Alice.

Day 1

I saw teenagers around everywhere, even though I was a teenager I still felt as if I were at least thirty. Sighing, I stuffed my hands into my grey pocket's and walked along the halls of this brand new private school I have been attending for about...well today is my first day. I find it absoloutely ludicrous how I couldn't even graduate my senior year back at Forks because I didn't take the right amount of gym classes. I could have made that up over the summer but now I'm here in New York, stuck with a US History class, Advanced English class, and of course Gym. This should be a fun year.

Whispers passed through the mass of people around me. My father, Charlie, made us move here because of his job. I didn't really mind it. Back at Forks I didn't have so much friends, it was the same here. I was just a new person invading their space and I guess that wasn't OK for them. A tall figure bumped slightly into my left arm which made me wince. He, of course didn't apologize so I just kept on walking with my head straight.

The rooms wouldn't be too hard to find since this was a fairly small school. There was only one floor, the baby blue lockers were seen from the beginning to the end of the long hall. One cafeteria, or you could eat lunch outside which is what I would most likely be doing. You could definetely find a place for yourself outside instead of choosing to sit at a random table with people giving you looks because you're obviously not wanted there.

Finding my first class wasn't so bad, a few people already beat me there with their heads in their books. A few of their heads popped up to see who came into the class. All eyes were on me, and it was honestly making me feel uncomfortable. It was as if I was a new never before seen exotic animal.

My eyes met the teacher's, from what I could tell she looked bored out of her mind. "Take a seat anywhere you would like." She said in a firm voice and I nodded once, my eyes watching my feet as they made their way to the closest seat I could find. This day was going to be a long one, and the bell didn't even ring yet. I chewed on the inside of my lip so I could be distracted by something. There was absolute silence in the room and that just made things even worse.

The bell finally rang and a few seconds after that, the majority of the classroom walked in. The teacher gave them each pointed looks, making sure they got their first warning. "Alright, class. I know this is a new semester and you all are still on summer break in your minds. That stops now, this semester we will be going over..."

I try my best to pay attention to what the teacher is exactly saying. I have gotten straight A's throughout my academic life, I guess you could say I have expectations to fill. My father would always brag at work events or holidays at how smart I am. All eyes would go on me again, bright smiles. I would do my best to smile back but I wasn't really much for attention. I like to observe people instead of them observing me.

For example, the teacher right now in her mid-thirties seems like she is in much distress. Her sandy brown hair was in a ponytail, a few strands drifting off towards her cheek bones. Her eyes scanned over the room, making sure every student somewhat understood of what was going to be learned during the long nine months of school. Technically I only need to take one more semester, but of course that couldn't work out with the school so I'm stuck here for the whole nine months. Alone.

After I was out of US History, my English class went very slow. The teacher made the whole class period a lecture about how we're going to work on so much grammar because grammar is important, grammar is necessary, grammar this, grammar that. I felt like I was in a freshman class.

Once that awful part of my day was over, it was lunch time. For me, anyway. The last class I have is gym but right now that is my last concern. My hope was to get out of this building for thirty-five minutes. Time for just myself. A red apple in hand, I walked outside and took in a deep breath of the wind that blew some of my long, brown hair off in all directions. The sun was out, and you could hear leaves moving around from the wind. It was my kind of day. A few kids were sitting on benches, mostly couples holding hands and laughing for no reason what-so-ever. Part of me would like to know why couples did that. Maybe it's some weird emotion and that can't help but laugh, I am not so sure. Never had a relationship at all.

There was a field near by and a huge oak tree off to the distance, the huge branches hung out in every direction. It looked absoloutely perfect to me. The walk there was about five minutes, but once I was closer the beauty of it intensified times ten. In all honesty, I never seen a tree like this before. With a small smile on my face, I sat down against the bark and looked at my apple. The wind blew once again and I just layed my head back against the tree, my eyes closed for a moment. It was actually a nice time for me to relax, until I heard something move on the other side of the tree.

I peaked one of my eyes slightly open to turn my head towards the direction I heard the sound coming from. A second later, I opened both of my eyes wide open to see it was another person on the other side of the tree. Her questioning expression on her face made it almost impossible to look away. She had a small figure, her straight jet-black hair was about right below her jawline. Her skin was a nice tone of pale, and her nose was cute and eyes...the most unbelieveable shade of golden brown. Almost like honey, but a bit brighter. I could have looked at her longer, but then realized we have been staring at each other for long enough.

I broke the staring contest and turned back to look straight forward. Please don't come over here and ask why I was staring at you, please please please. I said over and over again in my mind, taking deep breaths and expecting the girl to walk over here and start questioning me.

Sure enough, not even two minutes later I see her short figure walk in front of me with a friendly closed smile on her lips. Her golden eyes peered down at me, and I tried my best not to avert my sight from her even though I most likely knew what was coming next.

"Hi," her voice sounded light and cheerful, almost like a bird singing. "are you new here? I've never seen you around before."

I blinked once, letting out a long breath that I was holding inside my lungs. Relief rushed over me and the girl was waiting for a response, her patient eyes glued to me. I opened my mouth to respond but no words came to mind. Come on, Bella. It isn't that hard to talk. I muttered to myself in my mind and chewed on my inner lip momentarily.

"Yes." I managed to say softly and her smile widened.

"Ah, I thought so. I'm Alice." Alice repeated in my mind and I nodded my head.

"I'm Bella."

"Nice to meet you, Bella." Her eye brows slightly furrowed. "Hm..Bella. Doesn't that mean beautiful in Italian?"

A small smile appeared on my lips and I nodded once again, feeling my heart pound excitedly within my chest. Though I don't know why, it was just a girl.

Alice nodded with me and giggled softly. "I knew it!" Her voice raised with victory which made me laugh awkwardly. I wasn't familiar with having somebody other than my dad to talk with. Alice made it seem like we were going to be talking more than once.

"Where are you from?" She sat down in front of me, legs crossed like Indian style and once I could see her up close, her beauty was unbearable. Especially her eyes, they looked so intense and bright.

"Um..I'm from a small town in Washington. Just moved here over the summer." I said with a slight shake in my voice and looked at the dirt on the ground. Distraction was what I needed. I've seen plenty of stars on magazine cover's and in movies, but they were no way half as pretty as the girl that was right in front of me.

"Huh..so that must be a change for you, hm? I heard it rains a lot there." I looked at her in the eye and nodded once.

"Like you wouldn't even imagine." I let out a soft sigh, looking at the couples that were on the benches which were now starting to walk into the school.

Alice seemed to notice me looking and turned her head to look as well. "Shoot. I have class in a few minutes." she turned her head back and bit her lip, standing up and looking back at the school once again.

"I do, too. Gym." I mumbled and got up too, noticing I was about an inch or two taller than her.

"Well..." Alice lingered by the tree for several moments before taking a few steps back. "It was nice to meet you, Bella. I hope to see you around." She said with a sincere voice, like she actually meant it.

My lips curved up into a small smile and I played around with my fingers. "Nice to meet you, too."

She smiled at me once more and took a few more steps back until turning her feet so I could see the back of her. "See ya!" She waved one hand up. I waved back, even though she couldn't see me and she turned around quickly.

"Wait! What are you doing after school?" She shouted because we were already to far away and the wind was terribly loud.

I looked down at the ground quickly, thinking of what I was doing after school. "I have to go home and cook dinner for my dad.." I shouted back, Alice's smile fell quickly but then she shrugged her shoulders.

"Oh well, maybe I'll ask you next time!" She said with a smirk on her face and winked at me, turning her direction once again and making her way back to the school.

Sighing softly, I got my bag and took a bite of my apple. Wonders flew through my mind as to what the hell just happened.

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