Disclaimer: We don't own any of Twilight characters, but we do own Lenna.

A/N: Heyy guys! Aren't you happy that me and my friend, MYSECRETWISH is done with the first chapter?! We are! : So, this is really the first story we ever made, so we're pretty sure that there are some mistakes that we didn't see. Care to point them out?

Just to make sure no one gets confused, the one-shot, LOOKING BACK, is more like a preface. Yeah, I know. We just decided that while we were making this chapter. You'll understand why throughout the story. In this story, Bella is almost done with her senior year and she hasn't seen Edward ever since he left, so it's been 9 months.

So if any of you are still confused, don't hesitate to ask!

Now, to the story!!

9 months later….

Shawty had them apple bottom jeans…boots with the fur…

Oh. My. God. Please tell me that's not my alarm clock telling me it's Monday…

The whole club was looking at her…she hit the floor…

Okay, it is. Damn. Why is the world always against me? Can't there be a law that states that students can miss Mondays? Even if it's not a holiday? I hate this. I can already tell that today isn't going to be a good day. I'm already in a bad mood for goodness sake! I hate this. I hate this. I hate this. I HATE THIS!! God, if you love me, please create a snow storm… I'm sound too much of a drama queen sometimes…I love it!

I threw over my warm blanket and actually got up, walked over to my window and looked outside if my wish was granted. Sadly, it wasn't. Hah. What was I thinking? A snow storm in California in the middle of March? Hmm…that can actually happen if I lived in the north, but too bad. Here I am. Living in the hot, hot south.

You know what I see outside my window? Darkness. The sun is creeping up slowly, but in majority, darkness. That's Spring for you.

Them baggy sweat pants…and the Reeboks with the straps….

Gaaah…I forgot about that annoying thing.

She turned around…and gave that big booty a smack…

And as if that song couldn't get any more annoying. I walked over to my nightstand and turned off my alarm in my cell phone. Note to self: Pick a new alarm song.

As usual, I did my morning routine: take a shower, brush teeth, and pick out what to wear for the day. Man, I really hate taking morning showers. Okay, before you think I'm all disgusting or whatever, let me get my point through. I basically take 2 showers per day. In the morning and at night. Like I said, morning showers are pointless to me, but I still do it. Why? Well, so I don't go to school with my hair standing up five feet in the air and pointing in every direction. And I mean the whole 360 degrees. I take showers at night because I always feel dirty whenever I get home from school. But I always fall asleep with it half wet so when I wake up in the morning, it looks like someone dumped gallons of gel on my head. If you didn't get what I'm trying to say, forget it. No biggie. I can't believe I spend this amount of time trying to explain my hair issue.

I went back to my room and stood in front of my closet. I always do this. I can never pick out what to wear in the morning.

5 minutes later….

10.…

15.…

Okay! I don't care anymore! I ended up picking out my shorts and a yellow tank top. Thank God it's not cold anymore.

Just as I was going downstairs, the doorbell rang. I already knew who it was. Oh dear. I'm still not fully awake to deal with her. With them. I opened the door with a frown, to see Alice and Lenna looking…excited? What the heck? Who in the world would be smiling this much in….6:30 in the morning?! My friends are not normal…

"Wow. You're in a good mood," Lenna commented as she and Alice entered the house.

I grunted.

"Use your words." Alice teased. Oh, how I really want to slap her right now. Unfortunately, I don't have to energy to deal with her sass so early in the morning. So early in the flippin' morning, I might add.

"It's Monday," was all I said. They rolled their eyes and we headed towards the kitchen.

Oh, this is Lenna and Alice by the way. My best friends. Rosalie is too, but we're not going to see her until later. You could say we've been through a lot together. Well, they've been there for me through everything. And I mean everything. Including the whole Edward-thing. We go way back. All the way from 8th grade. Can you believe that? It's been 4 years, but with these guys, it's been like a lifetime. Time tends to go by fast whenever I'm with them. And with him, but that's a whole different story.

So we go way back. We all went to the same middle school. Alice moved next to me, but we didn't start talking until we were actually stuck together in the same room. You can't help to not talk to the person if you're going to be with them for a whole hour. Rose and Lenna were in the same room too. It may sound like it's fate that we met and all, but it's not. You would think that once we started talking to each other, we would get along. Well, that's the complete opposite of what happened.

Long story short, it was lunch and you know me, I'm a little clumsy and I happened to trip and spilled all my food on Alice. Of course she starts freaking out and yelled at me on how I ruined her new yellow Marc Jacobs dress. She tried getting revenge on me by throwing back mashed potatoes, but I ducked and it hit Rosalie in the back of her head. You know how Rose gets when something happens to her hair so she kinda went psycho. Rose poured all her Diet Coke on the nearest person next to her which happened to be Lenna. The whole cafeteria saw this happened and a food fight errupted. It didn't last long until the principal appeared and called for the people who started it. Well, it was all pretty much my fault but he wanted Alice, Rose, and Lenna as well.

So yeah, that's how we all pretty much met. You can imagine how much we all hated each other at first, but we actually found we had a lot in common.

Kinda like what I thought when I first saw him….

"HELLO!! EARTH TO BELLAAAA!!"

I snapped out of my little daydream. "What?"

Yeah, I still think about him from time to time. Even if I don't plan on doing it, it just happens. It's not as bad as it was a few months ago though. Whenever I see something that reminds me of him, I can't help but space out.

Alice smiled. "You planning on getting to school on time? We only have like…10 minutes to get there."

"Yeah, yeah. Are you done raiding my fridge yet?" I smirked.

"Shut up I didn't eat breakfast."

Thank God Lenna stopped the fight that's about to start.

"Geez. We ain't in school yet and y'all already fightin'." Just letting you guys know, Lenna is not from the South. She just likes talking like that. She's a bit weird, but in a good way.

"What are you talking about, Lenna? We love each other. We just have this tough-love relationship." Alice and I hugged each other, trying to look innocent. But deep down inside, I'm cringing away.

"Whatever you guys. Let's get going before Rose tries to seduce another innocent boy." Lenna says heading for the door and Alice and I followed. We all jumped in my convertible Volkswagen Beetle and finally headed to school.

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention. Rose is gorgeous. And I mean, Vogue worthy gorgeous.People call her a slut or a whore, but it's not her fault if guys can't keep their eyes off her. Just Rose alone, walking in a room lowers any girl's self-esteem.

Driving to school was, just like any other day, loud. It's like our tradition that we always have to sing along with the most random songs.

We got to school right when the bell rang. Wooo. First period already! I am so excited to see my favorite English teacher, Ms. Fraud. Pfft. Yeah, right. More like psychotic. I swear, she flips out if someone is standing too close to her. She always thinks that everyone is after her. If she thinks that someone is standing too close behind her, she'll, and I swear to God, will go ballistic. So her life story. She's not married, and has 4 cats. FOUR. That's enough to know what kind of person she is.

Nothing much happened in English. Except the fact that she stopped the tape we were listening to for our story and made us watch this pointless video about…I don't even know. It's either gerbils or goffers. What ever the difference is, it was still stupid. I swear, that woman should just work at the zoo. If a bear scratched her face, she would probably think it's cute. Yeah, hmmm…psycho. But other than that, nothing else happened. Same with Anatomy, History, and stupid Math. When the bell rang for lunch, I sprinted out of the class. It's amazing I didn't trip.

Once I got inside cafeteria, our table was empty so I decided to get my food first without them. They were serving the usual: burritos, pizza, sandwiches, and my favorite bean cheese nachos. Just kidding, cafeteria food is never appetizing. So I just bought lemonade.

I headed back to the table and found it occupied with my best friends minus Alice.

"Hey, Rose," I said, sitting down next to her. "You missed another epic morning ride."

"What? Did you guys sing a different type of song this time? Not those lovey-dovey stuff?" Rose asked with a little bit of sarcasm. Just a tiny bit. Another thing we learned throughout years is that we all tend to use sarcasm on a daily basis.

"Wow, you're good." said Lenna.

While I was telling them about that pointless gerbil video, we heard someone stomping. Before I could turn around to see who it was, the person was already yelling in my ear.

"I HATE JASPER WHITLOCK!!" Alice screeched at the top of her lungs.

Oh my God. I think I need surgery on my ear. Great, another Jasper story. Bring on the drama! Especially if it's about the same guy over and over and over again for the past, oh I don't know, year? 2 years? More like ever since I met Alice, so 4!

I looked at Lenna and Rose to see who would ask her what happened, but they looked all expectantly at me. Oh, crap. Really, why is it always me?

I sighed. "Oh whatever happened to you, my dear Alice?" She's probably too mad to notice my voice dripping with unnecessary sweetness.

"What happened?! He was born, that's what happened!" Ow, okay. She needs to calm down.

"Alright. Calm the freak down! You're making people look over here!" Lenna said, scooting over to make room for her.

"And you say that everyday. You want to be more specific?" Rose said in a bored tone.

"Uh, fine." Alice says giving in and dropping into the seat right next to Lenna. " Okay, so you know how I was picked to make the layout for the yearbook?"

We all nodded.

"Well, he freaking deleted it! All my hard work gone forever. You know how long it took me to make that? Two months." she cried and put her face in her hands.

Rose, Lenna, and I look at each other in concern. We knew how important this was to Alice. She was so happy when the teacher picked her to make the layout and knew that Jasper hated her for that. But deleting it was the lowest thing Jasper has ever done.

"Oh he's going down." Lenna says pounding her fist on the table.

For the rest of lunch, we let her rant angrily to make her feel better. If Jasper was here listening to all the plans she was making to murder him, he would think twice before messing with her again.

"--and did you see his hair today? It's a freaking haystack! And what about that girl he's dating? Shallow much? Yeah, she's pretty, but she has a brain that's a size of a peanut…."

Whoa. I now how much Alice hates him, but just about there, she sounded a little jealous. You know, I never did tell anybody this, but I always thought that she kinda likes him. I mean, she always talks about him. It's like she's his own personal stalker. Hah. I have to tell Rose and Lenna that. I bet they're thinking the same thing since they have that smirk plastered on their face.

Ring

The cafeteria becomes chaotic as everyone starts rushing to their last class in five minutes, which is impossible because there is a ridiculous amount of students in this small school.

"Well I'll see you guys at the parking lot," I said, gathering my books. "and Alice, don't you dare ditch class to try out one of your murder plans on Jasper."

"Ha, yeah. We don't want to bail you out of jail just yet. We plan on doing that when we're 30!" Rose laughed.

Alice stuck her tongue out at us and walked away to her class.

"She so likes him." Lenna said before we parted.

I was about to open the door to my next class when I felt my cell phone vibrate in my pocket. I took it out and read a new text message.

From: Unknown

Hey, long time no see. Wanna hang out soon?

What the…?

There you have it! The first chapter! How was it?! Good? Bad? Does it need anything to make it better?

I know there's no Edward in this one, but trust me, you're going to read more about him in the next one! Don't hate me!

Also, I know me and MYSECRETWISH added another character, Lenna. It's just that I have 3 best friends and you know how I said in Looking Back that most of the events happened in real life? Yeah.

And lastly, Emmett and Jasper. They'll be explained more in the next chapter.