Bella Swan watched the sun go down and shine its final rays of light before disappearing completely at the
horizon. Her bedroom fell dark almost instantly and she sighed as the realisation that summer had officially
ended hit her. She'd had such a fun-filled couple of months with her family and best friends Alice and Rosalie.
Tomorrow was the beginning of senior year, which should have had her excited but she was dreading it. She
hated the thought of having to leave her peers, the people she grew up with, at the end of the academic year.
She shook her head, trying to rid her mind of the thoughts that had already caused so many sleepless nights
before crawling into bed. The feeling of her duvet keeping her freezing cold body warm was definitely the kind of
comfort that she needed right now. She took one last look at the twilight sky before closing her eyes and drifted
off to a land she hadn't visited in a while. One where she could be at absolute peace.
BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! The loud and irritating shriek of her alarm clock had Bella jumping out of her dreamless
slumber. She lazily reached over to her bedside table to turn the stupid thing off. She trudged her way into the
bathroom and quickly showered, brushed her teeth and pulled a comb through her soaking wet, tangled hair.
Once her hair was dried, she walked over to her wardrobe and unlike the rest of her friends would be doing this
morning, lifted the first things to fall out at her. She pulled the dark denim jeans on, matched them with a dark
purple, short sleeved blouse over the top of them before throwing on her navy sneakers.
She was barely down the stairs when she heard the car horn going like crazy outside. Alice, she thought, rolling
her eyes at her too punctual, impatient best friend. She grabbed her book bag and her jacket before heading out
the door, not even checking the clock. She knew that she was early but if she knew the time she would probably
end up in some form of argument with Alice and that was just something she did not need today.
"You know, I thought the great part of being a senior was getting to slack a little not working your butt off to be
a kiss-ass." Bella said sarcastically as she jumped into the passenger seat of Alice's yellow and black sports car.
Alice rolled her eyes at her friends snide remark but didn't answer. "What has you in such a hurry to get to
school then?" Bella asked, truly curious now to what could be so important that she would leave this early. "I
wanna see my cousin before he starts his first day." She said, a smile tugging at her lips. Bella was completely
confused now. "Your cousin is starting school here? What year is he in?" Bella asked, still confused and a little bit
hurt that she hadn't been told of this before. Alice oncw again rolled her eyes. "He's not in any year Bells. He's
our new English teacher." Bella's face went from shock to relief in almost an instant. She had always hated Mr.
Parker as a teacher and what made this better was that it was her best friends cousin. Bella knew she had met
all of Alice's cousins which honestly made her feel quite awkward that she was going to know her teacher
personally, but anything was better that Mr. Parker. "So which cousin is this?" She asked curiously. Alice seemed
to find this question entertaining as the smile that was just a tug earlier turned into a full scale grin. "Oh, you
know the really boring, ugly one. I think you met him at my summer barbeque." Alice looked up to watch her
friend's reaction to what she was going to say next. "He goes by the name, Edward Cullen."
Please review and let me know what you think! First chapter is always boring, just setting the scene lol.
Thanks for reading.
Gráinne x