The Blank Paged Book
by i.luv.vamps
Disclaimer:
i.luv.vamps: I own Twilight, NewMoon, Eclipse, Breaking Dawn (Even though it's not even out yet!) and the world! Yeeessss! -dances for joy-
Voice in my head : No you don't, and newsflash!, you never will!
i.luv.vamps: Can't I at least dream?
V.I.M.H : Nope.
i.luv.vamps: Fine. Stephanie Meyer owns it all. All the money, all the books, all the characters, EVEN EDWARD! All I own is a pair of ballet shoes! -cries in corner-
Chapter 1 - Defective
Bella's POV
"OMG!!" Amber screamed as we stood outside boarders, eagerly waiting for Stephanie Meyers book to come out, FINALLY!!
"I know!! This so awsome!!" I yelled. Amber and I had been waiting for this to come out for mounths!! My friend Ashley on the other hand, was much newer to the Twilight Saga, and just finish reading NewMoon last week. She was lucky that she didn't have to wait so long, but she had been deprivedof the wonderfull books longer then we had, so I guess it was fair.
"OMG!! Only 60 secs left till the store opens! . . . 30 secs . . . 15 secs! . . . 5, 4," Ashley chimed. Amber and I joined in
"3, 2, 1!!" We rushed in, strait to the fantasy section. There was a whole row full of Eclipses!
"OMG . . ." I said, "I think I'm going to faint!" I said pretending to be woozy. Ashley laughed, but Amber was envoloped in the book she picked up.
"I'm actually holding Eclipse by Stephanie Meyer." She said an awed expression on her face. "I've died and gone to heaven!"
"Come miss 'died and gone to heaven', let's pick a book and go get something to eat. I'm starved!" She said. We all grab bed books up off of the shelf started up the isle to check out our books when, (no surprise), I manage to find something to trip over.
"Oof!" I said as I hit the ground. There was silince for a moment, but it was broken at Amber's laughing at me getting a glare from the girl at the front desk.
"Izzy, are you okay?"
"Yeah, I'm fine," I said, running my fingers throught my long brown hair. Amber was stilling trying to stffle her giggles.
"I swear Iz, if I didn't know any better, I'd say you were 'Bella' in disguise."
"Let's just go to the checkout." I said roling my eyes. They were just making fun because my name was Isabella too.
"Whoa, 'Bella', careful. You almost stepped on that book." I looked down. there, at my feet was an Eclipse book. Poor book. I would get this one. I owed it that much, tripping over it and all. I had even bent the cover a little.
"I think I'll get this one." I said putting the other one back on the shelf.
"Whatever one you get, could you hurry? They're all the same any way."
"Ok, let's go," I said.
After we stopped for fast-food breakfast, we made our way back to Carthage from the Syracuse mall. Ashley drove strait to my house. After the 1 - hour drive, we made it back. We all ran up to my room as soon as we got through the door. We sat down on my rug and just looked around for a minute.
"Now what do we do?" I asked. Ashley put her hand on her chin as if to think.
"Hmmm . . . oh! I know!" She said enthusiasticly
"What?" Amber and I asked in unison.
"We should get out the books and take turns reading to eachother!"
"Awsome idea Ash!" Alina said
"You start Iz." She said.
"okay" I put the book on my lap.
"We sould all open them at the same time."
"Why?" Ashley asked.
"To . . . 'cherish the moment' " I said dramatically.
"Ok," I took a deep breath "1 . . . 2 . . . 3." I openned the book and . . . and . . .
"What the heck!?"
I frantically fliped through the pages, desperatly trying to find some hint that mabe there was just one word on the first few pages, like in New Moon. October November December January. But there was nothing. Absolutly nothing.
"Iz, are you okay?" Alina asked
"What's wrong?" Ashley asked.
"The book," I swallowed, I could hardly make myself say it. " the book is . . . blank." They stared for a second before breaking out into hysterics.
"What's so funny?! The book I've been waiting to get for months is. . . is defective and all you two heiyhenas can do is laugh your guts out like total idiots!!" Why were they laughing because trhe book was wrong? I found nothing funny about that whatsoever.
"No, I'm sorry Izzy," Amber said between giggles "It's just that . . . this is the exactly the kind of thing I'd expect from you! . . . I mean, a defective book! Only someone with your luck could pull that off!" They just broke out into more unnecessary laughter.
"brats," I muttered. I got up with my defective book and stormed into the bathroom. I locked the door and looked at the book. I was about to toss it across the floor, when I noticed the part where I bent the cover when I fell. It was completly fine now. A few minutes later, I heard a knocking on the door.
"Izzybella," It was Amber, talking to me like I was a pouting two year old "Izzy, come on, we didn't mean anything." It was always her to make fun of me most, and then be the most sorry afterwards. Tipical Ali.
"Yeah Iz, we didn't mean it." I heard Ashley say. I unlocked the door.
"It's okay guys," I said. "I forgot what the whole thing was about anyway." We walked back don the hall to my room. I plopped down onto the floor and stared at the book.
" You know Iz," Ashley said, "You're, like, really emotional. Like when we were in sixth grade, We were at Kaitlin's sleep over and she was making fun of your braces and you went into the bathroom and started crying. Remeber that?"
"Oh I remember that!" Alina said "and you like stayed in there for like, 20 minutes before we had to go looking for you. How long ago was that?" She asked.
"I think it was seven or eight years ago. It feels like a really long time doesn't it?"
"I know! it seems like just yesterday we were in kindergarten, Speaking of kindergarten, do you remember that one time when we went to park, and Izzy . . ."
I didn't pay much more attention to their flashback-into-all-Isabella's-most-embarressing-moments conversation much longer I was to enveloped in the book. I couldn't beleive how it had changed so dramaticcally, it was almost like . . . magic. If I didn't know any better, I would have said I could see it faintly glowing in hands . . . almosty like, it was meant for me to have it, . . . like in this one incident, me tripping and falling was no accident. Like it had been looking for me. I stopped myself before my thoughts could get any more insane then they already were. But still I had a gutsy feeling that I wasn't just supposed to throw it away and get a new one. It was like I was supposed to fill the pagess myself at least. Yes, filling the page myself so we wouldn't have to waste gas money most deffinately sounded like a more logical thing to do, but still, I could swear It was faintly glowing . . .
" . . . yeah, and then she tripped over the hose!"
"Oh yeah! that one was hillarious!"
"You guys," I said a curious expression an my face. "I have an idea of what we could do."
"Oh no, here it comes, another one of her crazy ideas."
"Seriously guys, I was just thinking, since The books got no pages and everything, and I wouldn't want to use up the gas in Ashley's car, I decided that since I didn't wanthe bot to run up the gas in Ashley's car get a new one, I was thinking, maybe we could write our own stroy in it." I looked up to see thier expressions, they looked at me like I was crazy.
"Why?" Amber said, eyeing me specticutively.
"It would be fun! Writing the book with what we wantto happen." I looked at them both, I could tell Ashley was pondering my idea, (I think Alina was pondering my sanity.)
"Well," Ashley said, putting her book on the floor behind her. "what would we write about?"
"I don't know . . ." I thought for a second, "What would happen if the Cullens decided to come to Carthage, NY?" I was surprised to see who spoke first.
"Awsome idea Iz! You start!" Alina said as she shoved the book into my lap.
"Um . . . I need a pen." I said looking around, Ash and Amber were looking around too, when I looked back at the book, there was a gold pen sitting on the floor right next to me.
"Oh, I guess I found a pen?" I said, a little confused. I was sure I hadn't seen iot sitting there a minute ago . . . No, I'm being crazy.
"Okay, here we go."
Isabella, Amber, and Ashley were all walking to the school building, when Alina said to Isabella, "Look at the new car in the lot." They see three new students step out of the car. Out of the back seat, a tall muscular guy with dirty blond hair. Out of the passenger seat, a short pixie like girl with short black hair. She danced over to the taller boy, who was very handsome by the way, and he put his hand around her waist.
"Is that who I think it is?" Ashley asked.
"I think it is . . ." Isabella said, her big brown eyes open wide. Last but not least, A boy with beautiful bronze hair, a bit thinner than the blonde boy, stepped out of the drivers seat, and followed the pixie like girl and the blonde boy to meet up with a tall, beautiful, blonde girl and a muscular guy with curly dark brown hair. Together, they all walked into the building, as Amber, Ashley, and Isabella all stood there watching, slack jawed, and in awe.
I handed the book to Amber and Ashley and they read it.
"Iz, that's Awesome!" Ashley said.
"My turn!" Amber yelled. She grabbed the book and the pen and started to scribble in the book.
"Hey, it doesn't work!" she said shaking the pen.
"It worked for me." I said.
"It must be out of ink or something." she said tossing it on the ground.
"Hey Izzy, what time is it?" Ashley asked while filing her nails. I looked at the alarm clock on my desk.
"2:45, why?" I asked.
"I'm so late! I'm supposed to be at my brother Jacob's bartmitsfa at 3:30, and I haven't even gotten ready yet!" She grabbed her purse, and headed out the the door.
"Wait up, Ash! I've got that youth group thing on Sundays, and I don't want to be late. Can I have a ride?"
"Sure, Ali. Later Iz, I'll be here to pick you up in the morning, okay?"
"Bye Izzybella," said Amber.
"Later Iz," Ashley said.
"Seeya, guys." I said. now I as alone, in my house, the only sign of life. I let my mind wonder back to the book. I picked the pen up off the floor, and started to write.
Isabella shook her head."I'm sure it's just a coincidence. Let' go go to class." They walked silently to English, Social studies, Math, and Spanish. At lunch, they sat together at their usual table. Ashley, and Dan, her boyfriend, sitting across from Amber and Ben. Isabella sitting next to Amber. Isabella was walking up to the trash can to throw away the remains of her food, when she was caught, seconds before falling, by two strong arms. She looked up. A gorgeous boy with bronze hair and dark eyes almost darker then hers, lifted her to her feet.
"Thanks," she said. He took a breath, and took two giant steps back.
"Sure," he mumbled, and raced out of the lunch room so fast, it left Isabella blinking, staring into the empty space that just a second ago, Edward Cullen had been standing in.
I closed the book and stared at it for a second. Silently wishing that this could actually happen to me. I sighed and openned my math book, putting Eclipse on the book shelf, and started the amazing experience of last minute math homework.