Ok People this is my first fan fiction be gentle with me.
Chapter 1
'This sucks,' I thought to myself as I drove the old truck that Charlie had bought me as a homecoming present into the school parking lot. The noisy truck which I had already grown to love was so loud it was causing me unwanted attention already. People were standing around in groups talking and staring as I pulled into an empty spot and shut the truck off quickly.
It was my first day of school in a new town. I'd lived here with my mother and father when I was a baby, but my mother's intense hatred of the rain and snow, mingled with my father's extreme stubbornness and love for the town, caused her to flee with me when I was still young. I'd been back once a year until I just couldn't stand it anymore and for the last few years I made Charlie come visit me. I wasn't necessarily a huge fan of the wet and rainy either.
My mother had wanted to travel with her baseball player husband and I didn't want her to be unhappy. Instead, I decided I'd live with Charlie in the almost constantly rainy and cloudy town of Forks, Washington until I could get away to college. So now here I am being gawked at by a bunch of strangers.
'Just ignore them,' my internal monolog suggested. 'Just keep your eyes straight; ignore them, act like all the attention is beneath you. They'll think you're just to cool to care.' Yeah right, I knew better; a personal catastrophe would happen any minute that would reveal me to be the nerdy klutz I'd been my entire life.
I took a deep breath, exited the truck, and made my way up to the front entrance. As if on cue, the minute I stepped foot into the already crowded hallway my boot caught on something and I fell face first into the floor, my bag and its contents flying everywhere.
"Fantastic!" I mumbled as I turned over and stared at the ceiling for a second.
I could hear the snickers, laughs, and even a couple of hoots and "way to goes". Well, I'd known my first day would be embarrassing and horrible. It had not disappointed.
"Are you ok?" A girl with dark hair and glasses popped into my view.
"Yeah, my feet just decided that they hated me today." I grumbled.
I got up and the girl and three other people helped me retrieve everything and put it back in my bag. A blond boy with a baby face named Mike, a boy with black hair and skin issues named Eric, a shorter girl with wildly curly brown hair named Jessica— who talked a million miles an hour as she picked things up, and the girl with the dark hair and glasses was Angela.
"You're the police chief's daughter, Isabella, right?" Mike asked after introducing himself.
"Bella," I corrected quickly.
After a few minutes of answering questions about where I was from, why I'd moved to Forks and few sarcastic jokes from me, they escorted me into the office to retrieve my schedule and a map of the school. They all took their turns looking over my schedule to see what classes we had together.
Apparently they'd adopted me as their immediate new friend; whoever I had class with next was always there to escort me and to pump me for more information about myself, except for Angela. She was there to show me where class was but she let me keep the conversation at me own pace instead of drilling me. I liked her very much.
I hated all the attention but was thankful I wasn't going to be an immediate outcast. I hated that everyone still stared or scooted closer to hear what my answers where to the endless strings of questions my new friends were throwing my way. I know most everyone listening in just wanted to get some tidbit of information to add to the rumor mill.
Even though I'd been humiliated early on, no one seemed to bring it up and make fun of me, thankfully. Other than that and the constant staring and whispering when I walked past, the school was just as dull and boring as I'd expected a school in Forks to be. I would just have to find some sort of hobby or distraction, so that maybe my self-imposed sentence in this dreary town would fly by a little quicker. Yeah right. This would drag out endlessly, more like it.
I reconsidered that opinion when lunch rolled around. I found several things to occupy my time, or at least my thoughts.
When my newly acquired group of friends led me to the lunch room, I saw them. As I followed Jessica's chattering-self through the lunch line I glanced around just to pick out a place to sit, when a table in the far corner of the cafeteria caught my attention.
There were five of them. They were all so inhumanly beautiful it was a little scary; surely they weren't real. The largest of them was a huge mountain of boy with short dark brown hair, and a cute baby face with dimples that showed when he laughed at something one of the others had said. His baby face was so much better looking than Mike's. Oops, that was rude. I snickered to myself.
Sitting on either side of the mountain were the girls. One was tall with long blond hair and looked like a supermodel; she was by far the most beautiful creature I'd ever laid eyes on. The other was short, tiny actually compared to the others, and pixie like with short dark hair that stuck out wildly in all directions in a popular messy but chic style.
On the other side of the blond sat a boy with copper colored hair that was in a messy style, and an angel's face. He was tall and lean but still visibly muscular. He was gorgeous.
The last of them sat next to the pixie, with his arm across the back of her chair. He was tall and lean, like the copper haired boy he was also visibly muscular, with wavy blond hair to about his shoulders. He looked a little angry, or disturb, or maybe in pain.
They all chitchatted together, picking at their food, but never eating any. They laughed together; well, all except the blond boy. They were all trying so hard and probably thought they were doing a very good job of fitting in.
I laughed to myself, "Who are they kidding?" I got my lunch and sat with my newly self-appointed bff's, and couldn't help but steal little glances at the table of gods.
"They're the Cullen's and the Hale twins." Jessica had caught me looking at them and answered my unspoken question. "They won't talk to you, so don't bother." She sneered.
"Why not, do they not like people or something?" I asked with a smile. I already knew the answer; I just wanted to know what the official towns' folk thought.
"They all live with Dr. Cullen and his wife," she leaned in to me, talking a little quieter, only too happy to dish. "They're really young, and so good looking. Anyway, they adopted the blonde twins Rosalie and Jasper Hale when they were babies. They belonged to Mrs. Cullen's sister, I think, so they are really related. But the other three, Alice, Emmett, and Edward were all just adopted later." She stole a quick look at them like she was trying to make sure they couldn't hear her. "They are such a creepy family." She whispered.
"Why?" I laughed.
"Well, they are all dating." She whispered again with a disgusted look. "Emmett and Rosalie are a couple, and so are Jasper and Alice." She stared at me for a minute, waiting for me to have the same reaction as she did.
'Damn, too bad the blonde had to be taken. But the bronze guy is almost as yummy! No! Bad Bella! You know that could never happen in the first place, why even torture yourself?'
"So?" was all she got out of me with a shrug, "They're all adopted, so they aren't really related, right?" She looked taken back by my reaction. She'd obviously thought that I would find it as distasteful as her. I was happy to disappoint. I was quickly beginning to think Jessica and I weren't going to be friends for long. She was very gossipy, which at the moment was good since she was helping me out, but on a normal basis I'd get fed up quickly. She was also judgmental and I had no doubt that the minute I did something that might put her popularity at stake she'd kick me to the curb in a minute.
"Anyway," She said quickly; getting off the subject, "Got any plans for this weekend yet?" I didn't fail to notice how Mike and Eric leaned a little closer to hear the answer.
"Yeah, Charlie wants to spend some family time together. You know, since I haven't seen him in forever." I quickly made up some plans because I was pretty sure I wouldn't want to do whatever Jessica would suggest; no doubt partying or shopping, both of which were not my thing.
After that, Jessica leaned over and began batting her lashes at Mike, and asking what he was up to this weekend. I stole another glance at the table and I was shocked when my eyes met the bronze haired god's eyes. He was staring at me with such intensity in his look of confusion that I couldn't turn away. It was like he held me locked in his gaze while trying to will something from me. It was a little scary.
Finally they began to get up and make their way out, dumping their untouched food. I was relieved when one of the others touched the boy's shoulder and caused him to break his eye contact with me. Once I was released I quickly turned back to my table and didn't look back.
'Stupid Bella!' I snapped at myself, 'You know better than that!' The warning bell rang and I followed Mike to our next class, Science.
When we walked in my heart skipped a beat. The Bronze haired god was sitting at a lab table near the center of the class. Mike introduced me to the teacher and then took his seat. Now all the seats were taken but the one next to the beautiful boy. I smiled just a little when the teacher told me it was my seat.
I only stumbled once on my way to the chair, earning me more chuckles and snickers, but I quickly recovered and hurried to my seat. He didn't chat me up like everyone else; in fact he ignored me all together. It was a little irritating.
The science teacher handed out slides, microscopes, and instructions. We had until the end of class to identify the phases of mitosis. We had to work together, so now he could not ignore me. Haha!
"Would you like to go first or would you rather I just do it?" his voice was beautiful but bored.
I arched my brow at him, letting my annoyance show on my face. "I can do my share." He looked up at me then, hearing the same dry bored tone in my own voice. He kept staring like he had in the lunch room, but now I was too irritated to be dazzled by it. I did, however, take just a moment to be awed by his caramel colored eyes.
When his stare had no effect on me he said, "Fine, you first." In the bored voice but continued to stare at me like he was willing something out of me.
I took the microscope, put the slide in and took a brief look, "Anaphase." Then I shoved the microscope roughly at him. He took a brief look as well, much shorter than mine and scribbled the answer on the sheet of paper.
He continued to ignore me as much as was possible while we did the lab. We were the first ones done, everyone else comparing slides over and over. He shoved the paper at me after writing his name across the top, for me to do the same.
"So, which one are you?" I asked, already knowing the answer, but trying to coax him into conversation, and still trying to find a segway into the fact that I knew. "Jasper, Edward, Emmett?"
"I'm Edward Cullen." He stated not even looking at me and pretending to be reading something from a text book.
Ok this was just beyond rude. I was pissed. I tried to ignore him as well as we sat in silence with time quickly ticking away.
When class was almost over I decided to poke the bear with a stick. I took a quick glance around the room making sure no one was paying attention. "So, Edward," I said, turning fully towards him.
"Yes." He hissed at me.
I smirked a little, and whispered just loud enough that I knew he'd hear me and no one else would. "Do you enjoy being a vampire?"
He began to stammer and sputter, and he was definitely looking at me now. The bell rang and I got up, "Well, never mind, that's a conversation for next time." I gathered my things and left him there staring and stuttering after me.
"Hey Edward, are you coming?" his giant brother Emmett was in the doorway looking confused. I smiled brightly at him as I passed; he was much more polite in smiling back brightly. "Let's go man! Are you ok?" I glanced back to see Edward just pointing at me and still looking like he was choking on his own worlds. I laughed loudly, startling Jessica as she fell into step beside me; I knew he'd hear me.
I had a feeling my time in Forks was going to be much more entertaining than I'd originally thought.
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