AN: I don't own Twilight or any of the characters mentioned. This is my first attempt at writing a story here. I'm not sure if it's going to be a short story since I'm a newbie. We'll see how it plays out. Hope you enjoy!
Ch 1 BFFs & BFs
"Can you colour my hair now?" I could hear my flighty mother Renee yelling through the door. It was too fucking early in the morning for this shit. I glanced at the clock and it read 11.30 am. Okay maybe not early, early, but I hadn't had a full 8 hours sleep since I fell asleep sometime around 6 this morning. I let out my usual grunt yell at her letting her know that I'm awake and to please, please not barge into my room for I have not cleaned it. That would only bring another screaming match.
I looked in the mirror and groaned, I was so mundanely ordinary. I had fallen asleep with my long brown hair in a messy bun, wearing my black sweat pants and favourite white shirt that was almost transparent. I remember wearing it out and a friend asked how I got my shirt so "cool" I just told her I washed it a lot no biggie. Shit like that kills me. Anyway back to my morning self-assessment, the bags under my flat brown eyes were a definite tell that I had slept late. My body clock just wasn't cutting me any slack, I too many late nights and now my face was paying for it.
"Bella! Are you up or not? I'm waiting!"
Well that sure pulled me out of my little reverie. I begrudgingly trudged through to the bathroom towards my mother dearest and started the task at hand. My life is great isn't it?
After I finished doing my mom's hair, I decided since I'm up I should have some brunch, so I made myself a delicious bowl of cereal, I was too lazy to make anything remotely gourmet today. About mid-bite I could hear my phone ringing in the distance. Great! Where the hell did I put that piece of crap I call a phone? The first logical place would be to look in my room right? I swear if it wasn't an inanimate object I swear to the Lord above that it had legs. I put it down one place it ends up somewhere completely different.
"Bella dear aren't you going to answer that?" My mom yelled from the top of the staircase.
"Yeah I would if I knew where it was!" At this point I was running through the living room like a decapitated chicken, yeah not pretty.
"You know he's only going to ring you back as soon as it stops, he knows exactly how you are with that phone of yours." And my mom was right, he would call me back, he always does.
After the first call stopped and I still hadn't successfully found my damn phone, it rang again. By now I was playing a stupid game of hot and cold. When I finally found my phone it was in my coat pocket by the front door. Why was I so forgetful?
"Hello you" I answered rather out of breath.
"Morning, or should I say afternoon?" My best friend answered back in his voice too cheery for this time of day.
"Coming over?" I asked.
"You know it, I'll be there in 2 minutes tops."
That was my best friend Edward Cullen. I've known him all my life and we have been joined at the hip since he's the boy who lives two doors down from me. We live in a small town in Washington called Forks. Not much to it, nothing but green for miles and it always rains here, I mean always. Edward and I are so pale that we don't know if we're really that colour or it's because the sun rarely hits us. I guess that's something we'll never know. Until we make it out here to somewhere where the sun shows itself on a regular basis. Here's hoping till then.
I continued eating my cereal when I heard the door open. I checked the time and Cullen as usual, was very punctual.
"Honey, I'm home!"
"In the kitchen dear" I laughed at our usual banter.
"Hairs looking lovely today Renee, liking the red, it's a good look on you." I hadn't even noticed my mom had come down new hair and all.
"Of course only you'd like the red hair." I exclaimed.
"Shut up Bells, my hair isn't red and you know it! It's more of a bronze colour wouldn't you say Renee?" He was the only person that called me Bells that I willingly allowed. Not that it ever stopped my dad.
"Yeah, yeah bronze whatever. Anyway it's my best work yet I think." My mom didn't need to colour her hair, no signs of greying just yet, she just liked to change it up a bit, I don't know why my dad Charlie the Chief of Police puts up with her, but hey to each his own I guess.
"Shush you, if I didn't have to drag you out of bed this perfection may not have happened at all missy."
"Okay mom." I said while rolling my eyes ever so lovingly at her.
"So you two, what are the plans for today? Summer break is going to end soon, you've only got a couple of weeks left."
"We know, don't remind us." I groaned in frustration.
"Cheer up Bells, we'll spend it wisely, that's if you're not going to be spending time with Jacob since he is your boyfriend and all." Edward said quietly so only I could hear.
Jacob Black. My boyfriend Jacob, not Jake, he hated that name with a passion. He and I have been together since we were 14, well he was 13 at that time, I'm about 6 months older than him, and have been together ever since. We're 16 going on 17 now. He's a bit of a touchy subject in the Swan household. It's kind of like he doesn't exist. My family and on occasion friends forget that we're even dating. He lives all the way in the reservation and doesn't get to visit my house all that often, much to my mother's dismay. She thinks it's rude he hardly ever shows his face here, but hey it's my relationship and it works.
"Of course I'll be spending time with him, and you for that matter. So what do you have planned for us?" I asked while washing out my bowl from earlier.
"I don't know, we could always just do the usual, movies, veg out. Looks like you could use a bit more sleep too." He said as he examined my ever-present eye bags.
"Sounds good to me, let me just grab a quick shower, just set up shop in my room, you know the drill."
And so I went to the bathroom and let the soothing warm water caress my tired muscles. As I was enveloped in the smell of strawberries and freesias, I wondered where the remainder of the summer break would lead me.