The Sound of Music Chapter 1: Clumsy, a twilight fanfic

First FanFic ever J

Thanks El for Beta'ing

This story is dedicated to Eloise and Megan, my best friends since February 2006 and forever since.

I wake up staring directly at the ceiling. I still don't know whether I'm asleep or not so I make the decision to get up. I roll onto my side and like every morning take a glimpse at my alarm clock. 7:30, this is what I dread about high school, waking up.

My legs somehow find the strength to lift me out of bed. I walk to the window to see nothing unusual. It's raining, typical Forks. Why can't it be sunny for one week of the year?

I continue my attempt at getting ready for school. I find myself in the bathroom gazing at my reflection. Thank god Alice can't see me right now. My hair is as frizzy as an afro and has feathers throughout it. I look like an insomniac chicken.

After 20 minutes my hair is tamed and ready. I throw it up into a loose, high bun. I don't like make-up much but I decide today I feel like something special. I put on a thin coat of eyeliner, some lip gloss and blue eye shadow.

I pull off my pj's and chuck on a blue sweater and bright red skinny jeans. Alice and Rose probably won't approve but that's their problem. I run down the stairs tripping on the last one. I feel my face turn cherry red even though nobody's here to witness my embarrassment. God damn why am I so clumsy?

I grab an apple for breakfast and run back upstairs, this time not tripping. I throw on a pair of blue connies and run out to my truck.

Ah, I love my truck. Sure it breaks down A LOT but it's special to me. Everyone else disagrees however.

I twist the key and the engine roars to life. I reverse out the drive way and prepare for the usual route to school. I stop at Angela's to pick her up. I've been doing this for about 3 weeks now and it seems to work well. I wait outside and honk the horn to signal to her that I'm here. A minute or so later Angela pops out with a grin spreading from ear to ear across her face.

'Hey Ange,' I greet her excitedly as she jumps in the truck. Wow she is happy today.

'Bella!' She squeals in excitement. I begin to get really curious at what is happening.

'Chipper are we?' I ask curiously.

She giggles. 'Just a little bit happy.'

'Oh I see. How was your weekend?'

The conversation continues like this all the way to school with small and unimportant chit chat. We arrive at school minutes later and she hurriedly jumps out, thanks me for the ride then apologises and says she needs to go.

I stare down at my watch, 8:30. 15 minutes until first period, time to find Alice and Rose.

Predictably, I find them sitting at this bright red, plastic picnic table.

'Bella!' Alice rises and in seconds of my arrival is embracing me.

'Hey guys!'

'Ready for your music assessment today?'

'CRAP, I totally forgot!'

'Oh well, I'm sure you'll be fine,' she assures me.

I sit down next to them and pretend to listen while I search through my head for a song I can sing for music. I've got it! Luckily I already know this song on the piano and the lyrics were easy to remember. I play it through my head a few times until the bell rings.

'Cya guys.'

I head to my locker and shove my bag in roughly. I see a picture of Edward and I. What happened to us? We were best friends but now we don't talk; I practically hate him. Oh well, more important things to think about. Like my music performance. I'm starting to get nervous, music is next and I just hope I don't stuff up too badly.

I grab my music folder and my pencil case. My feet are moving so fast it's not funny. I hit something and automatically the embarrassment flourishes all over me and it shows on my bright red face. I look up to see his emerald green eyes staring right on through mine. He breaks the silence with his velvet voice.

'Are you ok?'

'Um, yeah, thanks,' I stumble slightly.

By now he has collected my books and placed them in a pile next to me. I shuffle them into my arms and flash him a quick smile until continuing to speed in the direction of music.

I enter the door to see the whole class staring at me. There is only two seats empty, mine and Edward's. Mr. Banner's demeanor depicts and evil smile, and I knew something bad was about to happen.

'Mrs. Swan, since you seem to think my time isn't costly you can go first today with our presentations.'

I gulp down the lump that had formed in my throat and head toward the piano. I begin to smash my fingers against the keys. This song is exactly how I feel every time I look at Edward. As soon as I started to play he walked in the room and took his seat. I look at him and begin to sing in harmony with the piano. I decide to shut my eyes and block out every thing that is unimportant.

(Don't forget - Demi Lovato)

Did you forget

That I was even alive

Did you forget

Everything we ever had

Did you forget

About me

Did you regret

Ever standing by my side

Did you forget

What we were feeling inside

Now I'm left to forget

About us

But somewhere we went wrong

We were once so strong

Our love is like a song

You can't forget it

So now I guess

This is where we have to stand

Did you regret

Ever holding my hand

Never again

Please don't forget

Don't forget

We had it all

We were just about to fall

Even more in love

Than we were before

I won't forget

About us

But somewhere we went wrong

We were once so strong

Our love is like a song

You can't forget it

Somewhere we went wrong

We were once so strong

Our love is like a song

You can't forget it

At all

And at last

All the pictures have been burned

And all the past

Is just a lesson that we've learned

I won't forget

I won't forget us

But somewhere we went wrong

Our love is like a song

But you won't sing along

You've forgotten

About us

I lift my hands off the piano and open my eyes to a sea of applause. I smile and walk to my seat. I feel tears in my eyes about to spill over the edge so I quickly wipe them away while nobody is looking.

'Bella that was terrific, full marks,' Mr. Banner comments and I smile again, feeling sudden relief and self satisfaction.

'Edward you next.'

Edward stands up and moves swiftly towards the piano. He places sheet music on the stand and begins to play. The sound is incredible. I don't think I've ever heard him play like this before, something is happening deep down inside him. He begins to sing. I've never heard Edward sing before. He sounds great.

(Free Fallin' - John Mayer)

She's a good girl, loves her mama

Loves Jesus and America too

Shes a good girl, crazy 'bout Elvis

Loves horses and her boyfriend too

It's a long day living in reseda

There's a freeway runnin' through the yard

And I'm a bad boy 'cause I don't even miss her

I'm a bad boy for breakin her heart

And I'm free, free fallin'

Yeah I'm free, free fallin'

All the vampires walkin' through the valley

Move west down ventura boulevard

And all the bad boys are standing in the shadows

All the good girls are home with broken hearts

And I'm free, free fallin'

Yeah I'm free, free fallin'

Free fallin', now I'm free fallin', now I'm

I wanna glide down over mulholland

I wanna write her name in the sky

Gonna free fall out into nothin'

Gonna leave this world for a while

And I'm free, free fallin'

Yeah I'm free, free fallin'

After 5 minutes he finishes and makes his way back to his seat.

'Also pleasing, full marks. I didn't you sung so well, Edward.'

The rest of the lesson was much the same. At the end of the period I picked up my books and moved off to the most dreading part of the day, Gym. It wasn't too bad as I didn't embarrass myself TOO much.

Finally, Gym is over and it's lunch. I make my way to the cafeteria, which is dimly lit and lacks colour. The most boring room I've ever been in. I reach for a lunch tray when someone's arm meets mine, it is Jacob.

Jacob had moved to our school at the beginning of the year because I went here. His black hair is dangling around his eyes; he looks incredibly sexy at the moment.

'Hey Bells, wanna sit with me?'

'Yeah I think I might actually.' I must have sounded desperate. But why am I acting like this, what was with the sudden attraction toward him. We have always been friends but hardly anything more.

We both head for an empty table and sit down. We talked about everything that lunch and it was quite amusing listening to him talk about his drama lesson. It turns out Jessica Stanley bent over and her pants split right down the middle, started crying and ran out of the room in embarrassment. I kind of felt sorry even though she is the biggest bitch to me. Apparently nobody has seen her since.

But now I'm packing up my belongings for the end of the day. The last two periods flew by. I go to my locker once again and grab the rest of my stuff. I run to my truck and start the engine.

I pull into the driveway and distinctively notice that Charlie's cruiser is missing, something feels terribly wrong.