A/N: Alrighty then. This is a continuation of another story, most of it is revised now, but the content is still the same and the title has been changed. I hope this gets as many reviews as it once had, but unfortunately the previous author for personal reasons was unable to continue this story. So, let's get this show on the road.
Summary: Edward is a mute. He doesn't and won't talk to anyone, not even his family. No one knows what happened to him to make him this way, and so far no one has been able to help him. But, then Bella comes along. Can she help him? Or is it too late?
BPOV
Beep, Beep, Beep. I unburied my hand from underneath my toasty warm covers and hit my alarm clock to stop the annoying buzzing.
Oh Great. School again. But, this was a new school. Forks High. You see, my mother Renee got remarried this summer, and since she felt bad about ditching me all the time to travel with her new husband Phil, she sent me off to live with my father in Forks. So, here I am about to start my junior year in this rainy hell hole of a town. Just wonderful. And to make it even better, this is one of those towns where everyone knows everyone else, so I'll have a super-fun time making some new friends! Not.
So, I slowly get up, and roll out of bed. I walked over to get in the shower. I'm done in five minutes, and then I walk over to my closet.
"UGH! I have absolutley nothing to wear!" I yelled at the top of my voice.
Apparently it carried down the hall, because I heard Charlie yell "What'd you say Bell?"
"Nothing Dad!" I yelled back down to him.
So I stood there in my towel, my long, wavy brown hair dripping down my back. I eyed my closet full of t-shirts and skinny jeans with remorse, angry that I never packed any of the nice clothes that my mom had gotten from me from Urban Outfitters and Banana Republic back home. Huh, well too late to regret that now. I was never one to follow up on fashion, instead just choosing a plain colored t-shirt, my worn and torn skinny jeans, and my converse. I guess that'll have to do for today.
So grabbed a dark green fitted t-shirt and threw it on, with a dark pair of skinny jeans and black converse. I grabbed my book bag from off of my desk, and threw into it my blackberry, a couple of folders, and my reading glasses.
I check my clock and it read 8:15. Oh crap! I thought. I had to be at school by 8:50, and I had to find my way there on my own. God knows I'll get lost. Well that's just awesome, late on my first day of school! They'll already notice me since I'm a new face to look at around all the kids who have known each other since kinder, but they'll have to watch me walk in late too. Ugh. I. hate. my. life.
I slung my bag over my shoulder, and ran down the stairs. Of course, clumsy me, my foot slipped on the second to last step and I fell flat on my ass at the bottom of the landing.
"Ugh!" I exclaimed, extremly pissed. This day was not meant to go well.
"Bells, did you fall? And shouldn't you be leaving?" I heard my dad yell from the kitchen.
"Yes, I did fall, and yes, I'm going right now!" I yelled at him, picking myself off from the floor and heading to get my keys to my newly accuired used mustang my dad bought me.
"At least grab some breakfast Bellie!"
"I'll be late Dad!"
"Bells..."
"Okay fine!"
I walked into the kitchen, opened the pantry and grabbed a granola bar. I flashed it in Charlie's face.
"Happy!?!" I excliamed, as I stalked out the kitchen and out the door.
I unlocked my car and flung open the door. I put the keys into the ignition and the car roared to life. I backed out of the driveway quickly and started off down the road. The clock now read 8:23. According to Charlie, the school was just straight down the highway and off the second exit. Thank god, he was right. I got there in just ten minutes, and the school was slowly starting to be occupied. I decided to go to the office and pick up my schedule first, before I could get lost and make a fool of myself. It had just started to drizzle slightly, so I pulled out my black jacket I kept in my car and pulled the hood on. I got out of my car and locked it up, and started heading in the direction of the small building named "Forks Administrative Building" (A/N: sorry, I have no earthly idea if that's what it would be called, but we have something like that at my school). As I started walking, I heard people laughing and turned around. I saw a group of about 6 people, three girls, and three boys. They were all standing in a circle, talking excitedly from what I could tell, about what they did during the summer. I was still turned around staring at them when I hit something solid, and very very hard. My head jerked back and I fell backwards onto the damp ground. I heard the sound of someone else falling as well and I looked up to see who I had knocked down. When I picked my head up off the ground, I sat up and saw another girl picking herself up off the ground. She had short, spiky black hair that was in a fashionable dissarray. She was wearing a bright, form fitting pink rain coat and matching pink rain boots. I quickly stood up and offered my hand to her.
"Oh my god, I am so sorry! I got distracted, I thought someone was laughing at me and I wan't looking and oh my gosh are you okay!?" I said out of breath from standing so fast.
She took my hand in her little one, and pulled herself up.
"Oh, it's okay, I was watching my brother and I wasn't looking either. I'm Alice by the way," said the short, little pixie like girl.
"I'm Bella. So are you sure you're okay?" I said.
"Hi Bella! And yes, I'm fine, I'm fine. Are you new here? Because I know like, everyone, and I'm fairly sure I've never seen you before!" she said, a little bit hyper.
"Yea, I just moved here. My dad is Police Chief Swan." I said glumly.
"Really! Oh that's so great Bella! Everyone heard that his daughter was moving here, and I soooo wanted to be the first to meet you! This was so fate!"
"Umm that's great. Everyone knows I'm coming. So, uh, I can get my schedule in that building right over there right?" I asked her, pointing to the Administrative Office.
"Oh! Yea, you can get it there. Hey, I could go with you and show you your first class if you want," Alice told me, happiness radiating from her being.
"Sure Alice, that sounds great!"
She grabbed my hand and we strolled over to the little building together, earning strange looks from the student body that had already arrived at school. When we got to the office, she skipped right up to the lady at the desk, told her my name, and she returned to me standing at the door and handed me my schedule.
"Here you go!" she said excitedly.
"Thanks"
I looked down at my schedule. First period English, second was Trig, third Spanish, fourth I had History and fifth was my lunch period. Then, after that I had Biology and Gym. Well, it doesn't seem too bad.
"I hope you don't mind, but I looked at your schedule, and we have 1st, 3rd, and last period together! Plus lunch!" she babbled on excitedly.
"No, that's fine Alice. But that's great, at least I'll have one friend in my classes."
"Oh my gosh Bella! We are gonna be best friends, I just know it!" And with that, she grabbed my arm, linked it with hers, and started pulling me off into the direction of what I assumed was the English building.
I liked this Alice, I really did.
When we finally got towards the building, I took off my hood and jacket, and stuffed it in my bag. We walked into one of the classrooms, and Alice lead me to a seat in the very back of the room. I sat down, and so did she. She turned to me and just as she was about to talk, the bell rang.
"Class, be quiet, it's the first day of school, I know you guys are excited about your summers, so if you be quiet and let me take role, I'll let you have the rest of the class to spend as you will," said the short, bald teacher who's nametag on his desk read Mr. Gurrerro.
And with that, he started calling out names. I waited for mine to be called. I heard him call out Alice's name, and she responded with a chipper 'Here!'. Right after hers was another person with the same last name as her, Cullen, and I heard her sigh. I looked over at her, but she just shook her head at me. Mr. Gurrerro called a couple more names, then, I heard mine.
"Swan. Isaella Swan?" he called, looking around the room for me.
"Here" I said, raising my hand. Everyone turned to look at me.
"Ahh, yes, everyone this is the new student Isabella."
"It's just Bella," I announced to him.
"Excuse me?"
"I said I'd prefer to be called Bella," I whispered, my face beet red.
Oh great. Bring on the stares.
Just then, the door swung open and a boy walked in. The attention turned to him. He was wearing a tight black shirt, black jeans, and black converse. His hair was the strangest bronze color, and his eyes were Emerald green. He was beautiful. I heard Alice sigh again next to me.
"Nice of you to join us, Mr. Cullen" Mr. Gurrerro said.
I looked over at the beautiful boy standing at the front of the room. At the same time, he looked over at me, and our eyes met. A shiver ran through my spine when I looked into his eyes. He looked so sad, and at the same time he looked so pained. I just wanted to reach out to him. We stared at each other for an immeasurable amount of time, until the teacher cleared his throat and spoke.
"Mr. Cullen, are you going to take a seat, or are you going to continue staring at Miss Swan?" he said.
The boy flushed and looked down before walking to an empty seat by the window.
"Ahhh, still nothing to say, Mr. Cullen?" Mr. Gurrerro asked blatantly.
The beautiful boy named Edward did not respond. He didn't even look up. He just continued to stare at the window just like he had when he sat down.
I heard both Alice and the teacher sigh, and he continued with the roll call until he was finished. Then he leaned his head against the desk and stayed like that. Ugh, stupid teacher, sleep on the first day of class. Nice.
I turned to Alice to see her staring over at Edward. Then I remembered her name.
"Alice, is that your brother, that boy Edward?" I asked her tenativley.
She looked over at me with evident sadness in her eyes and I saw her eyes water up a little bit.
"Yea. He's my brother."
"What was the teacher saying about him not talking?"
When I said this, a single tear rolled down her cheek and she looked down. Then she spoke.
"Well, my brother doesn't talk. Not anymore. Not to anyone. Not even me," she said, speakly so quietly I had to strain my ears just to make out the words.
"Why? What happened? I'm really sorry, if I'm being rude or making you sad, you don't have to answer," I said.
"No, it's okay." She smiled a little smile.
"Well, I'm not even really sure, but last year, he went off by himself after school to drive around for a while. He liked to do that, he liked being alone. When he didn't come back, my parents got worried and called the police to look for him. They didn't find anything that night, but the morning after he was at school in the same clothes from the day before, and he wouldn't tell us where he'd been or why he didn't answer our calls. He wouldn't say anything. That was the day he stopped talking to us. The day he stopped talking to everyone."
And with that, the bell for second period rang, and we gathered our things and started to head to the door. I threw one look over my shoulder to take one last peek at Edward. What I didn't expect is that he'd be staring at me. He looked out the window the whole period, but now his eyes were boring directly into mine. I blushed and turned around, and walked the rest of the way out of the classroom with Alice.
A/N: Okay, so thoughts? Suggestions? Comments? Let me know.
-thedisquietingmuse