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Chapter 2 - True Colours (Cyndi Lauper)

You would think that I would be upset at being called a freak. But to be honest, I didn't really care what Lauren thought of me, which I explained over and over again to Alice. She didn't say anything to Lauren during the argument, but I could tell she was upset at what Lauren did. Just too scarred to say anything, I guess.

"Alice, I'm fine! Would you please give it a rest!" I sighed, stretching back into my chair and yawning, after she asked for the billionth time whether I was okay. As soon as I did this, I could see that everyone was staring at me. "Oh great! I've always loved being the centre of attention, and now my dream has finally come true!" I sarcastically bounded out, loud enough for everyone to be embarrassed and look away. I rolled my eyes. You would think that with having over 5,000 students in this bloody school, you wouldn't notice 2 new transfers. But noooo! They are intent on making my life hell!

"Anyway," I tuned back to Alice like nothing happened, "Why are you friends with Lauren and Jessica? They're idiots!"

Alice blushed. "I know they are, but it's complicated," Alice whined.

"How?" I couldn't see any reason why Alice couldn't just break off the stupid group.

"Look! Edward and I only moved here 1 year ago. When we arrived, Lauren kept pestering me! Inviting me to go shopping and go to all these parties. At first I was so bewildered with everything, I just said yes. After a month or so, I realised how much of a bitch she was to others."

"So why are you still friends with her?" I asked her.

"Well, now that I'm 'supposedly' friends with Lauren and Jessica, there's no-one who wants to be friends with me! Most of them are scared of me. And Lauren would absolutely kill me if I just left. Can't you see Bella? I'm stuck in a circle and there's nothing I can do!" Alice sighed exasperated.

Wow. That really is a problem. "Why would Lauren care if you just left? I thought she would just find someone else, knowing how 'loyal' she is."

"Well, I think she was only friends will me because I'm Edward's sister. You wouldn't believe how much she tries to flirt with Edward! And she uses me as a means to get to him. She's forever trying to come round my house just to see him. It's pathetic, really" Alice's voice was full of disgust.

"I didn't know Lauren would sink so far as to using somebody just to get a boy." Even I was disgusted. It just goes to show how much of a slut she was. Oh no! I was stooping down to Lauren's level. I shouldn't call her a slut. Whether if it was true or not was a different issue. No. For now on I will call her a …a 'disrespectfully-dressed girl.' There. Rose would be proud of me!

"There's a lot you don't know about her. And you better watch out particularly! You stood up to her and she's really not pleased. Just watch your back," Alice warned me.

"Oooh. I'm so scarred," I replied, my voice leaking with sarcasm.

"Ha ha" Alice replied dryly, rolling her eyes in the process. "But remember what I told you."

The teacher, Ms Lindsay, came round and handed out a sheet for us to do. I looked down and saw it was a list of algebra questions. They looked pretty straight-forward. She smiled kindly at me and said, "Just do what you can, Bella. I know that you'll be up to speed with the rest of the class in no time."

I smiled at her. I know she was being kind, but did she really think I was stupid? I was top of the class in Maths in Forks, though that wasn't very hard as there were only about 15 people in my class. But still! I looked down at the sheet and managed to finish all 25 questions in ten minutes. As I looked over, I could see Alice was still on question 8, and was burrowed in concentration.

"Ms Lindsay, I've finished the sheet," I smiled at her shocked face. "Oh, well come up here and I'll mark it right now." I got out of my seat, and as the chair scraped the floor, all eyes turned back to me. I ignored the stares and slouched to the teacher's desk. I laid the sheet down and Ms Lindsay started marking it. All were ticks; I had got 25 out of 25.

Ms Lindsay looked at me quizzically. "Some of your working-out is very advanced, even for your level. Have you been privately tutored?"

"No," I replied. "I've just always liked Maths and found it easy."

Ms Lindsay smiled a brilliant smile at me. "Well then, I'm sure you'll be an excellent student. You can go sit and rest now."

I shrugged and walked back to my seat. The eyes followed me. It was like a living replica of the Mona Lisa, for crying out loud! Couldn't these people just get on with their lives? The only stare I didn't mind was Alice, who as soon as I sat down immediately demanded, "You're good at Maths?"

"Erm, I guess I'm okay at it." I was a little surprised at her outburst. Alice's face brightened up. "Good! You can tutor me. I have no idea what the hell I'm doing." I laughed, and explained to her how to solve the question. She had the ability to do well, I could see, and could learn quite fast, but she had no confidence in herself. Whenever she was close to getting it she would give up, saying that she couldn't do it.

"C'mon Alice! Just try again" I told her after she stubbornly refused to do the last question. "It's the last question, for God's sake. Then you're finished!"

"But Bella," Alice whined yet again "If I can't do it, I can't do it! What's the point in trying if you are just going to keep failing?"

A ha! Time for one of my philosophical quotes. "Alice," I smiled sweetly and quoted perfectly, "Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm."

Alice just rolled her eyes. "Oh God Bella. You really do live in your own little dream world!"

"Yeah," I agreed, "But it's okay, they know me there!"

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Maths was good, and Alice did finally manage to answer that last question with my encouragement (or maybe she was so sick of my persistent encouragement she answered the question just to make me stop!) Either way, it worked!

But now, oh God, was my worst torture of the day – P.E. Dun dun dah! (A/N I think in America you call it Gym, sorry I don't know!) And to make it worse Alice had to go speak to some teacher, and I had no idea what the heck Rose had! So, basically, I was walking to P.E on my own, though I had no idea where I was going.

I was given a map, but I had no sense of coordination and ended up somewhere near the drama department, which was on the other side of the P.E department. Good going Bella, you're lost now!

I started walking in a random direction, and suddenly saw a baby-faced, blue eyed boy walking up to me. He had a cheesy grin on this face. Oh no. That's not a good sign! When he was a couple of feet away from me he said "Hey, I'm Mike." "Bella." It was only polite to answer back! But then he ruined it.

"Oh Bella. Where have you been all my life?"

I sighed. "Hiding from you and all your cheesy pick-up lines!" I grinned at his socked face.

I suddenly heard a booming laugh tangled in with a familiar one – Rose's. I turned to see her walking towards me from behind, with a guy next to her. The guy was absolutely HUGE, and really muscled. He had a cute, childish face with dimples, and curly black hair. He wasn't my type though.

"Newton, why don't you leave the poor girl alone?" The guy said through chuckles.

Mike looked murderous. "Why don't you go crawl into a hole McCarty? Just because you think you're so popular doesn't mean you can boss me around!" With that he stomped off, which only made the guy laugh harder.

"Oooh! That guy's defensive! He turned to me and smiled brilliantly. "Hey, you must be Bella. Rose has told me all about you." He turned and smiled to Rose, who lit up and gave him a dazzlingly smile back. I knew that smile. It meant that Rose fancied him. Though this time, it was like it was strengthened a million times. That was new!

"Oh, by the way, I'm Emmett."

I held out my hand to shake his and say 'Nice to meet you' You know, common courtesy. Emmett just looked at my hand, grinned cheekily and suddenly bounded at me and pulled me up into a tight bear hug. I tried to scream, but I didn't have any air. This guy was literally going to kill me!

"Emmett! Put Bella down!" Rose said laughing, but I was eternally grateful for that. "Aaaahh!" Emmett whined, but did put me down. I was catching my breath when Rose said, "Do you have P.E now Bella?"

All I could do was nod. "Oh good! Emmett and I do too," she said happily.

"C'mon Bella! Here you go." I was about to scream again as Emmett held his hands out and picked me up easily. But all he did was sling me onto his back and started walking. "Sorry Kiddo! But it's quicker doing it this way!"

Well, I wasn't complaining!

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Ergh Why do they have to make the P.E shirts so tight and the shorts so short? I mean seriously! I have quite a small frame so all my kit maked me seem a little, well, "disrespectfully-dressed." But it wasn't like I wanted it to! Oh well. There's nothing I can do about it. And there's no point in getting self-conscious.

I turned to see Rose who was tying her beautiful hair into a ponytail. Her P.E kit accentuated her curvy body and complimented her tanned skin. Sometimes I don't even know how Rose is related to me – we're like complete opposites! While Rose had golden wavy hair, bright blue eyes, tanned skin and a curvy body, I had brown limp hair, plain brown eyes, pale skin and a small body. But I'm not jealous of Rose. God no. I love her to death! And overall, I'm pretty happy with how I look. There's no point hating something that you can't change. And it's also better to be optimistic then pessimistic!

"Ready?" I said to Rose. She smiled at me and answered "Yep." We walked out of our class girl's changing room into the gigantic sports hall. There were probably around 50 students already there. Rose and I were one of the last as we were only just given our kit. The students were divided into two sections. As soon as we walked in, we heard some wolf-whistles. I ignored them. They were obviously aimed at Rose.

I saw our teacher, Ms Ethridge, walking towards us. "Alright girls," she was a straight-forward woman, I could see, "We're combining two classes today for benchball. Our class is on the right hand side, so sit at the end of the line and we'll divide you up into teams."

Great. Benchball! This is where co-ordination would come in handy. Unfortunately I didn't have any! Oh well. Let's hope that I don't let my team down. I walked to the end of the line and saw Emmett sitting there. He grinned at us as we sat down.

Suddenly, the room went silent. I turned to see Lauren and Jessica walking through the door. They had tied their t-shirts in a bow around their waist, so that their tummy was showing. And the shorts they wore barely hit mid-thigh! What else was I expecting from them? They strutted towards the left-hand side of the hall. Oh well, at least they're in the other class, and I would only have to face them this lesson!

A couple of seconds later, a God walked in, talking with Alice. No wait. It wasn't a God, it was Edward! Alice's P.E kit did not make her look "disrespectfully-dressed," and she was smiling happily, like earlier with me. This was her true colours. Not like when she was with Lauren and Jessica.

Speak of the devil and the devil shall appear. Lauren and Jessica, seeing Edward and Alice, stopped walking and turned to walk directly to them. Lauren was smiling too sweetly and giggling, touching Edward whenever possible. To me, it looked like Edward wanted to get the hell away from her. He looked like he was making an excuse as he pointed to our line and quickly hurried towards us. Oh God. My heart rate just sped up like mad. Edward was in my P.E class and was walking towards me!

"Thank God!" he sighed relieved as he skidded to sit by Emmett.

"Sorry I couldn't help man," Emmett punched Edward lightly on the arm. Oh. So Edward and Emmett were friends. Things just got even better!

"It's fine." Edward looked up, saw me and smiled. "Hey."

Man, I really needed to calm down! And I could already feel the heat rushing to my cheeks. I didn't get time to answer (though that was probably a good thing as I would just stutter and embarrass myself!) as Ms Ethridge came over and said "Alright, you four and Angela are a team."

I turned to see a tall, pretty girl with dark brown eyes, straight brown hair and a graceful body. She smiled nervously at us and I instantly liked her.

"Alright Team!" Emmett boomed out, making me jump. "Who wants to go on bench on the opposite teams? Whoever it is needs to be good at catching!"

That job was definitely not for me. In the end Edward went to the other side and stood up on the bench. He was tall, around 6" 2" so we would have to throw the ball pretty high in order for him to catch the ball. That was going to be a challenge.

And then it seemed as though fate was out to get me! Our opposing team consisted of Lauren, Jessica, Alice and two other boys. "Yo Jasper! Bet our team is going to win!" Emmett shouted out to one of the guys. He was tall, lean, with honey blond hair, sparkling blue-green eyes and cute freckles. By the way that Alice was staring at him, I could tell that she liked him. Jasper just rolled his eyes at Emmett and ignored him, bouncing the ball on the floor while waiting for the game to begin.

I tuned to see Lauren walking towards our side. Looks like she was going to be the catcher for the other team. As she was walking, she lightly brushed my shoulder and whispered, "Edward's mine, bitch! Never forget that!"

A/N Oooh! So what will happen in the game next chapter? You'll just have to wait and see!

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