After months of writers block, here is the next chapter! I hope you enjoy this chapter. We get to meet Edward and get a glimpse into the what the show is about. See you at the bottom!


"Bella," A jab to my side alerts me of an unwanted presence. I grunt into my soft, and at the moment, very comfortable pillow.

"Bella, get up." This time, the sharp jab is to my cheek. My hand, swoops out and tries swatting the annoying jabber away.

"It's too early." I roll over, and opening my eyes to tiny slits. My alarm clock read 12:01pm. Okay, so it wasn't early. But, it was my birthday. I should be able to sleep in. I close my eyes and pray the disturbance goes away.

"Bella, it is noon. Get your little ass out of bed!" And at that, my fluffy purple comforter and matching sheets are gone. I curl up into a ball. Now, she's just being unfair. "You have a very important meeting that you can't skip!" And then, it's like the sun has come bursting into my room. "Up, now!"

I sit up on my elbows, squinting at the sudden light, looking at my agent, Irina Greene. I wish my aunt and uncle didn't give her a key. "But, it's my birthday. Shouldn't I get a free pass for being late?"

"No." Irina said. Irina was a very stick to the schedule type of woman. She looked to be about 30 something; I wasn't allowed to ask how old she was. She didn't like discussing her age. So maybe she was really 50. She had shoulder length bleach blonde hair and dark blue eyes. She was usually very nice, but right now, she in full on business mode.

"Alright, I'll get up. What time is the thing?" I said through a yawn, sitting up and stretching.

"The thing is the table read for CR Season 2. And it is at, "she opened her Blackberry, "one thirty. And that means you have an hour to get ready. Get going!"

"Yes ma'am!" I saluted her. She just shot me a glare and stalked out of the room. Alright, someone was obviously not in a good mood.

I slipped off my bed and walked over to my closet. I stared at my skirts for a good 2 seconds, before deciding the heck with looking nice and grabbed some skinny jeans and my ruffled white tank top. I walked over to my bathroom, and started my shower. I quickly got undressed and hopped in. No need to make Miss Grumpy Gills to be even grumpier. I quickly cleaned myself before hoping out. I wrapped a towel around me, and walked over to the sink. I looked at my reflection in the mirror and sighed.

Every birthday, I think that I'm going to look different as soon as I turn a new age. But, sadly that is not the case. I still have the same silky, long wavy brown hair. My eyes were still the same dull brown. Though, if you ask some people, my eyes are the best shade of chocolate. I still had my father's nose and my mom's ears.

"BELLA! TICK TOCK!" Irina yelled from the living room. I just shrugged my shoulders and continued to get ready.

After I looked fairly decent, I headed back out into my bedroom. I looked at the clock and saw that it was 12:45. Let's hop the driver knows where he's going! I grabbed my Ray-bans off my night stand, slid on my converse and met Irina in the living room.

"Alright, we can go now." I said.

"Aren't you forgetting something?" Irina said, holding out my iPhone in her hand.

"Oh, yeah. Where did you find this?" I had lost it last night after I came home from my best friend, Alice Brandon's house.

"The fridge was making a very odd sound. So, I looked in and found this. Do you often leave your phone in the fridge?" Irina asked. I took it from her.

"I was hungry last night, so I must have set it down in there." I was surprised it wasn't dead.

"Okay. Well, we need to get going. We might be a few minutes late now." She turned on her Jimmy Choo heel and walked to the front door. I just chuckled and followed her out.

"So, after the table read today, which should only be few hours, you have a final wardrobe fitting to make sure certain costumes fit. That should end around 4:30 or so. And then, after that, you have an hour to kill before dinner with your Aunt and Uncle for your birthday. And then, your birthday party at 7:30." Irina finished reading my schedule to me, in the car ride over to the CW office.

"For it being my birthday, I don't have much me time." I said looking out the window as Hollywood Blvd. is passing by. We'd be at the lot in 10 minutes.

"You have an hour before you dinner, there's your me time. You wanted to be an actress." She said, reading her Blackberry. "You could always ask Alice to take you shopping." I scowled at that idea. I loved Alice like a sister, but shopping was not my thing.

"I think I'll chill at the condo before then. I need to catch up on the episodes of Glee that I've missed."

"Hey, whatever makes you happy. But, just so you know, after the dinner, Makenna and Charles will be over to help with your hair and outfit for your party." Irina pointed out. We were now pulling into the studio lot.

"Can't I just wear one of my skirts or something?" I pleaded.

"I'm afraid not. Since this is your birthday, and CW has agreed to help out with your party, you need to look nice. More than your closest friends are going to be there." Whenever a party was held by CW, a bunch of people were always invited I had no desire of seeing.

"Whatever." The car pulled up in front of the CW office. I unbuckled my seatbelt and hopped out of the car. Even though I wasn't thrilled about this, it felt nice being back at work after months of being on vacation.

"BELLA!" And at that moment I was wrapped in a hug by tiny arms. "HAPPY BIRTHDAY!"

"Alice, you don't need to yell," I laughed, trying to free my arms from her tight grip, "I'm right here."

"I know! But, I'm so excited! My best friend is finally 18! You are now legal! You can date older men!" Alice exclaimed, letting me go.

"And why does that excite you?" I raised a questionable eyebrow.

"Because, you can hook me up with older guys like Ryan Reynolds!"

"He's like, 11 years older than you." I said, walking inside with Alice hanging on my arm.

"So, at least introduce us. I mean, he can wait a couple of months before I turn legal to date him." She said. Alice has a little problem with her Ryan Reynolds obsession. She thinks they are going to get married and have like 20 perfect Ryan Jr.'s. I'd hate to be the one that bursts that bubble.

"Alice, when are going to stop obsessing over that guy?" Someone says from behind us.

"Rose, I'm not obsessing. I'm just admiring, from far away!" Alice huffed.

"Whatever you say, Tink." Unlike Alice, who had a very short pixie cut and was barley 5 foot, Rose had long golden blonde hair and was 5'4. But with the shoes she was wearing, she was more like 5'6. "Happy birthday, Bella!"

"Thanks Rose." Me and Rose weren't exactly friends. But, for Alice's sake, we got along. For the most part.

"So, did you hear about the new guy?" Rose asked, walking with me and Alice to the room where the table read was happening.

"No. What about him?" I said. She was referring to my new love interest. The writers felt that now that I've established my character, it was time to throw love into the mix.

"Apparently, he's a total dickhead." Rose said, scoffing a little.

"Rose! That's not nice to say about someone you've never met before." Alice sounded really offended.

"So, what? It's better than sugar coating it," Rose turned to me. "I heard that he once got an entire stage crew fired because they looked at him funny. Dude is a total ass."

"That is total bs! Stop believing the rumors people spread. You're just as bad as those dumbass gossip sites." Alice said. We finally reached the room.

There was along mahogany table, with a bunch of chairs surrounding it. Each chair had a script and with the character's name on a place card sitting in front of it. My character, Raine, was sitting near the head of the table.

"I can't help it if they have reliable sources." Rose said, sitting down at her chair. Her character's name was Sarah Reed.

"OK! Magazine isn't a reliable source." Alice sat down next to her. She played a girl named Williow James.

"Alright, I declare that this subject is being dropped. We will just have to wait and see what he's like when he comes in." I said, plopping down in front of my script. Alice and Rose glanced at each other before pulling out their phones.

More of the cast started filling the other chairs as 1:30 started to roll around. I was surprisingly early, thanks to the lack of traffic.

I was excited to get into the new script for Chasing Raine. The pilot for the show picked up good ratings and as the show progressed, our show ended up having 22.5 viewers by the season finale. So here we are, ready to kick of season 2.

In season 1 of Chasing Raine, my character Raine Jacobs, is one of the 24 teenagers that is a part of a secret FBI government plan. The FBI picks these teenagers based on skills and endurance. They have been watching certain teens all their life. And when they hit the prime age of 16, they are taken in by the government. Once they are taken in, they are trained and swore in by the FBI. The teens have to swear that no matter how dangerous or how much danger is inflicted on their loved ones, they can never tell anyone of the FBI has planned. And then, they are thrown back into reality and are told to continue living their lives. But, when the FBI calls, they must go out on their mission.

All through season one, Raine is just going through life as a normal teenager, or trying too. She gets called into her first mission. But, as the season goes on, the teen agents begin disappear after they get sent out on a mission. It's very suspicious behavior. By the middle of the season, Raine figures out why the FBI wants all these teenagers. The FBI is working against the president to throw the country into a dictatorship. Once Raine figures this out, the FBI gets wind that she knows, so they have sent out an arrest warrant for her, dead or alive. So, Raine ends up going on the run. Along the way, she runs into trouble and your typical bad guy clichés. She makes friends with these two other agents, Willow and Sarah. And together they are trying to help shut the FBI down. At the end of the season one, Raine, Willow and Sarah think they have found a way to stop the FBI. But, little do they know the FBI has hired another agent, who is lethal and will do anything to get Raine, dead or alive.

So, I'm guessing the new guy is lethal weapon but we end up falling in love and it complicates things. I really want to read the first episode, but someone is holding us up.

"And new guy is 15 minutes late. Why does this always happen? I should just not set times anymore. I should just tell everyone to get here when it's convenient for them." That would be Aro Blanc, our director. You don't ever want to get on his bad side. It takes forever to get back on his good side.

"Uh oh." Jessica Stanley whispered to me. She plays one the FBI agents. "Looks like the new guy, is starting off on the right foot." I let out a hushed giggle.

"Something funny about this, Miss Swan?" Aro said, glaring at me. "Is it funny to see your new costar now 20 minutes late?"

"Sorry." I said, looking down at my fingers. He also has bat like hearing. But, why did I get yelled at?

"I'm sorry, dear. I'm just frustrated; happy birthday, by the way." Aro smiled apologetically at me. I just gave a reassuring smile.

"Oh yeah! Happy birthday, Bella!" Emmett McCarty said. "What are you, like 100 now? You are getting old!"

"Very funny, Em. I'm 18, just FYI." I stuck my tongue out at him. Emmett was my big brother in the show. His character's name is Eric Jacobs.

"I swear to the filming gods, if the kid isn't here in 5 minutes, I'm going too-" Aro wasn't able to finish his threat cause in flew a flustered looking Jane Alberts, Aro's assistant. She whispered something in his ear.

"Fucking, finally!" Aro prasied. "The tardy man is here. And it is only 2 o'clock." Looks like, that hour to myself just got thrown out the window.

Just as Aro took his seat, the door to the room opened and in walked the man of the hour. Or the man who was 30 minutes late.

"Wow. Look at all the people here waiting for me." And he forgot to leave the cockiness at home. Today wasn't going to go well.

"Everyone," Aro said from his seat, "meet your new cast member, Edward Masen. He will playing the role of-"

"I think I got this." Edward said, cutting off Aro. Oh, strike one. Aro, looked dumbfounded with his mouth open, before closing it.

"I will be playing, the all-important role of Anthony Hawkins." Edward smiled at everyone. This guy wasn't going to live to play this role.

"Thank you Edward," Aro said with a bit of frustration in his voice. "now, please take your seat so we can begin."

Edward looked around the table and then he found his seat. Which, lucky for me, happened to be right next to me.

"Looks like you get to sit next to the most handsome guy in the room." He said to me as he made a big scene of pulling his chair out. Someone, please shoot me now, I'll be forever grateful.

"Don't flatter yourself." I mumbled, turning to Aro. As Aro began his speech about how wonderful it is to have everyone back, my phone vibrated. I peeked up at him then pulled my phone out of my pocket.

Rose: Told you. Dickhead

Me: More like big-headed pig.

I looked back up at Aro, seeing that he didn't notice my phone check. He hated when people took their phones out during table reads. We were supposed to be getting into character.

Out of the corner of my eye, I saw Rose check her phone and almost laugh. Luckily she caught herself.

"And so, without further ado, let's get on with this table-"And just then, an Eminem song started blasting in the room. Edward took his sweet time answering pulling his phone out of his pocket.

Strike two. Aro looked like he was about to explode all over the room.

"Excuse me, Mr. Masen, but you need to turn that off." Aro said, trying to restrain from yelling.

"Oh, I am so sorry. Let me just do that, right after I answer this call. Hello?" Edward just turned around in his chair and began talking in hushed tones.

Wow. I never thought I'd see the day when the douche radar in my head broke. I swear, if Aro didn't want to get sued, he's be strangling this kid right now.

"Alright. I gotta go. Love you too. Bye." Edward hung up his phone, and instead of turning it off, he put it on silent. "Sorry, Mr. Aro. I couldn't decline a call from my girlfriend. Won't happen again." Girlfriend? I didn't know dickheads could get girlfriends.

"Just, please, no more interruptions from now on and I'll let is slide." Aro said. Edward, nodded and flashed the Okay sign.

"Alright, now, let's begin with the table read of Season 2 of Chasing Raine." Everyone clapped, minus Edward. And we began reading in character.


And yes, Edward is a jerk! We get to learn a little bit more about Edward next chapter. Bella does some research about him and finds out who he really is. See you next chapter! Thanks for reading xoxo