I'm back for another chapter! Thanks to those who reviewed.
jester1- Thank you for double checking my spelling of Quileute. I've got it written down next to my computer so I won't misspell it anymore—hopefully. I also hope that this chapter gives you a little more of the drama you want. I have to admit, unless I want a story to be overly dramatic at the beginning, my first chapter or two are fairly simple. They like to get more and more complicated as I know where the story is going, but I think since this is based on a book, instead of my usual medium, it will help give it a bit more of a guideline.
Aqua- I appreciate that you took the time to read my story even if you did not see the point in it. I think that if you continue to read the story, you'll see that this is just an alternative universe, and not quite the Mary-Sue you accused it of being. Unlike many Mary-Sue stories, I'm not inserting my character in with all of the main characters. She happens to be showing you what might have happened if Bella was different and had different experiences.

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-Silver

Brigid slowly met more people at school and became close friends with her volleyball team mates. She had noticed that Edward had left for a few days and had not reappeared until the next week. When Brigid saw Edward sitting at their lab table, she tugged at the sleeves of her blue, zippered hoodie. She slammed her books onto the desk and locked her elbows on top of them. "Nice of you to show up, finally—I had to complete two labs, that required two people, by myself," She hissed, putting emphasis on 'by myself.'

Edward pushed his copper bangs out of his eyes and started slowly and softly, "I'm sorry for any inconvenience I might have caused you. My father, my brother, and myself like to take camping trips and he, my father, was finally able to clear his schedule."
Brigid's elbows unlocked at the sound of Edward's velvety soft voice. She pushed her own golden brown curls out of her face and turned to stare him in the eye. "You could have at least treated me a little better last time. I'm fairly tempted to say you're a pain in the ass," Brigid grumbled, trying to hold on to her quickly dissipating anger.
"You have a point. Allow me to formally introduce myself; my name is Edward Cullen and I will be your lab partner for the year," He replied, turning a pair of golden eyes on her.
Brigid's forehead furrowed. "That's an interesting eye color you have, Cullen."
"Please, call me Edward."
"Alright, Edward. Either way, you have an interesting eye color," Brigid repeated, slightly more cordially.
"May I have your attention class," began the teacher, "today, we will be dissecting frogs. Those of you who had lab partners out when we dissected worms will need to show your lab partner how to properly dissect."
"Looks like I'm going to have to miss out on all the fun," Edward joked.
"Seems so," Brigid replied a little flatly.
Edward cast an occasional glance Brigid's way as they dissected. 'If only I could hear what he's thinking,' Brigid contemplated when she caught him staring. She saw him shift a little and rolled her eyes. 'Maybe not.'
The day continued in its new school time routine. Mike was caught watching her as she joked around with some of the girls in P.E. The other guys would make fun of him, and Brigid would come to his defense. Then the girls would take a turn picking on her till her face turned stony and she shot them looks. After school, Brigid would stay for two hours to practice with the volleyball team unless they had a game. Tonight was the big game against the high school on the Quileute reservation, and Brigid was excited.
"Someone coming?" Sara, one of her team mates, asked as they were dressing for the game.
"Or three somebodies?" Another team mate, Rachel giggled.
"Three! We've got a heart-breaker in this one, girls," the team captain Olivia exclaimed.
"Three?" Brigid laughed, "I'll probably only have two, at most!"
"And who would they be," Sara prodded.
"My dad and Jacob," Brigid stated matter-of-factly.

"We'll see," Rachel sing-songed as they all left the locker room.
The team arrived on the court to school cheers and large posters with there names. It seemed like half of the school had turned out to see them, and sitting right in the second row by the door, was Brigid's dad. He whistled and winked at her. He was sporting a school spirit t-shirt and it made Brigid's face light up. Towards the top corner, farthest away from the door, was Edward. He saw her look at him and nodded to her. She stumbled a little out of shock, but continued forward. Soon, she was almost to the team bench when Mike came out of nowhere and started babbling on and on. Brigid just waved him off and went to stand with her team.
When the opposing team came out, Brigid bit her lip. Their players were the same size as many of Brigid's team mates, but they all had this look on their faces that told people they meant business. It was right then that Brigid knew that they were in trouble. By the end of the first set, they were. Having lost, the team got together to regroup. "We can do this, we came so close last year; and now, with a real champ on our team, they don't have a chance. Get your heads together and let's go!" Olivia shouted over the blaring music.
All the girls shouted and broke up into their positions for the second set. It was during a tie that Brigid saw Jacob walking back to his seat. He glanced over and saw her watching and cheered. "Make this a good match, White-tail!" Jacob shouted.
Brigid laughed and crouched back down into her position, becoming more and more like the jungle cat that she idolized. When the next ball came, it only took her one hit to send it flying back to the other side. Soon, the other team received a penalty for more than the allowed number of hits. It was Brigid's turn to serve.
From there on was a rallying point for the Forks girls. Brigid served the ball over and over, making ace after ace. It did not take long for the team to win the set. Returning to the team bench, Brigid was greeted with cheers and high-fives from the rest of the team. "Alright, girls, it's close. Can you feel it? I said can you feel it!" Olivia shouted and the team screamed, "Don't get sloppy! Get it done, let's get that win!"
It all seemed a blur to Brigid as she swapped in and out with teammates. Spikes, blocks, aces and shouts abounded. And in no time at all, Brigid was being swept away by a mass along with her teammates. They had beaten the Quileute team for the first time in more than twenty years. And no matter how many people slapped her on the back or congratulated her, she was only looking for one person.
"Way to go, Bird."
"Thanks, Dad," Brigid smiled.
"That was some game, I've never seen a crowd so rambunctious since I went to a rock concert in my good-ole days," David laughed and wrapped and arm around Brigid's shoulders.
"I was pretty shocked myself," Brigid added, "but I'm glad to be going home. I'm starving."
"Good thing Jacob brought some of that fish fry with him when he stopped by before the game," David commented off-handedly.
"Jacob was at our house?" Brigid asked.
"Yeah, in fact, we're his ride back to his car. I worry about that thing though; it's a fixer-upper that could use a few more fixes."
Brigid and her dad laughed all the way to her car.
"Can I hitch a ride?" Jacob asked as he leaned against Brigid's light blue Ford Focus with a huge smile plastered across his face.
"Maybe, as long as you have payment," Brigid smirked as she tossed her keys in the air.
"Fish fry's in the oven staying warm."
"I think that will do," Brigid laughed tossed Jacob the keys.
"You're going to let me drive your car?" Jacob asked with an inquisitive look on his face.
"Do you really think I'd be able to drive in a straight line after all the leg work?" Brigid countered.
"Score!"
"There were a lot of those too."
Brigid and Jacob laughed as David shook his head. "I'm going to try and get out of here and warm up the fish fry. Stop by the grocery store and pick up some ketchup and a celebratory gallon of ice cream, would you."

"That, I have enough strength left for," Brigid stated.
"I thought so."
Brigid and Jacob joked and talked all the way to the grocery store. Brigid told Jacob to stay put and she ran in to buy the things David requested. As she browsed the different flavors of ice cream, trying to determine which would go over with everyone the best, Mike walked down the aisle. "Hey, fancy meeting you here!" He smiled.
Brigid smiled back and stuck her hands in the pockets of her zippered hoodie. "Aren't you cold?" Mike asked as he looked her up and down, slowly.

Brigid was still wearing her forest green and white team jersey, forest green spanx, and white knee high socks with matching green stripes and a pair of sneakers along with her hoodie.
"Not in the least bit," Brigid replied smoothly.

"Hey, Brigid, you okay in here? Oh, sorry, did I interrupt something?" Jacob called from other end of aisle.

"No, Mike was just saying hello. What flavor of ice cream do you want?" Brigid asked.

"Moosetracks, out of all these, is the best," Jacob replied.

"Well, it was good to see you," Mike said awkwardly as he backed away, "Good job at the game. See you in class."

Mike tripped over a display and high-tailed it out of there. As soon as he was out of sight, Jacob started snickering. Brigid smacked his arm, "Be nice, the guy's just trying to be nice."

"More like failing at hitting on you," Jacob managed to choke out before he was overcome by another bought of laughter.

"Ha, ha, ha, very funny, Jake—not. Come on," Brigid started as she pulled a carton of ice cream out of the freezer, "let's go eat."

The evening passed uneventfully. Brigid, Jacob, and David enjoyed the fish fry, some French fries courtesy of the frozen food aisle, and ice cream while watching an episode of Glee. The two guys had agreed that since Brigid had won the game they would let her pick the TV show. Only Jacob complained, but that was alright by Brigid. She was having a good night and not even Jacob's constant whining could annoy her. Jacob left after the show was over and David showed a little concern at Jacob's driving home in the rain. Brigid laughed at her dad and reminded him that Jacob and she did have school the next day. David finally insisted on driving Jacob home since the Rabbit's tires did not look good. After they left, Brigid finished off the ice cream and took a nice, hot shower. She was drying her hair with a towel when she remembered that she hadn't finished her Biology diagram of the dissected frog. She groaned and quickly changed into a pair of green and black plaid, flannel pajama bottoms and a black tank-top. Brigid curled up on her bed with her biology book and the diagram she had half-way finished. She turned on her MP3 player and managed to almost finish the worksheet before falling asleep on her book.

When she woke up in the middle of the night from a nightmare, she slowed her breathing and looked up to see an empty room. "I swear someone was in here," She mumbled and pushed her things off her bed and crawled under the covers.

The next day was a bore and Brigid had a hard time keeping her eyes open. In fact, while she was standing in line to buy lunch, her eyes closed and her eyes drooped. Her tray slipped from between her fingers, but when she opened her eyes, Edward was kneeling in front of her with the tray in his hands. "Thanks," Brigid mumbled and took it from him.

"Do you have it?" He checked.
"I think so," Brigid replied with a slight look of confusion.
"Well, I'll see you in Biology," Edward nodded and started to walk away.
"Wait," Brigid called, "You went to the volleyball game last night. Why?"
"What do you think?"
"I don't know what I'm thinking right now. My head's too foggy," Brigid mumbled.
"I have to agree with that," Edward replied with a chuckle and headed back to his table.

I know this wasn't very long, but I really want to save the next thing for another chapter instead of starting it now. I hope you enjoyed it at least a little bit.

-Silver