Heh, so here's the second chapter. I already had this chapter written but I didn't get a chance to post it until now. I'm kind of suffering from writers block on Bring Me Down because the story is almost over. Tear but I already have another story lined up. Hah, but I'm not going to let myself start it until I finish these three.

Charlie instantly greeted with a rain coat, which I gladly accepted due to the fact that it was already pouring here. We unpacked the boxes from my car after a brief hello that was shouted over the rain.

Once we were safely inside I looked around the foyer with great horror. It was small. No, not just small. It was miniscule.

Charlie shrugged sheepishly at my baffled expression. "Sure, it's no three story house like you're used to or even like those apartment flats… but it's homey." He explained quietly.

And as I looked around, I realized he was right. Sure, the pictures of my childhood with somewhat gruesome to look at but Renee only had paintings done by the newest artistic talent in New York, nothing personal. And here… it felt like you could actually touch the décor without breaking it or something along the lines of that.

It was still small, though. I couldn't deny that. And it would take some getting used to. And my little room would be crammed. "Don't worry, I like it already." I beamed at him and his answering smile made me feel better about the dismal size situation.

"I was hoping you'd say that because, to make you more at home, I switched rooms with you. You now have the master bedroom. It's not a whole lot bigger… only a couple square feet. But I figured that was better then what you have, right?"

I felt tears pricking at my eyes. I'd forgotten how much more I liked my dad then Renee. He was such a sweetheart. I threw my arms around him and stayed there. He hesitantly wrapped his arms around me but soon returned the hug fiercely.

"I've really missed you, baby girl." He said with emotion straining his voice.

"I love you, daddy." I whispered. It was a strange feeling I was getting. I felt like a little kid again, someone that needed protecting. Being Forks, where all the emotional walls were put up in the first place, just made it so real.

I hadn't really realized I didn't feel much emotion until someone told me. We were watching an extremely sad movie… I'd forget which one… but I wasn't crying. I couldn't. I don't think I'd ever really felt love before, not even for my friends. Sure, they were great and I'd cry if anything happened to them. But that's about as far as those feelings went. I'd never told them anything too personal.

Something about getting teased as a little kid and a mom that didn't really like you much just made you not want to feel anything.

I could be wrong, but the surge of feeling from hugging my father was a little too much for me and I found myself crying.

"Shush, Bella. It's alright." Charlie hushed me awkwardly. The nice moment was gone and I quickly composed myself.

"Sorry, I didn't mean to go all emotional on you there, dad." I laughed and he joined in a little.

"No," He spoke slowly. "It's alright. I'm just not used to it. I know how Renee can be. Sometimes… you just need to let it all out." He winked at me.

And I knew he understood. He understood how much of a pain she can be and how emotionally exhausting she can be. How she kind of makes you want to kill yourself just so you can come back and kill her too. Although by the way the whole house was the same as when we left, I'm sure he probably still felt some love for her. I had to admit, Renee could be quite the charmer if you didn't know who she really was. And as her daughter of eighteen years, I knew perfectly well.

"I'm going to go unpack now." I told him as I headed up the stairs.

The nostalgia was almost overwhelming as I walked the familiar and simple path up the stairs. It reminded of times when I hadn't been through too much, seen too much, a time when I could just get by with ignorance. Even then I wasn't ignorant completely though. How I wished I could just redo my whole past and taken advantage of the times where I could have been silly, could have gone with out all the inhibitions that come with knowledge of what's right and wrong.

Damn, I felt old.

I put as much of my clothes as I could away in the closet. By the time I finished filling the closet I still had another box full of clothes. Most of it was underwear and bras and some summer wear. I put that in the dresser which was thankfully still as white as the walls and everything else about the room. I put my Idock on the white nightstand and then fluffed my white comforter before putting it on the bed. I placed my many pairs of shoes on the closet floor and then just stuffed the bin that I hold my purses in there too.

Once I was finished I heard Charlie soundly snoring and decided to take a jog. It was only eleven and I had way too much energy. I put on a pair of baggy grey sweatpants and my black NYU sweater on before grabbing my Ipod and heading out.

The jog was unsettling to say the least. I had the strangest feeling that someone was watching me. I don't know if it had to do with the amount of foliage with dark shadows in between everyone of the many trees, providing perfect coverage. But I couldn't shake the feeling.

But soon I fell into a steady rhythm with my feet and concentrated on the music. I found myself home about an hour or so later. To be inside was a great relief from the eerie feeling that just wouldn't go away.

After covering the windows in my room with a blanket, I took a shower. It helped to complete ease all my tension and I was ready for bed. I picked out an outfit for my first day of school and then went to sleep.

"Bella, wake up," Charlie called from my door.

I tried to speak but it was muffled from the pillow I was using to block out the sunlight. I bolted up… sunlight?

Charlie grinned. "It must be some sort of omen, right- sunshine on the first day of school?"

I nodded hopefully. That would be a really, really good sign for this dreaded day.

I dressed in a pair of dark wash skinny jeans from Pacsun with a pair of gray legwarmers from Abercrombie and a gray and white pinstripe short sleeved dress shirt from Hollister and white camisole underneath. My outfit undoubtedly reflected my dark mood. My make-up was done heavy and dark gray with my hair pulled up into a high ponytail at the back of my head with the front of my hair teased. (A/N: you know, those poofy things? Don't know what you exactly call them…)

My white Dolce & Gabbana purse still had all my stuff in it and it matched so I decided to just use that. I grabbed my favorite snack, vitamin water and some Ritz crackers, before heading out the door.

EPOV:

We all pulled up in my silver Volvo to school but there was an Aston Martin in my parking spot. I rolled my eyes and found a new parking spot by right near the school. By the time we all got out the girl was walking by us on the sidewalk. I could hear her yelling into her phone.

"I don't give a fuck what Cassie says. I'm not here on rehab so you can tell her to get lipo on her fat ass!" She listened for a second before speaking again. "I don't have time to deal with dip-shits like her."

She hung up her phone and groaned. She had an incredibly appealing voice and whole lot of attitude.

"Bella!" Alice squealed and the girl turned around with narrowed eyes.

I felt my jaw drop at the face. It was so incredibly familiar and yet different. She looked much older then I last remembered her. And hot- she looked amazing. I can't believe I didn't put two and two together before… rumors of Chief Swan's daughter coming back and then a new car here. I'm being a really big idiot today.

"Oh, hello, Alice, long time no see." Her expression was immediately pleasant and if I hadn't heard it I wouldn't have known she just had a particularly heated conversation on her phone.

"Yeah, you look so different." Alice gushed. I agreed internally. "That's quite the vocabulary you have."

Bella laughed, an exquisite sound to my ears. "My friends are being annoying." She shrugged.

Alice's jaw dropped. "That's how you talk to your friends?"

"Nah, I don't like them a whole lot but I make due with what I have." Bella explained. Just then Bella's phone started playing Korn. "What do they want now?" She grumbled and pressed end and the song stopped. "Sorry."

"It's alright." Alice pardoned her. "You remember Edward, right- the guy standing here gawking at you?"

Bella turned her piercing gaze to me for the first time. "How could I forget?" She smiled slightly with disinterest- a definite first for a girl looking at me. I smiled lamely but she had already turned her attention back at Alice.

"And Emmett?" She turned to the big bear of a guy who hadn't looked up from the game he was playing with extreme interest.

"Huh?" His eyes took in Bella and got wide. He let out a low whistle. "Whoa, Bella, is that you?"

"Yep," She nodded.

He tore out of the car and gave her a huge hug. I guess ten years to Bella made a difference in how Emmett viewed her.

She laughed. "If I do recall, Emmett, you didn't like me."

"Pish posh, you've always been a sister to me." He grinned at her and she just shook her head and smiled back.

When she pulled away Emmett chilled there beside her with Alice and me facing them. I was staring at Bella intently but she was completely ignoring me. Dang, that girl can really hold a grudge. I mean, come on, we were only eight!

"So, are you going to give me a tour or what?" Bella asked Alice.

Alice and Bella linked arms and walked away with Alice babbling as usual. "By the way I love your tops it's so…" I listened until they were too far away.

"Eddie-kins," I heard Lauren coo in my ear.

"It's Edward." I growled.

"But I think it's sexy." She purred. But after hearing Bella talk, her voice seemed hoarse and unappealing.

"Listen, Lauren, I really have to talk to Emmett hear about something important. I'll catch up with you later." I said with as much patience as I could manage.

She pouted but left, thankfully. As soon as she was gone Emmett started to chuckle. "You really have to get rid of that chick. She's annoying."

I nodded. I guess I really didn't see that before.

Emmett nudged me in the ribs. "Besides, Bella is much hotter. She's really matured, hasn't she?" I just glared at the tire of my car. He nudged me harder. "Admit it, man! She's got you big time already."

"Grow up, Emmett." I stalked off to my first period angrily.

BPOV:

I finally got my schedule after a rather annoying visit with the secretary, Mrs. Cope. I swear that women never stopped talking. She kept going on about how wonderful Forks was or about how mature I looked or asking how Charlie was. I was ready to chew my own arm off if it meant getting out of there.

"So, you still hate Edward, huh?" Alice questioned. She seemed to be a hit among the students because many people greeted her and gave me curious looks. You'd think they'd never seen a new student before. Actually… they probably never have.

I ignored the same flips my heart did from hearing Edward's name and responded. "I have no ill feelings toward him but I most certainly don't like him."

Alice laughed. "You spend too much time just bottling everything up. Haven't you ever just… let yourself go?"

I shook my head, feeling much like a princess from the older times talking to a lower class girl from a free country. Not that I was putting myself higher then Alice that was just how things were back then. The princess's had to be stiff and cultivated with so many other girls had a much happier life because they were able to live like they wanted. I'd never been pressured to put a shell up by anyone but myself.

"That will change soon. Two weeks with Rose and I and you'll be completely un-stiff."

I gave her a questioning look. "Rose?"

She pressed a palm to her forehead. "That's right! I completely forgot to tell you about her. Well, she's Emmett's girlfriend and his obsession. She's completely gorgeous and happens to be twins with my gorgeous boyfriend, Jasper Hale."

My jaw dropped. "Since when?"

She was positively beaming as she answered me. "Two years ago… Oh, Bella, I think I'm in love." She sighed dreamily.

In a way I envied her, I guess. To love was a very powerful and consuming emotion- so I've heard. Feeling like sounds amazing but it's too easy a setup to get yourself hurt, depending so much on one person. If there was one thing I'd learned, depend on no one but yourself.

I wrapped my arm around her. "I'm happy for you. When do I get to meet him?"

She was bouncing as she answered. "Today sometime, I suppose. I'm so shocked I could go that whole time without speaking about him. I'll probably drive you insane. He's all I talk about."

I just smiled warmly at her. Thankfully we were in first period together so she just walked me there. There were assigned seats and she already had someone sitting next to her so, unfortunately I was stuck in the back next to some short, poofy haired girl who wouldn't shut up.

'What was New York like?' 'Did you really own two houses?' 'Have you been to Europe?' 'Did your step-dad really write books and stuff?' 'How many designer things do you own?' The questions went on non stop before I finally put my foot down.

"Look, I'm really trying to listen. I'm new and I don't want to get behind."

She looked slightly offended but I didn't say anything mean and she didn't know that I was lying. The truth was I had done all this crap before and my school, which was much better quality than this one. At least it shut her up and left me to my own thoughts.

When I met up with Alice she was cracking up. "I can't believe you did that! You must have been the first person to ever interrupt Jessica." She managed to breathe out in between her laughter. I was pretty sure everyone with in earshot was listening eagerly.

I just shrugged. I really wanted to say something about how if that girl hadn't shut up I would have punched her or made some really rude comment about her hair, but I didn't want people to already think I was a bitch. I'd let them figure out that later.

"You're too much, Bella. I can't believe I missed out on ten years of being your friend."

"Tragic." I agreed with a smile.

"I think we're going to be best friends." She concluded.

"Definitely." When I nodded I really meant it. With Alice things didn't take so much thinking or watching what I said. I could tell she could handle whatever I dished out without a problem and there wasn't anything awkward about us. We were able to pick up on things again after ten years without a hint of unease. We just… clicked.

In my next class I was in there with Emmett because I was in an advanced class. He introduced me to all his senior friends, a couple of which were cute. It was highly entertaining to sit next to him in English while he made fun of the balding teacher.

Alice was waiting outside of my next class for me and then walked me to my next class while Emmett went the other way with his friends.

"Here's your class. I'm going to go meet Jasper." She walked me to the door and then gave me a hug. "Good luck." She winked at me.

Why was she wishing me luck? I gave her a weird look. "Don't do anything I wouldn't do." I smirked and she bounced off.

I shook my head and walked into that class.

"Ah, Isabella Swan, the new student." The teacher greeted me as soon as I walked into the class.

"Yes sir," I agreed with a head raised. No one caught me off my guard.

"Introduce yourself to the class." He instructed with a hand sweep, gesturing to the full classroom.

"My name is Isabella Swan, but I prefer Bella. I just moved down here from New York to live with my dad, Chief Swan."

He nodded in approval. "Go sit next to Mike Newton. Newton, raise your hand."

A blonde baby faced boy in the back of the room with no one sitting next to him raised his hand with a broad smile on his face. He looked thoroughly pleased that he was sitting next to me. I, on the other hand, was not. This Mike looked far too enthusiastic to be sitting next to me and I feared that I may have found myself sitting next to another talkative nobody of Forks.

"Hey, Bella, I'm Mike." He stuck out his hand.

I touched it no more then I had to without looking rude and then smiled politely back at him. "Hello." I said simply before sitting down and not looking at him.

That didn't put him off though because he still talked to the side of my head non-stop. Eventually I stopped answering him and just tuned him out. But he still walked me to my next class.

When I saw Alice looking my way I mouthed the words 'Help me!' to her. She laughed. And I cracked a smile, which he took as enthusiasm.

"So, I was thinking that maybe we could go see a movie sometime." He suggested although it sounded more like a question.

I answered him with a straight face. "I can't. I'm married."

I could practically hear his jaw dropping. "You're what?"

"Yes, I am happily married."

"But, but… to who?" He stuttered.

Alice then came up and wrapped her thin arm around my waste and managed to say in a straight voice "To me, we eloped in Niagara Falls this summer and we talked almost every day until her parents finally let her move back here. You know that's the reason she moved here in the first place, right?"

"You know… if you leave your mouth open like that for too long it might get stuck like that?" I questioned the stunned Mike, whose mouth was hanging open and was gaping like a fish.

Finally a devilish smile formed its way upon his face. Clearly he liked the idea of us two married. But by the time he had reacted we were on our way to the cafeteria.

I know Edward's being really, really stupid and very un-Edward-y but that will change in due time. Cause I'm all for the smart, sweet, sensitive Edward. The Edward in my story will get there. :) I couldn't really find a song for this chapter because I'm too lazy to really try and I just picked a song. If you have a better one I'm all for suggestions. Teasing to Please (Left Side, Stong Side) by Cute Is What We Aim For.

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