Author's Note: Okay, I'm sorry for so much delay. I know I promised that I would have this story up soon, but the one that I was originally going to post was too long to be considered a one-shot, really... it took about twenty pages. So I now came up with a new idea, and am working like shit to get it posted as soon as possible. It'd be helpful if you guys can give me some ideas for the next 'stories'. It won't take long to write these because they'll be fairly short, but my brain is fresh out of plots and things.
This fan fic will be an all human story. First day of kindergarten!! Edward, Bella, and Alice are in JK (Junior Kindergarten, and if that doesn't make any sense to you, they're four years old), and Jasper, and Rose are in SK (Senior Kindergarten... and it probably won't take a lot of brains to figure out that they're five) and Emmett's in grade one. Everything takes place in Phoenix.
THE CULLENS IN KINDERGARTEN!!
BPOV
"Mommy, I don't wanna go to kindergarten!" I whined.
I already knew that it was going to be very scary, and I bet all the other kids are going to call me ugly or something. I don't wanna be called ugly, and I don't want them to call me stupid either. I wanted to stay at home, with Mommy, or go play at Jacob's house. Jacob is my best friend and he's lucky. He doesn't have to start kindergarten for a whole year! And even when he does, he's going to a different school from me; because his mommy couldn't afford the place that I'm going to, because it's a private school. (I don't know whether or not you have to pay for kindergarten, but let's just say you do because I can't have Jacob hanging out with Bella all the time. If they do, well, then, yay!) Mommy said that I didn't have to go to preschool because I didn't have any friends, and I didn't know any of the other kids, but I had to go to kindergarten because you actually learn stuff there.
"Bella, honey, don't worry," said Mama. She was trying to trick me to make me less scared, but I wasn't going to fall for it!
"But Mommy, there's going to be lots of new kids, and they're all going to make fun of me! I'm scared!" I cried, a few tears falling down my cheeks.
Mama bent down, and wiped away the tears with her finger, and shushed me, then pushed me towards the school. I grabbed onto Mama's leg, and I didn't let go. I don't want Mommy to leave! Couldn't she stay with me? I heard Jacob say that one of his friends' mommies stayed with him at kindergarten all day, so that he wouldn't be scared. Why can't my mommy do that? Mommy was a meanie! She told me to be quiet while she spoke to the teacher, Ms. Hall.
Ms. Hall looked nice. She had reddish hair that was tied up in a ponytail just like mine was yesterday, and she had lots of freckles, just like my baby cousin Leo. She was not as tall as Mommy though, and she was wearing a blue shirt with khaki shorts. She was wearing a sweater even though it was kinda hot. She smiled at me a lot, but I still didn't want to let Mommy go. They talked a lot. I didn't listen to what they were saying because I was too busy looking at the lady bug that was crawling over a stone.
"Okay, Bells. I'm leaving now," Mommy said, waving to me. "The day will be over before you know it."
I tried to run after Mommy but she wouldn't let me. Another tear fell from my eye, and I wiped it away with a dirty finger. Now what am I supposed to do? Ms. Hall told me to follow her, so I did because Mommy wasn't coming back. Maybe I could find somebody to play with. My short little braids were bouncing up and down as I walked, and I wanted to pull them down but Mommy had taken twenty minutes to do up them this morning. I was wearing my favourite pair of jeans with a purple shirt with a butterfly made out of little plastic beads on top. My sneakers were new so they squeaked whenever I walked on something that was wet.
I saw a girl who was even shorter than I was playing dress up in a corner. She was very pretty, and she had short black hair. I asked Ms. Hall if I could go play with her, and she said yes, as long as I came back when it was story reading time. I skipped up to the little girl. I wonder why she's littler than I am, but I was four, and you can't go to kindergarten until you're four. That means that she's just littler, but not younger than I am.
"Hi! I'm Bella," I told her.
"I'm Alice," she answered, "Do you wanna play dress up with me? I'm going to be a princess!" She had a dress from the box in her hand. It was pink and it had sparkly things on it. There was a big bow on the back. It was a bit too big for Alice, and it almost touches the floor even though it's supposed to go to your knee. She also had funny shoes with a really tall thing on the heel. It looked like the high heels that Mommy sometimes wore, but it was clear and had little pieces of colored things inside of it.
"Okay," I said, and reached for the dress up box. I pulled out a cowgirl hat. Just then, a boy with bronze hair came running past us really fast. (Remember that she's four and her grammar basically... sucks)
"Bet you can't catch me!" he said, running away from another tall boy with blond hair.
The blond boy almost knocked me over when he ran past me, so I had to yell at him to say sorry, because that's what Mommy does whenever I do something bad.
"That's Jasper," Alice said in a dreamy voice. "I'm going to marry him someday."
I nodded. Mommy and Daddy used to be married but now they're not. They have something called a divorce. I think it's when they don't live together anymore and only one of them can take me to school, and the other one lives far, far away.
"What about the other guy?" I asked.
"That's Edward. He's my brother, and he's adopted," she answered.
"What does adopted mean?" I questioned.
"It means that his mommy isn't my mommy, and his daddy isn't my daddy either, but we've all got to be nice to him because his mommy and daddy are dead and he has no where else to go, so we have to call him our brother," she said, all in one breath.
I knew what dead means, because my grandpa was dead. He was really old and he had a heart attack. I wondered how Edward's mommy and daddy died. Maybe they had heart attacks too? I didn't know what a heart attack was except that it was bad.
"I also have another adopted brother, and his name is Emmett," Alice said. "He's two years older than me. His mommy and daddy aren't dead but they don't want him no more. My mommy felt sorry for him because no one wanted him, so now he's my brother too."
"Your mommy sounds nice," I commented.
"Oh, she is! And she makes the best brownies. She packed me one for snack time. I can share it with you!" I knew at that moment that Alice was going to be a very good friend.
I was about to say something, when Edward came running past us again. Except this time, Jasper caught him. "You're it! You're it!" he shouted, but Edward didn't chase after his friend. Instead he just looked at me, and sat down. I was about to tell him that it's rude to stare, when he asked me what my name was.
"This is Bella," Alice told him. He looked really pretty, for a boy. His eyelashes were really long, and his eyes were the colour of the emerald that Mommy got for Christmas from her aunty. His skin was really pale, like mine, 'cept even paler.
"You're pretty," he said.
"Ooh, someone's in love!" Alice said. I didn't know what love is except that mommy and daddy don't love each other anymore. I think I loved Edward too, but I wasn't sure because I didn't know what love is.
"You wanna play with us?" he asked.
"You want to play with a girl?" Jasper asked, sticking out his tongue, "She might have cooties!" (lol the cootie stage... poor kindergarten and first grade teachers!)
"You're not supposed to be mean to my new friend!" Alice said, defending me. "If she wants to play, she can play. I'll play too!"
"Fine," Jasper grumbled.
I didn't answer yet, so I accepted. Edward was it now, so I ran away as fast as I could. But then he caught me, and we both ended up falling because I tripped. I somehow ended up sitting on his lap, and I blushed, getting up.
Edward didn't move, or say that I was it. In fact, he just sat there, and stared at me. Then the teacher told us that it was story time, so we were supposed to sit on the carpet. Edward asked me to sit beside him, so I did. The teacher read us Gingerbread Man. I liked this story a lot, because the gingerbread man was funny.
At nap time, Edward pulled his mat and blanket towards me so that we could be beside each other and talk if we weren't sleepy. However, I fell asleep just like everyone else so we didn't get to talk at all. When Mommy picked me up from kindergarten, I told her that I had fun, just like she said, and I met a girl name Alice and two boys named Jasper, and Edward. Mommy hugged me, and we went home.
THE END OF THE YEAR
I was going to miss Edward and Alice so much! Jasper too, but we didn't really talk a lot. Emmett was funny, though we rarely saw him because he was in first grade and we were only kindergarteners. Rosalie was nice sometimes, but sometimes she was mean, so I can't really say that I'm going to miss her. I hugged everyone goodbye, but then as I got to Edward, he grabbed me and kissed me, on the lips!
"Something to remember me by," he said sadly. I was surprised, but glad at the same time, because Mommy said that you can kiss the people that you love, and now I most certainly knew that I loved Edward.
I already couldn't wait for next year to start. Summer was a whole two months, and I wouldn't get to play with them for all of summer, because we don't know where they live. Plus, even if we did, I still can't play with Edward because when Daddy called me sometimes, he says that I shouldn't play with boys. He says he doesn't mind Jacob, so I don't know why Daddy won't let me play with other boys.
Mommy came to pick me up from junior kindergarten for the last time. Next time, I'll be in senior kindergarten, and I'll be almost five! Even though I knew that I probably wouldn't see Edward for a long time, I tried to hope, so maybe I can be with him sooner.
TWELVE YEARS LATER
Edward was driving me home in his new Volvo that Carlisle and Esme had gotten him for his sixteenth birthday. The silence that used to be comfortable was now... well, uncomfortable. Sometimes, I just wanted to lean in and kiss him. It was hard not to just sit there, grab the collar of his shirt, and start making out. I guess it's not hard to figure out that I liked Edward, my childhood friend. A lot. It was more than just a crush. So instead of just sitting there, I decided to start a conversation.
"So, Edward..."
"Yes?" he asked, turning towards me. I knew better by now than to ask him to face the road. He could look at me and drive in a perfectly straight line. He could do almost anything without having to pay too close attention, and still have it be perfect. Lucky guy.
"I was just thinking of something," I said quietly. I wasn't sure if I should say this or not. But then, as I recalled the awkward silence from before, I decided to speak up. "Remember that last day of kindergarten?" I asked in a shaky voice.
"Oh yes," he answered, grinning. He seemed to notice that I was nervous somehow. "How can I ever forget the day that I gave away my first kiss?"
"Well... yeah. That's kind of what I'm getting at," I said, looking down.
"What is it?" he asked. He was my best friend, especially since Jacob moved away when I was twelve, and I could usually tell him anything. This particular 'thing' though, I wasn't so sure about sharing.
"Well... what if I told you that... I liked you? A-a lot?" I asked. I had put off saying this for at least a year, and I was not going to look back now. However, being scared of rejection, I wouldn't look at his face, for fear of him telling me that he didn't want to be friends anymore because he doesn't like me that way.
He took a deep breath, and I could feel his eyes on me the entire time. "Then I would've answered that I liked you too," he said, taking a hand off the steering wheel to make me look at him.
"You do?" I asked.
"Yep," he said.
"Really?" I had to confirm it.
"Really."
"For real?"
"For real."
"For real, for real?"
"Yes, for real, for real, Bella. And I wish you would stop making me do that, you're making me feel like a girl."
I ignored his last comment. He laughed, and looked towards the road. I could hardly keep my squeal in—it was practically causing me physical pain. I looked forward, at the road. Somehow, knowing that he liked me too gave me more confidence. I wasn't nervous, or scared anymore. The rest of the ride, which only lasted about ten minutes or so, wasn't awkward at all, and I'm glad I got to tell Edward how I felt about him.
When we got home, he opened my door of the Volvo for me, just like always. He was such a gentleman! Esme sure knew how to teach her kids. I was expecting the same as always—drop me off, open the door, leave, except this time; he leaned in and said, "I'm glad you finally found the nerves to say it."
I was glad too. He wrapped his arms around me. "I have waited forever to do this," he said. "I love you, Isabella Marie Swan." Then, he kissed me.
Ending Author's Note: Okay, so that wasn't the best, but I couldn't exactly think of anything. I would've written that as an actually story-length fan fiction, but I don't think I'll have the time to.
And thank you for two people who reviewed before even the first chapter/story was up: LoverofEdward, and XxlirxX.
Thanks for reading! If possible, please tell me what another title for this collection can be! 'The Cullen Tales' just sounds so... for lack of a better word, neh. And lastly, please donate some of your ideas for future short stories like this!
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