Hey guys:) It's that time of the week again, update time :)
Just realised I didn't put a disclaimer on chapter 1, I'm sorry!
I only nothing but the story line and original characters. Everything else belongs to Stephanie Meyer! I'[m jealous, are you?
Thanks again to Fanpire95 for beta-ing!
Anyway here you go :)
In the morning I got up around 10 and, after showering, I changed into some running shorts and a vest top. When I went into the living room I saw Alice sitting with a sketchbook in her lap.
"Morning Ali." I smiled as I made myself some coffee.
"Morning Bella, where are you going?"
"Just for a jog round the track, want to join me?" I asked, but I could tell what the answer was going to be already, even though I had only known her less than 24 hours.
"Ew, no. But will you have lunch with us again? We're going down for something around 1-ish."
"Yes sure, I'll be back here no later than half 12." I smiled as I headed out the door. As I was getting out of the elevator I put my iPod in and jogged to the running track I saw on the brief tour Alice and Rose gave me. I changed to my upbeat soundtrack and just ran and let my mind wonder like I usually did. My mind wondered to Alice and my new friends, Edward, Renee, Charlie, and back to Edward. When I checked the time it was close to 12pm and I knew I had best start heading back, so I ran back to my room only to find Alice, Rose, Emmett and Jasper lounging in front of the TV.
"Oh hi guys." I smiled, Rose and Alice gasped looking at me. "What?"
"You're all sweaty." Alice said looking horrified.
"Yes Ali, that tends to happen when you exercise." I laughed as I went to get a change of clothes from my room before heading for a shower. When I came back out Emmett was waiting eagerly.
"Come on Bella, Let's get some food!" he grinned before throwing me over his shoulder and heading for the door.
"Come on Emmett, put me down." I whined, while the other three laughed as they came up behind us. He eventually put me down when we got to the elevator. While waiting for the elevator to arrive we decided to get food from one of the stalls rather a restaurant.
"So Bella, how come you moved to LPA?" Emmett asked.
"Well Renee, my mom, got remarried last year to a guy called James and he's a bastard. He expects me to call him dad and treat him as such. Never happening! We also have fuck all in common. However my mom is also a film director who travels a lot and James doesn't like being away from Renee for too long, so I decided I needed to move so he could travel with her, plus it saves me wanting to kill him."
"Couldn't you have gone to your father's?" Jasper asked.
"Well, I could have, but with my parents divorcing while I was 4, I've only seen Charlie for 2 weeks every summer. He's the Chief of Police in Forks, so he's rather busy and I couldn't intrude on him like that."
"Wait, you're little Isabella Swan, daughter of Charlie Swan?" Alice asked dubiously.
"The one and only, although I wouldn't say I was so little now would you?" I laughed.
"Well we're all originally from Forks, as I told you yesterday, and I overheard my parents talking about how excited Charlie gets every time you come home." Alice answered.
"Yeah, he did always go over the top. I miss him." I smiled, my mind drifting to the times I saw him.
We spent the rest of the night relaxing back at mine and Alice's apartment, but we went bed early as we had school in the morning.
I groan when I heard my alarm going the next morning, and tried to ignore it. I tried to bury my face in my pillow but Alice was tugging on it. "Come on Bella, you don't want to be late for your first day."
I groaned as I rolled out of bed and stumbled into the bathroom to splash some water on my face and brush my teeth. "Hurry up in there Bella. You have to go enjoy your first day." Alice sang and I couldn't help but giggle at her optimism as I came out the bathroom.
"You're impossible Ali. How can you have so much energy at 7:30 on a Monday morning?" I giggled as I went and changed into my Levi's and an American eagle top, knowing I couldn't go wrong there as it wouldn't draw too much attention to me. Last night, while I was out with the group, I noticed, that the majority of the girls here had blonde hair, whether natural or not. That's not going to help me fit in, considering I had dull brown hair.
"Come on Bella." Alice yelled from the living room
"I'm coming." I replied as I grabbed my bag. As we walked out we compared our schedules and it turned out I didn't have a single class with her, or Emmett or Rose or Jas. That's just great, time to get lost I thought.
"Come on Bella, you have Malloy first and she isn't the most forgiving for tardiness." On the walk to the junior building, yes they had a different building for each year, Alice pointed out the pool, and golf court again. "I won't be able to walk to your class as you're down there and I'm up a floor and I'm going to be late, sorry."
"Don't worry about it, I'll see you at lunch." I smiled at my new friend, heading into the direction she pointed me to. The hallways were much more spacious then I was used to back at my old school considering lockers weren't necessary with our rooms being so close by. While I was looking for my class I saw Edward with a blonde up against the wall, one of his hands on her waist and the other leaning on the wall, while hers were making the descend from his neck to his mighty fine derriere. Ew, couldn't they have found an empty room to do that in.
First period was boring and hard, hard because it was math. Me and math have never gone well together, ever. Miss Malloy made me introduce myself to the class and on my way back to my seat, girls were glaring at me. They hated me and I had been in the room with them for a total of 5 minutes! When the bell went I got my schedule out to try and figure out where I was to go next when I slammed into something, hard. I landed flat on my butt.
"What the..."" The voice was furious. I refused to look up at the glare I was without a doubt getting.
"I'm sorry I wasn't paying any attention to where I was going." I apologised. Astonishingly the guy I ran into bent down to help me pick up the books I dropped. As I looked up, I met deep green eyes.
"Don't worry, I wasn't paying any attention either." His voice softened, and offered me his hand to help me up. "You ok? Where are you heading to?" He was a lot taller than I originally thought. "I'm Edward Cullen."
"Bella Swan." I managed to sputter out, I then made the mistake of looking into his eyes again. There was something about them that drew you in.
"Do you need help getting to your next class?"
"I'm fine thanks, I think I know where it is." I smiled as a group of guys behind started calling "Edward" He waved at them and then turned back to me.
"I guess I'll see you around." He smiled
"See you" and then he was gone, fist bumping the guys in the group as a group of girls giggled and sighed.
My first encounter with Edward Cullen, THE Edward Cullen, and I ended up on my butt. Great.
I had gym second and I couldn't have been happier. But when Coach said we were doing basketball, I was ecstatic. He decided we should play boy versus girl. A few girls sat out, moaning about not wanting to break a nail, so two of the guys were sent to our side. To start with it was just the boys scoring, I didn't want to be seen as a show off, and I wanted to keep a low profile. The boys weren't all that good though, it took them several attempts to score each time. Conor and Bradley, the two boys put on our team were much better but it was hard for them to defend considering the majority of the girls who stayed on court just stood in little huddles refusing to move.
"I think the girls are too fragile to play ball with the guys." taunted on of them. That made me grit my teeth, who did he think he was Michael Jordan, LeBron James? When they went to pass to the guy next to me I thought not this time. I lunged and grabbed the ball before he had a chance to catch it and dribbled it down court and shot from the three point line. The ball circled the rim twice before gravity brought it through the hoop.
"Nice one, new girl!" Conor winked at me.
"Damn, new girl has some skills." Bradley laughed. The other team scoffed and turned away. In the end the other team won by two points and they made sure to gloat and rub it in our faces. The way they were acting you would have thought they won the NBA Championship. Conor and Bradley brushed their comments off with an eye roll.
The girls who despised my performance most of all were those too worried about their precious nails and sat out. The strawberry blonde from the other day came marching up to me with a blonde on one side and a brunette on the other. All three were in tiny shorts and tight low cut tops and wearing makeup as thick as frosting.
Some of the guys wolf whistled at the trio.
"Well aren't you proud of yourself?" the strawberry blonde said. "I'm Tanya and this is Lauren and Jessica." pointing to the blonde and the brunette. All three eyed me up and down, as they waited on my response.
"Hi." I said dryly.
"Work out much?" she snickered along with her friends.
"That's none of your business." I retorted bitterly.
She looked truly stunned at me tone, while Lauren and Jessica gasped and gave me a dirty look.
"Look, new girl," she spat. "stay out of my way and we won't have a problem, life will be hell for you if you don't."
"My pleasure." I smiled sarcastically. After a final glare, she flipped her hair over her shoulder and walked off with a huff. When I turned back to the rest of my class were staring at me like I was an alien.
"What?" I demanded with a chuckle.
"No one has ever spoke to her like that." one of the boys said. They all just gawked at me, so I went and changed and headed to my next class. Who were does girls and what makes everyone so intimidated by them?
Time was going slowly and I couldn't wait to get to lunch and hang with Alice, Rose, Jasper and Emmett. Just one more hour.
I was early for English and the teacher told me to take a seat at the back of the room which I did happily.
"Well, hello again." I looked up at the familiar voice and none other than the perfect Edward Cullen smiling brilliantly at me. He was sitting in the row in front of me leaning back against my desk.
He was so close I could feel the draw of his deep green eyes, his long eyelashes, and his scent.
Stop Bella!
"Quite a performance in gym." He smiled lopsided. "Very impressive from what I've heard."
"Oh I'm sure you heard wrong." I mumbled, looking at the textbook on my desk.
"How you finding school so far?" he asked, fiddling with one of my pens.
"Considering it's my first day, I can't answer that, but so far so good." I smiled with a shrug
"That's only cause you've met me." he smirked.
"Ha, you wish." I snorted rolling my eyes.
"Yeah I do." he smiled, looking me straight in the eye. I didn't realise we were leaning towards each other as we spoke; when the bell rang we both straightened up and leaned back.
"I'll see you later Bella Swan." he winked, throwing me one last lopsided grin.
At his comment, all the girls in the room turned to study me. They all frowned and gave me one of those glares that just screamed "Why was Edward Cullen talking to her?" I was thankful when Mrs Masen, the Literature teacher, started the class. I saw a girl two rows in front of me pass a note to the girl next to her, who turned to look at me before replying. No doubt about me.
"Ok, class today we are going to learn more about William Shakespeare, but before we start, I would like to welcome our new student, Isabella Swan."
"It's Bella Swan" Edward corrected her.
With a look of annoyance, they teacher said "Thank you, Mr Cullen. I take it you got a chance to meet Miss Swan?"
"Oh yes I did." he smirked. All the guys laughed and high fived him, while the girls looked like they wanted to rip my head.
"Oh excuse me, but I'm not one of your play things." I glared at him, causing the guys to go ohh, while the girls looked at me in shook.
"Now, now, come on. Settle down." Mrs Masen called, trying to get the class' attention. The class settled quickly and the class began. Mrs Masen was actually a really fun teacher; she gave us interesting facts about William Shakespeare and about some of his plays. Some were unbelievable but it wasn't like I could demand the truth off him considering he's been dead for a while. I could tell Mrs Masen was the kind of woman who worshipped writers, talking about Shakespeare, her eyes were sparkling.
"Many readers, over the centuries, have found evidence in his Sonnets pointing to his love for men," she started while students frowned with disgust written on their faces.
A girl in a leather jacket shuddered. "But that would make him like-"
"Gay?" Bradley, they guy from Gym, finished her sentence.
Mrs Masen glared at him. "I wasn't finished, as I was saying, everyone who has read Shakespeare's work, has a different opinion. Others have seen the same passages as displaying intense friendship rather than sexual love." she finished.
"Whatever, I still think he is gay. He has to be, if he actually had a love life, he wouldn't have spent is life writing poems and plays." Edward said, fake coughing to hide his laugh.
"Mr Cullen, if you are going to criticise Shakespeare, I recommend you do it outside my classroom." Mrs Masen said, squinting her eyes at him.
"But what about difference of opinion, Mrs?" he asked innocently. Mrs Masen was speechless and turned red; fortunately she was saved by the bell.
"Okay, we will be continuing with Shakespeare tomorrow. For homework tonight I would like you to research what you can about him." Oh great another Shakespeare essay. I've written millions of them in the past. Maybe I could reuse one of them.
As I was gathering my stuff, I overheard Mrs Masen and Edward's conversation.
"As for you My Cullen, I expect a 2000 word essay on my desk by tomorrow morning." she smiled. Her smile didn't waver. "Handwritten!"
"What? I did nothing wrong! And besides writing isn't my thing." he complained with a groan.
Mrs ignored him "I'll see it on my desk in the morning, Mr Cullen, goodbye." As Edward was leaving he winked at me, I'm sure he's trying to irritate me. I rolled my eyes at him before walking to what I call the food court.
I couldn't see Alice and her family at first, but I then heard someone calling my name as I was wondering around.
"Bella, over here."
I turned and same Emmett and Alice waving at me, both bouncing in their seats. When I ran to them I saw Emmett and Jasper play fighting.
"Hey Bella." Rose smiled, smacking Emmett across the back of the head.
"Don't mind us" Emmett grinned as he messed with Jasper's hair.
"It's our daily routine." Jasper snickered. Alice and Rose glared at them and their smiles faltered.
"Ok no more." they both said raising their arms in surrender, chuckling nervously.
"So how has class been? Spoke to anyone?" Emmett asked, suddenly very intrigued in my day. So I told them about my encounter with Tanya and her friends and unlike the reaction of those in my class, they started laughing.
"Why is everyone so scared of them? So what if Tanya is head cheerleader, she is still a student just like each of us." I inquired.
"God, are you serious?" Rose asked, analysing my face.
"She sees herself has head of the school, with being head cheerleader an all." Emmett snorted.
"All the guys imagine themselves being in love with her because she's Miss Queen Bee." Alice rolled her eyes. "And the girls think that if they suck up to her and stay on her good side, they can become popular."
"Last year, she offered Ali and me a place on the team. Seriously? Do we look like the cheerleading type?" Rose pointed to her face, appalled Tanya had even offered.
"Apparently it made sense in that airhead of hers, because Emmett and Jasper were on the basketball team." Alice shuddered.
"But when we turned her down, she got really pissed off and was calling us ungrateful and all that crap. She then took pictures of us getting in to our parents cars and printed them out claiming we were prostitutes. As if we were as low as her."
I could nearly see the steam coming out of the girls ears, and I kind of felt bad about bringing her up.
"That bitch." I mumbled, it seemed like the only appropriate thing to say.
"We, thankfully, got her back for the pictures and were able to blackmail her…"
"Ah… Good times, she really isn't all that pretty with no makeup on." Emmett smiled.
"But I wouldn't mess with her, she's the walking devil."
"Point taken." I sighed taking a sip of Mountain Dew. "But if it comes to it, I can handle myself." I winked.
"So, having fun, family?"