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Chapter 2:
Arriving at Charlie's house was like coming home. At once I felt as if I belonged here and was made to be in Forks.
Since Bella and I had grown up, but most certainly not apart, Charlie had thought it appropriate to construct a new bedroom for me. Separate from Bella. At first I was a bit reluctant to move into a bedroom without Bella; we had been sharing a room together all of our lives. Even in Phoenix we shared a bedroom. I realized that this meant that we were grown up and were young adults who in fact needed our own space and privacy.
I opened the door to my new room and set my luggage outside the door. My eyes looked around the room as I quickly assessed that it was much like the room Bella and I use to share, which was now hers. If anything at all were different it would be the size of it. It was a bit smaller with plain white walls and a single bay window in which I could sit in.
I liked it. Although I could definitely use some color.
"What do you think?" asked a voice behind me.
I jumped at the question.
"Geez dad, you scared me! You're like a ninja."
Charlie just grinned. "So…"
"Oh yeah, the room. It's great! It's perfect for me." I paused to observe the sudden glow that lit my dad's face.
"I'm glad you liked it. It took awhile to finish but I got some help from some local La Push boys."
"La Push… Why does that sound so familiar?"
"You don't remember?" A frown came across Charlie's face. "You use to hang out there a lot when you and Bella were little with the Black family. Billy Black is whom I bought the truck from and his son and his friends helped me build this room. I'm surprised you don't remember."
I shrugged my shoulders.
Giving up on me, Charlie stepped out into the hallway.
"I'll let you unpack."
"Thanks dad."
I glanced down at my two bags. I smiled to myself.
Not much to unpack. I thought.
Just as I was finishing putting my last pair of jeans in my brand new dresser I heard a cry from the next room. Hurriedly closing the drawer I rushed over to where I heard the noise and saw Bella bent over her foot mumbling under her breath.
I leaned against the doorframe and smiled.
"You alright?" Already knowing the answer.
"No. I think I permanently destroyed my toe."
I chuckled.
"I'm glad you find humor in my pain. But you try stubbing your toe on the dresser." She snapped.
I held up my hands in surrender. "I think I'll pass. Besides I won't anyway. I'm way more coordinated then you, twin."
She reached up to grab her pillow and threw it at me. I easily ducked, grabbed the pillow off the floor and put it back on the bed. All the while Bella was playfully glaring at me.
After eating dinner that Bella cooked, I jumped in the shower and got ready for bed. I slept easily only realizing, as I drifted into unconsciousness that I had my first day of school the next day.
It seemed as soon as I fell asleep I was awoken by an obnoxious beeping noise. Glancing at my clock it read 7:00. School didn't start till 8 so I just pressed the snooze button again and went back to sleep.
What I didn't know was that I pressed the off button accidentally and this time I wasn't aroused by a certain beeping noise.
"Wake UP! Wake UP!" She started chanting. "We're going to be late!" She yelled in my ear.
With some difficultly, I was able to glance at my clock, which read 7:45 a.m.
"SHOOT!" I pushed Bella's little body off of me and sat bolt up in bed. She was still chanting.
"I'm up! Now leave me alone so I can get ready."
Once Bella left I hastily threw on a pair of ripped jeans and a form fitting long sleeve blue shirt. I had just enough time to grab my black converse, a cup of coffee and a granola bar before Bella started honking.
Luckily we weren't late. We had just enough time to go to the office and receive our schedules and a slip of paper to get signed from a women wearing a purple shirt and go to class.
Bella glanced at me. I could tell she was nervous.
"It's going to be alright." I said. "At least we have some classes together. Trig and Gym!"
She groaned. "Ugh! Gym…"
The warning bell rang.
"I'll see you at break." I yelled over my shoulder. Bella just nodded.
I started walking away to my first class, French 3.
"Bonjour class!" (Since I don't speak French the language will be in italics)
"Please welcome a new student who has just joined us from Phoenix, Arizona. Mademoiselle Brianna Swan. Mademoiselle, I am Madame Lambert and welcome!"
Fortunately I was able to understand everything she said and thank the Lord she didn't make me go up and introduce myself.
"I'm Mike." A hushed voice whispered in my ear. The teacher was still talking in rapid French about verb conjugations.
I turned my head slightly to see who was talking to me. A guy with spiky blond hair, and a face that still had some baby fat was staring intently at me.
"Bri."
He smiled. "Very nice to meet you, Brie." He said, as he looked me up and down.
Disgusted I turned my attention back to Madame Lambert.
At the end of class I packed up my things and started to head out the door.
"What's your next class?"
I looked up to see Mike blocking my path.
"English." I said, stepping around him.
"Really? So do I!"
I rolled my eyes.
"Great…" I said sarcastically.
Mike must be socially retarded because he didn't notice me rolling my eyes, or the sarcastic tone in which I talked in.
After a few moments of me trying to politely walk faster then him he asked me, "How do you like Forks?"
I might as well and try to be friendly to the annoying kid.
"Love it." I said smiling.
Mike smiled back. "Seriously? Well you know what that's strange because most…"
I tuned out the rest as he continued to talk all the way to English.
Finally, after what seemed like forever, we reached the English wing and stepped into the classroom.
Students filled the classroom with their social chatter since the bell hadn't rung yet. I walked up to the teacher and gave him my slip of paper.
He looked up at whoever was handing him this sheet of paper.
"You must be Brianna Swan?"
"Bri."
"Bri. Here you go." He said, handing me back the piece of paper.
"Thank you." I said and turned around to find an open seat right as the bell rang.
"Oh, Miss Swan?"
I internally groaned for I knew what was coming next.
"Would you please introduce yourself to the class before you sit down?"
I knew it! It isn't like I had a problem speaking in front of people, that I didn't know, I just didn't enjoy it.
"Of course." I said and turned to face the class.
Curious faces peered up at me and leaned in to what I had to say with interest.
I just gave them the basics of who I am, where I'm from, why I'm here and such. All in all it wasn't too shabby.
"Thank you Ms Swan. You may take your seat next to Mr. Cullen."
I confidently strode to my seat and looked up to my neighboring occupant. I had to do a double take on Mr. Cullen's appearance.
He had the untidiest beautiful bronze hair and chiseled face of a god, I had ever seen. Well I take that back, he had the face of a model on magazine covers… after their faces get digitalized with an airbrush. But not even a model's plastic beauty could capture his.
But, when I met his eyes, I was met with a death glare. All of a sudden his beautiful looks became, hateful. He stared at me with unusual coal black eyes with such sudden hatred that I shuddered in fear and the phrase, if looks could kill popped into mind. I noticed that his hands gripped the edges of his seat that was in fact moved as far away from me as possible.
I turned away and tried my best to ignore him.
Trying to focus on something to distract me I saw the reading list on the board. Romeo and Juliet was one of them.
Great. I hate reading…
The teacher, Mr. Glass, was talking about a recent essay they just completed.
I glanced back at Edward to see he was in the same position when I last looked at him.
What a freak. I thought. So what if he was hot, he had issues…
Class ended quickly and Cullen got up and walked quite quickly to the door with such swiftness that it shocked me.
"So, what did you do to Edward?" Mike said.
"Edward? Is that his name?" Mike nodded. "I didn't do anything. He just got all wigged out when I sat next to him. Strange dude."
Mike seemed happy about my attitude towards Edward and started to talk to me, again.
We were walking the halls when I thought I saw a glimpse of Bella turning the corner.
I interrupted Mike who was talking about a movie he just saw.
"Sorry Mike. I think I just saw my sister. I'll see you later."
His face lit up. "Okay, sweet!"
I started to run after my sister ignoring the looks I received that were mingled with both curiosity and surprise.
I saw Bella walking next to a girl with blonde hair towards the cafeteria. Still running I ran up behind Bella and jumped on her shoulders.
"Bells, HI!" I yelled in her ear.
She shrugged me off and stood up red in the face.
"That was for this morning." I said.
"Haha. Very funny." She said without a trace of humor.
The blonde was still standing next to us.
"Hey. I'm Bri, Bella's sister." I said with a friendly smile.
She seemed shocked that I, a new girl, would introduce myself to a stranger.
"I'm Jessica." She replied. "Are you guys twins?"
"Yep!" I said.
"That is like SO awesome!"
I glanced at Bella. And she smiled.
"Yeah it is pretty cool."
Jessica was still looking at me. "I wish I sometimes had a twin."
Jessica continued to talk about twins and I talked with her quite a bit. She seemed really nice.
Sitting down at the tables, I recognized Mike and a few other people from my classes. When Mike saw me he smiled and nudged one of his friends. His friend looked up from his food and looked at me with wide eyes. After inspecting me he grinned.
Jessica proudly introduced Bella and I to everyone at the table. I smiled and said hi to everyone and said my name before Jessica could. While Bella let Jessica do the talking.
I was still talking to Jessica with Bella on the other side of her when Bella asked Jessica a question.
"Who are they?"
Instantly I glanced up and regretted it.
Of course she was talking about Cullen. But this time he was comfortably seated with other people.
"Ohhh…" Jessica said dramatically. "Those are Cullen kids."
A beautiful petite girl with spiky black hair stood up with unnatural grace, threw away an uneaten apple, and walked out of the cafeteria.
"All of them are adopted by Dr. Cullen and his wife, Esme. I guess they're unable to have kids." She said, as this was scandalous. "And what is really weird is they're all dating. The one you just saw walk out is Alice and she's with the one on the left, Jasper. Then, the big one is Emmett who's with the blond. Rosalie"
It was definitely noticeable that she was jealous of Rosalie. Just from how she said her name.
"What about the other one? Next to the wall?" Bella asked in a voice barely above a whisper.
Jessica glanced up.
"That's Edward, gorgeous right?" She said with a sigh. "But it's like he's un-datable. He won't go out with anyone." She glanced nervously at me.
"He's in my English class." I stated.
"Yeah?" Jessica asked curiously.
"He's weird."
Jessica looked shocked but not surprised.
"Well they are different…"
I don't think "different" described him or his family at all.
I looked up at Edward who was staring at me with a look of disdain. I boldly stared back at him, now unafraid of his hate filled eyes.
He broke away from the stare contest first.
"Whimp." I muttered under my breath. I saw the big one smile suddenly as if he had heard me.
Break ended and the rest of the day went uneventfully. I met a lot of friendly people who I knew would make great friends.
In gym we played volleyball. Coach Clapp had Bella and I to sit this day out since it was our first. But I still asked him if I could still play. Coach looked surprised but let me play… on Mike's team.
Mike was happy, I wasn't. Still, I played and I did really well. I got a whole bunch of spikes and probably scored half my team's points with my serves.
"Show off." Bella said to me after gym ended.
I was about to retaliate with some smart remark when I realized that she was joking.
"Maybe just a little."
"I knew it!" Bella declared.
I grabbed my bag and started to walk out with Bella.
"I was just exercising my skills, which I am fortunately gifted with." I said playfully.
She lightly punched me in the shoulder.
"At least I'm literate." She said proudly.
"Luckily!"
She giggled and we both started laughing.
We reached the office building to return our slips of paper.
I was asking Bella about her classes when all of a sudden she tensed up.
"And you absolutely sure that I can't switch these classes?" Asked an impatient voice.
Edward Cullen was leaning over the secretary and talking to her about his schedule.
If he wanted to change his classes because of me then go ahead. It isn't like I'm going to miss his cold stares.
Yet… I could just picture him talking to the secretary with smoldering eyes, and that velvet voice. The secretary would be watching those lush and full lips like her life depended on it.
"I'm quite sure Mr. Cullen. I'm really sorry." And she really did sound sorry.
He sighed. "Thank you anyways."
The door behind us opened and a light breeze briefly filled the small office.
Edward's back instantly tensed up. He turned around stiffly and stared first at Bella and then me. The same vicious look adorned his beautiful face as he glared at the both of us.
After a moment he regained his composure and walked out.
I frowned after him and glanced at Bella. She looked a bit shaken and my frown deepened.
I hurriedly handed the dazed secretary the slips of paper and walked out.
I unlocked the truck door and got in the drivers seat.
A few minutes went by and Bella remained silent. I turned down the radio.
"Why was Cullen staring at you like that?" I blurted out.
"I don't know. He was like that in Bio too." She said, glancing at me.
"Seriously? Same with me in English."
Bella frowned.
I turned my eyes back to the rode.
Thinking about the way he treated not only me but also my baby sister made me angry and upset. My grip on the steering tightened and the whites of my knuckles showed. He had no reason to be rude to me and especially Bella.
"Bri. Calm down." She said.
"Right…" I took deep breaths. "…Calm."
After a few more moments my grip relaxed and my breathing became steady.
Bella patted my arm and grabbed my hand.
"It's okay, Bri. We'll just ignore his gorgeous existence everyday for the rest of the year!" She said cheerfully.
I laughed out loud.
"I don't think it will be that easy."
Bella squeezed my hand reassuringly.
Wow that was fairly long. What do you think? Tell me in reviews. I expect many.
-Violet
P.S. Sorry for the delay fellow Twilighers!
