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Personification

Chapter 2

"Bella, are you sure you want to go to Forks? Phil and I don't mind having you around, honestly we don't!" I sighed as my mother tried once again to persuade me to stay with her and Phil.

"Mom, I want to go to Forks! I want to go see Charlie! Besides, like I've been telling you, you and Phil deserve some time alone without a rambunctious teenager in the way." Renee opened her mouth to persuade me once more, but I started speaking before she could even take a breath.

"And besides, I've already bought the plane tickets. One-way, non-refundable, Mom." Renee grumbled at that, but was silent the rest of the drive to the airport.

The real reason I was leaving Phoenix was too escape all of the teasing. With my new curse, it was almost impossible to remain normal at high school.

The first day of high was one of the worst days of my life. I could only listen to my iPod during lunch and other breaks, so there were so many objects all around me constantly making noise. Also, since my high school had so many people I was hearing a lot of extra meaning as well. As I walked into the school, I saw a boy pleading with a girl. They girl was obviously mad at the boy, by the way she stood turned away from him, her arms crossed over her chest, and her chin sticking up in the air.

"Aw, c'mon Kinzie! That kiss didn't mean anything at all! And I didn't even kiss her! She kissed me! Please, Kinzie!" The boy was pleading to the girl, and it looked like she was about to cave.

"Aw, Barrykins! I love you so much! Promise me you'll never cross paths with that girl again?" Yep, there was the caving. The girl wrapped her arms around the boy.

"I promise I'll never ever see her again." As they kissed, I shook my head. She really shouldn't have taken him back. If only she had heard what I had heard.

Kinzie heard "Aw, c'mon Kinzie! That kiss didn't mean anything at all! And I didn't even kiss her! She kissed me! Please, Kinzie!" but I heard "Oh man! Sadie sure can kiss! Mh-hm! I'm so glad we hooked up last week!"

Kinzie heard "I promise I'll never ever see her again." but I heard "Yeah, I'll never see her again when you're around. But when you're not near..oh yeah! It's Sadie time!"

Jerk.

l tried my best not to talk to anything, but it was sometimes hard to distinguish people from objects. Once, I was rushing to get to class, books in hand, and I tripped. My books sprawled across the floor, and people turned and laughed at my klutziness. I blushed and tried to gather all of my books. However, I encountered one tiny problem. I searched and searched, but I couldn't find my calculator. I had Trig next period, and with out my calculator I was doomed. I groaned, and then heard someone speak.

"Need a little help?" I didn't bother looking up, since I was still searching frantically for my calculator.

"Yeah. I dropped my calculator and I can't seem to find it." I sighed, my eyes still scanning the floor.

"Is that your calculator by the locker with the bike poster?" I looked up, and found the locker. By it was a calculator that looked very similar to my own. I scrambled up, ran to the locker, grabbed the calculator, and turned to find the person who had helped me.

"Yeah! That's it! Than-" However, I only saw a crowd of people staring wide-eyed at me.

"Which one of you helped me find my calculator?" Everyone stared at me some more, a few seeming a little..frightened. Finally, one girl wearing a green halter top built up enough courage to talk to me.

"Um, none of us did. You just started talking to yourself." The kids around her nodded, and a few even snickered. I glanced around the hallway, and my eyes zeroed in on a broom that was leaning against a nearby wall. Stupid curse.

When people saw me pausing to talk to a door or suddenly laugh at a joke a map had made, they just stared at me. Later, they began to laugh and jeer. They teased me about my "imaginary friends" and called me names, like "Lunatic" or "Crazy Bells." I tried to ignore people, but it was just too hard especially when I heard their real meaning.

I had been so happy when school let out for winter break, that I was practically dancing through the hallways. The light fixture above the girls bathroom, asked me why I was so excited and I replied that I couldn't wait to escape high school and everyone in it. The other girls in the bathroom simply rolled their eyes at me and muttered "Crazy Bells." I shrugged it off. I wouldn't be hearing anymore of that for a while. Or so I thought.

A few days into winter break, I decided to go out to the movies to celebrate.I was so ecstatic about my freedom that I felt that I could handle any noises and any extra meanings, so I didn't even bother to bring my iPod to the movies like I usually did. What a stupid move that was.

I had purchased a ticket to a random movie and was contemplating whether to buy some popcorn or not, when I saw them. I saw several people from my school gathered around a movie poster, talking, laughing, and throwing popcorn at each other. I draped my hair over the side of my face, and tried to walk past the kids as fast as I could without them noticing me. I almost made it into the theater, but a horror movie poster thought it would be funny to scream and scare me. I jumped back, and bumped into one of the kids. She turned around, caught my blushing face, and laughed.

"Look here, guys! It's the Lunatic of Phoenix!" The rest of the kids turned around and laughed at me as well. I tried to ignore them and the gossiping movie posters as I tried to make it into the theater, but the girl held out her arms and stopped me from moving any further.

"Hold on there, Crazy Bells! We just wanna know how all of your friends are doing!" She laughed nasally and her friends laughed as well. The talk among the movie posters was growing, and was expanding to other objects as well.

"Friends? Why is she teasing that girl about her friends?" A romantic comedy movie poster questioned.

"Maybe it has to do with her nickname: Crazy Bells." A bench suggested.

"So what is that supposed to mean? Is she crazy? She doesn't look like the crazy type." A water fountain gurgled.

"I have no idea what's with her. All I know is that I screamed and she jumped back. She appeared to hear me!" The horror movie poster added. The discussion grew as more and more objects added their opinions. The noise level around me was becoming very loud very quickly, and I wished that I had my iPod.

"Can you all just quiet down?" I whispered hoping that only the objects would hear me. For a second, all the objects were silent, but then their discussion grew as the knowledge that I could hear them settled in.

"She hears us! She can actually hear us!"

"Oh wow. Oh wow. Oh wow."

"How is this possible? There must be a logical explanation."

"I wonder what else she can hear."

There were so many things talking at once, that I could barely tell what was saying what. I felt a headache coming along as many voices were floating around me. Unfortunately for me, the objects weren't the only ones who heard me ask for silence. The girl who was teasing me heard my plea for silence and was staring at me.

"Oh, what's wrong, Lunatic? Are all your friends trying to defend you? Tell them I'm sorry. Sorry that you're here! God, you are so weird. Why do you even stay in the normal world? You belong in a mental institution!"

Her words, both the ones she said and the ones she didn't say, stung. I had tried to ignore the teasing all school year, but it was hard when it was always in my face. The anger and sadness had been building the past few months, and now it seemed that I couldn't hold much more hurt. My cup was filled to the brim with depression and frustration, and one drop would send me over the edge. I started to back away from the girl before I broke down in front of her, but I ran into another one of her friends. He stared down at me, his cold blue eyes almost as intimidating as his spiked hair.

"One more thing, Crazy Bells!" The girl called out to me once more. She had a malicious smile as she walked toward me.

"Why don't you sit next to me in the movie? I wanna know exactly what your friends think of it! After all, the movie is about people that aren't," She pushed me once. "Really," She pushed me again. "There." She pushed me once more, and I fell to the ground. She and everyone around her laughed as the objects around her gasped.

"C'mon guys. We're gonna miss the movie. Besides, her insanity might be contagious." She laughed once more and walked into the theater, the kids around her following and laughing as well.

The girl's last comments added the extra drops, and my cup overflowed. Tears were welling up in my eyes as my chest and throat tightened up. I picked myself up off the ground, and hurried out of the movie theater, trying my hardest no to break down in the movie theater. So many voices were swirling around my head, some wondering why I was running out, some calling me to come back inside. I ignored them all. As soon as I got outside, I found the nearest bench collapsed onto it, and cried. The bench kept asking me why I was so upset, but I never answered. I told Renee that I wanted to go and live with Charlie the very next day.

Renee and Phil didn't know about my curse. If I had told them, they probably would've sent me off to a mental institution. Instead, when Renee asked me why I wanted to move to Forks, I responded that she and Phil needed some alone time. It was a perfectly logical explanation for my strange behavior, since any normal teenager would want to be out of the way of their mother and her new husband. Renee begged me, and was still begging me, not to go and that I wasn't in the way of her and Phil. But I had made up my mind. I wanted to move to Forks and start over. I wasn't going to be the Lunatic anymore.

We reached the airport, and Renee helped me with my light suitcases. In those suitcases were the only clothes I had that were suited for the rainy land that was Forks, and surprisingly my Phoenix closet didn't have that many rain suited clothes. Go figure.

Renee walked me to the gate and then enveloped me in a gigantic hug. She was sniffling, and it seemed that she was holding back tears. I wrapped my arms around her, gave her one quick hug, before pulling away. I smiled at Renee sadly.

"Mom, please don't get all mushy on me." She smiled at me and laughed weakly.

"Oh, Bella! I'm not crying! It's just my allergies. What did you expect? My baby girl is moving away! Of course I'm crying!" I sighed hearing my mom's words.

"Mom, they're going to board my plane soon. I have to go." Renee just sobbed once and hugged me again.

"Just one more hug, Bella! I won't be seeing you for a long time! Promise me you'll email me as soon as you arrive in Forks!" I smiled at my mother.

"I promise. But now I really have to go. I love you, Mom." I started making my way to the plane.

"I love you too, Bella. Tell Charlie I said hi."

"I will." I waved once to my mom before boarding the plane.

Forks, here I come.

AN: Alright, well I hope you liked this chapter! Bella's going to Forks! It's almost time to meet the Cullens! Now, part of the challenge is to have this story done by July 11th. Phew! I'll try but I don't know if I can write that fast! Anywhoo, stay tuned!