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Chapter 1
Bella's POV
It's a shame that my first class of the day cant be with Edward, but it is with Jacob. As we all separated off to our classes I could see all the other kids eyeing us, My guess is that this school never really got anyone new and certainly not a large group of American transplants. This wasn't the first time I had been to high school, Hell it isn't even the third time, this is the fourth trip for me, My brothers and sisters I am sure have lost count of exactly how many times they have gone trough this whole process. I know Edward used to think of high school as his own Hell for being a monster, Now he doesn't really care. Rose likes high school because she loves messing with all the fragile teenage minds, Jasper still gets overly emotional around all the teenagers, but you would too if you had to be him and around all those raging hormones. Alice, well Alice is special, she doesn't mind so much if she can be around other well dressed people, but if we are at a school of not so well dressed people she just wants to give everyone a makeover, and since humans are inherently afraid of us, it never goes over to well.
Jacob and I grab the seats in the back row. Mostly because people wouldn't be able to see around him otherwise.
"Who signed me up for a writing class?"
"I did, I needed a class with just you and this seemed like the best option, so voila. Writing it is"
"Ugh Bells come on, what am I going to write about?"
" Write about werewolves/shape shifters and Vampires." I said with a grin. "label it fantasy fiction and call it a day"
"Hmm and sick Aro on our asses again no effing way"
" Okay fine, write about falling in love with a baby and waiting until she is an Adult before you go in for the nookie"
"Bella!! You know it wasn't like that"
"Yeah yeah, I am just giving you a hard time and you know it, I don't know Jake, I am sure the teacher will tell you what to write about, and then I would probably stick with that topic if I were you."
Class had already started and the class syllabus was being handed around the room. Nothing new on here, a little stricter on deadlines and subject matter than the last school but that's okay
"Oh God we have to write poetry? Gag my with a spoon, seriously, Bella what the hell have you done?"
"Jake calm down, its only a few pieces. You'll be okay."
The rest of the class was mostly just explaining what was expected of us, typical first day of school stuff. Finally the bell rang, as I got up and pack everything I asked Jake what he had next class.
"Life science, its one of the two classes that I don't have with any of you guys, how about you?"
"Edward and I have biology next block." I replied with a little smile
"Ugh Bells what is yours and Edwards obsession with Biology? You guys always talk about it being your favorite class and every single school we go to you two won't let any of the rest of us into your class with you. So seriously, what's the deal?"
"Its where we met, when in Forks. Its how we met, that's it really. Its special to us"
When I got out the door Edward was standing there, even after two decades, he still takes my breath away, the only difference between now and twenty three years ago is that I no longer need that breath to live.
"Hi you" I whispered when I walked up to him
"Hello, You ready to go meet each other again?" and then he flashed that heartbreaking crooked smile, and leaned down to kiss me. "Jake I'll see you later" I called over my shoulder, as Edward wrapped his arm around my waist and led us to the AP Biology room. He laughed as we were walking down the hallway. I twisted my head to look at him quizzically.
"I am not sure who's dreams we smashed more back there, the guys for you or the girls for me"
I smiled up at him and leaned my head into his chest, the first go around of vampire Bella high school I was super jealous and would snap at anyone who so much as looked at him, I have since gotten a little bit better about it, but still if it got to out of hand I would put a stop to it. His grip tightened around me for a brief second right before we saw Emmett and Rosalie step out of the janitors closet.
"you guys can't keep your hands off of each other for more than an hour, you guys are sad" I mumbled lowly but I knew they would hear me.
"Sorry little sis. Trig is boring, Rose just wanted to, uhh. You know what. You can't judge me." and with that Emmett went running off to the Chemistry class.
"You two have fun in Biology. Oh and Bella, I'll tell you before Alice gets to you, we are going shopping later, British fashions are different so we must blend in. Alice will tell Nessie next block" Rose added before she joined her husband in the chemistry class.
Biology was like first block, syllabus followed by explaining of said syllabus, and then it was on to Psychology, which was, again, the same. Finally lunch came around. All eight of us gathered together at the table that I am sure will become ours, we all got some food from the line. The great thing about having Jacob and Nessie in school with us was that they would and did eat all our food, so at least it didn't go to waste. Jasper was in a chipper mood for Jasper, and I owe it to the fact that Alice was in a chipper mood. Emmett was talking about his next three classes which he seemed really excited about, Bowling, Pottery and Drama. The only thing he was upset about was that this school did not offer a Harry Potter History class. Since I didn't have anymore classes with Edward I zoned out after lunch. By the end of the day we were already accustomed to the pace of the school and to, well to everything really. All in all this looked to be a fairly un eventful school, which was a good thing for us.
Regan POV
"Regan, wake up We have to get a move on." I heard my cousin complain to me.
""Errrmm.. 'isnot time for class yet." I mumbled back while attempting to further cocoon myself in my blankets.
Boarding school sucks, there is no way around it, even with me and Merritt here together it still sucked. She may be my cousin by blood, but here she was my life line, and I was hers. We were inseparable. I knew when I woke up I wasn't going to be having a great day, I could just tell. I knew Merritt was in a bad mood too, we barely talked while getting ready for our day. As we pulled on our Wellies and straightened our ties we headed out to the dining hall. The weather was wet and windy, as of course it always seems to be when you are in a bad mood. This place was getting worse by the year, by the hour even. This was our tenth year, Third week of year ten. Already I can't wait for a holiday.
"When does Christmas Holiday start this year?" Merritt asked, pulling me from my reverie.
"Not soon enough" I replied with a little laugh, clearly our thoughts today were on the same wave length. "You know what today is right? "
"Yeah, makes me want to skip classes and stay inside" she responded as the rain started to fall in sheets.
It was in fact our Mothers birthday today, Every year since we were four we ordered flowers to be put on our Mums' graves. Since we were in school and never got the chance to go visit properly, we just had to make due with flowers. Neither Merritt nor I really liked to talk about our parents death, how in one moment you can lose both of your parents and your most beloved Aunt and Uncle. We talked between each other of course and with our Uncle Brenner.
After shedding our wet coats, and grabbing a few pieces of toast and jam we sat down at our usual table in the corner.
"Maybe we should skip out today, go ice skating instead." she said. Merritt and I both internally laughed at that thought. We hadn't been allowed to share a room together since year six when a pipe burst under our sink. Instead of calling one of the house mothers to take care of it, we plugged our door with towels, opened our windows, and let the cold air freeze it. Its not often you have your own private ice rink in your room. "Maybe the school has forgotten about that? I mean we get to room together this year, so maybe that was erased from our file."
"No, I doubt it" I responded while scraping off the burnt bits of my toast "They said it was a clerical error that we got roomed together, but after last semester I think its more about the fact that they want us gone and are trying to get us kicked out of this place as soon as they can"
"I wonder if the faculty is taking bets on how long we last? I mean we have already gone three weeks with out any incident whatsoever"
"Three weeks and not an ounce of troublemaking between the two of us, this must be some sort of record"
"Well good on us then, right Regan?"
"Indeed. Can you pass the Marmite please?
Merritt was getting ready to say something to me when we heard it, the worst sound in the world to the two of us, especially today, the sound of Emma Clamwell, our well established arch nemesis. Her and her evil brain dead minions Ashley and Julie.
"Well look who it is girls, Miss Howard and Miss Scott, and how are we feeling today, like two sad drowned mice? That is certainly what you look like!" Emma teased.
I turned to Merr with a smirk that matched her's a smirk that we inherited from our mothers, the one that Uncle Brenner says our mums used to get when they too were up to no good, a look that struck fear into their husbands hearts and we use it to make 'Jeeves' super paranoid and Frau Inga furious. I rolled my eyes and said.
"We have to walk outside to get here Emma, and its raining, so yea, we got a little wet. You might want to take a little walk yourself, from the looks of your hair it hasn't been washed in a fortnight. Or is it just naturally stringy and grotty? Let me see I might have some soap here in my bag.."
Merritt just about choked on her toast.
"How dare you! You pikey little wench! Talk to me in that manner and I'll teach you a thing or too about respect. Just like your mother's, you two, complete nutters!"
"Stop it Emma, Never talk about our Mums, Ever!" I could hear the anger in Merritt's voice as she glared over at Emma, I could feel my blood begin to boil. Emma knew she found her mark.
"Have I hit a sore spot? Don't like hearing about your crazy mother's. Got themselves killed on safari in Africa, did they? Like who gets attacked by Lions? Married to idiot Americans, oh yes, very beneath them." she mused. "What I can't understand is..."
Whap! Merritt's fist made contact with Emma's face, followed by a very audible crack of her nose. I lunged for Emma, grabbing a fist full of hair ready to punch her myself, when it happened.
We aren't real sure what exactly happened but something did. I remember smelling smoke and feeling the cold water rain down upon us, with the faint realization that somehow Emma's hair was on fire and we were being drowned by our schools state of the art sprinkler system. It seemed to happen all at once. Before we could blink we were being dragged down the corridors to the headmistresses office, who would surely not be pleased. One last glance back at Emma, and we could see that her hair had a noticeable chunk missing from the back.
"Hope you enjoyed your shower, Emma dear!" I called back to her,
"Be sure to rinse, and repeat next time!" Merritt added
Cold, drenched, and very bewildered, we sat in the uncomfortable chairs outside Headmistress Guthrie's office. We knew what was coming next, our uncle had generously helped us out of trouble in the past, but we had been warned no less than a month ago that there would be no more second chances. We had been given more demerits than I could even begin to count, had at least a dozen detentions with each term, and been suspended so many times it's laughable. The last straw. Expulsion.
Headmistress Guthrie's face was so red it was turning purple. The words that were coming from out of her mouth were inaudible at best, and spoken in spits and grunts rather than vowels and consonants.
There was at least £200,000 worth of damage to the dining hall, Emma's hair was charbroiled and Merritt and I were done with the Kensington School for Girls.
Not even allowed to return to our room to pack our belongings we were each given a spare set of gym clothes to change into and told to wait by the front doors for our butler to collect us. I was dying to ask Merritt how she had gotten our lighter back from Mr. Cross's confiscation box, but that would have to wait because Headmistress Guthrie was playing warden and pacing in front of the wooden doors in front of us.
Fitzwilliam, arrived with a very somber look on his face.
"Yikes, he's angry", Merritt mouthed to me
Guthrie spoke to him, her voice laced with venom. "Their belongings will be sent along with a bill for damages within a few days. I hope you can assure me that they will not return to our school grounds.. EVER."
"Yes, Ma'am," Fitzwilliam answered, "I've spoken to Mr. Wentworth and it will be taken care of. Thank you for not involving the police in this matter, I know he appreciates your discretion."
We shuffled into the waiting car, and gave our favorite butler award winning smiles.
"Bet you didn't think you'd see us so soon, did ya Jeevesy?" Regan laughed. That however was the last of the humor for the ride. I wasn't sad to be leaving, and I could tell Merritt wasn't either. It was a long drive home, Merritt and I were silent, which for us was a near impossible feat in and of itself. It was also on the way home that Fitzwilliam, after watching us for the past hour sit silently whispered something to the driver who just nodded his head and looked back at us. Merritt and I exchanged a look but otherwise ignored it. That's when I started to drift off. I laid my head on Merritt's shoulder and fell asleep. I must not have slept long because it was still light outside when Fitzwilliam was waking both me and Merritt up.
"Oh Jeeves!" I cried while rubbing sleep from my eyes, "Thank you. Merritt, do you see where we are?"
"Mum and Dads?"
The driver had driven out of the way to let us see our Mum's and Dad's graves. Merritt and I walked over to the huge headstones that our parents were buried underneath, She kneeled in front of her parents, and I folded up my legs to sit in front of mine. I ran my hands over the cool marble and traced the letters of their names. I know we must have sat there for awhile but not once did any of the adults come over to us, or tell it was time to go. They just waited patiently for us to be finished. They were used to this. Since we were children they would bring us out to this place and let us talk to our parents, we used to show them art projects that we did with Frau Inga and we would come out here to play whatever instrument we were learning to play. We would write them letters while at school and read them to them during Holidays and we would tell our mums all the great trouble that we got into. We know that Uncle Brenner does the same and sometimes he joins us, when he is in town of course. The wind started to pick up as the sun was starting to set, I turned to look at Merritt who was silently crying, I reached my hand out to her and she took it, with out thinking much I started to hum. I was humming the birthday song to our Mums', Merritt sang along with me. Then we were done, we said what we needed to say and we got to see them. Merritt and I were both smiling as we walked back to the car, the wind was dying down and the sun was nearly set.
"Oh Jeeves, see you really do love us" Merritt chided
"Even if you won't admit to it you still have a soft spot for us don't you?"
"Don't get carried away girls, I just know what today is, and since you two are always in school I just thought this would be a nice thing to do for them"
"To late!!!!" We cried together as we bear hugged our favorite butler.
By the time we got home that night it was well past dark, we stopped at a restaurant on the way back for supper but still I wanted a home cooked meal, or something really bad for you. But I also know that Merritt and I were dying to talk about the days events. I knocked on the door that separated our rooms, and held out a basket full of junk food that I scavenged from the kitchen. I climbed into bed and handed her a Kinderegg.
"Well today did not go at all how I thought it would have gone. How about for you?" I asked while prying apart my Kinderegg
"Yeah I totally planned on breaking Emma's nose and getting expelled today. Are you kidding me? Wow."
" You really did a number on her nose though, I will give you mad credit for that. What was up with the fire ball head and setting off the sprinklers though? That was super weird."
" I know right?! I wonder if all the hairspray she uses just combusted or something, that was effing hilarious. And who knew that we would drown the whole dining hall?"
"That was one hell of a way to go though. Our grand finale"
"Yeah, going out with a big bang. To say the least"
The two of us just talked and giggled for hours that night, we made fun of Emma a lot. Which is always fun. We even turned it into one of our many slumber parties.
"Regan?" she asked as I was just falling asleep
"yeah?"
"Where are we going to go to school now?"
" I don't know, but I say you and I protest another hellish boarding school, I say we fight for day school"
"Hmm, do you think they have any private schools where we don't have to wear uniforms?"
"Not in this country"