Yeah I wished on a star and I still don't own twilight or any of Stephenie's characters. Hmm maybe I'll try blowing out some candles… nope, still didn't work. Hmm what else can I try?
Chapter two: Searching and School"You're the one I have been searching for." A voice rang out, but in the impenetrable darkness I couldn't see whom it was coming from. I started toward where I thought the voice came from, and as I grew closer I began to see a light. Hastening toward it, I was almost able to make out a face. BEEEEPPPPPP!!
"Ugh," I groaned. " Stupid alarm clock!" I hit it and rolled back over trying to get some more sleep. " Izzie, I know you're awake." " No, I'm not, I'm still sleeping." " Nice try dear," my mom pulled the curtains open. I opened my eyes and glared at her. " You are so like your grandpa Charlie." She shook her head. " It was like waking the dead when you tried to wake him." "Ha ha mom, oh so funny." " Come on sleepyhead, you don't want to be late for your first day of school." Actually I wouldn't have minded missing the first day at our new school at all, but I didn't want to burst my mom's bubble. She thought that I should be all excited about school, because it was a small piece of normalcy for me, you know hanging out with people my own age not people who looked my own age, but were really like 100 and something. Yeah sounds good in theory and all, but I was too much like my family to be accepted. Perverted teenage boys' hitting on me was the closest thing I got to being accepted.
30 minutes, an Alice makeover, and an energy bar later, we were on our way to our new school. " Da… I mean Edward, do we really have to do this." " Yes, Izzie we really have to do this." I probably should explain that while we were at school, I had to call mom and dad Bella and Edward. It made sense, but was a little weird to get used to. Anyway it was the usual; our little group was attracting attention from everyone. From the second we stepped out of our cars, even teachers were staring. I could feel my face getting redder and redder. It seemed like forever, but eventually we finally made it to the main office. I looked over my schedule: 1st honors Geometry, 2nd Drama, 3rd honors Bs/Cs- Bio/Chem., 4th Lunch, 5th honors Spanish, 6th AP European history, 7th Music, 8th AP English. Being the only sophomore in our family, I had all my classes by myself except for lunch. Great just great. " See you at lunch." Uncle Jasper apparently sensed what I was feeling and was trying to reassure me. I blocked the calmness that he was sending out to me. I guess I should have mentioned I could block most vampire powers that come at me too, but I couldn't always control it.
I smiled at him and headed off to my first class, Geometry.
The class was almost full when I got there, so I chose an empty seat in the back and tried to not draw any attention to myself. Yeah ok that worked. I bit my lip and looked down as everyone else looked at me. So much for being invisible, a group of three people came up to me. " Hi!" A perky redhead was the spokes person for the group. I bit down my shyness and surprise. Normally people don't approach me, but maybe because I wasn't with my family. " Hi," I smiled back. " I'm Izzie." "Izzie, that's kind of a weird name." The redhead's raven hair friend chimed in. " Well yeah, it's a nickname, short for Elizabeth." (When we are at school I was Elizabeth, because of my mom also being Bella.) " Oh," the blond, the only boy in their group said. " I'm Johnny, and this is Christine- the redhead, and Julie- the black haired girl." " So exactly how many brothers and sisters do you have and are you all related." " No, um well my twin brother and sister Jasper and Rosalie- the blonds and my older sister Bella and I were adopted by our Aunt Esme when I was like five or six and our parents died, and then Aunt Esme and her husband Carlisle adopted Edward, Emmett and Alice, its kind of complicated" The teacher calling the class to order saved me from trying to explain my complicated family further. ' Oh thank God,' I thought. Just as I was thanking God for my geometry teacher, Ms. McGinty called me to the front of the room. " Class today we have a new student, Elizabeth Hale." " Izzie," I corrected her. " Excuse me?" " She prefers to be called Izzie," my friend form earlier Johnny spoke up. " Well, as you very well know Jonathon, people are called by their given names in this class. You may take your seat, Elizabeth." I headed back to my seat, tempted to tell her that my real name was actually Isabella Elizabeth Cullen, but I knew that I couldn't. Johnny and his friends trying to get me to sit in a seat near them disrupted my internal battle. 'Ok,' I thought to myself smiling. 'Maybe this won't be so bad.'
The bell rang and it turned out that all three of my new friends had my next class. We were walking together and Johnny jokingly put his arm around me. " Stick with us kid and you'll be fine," he joked in a really bad Brooklyn accent. That was when I saw my Uncle Emmett. ' Oh boy.' " Ohhh, Izzie's got a boyfriend, Izzie's got a boyfriend," he taunted. I slipped from under Johnny's arm. " Excuse me, while I go take care of my… brother, yeah my brother." I stormed over to where Emmett was standing. " Emmett," I warned. " Ohhh, I'm sooo scared, you're mad at me." " Yeah, you should be scared. If you don't shut up and behave I'll tell Rosalie what is under your mattress." " You don't know what's under there." " Oh yeah want to test me, go ahead try it and I'll also tell her what you and Jasper have hidden in the back of your jeep." I stared him down, and a petrified look appeared on his face. People around us started to laugh. I'm sure it must have looked pretty funny, a petite 5"4 girl scaring this gigantic monster of a person. I span on my heel, grabbed Johnny, Julie, and Christine, and headed off to Drama class.
We got there and as soon as the bell rang, the teacher broke us into groups and gave us little skits to perform. My group went first. " Ok, Izzie, give us a bloodcurdling scream and then Johnny 'attack' her. I screamed halfheartedly. " Oh come on," Mr. Morrison prompted. " You can do better than that." He seemed to be a pretty cool teacher so I gave it a shot. I screamed at the top of my lungs and fake fell to the floor as Johnny landed on top of me. Next thing I knew Johnny was being held against the wall by my dad. " Izzie," his eyes searched my worriedly, looking for any injury. " Are you ok?" I got up from the ground and dusted myself off angrily. " Edward, put him down now!" " Excuse us," I said to Mr. Morrison, who nodded in shock. I grabbed my dad's arm and pulled him after me into the hallway. " What the hell do you think your doing?" "Well, Alice saw you screaming and being attacked." " Ok, first off, I was in Drama class and second of all," I lowered my voice a little. " Second of all, I am part vampire, I could handle myself against a human." " Izzie, I was just trying to protect you," he pleaded with me. " And all I was trying to do, is exactly what you and mom have been trying to get me do for years; make friends. You have no idea how hard it is to make friends when you're part of a family of freaks," I spat the word at him. "I finally had a chance at making some friends and now the only chance I had at that was just pinned to the wall by my father who's pretending to be my brother. I hate this, I can take Uncle Emmett teasing me and Aunt Alice using me as her personal Barbie doll- I gestured toward my outfit, a pink and black plaid mini, black tights, pink ballet flats, a pink sweater with a black tank top and belt, but this is getting ridiculous. I'm 16 and you treat me like I'm like six. I can take care of myself, and besides we are in a high school, not a prison, what's going to happen to me here? Maybe I get a bad grade or a detention or something?" " I would never let that happen to you sweetie." " Exactly, you don't get it do you." I stormed out of there, knowing that he could catch me if he wanted to, but praying that he would get the message.
I was about a mile away from the school when a shiny red car pulled up to me. " Hi Aunt Rosalie," I muttered without looking over at the car. " Slid in" she opened the door and I grudgingly got in. she glanced at me and just pulled me into her arms. It was then that the tears I had been holding back since I left school, spilled out. Many people were under the misapprehension that Rosalie was a total bitch and to some people she was, but to me she was like my lifeline when I had nothing else to hold on to." You know your dad tried to come after you," she said when I was starting to calm down. " Yeah I figured, so why didn't he?" " I talked him out of it, your mom wanted to come too, but someone had to talk him out of killing that boy." I buried my face in my hands, " Oh, no." " Don't worry he's fine and very sweet too, he heard that I was going to get you and he ran out with your backpack and this note." She waved a piece of paper in my face. I grabbed it and gave her a hug. " Thanks Aunt Rosie," I said using my childhood nickname for her. " No problem Iz, are you going to be ok?" " Yeah, but I think I just want to be by myself for awhile." " Ok, when you get home I'll take for your driving lesson, and we can hit a bookstore if you want." " Ok, but can we not tell dad about the stop and make him worry a little." " Of course, it's going to be pretty funny to see the look on his face, serve him right." I laughed and climbed out of the car and took the shortcut to my favorite place, a wild little bluff. As I walked I opened the note from Johnny. Hey that was really weird, but I was wondering if you maybe wanted to go out sometime? Call me if you want to- 211- 456-9867. I laughed, surprised that he would still want to hang out with me. My laugh quickly died as I thought of what my family would do if I brought home a boyfriend. Uncle Emmett would mortify me, Aunt Alice would make me fashionably late by attempting to make me fashionable, Uncle Jasper would have to take off so as not to have Johnny as a snack, and dad would be threatening to kill him for any number of reasons.
The sound of footsteps pulled my out of my daydream where I try to explain to Johnny why my family sparkles in the sun, and no my brother wasn't trying to eat you, he was just practicing for a play he's in. " I can hear you." It was probably just some hiker lost or something. " You're the one I've been searching for," the voice from my dream startled me. It startled me so much that I almost fell off the bluff. A strong arm encircling my waist was the only thing that kept me from falling. " And I'm the one you've been looking for too," the harmonious voice murmured in my ear.
Ok there it is the next chapter. I know the beginning is a little slow, but it's getting to the interesting part. So let me know what you think. In the next chapter Izzie is going to get another power and some things are going to be explained. Um let me know if you want some P.O.V.'s from the mysterious stranger.
Bella with the blue eyes.