Chapter 2
Bella and Ellie arrive in the carpark of Forks High School and parks the car.
All eyes are on both girls as they get out of Ellie's car.
Bella was nervous, anyone could tell that so she was looking around cautiously, all while her sister stood tall and smiled at people and even waving to people she knew. Probably from Taekwondo as she was more of a regular then Bella was.
As the girls got to the office, they both introduced themselves to the office lady who gave them their schedules, map of the school and some slips for the teachers to sign. They both thanked her and looked at their schedules.
"Hey, good luck. Go give them hell." Ellie told her while smiling.
Bella smiled at her sister, "Don't worry. I will be fine."
With that Ellie smiled at her sister and went off towards where the Seniors lockers were.
Bella (never without her IPOD) makes her way through kids who stare openly; a few brave ones say hi. They're all talking about her. This is her hell.
Bella wanders the walkways looking for room numbers, lost.
Suddenly someone appears in front of her to gives her a fright. It was the sweet, nerd-cute Eric.
"You're Isabella Swan, the new girl. Hi. I'm Eric. The eyes and ears of this place. Anything you need. Tour guide, lunch date, shoulder to cry on."
Bella half smiles and gives him a look to say 'Is he for real' before answering with; "I'm kind of the "suffer in silence" type."
Eric nods his head, "Good headline for your feature… I'm on the paper, and you're news, baby, front page."
Bella shook her head, "I.. no, I'm not news... I'm, seriously, not at all"
Eric put his hands up, "Whoa, chillax. No feature… Hey, what about your sister? I hear she has just started too."
Bella shrugged, "I guess, you could always ask her. She loves the attention"
Eric smiled, "Great. I will do that."
Bella let out a small sigh of relief, "Would you mind just pointing me toward Mr. Varner's class?"
Erin nods his head, "Sure, right this way." he said as he leads her away, enjoying the attentive stares, as she cringes from them.
"You've missed a lot of the semester, but I can hook you up - tutor, cliff notes, medical excuse.." Eric went on to say as they walked to class.
Meanwhile in Ellie's class, she finally made it to her Legal studies class with time to spare before the second bell went off.
She handed the teacher her slip, "Hi, I'm Ellie Swan. It's my first day"
The teacher smiled at her, "Of course. Chief Swan's daughter. Welcome. Come on in." she said as she took the slip from Ellie, "You can sit anywhere you like that is spare and I will update the seating chart"
Ellie smiled, "Thank you" as she looked around the room. She saw a spare desk next to a big pale guy. She slowly walked up to him a bit nervous.
"Hi," she said to get his attention, "Do you mind if I sit here. It's the only space left" she asked.
Emmett looked at her and smiled, "Sure, no worries. Can't have you sitting on the floor can we."
Ellie smiled, "Thank you." while thinking, 'wow! That smile is to die for'
There was a bit of silence between them while everyone else got settled in, Emmett chose that time to break the silence, "So, did you just move here?" he asked.
"Permanently yeah. I went back and forth between here and my Mom's for a while. But I have always loved it here. Came back every chance I could."
"Awesome" Emmett said as they just stared at each other for a few seconds. Neither moving or weavering until the teacher addressed the class.
Ellie glanced at Emmett again and smiled. He saw this and also smiled.
The boys' basketball team runs drills on half the basketball court. And a girls' volleyball game occupies the other half. Bella avoids the volleyball like it's radioactive while an energetic, athletic team captain, Jessica, motivates the players. "Block it, Chloe! Yeah! Good attack!" Jessica yells.
Unfortunately, the volleyball heads toward Bella. She closes her eyes and flails at it, smacking it. It flies off court and bounces off one of the guys a basketball player in the head.
"Ow!" he said and turns around to see who did it.
Bella runs over to him, embarrassed, "Are you alright? I warned them not to make me play."
Mike waved it off, "It's only a flesh wound." he said as he smiled and grinned at Bella.
The bell rings
"You're Isabella, right?" Mike askes.
"Just Bella." she corrects him.
"I'm Mike. Newton." he introduces himself.
Suddenly, Jessica appears, stepping between them. Subtle, but possessive as she nudges Mike. "She's got a great spike, doesn't she?"
She then turned to Bella, "So, you're from Arizona, right? Aren't people supposed to be tan down there?"
"That's why they kicked me out." Bella joked.
Mike laughs, and because he does, Jessica does. Bella just feels uncomfortable with the attention..
Bella followed Mike and Jessica to sit at one of the many tables within the cafeteria, she was looking around for her sister.
Bella sits down after Mike and Jessica and Mike appears squishing into the seat next to Bella.
"Mike, you met my home girl Bella."
Mike looks at him weird, "Your home girl?"
Jessica rolls her eyes, "It's first grade all over again, and you're the shiny new toy."
Bella smiles awkwardly. Suddenly, a flashbulb blinds Bella. She looks up at the photographer, Angela, Jessica's sweet, low key, insecure friend.
"Sorry, needed a candid for the feature" Angela looked at her sympathetically.
"Feature's dead, Angela. Don't bring it up again." Eric told her and then turns to Bella, "I got your back, baby."
Angela sighed and put her camera down, "Guess we'll just run another editorial on teen drinking."
Feeling sorry for her, Bella said something, "Sorry. There's always eating disorders, or Speedo padding on the swim team"
Angela's eyes lit up at Bella's suggestion, "Wait, that's a good one.."
"Bella!" Ellie called out as she sat next to her sister and friends.
"Hi, I'm Jessica." she introduced herself to Ellie before she could say anything else.
"I'm Ellie, Bella's sister." she turned to Bella, "Just came over to say hi. How are you going with it all."
"I'm good El, just getting used to it all." Bella replied.
"Awesome"
"Hey," Eric said getting Ellie's attention, "You look really familiar. Where have I seen you before?"
"I'm not sure." she said slowly thinking it's a bit weird.
Bella's and Ellie's attention was then drawn to the door of the cafeteria
They swing open as five of the most astounding people Bella and Ellie ever seen enter.
Three guys, two girls, all chalky pale, purplish shadows under their eyes… and all devastatingly beautiful.
They move through the room with effortless grace, and take a seat at a table furthest from them.
Bella leans over to Jessica and Angela, "Who are they?" with Ellie listening close in.
"The Cullens." Angela answered.
Jessica leans in, swinging into gossip mode, "Doctor and Mrs. Cullen's foster kids. They all moved down here from Alaska two years ago."
"They kinda keep to themselves." Angela added in.
Jessica continues, "Because they're all together. Like, together together. The blonde girl, Rosalie, and the big guy with the hat, Michael... they're a thing. I'm not even sure that's legal.
"Jess, they're not actually related." Angela said.
"But they live together. And the little dark haired girl, Alice, she's really weird... she's with Jasper, the blonde who looks like he's in pain. I mean, Dr. Cullen's like this foster dad slash matchmaker."
"The the other big guy…That's Emmett. He kinda keeps to himself."
"Really, he was very chatty in my Legal studies class" Ellie said and Jessica just shrugged.
"Maybe Dr Cullen will adopt me." Angela said hopeful making Bella laugh.
Bella then sees the last Cullen to enter, lanky, with untidy, bronze colored hair. He seems inwardly turned, mysterious. More boyish than the others. But the most striking of all. Bella can't take her eyes off him.
"Who's he?"
"That's Edward Cullen." Jessica said.
Suddenly, Edward looks over, as if he heard Jessica from across the room. His eyes meet Bella's. But he seems confused. Bella quickly looks away.
Jessica continued on, "He's totally gorgeous, obviously. But apparently, no one here is good enough for him. Like I care." she paused to stop herself from showing she obviously did care. "Anyway, don't waste your time."
Bella looked away from the Cullen's table, "I wasn't planning on it." But Bella can't help but peek at Edward again. He's staring at her outright now, with a slightly frustrated expression that unnerves Bella. She hides behind her hair.
Ellie notices the shy persona her sister was emitting.
She got distracted from her thoughts when Eric hit the table, "That's it! I know now.
You are that Taekwondo champ."
Ellie smiled, "There are heaps of people who can call themselves champs, but yeah. I have been in heaps of comps. Some around here too"
"And won them if I am correct" Eric said.
Ellie blushed, "Yes, I have."
"Why don't you hang out with us?" Mike said obviously crushing on Ellie which Jessica did not like at all, "I would love to hear about your training and all"
"And can we do a feature on you? I can see it now. 'Taekwondo champ here to stay and kick ass"
Ellie laughed, "Sure. Why not"
"Told you she would like the attention" Bella said shaking her head and Ellie looked at her sister with a big grin.
"You know it Bella" she said and went back to answering all the questions Mike and Eric had.
Jessica sat there quietly, glaring at Ellie for the duration of the lunch break while Bella spoke to Angela and stealing glances at Edward.
End of chapter 2
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