A/N: OK. Let me explain some things: Bella doesn't know she's going to an all boy's school. She thinks it a coed, normal school. But she's in for a surprise. What I should've done is not mention that in the summary, and let you guys find out later on, but I wasn't thinking and I was stupid but OH WELL! & thanks to those who reviewed!
Disclaimer- I do not own Twilight or its characters.
Chapter 2:
Breaking the News
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I looked around my room, trying to see where the noise was coming from, when I noticed it was my phone vibrating on my night stand. I walked towards the end of my room, dropping the letter on my computer desk, and plopped myself on the bed. Once I grabbed my phone, I flipped it open, revealing a new text message. It was from my best friend of 5 years, Alice Brendon.
Alice and I were both 15, on the verge of turning 16. We shared the same birthday, October 20th (A/N: my birthday heehee!) and knew each other since 4th grade, that's when she moved to Forks. We are different in so many unexplainable ways, but I guess opposites do attract. She loves shopping, while I could care less about it. She loves boy watching, while I like to just kick back and watch TV, but that never ruined our friendship. She has dark, short, pixie-like hair, and is very petite and skinny, but don't judge her on appearance. There is a dark side, believe it or not!
I selected 'view message' and read the capitalized, bold print text:
BELLA!!!! GET YOUR BUTT DOWN TO THE MALL NOW!! please? (: c yaa soon!
xoxo
I couldn't help but roll my eyes and laugh. I closed my razr phone shut and left it on the bed. I then walked over to my closet and picked out a pair of jean shorts and a light blue tank top with blue flip flops. I walked over to my bathroom, which was on the other side of my spacious room, and pulled my hair up into a pony tail. I grabbed my phone, turned off my laptop, and went down the flight of steps, slowly and cautiously, making sure I didn't fall for a fifth time this week. I already had some unattractive bruises forming on my arms and legs. If it wasn't the middle of summer and smoldering hot outside, I would've worn a long sleeved blouse and a pair of jeans. I walked to the living room, where my mom was sitting on the couch, reading one of her romance novels.
"Hey mom, I'm going to meet up with Alice at the mall." I walked over to her, giving her a goodbye kiss on the cheek.
"Ok, but get your father to drive you there, he's leaving now." She looked up from her book.
"What! I don't want to be driven to the mall in the back of a police car! Everyone hangs out there!" I whined.
"Okay, then ride in the front." She shot a childish grin at me.
"MOM!" I sighed, frustrated.
"Alright! Take the bus, but to the mall, that's it, don't wander off with any boys!" she winked at me.
"Haha, don't make me die of laughter." I rolled my eyes at her.
"What did I tell you about doing that Isabella?" she scolded.
"Ugh. Just let me go already! Please!" I utterly disliked my full name with a passion.
She reached over and handed me a piece of paper with a bunch of things listed on it, and $200 dollars. "Whoa!" I exclaimed at the sight of the amount of cash she handed to me.
"That money is for and only for the things on that list, you hear me, Bella? Bella? Hey! Snap out of it!" my mother threw a pillow at my face. She was so immature sometimes. My sunglasses fell off the top of my head, and everything fell out of my hands.
"What was that for, mom!?" I bent down to pick up the list and the money, and threw the pillow back at her.
"Alright, Bells, go have fun, behave, and don't talk to strangers, yadda, yadda…" She resumed to reading her book.
"Finally! Thank you." I backed away quickly, and heard a loud crunch. I looked down and lifted my left leg up to see a pile of my now shattered shades. I groaned in frustration, loud enough for the people who lived a block away to hear.
"You might want to add sunglasses to that list, hon." I looked up at her to find her smirking at me. I stomped off and I was out the front door in a matter of seconds.
20 minutes later.
I entered the air conditioned building and pulled out my phone to call Alice. She answered and told me to meet her at the food court which was three floors up. I headed over to the escaladers and rode two until I reached the top floor. I was looking around, until I received a text from her telling me to turn around. I did, and saw her waving me over. She was by the Starbucks booth, and waiting for me to approach her. Once I did, she pulled me into a tight bone crushing hug. More like a death hold. But I loved Alice's hugs, painful or not.
"Hey, Alice," I muffled out. "Um yeah, it's starting to hurt!" I felt my body going numb. I couldn't believe this tiny girl could do this, but it happens. She let go, and took a step back. She had a huge grin on her face.
"I missed ya Bells! How's it going?" She asked me.
"I missed you too, but we did hang out last night." I began to laugh. Oh how I loved this girl, she was a great friend!
"Well what do you wanna have? It's my treat!" She asked me.
"Um, I'll get a small caramel frappuccino." I said, adding emphasis to the word 'small'.
"Okay!" She turned around in line and then it was her turn to order. "I'll have two large caramel frappuccinos." She said, definitely adding emphasis to the word 'large'. Yep, she always did that. I nudged her in the ribs, but she just shrugged it off. When we got our drinks, I just gave her a look of question.
"Why do you always do that? When I say small I mean small!" I scolded her. She just began to laugh. "But, thank you anyways." I shot her a small smile.
"Your welcome! So what do you want to do?" She asked, taking a sip of her drink.
"Well I've got a list of things I gotta get and $200 in my wallet waiting to be spent!" I said. She was in disbelief and shock and pretty much stopped breathing all together. "Alice? Calm down, I need to spend the money only on things I need for my new sch-" and I stopped right there and went no further. But it was too late. She was already shooting looks of curiosity.
"What new school?" she seemed scared almost worried. I totally forgot that I didn't tell her about my mom applying me to a boarding school for the next 3 years of high school.
"Um, Alice we need to talk." I grabbed her small hand and dragged her over to a wooden bench, surrounded by fake plants and a trash can. I sat down while she just stood there in front of me. "Alice, sit, this is important." I pleaded. She sighed and plopped onto the bench next to me. I turned to her, and began telling her about everything, and I made sure to include every detail.
"NO!" she gasped. I was alarmed at first, but then continued with the rest.
"Yes. I got the acceptance letter this morning, and this means…" I paused and looked down at the floor. I was too sad to look her in the eyes.
"You're not attending Forks High with me." She sadly finished my sentence.
"Yeah…" I looked up at her face, soon regretting it. Tears were welling up in her bright green eyes, making them turn into a bluish-green. Then a single tear fell down her pale cheek.
"But we were supposed to be together all through high school! We already conquered freshman year together, what about the next three years that lie ahead! I can't do it with out you!" she wiped the tears that were now pouring out of her eyes, and running down her face. I pulled her into a comforting embrace.
"Oh, Alice, I know, and I feel terrible about it. I'm so sorry. It's just that, my parents always wanted me to go to a really good school, and now that my dad got promoted, they could afford it. So they signed me up for one! I didn't think I was going to get chosen." I explained.
"Yeah, right Bells! You're the smartest girl I know! That's why I always copied from your work!" She pulled away, rubbing her wet eyes. I gave her a small smile and handed her the napkin that I had gotten when I received my drink. She dabbed her eyes and blew into it, real loudly. I looked away and noticed we were being watched by noisy spectators. I rolled my eyes and turned back to my crying friend. "Bella! I'm really going to miss you!" she pulled me into a strong head lock, which she called a hug.
"And I'm going to miss you, but we'll keep in touch. I'll get unlimited texting, just for you," she smiled at the thought. "and we'll email and talk to each other every other day, I promise!" I pulled away from her hug, before my head got ripped off.
"Every other day!?!" her eyes went wide.
"Okay, every single day, day and night, that better?" I grinned at her.
"Yes! Where is this school anyways?" she asked me, throwing the napkin into the trash bin.
"It's in northern California, almost near Oregon. But I get to come home on holidays!" I explained.
"So I'll see you on our birthdays!" she exclaimed loudly.
"Al, our birthdays aren't a national holiday. I'm more on the lines of Christmas and Thanksgiv-" I couldn't finish since she gasped loudly.
"And Halloween!?!" we always dressed up for Halloween and went trick-or-treating, no matter how old we were. But, I sadly had to shake my head no, causing her to resume to her crying.
"Alice, it's going to be alright, I swear. We have been friends since forever and we'll always be friends, and a long distance friendship will not ruin that." I promised as I wiped her tears away. She gave a weak nod and stood up from the bench. She held her hand out to me, while I just looked at it, then at her.
"Come on, we've got some shopping to do. We're going to buy you stuff that will make all the girls at your new school jealous and all the boys look twice at you!" she smiled.
"Now Alice, we can't go crazy here!" I warned her, but of course, as stubborn as she is, she didn't listen.
"Yeah, yeah. So what's the first thing on the list?" She asked, eyeing the paper in my hand. I brought the list up and read what was number one.
"School supplies…" I lied. Too bad she saw right through me. She rolled her eyes and was about to snatch the paper, but shouted out the truth. "OK! It's clothes."
"YAY! Let's go! I know the perfect place!" she dragged me along.
"Ugh! It better not be that Hollister and Finch store!" I whined.
"Ok, it's Hollister, and Abercrombie & Fitch." She pronounced, spraying me with her words.
"Either way, Im not going. Besides, with two outfits my two hundred dollars will vanish!" I exaggerated. But I was true! One shirt would cost almost up to thirty dollars! What's gone wrong with the world?!
By the time we got back home, Alice and I had shopped till we dropped, literally. I had to force her take breaks a few times here and there so I could rest my tired legs. We were so close to buying up everything in the whole mall, but I had stopped Alice from doing so.
Alice and I carefully made out way up to my room carrying the many bags we had. She set everything down on the floor and collapsed on the bed. "Now that's what I call a shopping spree!" she exclaimed. I fell back into my computer chair, making it roll away.
"I'm exhausted. I'm never doing that again!" I started to rub my sore feet. I purchased so many things; I know that I definitely got stuff that wasn't needed. I bought 3 pairs of new shoes, many new pajamas, 5 pairs of new jeans, many shirts, new bags for school, and a new jacket. Alice had bought some things, telling me they were gifts from her. There was still a lot more I needed to get, but that would have to wait, or maybe I would get my mother to do it.
"So, are you having a going away party or something, cause I would so throw it!" She shot up.
"Eager for me to leave, are you?" I joked.
"NO WAY, JOSE!! I just want our last days together to be great, and I want to celebrate you getting into a good school, and I just want this summer to go out in a BANG!" she shouted, bursting my eardrums.
"Okay, okay! I get it. Maybe I will, I'm not sure yet. You know I'm not that crazy about parties." I reminded her. And it was the truth. I got bored at every party I went to in the past. You can just call me a "party-pooper".
"Yeah, well, with me around, anything's possible." She shot a huge grin at me.
"Hah, that's for sure." I ran up to her and pulled her into one of her world famous hugs. It was her turn to feel the pain. We released from the embrace and did our favorite handshake from when we were younger. I was really going to miss this girl.
A/N: Waa Laa. There! I'm tired, and stressed. I had exams for school all week, but it is finally over, woot woot! (*does a happy dance*) Alright, tell me your thoughts, your criticism is welcomed; just don't make it too harsh, I'm sensitive when it comes to those things! True story xD
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