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Chapter 2
Bella's P.O.V
It was unbelievable! How dare he touch me or my things? I had tripped and fallen because of him, and I'm not happy about it. I've always been self-conscious about myself and who touched me. I hated it when he had touched me, I knew that boy had meant no harm, but that's what my uncle had said beforeā¦I can't even talk about it.
I walked down the hall swiftly, turning on a corner, hopefully disappearing from his view. I dodged everyone like always, but there really wasn't anyone to dodge. The hallway was empty, except for a school janitor who was mopping the floor and singing the song, Circus, by Britney Spears.
I didn't want to see anyone right now, so I slipped into an empty classroom and closed the door silently behind me. I slid down the door until I was on my butt, sitting on the cold ground; crying my eyes out.
I cried for a couple minutes until I decided that it was time to go to the lunch room. As I walked out of the classroom I headed over to the girls bathroom to get myself cleaned up.
As soon as I entered the girl's bathroom I regretted it. There was Lauren and her group, standing in the middle talking about some guy that Lauren had sex with over the weekend. I rolled my eyes and tried to go over to the sink without being noticed, that plan didn't work out so well.
"Oh hey, there's Bella!" I heard Laurens voice say, I put my back to her as I looked down at my hands that I washing in the sink. I felt her get unbelievably close to my body; I tried to calm myself down by taking a deep breath. "I wonder what she's doing in here, maybe it has to do with that big bruise on her arm. Are you going suicidal on us Bella? I mean you can't seem to stop hitting and kicking yourself."
A few silent tears few down my cheeks as I listened to her words. She and the rest of the school thought that I was suicidal, because I had show up with bruises and scars for a while. I used to let them have their laugh about me beating myself up, but not anymore! She had no idea what I had been through for the last two years of my life.
"Leave me alone Lauren," I said in a rough tone, spitting her name out between clenched teeth. She laughed and grabbed my arm, twisting it to the side. I gasped in pain as she and her group came and beat me up.
After a couple minutes of agony by being touched by her, and being thrown to the ground and being kicked in the ribs. She finally gave up and her and her group strutted out of the room like nothing ever happened.
I lay there on the floor, unable to breath, and slightly bleeding, but then I remembered where I was and who I was. I stood up shakily, wiping the blood off my lip; it stung bad, but I ignored it as I always had. I ignored the pain and suffering that everyone put me through. I wiped off my face and arms with water and slowly and quietly walked out of the bathroom on my way to the lunch room.
As I entered the lunch room I was ignored like always, and that's the way I liked it. I walked to a table at the far corner of the lunch room, it was empty as usual; nobody ever sat by me and I was just fine with that. As I sat down shakily, I laid my head on my arms that we crossed on the table and shut my eyes and took a really deep breath.
I lifted my head when I heard laughter; I looked over at Lauren who was laughing at my direction. I sighed and turned my head to the left, away from Lauren. When I turned my head I was startled to see a big pair of green eyes staring at me from a few tables away. I recognized them, I was that boy who had banged into me and had seen the picture of me and my mother.
He was staring at me and listening to another girl talking to him, he was probably getting all the information about me that he could find. Soon he would be disgusted with me and then he would tease and beat me up like everyone else, he held no interest for me.
I quickly looked away and stared down at the table, creating patterns in the dull table. When I had looked into his eyes I felt a magnetic attraction, like that stupid phrase 'sparks fly!' I was pretty sure I was blushing furiously, because my cheek felt very hot when I touched it. I hide behind my drape of hair and didn't bother to look up.
Lunch was over all too soon; soon I heard the bell ring for the signal of ten minutes before you get detention for being late. I stood up quickly, gathering my bag from my side. I walked out of the cafeteria with no stumbling or falling down; it was almost incredible!
As I walked down the hall I felt an unknown presence behind me, I peeked behind me and I saw that greened eyed boy. He was following me? No, he wasn't following you Bella! He probably had a class near mine, yeah that's it! I closed my eyes and prayed to God that he didn't have Biology next.
As I turned into the Biology classroom and sat down at my usual table, I usually sat alone, people usually steered clear of me; some by the order of the parents. Even the parents knew of me, they had learned from their children that I was a suicidal emo freak, so most of the parents asked the school personally to make sure that their children had no interaction with me. Truth was nobody really knew what happened to me.
I sat down on the stool and started to doodle on my notebook, when I felt the chair move beside me; I looked up to see the green eyed boy sitting besides looking at his Biology textbook silently.
Oh God! Please! Why do you hate me? My anger flared inside of me, making me pull my hands into tight fists around the pencil, nearly making the pencil break in half.
"Hello," I heard the boys' familiar voice say to me, I looked up to meet his gaze. I dropped the pencil and sighed. "My name is Edward; Edward Cullen."
I nodded my head and dropped out of his beautiful gaze.
Beautiful, really Bella; how could you think that? You may think he's beautiful, but that doesn't mean he thinks you're beautiful! The reason why is because I'm not beautiful, never am, never will be. I had a mental argument with myself about this, ignoring the fact that Edward was eyeing me carefully.
"You're Bella, right?" He asked, stating the obvious. I didn't reply to that either, I just nodded my head and turned towards the front of the room. Thankfully the teacher called the class to order, and today we were learning something new, so I didn't have to work with Edward today. But I knew that someday I would have to work with him either I liked it or not!
For the rest of the class I was really tense, I stole glances at him throughout the lesson, he looked really uncomfortable. Good! He needed to be, he needed to stay away from me.
As soon as the bell rang I was gone, I ran out of class almost falling the whole way, eventually I got to the gym after a quick stop at my locker! I hated gym and we all knew it, I was so clumsy I'm not even sure if it's legal I trudged into the gym, luckily we were learning a new game today so we just sat on the bleachers and listened to the coach ramble on and on.
When school was officially over for today I flew out of the school and to my old red Chevy truck as soon as possible. But as I was walking to my truck I saw Edward leaning against a shiny Volvo, staring at me. I felt very uncomfortable about this, I hated when anyone looked at me. I walked on without looking back at him and got into my truck and drove off to my home, the Forks orphanage.
As I pulled my truck into one of the very few parking spots on the lot I heard kids screaming from inside the building, it had started to rain lightly so I used my hood on my jacket cover my hair. I tried to get inside without anyone noticing me but Esmeralda noticed me almost immediately.
Esmeralda was a short, plump woman, who had a taste for very loud kids. She was very kind and sweet, but if you got her mad...Let me just tell you it wasn't pretty. Her black curly long hair was always in a long braid, kids along the ages of three to eight were always pulling at it. She had a Spanish accent, because her parents were both Hispanic. Sometimes she would speak in Spanish just to confuse us and then she would laugh and go and make something to eat.
"Bella," She announced as soon as I put my foot on the door mat. "You're home!"
"Hi Esmeralda," I said silently, climbing the stairs to the bedrooms.
"We'll be having dinner soon!" She called up after me; her tone was worried at me. I had no idea why.
"I'm not very hungry," I replied, looking down at her from the top of the stairs. "I just think I'll do my homework and go to sleep."
"Okay, but be careful! Don't forget to take you pills!" She called, but was soon outnumbered by a bunch of seven year olds begging for gummy bears.
I walked into my room at the end of the hallway, as I opened my door the smell of dust and flowers surrounded me. I slammed the door and laid my backpack on my bed. I had a room to myself due to my midnight traumas. I groaned as I fell on my bed and closed my eyes. I didn't mean to fall asleep, but I woke from screaming in a cold sweat.
I saw that I still had my light on and my clothes and shoes. My clock read two am, so I decided to actually get ready for bed this time. I got on my pajamas and brushed my teeth. Finally I opened the little bottle of medicine that my doctor had given me to help me with my nightmares. I took two and swallowed them dry.
I lay under my covers in my bed and turned off my light. I closed my eyes and waited for sleep to come. When sleep finally arrived the only thing that I could see made me smile; A pair of emerald green eyes.
I hope you enjoyed this chapter, I'm pretty sure you can probably guess Bella's situation right now, but if you don't then that's okay. We'll learn more about Bella's background and past later on.
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