Chapter 3
When I woke up I went to the window. No surprise. It wasn't raining yet but the sun wasn't out. It was a normal gloomy Forks day. I went downstairs and got some breakfast. Charlie had already left, so I had the house to myself, I liked that. I didn't want to have to fake happiness. I wasn't in the mood. It was my first day at Forks High. It was March, the middle of the semester and I was not looking forward to it.
When I finished my breakfast I went upstairs brushed my teeth, washed my face, got dressed and tried to tame my hair. When all of that was done I went back downstairs, grabbed my keys and coat(even though it wasn't raining, the sky wasn't promising) and got into my car.
Charlie had told me that I couldn't miss the school. He was right. There was a big sign labeled "Forks High School. Home of The Spartans" out the front. It looked like every other building in this town except for the sign. I drove to the block labeled "Administration" and got the feeling that I shouldn't be there. No one else was there. I looked at the clock and realized I was way early.
I walked into the small office expecting it to be like the one's in Phoenix, but it wasn't. It was too green. I felt like I hadn't even walked inside. There were plants in every place there could be. There was a lady behind the desk. She looked up and saw me standing by the door.
"Can I help you dear?" she asked
"I'm new. It's my first day-" I started
"Oh you must be Isabella Swan" she said
I knew I was going to get this. Chief Swan's daughter from his rocky marriage back in town. It was expected.
"Here's everything you will need today. Timetable, passes which will need to be signed and given back to me at the end of the day, a diary and a map. If you have any trouble just come back here and I can help you out" she said without hardly breathing
"Thank you. Please just call me Bella" I said for the first time of many I was sure.
By the time my introduction to the school was all done it was still early. So I decided to study the map so I wouldn't have it in front of my nose all day. It was pretty easy. There were 6 blocks and the gym. The gym was behind all the blocks, so it was easy to find. The blocks made a square. Block one as to the right of the Admin block, the block two and so on. Well at least I wouldn't get lost. I also noticed that the car park out the front of Admin was the teacher's car park. It was also the one I was in. I located the student car park and went to park there instead. I sat in the car and readjusted where I was on the map. Still not able to get lost. I shoved the map into my bag along with everything else and got out of the car and walked around just in case.
As I was walking around a boy with greasy black hair walked up to me.
"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, I'm the person to come to" he said quickly. Didn't these people know how to breathe.
"Hi. I'm Bella. And I'm more of the suffer in silence type" I replied
"Good headline for the feature. I'm on the newspaper and you're news baby. Front page"
"No I'm not you can't... please don't write a feature about me" I stammered
"Whoa. OK. I get it. No feature. It's cool"