Previously on 'A Different World'
Another yawn escaped my lips. Time to sleep, then. And my eyes slowly closed, my mind wandering off towards a dreamless night.
I shot in a sitting position, shocked and disorientated, as I glanced around the room I was laying in. Peeking at the alarm clock, I noticed it was 4 in the morning, I sighed and got out of bed to get dressed. Then I realized I had an entire wardrobe that wasn't there before I went to sleep. Alice, I thought, for some reason she was really shopping addicted and I hoped I wasn't going to be a victim of hers. I walked towards the wardrobe and picked out some comfy clothes for my morning workout. Satisfied with my outfit, I grabbed my bag and I went downstairs to see if I could find anything to eat.
The moment I got downstairs, I was surprised to see everyone awake and playing games. What the hell? I thought, shouldn't they be asleep? I hesitated, should I say something to them, or not? Deciding to say something, Alice spoke up before me. "Good morning Bella." She smiled when she turned around to look at me, "Did you have a nice sleep?" A smile played on my lips, that I could no longer stop from being seen, "Yes, thank you. I've had a nice sleep," I giggled. Carlisle suddenly stood behind Alice, "Bella? Shouldn't you still be in bed? It's just past 4 am and that's way too early for you to get up." I shook my head. "I'm used to getting up this early, I usually do my morning workouts around this time. I was just wondering if you have anything light to eat before I go." Esme stood and walked towards the kitchen, "What would you like?" She asked me. "Oh, a sandwich would be fine, really." I told her. Within a few minutes the sandwich was already eaten and I was on my way to the field where I met the Cullens yesterday.
As I ran towards the field, I couldn't shake the feeling that I was being followed. But every time I looked behind me, no one was there. I just shrugged and kept on running. A smile made its way to my face when I came into the clearing. Just what I need. I dropped my bag on the floor and pulled a scroll out of it. "Bring on the weights," I told myself. A few hand seals and a lot of smoke later there were arm and leg weights lying in front of me. I picked up the weights and put them on my arms and legs.
"All right!" I told myself, once again. Glad no one is around, though, people may start to think I'm going insane. I stood and stretched my muscles. "Hm, about a hundred laps will do, since the field is bigger than at home." I nodded to myself and got ready to start running. "3, 2, 1, GO" and I was off, running as fast as I could, with the weights slowing me down. When I finished my hundredth lap I collapsed. A gasp was heard but I was way too tired to look and see who it was.
"Bella!" Alice came running towards me, getting the weights of my limbs, then she helped me up. "Are you alright Bella? You scared me there for a moment!" She rattled. I took a deep breath. "I'm okay, really. I just misjudged the distance and the weights. They were a bit too heavy for the distance I ran." Alice let out a huge sigh. "Seriously, Bella! You scared me there! When I saw you collapse, I came here as fast as I could!" Wait what? I thought. "You came here as soon as possible, after you saw me collapse?" I asked here, confused. Alice froze, as soon as I had said that. "Alice?" she looked at me in shock. "Well, um, I kind of, um," I never expected her to stutter like this. I wonder what I have said wrong. "Did I say something wrong, Alice?" Her eyes widened, "Oh no, Bella! Don't be silly, it's my own mistake, really. I shouldn't have said it like that," she told me, "Even if it's true," she muttered. I looked at her with a confused look on my face, trying to figure out what she meant.
"Hm, how to explain this," she started. I sighed, really, she just got me even more confused and curious now. "Well, the thing is. I, um, kind of, can see the future. And every time someone makes a decision, the future changes. The moment you decided to do that last lap, one you really shouldn't have done I might add, I saw you collapsing in the field, so I came here to help you." My eyes widened at what she just told me. She can see the future? Wait, does that mean, "You saw me before I ended up in the forest, didn't you?" I accused her. She turned to look at me in shock, "My, you catch things fast," she said, "And yes, you're right. I saw you the moment you decided to come here."
After a few minutes Alice got up and held out her hand to help me stand. When I finally stood, I grabbed the weights and put them on the scroll, made a few hand seals and sealed the weights into the scroll. "That's that," I said, when I put the scroll back into my bag. "Wow," Alice said, "How did you do that?" I smirked at that, "The same way I blocked Edward out of my mind," my reply was. I looked at Alice and let out a small laugh at the look on her face. "Let's just say, I have my own gifts, like you can see the future and Edward can read minds." She nodded in understanding. "I see," a smile came to her lips, "Does anyone else know this, besides Edward I mean," I thought about that. "No," I hesitated, "No, I don't think so." "Good" Alice now had a smirk on her face, "Come on, let's go home." And that we did.
When we arrived back at the house, Jasper was waiting for us, well for Alice actually, with a worried look on his face. "Who died?" Alice asked him, he just sighed. "What is it Jasper?" she asked him. "Edward and Rosalie are in another fight, yet again. They won't listen to any of us and Carlisle is at work so he can't break them apart either."
Alice rushed inside the house, the moment Jasper was done talking. I just watched her run inside and then my eyes widened when someone started yelling. And that someone was none other than Alice. "Stop it, this instant! No, Rosalie, don't even think about it! She's my friend too, you know!" I froze. They were arguing about me? No way, why would they do that? It was not like I was going to stay with them forever. I had just been here for one day and they were already thinking I'll be staying with them? Not a chance. "Don't." I turned around to see Jasper looking at me. "I'm sorry?" He smiled a sad smile. "Don't go, Alice will be heartbroken, Edward too I guess. Not to mention Esme and Carlisle. You can't just leave." I snorted at that, "Yes I can. I don't live here, I just spend the night. I can leave whenever I want to." I felt like sticking out my tongue like a childish girl, but I chose not to, otherwise I wouldn't be taken seriously.
"What?!" Alice came back outside, running towards us. "You're leaving us?" I blushed, I usually never really blush, unless I'm in a situation like this. "W-well.." I started, but stopped when Edward showed up as well, leaning his back against the wall next to the front door. I looked down, at the floor in shame. How can I leave them, when they have been so good to me yesterday, and today as well.
I sighed, "Well, I wanted to. But you guys apparently are great in making someone feel guilty." Alice started cheering and bouncing up and down. "But, I do want you to realize, that if I have to leave, doesn't matter why or when, I will leave," I said. They nodded, while Alice still bounced. "Let's go inside," Jasper offered and I nodded. "Actually," Edward started, "I'd like to talk to Bella for a minute, if that's okay." Alice and Edward looked at each other and Edward nodded after a few seconds. "Okay, come on, Jazz, let's go inside." Jasper nodded and followed Alice inside.
Edward turned to me, "Let's take a walk," he started walking in the same direction Alice and I just came from. "Oh, okay, what do you want to talk about?" I asked him, looking surprised when he shook his head and lifted one finger to his mouth, signaling I should keep quiet. He kept on walking towards the field where I just came from. Then, before we even reached it, he stopped, "We should be out of hearing range now." I looked around, "Why would we need to be out of hearing range," I asked, not looking at Edward. "Bella, I-," I turned around to look at him, "What is it?"
Then I heard a few twigs break, I turned around again, to see Emmet standing not too far away from us. Edward sighed and nodded towards him, "Okay, we should go, then." Huh? "Wait, what? You just brought me here to say we should go? Go where?" I asked him. A small smile appeared on his lips, "We should go to school, we don't want to be late, come on," he said while grabbing my arm and dragging me back to the house, I seriously keep walking like this, why don't they just make up their minds. I let out a huge sigh and walked along with them.
When we arrived, once again, Alice kidnapped me to get dressed for school. When I was finally ready, I got more nervous. What will school be like, I wonder. Esme entered the room, "Oh, Bella, Carlisle just called, he made sure you're good to go for school. You're all registered and everything. He also made sure your classes are either with Edward or Alice, well, all but one , since they are in the same year you are," she said, while smiling at me.
Once inside the car, on our way to school, I kept looking out of the window, amazed. Everything moves so fast, and we're not even running. "This is truly amazing! I wonder why we don't have these things at home." Emmet usually wasn't the talkative person, but that didn't stop him now, apparently, as he asked "Where are you from, anyways?" . Rosalie hissed under her breath while elbowing Emmet. "She told us before, she's not allowed to tell," that surprised me, Rosalie standing up for me? "Err, thanks Rosalie. But, I guess I will tell you all one day. Just not right now, okay?" I told them. They all nodded and kept quiet about the subject for the rest of the ride.
A few minutes later, we arrived at the parking lot of the school. I looked at the buildings and my mouth kept hanging open, Edward chuckled and lifted his finger to my chin, closing my mouth. I giggled at that, until I noticed everyone and I mean, everyone, was looking at us. I stood on my toes, reaching Edward's ear and whispered, "Why is everyone staring at us?" He chuckled once more, "They're not used to see someone hang out with us, they especially do not expect me to touch a girl at all, who is not my sister, that is." A blush found its way to my cheeks again. Alice laughed when she saw my face, "Oh, come on, Bella! We have to go and get your schedule!" she said while dragging me to one of the buildings, Edward following closely behind.
We walked into a small office and Alice walked towards the lady at the desk. She talked to her a little and then signaled me to join them. I walked towards them and a older lady with a friendly smile looked up at me. "Hello miss Swan, I'm Ms Cope, nice to meet you. Here's your schedule and here are your slips, you have to let the teachers sign those and you have to bring them back to me at the end of the day, okay dear?" I nodded and smiled at her, "Yes, ma'am!"
We walked back to the parking lot and I was looking at my schedule. I kept staring at the page, I never had any of these classes before, in my life, I thought, this is going to be hell. Alice snatched the paper from my hands. "Let me see, 1st period: English, 2nd period: Physics, 3rd period: History, 4thperiod: Spanish, 5th period: lunch, 6th period: Biology and 7th period: Gym. I groaned, sure I was going to go to hell. Besides the last class, gymnastics I really don't mind, I'm probably one of the few that is in shape. But still, the other classes, I wasn't so sure about those. "Oh, don't worry, Edward and I will help you out, I promise! You'll do just fine." Alice promised me, yet I still wasn't so sure. "I don't know anything about all those classes, besides gym probably." She held on to my arm while Edward walked on my other side, I felt like I was someone important being protected. Thinking about that, I giggled, getting a weird look from Edward. I shot him a look that said 'don't ask' and giggled some more.
My first class I had with Alice, we entered the classroom and Alice introduced me to the teacher, who told me to sit with Alice, since she was the only one I knew in the class. That class wasn't too difficult, thankfully. The next class I had with alone, I saw, peeking at my schedule, when I walked out of the class, Edward was waiting for me just outside the classroom. "Hello," he greeted me, "How was your first class?" I smiled at him, "It wasn't that bad, really, not as bad as the next one is going to be," now I groaned. He led me towards a different building where I was going to have my second class, Physics. "Don't worry so much, Bella, you're going to be fine, if you don't understand, afterwards, I'll tutor you at home, okay?" I nodded at him, taking a deep breath before walking into the next class.
"Hello miss, I'm Bella, I'm a new student here," I introduced myself to the teacher. "Oh hello Bella, can I have your slip, please?" I nodded and gave her the slip for her to sign. "Okay, take your seat next to Ms Weber, she'll help you out," she told me, I nodded and walked up to the girl I was going to sit with, I sat down and the girl introduced herself as Angela. She seems nice enough, I thought. I introduced myself and Angela explained everything I didn't get. Which was pretty much everything, Angela was patient with me though and she simply kept explaining over and over again, until I understood what was meant.
The rest of the class went by quite fast and I noticed Physics wasn't that difficult as I had thought, thankful for that, I left the classroom to find Edward, once again, waiting for me outside. I went to my next class with a bit more confidence, since everything was going better than I had expected. Edward was in this class too, so he walked me there, introducing me to the teacher and this time I was being seated next to Edward. This class, though, was rather fun to be in. Since we were following advanced History, Jasper was in this class also. He kept interrupting the teacher, saying he was wrong, that it all happened differently. That annoyed the teacher a lot. He was getting more pissed by the second, I had to stop myself from laughing the whole time. I looked at Edward, who sat beside me, he looked like he was having trouble keeping himself from laughing too.
The rest of the class, Jasper seemed to have given up correcting the teacher the whole time, though he did seem annoyed the rest of the hour. When I passed a note to Edward, asking what was wrong with him, he just wrote back 'I'll explain later.' I sighed at that and my shoulders slumped. They were keeping something from me and I know I am way to curious for my own good, but I wanted to know what their secret is.
The moment we walked out of the classroom we no longer could hold our laughs. Some students looked at us with weird looks on their faces. But we ignored them, still laughing, we walked to my next class with Alice. Alice was already waiting for me by the door. "Have fun in your next class," Edward told me. "Yeah, yeah, come on, let's get inside!" Alice dragged me in the classroom, not even giving me the chance to see bye to Edward, so I gave him a small wave and he smiled back at me.
Spanish was.. something different. I never heard the language before, so I didn't really understand a word they were saying. Alice helped me out though. She explained to the teacher I never, in my life, had had Spanish and that I probably didn't understand any of it. The teacher told her it was okay for her to translate everything for me, helping me out a little, as long as I was able to speak a little Spanish at the end of the month. That was a nice deal, if I studied enough, I would be able to say a few things in Spanish at the end of the month and actually know what I was saying. At the end of the class I already was able to say 'yes', 'no', 'hello' and 'goodbye' in Spanish. Of course, a lot of people would be able to say more in one class, but I kept asking Alice unrelated questions so we were distracted a lot.
The next period we had lunch. I excused myself from Alice since I had to go to the bathroom and told her to meet me in the cafeteria. She nodded and danced towards the cafeteria. I'll never know where she gets all that energy, I thought and looked for a bathroom. After finally finding one I walked in, finding some girls re-doing their make-up and gossiping at the same time. I opened a door to a toilet, locked the door and sat down. I guess they didn't realize I was there since they were gossiping about me.
"Did you see that new girl flirting with Edward Cullen? Like, oh my god, he's so mine, she has no business with him!" Another girl apparently agreed to her, "Totally Lauren, you're way prettier than her. We should spread some bad rumors about her. To keep people away from her, don't you think?" Lauren squealed in delight, "Oh my god, Jessica! You're totally right! We should totally do that. It'll ruin her for real!" That's when I had enough.
I unlocked the door and almost kicked it open. "And why would you do that for no reason?" I told them. Lauren and Jessica jumped up in surprise. "What, didn't think anyone was listening did you?" Lauren snorted at that, "Like I care, freak. You just shouldn't be around Edward, he's mine." I looked at her, surprised, "Oh, I didn't see a name tag on him, but I'll go and ask him when you guys got together, he wouldn't mind sharing it with me. Would you like to join me," I asked them as I walked to the sink to wash my hands. "Why, you!" Lauren really started to get pissed now and was about to blow, when I walked to the door. "You sure you don't want to come? I don't think they would mind, really, if, of course, you're talking the truth about your relationship with Edward." I smirked at them and walked out of the bathroom, losers, I thought.
As I walked to the cafeteria doors, I spotted the Cullens at a table at the other end of the cafeteria, but Edward wasn't there with them, then I saw him standing at the beginning of the line, waiting for someone. I walked up to him, "Hey, you," smiling at him. He smiled back at me, "Hello, I was just waiting for you. Are you hungry?" I nodded at him and we entered the line, "I figured you wouldn't have any cash on you to buy food, so I'll buy you some," he told me, smiling at me, "Pick whatever you like, Bella."
I just stared at all the food they had here, "Wow, so much food. But, I don't know what's nice, we don't have this kind of food at home," Edward just smiled at that and began loading different kinds of food on the tray. "Well, let's find out what you like then," he told me, while he walked to the cashier to pay for the food. I stared at the tray, that was way too much for me, "Edward, isn't that a bit too much-." Edward chuckled, "Half is for me, Bella, we're just going to let you eat something first, to see what you like." He started walking towards the table his family sat on and I followed him. Alice suddenly stood up and got another chair from a table next to theirs. Edward explained, "We usually only have 5 chairs, but since you sit with us now, we need another, right?" I smiled at that. "Thanks."
"Hey freak!" suddenly was heard from across the cafeteria. Edward and I turned around to see who was yelling. And surprise, it was Lauren with Jessica, her sidekick. I sighed, turned back around and dragged Edward with me. He looked confused but said nothing as we arrived at the table and sat down.
"What was that about," Emmet asked. I smirked, "Just something that happened in the bathroom, really." Alice squealed, "Oh, do tell!" My smirk widened. "Well, as I was going to the bathroom, I noticed them standing in front of a mirror gossiping, not even noticing me entering. Then I heard them gossiping about me. Saying I should stay away from Edward because he belongs to her." Rosalie snorted, "Not in a million years," she said and I nodded, "I know, anyways, they said some things and I got pissed, so I kind of told them that if Lauren really had something with Edward, she should join me and ask him, but she refused, sort of. And then I just walked away, leaving a pissed off Lauren." The whole table laughed and everyone in the cafeteria became silent and looked towards our table. "Way to go, Bella!" Alice squealed and gave me a high five. The rest chuckled and looked over at a furious Lauren.
The rest of lunch everything was quiet. Some students kept glancing at our table, whether it was because I was sitting here, or whether they were still a bit shocked from the laughter from before, I really don't know. Not that I cared, really. It was just a lot of fun to do that to Lauren. It's not that I hate her, maybe I just only dislike her, but, I wouldn't even dislike her if she just had left me alone. The lunch bell rang, all of the students stood to throw away the remains of their food and then left the cafeteria. I stood up, "We should go, right? I don't want to be late anywhere on my first day." Everyone smiled and stood as well. Edward told me to follow him, since we had Biology together now. I nodded and followed him, dumping our tray at the way out, walking towards a different building.
Biology, I had no idea what to think of this, when I first entered the room. I saw a few familiar faces from the previous classes, but I didn't know what names belonged to them. Edward walked up to Mr. Banner to introduce me and I handed over my slip, which he signed, and again I was seated next to Edward. "Okay class! Pay attention, today we are going to watch a movie which will last 3 classes. And after the movie I want you to make a report about it which you have to hand in a week from now! Okay, enjoy the movie." Mr. Banner said, while he put the movie on and the lights off. Suddenly, I was hyperaware of all my surroundings, including Edward sitting next to me. I took a quick glance sideways, only to see Edward do the exact same thing. It felt like there was electricity all around us. I sat in my seat, frozen into place, scared to even make a move, in case something happened with Edward. Funny enough, he sat the exact same way I did, frozen in his seat. It seemed like forever, that this class continued. Like hours, instead of just one lousy hour. I let out a sigh of relief the moment the lights were turned back on, and stretched my muscles. I glanced towards Edward, who just came out of the same position I was in, the entire hour and just sat straight. Apparently he didn't mind sitting like that for a long while, I mentally noted. I had an entire checklist in my head for the Cullens, everything I thought was suspicious, I wrote down on that list. I'm going to have to figure it out, it's way to suspicious. They apparently don't eat during lunch, they just throw away the food they bought, not touching it. One can read minds, the other sees the future. They're all very pale too, I didn't notice at first, but comparing to the rest of the school, they definitely stand out. I thought.
I took my schedule to see what my last class was. A smile appeared on my face when I saw I had Gym. I loved that, obviously. I wonder what they do in Gym here, at home it was mostly sparring, but looking at the kids here, they probably don't do that here. I stood and grabbed my bag, walking outside, then I stopped and turned around, to see Edward standing there. " Which way is Gym?" I asked with a slight blush on my face. Edward answered me with a smile. "Alice will take you, she's just around the corner." I turned to look, and there was Alice, dancing through the hallway. I smiled back at Edward and walked towards his sister, to go to Gym. "Oh, it's going to be fun!" she squealed, "We're going to run some laps, which no one likes, but still, enough time to talk." She said with a smile on her face, I smiled back, I didn't mind running. It wasn't my favorite pastime but I didn't mind.
All changed in our Gym clothes, we entered the room. I was slightly disappointed, it was a small room. "All right class! Run 25 laps, if you're done, you're free to go!" He shouted. Everyone started running. I noticed that everyone was.. slow. I sighed, no running at full speed, I guess. But I could always run a bit faster. So I sped up a little, and with a smile on her face, Alice started running besides me. "They are quite slow, huh?" she said, I nodded at her, "Kind of, yes. I was hoping I could run faster, but that probably will be suspicious." I kept running after that, not paying attention to a word Alice was saying, after a while she noticed I wasn't paying attention and stopped talking.
I turned on my automatic pilot, leaving me to my thoughts the entire time I was running. There was a lot to think about, what had happened in the past 2 days of me being here. Then I thought about Itachi and I noticed I actually missed the bastard. Not too surprisingly, really, he was my best friend after all. And then Biology, with Edward. What was up with that? I guess I had to ask Edward about that, maybe he knew what happened. After a short half an hour, I had run 25 laps. Apparently I had started to run slightly faster than the others in my class and even Alice was still running. "You can go and change, since you're done," the teacher told me. I nodded and went to change my clothes. As I walked out towards the hallway, no one was there. Well what did you expect, you left early. I chuckled at my own stupidity.
I walked towards the parking lot, only noticing that it was raining. Like I care, a little rain isn't going to kill me. I sat on a bench, enjoying the rain. Until Edward was suddenly standing next to me. "Are you insane, why are you sitting in the rain?" he asked me, I shrugged. "I don't mind sitting in the rain, really, it's actually quite comforting." He sighed and pulled me up, dragging me to the car. Everyone was already seated and I got placed in the passenger seat, right next to Edward. He started the car and left the parking lot, driving home. Almost halfway there, I felt like running in the rain. So I opened the door and jumped out. "Bella!" they shouted, but I wasn't paying attention. Something was calling me, it seemed. And I had to go and find out what it was.
I kept running through the woods, noticing only one person following me, I glanced over my shoulder to see Edward running after me. The rest must be bringing the car home. I kept running towards the place that was calling me. Only to find the one person I didn't expect to see, waiting for me, at a cabin. With a frown on his face.
A/N: Okay, chapter three! I hope you enjoyed it. It's a bit longer than the previous two, lol who am I kidding, it's like the same length as the first two chapters combined. Anyways, I made this one a bit longer, because I wanted the first day of school and I wanted it a bit explained. So, there you go, I hope you liked it =)
Please review! They give me more motivation. I worked on this chapter for about 3 days, and it would have been a bit sooner if the people who read it, actually reviewed as well. =)
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