I woke up to Renee tugging the duvet off me, telling me to get up for school.
"C'mon Isabella you have school in 30 minutes, get up or your going to be late for your first day!"
She didn't even mention the bruise on my cheek, black eye or burns on my back that still throbbed with pain. As she left the room I got up and got sorted as fast as I could, taking a two minute cold shower to sooth the burns. Then, shoving on black skinny jeans, a dark red tee and my black biker jacket, I put my dark red hair into a ponytail as I went downstairs and grabbed my bag, then I was out the door.
I stared in pure joy at my baby sat in the drive way. My beautiful Honda CBR1100XX Blackbird. The black sheen on it was amazing, it was the one and only love in my life. At least I was riding to school in style. It look me a matter of 10 minutes to get to Forks high school and find a free parking space, which wasnt easy as there was only 15 minutes left until school started but I got one next to a flashy silver Volvo and Range Rover.
I ignored the students stares and whispered comments as I jogged across the student parking lot, stopping at the office doors to shake the rain out of my poinytail. Once inside, I walked up to the desk where an attractive older women sat - wearing an unflattering cat blouse, may I add - and cleared my throat to get her attention.
"Oh, hello dear! You must be the new student, Isabella Swan, is that correct?" She talked at a rather fast pace.
"Um, yes. Just Bella please"
"Bella it is. Now, here's the slip you need to get all of your teachers to sign, your schedule and a map of the school. Good luck dear!"
I walked out of the office, glancing down and noticing my first class was English. I'd been focused on looking at my schedule and not in front of me, so it was a surprise when I walked into a cold, hard body.
I stumbled back from the impact, knocking my papers to the ground and nearly falling but at the last second a pair of cold hands caught me, steadying me.
"Oh my, I'm so sorry! I wasn't watching where I was going, are you okay?" A musical voice said from in front of me, the same musical voice that's been on my mind for the past day and a half.
I looked up into the golden eyes of Alice Cullen. My entire world just stopped, looking into her eyes I felt a weird sensation in my chest, one I didn't recognize but it wasn't entirely unpleasant. Time stood still as I gazed into those orbes of beauty, and the stare was only broken by several throats clearing and a few chuckles of amusement from behind Alice. I broke eye contact with her and glanced behind, only now noticing what I presumed to be her siblings as they had the same golden eyes and pale complexion as the beautiful pixie in front of me.
As I looked over her siblings I noticed they all had one thing in common, apart from the eyes, they were all insanely beautiful, not just attractive, like seriously HOT!
There was a beautiful blonde who had a scowl marring her features who was holding hands with who I presumed to be her boyfriend. He was huge, over 6ft tall with bulging muscles but he had a huge goofy grin on his face so it was difficult to find him intimidating. Next there was a tall guy with messy bronze hair who glared at me with a frustrated look on his face. I recoiled from his stare and instead studied the gorgeous guy he was holding hands with. He had blonde hair and deep, thoughtful blonde eyes, but the unsettling thing was the concerned way he was looking at me, like he knew the pain and scars I was hiding.
"Bella, I'd like you to meet my sister Rosalie, her boyfriend Emmett, the tall one is my brother Edward and his boyfriend Jasper" Alice's voice jolted me out of my thoughts and I nodded over to them, ignoring the less than happy looks of both Rosalie and Edward, instead smiling back at the smiles their respective partners gave me.
"So Bella, what class do you have now?" Before I could answer her, she picked my papers up and studied my schedule. She looked up at me with the most adorable little smile on her face, I swear my heart fluttured in response, and as I saw her siblings smirk at me, almost as if they'd heard it, I flushed red in embarrassment. I looked back at her and saw her eyes narrow on my face, presumably on the bruise there. Her eyes looked darker suddenly, nearly black and she looked tense and angry as her stare remained locked on the bruise, it only being broken by Jaspers hand on her shoulder. Her body kind of slumped down, almost in defeat until she looked back at me and forced a smile at me and looked down at my schedule.
"Well, you have English with Jasper and Rosalie, Biology with Edward, Drama with Emmett, Art with me and Gym with all of us." She looked so happy, she was practically bouncing, and as she wasn't very tall, 5ft to my 5ft7, I found it adorably cute.
They all parted ways, with Alice giving me a quick hug and with a promise to pick me up after Biology so I could sit with her at dinner, she skipped off, leaving me with a silent Jasper and irritated Rosalie.
Without a backward glance, Rosalie walked off into the building whereas Jasper gave me a sudden gentle smile and indicated we follow her. As we walked to English, I could feel my pain fading, and by the time we got to the English classroom it was nonexistent. Them painkillers finally seemed to be working, I thought with relief!
After I got my paper signed and the study material, I sat next to Jasper and the class passed without incident.
After class, Jasper walked me to Biology, giving me yet another gentle smile then faded away into the crowd. As he left, the I felt the pain from my back flare up suddenly. Damn, those painkillers were fading already.
As I turned and walked through the doorway of the classroom, I looked and met Edwards glaring black eyes boring into mine. The very look literally made my heart stop for a second in sheet terror.
Everything faded into the background, sound, feeling, everything apart from those glaring black eyes and grimace on Edward Cullen's face.
I stood trembling in fear as Edwards black eyes glared scathingly at me. The stare was broken by a loud growling noise behind me.
I whirled around, seeing Alice stood glaring at her brother with her teeth bared and eyes black with anger. It seemed like a blur, but one minute Alice was there and the next she had Edward up against the wall with her tiny hands around his throat. It didn't seem possible. Suddenly Jasper was beside me and I relaxed as I felt a wave of calm flow into me and seemingly Alice and Edward as she let go of Edward and danced over to me. Weird, he must just have that natural effect on people.
"Are you okay Bella? You look a bit pale. Ignore my dear brother" Alice said, almost hissing the last bit at Edward.
Edward just glared back, took Jaspers hand then they walked out of the room. After their departure silence fills the room, the air thick with awkwardness. Alice looks at me from beneath her eyelashes, smiling adorably, her cute dimples lighting up her face taking my breath away. My heart flutters at how beautiful she is and I swear I see her grin widen.
"Do you want to get out of here? We could chill at mine, my mother would love to meet you" She gives me the cutest puppy dog eyes ever, and I swear I literally melt inside, I could never say no to that face.
"Sure Alice, that sounds fun" I reply hesitantly.
"Great, I'm so excited I can't wait for you to meet Esme you're going to love her and I know she already thinks highly of you" She gushed excitedly, grabbing my hand and gently leading me through Forks high into the parking lot, guiding me towards a beautiful yellow Porsche. I barely noticed any of it, just the feel of her hand in mine, her cold skin against my warm hand sent my brain into mush, sent tingles and electric shocks through my entire body.
She opened the passenger door and helped me inside, taking the seatbelt and gently sliding it over my body until it clicked into place. I felt her hand linger on my thigh for a moment any both my heart and breathing sped up but before I could do more then blink she'd shut the door and danced over to the drivers side, starting the car and speedily driving out of the parking lot.
The car filled with the smell of Alice. She smelled like vanilla and sunshine, it was so addictive I couldn't resist breathing it in, relaxing against the seat as her scent surrounded me, causing a confusing sense of peace and calm to fill my body.
I glanced at Alice, studying her profile as she drove startlingly fast through the roads. Her face was lit up with a soft smile, only widening when she winked at me, catching me basically checking her out. I blushed in embarrassment, hearing her musical giggle resonate through the car, making me smile hearing it. I stared out of the window getting lost in my own thoughts, not noticing that we'd pulled up outside her house until Alice softly said my name, I looked at her, hearing the amusement shine through her musical voice.
We got out of the car and I turned to follow her to the house when I stood frozen in amazement. I'd called it a house but it was so much more than that. It was a mansion, seemingly stretching up for what seemed like miles but was, in reality around four storeys. It was truly beautiful, and this was just the outside! I heard a throat clearing and looked towards the door, seeing Alice gazing at me in amusement stood next to one of the most beautiful women I'd ever seen in my entire life, second only to Alice.
This must be Esme, I thought as I walked over to them, feeling suddenly self-conscious in the wake of the two beautiful women before me. I studied Esme as I walked up to them. She had gorgeous caramel coloured hair, deep topaz eyes a shade lighter than Alice's and the sweetest smile I'd ever seen. I had the strangest urge to hug her and let her mother me.
She gently smiled at me as I reached them and pulled me into a cold but oddly comforting and relaxing embrace. I pulled away with a strange feeling of reluctance. We walked into the house and they gave me a tour of the place, there were so many different rooms that I soon lost track of where we were. The last room they showed me was Alice's. I felt suddenly nervous as Esme politely excused herself and we walked inside.
She indicated that I sit on the window seat across from her and we once again lapsed into silence but unlike the last time it wasn't awkward because we were merely enjoying each others presence. We sat like that for sometime, each lost in our own thoughts and occasionally catching each others gaze, grinning sheepishly to each other.
"So, I thought maybe we could use this time to learn a bit more about each other, what do you think?" Alice said suddenly, sounding strangely nervous.
"Um, yeah sure I'd like that a lot Alice" I grinned apprehensively back at her.
So for the next few hours that's what we did, started out with simple easy questions such as our favorite colors then moving onto deeper subjects, for example Alice told me a little about how Carlisle and Esme had adopted her around 10 years ago because her parents had died in a car accident and I told her a little about the situation surrounding Charlie and Renee. I could tell she was curious and wanted to hear more, but didn't press for information, for which I was very grateful as it was difficult to talk about, even to her.
"Um Bella, please may I ask you something?" Alice asked quietly, I could almost sense her hesitation to speak what was obviously on her mind, I was suddenly worried about what she was going to ask.
"Of course"
"I was wondering... How did you get that bruise on your eye?" I could tell it upset her that I'd been injured, though I couldn't understand how I knew that, it was just intuition I guess.
"My mums boyfriend was messing around with a football in the back garden and accudrntly caught me in the face. It's fine, it doesn't hurt or anything" I lied, avoiding eye contact with her, hoping she'd buy my lie. Her eyes narrowed but thankfully she let it drop.
The rest of the afternoon passed uneventfully with nothing particularly exciting happening, apart from Emmet wearing a skirt, dancing to Barbie Girl, making my stomach ache so much from laughing hysterically. Not long after that Alice dropped me off back home, giving me a hug goodbye. I went straight through the silent house to my room, falling asleep with dreams filled with Alice, good happy dreams. I kept dreaming I could feel her eyes on me, thinking I could sense her presence as if she was in the room with me, but obviously that was silly, she was at home asleep.
As the image of her gorgeous honey eyes and cute smile swirled around in my dreams, the last, barely coherent thought that ran through my mind was "I think I'm in love with Alice Cullen".
