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Chapter 5

Bella pov

As soon as Bella walked through her front door she felt her body instantly relax. All day everyday at school she walked around with every muscle in her body bunched up tight, alert and ready for attack. So much so that the mere act of walking into her home and locking the door was enough to illicit an almost euphoric sigh from her lips as she let go of all that tension.

Popping a couple of paracetemol and grabbing a damp wash cloth she settled herself down on the sofa and waited for Charlie to arrive home, hoping and praying to every Deity she could think off that he wouldn't haul her ass off to the hospital as soon as he clapped eyes on her.

"Hey there baby girl!" a gruff voice suddenly spoke from above her "that's one hell of a shiner you've got there, or should that be two shiners."

She must have drifted off to sleep at some point, as she sat up to look at Charlie she noticed the sky outside was dark, so only Charlie's solidly bulky outline was visible.

"I had another little fall at school today" Bella attempted to give a wry smile to accompany her story, sharing an imaginary joke with Charlie about her supposed clumsiness' "It wouldn't really be a Thursday if I didn't almost break something now would it?" she asked injecting as much humour into her voice as he could.

Charlie grinned at her reply, making a joke of her injuries was always the best way to placate him. He thought that if she could laugh and joke about it she couldn't be too badly injured. So Bella always put on a good show of being wryly amused at her own clumsiness in order to fool him.

"Do you need to go to the hospital Bell's?" he asked.

She shook her head instantly. "No dad I'm fine, a couple of pain pill's and I'm good to go."

"Well if your sure baby girl" he looked almost shifty as he gazed down at her "well um…..would you mind if I go out tonight, I mean if you need me….well of course I'll stay." he offered almost half heartedly.

Bella thought it was very odd for Charlie to be heading off out on a week night, especially if she had been injured he was usually so protective of her, getting rid of him fussing over her was the problem.

"No….no that's fine, are you going anywhere nice?" Bella asked absentmindedly.

But Charlie's reaction was not at all what she was expecting, staring down at his feet like a guilty school boy, he mumbled something incoherent under his breath before bolting for the stair's.

Leaving a very confused Bella staring at his retreating back in shock.

buzz! buzz! buzz! buzz!

Her alarm clock jerked her unceremoniously from her dream.

She could feel the moister pooled between her thighs, so it must have been a good dream. 'mmmmmmmmmmmmm' Shame she couldn't remember it.

Bella rubbed her leg's together enjoying the friction, she was so sensitive and turned on even that slight movement caused her to shiver deliciously, and lick her lip's with need.

Her hand began to drift below the cover's inching under the band of her sweat pants.

"Bella!" Charlie's voice bellowed from the foot of the stairs, breaking through her sexual haze. "I'm heading off to work now. Don't be late for school baby. And try not to fall over and break something today."

"Ok dad. Love you" Bella called back automatically, waiting for Charlie's customary 'luv you too Bells' as he did every morning. Only this morning all she heard was the sound of the front door swinging shut, and Charlie's police cruiser pulling off the drive.

Bella wondered what the hell was going on with

Charlie. But before she had anytime to ponder the possibilities she caught a glimpse of her alarm clock and had to haul ass if she didn't want to be late for school.

Pulling her rusty truck into the school parking lot she instantly spotted His silver shiny Volvo parked a few space's away from her.

He was stood leaning against the drivers side door chatting animatedly to Alice Brandon and his best friend Jasper Hale.

Alice was tiny around 5 foot tall with a head full of spiky blue/black hair styled in a crazy funky hairdo Bella was convinced no other girl but her could pull off. She had a small neat lithe dancers body that was usually tucked under the shoulder of the fearsome Jasper Hale.

It wasn't that Jasper was mean, by Folk's high standards he was practically a saint, as he never actively tormented her only completely ignored her existence. But his stocky boxers build and quiet demeanour intimidated her. Bella could never figure out the relationship between the bubbly hyperactive Alice and the sombre reserved Jasper.

Alice was gesturing wildly with her hands, her face alive with glee as both boy's gave her their undivided attention. Giggling at whatever story the pixie like Alice was telling.

Emmett Cullen and Rosalie Hale stood slightly to the side of the group kissing almost obscenely, hands wildly groping every part of flesh they could.

Their respective sibling completely ignored this display, obviously having witnessed it far too many time's to be in the least bothered by it anymore.

Emmett was Edward older brother. But due to an injury he had sustained a few years ago playing football he had missed too much school to catch up and was kept back a year. So he and Edward were now both seniors and the uncontested kings of the school.

Emmett was huge, a literal bear of a man around 6 foot 6 and all muscle, he looked far older than the one year that separated him from his sibling. But both were strikingly handsome in their own way, sharing the same stunning green eye's they had inherited from their father, the swoony Dr Carlisle Cullen.

Unlike his player brother however Emmett was definitely a one woman man.

Rosalie Hale was jaspers twin sister and without doubt the most beautiful girl Bella had ever laid eye's on. Blonde, statuesque and stunning. She even made Tanya look dowdy in comparison. Perhaps that was the reason she rarely saw them in the same room together.

Like her brother Rosalie was not actively mean to Bella but simply did not acknowledge her existence, beside's Edward the other 4 friends rarely talked more than a few quick words to anyone outside their own close knit group of friends.

As Bella stood staring at them, Edward suddenly looked her way. His face froze in the half smile he had been flashing Alice and turned swiftly into a grimace. Alice glance behind her to see what Edward had been gawping at and looked shocked at the sight of Bella.

Other people around her seemed to have spotted her too and a barrage of catcalling, and laughing suddenly erupted around her.

"Nice beak there Swan."

"Wanna get on your knee's in front of me? Anytime any place baby. I like to do my bit for the mentally retarded"

"Fuck look at that nose, who would have thought she could get any uglier."

Bella put her head down and rushed to the school doors as quickly as she could.

Her best attempts to cover up the glaring black eye's this morning obviously hadn't work. Thinking of it now she didn't see why she had even bothered. The story of her floor face plant would have made it around everyone by now. Including the teachers. Not that they would actually do anything or say anything to help her. They never did.

Huffing Bella made her way to bio, at least Mr Mason was one of the nicer teachers in school and let her hide out in his class room to avoid the juggle of the corridors before class.

She pulled out her copy of Macbeth for English and started reading until she heard the first warning bell and quickly tucked it back into her bag as and students started to drift into class.

They all took their customary seats, as far from Bella as possible. She schooled her face into her best nonchalant glare and pretended this didn't bother her.

"Morning class" Mr Mason began, the chatter dying down immediately "we're starting on a new project today and I would like you all to get into pairs to complete this."

Noise suddenly broke out in a low babble as students turned to each other trying to decide on partnership.

"But I've decided to shake things up a little and I'll be picking partners at random" Mason dropped the bomb shell on the class. Who instantly erupted with jeers and cries of "no way"

"I'll do this fairly guys so I've put the name's of half the students in class into this bag" he pointed to the purple velvet bag in his hand that looked like it came from a kid's magicians set "and will call the other half to come forward and pick a name." ignoring the booing and complaining that was coming from several students he ploughed on "once you have a partner you will go immediately to sit beside them, and that will be your new seat for the rest of the term. This project will be worth half your grade and will be completed in your own time. The project outline will be included in the pack's I will be handing out and I will give you till the end of this lesson to decide how you want to proceed."

Once he had explained this he immediately began calling names from the list in his hand, Angela Weber was paired with Ben Cheney, Kate (aka Whore number 2) was paired with Mike Newton, a pairing that seemed to thrill him and appal her in equal measure's. several more pairs were partnered up until Bella heard Edward getting called forward.

She couldn't help a little peak at him. God he looked good today, dressed in a crisp black shirt, his hair shimmering with coppery red/orange tones as the morning sun flooded through the classroom windows making him look like a fallen angel shimmering with light.

He reached his hand into the magicians sack and pulled out a scrap of paper.

His entire face twitched as he read the name written there.

"Bella" his voice cracked as he spoke "Bella swan" his eyes found her's immediately, a look of hope and dread warring like a storm in his sea green eye's.