Bella's POV.
10 years later
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"Bella!" Alice called from down stairs.
"Coming!" I grabbed my pink guitar and ran down the stairs. We were close to being late.
"Let's go." she waved as she finished locking the door.
I walked outside to my truck and we both hopped in.
We were driving to the fair and I was preforming in a karaoke competition. I didn't do it for the medals or ribbons, even though I had won many over the past year and a half, but I did it for the fun of competing. I always loved to sing, and eventually I taught myself how to play guitar. I wrote my first song when I was about six and I moved onto bigger and better ones as I got older.
I had just moved in with Alice last year after graduation. It was the middle of summer and it was surprisingly sunny this year for the small town of Forks Washington. I knew that I was lucky today that it wasn't raining. I was really looking forward to the fair. I hadn't competed like this in at least over a month.
I was rehearsing the lyrics in my head over and over again as we drove the short distance to the fairgrounds. I was singing a song that wrote. I had only done this once before and I forgot the first three words, because I was too focused on the guitar. I hoped to well today.
I pulled into the designated parking area. I ran around to the bed of my truck and grabbed my guitar.
I knew that I shouldn't have spent so much time on my outfit but I couldn't stop myself. We both ran up to the stage area and I was next. The girl before me was singing The Fear by Lily Allen. She was pretty good but that just wasn't my kind of music. I took a drink out of the water bottle Alice had brought me. She always knew what I would need, what I should wear, and she was also my number one fan. I loved Alice she had always been my best friend. You see, after I moved in with Alice she told me that everyone back home moved. They were all sick and tired of Forks and Alice was the only one who stayed behind. We have sort of lost tough though. Besides Alice and I.
I heard the crowd cheer and I knew that I was next.
"Next up Bella Swan." The announcer called from the stage. And everyone cheered for the next performance. I turned to Alice and gave her a quick hug before going on stage. As I always did.
I ran up on stage with my guitar and introduced myself.
I spoke clearly and perkily into the microphone. "Hi my name's Bella Swan and this is a song I wrote called 'Our Song' I hope you like it."
I began to play my guitar. Then the part that I was the most worried about.
The lyrics...
I was riding shotgun with my hair undone
In the front seat of his car
He's got a one-hand feel on the steering wheel
The other on my heart
I look around, turn the radio down
He says, Baby is something wrong?
I say, Nothing I was just thinking
How we don't have a song and he says
Our song is the slamming screen door
Sneakin' out late, tapping on your window
When we're on the phone and you talk real slow
'Cause it's late and your mama don't know
Our song is the way you laugh
The first date man, I didn't kiss her and I should have
And when I got home, 'fore I said amen
Asking God if He could play it again
I was walking up the front porch steps
After everything that day
Had gone all wrong or been trampled on
And lost and thrown away
Got to the hallway, well, on my way
To my lovin' bed
I almost didn't notice all the roses
And the note that said
Our song is the slamming screen door
Sneakin' out late, tapping on your window
When we're on the phone and you talk real slow
'Cause it's late and your mama don't know
Our song is the way you laugh
The first date man, I didn't kiss her and I should have
And when I got home, 'fore I said amen
Asking God if He could play it again
I've heard every album, listened to the radio
Waited for something to come along
That was as good as our song
'Cause our song is the slamming screen door
Sneakin' out late, tapping on his window
When we're on the phone and he talks real slow
'Cause it's late and his mama don't know
Our song is the way he laughs
The first date man, I didn't kiss him and I should have
And when I got home, 'fore I said amen
Asking God if He could play it again
Play it again, oh, yeah, oh, oh, yeah
I was riding shotgun with my hair undone
In the front seat of his car
I grabbed a pen and an old napkin I And I wrote down our song.
Everyone clapped and cheered as I finished the last few words.
"Thank you." I waved and then I walked down the steps to the ground.
As I found my way back to Alice people congratulated me as I did. I said thank you politely and I really was greatful. I wished that I could thank each of them personally, but I was too nervous about how I did.
"You were great." Alice hugged me as soon as I got back to her. She answered my question.
"Well we have to wait an hour until awards what do you want to do?" I asked her.
"Well it's about 7:00 let's go eat, I'm starving." she said clutching her stomach dramatically.
We walked up to a booth that was selling corn dogs and we each got one. It was fun doing this with Alice, I always liked hanging out with her. Especially now, waiting to see how I did was nerve recking.
"How do you think I did, honestly?" I asked her from across the picnic table that we were sitting at.
"You're in the top 3 for sure." she said as if it was obvious. This,however, worried me.
"But the top 3 have to sing again in the finals."
"Yeah so what song are you going to sing?" she asked as she took a bite of her corn dog.
"I don't know. You pick." she knew all of my songs by heart. Her choice to learn them not mine.
"I think you should sing 'Fearless'." I was the newest song that I had wrote.
"Um, what about 'The Outside'?" I asked.
"You've sang that before and it didn't end well. Come on be brave, you know that you can do it." she rolled her eyes.
"Uh...no I don't." I shook my head.
"Just give it a try." she said almost done with her food.
"I'm still not sure."
After we finished our corn dos we decided to walk aroung, play games, shop. The usual.
Before I knew it, the time was 8:00. Time for the first round of awards.
We walked over to the stage. I always got really nervous. You would think I would be used to it by now, but when I stop getting nervous is when I really need to worry.
"In no particular order you're top five are..." she paused for dramtic affect.
"Jackie Henry." She walked up on stage and stood at the front of the stage.
"Logan Zinkhorn." He did the same.
"Taylor Halderman." I remembered that se was the one that sand 'The Fear'.
"Devon Underwood." He walked up on stage and I crossed my fingers childishly.
"And last but not least...Bella Swan." I cheered, again hugged Alice and walked up on stage.
"Okay you all have ten minutes to prepare. We wish you all the best of luck." she began to talk about the different thngs there were to do at the fair as we all walked off stage.
"Okay what song are you going to sing?" Alice attacked me as soon as I made it onto the grass.
"I still don't know." I grabbed my guitar and warmed up trying to decide what to do.
All the other finalists went before me.
I heard my named called. I walked up on stage and I hoped I had made the right choice since I hadn't consulted with Alice.
"Hey I'm Bella Swan and this is another song of mine called 'Fearless' I hope you like it.
I repeated what I had done the first time. Played the guitar but I still went over the words again in my head.
Here goes nothing...
There's somethin' 'bout the way We're drivin' down the road And I don't know how it gets better than this So baby drive slow Cause I don't know how it gets better than this Well you stood there with me in the doorway Oh yeah Yeah
The street looks when it's just rained
There's a glow off the pavement
Walk me to the car
And you know I wanna ask you to dance right there
In the middle of the parking lot
Yeah
Oh yeah
I wonder if you know
I'm tryin' so hard not to get caught up now
But you're just so cool
Run your hands through your hair
Absent mindedly makin' me want you
You take my hand and drag me head first
Fearless
And I don't know why but with you I'd dance in a storm in my best dress
Fearless
'til we run out of road in this one horse town
I wanna stay right here in this passenger's seat
You put your eyes on me
In this moment now capture it, remember it
You take my hand and drag me head first
Fearless
And I don't know why but with you I'd dance in a storm in my best dress
Fearless
My hands shake
I'm not usually this way but
You pull me in and I'm a little more brave
It's the first kiss,
It's flawless,
Really something,
It's fearless.
And I don't know how it gets better than this
You take my hand and drag me head first
Fearless
And I don't know why but with you I'd dance in a storm in my best dress
Fearless
I don't know how
Oh yeah yeah
I smiled as I finished the song and couldn't believe that I had the nerve to do that.
The whole crowd cheered louder than the any other crowd that I heard before.
"Thank you! Thank you so much!" I breathed into the microphone.
I hurried off the stage to Alice who gave me a huge hug when I got to her.
"Only ten minutes..." she warned.
"I know, how do you think I did?"
"Bella you know that you won right. You don't have to be so modest around me."
"Well do I think I did well, sure. But do I knowthat I won...absolutely not."
The next ten minutes flew by.
"...and the winner is..." these pauses were always longest.
"Bella Swan!" she announced.
I spent countless minutes thanking people and trying to explain how excited I was.
Afterward, Alice and I went out for milkshakes. It was at least 11:00 and I was beat but it was a tradition of ours.
"You were amazing!" she said as we walked in the small,empty diner.
"Thanks." I said knowing that I wouldn't be able to fight her with my energy level.
We walked past a few tables and went up to the counter.
I ordered strawberry and Alice got mint.
We went and sat down a the corner booth.
We had just got our milkshakes when a farmiliar looking guy walked up to us. It was a distant memory. But I knew him from somewhere.
"Alice Cullen?" he asked as it clicked immediately,.
"Jasper Hale?" we were both shocked.