Chapter 4
I walked to history alone. Nick had some stuff he had to do, but he wouldn't tell me what. I walked into eighth period, with a not so happy look on my face. I sat in my seat and pulled out my notebook. I started writing a note to Tiffany. It was our tradition. We never texted each other at school, we only wrote notes.
Mr. Linde came in and I put the note away. He took attendance and joked with us about the latest gossip.
Mr. Linde was the coolest teacher you could ever had. He knew all the gossip that went around about students. He makes fun or students in a joking way and still manages to actually teach us stuff.
He pulled down the screen and turned on the overhead projector. He set up chapter 10 notes. I started jotting down the first slide.
I was generally a fast writer, so I finished the notes fast and pulled out Tiffany's note. I started writing the rest of her note. I finished by the time Mr. Linde changed the slide. I folded it up and put it my pocket.
I slide my notebook closer to me and took notes until the bell rang. "Finally!" Jessica jumped from her seat and ran out the door. Jessica was blonde and bubbly. As for the reason she ran out the door, I suspect she was meeting Kyle, her boyfriend, before gymnastic practice.
I slid out of my seat. Chris was about to walk out the door. "Hey, Chris, wait up!" I called. He stopped and waited for me to get my things. We walked down the hallway toward the fourth building, where our lockers are.
I reached my locker and Chris departed. Eric, a guy I went to Elementary school with, was at his locker a few rows down. He looked up and smiled. I smiled and gave a little wave. He nodded and looked into his locker. I turned to my mine and opened it. I put my history stuff in and snapped it shut. I
I walked to cheer practice alone. I walked into the locker room. It was crowded with girls preparing for soccer, track, tennis, and of course cheerleading. I went to my PE locker and swiftly opened it. I grabbed my cheer bag and dumped its contents on the bench.
My cheer shoes feel to the floor. I looked at them and shrugged. I pulled my pants off and folded them and then gently put them in my bag. My bloomers were sitting on the top of the pile of my cheer cloths. I grabbed them and slid them over my underwear. My bloomers are sparkly red. I grabbed my black shorts from the pile and put them on. I sat down at the bench and grabbed my sneakers and socks. I took off my heals and slid the socks on my feat. Them I put my cheer shoes on, tying them extra tight and double knotting them.
After my shoes were as tight as they could possibly be I wiggled out of my shirt. I grabbed my red and black stripped sports bra and put it on over my strapless one. Then I grabbed my white tank top and pulled it on.
When my apparel for cheer was complete I grabbed my hair and makeup bag and headed off to the mirrors.
My fellow cheerleaders were hogging the majority of the mirrors. I squeezed myself in between Vikki O'Connell and Jessica Tucker, my two best friends on the team. Vikki was tall blonde and amazingly strong. She was my back spot during the JV season. Lets just say I could trust her with my life now. Jessica was my all time best friend last year. We did basically everything together. This year we don't have any classes together so we only hang out during cheer stuff.
"Hey girl hey," they said in amalgamation. It was our cheer thing and we always greeted each other with it. I laughed. "Hey girlies." I set down my makeup bag and unzipped it.
My eyeliner was sitting on top so I decided to do that first. I popped the cap off and expertly applied it. Next in line was my ponytail. I grabbed my brush and pulled it through my hair. I pulled my hair back into a high ponytail. I twirled my Juicy Couture the hair band around my hair four times. With a snap my hair stayed in place. Jessica handed me her hair spray. I did a light mist over my hair and handed it back. To put the finishing touch on my hair I put my red and black hair ribbon in. Vikki stood behind me and tied into in a perfect bow. "Thanks Vick you're the best!" I told her. "Hey I though I was the best," Jessica joked. I laughed and rolled my eyes.
I grabbed my bag and went to get my stuff. I stuffed my stuff in my cheer bag and picked up everything and threw it on my shoulder. "I'll meet you guys in the gym!" I called to Jess and Vikki. "K" Jessica responded. "I'll walk with you Bella," Jere, another amazing cheer friend, told me. "Thanks, hun."
Jere and I carried our stuff to the locker room, passing every freshman boy who came to "check us out." We cracked up the whole way there. Jere was a senior and I was a junior, so we knew about the entire little freshman boy's tricks and hopes.
We set our stuff down and went to start getting mats. We grabbed two and carried them, to the center of the floor, were we threw them down. The mats landed with a loud slap. "So after practice we are going shopping for the Valentines Dance. You wanna come?" I asked Jere. "Sorry bunny boo can't. I'm going over Vikki's house afterward. We are going to sneak into Club Inferno." I laughed. "What?" she asked. "Hun, hate to admit this to you, but the vouchers there are really good. They saw right through me and Alice's fake IDs." She rolled her eyes. "So?" "So! We got all got ours from Tony!" Tony was a smart kid that could make amazing fake IDs for the kids who are willing to pay. Meaning a majority of our school.
"Sucks that your brother ain't a voucher there now doesn't it," She teased. "Since when does Charley work there?" "Since two nights ago!" "No way! Well then we're just gonna have to stop by and pay him a visit sometime….soon!" We cracked up. "OK, well then just give me a heads up before you go showing up, so I can warn him!" I nodded.
We finished setting up the mats and started stretching. By now most of the other girls had showed up. When we all finished stretching, our coach A.J. came in and talked to Julia. Julia is the captain of our squad, as well as the Varsity squad. She's really nice and is an amazing cheerleader.
A.J. left again and Julia was left in charge. "OK you guys, A.J. says to start with jumps." Half of the squad groaned the other half cheered. I was stuck in the middle. Jumps are ok, I used to have really good ones, but I didn't do them for a while so they aren't that good anymore.
"OK, you guys, we will start with toe touches." She counted off. I prepped and jumped. I landed perfect. I guess I'm getting better. "That was good Izzy!" Julia called to me. I smiled big, I couldn't help it. It felt good to be complimented by the best cheerleader I know. "OK, you guys, again!" We prepped and jumped again.
"Carly you have to jump." She pointed out. Carly has an attitude and thinks she's better than everyone else. "Carly, let me see your toe touch." Carly didn't even prep, she just jumped. Even without prepping her jump was amazing. If she didn't have such an attitude I wouldn't have a problem with her.
"OK, last time, toe touch!" I prepped and jumped, once again. I landed gracefully, but apparently Caroline, a sweet freshman who can dance, didn't. She screamed and fell to the floor. I ran to her side. Julia, Karen, Jessica, and Lauren did as well. She clutched her ankle trying to hold back the tears. "I think I rolled my ankle," she sniffled. Julia and I helped her up and helped her limp to the bench. Julia sent Kara to run to front office to get ice. Besides me and the four who had helped her, the team was not sympathetic.
It's very bad to cry when you are a cheerleader. Very very bad. Its rule number one! If you cry you pretty much lose the respect of the team. In cheerleading, you will get hurt, things will break, bruise and tear, but you can never cry.
Kara came running in with a bag of ice and A.J. and let me tell you, A.J. was not looking too happy. He looked at her ankle. "OK, ladies practice is over for today, I will see you all tomorrow for an extended practice," he told us. Considering tomorrow is Friday and most of us had plans after school, the majority of the team was not happy. There was no way we wanted a longer practice than what we already had.
I grabbed my stuff and walked to the locker rooms. They were still open, considering it was still early afternoon. I stripped and changed back into my cute outfit, which was still neatly folded in my bag.
My mouth felt dry so I pulled a dollar bill from my wallet and walked to the soda machines in the back of the locker room. I put my dollar in the first my machine and looked at my choice. I saw water down at the bottom and I hit the button. Usually I would go for sugary and full of caffeine but I wanted water today.
My water landed in the "catcher" with a thud. I reached down to grab it. It was icy cold on my hands. Yum I thought. I don't know why but I absolutely love ice-cold water!
I spun the top off and took a long sip. It was very refreshing and it quenched my fiery thirst. I put the cap back and walked to the mirrors. On the way I pulled my hair out of the tight ponytail and shook my head. My hair fell on my shoulders. It had a lot of volume because I put it up.
In my reflection I say a skinny, blonde haired, girl in designer clothing. I blinked at my reflection. For some reason I felt something was missing. I looked at my hair. After long thought and examination I decided to get black tips in my hair. Maybe I'd even lighten my hair a little bit.
I examined myself a little longer and then went off to grab my stuff. My bag was still zipped and sitting neatly on the bench. I opened my bag to check that I had everything. On the top off all my stuff sat a black pistol. At first I was shocked. I looked around to see if there were any clues of anyone entering the locker rooms. There wasn't.
I picked up the gun and weighed it in my hand. It was light and fit perfectly in my hand. I checked to see if it was loaded. It was. My head told me take turn it in to the office right away, but my gut told me I'd need it later. I grabbed my purse and put it in the secret pocket in my purse. Lucky I had brought a big purse today.
I went out the back door of the locker rooms. The back went straight out to the student parking lot so it was very convenient for me. Rufus usually brought my car in around noon. Charlie, one of our butlers, would follow him in another car, and they'd drive back to my house, to do what butlers do when people aren't at the house.
My hot pink Ferrari F430 was somewhere sitting in the parking lot. Yea it's a guy car, kinda, but it's HOT! I absolutely worshiped my 168,005 car. My dad bought it for me a couple months ago because some weird guy crashed into my Mercedes SLR. My SLR was one of the best cars I had ever had and I was pissed when little Mr. Red-Light Runner hot me.
I was pissed when I left the hospital, after suffering a concussion. Nobody wanted to mess with me. Anyone who talked to me got screamed at. When the cops had asked me if I wanted to press charges I wanted to smack him. Of course I did!
I wondered around the parking lot. Surprisingly there were a lot of hot pink cars. They started popping up about a week after I got it. After about five minutes of wondering around the ginormous parking lot I found my baby. She was parked between a silver Porsche and a black BMW. The Porsche probably belonged to a jock. It was slick and sweet, and perfect to pick up girls in. You could say that this car is a jocks mating call. As for the BMW, it with out a doubt belonged to a kid on student council. All the kids into politics and junk like that were into BMWs.
I unlocked the driver side. The door opened and the smell of leather and new overwhelmed me. Smiling, I hit the button to pop the trunk. My trunk gave a little pop. I went to the back and lifted it up the rest of the way. Laying inside my trunk we guns. Not just guns, im talking AR-15 Sporter, EA-15, 11-87, and an 1100. "Holey shit!" I was staring down at not one but four fricking big scary killing machines, in the trunk of my Ferrari. I ran to the front and checked my car. Same CDs, same lipgloss, and same tee shirt in the backseat.
OK so this was my car. So why are there guns in my trunk? Oh Piss I thought. My stuff was still sitting on the ground by my trunk. I pushed the guns to the back of the trunk and put my stuff in, placing them so they disguised the guns. Trust me it wasn't easy on account of they are pretty big.
After I slammed my trunk I sat in my car for a while. I pulled a crystal nail file out of the storage net in the back. On the grab I also grabbed the one of the guns. "SHIT!" I had forgotten that the trunk lead to the backseat of my car, due to the fact I had my car specially made to have backseats and a trunk. The car company only has so much space to work with so the back and trunk were connected.
I pushed the gun back as far as it could. When my friends sat in the back later today I pray they don't see it. I turned back around nail file still in hand. "Times flying by moving so fast, you better make it count cause its moving to fast." Carrie Underwood's voice floated from my radio, which was turned on low.
"Sometimes that mountain you've been climbing is just a grain of sand." I sang along to the rest of the song. The next song was Carrie Underwood's All-American Girl. I sung along to it as I filed my perfectly manicured nails.
Alice and Edward showed up first. Hand in hand of course. I was so caught up in filing my nails and singing that I didn't notice them. "Earth to Bella." Alice tapped the glass of the driver's window. I jumped. On a count of one, I hadn't noticed the door had shut and two the tapping noise freaked me out.
I opened the door. "Space out much girlfriend?" I rolled my eyes. "Where are Nick and Mackenzie?" "I saw Mackenzie at her locker she said she'll be here in a minute." "And I saw Nick in the locker room changing." Edward added helpfully..
I got out and moved my seat back for them to climb in the back. Mackenzie arrived as soon as they climbed in. There were three seats in the back so she climbed into the last remaining seat in the back. "Where's Nick?" she asked as she clicked her seatbelt. "Yea, he usually beats us all hear," Alice commented. "He's been acting weird since about half way through seventh period."
Alice, Edward, and Mackenzie all exchanged glances. "What?" They looked at me. Alice was the first to talk. "You need to get rid of him before he gets rid of you." Edward nodded and added. "I don't know for sure but locker room rumors says he's gonna dump you tonight." I looked at them and looked out my window to the parking lot. Nick was walking to my car, slowly.
"What are you guys talking about?" Alice rolled her eyes. "We are talking about the fact that your idiot boyfriend is about to dump you!" My face went from confused to hurt. "You really think he's going to dump me?" I whimpered. They all looked at me like I was dumb.
Just as I was about to say more about the matter Nick climbed into the passenger seat. He gave me a light peak on the cheek. My mood changed instantly. I turned to the back and stuck my tongue out. They rolled their eyes and I started my car.
I pulled out of the parking lot with ease, forgetting all about the breakup rumor. It was a ten-minute drive to the mall if I drove fast, otherwise it was a half-hour drive. No need for me to worry about cops, they never patrol around these parts. They're to busy eating doughnuts to notice that the local teens are driving like maniacs.
We made it to the mall in record time, without a cop in sight. I parked my car in front, by the Mall/Movie/Food Court Entrance. It was right after school so not a lot of people were at the mall. It was Friday though, so it would be packed soon. I had my own reserved spot in the front so it didn't really matter.
I got my spot reserved after I spent 101,1555 in the mall one day. I had, had a crappy week and wanted to splurge to make myself feel better. I bought many expensive shoes that afternoon. The shoes racked up about three-fourths of the bill. The other forth was cloths and accessories. When I left the mall owner, who happened to be there that day, marched out to my car and demanded I had my own parking space.
My space was right in the front. As soon as I stopped the car Alice jumped out and ran to the mall. She obviously was anxious to shop. Mackenzie, Edward, and I raced after her. Nick walked behind. Alice darted into Jessica McClintock. Once I reached the store she handed me a strapless black dress with blue accents and a blue bow under the bust line.
"Try this," She said bluntly. The dress was pretty, but I was not fond of the bow. I took it and moved to a rack with strapless mini dresses on them. I picked up a light pink dress from the rack. I was short with white embroidery and had a corset top and ruffled bottom. It was HOT! It was also a size three, my size exactly.
I looked back at the rack. There was a black and white dress similar to the pink one. Except the corset was white with black ribbon lacing up it. I decided to try it on as well. I also grabbed a satin strapless red ruffled mini, a strapless white jewel embroidered mini, a halter charmeuse champagne colored bubble hem mini, and a strapless green mini with black circles that had white middles.
The green dress was a size five and would look great on Alice. I met up with Alice at the sale rack. I don't know why Alice shopped the sale rack; she had almost as much money as I did, maybe even more. She claims that the sale items can sometimes be cute. In my opinion some of them were cute, but I wouldn't be caught dead in something out of season.
"Are you ready to try on?" I asked her. "Yea, sure, hold on a minute." She pulled a pink strapless dress with black and white trim off the rack. It was cute, for an "out" dress. "Now are you ready?" "Yup." We linked arms and went to the dressing rooms. Mackenzie was already in there waiting for us. She was leaning on the door of the biggest dressing room. "Come on you guys, we'll try on together." We went into the room, while Nick and Edward sat in the chairs outside them.
We shut the door and locked it. I held out the green dress to Alice. "Try this one on." She scrunched he nose. "Green?" I rolled my eyes. "Yes, green, now try it on." She took the dress from me and hung it on the hook near her. She undressed and slipped the dress on with disgust. Alice had disgust with green as I did with out of season clothing. I didn't understand it though. Green looks great with her completion.
She looked in the mirror. "It's better than I expected" she said. Then she reached into my pile and chose the jewel-embroidered mini. "OK, you try this one." I slipped out of my cloths and put on the dress. I stood next to Mackenzie, who had put on a red dress similar to the one in my pile. All three of us examined ourselves in the mirror.
I loved the dress on me. It was to plain for the dance but my dad's friend's company banquet fundraiser was company was coming up and I could wear it there. I decided I was going to get it.
All three of us stepped out of the dressing room. Edward whistled. Nick didn't look up from his cell phone. I clicked my tongue really loud to get his attention. He looked up and nodded. "What do you think?" I asked him. He looked back up. "It's nice." "Are you willing to get a jeweled tie to go with it?" "Why would I do that?" "Because we are going to match at the dance. You know like couples are supposed to do." His face went blank. Like he forgot that we were going to the dance and why we were at the mall.
"Yea, hun, we need to talk about that." He looked at Alice, Edward, and Mackenzie. "Alone." They backed out of the dressing room. The assistant in the store rushed over. She would busy them while Nick and I had our chat.
Nick sat down on the bench and took out his phone and started texting. "I thought you wanted to talk to me." He didn't look up from his phone, once again. "I don't think us going to the dance together is such a great idea." My face whitened. Thank god he was still looking at his phone. "What do you mean?" "I could cause a fight between you and Chelsea" "And why would we have a fight?" "Cause I asked he to the dance already, and she said yes." "Why would you ask her if we are going out?" He looked up from his phone. His gorgeous blue eyes were blanker than ever. "I just don't think this is going to work out between us. Not like an 'us' kinda way. I think we should just be friends."
I slapped him. Not that I meant to, it was reflex. Every time a boy said that to me it was just out of instinct to hit him. It's like telling a little girl whose puppy died that she can still keep it. You just aren't supposed to say it.
He looked startled. My hand left a huge red print on his face. Without a word he stood up and left. Alice and them saw him. She came over to move. I walked past her and ran into our room and locked the door. She knocked on the door lightly. "Sweetheart it's going to be alright" I heard her whisper into the door. "No its not" I whispered back. "Yes it will deary." "Promise?" "Pinky promise."
I unlocked the door and let her and Mackenzie in. They hugged me. I didn't hug back. There was no point. All I wanted to do was go home. Alice grabbed my hand and pulled me up. "Come on we have to find a dress for you." "Im not going" I mumbled. "Yes you are!" I looked at her. "Why would I?" She looked at me like I was retarded. Wow that really makes me feel good, thanks Alice. "There are wayyyyyy hotter guys than Nick at our school, and they're going to be at our dance!" I rolled my eyes. "Yea, they'll be there with their dates" She raised her eyebrows. Again with the freaking eyebrows. What's everyone's deal!!
She rummaged through my pile. She picked up the black and white one. "The white one your wearing is pretty, but you need to be hot!" She chucked the dress in my direction. I looked at Mackenzie to see her opinion. She nodded in agreement with Alice. I slipped out of the white dress I was wearing and put it on.
The dress fit snug. I looked in the mirror. The dress looked good on me. It looked good, but I didn't like it that much. "Oh stop thinking about how you don't like it and get it." Alice told me. I hate when she does that. She can read me like a book. It bugs me sometimes.
"Its ok. Its not my favorite though." I tell them. "Shut up Bell, your getting it whether you like it or not." "Who's making me?" Mackenzie and Alice looked at each other and them pointed their fingers like imaginary guns. "We are!" We all cracked up.
I took off the dress and hung it on the hook with the white dress. So I was buying two dresses so far and judging by my mood id be buying a lot more.
