BPOV:
As I was getting undressed I noticed something in the mirror. The body didn't quite look like mine. It was too skinny. But as I twisted turned, and even touched the mirror to check, I came to realize it really was my body. Sure I still wasn't small but I was at least a few pounds lighter. Maybe the lack of food wasn't so bad after all… once you got past the gnawing hunger eating at your whole midsection.
I on deep green long sleeve t-shirt a pair of black sweatpants and went outside, tiptoeing past a still sleeping Charlie.
"Oh!" I gasped. There was a silver Volvo parked in my driveway.
Alice Cullen stuck her head out of the driver's side. "Hello, Bella, would you like a ride?" She hollered.
"Uh-"
"Great! Get in," She rolled up her window and started the car. I walked uneasily to the side.
"I thought since you didn't have a car, you'd still need a ride to school." She smiled brilliantly at me.
"Thanks," I whispered quietly. As rule, I felt awkward, out of place, and big around Alice. She was so tiny all around and unbelievably perfect.
I vowed then that I would be better for her. If she, for whatever reason at all, wanted to hang around me, then I wasn't going to be an embarrassment. Maybe I would actually look at my hair in the morning and put on a tad bit of make-up. I blushed, realizing I had no idea how to even do that.
"What are you thinking about, Bella?" Alice asked me. Her golden eyes were penetrating.
I blushed deeper. "Nothing." There was no way I could possibly tell her I had no idea how to act like a pretty girl without sounding pathetic.
"Oh… alright," She sounded disappointed. I didn't want to make someone like her unhappy for any reason.
"Do you think you could teach me how to…" How to phrase that?
"Yes?" She was practically bouncing up and down in her seat with anticipation. Something told me Alice was not the kind of person with endless patience and serenity.
"Be…more…girly?" It sounded strange and out of place coming from my mouth.
"Yes, of course! You can come over to my house and I can give you a complete make-over! It will be so much fun!" She squealed, all in one breath.
I smiled timidly and hers, if that was possible, grew.
Somehow, we were already at school with her crazy driving. Or maybe the ride wasn't very long. Either way, she drove way past the legal speed limit.
APOV:
I skipped along to school while Bella slowly trailed behind me. I must admit, we were getting a lot of stares. I guess people didn't expect the 'fat, new girl' to become friends with the 'unsociable and stuck up Cullens.' I snorted, stupid rumors- if only they knew why I ignored them.
And then there's Bella. She's so beautiful- not the kind that blows you away as soon as you see her, but the more subtle kind, the lasting kind. I don't understand why people don't talk to her. She seems so lonely. I wonder why. I'd met her father once- he didn't seem like a bad man and she never speaks ill of him. Maybe it's because her mother just died. I don't remember my mother, but that always seems to shake teens up real bad.
"I'll see you in class, Bella. I have to speak to my siblings really quickly." I told her after I had walked her to class.
I zipped across the school to where we said we'd be meeting.
"Alice, how dare you give the human a ride again!?" Rosalie hissed. Well, she was supportive.
"You don't understand…" I struggled to explain it. "She's so lonely."
"You've met many lonely humans before and you've never taken an interest in them." She pointed out smugly.
"She's different. There's something else, underneath the loneliness. She's so broken…" I whispered.
My heart broke for Bella.
"We've met all kinds of humans. All they want is attention." She crossed her arms over her chest and looked at her nails with little interest.
"Maybe all she needs is a friend!" I yelled in a whisper.
"You can't be friends with a human. You're not human."
"Just watch me." I crossed my arms over my chest.
Emmett, Jocelyn, and Jasper watched in awe. No one ever really went up against Rosalie like I did.
"I invited her to our house tonight!" I called as I walked away, leaving them to deal with a fuming Rosalie.
BPOV:
Alice joined the class a few minutes after the bell rang and the whole time she was out I was receiving glares from the girls in my class. Once she had come back the girls quickly looked away. I was relieved to be away from their stares, no matter how brief it will probably be.
Alice and I went our separate ways after first and I had almost made it to second before someone shoved me hard from behind. I stumbled slightly- it was nothing compared to some of the shoves I've had.
"Listen closely, Bella." Some girl sneered as she grabbed a fistful of the collar of my shirt. I think she was an upperclassmen but I couldn't be sure. The blonde hair seemed somewhat familiar, I couldn't make out anything else against the rain. "You just stay away from Alice Cullen. I don't want you near her- you're not worth the dirt on the bottom of her feet. If I see you near her, you'll wish you were never born." She shoved me forcefully into the locker and then I heard her walk away.
I fell against the lockers and just cried. I wasn't scared of whoever had threatened me, not at all. Compared to what I got at home that would probably be nothing. But her words… they were so harsh.
She couldn't make me wish I was dead. I already did.
APOV:
"Where's Rose?" I asked as I approached the rest of my family and Jocelyn.
"'Dunno," Emmett shrugged.
"I'll go get her." I sighed and quickly weaved through the hall. It was probably my fault she didn't want to show up.
"Listen closely, Bella." I heard Rosalie sneer and I picked up my pace. "You just stay away from Alice Cullen. I don't want you near her- you're not worth the dirt on the bottom of her feet. If I see you near her, you'll wish you were never born."
I came just in time to see Rosalie shove Bella against the lockers with not a whole lot of force, but enough that it might bruise.
Bella looked shocked for a moment but then she just collapsed into the lockers. She was sobbing hard from the looks of it.
I stood there, torn- go after Rosalie or comfort Bella? I decided Bella was more important at the moment.
I wrapped my arms around her.
"Sh, Bella, it's okay. Don't listen to Rosalie. I still want to be your friend. Everything she said wasn't true." I hushed her.
Her sobs ebbed and then quieted all together. She rubbed her cheeks with her sleeve. "That's nice, Alice. I… I just don't think this would work out. You're so…you and I'm just not good enough." She choked out.
"That's not true! You're beautiful Bella and you deserve everything good. You're coming to my house and I'm going to make you see how pretty you are!" I grabbed her shoulders and forced her to look at me.
"Okay," She sighed.
"Good," I stood up and then pulled her up too. "Now, get to class!" I ordered and then strode off after Rosalie.
She was sitting in her class, looking bored.
I rapped on the door twice and then a balding man opened the door.
"Hello, sir, I'm sorry to interrupt but there's been a slight family emergency and I was wondering if I could borrow Rosalie for just a minute?" I questioned in the sweetest voice I could manage.
He nodded. "Rosalie," He called gruffly.
"What?" She snapped as soon as the door was closed.
"You know what! How dare you threaten Bella?" I hissed at her through clenched teeth.
"She was a human that needed to be put in her place. There's no way you can invite a human to a house full of vampires! Honestly, Alice, are you insane?" Rosalie through her hands up in the air.
"Well take it up with me and don't go around threatening innocent people!"
"There's no way you would have listened to me, so I decided to take things up in my own hands." She said in a 'duh!' sort of way.
"Of course I wouldn't have listened to you! She needs me!" I yelled.
"You're insatiable!" She yelled and then stormed off to her car, where she just sat and glared at me.
Once I was sure that there was Rosalie wasn't going to be a problem anymore, I went back to class.
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I saw Bella heading off in the wrong direction for the cafeteria and quickly followed after her and grabbed her arm. She gasped and jumped into the air.
"Sorry, Bella- I didn't mean to scare you!" I apologized.
"It's alright." She pardoned shyly.
"Why aren't you going to lunch?" Come to think of it, I've never seen her at lunch- although it's only been her first week. Huh, it feels like much, much longer.
"I don't have any money. I keep forgetting it at home." She said quietly.
"Well, come on. I'll pay for your lunch." I linked my arm with hers.
"Oh, no, Alice, I can't let you do that." She quickly detached herself from me.
"Please," I pouted and gave her the puppy dog eyes. No human could resist.
"Fine," She sighed.
"Yay," I put my arm through hers again and dragged her off to the cafeteria.
"Are you sure your family won't mind me?" She wondered self-consciously.
"You'll be fine." I said avoiding answering it directly. There was no need to tell her my family was a bunch of vampires that don't want a human around incase they slip up. That might freak her out a little.
"Alice…" Dang, she realized I wasn't answering. She was a smart one.
"Do you want us to sit at another table?"
She nodded quickly.
"Okay," I then bought her every item that I'd heard about humans liking, while she complained the whole way.
"Honestly, you're spending way to much." She insisted.
"Nonsense, Bella, this isn't anything at all. You should see me when I'm shopping for actual clothes. There's a large number for you." I joked.
She laughed a little. I didn't sound very forced but not exactly easy, but it was a start.
As she ate I stared at her. She looked so unbelievably sad it was hard to fathom. How could one little girl be so sad? It didn't seem fare.
"You're unhappy, aren't you?" I asked quietly once she refused to meet my gaze.
She dropped her fork and her face look worried and upset. "Oh, no, Alice, I'm sorry the food is wonderful. I like it. Don't worry." She babbled and probably would have kept going but I cut her off.
"I don't mean about the food, Bella. I mean you, your feelings. You're not happy." I clarified.
Her face was arranged carefully and her jaw was set. "What do you mean?" She spoke slowly and defensively.
"You just don't seem happy. You hardly smile or laugh."
"I just don't have anything to laugh or smile about." She countered wisely.
I just gave her a look. She wasn't going to tell me anytime soon but I was nowhere near close to giving up on it.
I changed the subject and just asked her small, easy questions about herself. Some of them she had trouble answering, like about her likes and dislikes of anything recent. She could answer questions about Phoenix with absolute detail. It was easy to tell she missed it and she would rather be there. She was also very smart. She may be quiet but she certainly had her opinions.
All in all, I could tell this evening was going to be very interesting.
Your parents say everything is your fault
But they don't know you like I know you they don't know you at all
"I'm so sick of when they say
It's just a phase, you'll be o.k. you're fine"
But I know it's a lie.
I don't own anything. :[ Well, here's the chapter that I promised. I'm proud of myself, I managed to do my homework, write a chapter, do chores, and hang out with friends all in one day. Ha, well I have to do a spanish project now and I'm freaking freezing- that's why this is a little rushed. Sorry for any typos. The Last Night by Skillet.
