Yah, here's the next chapter. You guys reviewed too fast, not that I'm complaining, lol. Anyways, sorry it took me so long. I had a small writer's block and real life. I hope this chapter is worth it, I've been working on it on and off for the past week.
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My Big Mister Perfect
Hyper
He ran downstairs to make me breakfast. I followed him, rolling my eyes as I went. He made a successful batch of pancakes, and when I was done eating, we had just enough time to drive to school.
At least that's what I thought at the time.
The school was nowhere to be found, there were no signs anywhere throughout the whole town. Darn, already late and it's only the first day of school. Emmett decided to stop at a store to ask for directions. I watched through the car window, and saw a very amused store owner looking at Emmett.
He came back to the car, seething, and said, "We passed the school; it was that set of buildings over near the supermarket." I raised my eyebrows at him and chuckled. He was so irate at times.
We drove up to the school, and Emmett said, "I have to drop you off; I'm late for something too." He muttered under his breath, "great first impression, Emmett."
I got out of the car, and waved Emmett goodbye. I quickly walked into the front office; I didn't know exactly how late I was.
The lady in the front office, I found out that her name was Mrs. Cope from the I.D. around her neck, looked a little suprised when I walked through the door. I said, "Hi, I'm Isabella Swan, I'm new here. I'm so sorry I'm late, if you can believe it my brother got lost driving me here…" I rushed into a full on apology, while she just sat there looking mildly amused.
She said, "It's quite alright dear, we should probably get a sign…" she sat thoughtfully for a moment before continuing, "It's very great to have you here Isabella, we all knew your dad, he was a great officer."
I winced, and looked down at my feet. She could see that I wasn't going to answer, so she said, "Well here's your schedule, honey. And it would be great if you could get all of your teachers to sign this slip. You can hand it in to me after school."
I just nodded, as she handed me my paperwork. She told me to get to class quickly, so I walked away, studying my schedule.
Period One: English…Miss Williams…Room M5
Period Two: Trigonometry…Mrs. Mathews…Room B3
Period Three: Spanish lvl 2…Mrs. Garcia…Room L8
Period Four: Biology II adv…Mr. Banner…Room M6
Period Five: World History II…Mrs. Liu…Room M8
Period 6: Pblc Speaking/Debate…Mr. Harnes…B6
Period Seven: PE…Coach Clapp…Gymnasium
Crap, debate, WTF?! I thought as I walked towards the small building labeled M5. Of course, the school had to put me into the one elective that I would hate.
Ever since the event, I had shied away from the prying eyes of society. Especially the high-school society. That wasn't going to be an easy class for me.
I knocked quickly on the locked door. An irritated looking young woman opened the door. This can't be the teacher; she looks a year older than me! I thought as she took me in with widened eyes.
I said, "I'm Isabella Swan, I just moved here. I got lost." I looked up at her, my face was completely flushed. "Ooh, Isabella, we've all been waiting for you to arrive!! Yay!!" she said, clapping her hands. Whoa, hyper teacher alert.
She gestured for me to walk into the room. She noticed me hesitate, and said, "Come on, dear, we don't bite!" I walked in timidly. I gave her the thing to sign, and she pointed to a seat in the back. The people here all have eyes in the backs of their heads, because even with me behind all of them, I felt their penetrating stares throughout the whole darn class.
My next five classes went by pretty painless and quickly. Then, I got to debate class.
I looked around the small room with dread. There was a small tidy desk in the corner, with a dull looking old man totally zoning out. I looked quickly at my schedule to make sure that I got his name right, and walked up to him quickly.
I broke him out of his trance, saying, "Mr. Harnes, I'm Isabella Swan, Mrs. Cope told me to get all of my teachers to sign this." He looked me over, and I immediately became self-conscious. He took the slip from me quickly, and signed it with a barely legible signature.
He gestured towards the seats, so I assumed that I could sit anywhere. I took a seat at the back of the class, and got myself settled. Just as I took out Pride and Prejudice, I heard two people talking loudly.
"Yay, Eddie! I can't believe that we're in the same class!! We're going to have so so so so so much fun!!" Ok, maybe it was just one person doing the talking. A pixie of a girl came gliding into the classroom, with a huge grin on her face. She was extremely thin, with gorgeous features, and short, spiky, black hair.
She glanced around the otherwise empty classroom, when her hazel eyes landed directly on me. The biggest smile came onto her face as she bounded over to me. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw another person enter the room, looking slightly flustered. My attention was brought back to the grinning girl quickly.
She said, "Hi, I'm Alice!! You're new here; I've never seen you before. You must be Isabella—"I cut her off there, saying, "Could you call me Bella please? I really hate my full name." She smiled even bigger at me and said, "Bella; that suits you better. Yep. Anyway, I'm Alice Cullen, but I already said that… I'm rambling aren't I? You want to sleep over my house?" Whoa, wait, huh? I really only caught 'sleep over,' she was talking so fast.
I didn't know if that was a really good idea, I was still having nightmares about that night, and the unstoppable dreams of my depression. Maybe it wouldn't be so bad with a chipper Alice by my side? A thought came to me out of the corner of my mind, and I asked, "Did you say Cullen?"
Crap, another relative/possible kid of my psychiatrist. I was seriously batting zero here. I saw confusion clouding Alice's face, and I said (coming up with a quick excuse), "I think I met your brother at the grocery store." Her eyes widened, and now I was the one that was confused. She smiled a huge smile for such a tiny person, and whispered, "Eddie told me about you, and it's all he's been talking about for days, even though you only talked for like two seconds."
I blushed, looking down. I heard someone cough behind me, and I whirled around, coming face to face with Edward himself. Speak of the devil.
He smiled warmly at my tomato-red face. He said happily, "Hey Bella, it's so nice to see you again." He glanced over at Alice, "I see you've already met Alice, my sister. I wouldn't be surprised if she invites you over soon."
He saw my sheepish grin, and I said, "Too late." He chuckled, and looked over to his sister. "Oh, Alice dear, can't give the girl a little time, can you?" I laughed and said, "I actually think it would be kind of fun, Alice seems like she could throw a wicked party."
I looked over to her, and saw that she was bouncing up and down in her seat. She practically shouted, "Is that a 'yes'?" I smiled and said, "I'll have to ask first, of course, I'll call you later. Here, let's switch cells."
I searched through my bag until I found my shiny, new cell phone; an early birthday gift from Emmett. Alice took out her phone too. We both laughed at what we saw. We had exactly the same phone, but in different colors. Mine, a bright lime green, and hers, a wild hot pink.
We giggled again as we quickly punched in our numbers into each others' phones.
"Ooh, I can't wait! I'll have to invite Rosie over too… and Jazz. You'll love them!! They're twins, Rosie's my BFF, and Jasper's my boyfriend!! I'll call them to make plans, we'll play spin the bottle and truth or dare! And we'll make Tacos!!"
I stared at her wide-eyed. I had met this girl about five minutes ago, and she was already offering me tacos. Tacos…yum.
She talked quickly again, "I always make tacos when Rosie comes over, it's a tradition. She's sick of them already, but I'm not. I don't know how anyone could ever not like tacos. Please tell me you do?" She looked at me hopefully, and I nodded.
Edward chuckled beside me. "Am I invited?" he asked.
Alice quickly answered, "Why, of course, dear brother. I'm actually surprised; usually you just mope around in your room and listen to music." She grinned an evil grin, telling me that she was going to take whatever chance she could to make a fool out of him at this sleepover. He sensed it too, and said, "You'd better be nice, I might just do that."
The classroom filled up pretty quickly after that. The teacher slowly made his way to the front of the buzzing class. He said, in a slightly monotonous voice, "Hello class, as your schedules most likely told you, I am Mr. Harnes. This year we will mostly be focused on building your skills in public speaking, but we will also do a short unit on debating. I'll pass out your syllabi at the end of class; for now, let's get to know each other."
Oh no, I knew what that meant. He'd make us get in front of the entire class and give a summary of our life's story. What was I supposed to say? Hey, I'm Bella Swan, I used to live in Phoenix, but I got raped and had a baby, so I moved here to get away from my disturbing past. Ha, yah right.
He continued with the activity's directions. "I'll call you off of the roll. When it's your turn, come up to the front of the room, and give us a small description about yourself. Your favorite color, your siblings, ect. Anything that you think is interesting."
He started calling names. The first couple of people nervously made their way to the front of the class, and gave a stuttering speech about themselves. Then, he called, "Alice Cullen."
Alice literally danced her way to the front of the class. She really must like being the center of attention, I thought. She smiled, and started her short speech, "Hey everyone! I'm Alice Cullen!! Hmm… I have a brother named Edward," she smiled directly at him, "and I have my great parents, Carlisle (a psychiatrist) and Esme (a clothing and interior designer.) I have a boyfriend named Jasper, and my two best friends, Rosie and Bella," I was shocked when she said this, but she continued as if it were natural, "I love to help my mom with new clothing ideas, playing the flute, and shopping." She smiled, bowed dramatically, and made her way back to her seat.
She smiled at me, and I asked, "We're best friends?" She just smiled and nodded.
The teacher called Edward up next.
He looked a bit more nervous then his sister had been, but he started confidently. "I'm Edward Cullen, Alice is my twin sister. Jasper and Rosalie are also my friends, and I hope to get to know Bella. I enjoy listening and composing music, and reading. I also like to ski and camp with my family." He sat down quickly, blushing a tiny bit.
The students went on and on about their lives. Finally, my time had come. He said, "Isabella Swan."
I got up from my seat quickly, tripping over nothing as I made my way to the front of the class; I'd become clumsy after I had the baby, it was like I was off balance now. I heard a few people snicker, and I blushed. I cleared my throat, and said, "I'm Bella Swan. I recently moved here from Phoenix, Arizona. My dad, Charlie Swan, was the police chief here before he died. I like rereading books, and watching classic Disney movies. Sometimes I write, though I've never come up with anything good."
I quickly made my way to my seat. Right when I sat down, I realized that I'd forgotten to mention Emmet. Oh well, no one here cares.
The introductions took the whole class. So I was soon walking to my last class of the day, gym. I had decided that I'd try to work harder this year in gym, maybe actually participate without hurting myself.
There was a set of bleachers with a big poster-sign that said 'Coach Clapp' on it. I walked over quickly, and sat down. After the tardy bell rang, the man that I assumed was Coach Clapp walked over. He said to us, "We'll be starting this year off with health class. Please follow me."
Nice! No gym! I did an internal happy dance.
Health went by pretty quickly; same-old, same-old. The all important syllabus was handed out and explained.
When the bell rang to announce the ending of school, I walked to the front office and quickly gave Mrs. Cope my signed slip.
I walked outside, and sat on a bench. I took out my cell and called Emmett.
After a couple of rings, he picked up. "Hey Bells, where are you?"
I answered, "I was about to ask you the same question." I laughed. "I'm sitting on a bench near the front office; come pick me up?" He replied with an 'of course' and we hung up.
A couple of minutes later, a shiny, new looking black was in front of me, with Emmett in the front seat, smiling. I gaped at him, knowing full well that he'd very recently bought this car. It was so shiny…must…touch…
I chuckled at my insanity, and Emmett rolled down the window of the passenger's side. He said, "You coming or what?" I laughed, and opened the door. He immediately started with the interrogation, without making a move with the car. "How was your first day? Did you like all of your teachers? Did you make any friends? Did you like the lunch I packed you?" He kept going on and on, without waiting for my answer.
I rolled my eyes and looked out the window. I saw Edward sitting on a bench, he looked sad. I don't know why, but I really wanted to make him feel better. He glanced at the window and saw me watching him, and he glanced away, just as quickly.
I answered one of Emmett's many questions. "I did happen to make a friend Emmett." He perked up, I had sparked his interest. "She's a hyper-bomb, and her name is Alice, she's in my Public Speaking class. She invited me to sleep over this weekend, do you mind?"
He looked at me as if I were crazy, and said, "Of course I don't mind, Bells! You go have fun with your friends this weekend. Just don't talk to any boys, you hear?" His last remark was very sarcastic.
I laughed with him, and said, "I'll call Alice when we get home to tell her. She'll be really exited."
That was eligible for the 'Understatement of the Year Award.' She started screaming in my ear, and kept telling me how much fun it would be.
I was still a bit worried about Dr. Cullen. I didn't think he'd say anything to his family about what happened to me and my condition, but I couldn't really be sure.
The rest of the week went by in a blur; I saw Alice and Edward everyday.
Today was Friday, the day of the sleepover. Alice was hyper as ever, gushing over the plans for tonight. She'd told me on Wednesday that Rosalie and Jasper would be coming over, and kept reminding me about how much fun we'd have staying up all night.
When Emmett and I got home, I quickly grabbed my necessities, and brushed my hair and teeth. Alice had told me to get over there as soon as possible, and I was more than willing to oblige, even if I was a bit nervous.
Emmett was waiting happily in his new car. Alice had given us the address, and Emmett had already punched it in the fancy-schmancy GPA system.
It would take us about fifteen minutes to get there, so I pulled out my new book, another early birthday present from Emmett. I was starting to wonder if he had a whole stash of 'early birthday presents' for me. I flipped to my dog-eared page in The Mists of Avalon, by Marion Zimmer Bradley. (I've actually read this book, very long, but very good)
Before I knew it, Emmett was breaking me out of the world of King Arthur and Avalon. I looked up in awe at the mansion before me. This just had to be the nicest house I had ever seen.
It had sort of a classic charm. The siding was white, and it had blue shutters. It had a lovely wrap-around porch, with a comfy-looking porch swing.
I asked Emmett to come with me to the door. I timidly rang the doorbell, and waited. The door was opened by none other than the beautiful, green-eyed Edward. Beautiful? Why was I thinking of him as beautiful? Whatever.
His eyes widened drastically when he saw Emmett. I realized that he had no clue who this towering monster was. I smiled, and said, "Hey, Edward. Emmett, this is Edward, Alice's twin brother. Edward, this is my big brother Emmett."
Edward seemed confused from what I'd said. Weird. Then, he smiled happily, and gestured for us to come into his house.
Alice glided down the handrail from upstairs. I mean, she literally rode the railing like a slide.
She jumped off, and came running to me, giving me a huge hug. After she was done with her unorthodox greeting, she also took in all that was Emmett. He smiled at her, and said, "Hi, you must be Alice. I'm Emmett, Bella's big brother, but of course, she's told you all about me." He smiled sweetly.
Alice looked at me, then back at him. "No, she actually didn't mention you once." I gave her a death glare that she plainly ignored. "I don't know why though, you seem really nice." She shrugged.
Emmett turned to me. He looked flabbergasted and hurt at the same time. "You really didn't mention me to any of your friends?" he asked. I shook my head. "It never really came up in conversation, I guess. If it had, I would have definitely gushed about how horribly caring and wonderful you are." I batted my eyelashes at him, and he laughed.
"Ok, I guess it's all right, just don't do it again. I've gotta go, Bells. Call me in the morning when you want me to pick you up, kay?"
I just smiled at him, and replied, "Kay, see you in the morning."
Just as he was about to open the door to leave, it was opened by the most beautiful person I'd ever seen, besides Edward. Why do I keep thinking that? Uhg! She had waist-length blonde hair, a loveable face, and a super nice body.
Emmett couldn't take his eyes off of her. He looked at her with eyes filled with adoration, and something else I couldn't quite place. He quickly stumbled out the door before he could make a fool of himself.
After the beautiful girl came her male equal. He had short, messy blonde hair, and was a very athletic-skinny.
Alice ran over to him, and gave him a big kiss, full on the lips. I blushed and looked away; this was definitely Jasper.
After that PDA, Alice bounced back over to me, Jasper and Rosalie being dragged by their hands. She introduced us, "Bella, this is Rosie and Jazz, Jazz and Rosie, this is my new second best friend, Bella." We exchanged awkward hello's, and made our way to the living room
Alice and I really had become good friends over the five days we'd known each other. I'd actually stopped thinking about my baby for a while. I was really nervous about seeing Dr. Cullen here tonight, Alice said he would be.
My worries were diminished as we all sat down on the multiple couches and chairs. Alice said, "Before we start, why don't we change into our PJs? You too boys!"
I assumed that meant that Jasper was sleeping over also.
We all rolled our eyes at her. When Alice, Rosalie, and I were in her room, Alice forced some silky blue PJs at me. When I tried to protest, she waved it away, and said that she'd bought them for me.
They were so comfy! They felt soft and cool against my skin. Alice said that I looked really nice as she forced me into a puffy blue robe and slippers to match.
Alice and Rose looked pretty much the same as me. Rose was wearing a pair of purple silk PJs underneath her white and red polka-dotted robe. Alice was wearing a bright yellow robe, with a lime green tank top and short-shorts to match.
We made our way downstairs to see that the boys were already done getting ready. They were all wearing some form of sweats, but my eyes were immediately drawn to Edward. Even though he was only wearing dark grey sweatpants and a white shirt, he looked like someone from a dream.
He caught me staring at him, and he smiled as I blushed.
Nobody took any notice to this exchange, which I was grateful for. Alice would have been interrogating me already.
She started hopping up and down, and we all stared at her, questioning her with our eyes. She squealed, literally, "Time for Truth or Dare!!"
This was really going to be interesting.
We all settled down so that we were in a circle, and Alice started. "Bella, truth or dare?"
I decided to play it safe, so I replied, "truth please," and smiled. Alice thought for a second, before asking, "What's the first thing you notice about the opposite sex?"
I raised an eyebrow at her before answering truthfully, "Their eyes." I thought briefly of the green eyes that captivate me, then I chose who I wanted to torture. "Rose, truth or dare?"
She smirked, and said, "Dare, bring it on!!" I thought of all the nasty things I could do to embarrass her before coming up with something good. "Drink five cans of soda. When you have to pee, make sure you tell us, and I get to make you wait till the last possible second to go." She stared at me, wide-eyed, and I smiled sweetly.
She went to the kitchen, and came back with five cans of Doctor Pepper. She quickly guzzled them all down, and the game continued. "Edward, truth or dare?" He also picked dare. Rose grinned evilly.
"Call Mike and make groaning noises and use your sexy voice." I was scared for him. Mike was one of the popular guys at school; everyone would be talking about this on Monday.
He reluctantly pulled out his cell phone, and punched in a number. When someone answered, he said (in his normal voice), "Hey, is Mike there. Ok." He waited a few seconds before Mike was on the phone. He grimaced at us, and started groaning and panting in the phone. He said, "Mike, I've waited so long to talk to you." We were all biting our lips to keep from bursting out laughing.
We could hear the response from the phone, "What? Who is this? How did you get this number?" Edward answered sexily, "I'm your secret admirer." Then he closed his phone.
Nobody could hold it any longer. We all burst out laughing, and Edward glared at us. He said, "that was so embarrassing! I can't believe you made me do that Rose!"
He shook his head in shame and embarrassment, but continued the game, "Jasper, truth or dare?"
Jasper actually looked a little scared. He answered, "Erm… I think I'll take a dare?" It came out as a question, and Edward grinned just as wickedly as Rose had.
"Go next door and ask the neighbors drunkenly if you can borrow a beer." Jasper scowled. Edward smiled, and said, "We all have to hide and watch to see their reactions." This was evil.
We all put our jackets on over our PJs, and followed Jasper to the neighbor's house. We hid behind bushes so that we could see what would happen.
Jasper rang the doorbell, and stepped back a little. When the door opened he started swaying, and slurred, "You have a beer I can borrow?" The woman looked at him like he was truly crazy, and said, "Jasper, aren't you too young to drink?" He nodded. She rolled her eyes. "Did the crazy Cullens dare you to do this?" She shook her head, and said goodbye to Jasper.
We were all laughing when we walked through the door. There, in the entryway, stood Dr. Cullen. Crap.
He smiled at his children, and then his eyes moved to me. I could see the shock in them, he hadn't been expecting this. I looked into his eyes pleadingly. This took about two seconds, nobody noticed.
He recovered, and said, "You must be Bella; Alice has told me all about you." I smiled gratefully, and said, "Nice to meet you sir." We shook hands as if we didn't know each other.
I heard someone behind me mutter, "Shucks, I need to pee."
A/N: This is my longest chapter so far I think, about nine and a half pages on Word. I know that it took me forever, sorry again. Please review; that would totally make my day.