A/N! I am sorry that I haven't updated in like 6 months. Life has been hectic. I am off of groundness. If that even makes sense. I was caught sneaking out of the house. HAHA! Silly me. ANYWAY, expect an update to my other story very soon after this updates. I have an important announcement to make at the end author's note! See you then!

I was in a deep sleep when sunlight crashed against my eyelids. I groaned, I didn't want to open them now, it would hurt. I turned over, onto my other side and sighed. I tried to go back to sleep, when a pillow hit my head. Talk about rude.

"BELLA, get your ass up now! We have to get ready for the first day of school today!" Alice's voice rang in my ears. I huffed and rolled over to see my clock. The numbers glowed red.

"Alice! It's six o'clock in the morning! I need my sleep. You wouldn't like sleepy Bella. Sleepy Bella is a grumpy Bella. Grumpy Bella is a mean Bella," I informed her.

"Oh nonsense, now, you better get your grumpy ass up and in the shower now!" Rose exclaimed. Wow, she is scary when she wants to be. Nice.

I lifted my head from the pillow and rubbed my eyes. I dragged myself out of bed and into the bathroom. It was freezing, so, I hurried to turn the hot water on. So, there I was, undressed, and shivering, waiting for the hot water to come through, at six in the morning. I sighed in exasperation. This was unfair.

Finally, after about three minutes of my skin turning blue, I stepped into the warm goodness. I sighed and my skin stopped twitching immediately. I stood there for a moment letting the water soak in my hair and getting it good and wet. I grabbed my favorite shampoo and lathered my hair. I rinsed, and turned the water off. I stuck my hand out of the curtain and started feeling for the towel. My hand grasped it, and pulled in. I dried off, and wrapped the towel around my body. I opened the door and let the steam roll out. I was grabbed and pulled toward the girls' desk with all the "Bella Barbie" stuff on it. I was plopped on the chair and worked on.

Alice did my makeup first. She applied some blue eye shadow around my brown eyes. Pinkish blush was applied to my cheeks. Light red lip-gloss made my lips sparkle. They let me stand up from the chair and I saw clothes that were laid on my bed. I took them and went into the closet to change.

I put on a red off the shoulder top with black skinny jeans and black sparkly flats. I stepped back out of the closet and pulled back into the chair. I rolled my eyes and crossed my legs "patiently". They tugged and curled and pulled. It took them about an hour to get me ready. Wow.

"Wait, don't you guys…." I trailed off noticing that they were already ready. Huh?

"Have to get ready?" Rose finished for me. I nodded. "We woke up at five." My eyes must have almost popped out of my head. Five? That is a lot of dedication for appearance.

I looked at the clock. 7:50, almost time for school. I groaned. I was not looking forward to this.

"Come on Bella! Let's go!" I was pulled out the door by Rose and Alice, carrying our backpacks. Alice gave me mine. It was a purple Jan sport backpack. It was filled with my textbooks that, I guess, Alice and Rose got for me. I also had a orange binder.

Rose had to go to Social Science, so we parted our ways and Alice and I went toward the P.E. locker rooms. We went in and were met by the teacher with uniforms and locker numbers.

"Alright girls! This is how it is gonna work, I will go down the list of names, and give out locker numbers and uniforms. Once you have got those things, you are to go to your locker and change. After that, go through that door, out into the gym," She said. "Any questions?" We all shook our heads. She started calling names, and girls started coming forward. I felt alone and awkward when Alice left.

I stood there, waiting for my name to be called, when Tanya came up to me. I rolled my eyes.

"What do you want, slut?" I asked.

She laughed annoyingly, "I'm gonna let that one slide. Listen, I don't like you near Edward. I want you to stay away from him. Got it?"

"I don't like you, so therefore, I definitely don't like him. Now, you'd better leave. Bye bye!" I waved, and went toward the teacher, as my name was called.

I looked over my uniform. My name was stitched on the shirt. Good, it said Bella Swan instead of Isabella.

It was a pretty basic uniform. A yellow short sleeved shirt with red shorts. Alice bounded up to me with a pair of white tennis shoes. I thanked her and quickly changed and walked out, looking for the little pixie. I spotted her and stood next to her. The teacher came out.

"Alright, ladies and gentlemen, my name is Mrs. Williams. Today, we will be starting volleyball. Now, I know it's the first day and all, but we want to get a head start, since we have a lot to do this year. First things first, pick a partner."

I grasped Alice's hand immediately. I didn't want anyone else to be my partner. They either looked annoying or creepy. Wow Forks sure did pick a good body of students!

"Good, now pick up a basket ball." They were scattered all throughout the gym. Alice led me to the one closet to the locker rooms.

"For now, just start passing back and forth." That seems easy enough. Alice threw the ball at me and I caught it. Yay! We did that a few more times until we heard a shriek.

"Ow! My nose, my nose!" I looked over to see Tanya holding her nose, while laying on the ground. I laughed mentally. I noticed that me and Alice were the only ones who found this situation amusing. Everyone else was all like "Oh Tanya! Are you okay? Is your nose broken?" or "OMG! Tanya!".

"Class! While I escort Tanya to the nurse, everyone else go inside and change, class dismissed."

Everyone filed into the locker rooms and changed.

I left the room, when the bell rang. I made my way over to Trigonometry. Emmett and Rose were already seated. I sat in front of them. I had a feeling that they would like to sit together. I scanned across the classroom to see who else was in this class. I sighed with relief as I saw that Tanya wasn't in this class. But, a bunch of her "posse" was. I wasn't going to let that bother me. I could tell that they wanted to leave me alone. Thank god.

Class started the same way P.E. did, with name calling and instructions. Boring. We started with review of what we learned last year. Even more boring.

I was concentrating on doodling in my notebook when the classroom door busted open. My head snapped up, as I was a little startled. In walked in, none other than Tanya, with a white bandage covering her nose from the nostrils to the bridge. I covered my mouth, trying to hide my laughter, but a couple of chuckles and giggles escaped my mouth. Rose and Emmett did nothing to cover up their laughter.

"Everyone shut up! This nose cost my dad one thousand dollars!" She said. My mouth dropped open. Her nose was fake? That just got me going again.

"Class! That is enough of laughing at Ms. Denali's expense." The laughing quieted down and the teacher turned toward Tanya. "Sweetie, why don't you go sit next to Ms.T Swan," What was this? Torture Bella day? I groaned and slammed my head on my desk. Rose patted my back. I heard Tanya mumbling to herself.

"Daddy is gonna be so mad at me. Another thousand dollars. Oh well, I'm sure he won't mind. I'm his little princess." She said. I rolled my eyes. I stared at the clock waiting for the bell to ring. Each second seemed to tick by slowly than the next.

Finally, after five more minutes, the bell ring sounded in my ears. I packed up and ran out of there. I waited for Rose by the door. We walked to Spanish together.

"Oh my god, I have no idea how I am going to endure a whole year of sitting next to her!" I complained. Rose laughed.

"At least you have me and Emmett behind you."

"Thank god for that!" I said. She laughed again. We found the room and entered. I sat in the middle of Alice and Rose.

"How was second period Alice?" I said, waiting for the teacher to show up. She shrugged.

"It was alright. I sit next to Jasper!" She squealed. I laughed and patted her head.

"What about you?" She asked.

"You haven't heard?" I gasped with fake surprise. "I sit next to the wonderful Tanya! Who, by the way, has a broken nose." She high fived me for that.

Tanya wasn't in this class. I know because she would have been here by now. Unless she was in the janitors closet if you know what I mean.

I had a feeling that I would actually enjoy this class. I always loved foreign languages. Plus, no one I hated was here so, yay for that!

The teacher came in then. He made us say hello in Spanish. That was easy. He went on to talk about what we were gonna learn this year, what he expects us to do, basically all the basic first day stuff. He gave us a little quiz to see what we know. I didn't know much, so I probably failed. Oh well.

He let us talk the last five minutes of class, which was cool. I like this teacher.

The bell rang and I made my over to Advanced English. No one had this class with me so I was on my own.

Great.

English had always been my strongest subject. I loved the old classics like Wuthering Heights, Romeo and Juliet, and Pride and Prejudice. Those were great. I had them all packed away in my suitcases.

I entered the class and sat down in the far corner near the window. My plan was to stay low and just get good grades. I would mostly stay out of everybody's way. Class started and Mr. Breglio came in. He basically did what my Spanish teacher did. We would be reading Shakespeare classics. I was ecstatic about that. I haven't been able to get my hands on some of his books. We would also be reading Jane Eyre. I was happy about that too. I noticed that Tanya wasn't in this class. Good.

The bell rang and it was time for lunch. I wonder what kind of events will be held there.

A/N: Alright! This chapter is finished. Not very exciting I know. But, I felt like I had to get this out here, so my readers wouldn't kill me :P. Another chapter for Patching up should be up in a couple of hours or so. Now, time for the announcement!

*IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT*

It is official! I will be making be making a sequel for Bruised and Battered. The vote was unanimous. I have already been working on the plot and stuff. It probably won't be up for another couple months or so, as I want the sequel to be well thought out. I don't want it to seem rushed or anything. Also, if anyone would like to be a co-author on the sequel, I would accept!

Peace!

-LillyPad