AN: I can not believe the reviews I have been getting for this story! WOW! They really make me feel good, thank you guys so much! I hope you guys enjoy this chapter after being chapter-less for so long. I would've gotten this up earlier, but I was busy! I mean, I had to unpack, fill out school forms, go to the doctors for a physical for school and sports, return to dance, do summer reading, start a new baby sitting job, and write chapters! Oh yeah, and there was that little book that just got released? Breaking Dawn, I think? Have you heard of it. (If you missed the sarcasm, look again.) I'll try to update more regularly.
Disclaimer: If I had the rights to Twilight, I'd be Stephenie Meyer today! But since I have no rights to Twilight, mgirl13 I'll have to stay!
Personification
Chapter 4
I woke up feeling quite anxious. My worries of fitting in at school had swirled around my head all night, so I really couldn't get to sleep. At least my bedroom was semi-quiet through the night. Only a few objects were talkative while I was trying to sleep. Well, it actually was only one object. The rocking chair.
"You know, you were the cutest little baby. Your mother used to sit her and rock you to sleep night after night after cute baby-filled night!" The rocking chair had said while I was listening to music to help lull me to sleep.
"Mm-hm. That's nice." I had muttered, hoping the rocking chair would get my drift and shut up.
"You really were adorable, oh yes you were! But now you're all grown up! You're not adorable, but you're still cute!" The rocking chair continued to talk to me in its overly sweet grandmotherly voice. I sighed and decided I would try and sleep through the chatter.
Even with the annoying rocking chair's chatter and the mass of worries overloading my brain, I still managed to gain at least 4 hours of sleep. Eh, good enough for the first day of school. After I had washed up, I laid out several different outfits on my bed.
"Hmm. First day of school, first day of school." I looked through the clothes, trying to pick a nice normal outfit. I picked up Veggie, one of my favorite shirts and looked it over.
"Vegetarians Have More Fun."
I read as I smiled at the bunnies that were drawn on the shirt. Veggie was a great shirt to wear when I was feeling down, because she always made me laugh. But sometimes I would laugh at the wrong times, and people would stare. I sighed, putting Veggie down.
"Sorry, Veggie. I just don't want to have a laughing fit in the middle of class."
"I understand, Bella." Veggie said in her high-pitched voice. "Wear me when the sun comes out!" I giggled as I looked back at my outfit choices.
"Pick me! Pick me! I'm cute! Really cute!" My clothes began to shout at me. I simply rolled my eyes.
Realizing that none of my clothes would shut up until I picked them, I closed my eyes and stretched out my hand. I placed my hand on my bed and pulled up what ever I had touched. I opened my eyes and saw I was holding a white long-sleeved shirt and a green vest to go over it. That would work. I grabbed some jeans and got dressed. I grabbed a simple black jacket as well, seeing as I was now living in Rainy Area #1.
Charlie was downstairs in the kitchen, sitting at the table eating some eggs. Across from him was a plate already covered with eggs and salt. Charlie had made breakfast and had set a seat for me. I took a deep breath, and made my way over to the table, preparing myself for an awkward meal. I sat down, started listening to my iPod, and ate my eggs. I saw Charlie glance up at me several times, open his mouth as if to speak, and then look back down at his eggs again. Soon, Charlie announced he was off to the police station. I waved good-bye to him, as I finished up my eggs.
After washing my dishes, I walked around the kitchen, glancing at the overly yellow cabinets. I shook my head sadly. Mom and her stupid positive ideas. I walked by the photos of my parents, back when they were happy, and my incredibly embarrassing school pictures.
"It's amazing to see how you've grown." My most recent school picture said, her voice sounding eerily like mine.
"Yeah, I guess it is." I was starting to feel really uncomfortable looking at all of these pictures, so I grabbed my jacket and began to walk towards the door. The picture stopped me.
"Charlie wanted to wish you good luck on your first day!" I managed a half smile.
"I'll tell him thank you later." I swear, if pictures could smile than that picture would have!
Finding the high school was no biggie. I mean, anyone could've found it; it was right off the highway. 'Course, it was nice that Che knew exactly where to go and helped me drive. The school was... interesting to say the least. Marron brick houses stood in between incredibly green bushes and trees. I guess I would be walking from building to building for classes in a place where it's almost always raining. Lovely. I scoured the brick buildings, and found one that said FRONT OFFICE on it. I parked in front of it, got out of Che, and then stood outside for a while.
"Go on." Che urged. "Everything's gonna go great, trust me." I smiled and patted Che.
"I know, I know. I'm just scared people will find out about my curse. Or think I'm crazy. I just want to be normal, Che. You understand right?"
"I understand, Bella. Now, you need to get on in there and start the day! Wouldn't want to be late on your first day!" I hugged Che before walking in. Thank God no one else was in the parking lot.
"Thank you, Che. You're the best car a freaky girl like me could have." Che chuckled as I walked into the front office.
I walked into the front office and was instantly bombarded with a ton of green plants in pots. Oh no, the town just can't be green outside, it has to be green inside to! I walked nervously across the orange-flecked commercial carpet and glanced at the flyers and awards covering the walls until I got to a counter. Behind the counter there were three desks, and only one of them was filled. I coughed discreetly and the woman looked up.
"Hi. I'm, uh, Isabella Swan. I'm new, and I need-"
"Your schedule! Of course! I'll get that for you and a map of the school! Oh my, Isabella Swan. It's Charlie's girl! She doesn't look like a Phoenix girl."
I sighed at the woman's true meaning as she fumbled through a stack of papers. She pulled out a few pieces of paper from the stack, and pushed her glasses up as she handed the papers to me. She smiled and pushed a strand of red hair out of her face.
"Here's a schedule and a map of the school. Have every teacher sign this slip and then bring it back to me at the end of the day! Let me know if you need anything else!"
"I will."
I forced a smile as I walked back outside. I decided to re-park Che among the other students' cars. Lucky for me, Che didn't stand out to much. Most of the cars seemed pretty old, or at least not flashy. The flashiest car was a shiny silver Volvo, which would seem plain next to a Mercedes or Porsche that were often parked in my old Phoenix high school. Ah, the wonders of Forks. After I parked, I decided to study my schedule a bit as well as the map, so I wouldn't be completely lost on my first day of school. I didn't want to attract any more attention to myself by accidently going to the wrong place for one of my classes. After studying the map and thinking nervously about the day for several minutes, I decided it was time to face the youth of Forks. Oh, and their teachers, too.
"You'll be fine, Bella. Everyone's gonna love you!" Che said, trying to calm me down. I gently patted his side.
"Thanks, Che. At least I have one friend in town."
"Who knows? Maybe you'll find one today!" Che said enthusiastically. I sighed and shrugged my shoulders.
"I gotta go, Che. I'll see you later!"
"Bye Bells! Have a great first day of school!"
"I'll try."
I mumbled under my breath as I walked towards building three, where my first class of the day, English, would be. I copied two girls who put their coats on a row of hooks. Then, I handed my slip to Mr. Mason, who was trying hard not to gawk, before taking the reading list and moving to a seat in the back. All through the class, my classmates stared at me and whispered.
"It's Isabella Swan!"
"I heard her mother sent her to live with her dad! Like, practically forced her to! She looks all nice on the outside, but on the inside she is bad, bad news!"
"No, that's not it! I heard that her dad begged her to come! He hasn't seen his little girl since his wife ran off, and so he wanted her back! She's probably a flighty little slut like her mom"
I sighed as I heard the whispering and the true meaning of my classmates. Sure, I was the new kid, daughter of the police chief and his 'flighty' ex-wife, but that didn't mean that my classmates, and possible future friends, had the right to gossip about me and make up horrible lies! Grumbling, I made it obvious that I was very interested in the marks on my desk.
"You alright there, girly?" The desk asked me. It had a slightly deep male voice, with just a hint of a twang.
"Yeah." I whispered. "But I really can't talk. I'm in class, in high school, and I don't wanna look weird, and I'm sure you're nice and everything but-"
"Say no more, sweetheart." The desk laughed. "I gotcha."
"But I do have one question!" I said, hoping I hadn't offended the desk.
"Lay it on me, sugar pie. What's your question?"
"What's your name?"
"Tray." He laughed. He probably thought I was going to ask something else, something more important. Well, a name seems pretty important to me!
"Well, Tray. I guess I'll be talking to you more later!" I said as the nasal buzzing sound that was the Forks High Bell sounded. I patted Tray as I stood up to gather my belongings and head out to my next class.
"Uh, Isabella Swan, right?I wanna help you. I wanna get to know you. Me, you. You, me." A new voice and true meaning caught my attention. I whirled around to see a boy with serious acne and seriously dark black hair standing anxiously next to me.
"I just go by Bella." I corrected. I swear, every head turned to look and stare at me as I spoke! Jeesh, didn't these people know anything about privacy?
"Oh! Okay. Um, Bella, what's your next class? Say it's in building four! Say it's in building four!"
"Uh.." I said as I glanced down at my schedule. "I have Government with Jefferson in building six." I stressed the building six part, and the acne kid seemed a bit dejected.
"Well, I'm in building four, so I could always show you around? My name's Eric, by the way. I love you!"
I flinched as I heard Eric's true meaning. The kid didn't even know me and already he was saying he loved me! I briefly wondered how naive he was to think that love at first sight worked in high school. I also briefly wondered how many other girls he had loved right away had turned him down. I guess I wondered a bit too long because Eric was staring down at me with a really huge smile. Tone down the over-helpfuness, please!
"Yeah. I have a map, but it's kind of confusing. A tour would be nice." The grin on Eric's face grew tenfold. Oh God, I had created an over-helpful chess club nerd!
After getting our jackets on, Eric and I walked outside into the rain. I wanted to put in my iPod to help drown out the annoying splooshes of the raindrops, but I didn't want to seem rude to Eric. As we walked to the other buildings, Eric asked me questions about myself. I answered them as best I could, and I even threw a little humor in there! But I guess Forks doesn't have a class on privacy or sarcasm.
"Well, um, here we are! That walk was too short!" Eric said as we reached building six.
"Thanks for walking with me." I said, flashing a very forced smile. Eric smiled so big, I was sure his face was going to crack.
"Yeah, well, maybe we'll have more classes together! Then I can walk you to all of your classes! Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy! I love you so, so, so, much!! We had better have classes together!!"
I rolled my eyes at Eric's true meaning. It was like listening to a really cheesy Disney show. He was so energetic and naive; he thought he was in love with me! Well, if he knew about my curse, I bet he would never want to walk with me to class ever again. I sighed, and decided I better head inside for class.
The rest of the day seemed to pass in a blur. All the classrooms, teachers, and students were so similar that they all blended together in one wet mush. Mr. Varner, the Trigonometry teacher, was the only one who had me introduce myself to the class. Of course, I blushed a deep red and ened up tripping over my own two feet. I'm really not one to be put on the spot or to talk in front of a lot of people. Anyways, a girl who was in my Trig and Spanish class asked me if I wanted to sit with her and her friends at lunch. I didn't want to be rude, so I said that I would love to. Her crazy dark curls bounced up and down as we walked to the cafeteria. She blabbered on about couples and gossip about teachers, but I wasn't really listening to her. I was actually trying to remember her name. Now was it Janice? No, no. It was more like Jesse. Was it-
"Jessica! Over here!" Ah, Jessica. That was right. Jessica and I walked over to a full table and she introduced me to her friends.
"Ok, Bella! This is Mike, Tyler, Angela, Lauren, Amy, Hanah, Eric, Maddie, Gloria, Katelyn, and Ben!" I tried to match each name to a face, but I forgot every name as soon as Jessica had said it.
I sat down next to Jessica, and tried to engage myself in their conversation as much as possible while still managing to eat. However, I was having slight difficulties with both objectives. Jessica and her friends were talking about some movie they had seen, and I hadn't gone to a movie since, well, since the incident at the movie theater. I wanted to eat, but too many screams were filling the air for me to feel comfortable. I really didn't want to offend anyone by listening to my iPod, so I just picked at my food. The final thing that was keeping me from talking or eating was actually a group of people. Five people, to be exact. I stared at them from across the room, wondering at their uniqueness. Such strange five people they seemed to be and just at first glance! I turned to Jessica and whispered my question.
"Who are they?"
AN: HAHA! Now I'm going to be all evil and stop there! I hope that this chapter makes you happy! I tried to make it longer to appease you after having no chapter for a month or so. I really would've updated earlier, but I have been super busy. See upper AN for clarification. Oh, and if anyone wants to talk to me about Breaking Dawn, go ahead an PM me! I'm up for a discussion! I'll try and get you guys a new chapter as soon as possible! Leave a review and a smile! Bye!