17 Forever
Chapter 3- Your Call
Bella POV
We arrived in Jacksonville a couple hours later and once I got to the house, my mom gave me a suffocating hug. She cried then thanked me for coming back. I responded at the right intervals with 'Mmms' and 'No problems'. When she finally let me be two hours later, I went and grabbed the phone. It was eleven o'clock here but in Forks it should be, I counted in my head, eight o'clock there! Perfect! I dialed the familiar phone number and waited for three rings and finally Esme picked up,
"Hello, Cullen residence."
"Hi Mrs. Cullen! It's Bella, is Edward there?"
"Oh hello Bella! Yes he is, just one moment." I waited impatiently, drumming my fingers on the counter.
"Bella!" the familiar velvet voice chimed in on the other end.
"Edward!" I screamed back. "Hi!"
"Hi! How are you? How was your flight? What took you so long to call? What time is it there?"
"Woah slow down. I'm good, it was good, my mom and it's eleven oh seven." I smiled at h the talent I developed when I came up to see me mom.
"Oh sorry." he laughed nervously. "So I miss you already." I heard the smile in his voice.
"I miss you too." When my mom heard that she poped her head around the corner and looked at me all wide eyed. I waved her off.
"How have you been since this morning?" I laughed.
"I have been miserable without you to watch a scary movie with to make fun of. Oh and hey, I forgot to tell you, my cousin lives in Jacksonville, her name is Alice Cullen. So you might see her!"
"Maybe Edward, Jacksonville is pretty big. 800 hundred thousand people big."
"Oh well, who knows!"
We talked for an hour and a half until I said I was exhausted from the flight and needed some sleep. He agreed and after a long ten minute goodbye and a promise to call him tomorrow again right after school. He agreed and we finally hung up.
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I woke up with a start to my alarm clock that my mother had already set up in my room. I drug myself out of my bed and hit the off button on it and went to my bathroom... my bathroom? I forgot, there is more than one bathroom in this house, unlike Charlie's. Hm, I liked it. I looked in the mirror, seeing that my hair was a birds nest and not even trying to comb it out I hopped in the shower. I got out after ten minutes and combed out my hair. I went into my room pulled out my under garments, jeans, and a v-neck t-shirt. I packed my bag, with what I could, which wasn't much. I ran downstairs and grabbed some toast, put on some ballet flats and went outside only to remember that Edward wasn't going to be there to pick me up. I had to take a bus. I walked to the bus stop and waited. Five minutes later a bus rolled up to take me to school. I walked on and got exactly what I expected, several pairs of eyes on me. When I found an empty seat I sat down and started to listen to my Ipod and tried to ignore people staring at me. Then I felt someone sit down next to me she was short and skinny as a toothpick with short black spiky hair. She was smiling at me. I took out my head phones and looked at her,
"Hi!" she said with a lot of enthusiasm. "I'm Alice!"
I was completely shocked "Cullen?"
"Yes. How did you know?"
"I know Edward Cullen, hes's you cousin and my best friend."
"Oh hi! It's nice to meet you. He talkes a lot about you! Were gonna be great friends!"
Well awesome, I made a friend without even trying. She even went to the same school as me. She even invited me over to her house that weekend to sleepover. Wow, that was extrelely easy. I smiled and listed to her talk until we got to school, Andrew Jackson High School.
Edward POV
After I hung up, I imediately felt lonely. So instead of wallowing in my own pity I drug my body up the stairs and went to bed even though it was only 9:30 I was exhausted. Tomorrow is going to be a long day at school without Bella.
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When I woke up it was six o'clock and I knew I wasn't gonna get back to sleep so I just got up and went downstairs into the kitchen where my mother was.
"Good morning honey, How did you sleep?"
"Alright." I answered glumly.
"Honey I knew you're sad Bella left but you can't let that get you down. You guys won't stop talking I'm pretty sure because you have been friends for so long, that's nearly impossible." She smiled.
"Thanks mom." I maanged a smile, and then went back up to my room to get ready. It was way to early still, but I just had to avoid anytime for thinking about Bella. She really took a part of my heart with her. Wow, I sound like a 14 year old girl that just got dumped. I should really cheer up, but I guess that's easier said than done right? I took a really long shower and got out, and shook my head a little to do my hair and Voila! I was done my hair. I walked into my room and grabbed some clothes and threw them on my bed. I got changed quickly and headed downstairs. I didn't have any homework this weeked so I didn't bother to bring my bag home. It was shortly after seven so I plopped down on the couch and watch some t.v. There wasn't much on, only news and junk so I quickly gave up on that and put in my Ipod head phones and laid down.
About an hour later, I was being shaken and told to go to school. I jumped up and grabbed my keys to my Volvo and drove off. When I got there I was greeted by Emmett and Jasper.
"Yoha Broha!" Emmett said enthusiastically while I wlked to meet them.
"Hey Edward." Jasper sighed, he had recently got dumped by his long term girlfriend and didnn't want to think about it. He's been a realy drag lately, but I can feel his pain now.
"Why are you guys so boring!" Emmett complained. "Is it because you both lost your 'one true love'. Give me a break! I never let girls get in my way! You gotta just hit it then quit it! That's my motto."
"No Emmett, that's just you, saying random things." I said.
"Well either way it's true." He retorted then just left it alone. Soon after the school bell rang and we had to leave to our separate classes. Me and Jasper had the first class together and we sat beside eachother.
"So man, how is it going since Bella left?"
"Man, I knw how you feel now. I will never critisize you again for being sad about a girl... Man I miss her."
"I know hey... but did you tell her that you loved her?"
"No, I couldn' make it harder for her to move... Unless that made it easier for her if I said it, but I just chickened out I guess."
"Man you should have told her. Now your going to have to wonder if she would have felt the same way. I was scared when I wold Angela, but she felt the same way... but I guess that didn't work out so well for me and her." he sighed.
"Yeah man you right..." I clapped him on the back and sighed, just then the bell rang and we had to start class.
Bella POV
School was great! Alice introduced me to her other friend Rosalie. She was tall and blond. Every boys dream girl. She was the prettiest girl I've seen that's for sure, but she was super nice and talked just as much as Alice did. Well maybe a little less, but either way, the conversation flowed really nicely with them and it was super easy to talk to them. Rosalie was coming to Alice's this weekend too and they planned to give me a makeover. They both had said,
"You look wonderful and really pretty and all, but we're both tired of dressing eachother up and need a new canvas."
"Hm, fresh meat I guess." I laughed. They laughed along with me. When lunch finally arrived Alice and Rosalie introduced me to the rest of their table. There was a guy named Mike Newton, Tyler Crowley, and a few girls named Lauren Malroy and Jessica Stanley. Jessica seemed to be loyal to Lauren so I decided not to be sucked into that little cult. I just stuck with Alice and Rosalie. Every once in a while Mike would look over at me and smile. I was really hoping that he wouldn't develop a crush on me. The rest of the day flew. Rosalie had her own car and lived pretty close to the school so she drove home everyday, me and Alice walked to the bus stop and rode home together. Her stop was before mine so I had about ten mintues of time alone on the bus. When I got home Renee ran into the porch area,
"So?! how was you first day?"
"Great mom, I made a lot of friends. And I already have plans for a sleepover this Saturday with Alice Cullen and Rosalie Hale."
"Wonderful!" That sounded like a yes so I went upstairs to get a start on my homework. And later that night I called Edward. We talked for the same amount of time we had last night. We missed eachother and he planned on visiting so we cuold hang out. That made me so happy, I was excited to see him even though I had just seen him yesterday. Wow, time flys. When we said our goodbyes it was 12:00 here. He said good night to me and to have a good day tomorrow and he'll call this time. I made sure he wouldn't forget and made him write it on his hand. Even though I coulnd't see it, I made his mom check and she said yes and I trusted her. I said good night again and went to bed.