Disclaimer: The usual (please bob. Get it? It's like what someone says at the bar... Oh never mind.)And to clear up any questions,Paul will be in the next chapter WHOOP. Sorry if its taking too long but I have a load of ideas for this story and I don't want it to be too quick. Thanks for the reviews, there may be few but they still spur me on.
It was hard enough waking up early in the mornings let alone waking up to the dread of a first day at a new school. I swivelled around placing my slipper clad feet onto the floor and made my way over to the bathroom for my normal morning ritual.
Running down stairs at full pelt I slipped my pumps on, half-expecting to be late. But oh no. For once in my life, Bailey Porter, was early. I nearly ran around the house in a celebratory dance before I remembered the on-coming terror of school. I groaned as I sat on the kitchen unit nibbling the corners of my toast. Jeez, today was going to be a long day.
"Bails, what you doing up so early. I don't remember you as much of an early bird." Eva murmured as she took in my form, head leant against the kitchen cabinet with a frown on my face.
"I think I'm just nervous." I replied, fidgeting my leg impatiently and rubbing my hands together.
"Don't worry, the kids in La Push are so helpful and charming. You won't get any trouble from them I promise." She stated, walking over to me and cupping my face in her hands before kissing my forehead and walking backward.
"Now I'll be home around 6ish okay? So if you are thinking of inviting any boys in, "she winked "make sure they're gone by then!" She shouted pulling the front door shut behind her. Oh crap. Mum! I had forgotten to ring her yesterday. Well at least I had time now. I shuffled over to the telephone that was attached to the wall and quickly dialled her number. She picked up on the second ring.
"Hello?" My mother voice echoed down the line in a worried tone.
"Hey Mum it's me." I said trying to reassure her.
"Oh hey darling. Why didn't you ring yesterday?"
"Sorry, got a little busy." I replied, trying my best to sound honest.
"Oh don't worry. What have you been getting up to then?"
"I met some guys who go to our school." Maybe that could be the subject of conversation for the next 20 minutes. My mother always goes off on a tangent, babbling on about anything.
"Oh, were they nice?"
"Yeah, they're cool. Seth's a good buddy."
"I'm glad you're happy, but make sure you stay safe okay? Boys your age have got hormones flying all over the place."
"Mum, I'm not going to let any boy take advantage of me and besides, they're not like that." I said, trying to defend my new friends.
"Mmm, you've only known them a day Bailey, and you're not that good a judge of character." She murmured.
"And what's that supposed to mean?" I snapped, her side of the line went quiet for a moment before I heard a deep sigh.
"Nothing." She replied, giving up. "You go have fun at school okay?"
"Okay." I sighed. "Love you."
"I love you too." The line went dead and I placed the phone back in the cradle. The house was quiet again. All I could hear was the distant whirring of Dakota's hair dryer and the scratching from the patio doors, Max desperate to be let in after his early morning run. I quickly ran over to the doors, yanking them back and letting a cold dog into the kitchen beside me.
"I'm sorry boy, I forgot." I soothed in a low voice, rubbing his ears and belly trying to warm him up. It looked like it was cold enough for ice outside and I raced back upstairs to fetch my coat.
"Hey Kota, we got to go." I yelled at her closed door after hearing a honk downstairs. "Seth's here."
"Coming." She yelled back as I stomped downstairs. I quickly checked my reflection and shrugged on my leather jacket before giving Max a stroke goodbye and yanking open the front door.
"Hey Bail's, hop in." Yelled Seth sticking his head out of the front window. I quickly ran over to the car trying to dodge the rain drops which had already started to fall and launched myself into the passenger seat.
"Hi." I replied with a smile before reaching over for the seat belt. I heard the car door behind me open and close and felt the jolt as Dakota sunk back into her seat. Seth looked back and flashed a huge grin her way before turning back to the front and heading toward school. I leaned my forehead onto the cool glass on the window and watched every tree and hedge as it passed by, amazed by how many La Push managed to contain. I glanced into the side-view mirror to see Dakota lounging on the back seat picking her nails looking thoroughly bored. I almost gasped when I saw how she looked. I knew that she wanted to look good for school but come on, this was just unfair, now I would be compared to her and look down right simple. Her dark brown hair hung gently in her face with little curled tendrils framing it. Her make-up was done to perfection and her brown eyes were framed with lashings of mascara making them look even wider. Now I realised the reason behind Seth's smile. Ah well, if she's going to date somebody, Seth would be a good candidate: he didn't seem like a user like most of the boys she dated in California. I sighed and leaned my head back against the head-rest closing my eyes and wishing for this day to go quickly.
"Wake up, Bail's we're here." Seth's warm hand nudged my shoulder as my eyes flickered open.
"I wasn't asleep." I mumbled.
"Whatever. Come on I'll take you guys to reception so you can get your schedules."
I heaved myself out of the car, and praised the lord we were early so no one would witness as I skidded on a frozen puddle underneath my feet. I landed right on my bum and couldn't help but let a giggle escape as I looked down at my pathetic self.
"It would only happen to me." I said. Seth had appeared from around the bonnet and tears were streaming down his cheeks as he tried to explain between breaths that all he had seen was me disappearing behind the car. Dakota walking gracefully toward me took my hand, pulling me up trying to keep her laughs in check.
"It's alright Kota. You can laugh." I breathed as I wiped the sand from my hands. A loud bark of laughter erupted from her which sent Seth of again and I grumbled before leaning into the back seat and retrieving my bag.
"Are we going or not." I asked trying to pull Seth toward the school, and failing miserably. I swear that dudes like an anchor; you can't move him without his permission. He didn't even notice my feeble attempts until he glanced down and taking pity on me let me drag him into, what I thought was the direction of the schools reception.
"You're going the wrong way." Seth replied in a sing-song voice. I turned my face to him with a sarcastic smile.
"Would you be so kind as to show me the way to the reception of my new school, which I am very nervous about joining and enormously worried about how nice or not nice the kids will be. Please?"
"Shit I apologize." He replied with a smile draping an arm over my shoulder.
"Don't be so dramatic Bailey." said Dakota in the background.
"I was only joking." I finished with a smile, "I accept your apology Seth." I nodded in his direction and he let out a chuckle before pushing me toward the double doors to the red bricked building. Dakota was walking the other side of Seth as we reached the bird-like woman at the desk.
"Hi, I'm Bailey Porter and this is my sister Dakota. We're new today and we were told to come and get out schedules." I smiled at her gently, which she didn't return before she swivelled around in her chair and walked into a room down the hall. I turned back toward Seth, who was hovering by the door frame, confused he just shrugged and walked toward us.
"She's always like that, don't worry about it." He said reassuringly. My head jerked back toward the desk as the woman sat back down, silently handing me and Dakota two forms each.
"You need to have every teacher sign the first one and then come and hand it back at the end of the day." She said, never once looking up from her very interesting computer screen.
I stalked off back toward Seth dragging Dakota along with me. Seth gave us another smirk before taking both of our schedules and comparing them to his own.
"Right Kota, you've got first period with me so we can drop Bail's off at Biology before." He said looking up at Dakota smiling just as widely as he did this morning, before jutting out both of his arms and we both looped one through his.
"Ladies." He said in an English accent nodding his head and starting down the now busy corridor. I let out a chuckle and we allowed him to lead us around the school. I couldn't help but notice all the looks we were receiving. Some of the glances from the boys were so stunned they were almost creepy. I blushed and ducked my head wanting to escape all of their wandering eyes. The girls, well they were a completely different story. My aunty was obviously lying about how nice the people in La Push were, all I got from them were dirty evil looks between me and the arm that was currently connected to Seth's. I'd already figured that Seth was a somewhat heart throb at his school, judging by his dark hair, towering height, built-up body and dark eyes and I suddenly realised what all the horrible looks were about. We were the new girls hanging off one of the hottest boys in their school, why would the new girl deserve such luck? Hopefully I could someone get across to them that we we're just friends, I didn't want enemies at this school as well. Seth was completely oblivious to the whole charade, his head held high and a smile on his face he continued to glide down the corridor like he owned it. I kept my eyes on the floor until we reached a wooden door with the sign 'Biology' on it.
"Bail's we have reached your destination, time to disembark." Seth continued in his rubbish English accent as he un-looped my arm from his. He must have seen my nervous glance through the little window on the door because he leaned over and ruffled my hair. "Don't worry kid. We'll meet you in the cafe at lunch." He comforted with a smile.
"Kay," I replied.
"Good luck." called Dakota over her shoulder as she walked away, Seth still ogling her. I snorted at how obvious he was and opened the door, taking a deep breath. I tried not to look at all the eyes which followed me as I walked toward the teacher. I could almost feel my cheeks reddening as I reached the desk passing my form silently to him.
"You must be Bailey." He said warmly. I nodded gently and watched him sign my form, before the worst possible thing happened.
"Hey why do you introduce yourself to the class?" He asked, head still down as he looked over the form.
"Ermm. Okay." Now come on Bailey pull yourself together if you want to be accepted here then you can't be shy. "My names Bailey I'm 17, I come from California, and.. I moved in with my aunt Eva with my sister two days ago." I finished with a smile and looked toward the teacher hoping that I had said enough. He nodded in encouragement and looked around the classroom for a spare seat.
"Take that seat next to Mr. Black, Jacob raise your hand so Miss Porter knows who you are." I let out a sigh of relief at the word Jacob. Thanks the lord, I was sitting next to one of the two people I knew in the entire school, now that, that's lucky. I saw Jake raise his hand lazily and throw a smile my way. Walking as steadily as I could, so as not to trip over any hidden crevices on the floor (as I'm sure you're aware, I'm not exactly the most balanced person in the world) I reached the empty space and plopped myself down in it.
"Good start?" Whispered Jake as the lesson began. I chuckled quietly, thinking back to the girls in the corridor.
"It's going alright" I flashed a smile, hoping it would get better from here on in. Nothing much happened in the rest of Biology, the teacher Mr. Cornock was pretty strict and I didn't get another chance to talk to Jake again until the end of the lesson. He walked me to my next lesson which was geography and told me he'd meet me at lunch as well. I walked into the room which Jake had directed me to, passing the form to the teacher who was called Mrs. Francine. Thankfully she was much nicer and I didn't have to introduce myself just sitting myself down in the empty seat at the back of the classroom.
"Hey, I'm Matt." I turned to the boy sitting next to me. I guess he was okay, he had that sort of surfer boy look but compared to Jake and Seth who I spent the last few days with he was a little scrawny. So now, I didn't get all weakened in the knees when this Matt guy turned his blue eyes on me like I would have before.
"Hi, I'm Bailey." I replied with a gentle smile.
"Cool." He replied with a nod as his eyes wandered over my top half. Pulling my shirt more together at the top I turned away.
"So, where'd a pretty girl like you come from?" He asked nudging my arm with his elbow. I shifted away from him. I didn't want to be known as a flirt in the first day at a new school so I replied as simply as I could.
"California."
"Cool." He repeated. I looked toward the board as a blonde girl in the desk in-front turned back flicking her hair behind her and throwing me a horrible look. Oh Jesus, I bet he was her boyfriend. I raised my eyebrows at her and she looked me up and down before turning back to the front. The next few lessons went quickly and before I knew it, double geography had finished and I was making my way to the cafeteria. I got there before every one, not wanting to dawdle and got myself into the queue for food only picking myself a bottle of water and a fruit bar. Thanking the women at the till I looked around for an empty table before seeing Seth waving at me from another table, surrounded by a few more muscular men. Taking a deep breath I walked toward him, it was rather intimidating I mean all of these boys were drop dead gorgeous, there was only one other girl at the table and every other girl in the room was looking at me like I was from Mars as I continued to walked toward Seth.
"Hi." I breathed as I sat down on the bench beside Seth and the unknown girl.
"Ood firsh pway?" He asked, his mouth full of Hamburger. I snorted as sauce dripped down his chin.
"What was that?" I giggled passing him a napkin. It was a few moments until he managed to swallow and wipe the ketchup from his face before starting again.
"Good first day?" He said with a smirk.
"Ha, s'alright." I shrugged opening my bottle.
"What happened?" he asked with raised eyebrows.
"Nothing, it's just.. nothing." I mumbled looking back down at my bottle tracing the rim with my finger.
"I'm not an idiot Bailey."
I turned giving him a small smile and looked over my shoulder toward a group of girls gathered on a table behind us. All of them were throwing me horrible looks, making clear that they didn't like where I was sitting, suddenly they all blushed and looked away gathering back into their little groups. Turning my head I saw Seth throwing a glare their way before he swivelled back to his food throwing an arm around my shoulders.
"Don't worry about them. They're all too plastic for anyone to look at them twice and they're just jealous because you're naturally nice." He smiled before ruffling my hair and finishing of his hamburger in two more gigantic mouthfuls. I straightened my hair back down and took a bite out of my fruit bar.
"Oi, Seth you're not going to introduce us to the new girl then?" I looked over to the boy -well I should say man judging by his size - opposite us and flashed him a smile.
"Bail's, this is Embry, Quil, Jared, Kim and you already know Jacob." He said pointing to each person on the table. Kim was the beautiful native girl next to me who seemed to be with Jared and as I looked over at the happy couple the love in each other's eyes made me blush. If only I could find someone who looked at me like that. Sigh. Embry was the one opposite me and he gave me a slight nod and a smile, Jacob sat next to him on his left and he had returned to eating with a sad look in his eyes. I turned to Seth confused and he just shrugged.
"You are coming to Bonfire tonight, right?" asked Embry from across the table.
"Ermmm, what Bonfire?" I asked confused but glad he wanted me to tag along, even if I was the new girl.
"Aw come on Seth mate, you haven't invited her to the legendary Bonfires yet?" He asked mocking disappointment.
"I forgot." He chuckled before turning toward me. "Bailey, will you come to the Bonfire tonight?"
"Sure." I replied with a smile, Embry cheered and patted Seth on the arm. "What time is it?"
"I'll pick you up at seven." He said before turning back to his second hamburger and I watched him demolish it with wide eyes.
The rest of the day went quickly and I soon learned to ignore all the glares I got. I soon realised the reason they hadn't said anything to my face was because of my 'Protectors'. Anyway, Seth gave me and Dakota a lift home and soon I had every single piece of clothing lined out on my bed to choose from and I was eager for the Bonfire to begin.