Chapter 7: Drops Of Jupiter
A/N: Things are gonna change up in this a little. Today is Bella's first day back in school after her little disappearance…I'm gonna bring in some "new kids"(Edward, Alice and Rosalie…only different) in and maybe some detention for Jasper and Emmett as they try to make Bella feel more welcome…this is one of my more happy chapters that this story is gonna have.
"Bella! Come on! We're gonna be late" Emmett's booming voice hollered up to me as I slept on a soft pillow.
"Jazz?" I asked sitting up and looking only to see him walking in from the conjoining bathroom, his hair still damp. I took the time to survey what he was wearing because I've never really taken time to look at him. He was wearing a black 'Fall Out Boy' t-shirt with a grey 'Volcom' hoodie unzipped over it. He had on dark blue baggy jeans and a pair of black and white DC's.
"Good you're up! You have to get ready otherwise we'll be late, come on! Me and Emmett went out shopping before you left and got you some stuff that we thought you'd like" he explained pointing to a big mass of bags in the corner. I got up and stretched walking over and picking up the nearest bag from Journey's, it had a new pair of pink Converses and a bright pink t-shirt that read: "Assault and battery" with a picture of a salt shaker and a battery. I chuckled and searched for a pair of jeans, quickly finding a black pair of skinny jeans, I walked into his bather and quickly changed my clothes and brushed my hair until it looked somewhat tamed.
"You look great! Does everything fit okay?" He asked sitting on the bed beside me as I tied my shoes.
"Yes thanks so much! You didn't have to do this" I felt him shrug.
"I kinda figured you weren't ready to face your house yet so…" he trailed off knowing I understood.
"Come on, let's go" I smiled and took his hand dragging him out of the room behind me and downstairs to where Emmett sat at the table impatiently.
"Finally!" he cried like the kid he was and jumped up.
"Good morning Bella! Would you like something to eat?" Esme asked in her motherly voice.
"No thanks I'm not that hungry" I smiled in thanks and instead took the outstretched water bottle.
"Come on!" Emmett groaned.
"Let's go" I chuckled waving goodbye to my new family.
"HEY BELLA!" Angela's voice cried at me as she threw herself around my shoulders, knocking me back in Emmett.
"Angela" I sighed as a bright smile lit her face.
"It's okay, you don't have to tell me where you went of why. It doesn't matter just promise you're not going to leave anytime soon!" she asked and that was the main reason I loved her so much. She didn't badger me about stuff, she was just happy for the moment.
"Mike's been talking shit about you ever since you left, me and Eric did what we could to stop the rumors but it didn't do that much to stop them" she sighed.
"Speak of the devil" I chuckled as Eric walked up to us.
"Hey Bella!" He smiled at me. These guys were the only true friends left in the school outside Emmett and Jasper.
"Hey Eric" I smiled as I shook his hand in a friendly way. He wasn't big on hugs and I was fine with that besides, he was Angela's and I refused to jeopardize that, not that it would really do anything though, they were in love but they didn't know it yet. We all walked through the noisy hallways, almost everybody stopping to whisper and point at me.
"God don't you people have your own lives?!" Me and Angela screamed at the same time. I looked over at her and smiled, linking my arm with hers as we skipped down the hallway.
"Good luck today Bells" Emmett chuckled as he turned into his world history class.
"By Bell" Jasper whispered, gently kissing my cheek as he followed behind Emmett.
"Meet me after class?" I asked him, he smiled and nodded. I knew he didn't want me in the halls alone.
"Come on you guys, Mr. Paxton doesn't like it when we're late" I called running to make it to the class on the other side of the building before the bell rang in 2 minutes. I could hear Eric's and Angela's laughter as they followed after me. I could take on the world when I had my family by my side.
By the time lunch rolled around everyone in the entire school had found out about me being back.
"Oh look Mike" I heard Lauren's voice hiss as we walked by their table.
"Lauren shut up!" Jessica hissed, apparently seeing me roll my eyes and Emmett glare. I almost forgot that these guys were still afraid of him. They didn't know that inside he was just a teddy bear.
"Stop it before they piss themselves" I laughed smacking his arm gently. I could practically feel Lauren's anger as Jasper kissed me on the side of my cheek.
"As if they didn't hate you enough" Angela chuckled as she walked up to me with Eric.
We all stopped to stare as 3 new kids entered the room silently; two girls and one boy; each of them pale and dark looking if that makes any sense. They all had dark, almost black hair and deep green eyes. They must be related. They walked in and sat at the table beside ours. I could hear all the whispers about them and I knew how that felt so I walked up to them after I sat my tray down at the table where the rest sat.
"Hello I'm Bella Swan. You must be new here?" I asked as I introduced myself. The only boy looked reluctant but shook my hand none the less.
"Hello, I'm Edward Mason and these are my sisters" he explained releasing my hand.
"I'm Alice Mason" The littlest one of the two chirped as she jumped up and shook my hand wildly. She was overly excited for some reason.
"Nice to meet you, and you are?" I asked turned to the remaining unidentified sister.
"Hello, I'm Rosalie Mason" she introduced herself in a low voice. As though it was a secret I wasn't supposed to know.
"Would you like to come sit with me and my friends?" I asked them, seeing as no one else would. Again Edward seemed almost reluctant in his answer.
"Why not? It helps if you know people" he said his eyes darker as he stood and walked beside me his sister following.
"People seem to be avoiding us like the plague here!" Alice chirped, her voice hyper.
"They don't accept new things to easily?" Edward asked me.
"No they're just stuck up jackasses" I sighed as we reached the table. Emmett was staring open-mouthed at Rosalie. She either didn't notice or chose to ignore it, I personally think it was the latter but hey whatever.
"You don't like it here?" Rosalie asked.
"Not really but there isn't much I can do to change it. You guys can sit if you want" I offered them the three empty chairs beside me. They seemed surprised and reluctant again. Alice was the first to jump into the char beside me and smile up at everyone. Edward and Rosalie followed her lead without the smiles though.
"Guys, this is Alice, Rosalie and Edward Mason. They just moved here" I introduced them.
"Hello I'm Jasper Hale" Jazzy indicated to himself.
"I'm Emmett Cullen, Jasper's brother" Emmett's deep voice introduced himself, once again inspecting Rosalie. This time she met his eyes and smirked. Ha! I liked these guys already!
"I'm Eric and this is my girlfriend Angela" Eric introduced himself and the red-faced Angela. That's right, she's shy around new people.
"Hello" Edward said, his whole mood different as he smiled.
"Nice to meet you all" Rosalie added, also smiling.
"I just know we're going to be the best of friends!" Alice chirped. They all seemed nice enough and there just aren't enough nice people anymore!
The bell ran indicating the end of lunch and we all rose, Jasper and Emmett both glancing at each other and me every few seconds.
"What are guys doing?" I asked, knowing they were up to something.
"Nothing, we have to go now" Emmett exclaimed as he and Jasper ran out the door and outside.
"Weird. Even for them" I chuckled, shaking my head at them.
"Well what classes do you guys have next?" I asked waving goodbye to Angela and Eric as they walked towards Spanish.
"I have biology" Edward sighed.
"Me too" I said looking at him with a smile only to have it returned this time.
"I have Spanish, bye!" Alice clapped her hand and hugged me before scampering away behind Angela and Eric.
"I'm not in 10th grade, I'm in 11th" Rosalie explained as she walked in the same direction as Emmett and Jasper. That just left me and Edward to walk alone in an uncomfortable silence.
"So where are you from?" I asked, realizing that it never came up.
"Alaska, we lived with our parents until they got killed in a car crash so now we live with our Aunt Tanya(Ha-ha! Sorry back to the story) here in the lovely little town of Forks" he explained.
"Oh I'm sorry to hear about your parents" I sighed, hopefully he wasn't depressed now.
"You don't need to apologize, it wasn't your fault" Edward told me as he opened the biology room door and held it for me.
"Okay thanks" I said as we walked inside.
We were kinda early so I told him to take the seat beside me since I didn't have a lab partner.
"So why do hate Forks so much?" He asked me.
"I don't" I lied.
"Yes you do, besides even if it wasn't obvious. You're a horrible liar" he chided with a smile. I laughed and shook my head at him.
"I don't like the cold, my father's an ass and people here suck" I said bluntly.
"Sorry"
"Not your fault, just glad that you're nice and not one of the people that belong here" I said as I glared at Mike.
"I take it we don't like him?" Edward asked from beside me.
"I don't like him, you can like him if you want" I said dully. Just another thing Mike took from me. Another friend lost.
"You seem to be a nice person so if you don't like him there's a reason for me not to like him" Edward sighed from beside me as he opened his binder that held a sketch of a beautiful girl.
"Wow that's really good" I exclaimed when I saw it.
"Thanks, I just doodle when I'm bored" He explained as he scribbled in a face quickly that was just as beautiful as before.
"You're great. You should be an artist" I looked closer at it, looking over him.
"My dad taught me to draw when I was really little, each year on my birthday he would take me to a new art museum and show me how the artist's worked and stuff. It was pretty cool" he explained as his brow furrowed as he shaded her hair.
"Was your dad and artist?" I asked and he chuckled.
"Yes, I thought you would have gotten that" he teased playfully. I felt the blood rush to my cheeks.
"Okay walked into that one" I laughed as a voice came over the intercom.
"Bella Swan! Wherever you are being bored this one's for you!" the voice exclaimed and immediately I recognized it as Jasper. I could hear Emmett in the background.
"We love you Bells" Emmett hollered before an acoustic guitar resounded filling the room with a beautiful tune. Soon it was accompanied by a sweet voice.
Now that she's back in the atmosphere
With drops of Jupiter in her hair, hey, hey
She acts like summer and walks like rain
Reminds me that there's time to change, hey, hey
Since the return from her stay on the moon
She listens like spring and she talks like June, hey, hey
Oh god he was singing to me! Man as if I didn't already love him enough! I knew he was referring to the time that I had spent away from him.
Tell me did you sail across the sun
Did you make it to the milky way to see the lights all faded
And that heaven is overrated
Tell me, did you fall for a shooting star
One without a permanent scar
And did you miss me while you were looking at yourself out there
"Yes Jasper, I found myself and realized it was you who made me" I said aloud tom myself, but I was pretty sure that Edward heard me.
Now that she's back from that soul vacation
Tracing her way through the constellation, hey, hey
She checks out Mozart while she does tae-bo
Reminds me that there's time to grow, hey, hey
Now that she's back in the atmosphere
I'm afraid that she might think of me as plain ol Jane
Told a story about a man who is too afraid to fly so he never did land
He was telling me about his worries that ran through his head while I was away. He thought that I would find someone more interesting and come back to tell him that I was gone.
"I'm sorry Jazz" I whispered as my eyes filled with tears.
Tell me did the wind sweep you off your feet
Did you finally get the chance to dance along the light of day
And head back to the milky way
And tell me, did Venus blow your mind
Was it everything you wanted to find
And did you miss me while you were looking for yourself out there
"Of course I missed you" I sighed, I can not believe that he would actually believe that I didn't miss him!
Can you imagine no love, pride, deep-fried chicken
Your best friend always sticking up for you even when I know you're wrong
Can you imagine no first dance, freeze dried romance five-hour phone
Conversation
The best soy latte that you ever had . . . and me
I can't imagine no love because I have you Jazz. You are my pride. I have no clue why you brought in deep fried chicken, but if it matter's to you it matter's to me. I know you would always stand up for me. You're everything to me now so I can't imagine no nothing when you're beside me.
Tell me did the wind sweep you off your feet
Did you finally get the chance to dance along the light of day
And head back toward the milky way
Tell me did you sail across the sun
Did you make it to the milky way to see the lights all faded
And that heaven is overrated
After he sang the last line, the guitar came to a stop and everyone clapped, including me and Edward.
"So My perfect angel wherever you are I want you to know I love you more than anything and I want you to know that you were missed while you were gone! Shit!" was the last thing we all heard before the principal's voice came on.
"GET BACK TO WORK! I'M VERY DISAPPOINTED IN YOU JASPER, EMMETT!" he screamed. "DETENTION!" I couldn't hold back the laughs.
As class ended me and Edward walked towards the gym because we both had it was our last period.
"So Jasper went through all that just to tell you he loves you?" Edward asked as Alice danced towards us.
"No he went through all that to welcome me back into his life" I sighed.
"Aw, Edward they're almost as bad as you and Mia were" Alice giggled, a little tinkling sound. Like a bell.
"Was Mia your girlfriend before you left?" I asked him as we came out from our locker rooms.
"Yes, we're still together but it's hard" he sighed.
"Well it can only get easier" I laughed as he smiled and class began. Him and Alice learned quickly to stay away from me when it was my turn to serve the volleyball. The whole team flinched and backed away as I went to hit it every time.
After the final bell rang I grabbed Edward and Alice's hands as dragged them out to the parking lot with me as I saw Jasper and Emmett leaning on Emmett's jeep.
"JASPER!!" I cried as threw myself into his arms.
"Did you like it?" he asked me as he kissed me gently.
"Yes" I laughed as I hugged Emmett and had him spin me around.
"Good me and Jasper have detention next Tuesday so you're gonna need a ride" Emmett laughed, the booming shaking me.
"Oh Rose's getting impatient, see you tomorrow!" Alice cried as he hugged me and dragged Edward away behind her into a bright Red BMW convertible.
"Come on guys let's go home" I laughed as I moved to get in the Jeep.
"OH BELLA!" Alice screamed as she ran towards me.
"What's wrong?!" I asked scared.
"Here's my number, gimme yours" She handed me her phone and a piece of paper. I had to laugh at how urgent she made everything seem.
"Here" I chuckled hugging her and handing her phone back.
"BYE!" she cried before she ran back into the car.
"I like 'em" Emmett laughed as we all got in and drove back to the house.
