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Chapter 8
I slipped out of my truck, making no eye contact with anyone and bringing my IPod out. No one really paid any attention to me which was good because it meant I wasn't sticking out. I leaned on my poor old truck, turning the IPod up to maximum volume to block out all the chatter. While listening to "We Found Love" by Rhianna I observed how the mortal teenagers acted, to get a grip on how I should set my personality.
A group of kid's standing around a huge black van were laughing and giggling at a girl that was playing with a camera she wore blue jeans, a black T-shirt and brown leather boots. Her hair was as black as night tied up in a bun, her glasses were sliding on the bridge of her nose with the way she was looking down, she obviously spent some time out in the sun. The girl smiled as she had gotten the camera to turn on and began to take pictures. She reminded me of someone but I couldn't put my finger on it really.
The bell rang and I lost sight of the girl in the crowd she seemed to blend into everyone. I weaved through the crowd and headed to the school office. A nice elderly lady was standing behind the desk with bleach blonde hair in a bun; she wore an old looking flower dress and brown flats. The lady gave me a bright smile, pushing her glasses back up to her eyes.
"Hello there, can I help you miss?" She asked in a sweet tone.
"Yes, I'm looking for my class schedule." "My name is Bella Swan." My tone was polite and light.
"Oh, yes let me see here Bella dear." The lady dug through some papers and file folders. I waited patiently for her to find it.
"Here we are dear." She brought out a folder and opened it giving me a map of the school building and a piece of paper with my classes on it.
"Thank you ever so much ma'am." I smiled at her.
"You're welcome dear, and please remember to get your schedule signed by all of your teachers and bring it back at the end of the day." She smiled back at me.
"I will thank you again." I nodded at her.
I left the office and scanned the map quickly; it wouldn't take long for me to figure out what classes were where here. My first class was Math on the second floor; I walked up the stares shoving the map and schedule in the back pocket of my jeans.
I reached the classroom door and knocked, the teacher looking up at me it looked like he'd been in the middle of a lecture on algebraic expressions. I walked in pulling out my schedule, handing it to the teacher. He looked at it then signed it.
"Isabella you can sit…."
"It's just Bella." I cut him off.
"Oh, okay then Bella you can sit with Jasper." The teacher was looking right at him; I knew were to go. But Jasper raised his hand; he was a pale skinned boy with golden eyes and blonde short curly hair. He wasn't half bad looking. I walked over taking the seat next to him. Setting my backpack under my desk after taking out my Math book, I stared straight forward listening to the lecture. I knew all of this already and it was boring to me. I caught Jasper watching me from the corner of my eye and when I turned to ask what the matter was he just looked away.
The whole class was like this and it was kind of irritating me, just when I was about to say something again the bell rang. He was up and out of the room with his books. I glared daggers at his back and picked up my backpack replacing my Math book into it, and leaving the room. I looked at my schedule again to see what my next class was. It was English with Mrs. Ellen on the first floor, like before I headed down the stares passing two boys who looked back at me and whispered something along the lines of hot but I ignored it.
I walked into my English class and handed Mrs. Ellen my schedule sheet.
"Bella you may have a seat in front of Rosalie." Mrs. Ellen said.
I looked around the room to find the open seat and when I did, I also found Rosalie. She was probably one of the most gorgeous beings I'd seen. Long wavy blonde hair, with golden eyes, her skin pale like Jaspers was. But I was confused because instead of watching me or completely ignoring me, she glared at me. I was walking slowly to my seat and sat down; through the whole class her glare never left my back. What was it with Jasper staring at me and now this Rosalie chick glaring at me? I thought to myself.
When the bell rang, like Jasper Rosalie was the first one out bumping me "accidently" I might add. I didn't know what her problem was or Jasper's and I was not really interested. I gathered my things and slid them into my backpack and slung it over my shoulder making a stop at my locker and stuffed the books in and my bag, then slamming it shut. I made my way to the lunch room, which was next on my schedule.
While standing in line I observed the kids again, obviously you had what they called jocks, cheerleaders at one table, emo and punk kids at their table, then you had your average and nerdy kids. Honestly humans were quite strange to me, the way they worked things in their world. No wonder daddy said they would be the end to themselves; I was now starting to agree.
I got my tray of food which contained: Sunny D, a slice of pizza, and an apple. I wasn't all that hungry and looked around for a place to sit. Then I noticed the girl from this morning sitting at a table all alone, and then it hit me on who she was. I tried to act natural and walk slowly over to her but I was getting excited, picking up pace. I slid into the seat in front of the girl.
"Why didn't you tell me you were coming Angela!" I said in a hissed whisper.
Angela looked up at me smiling with those big chocolate brown eyes. "I wanted it to be a surprise silly."
"Did daddy send you or did you come on your own?" I asked seriously.
"Well I wanted to come in the beginning, but luckily your dad wanted me to go anyways so it didn't turn into a huge argument." Angela smiled.
"Hmm I guess I can live with that excuse." I teased her.
"Hey, it's not an excuse it's the truth!" She gave me a hurt expression.
"Ang I know that's fake you can't fool me." My tone was bored.
"Aw, well you're no fun Bella." Angela mumbles.
I shrugged taking a bite of my pizza while she fettled with her camera again. When she got it to turn on she lifted it up and took a picture of me. I was to slow to cover my face.
"Angela no, you know I hate my picture being taken!" I whined at her.
"Oh, come on its just one harmless picture I don't have very many of you." She pouted at me.
I rolled my eyes at her "Fine, as long as its just one."
I noticed the lunch room doors open and I looked up to see three boys and two girls come in. I noticed one of the boys was Jasper from Math and one of the girls was Rosalie from English. The other three I was unsure of, one was tall and looked like he worked out, with black hair holding Rosalie's hand. The girl with Jasper was more pixie like with short dark brown hair, Jasper twirled her and I herd her giggle. The last boy had brown hair with a slight red tint to it; he was alone and looked bored. They all had pale skin and golden eyes, except for the last boy whose eyes were coal black.
He stared straight at me, never looking away for the whole lunch period. The others would glance my way from time to time. It sort of irritated me still; it was like I was being accused of murdering their puppy or something. I looked at Angela who was fettling with her camera again; I swear she's obsessed with that thing.
"Hey, Ang you have any idea who they are?" I whispered like they might be able to hear me.
Angela looked up and turned her head to where I was looking.
"Oh, I herd some students saying they are the Cullen's. The two blonds are Rosalie and Jasper, the big one, Emmet, the one with Jasper is Alice and the loner is Edward."
My eyes widen a fraction and I fought cracking a freak grin that would scare Angela. She looked at me with her head tilted and then it hit her.
"Oh my gosh, are they the one's you've been looking for?" She whispered to me. I nodded to her.
"Yes, they are." "They have my brother Carlisle with them." I smiled in victory this was a piece of cake.
Angela thought a moment "Hey, Bella I don't think you should go in head first like you normally do sometimes."
I frowned at her "Why not?"
Angela shrugged "I just have a bad feeling, promise me?"
I mumble "Fine, I promise I won't do anything stupid."
She smiled brightly at me. "I'll see you after school then right?"
I nodded and the bell rang signaling lunch period was over. I got up with Angela and we walked to the trash can dumping our trays and setting them with the others. Angela gave me a hug and skipped off to class without a second thought. I pulled out my schedule to see what I had next. It was Science with Mr. Widget on the second floor, how fun to sit through another class that I knew the answers too.
I walked into the classroom handing my schedule to Mr. Widget and he signed it. I took it from him shoving it into my back pocket again, the fan was blowing my hair and the boy I remembered from the lunch room went ridged. I gave him a strange look then turned back to Mr. Widget.
"You can have a seat next to Edward, Bella."
I nodded slowly and walked over to where Edward sat and slid into the seat and took at my book. He was leaning as far away from me as possible his hands in fists. I took a breath of air and then froze, his smell was bringing on my blood thirst and I slid my chair a little away from him. I didn't know why his scent was doing this to me.
I made a curtain with my hair to hide my face from him and to block out his scent but it wasn't working very well. I was leaning so far away from him I thought I might fall out of my seat, he wasn't doing any better. We were sort of in luck because it did not look like Mr. Widget nor any of the students were noticing us. I watched the clock intently begging for the class to hurry up and finish. I wasn't even trying to pay attention to the lesson that I already knew. Edward was gripping the table so hard I thought he might break a chunk of the wood off.
Finally the bell rang, Edward was the first to grab his books and leave the room and I stared after him. After a good 10mins I finally got the since to get up and grab my books and leave. I stared at the floor as I headed to the office, if I bumped into someone I might go berserk but I was glad I didn't. When I opened the office door I saw Edward again and the blood lust returned. I had herd part of the conversation between the nice old lady and him. Edward hissed slightly
"Please, anything I need to switch out of science." He was practically begging now.
The nice lady shook her head "I'm sorry Edward I can't do that."
The office door finally shut closed with a bang and both of them looked up at me. I was kind of hurt about what Edward was saying but even I thought it was for the best. He muttered a never mind to the lady and left, it took all my strength not to kill him right then and there.
I handed in my schedule to the nice old lady and bolted out of there as fast as I could and headed to my old truck. I had a lot of work to do when I got home, and I completely forgot about hanging with Angela. I got in the truck starting it up and turning up the heat. I backed out of the parking lot and drove back home.
When I got inside the house I threw my backpack next to the couch and ran upstairs not evening bothering to say hi to Charlie. I closed my bedroom door and pulled the curtains to my window. I hit a few keys on my ancient laptop and the wall opened up next to my bed. I headed through lights turning on as I went the wall closing back up behind me. I came to a hidden medium sized room: with concrete walls and wooden floor boards there was a table made of glass with a black glossy laptop on it that could get me into just about anything in the world. The whole left wall was covered in books as old as time and on the right side were tapes containing important information. On the other side of the room were file cabinets that had files on every mortal you could name, as well as mythical beings. Then to top the room off there was one simple couch and a mirror that I could use to contact my father or other friends I might need information from, then there was where the wall that I had came through that separated again revealing a flat screen, DVD player and VCR. I had everything I could possibly need.
I sat in my comfy chair and turned on the laptop and began my work on the Cullen's. I brought up website after website, and had books and papers all over the room. They covered their tracks well and apparently Angela was right, if I had gone into this head first I would have been in some trouble. I owed her a thank you for looking out for me. I spent the rest of the night in my secret little hideout going back and forth between books, websites, tapes, and files. I had found nothing by morning; neither on the family or why Edwards scent bothered me, and I was furious about it. But not only that Angela was going to be extremely upset with me and thinking I had skipped out on her yesterday. Alls I knew was this was going to be one hell of a school day.
I came out of my secret office yawning loudly and took a nice hot shower; changing into a pair of blue jeans, a black T-shirt, and pulling my brown leather boots on. I walked down the stairs Charlie had already gone to work, but I herd a knock at the door and ran to get it with my bowl of cereal in hand, spoon in my mouth. When I opened the door Angela stood before me with that "What the fuck" look on her face. Then I remembered the other day and how I had said I'd meet her after school and smiled sheepishly.
"Bella I can't believe you ditched me!" She whined at me.
"I didn't ditch you, something came up." I closed the door behind her while talking with my mouth full of cereal.
"Oh, really what could be more important then me?" She said in a teasing tone.
I couldn't help but smile at her and we sat down at the table. I told her about the scent issue I was having with Edward and she had a hard look on her face; in deep thought. We were silent for a long period of time before she finally broke it.
"I wish I had the answer to that one, but you might have to talk to Sesshomaru-sama about that one." Her tone was dead serious leaving little room for argument about it.
"No, I'll try and handle it on my own first." I crossed my arms childishly.
"Bella, that's dangerous!" She protested.
"Relax Ang; if it gets to unbearable then I'll go to daddy." I look at her.
"Fine, have it your way." She muttered at me.
I grin in victory and as I grabbed my school bag, we ran out to my truck and slid inside. I started telling her how I hadn't found anything on the Cullen's yet and she drummed her fingers on the dash board as I drove.
"What if I took pictures of them during school, then we could scan them on the computer and see what comes up that way." She said.
"You know that might actually work Ang." I smiled.
Angela grinned and I smiled turning up the radio, and tapping my fingers on the steering wheel. Angela watched me from the corner of her eye her grin stretching out wider as I started to sing.
I run from hate
I run from prejudice
I run from pessimists
But I run too late
My voice was soft, sweet, and angelic Angela couldn't help but to giggle softly and she sang the next few bars.
I run my life
Or is it running me
I Run from my past
I run too fast
Or too slow it seems
When lies become the truth
That's when I run to you
I took the keys out of the ignition and Angela pouted at me, but it only made me laugh. I slid my feet onto the black pavement of the schools parking lot. Angela got out on the passenger side and we slammed the truck doors shut; heading to the school building.
"So, I should be able to get all their pictures by lunch time." Angela said to me.
"Alright, I'm counting on you Ang." I smiled at her.
We went our separate ways I headed to Math and sat down in the seat next to Jasper; pulling out my Math book. Today Jasper wasn't staring at me, but I still wanted to ask what the hell was up with yesterday. Jasper opened his book to the chapter the teacher was giving a lecture on. (A/N if you guys have a name for him/her teacher feel free to give it to me because I'm nameless) I listened to the lecture and if Jasper glanced at me or was watching me I didn't notice him; being too zoned out.
When the bell rang this time I was the first one out of the room; tucking my books up under my arm and weaving through the crowd. Maybe I was getting to anxious about if Angela would be able to get the photos without them noticing. No, no I can't think like that; Angela can and will do this. She's good at this kind of thing, just have some faith Bella. I scolded myself.
I walked through the halls; heading to English with Mrs. Ellen. I walked into the classroom; Rosalie didn't even look my way. I sat down opening my book and grabbing a note book, coping down what was on the board. Around the middle of glass is when I felt her glare on my back again. Mrs. Ellen came into the room pulling out her lesson plan and got started on the lecture. While she was teaching us the lecture, I was again zoned out staring at the clock willing the bell to ring so I could head to lunch.
Finally the bell rang; I grabbed my books and bolted to my locker as fast as my legs would carry me. I opened the locker and shoved my books inside of it; slamming it shut I fast walked to the lunch room. I grabbed a coke can and searched the room, when I found Angela I walked over to her and sat next to her today.
"So did you get them Ang?" I asked anxious.
"Well, I have Jasper, Alice, and Emmett." She said.
"What about Rosalie and Edward?" I asked with a slight frown.
"Well I should be able to get Rosalie in my next class, however Edward will be another matter entirely." She knitted her eyebrows together.
"How come you can't?" I tilted my head.
"Well, I don't have any classes with him, so it's a little harder but don't worry I'll get it." She reassured me.
I nodded and down my coke in four gulps, while Angela ate her salad; showing me the pictures she'd gotten so far. They were actually pretty good. We got up and she dumped her tray; I tossed my can into the trash like it was a basketball to the hoop. Angela laughed as I smiled. She hugged me tight giving me a reassuring smile and ran to class. I huffed knowing that science was next and I'd have to deal with Edward.
I took a couple breath exorcises before I went into the classroom; like I knew Edward was sitting at our desk watching out the window. I slid into the seat next to him and opening my note book to doodle. He was still sitting as far as the table would allow and I didn't blame him being the scent thing was affecting me again.
"My names Edward Cullen, I didn't get a chance to introduce myself last time." Edward said in a deep velvet voice.
I turned toward him slowly; closing my note book in the process. I was surprised he was talking to me at all. I expected it to just be another quiet uncomfortable day, but he was making an effort so I guess I should too.
"My names Bella Swan it's nice to meet you Edward." I said cautiously.
We didn't shake hands or touch like normal people would do, because I didn't think either of us wanted to take the risk. We kept up the conversation or really he kept up the conversation.
"So do you like it here?" He asked placing his chin in the palm of his hand.
"It's alright here, you?" I played with the hem of my sleeve.
"Yes, Forks is a very nice quiet place." He said.
I nodded and looked up to pay attention to Mr. Widget whom had walked into the room a little late today. We were doing a lab with onion root today; which I knew I'd get through in a breeze but I wasn't going to show off. As Mr. Widget gave us the slides he told us to get to work immediately and there would be no using the text book.
As I had thought Edward and I went through the lab pretty quickly; Mr. Widget was quite impressed with us. We still had half of the class to go through and right now Edward and I were sitting in a very uncomfortable silence. I didn't know if I should break it or if he should so I just stared at the clock and doodled some. Then I decided to break the silence between us; tired with the awkward air.
"So, how long have you lived here?" I asked not looking at him.
"I've been here for quite sometime actually." He said watching me.
"Oh, that's interesting." I thought about this for a moment.
If I was right and Carlisle was still my old big brother that I knew, he'd choose a place that was away from the other houses. Also being that no one had never been to the Cullen's house before it was pretty obvious I was on the right track. I'd start with the forest, which would be the first place he'd probably go.
The bell rang and I gathered my books; saying good-bye to Edward and heading to my locker. I got my backpack out and threw my books inside with my note books, but I looked up seeing Angela take a picture of Edward. He didn't look to happy about it and glared at her, but she only smiled sheepishly.
"Sorry Edward, It's for the year book." She told him.
Edward mumbled and walked in the other direction. When she was sure he was out of sight and slid up next to me with a grin.
"I told you I'd get it didn't I?" She giggles at me.
"Yes, yes you did but who knew you would do that kind of thing." I mumble.
"Hey, it worked I'm not complaining and neither should you." She said.
I smiled and we headed to my truck, Angela slipped into the passenger seat and I got in the drivers seat starting it up. I watched across the parking lot where the Cullen's were, I thought I saw Alice glance at me but it must have been my imagination. I pulled out of the schools parking lot and drove through the slick roads to my house. Angela was humming all the way there and fettling with her camera.
I pulled up into the drive way and we both got out at the same time and we slammed the doors shut at the same time. You'd think we actually rehearsed this, but Angela and I were always like this. Mom used to tease us and say we were some long lost twins or something, because Angela and I had been close since our dipper years. Always knowing when one of us was upset, troubled, or even sometimes each others thoughts. There wasn't a person in the world I'd choose over Angela. She was my best friend – almost practically sister – to me.
I said a quick hey to Charlie and kissed him on the cheek before heading upstairs with Angela, whom yelled over her shoulder that she was staying the night. Charlie gave an alright and sat down on the couch turning on the T.V. I led Angela to my secret office and she plopped into my comfy chair, getting out the stuff to develop the film. She didn't like to use digital cameras; she said it made it feel like something was missing from the picture. I never put a comment on it because I wasn't a camera expert.
While Angela worked on the photos I decided it was time to go find my brothers new house he was living in. I crawled out my window making sure no one was around and jumped down landing on the balls of my feet. I jogged to where the forest started near my house and once I was covered by the trees, I used my little fluffy cloud to fly me there and let me tell you it is so much more fun then running.
After an hour or so of searching I found the house, which I might add was a very pretty house. Carlisle always had a thing for houses like these, with the big glass window and fancy furniture. I used to tease him about how he should just live in a dungeon and sleep in a coffin. I frowned now missing those times, how we'd laugh and play all day long and even have the guts to aggravate Daddy some times.
I sighed now depressed but then quickly got over it; I had to deal with the task at hand before I could go mop and cry. I floated up to the huge glass window peering through it to see them standing in the living room. I had made sure to mask my scent and did a little charm spell to cloak me, in case they felt some need to look out the window. I thought I saw Alice glance my way again but I shook my head because she still had her back to me. I was just being paranoid.
I herd Carlisle say they were going hunting and grinned; knowing this was going to be a rare chance that might not come again. When they left I slipped into the house quietly. I was being cautious, because even though they were gone you never knew what or who else could be here. I searched around the house which looked like a pretty normal human house.
I found Carlisle's office and looked through his draws and files. He'd become a doctor, and somehow that made me proud that he was perusing a dream of his. It made me smile with great happiness. I really didn't find much else in the house except for an ass load of caps that were in one huge frame on the wall. I had the urge to go look at the grand piano but I stopped myself.
I slipped out of the house, just happy about the fact I had got to see a glimpse of my big brother. I flew through the forest on my cloud humming all the way to the edge. I made my little fluffy cloud disappear and walked to the house to see what Angela had got on the Cullen's while I was out. I headed upstairs to my room and to my secret little office.
"Angela, what did you get on them?" I asked coming up behind her.
"Well, I've found quite a few interesting things about them, and not only that I think I may have a little something on the scent problem as well." She mumbles.
"Great, let me see what you have." I pulled up a metal chair and sat down next to her looking at what she had. My expression went from calm to between horror, surprise, and sadness. I really needed to talk to my Daddy now.
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