A.N. And finally another chapter is done. Sorry for how long it took, hopefully the next few chapters will come quicker.
For those of you who read this chapter earlier before I reposted it, you would probably have noticed the random stuff after the A.N. at the bottom. Sorry guys, that was what I had before and it was crap (excuse the language) This is the chapter I had to redo when I finally felt inspired again. Hope you enjoy!
BPOV
I woke up later that morning, feeling incredibly groggy. I couldn't remember where I was or how I had gotten there.
Looking around the room, I found I was in Quil and Embry's room. Realizing this, the events of the night previous started to come back to me. At the same time I also figured out that today was my first day at the local high school.
I looked at the clock on the wall and found that school was supposed to start in little over an hour and a half. That would give me plenty of time to get ready. I was not one of those girls who stand in front of a mirror for hours every day. I just went into the bathroom, did what I needed to do and then get out again.
Quil and Embry weren't in the room, so they must have gotten up very quietly before me. I don't know how I didn't notice Quil getting up. I was lying on the side of the bed that he would have had to have crawled over the top of me to get out.
I hopped out of bed and walked over to my room, thinking about the dream I had had the previous night. I still didn't understand why I had had such a big reaction to it. All I did was say goodnight to Mom and Phil after they got back from their night out. Maybe it was the fact that it was the last normal night I would have in that house.
I continued my thinking as I picked out clothes for the day. I was half dressed when there was knocking on my door.
"Yeah?" I answered.
"Just checking if you were okay. We have to leave soon, school starts in 45 minutes and you have to go to the front office to get your timetable." Quil replied.
"I'm fine. I will be out in a few minutes. Meet you downstairs." I said.
I heard Quil's heavy footsteps going down the stairs as I finished getting dressed. I had packed my bag the night before so I picked it up and headed down to the kitchen.
I was nervous to be starting at a new school today, but I knew my brothers and their friends would be there to support me. I went to the cupboard which held the cereals and poured myself a small bowl of Fruit Loops.
I ate quickly since I knew we had to leave soon. Just as I was finishing Jake and Paul came into the kitchen. They had been messing around outside with my other brothers while they waited for me to get ready.
"Are you good to go?" Paul asked.
"Yep, let me just grab my bag." I followed the boys out the door, locking it as I went.
We all piled into the ute and took off for school. My brothers could tell I was nervous about today, but they kept quiet, sensing I needed some time to myself. I was pretty surprised that I wasn't questioned about last night and how I ended up in Quil's bed. I am sure that would come later though.
When we arrived at school, all of my brothers except Embry said goodbye to us as they went to find their friends. Embry took me over to the front office so I could get my timetable and anything else I needed.
Because the bell for first period would be going soon, the old lady sitting at the desk didn't waste too much time giving me the necessary papers.
I thanked her and then walked back out into the cold weather. As Embry and I walked towards the classroom buildings, I looked at my timetable. I found out that I had English first. Once Embry knew which classroom to take me to, he started leading the way, while having a look at the rest of my timetable. He told me that we had two classes together and that I shared classes with some of our other friends as well. This meant I wouldn't be alone. I was so glad. It was one of the things that made me nervous, having to go to a class with no one I knew in it. I didn't know how these people would react to having a new girl in their class. I might mess up their class routine; maybe they would hate me for it. As you can see, my thought process isn't always logical.
Embry walked me all the way to the door and waited there till I had spoken with my new English teacher and went to an empty desk. He waved goodbye as he walked to his own class.
As I sat down at my desk, I looked around the room to see if I knew anyone in the room. In the second row on the other side of the room was Emily. She was smiling at me; I smiled back and gave a small wave. When I looked to see who I was sitting next to I found that my desk was situated between a massive guy that could have easily crushed me if he felt like it. He looked angry. I wasn't sure if that was because he now had to sit next to someone or if he was just having a bad day. The other desk next to my desk was occupied by a bottle blonde haired girl who was picking at her nails. She looked incredibly bored. She also looked like one of those girls who would bully other people if they didn't conform to what they wanted. A popular. I hated those types of girls. The way they thought they were better than everyone else.
I decided to just ignore both of my neighbours, finally tuning in to what the teacher was saying. I had arrived in La Push in the middle of the school term. My English class was in the middle of discussing the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. I had read that book before so I didn't think I would have any trouble catching up in this class. I had always been good at English.
Class ended quickly and as I packed my books back up I heard someone walking up to me. They cleared their throat as I continued to put my books away. I looked up to find the bottle blonde standing there, getting impatient that she was having to wait for my attention.
"Hi" I said, drawing the greeting out a little and wondering what she wanted.
"Listen closely; I saw how Embry brought you to class. I don't care if you are his sister, I want you to back off, now that you are here, you are taking him away from me. He is mine and I will always be more special to him than you." She said. I didn't even know her name, but she seemed to know about me. Once she had finished her speech, she walked out of the room, leaving me standing there alone, shocked about the encounter.
She was so hostile towards me. I would definitely being staying away from her from now on. To be honest, I was a little afraid. I had had problems with bullies in my old school so I knew the destruction they could cause. Not a fun time for me, but not the worst.
Emily had heard the whole conversation and she came over to me as I was about to leave the room.
"Ignore her. She is just full of herself. She is jealous of everyone that gets Embry's attention. She isn't very good at sharing." Emily said, making me feel slightly better.
"I don't even know who she was. It's only my first day here and things have already become interesting. Just think what the rest of the year will be like." I groaned.
"Her name is Lauren. She is considered popular hear of La Push High, and most girls try and be like her so that they can hang out with her and get a taste of the popular life. There are some girls who don't want to be like Lauren, and those are the girls I talk to. I tend to ignore everyone else." Emily said.
As we walked and talked, I pulled out my timetable. Emily took it from me so she could see what I had next and lead me there.
"You have science with Sam now." Emily told me. She gave me the directions to my next class; she couldn't walk me there because she had an exam next and couldn't be late. I followed her directions to the nail and made it to the right class just before the bell.
When I walked into the classroom, the whole class turned to watch me talk to the teacher. The teacher gave me an opportunity to pick where I wanted to sit. I looked around the room. The seat next to Sam was free so I went to join him at the combined desk. Walking over, should have been easy but me being my clumsy self tripped over nothing. Everyone in the room laughed at me, Sam came over and helped me up, walking me to my seat.
"Are you okay?" Sam asked.
"I'm fine; I am naturally clumsy, nothing new." I replied.
Science passed quickly as well as my other morning classes. Almost too soon, it was lunchtime. It is always hard going back to school on a Monday when you have the weekend to eat whenever you want and then come to school and have to eat at strict times.
I was following the crowd on the way to the cafeteria when I was grabbed from behind. I immediately tensed up; I did not like to be touched unless I knew who it was or if I knew it was coming so that way I could prepare myself for it. The person hugging me let me go when they felt me go still. I turned around to find it had been Jake that had grabbed me. Paul was standing next to him. He looked worried.
"Don't do that! You scared the living daylights out of me!" I said still a little shocked from what happened.
"Are you okay Bella?" Paul asked, concerned.
"I didn't mean to scare you like that. I was just having a bit of fun." Jake said sounding worried as well.
"That's okay Jake, I forgive you. I'm fine Paul." I said as the three of us started walking towards the cafeteria which looked to be almost completely full.
We got into the food line. Before long we were at the front ordering. The boys got heaps of food while for myself I ordered a plain meat pie and a bottle of apple juice.
Picking up our food, I followed Paul and Jake over to where I could see my other brothers and all of our friends. We had a whole table to ourselves.
"Hey Bella! How has your day been since I last saw you?" Emily asked me. Everyone else was listening in for my answer. I told them it had been okay. There were some things that hadn't been the best but though the situation was completely different, I still couldn't seem to open up about anything bad happening to me. I still kept it locked inside. Hopefully I will be strong enough to be able to tell them all the truth. They cared so much for me yet I couldn't be truthful with them.
I think my brothers knew I wasn't telling the truth, but they let it go and just dug into their massive piles of food.
When lunch was over, I looked at my timetable and found that I had a free period. Emily told me that when people had frees, they tended to go to the library so they could do some of their homework. As she said bye to me, I noticed Jared was still standing around.
"Don't you have a class to be in?" I asked him, wondering why he was still standing there.
"I have a free now as well. Do you wanna go to one of the benches outside to do our homework? I mean that is if you plan on doing homework. I always find it easier to get homework done at school though since when all of our friends are together, nothing ever gets done." Jared said, sounding nervous and unsure of himself.
"Sure, we can find a table outside. The sky doesn't look like it is going to open on us with rain anytime soon."
A.N. How did you guys like it? Make sure you review with your answer. The longer the review the better!
Also, yes I have added some characters from Forks into a La Push story. I am sure all of you readers can live. I needed someone to be the bully type character so I thought I might use someone that was already created rather than figuring someone out myself. Hope this works for everyone!
More chapters to come soonish...
