Chapter 10: Unlucky
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Disclaimer: I don't own twilight, the closest thing I own to twilight are the books, a keychain that broke :(, and a new moon calendar!
Anything italics is straight from the beautifully written book of Stephenie Meyer
(Bella POV)
In my dream it was very dark, and what dim light there was seemed to be raidating from Edward's skin. I couldn't see his face, just his back as he walked away from me, leaving me in the blackness. No matter how fast I ran, I couldn't catch up to him; no matter how loud I called, he never turned. Troubled, I woke in the middle of the night and couldn't sleep again for what seemed like a very long time. After that, he was in my dreams nearly every night, but always on the periphery, never within reach.
At this point I had to admit to myself that I was totally and completely obsessed with Edward Cullen. He was....different. In a good way. I liked how unique he was, how he stood out of a crowd but people didn't really try to exclude him. The opposite actually, all of my classmates, though I knew they would never admit it, wanted at least one Cullen in their social group to raise up their popularity.
These were the thoughts that consumed my mind as I walked to school. Yes, because my truck was completely ruined in the accident I decided to walk. As I have said before and will continue to repeat, I WILL NOT BE DRIVEN IN A CAR WITH FLASHING LIGHTS!
As soon as I entered the school campus, all the laughing, joking around, and whispering stopped. My natural reaction was to turn pink in embarrassment. That color seemed to infuriate the students.
Suddenly, Tyler walked toward me, followed by what probably was the entire Forks High weightlifting team.
"SEE WHAT YOU DID TO MY FACE, SWAN!" As he yelled that he pointed at his own face which was so grotesque because of the scars that I flinched, thinking that I caused his face to look like that. Obviously he thought the same too. "MARK MY WORDS, SWAN, NEVER MESS WITH ME! COME ON YOU GUYS, LETS TEACH THE NEW GIRL A LESSON!"
Tyler and his evil cronies all advanced toward me. I held my breath, because I knew exactly what was going to happen. At my old school a lot of people beat me up. I wouldn't have let them if I had a choice, but I didn't. In no way, shape, or form could I ever reveal who or what I am, so fighting back and proving my strength would definitely cause suspicion.
If I was able to, I would beat up Tyler and his friends in less than ten seconds, but since it would seem really odd for a seventeen year old, uncoordinated girl to be able to tackle approximately eight weightlifters to the ground, I locked all my muscles and shut my eyes, hoping they would pity me.
I couldn't have been any more wrong. Punches and kicks were flying everywhere. I had no doubt in my mind that I was covered from head to toe in bruises. The rusty scent of salt hit my nostrils and soon I became nauseous. Because I was dizzy and none of Tyler's little, or I should say big, minions would let up I ended up puking all over one of their shoes. All of that just resulted in even more brutal attacks.
When they were done I was stinging and aching all over, and I was surrounded by a tiny pool of blood. The warning bell rang and everyone left for class, leaving me face down in the grass. There are two warning bells and one final bell, so they must've wanted an excuse to get away from my presence as soon as possible
About five minutes after everyone went inside I got up, with much difficulty I might add, and headed straight for the nurse's office. I was about two yards away from the door when I heard a rustling in the leaves. "You can't be serious!" I groaned. As fast as possible I limped to the side of the building where no one had a hope of seeing me. That's when another demon appeared.
This demon was a dark skinned man, with a black buzz cut, and an evil glint in his black eyes. Yes, some demons do have black eyes, the more dangerous ones that is.
"Isabella Swan, what a pleasure to meet the famous cursed shape shifter."
"As you can see, I'm not in the best mood, so please just cut to the chase and get this over with." I snapped.
"Fiery, I like that, too bad you have to die. I grow rather bored of the way the mortals rule this world, so like many demons before me, I'll fight you and see if you make whatever mistake your supposed to make so we can take over."
"In your dreams, pal!" I chuckled.
"We shall see, young one." He snarled. Then he pounced at me. Immediately I raced into action and transformed into a rhino. He clearly was not anticipating that I would be able to transform that fast because he wasn't ready. The demon landed on top of my horn. Quickly, I pinned him to a tree and gutted him with the horn. As he was gasping for breath I stomped on him until he turned to dust.
I am an advanced kind of shape shifter, probably one of the most gifted, so most demons under-estimate me. The problem is, is that changing your entire being from one form to another is extremely painful. The less strength the being has than your average human form the less painful the transformation is, and vice versa.
Quickly, I transformed back to my human form and then clamped my hand tightly over my mouth to stifle my screams of pain. Water was leaking from my eyes from my recent attack, and the damage Tyler and his friends left me.
As fast as possible, which was really a snails pace, I limped to the nurse's office. When I entered the room I saw she was giving a comforting smile to a freshman who was holding his stomach as if he was going to hurl all over the floor.
The expression on her face tricked me into thinking that she might just give me sympathy for my numerous injuries. Of course, I was wrong. The second she looked up to see who had entered she narrowed her eyes and an expression of distaste.
"What do you want?" She asked rather coldly.
I was incredulous. Really? Wordlessly I gestured to my bloody torso and swelled up leg. That doesn't include the fact that almost every inch of my body was covered in either bruises or cuts.
She just shrugged and said "Just suck it up and head to class young lady." My mouth was gaping open. Really? Couldn't she get fired for doing that?
The nurse turned away from me, which confirmed that as usual I had to look out for myself. Once I exited the office the bell rang. Just my luck. I had five minutes left until the final bell that signified the beginning of all classes.
Two minutes later I went back to the blood stained ground where my backpack was left. I ransacked my backpack until I found what I was looking for, a first aide kit. With as many injuries as I have had in the past I was able to treat myself just as well, if not better, than any doctor could.
Lifting my shirt up I saw that the blood across my torso was dried so I got the rain to wash it off. Using a lot of gauze, band aids, and other stuff I was move well enough to be able to walk through school all day, hopefully.
Entering the building I saw a silver Volvo out of my peripheral vision. It looks like Edward and the rest of his siblings arrived a little late today. When I was about to touch the door handle the final bell ring. Just my luck.
Opening the door I saw all the students scurrying around to get to their first class. By the time I had finally hopped to my first period classroom the teacher had already started. When I walked in the most ridiculous thing happened, for being late he sent me to the principle's office where I had to sit around and do nothing until after lunch! I couldn't even eat!
After lunch the principle dismissed me. I hopped on one foot to my biology classroom. Contradicting feelings were going through my mind. On the one hand, Edward Cullen certainly was the nicest person I ever met, but on the other I couldn't make any attachments and he was trying to learn my secret. Silently I prayed that this encounter wouldn't be too painful.
(Edward POV)
Alice seemed overly upset today. Jasper tried using his power to comfort her but her grief was too great. Apparently it was something she had seen in one of her visions. I honestly did try to figure out what was wrong, but every time I would try she would start singing the Spongebob "F.U.N" song in her head. A man can only hear that song so many times. At school though, I figured out what was getting her so down.
Bella's dried blood was on the front lawn of the school. Thankfully she wasn't around because my throat tightened and my mouth pooled with venom. Emmett restrained me and led me straight to my first period class.
Looking into the minds of the student body I saw that Tyler and the weightlifting team had ganged up on Bella and beat her up! Unfortunately I only saw pictures of her lying face down one the ground so I didn't see the extent of her injuries, I just hoped they weren't bad.
I started to worry when I saw that Bella wasn't around during lunch. The worry increased even more when I went to biology and noticed that Bella wasn't there either. If I didn't see her by the end of the day I was going to call Carlisle to see if she was his newest patient.
About to minutes after Mr. Banner started his lesson the door opened. Nothing could have prepared me for what I saw.
Bella's naturally fair skin was bruised and cut in so many places the average human probably wouldn't be able to figure out what her natural skin tone was, her left leg was bent in such an odd way that she had to stand on one foot and lean against the doorway, not to mention that the leg she was standing on was still pretty swelled up, and on top of all that she had a black eye and I could see gauze running a trail down her arms and probably more places that her clothes covered. My eyes opened in shock just seeing her like this. How far did she have to walk? Her forehead was beaded with sweat so I could only assume that it was a very long distance for her already damaged body.
The worst part though, were her eyes. Those deep pools of chocolate looked very tired and hopeless. That expression was just so heart wrenching that I was compelled to just scoop her into my arms and tell her everything was going to be okay. My feelings shocked me, but before I had much time to think about them, Mr. Banner started talking.
"So Bella, you decided to finally join us today? Where were you?" My mouth dropped. She didn't even have crutches and she was lugging around a heavy backpack, how fast did he think she was?
"I was in the principle's office sir." She sighed. Wow, this girl must've had really bad luck.
"That's still no excuse Ms. Swan." Was he being serious? "After school you have detention; now go to your seat." Bella nodded quickly and limped to our lab table.
Unfortunately for Bella, one of the students tripped her and she came crashing down. Bella blushed while everyone besides me, including the teacher, laughed at her. Then she threw all of her things on top of the table, wobbled to her seat, and hid her face in her hair until the laughter stopped.
Throughout the entire lesson I stared at her, expecting her to cry. Most teenagers her age would be balling, but this thought didn't even seem to occur to her. Bella's expression remained neutral throughout the lesson.
When class was over and Bella was getting her stuff ready I asked her if she would like me to carry her books for her, but she refused.
"Bella, why don't you want me to help you?" I asked.
"Because, I'll just slow you down. Besides, I've had way worse injuries than this." She said this as if it was nothing at all, but her eyes showed there was much more pain than she was willing to admit.
Smiling she left the room. How she had the strength to even smile when she was so sad just proved even further how incredible she is. As she left the empty classroom I realized something that shocked myself, I was falling in love with Isabella Marie Swan.
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