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First day at Forks High =] Need I say anymore?
BellaPOV.
Maddy and I hunted during the night to ensure we were satiated enough to attend school the next day. We can never be too careful when moving to a new area, as I learned from my experience with Edward, you can never tell who's blood will call your name.
We arrived home before dawn and I lay on my bed, waiting for Maddy to be done with the shower. In the rush of nostalgia of buying this house I had forgotten that there was only one bathroom. It didn't matter so much seeing as we don't need to use it for bodily functions but we do both shower … frequently. It isn't necessary but its part of my human routine that I didn't want to give up.
As I lay there, I kept glancing towards my window. I kept expecting Edward to jump through it. I missed those days a lot. All though thinking back on it now it was slightly creepy, especially in the beginning when he watched me sleep when I was unaware of his presence.
My mind wondered to all the stolen kisses and sleepovers that Charlie had never been aware of. He would have exploded if he'd ever found out. In the months after they left, I never told Charlie about it. For a start I was worried for his health as it was and on top of that I was hoping he might come back. And telling Charlie would have set me up for trouble if Edward had ever chosen to return.
I could just see it now, Charlie sitting by my window every night as I tried to sleep with the shotgun in his lap. Just waiting for Edward to make the mistake of showing up. I laughed to myself at the thought. It probably would have been something Charlie would do. He was prone to over reaction when it came to me. Although I can't say I blame him I was his only daughter.
I wished Maddy would hurry up with her shower, she was taking much longer than was necessary and I was covered in blood. I'd been acting a little too full of myself while hunting and ended up spilling a rather large amount of elk blood on my shirt.
Maddy hurry the hell up, if I don't get this blood off of me soon its going to become a permanent fixture to my skin!
I thought to myself, then I heard a gasp from the bathroom and Maddy was at my door in a flash, wearing nothing but a towel and an extremely shocked expression.
"How did you do that?" She asked, awed.
"Do what?" I replied feeling totally bemused.
"You spoke … in my head!" She said staring at me. I was totally confused, I had just mentally shouted at her to hurry the hell up and get out of the shower but that didn't explain why she would have heard me. And also why wouldn't she have ever heard me before?
"I…I did shout at you in my head. But that was all." I said feeling completely startled and shaken.
"Do you think that's maybe your power?"
"I don't know, I've never thought about it before. It's rare for vampires to have powers so I just thought I was … normal … if you can call it that."
"Try it again!!!" She squealed.
"Ok, ok. Calm down midget." I chuckled as she shot me a reproachful glare.
Don't glare at me like that you loon!
She gasped again.
"I heard it." Holy hell, this is weird.
"Ok so either you can selectively read minds, or I can … what? Mentally chastise people and put it in there heads?" I asked feeling totally bemused. Maddy just shook her head at me.
"We can't talk about this right now, we have to get ready for school. We'll figure it out later. Remember we changed your name back to 'Swan', so none of this "I'm Bella Pierce." stuff." She giggled, wiggling her little finger at me.
"I know, I know." I huffed and lifted myself gracefully off of the bed and headed for the bathroom. That was something else that felt weird. Being graceful in this house was a new experience for me entirely.
I pushed the thoughts of my apparent power to the back of my mind and hopped in the shower. It took me a solid five minutes to get the blood off of my stomach and chest.
After I was washed and dried, I pulled on some simple jeans, a black tank top and a zip up hoody before stuffing my feet into my converses. I knew converses probably weren't the best kind of shoes to wear in rainy little Forks, but it was dry out side today and besides it wasn't like I was going to get ill from having wet feet.
The drive to Forks High School as quiet and uneventful, we were early on purpose so that we could grab our time tables from the office and slink off hopefully unnoticed by the students.
Of course that didn't work. By the time Ms. Goforth was through with chatting our ears off it was five minutes to the bell and pretty much the entire student body had arrived. As we walked out of the office doors it was like watching a chain reaction. First one person looked at us, then another one did, then another until everyone had stopped what they were doing and just … stared.
"Well, that's rude." Maddy said, giggling beside me.
"I probably should have warned you about this. The last time I came to school here, I was just another normal human being like the rest of them and even then they stared like there was no damn tomorrow." I said slightly put off by the amount of attention we were getting.
Whenever we went somewhere new we always got attention, because to human we're beautiful and alluring. But the reaction in Forks was like nothing I'd ever seen before. It was as if they could feel that the difference between us and them was something more than us just being new students.
We quickly memorized our time tables and stuffed them in our back packs heading to our first class of the day, English. It was also the only class we had together for the entire day until Gym last period. I still hate gym. I may be a supernatural being who's incredibly fast and strong, but I can't play on that in front of class mates and teachers. It just wouldn't look right.
English was highly uneventful, except for the staring. The teacher didn't have us introduce ourselves and for that I was thankful. At the end of that class Maddy and I split ways, she had Spanish and I had French. I was about to follow her out of the door, when a boy stood in my way.
I guess you could say he was good looking, more cute than anything special. He was quite tall with short, but curly. Brown hair and light blue eyes.
"Hi." he said smiling down at me. "I'm Stewart Newton, you must be Isabella Sawn?" Whoa talk about déjà vu. I was staring at Mike and Jessica's genes passed down through generations.
"Just Bella." I gave him a weak smile.
"Can I walk you to your next class, Just Bella?" He asked with a wink. Wow… smooth.
"Sure." I said trying to keep in the vicious bought of laughter that was trying to escape me. On the walk between English and French he told me that he preferred to be called Stew and that all the ladies at Forks High loved him. I just smiled and nodded the entire time, scared that if I opened my mouth I would laugh at him.
It was odd but slightly refreshing having some people to talk to for once. It must be something in the air in Forks that makes people slightly less fearful of vampires. Spanish passed without any great event to speak of. Although Maddy did catch me in the hall and relayed some unsettling news.
"Bella, I just ran straight into some tiny little girl with black hair." She whispered frantically.
"Calm down, did you hurt her?" I whispered back.
"No! Doesn't that worry you?"
"Um … no? It would have worried me if you hurt her but you didn't she's fine, no harm no foul." I said shrugging my shoulders.
"No, Bella you don't understand. I ran straight into her, but she withstood me! I should have sent her flying and broken her fragile little human bones but I didn't! I practically bounced off of her. She's not human! She's one of us! Which could cause a whole lot of problems." She whispered hysterically.
"Ok, ok. Calm down. It'll be fine, if she's here at school then she has to be like us. I doubt she'll be a threat. Just calm down and go to class, we'll take everything as it comes." She nodded and headed off towards her next class.
I was left slightly shaken by our exchange. Small with black hair. Alice. I pushed that thought to the back of my mind, there was no way. It just simply wasn't possible.
Trigonometry got off to a bad start. The teacher made me stand up and introduce myself. I wondered idly if she was some sort of descendant of Mr. Varner's. I took the only empty seat in the room, beside a girl who looked very tall even though she was seated.
"I'm Kayla Cheney." She introduced herself shyly. Wow. Another descendant. This time of Angela and Ben's. She had short light brown hair and hazel eyes, she was very pretty and just looking into her face made me miss Angela.
"Bella Swan." I said smiling at her encouragingly. But inside the hollow feeling was starting to sneak up on me again. A hundred years ago, I was sitting in these same classrooms with people like Mike, Jessica, Angela, Ben, Eric, Tyler and Lauren and now they were all six feet under and never coming back, with only there great, great, great grandchildren as any proof that they had ever been here in the first place. I missed all of them in some way or another. Except for Lauren. I'd always hated that girl.
By the time the lunch bell rang I was in desperate need of Maddys company. I met her in the hallway outside the cafeteria and we went in together. I told her about my dilemma and she comforted me with her words. Apparently it would get easier, I hoped like hell she was right.
As I was standing in the queue talking to Maddy I could feel several pairs of eyes on me. Which was to be expected, being the new kids, but this set of stares felt intense and was making my stomach roll uncomfortably. I decided to chance it and spun around locking eyes with a tall statuesque blonde. Her golden eyes bore into mine like she was trying to see my soul.
"Rosalie." I breathed out in just a whisper, but I knew she would have heard me. I looked to her right and sure enough Jasper, Emmett and Alice all met my stare with stunned expressions gracing their beyond beautiful faces. But … no Edward. I couldn't even start to grasp at what that might mean. Where …
"Bella, what the hell's going on?" Maddy interrupted me, demanding my attention.
"Cullen's." Was all I could choke out and she followed my gaze and gasped.
Just then the doors to the cafeteria burst open and Adonis himself walked in. Tall and lean, wild bronze hair and worried honeycomb coloured eyes. My gaze locked with his and comprehension dawned on his glorious face. Edward. Edward. Edward. He's so much more beautiful than I remembered him. My human mind and eyesight hadn't done him justice. Not in the slightest.
We'd been staring at each other for what felt like an eternity. When he began to gracefully move in my direction. As he reached me all I could smell was him and it was intoxicating. He leaned down slightly and pulled me up into his strong arms and kissed me with so much passion and need that I almost didn't hear the claps, cheers and wolf whistles of our fellow students, who I hadn't realized had been silent up until that moment.
That was when rational thought hit me. I loved Edward and I needed him like I'd never needed anything ever before. But this was too fast. I needed time to adjust and this wasn't the right way to do it. I broke the kiss and he placed me back on my feet. He was grinning like a mad man, but I couldn't even find it in me to smile back. I wanted to cry.
"Edward, please I need time. I'm so sorry." Was all I got out before I fled from the cafeteria. Tearless sobs ripping through my body.
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A/N : Sorry for the slight cliffy. The next chapter will be Edwards POV of the first day back at Forks High. I'm taking a small break and then starting it, so it should be out later tonight or tomorrow =] . Thanks for the reviews everyone I really appreciate them!
Much Love,
Rachael.