Chapter 36

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Bellapov

"Keys?"

"Right…"

"Backpack?"
"Grrr!"

He chuckles softly.
"Did you even eat breakfast my dear?"

"I'll eat something at lunch."

"Aren't you forgetting one more thing?"

I turn to him confused. He taps his foot on the floor and crosses his arms about his chest.

"What?"

He unfolds his arms and points to his cheek. I smile but turn back towards the door.

"Oh no you don't."

He appears beside me and pens me into the corner.

"Kiss me."
I press my lips together and shake my head.

"Isabella…" He scolds.

I laugh and duck under his arms and reach for the door handle.

"Keep it up and I'll ruin your new school outfit!" He says shutting the door before I can make my way out.

"What are you doing? Since when do you run from my affection?"

"You said I couldn't resist Mr. Salvatore."

He cocks a brow.

"And I was right."

I shake my head.

He leans into my ear.

"Tell me Ms. Swan… do your panties still get wet at just the sound of my voice."

My eyes widen as he reaches under my skirt and feels for himself. He grins like the cat that ate the canary. He then reaches around and pops me on the rear.

"Get to class Ms. Swan." He says and opens the door.

I blink a few times.

"That's your car?" I say looking upon the baby blue 1969 Chevy Camaro the top was already down.

"Sure is."

"Awesome! That's way different from the Chevy you were driving in Forks."

"This one's a bit more me." He admits.

"I can see why."

"Just take care of her."

I nod and toss my backpack in the back.

"So cool." I say as I hear the engine rev up.

I turn to see him grinning. He waves as I begin to follow Stefan and Elena out. I turn on the radio and a Fall Out Boy song was playing Alone Together. The car even carried his scent as I picked up speed it seemed to hit me in the face, in good way of course.

I follow Stefan into the school parking lot and I turn down Damon's radio. My nerves were beginning to hit big time. I was never one good with change. Of course then I met Damon Salvatore and that's all my life seems to do. It'd be so much easier if he could be here. But he certainly didn't look anything like a high school student. I grin in thought. Stefan and Elena are walking towards me as I grab my backpack.

"Damon's already set everything up Bella. All you have to do is go by the office and grab your schedule. Don't worry either Elena or I will be in one of your classes at all times. It's how he set it up."

I swallow nervously seeing all eyes were all me. People were whispering about and pointing even. Ugh. I keep my sunglasses on not wanting to make eye contact with anyone.

"Kinda scary."
"What is?"

"You almost look like a female version of my brother, that car and those shades."

"Are you saying your brother is in love with himself?"

Elena laughs.

"Wouldn't put it past him." Stefan says smiling.

"Sadly, I wouldn't either."
"You certainly know Damon." Elena says still laughing.

She takes my hand and leads me around. I look to Stefan for help as Elena just starts dragging me around pointing and talking about everything. I can't lie though I wasn't all that comfortable with the idea of living in the same house with Damon's ex. I mean how does Stefan do it? Live under the same roof. There must be a bond between the three of them that I may never understand. I shouldn't let it bother me. I know how Damon feels about me. It's not so much that I felt threatened as much as just awkward that we're all living under the same roof. Both had been with Elena at some point. Stefan's just as sexy sure. No one could ever hold a candle to Damon though.

Elena opens the office door. This really pretty blonde haired girl follows us inside.

"Hi Bella!"

I narrow my eyes at first confused and look to Elena. This girl makes a funny face and shakes her head.

"Right… Last time you met me…"

"Right, being blind and all. Not fun."

She smiles.

"Caroline right?"

"Yes! How'd you do that?"

"Your voice."

"Can I help you?" The woman at the desk asks the three of us stand at the counter.

"I just needed to pick up my schedule… um Isabella Swan."

"Oh so you're the new girl."

Ugh really?

"Um yeah."

"Here you go then." She hands me the schedule and I look it over.

My eyes widen at the electives Damon picked for me. I look to Elena.

"I'm so not a cheerleader! He knows this!"

She laughs.

"But I am and so is she…"She looks towards Caroline.

"No offense but it's just not my thing. I don't dance and I don't carry around pom poms. I'm going to kill him!"

"Knowing Damon it's probably because he wants to see you in the outfit."

Elena laughs at Caroline's comment.

"Either way he's still fucked when the day is over.

I take out the new cell he got me as I leave the office. I call him as I head to my new locker.

"Missing me so soon darling?"

"I was until you did something very stupid."
"And what may that be?"

"You know I wasn't a cheerleader back in Forks Damon!"

I hear him chuckling.

"Well Bonnie, Elena and Caroline…"
"I don't give a damn if they are the school mascots I'm not a cheerleader!"

"Just give it a shot the ladies will help you out."

"I'm a senior that's never cheered a day in her life! How the hell did you manage this?"

"Vampire my dear."

"GRRRRRRR You're so getting staked when I get home."

"Feisty can't wait."

He hangs up and I wanted to crush my phone to pieces. I place the phone in my pocket and open my locker to already see the books and my outfit in there.

"Jesus." I utter.

I can't even do a cartwheel how am I going to pull this off. I peer over to Elena in misery.

"I think I'm gonna be sick."

"What's wrong?" Stefan pipes in.

I show him the outfit in my locker. He sighs.

"That has Damon written all over it."

"Precisely."

Stefan shrugs.

"Well you got the looks."

I blush a bit at this.

"But you all don't seem to know that I manage to trip over my own shoes even when they're tied!"

Stefan laughs.

"It's not funny." He raises his hands in defense.

I grumble under my breath and slam my locker shut.

"Bella? Oh wow!"

"Bonnie?"

"So you've now managed to join the darkside?"

"Something like that with Damon as my Sith Lord."

They all laugh.

"How he'd love to hear that." Stefan adds.

The bell rings and I take in a deep breath.

"You're gonna do fine." Bonnie assures.

I didn't feel so sure.

"That was also something I was realizing. All of Damon's friends were like really attractive. The girls made me sick each were flawless. "

A couple of boys in class fix their eyes on us as we enter the room.

"Is that…" I hear one of them whispering to the other.

"Bella." He says with a smile.

Ugh… More test of the who's who. I remembered an Alaric, Tyler and Jeremy.

"So who was who?"

I looked upon the two boys in confusion both had deep voices. I remembered Alaric's distinctively his stood out the most.

"Please ladies have a seat."

I grin before I even turn around well that's one down.

"Isabella?"

He says with narrowed eyes leaning over his desk. I nod.

"Well I'll be damned…" Alaric clears his throat realizing he just cursed in class.

He looks to the class apologetic.

"Jer you remember Bella right?" Elena says as she takes a seat next to me.

Which helped me solved the case of the matching names.

"Jer as in her brother Jeremy ."
I lean over.

"I thought he was younger than you."

She smiles.

"You've got a lot to learn about what we can get away with here in Mystic Falls. As to all the more reason I say you give this cheerleading thing a try."

I grimace not so sure about that. I turn back to the other boy.

"You must be Tyler."

He smiles and nods. I realized now I was in a class surrounded by all Damon's friends. I just hadn't met Liz yet.

"Welcome to Mystic Falls Isabella Swan." Alaric announces with a smile.

I blush a bit and sink into my chair.

"Um thanks…"

He chuckles a bit and starts to hand out papers. Ok there is something in the water here. Everyone in the group was beyond hot. I felt so out of place in comparison. Alaric makes his way to my desk and hands me a paper.

I take out my pencil and start. From what little I gathered. It looked as though Bonnie and Jeremy were a couple and Tyler and Caroline. At least they flirted during class like they were. I found myself missing Mr. Salvatore though. I grin amongst myself as I finish my assignment, the memories dancing around in my head. But so did the pain of everything we'd gone through just to get where we are now. I twirl my necklace around in thought and hand in my paper once I'm done. Alaric grades it like right there. Ugh I hate when teachers do that. But I'm sure he was curious about if his buddy was with a clever girl or not. He smiles and scribbles down a hundred on the paper. I nod and take my seat.

I reach to my head as it's pounding. I knew I was freaking about what they all thought of me. If I'm anything like Damon though I shouldn't care right? I roll my eyes in thought and lean back in my chair. I cross my legs and focus on breathing. The bell rings within seconds or so it seemed. I swallowed back as everyone stared upon me. Damn it did I actually fall asleep in class? Judging by the look on Alaric's face, yep that's exactly what I did and on my first day. I was wondering if I had drool upon my chin to add to my misery. I clear my throat and grab my bag.

"Perhaps some coffee, before you come to class tomorrow Isabella."

"Yes sir and its Bella. " There was only one person allowed to call me by my full name.

"Very well Bella." He says with a smile.

"It's nice to see you again."

I nod and hurriedly catch up to Elena.

"What would Damon think if I just became like an emo cheerleader? You know the whole black knee highs thing and all?"

She looks to me.

"Well you'd be his wet dream come true."

"Elena!" I say with a grin I couldn't believe she just said that.

We both laugh as we head into the gym.

"Just be yourself Bella."

"You're going to be taking that back shortly."

"And about the emo cheerleader, that'd be pretty cool Bella."

"I thought so, something that screams out diversity."

She looks upon me as she opens her locker.

"That's kind of scary."

"What's that?"

"I think I see why you two mesh so well."

I narrow my eyes confused.

"Bella wants to go emo on us." Elena says as Caroline enters the locker room.

"Oh cool!"

"I thought so."

"I wouldn't doubt Damon has a can of black spray somewhere in that car of his."

Caroline laughs. I look upon my outfit in disgust.

"Relax Bella it's not that bad." Elena says.

"Yeah says the beautiful head cheerleader."

"Actually Caroline's the head cheerleader this year."

"Ah... either way I'm going at this like a bat out in the sun."

The girls already are in their outfits.

"Come on Bella your turn."

"I ought to make Damon wear it."

Bonnie smiles shaking her head, I close my eyes and force myself into the dress.

"Damn…"

"What?" I say in panic thinking I put it on wrong or something.

"Relax Bella I think Caroline's trying to say that you're hot."

"Me?" The three of them nod and lead me to a mirror.

I rear back a bit. I narrow my eyes at the girl in the mirror. They all smile and dart out the door.

I shrug and pull my hair up into a ponytail. Meanwhile I prayed I didn't break my neck. At least I have Damon's blood in me if I do… Dark I know but hey it's something.

I run out to the field seeing that they're already doing stretches. Elena and Caroline smile my direction as I join. I felt so out of place. I'd not a clue what I was going to do if asked to do a back flip or something spectacular like that.

I heard the sound of running and see the football players running onto the field. I made out Jeremy and Tyler amongst the group. They both waved as they ran past. I come to my feet and start mimicking the other cheerleaders best I can. Elena comes up and grabs me by the arm.

"Just relax if you're asked to do something go for it. Caroline and I got the rest covered."

"But Elena!" I say and she walks off.

"Great." I mutter.

Sure enough we're all lining up and it becomes my turn to prove myself. All the girls had done some sort of back flip or cartwheel. Elena gives me a nod from across the way. My entire face was on fire. Everyone was looking at me.

"Just run across." Caroline whispers in my ear.

I close my eyes for a moment and do as Caroline said feeling like a total idiot. I feel my body lift at one point however and I land on my feet. I stand there wide eyed and everyone's clapping. I turn to see Caroline and Elena looking over smiling. Ok that was actually pretty awesome. Just wish I had actually managed to pull it off myself.

"Great job Ms. Swan." The coach says as she passes by.

Yeah for a cheater but I'll take it for now.

"Um thanks." I say with a shrug.

Elena walks up to me and whispers.

"You know we will actually have to teach you the moves eventually."

"Ugh. Or I could just become a vampire."

"That would make things easier."

Once that was over with we headed back to the locker room.

"On game days we wear our uniforms."
"What are the game days?"

"We have one tomorrow."

"You're kidding so I have to wear this all frickin' day tomorrow?"

She nods and heads into the shower.

Ok make that a stake and burning… I text Damon and drop the phone into my backpack while I shower.

Once I return and get dressed. I pick up my phone seeing he texted back.

I do love it when you talk dirty.

Damon!

Yes?

I laughed at his last text as I pictured him saying this.

Lunchtime comes after a couple more classes. I sit with the group and start comparing them to

the Forks students. I even start comparing the vampires to the Cullens. This still felt foreign to me. I picked at my food but it smelled terrible like boiled cabbage or something. Of course no one else at the table was really eating either except for Jeremy and Tyler. Bonnie had the same expression I did as she looked upon her tray.

I turned at one point seeing Stefan and Tyler tossing an orange back and forth like a football. I was beginning to realize I was going to miss Alice, Jasper and Angela. It just seemed like a hole at the table to me.

"Hey you ok there?" Stefan questions peering over at me.

"Yep."

"Not getting homesick on us already are you?"

"Actually there's not a whole lot to Forks to be homesick about, besides maybe a handful of people."

"We're having a party Friday. You and Damon should come by." Tyler offers.

"Um maybe it's not such a good idea." Elena says looking to Stefan.

"Why?" I ask interestedly.

Stefan shrugs.

"I don't think there would be any issues."

"Stefan…" Elena says with distaste.

"OK I'm like right here what's wrong with Damon and parties?"

Everyone at the table has this odd looking smile. Stefan's rubbing the back of his neck and Jeremy's trying not to laugh.

"Well now I have to go."
"Why's that?"
"Because you all got my curiosity."

Elena sighs and leans back.

"I'm sure it'll be fun." Caroline says smiling my way.

"Oh I'm sure."

After school is over Stefan and Elena catch up to me.

"You know the way back?"

"Yeah I'm good you two can go on."

Stefan nods and takes Elena's hand. I wave to a few of the others as they head to their cars. I start the car and turn on the radio. I put on my shades and begin my way back to Damon's. Halfway there I see a set of flashing lights.

"You're kidding me…" I turn down the radio and look behind me as I pull over.

"I wasn't even speeding . I'll never hear the end of this." I mutter as the officer starts to walk up to my window. First day in Damon's car and I get fucking pulled over?! I sigh and lean back waiting for it. He knocks on the window. He was in full gear too even had the cheesy motorcycle cop glasses and hat.

"License, registration and insurance please."

I roll my eyes and hit Damon's glove compartment. I dig around for his stuff. I hand them over once I find all I need.

"It doesn't show an Isabella Swan on any of these things. Do you have the title?"

"No sir. Look what is this about. I wasn't even speeding."

He ignores me and heads back to the car. Jackass… I found myself thinking. I tap on the stirring wheel impatiently. I half thought about calling Damon but I'd die of embarrassment and didn't want to hear his ranting sarcasm.

He comes back to the car and peers inside. He reaches in and takes the keys from the ignition.

"Um what are you doing?" I practically hiss.

"I need you to step out of the car mam."

"What for?"

"Step out of the car." He says and places his hand about the gun in his holster.

"I mean you're joking right?"

I step out of the car.

"Mam are you aware that this car has been reported stolen?"

I laugh.

"That's bullshit."

"Pardon?"

"I mean it's not stolen it's my boyfriends."

"Oh really?"

"Yes. He let me borrow it for school I'm returning it to him now."

The officer shakes his head.

"It was reported stolen this morning."

"Clearly you're wrong. Look I can call him and he'll tell you himself. I'm sure he'd even personally come and solve the matter."

"That won't be needed."

"Please lean against the car."

My eyes widen as he takes out a set of hand cuffs.

"You're seriously not arresting me! I didn't steal this car!"

"You're innocent until proven guilty mam."

"Please place your hands behind your back."

I grit my teeth wanting to hit a cop.

"Look my father he's a cop too I'm sure we can…"

"Trying to bribe an officer?"

"Of course not!"

"Then please proceed."

"Whatever." I place my hands behind my back.

"You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law. You have the right to an attorney. If you cannot afford an attorney, one will be provided for you. Do you understand the rights I have just read to you? With these rights in mind, do you wish to speak to me?"

"Yeah how about you kiss my ass."

"Once again I do not take bribes."

"What did you just say."

He ignores me and starts to lead me to the squad car. He places me inside and shuts the door.

"Dick." I mutter not believing this.

I was also pissed that we were leaving Damon's car unattended.

"Look couldn't I just call my boyfriend and let him know his car is here."

Still he says nothing and starts the car. I roll my eyes. The cop starts down the road and I'm growing more and more impatient. But that impatience turns to pissed when I see he's not even heading to the station. Instead he's going through some fucking dirt road.

"Um sir where are we going."

"Just a little detour first, I've got something I've to take care of."

"Maybe you should have thought about that before arresting an innocent person!"

"I highly doubt you're innocent."

He stops but in the middle of nowhere. A tad of fear kicks in and it's beginning to look like a very bad lifetime movie.

"Sir what's going on?"

He takes off his jacket and unbuttons the top two buttons of his shirt.

I half laugh.

"You're kidding right? Do you have any idea just how much trouble you're about to get yourself into?"

"How so?"'

"If you're about to try what I think you are… you're dead where you sit."

"I highly doubt that. Now step out of the car."

"Do you have any idea just who the fuck Damon Salvatore is!"

A smile cracks along his face. I close my eyes and shake my head I'd recognize that smile anywhere.

"You!"
He nods and takes off his hat and glasses. He steps out of the car and opens my door. He uncuffs me and I immediately pop him in the arm.

"That was such a dick move Damon!"

He leads me behind the car.

"Seriously what were you thinking?!" I was furious.

He cocks a brow and gets down on one knee.
"I was thinking about marrying you…" He says and takes out a ring from his pocket.

My eyes widen and I cover my mouth in complete shock.