The young Betty sat on her bed as she mentally thought up any excuses to not go to school. The girl, of course, was fully dressed and had her backpack beside her but she could hope.
"Betty," Bella called out. The 14-year-old snapped out of her daze and looked at her half-sister. "Um, if you want you could sit with me at lunch. That is if you have the same lunch as me and..yeah." Bella ended lamely.
"Thank you, Bella," Betty told the girl. "I think we should go now," Bella mumbled making her way out of the room.
The ride to school was silent except for the roaring engine of Bella's truck. The elder girl dropped Betty off at the front office saying she'd "wait outside while you pick up your schedule." The younger girl nodded before making her way to the main office where she was met with the prying eyes of the woman who gave her the schedule.
"Algebra, P.E, World History..." Betty trailed off. Her eyes rolled as she read the rest of her classes along with the teachers and room numbers. "Don't I just love school?" Betty whispered to herself as she exited the building and walked to Bella's truck. "Do you know where building 3 is?" She asked, getting into the truck.
"Yeah, I have English there for the first period." Betty gave Bella a nod of thanks. Bella turned the key and her truck roared to life once more. The younger girl looked at her schedule again and her school maps. "When do you have lunch?" Bella asked as she turned into the school parking lot. Betty waited for the elder teen to park before showing her the schedule. "Well, I guess my offer still stands," Bella informed her as she turned off the truck.
"Being overly social will definitely go against my 'I see the future' act," Betty told her. "I was going to go for the 'witchy' vibe but I've already done that." Bella stared at her half-sister in confusion, wondering whether or not she was serious. "I'm kidding, Bella." Betty laughed, making the other sigh of relief. "Seeing the future comes with the witch act," With that, she opened the truck door and hopped out. The slamming of the door made Bella come back to reality and exit her truck as well.
Eyes instantly landed on the both of them but most of the students had their eyes on the newer face. Elizabeth Swan ignored the eyes that were following her as she walked with her half-sister to building 3.
"Bella!" A voice called out in the hallway. Both Swan's turned around at the voice, one recognizing the person and the other not having a clue as to who it was. "Is this your sister Elizabeth? I'm Erik," He waved enthusiastically.
"Call me Betty because I don't feel like being a character from a pirate movie," Betty told him. He nodded, not noticing the grimace on her face. "Imma go find my first class now," Betty mumbled before Erik has the chance to open his mouth again.
"She seems really nice," Erik told Bella as the freshman walked away.
"Mr. Clark?" Betty wondered aloud as she stepped into the Algebra class. It had taken her a long time to find the class and she had cursed herself when she realized the class was where she ditched Erik and Bella.
"Yes?" The teacher looked up from his desk to the girl and his eyes widened a fraction along with the rest of the class. "Ah, you must be Elizabeth Swan?" Betty refrained from rolling her eyes and nodded. "Why don't you introduce yourself to the class and then take a seat in the back?" He gestured for her to stand in the front and just like that he was Betty's most despised teacher.
"Hello everyone, my name's Elizabeth Swan, please call me Betty." There was an underlying threat in her tone as she met the eyes of every student. "I enjoy slushy's and corn nuts, obviously BQ." People squinted their eyes in confusion as she went to her seat.
The rest of Algebra went on swimmingly and only a quarter of the class didn't stare at her. Betty listened to Mr. Clark go on and on about all that math stuff while she doodled in her notebook. Nobody really went beyond staring or tried to contact her during class.
The end of class was a different matter. Betty began to put up her things when a boy in a black beanie walked up to her. He had a grin on his face as he gave her a slow wave.
"Greetings and salutations," The words, more specifically the way he said them, peaked her interest. Betty threw her backpack over her shoulder and the corner of her lips twitched.
"This may seem like a stupid question," Betty began with a smirk.
"There are no stupid question's." The boy interrupted, only causing her smirk to widen.
"You inherit five million dollars the same day aliens land on earth and say they're gonna blow it up in two days. What do you do?"
"That's the stupidest question I've ever heard." The two continue to look at each other before laughing. "Jamie Stover," He tells her, sticking his hand out.
"Well I'd tell you my name but you probably already know it." She paused. "It's Betty just in case you didn't hear me announce it to the class," Betty told him as she shook his hand.
"What did I do to deserve a fellow Heathers fanatic in little old Forks? The slushy and corn nuts thing gave me a hunch," He added after seeing her curious expression.
"What did I do to deserve this? I feel like I'm in kindergarten again and the first person I meet is my new best friend." Betty laughed out. "Do you know where the gym is at?" She asked suddenly.
"I do know where it is since I have it next. I will happily show you as long as you don't tell the coach I was there." Jamie saw the raised eyebrow and he quickly added, "It's track day and I enjoy skipping those." Betty could only follow the new friend in awe as she wondered where he had been all her life.
Sadly, her new friend wasn't in her third period or any other of her classes but he did happen to have lunch with her. She had declined other people's offers to sit with them for her new friend. Also because she didn't like the people who so openly asked her. Betty felt slightly relieved that she didn't have to consider Bella's offer. Bella, on the other hand, was feeling worried for her half-sister.
"Bella, you know your sisters hanging around a delinquent right?" Jessica asked when she saw the two freshmen sit down together. Bella turned to look and saw Betty sitting with a boy dressed in mostly dark colors with a black beanie on his head.
"He skips his classes all the time and got into two fights this year," Erik added. "Jamie still passes through with high grades," Angela whispered.
"He is still a bad influence though."
"You don't think he'll hurt her, do you?" Bella asked.
"I mean maybe..."
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"I feel like someone's talking about me," Jamie whispered, scratching his tingling ears. Betty nodded and her eyes landed on the table where Bella was seated at. The occupants immediately looked away and Betty scoffed.
"It's the juniors over there," Betty told him before shaking her head.
"Oh look Forks' own personal supermodels are about to enter and we have the best seat in the house," Jamie told her, gesturing towards the doors that led outside. Betty turned her head just as the doors opened and she suddenly felt very cold, slightly threatened even.
"I've seen them before... When I came here one time." Betty shook her head and looked from Jamie to the group. "What, I mean who, are they?"
"The Cullen's, although it seems that they are missing one. They were the talk of the town before you guys came here." The name brought her back to last night and her dads rant about them, or more importantly the people who didn't like them. "There's Emmett the muscle, Rosalie the goddess, Alice the pixie, and Jasper the constipated. Edward the untouchable isn't here today."
"They're so..."
"Beautiful?" Jamie asked, not realizing that the family could hear the words he spoke. Betty shook her head as she shivered from the cold feeling she got. Her next whispered word seemed to confuse both Jamie and the vampires that took their place at a table not too far away from them.
"Terrifying,"
