"Bella, you're not worth it. You never were. "
It had been a whole two weeks since they left. Two weeks since the ballet incident with James. I wish Carlisle had held him back then maybe I would be like them.
A vampire.
Yet I didn't break when Edward had left me in the woods. I didn't feel. I didn't know if that was a good or bad.
"Bella, would you come to the front of the class. I need to talk to you. "
I lift my head out of my thoughts. I headed up towards the front, mind curious and eyes alert.
"Bella, since Alice Cullen left there seems to be an issue for your roommate on the school trip. "
Oh yeah, Alice and I were excited for the annual school trip Forks high takes each year. We were going to Gotham and the simple word Gotham made me feel something.
Something I couldn't name.
"Oh, um can't I just be on my own?"
I ask and I could see the reluctance in his eyes to give me what I asked. A student alone in a different city spelled trouble but I had gotten used to it.
Trouble, I mean.
I was a supernatural magnet for danger might as well keep the danger to myself. I sat back down in my chair after the teacher gave me the go ahead on my new status.
The day seemed to drag on and I often thought recently about the weird and eerie laugh I had heard when he had left me unconscious from sucking the fiery venom out from within my veins.
How could the laugh - the hauntingly and beautiful laughter make my heart beat faster then it did, regularly; and how could one single laugh sound so familiar as if I had heard it and lived with it my whole life?
Someone had bumped into me - Lauren, great! I thought nearing sarcasm.
"Bella, I guess no one likes you enough to room with you. Just look at Edward he even left you. "
I had it with her and something within me snapped. I stood up and smacked her across the cheek, I was met with silence and a one way ticket to the principal's office.
"Isabella, I have to ask what you were thinking. "
They had called Charlie - we - the principal and I waited a solid 15 minutes before the Chief of Police walked in the door and his face had me sitting up straight. Thus my current predicament.
"Charlie, Sir..." I start and continue, "you both know how hard it was for me when the...Cullens left. "
I watched as they nod - Charlie had seen the full of it during the night hours when I wasn't at school. I knew I said I didn't break when he left - that was psychical, but mentally it was completely shattered and unable to repair itself.
Charlie had woken in the middle of the night from my terrified screams - and that was a constant even to this day and hour I knew Charlie would wake up and feel bitter towards Edward - the guy that had stomped into my life and left without any word to him.
It was altogether different to the principal. I had been an ace student. Never had I missed a single assignment or got a C- or a D on any of my tests. So I was skating on thin ice between these two.
"When Lauren said nobody liked me and that's why Edward left. I just snapped and I won't apologize for just defending myself against a mental assault. "
I could see Charlie - with the new information he had gotten from me that he thought differently and was in fact right behind me in my decision.
And even for the Cheif of Police to be condoning violence - it was for self defense and he knew how hurt and emotionally broken I had been the past two weeks.
"Ms. Swan. That is still no excuse..."
"Then we'll have to agree to disagree."
I stand up. Somewhat fed up. I was only defending myself.
I turn - my back to them both. I headed towards the door catching Charlie's words.
"I'll talk to my daughter. She's usually not a violent person."
Violent?
Honestly, I'm beginning to think if I am?