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I kept running through the trees, through the darkness, I didn't know who or what I was running from; I just knew I had to.
My legs couldn't take it anymore, I suddenly felt like I weighted 500 hundred pounds and my legs were made of paper, I almost fell. My lungs were aching and I had that dizzy feeling that you get when you can't get enough oxygen through your system. I couldn't breathe and my heart was hammering wildly against my rib cage.
I knew I wasn't going to make it and that feeling was what made it worse.
The feeling where you know you are in danger, but you can't do anything about it.
Then I heard a noise, weirdly enough it was the song This is the Sound, by the Exis. My only thought was that this was such a weird way of dying, hearing a depressive song when you know you are at the end.
But then I started to become more alert, I heard the noises my nieces were making at the house, my brother in law talking on the phone and finally I woke up.
I turned off my alarm, and groggily sat on my bed. I still couldn't believe I had such a vivid dream. I wasn't one for having that kind of dreams, I usually didn't even dream at all.
But then, I remembered reality, and I saw my clock, it read 5: 45 am, great, well at least I had enough time to get ready for school, and then I knew why I had that dream, it HAD to do something with school.
I dreaded this day, but at the same time I was kind of excited for this, after all this is why I decided I wasn't going to go to college yet. But that didn't mean I wasn't extremely nervous about it. I was going to go to a school where nobody knew me and I was different than the rest of the population here in Seattle, well at least physically.
I decided I had had enough time procrastinating, and I needed to take a nice hot shower. That was one of the things (and probably the only one) that I still couldn't get used to: it was so cold! I liked the cold, but I guessed my aversion was due to my living somewhere much warmer my whole life.
After I spent like half an hour showering, I decided I was clean enough and stepped out. Then I had to face the problem of finding appropriate clothing for this dreadful day, I needed an outfit that made me look nice but not overly dressed.
So after changing tops at least three times and jeans two times, I found a nice green shirt with ruffle trim, and light blue jeans I decided to match that with my black boots, considering we were still in January and the weather wasn't exactly warm. Of course my boots didn't have a heel; I wouldn't even dream wearing high heels, when you are freakishly tall (at least for a girl) you tend to avoid heels. I measure 5'8 and I don't exactly like it. I still didn't get why people thought being tall was cool, I least I was sure I didn't. I decided that blow drying my hair was useless, it would get wet anyways. The rain didn't forgive anyone. So I just decided to apply all the necessary things for my hair to be frizz-less and let it dry by itself.
After I was ready I saw my reflection in the mirror and decided that a little make-up wouldn't hurt anyone, so I applied mascara, eyeliner and blush so I wouldn't look yellow. Yes I did say yellow, my skin color wasn't exactly pale, you couldn't be pale when you have lived your whole life in Chile, there you got tanned even if you didn't want to. At least I had a nice skin color, I had golden skill, with a tint of copper that you let you see I was tanned. My hair was dark brown and curly and it hung all the way down to my waist, I had never liked my hair, it was curly and common. Then there were my eyes, they were dark, and when I mean dark I mean that if I wasn't so tanned and didn't have a heartbeat I could be easily confused with a hungry vampire, I still haven't met someone whose eyes are darker than mine, obviously they weren't black, seeing as that that wasn't possible, but they were a shade of extremely dark brown.
All in all, I was pretty common back in Chile; everybody was tanned and had dark hair, so if you were blond you were the bomb, which obviously affected my not so good self-esteem. The only thing that pretty much made me different than everybody else, was that I was tall, but I didn't exactly liked being tall, my theory was that since I was taller than most guys, they saw you as one of them, and not the cute small type of girl that could be hugged and cuddled with. I was seventeen years old and not even a single guy had been interested in me in all these years.
My body wasn't exactly slender, nor was I considered fat. I was really curvy, another thing that people thought was cool, but it really wasn't, I was always self-conscious, plus I was kind of chubby, but that didn't show much since I was so tall. To make a long story short: I was big.
Then I was taken aback from my staring contest with myself, by my oldest niece, Tessa.
Seeing her, I couldn't stop staring at how different we looked, even though she was my niece. Well my sister and I didn't exactly looked alike; she had dirty blond hair and pearly white skin with a blush to her cheeks that was almost always present.
"Ana aren't you supposed to be in your school in 20 minutes?" she said calmly.
"Yep, I was just finishing getting ready" I answered back while putting on my last touches.
"Well mom says that if you don't hurry up, you won't be able to eat and you'll be late for your first day" she said back.
"Ok ok, now I'm ready!" I left my room, remembering to grab my bagpack and scarf and also everything else I needed.
While I was downstairs I grabbed my car keys, my favorite black coat and took and sip of my glass of my milk since I was already kind of late. I said goodbye to my sister and brother-in-law and to my nieces.
I revved the engine from the garage and left my new house to go to my new high school, I was preparing myself mentally for the oncoming challenge.
Surprisingly I didn't take as long to get there as I had expected, so that left me with a good 15 minutes till the first bell rang. I parked my car in the office staff parking lot and went to the building that read 'front office'. I was greeted with white walls with lots of prizes and diplomas, I guessed from the various contests the school had participated in. Behind a counter was a lady with purple glasses and fake red hair, she was smiling at me so I decided to go to her and ask her for my schedule.
"Hi dear, what can I do for you?"
"Umm yes, my name is Ana Stephenson, and I'm new here, mi sister Carla probably came here to register me"
"Oh yes! She did come a few weeks ago, let me just type your name on our database, so I can find everything"
Well at least this school did have a nice computerized database contrary to that described in Twilight, remembering Twilight I couldn't help but smile seeing that Mrs. Cope, the receptionist from Twilight was a read headed woman just like the receptionist here. I looked for the name plate and saw that funnily enough this receptionist was called Ms. Copperman, hahaha that was a nice coincidence. Then I decided to I needed to stop laughing at coincidences I might find throughout the day if I didn't want to look stupid, smiling like the Cheshire cat while talking to nobody.
Mrs. Copperman had already printed everything and was explaining to me that I needed my teachers to sign my slip and then come after classes to hand it in. After she explained that I nodded, smiled, and waved goodbye to the nice lady.
When I left the office and started walking to my car I noticed that most people were already in the parking lot, so I hurriedly walked to my car in order to park in the student parking lot.
I was lucky enough to find a nice parking spot; I turned off my car, put the emergency brake and left it in first gear.
While gathering my things that were haphazardly thrown across the front sit it hit me: I was starting highschool and everybody was already looking at me. I started to get really nervous, my palms were cold and sweaty and my heart started thumping hard and fast. I had that feeling of butterflies in my stomach except that instead of butterflies I had elephants.
I left the safety of my car, and started to walk to the front door, there were still a lot of students in the parking lot, well as many students as there can be in a community this small. Everybody stared, as expected, but at least they weren't making unfriendly faces, some people were smiling at me, others just looked shocked at the new student.
While I was on my way, I saw a silver Volvo, I smiled, thinking that there must be someone as obsessed as me, who probably asked their parents a silver Volvo so they could have the same car as Edward.
Since I was starting school today, I didn't have any books to put in my locker, I did however have many notebooks, which were kind of heavy; so I decided to start looking for my locker, luckily enough, the walls had arrows pointing which way was each block of lockers, so it wasn't hard for me to find block E, when I found locker 23, I put all the notebooks I wouldn't be using for the first half of the day, and only left four, for the four classes I had.
Then I heard the second bell ring, so I hurriedly walked to Trig, which was my first class for the day.
Mr. Earhart looked nice enough for a math teacher; he was a balding man, in his forties, who was dressed in brown pants, and a plaid blue shirt. When I was walking inside, he was saying to the students that were already there, that they had a new student this new semester, then when he saw me, he made me introduce myself, since I was kind of shy, especially around people I did not know, I got really nervous and decided to do something quick.
"Hi, my name is Ana Stephenson and I'm a junior this year" then I gave a half smile to the classroom and went to sit down in the third row.
Trig was nice enough, I had always being good at math, so I didn't have any problems in what we were doing, soon the fifty minutes passed and I hurriedly gathered my stuff. When I stopped at the coat hanger to grab my coat, someone stopped me. He was a boy, he seemed Asian, was a bit smaller than me with black greasy hair and acne problems.
"Hi, I'm Eric, I'm a junior too, so where's your next class?" the black haired boy said.
When he said that I immediately remembered the Eric from Twilight and from Twilight the movie: he looked insanely like the guy they describe there, and he was also called Eric, which was another weird coincidence just like Mrs. Copperman, the read headed receptionist.
I decided that I probably looked like an idiot staring at the guy open mouthed, I prayed that time hadn't passed as fast as I had felt and that he didn't think I was crushing on him or something like that.
"Hi Eric, I'm Ana, nice to meet you… I have Lit right now" I said checking my schedule, I threw in a smile for good measure and started to walk to my next class, unfortunately for Eric that wasn't good enough.
"Sooo… Ana where are you from?"
"Umm… Chile" I said not that comfortable talking to a boy I barely knew.
Eric just stared at me like I was insane, so I just said: "South America, you know!" He was probably just another idiot who didn't even know that America was a continent and not a country.
"Oh! Right!" he just smiled and continued walking with me.
Then thankfully, I arrived to my next class, American Literature, so I just waved goodbye and walked inside. I didn't even know what class Eric had next, and certainly I wasn't interested, probably he had to walk across campus, seeing that he took off running after he walked me to class.
My Lit teacher didn't make me introduce to the class, something for which I was grateful, I just gave him my slip so he could sign it and then went and sat down almost at the back of the classroom. The teacher started writing on the board the objectives and all the things we were doing the new semester, I took careful notes and paid some attention to see if what he was saying was worth it, but after I found out he was just saying things I had already studied I tuned him out.
Then I heard the 'tss tss' and looked around trying to see if someone was trying to talk to me, soon I saw a girl that I had already seen in the hallways, she had long brown curly hair and was really short, even while she was seated you could see that. She oddly reminded me of Jessica Stanley, with the bubbly personality and all and then I thought 'hey how awesome might it be if her name is actually Jessica or something of the sort?' I had already found and Eric just like the book and an almost-Mrs. Cope just like the book, so why not a Jessica?
I saw that the teacher had given us a while so we could speak about Christmas break, not that I had someone to speak to. As soon as everybody gathered in pairs or little groups I saw that wannabe-Jessica was coming to talk to me.
"Hey, Ana right? I'm Jennifer Stanley, nice to meet you"
She started to babble, but after I had heard her name I just couldn't pay any more attention. I was dumbstruck. How in God's name have I found three Twilight characters! Twilight was NOT real!
Of that I was sure, I was not becoming crazy, maybe this was all a joke… but why would they play that joke on me? It's not like we were in Forks, we were near, but this was Lynwood not Forks!
They couldn't even know I was obsessed with it, my Twilight book was safely hidden in the confines of my bagpack, and my other three books were still in a stack in my closet. So was it possible that it was just all a mere coincidence? I would find out… and soon!
After what seemed like hours of thinking, but apparently only seconds had passed because Jennifer was still babbling and she wasn't watching me like I was nuts, I decided to interrupt her to say something myself.
"Oh that's nice Jennifer" I said commenting about how she had gotten a new car for Christmas. After she saw that I was willing to talk, she asked the most asked question so far.
"So, where are you from? You must be from somewhere sunny like California or Florida considering you are so tanned and everything! I totally love your tan by the way!" I groaned internally at her question, wasn't it obvious that I was Latin American, I almost rolled my eyes. Almost, but decided she had been nice enough so far, and that would be impolite.
"Mmm, I'm from Chile" I said biting my lip, a habit I had picked after so much about it.
Just like Eric she just watched me like I was crazy. So I decided to continue "South America you know…"
"Ohh cool, I would never have thought so, you have a really good accent!" she half squealed. I just watched her and decided that she was too happy for my taste, almost fake. She did seem like Jessica after all, after reading Midnight Sun Jessica just didn't seem like a good person, so I would actually have to watch my back from her.
I just smiled and nodded, not trying to look mean.
"So, are you sitting with me and my friends at lunch! what do you say?" She asked
"Umm, sure that'd be nice" I smiled; well at least I wouldn't be seated alone today. Hey I might even find someone nice among her friends.
"Cool then, see you later!"
"Bye" then the bell rang, making me almost jump, I had always hated that shrilling noise, and here it seemed it was just worse than usual.
During my other two lessons of the morning, I had been thinking a lot about my discoveries, was it possible I was in some kind of alternate universe where Twilight was not fiction? If I was, then did people know there was a book about them? Was this just a mere coincidence? Did students know that there was book with their names and characteristics in there? If I was really in an alternate universe would I see the Cullens? Was Bella here? I wanted to meet Edward if so, oh shit, will he be able to read my mind? Are they going to try to eat me?
Those two hours were definitely not good for my nerves. I was extremely nervous to go to lunch, what if they Cullens were really there? And what if Bella was there! Was I supposed to get the happily ever after between Bella and Edward to happen? That thought surprisingly put me in an even worst state of mind, I guess I was in love with a fictional character and just thinking of that fictional character really existing and simply not even noticing me was heartbreaking. But I guess if he did exist, why would he choose me? After all Bella was his soul mate, I was just some stupid girl that would probably bore him.
But then I thought I was crazy, I didn't even know why I was having such random thoughts and worrying so much. Of course Twilight was not real! I had read too many fanfictions about Edward really existing and falling in love with a fangirl, this was just crazy, and of course vampires did not exist! I was an intelligent person, for crying out loud, this was just a coincidence. A really creepy one, but a coincidence after all.
While I was on my way to the cafeteria, Jennifer found me and led me to her table, I saw some kids I had already seen on my other classes or walking in the hallways. She introduced me to them, and I was stunned to find out that there were a bunch of Twilight characters, there was a Mike, who was also blond with that same boyish face, a Tyler; Eric the same boy from earlier, and an Angie, who looked a lot like Angela, she did seem really nice. I went to get in line for my food, I decided to buy a sandwich, and orange juice and a bag of chips.
When I went to sit, I started to chat a bit with Angie, who was really nice, and she reminded me of my sister who still lived in Chile, she was called Angie also.
I looked around to see if the Cullens were there, but I didn't see them. That was both a relief and a disappointment.
While I was practically inhaling my food, a girl went to sit at our table, she had big brown eyes, and brown wavy hair, she was pale, like she hadn't seen the sun in months, but she had a nice face, she looked kind of shy, not the prettiest girl around here, but not ugly, she was slender and really small, well at least compared to my gigantic height. And then it hit me: that was freaking Bella Swan! Holly crap that was Bella Swan! I was just staring at her with my mouth hanging open. I probably looked like an idiot just staring at her, but I couldn't believe it. She was THE Bella Swan!
I decided I better needed confirmation from somebody else, so I asked Angie.
"Who is she?" I asked, my voice slightly trembling, I really hoped that Angie didn't notice.
"Ohh, that's Bella Swan" she replied nonchalantly
"Ohh is she also new here?" if that was Bella Swan, then that meant that there was an Edward Cullen, and I needed to know how advanced the plot was.
"Well not exactly, she arrived here last year, at the beginning of the new school year" so that meant that she was already dating Edward… I didn't know why that thought made me so sad, no that's a lie, I did know why that thought made me sad, I was in love with a fictional character, which now turned out to be not so fictional…. No! Focus Ana, maybe he doesn't exist, I still haven't seen them.
I decided to look around once more, and then I saw THEM: they were inhumanly beautiful, pale, and while walking they seemed like they were dancing. There in all their glory were the infamous Cullens.
