Heyyy. Sorry I haven`t updated in about two months. I don`t really have an excuse. Well, for the last month. The first month I had to get my computer fixed and they erased all my documents! I was soo mad. But, I plan on getting the other chapters up by tonight or tomorrow.(: (Important authors note at the bottom)
About an hour after we got home, my mom could tell something was wrong. I just brushed it off as moving to a new house, new school, and making some new friends. What really was wrong was that I couldn`t help that little niggling feeling of dread towards the upcoming day. Something was going to happen and it most likely wouldn`t be good. I wouldn`t be surprised if they did something truly vile to Bella tomorrow. Little did I know, it was going to be much more than that.
I woke up early the next morning, all because of a a dream. I wasn`t sure whether to call it a nightmare or just an ordinary dream, because it starred the blonde haired, blue eyed angel I met only yesterday. We looked so comfortable. Talking to each other and often we would throw our heads back laughing at something the other one had said or done. I have never felt so comfortable with someone. But, hey, was this a dream, or a nightmare. Which one? I groaned. Thinking this much in the morning could give a person a serious headache.
Eventually, I got up and did my morning routine. I got in the shower, brushed my teeth, put on some clothes, made sure I wasn`t forgetting anything important for school, and then I finally headed downstairs for some of Esme`s delicious breakfast.
I trudged my way down the two flights of stairs to find that my all my family were sitting around the table, all doing their own thing. My mom and Alice were the only one`s doing the talking, due to their early morning perkiness! The rest of us couldn`t stand how chipper and happy they were when they had to get up at the ass-crack of dawn. But, whatever. Like mother like daughter, as they always say.
My dad looked as if he was going to scream at both Esme and Alice because of their bright smiles and chipper laughs. Usually, Carlisle was the peaceful one in the family, however not in the morning. He was actually kinda scary in the morning. I just grabbed a piece of toast and headed for the door.
"Edward, sweetheart? Where are you going? It`s only seven-thirty." Why did she always have to care so much? I was heading off to school earlier, big deal. As politely as I could, I gave my mom my excuse."I`m just going to head out early, love you, see you after school".
No sooner were the words out of my mouth but I was out the door and into my Volvo. I felt guilty for thinking those things about Esme, but hey, it was only seven- thirty. I decided to ease my mind and put some on some Debussy. The classical, yet familiar music soothed me. For about fifteen minutes, I just drove around in the pouring rain, listening to my CD and then I saw a small figure slumped over walking on the side of the road. Why would anyone be walking out in the middle of a storm like this?
I carefully pulled to the side of the road and started crawling at the pace the figure was walking at, it was then I realised that the figure was indeed a girl. I called to her "Hey, you shouldn`t be walking in this kind of weather. Why don`t I offer you a ride?" As soon as the words left my mouth, I silently cursed myself because as usual and because of my rotten bad luck it just had to be Bella Swan. However, being the gentleman my mother raised me to be, I didn`t swerve and step on the gas like I wanted to.
She stopped and stared at me. Her beautiful shapphire like eyes looking haunted. She bit her lip and looked down. When she looked back up she just stared blankly at me and opened her mouth to speak.
"Does that offer still stand?" She asked. At least she wasn`t one of those really stupid blonde chicks who thought they had to act dumb to get everyone`s attention. She actually knew I didn`t like her, she probably knew that I had heard about her with Mr. Banner. I just shrugged and said a short 'Yepp.' She sighed and looked like she was thinking about something really hard. Her brow puckered the cutest way and she bit her lip, cocking her head to the side just a bit.
No! No thinking like that Cullen! This is probably what she wants!
I quickly looked at her and she nodded. She opened the door and quickly got in then shuddered. She was drenched and no doubt frozen. I put the heat on high, hopefully warming her up a little. She looked at me thankfully and put on her seatbealt. The next thing she said shocked me a little.
"You know Debussy?" Really, did she have to sound so shocked? I mean, yeah, I was shocked that she would know it, but, come on! She was this blonde slut who looked like she couldn`t do anything by herself! I cleared my throat.
"Yeah, what about you? I wouldn`t expect someone like you to know Debussy." She flinched a little and then I thought about the way that sounded. "O shi-" She cut me off with a tired sounding little chuckle and told me it was fine. "My mom used to play classical music all the time around the house. She loved it, she said it helped her concentration and eased her soul" She sounded a little sad and she had a small smile on her face.
"She used to?" She exhaled slowly and looked out the window for a moment. Just when I thought she wasn`t going to answer, she looked at me, she had a furrow between her brows. "She died, in a car accident." Wow, I did not expect that.
"Oh, I`m sorry. How long ago, if you don`t mind me asking."
"About two weeks ago." She replied in a small voice. I stared at her in shock as we came to a stop sign. "Wow, I`m-"
She didn`t let me finish my sentence. " Look," She started with a harsh tone to her voice" It`s fine, I don`t want your pity and I don`t want this all around school. So, if you could keep it to yourself and don't blabber it to anyone, I don't want anyone to know or to feel pity or anything for me, right?" I looked at her again in shock. Did she really just do that? It did make sense though, I had been treating her like shit and then I just try to be all nice to her? No, I would be pissed too.
"Please?" She added, as if it was an afterthought. I looked at her."Fine, then how do you want me to treat you?" I almost didn`t expect a reply. " I would like you treat me like any other person, but that`s not going to happen, is it? Not with all the rumours going about anyway" I looked at her closely. If she said they were rumours, were they really just that? I mean, yeah, how else would people know? They couldn't be making this stuff up out of pure jealousy, or could they? Another way to look at it, she could be lying.
She really didn`t seem like she was lying, though. I thought it over. Maybe it was best not to trust anyone right now.
Then out of the blue, "Ooh! I know! Let`s play a game!" She exclaimed excitedly. I started at her , bemused, "and what game would we play in the car, Bella?" Really, what could we play in the car? "Hmmm, how about twenty questions?" She looked at me with a light in her eyes and I just noticed for the first time that she had dark, purple bruises under her eyes. Had she not gotten enough sleep?
I looked at her flushed cheeks and excited smile, and decided, hey what the hell?
This was going to be one interesting game.
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