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It's Friday *Rebecca Black voice*
Bella's point of view for this chapter!
All the character's belong to Stephanie Meyer.
Cliché
Chapter 5 Dreams
"Yeah, well maybe you should actually put effort in trying to see your kids instead of crappy, five-minute phone calls once a month…" Mom huffed on the phone, facing away from me as I walked into the bright and freshly-cleaned kitchen. It didn't take too long to realise it was my father she was conversing with.
Charlie Swan was not the best of fathers. In fact, the only good thing he ever does is provide for us out of his fat wallet. He was handsome and reached 6'0 with curly brown hair and brown eyes which Jasper (minus the hair colour and eye colour) and I inherited. I just didn't inherit the good-looking bit. He was the Chief of Supply Chain in the UN and worked in Washington D.C. . Due to the demands of the job, he barely spent time with us so my Mom divorced and left him when I was just a few months old. We moved to Downey, California to live with my Grandma, then we moved to Riverside and finally moved to Arizona, living off of her old modelling money and Daddy's wallet. Now, I don't even remember what he looked like, clearly.
She turned around, running her hands through her shiny, baby-blonde hair and her bright eyes widened when she saw me. She gestured the phone towards me as I mouthed 'no' repeatedly. "Bella's here to talk to you." She handed the phone to me while I rolled my eyes.
"Hey, Bells" He said awkwardly.
"Hi, Dad."
"How's school? I hope you're getting good grades for your Mum and I." Ha. Like he fucking cares.
"Good, I'm settling well here." I say truthfully.
Jasper walks in, shoving some type of shit down his throat. "Jasper wants to talk to you" I tell my father with false excitement and shove the phone in my brother's free hand. He mouths 'why' while he tilts his head and reluctantly starts a conversation with a fake smile.
"That wasn't nice." My mother whispers to me with a twinkle in her eyes. I shrug innocently and warm up some leftovers for dinner.
After dinner, I head up to my room and look around. My room usually looked big, but the size seemed to decrease as the untidiness increased. The usually clean, queen-sized bed was unmade and needed a sheet change. The wooden floor needed mopping and my desks needed organising. I decide to tidy up before my mom starts whining at me.
I pick up my earphones, plug them into my phone and make a quick playlist to listen to while I cleaned up. When I listen to music, I don't really feel the chores. I started off with the bed and everything followed. Making my way to my desk to tidy it up, I spot Jasper holding up his fucking phone camera directly at me and laughing with an earphone in one ear. Out the other earphone I hear another voice laughing but it wasn't a deep chuckle like Jasper's. The laugh was like …
Bells
"What the actual fuck, Jasper? Are you actually trying to make things worse for me?" I yell at him, tears welling up. I start to slam the door but his foot stops it.
"Fuck, that hurt." He complains. I just couldn't comprehend how Jasper would show me singing and dancing horribly to people then act as a fucking bodyguard at school. He was the only other teenager I thought I could actually trust. "Isa, I was just face-timing Alice and she heard you singing and was curious, so I just showed her." he raised the screen of his phone to my face to give me a view.
And a view I got
I only ever saw Alice Cullen once, from a distance, at the School car park on Tuesday, talking to Jasper. Up close, she wounded my self-esteem which was already really low. She had large eyes that were weirdly the same fucking shade as Edward's (does the water in this town come with health benefits like beautiful eyes?) long delicate eyebrows and small pixie-like features. Jasper was not wrong in his earlier description of her at all.
Jasper pulled the earphones out so that his phone was on full speaker volume and the pixie spoke. "Hey, Bella. I'm sorry if you're all embarrassed because of me. I just got curious as to who was singing to Melanie Martinez." She apologised.
"It's okay." I smile at her and look up to Jazz and smile at him too. "Just don't tell anyone at school." I attempt to laugh as a normal teenage girl would laugh in social situations. Jasper sits on my freshly made bed and continues his conversation while I continued tidying up. When I finished, I decided to lay alongside him like I usually do and scroll through my Tumblr. Halfway though a half-hearted argument about what lesson in school actually helped in life the most, Alice asked me what I thought. I don't know why, but I let loose and joined, getting to know Alice. I found out that she really loved fashion and makeup. I winced when she mentioned going on a shopping spree with me.
When Jasper went to the bathroom and left his phone with me, she told me that we were going to be best friends because 'she knew those kind of things'. Mom called Jasper down for something and Alice talked non-stop for 20 minutes. I don't know what it was about her, but she could go on and on and not be annoying. She was just really energetic. While talking, she suddenly became distracted and it seemed like someone walked into her room. "Do you want me to leave you alone?" I asked, not wanting to be annoying.
"No it's fine, Bella. Just a second." she assured me. I saw she was on a laptop because as she got up, the camera view still stayed the same. As she got up, I saw her small but perfectly slim body. Another fucking wound to my self esteem. Ouch. I hear a deep male voice talking to her. Probably her Dad or something. Alice sounded amused in the short conversation and I think I heard my name. She returned to the camera dragging no other than Edward from Biology and Film club. The last time I saw him was so awkward that I seriously considered hanging up.
The final Bell rang and I walk to the English room. No-one seemed to be going to film club so it looked like I would be alone. Being the clumsy little shit I am, I tripped and dropped my books. If it was a romance movie, a guy would've picked up my books and we would eventually marry. But this isn't a movie so I gathered my shit and made my way to my destination. As I walk in I see Edward and back up before he saw me. He was putting a DVD into the computer while humming a pretty tune. It was … cute. He looked up with those extremely light green eyes and I blush.
'Inception' starts and I sit two desks away from him. We watch the movie in silence.
"Um… Hi, Bella." He greets me with an awkward, crooked smile.
"Hey." I greet with the same tone, feeling blood rushing to my cheeks. Alice just observes, entertained. Jasper walks in quickly "Well Jasper's here so I should go. It was nice talking to you, Alice. See you at film club, Edward." I shove the phone in Jasper's hand and shove him out of my room. That was enough of humans for the day.
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Bedward are so cute ahhh.
Alice is such a sweetie darling as well.
Next chapter is Edward's POV. There's some Bedward action going on there as well. Next update is on Monday.
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