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Bella's Point of View
When the plane landed in the dreary town of Port Angeles there was, of course, no sun. Only clouds and there was always a 99.9 chance of rain. Oh Phoenix I miss you already.
My dad, Charlie, was there waiting for me, looking awkward and nervous.
Charlie had brown eyes and brown hair, just like me. He had my personality too, shy and reserved, and I could always relate to him more because of that.
I really hadn't seen my dad since the divorce. I talked to him on the phone and asked how he was doing but my father and I never had that relationship where we could talk on the phone for hours. Those conversations were more like 3 minutes each.
I walked over to my dad and gave him a giant hug. Though we hadn't talked much over the year, I still missed him.
He looked startled for a second, not realizing it was me. As he pulled away that shocked look was all over his face again. Obviously he had expected the old pimply face, overweight Bella.
"Wow Bells. You look great," Charlie said awe coloring his voice.
"Yeah, mom made good on her promise to give me a makeover after we unpacked," I said.
"Well she did a good job," he said. He opened his mouth and closed it, wanting to say something. After a few minutes he finally choked out, "How is Renee doing?"
"She's good dad," I replied, not sure whether my father had gotten over my mom yet, even though we both knew that Renee had gotten over him.
"That's good Bells. When you talk to her next tell her I said hello. Now let's take these bags to the cruiser," Charlie said.
I internally groaned. The police cruiser? What about my truck that I left here because Renee refused to ship it to Phoenix. Did something happen to it?
Charlie saw the look of pure panic on my face and said, "Honey your truck is still here and nothing happened to it. Its just so slow that I couldn't take it. The cruiser is just so much faster."
"Oh," I said relieved. I was so thankful that my truck was ok. I loved my truck and being away from it for a year was almost unbearable.
The car ride home involved little talking. The only thing we talked about on the way to Forks was the weather. Conversations about the weather in Forks usually went like this:
"Gee its really cloudy today."
"Yup."
A little while later we were pulling up to my dad's house. He took my suitcases from the truck and headed inside and up to my old room. Nothing had changed about the house at all. The kitchen was still that bright yellow color and all the pictures were in the same place, even the ones of Renee. I guess he really wasn't over her yet.
I walked up the stairs to my room just as Charlie had put down my stuff. My room was still like it was when I left it. The bed was neatly made and all the closet doors were still opened. Even my old rocking chair was still there, just in the corner.
"Thanks dad," I said.
"No problem honey. I was thinking that we could just order pizza tonight," he replied.
"No. I was actually planning on cooking for you. I'm amazed that you haven't died yet from starvation," I said. My mom was always trying new things to cook, but most of the time it ended up burnt or gross looking. She wasn't a very good cook. I would always have to cook something else so that my dad and I could eat.
My dad wasn't a very good cook either.
"I've been living off of pizza, lean cuisines, and anything else that is microwaveable," Charlie said. "Ever since you announced you were coming back I've been looking forward to your cooking. I just wasn't sure you were up to it today."
I laughed, "It's really ok dad. How does spaghetti and meatballs sound?" I said.
"Really good," he replied. "I guess I'll just go sit in the living room and watch ESPN."
"Ok. It won't take me very long to make it. I'll get started on it soon right now," I told him.
I went down to the kitchen and after a few minutes I found a pot that I could cook in. I filled it up with water and set it on the stove to boil. While the water was boiling I found some microwaveable meatballs.
Wow Charlie really wasn't kidding when he said he lived off of anything microwaveable.
Next I found the noodles. By that time the water was boiling and I just poured the noodles in. Then I put the meatballs into the microwave. Next I set the table and got myself a glass of milk. The noodles were now cooked so I strained them and put them back into the pot and added the marinara sauce that I had found while setting the table.
I'm going to have to make a trip to the grocery store soon I thought. He has nothing here.
"Dad!" I yelled, "Dinner's ready!"
A few minutes later Charlie walked in with an appreciative smile on his face.
"Bells, this smells delicious," he said.
"It's the least I could do dad," I said in return.
We ate in relative silence asking a few questions about how the other was doing when Charlie said, "I almost forgot. School starts tomorrow. I wasn't sure if Renee told you that."
No, mom hadn't told me that. She said it would start soon after I arrived in Forks, but not tomorrow! Suddenly all the memories from freshman year came back. The teasing and the bullying. It was too much.
No! I thought to myself. Remember what you said Bella? You're going to stay in Forks and you were going to face every person that was mean to you, including Edward Cullen. Make people see the new you.
After my little pep talk to myself I felt much better.
"Bells are you ok?" Charlie asked me, worried. Apparently I had a frightned look on my face.
"Yeah dad. Mom told me school started soon after I got in Forks, but not to days after. I'm just surprised," I explained.
"Ok. I was just worried because-" he started
"I know dad. Because of the bullying. Don't worry about me," I told him.
"Alright," he said.
After dinner was over I told Charlie to go back to watching ESPN in the living room while I cleaned up the dishes. He told me that it wasn't fair because I had made the dinner and that he should clean up. I argued with him until I won.
As I was cleaning I couldn't help but wonder what the playboy of Forks High, Edward Cullen, was doing. Maybe he had changed.
HA! Like that would ever happen I thought to myself. I quietly laughed at my own silliness.
After I cleaned the dishes and put everything away I told Charlie that I was going to sleep and that it had been a long day.
I went up to my room and dug through my suitcases and found my toiletries and went into the bathroom.
I took a nice long shower in hot water, soothing my tense muscles from the long and uncomfortable plane ride and also from the shock that I was starting school tomorrow.
Then after brushing my teeth, washing my face, and combing through my hair, which had gotten tangled, I found my pajamas, changed into them, got into bed, and tried to fall asleep. But sleep wouldn't come. No matter what I tried I just could not fall asleep.
Finally I decided that just lying in bed wasn't going to help me much so I got out of bed and unpacked everything that was in my suitcase. I even unpacked all my books. I had always liked reading and I still did, even though at Forks High it was deemed that you should be picked on if you read.
By that time it was 1 in the morning and I was finally starting to feel tired. As I climbed into bed I finally realized what I had did by coming back to Forks. I had made myself face my past however hard that was. Though I wasn't looking forward to starting school tomorrow, I wanted to let everybody see that their teasing hadn't broken me, it had actually made me stronger.
I smiled to myself and fell into a deep sleep for the first time in days.
I woke up to my dad shaking me awake.
"Honey you have school in 30 minutes. I have to go but I wanted to wish you a good first day of school," Charlie said.
Ugh school. I wish he hadn't woken me up.
"Thanks dad," I responded, wiping the sleep from my eyes.
15 minutes later I was in my beautiful truck. Oh how I had missed this truck. Getting it to start on the other hand was something I had not missed.
Another 5 minutes later and I had gotten my truck to start and was now driving to Forks High.
Breathe Bella. Just breathe. Remember you are new and improved and make them see that.
As I drove into the parking lot every head turned to look at my truck. They knew that the disappearing Bella Swan was back. Only I had this kind of truck or this old of a car. Too soon for my liking I found a parking spot and parked. As I go out of the car I looked around. Nothing had changed here either, not even the people.
As I walked to the attendance office everyone stopped and stared and I mean everyone. And that's when I saw him again, Edward Cullen.
And he was walking towards me.