Paper Moon
Juke Box: All to Myself - Marianas Trench
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Chapter 2 - Beautiful.
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Bella's P.o.V
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I scrunched up my face as I felt the sun rays pour into my room and my face. I must have forgotten to shut my curtains last night..
Stretching, I slowly got into a sitting positioned and yawned, deciding to take in the stuff in my room like I did every day. The curtains were a plain dark blue, to hide the annoying sunlight int he mornings, the floor was cheery wood, laminated and cold at night. The walls were soft peach color, very ugly. I plan on changing it whenever I get enough money from my job. The ceiling was just white, ordinary but I changed that by placing glow-in-the-dark stars all over it. Few pictures and picture frames hanged on the wall, mostly of friends and family. In the corner of the room was a small desk with a lamp on it for when I do homework. In the other corner was my dresser for close. And in the third corner was me and my bed. All in all, a plain room. Nothing special.
I yawned once again and flipped open my cell phone, checking the time.
"Wha.. I overslept! I have to make breakfast for the guys!" Rushing towards the dresser, I stripped of my pajama's and got into brown khaki pants and a white t-shirt before rushing out of my room. With a frown, I could imagine them picking on me for waking up late for once. I shook my head of such thoughts and opened the kitchen door.
"Sorry I'm la- .." Blinking in surprise, I already saw Jasper, Emmett and Jacob sitting at the table, eating, while the robot, Edward, was in front of the stove with a frying pan in his hands.
"Good morning, Bella." Jacob greeted before scarfing down a easy-over egg. Perking up, Edward turned around and smiled softly.
"Good morning, Bella."
"Morning.. " I took a empty seat beside Emmett when he offered me a piece of his omelet.
"Edward's cooking is really good, you should try some." I was gonna refuse by when all eyes landed on me, I hastily grabbed a fork, chop a piece of omelet from Emmett's plate and placed it in my mouth. Mouth watering..
Everyone saw my nod of approval and went back to their own breakfast but one pair of eyes wouldn't leave me alone. Glancing up, I caught Edward staring right at me.
"What are you looking at?" It's annoying.
"You." He replied with a smile on his face. Reaching forward, I poked his soft, robotic body.
"Well stop, it's creepy."
"I have always watched you.. just like this." My eyes began to widen. Well.. that's true. Ever since Charlie brought him here, he's had his eyes on me.
"Bellaaaaa. The light in the corridor burned out. Would you mind replacing it?" Speak of the devil, it was Charlie himself.
"Sure." Getting up, I walked over to a cupboard and pulled out a brand new light bulb.
Heading to the corridor, I reached up for the light shade hanging from the ceiling and easily twisted out the brunt light bulb. Taking the new one, I reached up once again and tried placing it in but I couldn't reach enough to fit it in snugly.
"Great, why couldn't Charlie get one of the boys to do this." I muttered to myself. Even while standing on my tipy-toes I couldn't fit it in perfectly.
"Do you want me to do it?" His voice startled me, almost making me drop the bulb. Glaring at him from the corner of my eye before resuming my position, I answered.
"I'm fine. And stop following me everywhere."
"I'm here to follow you, even to the ends of the planet." He then bent down, hooking his arms around the back of my legs, making me lose balance but he easily held me with his around arm wrapped around my shoulders. "Can you reach it now?"
Blinking, I stared deep into his eyes. Then I realised our faces were much too close together. My heart raced forward and I couldn't help but think how pretty this robot really was. Technology really can make anything these days. Gathering back my witts, I pushed at him lightly but firm enough for him to let me go. While doing so, the light bulb crashed to the floor, breaking, sending pieces to sprawl all around us. I then ran towards the hall way, not bothering to look back at the damage.
"You get too carried away for a robot!" I shouted back but continued staring forward.
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School
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Another sigh escaped past my lips. The seventh one to be exact. I continued to stare out the window, watching other teens sit on the fresh green grass, enjoying their ten minute break time. I felt a hand shake my shoulder a bit to grab my attention, and turned around to see the face of my friend, Jessica. She smiled warmly while holding a shopping bag in her hand. She was a nice friend but at times she'll be rude and try passing it off as if I wouldn't notice.
"Hey, Bella. I went shopping yesterday with Mike and out of impulse I bought a dress he said would look cute on me. But when I tried it on at home, I realised I bought the wrong size. Do you want it?"
She then proceeded by pulling out the dress from the shopping bag. It happened to be a sun dress with thin spaghetti straps with tiny frills lacing them. The dress color itself was a pale pink with small white and black dots decorating it in random places. There was also a string that laced under the breast part, allowing you to tie behind, probably to give your bust a bit of a lift. All in all, a perfect dress for someone cute. Unfortunately, I'm not someone who is cute.
"What? I wouldn't wear something like this." But my words fell on deaf ears. Jessica picked up the dress by the straps and placed it against my body.
"Look, it fits!" She practically squealed.
"Whoa, Bella, what's that you got?"
"Something to impress us guys, huh?" Two guys from our class walked up to us, sly smiles on their face.
"What, you're a girl?" One snickered while the other finally broke out into laughter. Even Jessica looked as if she was trying to fight a smile off.
I ended up kicking them both hard in the shins before shoving all my books and papers into my bag, ready to leave school early today. But in the end I was forced to take the dress. Jessica had promised me that it would look good if I gave it a chance and tried it on and maybe do something with my hair, maybe a little make up too. But it all sounded crazy. I'm not one of the girls who pretties up or does something fancy with her hair. I may wear some light mascara at times but that was mostly for school pictures. Charlie pleaded me to look nice in them, for memories.
I was in such deep thought I realised that I was finally walking past the fence towards my home. I spotted Edward raking up the leaves from out grass. His movements were so jerky, it made me want to smile and forgot my problems but I held onto my control and trusted the bag into his view.
"I'm back. And throw this away." Sorry Jessica but I'll make it up to you.
"It's pretty early to be home. And.. throw it away?" He opened the bag, much to my displeasure, and pulled out the dress. I huffed and crossed my arms over my chest.
"It won't look good on me so there's no point in keeping it."
"You won't know unless you try it on. You're at an average height so I'm sure it'll look good on you. Go ahead." I stared at him and the fabric he held towards me. His words sounded so reassuring, his soft smile promising.
Hesitantly, I grabbed the dress and hastily made my way inside. I dashed towards my room, dropping everything. My bag, clothes, socks, everything, except for my underwear. Holding the dress in my hands, I stared it down for a couple minutes before placing the open bottom above my head. After struggling for a minute or so, since I wasn't used to putting on dresses, I finally had it on properly. It felt weird, having no pants on, even weirder to feel the light breeze come through my window and feel the freeness I had down there. Shyly, I began to strike poses in the body length mirror, like I seen from the models on T.V. A smirk made its way to my lips before I walked back a bit, the smirk turning into a sad smile.
"Liar.. it doesn't look good at all." 'What, you're a girl?' 'That's not like you at all!'. Their voices rang in my head, tormenting me. "You don't have to tell me.. I know already." I whispered to myself, trying my best not to cry.
"Bella." Gasping, I looked towards the window to see Edward sitting innocently on the sill. Slowly anger filled me as I rushed towards him, grabbing a hold of his shirt.
"Hey, you can't just sneak in!"
"You look beautiful, Bella." He smiled down at me and I felt my face heat up. Beautiful?
"Huh, what are you talking about, idiot. You can't fool me." He then stared at me with the most intense look.
"Honestly.. you always look beautiful." My face heated up even more. Slowly, I let go of his shirt and stepped back, my hands gripping tightly onto the dress.
"You weirdo.. you're a robot." I whispered but he heard me and smiled. What's going on.. I feel warm inside. It would be nice if he was actually human..
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A/N: Woo. Finally got this chapter done. Now that Vanlla Salt is out of the way, I can get this and BB done. But this fanfiction will probably have short chapters. If I make them long they'll never get updated! Hope you enjoyed.
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