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Chapter 15

1 week later

I woke up, for the first time, at Bella's house. As it turns out, the dates that Alice gave me basically said I would be staying with Bella until they returned. I never knew that Charlie and Bella lived in a three bedroom house, but I found out the previous evening, when Emmett and his Jeep drooped me, and a lot of my stuff off. Charlie and Bella didn't get the hint that I was moving in for half of a year. Mind you, Bella probably just assumed I was a taller, younger version of Alice. Like Bella's room, and my room at the Cullens', my room there was painted blue, and it also happened to have had a quaint little window seat, a lovely mirror, and the largest bed I had ever slept in, a queen size bed, it was a very good room, especially with Charlie's standards. Obviously it was far, far smaller than my bedroom at the Cullen's, but at the same time, it was bigger than my bedrooms in England. I was very pleased with it. It was very close to Bella's, so during her nightmares, I would probably end up having to comfort her too. Also in my room, there was a bookcase covered with a sheet. I was pleased with this because I could put my twilight books in it. Also, there was a wardrobe, where I could quite happily place my twilight t-shirts and hoodie, oh, and my posters in it. I called it my twilight wardrobe, for obvious reasons. Bella gave me a quick tour of the house, and then we talked a bit. We discussed her birthday party. Me, Anita, Lauren and Jess didn't go. We made the excuse that we were at the cinema and didn't want to make a big fuss of her birthday anyway. She was rather glad, to be honest, and wasn't too happy that we gave her a gift, but I saw a little smile on her face when she opened it. It was a picture of all of the Cullens, me, her, Jess, Lauren and Anita, all together, having a good time. After that, she had to take a picture of us five, together, with her new digital camera, and she got another senior to take it. The 16th of September started rather differently. I awoke with the aid of my radio, got up, did the usual things, then got a text from Alice, telling me to wear my drama hoodie, my purple vest, and some jeans. She didn't tell me why, but I obliged. She was my friend, and she must have had a reason for telling me to wear those. So, I did.

I went downstairs, had a few glasses of juice, and other than that, I skipped breakfast, like I normally did. I hung around the kitchen for a while, though, seeing as Bella wasn't ready. When she came downstairs, I only had to wait a couple of minutes before we left, which was a good thing, because I seriously couldn't be bothered to sit in there, doing nothing for a while. I suppose that she couldn't, either. She said bye to her dad, and I gave him a quick wave before following her out of the door. I got in her passenger seat, and we drove to school. We didn't say much, and we were there soon enough. I was listening to my iPod, and staring out of the window, normal behaviour for me in a car, to be honest. One of the things I was glad about was that Forks High didn't demand for me to have my hair up all the time, like every school in England did, which was rather annoying and it made my hair hurt.

When we arrived, Bella noticed that the Cullens' cars weren't there.

"It's nothing, Bella, don't worry." I lied.

"This isn't something to do with that book you wouldn't let me read... is it?"

"Look, Bella, I know those books inside and out, and this little thing is nothing. Even if it does seem to affect you badly, remember, it is still nothing. There's only a couple of bad things that happen to you over New Moon, and they will all happen during my stay at your house. Oh, and promise me one thing. Every time you see Jake, bring me with you."

"Um... okay..."

"Sorry... am I confusing you?"

"Just a tad..."

"Sorry... I'll just run off to Ash, Freddy and Allison." I said, speedily walking to the cafeteria.

Ash, Freddy, and Allison were sat at the usual table, and I joined them.

"Hey, where is everyone else?" Ash asked.

"They won't be coming in for a while, Ashley..."

"How long is a while, Kaisha?"

"Look... I'm not allowed to tell you. But I insisted on coming, so I made alternative arrangements with friends..."

"Look, don't go all cryptic on us."

"I'm sworn to secrecy until a bit afterschool. If everyone goes on MSN tonight, then I'll make a group conversation, and we'll talk about it then, ok?"

"Fine, Kaisha, but we're not happy about it." Jess's friend, Nathan said.

"Look. I would tell you now, but it would probably ruin the whole space/time continuum thing. Seriously."

Everyone laughed. I didn't really blame them, but I was upset all the same.

"Fine. I'm off to the vendors to have a snack. I suddenly feel hungry." I said, leaving the table, grabbing my stuff and sorting myself as I went along.

Okay, I'll admit it, I overreacted, but I can't be all... calm and controlled... that just isn't very... me. I walked to the vendors, got myself a snack, and munched on it until it was time for first lesson. When it was almost time, I checked my timetable, and was pleased to discover that it was Drama. That might have been why Alice asked me to wear my drama hoodie. I walked down to the drama room, and I was first there. Apart from the teacher, Miss Watson.

"BTEC Drama?" She asked me.

"Yeah... I was doing it in England, and we got these hoodies and t-shirts to do with them."

"Oh, right, you know, I'm from England too. I moved a few years ago, and I never looked back."

"I moved in to live with my relatives, a Dr and Mrs. Cullen..."

"As in from twilight? I moved just after reading New Moon, and suddenly found it was a completely different time in America. I had relatives ship Eclipse and Breaking Dawn over for me. What a great series."

"Of course, the very same... but they, obviously, aren't my real relatives, because that would make me a vampire, and I don't have red, black or... sort of gold eyes, and my skin is ever so slightly darker than a vampire's is, and I do get sleep at night, even if it's not a lot. You do know that the books are real, right? Oh, and right now, we're up to Edward leaving Bella in New Moon today. Except there's one major difference... I moved in with her after school yesterday."

"Really? How terrible... I thought it was great when I realised they were real."

"I'm trying to marry Jacob... I probably have no shot... but... he's so... and... yeah..."

"Oh, I fancied him so much when my sister sent me a poster and t-shirt over, much more than in the twilight film, that's for sure, but I'm in my twenties, I'm far too old to be fancying Taylor Lautner."

"But you think he's fit and stuff, right?"

"Yeah..."

"So does my thirty-eight year old mother. I made her admit it."

"Ooh, evil! Go sit down on the benches, I think the crowds of people are about to arrive."

"Okay, thank you, Miss Watson."

"Don't mention it... no, seriously, don't."

"I won't, Miss Watson." I said, finding a seat in the middle of the auditorium.

The rest of the class started to file in at that point, and I realised that the class was for both Freshmen and Sophomores, because there were some kids who... well, they looked 16, to put it that way.

"Welcome to Drama. Some of you bright sparks who weren't here last time may have noticed that this class has both freshmen and sophomores in it. This is because, as I said before, we have a very large auditorium, and staging plays is always exciting, so drama isn't just for aspiring actors and actresses, if you like the theatre, come here, oh, and another reminder, theatre club is in here at lunch and afterschool tonight. I'll be hoping that everyone here will be attending."

I was looking forward to drama club. Definitely.

"Well, everyone dump your stuff at your seats, and come here in a big circle. We're going to play a game. Or 5."

We all gathered in a circle rather quickly, and when we were all there, the teacher motioned for us to sit down, before placing a beanbag in the middle of the circle.

"This is the improvisation game. I learnt it in England. If you can come up with a better name for it, by all means suggest one. Basically, I choose two of you to go in the circle, and improvise a scene. I shout freeze, you freeze, and one of you goes out, replaced by someone else, the scene then has to completely change. It then goes on and on and on and on until I say so. Anyone not understand?" Miss Watson asked. Everyone understood. I already knew this game from England.

I was first in the circle, with a sophomore boy, I later learned to be called Simon, my character's name from the play in England. How amusing. I quickly told him to sit on the beanbag, then we began.

I got down on my knee in front of him, and bought out an imaginary ring.

"Honey, I know we've only been going out for three years, but I want to take our relationship to the next step. Also, I wanted to do this myself, in my own, special way. Will you marry me?"

He looked surprised, and happy, and said, "Darling, it would be an honour." And moved to hug me.

I moved out of the way. "Oh no you don't, mister. Just because you want to marry me doesn't mean that I want to marry you. I know you're cheating on my with Betty-Lynn down the street!"

"Okay, so maybe we... honey I'm sorry, what else can I say? It's out in the open now, besides, it's not like she's really young, and how exactly is this affecting you?"

"She's 16 years old. You're 25! Besides, we're going out. I expect your exclusivity. Oh, and it's affecting me plenty."

"So? And how is it affecting you?"

"You wouldn't believe me."

"Try me."

"She's my little sister!" I half screamed, he was sat on the beanbag, still.

"And... freeze." Miss Watson said. "Good example. Veronica, will you please take Simon's place?"

A platinum blonde cheerleader stood up, and took Simon's place on the seat. As soon as Miss Watson said she could begin, she started thrashing about, crying "Mummy, I don't wanna go to school!" and stuff like that.

"Honey, calm down. You're going to have a wonderful day today, you'll make plenty of new friends, and you'll have so much fun that you might not even want to come home."

She continued thrashing around.

"Honey, what if mummy buys you a present?"

She stopped thrashing.

"Present? What kind of present?"

"Well, what do you want?"

"I want... $500, and a personal slave for a week, and you to buy me anything I want for a month."

I grumbled, before saying, "Oh, alright then, let's get you off to high school."

"I can walk by myself, mother."

Miss Watson then froze our piece, took me out, and replaced me with Freddie. They did a rather... um... lovely... piece about singing rubbish. And I mean singing rubbish, rubbish that sings, singing trash, trash that sings, whatever you want to call it.

A few minutes later, we moved on to another game I did in England, where you give everyone imaginary gifts, and have to make it, basically, funny, stupid and stuff.

It went rather well, and was rather funny, but please don't ask me to go into details.

After that, we all went back to sitting in the auditorium, and discussed a play to do.

"Well, I know there are a lot of us, but I think Shakespeare would be a good thing to do. And I don't know about you, but I'm not in the mood for a tragedy. I think we should be doing either Much Ado about nothing, or a midsummer night's dream. Well, those are the two I know best. So, if there are no objections, we'll have a vote."

She paused for a few moments.

"So... all those for much ado about nothing." Most of the class raised their hands. "And a midsummer night's dream." Only a few people raised their hands this time. "Much Ado About Nothing wins. I'm glad, anyway. It's my favourite of the two. Auditions will be the lesson after next. Actually, it's a good job that it was much ado about nothing, as I just happened to hope it would be, and bought enough scripts for the class. Everyone please collect a script from one of the boxes down here."

Then, everyone got a script. I ended up in the middle of the line, so I still got to have a lovely clean, stapled, unbent script.

Over the rest of the lesson, she showed us the audition pieces, and let us read through the script. Freddie was going t audition for Benedick, and I was auditioning for Beatrice, so we decided to audition together. I mean, it made sense.

When the bell rang, she was about to dismiss us, when she realised that in actuality we had a double period, so she just sent us to practice our auditions, so we could audition at lunch time. She would have the cast list announced at the end of drama club in the evening. She said it was an incentive for us to come. And it was. Only problem was, I would have to walk to Bella's. Well, she would be passed out in the forest, it isn't like she could pick me up, and obviously asking Charlie wasn't an option, he'd be preoccupied with looking for Bella.

By the end of the lesson, Freddie and I had an awesome audition scene going, and we were totally ready to do our audition there and then. But, obviously, we didn't. We had a lesson to get off to.

It was stupid maths, again. Thankfully, I was good at it, I just walked with Freddie, like usual. The only weird thing so far was that I was the only human 'Cullen' there now. Or the only Cullen at all to be honest, as Alice and Edward had also gone. And I was the only one who knew. Well, that was actually a lie, because Carlisle was going to ring Charlie and ask if I could stay there for a few months, because I really wanted to stay at Forks High, but he had already accepted a job offer in another town, too far away for me to travel from, and he had also quit at Forks Hospital. Oh, and everyone who was leaving knew, of course.

I finished the work in maths, yet again, and chatted with Freddie for a bit. The second the bell rang, we were up and out of the door, ready to audition.

Unsurprisingly, we were first there, so we got to audition first, and we got off to lunch quickly, so our friends wouldn't worry. Oh, and our audition went incredibly, we had a few little problems, but it was just minor things, nothing to ruin them.

"So, how was the audition?" Ash asked.

"I didn't know you knew about that Ashley... who told you and when?"

"I'm auditioning after I finish eating... did you forget I'm doing drama?"

"Oh, oh my god, I'm so sorry, I didn't mean..."

"It's okay, Kaisha. It's forgiven and forgotten."

"Sorry. I... I didn't mean to..."

"I already forgave you, what is there to be sorry for?"

"Sorry... I just... when I start apologizing, I literally can't stop. Me apologizing equals something I call the 'Apology Train' which, it literally takes me ages to get off of. I'm sorry but I just can't help myself..."

"And there you go again..."

"Oh, sorry... did it again, didn't I?"

"I'll, um... get going... I'd better audition now, otherwise I'll have no chance of getting Hero. Besides, I've already eaten plenty."

"You've only eaten half an apple, Ash..."

"I know... still way too much..."

"Oh, sorry... hang on, what am I apologizing for..."

"Bye, guys, see you later."

Ashley quickly whipped her tray away, and went off to audition.

"So what's the deal with Ashley and food? I haven't seen her eat much in a while." I asked Freddie.

"Well, between you, me and Allison, I think she's on a diet."

"I think I could have deduced that by myself, thanks."

"She's never been... happy... with her image... she's always wanted to change it. She wants to look more like her sister."Allison said.

"Jessica?"

"Duh! Who else?" Freddie was obviously being sarcastic. She had no other sisters, I think.

"I think she's prettier. Much prettier." I said.

"Well, she doesn't think that, obviously."

"Freddie... we need to do something about that, don't we..."

"Yeah I guess... but why?"

"Because I'm worried that she has an eating disorder."

"Then maybe we should just... confront her?" Freddie suggested.

"No, don't you know anything? That could make her worse."

"Um, we could tell her parents and the school nurse..." Allison suggested.

"I guess, the only other alternative I can think of is is staging a play, which would be too time consuming."

"Staging a play?"

"Yeah, Freddie, the one I was doing in drama in England. It's about anorexia. I played the anorexic girl's older brother. All girls school, before you look at me weirdly."

"Oh, yeah, did you tell me about that before?"

"I don't know, remember, Freddie, under all this blue, pink and black is blonde hair. Yes, I can sometimes be a stereotypical blonde... but I don't know any actual stereotypical blondes."

"Oh. I guess me too..." He replied

I smiled.

He smiled.

"Wow... I think I'll go for a walk now..." I said, getting up.

"I'll go with you, if you like..." Freddie suggested.

"No thanks, Fred." I turned to face him. "I don't need a puppy right now."

I walked away, and when I was a safe distance away, I checked he had indeed sat down again. He had. I didn't really want to take a walk, you see, but I realised that it was getting awkward, and I didn't want to end up getting a date with Freddie Newton. I was keeping myself single in the insane hope of getting with Jake. Even for a little while.

I went to my locker, and grabbed a book I was reading. Harry Potter, purely for the reason that I couldn't be seen reading twilight in school, too many questions, and I'd risk exposure. Now, we wouldn't want that, now, would we. I got so caught up in the book, that I didn't realise I was sitting on the floor until Freddie walked past and said,

"Um, Kaisha? Why are you sat on the floor? And why is your locker open?"

"Freddie I'm reading. I'll now stop reading and close my locker and put it away... not necessarily in that order. Now, stop being my personal stalker and go hang out with your friends, like a normal person." I said, putting my book away.

"Um... it's nearly time for English, I was just getting my stuff ready. You should too."

"Oh, right." I re-opened my locker and got my things for English ready... not that I really needed anything, because we were watching a film. Funnily enough, it was Much Ado About Nothing.

I got my stuff ready, had a human moment, then went off to English. A few people were there before me, but nobody I knew very well. I went back over to my seat, and I sat there.

A few minutes later, when everyone was there, the teacher put the film in, and we began watching it from where we left off. In actuality, I knew what was going to happen, because I had seen exactly the same version in Year 9 in England. Plus, I now had the script in my bag.

It went quickly, and it was soon time for PE. Unfortunately.

I was the Bella of my year in PE, always had been. I didn't have a body built for athletics, and I had no hand-eye co-ordination either. In other words, it was safer for me, and all involved, if I stayed on the bleachers, where I belonged. Besides, I kept spraining my ankle anyway. Seriously, I did it 4 times in a month last year. At least Coach didn't make us do dangerous sports all the time. Today, we were doing badminton, and I was walking around a bit, due to the fact that not everyone could play at once, but unbeknownst to him, I never played. I always let everyone go in front of me, so I never had a go. If I played, I would have someone's eye out.

At the end of the lesson, he had us all gather around, and talked about what we would be doing from next lesson onwards. Athletic type things. They even had some machinery. Specifically, 2 rowing machines, 3 exercise bikes, and 3 treadmills. I wondered how they could afford all that, but I didn't mind not knowing. Besides, I liked rowing machines and exercise bikes.

I quickly got back into my clothes, and waited for someone else to go off before I went too. I didn't like being first to leave PE. I never had done.

I rushed to Drama club after the final bell for the day went. I was desperate to know who got what role.

When I got there, Miss Watson was still setting up. I was first there, again.

"So, miss, who got what?"

I startled her, she clearly didn't expect anyone to arrive yet.

"Oh, Kaisha, I didn't... Oh, I'll get the list out in a moment, take a seat, and get your script out."

I did as I was asked, then I noticed her place a piece of paper on the table, and I practically ran to read it.

Hero - Ashley Stanley

Claudio - Steve Stewart

Benedick - Fred Newton

Beatrice - Kaisha Cullen

I didn't bother reading anymore, I was ecstatic! I had gotten the role, and, and m friends had gotten theirs as well. Unfortunately, when I got back to my seat, I had a text, from Bella.

Have to leave now, you coming with?

Bella.

"Um... Miss Watson, my friend needs me to leave, otherwise I can't get home... so can I go? I promise I'll do whatever to catch up..."

"Oh, if you need to go, then go, I won't stop you."

I texted Bella back.

On my way.

Kaisha.

I made my way to the lot, where Bella was awaiting me in her truck. I quickly got in, and she got going.

She drove silently back to her house, where she found Edward waiting for her. I went in the house, and I let Charlie know a while later. Sort of. I phoned him, and told him that Bella had gone out for a walk a while ago and had not returned, it didn't really change anything, though, Sam still brought her back, and the Cullens were still gone, along with Jess, Lauren and Anita.

I hope you liked this chapter. Unfortunately, although its the school holidays, I have a ton of homework to do this week, so I don't know when my next update will be.

Kaisha :)