Okay, so I'm going on vacation, starting tomorrow afternoon, so I obviously won't be in the position to write anything or update, so I had to practically beg my parents to let me finish this chapter. I had a lot of fun writing it, I hope you enjoy reading it. I'll hopefully be back Monday with an update :)

Disclaimer: Edward: Elyse, I can't do this right now... I have to film New Moon. I'm sorry. I can't be with you right now.

Elyse: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Jacob: I've been working out a lot... ;) you can hang out with me if you want....

I do not own Twilight or any of the characters.... Stephenie Meyer does.

Chapter 4

A clean break. That was best for us, right? Edward had tried to call me after he left, but I didn't answer or call back. I didn't want him to know that I was still here. I didn't want him to feel sorry for me. All I could think of while I walked up to the school was Edward, how much I loved and missed him.

I walked into the door labeled "OFFICE," and walked to the front desk. An older woman, who appeared to be in her late fifties--with very obviously artificial red hair, I might add--smiled at me.

"Hello," she began. "My name is Mrs. Cope. Can I help you with anything?"

"Yeah, my name is Isabella Swan," her eyed widened with knowledge. In a town this small, news was sure to travel fast. "I'm new here, and I need my schedule and everything."

She rustled through her papers on the countertop, found all of my information, and handed it to me, pointing to each of the papers. "This is your schedule, that right... there is your Emergency information (make sure you bring that back to me tomorrow so we can file it away for any emergencies), and here--" she pointed to a lime green sheet of paper that was obviously the map of the school. I momentarily tuned her out, seeing nothing around me, only focusing on the green that was so close to Edward's eye color. I watched the map sadly as she used big hand motions while she spoke to me, following only the green. Jeez, how pathetic can I get? Okay... Focus Bella. I tuned back into what Mrs. Cope was rambling about, unaware of my previous preoccupation. "... and I know you'll just love it here. Well, I will let you get off to class now. Bring me back your schedule list at the end of the day signed by all of your teachers. I'll see you then!" she waved me out of the room and watched me curiously as I retreated out of the room.

By the time I was finished with Mrs. Cope, most of the students were beginning to arrive at the school.

I followed the line of traffic until I reached the student parking lot and parked in a spot randomly. I pulled my book bag from the passenger seat and began walking toward the school. I had walked maybe only ten steps before I froze dead in my tracks. There, sitting on the opposite side of the parking lot sat a shiny silver Volvo. My broken heart began to throb painfully in my chest. I cursed under my breath and continued walking. Leave it to Forks to make me more miserable than I already was. Today looked like it was going to be a great day...

My first few classes were slow and boring. I met a nice girl named Angela in my first class, and we talked about our favorite books for a while. She seemed really nice, but she was even shyer than I was by a long shot. Some rude girl named Lauren was in my next class, and I automatically hated her. I decided to just ignore and told myself to not pay her any special attention because that was clearly what she wanted. I wasn't in the mood for any stupid girls that thrived on stepping all over people. I had enough drama for now, thanks.

Third period, I had my English class. I was glad to see most of the books on the list of what we would be reading this semester were some of my favorite books. This class looked like it would be interesting. Nothing extremely special happened, but I was counting down the minutes to my next period: Lunch.

I was so glad when lunch finally arrived. I was absolutely starving; who knew a monotonous school like this would bring starvation?! I chuckled quietly to myself and made my way toward an empty table, trying to ignore the people staring at me. I was right about to sit down when a pair of hands grabbed me and pulled me to a different table that was nearly full. I stared wide-eyed at the girl who was pulling me.

She was beautiful... but in a different way... A good way. She was very small; petite and delicate waist, she was also very short, standing no more than five feet tall at the most. Her hair was cut to about the length of where her chin was, but her hair flared out at the bottom, each strand sticking out every which way. She had an impeccable face; her beauty was absolutely blinding as she grinned toothily at me.

"My name is Alice," she said in a high-pitched soprano voice. "Alice Cullen. This is my boyfriend, Jasper Whitlock," she pointed to a tall blonde boy with really light brown eyes (even lighter than mine; his were a light coffee color, while mine were chocolate brown) who looked to me, waving and smiling. "My brother Emmett," she pointed to a man who would be frightening if he weren't grinning so widely, then pulled me up into a bone-crushing hug. I had known him for all of two and a half seconds, and he acted as though we played together in the sandbox when we were kids. He had huge muscles that I stared at, this was the Man of Steel; all muscle, no flab. He noticed me staring at them with my jaw opened and flexed, making the muscles impossibly grow in their size. I blinked as Alice continued. "And that is his girlfriend, Rosalie Hale." She pointed lastly to a girl who looked more like she belonged in a Playboy magazine rather than a high school, especially not a high school in Forks... But she was better because she was more beautiful than all those girls in the magazines put together, plus she had her clothes on. She had gorgeous blonde hair that looked like yellow silk, and wide, deep blue eyes. My self-esteem dropped about a million points as I looked her over. She gave me a half smiled, looking extremely uncomfortable.

I realized they were staring at me expectantly. I remembered I had yet to introduce myself to these people. "Oh, I'm Bella Swan." my cheeks flushed as I shook each of their hands.

"Well? Are you just gonna stand there and be own personal lunch statue, or are you gonna sit with us?" Emmett teased.

I rolled my eyes at him, trying to look like I didn't care, and sat down in one of the remaining seats, ending up between Alice and Emmett.

Alice began speaking really quickly, I had to focus so I could understand what she was trilling on about. "Oh, Bella! I just know the two of us will be the best of friends! We will be like peanut butter and jelly, only closer! We can have sleepovers all the time, and stay up for hours and just talk about life and boys and whatever else you like to do. I can take you shopping, because let's face it honey, you desperately need my professional assistance. We are gonna be like sisters, only closer! I can tell we are get along really great!"

I was stunned that this stranger was treating me like her favorite person in the whole world, after only a few moments. I was actually a little weirded-out by this conversation in general. Why would it matter to her that we are friends? Why had she chosen me of all the people in the cafeteria (many of whom were considerably better looking than I was, for that matter). She couldn't be doing this to only the new students, and taking them under her wing automatically, because I know the school was bound to have more new students than just me. This was the first day of a new school year...

I smiled a little awkwardly. "Listen, Alice. I'm flattered that you wanted me to sit here with you, but I'm just a little confused as to why you brought me here, when you had plenty of people to choose from."

Alice beamed at me. "Let's just say I have a pretty good idea of how much you will effect my family someday." She pointed to her head and smiled.

Emmett rolled his eyes at Alice and ruffled her hair. "Alice here has it in her head that she can see the future. You know, like That's So Raven, only Alice doesn't do this." He froze dramatically, and turned his head, staring straight to the wall with his eyes slightly unfocused and wide. He turned back and shuddered a little. We all laughed.

"That's So Alice." Rosalie sang under her breath, causing us to all laugh again.

Alice rolled her eyes and slapped Emmett on the back of his head playfully. "Well, of course I'm not always right. Nobody's perfect, after all."

That set Emmett off. He grabbed Jasper's water bottle and pretended it was a microphone. "Nobody's perfect! I gotta work it! Again and again, 'til I get it right. Nobody's perfect, you live and you learn it, and if I mess it up sometimes, nobody's perfect.... Everybody makes mistakes. Everybody has those days. Everybody knows what, what I'm talkin' 'bout. Everybody gets that way!" Emmett continues to sing Hannah Montana, and actually stood up and started shimmying, receiving many astounded looks from the students. Everyone sitting at my table, and a few people in nearby tables were literally in tears and doubled over in laughter. I briefly saw someone stand up and run out of the room, their pants drenched, I looked back to their table and saw yellow liquid surrounding the chair. Poor kid.

These people made me feel weightless. I stood up next to Emmett, and whispered in his ear. Emmett then whispered in Alice's ear, who grinned at me widely. Emmett began beat-boxing out the rhythm to the song I told him, and Alice began to sing the background notes of the song. I waited for the lyrics to come in. "You can dance, you can jive, having the time of your life. See that girl, watch that scene, dig in the dancing queen!" Alice harmonized with me while I sang, Rosalie and Jasper clapped along to Emmett's beat. I continued singing until I got to the chorus, then I did something completely out of character for me, following only the high I was getting from being around my new friends. I stood on the chair and walked onto the table. People immediately crowded around the table and started jumping and dancing to the beat. "You are the dancing queen, young and sweet, only seventeen! Dancing queen, feel the beat from the tambourine, oh yeah! You can dance, you can jive, having the time of your life! Ooh, see that girl, watch that scene, dig in the dancing queen!" Everyone was screaming for me.

"You're a tease, you turn 'em on," I winked at some guy near the edge of my table."Leave them burning and then you're gone... Looking out for another, anyone will do, you're in the mood for a dance. And when you get the chance..." I continued singing until the very end, and everyone screamed and cheered. I noticed some of the teachers clapping and laughing for me too. I blushed and stepped down from the table.

Forks High School was looking up for me. Who knew I could ever have the courage to do that? I giggled to myself and sat back down with Alice and her friends.

"Bella! That was awesome!" Emmett shouted and punched my knuckles. I was breathless, and still running a little on the high I felt from singing in front of literally the whole school. Quite a way to make a first impression, I'd say.

We continued lunch, talking about our lunch, until the bell rang for our next class. We all stood up, and I got a hug from Alice and Emmett, Jasper smiled and waved goodbye, and Rosalie gave me a rotten look. What was with her?

I began walking to my fifth period, and a boy caught up with me and walked a little too close for my comfort.

"Hey, I'm Mike Newton." he said.

I kept walking, but I stepped up my pace a little. I tried to pretend like I couldn't hear him while he continued.

"That was a pretty sexy dance you were doing up there. You sang good, too." If he was trying to compliment me, it wasn't affecting me the way he was obviously hoping for it to. I could imagine the way he was imagining my response... The way he thought it should be.

"Oh, Mike!" I would say passionately, and locking him into my arms and kissing him passionately. He would touch every inch of my body he could get his filthy hands on, and I would enjoy it. I rolled my eyes and gagged internally. He wishes that would happen. Too bad for him though, my heart is already occupied... To Edward... My dead heart throbbed in my chest at the thought of his name. I began to wonder randomly what Edward would think if he saw me singing on that table... In front of everyone. I blushed again. I wasn't normally like this! What had gotten into me?!

"What's your next class... Isabella, right?" Ugh. Charlie must have introduced me to everyone here as Isabella. I shuddered before replying.

"My next class is biology, and my name is Bella."

He started bouncing as he walked, which only annoyed me further. What is this kid's problem? "I have biology next, too!"

Oh, great. I rolled my eyes.

We finally reached the biology class, and I sat in a desk toward the back of the room. I was a little relieved no one sat at the black lab table with me, I wasn't ready for the attention I was sure my lunch stunt would soon give me. At least no one was really comfortable with me yet (besides Alice and her friends, of course) because I was still the outsider, everyone else had grown up surrounded by everyone else and their families. I was an alien here to them.

The teacher called roll, and my heart spluttered as he called out someone named Edward Cullen. My eyes bulged out and I looked around the classroom for the traitor who dared taunt me with the same name. Evidentially, this Cullen boy was not at school today... Hopefully, he never would be at school. I couldn't handle it if I heard his name every day in this class. It would make the heartache millions of times worse. I breathed in and out deeply through my nose, trying to focus on the teacher, and not on the fact that whenever Cullen did come to class, he would be forced to sit next to me, I had the only empty seat.

Eventually, I couldn't take it anymore. I put my head on the table and cried silently to myself until class was over. I kept my eyes down as I jogged out of the room so no one could see how red they were. This is hell. This is hell. This is hell.

Final class, and my favorite: Gym. Insert heavy sarcasm here. Gym was torture. The coaches told us that they refused to put up with any slackers in the class, and those who were insubordinate, would be punished with push-ups and laps around the gym or outside on the track. I groaned.

Praise Jehovah today was finally over. I couldn't take this day anymore. I had gotten my schedule signed by all my teachers, and brought it back to Mrs. Cope. She jabbered about nothing of interest to me, and I went out to the lot to the haven I called: "My truck."

The parking lot was filled with students standing by their cars and chatting animatedly to each other, catching up on the latest gossip and sharing stories from their summers.

I glared at the stupid silver Volvo once more, to see Alice looking straight at me curiously, then broke out into a smile when she saw me. She ran over to me... Okay, actually, the girl was so graceful, she looked like she was dancing toward me, and called out my name so I couldn't escape.

"Bella! I just had the best idea! You need to come over to my house tonight and have dinner with my family. We will follow you to your house, and then you can leave your truck there, and then we will take you over to our house! Oh, my God! You will love my parents, and Edward wasn't at school today because he's been pretty depressed lately, but I'm sure you two will get along after a while..." Of course. Alice Cullen... Edward Cullen. The stupid boy was related to Alice. I was about to back out of it, but when I looked back to Alice to refuse her invitation, she was watching me with the saddest puppy dog eyes I have ever seen. How could I refuse to such a face?

"Of course, Alice," I said with as much enthusiasm I could manage, while the whole time I knew how seeing this boy Edward and hearing his name would remind me of my Edward, and send my heart into its own hell. "I would love to meet the rest of your family." Alice hugged me and ran (AKA danced) back to her car to tell her family the news. I got in my truck and began to pull out, and saw Emmett driving the Volvo right behind me.

I went inside after we arrived to the house, and I dropped off my things and left a quick note for Charlie telling him where I would be and not to worry. I told him to order a pizza because I wouldn't be around to cook. I grabbed my purse and ran to the car, sliding into the backseat with Alice and Jasper.

Oh my Lord. This car smells amazing. How do they get off with looking good, having a nice car, and smelling good? I glanced to what they were wearing, they all had very attractive outfits on, too. Oh, great. They have plenty of money for great clothes, too? I frowned to myself. I am so plain.

After about ten minutes, Emmett began driving into the forest on a dirt road. Before I could ask where we were going, I caught sight of an enormous white house standing against the trees. It was absolutely beautiful. It was old-fashioned, but still fit in well with its location in Forks.

We pulled in front of the house, and walked up the porch and into the house.

"Mom?" Alice called. "We brought a friend over for dinner and to hang out for a while."

A woman who looked way too young to be the mother of three children walked into the room. She had smooth brown hair, and a very kind face. Her wide brown eyes were cheerful as she walked to me and gave me a hug.

I blushed. "Hi Mrs. Cullen. I'm Bella." I looked at my feet while I introduced myself.

"Oh, please! Call me Esme, darling," she told me, then turned to Alice. "Your brother, Edward--" I cringed slightly at the name. "Is in his room, listening to music. Last I heard was that he was going to sleep for a while, but he would be down for dinner. I wouldn't bother him, he's still not happy..." She trailed off, looking worried for her son.

"Is Dad still at work?" Emmett asked, edging toward a huge plasma screen TV and a comfortable looking couch.

"Yes, he'll be here for dinner though, too." She turned to me. "He's a surgeon, you know... Well, he's more of an all-purpose doctor. He can do a lot of things when it comes to medicine..." She said matter-of-factly.

We spent our time watching the huge TV, laughing and joking around. Eventually, Alice popped in SingStar and we all took turns singing. I almost peed my pants like the kid in lunch when Emmett did Britney Spears "Hit Me Baby One More Time," complete with body rolling and posing for cameras that weren't there. This guy was seriously the most funny person I had ever met.

Dr. Cullen came home before the infamous Edward woke up. Dr. Cullen was more of a male model than a doctor. My eyes widened as I took him in. He had very fair blonde hair and shining grey eyes. I guessed they always shone. When Esme walked into the room a wide smile lit his face, and he immediately strode to her and wrapped his arms around her waste, kissing her nose sweetly.

Alice, Rosalie and I all said "Awwww!" and Emmett began making kissy noises toward his parents.

Dr. Cullen turned and looked at me for the first time, and shook my hand. "You must be Bella. Esme told me we had company for dinner tonight." He smiled warmly at me, making me feel very comfortable and at home.

Esme announced dinner was ready and went on her phone to literally call Edward Cullen to eat.

"Your home is beautiful, Dr. Cullen." I couldn't help but tell him the truth.

"Please, call me Carlisle, Dr. makes me feel overworked." He chuckled to himself lightly. I heard footsteps coming lazily down the stairs, I wasn't ready to look at this Edward, I wasn't interested in anyone who wasn't my Edward... The footsteps suddenly stopped, and I knew he couldn't be at the floor already, but I kept my eyes looking straight at Carlisle.

"Bella? Is that you?" a velvety voice spoke, making my heart scream.

I looked up to the voice to see a tall boy with bronze hair. His emerald eyes were wide, but they looked strangely dead--as if he had heard bad news for far too long--but I watched as light began to rush in and overflow them, causing his gemstone-like eyes to melt. The boy rubbed his eyes quickly, as if he were unsure if this was a dream or an illusion.

"Edward?"

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