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Chapter 2 The Rescue

EPOV

"Dude! Seriously? Why the grandpa music?" Emmett asked as I drove us to the first day of our senior year.

Emmett is my older brother. He got held back when he was in grade school, so we ended up in the same grade. I also have a sister, Alice, but she rides in with her boyfriend, Jasper. Alice is a junior this year and Jasper is also a senior. We all live with my parents, Carlisle and Esme, minus Jasper. He lives with his parents. My father is a doctor and my mom likes to do interior design, but mostly just stays home with us.

As I am listening to Emmett gripe about my choice of music, I sit there smiling and shaking my head.

"What? Clair de Lune is a classic!" I argue back. To tell the truth, I always play classical music in the car when Emmett rides with me because I know it pisses him off. He only has to speak the words "Hey, can you take me..." and I start to smile, thinking of what classical music I can torture him with while we drive. I do have other music on my iPod as well. Alice makes fun of me for my music choices. One minute I could be listening to Billy Joel the next minute I am listening to Marilyn Manson. Yup, I have a wide variety for sure.

Emmett sighs. "Why can't you listen to normal teenager music? Ya know, like Green Day, Disturbed, or hell, I'll even take Creed! But this Clair de Duck shit needs to go."

As Emmett starts reaching for my iPod, I slap his hand.

"Whose car are we in?"

"Yours," Emmett says with a pout.

"And what are the rules?"

"Whoever drives gets to pick the music, blah, blah, blah."

"That's right," I said. I know I'm cruel. But hey, what can I say? Emmett may be my older brother but I still know exactly how to get him all hyped up.

At this point Emmett is pouting like a 3 year old and has his arms crossed over his chest. You would think that at his age he would have outgrown that by now. I take a deep breath and let it out as a big sigh. What a dork.

"OK. You win. I promise, on the way home I will play something a little more teenage-esque," I say between laughs.

"About fucking time, Edward!"

"Hey, think of it as expanding your horizons. You can't just listen to one type of music. Ya need to listen to a little bit of everything."

"Yeah, I think I will stick to Hollywood Undead spank you very much," Emmett says as he crinkles up his nose.

"Suit yourself," I tell him shrugging my shoulders.

As we pull into the parking lot, Emmett suddenly gasps.

"Jesus! Dude!" I say to him as I put my hand to my chest. "You scared the shit out of me!"

"I'm sorry. I completely forgot to tell you. The police chief's daughter is supposed to be going to school with us now."

"Um...OK. And I am supposed to care because...?" I say as I raise my eyebrow at him and wave my hand to tell him to continue.

"I don't know. I just found it exciting is all. Ya know, new kid in this small town. It's nice to be able to see a fresh face among all the old faces."

"Dear God, my brother is a dork," I say as I get out of my Volvo and start walking away from him towards the school.

Just then, an old Chevy truck pulls up. Emmett and I watch as we see the new girl jump down out of the truck. As I am watching her, I happen to notice that she seems to be hiding behind her hair.

That's odd I say to myself, or so I thought.

"What's so odd?" Emmett asks me.

"She seems to be hiding her face for some reason. It just seems odd to me is all." I must have been watching her for a little bit longer than I thought because the next thing I knew I am being dragged across school grounds by Emmett.

"Come on. We need to get to class."

I went to all of my morning classes with images of the new girl going through my head. Why would she be trying to cover up her face? Maybe she is just shy. Yeah, that must be it. She is just trying to make herself blend in. That makes sense since she is the new girl and all.

For some reason I found myself thinking about her a lot. Especially once I got to lunch and sat with Emmett, Alice, and Jasper.

"OhmyGod! Have you guys met the new girl yet?" Alice exclaims in excitement as she sits down next to Jasper.

"Yeah, I have a couple of classes with her," Emmett said. "I haven't actually met her yet, but I did notice her."

"Well, I got the chance to work with her during Math class. She is very sweet," Alice said.

"Did she seem like she was trying to hide her face at all to you?" I asked.

"Um...well, yeah," Alice started. "But you really should talk to her if you want to know why. I am not one to gossip."

Next thing I know I have milk flying at me. I look across the table to find that Emmett just sprayed milk out his nose because he was laughing so hard.

"Aw Emmett! That is disgusting!" I bellow out at him.

"Alice! You..are..the..gossip..queen!" Emmett says between fits of laughter.

"Alright, fine. I may usually be into a little gossip, but this time it is different. If you really want to know her story, you should ask her yourself, Edward."

I ponder this thought and tuck it away. I still have half the day left. Hopefully I get the chance to ask her. Now, if I can only get at least one class with her.

The bell rings and we all start piling out of the cafeteria. My next class is Biology. Oh joy of joys. I walk into class and sit at my usual desk, all by myself. I suddenly couldn't get that stupid song out of my head. Ya know, the one that goes "All by myself. Don't wanna be. All by myself, anymore..." God, I'm so pathetic.

Just then, I notice that the new girl is talking with the teacher, Mr. Banner. He proceeds to point in my direction and I watch as she puts her head down and starts walking towards my desk and sits down next to me. She doesn't even acknowledge me whatsoever. I try to peek my head around so I can look her in the eye and introduce myself, but she turns her head to her right so I can't see her face. I introduce myself anyway.

"Hello. Welcome to Forks High. I'm Edward Cullen."

"I'm Isabella, but everybody calls me Bella," she says to me while still looking to her right.

"Um...It's nice to meet you Bella."

She turns her head so she is looking straight ahead but still hiding behind her hair.

"It's nice to meet you too, Edward," she says while looking down at the desk.

Just as I am about to ask her why she keeps hiding her face from me, Mr. Banner starts his lecture. During the rest of class, we both take notes and don't say another word to each other. At one point, she dropped her pen and it fell down underneath my chair. So to be nice, I went to pick it up for her. At the same time, Bella was reaching down to pick it up also. We bumped heads a little and touched each other's hands. I felt a jolt of electricity go right through my arm and I pulled back at the same time she did. Did she just feel that too? It was unlike anything I felt before.

After Bella got her pen back, she looked straight ahead, still trying to hide behind her hair, and said sorry for bumping my head.

"Oh, it's OK. I tend to get in the way a lot." I give her the best smile I can hoping she would just look at me once...but all she did was look straight ahead and hide behind her hair.

The bell rang and Bella took off without me even saying goodbye to her. I gather up my books and put them into my backpack and I start walking to my next class, when I heard Rosalie Hale's voice.

"...I don't even think plastic surgery would help your ugly face," she said followed by a bunch of laughs. Great. Rosalie and her gaggle of minions are at it again. Always making fun of some poor girl just to make themselves feel better. I would have kept walking but then I heard her use Bella's name.

"Bella, you need to stay out of my face because I can't even stand to look at you." Oh that's it!

I make a run for the group that was crowded around Bella and grab Rosalie by the arm.

"What the fuck is your problem, Rose? So what if she is a little different than everybody here. She is just a quiet person is all! Go pick on somebody your own size!" I say as I shove her away from Bella. I turn away from Rosalie and find Bella sitting on the floor. I bend down so I am eye level with her, well, as eye level as I could be because she was looking down at the floor, trying to hide from me behind her hair.

I sit down in front of her and ask her if she is OK.

"Yeah, I'm fine," she tells me. I take my hand and lift her chin up so she will look at me. I take my other hand and place her hair behind her ear and gasp. As I am looking into her eyes, I see such sadness and longing. I also see something else. I watch as the tears pool in her big chocolate brown eyes and escape. She knows now that I am aware of the secret she has been keeping. I couldn't help the tears that were pooling in my own eyes at this point not only for what I saw but for the rage I felt towards Rosalie for saying the horrible things she said to Bella. The only words that I could say came out in a strangled whisper...

"Oh my God."

A/N I know, I know. I'm such a horrible person for doing this to you guys again. Please feel free to leave me some luvins. Cause reviews are better than getting Emmett all riled up over listening to classical music. ;)