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Song for this chapter: Supermassive Black hole by Muse
Charlie wasn't there too pick me up I had received a text message from him when school ended telling me that there was a robbery at a store and he wouldn't be back till late. He apologised and asked if I would be ok to walk or get the bus home.
I opted for walking after I sent him a text telling him that it was fine and I'd talk to himlater, it was only a twenty minute walk and I actually enjoyed it, it was a little bit cold but thankfully it wasn't raining.
When I made it to the house...for some reason it didn't feel right to call it home I was exhausted. I started dinner, I just made a quick pasta. I ate mine and put Charlies in the fridge. I wrote a note to Charlie telling him where I left his dinner and then I trudged up stairs to start my homework.
After an hour and a half I was done, I looked at the clock on my phone which read 7:19. Charlie still wasn't home. I didn't have anything else to do so I decided to un-pack my suitcase.
I pulled all of my clothes out and put them in my wardrobe, in all honesty there wasn't much. I had to leave most of my clothes back home because I just didn't think that I could wear tank-tops and shorts in Forks weather. After my clothes were un-packed I moved onto my books.
I had a good few books, but again I had to leave most of them back in phoenix. It would have taken way to many suitcases to bring them all. So I just had to choose my favorite ten. It was difficult but I had done it and I found comfort in the fact that If I ever felt the need to get more, I could always just go to a book store.
After all of my un-packing was complete I checked the clock again 8;24. I was starting to worry about Charlie. I decided to take a shower and try to take my mind off of it.I had a nice relaxing shower but afterwards Charlie still wasn't back and I had nothing to do. I wasn't in the mood to read.
I tried listening to my ipod but it just gave me a headache, so I settled for just lying there on my bed thinking. Which these days was never a good idea.
I was relieved that my first day at Forks had gone generally well. If I hadn't of fallen on my face I would have been much happier but ah well, whats done is done. Everyone mostly left me alone which was a relief.
Everyone except for that Mike guy. He was annoying a few times throughout the day I saw him looking at me and heading my way as if to talk. I always managed to sneak...or run away and avoid him. I felt bad about it but I didn't know what to say, how to answer his questions.
I couldn't talk about why I was here. Not only because it hurt to talk about but also because people would gossip and eventually the whole school would know that my mother blamed me for my brothers death. It would just bring up more questions, that I couldn't answer.
Eventually I was left thinking about Daniel. I missed him. I found myself sitting on my bed staring out my open door at Daniel's bedroom. I wanted to go in but at the same time I didn't. I was afraid I wouldn't be able to handle it, I knew I wouldn't be able to. I knew it probably looked the exact same as it always had and that's what scared me.
If I went in there everything would be the same except it wasn't. Daniel was gone and all that was left was his childhood bedroom. It brought tears to my eyes..
I sat up just thinking for most of the night. Eventually at around 12:32 charlie arrived home. I didn't go downstairs, I just sat and listened to him walk in hang up his belt, take off his boots, open the fridge, turn on the microwave and then it was mostly silence except for the sound of a fork hitting a plate every few seconds.
I climbed into bed and tried to sleep, I couldn't. A while later I heard Charlie walking up the stairs and stop outside my room.I heard the door creak open and I shut my eyes and pretended to sleep. He only stayed for a second before he left and when to his own room.
He was checking on me. Like he used to when I was a small kid. It brought tears to my eyes.
I lay awake for hours. Unable to sleep, yet feeling completely worn out and tired, eventually I fell asleep and managed to get a few hours sleep until my alarm clock awoke me from a nightmare I was having the next morning, it was the exact same as the previous night and I feared that this was going to be a reacurring problem.
I got up and like yesterday got ready, again not caring what clothes I wore. I ended up in a pair of jeans a plain long sleeved white t-shirt and my black converse.
At breakfast I managed to convince Charlie to let me walk to school. It didn't take much convincing in all honesty, Charlie was still working on that robbery and would have to be in work earlier. He left about twenty five minutes before I did.
I grabbed my bag and my ipod and started the walk to school. Fortunately is wasn't raining just cold, so I stayed dry. It only took me about twenty minutes to arrive at school on time. I was happy with myself I'd walked all the way here without falling or getting hit by any cars. For me it seemed like a miracle.
I chuckled to myself as I headed towards first class. Upon arriving I stopped my chuckling as I
realised that Mike was sitting in the same spot as yesterday, behind my table.
I walked towards the table, dreading it all the way. When I finally reached the table and sat down Mike had a huge smile on his face.
"Hi Bella." He waved as if he hadn't seen me in years.
"Hey Mike.." I mumbled.
"So how was your first day, yesterday?"
"emm..Good, okay I guess."
"Good,Good." He was sweating and he looked nervous.
"Are you ok?" I asked slightly worried.
"Oh, yeah yeah, great, i'm great." he rushed.
"...Ok.."
He opened his mouth and was just about to ask me something when Mr Varner walked in. I couldn't have been more thankful. Throughout the rest of the day I tried to avoid Mike as much as I could. When the last three classes came and it was time for English, I couldn't wait I had brought a book with me to read, for the free period.
When I entered the class I was disgruntled to see that Mike also had this class, I hadn't seen him Yesterday. He was sitting next to some light brown haired girl, who seemed to be throwing herself at him. Her fingers were trailing up his arm. Thank God he has a girlfriend, now he could leave me alone.
When I walked past his desk he smiled and waved, I gave a small wave back and tried to ignore the glares that Mikes girlfriend was throwing my way. Awkward.
I sat down in my seat and pulled out my book, avoiding looking at mike or anyone else at all costs. When I pulled out the book a folded slip of paper fell out of it's pages and onto the floor.
I bent down and picked it up then looked at it curiously. I unfolded it only to discover that it was my class schedule that I had shoved in the bottom of my bag yesterday, I guess it just got caught in between the pages of my book. I looked down at it curiously and was eventually led to the class I was in now. English -
I guess Mr Gerrard was the teacher I was supposed to have, he must be sick or something. I wonder if he was any good. I hoped so, English was my favorite class.
I was interrupted from my thoughts by the noise of the class room door opening and hearing a shushing noise.
I looked up when I heard it and I saw Principle Greene walk in through the stopped talking. He cleared his throat before he spoke.
"Well as you know Mr Gerrard isn't well erm isn't well at all actually and I'm afraid he is unable to continue teaching at this school."
"Did he have a mental break down." one of the students snickered from the back of the class a few people laughed.
"No, He did not and stop making idiotic comments, do you want a detention Mr Stevens?" principle Greene replied, he was turning red.
"No sir." the student mumbled from the back.
"Well, as I said before Mr Gerrard will not be returning to work, so I have arranged for a new teacher to take over his classes." It was only then that I noticed someone standing behind Principle Greene, I couldn't see him properly.
Mr Greene pointed behind himself" This is Mr Cullen, Your new English teacher for the year." With that Mr cullen stepped out from behind principle greene.
I gasped at what I saw, he was gorgeous. I'm pretty sure it looked like I was catching flies, my mouth was that wide open. I couldn't help it the second I saw him my jaw dropped.
He was tall maybe 6'2 or 6'3, and well built, slightly muscular but not overly so. I looked at him from top to bottom. He had bronze coloured hair and when the sun shone on it I could see strands of blondie, brown. he was pale as if he hadn't seen much sun, it suited him.
His had a strong jaw line that can only be described as being sculpted by a God, and lips that were slightly plump. He wore a baby blue shirt rolled up at the sleeves with a pair of dark denim jeans, with surprisingly a pair of white converse. He was a God, literally everything about him seemed perfect, beautiful. What I had seen was nothing compared to his eyes.
They were a striking emerald green, I had never seen a pair of eyes with such a unique colour before.
The God wasn't looking at me like I was looking at him. He was looking at the whole class in general.
He turned to Principle Greene." Thank you Mr greene, he said with a smile. God even his voice was perfect like Honey. What the hell is wrong with you bella, that is your teacher, stop thinking like that.
I shook my head to clear it. I knew I was right, I needed to stop thinking like that, yeah sure he was good looking...very,very,very good looking but that's beside the point he was older and my teacher. It was understandable that I would find him attractive, i'm sure half the girls in the room felt the same way,maybe even a few of the guys.
I looked around the room and searched everyone's face for a reaction, every single girl in the room was staring open mouthed at Mr Cullen. Huh I don't feel so bad about it anymore. I smiled to myself but pulled my attention back to Mr Cullen when I heard him speak.
"Okay." he said clapping his hands together as Principle Greene walked out the class room door, leaving Mr Cullen alone with a class of 30 students half of which were girls that were drooling, I felt a little sorry for him. He seemed relaxed though as if he couldn't see all the girls that were mentally undressing him.
"So I'm Mr Cullen." he said walking towards his desk and sitting on the edge of it and looking out at us all. He smiled "Hi" he waved we all returned a "hey" back at him.
"So there isn't much time left in this class and I don't think it would make any sense to start anything new yet." he said to us all.
"I obviously don't know any of you so why don't we spend the rest of the class getting to know each other and we can get to the boring school stuff tomorrow." The class laughed in response.
"Who wants to go first?" he asked. No one in the class spoke, I looked around at everyone and they all seemed reluctant to talk.
"Oh I see how in going to be." he laughed. "Okay, Okay I'll go first." he smiled. He had the whole classes complete attention, the girls because he was completely gorgeous and not one of them wanted to take their eyes off them and the guys probably because they will still sizing him up.
"I'm Edward, Originally from Chicago, and I'm your English teacher, Okay your turn,Go!" he said pointing at a random student at the front.
"I'm Jessica, and I love shopping." She smiled, I noticed that she was the one throwing herself at Mike. "Good, next." Edward, I mean Mr Cullen ordered.
"I'm Lauren and I'm head Cheerleader." a blonde from the front row practically purred at him. He didn't comment, just looked to the next person silently telling them it was their turn.
And so it went from one person to the next and the closer it got to me the more I panicked. What was I going to say Hi I'm Bella, My brother is dead, or I have no friends, My mom hates me, My father is the Cheif of Police. Each one sounded worse than the first. I was panicking and still hadn't come up with an answer when I realised that I was next.
Crap crap crap crap crap.
"Hi I'm Angela and I love photography" the girl beside me answered and then it was my turn and when I didn't answer right away the whole class turned to look at me including Mr Cullen.
Shit shit shit shit shit, Come on Bella think of something fast.
I was panicking so I just blurted out the first thing that came to mind.
"I'm Bella and I'm new." everyone continued to stare. "Here...in Forks...I'm new here in Forks." I finished. God could I be any lamer...the answer no, no I couldn't.
I was blushing and seriously felt like I was going to be sick. Mr Cullen just smiled and moved on to the next person. I buried my still flaming face into my arms on the desk and remained that way for the rest of the class. What I wouldn't do to be sucked into a massive black whole right this second.
When the bell finally rang, I felt more relieved than I ever had in my entire life. I lept from my seat and tried to shove my things into my bag so I could be the first out. Of course being me that didn't work and I ended up knocking my bag of the table the entire contents flying everywhere.
I waited till the last few students were gone so that I could clean it up safely without the risk of being stepped on.
I got down on my knees and started shoving the items back into my room was silent. When it looked like I had collected everything I stood back up and spun around to head out the door only to come face to face with Mr Cullen.
"Here you go." he said handing me my apple that must have rolled across the room. I tentatively reached up to take the apple from his hands.
I looked up at his face after I had it safely tucked into my bag. "Thank you" I mumbled embarrassed. I looked away from him and was just about to start walking towards the door when he called my name. I looked up at his face right into his eyes. The were even more shocking up close. They seemed even greener, if that was possible.
"Bella isn't it." he asked. I nodded yes. " so you just moved here did you?" he asked although he already knew the answer. "Yes" I answered
"Where from." he asked.
"Phoenix"
"Oh well that must be a big change, I bet you miss home." he asked.
"yeah I guess." I shrugged.I missed it more than he knew.
"I know moving can be tough, I moved to seattle to go to college and then I moved up here. I guess I'm lucky though, my sister and her husband live here and my mother and father have a house here, they are coming up in a couple of weeks for a while." he smile
"That's good, I live with my Dad, I just moved here a couple of days ago but before that I hadn't been here in years." It was weird I felt at ease talking to him, like I was talking to a friend rather than a teacher.
"You'll get used to it eventually, I promise." He smiled and I managed a small smile in return. I didn't think I'd ever get used to my life here.
The bell rang then making me jump he chuckled. "I better go." I said walking away.
"I'll see you tomorrow Bella." he called.
"Bye Mr Cullen." were my parting words before I practically ran from the room.
What the hell was that I hadn't talked to anyone for more than two minutes since I'd arrived but I just spent the last six minutes talking to My English teacher and the worst part is I haven't felt that comfortable talking to someone in a long time.
I had to admit it felt good to talk to someone. Mr Cullen seemed like a really nice guy, it seemed as if he really cared about his student's he wasn't like most teachers...he wasn't like most people.
A/N: Ok so here is the next chapter. I wasn't exactly sure what way I wanted this story to go, a friend of mine made a few suggestions and I've taken them on board. So here you go and I also hoped you noticed that this chapter is much longer yay!
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