Here is chapter two of THAT girl. Enjoy!
Everybody was looking at us, Angela and I, as we made our way down the hall. It was about a week since the school burned down but this was our first day at this new school.
The girls, many much prettier than I thought I was myself, were doing what may have been glaring for less civilized people. However many of the young men were staring with what seemed like interest, which was enough to make me feel even more uneasy.
Since our former school burned down, many of its students were forced to either go to this very large school across town or to a very disorderly school closer to many of our homes. This was the first choice of many parents, while select few actually did choose the other.
We went to our classroom and sat down at a desk together.
"Hi, I'm Jessica," said a short girl with lots of curly brown hair. She seemed friendly enough. But then another girl came over who seemed to be good friends with this Jessica person but looked rather rude to me.
"I'm Lauren. And you are...?" She let the question roll about, waiting for our responses. But the way she said it she sounded like she was utterly annoyed to have to ask our names.
Angela looked a little stunned at her rudeness so I took over. "My name is Isabella Swan, Bella for short. This is my best friend Angela Weber. We're new here, obviously but we jsut live across town."
"Your school was the one that burned down at the other end of town," Lauren said as if it were the most painfully obvious explination.
"Yes, it was," Angela said, recovered from the Shock that is Lauren at last.
"That must have been horrible, how did you get out of the building?" Jessica asked, her voice very amimated. Lauren even looked interested in our answer. I had already told the story many times to my parents, the doctor, teachers, old classmates, and practically half of Chicago. I had also heard many of my other friends' versions of their "escape stories." But I decided that, with the help of Angela, a telling once more wouldn't kill me. I took a deep breath, and together, Angela and I launched into the tale.
More and more people kept coming over to hear the story after a while. Even the teacher, whose name I've yet to discover, was listening intently. Once we were done he even clapped for us. "Bravo! I must say that was exhilarating. I'm Mr. Wilds as you may have guessed. Welcome to our school." He seemed to be a pleasant man, a bit of a talker, but pleasant.
"Benjamin, Michael, Tyler, you would do well to follow Mr Masen's example and sit down at your desks, class is starting." Mr. Wilds instructed the three boys still crowded around Angel and I. My brown eyes locked with brilliant green ones as I looked around the classroom for the Mr Masen used as the good example.
"Miss Swan and Miss Weber, you may choose any of the empty desks to sit at for now on,"Mr. Wilds said, giving me an excuse to look away.
Angela and I were practically dragged to another desk by the over-zealous Jessica.
Class went on as normal, or what my guess for normal was. They were learning things we were already taight so we just did the work again as an extremely boring and repetative review.
Lunch came and we were again bombarded with questions about the fire.
The three boys who came earlier to hear the story were present once again. Once the flood of questions from other students subsided the one with blonde hair and slightly more boyish looks said, "Sorry we didn't get a chance to introduce ourselves earlier. I'm sure you thought that very rude, especially on your first day here, but I'm Michael Newton. Call me Mike," he said with a smile.
"I'm Benjamin Cheney, Ben for short," said one of the other two.
"I'm Tyler," said the last.
"Pleased to meet you,"Angela and I said in unison. Angela blushed, looking driectly at Benjamin who looked straight back at her. I almost giggled out loud but stopped myself just in time. It was just too cute.
"How do you like our school so far, Isabella?" Mike asked me, using my full name. Ugh!
"Please call me Bella. And, I like what I've seen of the school so far, but I haven't seen much."
"Well if you're done eating your lunch I'd be happy to show you around and introduce you to everybody," Mike offered.
"Ok, thanks. Angela, are you coming, too?" I saked, even though I knew she would probably want to stay and 'eat lunch' with Ben.
"Um...I'm not done eating yet," she said.
"I'll stay with her and show her around once she's done, " Ben said. Bingo! They are so cute sitting next to each other blushing. Angela si so quiet and reserved that she hardly ever meets anybody new.
Mike and Tyler were both trying to show me around at the same time, almost as if they were competing. Mike was on the right, Tyler on the left, leaving me stuck in the middle and them arguing over my head.
We were walking through the school's garden. There were rows of sunflowers that were taller than Mike's six feet and much much taller than my 5 feet and 4 inches. I left the two boys near the vegetable patches so I could wander through the sumflowers. Then, clumsy me trips on the air. I don't fall to the ground though, instead I feel two strong arms catch me around my middle, steadying me. I find my self staring into those brilliant green eyes again.
"Um...thanks,"I say once he lets me go. I can feel the heat rushing to my face. He really is very handsome with reddish-brown hair, a bronze type of color. He isn't as pale as I am but almost. (AN: since he isn't a vampire yet he's not deathly pale, just slightly pale)
He flashes me a georgous smile that makes my heart skip a beat and says, "Anytime."
"Well usually I'm not as clumsy as to trip on the air but I guess a new record had to be set sometime." Upon realizing that I am sort of babbling, I blush again. "I'm Bella Swan by the way."
He rewards me with yet another perfect smile. "I think that everybody at this school knows who you are, and your friend too. I'm Edward Masen, though."
"It's nice to meet you, Edward. Thank you again for catching me before."
"No problem. Lunch is almost over though, we should probably head back."
"Ok," was my intelligent response.
When we came out of the sunflowers I saw Mike and Tyler in the same spot that I left them.
"Bella! Where'd you go?" Tyler said once he spotted me coming.
"I decided to look around some more. The sunflowers are very pretty."
"Yes, I agree," Edward said. Both Tyler and Mike looked surprised, almost as if they hadn't noticed Edward there before.
"Why is Masen here? I thought we were showing you around, Bella," Mike said. He didn't seem to like Edward much at all. And Tyler was looking at Edward funny, glaring for lack of a better word.
"Well - ," I started but was cut off by the school bell ringing to announce the end of lunch. We headed back to class without me having to explain me nearly falling amongs the sunflowers and Edward coming to the rescue. We ran into Angela and Ben on our way back.
The rest of the school day was much like the first half. Angela and I just followed along patiently. She kept on looking up and quickly looking down and blushing though and I had a good guess as to why: Benjamin Cheney.
I was afraid to even look up once for fear that those green eyes would capture mine once again.
Angela and I rode a bus home together after school and everytime I brought up Ben she would blush furiously and change the subject ever so subtley. I didn't even notice the subject changes until it was too late to do anything about it.
Oh, well, she'll tell me if anything does actually happen.
Mother and father asked me about my first day at the new school and whether or not I liked it. I assured them it was perfect but minimized the day's events enough so that they eventually stopped asking about it.
After a quiet dinner, I went to bed and dreamt about green eyes and bronze hair.
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