Beyond Schoolwork
An Emmett Cullen/OC Story
By: Katie Sheridan aka KellansLadyKatie09
Summary: Bella Swan and Kara Butler both start out at Forks High School on the same day. They both have also caught the eyes of two of the Cullen's, Emmett and Edward. When Kara is paired up with Emmett for an English project, they form a strong friendship even when he's already with Rosalie who does not like Kara. The more time Kara and Emmett spend time together, the more they realize that they could be more than friends especially after Rosalie leaves.
Disclaimer: Anything related to Twilight belongs to Stephenie Meyer. Which includes the hunky adorable, Emmett. Wahhhh!! I only own my cool iPhone, my Twilight shirt with Emmett on there and the proof I saw New Moon 2 times already lol and Kara of course.
A/N: 5 reviews!! Woohoo! Thanks to everyone to reviewed: Cara!!!, Hope and love, Emmettsgirl13579, XAracnaeX, and Holy Star!! And to everyone who has added me to their favorites and alerts!! Please review if you do too! It'd mean so much to me!
Anyone who has my stories know that I occasionally put songs in there, this story is no exception. Sometimes I'll even put up songs that helped me write the chapters.
Soundtrack:
"Haven't Met You Yet"-Michael Buble and the entire New Moon soundtrack.
The songs are not mine at all, unless I revise the lyrics which I'll let you all know when I do.
Now I'm also changing some stuff about Forks High School. The school will have blocked schedules which means that students have 8 classes total, with 4 on one day and 4 on the next day and then they'll start over again. We had it at my high school and classes are 1 hour and 20 minutes long with lunch in there for 45 minutes. They are Blue and Gold Days:
Kara's Schedule:
Blue: American History, Spanish, Lunch, English, Gym
Gold: Creative Writing, Trignometry, Lunch, Independent Study, Psychology
Emmett's Schedule:
Blue: American History, Calculus, Lunch, English, Chemistry
Gold: Psychology, Gym, Lunch, US Government, Spanish
**Kara's Independent Study is a Music study so she'll be playing her music then. She plays piano and violin**
(wipes forehead) I think that's it! Happy Reading and thanks for being patient!
Katie
Chapter 1: A Day of Firsts
Kara hated being new to anything. Here she was, starting a new semester in the middle of March at a new high school in a brand new city and state. She suddenly hated the word new. She shook her head as she walked over to her closet and immediately picked up her blue jeans that hugged around her waist and showed off her curves. She wasn't skinny, nor was she overweight. She was average, she liked to convince herself. Her size 12 didn't faze her like it seemed to do other high schoolers. She was certianly glad to leave Speedway, but she did miss her friends in the marching band and theatre. She was definitely glad to get away from her most recent ex-boyfriend Chris, a fellow senior at Speedway.
A knock interrupted her thoughts.
"Kara are you coming to school with me or driving on your own?" Colin Butler asked through the door.
Kara rolled her eyes and stuck her head outside.
"Driving on my own Dad, I still have 45 minutes to get there. I'm sure the map you left me on the table will help me find it!" She exclaimed making her father laugh from the other side of the door. He always had a map ready for Kara since she was horrible with directions like her mom and brother.
"Okay okay, the lady you need to see for your schedule is Mrs. Cope in the office. It's the first door on the left when you walk inside. Remember you'll meet Isabella Swan today too. She should be there when you get there." He reminded her and Kara placed the name of Isabella Swan into her head. She was good with faces, not names.
"Okay Dad, I'll see you after school." Kara said loudly and she then heard her father retreating from her bedroom door. She sighed and pulled out a blue v neck t-shirt and a black cardigan with frills on it out. She then shrugged as she rushed into her clothes and put on her black ballet flats and looked at herself in the mirror.
Her shoulder-length red hair stuck out in every single direction and she raised an eyebrow at how worried and nervous she had gotten suddenly.
"As usual, this is as good as it gets. Get a grip Kara." She told herself as she swung her arm down, grabbed her backpack and rushed down the stairs where she was met by her mother and her brother sitting on the couch watching the news.
Annie glanced up at the noise and squealed at her daughter, "Oh Kara you look wonderful. Doesn't she look pretty Kyle?" Annie asked as she jumped up from the couch and gushed over Kara who hated the attention.
"Yeah pretty." Kyle muttered from the couch not taking his eyes off of the television.
"Thanks bro." Kara commented rolling her eyes as she was pushed into a chair and a plate appeared in front of her.
"Thanks Mom, can I have some money for lunch too?" Kara asked as she took a bite of her waffle.
Kyle began laughing loudly from the living room as Annie shook her head and handed her a twenty dollar bill.
"For the day?" Kara asked with a smirk.
"No the week." Annie replied with a raised eyebrow.
"Ah damn." Kara said with a laugh as she continued eating and then glanced at her watch a few minutes later.
"Thanks Mom, I gotta go! Bye lazyass!" Kara said loudly to Kyle who saluted her from the couch and she grabbed her purse and keys to her car.
"Be careful dear. Have a good day." Annie said to her with a smile as she watched Kara rush out of the house and climb into her Jeep Grand Cherokee. She then smiled as she watched Kara drive off to her first day at Forks High School.
Kara pulled into the parking lot of the high school a few minutes later and she parked next to another Jeep, but this was bigger than hers, it looked like a Wrangler and it was silver. She glanced around the parking lot and saw modest looking cars all over the place, but then stopped when she recognized a red mustang converible and a silver Volvo parked next to the Jeep that was next to hers.
"Nice." She said outloud never noticing the five people standing there behind the Jeep as she walked inside the building and found the office. She then bumped into someone else.
"Oh shit I'm sorry." She said quickly apologizing to a girl who had long brown hair and an orange jacket out.
"No it's okay, do you need to go inside?" The girl asked and Kara nodded as she opened the office door wide as they both stepped inside and over to an older woman sitting at a desk.
"Hi are you Mrs. Cope?" Kara asked curiously and the older woman looked up startled and nodded.
"Yes you must be Colin's daughter, Kara right?" She said and Kara groaned softly and nodded.
"I see you have met my dad then, so yes I am. I am new and need my schedule." Kara replied as Mrs. Cope grabbed one folder and then handed it to Kara.
"That's everything for you, welcome to Forks High School. Now can I help you?" She asked the girl standing next to Kara.
"I'm Isabella Swan." She said as Kara raised an eyebrow.
"Oh the chief's daughter! Nice to finally meet you too, here is your schedule. See you two can be friends since you're both new." Mrs. Cope said excitedly as she handed Isabella a separate kind of folder like Kara had.
Kara laughed as they both heard the bell ring and glanced at their schedules.
"Is this a Blue or Gold day?" Kara asked.
"Gold so your first class is your fifth period class today. Have a good day, remember to give these slips to your teachers and return the big one at the end of the day." Mrs. Cope said as they both nodded and rushed out of the office.
"Okay I wonder how many coffees she has had today sheesh and I thought my dad was bad." Kara said trying to make conversation.
Isabella laughed. "Yeah I think she needs to reduce it a bit, my dad can get like that. He's the police chief. By the way you can call me Bella, I hate being called Isabella." She said.
Kara nodded. "I'm Kara Butler, my dad's the new assistant principal so at least your dad's not here all the time like you. Hey do we have any classes together?" She asked as her and Bella flipped through their schedules and glanced at them.
"We have Psychology together later, that's cool." Bella said as the bell rang again.
"Yeah see ya later then!" Kara said as they rushed down the hallway and into their first classes, Kara's was Creative Writing.
Kara walked into the Creative Writing classroom where a female teacher was standing there at the chalkboard writing something.
"Hi I'm Kara Butler, I'm new." She said handing the teacher her schedule. The teacher then sighed, signed the slip of paper and handed her her books and notebooks.
"Please take a seat anywhere and try not to be late again even though you're new and your dad's the assistant principal." The teacher scowled as she turned back towards the board.
Kara rolled her eyes behind the teacher's back and then began walking towards an empty desk in the middle and sat down in it.
"Great first class." She muttered as she grabbed a pen and a notebook from her backpack.
"Don't let her get to you, she's a huge bitch. I'm Gavin by the way you must be either Kara or Isabella." a man's voice said next to her on her left and she turned to see a young guy sitting at a desk staring at her. She had to admit, he was very good looking, black hair, green eyes and a smile on his face.
She smirked. "I'm Kara, I guess I'm famous and thanks for the reassurance I guess." She replied as the teacher cleared her throat and class began with Kara glancing over at Gavin every now and then.
Kara glanced around the cafeteria trying to find a place to sit. The whole school had lunch at the same time which was surprising to her since her last high school had 2 lunch periods, A and C lunch. She then spotted an empty table and headed over there content to be alone when a voice stopped her.
"You don't want to sit there." Gavin's voice registered from behind her.
"And why not?" She asked curiously turning towards him.
He then scowled suddenly, "That's where the Cullens sit. Here sit with me, have you met Bella Swan yet? She's new too." Gavin asked as he wrapped an arm around her waist and led her towards a table where a bunch of people were already sitting including Bella.
"Yeah Bella and I met this morning, hey Bella how's it going?" Kara asked politely as she sat down next to her and Gavin.
"Good." Bella said as she then was distracted by five people walking outside of the cafeteria.
"Who are they?" She asked as everyone turned with a couple of the guys scowling including Gavin.
"Oh the Cullens. They're Dr .and Mrs. Cullen's foster kids, they moved here from all the way down from Alaska like a few years ago." The girl named Jessica replied.
"They kind of keep to themselves." The other girl named Angela said as Gavin said the names to Kara softly and she nodded.
"Yeah because there all together, like together, together. The blonde girl that's Rosalie and the big dark hair guy is Emmett. They're like a thing, I'm not even sure if that's legal." Jessica stated as Kara glanced up at Rosalie and Emmett as she saw how big Emmett was. He half-smiled at Rosalie as they walked past their table and over to where the Cullens sat. Kara couldn't help, but notice how good-looking Emmett was. He was tall with dark hair and brown eyes. He then glanced up and met Kara's eyes. Kara immediately turned around embarrassed.
"Jessica there not actually related." Angela argued.
"Yeah, but they live together it's weird. Okay and the little dark haired girl she's Alice, and she's really weird and she's with Jasper the one that always looks like he is in pain. Dr. Cullen is like this foster dad slash match maker." Jessica said pointing as Jasper twirled Alice and Kara and Bella turned to watch.
"Maybe he'll adopted me." Angela said softly with a smirk on her face.
"Who is he?" Bella asked suddenly as the fifth Cullen walked through the door and Kara stopped at how good-looking he was too.
"That's Edward Cullen, totally gorgeous obviously, but apparently no one here is good enough for him. Like I care, you know so yeah, seriously like don't waste your time." Jessica said to Bella and Kara noticed Edward smiling a bit as he walked past their table to join his siblings.
"Wasn't planning on it." Bella said as she glanced over and saw Edward staring at her. Kara smirked at how Bella had been intrigued by a Cullen just like she said been with Emmett. But it looked like Edward was single, Emmett wasn't. He was seeing a beautiful woman. She then turned to see Emmett staring at her again. She then smiled at him and then turned around to finish her food when the bell rang minutes later.
Kara stood up and swung her backpack over her shoulders.
"Bye everyone, I'm in my independent study now." She said as she said told everyone bye and headed down the stairs. She then heard someone playing the piano and she followed the music. She then stopped and stared into the music room where she was greeted by the teacher playing the piano.
"Hi are you the music teacher? I'm Kara Butler." She asked curiously trying not to get excited at the grand piano in front of her.
The music teacher continued playing while replying that he was.
"I'm Mr. Carlson, you can call me Rich though. So your dad tells me you play piano and violin?" Mr. Carlson asked and Kara nodded.
"I do, I love playing them. Just don't ask me to do both at the same time." She said with a smirk and he laughed as he stood up and shook her hand.
"Welcome to my independent study Kara, this won't be all about music theory or anything hard, this is mostly for fun and every now and then, I'll ask you to perform with choirs and shows, is that okay?" He asked and Kara nodded.
"Sure thing, can I get started?" She asked and he nodded as his phone rang from his office.
"Go ahead and I'll check up on you in a bit." Mr. Carlson said as he then disappeared from the music room and Kara grinned ear to ear as she threw her backpack down and sat at the piano. She then thought of a song to sing and immediately thought of Michael Buble's song that she had found a few days ago and had taught herself the piano part and vocals. It described how she felt about being single. She loved being a dreamer sometimes and believed that one day she would meet the one man who change her life forever.
Her hands fell onto the keys and she began playing and singing slowly going into her own little bubble.
I'm not surprised,
Not everything lasts,
I've broken my heart so many times I stopped keeping track.
Talk myself in,
I talk myself out,
I get all worked up,
Then I let myself down,
I tried so very hard not to lose it;
I came up with a million excuses,
I thought I thought of every possibility,
And I know someday that it'll all turn out,
You'll make me work so we can work to work it out,
And I promise you kid that I give so much more than I get
Mmmm.......
I just haven't met you yet.
I might have to wait,
I'll never give up,
I guess it's half timing, and the other half's luck,
Wherever you are,
Whenever it's right,
You'll come outta nowhere and into my life.
And I know that we can be so amazing
And baby your love is gonna change me,
And now I can see every possibility,
Mmmmmm....
Somehow I know that it'll all turn out,
You'll make me work so we can work to work it out,
And promise you kid, I'll give so much more than I get,
Mmmm....
I just haven't met you yet.
They say all's fair
in love and war
But I won't need to fight it,
we'll get it right and,
we'll be united
And I know that we can be so amazing',
And being in your life is gonna change me,
And now I can see every single possibility,
Mmmmmm
And someday I know it'll all turn out,
And I'll work to work it out,
Promise you kid I'll give more than I get
Than I get, than I get, than I get.
Oh, you know it'll all turn out,
and you'll make me work so we can work to work it out,
And promise you kid to give so much more than I get, yeah
I just haven't met you yet.
I just haven't met you yet,
Oh, promise you kid,
To give so much more than I get.
I said love love love love love love love.....
I just haven't met you yet
Love love love .....
So doy day ay ay ay, ay ay yeah
I just haven't met you yet!
Kara ended the song as she continued to play with a smile on her face never noticing someone tall with golden eyes listening to her. She then glanced up and the person had disappeared.
A couple hours later, she and Bella had reunited in the school office turning in their slips of paper and were walking outside when they saw Edward and Emmett Cullen standing there next to the silver Volvo staring at both of them.
"Why are they staring at us?" Kara asked Bella quietly and Bella shrugged.
"Don't ask me, I don't know. See you tomorrow Kara." She said as she walked over to her orange truck across the parking lot.
"Bye Bella." Kara said as she walked in front of Edward and Emmett and over to her own Jeep. She then turned her head to see Emmett staring at her still. She had had enough so she threw her backpack in the backseat and slammed the door. For some reason, him staring bugged the hell out of her. It reminded her of a stalker, like Chris.
"Take a picture it'll last longer Cullen! Stop staring at me! I'm not a piece of meat you know!" Kara snapped as she climbed into her car and started it as she raced out of the parking lot seeing through her rear-view mirror that Emmett was smirking next to his Jeep.
She then groaned when she realized that the Jeep next to her had belonged to Emmett. She drove home from her first day thinking of Emmett Cullen and she couldn't figure out why she was so intrigued by him.
There ya go!! Hope it was worth the wait! Sorry it took so long!! Happy Thanksgiving and Please Review!!
Katie