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Chapter 3- High School, Always the Same
In two weeks time the rest of the summer blew away. Ana went on the promised shopping trip with Alice, and it did get her in a better mood to just have some girl time. Although it seemed that Alice enjoyed it much more than she did. Now the start of school loomed ahead. The start of Forks High School, for all of them apparently, since they all decided to move back to Carlisle's hometown after living in New Hampshire for a few years. At least that's what Carlisle told her when she asked him about what he meant when he asked at dinner, 'Everyone ready for their first day?' Ana couldn't help but feel stressed and worried while she sat on the bottom step of the stair case, feeling like she didn't belong in the picture in the living room.
"Hey," Jasper said startling her and making her gasp, "You know you don't have to worry about school, it's the same no matter where you go."
It sounded like he knew exactly what he was talking about, and he should since they've probably started and have gone to high school loads of times.
"Sure…I guess," Ana told him with a sigh making Jasper tense. "Are you okay?" She asked looking up at him.
"Y-yeah," He said getting up from where he was, "Just a muscle spasm."
The next morning was terrible, Ana had problems picking out a descent outfit to wear so Alice picked for her. A pair of dark wash jeans and a dark blue t-shirt with a design and a vest for overtop of the shirt. Then she brushed through her auburn hair and pulled it halfway back. Ana shoved her laptop in her backpack and threw the backpack over her shoulder. When she was over halfway down the stairs she heard Carlisle talking to Edward.
"I want you to keep an ear out for her, Edward," Carlisle said to his son in a hushed tone.
She couldn't tell what Edward was saying but it sounded something like, "Why wouldn't I? We don't want anyone plotting her murder or anything."
The two laughing could be heard even if she wasn't eavesdropping then she heard Edward say. "Our little ray of sunshine is listening."
Then Carlisle walked over to the staircase and looked up at her. "You know it's not polite to eavesdrop on people," he said with a small chuckle.
"I know but…but I…" Ana started to say but was cut off.
"Its okay child, even the best of us eavesdrop occasionally," Carlisle said with a quick glance at Edward.
Edward smiled a dazzling smile, "Oh yes I tend to eavesdrop a lot. Privacy doesn't exist when I'm around."
"Edward!" Carlisle said in a reprimanding tone. The only response was a sly shrug from Edward.
"Ooh Ana! You have to ride with Jasper and I to school," Alice chimed while dancing down the stairs. Jasper trailed her, but simply walking down instead. "After all no one really wants to ride with Edward."
Ana, Alice and Jasper laughed for a moment then were broken up by Edward himself, "Oh fine then, see if I ever give you a ride to school again Alice Cullen."
Both Ana and Jasper laughed then were cut off by Alice glaring at them. "They love eachother don't worry," Jasper whispered in Ana's ear.
The ride to school was very interesting, Alice constantly asked Ana questions about London and how much she liked living there. When she asked why Alice was asking these types of questions she was answered by, "I was thinking of moving there someday."
Once at Forks High she had to pick up her schedule and find out where on earth she was going. Her first class was probably going to be one of her least favorites; English. Ana never understood the concept of reading a whole novel in class and then having to take a test or write a report on it, or even learning all the grammar like where to put the commas and periods in a sentence, or even the parts of a sentence. On her walk to he building where the classes were held Ana had to look around, the rain had gotten so heavy that she couldn't see 10 feet infront of her. While continuing in the direction she was a sudden jolt from her right caused her to fall and land into a puddle.
"Oh sorry!" A male voice said bending down to look at her face to face. He had dark brown hair and at the moment it was matted to his forehead due to the rain. "Are you okay? Hello? Hello, anyone there?" He asked looking at her intently now for she didn't answer any of his questions.
"Oh, oh sorry I just was thinking of something," Ana said looking at him and giving him a small smile. He did offer her his hand to help her up. "Thanks," she said picking up her backpack.
"I'm Tanner, Tanner West," The boy said offering his hand again. When she took it he shook her hand vigorously. "So what's your name? Aren't you one of those new kids that moved here from New Hampshire?"
Ana smiled and when he released her hand she responded. "Yes but instead of being from New Hampshire like them I'm from England, They adopted me before they came here. At least that's what I know. I'm Anastasia Montague. But I guess its Anastasia Cullen now."
"Why don't you have an accent like the rest of those British people?" Tanner asked, and to be honest Ana thought that was rude.
"Because my parents were American but after they had me my dad got a job offer over there and they left. And you learn to speak from your parents so I don't have much of an accent," Ana said sighing and looking around. "But now I have to get to English."
"Oh I'm heading there too. Let me escort you Anastasia," Tanner said offering her his arm, he did seem sweet enough.
"Call me Ana, Anastasia is a mouthful," She said taking his arm and letting him lead her to English.
The rest of the day seemed to fly by, except for after lunch; P.E, her absolute least favorite class after that day. The teacher made her get into a uniform and take the class. That specific day the class was going to be playing flag football.
Her team made the mistake of throwing her the ball. Of course she caught it and when she started running down toward where her team's goal was she was tackled by someone trying to snatch one of her flags. But instead of grabbing a flag they grabbed her legs and knocked her over. Hitting the hard solid ground with her head hurt, the pain radiated to all over her body. Ana closed her eyes and kept them closed, especially when she heard voices over her.
"I swear I didn't hit her that hard!" She heard a guy yell.
"Well it had to be hard enough," another voice said harshly.
"It was an accident!" The same guy from before yelled.
"Someone get her to the nurse and call her family," the coach shouted over everyone.
Before she could hear anything else she was up off the cold hard ground and in someone's arms.
"I can't believe this happened," a voice said and after a few moments she realized it was Tanner West's from earlier in the day.
"I know," a girl's voice said from beside him, "Hey Tanner you'd better hurry, the nurse will want to check her out quickly."
"Yeah I know, Leslie," he said starting to move from the field they were on to the main office where the nurse's office was.
A few moments past before a flood of warmth could be felt; Ana assumed they were inside one of the buildings but as for which she wasn't completely positive.
But she knew instantly when she heard Tanner say, "Someone tackled her in P.E while we were playing flag football."
"How long has she been like this?" An older woman's voice said pretty close to her.
"Since we went to see if she was okay, so I would say ten minutes at most," Tanner said setting her down on one of the paper covered cots.
Ana felt someone probing around her forehead and temple area. Then she felt the same person holding her wrist and taking her pulse.
"Everything seems okay, but we should get her to the hospital, and alert her family," the woman's voice said again, and Ana assumed it was the nurse.
A while passed, although Ana couldn't tell how long before she heard a slightly familiar voice.
"You have to let me see her, she's my sister," the voice said from, where Ana could assume, the office.
"I'm sorry Edward but right now they're waiting for the ambulance to take her to the hospital, but I can dismiss you and your other siblings so you can go see her there," the secretary said trying to be kind but Ana knew Edward would get his way.
"But I'd prefer to see her now so I can tell the rest of my siblings how she is. They're all so very worried," He said in a somewhat pathetically sad voice.
Ana knew the secretary would give up then because he probably added a sad face to his pathetic sounding voice. She doubted anyone would be resisting that, especially with how he looked.
"Oh god," she heard Edward say closer to her now, so she assumed he was in the nurses office now. "How did this happen?" He managed to ask in a stressed voice.
"Someone tackled her in P.E while we were playing flag football," Tanner said sounding equally as stressed, "She's been like this since we went to see if she was okay."
"Why would someone tackle in a game of flag football?" Edward asked his voice even closer now and sounding and more stressed.
"I-I don't know, but I didn't do this to her!" Tanner exclaimed sounding farther away. "I should get to class."
The room went silent for awhile until the ambulance got there, then a few things happened, a neck brace was put around Ana's neck and she was moved from the cot to the stretcher and put into the back of an ambulance. From all of the commotion she could guess all of the school was watching this.
The hospital wasn't much better, although it was better than having the entire school watching.
"Ana?" she heard another familiar voice say. "Ana? Are you with us?" The voice said calmly taking her pulse although the hand seemed abnormally cold and it made her shiver a little.
Ana's eyes fluttered open to see the bright white of the hospital emergency room. When she looked around, still unable to move her head due to the neck brace, she noticed Carlisle looking down at her. "Hey sweetie," he said looking down at her chart. "After doing an x-ray of your entire body and a CAT scan of your head, it seems you have a grade 3 concussion, but we have to make sure it's that and nothing more."
I must've really conked out for a while there, Ana thought rubbing her forehead. Then sat up with some help from Carlisle and Edward.
He pulled out a flashlight from his pocket and looked at her eyes, "Your pupils still dilate at the same rate and are still the same size, now follow the light with your eyes."
He moved the flashlight to the left, the right, up and down and Ana followed it with her eyes. "Good," Carlisle said writing something in her chart. "We also did find some bruising along your spine and the back of your ribs, but that pain is very controllable with morphine. When we get home we'll get you on a drip for that."
Ana closed her eyes again and felt someone lowering her back onto the pillows.
"We're going to have to watch her all night," Carlisle said probably to Edward. "I'm going to finish her papers and have Esme sign them and then take her home. She needs the rest."
The rest of the evening flew by; she ended up riding home in the back of Carlisle's car with Alice letting Ana rest her head in her lap.
At home she was taken right upstairs and laid down on her bed, and Carlisle did as he said he would in the hospital, he started a morphine drip with regular IV fluid as well. And he said, "I want you to rest, if we do get any visitors for you I'll let them come up for only 5 minutes if you're awake. But please do as I say and rest, you'll feel a little better in the morning." After Carlisle left Ana turned on her side and closed her eyes drifting into a very welcome slumber.