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Chapter 10:
The rest of that week was pretty much the same as that first day. I talked with Alice and Rose, Jazz and Emmett made me laugh, and of course I fought with Edward. There was something about Edward that made me see red. I couldn't tell if it was his cockiness or just the boy in general, but nonetheless we fought almost every day about various nothings.
Whatever my feelings were about him, Edward was absolutely adored at school. Everyone practically worshiped him. He had certainly earned himself a few fan-girls among the Forks student body and a few enemies among the other boys. An imitation of that messy bronze hair became the new style for the majority of the male population, though I must confess their imitations could never compete with the real thing.
In Biology, we tolerated each other for the sake of our grade and mostly just ignored the other until it was absolutely necessary that we collaborate.
I got home on Friday and collapsed on the couch. It had been a long week and I was thankful it was the weekend. I grabbed a thick afghan and settled down for a nice Friday afternoon nap. I was out within seconds.
I was standing backstage listening to the screaming crowd waiting for a performance…waiting for me. I listened to the announcer yell out my name.
"And I give you… Bella Swan!"
The crowd went wild as I strode confidently to the center of the stage, guitar in hand. I got to the microphone and waved at the ecstatic fans. I settled into my performing stance and nodded at the band behind me. I let the beat take me into a world all my own. I began to play.
And it's a sad picture, the final blow hits you
Somebody else gets what you wanted again and
You know it's all the same, another time and place
Repeating history and you're getting sick of it
But I believe in whatever you do
And I'll do anything to see it through
Because these things will change
Can you feel it now?
These walls that they put up to hold us back will fall down
This revolution, the time will come
For us to finally win
And sing hallelujah, we'll hallelujah
So we've been outnumbered
Raided and now cornered
It's hard to fight when the fight ain't fair
We're getting stronger now
Find things they never found
They might be bigger
But we're faster and never scared
You can walk away, say we don't need this
But there's something in our eyes
Says we can beat this
Because these things will change
Can you feel it now?
These walls that they put up to hold us back will fall down
This revolution, the time will come
For us to finally win
And sing hallelujah, we'll hallelujah
Tonight we stand, get off our knees
Fight for what we've worked for all these years
And the battle was long, it's the fight of our lives
But we'll stand up champions tonight
It was the night things changed
Can you see it now?
These walls that they put up to hold us back fell down
It's a revolution, throw your hands up
Cause we never gave in
And we'll sing hallelujah, we sang hallelujah
Hallelujah
As the last note faded away I smiled. This is what I loved to do. The crowd was screaming for me.
"Bella! Bella! Bella! Bella! Bella!"
"Bella. Bella. BELLA!"
I woke with a start and sat up straight to find Alice staring at me with her big green eyes.
"Jeez Alice, you scared me. What are you doing here? How'd you get in?"
"Your dad let me in, he said not to wake you," she matter-of-factly. I raised an eyebrow.
"So why did you?"
"Well you were taking too long to wake up, and besides I have something important to tell you." I sighed, leaning back into the couch.
"What's that?"
"You're sleeping over my house tonight!"
"Since when?"
"Since now, when I asked your dad and he said yes."
"Alice…." And cue puppy dog eyes, yup, right on time.
"Bella…"
"Alice!"
"Bella…. Please? Pretty please? Pretty please with a cherr-"
"FINE!"
"YAY!"
An hour later I was sitting on the Cullen living room floor watching Alice run around the living room like the energizer bunny on fast forward. She made laps around the coffee table as Rose and I watched in disbelief.
"Helllooooo ladies! The pizza and the party have arrived!" Emmett called out running into the living room with what looked like twelve boxes of pizza, "Whoa!" he skidded to a stop as he noticed Alice making her rounds. He turned on Rose and me and raised an eyebrow.
"Ok who gave the pixie an energy drink?" I looked down at the can of Monster in my hand and quickly threw it to Rose.
"She did!"
"Gee thanks a lot Bella!"
"Well he's not likely to get mad at you when he goes all googly eyed when you walk into the room!"
"I do not!"
"Shut up Emmett!"
"Can do."
"Hey everybody! Whoa what's up with Alice?"
"Jasper not now!"
"Bella let her have an energy drink."
"I did not! Rose did."
"Oh come on her puppy dog routine is downright dangerous!"
"So how do we calm her down?"
"I don't know; should we just let her run herself down?"
"That could take ages!"
"Where's Edward? He always knows how to get her to calm down."
"Oh well, isn't he just little mister I can do anything!"
"Shut it Bella."
"You shut it Rose!"
"Everybody just relax! Bella go get Edward, he's in the music room."
"What! Why me?"
"OH JUST GO ALREADY!" I flinched as everybody shouted.
"Well, well. Touchy are we?" I grumbled as I made my way down the hall trying to remember which room was the music room. I was just about to give up when I heard a beautiful song coming from one of the closed rooms.
The mournful notes of the piano reached out to me and pulled at my heart, this person was suffering. I stood at the door, listening and trying not to make a single sound that would break the spell this song had woven out of thin air. And all of a sudden, it stopped, abruptly and leaving the song unfinished.
I took a deep breath and knocked on the door.
"If it's Mom, or Dad, or Alice, or Emmett, please go away I really don't feel like talking right now." I pushed open the door.
"You forgot me. Well and Jasper and Rose but I'm pretty sure you didn't know they were here either."
Edward was hunched over his piano sweeping up some sheet music and looked up to give me one of those looks that really irked me. He had mastered pushing my buttons after about a week of knowing me.
"What are you doing here?" He sneered. And just like that, all traces of the boy who played a beautiful song were gone, and in his place was an ill-mannered jerk.
"Alice invited me to spend the night. Unfortunately she got into an energy drink and is currently wearing holes into your living room floor. They sent me for you, they said you could calm her down?" He sighed and ran his hands thorough his hair.
"Heat up some milk and put a little bit of peppermint in it, it always makes her calm down." I stared at him for a second longer, trying to see past whatever walls he seemed to constantly have up, before muttering a quiet thank you and heading back to my friends.
I don't know why I kept bothering to try and understand Edward Cullen. His personality was cut and dry. Spoiled, pompous celebrity who had let Hollywood go straight to his head. A different girl every day; in love with himself and no one else. But for some reason I just couldn't shake the thought that there was something more. And as stupid, disappointing, and useless as it might be, I wanted to find out what it was.
The song in this chapter was Change by Taylor Swift.
Thanks for reading and another update is on the way…
~Hazel