Isabella & Abrielle

Disclaimer- I bow down to the original. I do not own Twilight or its characters. Just own Abrielle.

Chapter 2: While the Boy is Away

I had a restless sleep and you could tell. Life sucks. Yes I am cranky. Bella pulled me out the door and into the car. I dreaded who I was going to avoid. I casual looked around the lot to see if his silver car was anywhere. No sighting yet, so I head into school. I avoided contact with the other students as usual. On mistake I bumped into someone. I apologized and tried to pass. The persons voice that spoke to me was enchanted causing me to look up into her face. She was a Cullen. Same beauty and flare that the others had.

"Don't worry about it not harm done. You are one of the new girls right?" The smile she sent my way made me obliged to answer her.

"Yes. My sister Bella and I started yesterday."

"You are in my English class. Your Abrielle right?"

"Yes, I do not usually go by my full name. I generally go by Abby. Our parents or should I say Mom gave us Italian names when she was going through some Italian phase."

"It's nice to meet you Abby. I'm Alice." She followed beside me as we walked towards our class.

We broke apart as we were en route to our seats. Bella was already zoned out doodling on her notebook waiting for the class to begin as a boy tried to engage her in meaningless conversation.

As the day droned on I dreaded seeing him in music class. Lunch came and I intended to follow through with yesterdays plan of sitting in the library, but Bella caught me again. Damn. I sat at the table with my milk and bagged lunch trying to not look at his table. I tuned out the table conversation opting for my book again. How much will I read is still anyone's guess. The pull on my eyes in the direction of the Cullen's was stronger than my will. I gazed over and noticed four people not five. He was not there. Could I be lucky and not have to deal with the aftermath of my outburst. Oh yeah that would be great, but I can not get my hopes up yet. He could just be late to lunch. This made me hesitant going to music.

You would think that not having him show up to class made my day better. Well I thought it would. It actually ended up worst. I was over thinking what I said and maybe I over reacted and hurt him somehow. I don't know. I am confused with the yo-yo thoughts. Pick a side already.

I tried to brush off Edward's absence when Bella brought it up. She was having some of the same thoughts, but I doubt she said anything remotely mean to him to garner his absence be her fault.

The week passed like my second day of class. I went to school and hung at home. Maybe I should get a job. I have too much time on my hands. I am starting to feel being home bound is not as fun as it use to be. Maybe I do need some friends. I have had a few words with Alice over the week. A though about asking about her brother was stomped out before the thought was even finished. It also seemed like Alice knew of my inner struggles. On Friday, Alice mentioned her brother Edward was coming home this weekend. I asked before I could stop myself, where he has been, Edward was up in Alaska visiting with family friends for personal reasons. I wanted to ask what those personal reasons were, but I finally caught up with myself and stopped that line of questioning.

Now with my thoughts on getting a job and making a friend, I wondered if I should have see what Alice was doing this week. Well Dad decided that he was going to do the usual fishing with Billy and maybe Bella and I would like to go to La Push and visit with Jacob. That is an idea. I use to get along with Jake when we were kids. He was my age too. Bella said she was going to stay home and catch up on her homework. Fine I will go it alone.

Jake was just as friendly and entertaining as I remembered him. We talked about what was going on in our lives. I even mentioned my incident with Edward Cullen. Jake was the type that you could feel comfortable telling your secrets too and he was supportive and tried not to judge. He then started in with some old tales about the Cold ones and his ancestor's associations with wolves. They became wolves to protect the tribe from the dangers of the Cold Ones. I asked what the Cold Ones were and if they were still a threat to the Tribe. He said they were known as vampires to people like me. Wow. He is not sure if they are any Cold Ones around, but he was told to stay away from the Cullens.

Interesting.

The rest of the day was spent with Jake toying around with his car. He mentioned the driving permits we needed to get. I forgot about that. I need to learn how to drive. Dad is going to love that.

I asked Dad on the way home about the drivers permit test. Me said he would grab me a book from the station. He had a few there. Of course he would not be worried about the actual written part. I was a virtual computer the way I would absorb the information. It was the driving that would be a little nerve racking.

The rest of the weekend was like every other night. I started to get a little anxious. Edward was going to be in school tomorrow. Well that was what Alice had said. How was he going to behave tomorrow? Will he be mad? I didn't even tell Bella that he was coming back. She did ask a few times last week, because she knew I talked to Alice a little. I just did not feel like relaying the information. I'm not sure. It is like I feel possessive. Like he was mine. Scratch that, that is ridiculous. I am obsessing way to much on a guy I yelled at once. Hell he didn't even talk to me. He never said one word to me.