Graduation Day

Everything had been going by so fast. I didn't actually have a normal school life but that was fine. At least now I know what I was capable of. I could physically protect those that I care about. As for emotionally, that I wasn't so sure about. I was raised and taught to deal with everything physically, and always leave the emotional part aside. Upon meeting Alice I've experienced quite a lot of those emotions that I haven't come across before. Before her all I've ever experienced were anger, loneliness and hurt. Now I've had some added emotions to accompany with those three; happiness, fear, cautious and love. And with the graduation day coming so near I feared that I won't be seeing her and the rest of the gang for quite a long time. Charlie refused t send me off to College. I refused to learn whatever he had in stored for me. Renee was neutral. Alice was upset we couldn't go to the same College. I refused to talk to Charlie until he let me go. Yeah, that didn't work out quite well.

"Graduation is tomorrow, might as well just skip it." Charlie, my awesome deadly dad, spoke as he slowly sliced his cutting knife through the smoked salmon of our dinner.

"Is there a reason why I should?" I asked before popping the delicate fish meat in my mouth. Renee was being exceptionally quiet, no doubt finding this little 'conversation' amusing.

"Yes." He responded after swallowing his food. I waited for him to elaborate more but when he reached for his glass of red wine, I held back the urge to roll my eyes at him.

"Care to enlighten me, Dad?" He chuckled before placing his glass down. He leaned forward with his fingers linked together, his elbow on the table and his chin atop his hands.

"You're going to an Agency School to be trained into the best agent, next to me of course, in the industry."

I thought I could resist the urge to groan, but I couldn't. My loud groan of pure annoyance didn't go unnoticed to the staff either. "Seriously Dad? I want to be a normal teenager for once. Can you just at least give me that?"

He frowned. "I did, Bella. I let you go to a public school against my will." Then his expression softened. "Did you feel like a normal teenager, Bella? After everything that had happened this year?"

I opened my mouth to respond, but clamped it shut when I couldn't think of anything to say. He was right; he did let me attend a public school. After all of those killings and Alice in danger, I was sure as hell I didn't feel like a normal teenager.

Charlie sighed and leaned back against his chair. Half of his dinner forgotten, not that I was surprise to say. "Bella, the Swan has never been a normal family. Even if you don't live with me, yours and the people that you care about lives will be in constant danger. No matter where you go they'd be following you like hyenas looking for preys. Your life, in and out of this house, is in a constant danger. If you don't know how to protect yourself to the level of making yourself and other undetectable, then this Agency School is right for you."

Seriously? Was he giving me the option to be a bum at home or go to this school that he just suggested? I must have given him the 'Are you kidding?' look because he rolled his eyes at me.

"Just think about it, Bella. It might do you some good. Besides, it will be in Columbia, away from here. You'd have some freedom then."

Yay for freedom and Columbia, since that was where Alice, Emmett, Jasper and Rosalie were going to go; Howard University. I didn't want to know where Edward was heading, so I pretty much zoned out when he was telling me about it. However, I wasn't sure if I would actually have freedom in this school. And he better not already enrolled me in there when I hadn't spoken my opinion yet. So I gave that look told him he better didn't do something that I wouldn't do if I was him, and he coughed awkwardly and turned his head away in shame. Oh no he didn't…Oh wait, yes he totally did! He was going to have his ass kicked…now!

"Training room. Ten minutes. Now!" I stood up, a bit angered by his unasked permission to enroll me there, and left to go to the training room. I knew that I couldn't beat him, or even win against him. But I always manage to exhaust him with my agility. Oh yes, when it came to speed, he had a hard time catching me.

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"I thought you wouldn't come today." Jasper said as we were standing in the hall with our graduation gowns on. He was surprised that I even turned up, but happy all the same.

"Well, me and Charlie had some fun in the training room last night, so he gave in and let me attend." I responded with a proud grin while remembering the event of last night. I wore him out so fast that he gave up in trying to grab me. However, I wouldn't allow for him to leave until I was allow to come to graduation.

"Well I know that Alice will be happy that you're here."

"Speaking of her, where is she?" I asked, my eyes immediately glancing around the big hall, searching for that jet black spiky head with designer clothing. I knew that she would do something to this boring graduation gown anyway.

"I don't know. I heard that Rosalie was getting ready with her. So Emmett is here, probably gone off to chat with the football team."

Ah, that explained quite a lot. Rosalie plus Alice getting ready together would take hours, even days if they were giving the time. Even though I was a girl, I didn't understand the concept of taking hours to get ready for a couple of hours of graduation ceremony. Well I didn't really understand girls in general. Did that mean I don't understand myself? I chuckled mentally and Jasper gave me a look that said I was crazy. I guess hanging around at him for the past seventeen years turn me into a bit of a psycho.

Jasper and I stood around the hall watching people coming in and out, and just when I was about to see the two fashion police duo coming in the room, my phone started to ring. I couldn't ignore the phone, not when it might be something important such as; Bella, you're in danger, sort of thing. I pulled it out and looked at the ID; Jacob Black, and sighed. I knew that he was somewhere around here just to give his eyes on me, but I couldn't even see him. I bet he could still see me despite the place being crowded, but he managed to keep himself undetectable from my very own eyes. Perhaps this was why Charlie wanted me to go to that school without my permission for him to enroll me into it.

"Hey, Jake, anything new?" I asked as soon as I answered the phone. He chuckled on the other end and I rolled my eyes. I didn't really know what was so funny, even if the guy seemed to always smile and laugh around me now. But it was quite funny to see him looking all business-like when he was around Charlie or his mentor; Sam Uley.

"No, except that you almost looked like you wanted to kill the phone when it rang." He chuckled again and I had to control myself from crushing my phone. I didn't like the fact that he could see me when I couldn't see him. When I felt a pair of arms wrapped around my torso and pulled me close to the petite body behind me. I instantly relaxed in her arms, knowing who it was since her spiky hair tickled my neck when she leaned her head on my shoulder. No matter how much I was pissed off at the fact I couldn't detect Jacob, having her presence around me was enough to calm me down. Yes, I was in love with her and the feeling was incredible, more than words could ever describe.

"What do you need, Jake?" I sighed as Alice started drawing light circle patterns around my abdomen, making me lean back against her some more.

"Can you handle being here by yourself?" He asked, his tone switching back to all business-like. I fought the urge to groan at that question. These people didn't know what I was capable of. I could defend myself and perhaps another person. I wasn't armed or anything, not like I could slip in a gun or two under this graduation gown. This gown was more annoying to wear than to look at, plus it was quite comfortable when I had my usual clothes beneath it. Well it was hot, and having this gown on wasn't helping me cooling off.

"Jake, who do you think I am?" I asked, pausing to hear his reply. Of course it didn't take him long to think of one.

"A girl that hasn't been fully trained." How rude.

"Jake, you better take that back. You know as well as I that I can kick your ass in a one on one combat." I almost growled, and I would have if Alice wasn't with me trying to calm me down when she felt that my body went rigid after that blunt answer.

"Bella, if you can't even see me, how can you be so sure that you can defend yourself in a big crowd such as this?" He asked, and already I felt like he was trying to be act like Charlie. Hell, they even had the same purpose behind their every word when Jacob actually put on his business-like mode on.

"Jake, go. I don't want to lose my temper right now because of you." My hold tightened around the phone, but not strong enough to break it. I didn't want to break the phone and would have to waste more money to buy a new one, not to say going through all the trouble to transfer my phone number to the new phone as well. Getting the phone wasn't a problem, not when I had the money to buy thousands of them. It was the transferring the number part was, since I didn't exactly know whether I'd want a new number so that no stranger could randomly text me about the extravagant parties that they had seen me in from years ago.

Jacob sighed on the other end, and with a simple 'Ok' he hung up the phone. I sighed and placed the phone back to where it belonged; my pocket, before wrapping my arms around hers. She nuzzled against my neck, the end of her hair tickled me some more that caused me to giggle. She stopped her action and pressed her lips against my skin, while I felt her lips curled up into a smile. The smile didn't last long when I felt it disappeared, and turned into a small frown. She was upset, and I knew that she would voice it out pretty soon.

"After graduation I would have one week with you before I go down to Columbia with the gang for College. I won't be able to see you until breaks, and that is a very, very long time." Her voice was dripping in sadness, and it was breaking my heart ever so slowly; prolonging the pain, as I listened to each of her words.

"Alice…" I began, about to tell her that I would be going down to Columbia too. Yea, I hadn't told her about it last night because I didn't want to wake her up. Charlie and I finished our little spar around midnight, and I'd doubt that Alice would be awake by that time.

Alice pulled away from me so I could turn to face her. Her eyes were twinkling in unshed tears, and I knew that it would be difficult for me too if I couldn't see her for months. I hadn't been in a relationship such as this before. Hell, Alice was my first and of course my last. I wouldn't know how to act in a long distance relationship. Well I would probably bribe Charlie into letting me go visit Alice every week, or every day if I even had the stamina to do that. I guess with him it would be every month, and every month was still a long time away. Even when we were this close, separating from her for hours felt so long to me.

Just as I was about to tell her that I would be coming down there anyway for this Agency School Charlie had set me up on, the Principal came out and told us to take our seats and of course, not to utter a word. I groaned quietly in annoyance and all Alice could do was giggle at my dismay, even though her giggle didn't quite reach her eyes. I grabbed onto one of her hands and leaned down towards her ear, before whispering, "I'll tell you later."

She looked confused at first, but nodded before allowing me to pull her along towards the empty seats in the front row, where we were supposed to be sitting at. Front row, attention, how I hated you so. Now I couldn't even imagine what Alice's reaction would be like if I told her. I could imagine Emmett's reaction, he'd crush me under his big strong arms in a big bear hug. As for Rosalie, she would just smile in approval. She wasn't really a touchy-feely kind of girl, not even with Alice. Seriously, I couldn't even get one simple hug from her throughout this whole year of knowing her. She wasn't an Ice Queen, she was just…Rosalie Lilian Hale, enough said right there. As for Jasper…I could never read him, but somehow I knew that he would be happy for both Alice and I. Edward…well, who cares about him, right? Apparently, unfortunately for him, Jessica did care since she was following him like a moth following the brightest light. Edward looked like he didn't mind, he didn't even mind that Jessica was all over him either. Well that was a disgusting sight to see, even when I knew Edward wasn't the type to go that low. I mean, wasn't Tanya enough? That boy needed a wake-up call, seriously.

A/N

Pretty damn long update I must say. I think my favorite part in this is when I trash-talk about Edward xD

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Now let us go shoot some Edward :3