One Week Away From Hell

Of course Jessica would sit next to Edward, almost climbing on his lap and make herself comfortable. I had nothing against Jessica, but she wasn't the nicest girl that I knew, next to Lauren of course. I was quite glad that Lauren and I had established an easygoing friendship. There was no such thing as wanting to kill each other anymore. That didn't mean I was out of danger though. Charlie had successfully convinced me that I wasn't, after a week of rescuing Alice. Still, that didn't mean that I signed up myself to go to the 'Charlie Approved School'. I guess I should suck it up and go along with it. I would be with Alice, guess I shouldn't really complain.

"Now, our graduate seniors will be giving us a speech." Our principal spoke with a small smile. Even though he wasn't smiling as big as he should, his tone shown that he was proud of us.

Well fuck me; I immensely disliked being the center of attention.

Everyone got up and gave their speech. Emmett just made everybody laugh, no surprises there. Rosalie just gave a half minute speech before almost killing everyone with her look, and of course smirked after with her success. Jasper gave a long, meaningful and catching speech that got us to lean out of our seats to listen to him. Edward bore us to death, enough said. Alice, like her brother Emmet, got everyone to laugh by her bubbly persona and cheerful attitude. Jessica loved attention, yet she was just as boring as Edward. Everyone else did their speeches, and now it was my turn to go up there. .Now…Literally.

"You'd be fine." Alice murmured as she took my hand, giving it a reassuring squeeze. I rolled my eyes and groaned, earning a giggle from her.

I stood up and dragged my feet towards the front. Once I was behind the microphone everyone's eyes were on me. I started to get really nervous, so I closed my eyes and took a deep breath. Well it didn't help my nerve some when I reopened them. Everyone was still looking at me and really, could they stop that? I looked at anywhere but them. When my eyes found Alice sitting at the front row with that lovely smile of her, everything faded and it was just her watching me. Okay, this was a speech of how I appreciate everyone to support me and stuff, not a speech about how much I love Alice and how I would die for her without much of thought. Then, there was a light. It didn't blind me, but it was enough to catch my attention and brought me out of that semi-daze that I had whenever I looked at Alice. Sure this school didn't practically have heavy security guards around, but there he was. He was formerly dressed as if he was attending an important ceremony. Well it was important for us students, but for him…I knew why he was here the moment that his eyes met eyes. He was here for me, and I knew that I was in danger. Well, everyone was in danger but me? I could handle him. I opened my mouth, but before I could get out a word I saw Jacob silently moved behind him. His rough big hand then covered the man's mouth before he dragged him away. Well, that was quite a show, now all I needed to do was to finish this speech that I've been holding up for quite some time now.

"Well," I chuckled nervously as my hand went to the back of my neck, rubbing at it as if to give myself some confident boost. Not working, mind you. "As most of you may know that this is my first, and my last, time attending a public school. I've always been homeschooled and it took quite a while for me to convince my dad to agree to let me attend a public school."

I paused, my eyes searching for Charlie, hoping that he'd be here. To my disappointment, he wasn't. I suppressed a sigh and continued. "I'm glad that I'm here, and I'm also glad that I get to experience everything with my fellow students. You all have taught me so much, and I think it isn't fair for me to always get straight A's when you don't." Everyone giggled. Seriously, what was so funny about that?

"Anyway, I've been up here for quite some time so I'm just going to wrap it up. I thank you for all of the support that you all have given me; my family, my friends and my teachers." Would it be wrong to say my girlfriend? Well, it didn't hurt to try. "And most important of all, I thank you for the one person that had shown me everything, and brought so much joy and experience to me. So Alice Cullen, thank you so much for showing me what it is like to be in a public school. Without you, I don't think I could ever get used to being in this school, considering the fact that I'm totally inexperience in socializing with others. Well I've been up here for far too long, and I've been talking for far too much so I'll just shut up and give the microphone back to Principal Carter."

Well, that was done and I honestly didn't want to stand up there ever, again. I left the 'spotlight' as fast and quiet as I could before joining Alice's side again. The principal took his place and I let out a sigh of relief, knowing that there wouldn't be a chance for me to be up there again. And so the ceremony went on, and I found myself zoning out since it didn't hold any interest in me in what Carter was saying. The only person that seemed to be so interested in what he was saying was Alice, and truly I didn't know why she was so focus on the man talking about…Well, I had no idea what he was talking about.

We stayed there for an hour or two, or even three. When the ceremony was over, and thank god that it was over, I stood up with the rest of my friends and got ready to leave. Well, I was getting ready to go until Alice grabbed my arm and pulled me away. Seriously, I just wanted to go home and relax, and maybe start packing my stuff. When others had at least two weeks to pack their stuff and go off towards their own favorable College, I only had one week to attend my own unfavorable 'College'. That would mean I would probably already have a dorm waiting for me. That would mean I would have to sneak out and see Alice. Wait, the sneaking out would only happen if they had a stupid rule like; Stay inside the campus unless you have someone to come with you. And in this case, I wouldn't have anyone to come with me to see Alice. I so need to read the rule book…if only I knew where I have left it. Now, how thick was that book?

"Bella?...Beelllla?...BELLA!"

I snapped out of my thoughts at the sound of my name, very loudly, in front of my face. Not to say that my eyes instantly landed on the very small frantic hand waving side to side in front of me. Alice was still waving my hand at my face, and I had to grab her hand to stop the movement. Knowing her she wouldn't stop even though she got your attention.

"You need me?" A'duh! Of course she needed me. I wasn't even here; I was so deep in my thought that I had forgotten where we were.

Alice gave me a 'Are you serious' look before rolling her eyes at me. "Come on, now that you've managed to get your dad to agree to let you attend the graduation ceremony, at least come to the after party!" Her voice rose excitedly as she started bouncing on her spot.

After party? There was an after party? Like…where was this? Should I be attending? Was it safe? Since when had I ever start to question about this?

"Do I have to?" I asked as I looked down at her with the puppy-dog eyed that I could muster up. It was good enough to make her falter, just a little, before she frowned and regained her excitement again.

"Come on Bella, live a little." The excitement rolled off of her face, and she stopped her bouncing as she pulled one of her best trick ever; the best puppy-dog look that no one could resist, not even the President of the United States. She tugged the bottom of her lip under her teeth, her eyes went wide with unshed tears twinkling under her lashes. Most of the time it would work even without the eyes, since I found it sexy. She probably knew that the look wouldn't work on me now if she didn't add the eyes. Damn, she was smart…Too smart. I like it. I love it.

"Fine, only because it's you." I faked a sigh, but it didn't seem like she minded it since that excited look of hers came back as she started bouncing on her spot again. I felt so alive whenever I was with her. She was the missing puzzle piece in my life, and I had always thought that I didn't need my life to be completed since I could complete myself…in a way. I was totally wrong about that. I could see now that without Alice, I would surely be a walking heartless being that feels nothing but anger and loneliness. Not to say I wouldn't let anybody in. Alice had come into my life so easily that my walls went down so fast that I didn't even see they were tumbling down until I fell in love.

"Are we going to get ready before we go? Or are we just going straight to the party since it's happening now?"

"Duh! That's the reason why me and Rosie took so long to get ready this morning! We'll be partying from noon to midnight, and Emmett and I are hosting the party!" Noticing that we were moving in a slow pace, she picked up the pace as she pulled me with her.

From noon to midnight, it might not be a good idea when Charlie was strict about curfew even though I always break it. I wouldn't get into trouble because Renee would be there to save me. Besides I rarely get myself into trouble, so this one time wouldn't hurt. The problem was, Jacob was still here since I could practically sense him lurking around the place looking for potential danger.

We made it out to the parking lot where our cars were. Of course they came in separate cars, Rosie had hitched a ride with Alice while Jasper and Edward had hitched a ride with Emmett. I had my own car, and Jacob had his own since he was following mine. So looking over at the group, especially Emmett since he seemed to look like he wanted to rape my car. Seriously, hadn't he seen a Koenigsegg Agera before? Well there was no way in hell that he was allowed in my car. I could imagine his big form inside my little precious. Totally didn't want my car to be crushed under his weight. There was something else though, one other car was parked right next to mine that didn't belong to Jacob. I knew that it wasn't Lauren's or Jessica's since this car was out of style. I didn't realize that Alice was nudging at me, plus Jacob sneaking up and stood beside me with a cautious expression.

"Bella, come on. The party is waiting." Alice's cute whiny voice snatched me away from the rather suspicious looking car. I turned to Jacob as he tilted his head down to look at me. We locked eyes for a few seconds, my eyes already confirmed what he needed to know; we both wanted to know who the other car was.

"Sorry, coming now." I willed myself to be dragged over to the group, though I made a quick check behind me to see where Jacob was. He nodded his head and moved towards the car for, I guess, some inspection. I bet he was going to do the same on my car.

I turned my attention, or half of it, back towards my group of friends while the other half was thinking about the mysterious car. No one would want to park their car right next to mine. Why? Because no one would want to park their sort of crappy car right next to mine and be mocked at, or be embarrassed about their own car. Even at school, only Lauren's car was able to compete with mine so she would park her car next to mine whenever she wanted to. Otherwise my car was always lonely in its parking spot. I hope that Jacob would find whatever clues that he was trying to find between my car and the mystery car. I honestly wouldn't want to get into my car and drive off without knowing that someone had placed a ticking mini bomb in my car, or kill the handbrake. Yep, that would suck so bad, and I wouldn't want to die in that way either. And this party was sure to go nowhere if I wasn't emotionally and mentally there. Think they would miss me much when my body would be there anyway? Probably not.