CHAPTER FOUR (Princess Isabella's viewpoint)
AN: Thank you bellaandeddie1for the advice I hope I cover it better this chapter. Enjoy.
The rest of the week went past quickly for me as classes went by. Our Archery teacher was Ms Clapp- the one and only trail riding teacher; the first lesson for archery was boring with the teacher only allowing us to hold the equipment and sting it up. Child care class was taught by a Miss Faulkner whose sister taught my drama class- Mrs Dapper. Whenever I had free periods my friends and I spent them at the tables near the paddocks which had become our "spot" and either mucked about or finished off our homework.
Friday afternoon my friends and I made our plans for the following weekend in my room. I was sitting on my bed with the girls while the guys were on the bed next to mine; we were currently arguing about whether to go out for the weekend or to stay in. "How about we do both?" asked Angie; the guys faces were priceless- except Edward he was smirking with a twinkle in his eye trying to keep the laughter at bay. This made me laugh out loud at them; Alice was bouncing up and down on her heels repeatedly say "yes, yes, yes!"
Within minutes Ali had the whole weekend planned from breakfast tomorrow until Sunday night dinner. Shaking my head I got off my bed and walked over to my over energised friend and calmed her down by pushing her back onto the bed laughing. "Slow down Ali, whatever happened to go with the flow?" Out of the corner of my eye I saw Emmett let out a booming laugh that got everyone laughing. When everyone finished laughing I smiled looking at all my friends; I hoped I could kept them forever.
Too soon Esme came in and informed the guys that they had to leave and go back to their own room. This was met with groans and pleads of five minutes mores'; however the guys went to their room after saying goodbye. As soon as they left Alice was bouncing up and down again chatting happily about the next day. Rose and Angie were nodding to her and keeping up to her chat but I was lying on my bed- as the girls had moved, with my hands behind my head thinking about Edward and the twinkle in his eye before falling asleep.
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The next morning I was awoken up by Ali bobbing up and down on my bed telling me to get up. With a groan I rolled out of the bed and looked at the clock which read 7:01am; I gazed at the clock then turned to Ali and whined, "Why the hell are we up so early?" But of course this was Ali I was talking to and she just smiled sweetly and awoke the other girls. With a yawn or two I made my bed then grabbed a picturesque olive green dress lined with white and blue flowers.
After having a shower and dressing, I sat at my desk to brush my hair; once finished I applied lip gloss, eye shadow and then a light brush of silver glitter to my hair- I had designed my hair into a French twist. Once finished I turned to my friends and laughed; Rose was at her desk giving Ali a glare that promised pain as Ali danced in circles in a stylish but simple auburn dress with matching shoes and with her hair in a half up-do. Rose was wearing a princess worthy red dress with her hair let down free in curls; Angie on the other hand had a summer yellow dress on and her hair in a French braid.
Once Ali saw that we were all ready, she dragged us out the door still half asleep to the boys' room. Knocking on the door she called out, "Wakey, wakey boys time to get up; we are losing daylight." I gave a half of a snort then leaned my head back onto Rose's shoulder trying to get back to sleep. However when Edward opened the door shirtless, my jaw dropped at the sight of his slender but muscular stomach. With a smirk Edward lifted my chin up with one of his fingers, before turning towards Ali. I cleared my throat and said to cover my embarrassment, "Alice has decided to wake us up at this ungodly hour therefore you guys have to as well. And you might want to hurry up before Ali explodes."
Edward let out a laugh looking towards Ali who was once again bouncing up and down; he turned back to me giving a grin and replied, "Give us twenty minutes." I looked sceptical but nodded all the same. Twenty minutes later the guys came out of the room yawning; I smirked at them, we all had better get used to this, I thought, looking towards Ali. After a healthy breakfast we went to the stables, after signing out of the school for the day; with a good-morning to Pasha I put on a white side-saddle and reins after brushing her down.
Soon enough the eight of us were on our way to the closest town- which was about half an hour ride away. Riding side-saddle came easy to me but it was uncomfortable and I preferred normal saddle so that I could gallop with the wind blowing through my hair. Edward rode next to me on Colin wearing a nice fitting light brown collared shirt with dark brown riding pants and boots. Emmett was riding next to Rose wearing a white shirt and black pants with boots on a Palomino. Rose, Ali and Angie all had various chestnut Morgans while Ben and Jasper had American quarter horses.
Ben and Jasper were both wearing collared tops and black pants with boots- Jasper was also wearing a cowboy hat. Before long we got to the town Centre where a fair was on; Ali was nearly bouncing off her horse with excitement making us all laugh. The guys got off their horses then proceeded to help us girls off; Edward helped me down. Edward stood next to Pasha and offered his hand, which I grabbed; he put his hand on my waist while I put my other hand on his shoulder. Gently pulling me down off Pasha, Edward helped me down and I slide off the saddle right next to him.
Dizzy with the closeness of being right next to Edward, I just stood there gazing into his eyes slowly but surely losing myself; that was until Pasha nudged me with her head bringing me back into reality. Blinking Edward let go of me quickly before stepping back; hiding a disappointed and a hurt look I turned towards Pasha to grab her reins. I blushed with embarrassment when I noticed that Rose was looking at us with narrowed eyes; I mouthed to her, "What?" Rose shook her head as Ali bounded over and mentioned for us to put our horses with some bald headed African-American; once our horses were safe we headed to the centre of the fair.
Ali led us around the fair; bright colours grabbed my attention from the many different stalls. The day was spent at different stalls with items like cubes, paintings, computers, toys, carpets, jewellery and more. Ali went crazy with the shopping in every clothing stall she saw; this resulted in us all being over loaded with bags before we placed them in our cubes. Much too soon for Alice's liking it was time to go back to the school for dinner; once at the school Edward once again helped me down.
However sadly this time Edward quickly dropped his hands from me as soon as I had stood on the ground. I pouted disappointed as I took Pasha's saddle and reins off before brushing her down. Lastly I fed her some oats and hay before joining the others going to the dining hall. After a quick dinner Alice dragged us girls to our room to try on the clothes we bought. Alice bought ten dresses, Rose eight, Angie five and I bought six; besides clothes I bought several charms to add to a silver chain bracelet I had. Looking over the charms as I put them on I decided that the red heart with a black arrow through it was my favourite.
With a laugh Ali rushed us to bed saying that we were having an early morning the next day. With a shake of my head I changed for bed and went to sleep.
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Everything was going perfectly good the next day until I meet James and his group- included Laurent and Victoria. James was quite muscular but average-looking. There was nothing remarkable about his face or body at all; he had light brown hair cropped short and burgundy eyes. Victoria had long, curly, brilliant orange hair brighter than I have ever seen like a flame; she had bright green eyes and ethereal beauty. Laurent on the other hand had olive skinned, and dark haired the opposite as his group members.
James and his group had come sauntering into the swimming pool area as if they owned the place. I later learned that James was a type of "ruler" of the school; the three were bullies and lorded over the younger students (they were all 17 years old). Rose, Ali, Angie, and I were sitting by the edge of the pool chilling while the guys was swimming laps when there came in. James came in first followed by his "cronies" and had walked right over to where we were hanging out and sneered to us, "Get lost firsties this is our spot."
I let out a snort lying down with my arms folded behind my head replying in a sugary sweet voice, "And who are you to tell us to move? I know you're not the princess- ops I mean prince of any kingdom." Opening my eyes I saw that James was fuming mad while many were looking towards us; probably asking themselves who was the firstie wearing a blue and white polka dotted bikini standing up to James. I heard my friends begin to laugh as James' face become purple from the insult of being a girl; Rose- being Rose joined the fun and said ice queenly voice, "Now go away we were having a good time."
When James did not reply or move, I stood up and raised my eyebrows saying in a my most royal voice, "You may leave now sir; you are not getting this spot no matter who you are." It was here when Victoria stepped in telling us in a voice belonging to blond curls and pink bubblegum why we had to move. With a snort Rose walked next to me with her hands on hips and said, "Excuse me, but you've obviously mistaken us for someone who gives a damn." I gave out a laugh as Rose gave a dismissal wave to them and sat back down on her towel; someone- a guy gave a chuckle and yelled out, "Ohhh, dismissed by a firstie."
I turned around to look at my friends ignoring the people behind me- first mistake. The minute I turned around I felt someone push into my back making me stumble; as we were sitting at the edge of the pool I fell in with a splash. As I fell into the pool my wrist hit the edge and I was overcome with unbearable pain. Gasping from the pain I choked on the water before blackness overtook me when I slammed into the side of the pool.
Coming to I was in the hospital wing with my friends quietly talking to each other; with a choked voice I asked what happened. Edward answered me first telling me quietly, "Victoria- the fire hair girl pushed you into the pool. I had just joined the group when I noticed that the situation was going downhill. When you didn't come back up, I got worried and jumped in to get you while Emmett stopped the three from leaving and Alice went to get Mrs Cullen."
"You have a broken wrist and will feel a bit dizzy but apart from that you are fine. You'll have to stay overnight but you can go back to your friends tomorrow." Added a sweet old grey haired lady; I believe she was the nurse when she pulled out medical records out and asked me how I was feeling. Soon the nurse left after giving me pain medicine and checking my wrist; as soon as she had left Alice bounced on my bed and told me all the gossip- Victoria got off with just a months' worth of detention and she lost out-of-school privileges.
While Ali, Rose and Angie were talking I saw out the side of my eye Edward looking at me with a worried look; I turned my head to his direction to ask what was wrong but he controlled his face into stone. I left it alone for the moment and turned back to my friends; who were currently telling me about the rage that Victoria went into. The nurse came back in when Emmett became too loud and shooed away my friends to my disappointment; but Edward snuck back in ten minutes later and sat on the edge of my bed.
"What is wrong Edward?" I asked worried about his answer; but Edward just smiled and whispered, "Nothing is wrong Princess…" He paused and screwed up his brow before continuing, "I was worried for you when I saw you fall Isabella... In the past week I have already over stepped the guardian role and you could have died! You were not breathing when I got you out of the pool and I was so worried that I was too late. I should have been there quicker. I should have-"
Before Edward could continue in his nervous chatter way- it was cute the way he went on and on, I stopped him by putting my fingers on his lips. He stared into my eyes and I lost myself; my eyes traced over his pale white features: the hard square of his jaw, the softer curve of his full lips- twisted in a smile now, the straight line of his nose, the top of his forehead- partially obscured by the tangle of bronze hair... I held my breath as I dared to trace my fingers along his cheekbone; I saw Edward shallow as I cupped his cheek.
Edward leaned closer to me as the air electrified making me shiver with want and need; his eyes searched mine for an answer and seemed pleased with the results as he leaned closer to me and was a breath away from me…
AN: Sorry I had to leave it at that. :D Please R any advice or help is appreciated. I hope you enjoyed it; Steve- my friend did and I hope he was telling the truth. Please even if the story is not good review and tell me how to make it better.