Ahoy! I had recently acquired a cousin book to Twilight that Stephanie wrote. It has some good backgrounds and I think I might add some altered versions to the story. Just thought I'd let you know!
Bella usually sat alone in the cafeteria and this particular day wasn't any different. The cafeteria itself held bustling students hurrying to their tables with their trays; the sounds of chatter reverberating off the walls and into her eyes. She sighed. She had never wanted to be a social outcast, a freak, she just wanted to fit in. After the camping accident - when she was changed by Laurent, everything changed. She was no longer Bella Swan, but merely "Bella" with an air of disdain.
Bella listened to the conversations of her fellow students in the cafeteria years upon years and never had one of the conversations had led to anything interesting. Surprised and shocked, Bella listened in on one particular good piece of information and she wasn't quite sure why she was so interested.
"The Cullen family, who are they?" A girl at the table a few down said, and Bella after a second recognized her as Angela Webber. "They're exchange students, from Alaska or something like that."
"Alaska? That's quite a trip. Who could afford to adopt like, four kids?" Jessica asked, while picking at her food.
"That's what I want to know. I guess we'll get to see what they look like, apparently all of them are supposed to be in classes today." Angela replied, seemingly bored with the topic.
Bella sat back in her seat and stared ahead of her at nothing particular, thoughts swirling in her head. "So this is what I must've been dreaming about when I dreamt about a large house that I had never seen before, it looked like the outskirts of Forks. Could it be the Cullen family?" She thought as something sat in front her. She blinked her eyes as she looked into the face of a girl who was about her age, only with short pixie-like hair. Her eyes twinkled as Bella stared at her hard faced.
"Hello, we're new here! Do you mind if we sit with you?" She said exeuberantly.
Bella had a hard time responding as she cleared her throat. "I'm sorry I'm... a pretty solitary person, there must be other seats-"
"No, you look pretty lonely. I should stay here!" She said while cutting Bella off and finishing with a smile.
Bella could feel a ball of anger rising up in her chest as she bit her tongue and groaned, deciding to stare at her salad instead of fight for privacy.
"So, do you like... not eat or something? You've been staring at your salad forever."
Bella couldn't remember what it was like to taste food - or to even disgest it, but to avoid suspicion, she picked up a forkful of salad and shoved it into her mouth. It had no taste, but Bella could faintly remember the taste of salad and the memory was nice, it made the disgestion (or fake disgestion) a lot easier. As she swallowed, she smiled at the pixie girl.
"I eat, I just wasn't hungry... but once you reminded me."
"What's your name?" The girl said abruptly, totally ignoring Bella's earlier comment. "Mine's Alice."
"Bella. Bella Swan."
"Oh, so your father is the Chief of Police then, right? We met him last night on our way here, road stop." She smiled, taking a big bite of her own salad before continuing. "My adoptive father is a doctor, so I guess the two of them will be seeing each other sometimes."
"I'd imagine." Bella said, not too enthuastically.
"Alice?"
Alice smiled and jumped up as Bella gazed in the direction of the new voice. She met the green eyes of a sandy, tousled haired boy and her jaw almost dropped open. She was about to stretch her hand out for an introduction when the smell hit her. It was sweet, like cinnamon sticks rosting gently on a fire mixed with something dark and seduction. Bella's throat slammed shut as she squeaked, quickly standing up, knocking her tray on the floor.
Alice stepped forward, looking alarmed. "Bella what's wrong?"
Anger bubbled up in Bella's throat as the feeling of wanting to kill the green eyed male was so intense, she almost doubled over. "Just leave me alone, okay? I don't want you to be my friend right now, I don't need a friend!"
And so she ran.
She bolted out of the cafeteria and out into the courtyard, her face paled even more than it had been before. Her eyes were dark, almost pulsing. She looked around. She knew she would have to hunt, but would Charlie ground her for ditching out of school?
"Bella?"
The smell hit her again as her mind screamed, "damnit! He followed me!" She covered her mouth and nose with her hand and turned her head so she could see him over her shoulder. He was standing there, looking very sheepish as he looked down at something that was in his hand.
"Our lockers are next to each other. I was thinking that since we're so close by each other, you could show me to my classes?"
"Oh god," her inner voice groaned, "how am I going to do this without completely screwing everything up?"
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