Tangled Up In Me

Chapter 2: Bullseye

The next morning I woke up, showered and got ready to head to school. I grabbed a granola bar and said goodbye to Charlie.

"Have a nice day" he said casually.

I walked out the door and there sitting on the curb was an old red truck. I was a little confused at first. I turned to walk back inside, but Charlie was standing there already. He had a smile on his face.

"Surprise" he said then laughed.

"Yea, surprise." I answered still staring at the truck in awe. It was very rare than anyone ever surprised me. Even since before I began at Buxley.

I heard the floorboards behind me squeak and automatically turned with my hand raised. I caught the keys easily. "Thanks 'dad'" I said sarcastically.

"Your suppose to be my clumsy daughter from Arizona remember?" he said to me.

O crap. I forgot about that part. I wasn't the most coordinated person ever but I wasn't a klutz. Well I guess now was the time to use my acting skills.

"See ya" I said as I headed toward the truck. It roared to life loudly and soon I was headed off towards the school.

I pulled into a parking lot that was marked 'Front office only'. I got out and headed inside. There was a read headed woman sitting behind the counter and she looked up and smiled brightly at me.

"You must be Isabella Swan." she said.

"Um…yea" I answered quietly.

"Okay, well here is your schedule. Have a seat over there and take a look while I call up you student guide." she said to me pointing at a row of plastic chairs.

I sat down and pretended to look over my schedule, I already had it memorized, but no one was suppose to know that. Actually I had gotten online last night at Charlie's and hacked into the local town hall's records. I looked up the blue prints for the school and memorized where everything was so that I wouldn't have a problem if I needed to find Edward or any of his friends. I had also looked at the blue prints for the Masen's was huge and of course. His family owned several hundred acres right outside of town.

A few minutes later a short girl with brown curly hair walked in.

The red headed woman-Ms. Cope- pointed a finger in my direction, and I assumed that this was to be my guide. The girl turned and walked toward me.

"Hi! I'm Jessica!" she said brightly.

"Hi. Bella." I replied. My tone must have sounded rude but it wasn't intentional.

She grabbed my arm and pulled me out of the office.

"So…you moved here from Arizona?" she asked.

"Yea. Phoenix."

"Wow. Okay well this is the courtyard. Mostly seniors eat out here….." she kept talking pointing out little things. I pretended to listen all the while scanning for my target. Jessica didn't notice my preoccupation and kept talking.

Then as we were walking towards the building where my first class was I saw him. It was about this time that Jessica decided to be observant, noticing where my eyes had landed.

Edward Masen was sitting on a bench with his ipod in, and looking down at a book of some sort.

Hm…a reader…well he can't be that bad if he reads.

"That's Edward Masen. He's gorgeous of course, but don't waste your time he's dating Tanya." she whispered to me.

I played dumb.

"Who's Tanya?" I asked.

"Someone you don't want to mess with. If you know what's good for you."

Right then a pretty girl with strawberry blond hair walked up and pulled a headphone from his ear. He turned to her and smiled.

Wow. He had a gorgeous smile.

STOP IT! I scolded myself. You can't even think of him like that. He is your ASSIGNMENT.

"That's her." Jessica said.

She started towards them, towing me behind her.

"Hey Tanya! Hey Edward!" she greeted them enthusiastically.

"Hey Jess." Tanya said, she was smiling, but something told me that was an act. She seemed kind of….I guess suspicious.

Edward merely nodded his head in our direction.

"And you are…?" Tanya asked directing her attention to me.

Edward looked up seeming to realize someone other than Jessica had walked up.

"Oh sorry. This is Bella. She's new. Bella, this is Tanya Denali and Edward Masen." Jessica introduced us.

I gave a slight smile, "Hi" I said to them.

"Nice to meet you. Where did you move from?" Tanya asked. She said it as though it was more her trying to act nice than her actually caring, but I answered anyway.

"Uh..Arizona." I said quietly.

Then I turned to the real reason I was here.

"What are you reading?" I asked Edward.

He glanced up surprised, or maybe annoyed that I was speaking to him.

He didn't say anything, he merely held up the book cover.

Romeo and Juliet.

"O cool. I love that one. It's such a romantic story don't you think?" I asked trying to be polite and to bite my tounge. Truth was he was irritating me, who the heck did he think he was. I knew fourteen different ways to kill him from where I stood. I had mastered advanced chemistry and quantumphysics but the time I was 12. I could poison his food and he'd be asleep within seconds. He had no idea who he was dealing with.

Of course I couldn't exactly say that, but I really wanted to just to wipe the smug 'I'm better than you' look off his face.

Calm down Bella. I said to myself. Maybe he is really enjoying the play and doesn't want to be disturbed, or maybe he is shy.

"Not really." he said speaking to me for the first time. " I find Shakespeare's characters boring and completely unrealistic. I mean really, who in their right mind at any age would run off and get married to someone they just met, and then kill themselves for said person. It completely ridiculous and fake."

This infuriated me.

"Are you serious? Did you pick up the wrong book? It's a timeless story of true love, passion, and the societies intolerance for opposition."

"Have you actually read the book, or are you just going off some movie you've seen? Let me guess you spent the whole movie thinking about how gorgeous Leonardo DiCaprio's eyes were." He replied standing to that he was now towering over me. I hadn't noticed how tall he was, especially compared to my 5'4''.

"Of course I've read it, and what difference would watching the movie make. Movies are never anywhere near as good as the books themselves. I mean look at what they did to Jane Austens Pride and Prejudice?"

"I should have known you were a fan of those types of books."

"What's that suppose to mean?"

"You have these ridiculous ideas about love and relationships, of course you got it from those types of stories."

We had been subconsciously stepping closer to each other during the argument.

"You don't know anything about me. I could be a fan of comic books for all you know. You just met me and yet your making assumptions based on what? My choice of reading material? Maybe I am an idealist, but you know what, I'll take that over being a miserable cynic any day." I said. Then I turned and headed to the building where my class was, forgetting momentarily that I was suppose to be new and not know my way around.

"Bella!" Jessica yelled running to catch up to me.

" Oh hey." I said and kept walking.

"Wow! I can't believe you just said that to Edward Masen. He's like the most popular boy in school."

"Why? He's a jerk."

"Um….hello? Did you just see him?" she said. As if that's any excuse for his asshole-like behavior, which to her it probably was.

By this time we were in the gymnasium. I followed Jessica and sat down a few rows behind her on the bleachers.

Edward walked in with Tanya a few moments later. She gave me a small smirk as she clung tighter to Edwards arm. Then dragged him towards Jessica and the girls who were sitting with her.

HAH! She could have that arrogant jerk. It made no difference to me. I just had to protect him from getting kidnapped or murdered or injured.

Crap. This was definitely going to be a mission from hell.

Gym was one of my best and favorite classes at Buxley, but here I was suppose to be a klutz so I had to be bad at it. Today we were learning the basic rules of volleyball. We wouldn't actually have to dress out until Thursday.

I got up after the bell rang and headed towards the door. Jessica went ahead with one of her friends, a girl named Angela. As I walked out of the door, I felt a pull on the back of my backpack. I remembered to be clumsy and fell back into the pull.

I looked up and Tanya was standing there looking down at me.

"Bella? Right?" she asked. Sneered was probably a better word to describe her tone towards me. " Listen, you're new, so I'll forget about the little fight earlier with Edward, but here's the deal. No one, and I mean no one ever yells or corrects Edward got it? Stay away from him and my friends and the rest of year here will pass easily. Get in my way though, and….well lets just say you'll wish you had never come to Forks." She smiled wickedly at me. Then, as she was walking out the door turned to me " So glad to have this little chat. If you need anything else….ask someone else." Then she left.

I was slightly stunned. Still sitting on the floor from where I had fallen.

Then the anger caught up as my brain processed her words.

I counted backward from ten in my head as I headed to my next class, which thanks to Tanya's little rant I was now going to be late for.

I hated it when everyone stared at me. As if being the new girl wasn't bad enough now I would be getting twice the number of stares for being new AND late on my first day.

I walked into my English class, and surprise, surprise, everyone looked up and stared at me.

"I'm going to take a wild guess and say that you are Miss Swan? Correct?" the teacher asked.

"Yes ma'am." I answered.

" I don't tolerate tardies in this class Miss Swan but since it's your first day I'll let it slide. Don't let it happen again."

"Yes ma'am" I said again. Looking for a seat.

She then pointed to the only empty seat in the room. Next to a girl I recognized. Alice Cullen.

She was smiling brightly at me. I sat down and turned my attention back to Mrs. Cottingham.

"Our first book for the semester will be William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet." I groaned inwardly and suddenly felt like someone was glaring daggers into my face. I turned my head slightly and saw Edward smirking at me. He was sitting in front of Alice. Well this should be an interesting class. I glared back.

It was then that Alice decided to interrupt our glaring contest.

"Hi, I'm Alice Cullen. I see you've met Edward, well actually I had to listen to him rant about it all before class started." she said quickly with a giggle. I had to concentrate very hard to catch ever little word. " Don't worry about him though, he's just mad because you are the first person to disagree with him on the subject of books-other than me or Rose- and you stumped him during a debate. He is such a sour puss when he loses something." She finished, the smile from before still in place.

"Hi Alice. It's nice to meet you. And for the record I didn't intend on arguing with him, but he dissed one of my favorite novels, I had to defend it." I said.

She laughed and I joined her.

"Well I am personally glad you did. It's about time someone put him in his place."

Mrs. Cottingham shot us both daggers, and we quickly ended the conversation.

I paid attention for the rest of the class period. It was standard stuff. I had already learned everything back at Buxley.

At Buxley they went ahead and taught everything for high school by your eighth grade year so that they could concentrate you on more career related classed sooner.

I got up as the bell rang dismissing us to our next period.

Alice appeared at my side and we talked. She asked for my schedule and I gave it to her, I already knew that we had two classes together but she seem genuinely excited when she found out.

"Oh my goodness!" she squealed. "This is gonna be such a fun year!"

Edward was walking on Alice's other side. Pretending to ignore us, but I could tell he was trying to hear what we were talking about.

Can you say NOSEY????

"You should totally sit with us at lunch today!" she said suddenly.

I saw Edwards face freeze and he was thrown off a step. "No Alice, our table is already full. Sorry Becca you understand don't you?" he said.

Becca? Was he seriously pulling the 'I forgot you name' card?

"Shut up! Edward." Alice said shoving him. " There is plenty of room"

"Sure I'd love too." I answered sending a sickly sweet and totally fake smile in Edwards direction.

He huffed and walked away.

Alice and I continued in the other direction to our next class.

This was going to be a long day. Considering Edward and I have practically the exact same schedule and he had already taken a disliking to me.

A/N: There is the second chapter. Again just a few things to increase the flow of the story. Thoughts, comments, questions. Message me or leave a comment.

Peace....Accident Prone Klutz