A/N Haven't even posted the first chapter yet but hey, I didn't want to end up leaving people with a huge wait for this one. That's if anyone is reading it. XD!

Chapter Two, The Unfamiliar Sound Of Rain On Glass.

We were almost at the tiny airport of Forks. I couldn't keep my eyes off the ocean. Ok, so the waves weren't as good as Cali but they were not bad in any way possible. I couldn't help smiling when the thought that I could be out there in like an hour came too me. I was like this whenever I was near the sea.

For the first time ever I had a blood relative waiting for me in the airport. I could tell Charlie was nervous. He was twiddling his thumbs and couldn't keep still. He smiled slightly when He saw me and I grinned back.

"Dad!" I shouted before dropping my bag and running to give Charlie a hug. He chuckled and it was like the other times I had been to see him. I went back for my bag and walked the whole ten meters to baggage claim. My stuff was there and soon we were in Charlie's cruiser heading for home. Yes, Charlie is a cop. No more ditching school for me then. Damn.

We went through all the formalities and had dinner. I went to bed to catch a good night's sleep before, gulp, school, the next day. I hadn't been to school in seven years. Since I was ten. I was flying my way around the world at twelve for crying out loud. I did study and stuff though. And Whenever I was at the Van, Jessie and Mary insisted that they teach me and we would spend hours sat studying. I just hoped I wasn't THAT far behind.

I woke to the unfamiliar sound of rain drops hitting glass and for a moment I wondered why I was been woken by rain and not sunshine. Then I remembered I was in Forks, Washington. Home of the rain cloud and rain. Great. I looked at my clock and swore under my breath. I had ten minutes to get to school.

I put on a bikini under a pair of skinny jeans and Roxy shirt. I grabbed my new wet suite and both boards before throwing them in my new truck Charlie had bought me. I then decided it was absolutely freezing so ran back inside and pulled on my No Worries hoodie from Newquay.

I sped as much as my truck would allow and, amazingly made it to school on time. Although I hadn't had a shower. Or breakfast. Or my morning caffeine boost. I was still sleepy and hadn't even had time to stretch out the sleep knots from my bones.

After making sure my boards were covered I ran to the office and made it through the door just as the bell rang.

"Ah, you must be Isabella Swan. The chief's daughter. Welcome to Forks High School. I have your time table and school map right here. Oh and you need to get this signed by all of your teachers today." I smiled.

"Thank you." She smiled and handed me the sheets of paper and I tried to figure out where my first period was.

For a tiny school there sure are a lot of stair cases. I mean there is this one block that has a front staircase, a back one and two in the middle! Who needs that many? After ten minutes of wandering I finally found my room. English, room 14B.

I knocked gingerly before stepping into the room.

"There is no point knocking if you are going to come in before getting an answer." Snapped the teacher. I held my tong from the comeback that was begging to be free.

"I'm sorry. I'm Bella Swan. The new girl."

"Oh well done!" She said sarcastically.

"Thank you." I couldn't stop myself, it was like word vomit.

"Looks like we have a smart ass in the class. Go sit down. I don't expect tardiness again Swan, you understand?"

"I understand, Miss Hill." I looked round and the only available seat was next to a small girl with jet black hair. She wasn't smirking at me like the others. Just smiling at me and waving frantically. I smiled back and went to go sit next to her. I tripped over that pesky air again though and stumbled. The whole class laughed. How come I can pretty much float like a dancer when I have a precariously balanced board under me but my two own feet on solid ground are like death traps??

I sat down and instantly had a note shoved in front of me.

Hey, I'm Alice! You must be Bella, it's nice to meet you! I've seen you on T.V.

I blushed, I was sure no one would recognise me from the comps and brief brushes with fame I'd had.

Hey Alice. I haven't been on all that much.

Are you kidding?!? You are THE up and coming woman surfer!! And my brother made me watch the Skate board take out episode like ten times!! I can't believe you have actually met Bam Magira! That is so cool! When Emmett first heard a Isabella Swan was coming to school he obsessed for weeks! We finally convinced him that it surly wasn't you, I mean you used to live in Cali and absolutely loved it there!!

Thanks! I'm not all that great though... And yeah Bam is pretty cool! I can't take all the credit for the Skate board Take Out. Ryan Dunn helped make it more dangerous, I mean, 'fun' XD!! Yeah I do love Cali but it was time for a change. Besides I'm still going to travel back there like all the time to see my friends and stuff.

Cool! You totally have to sit with us at lunch!! My siblings would be so excited to meet you.

I smiled at the thought of not eating alone on the first day, I was pretty worried about that.

Thanks! What do you have before lunch?

Math, ugh!! DX

Lol, well I have study hall so I'll just see you in there.

How about we hang out at break! You could meet the rest of the guys!

Sounds cool. Break's after next period right? I have Chem.

Ok, I'll meet you outside the room at the end!! We best stop there is only so long we can get away with this for XP I nodded and Alice slipped the note in her bag.

The lesson seemed to drag on forever and I couldn't help but wonder why all those preppy sluts back in Cali were excited to go to school. Then I thought, well it must be the between lesson quickie in the janitors closet. Eww.

After Chem. finally came to an end I practically sprinted from the room. I had gone through the worst hour of my life. Some bitch just sat next to me and talked me to death. Giving me her views on each and every person in school. I had to put my foot down in the end.

"And OMG! The Cullens! They act so, like, high and mighty. They are such snobs! Rose is a supper bitch and Alice is so slaggy! Not even lying! They are all like so totally hooking up! And they are like siblings! Ok so they're adopted but still they live in the same house and they probably like fuck every night and the guys are just so gorgeous and those two bitches are so not worthy! They probably shagged the whole football team!" I'd had enough, I was pretty sure she was talking about Alice from English class.

"OMG! You are like such a bitch!" I imitated her nasally voice pretty well I think! "I so like totally don't care what you like think! Now please get the, like, fuck away from me." I turned and saw that Alice was stood next to the door glaring at Jessica.

"Like you can talk Stanley! How many times have you come on to Jazz and Emmett and Edward now? Oh and you do remember that time I saw you come out of the boys locker room right? With total sex hair, followed by Mike. And Tyler. AND Eric??? All three of them trying to straighten out their clothes?"

"Burn!" I yelled and held out my finger to Alice. She touched it and we both laughed as Jessica huffed and stomped away.

"Bella, that was awesome! You so put that bitch in her place. Thanks for sticking up for me and my family."

"That's cool. I have had to deal with my fair share of bitches. So what do you actually do at break." Alice looked at me like a second head had randomly popped out of my neck and started singing the English national anthem.

"Well, probably the same thing as you did back at your old school."

"Yeah, course. No, yeah, I used to just go hang and ok so the last time I was in school was when I was ten."

"What?! That was what? SEVEN years ago??" She gaped.

"Yeah. Well I was busy, surfing and skating and.... stuff!" I tried to defend myself.

"Well didn't your mom make you go?"

"Ha! Yeah right! She was too busy acting like a posh snob to care about me. I hate her. In the past seven years I have seen her for about six months. I worked it out the other day. The day when my step dad made my mom kick me out. Not that I spent that much time there anyway."

"You shouldn't talk like that. She might be gone someday and you'll never get her back."

"Oh, God Alice I didn't think. I'm sorry. But you don't get it." She looked so mad at me. "Look let me explain! I'll start with the thing that just tipped me over the edge." I could tell she was moments away from walking away. Or hitting me. "They had just arranged for me to come and live with my dad and Phil had gone out for a night with the guys and I told my mom that I didn't want to leave. I opened up to her and told her I was her daughter, that we were best friends until he came along. You know what she did? She told me that she would still be putting a small fortune in my bank each week and told me to be more grateful. I tell her how I feel and she shoves some money at me and ships me off to my dad's. And that's not the worst part." I was on a role and nothing was going to stop me.

I lifted my shirt and showed her the horrific scars. She gasped.

"Yeah. When it happened, she flew out to Hawaii and, and, and she screamed at me. Not for getting hurt, not the way a parent might if they are upset and need to let you know they care and don't know any other way of doing so without shouting about how worried they were. No, she yelled at me, saying that I was a selfish cow. That if I had died she would lose her reputation. My health was not mentioned once. Not once. Never did she say, 'sweetie! Are you ok? I was so worried, I caught the first flight I could.'. The last time she said she loved me was six years ago, six." The tears were flowing freely now and I couldn't keep talking.

Alice wrapped her arms around me and cried with me. After a few minutes we both managed to pull ourselves together and we went to meet the others. Thank God no one had seen my little breakdown.

"Hey Bella?" I knew what was coming but played ignorant anyway.

"Yeah?"

"How, how did you get that scar? If you don't mind me asking? It looks kind of like, no it can't it's probably just surgery or something. Or a car crash or." I cut her off.

"A great white off the coast of Hawaii." She gasped.

"Oh my." I cut her off again.

"Can we not? There's only so much crap I can get off my chest at once." She smiled at me and nodded. I had a friend I had off loaded my crap onto. Go me.

Alice linked her arm threw mine and started talking about some sale going on next week. As if we hadn't just had a heart to heart. Gotta love Alice.

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