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"Hey sleepy head, It's time to wake up!" the voice of my sister Alice screamed in my ear.
"No," I replied groggily, "I'm not going to school today, or ever again for that matter," I rolled over and stuffed my face into an overly fluffy pillow.
"Yes, you are. It isn't even that bad and we can't leave without you and if you don't get up then we'll be late so you have to the count of three before I make you get out of bed."
"One, two, thr-"
"Okay, okay. I'm getting up," I moaned into the pillow.
"You don't look like you're moving at all to me." Alice chuckled
I didn't reply.
"Okay fine, you've given me no choice," she said before tickling my sides deviously. "Are you going to get up now?" she asked.
"YES!" I rolled over and jumped out of bed, pushing her hands away. "You don't play fair, at all!"
"You're awake now, aren't you?" she stated while trying to hold back her laughter.
" I have to shower now, so you have to get out," I ground out ignoring her previous statement.
"Okay, Okay, I'm leaving," she held up her hands in mock surrender.
I stuck my tongue out at her. I know, so mature.
Thirty-five minutes later I had showered, brushed my teeth, put on the slightest bit of makeup, and I was currently trying to find something that stood up to my sisters' standards to wear. I settled on a pair of light gray leggings and a blue and white chevron dress that my other sister, Rosalie, got me for my birthday last year.
"Hey, Liz come on we're going to be late if you don't hurry up!" My brother Emmett yelled at me from the bottom of the stairs.
"I'm coming!" I called back, not bothering to raise my voice. I knew he could hear me just fine.
Three and a half minutes later I was downstairs grabbing a breakfast bar off the table and swinging my book bag onto my back.
"Took you long enough," Edward teased, ruffling my hair as he ushered me into his Volvo. Everyone was already waiting in the car.
Hey! I'm only human! I thought indignantly. Edward chuckled softly, "That you are."
The rest of the car ride was completely uneventful which was a rare occurrence in my family. I thought about the most random things during the car ride to school. Things such as the weather, -which was, of course, rainy- School, and my crazy family. And I'm pretty sure that for once Edward wasn't interested in reading my thoughts.
"Think again," His deep voice jerked my out of my thoughts.
Oh my god! I jumped in the seat before my heart rate slowly returned to normal.
"That's not nice!" I lectured while crossing my arms like a five-year-old child.
"Sure it is," he chuckled as he pulled into the school parking lot.
"Have a nice day at school," Edward called out as I jumped out of the car.
"Yeah, sure, whatever," I could hear my siblings laughing at me as I ran off to go find my friends.
A few minutes later I found them all lounging around just inside the cafeteria.
"Hey!" I called out jogging over to join them.
"What? oh, hey Lizzie!" My friend Jordan smiled and waved at me as I sat down in an unoccupied chair.
"Hi, Jorden!" I replied enthusiastically.
"Hey, Liz did you hear about the new girl Isabella Swan?" My other friend Mike asked as he walked up behind me.
"Oh, you mean the chief's daughter?" I asked turning around to face him.
"Yeah, her."
"I did. Rosie was talking about her last night," I recalled thinking back to our brief conversation last night.
"Oh. apparently she's from Arizona, but she's so pale!" He replied smiling slightly.
"Really? I haven't seen her yet, she's in the grade above mine." I stated as I swallowed the breakfast bar that I had grabbed from my house in two bites. Hey, I was hungry
"Yeah, that's right. Sometimes I forget you're just a little baby." Mike smirked patting me on the head before walking away as the first bell rung.
"Hey, I'm the same age as Jordan!" I called after him angrily.
He waved his hand to dismiss what I had just said.
I angrily blew out a puff of air before scurrying after Jordan who had already left to get to our first class on time
RIIIIIIING
the long, drawn out bell sounded signaling that class was over and it was time to go to lunch.
"And don't forget that your paper on the different phases of mitosis is due tomorrow!" my science teacher called out as kids ran out of the classroom and into the hallway.
As I walked towards lunch after stopping by my locker I felt a pair of eyes on my back. I turned around and saw a girl I didn't recognize staring at me.
"Can I help you?" I asked my voice had a little more edge to it than I meant it to.
"I… Um…. can you tell me how to get to the cafeteria?" she asked stuttering nervously.
Oh, so this must be the infamous Isabella Swan. Mike was right, she is really pale. "You go down that hallway and then out the door and into the brick building across from this one."
"Ok, thanks." she hurried off, presumably to the cafeteria.
I was about to follow her when I heard a voice calling my name.
"Lizzie! Wait!" It was Alice.
"Alice," I smiled at her once she was beside me.
"So how were the classes that you have already taken over and over and should really just help me with my homework in said subjects instead of working in those classes? I'm sure dad would let you skip school if you were helping me." I let out in one breath as I smiled at her overly sweetly looking up at her through my eyelashes.
"Haha, very funny, but no, I'm not doing your project that you haven't started on yet for you." Oh well, I tried.
"No fair," I pouted and at that moment, I probably looked more like a three-year-old than a fifteen-year-old girl.
"It's your project, and you should have started on it sooner if you didn't want to work on it now. You guys have had the assignment since Monday," she lectured softly as we entered the bustling cafeteria.
I continued to pout like a little kid.
Even though she wasn't getting any food, Alice still followed me through the line as I bought a cheese sandwich, an apple, and lemonade.
Once we were sitting at our table I started eating before looking up to see all my siblings watching me silently.
"See, this is why I always sit with my friends instead of you guys," I teased lightly.
"It's not our fault we don't eat," Jasper said distractedly as he looked at a girl with short, sandy hair.
"You could if you wanted to," I replied cheekily not realizing how tense he was.
"Sure, just as soon as you drink blood and eat dirt every day for lunch," he grinned finally relaxing and looking at me.
"Point taken." Beside me, Edward breathed a sigh or relief that I could only imagine was a habit left over from his previous life.
The rest of lunch was fairly uneventful. I didn't even eat the fifty cents apple. The only interesting thing was that Edward never once took his eyes of the new girl, Isabella.
At the end of the school day, we all piled into Edwards Volvo and he drove us home at over one hundred miles and hour. I think the only reason was for his amusement from my terrified thoughts and now extremely pale and sweaty skin.
We made it home in just over ten minutes and I immediately jumped out of the car and ran inside. I ran to the nearest bathroom and threw up before washing out my mouth with water from the sink.
As I came out of the bathroom I could hear Esme -my mom- scolding Edward for driving home so fast while I was in the car. Ha, take that Edward
I smirked cheekily at Edward before running up the stairs to try to complete my seemingly impossible paper.
I got into my room and took a minute to admire the baby blue walls, which had been painted the same color as my eyes upon my arrival. I pulled out everything I needed for the project- colored pens, markers, pencils, and printer paper- and sat down at my desk before staring hopelessly at the blank sheets of paper.
Half an hour later I hadn't moved at all and the papers were still impossibly blank. There was a knock at my door and I sprang up ready for any distraction from the horrible task. When I opened the door Alice was standing there her face neutral.
"If I don't help you then you are going to fail this assignment. So I'll help, but I won't do the assignment for you," she smirked as she walked past me and into my room.
She threw herself down on my bed after grabbing all the supplies off my desk.
"Are you coming or not?" she chuckled patting a spot next to her on the bed.
I quickly strode over to my bed and laid down beside her as she began to explain the different phases. I wrote down key facts as she went and then added color to my very basic drawing as she watched silently.
It was a little after ten when I finished my project and set the three paper booklet down on my nightstand, but made no actual attempt to move off of the bed. I was too tired to put that much effort into doing something so trivial as standing up.
"Okay, you finished now you need to eat and go to bed," Alice said, sounding a lot like my mom.
"Not hungry," I mumbled rolling over so that my face was pushed up against a pillow.
"Well you're still going to eat so you have to get up now," she smirked before I felt a weight lift off the bed
"I don't want to eat," I complained as I followed her lead and sluggishly got up off the bed.
"Please, just humor me," She sighed before grabbing my hand and pulling me down the stairs
"Sit," she commanded pointing to one of the dining room chairs. I obeyed and she smiled, appeased for the moment.
A second later she placed a small salad and a turkey sandwich in front of me before she sat down in the chair across the table. I slowly ate the sandwich and salad before placing the dishes in the sink and climbing back up the stairs and into my room.
I moved through the phases of getting ready for bed in a very zombie-like manner as soon as Alice left the room before laying down in bed and switching off the lamp on my nightstand. I rolled over and faced the window before shutting my eyes and slowly drifting off to sleep.
I thought that when you were tired you were supposed to have a dreamless sleep which is why I hadn't slept for mote than three hours these last two days, but my dreams were still plagued by nightmares. Just like all the other nights for the last seven years.