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Chapter 2

I'm over my head, and I know it, I know it

I'm doing my best not to show it, to show it

Whatever it takes to be what I was meant to be, I'm going to try

Cause I'm living the dream and I know it, I know it

I'm trying my best not to blow it, to blow it

And I know everything will be fine

With me, myself and time.

I go where life takes me, but some days it makes me want to change my direction

Sometimes it gets lonely, but I know that it's only a matter of my perception

I just entered this brand new world

And I'm so openhearted

I know I've got a long way to go but I'm

I'm just getting started

~ Demi Lovato Me, Myself and Time ~

I woke up to the beeping of my alarm at 5:30 the next morning, I begrudgingly got up and stepped into the shower. When I finished my shower I got out and went over to my wardrobe and got dressed, I decided it was safer to wear sandals than heels, the temperature today in Phoenix is 57 degrees so it's definitely hot enough.

I went downstairs and made some porridge for breakfast, it tastes nice and only takes 2 minutes in the microwave. When I finished breakfast I packed up my laptop and my planner and remembered to pick up pack of 4 whiteboard pens.

I picked up my bags and my lunch and opened my door and went outside to put everything in my car. I went back and locked my house up and left for school.

I reached the school at the same time as the silver Volvo I was parked next to yesterday.

I parked my car in the same place and so did the Volvo, I got out and went round to my boot and got my laptop bag out, my trolley with more books in to put on the shelves, my lunch and the rest of my stationary like notepads and pens and whiteboard pens. I pushed my boot back down and noticed the driver of the Volvo walking towards me.

"need any help?" the driver asked, I'd recognised that velvety voice anywhere.

I looked up and saw my favorite emerald green eyes looking back at me.

"that would be great thanks" I said and smiled, he returned my smile and picked up some of my bags.

We chatted as we walked to my room, Luke hadn't replaced the door on the cupboard and Edward had followed my eye sight when we got in, he said he'd get Luke to sort it out today but I reassured him I was fine, I think he saw how uncomfortable I got around him because he said he'd get someone else to do it and I agreed, it would be useful having a door on it.

When he was walking out he turned around and said "hey why don't you join me and my family for lunch, I know Alice would be happy if you came, I think she feels a bit like a fifth wheel with me and my girlfriend and my brother and his girlfriend"

"ummm I'm not sure" I said

"go on we only go to the diner down the road" he said with a pleading look on his face, I knew from that moment I wouldn't be able to decline to anything Edward Cullen asked me to do.

"fine but only if it's OK with everyone else" I said

"I'm sure it will be, see you later Bella" he said whilst walking out.

I placed all my books on the shelf, said hello to Alice across the hall and then walked back into my room just as the warning bell went.

Once everyone had shuffled in and sat down I said "Hi everyone I'm Miss Swan and I am your new English teacher, because I don't know any of your names when you answer something can you tell me your name " I said then continued with "Can someone please hand out the copies of Moon On The Tide and when you get your book please write your name down and turn to the Poem The Manhunt please"

"So who's going to hand the books out?" I asked and a boy sat near the back put his hand up.

"OK what's your name?" I asked whilst he walked forward.

"Jake" he replied.

"OK thank you Jake" I said whilst he gave them all out.

I look down to my notes to see what I had got written down for them to do first when there was a knock at the door. I looked up and saw Edward stood there.

"Come on in" I said and smiled to him.

"Good morning Mr Cullen" I said .

"Good Morning Miss Swan" he replied smiling to me. "I've come to fix your door" he said.

"oh, you don't have to, I never expected you to do it" I said whilst wondering why he wanted to do it instead of get someone like Emmett to do it.

"don't worry about it I wanted to see how you teach and settle in anyway" he said, "Can you just hold the door open for me please?" he asked whilst walking back to the door.

"sure" I said following him and holding the door open whilst he carried the cupboard door in and lifted it above the students whilst they sat there looking very interested in the lesson all of a sudden so that he didn't hit them on the head.

I walked back to the front of the class and said "OK what does the title The Manhunt tell us?"

I got no response what so ever out of any of them.

I threw my copy of the anthology on my desk and said "Right everyone stand up" I stood waiting whilst they did as I said.

"Now laugh, I don't care what about, it can be about my hair, my clothes, my room anything but just laugh" and slowly they all started to do what I said.

After a while I told them all to sit down, they did what I said a lot quicker this time and when I looked back at all their faces I saw a lot more smiles than before. "Now this is what I want to see, all these smiles, If I wanted to teach people with the attitude you all had about 3 minutes ago I would go back home and teach there, now lets try again shall we? what does the title the manhunt tell us ?"

This time lots of hands went up and I chose the person sat in front of Jake.

"I'm Sam and the title tells us that the guy was a hit with the ladies if he was involved in a manhunt with them" Sam said.

"Well did you think about the idea of it not being females chasing him and maybe someone fighting him?" I asked

"I guess that would work as well" Sam said.

"OK I'm going to read the poem out to you and I want you to start thinking about what some things might mean

After the first phase,

after passionate nights and intimate days,

only then would he let me trace

the frozen river which ran through his face,

only then would he let me explore

the blown hinge of his lower jaw,

and handle and hold

the damaged, porcelain collar-bone,

and mind and attend the fractured rudder of shoulder-blade,

and finger and thumb the parachute silk of his punctured lung.

Only then could I bind the struts

and climb the rungs of his broken ribs,

and feel the hurt

of his grazed heart.

Skirting along,

only then could I picture the scan,

the foetus of metal beneath his chest

where the bullet had finally come to rest.

Then I widened the search,

traced the scarring back to its source

to a sweating, unexploded mine

buried deep in his mind,

around which every nerve in his body had tightened and closed.

Then, and only then, did I come close.

Right does anyone know what a stanza is?" I asked as I noticed a girl sat to the right of Jake on her phone, so whilst I was waiting for people to think what a Stanza is I walked down her line and held my hand out for her to give me her phone.

She did but reluctantly, "What's your name?" I asked as I turned away and started to walk back to the front.

"Emily Young" she said and I heard snickers around the room alerting me that it was not her real name.

"I suggest you tell me your real name because if I have to look it up then you will be in a lot more trouble than you are now" I said whilst throwing her phone in the draw of my desk and slamming it shut.

"If my phone is broken I will make you pay for the repairs" she said to me whilst glaring at my desk.

"I think Miss Swan is being quite reasonable Miss Clearwater" Edward said from the back of the room "I suggest you tell her your real name before I do" he continued.

"Leach Clearwater" she said after a slight pause.

"OK so does anyone think they know what a stanza is?" I ask whilst looking out to see if anyone did and scribbling down her name for later.

"Isn't it just a paragraph?" a kid from the back said.

"yes and whats your name?" I asked in return.

"Paul" he said.

"Well Paul is right, it is just the poetic word for paragraph, What do you think about the first stanza?" I continued.

A girl put her hand up at the front and I motioned for her to continue.

"I'm Jessica and I think that the first stanza is meant to be romantic" she said.

"What makes you think this?" I asked trying to encourage her to develop her answer.

"Well it says 'passionate nights and intimate days' so it suggests that it is romantic and that the couple are still in love from the very beginning which in this case is the first stanza" Jessica replied.

"Well done without knowing it you have just PEE'd all over your work" I say whilst watching their faces, it always makes me laugh.

"What?" I hear a few voices say.

I laugh out loud and walk over to the whiteboard writing down whilst saying "P- Point E- Evidence E- Explain, You say what you think, you find something to back you up and you say why it makes you think that" I say whilst I notice people starting to understand. "and thats all you have to do to get your GCSE's, I'll be working with you to make your evaluation paragraphs better and you will have lots of practice at it, believe me by the time you do your GCSE's you will be hating me for making you practice it" I said and smiled at all the faces that were looking back at me.

I continued the rest of the lesson asking them questions and asking for their opinions so they would start to warm up to me.

The bell rang and I said whilst everyone was packing up "OK don't forget to bring your anthology's next lesson and I will see you soon".

As soon as everyone had left the classroom I walked over to my desk to see who my next class are, they are a class of 6th graders, I can see if my get to know you lessons will work out.

"You are great with them" Edward said startling me at the same time, I had completely forgotten he was here. "Sorry If I made you jump" he chuckled.

"Thanks and it's OK, I just forgot you were here, you were so quiet" I said whilst smiling at him.

"I'm all finished back here and who have you got next?" he asked whilst walking towards me with his tools in his hands.

"I have a free next but after I have 6th graders and I'm going to try a get to know you class where they have to write an essay about themselves and present it in front of the class so I get to know them and also so they get one of their speaking and listening assessments over with, sorry I guess you didn't want to know that much" I said whilst looking down towards the floor feeling embarrassed and I can already feel my blush start to come.

"no I always want to know what my teachers are doing and that sounds like a good idea for the speaking and listening assessment" he said smiling at me and lifting his hand up to my face to move it so I looked I'm in the eye. As soon as he touched me there was the current that started to flow through me, it was like nothing I had ever felt before and I think he felt the same thing as we both gasped but as soon as he moved his hand it all stopped.

"there must be something funny in the air" he said looking confused.

"yeah" I absentmindedly responded.

"what are you doing during your free?" he asked.

"um mm just some planning for other lessons really" I replied

"Where are you going to do it?" he asked

"ummm I was thinking I might go and sit outside somewhere and do it as it's nice and sunny" I replied whilst picking up my books and pencil case.

"oh OK, Are you still coming with us for lunch today?" he asked whilst walking out my door and waiting for me to lock it up, once I'd done that we started to walk off again.

"Yeah if it's still OK with all of you?" I said whilst he held the building door open for me.

I walked out and stepped into the sun, closed my eyes and looked up, I'm glad to be home.

"yeah it's fine Alice would love the company and I think my mum and dad might be joining us today" he said and I opened my eyes to find him staring at me.

I started to blush and said "OK, well I'm sure it will be nice to meet them, I think I'm going to go this way and find somewhere to sit" I said whilst pointing towards the field next to the P.E Department.

"OK Emmett's probably down there, so I'm sure he'll come and say hello whilst waiting for everyone to get changed" Edward said whilst waving and walking towards his office.

I continued walking towards the field and sure enough there was Emmett setting out cones for something.

He looked up as if he could sense me watching him and as soon as he spotted me a massive grin took over his face and he waved and started jogging over to me.

"Hey, what is a pretty thing like you doing watching me?" he teased me.

"How can I not?" I responded and he laughed

"Got a free have you?" he asked whilst walking with me.

"Yeah I decided to come on in the sun for it as it's so nice and are you going to lunch today?" I asked him whilst looking for a bench or something and spotting a picnic bench near the cones he had already set out.

"yeah I have a free during lunch so I have the full 50 minutes for lunch, do you have a free and are you coming with us?"

"yeah I seem to have to Free's today and yeah I'm coming to give Alice company as according to Edward she feels like the 5th wheel all on her own and I heard that your mum and dad are coming today" I said and we reached the picnic table where I put my stuff down "do you want a cold drink because I'm going to fetch one?" I continued

"oh I didn't know mum and dad were coming that will be nice and yeah sure thanks I'd love a cold drink" he smiled

"OK can you watch my stuff whilst I'm gone?" I asked whilst putting my sunglasses on.

"sure" he replied and I started to walk off.

As soon as I got into the cafeteria I walked over to where the drinks were in a cooler.

I stood there looking for a few seconds before I realised that the only drink I liked was on the top shelf.

I reached up stretching on my tiptoes wishing I had worn my high heels then maybe I would have been able to reach the bottle of Dr Pepper.

Suddenly I felt someone stand behind me and an arm reach up and get the Dr Pepper bottle, "I'll get that for you shortie" my favourite velvet voice said.

"Hey I'm not that short" I said as I turned to take the bottle of Edward. He just laughed in response. "Do you know what Em would like?" I continued.

"yeah this" he said whilst reaching for a Mountain Dew and handing it to me "here you go shortie"

"laugh it up Cullen, because your paying" I said whilst leaving the cafeteria and making my way back to the field. As I was walking out of the room I could here him chuckling to himself.

I got back to the picnic bench on the field and saw Emmett sat down with my stuff and all his class running around the track.

"this alright for you?" I asked him throwing the mountain dew at him then sitting opposite.

"My favourite, how did you know?" he asked smiling.

"I'm psychic didn't you know?" I laughed.

He laughed and turned to look at his students.

"What year have you got at the moment?" I asked him whilst opening my books and pencil case.

"senior at the moment" He replied.

Masen high is so big that it has the middle school and high school mixed into one.

"bet they are a bunch of fun, I remember when I was a senior and we though we were the best and could get away with everything, my P.E Teacher used to let me sit out because I used to injure people more than actually play the game, I was always in the ER for something and I must admit although it has got better it still hasn't been cured" I laughed remembering some of my P.E lessons.

"Mr Cullen, I've finished what shall I do now?" a boy came over and asked Emmett after about 10 minutes.

They had to run around the track 10 times.

"You can . . . . " I could tell Emmett was stuck for something to do with him so me being me said the first thing that popped into my head and I regretted it before I even finished the sentence, "Why don't you try and teach me how to play football?" (British football, American soccer ball)

Emmettlooked at me as if I was crazy and at this precise moment I have to agree with him.

I had just scored my first goal ever even though the goalie let it in, I know they were letting me win some of my passes and goals but I think its nice they can obviously tell I am rubbish at all sports.

We had just started to play again when I began running but there was a hole in the field in my path which I had not noticed before and I didn't notice it before it was too late.

I held my hands out infront of me to brace my fall but before I could touch the ground I felt arms go around my waist.

I was just about to turn around and thank whoever had caught me whilst telling them they should touch me like that again as I am their teacher when my favorite velvety voice whispered in my ear, "we really need to stop meeting like this Miss Swan" he stood me back up and continued "I must admit you football skills have become better than when you first started playing" he said whilst smirking.

OMG he had been watching the whole time, watching me fall on my ass and ,miss the ball whilst trying to kick it.

"Lets see how advanced your skills have become, I'll play on the team playing against you, see if you can beat me" he said whilst taking his tie off and throwing it at Emmett.

He knows he will beat me, he saw my skills.

20 minutes later and I was walking away from the pitch, I'll probably be covered in bruises tomorrow but I must admit I had fun and my team won although I'm pretty sure it was the work the boys were doing that won the match not mine, the boys were really good at teaching me the football rules and even let me score a goal.

I'll have to tell Emmett to let them coach some time because I think they would be amazing with the younger kids and sometimes children learn better from people like them and other children than from adults.

I got back to the bench just as the bell went, I picked my stuff up and made my way back to my room just in time to let the students in and log into my computer and teach the same lesson I taught at the beginning of the day, even though I don't like repeating myself, it's great to see the kids learn and each different group of children bring something new to the course.

I just set my class off to start writing their 'about me' assignments and I sat at my desk.

l kept looking at the clock ever 30 seconds, I'm so exicted to go the lunch with Edward, but so nervous about meeting the rest of his family and I'm absolutely dreading meeting whoever this Tanya Danali, I hope she cant tell that I like Edward.

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Kay x