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A New Beginning

Chapter Six: Getting to know you. A little bit more.

I climbed into bed and put my laptop on my lap and turned it on. I checked my email and went on Facebook for about half an hour before turning it off and snuggling down into the covers.

Tomorrow couldn't come soon enough.

What time is it? I quickly sat up in my bed, not before giving myself head rush of course.

"Whoa" And then I fell back against the pillows. I looked over towards Leo's crib and saw that he wasn't in there. That woke me up.

I jumped out of my bed and ran down the stairs, but of course being Bella I slipped and landed on my bum at the bottom.

"Ouch. Crap that hurt" I stood up and ran into the kitchen, but saw that Charlie wasn't here either; instead there was a note on the kitchen countertop.

You weren't awake, I figured you could use a little bit more sleep. Don't worry Leo is with me, I gave him breakfast and stuff.

I hope you wake up in time for school. We will see you when we get home.

Love, Leo & Charlie.

I took this opportunity to look at the time. 8am?! Since when did I sleep in until 8am?! I didn't have time to think about whether Leo would be okay; I just hoped Charlie could handle it. I ran back upstairs and threw on some jeans and a blue long – sleeved t – shirt and my converse. If I didn't hurry I would be late to school.

I ran back downstairs and grabbed a cereal bar from the kitchen before grabbing my school stuff and my car keys and flying to my car. I slipped again just before I got to my car.

"Ouch." If I wasn't careful I was going to seriously hurt myself this morning.

I climbed into my car and started the engine; it was freezing in my car. I really should get that heater looked at.

I arrived at school at about 8.20am. I still had 10 minutes. I was just lucky I hadn't run into anybody on the way here. As I parked my car I could see Jess and Angela looking for me. Bless them. This made me smile, although they looked kinda worried.

I climbed out and waved at them. Jess saw and came over to me.

"Hi Bella! We were wondering what had happened to you!" Jess told me in a rushed tone.

"I just woke up late; I had to hurry this morning." I was exhausted. Maybe I shouldn't have moved so fast this morning.

"Yeah. You didn't brush your hair." Jess told me. I didn't? "Here." She handed me a hairbrush which I quickly pulled through it.

"Thanks." I smiled at her. "Hey Ange." I noticed she hadn't said anything, so I was just being friendly.

"Hey Bella." She smiled at me. So I smiled back. I had been doing a lot of smiling recently.

"Come on Bella, let's go to English." We said bye to Angela and told her we would see her at Lunch and walked off to English. I yawned a few times on the way. I must have been really tired.

We walked into English just as the bell went and sat down. I looked at our desk and saw it looked rather comfy, I could probably sleep there. No Bella! You mustn't sleep in school.

"Everything okay Bella? You seem distracted this morning…" Jess looked at me worriedly. What did I do to deserve such good friends already? I hoped it wasn't because they felt sorry for me. I quickly got rid of that negative thought and answered Jess.

"I'm just mega tired and I didn't get too see Leo this morning because my Dad had already gone with him when I woke up. It's made me anxious I guess." It had. I was worried, although I probably didn't need to be.

"Oh. You'll see him later." Jess said. She was right, I just had to try and concentrate on school for now.

English and Spanish both flew by. I had a feeling I fell asleep in Spanish briefly though. I couldn't remember. We were at lunch before I felt finally awake. I gave myself a mental note to start drinking more caffeine in the mornings.

Me and Jess arrived at our table in the cafeteria. I liked calling it 'our' table; it made my new friends seem more real. I laughed quietly at that thought, it sounded like I was calling them imaginary.

Everyone said a quick "Hi" before they started their own conversations. I yawned again because Mike turned round and said:

"Keeping you up Bells?" Bells? Since when did he call me Bells? I would have to watch him.

"Just a smidge. I really need to start drinking coffee in the mornings to wake me up I guess." I smiled at Mike, and heard a few people saw "Ew" obviously at the thought of coffee. Jess was included in that.

"Don't you guys like coffee or something?" This confused, nearly all of my friends in Phoneix drank coffee.

"No. Not really, it's just so icky. And it's too much of a 'grown – up' drink." Jess laughed at the end of that. I giggled slightly as well.

"Am I the only one that likes it then?" Everybody nodded. Huh. That was weird. That made me giggle again.

I started a conversation with Jess about something to do with Phoneix when she suddenly asked me a bit more about my past. This then made everybody else on the table turn around to see what I was going to say. Uh Oh.

"What did you want to know?" I asked Jess. I wasn't talking to the rest of the table, they could just eavesdrop.

"Was it hard?" I knew what she was referring too; I didn't need to be rocket scientist to figure it out really. I didn't feel like being sarcastic so I just answered honestly.

"Pretty hard. It's not something you exactly want to hear when you're a 14 year old really." Jess and Angela both gasped and I heard Lauren cough slightly.

"You were only 14?" Uh Oh. This was Angela that asked that.

"Yeah. I turned 15 before I had Leo though. And then he was born in December. He was supposed to be born in February but he was premature. He was in hospital for about 1 month and a half."

"Awww. Was he sick?" That was Jess again.

"Not really. They just had to keep an eye on him and he had to get to a certain weight before they would let him out." It felt good for my new friends to be able to know a little bit more about Leo and I. I was just waiting for questions about Danny now.

"What about Leo's Dad?" There we go. That was Angela. Bless her, she seemed embarrassed about asking. It wasn't a touchy subject any more. I smiled at her before answering.

"He wasn't interested. He came and saw Leo a few times in the hospital but then he stopped coming. We had already spilt up when I was about 6 months along so I was expecting it really. He still talks to me but not as often as he used too. And he hasn't been to see Leo since his first birthday. All we ever get is the occasional email and if Leo is lucky a birthday card." I sniffed at the end and everybody must have thought I was going to cry because Jess and Angela both came and hugged me.

"I'm fine don't worry about it." That's when I looked over to the Cullen's lunch – table and saw them looking at us. Had they heard everything? Edward looked kinda shocked. Didn't he already know?

"Hey Jess?" I was curious now.

"Yeah Bella?" She was curious as well.

"Does everybody know about me already? You know…" I didn't wanna say it out loud.

"I think so. People have been gossiping a little bit but not loads, so I guess to everyone knows." Huh, really?

"News doesn't travel fast in this place then." It was kinda nice to know that not everybody knew, but harder because then I would have to explain. "Thanks for listening by the way; it was good to kinda talk to you about it." I smiled at Jess and Angela. I then smiled at Mike as well, who then winked at me. I was definitely keeping an eye on him.

"You're Welcome Bella." Jess and Angela both said at the same time which made them both giggle loads.

The bell rang then. Was lunch over already? Wow.

Me and Angela walked to Biology before saying bye to Jess and telling her we would see her in Gym. We walked into Biology and I quickly hugged Angela before walking to my desk. Edward was looking at me the whole time, making me feel just a tiny bit self – conscious. He looked slightly confused.

"Something bothering you?" I asked him.

"Not really, why do you ask?"

"You look confused." I smiled at me and in return I got a dazzling smile back, which made me lose my concentration slightly.

"I am." He didn't look confused anymore, instead he looked, awed. Like he was pleased about something. "Confused about you…" Edward continued. Me? What had I done?

"Me?" I squeaked. I was slightly worried now.

"Not really confused, more admired." Admired? He admired me? This made me blush.

"Admired?" I squeaked again. Dang! I was going to have to sort that out.

"I didn't know about your 'situation'" He put the little air quotes around the word. "Until I heard you talking about it at lunch" I was about to interrupt when he carried on talking. "I just think it's amazing what you have done."

"What? Do you think I won a prize?" I was slightly miffed now. He had used the one word I hated being used.

"No. Of course not!" He was embarrassed now. "I didn't mean to offend you, I was just saying that I think it's amazing you manage to look after a child and still come to school." Awwwwww. Really? That was kinda sweet. I blushed and smiled at him.

"Thank You Edward. That means a lot to me. You can ask me questions some other time." He looked confused again now?

"Questions? I don't have any questions." He smiled at me again, making me lose my concentration again. How did he do that?!

"You will." I winked at him.

The rest of the day went even faster, I was still trying to get over the fact that Edward Cullen admired me. Amazing. I was falling for this guy, falling for him bad.

I said Bye to Jess and Angela before driving home. Just as I pulled into the driveway I saw the cruiser already there. I smiled; I had missed Leo too much.

I walked into the house but before I had even shut the door I had Leo in my arms.

"Momma! You're home! I missed you!" I hugged him tightly.

"I missed you too baby! Did you have a good day?"

"I did thank you. How was your day?" Awww. How cute was that?

"Good thank you." I kissed Leo on the forehead before setting him down.

I was starting to really like Forks. I wonder why…

A/N: Another Big Chapter! I hope this isn't seen as a cliffie? Maybe? I'm about to get writer's block! If anybody has any good ideas for what can happen please tell me! It will be good to get somebody helping me! Im struggling!

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