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A New Beginning

Chapter Eleven:

I smiled to myself, maybe things were about to get even better.

The drive home was intensely boring. I really needed to buy some CD's to listen to in my car.

I pulled into the driveway to find the cruiser already there. Huh, that's weird. Charlie isn't normally home this early.

I climbed out of my car and walked into the house, but before I was even in the door; Leo was running at me and jumped into my arms.

"Happy Birthday Momma!" Leo yelled before hugging my neck. I still didn't think he understood the whole meaning of birthdays yet.

"Thank you baby." I hugged him back. Then Leo noticed the bag I was carrying.

"What's that Momma?" Leo asked trying to peer inside the bag.

"A present from Jessica & Angela."

"What is it?" I put Leo on the floor and let him look inside. "Shoes." I Laughed.

"Well, Leo. I think they are pretty." He giggled.

I walked into the living room and sat on the couch.

"Hey Dad."

"Oh. Hey Bells. How was school?"

"Good. It was better than I thought it would be today." I laughed.

"Good." I wasn't going to try and make conversation with Charlie he was already to absorbed in whatever he was watching.

Until it got dark me and Leo played in the garden, it had been sunny all day today. We ate pizza, again. Charlie said I should have a break from cooking as it was my birthday.

Until it was time for Leo to go to bed we just sat and watched TV. I wasn't exactly sure what we were watching but it was fun just the same.

I took Leo to bed and then curled up in my own bed and checked my email. There was another one from my Mom and one from Danny, again.

The one from my Mom said:

Happy 18th Birthday Baby! I hope you had a great day!

Love Mom.

I replied with:

Thanks Mom. It was good thank you, a better day than I had expected. Thank you for the present as well.

Love Bella.

I then looked at the one from Danny.

Happy Birthday Bell! I hope everything is still good since the last time we spoke. Speak to you soon.

Love Danny.

Whoa. Did he just write 'Love Danny'? Uh Oh. I was going to have watch that. I just replied with:

Thanks Danny. Yeah, everything is still good. Speak to you soon. Love Bell.

Danny was the only person that called me Bell, I don't know why; I think it was just a nickname that hadn't caught on.

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I woke up early again on Thursday morning. At least I think it was early, I checked my alarm clock and it actually read 7.30. Early-ish.

I sat up in my bed and found Leo was in his crib, again. I ran downstairs to find him and Charlie in the kitchen.

Leo giggled at me. "Momma, you're hair looks funny."

"I thought you had already gone."

"We're just about too, Bells."

"See you later Momma." Leo jumped into my arms and hugged me before jumping down again and going with Charlie.

"Bye!"

I ran up the stairs and had a quick shower before getting dressed into some jeans and my favourite blue and white striped shirt; I put my new shoes on as well.

I went back downstairs and grabbed my stuff before grabbing a cereal bar from the cupboard. I was outside before I noticed it was raining, again. Was it impossible for Forks to have more than one sunny day? It wasn't raining hard but I still got wet.

Despite getting up kinda late again I got to school in time. I pulled up next to Jessica's car and climbed out before walking round to her car. She and Angela were stood at the back huddled under an umbrella.

"Afraid of getting wet again Jess?" I giggled.

"Shut Up Bella. Oh! You're wearing your birthday present!" Jess was happy again now.

"Yeah, I thought they looked nice with what I had on today." I smiled.

"It does. You're getting better at co-ordinating your clothes, Bella." Huh? Was that saying I wasn't good at it in the first place? I just laughed.

"Let's go to class."

We said Bye to Angela and headed off to English. We didn't say much all lesson and were on our way to Spanish when Jess asked me when Leo's birthday was.

"Oh. Umm. December 15th."

"Aw, that's sweet having it so close to Christmas."

"Yeah. Leo still doesn't really understand birthday's yet though."

We walked into Spanish, and sat down but after 20 minutes of the lesson our teacher hadn't turned up. Loads of people hadn't started leaving the classroom. Were they supposed to do that? I wasn't sure what we were supposed to do. Jess stood up, so I followed her. I wasn't about to sit in the classroom on my own.

"Jess?"

"Yeah Bella?"

"Were we supposed to leave class like that?" I didn't want to get in trouble.

"It's what we get told to do if the teacher doesn't come, and then we are supposed to go to the library and study." Jess laughed. I didn't think we were about to go and study.

"Oh. Okay then"

The rest of that 'lesson' went faster than I expected we just hung out in the library and talked and stuff. It was quite fun actually.

Jess and I were sat in the cafeteria when Mike asked us why we weren't in Spanish.

"How did you know that?" Jess asked.

"I saw you two in the library." Mike winked at Jess.

"Did you ditch class again Mike?" I teased.

"Me? Of course not!" He laughed.

"That's what I thought. We weren't in Spanish because the teacher never turned up." I told him.

"You know Mike you really shouldn't ditch class all the time, I'm surprised you don't get caught." Jess told him.

"You could always ditch with me…" Jess blushed. That conversation didn't go any further.

Lunch was over sooner than expected, I hated that. But then I remembered that I had Biology next and my mood perked up again.

Me and Angela walked to Biology and said Bye to Jess. I was about to sit at my desk when Angela giggled at me.

"Have fun, Bella."

"Haha Ange. Shut Up!" She just giggled even more as she sat down at her own desk.

Edward was late to class but luckily the teacher didn't seem to care that much. I just laughed quietly. Edward must have heard this,

"What?" He asked me.

"You just don't seem like the type of person that's late to class. That's all."

"Oh." He seemed to be a in a bad mood. What had I said?

"What's wrong? Did I say something, 'cos I didn't mean too…"

"Nothing's wrong. You didn't do anything wrong Bella. Stop worrying." I blushed, which made Edward chuckle. "You're so predictable." He chucked again. What was that supposed to mean? People had been saying a lot to me recently.

The lesson went slowly. At the end of the hour, Edward reminded me about Saturday.

"Remember what I said Bella." He smiled at me, making me forget everything I had just learnt in that lesson.

"W-What was that again?" I stuttered. Way to go Bella!

"Don't make plans for Saturday." He winked at me. "I'll see you tomorrow."

"Okay. Bye…" But he had already walked away.

"What was that about?" Angela was standing by my side.

"He was reminding me not to make plans for Saturday." I blushed.

"Awww." Angela smiled at me.

We met Jess in gym and Angela told her about the end of Biology.

"Is that all he said?" Jess was shocked.

"Yeah. I'm confused as well."

"Does this mean I can ask Mike out yet?" Jess got excited.

"No!" Me and Angela both said at the same time. This made us giggle.

Gym was slow, Math was even slower. I had the worst lessons at the end of the day.

We were doing Algebra still in Math. I just switched off, it's not like the teacher ever called on me anyway.

Jess kept whining about how she still wasn't allowed to ask Mike out yet, on the way to our cars.

"That was the deal Jess. You won't have to wait much longer." Angela comforted her. "Edward will ask Bella out, you know it." Angela whispered that time.

"I know." Jess squealed at the end. "We could totally double-date." Woah, there!

"Let's not get to far ahead Jess! Nothing had even happened yet!" I put my hands up as if to stop her.

"I know. But it will, trust me." She squealed again. Ugh, she was going to have to stop making that noise! I laughed.

"I'll see you two tomorrow." I hugged them both for climbing into my car; it was going to be a long evening.

A/N: It's late up today, Sorry! I hope you like this Chapter. Is that a cliffy at the end? Sorry for that if you see it as one! Haha.

For the bit where Bella and Jess leave Spanish. I'm in Sixth Form in England and that's what we have to do if the Teacher doesn't turn up, sorry if it's not what happens in America!

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