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Sorry About The End Of The Last Chapter. I Know It Was Pretty Embarrassing. But I Refused To Go Into Detail Or Explain What Happened. It's Obvious. I Won't Go Into Detail (Ew.) Or Explain, It's Unecessary. Sorry. The End Of That Chapter Was Probably Some Of My Worst Writing. And I Know That. I'm Sorry!
A New Beginning
Chapter Twenty-Seven:
BPOV:
I hadn't been home all weekend. Not that I was complaining. Well, the only down-side was that I hadn't seen Leo all weekend. I missed him like crazy.
I don't think we had ever been apart for this long. It wasn't that I didn't trust Charlie to look after him, because I did. I just hated being away from him.
We had just arrived at school, I didn't really mind school. I was doing this so I actually managed to graduate high school. Looking at it in perspective there wasn't really that long left. Actually what was the date? I really needed to be a better time-keeper, or at least keep tabs on what the date and the day was.
I was still in Edward's car, when he opened the door for me.
"Bella?" I looked at him. "Are you okay?" I swear, if somebody asked me that one more. Just because I had been down last week didn't mean I still was! Ugh!
"I'm fine. I just can't be bothered with school today." I sighed. Edward laughed.
"It's not that bad."
"Says you." I smiled. I got out of the car then; Edward grabbed my hand and laced his fingers through mine.
"I'll see you later." We stopped walking and Edward let go of my hand.
"O-Kay…" He kissed the top of my head. But then I saw Jess and Angela and realised that's why he was going already. I was about to say 'Bye' when he had already gone.
"Nice."
"Hey Bella!" Jess walked up to me and hugged me.
"Ow, Jess. Squishing me." I almost choked.
"Oh, Sorry!" She let go of me then.
"Hey Bella." Angela smiled at me. I like that about Angela she didn't feel the need to nearly break my ribs every time she saw me.
"Hiya." I smiled at her.
"What are you so happy about?" Jess asked me. Was I smiling that much?
"Nothing…Why?" I tried to downplay it, but Jess being Jess knew better.
"Spill!" She grinned at me.
"No! It's none of you're business." I folded my arms.
"Please? Come on Be-" The bell rang then so Jess had to stop talking. For now anyway. We walked towards English and said Bye to Angela on the way.
"Please Bella?" How long had she been sitting on that sentence?
"Please what Jess?" I walked into English and sat down at our desk.
"Tell me what you're so happy about." She gave me the puppy-dog look. Not as well as Alice did it, but it was still pretty good.
"Aw, Come on Jess! Don't give me that look!" I groaned and put my head on the table. I heard the teacher walk in just then and so had to sit up again. I looked at Jess and she was still pouting at me.
"Bella?" She even did the voice. You know that you-know-you-want-to voice.
"Why are you so interested anyway?" I narrowed my eyes at her. "Like I said. None of your business."
"I'm like your best friend Bella! I have a right to know!" She smiled at me.
"One of my best friends. But that still doesn't give you a right to go nosing into my business really does it?"
"It so does! And thank you!" She threw her arms around me. It didn't really matter; it wasn't like we weren't the only ones not paying attention in the class.
"For…?" I was confused now. Jess let go and smiled at me again.
"For seeing me like a best friend."
"Oh that! Your welcome." I smiled at her.
"Please?" She smiled at me. "Please Bella?"
"Ugh. You aren't going to let it go are you?" Jess shook her head at me. "If you must know, I'm just happy because I had the most amazing weekend." I smiled at her, well it was probably more a grin.
Jess nodded at me and then sat there for about 5 minutes doing what seemed like thinking. Jess was a lot like Alice a lot of the time. It was unusual for either of them to be quiet for long periods of time, and I was slightly worried when she didn't say anything. I just actually paid attention in class for a little while.
"Oh!" Jess hadn't spoken for a while so she made me jump when she finally spoke again. "Aww Bella!" I blushed.
"Shut up." I blushed again, but smiled at her.
"What?" She looked confused at me. "Wasn't it what you wanted? I thought you were happy about it?"
"I am. Just don't tell other people. I don't need to be called a whore again really." I winced.
"Aww Bella!" Jess threw her arms around me again. "Don't worry about other people." She took her arms away and looked at me. "You are worried aren't you?" I nodded. "It's not the same thing! Plus, I won't tell anybody." She held her little finger out.
"What are you doing?"
"Pinky Swear"
"Pinky Swear?" I hadn't done a pinky swear in years! I locked my 'pinky' with hers.
"There." She smiled at me. I laughed. The bell rang then so we stood up and walked to Spanish.
We got into Spanish and sat down.
"Jess?"
"Yeah Bella?"
"Are you okay?" I realised that Jess was always worried about me and I never really noticed a lot of things. She definitely hadn't been herself this morning. Well not really.
"Not really." She sighed.
"What's wrong?" I smiled at her.
"Mike broke up with me yesterday." I wasn't expecting that.
"Oh."
"Hmm."
"Sorry." I hugged her slightly. I wasn't normally the type to hug my friends but she needed it. Jess hugged me back.
"Thanks."
"I'm here if you wanna talk about it. Okay?" She nodded at me.
Spanish was slow after that; I guess Jess was just really sad about things. She didn't say anything else for the rest of the lesson. That just made me really worried about her.
The bell rang for lunch after what seemed like a lifetime. I hadn't Spanish, it was even worse when it was quiet. We were walking to the cafeteria when I had finally had enough.
"Please don't be so quiet Jess!" She stopped walking and looked at me.
"Why? Nothing's right anymore is it?"
"Did he say why he broke up with you?" I put my arm through hers and started walking again.
"He just said that he wasn't ready for a 'relationship'" She sighed.
"Well he's stupid then isn't he?" Jess laughed.
"I guess so."
We walked into the cafeteria, still with our arms linked. I used to do this all the time with my other friends in Phoenix. Jess didn't 'un-link' our arms, so I guess she didn't mind. We got to the table and Jess whispered to me:
"Please don't say anything…" She looked really sad. I just shook my head at her and sat down.
After I had been sat down about 5 minutes, I looked at Jess again and she looked like she was going to burst into tears. I hate tears, I actually cannot handle them. They just make me cry as well.
"What's wrong with her?" Angela mouthed at me.
"She didn't tell you?" I mouthed back. Angela shook her head.
"Mike broke up with her." I mouthed back. Angela gasped.
"Really?" It was a good thing I could lip-read. I nodded.
At that moment Jess stood up and strode out of the cafeteria.
"What's wrong with Jess?" Alice asked.
"Umm. Don't worry about it. I'm going to go see if she's okay." I stood up.
"Are you okay?" Edward whispered whilst putting quite a lot of emphasis on the 'you' part.
"I'm fine. I'll see you in Biology." I walked past Angela and grabbed her arm on the way past.
"Is she okay?" Angela asked me, she sounded really worried though.
"I have no idea." We walked out of the cafeteria and walked into the girl's toilets. We could hear Jess crying in one of the cubicles.
"Jess?"
"Go away." She whispered.
"Come on. Don't be like that. We only wanna help you." She came out then, and she looked awful. She had been crying a lot more than I had thought in the first place. You know when you cry so hard you can't breathe? She looked like she had been crying like that. She walked out and almost collapsed in both mine and Angela's arms.
We must have stood there for the rest of lunch just hugging each other, although it was mainly Jess. The bell rang and Jess still hadn't stopped crying.
"We have to go to class now…" Angela whispered.
"I know." I pushed Jess up. "Jess?" She looked at me. "We have class now."
"'Kay. Let's go."
"Are you sure?" I looked at her. "You can just go home."
"I might do that. Thanks you two. I don't know what I'd do without you." She hugged us before walking away.
"I hope she's okay." Angela said.
"Me too." I smiled at her. "Let's go to Biology." I tried to sound excited but it sounded more sarcastic.
We got to Biology just before the teacher. We walked into the classroom and Angela went to her own desk. Edward was watching me the entire time, he looked really worried.
"What?" I asked as I sat down.
"What happened?" He sounded worried as well.
"I'm fine. It's Jess. She's um- having a rough time at the moment." I wasn't about to try and explain it to him. That would just be unnecessary.
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The school day or the rest of the school day anyway, was slow and even more boring than I expected it to be.
Math was probably the slowest. I know the lessons are only an hour long, but math seemed to last about 10 hours! It just goes on and on. Math is something I am never going to miss. Ever.
Edward met me after Math today. He hadn't done that in a while, so I guessed he was worried about me again.
"Hey." What kind of a greeting was that? What was I on? Today had been a slow day. "What's wrong?"
"Me? Nothing." He smiled at me. I practically melted inside. God knows how he still managed to do that to me! I grabbed his hand and laced my fingers through his.
"Sure." I laughed. "I can't wait to get home." I smiled.
"Why?" Edward squeezed my hand.
"I haven't seen Leo since Friday morning! That's why." Edward laughed. "Can we go via the Station? I wanna pick him up."
We were at Edward's car now. I got in and sighed when I sat down.
"Something's wrong." He sounded worried, again.
"You worry too much!" I smiled.
"You told me the other day it was my job to worry!" He started the car up and drove out of the school.
"I know. But you worry too much. There's a limit of how much you should worry. Plus, there's nothing wrong with me. I'm just worried about Jess." I sighed again.
"She'll be okay." He sounded better now that it wasn't me who had something wrong with them, again.
"Maybe." I smiled.
After about another 20 minute or so drive we arrived at the Station, where Leo still went to work with Charlie everyday. I wouldn't normally come and get him from him but I had missed him so much.
I got out of the car and Edward followed me. Aww, that was too cute! I walked into the Station but there wasn't anybody around.
"No crime to fight or something?" I giggled.
Deputy Mark came out from around the back just then. "Oh hey Bella! It's good too see you again." He smiled at me.
"Hiya." I smiled back.
"Are you here to pick up Leo?" I nodded. "He's out back somewhere." He didn't have to go out 'the back' because Leo came running out just then and launched himself into my arms.
"Momma!" He put his arms around my neck and hugged me tightly. "I missed you Momma."
"Hey Leo. I missed you too baby." I hugged him and kissed the top of his head. "Just tell Charlie we went home?" I looked at Deputy Mark.
"Sure." He smiled at me. "See you tomorrow Leo."
"Bye." Leo said.
We walked outside and it wasn't until we were outside that Leo spotted that Edward was with us. Leo looked up at him.
"Hey Leo." Edward smiled at him. Leo just waved.
"Are you tired, Leo?" I asked him. He nodded at me. "We're going home now anyway." I climbed into the car and sat Leo on my lap. I wouldn't normally do that either but I had no car seat in Edward's car. That was just slightly weird at the moment. I didn't want to push it too far.
The ride home was unusually quiet. I didn't like it. Had I done something wrong? We got back to my house and I let Leo go up the front door and wait for me there.
"Do you want me to come inside?" Edward asked me.
"If you want too." I smiled at him. He climbed out of the car then, which obviously meant he was coming inside. I got out as well and walked over to the front door and let Leo inside. He ran inside and straight into the living room. It was raining outside at the moment; otherwise he would have been outside. I suppose that was another downside of Forks. It was never sunnier enough for Leo to play in the bark yard all the time.
I walked over to the phone and saw there was a message. I clicked the play button and automatically recognised the voice.
"Bella? Are you there? Well you're not otherwise I wouldn't be leaving a message. Sorry that I have called in the past week. I have been busy with college. I'll call soon okay? Sorry again. Call me, maybe?" It was Danny. I pressed the stop button and deleted the message.
"Ugh!" I went to walk into the living room but Edward's arm caught my waist. "Why does this keep happening?" He spun me round and hugged me. "He's such an ass!" Edward laughed.
"You're so cute when you're angry." He stroked my hair. "Don't worry about it."
"But I am worrying! He won't call. There's no point in worrying about it I suppose." Edward hugged me tighter; he kissed the top of my head.
"Exactly." He hugged me again before letting go. "I'm going to go home. Is that okay?" He looked at me.
"You just go here. But okay…" I pouted.
"You haven't seen Leo in almost four days. I'll let you spend some time with him." He smiled at me.
"O-Kay… I'll see you tomorrow then." He walked over to the front door and I followed.
"I'll pick you up again." He kissed me lightly before opening the door. I just nodded. How did he do that, still?! I was going to say 'Bye' but he had gone.
I was just walking away from the front door when Charlie walked in.
"Hey Bells!" I spun round almost falling over in the process.
"Hey Dad." I smiled at him.
"Good weekend?"
"Umm, Yeah. I missed Leo so much though."
"Good." I walked into the living room then and saw Leo watching the TV.
"Momma!" He patted the seat next to him. I laughed and sat down. Leo jumped into my lap and grabbed my hand.
"I missed you at the weekend Momma."
"I missed you too, baby." Leo yawned then.
"Are you still tired?" He nodded at me and then leaned back against my chest and watched the TV.
I fed Leo about half an hour later and then did my homework whilst watching the TV with Leo. At about 7pm I noticed that Leo was actually sound asleep.
"I'm taking him upstairs now." Charlie was too busy watching the TV to really pay any attention.
I took Leo upstairs and put him straight into his bed as he was already asleep.
I went and sat on my bed and got my laptop out and checked my email. There was one from my Mom.
Bella. Are you okay now? You were really worried last week; I hope you have cheered up. I'm sorry for mainly starting all of that with Danny; I didn't know any of that would happen. I'm sorry. Write me back. I want to know you're okay. I love you. Mom.
I didn't have the energy to reply. I would call her tomorrow. Maybe. Sure, I wasn't that mad at my Mom but if she hadn't told Danny where we were then none of that would have ever happened. I was still trying to not be mad at her; I figured that if I emailed her I would just vent it all out.
After about half an hour I just decided to go to sleep. I couldn't help but worry about everything again though.
I really couldn't deal with any more bad stuff happening.
A/N: Another Long Chapter. Please Make Sure You Read The Top Bit. It Was Just A Note About Last Chapter.
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