Chapter 2
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It's Friday night and I start at my exciting school on Monday, meanwhile I've got to find something to do until then since TV was only fun for so long. I need to replace my two babies I had to part from but the shops are closed now, I can do that tomorrow I guess.
Pacing in my living room my mind started to wonder in directions I didn't want to go, memories I just wanted to forget slowly plagued my brain, I fisted my hair and pulled slightly hoping the thoughts would just tumble out and leave me alone. Fed up with my constant pacing and needing fresh air I stormed out the back door towards the forest, after removing my clothes and placing them on a stump I shifted, bones altering with a slight snapping noise, muscles thickening and ligaments lengthening as my body changed shape, it is a very painful process but I've learnt to ignore the pain after so many years and it is only a slight discomfort to me now.
Form fully altered I dug my claws into the ground and raced further in trying to find a beautiful spot to simply sit down and clear my mind, I desperately needed it and it's not possible to do whilst cooped up in a house. I was careful to avoid the dogs' land and after a few minutes I came upon a cliff edge overlooking the sea, and it was one of the most amazing sights I'd set my eyes on.
It was a cloudless night, surprising for Forks I know, and being this far from the lights in town the stars were sparkling brightly which was reflected from the calm ocean, I turned my head to the almost full moon closing my eyes and basking in the power it presented on a silver platter. Listening to the crickets chirping and the slight whoosh of the sea as it hugged the sand I breathed in deeply inhaling the salty air mixed with the scents of the woods behind me and sighed out in contentment, this is where I was happiest, even being the party animal I am the peacefulness of nature was always so alluring to me. I stayed in that position for a few hours relishing the blankness on my mind before deciding I was calm enough to sleep and made my way back.
"WOOHOOOO!" I shouted as I raced down the road in my new bright green Kawasaki ZX636, a replica of my poor girl I left behind. As much as I love running through the forest something about driving on an awesome bike in human form is exhilarating.
My other baby, a beautiful black guitar, was strapped to my back tucked into its cover, almost four days without playing is making my fingers itch. I could see the townsfolk who were walking around whip their heads around as I sped past with their mouths open and eyes wide, guess they don't see too many new vehicles, all I've seen since I've been here are rusting cars, trucks and vans. I drove the bike into my garage and kicked the stand out admiring her for a few seconds before deciding to name her Abigail, all bikes have character and I feel they deserve a name, 'I'm going to straddle Abigail and ride her home' I imagined myself saying.
With a slight giggle at this thought I walked into the house securing the garage behind me for some much needed me and guitar time. I sat down on the sofa and took the beauty out of the case like it was made from glass, my hands seemed to warm a little with the contact to this amazing instrument that they've missed so dearly, I held it to me and strummed a chord smiling and sending a shiver down me, it may have seemed like a stupid reaction but after playing for so many years a guitar felt like another limb to me, and four days without it? Nuh-uh, never again. I started playing, improvising a composition and feeling myself relax as I closed my eyes and let the melody rush through me feeling like I was settling in to this cosy little house, my new home.
As I drove towards Forks High I mentally prepared myself from the impending hell that was surely to come, teenage gossiping, hormonal boys and awful lunch food? Kill me now. I saw every student body in the car park turn to face me as Abigail roared into the parking space, when I turned the engine off I already heard everyone whispering.
'Holy crap look at that bike!' 'Is that the new kid? He must be rich' 'I can't see anything with that helmet on, I bet he looks hot!' Wait, wait, wait hold on a second I thought as I looked down at myself, he? I don't by any means have a masculine body except from my muscle definition, I have breasts for fuck sake which were clearly visible with the tight leather jacket I was wearing; did they think only men could drive fast motorbikes?
I smirked to myself as I removed my black helmet hearing the gasps of surprise and everyone suddenly quiet down as I swung my hair into place, I ignored them and swung my giraffe legs off the bike and placed a wheel lock on, yes I have security issues but I don't trust a single student here to not try and test their luck. I turned my head slightly when I heard footsteps approach me to see a boy with blonde hair and obvious lust covered blue eyes looking at me with a smirk on his face, that's so not sexy, please stop right now.
"Hey there I'm Mike Newton welcome to Forks High, and what might your name be?"
Deciding to be nice and not act like a total asshole on my first day I forced a smile.
"I'm Bella Swan."
"Nice to meet you, this is a sweet ride you have here Bella how did you afford it?" He reached forward and stroked the back, ermm don't touch my babe with your dirty fingers dude.
"Thanks, I saved up from the odd jobs I did for this." I clipped out glaring at the spot he stroked for a second before gathering my bag and making my quick escape. "Anyways I've gotta go get my schedule, see ya."
"I'll walk you there." Ughh so much for that, I didn't reply and simply walked forward making him catch up and walk slightly ahead of me to show me where to go even though there was a bloody huge sign saying 'Reception' right in front of me. I entered the hot stuffy office and spoke to a woman called 'Mrs Cope'
"Hi, I've just started today and came to get my schedule and books." She looked up and stared for a few seconds before coughing and blushing slightly at her behaviour, something about what I was caused humans to go all googly-eyed, even middle aged women it seemed.
"Of course dear, I'll be one second."
During this time Mike blabbed my ear off about some topic or another I've already forgotten about and I simply grunted when he took a short breath to convince him I was listening which he seemed to buy, were people really that blind? It was extremely obvious I wasn't interested in the slightest in what he was saying.
This went on even after I got my lessons seeing as I was with him for my first lesson and the seat next to him was the only available seat, and then he introduced me to Jessica, who was exactly the same as him but in female form, do teenagers usually talk this much? I also found out she is one of the ones that says 'like' and 'totally' in every other sentence.
At least I met a nice girl called Angela during my third lesson, and the best part? She was shy and quiet. Thank you Angela! My ears were buzzing and I loved the peace, when lunch rolled around she invited me to sit at her table and I accepted gladly, which I instantly regretted after seeing Mike and Jessica sitting at the table we were heading for, I take back that thank you Angela. I got in the queue and piled the most likely disgusting food onto my tray before sitting down at the table to be met with some surprised gazes.
"Wow Bella, that's a lot of food." Jessica stated. Well sorry I don't want to only munch on some leafy crap like you're doing.
I shrugged and simply said "I like food." Whilst shovelling some pasta into my mouth, hey it's actually good! Jessica looked a bit disgusted at my 'un-ladylike behaviour.' This earned some sniggers from the other people at the table and Angela introduced me to them.
"Bella this is Ben, my boyfriend." A boy with black hair and dark brown eyes waved shortly at me with a friendly smile, he seemed like the only guy around the table without the lust haze in his eyes, that look only reserved for Angela, I liked him already and nodded at him. "Next to him is Eric Yorkie." A tall geeky-looking Asian boy with long black hair, brown eyes and poor complexion seemed to lurch forward to shake my hand eagerly, I didn't like the feel of his hand touching me.
"Nice to meet you Bella! If you need any help just come to me, I know this place like the back of my hand." He gushed out holding my hand a little longer than necessary causing me to bare my teeth a little in warning which he didn't catch and earning some quiet grumblings from Mike which I heard perfectly.
"Next is Taylor Crowley." A tan boy with brown hair and brown eyes grinned, it held a little cockiness as he saluted me and then waved.
"You've already met Jess and Mike." When Angela said Mike's name he sent what I suppose was meant to be a flirty smile in my direction but actually looked like the creepy smile a sex predator would flash you. "And next to Jess is Lauren Mallory." A girl with pale blonde hair and green eyes who was tending to her nails the entire time simply sent a glare my way before going back to her activity, well hello to you too. "I wouldn't worry about her; she's like that with everyone." Angela whispered in my ear, looking worried that Lauren had offended me or something, she's too sweet.
"Don't worry about it, it's up to her how she acts, if she wants to act like a total bitch so be it." Which earned a death glare from Lauren and more quiet giggles from the group. Afterwards I mostly listened to the table chat while I stuffed my face, when I finished, thinking about how much it had improved since the last time I'd been in a school, I got up to go get some more drink.
"Yo Bella get us a drink would ya?" Taylor said with his feet propped up on a chair, wow, really? Not even a please? I stared at him with a worried expression on my face.
"Are you okay Taylor?" He tilted his head and looked confused as he answered.
"Uhh, yeah I'm fine..?"
"You haven't been in an accident?" His brow furrowed even more in his confusion.
"No?" I exaggerated a sigh of relief and swiped my brow.
"Oh thank goodness, so you can use those fully functioning limbs connected to the bottom of your body to get off your lazy ass and get your own drink then yes?"
I grinned a little cheekily and walked away listening to most of the table burst out laughing at Taylor's embarrassment, it was rude I know but it's a pet peeve of mine when people are too lazy to get something themselves and wait for someone else to get up to ask them. I also heard an earthquake of a laugh burst over from a table on the far wall, my sensitive ears hurt a little from the suddenness, I swirled around to look for the source and almost got whiplash from looking away again when I found it.
No. Fucking. Way. I would recognise them anywhere. What the hell are vampires doing in a school, you know, where humans are? And how the hell didn't I smell them? I guess being around these humans made their scents less noticeable. Shifters and vamps in the town I decide to hide in, just my luck! I can at least forget about Forks being boring now. Why haven't the wolves attacked them yet? I felt the familiar fire in my body that usually occurs whenever I see a vampire, must attack…must kill…revenge...
"The new kid's got spunk!" I heard one of them say to the others.
Okay calm down Bella, maybe you're imagining things, just get your drink, sit back down and observe them from a distance, don't tear off limbs in front of the humans. After sitting back down I tuned out my table and stared at the table behind my curtain of hair.
Bloody hell there were loads of them, two female and three males, the one who laughed was huge and muscular, like a bear but wore a dopey grin on his face with short curly black hair. He had his arm around a supermodel of a woman, tall with long blonde hair but she seemed disinterested in the world around her, vain and like Lauren she was examining her nails, like they couldn't be any more perfect then they are already. One of the other males had long, curly blonde hair, he was also muscular but a lot leaner than the bear, I almost growled out loud when I saw the scars on his neck and face, he probably had more on his body which meant he had been in a lot of battles and was dangerous. The next male next to him had bronze hair that stuck up like he had rolled out of bed and couldn't be bothered to do anything with it, it looked kinda good admittedly though. The girl to the left of him was tiny and had pixie like features, her hair was black and messy like Bed Head Boy but stylishly so, she wore a smile on her face like it had made a permanent home there, I think my eyes popped out, she's gorgeous! Even more so than the blonde-bombshell! It's like as soon as I saw her all of my aggression disappeared and I no longer felt the urge to leap over and tear into them. They all had one thing in common though, their eyes, they weren't crimson red like I'm used to seeing but a bright gold colour, but how?
From observing them I've concluded, I inhaled just to make sure, catching a sweet smell that yep, they're vampires, the aura that surrounds them is obvious, but their eyes aren't red, I'm confused which overruled the hate, maybe they wear contacts? But why such a strange colour if they're mixing with humans? I myself am wearing green contacts to mask my yellow eyes. And how can they stand to be in here with delicious humans surrounding them and not go mad with bloodlust?
As I mulled over this the pixie girl turned her eyes over to me and with embarrassment I realised I'd turned my whole body around to not so sneakily stare at them now, what the hell? I blushed at her gaze, something I hardly ever do and turned swiftly around.
"I see you noticed the Cullens." Jessica piped up looking at me.
"Cullens?" I questioned stupidly.
"The group over there, Emmett's the big guy, Rosalie is the blonde he's got his arm around, Jasper is the curly haired blonde, Edward is the total hottie next to him and the little one is Alice. They're all the adoptive children of Carlisle and Esme Cullen, and they're all like…together." She whispered the word like it was a curse but I had no idea what she was going on about.
"Well yeah I can see they're sitting at the same table 'together'" I said confused.
"I mean they're all totally involved with one another, Emmett's with Rosalie and Edward's with Jasper." She hissed the last name a little in disgust and glared at the couple, I heard them chuckle obviously listening in to what she was saying about them to the new girl and seeing what I thought of them. I smirked when I realised she was jealous of Jasper but I still didn't get what the point was.
"Sooo…?"
"Well it's weird, they all live in the same house, and it's like incest or something." I had to refrain from laughing at her, it's not her fault she doesn't understand vampire mating.
"They're not blood related are they?"
"No..." Jessica said hesitantly.
"So it's not incest. And they can love who they want, they seem happy with one another, it's just coincidence they live together." I ended this with a shrug amused at Jessica's shocked expression although weirded out that I was defending the blood drinkers.
"I like her!" Emmett boomed to his table.
"I'll have to agree, just look at Jessica's face," Alice giggled, I frowned to myself when her bell chime voice reached me. Vampires by their nature are attractive, and I can't deny the pixie leech caught my eye, but I can't be sucked into their web and become their victim, and I can't let them find out about me, the threat of the Volturi is too high. My scent isn't that different to the humans when I'm in my human form, and I don't smell like the shifters so they will most likely brush it off if they notice the difference, they don't know my kind still exist, some don't know we existed at all. I just have to avoid them as much as possible.
You just had to jinx it didn't you Bella I chastised myself as I sat next to Bed Head Edward in Biology. He was looking at me intently with his darkened eyes, he looked mad and I hadn't even said anything, does he know I'm different already? His staring was getting on my nerves and they were already stretched thin from being so close to him, I contemplated talking to him for a few seconds before just going for it, I was stronger than him and I doubt he would start a fight in the school they were trying to fit into.
"Do I have something on my face?" I questioned him sharply, tilting my head to face him slightly showing him I was directing it at him. His eyes widened slightly at confronting him since humans usually had the instinct to be afraid of vampires, especially with the black eyes he has right now, but he got his composure back pretty quickly.
"No," He simply replied turning back to the front as the teacher walked in, I smirked and got up to go give him the paper he was meant to sign.
"It's okay, not many people can tear their eyes away from my exquisite figure." I said to him jokingly striking a pose, his composure faltered for a moment once again before I went up to Mr Banner.
The rest of the lesson went by without incident, I didn't once speak to the vamp who was making my inner beast more riled up by the minute but I didn't show it once, keeping a cool mask on my face, except for the occasional glance Bedward did nothing more. When the bell rang I ran out the class as quick as I could at human pace and strode towards the car park thankful that I survived, although barely, my first day at Forks Hell. As I rounded the corner I suddenly crashed into a rock hard body, if it wasn't for my gracefulness I would have landed right on my butt.
"Watch where you're fucking going!" The blonde bombshell snarled at me showing her razor sharp teeth, the bear man and the little pixie by her side, I bristled at her threat.
"Funnily enough I don't have a fucking mirror to stare around every corner I go round." I had to ground this all out from behind my teeth to refrain from snarling it out in response to the attack. She stalked up close to me, getting in my face and glared at me for having the nerve to answer back to her, I saw the danger in her eyes but it didn't frighten me a bit, I glared back at her not moving away when she moved closer, I felt myself shake slightly with wanting to do some serious damage to this stuck up leech but I forced myself to calm down, nothing good would come of it, there's too many of them.
"Are you going to do anything about it, or just stare at me like I'm going to crumble into dust any second?" I asked quietly and calmly, although inside I was raging.
"Come on Rosie, let it go." Emmett pleaded quietly pulling on his mate's hand gently when he saw her get angrier at my comment, she stayed for a few more seconds breathing hard before whipping her head around, her hair flying into my face and stomped away with Emmett at her heels.
"Fucking humans, why do I bother?" I heard her mutter angrily and a frown creased my brow, what did she mean? I turned to Alice seeing she wasn't following them and was watching her sister walk away too.
"I'm sorry about Rosalie, she's like that with most people," Do Lauren and her have a bitch club? I jokingly thought of saying hearing the same words uttered earlier in the day. "She's certainly not used to people answering back that's for sure." She added a grin now on her face. Damn it she's cute, I always had a weakness to pretty girls, my plan on avoiding them had gone to hell but they haven't suspected anything's different about me yet, I don't think anyway, and there's something different about these vampires compared to others, another thing I noticed was that they don't smell as awful as the ones I've met before, no rotten flesh in there and they still smell sweet but not sickly so, almost like being in a room full of flowers, and Alice's smell was divine. I replied immediately not even thinking about it.
"I don't let anyone talk to me like some sort of bully, I'm too kick-ass to be cowering in fear." I finished this with my hands on my hips thrusting myself out like a superhero would do; it had the desired effect of making her giggle which was awesome.
"Are you two going to mete it out to be the alpha bully of Forks High?"
"Unfortunately it may have to come to that yes, I say the best bitch slap wins."
"Well I'll have to warn you in advance, her bitch slaps are nothing to joke about, just ask poor Emmett." I laughed at this feeling strangely at ease talking to her, my beast was quiet as can be, in fact she was even…purring, how odd.
"I'll keep that in mind when we slap to the death," A little distractedly wondering about the strange behaviour of the wilder side of me. "I haven't properly introduced myself although you probably know being the new girl in all, I'm Isabella Swan but call me Bella."
"Nice to meet you Bella, being at Jessica's table I would hazard a guess that she's already gossiped plenty about my family and you know my name too but I'm Alice Cullen." She called her coven a family? I've never known vampires to have such a large group and not use them as an army, but obviously she wouldn't just blurt that out to a random human.
"Good to meet you too, when Jess introduced you as 'the little one' I didn't know how close to the truth she was." I said looking her up and down, and admiring her silently. Standing next to her my 6'2" frame towered over her, her head just barely reaching my shoulder, she glared at me crossing her arms and huffed.
"I'm not that short!" I raised my eyebrow, lifted my hand above my head and then moved it over her a few times showing the difference, she huffed again, "Not my fault you're a building." She murmured out turning her head away from me her lips puckered into a pout, I couldn't help the laugh that burst from my mouth at the childish comeback and the adorable sight which only caused her bottom lip to pout even more.
"Hey now don't be all jelly of my advance growing, you'll hit puberty soon squirt and that's when the growing really kicks in." I said with a smile on my face patting her head which only aggravated her more.
"I've only known you what, 10 minutes? And you're already insulting me, you're… you're just a mean giraffe."
"Oh you wound me so tiny one."
She turned to me mock glaring with her arms still crossed tightly over her chest, I decided it was time to pull out the big guns. I dropped to my knees, which basically brought me to her height, bringing my hands together in a plea and pulled my face into the biggest, saddest puppy face on the land.
What the fuck are you doing Isabella?! Willingly on your knees, vulnerable, in front of a vamp? I heard a small part of my subconscious shout at me but I paid it no mind.
"Pwease forgive me Ali?" I said in a baby voice sniffing slightly at the end like I was about to cry, I saw her mock anger dissolve immediately, wow she didn't even last a full second, I'm great at this.
"Awww of course Bella!"
"Excellent!" I exclaimed jumping to my feet, "See you tomorrow then Shortie!" I said quickly with a wave making my escape before she could recover from my puppy attack.
"Why you little…!" I heard before firing up Abigail and tearing off leaving my laughter in the air.
If you have any advice you would like to give about my story I'd be happy to hear it, this is my first one after all!
Becky.