FIRST DAY PART 2.
(With A/N at the end)
We strolled at a leisurely pace through the school and chatted about the school. I got there, picked out a camera and sat next to Alice.
"So, I saw your taking Musical Theatre, you realise your first lesson is auditions for the musical?"
"No way," I groaned.
"Do it! You better be auditioning. What's your vocal style?"
"Its... hard to explain... You know Wicked right?" I tried to explain. She nodded. "Its Elphaba style but with Glinda's vocal range,"
"Thats amazing. Sing something."
"No way."
"A note."
"No."
"Sing!"
"No!"
"Why?"
"I don't know. I don't just burst into song..."
"Please, we have a couple minutes before students get here. Please! Five seconds of a song."
"Will you shut up if I do?"
Her face brightened "Yes. I won't say a word to anyone,"
"I believe in love, I believe in love. I believe in love, I do beli-eve in love," I sang 'I Believe in Love' from Hair quickly and quietly in case anyone walked in. When I finished, I just stared at her.
"Bella you are amazing," Alice said, her eyes showed she meant it.
"Thanks," I mumbled looking at the floor, a blush forming on my cheeks.
"Believe it Bella. You'll do really well. Believe me on this," She looked at me, her beautiful face completely serious. "Do you know what show the Christmas one is? 'Beauty and the Beast'. You should definitely go for Belle!"
"Alice, I've only ever once had a role in a show. I was selling bread silently in a Shakespeare play."
"Believe me, please Bella?" She held both my hands in hers. "Or just promise me you will audition?" She pouted and looked so upset. What was I meant to do?
"Fine," I said, tearing my hands out of hers.
"Yay! Thank you, you won't regret this Bella."
"I'm sure I will." I grumbled. She hugged me tightly, I couldn't help but smile and exhale. I hugged her back and I felt her grin into my shoulder. She pulled back and put her hands on my shoulders.
"I'll be there to watch," Oh no. No escape now.
"Why?"
"I'm the costume designer."
"Oh, okay."
"And you will be told in the lesson what the parts are. The other class have done auditions, they're coming for the announcements in the last 5 minutes of the lesson."
At that point the teacher strolled in, he signed my sheet and other students came in. My first photography lesson began.
Alice took me through into the cafeteria. I got a small salad, muffin and some water. Alice got a small pasta, fruit salad and orange juice. We walked over to a table with 6 chairs in the corner.
"Alice Cullen is sitting with the new girl. They never sit with anyone..." Two girls walking past said rudely. She had long, dead straight long had sharp, pointy features. The other girl had a pretty face that was slightly overruled by the crazy brunette curls on her head. Alice just glared at them. Obviously, there was a mutual disliking here.
"So, my other friends are coming to meet us, thats okay, right?"
"Of course, I don't want to intrude though..."
"Stop it Bella," She said smiling. "Your my friend so you are going to stay here. End of."
Then, the room went silent, I turned to see why.
Edward.
A majority of girls were suddenly making last minute adjustments to their outfits or hair or make up. He walked in with 2 people I didn't recognise. They were his friends apparently. As they strode in, a short haired blonde guy looked directly at me and Alice, then turned to the other guys and said something. I instantly stared at my food and ignored them as they went to a table 3 down from us. Then Alice spoke, interrupting my train of thought.
"Here they are,"
I looked to the door way again to see 3 people entering. One was definitely Jasper, his eyes brightened when he saw Alice. Next to him was a huge guy. He had a strong face and dark brown curls on his head. As he approached I saw his sparkling hazel eyes. He was huge. More muscles than I've ever seen on a high school-er. He reminded me of superman. He had his arm draped around a girls shoulder as he was talking to her. She had her arm wrapped around his waist. She, like Jasper, had soft features and long, wavy golden coloured hair making her look angelic. She had strange, lilac coloured eyes and perfect long, jet black lashes fluttering and fanning out. Her body looked like it should be in 'Sports Illustrated'. Every girl, including myself, must have a knock to their confidence seeing her around. She was grinning lovingly at whatever the guy next to her was saying. She had a long, navy blue maxi skirt on and a light denim jacket that tied around her waist showing a slight bit of her exposed skin. She had cream sandals that went perfectly with the cream coloured tote bag she was carrying. Apparently, warm, sunny days were rare here so most girls were in more summery clothes.
"Hey Bella," Jasper said in his southern drawl sitting down next to Alice and putting his arm around her waist, pulling her closer to him. Before I could reply, Alice spoke.
"Rosalie, Emmett, this is Bella. Bella, meet Jaspers twin sister Rosalie who is our roommate and my other brother Emmett."
"Nice to finally meet you Bella, call me Rose," Rosalie said, shaking my hand and smiling gently before sitting on the other side of Jasper.
"Fresh meat," Emmett said, winking at me before hugging me in a death grip.
"Emmett, let go before you suffocate her," Rose said. Emmett unwrapped me and I exhaled. "You'll get used to it," She smiled.
"Apologies Bella," Emmett said, grinning and sitting on Rose's other side, taking her hand and holding it in his much larger one. I just laughed slightly.
"So, our Bella has already been hit on by Edward," Alice began. There were various snorts from the three other people around the table.
"Didn't take him long. Though, Bella is gorgeous so I assume most boys have too," Rosalie said to Alice. Blood rushed to my face and I looked down to the greasy food table.
"If he wasn't a jerk, I think they would actually be a sweet couple," Alice replied. This time it was me snorting. "Bella, do you want to know why he's like this? He didn't used to be the person he is now. He used to be kind and considerate, always putting us before himself. But, the Hale family were family friends that moved away to Texas when we were young. They moved back a few years ago and, obviously, I found Jasper and Emmett found Rosalie and Edward was left out. We could tell he was not showing how he really felt, he was hiding the loneliness he felt so strongly. As we became closer, Edward tried, he really tried hard, to be happy for us but slowly he was becoming more and more sad and he kept himself to himself. Then, he met a family friends daughter, Tanya," She shivered slightly, Jasper reacted by tightening his arm and kissing her hair. "She was so wrong for him. They had nothing in common. She was pretty much obsessed with him and he thought he loved her although we could see his happiness wasn't true. So, eventually, he found out she'd slept with another guy because he had been insisting he wanted to save himself until marriage. It broke his heart. He spent months moping around lifelessly. Then one day, he woke up and became the rude, arrogant man he is today."
"Oh," I looked over to him and instantly felt a pang of sympathy for him.
"So, just give him a break Bells, okay?" She smiled, putting her hand on mine. I nodded in return and took a bite of my salad. "Great!" She said enthusiastically.
"Guys," I began. "Why do people seem so shocked all the time that I'm with you?" Rosalie shrugged.
"We have sat together since we first came to the school. You are the only exception."
"Which means we all like ya enough," Emmetts booming voice told me.
"I mean, I don't want to disturb your... way of life, I can find another group and..." I trailed off, looking at the four pairs of eyes glaring at me.
"Ignoring that," Alice said, "Bella's got an amazing voice Rose. She's going for Belle."
"You take musical theatre?" I nodded. "Thats great! I'm pretty sure I have the part of Babette, the feather duster. Mr Thornton told me so," She announced happily. "At least now we'll have a good Belle. Jessica and Lauren were both the only two going for it. You actually look the part too," I blushed, again, staring at my fingers.
"You need to learn to accept compliments," Alice informed me.
"Thank you," I said brightly.
"Better," She grinned.
The rest of lunch fell into casual conversations about the school, the people, the shops Alice would take me too after school... It was fun and I enjoyed their company. I was glad they accepted me into their group. As the bell gave a shrill ring, Alice walked me to Biology. Something I was good at.
"Now, musical theatre is straight down here to door 44, it's hard to miss because it's a big studio space. Your dance class is in there straight after. Then Rosalie will bring you to the parking lot and we can shop till we drop!" She said happily, kissing my cheek and walking to her class. I walked in and the teacher assigned me the only spare seat in the class. Right at the back, I was grateful for this! I went to the table and sat next to the window, staring blankly out of it. There was a horrendously high pitched, girly giggle from the front of the room. I looked up to see Edward Cullen, talking to a girl from my photography class. I rolled my eyes internally and went back to sitting and daydreaming. The seat beside me gave a loud scrape on the floor. I looked up to see the one person I didn't want to sit next to at all.
"Hello, I'm Edward Cullen, you're Isabella right?"
"Bella," I snapped at him, okay, he didn't deserve that.
"Beautiful..." He mumbled.
"What?" I turned my head sharply at him.
"Your name. It means beautiful, doesn't it?"
"Belle means beautiful," I murmured back.
"Well, it suits you then," he smiled at me, his eyes slightly narrowed. I just turned my head back out of the window. He didn't say much else because the teacher began the lesson on the 'Greenhouse Effect' which I had studied before. It was pretty simple. So, I spent a majority of the lesson watching the wildlife in the nearby forest. Then, Edward pushed some paper at me.
(Edward/Bella)
Go to dinner with me?
No.
Why?
Because you are one of those people who date a girl and dump her the day after.
Yet they still follow you round like puppies, I added mentally.
How do you know that? You don't know me.
He seemed a bit annoyed now.
I have been told.
He dropped it after that. There was a new tension between us. The bell rang and he made a quick, smooth exit leaving me at the table speechless. I did feel a bit bad. Alice had told me to go easy on him...
I picked my books up trying to forget the incident and walked down to room 44, like Alice said, it would be very hard to miss. It was a huge black and white studio. I walked in and put my books down taking a chair next to a dark haired, olive skinned beautiful girl with glasses. She looked up and smiled.
"Hi, I'm Angela."
"Bella, nice to meet you."
"So, what are you going for?"
"I've been forced to go for Belle..."
"I haven't heard you sing but you definitely look like a Belle," She told me kindly.
"Who are you going for?"
"Just chorus or one of the 'silly girls'. Last lesson he told us that after Christmas, we're doing 'Les Miserables' for the big summer show. I'm hoping to get Fantine or Cosette for that," She said hopefully.
"That should be good, I'm sure you'll get one of them," I really liked Angela. Apart from Alice, Jasper, Emmett and Rosalie, she was one of the only genuine people I had met.
"Class," A voice boomed. The teacher strode in. "I need Belle's, Beasts, Castle objects, Gaston, Lefou, Silly Girls and Chorus members in lines." We all hurried into separate lines. And the auditions began. The Gaston's was the first to sing. Then all the castle objects including Lumiere and Mrs Potts. Then, the Silly Girls. Angela was first. She sang 'Wishing you were Somehow Here Again' from Phantom of the Opera. She was amazing. The class burst into applause on her final note. Her voice was stunning. I wondered why she hadn't gone for Belle... The rest of the auditions continued until it came down to the Belles... Here we go I thought to myself.
"Isabella Swan?" I stood up and went to the X in the middle of the room. And then I sang
Somewhere over the rainbow
Way up high,
There's a land that I heard of
Once in a lullaby.
Somewhere over the rainbow
Skies are blue,
And the dreams that you dare to dream
Really do come true.
Someday I'll wish upon a star
And wake up where the clouds are far
Behind me.
Where troubles melt like lemon drops
Away above the chimney tops
That's where you'll find me.
Somewhere over the rainbow
Bluebirds fly.
Birds fly over the rainbow.
Why then, oh why can't I?
If happy little bluebirds fly
Beyond the rainbow
Why, oh why can't I?
I finished and the class was silent. Then an applause erupted. I
blushed and went straight back to my seat. Sitting down quickly. Mr Thornton walked to the corner of the room with a notepad and wrote for about ten minutes before the other class came in.
"Its time," He called. Rosalie came and sat next to me. We exchanged good lucks and held hands, nervously waiting for results.
"Okay so, Gaston will be Tyler Crawley, Lefou Tim Smith, Babette Rosalie Hale," I grinned and hugged her, she completely lit up. He went on to announce Angela as a silly girl and all the other parts. "Beast goes to, Edward Cullen," My eyes widened, I didn't even realise he was in here. What was he doing in a musical theatre class? "And Belle goes too," Here we go. "Bella Swan," My mouth dropped and Rosalie tackled me into a hug. But, that means... Oh no. I have to "The rest of you are chorus. See you all at rehearsals tomorrow. Oh and for those taking dance, Miss Lake is unwell so its cancelled tonight," He said as the bell rang. I barely paid attention because I heard;
"Bella!" I instantly looked up to see Alice running to me. Both her and Rosalie grabbed me into a big hug and I felt like I belonged.
"Come on girls, I'm ditching so let's go shopping," And with that, we ran to the parking lot.
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I will try and update by monday. There will be more Bella/Edward action however, I hate stories where they fall in love almost straight away so it'll be a while yet because I want their friendship to grow and the recognition of feelings etc (:
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~Elle xx