A/N: The plan was to post this on Monday, but I couldn't wait! Not after the response I got for the first chapter! Thanks to everyone, and to the guest reviewer! :D
Bella:
"Bella, wake up, honey!" My mum opens the curtains to my room and turns on the lights to try and wake me up.
"I don't wanna." I mumble, snuggling back into the covers.
"You've got to, Bella. You have school today." I groan again, in response to my mother's words. I'm so not a morning person. "I'll pull the covers off if you don't get up in the next few seconds." Yep, that got me up.
"I'm up! I'm up!" I shout. Mum just laughs.
I go into the bathroom and wash my face to wake myself up. Then I do the normal morning ritual, of brushing my teeth, brushing through the tangle of my hair, and making sure I look alright.
I open the curtain to see what the weather is like, but I'm not surprised when I see it's raining. Jeans and a jumper it is, then. I grab my jeans, which I bought when Alice dragged me out shopping, and my jumper with an owl on it, also bought when I was with Alice. Apparently, if I was going to insist on living in jumpers and jeans (which I did) I had to have stylish jumpers.
I just chose the jumper because I like owls.
I grab my rucksack, shove in a couple of books and my pencil case, and go downstairs. Alice and I usually drive to school together, but she text me this morning saying she was heading in earlier with Edward. Since I didn't want to lose even just a half an hour of sleep, I told her I'd drive by myself.
Now, though, I'm thoroughly regretting this decision. I'm sat in my old, rusty red Chevy, (which I adore, so no judgements on my car, please) trying to get it to start. Unsuccessfully.
"Damn it!" I shout, while hitting the wheel. The horn blares, and I jump back in shock. Finally, after several more hits to different parts of the car's interior, it decides to work.
I'm only going to be about 20 minutes late on my first day, but whatever.
I try to speed to school, which is an almost impossible task in a car which physically refuses to go any faster than 45 mph. Least I've never got a speeding ticket.
When I finally reach school, the bell goes just as I'm pulling into the only space left, which is the furthest from the school building. I have to do a weird part run, part jog, part walk thing to get to my form room in time.
"Late on your first day, Miss Swan?" My form tutor, Mr Pedford, asks in a condescending tone. The last bell goes, signalling anyone in after then is late.
"Not quite. And my car was being temperamental." Mr Pedford tuts at me, but motions for me to sit down – in my seat next to Alice – anyway.
"Car problems?" Alice giggles in a whisper.
"Slightly. I'll have to get Jake to look at it." I whisper back. Jake is the son of my dad's best friend, but he doesn't go to our school. He lives at La Push, and is an excellent mechanic. I've known him almost as long as I've known Alice, and he seems to be forever fixing my car.
Form time is boring, as we're just handed our timetables and told all the stuff we already know. In the last ten minutes, we're allowed to talk to our friends, so I take the time to ask Alice about Edward.
"What's Edward like, then?" I ask, smiling at her.
"Definitely my brother. The paternity tests came in today." Alice replies.
"Really? Is Esme alright?" I ask; worried for my friend's mother.
"Uh, she's alright, I think. We all just feel a bit sorry for him. I mean, what sort of mother abandons their child? Anyway, since he did have any proper fitting clothes, I took him shopping yesterday! Now he looks stylish! And, he got new glasses, since his were broken and weren't even the right prescription. He doesn't talk much, though." Alice says in a rush, evidently excited about having another sibling.
"Probably because he's had to go through the trauma of shopping with you…" I joke, and then laugh along with Alice.
"Hey! I'm not that bad! Oh, and tonight, Emmett and Rosalie are coming round, so d'you think you could come round? For moral support, and all that jazz?" Alice asks.
"Yeah, of course. Only if once I drop my car off at my house, you'll give me a lift. I'm not even sure if it'll make it back to my house." My car has only ever broken down on me twice, which isn't too bad, considering it's age. However, the one-time Alice and I were in the middle of nowhere. Yeah, that also led to a grounding, since neither of us had our phones with us or charged up.
"Thank you! We have to protect Edward from Emmett!" Alice said just as the bell went. I had English first, while she had art, so we said goodbye and went our separate ways.
English was by far my favourite subject. I just loved reading, and writing. I wrote on a fanfiction website for my favourite book series ever, Harry Potter. Although I do love the Hunger Games, too. Maybe I should write a fanfiction for that?
Anyway, I know that when I'm older I want to open my own bookshop, in Port Angeles or something. And I want to write my own book, hopefully.
In English at the moment, we're studying Shakespeare. The play we're studying at the moment is Much Ado About Nothing, probably one of my favourites. I've read most of Shakespeare's plays, but there are some I wasn't such a fan of. Titus Andronicus, for example.
In English, I sit next to Angela Weber, one of my friends who's in the nerd group. She's not that much of a nerd; she just shares my love of reading.
"Hey! How were your holidays?" Angela asks as I sit next to her.
"Good! All I seemed to do was read and be forced to go shopping with Alice! How were your holidays?" I reply. I dread to think how many shopping excursions I've been forced into by Alice.
"Really good, too. I went on holiday with Ben and his family, we went to New York! It was so awesome!" Angela gushes. Ben Cheney is her boyfriend since…forever, really. They have been going out since children started becoming the right age to have a boyfriend. They're a cute couple.
"That's so cool. I'd love to go to New York, one day." The furthest I've been away from Forks is Seattle.
After English finishes, I have biology, so I go into the classroom. I sit in my usual seat at the lab desk, where I'm the only person in the class who doesn't have a lab partner. I don't mind, though. I actually quite enjoy biology, though English will always be my favourite.
A few minutes later, a boy, who I don't recognise, enters the room. He has messy, hair in an unusual shade, red, but fair light. Like light bronze. I'm guessing it's messy from the wind outside, or something. Also, he's wearing glasses with a fairly thick, black frame. He goes over and speaks to the teacher, who directs him to sit next to me. The lesson hasn't quite begun yet, so this new guy introduces himself.
"H-hi. I'm…I'm Ed-ward. E-Edward M-M-Masen." He stutters, holding out his hand awkwardly. Does he want me to shake his hand? Wait, Edward Masen? As in, Alice's new brother?
"Hey, I'm Bella Swan." I smile and shake his hand. 'Cause I'm polite.
"O-oh. Al-Alice told m-me…a-about you." Edward mumbles, and I realise we're still holding hands from the hand shake, so I take back my hand.
"Did she? Hopefully she made me out to be the awesome person that I am." I joke, making Edward laugh a bit.
"Y-yes… Hope-hopefully I'll g-get t-to know you be-better…myself." Edward tells me. The lesson begins then, so I turn my attention back to biology.
The rest of the lessons pass quickly, and soon enough it's lunch time, so I go and sit with Alice. Also sitting on our usual table is Edward, so I give him a small smile and say hi.
"You've met each other?" Alice asks, bouncing up and down in her seat. No, I don't know why either.
"Uh, yeah. Edward sits next to me in biology." I reply, giving Alice a look that hopefully says 'what the hell is your excitement about?'.
"Great! Edward, Bella's coming to our house after school today!" Alice grins widely at Edward. Edward gives me a look, which seems to be asking a similar question to my look.
"Howdy, you mind if I sit here, darlin'?" A voice drawls next to Alice, whose smile seems to get larger, if that's possible right now.
"Nope! That's fine." I answer for Alice, because she seems a bit preoccupied with smiling.
"Thanks, sweetheart." The random dude replies. Seriously, who is he? He sounds like he's a cowboy. Oh! Maybe he's from Texas?
"Um, who are you?" I ask the dude.
"I'm Jasper Whitlock, sweetheart, and what's your name little miss?" This guy – Jasper – drawls to me.
"I'm Bella Swan, this is Alice Cullen, and that's Edward Masen." I introduce everyone, since Alice is still smiling, and Edward looks a little scared. "You're not from here, are you?" I ask Jasper.
"Nope, I'm from Dallas, in Texas, Miss Bella." Jasper replies, giving me a little nod of his head. I'm surprised he's not wearing a cowboy hat. I subtly look under the table, and see that he is, in fact, wearing cowboy boots. Figures. "Miss Alice, would ya mind showing me 'round this place? I don't much know where I'm goin'." If I didn't know better, I'd say he just sat here because of Alice.
"Sure!" Alice squeals, and she jumps up instantly. As they walk out of the cafeteria, I see Jasper reach over and grab Alice's hand, very subtly. Alice then proceeds to look over her shoulder, with a shit eating grin on her face, and wink at me. Not so subtle.
"S-should I ha-have…um, q-question th-tha Jasper a-bout h-his intentions? L-like a bro-brother sh-ould?" Edward asks me nervously. He's too cute.
"Oh, I wouldn't be worried for Alice. She looks tiny, but she's stronger than you think. Last year she gave this guy named James a black eye because he came on to me when I didn't want him too. Fierce little pixie, that one." I chuckle, remembering that. Man, James was confused. And hurt. Edward seems to be laughing, too.
"You-you're c-coming…t-to Alice's h-house tonight be-cause…because of Emm-ett, right? M-my oth-other brother…" Edward mutters, looking a bit sad.
"Mostly, yes. But don't worry; Emmett's a big teddy bear. Albeit on steroids, but whatever. Anyway, I'm more there to protect Carlisle." If I were Carlisle, I'd be shitting myself right now.
"St-steriods?" Edward questions.
"Shit! No! He's not actually on steroids…he just looks like he is. He has big muscles." Edward's eyes widen at the thought of a big, muscled man being angry. "Don't worry! I've known Emmett since I was two; he's going to be majorly pissed off with Carlisle, not you. Hopefully Queen Bee for Bitch can calm him down. Or Esme."
"W-who's Queen Bee f-for Bi-Bit…who is t-that?" Edward mumbles, not saying the word 'bitch'. Maybe he doesn't like when people swear?
"Oh, that's Rosalie. Alice and me don't like her so much. She's Emmett's girlfriend, but in high school she had the nicknames Queen Bee, and then, well, bitch. So we merged then." I explain to Edward, who surprises me by laughing at what I say.
The bell goes then, and so we both go to our next lessons. Which, sadly, for me is gym. I seriously hate gym, I'm just so rubbish at it.
Once gym is finished, I go out to the car park. Alice follows me with Edward in her car, while I drop my car off at my house. I jump into her car, quickly sending a text telling my parents where I'm going.
When we get to the Cullen house, instead of it being the usual calm, peaceful area, we're met with loud voices from the inside.
"WHAT THE FUCK WERE YOU THINKING, DAD? SEX WITH A FUCKING PROSTITUTE!"
That'll be Emmett.
A/N: What do you think of Edward? And Emmett's outburst so far? :O
Next chapter might be up tomorrow, depending on how much homework I get ;)
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