Chapter 4 first day of school
Once I was showered shaved and dressed in dark jeans and a dark blue button up shirt with my old dragon skin boots that Charlie had gotten me that had to have cost him a fortune I picked up the locket Hermione gave me and put it on along with a leather wrist watch and a few rings. I looked like a bad ass, I thought humorously as I began my way down the stairs.
I saw Bella just outside of the door with a plate of food.
Glancing at my watch I saw that it was 7:15, curious I opened the door.
"I thought you said 7:30…"
"I did but I wasn't sure if you could cook so…"
She trailed off turning an interesting shade of red.
"Thank you but you really didn't have to. I can fend for myself you know." I said with a smile. "But I will never turn down food made by a woman. It's so much better than mine." I added as I took the aluminum foil covered plate from her and grabbed a fork from the dish drainer.
I uncovered the plate to find sausage, bacon, scrabbled eggs and a slice of toast with a bit of butter on it.
Grinning I sighed as I tasted the home cooked breakfast.
"This is bloody well amazing…" I said as I grabbed a glass to fill with orange juice only to drain it in one gulp. "Nearly as good as Mrs. Weasley's." I added with a wink, making her blush deepen.
I had explained a lot about my extra family to Bella and Charlie last night at the diner.
Once I was finished eating we headed out.
Her truck was loud. It sounded like a monster truck or a military tank, which somehow suited her clumsiness. I doubted anything could destroy the thing.
I followed her through town to a matching cluster of little maroon bricked buildings. The only way I knew it was a school was the sign that said so.
She found two parking spots right next to each other. My rental looked very… well let me just say it stuck out like a shiny sore thumb the only car as close to as new as mine was a silver Volvo.
I couldn't resist laughing as Bella's monster truck backfired before she got the chance to turn it off.
I cut my engine with a smile before grabbing my Hogwarts messenger bag that had the school crest on it and Gryffindor stitched into the shoulder.
We walked down the stone path lined with dark hedges. Inside the front office it was brightly lit and warmer than I'd hoped. I was used to it being more warm this time of year out side rather then winter all year round. The office was small; a little waiting area with padded folding chairs, orange-flecked commercial carpet, notices and awards cluttering the walls, with a big clock ticking loudly.
There was a red headed woman behind the counter at one of the three desks. She was wearing a purple t-shirt, which immediately made me feel overdressed.
The redheaded woman looked up. "Can I help you?"
"I'm Isabella Swan and this is Harry Potter." Bella informed her and I saw the automatic awareness in her eyes.
"Of course." She said digging through a horrendously stacked pile of papers. After a minute or so she found our folders bringing several papers to the counter for us to look at.
"The two of you seem to have the exact same classes." She said as she showed us the easiest routes to each class on the map before handing us a slip to have each teacher sign and bring back to her by the end of the day.
Bella looked nervous as she sucked in a deep breath and closed her eyes as we neared the front door to building #3.
"Aw come on it'll fine. It's not as if we're walking into a school filled with vampires now is it?" I asked causing her to laugh and a pixie like girl who was linked to a blonde guy in front of us to turn so fast I was sure she gave herself whiplash to look at us curiously.
She was pretty; her eyes were a delicate bright butterscotch and her face perfectly pale and symmetrical. After a moment she turned back to her blonde boyfriend I assumed as whispered softly.
I rolled my eyes.
So it was going to be like Hogwarts all over again… but then again it was a small town so I guessed Bella and I were big news as far as they were concerned and Charlie had mentioned gossipmongers right when I met him.
The pixie girl and her blonde boyfriend along with a blonde girl and an overly muscular guy hung their coats on a row of hooks at the front of the class room, Bella looked at me and shrugged before copying them.
We walked up to a rather tall, balding man whose desk had a nameplate identifying him as Mr. Mason.
He gave us a list of books and sent us to the back of the classroom to an empty set of desks.
When the class ended a boy with skin problems and black as an oil slick leaned across the aisle to talk to Bella completely ignoring me.
"You're Isabella Swan, aren't you?" he looked like an overly helpful Hufflepuff.
"Bella." She corrected with a tinge of annoyance as everyone within a three seat radius turned to look at her.
"What is your next class?" he asked.
"Um… we've got Government with Jefferson in building six." She said checking in her bag.
"Oh." He said catching the 'we' part. "I could walk you there I'm headed to building four." Stupid Hufflepuff. "I'm Eric by the way."
I couldn't help but grin when Bella looked back at me with a 'help me' look on her face.
I was even more surprised when she turned back to him and said. "Thank you for showing us the way." his face fell again as she included me in the conversation.
I walked a step behind them as Eric showed Bella the way. He was the nosey type. Asking all kinds of questions. He walked her all the way to the door even though there was a big six next to the door.
"Well, good luck… maybe we'll have some classes together." He added with an odd look in my direction before leaving as Bella walked in the classroom.
The rest of the morning passed in the same fashion. The Trigonometry teacher, Mr. Varner, who was hated simply because of the subject he taught, was the only one who made Bella and I stand at the front of the room and introduce ourselves. I faired better then the blushing and stammering Bella.
One girl who sat on the other side of Bella in both our Trig and Spanish class walked us to lunch. She was tiny, very tiny to me and even so to Bella's small five foot four or five where as I was five nine, but her wildly curly dark hair made her seem the same height as Bella. I couldn't remember her name and by the sounds Bella was making she had already forgotten it herself.
We sat at the end of a full table with several of her friend, who she introduced to us. I wasn't sure about Bella but I forgot the names as soon as they were spoken. They all seemed impressed by her bravery to speak to us.
It was then that I saw the pixie girl and her … well I didn't know what to call them. Friends I guess. There was her blonde boyfriend and the big guy with the blonde girl from earlier today. But there was also another boy. He was lanky yet not as bulky as the other two guys with untidy bronzy brown hair.
They didn't speak. They didn't eat. They looked in different directions. Yet not a single one looked our way.
"Who are they?" Bella asked the girl from our Spanish and trig class.
As she looked up to see whom Bella meant suddenly he looked at her, the thinner one, the boyish one. He looked at the girl for a moment before flicking his dark eyes to Bella's then mine.
He looked away as quickly as he looked. As if she had called his name and he had looked up involuntarily.
The girl giggled in embarrassment, looking at the table.
"That's Edward and Emmett Cullen and Rosalie and Jasper Hale. The one who left was Alice Cullen. They all live together with Dr. and Mrs. Cullen." She said under her breath.
Strange names for teenagers in the States. Not so much in wizard London but Americans didn't normally name their children with such aged names.
"They are… nice looking." Bella said with an understatement.
"Yes!" the girl cried with another giggle. JESSICA that was her name. "They are all together though- Emmett and Rosalie, and Jasper and Alice, I mean. And they live together." Her voice held shock and condemnation of the small towness she had acquired.
"Which ones are related?" I asked trying to figure it out without asking to an anvil.
"Oh. They're not. Dr. Cullen is really young like in his twenties or thirties. They're all adopted. The Hales are brother and sister, twins. That's the blondes and they're foster children."
"They look a little old for foster kids." Bella said quietly.
"They are now. But they've been with Mrs. Cullen and Dr. Cullen since they were like eight or something."
"That's really kinda nice. For them to take care of all those kids like that, when they are so young and everything." I said with a tinge of jealousy. I remembered when I was little and used to hope someone would come and rescue me from my aunt and uncles.
"I guess so." She admitted rather reluctantly. "I think that Mrs. Cullen can't have kids though." As if that lessened their kindness.
"I think that makes her all the better. Most women that can't have children don't bother to take in kids who need homes or better homes." I said perhaps a bit too harshly because they looked at me from across the room.
"Whose the reddish brown haired one?" Bella asked distracting Jessica from me.
"That's Edward. He's gorgeous, of course. But don't waste your time. He doesn't date." She said before adding with a sniff. "Apparently none of the girls here are worth his time." A clear case of sour grapes. I wondered when he turned her down.
I saw Bella bite her lip to hide her smile and I looked back at their table but Edward was looking at Emmett now but his cheek was lifted as if he were smiling.
I couldn't resist.
"Maybe he just isn't into girls." This caused Emmett to laugh loudly as they stood to leave. I whispered very low an apology and Edward turned to smile at me -just a little one. That's when I saw his eyes. They were pitch black. Not a honey colored like the rest of his family. They looked like the eyes of a hungry vampire.
I considered this while we sat with them for a while longer than I normally would have at Hogwarts. One of the other girls who kept reminding us with out our encouragement that her name was Angela had Biology II with us next hour. We walked together to class in silence she was pretty shy.
When we entered the classroom she went to sit with two of her other friends at her blacktopped lab table. In fact all the tables but one were full. Three to a table it seemed.
Next to the center aisle there was Edward Cullen sitting at the table by himself. Something told me that, that was his choice rather than the teachers. Edward glared at Bella before turning it to me. It lessened its intensity but it was still a glare.
The teacher turned the fan on as Bella walked in front of it and that gave me all the clarification that I needed as Edward nearly gagged at her scent. That explained the look I got from the Alice girl this morning and the hearing and even their looks. But not their eyes. Vampire eyes were red, the color of blood yet theirs was ocher. I remember Hermione mentioning something about it in our third year but I couldn't remember what.
Bella didn't seem to notice as she spoke to the teacher and handed him both of our slips.
The teacher sent us to the table with Edward. To lessen both of their awkwardness I sat in the middle.
Edward seemed thankful for this as he simply turned away from us and stared out the window.
Every time the fan at the door would blow this way I would see Edward stiffen out of the corner of my eye and I became habit to lean forward each time I began to feel the fan, it only seemed to help some.
About a second before the bell rang Edward grabbed his book and bag and shot like a bat out of hell.
I looked at Bella and saw her glaring after him.
"Well that was fun." I said with amusement.
"Aren't you Isabella Swan?" a male voice asked.
We looked up to see a baby faced boy his pale blond hair gelled into perfect spikes, smiling at Bella in a friendly way.
"Bella." She corrected him with a smile.
"I'm Mike." He said extending his hand. "Do you need help finding your next class?"
"We are headed to the gym actually. I think that is the only place we don't need to be shown seeing as how we've walked by it to every other class. Thank you though."
"That's my next class too." He said thrilled. "May I walk with you?" he asked us. He was the first person to ask to walk with us than simply saying he would. His question though was more directed at me than Bella.
"Why not." I said with a smile. He was cute. He had a rounded face with his toned body. Caring light blue eyes and a 100-watt smile.
He chatted most of the time. It turned out he was in our English class as well.
As we were entering the gym he turned to ask Bella, "so, did you stab Cullen with a pencil or something?" causing her to cringe.
"Was that the boy who sat with us in bio?" she asked me artfully.
"Yeah." I said.
"He seemed like he was in pain or something." Mike said thoughtfully.
"Don't know. Never spoke to him." Was all Bella said before going to the girls changing room.
"Our's is over here." Mike said leading the way to the guys changing room.
Once inside the coach had a uniform waiting for me with my name tacked on it. The uniform consisted of a pair of sweat pants and a t-shirt. I changed quickly and was done before most of the other guys. I didn't bother lingering as I walked out and waited just out side of the door.
Bella was sitting on the sidelines without her uniform.
She looked rather happy about this as I walked to her.
"They couldn't find any small of extra small uniforms. I get to wait a week before they come in," she said with a smirk.
I rolled my eyes at her before turning to watch the guys walk out of the locker room.
"Any one catch your eye?" she asked with a far too innocent smile.
"Nope." I said popping the p.
"Darn. I was hopping Mike did." She said with resentment as he came over.
"I don't like blondes. I prefer brunettes."
"Cullen?" she whispered as Mike came into hearing distance.
"Hey Bella, where's your uniform?" he asked sitting on her other side.
I smiled sweetly before getting up to walk over to the coach, I could feel her eyes glaring at me for leaving her with him the whole time I spoke to the coach about what sports we were playing.
Volley ball. We were stuck playing volleyball. I hated volleyball.
As soon as I walked away the coach blew his whistle and made Mike and some other guy as captains
Mike picked me first causing me to turn pink as I walked to stand by him. Then the coach did something not even middle school gym teachers did. He made the captains switch teams.
My best position was the right back, so that's where I asked to be put to start out.
About half way into the game I ended up back into my spot with Mike serving.
He hit it straight to me. I wasn't expecting it and I volleyed it right into the net.
"Wow, Potter, you hit like a queer." He joked.
This time I was ready and I spiked it back to him. I don't think I meant to hurt him but I did. I spiked it right into his crotch making him collapse and roll around on the ground.
The whole gym laughed and I saw Bella hitting the ground with her fist as she laughed. Even the coach was smiling.
The coach made me stop for the day so I went to sit back next to Bella.
"That… was… priceless…" Bella said trying to catch her breath.
"He pissed me off." I muttered angrily.
"I know. I didn't know what you were going to do but that was perfect." She said watching one of the other girls from his team help him to sit on the bleacher before taking his place in the game.
After I changed back into my normal clothes I placed the gym clothes into an empty locker and used wandless magic to lock it before leaving.
I saw Mike glare at me before stalking away from Bella.
"He doesn't think that my boyfriend should be so easily provoked. He thinks you might hit me. Or that you already have." She said sniggering as we walked to the front office to turn in our paper work.
When we got to the office Edward was there arguing in a low whisper with the receptionist.
As we walked in a gust of wind blew.
I knew what would happen.
Edwards back stiffened and he turned to glare at Bella.
"Never mind then I guess I'll just have to endure it." He said before stalking out the door brushing by me on the way.
"Go eat something." I said harshly to him making him stop and look at me with his coal black eyes before huffing and continuing on his way.
I knew I had just told a Vampire to go eat someone but damnit, if he didn't he would do something that he would regret.
When I turned back to Bella she had given the redheaded woman our slips and was close to tears.
Her eyes were shinning and her nose was red.
Thank Merlin it was Friday.
A/nI think this is my longest chapter so far…I followed the book as much as I could but idk… hope you like it… oh and you see that little button just below here… yea the one with the green letters… hit it and leave me a message and tell me what you think of my first xover… smiles!