Settling into a new town was always difficult for me. Everyone always stared at us, and judged. I always felt like others were wondering what someone so clumsy an inept could be doing with people like them. But it had been a long time since I'd had to endure the awful stares of my peers constantly at a school.

I was not looking forward to school and the night before I ran through all the possible ways of getting out of it but could come up with nothing. Mom and Alice spent the entire day getting me prepared. First of course was the shopping. Apparently, I needed new clothes for school because the hundreds of outfits I already had just wouldn't do. So they forced me shopping and forced me to get so many outrageous outfits that I lost count. After that Alice demanded that I get a haircut and Mom agreed. My hair was a good six inches below my shoulders so I went along, semi-willingly.

After a ton of arguing I had ended up with the lady at the salon cutting off four inches, layering my hair, and giving it a left side part. It was a major compromise on my part. After that I had wanted to go home but I had forgotten one very important thing. School supplies. I didn't mind shopping at Office Depot in Portland because I was more in my element though they were still going overboard. By the time we left I had everything I could possibly need or want and more.

When we finally got back to the house I was shocked to find only Jasper and Esme.

"Where's everyone?" I asked as we brought the bags in.

"Hunting, except for Carlisle. He's at the hospital. Edward and Emmett are preparing for tomorrow. We'll be going once they get back." Oh. Edward went hunting? How come he didn't tell me? Suddenly Esme pulled a piece of paper out of her pocket and handed it to me.

"Here, dear. Edward left this for you." Oh.

My love,

I apologize for not telling you of our hunting trip but Alice insisted upon it. She wanted to ensure she had you all to herself for the day with Rosalie so the trip was spur of the moment. I had planned on going tonight. I'm already missing you.

I love you more than you understand,

Edward

I felt better instantly but was no unsure of what to do. I had planned to spend time with Edward but since he was hunting I went to work on organizing all of my new supplies for school in my bedroom while Mom and Rosalie put my new clothes in my closet. Eventually Carlisle came home and soon after the others were home from hunting.

I went downstairs to meet Edward as they walked through the door with Alice skipping behind me.

"Hey," I greeted as Edward came up to me.

"Hi," He murmured before smiling, raising an eyebrow, and ran his fingers through a strand of my hair.

"Yeah, I got a haircut."

"What do you think?" Alice piped in impatiently from somewhere behind me.

He smiled my favorite crooked smile. "Beautiful as always," he responded before kissing me gently.

"Yeah, yeah. Could you not do that in front of me?" Dad asked. We separated a little and I blushed.

"Well, we should probably get going." Mom said, changing the subject.

"Oh, not yet," interjected Carlisle. He pulled six large manila envelopes out of his work briefcase. "I stopped by the high school on my way home to pick up these." Wonderful.

He handed out the envelopes and I opened mine hesitantly. There were two papers in the envelope. One was a letter welcoming me to the school with the principals signature stamped on it. The next was the my schedule:

Forks High School Name: Hale, Isabelle

9010 Daniels Road, Student ID: 19615834492

Forks, WA Locker Number: 114

98113 Locker Combination: 32-18-21

Semester

1 Sociology - Carthage, Diana

Room 102

2 Pe - Loft, Jeff

Gym

3 AP Italian 3 - Daniels, Olivia

Room 212

4 Geometry - Gregory, Elliot

Room 128

5 Biology - Banner, Stan

Room 118

6 AP English 11 - Merinos, Sara

Room 114

7 Newspaper - Carrick, Greggory

Room 236

Edward and I exchanged schedules. I had Sociology, Biology, English, and Italian with him and his last period was right next door to mine. This was good-ish. Of I wished I could have every single class with him but this was definitely better than nothing. After Edward and I had exchanged schedules everyone shared there schedule. Edward and I also had Sociology with Mom, I had PE with Alice, Geometry with Jasper, and the only class I was alone in was Newspaper. I was satisfied.

Shortly after this everyone went hunting leaving only Dad, Edward, and I in the house.

"What would you like for dinner tonight, love?" Asked Edward. Hmm. I was hungry and there was one thing that sounded really good.

"Let's order pizza."

"Are you sure you want to stay in?"

"Yeah, unless you don't want to."

He smiled. "Alright, pizza it is."

After the pizza came from Dominos came and I'd had all I wanted of it Edward and I went upstairs to my room and both took Sharpies and labeled our notebooks and binders according to our classes but it quickly became a little cluttered on my bed.

"You know what this room needs?" I asked.

He raised an eyebrow. "No, what?" He was genuinely curious.

"More furniture. Especially seating. Like maybe a couch and a coffee table." It seemed like a good idea. Edward and I were spending a lot of time in my room and we liked to watch TV and movies in there but it wasn't very comfortable for me on the bed. Plus, with days like today were my school stuff's all over the place it be nice to have some more surface.

"You, Bella, wants to willing buy something? As in purchase?" He teased.

"Oh, haha. Yeah, I do."

"Okay, I bet when Alice comes back she'll be dying to take you furniture shopping or take you on that website she loves." No. No more shopping with Alice for awhile. The mention of that website gave me an idea and suddenly I laughed, sliding off my bed and going over to the computer on my desk.

"What are you doing?" He asked.

"Avoiding shopping with Alice."

He smirked. "She's going to be furious."

I giggled deviously. "I know. You wanna help?"

"Sure."

It took only an hour and a half and it was done. I had picked out a couch and table and Edward had made sure that they were in the right color—all the purple's looked the same to me—and ordered them in proper sizes. Edward wanted to pay for it but I had other plans. I dug through my drawers to find my old peace signed wallet and pulled out my own black debit card. I had only used it maybe once or twice and everyone was always encouraging me to so I figured I would.

After this little adventure my energy level had pretty much crashed to zero. I took a shower and when I got out I discovered that I'd forgotten a pajama shirt. I was freaking out because I knew Edward would be waiting out in my room. That's when I noticed one of Edwards white button up shirts hanging on the back of the door. I'd known for as long as we'd been dating that he sometimes used my shower at night and in the morning before I woke up but I'd never seen a sign of it in my bathrooms before. Normally, I wouldn't do this but I was desperate so I put on his shirt with my shorts and walked out of the bathroom. Sure enough, he was perched on the edge of my bed, waiting patiently.

When he stood with raised eyebrows he asked, "Any particular reason your wearing my shirt?" He was smiling.

"Uh, it smells nice." Which was true. It smelled just like him. Sweet and fresh like the air after a hard storm.

"Hmm, does it?" He brushed my cheek with his thumb. I nodded. "Interesting. You look nice." He kissed my neck.

"I do?"

"Always." He trailed kisses up my neck and then my chin to then finally reach my awaiting lips. His left hand cupped my face and his right and was at the base of my spine pushing me against his chest. After a blissful moment his left hand moved and he lifted me up and carried my to the bed, our lips never separating.

It was wonderful but the routine was always the same. We'd kiss and just as it became something deeper he'd pull away. So I savored my last few moments, tracing his lips with the tip of my tongue. My god, the taste. He sighed and pulled away.

"Bella..."

"Ugh," I groaned and laid back on the bed with a plop but I didn't press the issue because I was aware that Dad was still in the house and could hear all of this. He smiled slightly and laid down beside me.

"Come on you need to get some sleep anyway."

We snuggled together. "Ugh. School's tomorrow."

"Uh-huh."

"This is gonna be awful," I groaned.

"It won't be that be that bad, love. Besides after the third or fourth time around you get used to it," he joked darkly and I smiled a little.

"I guess."

"You'll be fine. Don't worry about." He began to hum my lullaby so I burrowed my face into his chest and fount sleep.