Chapter 3: The First Day Of School
Renesmee's POV
I fell asleep quickly that night. When I woke up the next morning my body was covered in aches and pains thanks to sleeping on the rock hard floor. I felt my bones cracking as I got up. I went and took a shower. Really I just sprayed my body with water. I didn't have any soap or a sponge to wash myself with. I also had to wear the same clothes that I wore yesterday. I quickly made plans to sell some of the jewelry I had that way I could buy some clothes and soap. Hopefully after school today.
I couldn't believe it. I was going to school in the year 2005. Today my parents were going to meet for the very first time! I felt lucky that I got to witness this. After all, how many kids can say they saw when their parents met for the first time?
I quickly put my clothes and left the house. I wanted to get to school as fast as possible so I could eat breakfast there. I was starving.
When I got to the school the parking lot was nearly empty except for an older looking Chevy truck that was parked right outside the front office. I watched in amazement as my human mother got out of the car and walked into the front office. I followed her in.
"I'm Isabella Swan" I heard her say to the lady I had spoken with yesterday.
"Of course" the lady responded. She dug through a pile of documents on her desk until she found what she was looking for.
"I have your schedule right here and a map of the school" she said.
"Um excuse me. Sorry to interrupt but I just have a quick question" I said.
Both of them automatically looked at me. The intensity of my mom's chocolate brown eyes surprised me. I had always been told that my eyes were an exact replica of how my mom's used to look, but now that I'm seeing it for myself, it was just….intense.
"How may I help you dear?" the secretary asked.
I tore my eyes away from my mother's gaze.
"Yeah can you tell me where the cafeteria is? I was hoping that I could get something to eat" I said.
"Of course dear" she said.
She got out a map and showed me the best route to the cafeteria.
"Thank you" I said.
"Your welcome and good luck on your first day Ms. McFly" she said. I just smiled back at her in response.
I found the cafeteria pretty quickly and bought myself a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and some chocolate milk.
By the time that I was done eating the school had started to fill up. I looked at the time and realized that classes would be starting soon. I was really excited. It was my first time in high school, and it was also the day that my parents were going to meet. All in all it was going to be a very interesting day to say the least.
Throughout the morning people kept asking me questions. I was an oddity. People had been expecting my mother, but they hadn't been expecting me. Apparently a new student was front page news worthy as one girl, Angela Weber, told me. She was excited that now she would have to new students to talk about in her story. It was odd to be at the center of attention this way.
Really who I wanted to see was my family, but I hadn't seen them at all. I saw my mom in quite a few classes. She would stare at me intensely, as if she knew that I was abnormal. I wanted to talk to her, but I never got the chance to. It would just have to wait until lunch.
Soon it was lunch time and I was starving again. I sighed, I really wish that my grandfather would have listened to me. It wasn't like me to want to each so much human food all the time. It had also been weeks since I hunted, but the mere thought of blood made me queasy. It was scary. Why couldn't my grandfather take five minutes just to talk to me?! Did he really care so little for me now that he didn't even care if there was something wrong with me or not?! I felt the tears start to roll out of my eyes and I quickly wiped them away before anyone could notice.
I bought two burgers, and two fries, plus one large soda. I was so hungry that I was sure that I'd be able to eat all of the food without any problems.
I sat down at a table all by myself and watched the other tables fill up around me. It appeared that nobody wanted to sit with me. I looked over at my mom's table which was filled with people except for one empty chair. My mom didn't look the least bit interested in whatever they were talking about.
I gathered up all of my food and walked over thinking that they'd let me sit with them.
All of them looked up at me when they heard me coming.
"Is it okay if I sit with you guys?" I asked.
One of the girls, I think her name was Lauren, sneered at me. "Ew, no you ugly little freak" she said. She had a disgusted look on her face.
The other girl, Jessica also added "Sorry but we don't allow freaks around here. Or pigs such as yourself; I mean look at all that food you have!" she said loudly. I walked away fighting tears the whole time. How could humans be so cruel?!
"Where are you going Bella?" I heard Jessica ask.
"I'm sorry but I can't sit with girls like you because people like you make me sick" she said.
She walked over to my table. "Is it okay if I sit with you?" she asked. For some reason I got the feeling that she was hoping I'd say yes.
"Of course you can Bella" I said. It was so weird calling my mom by her name.
"How did you know my name?" she asked.
"That is what you like to be called, right?" I asked.
"Yes, it's just that everybody's been calling me Isabella" she said.
"Well nice to meet you I'm Re- um Carlie" I corrected myself quickly. I almost blew my cover away.
"So you're new here to. Where did you come from?" she asked.
"From Seattle. What about you?" I asked.
"Phoenix Arizona" she said.
"Whoa, Washington must be a huge change for you then" I said.
"Yes it is. I don't like the wet or the cold. Also it's always so cloudy here. I hate that too" she said. It's funny how some things can change so drastically over time. Now my mom hates the sun just because it meant that she and the rest of the family couldn't go out.
"Then why did you move here?" I asked.
"My mom remarried. Her new husband's a minor league baseball player so he travels a lot. I knew it made my mom unhappy to stay behind with me. So I decided to move in with my dad. What's your story?" she asked.
"I got legally emancipated because of a lot of family issues that I'd rather not go into. I moved here as fast as possible" I said hoping that my story made sense.
"You know Carlie, there's something about you. I can't explain it, but I really like you" she smiled.
"Thanks Bella, I really like you to" I said.
"Oh my. Look at those kids" she said.
I looked where she was looking and nearly choked on my food when I saw my father staring at us; both of us. He looked at us both with extreme confusion.
"That bronze haired boy is beautiful" she said.
"He is. But he's not my type" I said.
My mom continued to look back at them. My father continued to stare at us. This was starting to get really awkward for me.
Soon the bell rang and it was time to go to class again. As it turned out Bella and I had the last two classes together. We walked to Biology and chatted the entire time. There was only one empty seat and it was next to my father.
"Why don't you take the seat Carlie. I'll stand" Bella said.
"No, you sit there. I'll stand" I said.
"but Carlie-"
"You'll thank me for this later. Trust me" I said. All my mom did was look at me in confusion before saying "okay"
Our teacher came in late with an extra chair for me. I had to squeeze myself into a desk with two other students. I was sitting behind my parents. I watched my parents with fascination. My father's facial expression was strange. He looked at my mom like he was angry at her. He looked like he wasn't breathing as he sat as far away from my mother as the desk would allow. Throughout the entire class his posture never relaxed one bit. My father had told me stories about how he had to constantly battle his bloodlust around my mom. Now that I'm watching his struggle firsthand, I realize how little I actually understood. At any moment he could have snapped and killed her instantly.
I never thought that he could ever hate my mom though. All of the stories that my parents had told me were filled with love. Except for the story where my dad had lied to my mom and left her for six months. I don't think my dad will ever forgive himself for that one.
His tense posture and his expression of hatred really scared me. I had to keep reminding myself that nothing was going to happen.
As soon as the bell rang he got up and left as fast as was humanly possible.
"Well that was strange" I said.
"It certainly was" she said in a bit of a daze.
A cute baby faced blond haired boy approached us. "Aren't you Isabella Swan?" he asked.
"Bella and this is my friend Carlie" she said with a smile.
"I'm Mike" he said.
"Hi Mike" we said at the same time.
"Do you girls need any help finding your next classes?" he asked.
"We have gym. I think we can find it" I said.
"That's my nest class, too" He seemed thrilled.
That boy was a chatterer all right. He talked the entire way nonstop.
"So did you stab Edward Cullen with a pencil or what? I've never seen him act like that" he said.
"Was that boy I sat next to in Biology?" she asked.
"Yes" he said.
"I don't know. I never spoke to him" she said.
"He's a weird guy. If I were lucky enough to sit by you, I would have talked to you" he said.
We walked to the girl's locker room after that. Our gym teacher, coach clapp, found us new uniforms but didn't make us dress up for the day.
As soon as we sat down I felt extremely nauseated again.
"Are you okay?" Bella asked looking very worried.
I couldn't answer. I ran to the trashcan and emptied my stomach's contents.
"I think you need to go to the nurse" coach said.
"Yeah" was all I could say.
"I'll take her" Bella said.
"What's wrong?" Bella asked as we walked to the nurse.
"I don't know. I've been getting nauseous like that for several weeks already" I said.
Soon we were at the nurse's office.
"What's wrong dear?" she asked.
"She threw up in gym class. She just told me that she's been getting nauseated on and off for the past few weeks" Bella explained.
"Is that all dear?" she asked.
"No" I said. "I've also had unusual cravings as well" I added. An odd looked crossed her face.
"When was your last period?" she asked.
I tried hard to remember, but the truth was that I couldn't remember.
"I'm not sure" I answered.
"Well dear. I think you may need to take this test" she said. It was a pregnancy test.
Several things suddenly made sense. Nausea, strange cravings, no period. I was most likely pregnant. I felt my hand start to shake. I had to take the test to find out for sure.
I went into the bathroom and read the instructions. Would a normal pregnancy test even work on me? I was worried that it wouldn't give me an accurate result considering that I'm half vampire, but I had to try.
Several minutes later there was a pink plus sign on the stick. Oh my god! I was pregnant with Jacob's baby.
I walked out in a daze and handed the test to the nurse.
"Well according to this you are pregnant" she said. She handed me some pamphlets that talked about pregnancy. There was one that talked about options as well. I threw that one way. There was no doubt in my mind that I was going to keep this baby.
Bella just stared at me.
"I need to go home" I said.
"I'll drive you" Bella said. "Just give me the address"
"Who's the father?" Bella asked me once we were in the car.
"I'd rather not talk about him" I said. I didn't want to give to much away.
"Oh okay" she said.
Soon we had arrived at my rundown shack.
"This is where you live?!" she asked, clearly appalled at my living conditions.
"Yes it is. I don't actually own this place though. Once I was emancipated my parents kicked me out so fast that I didn't have time to look for a job, or a place to stay" I said.
"So you're homeless" she said. She had an extremely sad expression on her face.
"Yes" I answered.
"Carlie, I have to go" she said with a thoughtful expression on her face.
"Okay, I'll see you tomorrow" I said.
I fell asleep on the floor and what seemed like seconds later I was being shaken awake.
I screamed until I saw who it was; my mother and grandfather.
"Bella what are you doing here?" I asked.
"Well I talked to my father about your living situation and he agreed to let you come live with us. I want you to come live with us. I can't knowingly let you live like this" she said.
I looked at my grandfather. "Really Chief Swan? You'd let me, a total stranger, come live with you and your daughter?" I asked.
"First of all, you can call me Charlie. Second, I don't like hearing about kids living homeless; especially pregnant kids. It doesn't matter if you are emancipated. This isn't the type of living condition that someone your age should be living in. I'm willing to open up my home to you" he said.
"Please Carlie" Bella begged.
"I'd love that" I said which made her smile.
A/N: Next chapter will be in the present time. I hope you all are enjoying this story so far. Please let me know what you think.