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OKAY! I'm sorry about the three month long hiatus. As I stated in my last post...three months ago lol, I couldn't really promise any updates in November as it was NaNoWriMo and I would be focusing on my own original writing. Long story short I was trying to rewrite my current work in progress and it did not go as planned. I only made it to 15,000 words but continued to mull it over for the whole month of November. December got busy, I didn't realize all the things I tried to cram in one month and I'm sorry for not giving this story more love and January...well I was actually focusing more on Tik Tok as my plate-form over their was growing and I had all these new shiny ideas, but not worry. As I've stated before I'm not giving up on this story. I have a completed outline for it, so essentially its finished I just have to write and publish the chapters so, theirs defiantly more to come! I'm sorry for making you wait and promise that one of my new years resolutions is to get a better writing schedule!
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What Just Happened
"Stop biting." I didn't even realize I was doing it until I relax my teeth and feel the familiar soreness in my cheeks and gums.
"Sorry" I mumble turning to look out the window. Trees, trees, and more trees.
"Everything will be fine," Edward says with such confidence I almost want to reach across the seat and smack him, but I hold back, one because it would hurt me more than him and two because he would probably see it coming anyway.
"I would," Edward smirks. I cross my arms and melt deeper into my seat,
"It's easy for you to be so nonchalant about all this. No one would dare bother you."
"So you admit Tonya is bothering you," I promised Carlisle Tandy wasn't bothering me, but I'm a very good liar.
"She bugs me," I admit, looking down at my shoes. I purposefully wore clothing I don't care about in case Tandy decides to spill more than just water on me.
"Is that all?" Theirs a coyness to Edward's voice and I don't like it,
"I didn't have problems like this at my old school." I blurt out, "I was practically invisible, no one can bother someone they don't even recognize is there. This is like some bad lifetime movie and I hate it."
"Mare, relax." Edward states simply pulling into the school, "You'll be fine." I roll my eyes and lean even more into my seat and by the time Edward has parked and turned off the car I've become one with the interior and refuse to leave.
"I'm not leaving," I tell Edward as tucks his keys in his pocket and looks over at me,
"Alright," He shrugs looking behind me, the others have just parked. He opens the door and grabs his backpack from the back seat, "Maybe a talk from Rose will get you out of the car." Enough said. I grab my backpack from the floor and quickly scurry out. Rose hates me enough she'll probably just drag me out and after the water incident Friday, being manhandled on Monday is enough to secure my loser status here forever. I step out and slam the door of Edwards Volvo as hard as I can, both in defiance and anger.
"Woah Eddie, what did you do to make our little Mare over here angry."
"Angry," Edward questions coming to stand next to me,
"Well, she just went all Chuck Norris on your car door there."
"You have Chuck Norris here?" Emmett smiles
"The one and only Walker Texas Ranger, right Jasper?" Emmett shouts, holding his hands out in excitement. Jasper just turns away
"Emmett stop it," Rose hisses slamming the door to her range rover and slinging her purse over her shoulder, "Let's go!" She turns heading for their first class. I turn towards Edward and frown,
"Stop overthinking everything." I wrinkle my nose in distrust, Rose will never like me.
"Don't worry Mare, everything will be okay," Alice walks up with a sly smile on her face, she knows something or she's seen something, and I don't like it.
"I hate when you do that." Edward's hand comes around my shoulder, turning me around to start walking us to homeroom,
"You need to trust us more." I keep my steps small and slow as we walk away from Alice and Jasper. I don't want to be here and I don't want to do this, if I knew Esme and Carlisle more I would freight sickness, but because I don't, and because Carlisle would probably see right through me in an instant. So I woke up and just got ready. All though I did grumble in my head the whole time, just as I am now as Edward directs me to my first class. I stop when the door comes into view and quickly reach up and unwind Edwards arm from my shoulders. Edward looks hurt, and I open my mouth to quickly explain,
"I don't want to give them anything to talk about." Edward looks up towards the door before turning back to me,
"You'll be fine. Pick you up after class?" I bite my cheek hard and slowly nod. Telling him "no" would make him do it anyway, "Alright, off you go." I waste no time and head towards class. I keep my head down feeling Edwards eyes on my back the whole time. I enter the classroom and instantly all conversation quiets down. All eyesa re suddently on me, including Tandy's. Shes in her usual seat in the back, dark hair perfectly curled and lips througly smuthered in lipglossed. She smiles when she see's me, but it's not a knd one. I waste no time and quickly duck into into my desk, keeping my eyes down the whole time,
"Hey" I look up, Alex smiles at me, turning around to place his elbow on my desk, "Don't let her bother you."
"I won't,"
"Your turtle necking says otherwise."
"Turtle necking?" He reaches forward and I feel my whole body stiffen as his fingers hook under my collar and pull,
"You're tying to disappear into your clothes." He lets go and I feel the heat on my cheeks,
"I didn't realize,"
"Two more inches and I couldn't see your smile." I frown,
"I'm not smiling"
"I know, try it. I like when you smile." Again the heat flares on my cheeks. I open my mouth when a new voice shouts in my head,
"I told you to stay away from the boys,"
"You know where boys lead,"
"You'll have sex, and start whoring yourself out and when you get pregnant I'm not raising your mistake!"I swallow and look up as Mr. Johns walks in,
"Turn around and pay attention will you?" One side of Alex's lips turn up into a smirk as twists and and settles back into his seat. I quickly swipe at my cheeks still feeling the heat linger there. I look around only hoping the blush has settled before dropping my head down on my desk. Why me.
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Just as Edward said, school is fine for the most part. Tandy leaves me alone, but her stares and cocky half turned smirks still find there way to me; and as unlucky as I am I always look right at her during her staring episodes and instantly it sends me back to "turtle necking" as Alex called it. At lunch Kody switches her usual spot with me, so Tandy is directly behind me and as Algebra ends I've completely forgotten my anxiety about school,
"I seriously can't wait to be a Senior so I don't have to take a math class, I'm never going to understand any of this." Kody groans shaking her bio book in the air,
"It's not alive, you can't choke it." She sign and drops her head in defeat,
"I know, but I wish I could."
"I wish I didn't have to take it home." I already had my geography and english book in my bag not to mention my binder, there for I have to carry my math and biology book for the rest of the day,
"One of these day's I'm going to run for student class president and make it illegal for teachers to send homework home that requires a book. Number one my back hurts and number two, team worksheets only!" I turn watching her shove a fist in the air when suddenly something runs in to my right shoulder, hard. My books go flying, opening and scattering across the floor. I watch almost in slow motion as my biology book lands wrong, the pages fold in on themselves.
"Watch where you're going." Tandy turns and steers, her lips turned down in disgust.
"You ran into her!" Kody defends, however I wish she wouldn't, because everyone in the hallway is staring at me again.
"Prove it." Tandy smiles, placing a hand on her hip, god I hate it here. She looks down, her eyes falling on each book. "Pick them up." I sigh trying to decide if I should say something or just pick them up,
"Tandy-" Kody starts but is immediately cut off,
"I said pick them up." This isn't worth it and reluctantly I start to bend down when my books are stanched from the grown one by one, and placed in my hands.
"Leave her alone." Rosalie marches up to Tandy who immediately looks backs down, her cocky posture and smirk completely disappear. "If I find out your picking on her or even glaring in her direction you will be dealing with me understand?" Tandy looks to her friends for help, "Eyes on me, I said Do. You. Understand?"
"Yeah." Tandy breathes backing away from Rose's harsh glare,
"Good," Rose turns around marching in my direction and immediately grabs my arm dragging me down the hall. We don't say anything and I let her continue to drag me, the weirdest part is she seems to know exactly what and where my next class is; and when when we get to the gym doors she stops and turns towards me,
"Rose-"
"If she bothers you again tell me." This isn't a request and her voice demands the correct answer,
"Okay." She nods, turns and heads back down the hallway leaving me standing there as kids begin to shuffle passed me and into the locker rooms. Again their staring, I'd stare at me too. What just happen.