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Chapter 7

Bella POV

"Bella! Time to get up for school!"

I groaned and pulled my pillow over my head. "No. . ." I groaned. Maddy had been trying to get me up for the past ten minutes.

"Bella, if you don't get up, I'm am going to dress you for a week!"

I glared at her and sat up.

"There. Now, was that so hard?" she asked, walking away smugly.

I barely resisted the urge to throw a fireball at her.

Clearly, I am not a morning person.

I trudged to my closet and grabbed a pair of grey skinny jeans, a black t-shirt, and some black high-tops. I didn't feel like doing anything to my hair, so I just put it in a messy bun.

My lack of fashion sense hasn't changed and it irks Maddy just as much as it did Alice, if not more.

I went downstairs to see that I was the last one to leave. I went into the garage, put on my leather jacket and helmet and started driving to the high school.

Thanks to my crazy-awesome driving skills, it only took about five minutes to get there. I saw my family waiting for me, ignoring the looks they were getting. I parked next to Drew's car, garnering more stares, and smiled at them instead of saying hello. We try not the talk in public much because it irritates us when people stare at us in a trance, due to our voices.

Drew and Emrie smile back, but Maddy is too busy staring at my outfit in disgust to even look at my face.

I turn to put my helmet in the bag in on my bike and I hear, "Bella?" someone gasp in an all too familiar voice.

I look over and, sure enough, there he is with all of his siblings.

I stare into Edward's eyes. Everything else disappears. I don't see the students looking at us curiously. I don't see his shocked family.

Nothing but him.

All of my memories of him come back to me.

The first time I saw him in the cafeteria.

That conversation in Biology.

The van.

Edward rescuing me in Port Angeles.

The meadow.

Baseball with his family.

His voice through the burning pain of James' venom.

Prom.

My eighteenth birthday party.

Him leaving me.

The pain from our last moments together is overshadowed by the joy of seeing him again.

I was suddenly jarred from my reminiscing by Drew grabbing my arm and calling my name.

"Bella?"

I broke my gaze away from Edward and looked at Drew. He was looking at me oddly. I realized he wanted to know if it was the Cullens staring at me. He knew they were the only ones who could affect me like this.

I nodded and he glared briefly before pulling me into the office. Maddy and Emrie walked in a second later.

"Are you okay?" Maddy asked, concerned.

I mentally shook myself. "Yeah, I'm fine." They just looked at me, not quite believing me. "Hey, I knew we'd run into them at some point. It just came sooner than I anticipated."

They nodded and we walked up to the front desk where a man was doing something on a computer. He didn't look up when we approached.

I cleared my throat. He glanced up looking annoyed, then heavily blushed when he saw Emrie, Maddy, and I. His eyes kept darting between all of our faces, but I could tell he was trying not to look at my lip ring. Small towns, I thought.

"Are you the new students?" He asked, his voice cracking.

Good job, Sherlock, I thought, barely succeeding in not rolling my eyes. I nodded and he gave us our schedules with shaking hands.

We walked out of the front office and looked at our schedules. I was about to ask Drew what classes he had, since there wasn't anyone in hearing distance, but when I looked up, my family was all glaring at something behind me.

I reflexively turned, but already knew it was the Cullens. I stared for a minute before turning back to Drew. He was still glaring and I used my intuition to see what he was thinking.

After I checked, I rolled my eyes. He was deliberating on the most possibly painful way to kill Edward.

"Hey. We talked about this," I said earnestly, knowing he'd remember what I was talking about.

It was one of the few times we had ever really fought about something. He told me if he ever met Edward he'd kill him. We started to get mad at each other when I told him not to. We argued for an hour before he called me pathetic for falling for a vampire in the first place. I left after he said that and didn't come back for months. When I did, he tried to apologize. I blatantly ignored him until he cornered me and forced me to listen. He told me that he had been so mad at me for not letting him protect me. He just wanted to keep me from getting hurt again and I wasn't allowing him to so he took his anger out on me. He was very sincere and I forgave him, but made him promise not to kill Edward or any of the other Cullens if we ever saw them. He agreed, but was by no means happy about it.

He sighed and nodded. I started walking away, satisfied, but he pulled me back into a bear hug. I knew he was trying to show Edward and his family to stay away, so I indulged him. I could see that Emrie and Maddy were still concerned, so I hugged them, too. Afterwards, I went to my first class, History.

When I walked in, everything went silent. I huffed. Seriously? Does nothing change around here?

I walked up to the teacher, a tall guy with glasses, kind eyes, and a familiar face that I couldn't quite put a name to. "Hello. . .Isabella," he said, looking at my slip, then signing it. "I'm Mr. Cheney. Here's your textbook. you don't need to introduce yourself to the class. I'm sure they all know who you are by now," he said, smiling wryly.

Did he say Cheney?I used my intuition to see if my suspicions were correct, and sure enough, he was the grandson of Angela and Ben. Awww. . .

I smiled at him and took my seat. The rest of the students came into the class as the bell rang. They all stared at me until Mr. Cheney called their attention to him. He gave a lecture, which I took thorough notes on out of boredom. When he finished, he told us we could talk the rest of the period.

Great.

The boy on my right immediately turned to me. "Hi. I'm Josh. Crowley." Even better, I thought sarcastically. I just nodded at him. "You're Isabella?" I nodded again, not bothering to correct him. "So. . .you like it here in Forks so far?" he asked awkwardly. Everyone in hearing distance turned to look at me. Honestly! I shrugged and pulled my I-pod put of my pocket, effectively ending that conversation. I listened to my music on a low setting so that I could here what the kids were saying me. It always amused me.

"Look at all those piercings!"

"I know! Do you think they hurt?"

"I can't believe she rides a motorcycle."

"She looks like a slut."

"Do you think she's single?"

"Dude, she's freaking tiny!" I rolled my eyes.

The bell rang. Finally. I put my I-pod up when Josh stopped me.

"So, wanna go out tonight?" he asked confidently. I shook my head and walked away. He called after me, but I ignored him.

The same thing happened in my next three classes. When lunch eventually came around, I turned down the offers of lunch spots and escaped to Drew's car before I killed someone. I unlocked the door and sat in the back. I relaxed, enjoying the silence and the noticeably missing pain from my chest when Drew opened the door and climbed in with Emrie and Maddy.

"Hey."

"Are you alright?" Maddy asked sympathetically.

I shrugged.

"They want to know what we are. They can tell we're not human," Drew told me.

"They invited us to their house after school to talk." Emrie said "We told them that we'd see what you thought." She raised her eyebrow silently asking me.

I thought it over for a minute. I could see Esme and Carlisle. Possibly get a bear hug from Emmett. Tackled by Alice. Maybe, even a hug from Edward. I really missed them. All of them. Even Rosalie. Maybe Edward wouldn't mind. When he'd left, he'd said that he'd always love me. In a way, but still. Surely, he wouldn't mind too much.

"Yeah. I think we should go."

"Do you want to tell them what we are?"

"Hmmm. . . " I tilted my head to the side, thinking. An idea suddenly came to me. "They never told me what they were. I had to guess. Why don't we reciprocate?" I asked, grinning.

Drew laughed, nodding.

We heard the bell ring and started to get out. When Maddy and Drew left I was about to leave when I noticed Emrie staring at me.

"What? Do I have something on my face?"

She shook her head, chuckling. "No. It's just. . .um. . ." Whoa. Emrie never stutters. "I've never seen you this happy before. It's kinda nice now that you're not all doom and gloom."

I laughed. "Thanks, I guess."

She laughed and walked away.

I went to my last two classes, impatient with excitement for the day to end.

When my last class, gym ended, I quickly changed, ignoring all the looks my tattoos were earning and found my family waiting for me.

"Let's go." I said, eagerly.

"Calm down, Bella," Maddy said. I laughed at the irony. Normally it's backwards.

I took deep breaths and by the time we got to the parking lot I was collected enough to look indifferent. Drew told the Cullens we'd follow them home and got into his car. When we got onto the highway we sped up and got to the familiar large white mansion fairly quickly. I got off my motorcycle and took off my helmet.

After I joined my family, we started to walk up the porch with the Cullens following us.

The door opened before we could reach it, revealing a very shocked Carlisle and Esme.

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