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Chapter 1 – Sworn Enemies

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'I'm about to die, and for once in my life the emotions that used to run so evidently through my body had been numbed. Should I feel sadness? Should I feel regret? As hard as I tried to find those expected emotions, I couldn't. It was then I realized it doesn't matter anymore, because I had met him.'

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'But the pain of feeling my life slip away was dull compared to the pain of knowing that it was all my fault; my fault that he is dying too.'

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'My life was now measured by the slow beeps of a heart monitor. With my last seconds and my dying breath, I could only pray that he would pull through this.'

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'Thank you for completing my life.'

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One year earlier.

The rain pounded down on the car as I made my way towards the local movie theatre. These rare rainy days proposed the opportunity of checking out the latest movies. Jess had invited Angela and I to come with her and Lauren to see 'Eagle Eye.' Angela and I had been iffy about joining them at the movies. It wasn't that we had a problem with Jessica. It was because Lauren was accompanying her.

Jess was my first friend when I started grade nine. She was average height with curly brown hair and blue eyes. Our friendship had been strong in the beginning, but as we got older we were starting to drift apart. Jess is what you could call a wannabe. She has made it her life goal to become part of the 'in crowd'. This goal of hers caused quite a few arguments between us. Luckily I had a friend like Angela.

Angela had brown hair and brown eyes, like me. She is a little taller than my five foot four inches, and was slender in build. Angela and I met when she moved here from Buffalo at the beginning of the school year. Our personalities were very much alike. We were both rather shy, and hard working. We both believe that we should be happy as who we are and not strive to be someone else, contrary to Jessica's belief. Angela is my true friend who I feel comfortable telling anything to, without having to worry about her prodding, again, contrary to Jessica.

As for me, I'm your average sixteen year old girl. I live in the city of Grand Forks, North Dakota with my father, Charlie. He is the police chief here in the city. I moved here when I was 14, just before starting high school. My mother Renee lives in… well she doesn't live in one general place, every time I talk to her she is in a different part of the country (sometimes even beyond that). My step dad, Phil, is a minor league baseball player and they travel a lot. I moved myself here so that my mom would be able to travel with Phil. My dad Charlie was excited when I called him and asked him if I could move up here with him. He had spoiled me a little too much. The day I turned 16 he bought me a 2003 Green Honda Accord, and a white LG Rumour phone.

Metro Station's song 'California' filled the car. It was the familiar ringtone that Jessica had chosen for herself.

"Hey Jess," I greeted her into the phone.

"Hey, where are you? The movie starts in like 10 minutes," she sounded irritated.

"I'm just pulling into a parking spot now," I rolled my eyes as I responded.

"Hurry up!" she demanded before hanging up.

As much as I didn't want to loose my friendship with Jessica, her attitude was really getting on my nerves. I got out of my car, locked the doors, and made my way into the lobby of the theatre.

"Bella!" Jess yelled before running over to me.

"Hey Jess," I smiled giving her a hug.

"Come on let's get into the theatre," she pulled my arm. I saw that a bunch of people from our school was there. I recognized Angela immediately. But I also noticed Ben Cheney, Lauren Mallory, Tanya Denali, Mike Newton, Jacob Black (my ex), and Edward Mason.

Edward Mason. I pressed my lips together and made a look as if I smelt something rotting. Edward Mason and I were known throughout our school as sworn enemies, destined to hate each other forever. I was fine with that really; I really had no intention of becoming buddy-buddy with such an arrogant ass-hole. He was a player who messed around with girls' feelings and then, when he was bored with them, threw them away.

"Jessica," I hissed.

"What?" she said innocently.

"What the hell is Mason doing here?"

"Tanya invited him, she's trying to get with him, but he's ignored her since the very minute he got here," she rolled her eyes.

We were quite after that, focusing on the movie. I was sitting beside Angela who was curled into Ben's side.

After the movie we all headed out for dinner to a local restaurant called 'Jacks'.

"Bella can I catch a ride with you?" Jacob asked.

"Yeah sure," I smiled and we climbed into my car.

Even though Jake was my ex boyfriend we were still really good friends. We had dated back in June of grade ten but had broken up two weeks after we started. We knew each other since like, the day we were born, and is the fate of every friendship between a guy and a girl, we eventually started dating. We broke up after realizing that the love we feel for one another is more like that of a brother and sister. Our dads were best friends after all so it's not like we could avoid each other even if we wanted to.

We walked into Jack's. Jake was in front of me and Mason was behind me. I didn't notice the caution sign directed towards the wet floors until I had already slipped and started to fall backwards. I felt a pair of arms catch me and I looked up. Crap.

"What the hell Mason?! Don't touch me! I'd rather fall than be caught by someone like you," I yelled at him. I felt dirty being caught by him.

For a moment I felt a little bad about yelling at him. Even if he was a jerk, he did just help me.

He said nothing and dropped me. I fell to the ground landing right on my butt.

That moment didn't last for very long.

"Jerk," I muttered before Jake helped me off the ground.

I thanked Jake and followed everyone to our table. We ordered drinks and started to chat amongst each other about recent rumours, who were hooking up, who were breaking up and other things like that. I found all this prattle rather unnecessary, so I lost interest in it rather quickly. I looked over to the far other side of the table where Edward was sitting with Tanya. While Tanya was totally absorbed in the conversation, Edward seemed to not really be focusing on the discussion at all. Our eyes met for a fraction of a second, about long enough for us to glare at each other, and then looked away.

I could see why girls fell for him so easily (no pun intended). Edward was probably the best looking guy in our year, and he also was very smart. He hung out mainly with a group of people who were just as good looking, and popular, as he.

Emmett, Jasper, Rosalie, Alice, and Edward were the schools five princesses and princes. Every girl and guy dreamed of having a romantic relationship with one of them. The guys who liked the sexy-type of girl preferred Rosalie, who was tall, blond and had rather big assets. For the guys with a preference for cute girls, there was Alice. Alice was short and pixie like, and had short black, spiky hair. As for girls, the ones who liked jocks liked Emmett, who was the jock king of the school with his huge muscles and dark curly hair. The girls who liked the mature, serious guys liked Jasper. Jasper was the tallest in the group, had honey blond hair, and was lean but still muscular. I don't really know what kinds of girls liked Edward though; maybe more of them liked him because he was the only one still single.

Edward, compared to Emmett and Jasper, looked more boyish. He had bronze-coloured hair, and deep green eyes. He was not as muscular as his two friends but he was still built. He is not on any sport teams, which is weird considering he is amazing at them. I even heard rumours that he is amazing at the piano, and he spends his time in the music room. I blew off those rumours as just rumours, after all, how could such a stubborn ass possibly make beautiful music?

"Bella?" Jess said, snapping me back to reality.

"What?"

"Uh... what's your order?" She gave me a funny look.

It was then I realized that everyone was staring at me funny, including the waitress who was standing there waiting to take my order. I turned beet red. I must have got lost in my thoughts and didn't even notice the waitress standing there waiting for me to give my order. I noticed Edward on the other side of the table laughing at me.

"Uhh... sorry, I will have a cheese burger with a side of fries please." I said quickly, still embarrassed.

The waitress jotted that down in her little notepad and left. Edward was still laughing at me.

"Will you shut it Mason? It wasn't that funny." I snapped.

Jess who was sitting next to me with a grin on her face, tried to disguise her own laughing as coughs. I gave her a dirty look.

"What is the matter Swan?" Edward said, still smirking, "you daydreaming about something? Do you care to share?"

"At least I have enough thoughts to get lost in them, Mason." I growled back.

"All right, all right, no fighting you guys." Jess said.

I made a face at him and turned around the other way to talk to Angela.

It took about twenty minutes for our orders to arrive. I realized that all the girls at the table, except for me, got a salad of some sort.

"What's with the rabbit food girls?" Ben asked, looking beside him to Angela's, wrinkling his nose in disgust.

"Well Ben" Lauren started, "Some of us care about whether we look like walruses or not" She sneered and glanced in my direction, at my cheese burgers and fries.

"Hey, don't give Bella any looks, she is the only girl with a normal meal around here. " Jake said, noticing Laurens insult.

"Yea, she doesn't need diets to stay in shape." Mike complimented. I didn't like how this conversation was going. Jess had this huge crush on Mike since the beginning of the school year, and she will get angry for sure if he continues complimenting me. I could already see Jess shooting evil looks in my direction.

As if to prove that she didn't need to eat salads to stay thin, Jess reached over to my place and stole one of my fries. I noticed she made a face when she swallowed it.

I rolled my eyes at the lot of them. I would never be able to sacrifice not eating good food in order to be thin, even if I cared. My metabolism was still working great so I will use it to its full advantage.

When we were done, we got our bills. Ben was paying for Angela's but other than that, everyone was paying for their own bill.

"Would you like me to pay for yours Bella?" Mike asked.

"No thanks, Mike. I can pay for my own thanks." I answered politely. His over friendliness towards me sort of bugs me.

"Oh you got to be kidding me!" Jess shouted, ripping through her bag. "I forgot my wallet at home!"

"Oh... I guess I can pay for yours." Mike said.

"Oh thank you Mike! You really are a life saver." Jess giggled. I smirked to myself, because I knew she had her wallet with her. I saw her use it at the movie theatre. I waited for someone to say something about that; I guess no one else noticed.

I didn't want to start anything with her so I let it go, for this time only. We all paid and left the restaurant to head in our separate directions.

"Bella, can I get a ride home with you?" Jessica asked.

"Yeah sure," I shrugged and led her to my car.

"So Bella…are there any guys that interest you?" Jessica said when we were about five minutes away from her house.

"No," I said flatly. And it was true; I didn't like any of the guys at our school. They were all arrogant jerks who only looked for one thing. And I know you can all guess what that one thing is.

"Come on Bella, you need to meet guys. Here, take this," she handed me a piece of paper with a website written on it.

"What is this?" I asked.

"This is a chat website for teens in North Dakota to meet new friends," she smiled.

"Are you kidding me?" I asked.

"No, seriously Bella, its super safe," she said.

"I'm so sure," I rolled my eyes, "Jessica, my dad is cop, I was raised to obey all rules. And since when is the internet ever safe?"

"Just try it Bella," she pleaded.

"No way"

"Oh come on Bella, just try it out. You never know, you might meet the guy of your dreams get swept of your feet in a beautiful romance." Jessica continued to go on about the benefits of boyfriends.

"Oh please stop it Jess, it's much more likely that I will meet some asshole or some fifty year old creep. Have you not heard about the stories about what can happen to you?"

"Yea yea, but nothing like that has ever happened on this site. I swear it."

"I don't see why you care so much if I have a boyfriend or not."

"Because Bella! You are my friend who hasn't had a boyfriend in like two years. That's unnatural! You need to get a boyfriend soon before people start thinking you are a queer or something." Jess laughed jokingly.

"Fine," I groaned, "But if I get stalkers I'm blaming you."

"Don't worry Bella, you'll love it! I promise. Okay, so you have to create a user name, this is my username, if you don't add me as a friend then I'll know that you're not on it. Also, I expect to see you have chatted with at least three different guys and have added at least one of them to your friends list as well!"

"Whatever, bye Jessica," we pulled up to her house and she climbed out.

"Bye Bella, I'll talk to later tonight on the chat site," she smiled and climbed out of the car.

What had I gotten myself into?

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Well there you have it! Chapter one of 'Technically In Love'! I hope you enjoyed it : )

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