I don’t even feel like updating-I’m too depressed over
“Master of the Universe” final chapter-not because it was sad,
but because it’s over-but I am a woman of my word.
This is a bittersweet day for many of us, so I feel I
should dedicate this chapter to Snowqueens Icedragon,
for creating a World in which I lost myself for months.
She brought me to the lovely Bunker Babes, and thanks to
her I formed new friendships, and met wonderful people.
Thank you Icy,
As always: There's a play list here -playlists
section-that goes with this chapter, if you
want to listen to some music while
you read, or want to listen to what I
listened while I was writing.
DISCLAIMER: Some lucky lady named Stephenie
Meyer owns Twilight!I don’t own a thing,
just playing with her Universe.
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Chapter 2: You
“Dreams are like stars...you may never touch them, but if you follow them they will lead you to your destiny.”
Unknown A storm raged all night in Forks, as it often did, washing away all traces of human activity from the day before. This Monday morning was sunless, grey, and altogether normal. A light drizzle continuously fell from the thick clouds, reducing visibility and slowing the town’s meager traffic.
Bella Swan sat next to her dad, Charlie, in their SUV. He was giving her a ride to school. She was nervous. After having met the
When they finally arrived at the dreaded
“Bye, Daddy.”
“Do you want me to go with you to the main office?” he asked before Bella could climb down from the seat and leave the car.
Bella would have loved to have her dad walk her around her new high school, protecting her from the gossip, but she was stubborn and preferred to do things on her own. She had had enough hovering from her mom to last a life time.
“Thanks, Dad, but I got it.”
Charlie shot her a disbelieving look, but kept his mouth shut. He knew Bella was anxious, but he also understood why she wanted to do this herself.
“Okay, you have your schedule and the school map they emailed us, so you just have to go in there and they’ll probably give you some sort of paper or slip for your teachers to sign,” he smiled reassuringly at his daughter. “Good luck, sweetheart.”
Bella shut the door and stood for a few minutes, staring at the retreating SUV. Finally, she sighed and gave into the inevitable, entering a building with the words Main Office above a set of double doors. The space was warm and decorated with plastic plants. Bella didn’t see the point of fake foliage when you could step outside and stumble on a whole lot of green. But she stopped questioning the town’s standards for normal behavior two days ago.
Bella slowly approached a red-haired lady typing away on an ancient looking computer.
“Hi,” she said tentatively, “I’m Isabella Swan.”
“The new student,” the lady stated.
“Yes.”
“Okay, dear,” the lady said, getting up from her chair and going through a pile of documents on a desk.
“Here you go,” she handed Bella a blue slip of paper. “Have all your teachers sign this and bring it back to me at the end of the day. I’m Mrs. Cope. Anything you need, or any questions you have, come ask me. Okay?”
Bella was infinitely grateful that at least Mrs. Cope acted like a normal person. This was a good sign. She breathed a sigh of relief as she exited the office into the unknown that was Forks High.
She walked around for a bit, holding the campus map in front of her face, trying to get familiar with her surroundings, until she finally figured out a route that led straight to Building 3 for her first class. She stuffed the map inside her messenger bag, not wanting to make her newbie status any more obvious.
"You can do this, no one is looking at you, just keep walking," Bella chanted silently. When she noticed a few students staring, she increased her pace wanting to get to her destination as fast as her legs could get her there. This was going to be a very long day, she thought, feeling quite breathless, as she practically sprinted to class.
* * *
For Edward Cullen Forks High was an all too familiar hell. He was an outcast. Unlike his cousin Alice, who was a regular social butterfly, Edward didn’t get along very well with the other students. He sat at the popular kids’ table, thanks to
What did bother Edward was the new obsession some female students had developed for him. It was as if overnight they discovered that he was secretly a prince of a European country and wouldn’t leave him alone.
Edward hated attention, especially that kind. Sure, a few of the admirers were attractive—he wasn’t blind—but most were so empty-headed; their chatter so inane that any physical allure was overshadowed by their flaws.
That morning, Edward was the first to exit his father’s car. He knew the Mercedes drew unwanted attention and didn’t want to linger.
By the time she joined her cousin, a big group of spectators had gathered to admire the beautiful and obviously expensive machine.
Edward sighed, resigned to the fact that most of them would surely ask him about the car during the day.
“Really
Edward, if you take that stick out of your ass, one day you might find that making friends and being nice is not that hard.” Without another word, she jerked the building doors open and headed to first period.
Incredulous, Edward stared at her back before angrily raking his hair with his fingers. Between embarrassing questions and silly, giggling, stalkers, he sensed this day was not going to be a good one. He jammed his hands into his pockets and stared at his sneakers, oblivious to the kids scrambling to get to class before the late bell.
Lost in thought, Edward bumped into someone –landing on top of that someone as they both fell to the floor.
The next few moments in Edward Cullen’s life could be defined as supernatural. Time literally stopped as he stared down into the face of a girl. Brown endless pools gazed back, sending bolts of electricity through his body, yet calming him for the first time since he could remember.
Bella Swan stared at the boy that lay above her – first with shock – then with intrigue. She searched his forest green eyes and his flawless features with interest. Instead of being annoyed, she felt an awareness, as if a dormant part of her soul, an absence that had nagged at her consciousness her whole life, had finally awakened.
A sense of recognition screamed through each mind: “You!”
Suddenly, all the little things that had seemed so important just seconds before didn’t matter any longer.
The rain outside intensified, the wind howled making the tree leaves swirl in a wave of green, but neither Edward nor Bella noticed. Inside each psyche, the relentless countdown – stopped.
The tick tock finally ended. There was only silence. There was only them.
A/N I know my chapters are short, but I’m not a Native speaker of English, and this is the best I can do at the moment. I don’t want to make you wait for a month for a 6000 words chapter, so I post weekly short chapters. I hope you are kind enough to have a bit of patience until I get my groove and can write in a more fluid manner.
As always, I want to thanks my Betas (yes now is plural) Dante Levine and Monamour, they show me infinite kindness and patience…I can never thank you enough…
And my lovely pre-readers who advice me and hold my hand through this whole experience, my dear friend’s: Rhian0000 and lemommartinis.
I wouldn’t do this without you…
Rhian0000 started a Twilighted thread for this, you can find the link in my profile…I shall be posting teasers there as well as in my Blog…
Thanks for taking the time to read,
Ange
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