Bella MacLeod's Twilight Fanfiction

An Imperfect Life

By Midnight Dreamer

Chapter 01: School

(BPOV)

Just another normal day at James Madison High. The sun was shining no clouds in sight. A beautiful day. I love the sun. Emmett and I  pulled into our normal parking spot in lot A on the north side of the building. As I exited the jeep I was caught off guard as Nicole, my best friend, bounced over to me almost knocking me down.

“Bella” Nicole yelled.

“You’ll never guess who just asked me out!”

“No who?” I replied

“Joey Donivan” she screamed and giggled with excitement.

Who is Joey Donivan you ask? Well he is the hottest and most sought after football player at our school. All the girls swoon over him. Okay not all the girls; I really don’t see what there is to swoon over. He’s just another jock, he also happens to be my big brothers’ best friend.

“Wow! That’s great Nicole. When are you guys going out?” I asked feigning interest but that’s what best friends do right?

“Oh! I don’t know, I ran to tell you before I got the specifics.”

I laughed so loudly at that that half the school parking lot looked over at me. Nicole is such a nut. She reminds me of my mom. I guess that is why I get along with her so well.

“Hey Bells it’s time for class, you don’t wanna be late…again!” Emmett yelled from the front doors of the building.

I looked over to see him with his arm around Amber. She used to be my friend, but once we hit high school her and Emmett have been inseparable. Not that I blame her, Emmett is very handsome. Ewe….wait a minute did I just say that, so gross he’s my brother.

“Bella”

I heard someone yelling my name and turned to see Davey running from the parking lot.

“Oh hi Davey”

“Hey Bella, I hate to ask but did you find a date for the Sadie Hawkins Dance yet?”

“No Davey I haven’t and I’m pretty sure I don’t even wanna go.”

“What do you mean you don’t wanna go… you’re the best dancer in this school.”

“Yeah so what. That doesn’t mean I wanna go. Besides it’s girls choice and I choose not to go” I said getting rather aggravated that he was being so pushy about this stupid dance, I never saw the point in these stupid mating rituals anyway.

“Okay, OK I get it your not going. Jeez you don’t have to bite my head of Bella”

“Sorry I just don’t see the point of getting all dressed up so some loser can slather himself all over me, thinking he is gods gift to women.”

“I understand Bella, but would you consider going with me as moral support? I really don’t wanna go by myself and I know no one is gonna ask me.” he said looking like a lost puppy.

I thought about what he was saying as we were walking to class, and he was right; no one would ask him. Davey’s not what most girls call hot, sure he’s  tall and slightly muscular, and has the most beautiful blue eyes I have ever seen, but no one can get past the shaggy brown hair, or dark rimmed glasses that were perched on his nose. Davey is really sweet but he is a  geek. He is captain of the debate team and chess club. He runs the A/V lab at school and is in all AP classes like me. Yes I’m a straight A student too. Thinking about all of these things I guess I should help him out.

“Alright Davey it’s a date, but don’t get to excited we are only going as friends.”

“YES! Thank you so much Bella, you’re the best friend anyone could ask for!”

He yelled as he hugged me and kissed my cheek before he ran off to his first period class. I just stood there stunned in the hall outside my class room until the bell rang. His childish out burst was unexpected. The rest of the day up until lunch went by in a blur. As I entered the lunch room I saw everyone was already at our table. Emmett like always was already perched beside Amber. He says he prefers to sit with us because we have better conversations then the football team does, but I’m pretty sure he just likes the chance to mess with me. After an overly brutal session of pick-on-Bella; the lunch bell rang and it was time for us all to head to our final classes of the day. I had history last class. When the final bell rang I headed for the parking lot after dropping my books off at my locker. As I got into the jeep Emmett was already waiting to drive us home.

” Hey Bells, I hear you are taking Davey to the dance.” he remarked as we were coming to a stop at the light at the end of our street.

“Yeah it’s a favor, he didn’t wanna go alone”.

“Awe….Bells that was so sweet of you” he chided. So I slugged him.

“Ouch…Why did you do that?” He look stunned.” All I said was that it was sweet”.

I looked at him and raised my fist to him again.

“whoa there slugger…Okay so your not so sweet” he said as I sat back smiling to myself.

I enjoyed the fact that even though Emmett is taller and much more muscular then I am, that I could still kick his ass. As we pulled into the driveway we noticed that our moms car was parked in it’s usual spot.

“What’s she doing home already?” I asked Emmett.

” I have no idea let’s go find out.”

We made our way up the stairs of our 19th century brownstone. Just as we where about to reach the door it opened, revealing our mom. She was wearing one of her fancy Ball gowns. Turning around she saw us and smiled.

“Oh good your home, I’m on my way to a competition, I won’t be home till late, there are leftovers in the fridge and your dad will be home in an hour, I love you both” she said as she rushed past us to her car.

“Well that answers that now doesn’t it.” I said in a testy tone.

“Yeah that’s just like mom” Emmett said.

The evening went by uneventful. Dad came home an hour later like mom had said. We did our homework at the dining room table, of course I had to help Emmett like always. When we finished I went to the fridge and got out the leftovers and started cooking them up for all of us. I could hear dad in the living room with Emmett watching some sports recap that they found. I called them to the table and we ate and discussed our days. We went on about the dance and dad talked about some case he was working on. Of course we really didn’t pay much attention to the case cause it was not relevant. Dad just liked us to know what he was working on so it looked like we actually spent time together.

That night I lay in bed awake waiting for mom to return home. She finally got in around 2 am. Which for her on a competition night was normal. Although we knew how much she loved to dance we still wished she would spend more time with us. After I heard her go into bed I drifted off into a dreamless sleep.