Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Twilight

After arriving “home” with Charlie, Bella proceeds to move all of her stuff into the house on this “alien planet.” It took her all of one trip to move all of her stuff in. When she got up to her room she realized none of it had changed, except for the crib changing into a bed and her dad adding a desk. As the afternoon turned into evening, Bella began to think about and dreaded the coming morning when she would attend Forks High School. She would be the new kid from the city, of Chief Swan’s flighty wife, and an oddity to all. She did not have the typical look of someone from Arizona. She was an albino with dark hair and dark eyes. As Bella her self describes it:
“I didn’t relate well to people my age. Maybe the truth was that I didn’t relate well to people, period. Even my mother, who I was closer to than anyone else on the planet, was never in harmony with me, never on exactly the same page. Sometimes I wondered if I was seeing the same things through my eyes that the rest of the world was seeing through theirs. Maybe there was a glitch in my brain. “
“But the cause didn’t matter. All the mattered was the effect. And tomorrow would be just the beginning.”
The following morning after a restless sleep, even after crying, Bella quietly went down stairs to eat breakfast and be on her way to school. On her way to school she contemplates how she will be at school. Like a novelty, of course, but hopefully as someone people can befriend. When she arrives Bella immediately notices that the school looks more like a bunch of tiny houses rather than a school. There are many small red bricked buildings in a cluster rather than a few large buildings. Once on campus, Bella carefully notes there are no metal detectors or gates, she drives to a building labeled Front Office in order to receive directions to the parking lot and her classes. Once in the building she meets an older lady named, Ms. Cope, she is the receptionist at Forks High School. Ms. Cope brings out a map in order to show Bella where her classes are located and the easiest route to take in order to get there on time.
Bella’s First Day next.

1 comment:

Timothy Braun said...

Good start. Keep writing.