Chapter 3

I woke up to the pounding noise of my alarm clock going off, I had set it for 7am. It was enough time to get ready for school and some spare time to catch up on my reading. But before I could even get out of bed Charlie had come in with a tray full of pancakes and freshly squeezed juice (my favourite).

"Good morning Bella, what better way to start your first day of school with a good breakfast?" He said while placing the tray on my lap. Just as Charlie was leaving he popped his head in the door again and said "Oh, and Bella, Jacob thought it would be nice to drive you to school."

"Okay, sounds good, I guess." I said trying to sound cool but I was really anxious, I desperately needed to talk to Jacob alone, about yesterday. So I got up and ate my breakfast quickly so I could have more time to get ready, since it was my first day of school and Jacob was going to be there. So I put on my favourite jeans and my hair was left out as the curls waved over my shoulder perfectly with my mother's hair piece decorating the top of my hair.

"Bella, are you ready yet?" I heard Charlie shout out form downstairs, so I decided to finally go down doing my best impressive walk down hoping Jacob would be blown away by my presence, but when I got down there he wasn't there.

"Jacob isn't here yet?" I asked a little annoyed.

"Not yet, and Bella I just wanted to let you know that I'm sorry for shouting at you last night, I didn't mean to but your safety means a lot more to me then you think." He said in a meaningful way. I couldn't think of anything to say that would of suited the moment but that's when Jacob appeared at the door.

"Taxi for Bella." He said propped up against the door frame.

"Here she is, have fun at school and drive safe." Charlie said gesturing me towards the door, I was glad to start a new school, a new life and new friends, I could use a fresh start

As soon as the door closed behind me I shot Jacob a sharp glance. "What's that look for, Bella?" he said confidently as nothing had even happened.

"You bloody well know what happened! I want to know what exactly was going on last night, there's something you're not telling me, Jacob." Harshly, the words came out.

"I want to Bella but I can't, even if I did there is no way you would ever believe me."

"Try me." I was prepared to listen to anything, even if it was really unbelievable, I'm a gullible enough person anyway.

"Bella, do you believe in vampires?" Vampires? Of course I didn't! but if I said I didn't he might not bother explaining to me if I didn't believe in vampires.

"Well, I guess." I lied but what was I supposed to say? Jacob took a deep breath and looked at me for a while then looked back to the road.

"Where do I begin, well there had been a lot of weird things happening in Forks. Supernatural you could even say. Ever since the beginning of last year, bear sightings have been claimed to be seen but some people say they aren't bears, something far worse-"

"But Charlie and Billy went to go check out bear tracks yesterday!" I cut him off in panic.

"Yes I know, trust me Bella, they know what they're doing." I suddenly thought very negative events that could happen to Charlie and Billy when they decide to go out supposedly bear hunting. But what did Jacob mean by something far worse? I was about to ask him this when I realised we had arrived at school, my nerves kicked in, it looked more lively with the court yard full of students rushing to class, I looked at my watch, only 5 minutes late no biggie. But to Jacob it was

"Hurry, don't want to be late on your first day do you Bella?" I'm sure it was a rhetorical question but I just can't seem to keep my mouth shut with these things

"well to be honest, being late doesn't seem to bother me at all, maybe we could just want here a bit so you could finish telling me about these vampires?" I said softly leaning back against his truck letting the sun reflect in my eyes into his, Wait, sun? I looked up and realised there was a gap in between the clouds.

"Hey look, it's sunny!" this seemed to somewhat exited me, I haven't seen the sun since I moved to Forks. But Jacob only looked up and then back to me. He grabbed me softly by the arm gesturing that we should get to class. His grip was firm and warm, my back tingled all over at his presence so close to me. I followed him into the entrance of the main school corridor, closely behind so I didn't get lost.

"This is the science room, 1st class on Monday." I said in a sarcastic enthusiasm voice.

"Great." I mocked his voice. We entered the lab as everyone looked up from there microscopes, the teacher raised his eyes brows expecting an explanation for our late presence. Jacob was still holding my hand but quickly let go as we entered the classroom.

"Dc Banner, this is Bella, the new student. He used me as an excuse.

"Ah Bella, nice to meet you and welcome to Forks high School, why don't you go and sit next to Edward over there." He pointed to a tall pale particular looking boy staring out at the window pretending not to be interested one little bit.

"Can't I sit next to Jacob I said secretly to the teacher once everyone had started talking again.

'Oh, I'm sorry Bella, Jacob isn't in this class." My heart dropped. Great. My first class and I don't know anyone.

"Sorry Bella, but meet me in the cafeteria at lunch." Lunchtime? That's ages away! But I didn't argue, as Jacob left I made my way to my seat. He didn't pay much attention to me, or even talked to me. I just starred at his watch, it was really flash, it must of cost a fortune. I decided to make the first move

"Hey, I'm Bella, I'm new here." Kind of pathetic I know, but it's the best I could do, he didn't reply, how rude I thought.

"H would be nice." He just stared at me, he kept doing it for ages, I looked at the clock, Oh Jacob, Cant lunch hurry up!