Trapped in Twilight, Help!

Chapter 1

In art, Miss. Down said "Draw what you hate! Make it beautiful, this is a week long project!" I got to drawing. I couldn't tell you what I was drawing because I hated a lot of things; cats, the sun, frogs, movies, boys (duh, who doesn't hate ninth grade boys), alarm clocks (how to make that beautiful?), digital clocks (people can be so lazy sometimes, right!), Twilight, peppy people... the list goes on. I just know that at the end of the hour I had a good outline of two people.

I hate many people; jocks, cheerleaders, gamers, the guys who never put on shirts, etc. so I couldn't tell you who they were anyway. Miss. Down was impressed, and asked who they were when I handed in the paper just as the bell rang.

"I'm not sure, honestly," I shrugged. "For all I know they were the two people who sat in front of me when I went to see the third Harry Potter movie when it came out last year!" Miss Down laughed, said "I hope you know so you can work more tomorrow!" Before she dismissed me. I speed-walked to the cafeteria for study hall for my final lesson. It was one I had without Lily, one we are both still bitter about. It was the one block we wanted together.

I just had a Honors Geometry worksheet to finish, a Honors Language Arts essay to revise and a Biology vocabulary test to study for. It was simple (thank God for my photographic memory!) and I finished with forty-five minutes to spare. I printed my essay and handed it into Mrs. Crocks, the study hall monitor, for her to give to Mr. Grose, my Honors LA teacher. I glanced over my Biology vocab and easily memorized them. Geometry gave me a little trouble but within ten minutes, I was done and back to reading Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.

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"Come seek us where our voices sound,

We cannot sing above the ground,

And while you're searching, ponder this;

We've taken what you'll sorely miss,

An hour long you'll have to look,

And recover what we took,

But past an hour-the prospect's black

Too late, it's gone, it won't come back."

I hummed along to the eerie melody. I always thought it was something I could sing and write a simple lullaby to on the piano. I liked to sing, I can play the guitar, the piano and a few other things but they're nothing more than hobbies. I do play the flute for band, though. I continued reading until the final bell rang, I was glad to have brought along the fifth book, The Order of the Phoenix, too because I finished it just before the bell rang.

Lily and I met up outside of the front doors of the school, she grabbed her bike and picked up my skateboard and we continued our argument about Twilight. It continued until we got the the park and had to go our separate ways. I knew that was exactly 3:46pm, Lily would call and we'd argue until seven-which was when my dad came home from work.

Which is exactly what happened.

"But really, he watched over her to make sure she was safe at night!" Was what I got greeted from when I picked up the phone. "And you can't say that you didn't connect with Bella on some spiritual level, Edy, you're Dad's the sheriff of Sioux Falls; her's is the sheriff of Forks! You guys are, like, practically twins!"

"Pfft!" I laughed. "Lily, I don't have a boyfriend who watches me sleep and is a stalker and has to keep himself from drinking my blood! We are nothing alike! My dad gets action, like, every day! Her dad gets to take days off to go fishing!"

Lily paused for a half a second. "Well, you could have a boyfriend! Beau isn't as sweet but he's nice. I bet he'd buy you a car when you turn sixteen, too!"

"Eww, he's my other best friend, Lily. I'll date him when you date James." I smirked, our crushes also had the names of fictional characters. Of course, she got to have someone from Harry Potter while Beau was the name of the counterpart of Bella in Life and Death, which I also read over break and enjoyed it much more than I did Twilight. Life is so unfair.

"So, you'd date me if your dad would let you!" Lily teased, I could imagine her sticking her nose in the air defiantly as she said that.

I laughed. "Mhmm, sure I would, Lils; but you know that would just break my heart seeing as you are so in love with James!" I balanced the bulky, round, cordless phone between my shoulder and cheek as I made my way over to the fridge to get out the cream cheese and a bagel.