Eternally Yours

Chapter 3

“Everyone is a genius, but if you judge a fish by it’s

ability to climb a tree it will live it’s

whole life believing it is stupid.”

-Albert Einstein
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“Well this should be fun.” I muttered as Bella parked the truck and I slung my bag over my shoulder and followed her in, glaring at whoever had the nerve to say something to us on our way.

“Hi, I’m Bella and this is my sister, Hope. We’re picking up our schedules.” Bella spoke to the women behind the counter and she grinned at us.

“Oh, of course, Chief Swan’s girls.” I shuffled under her gaze, feeling uncomfortable at being called that. Charlie wasn’t my dad, I had visited him with Bella only because Bella helped me function for a really long time, in fact she still does, we needed each other more than anything after I moved in. She stopped going when we were 14 and that was the end of that, Charlie’s nice and all but he’s not my dad. The women quickly explained our schedules to us and where to go before giving us a paper to get signed and pointing us in the right directions.

“Okay…guess I’ll see you at lunch.” I nodded, following along after the students and finding my locker, pulling out the books I needed for my first 3 classes, looking over my schedule.

1st- AP Math-Building 4

2nd- AP English-Building 3

3rd-AP History- Building 5

Lunch

4th-AP Science-Building 2

5th-Painting-Building 6

As I looked at the paper I knew I was in trouble. History wasn’t something I was tutored in, I knew some things of course but nothing technical, history not having been a priority for a child that couldn’t even read…I’m screwed.

Math was pretty simple for me, and I got through it without any pain, it was my best subject, numbers were easy for me to work with, and English wasn’t hard as we were beginning Hamlet and I had already read it 2 years prior. Now however I’m standing outside the History building, feeling read to shoot myself with how nervous I was. I walked in and handed my paper to the teacher to sign, making her smile down at me. “Hello Hope. I’m Miss. Casey. Let me know if there’s anything you need, alright?” I nodded. “You can sit in the back next to Jasper. Mr. Hale, raise your hand please?” I saw a blonde boys hand go up and walked over to the table, sitting beside him and seeing his stiff posture relax almost immediately, as he looked at me in pure confusion. I pulled out my book and followed along with what she was saying, taking as many notes as I could, feeling completely frustrated with the words she was saying as I understood none of them. I felt a rush of calm and let it take me over as the teacher let us go on a worksheet for the rest of class and I looked through the book, trying to figure out what it was about, seeing everyone else done within 5 minutes.

“Here, just copy the answers, it’ll be faster.” I heard a southern voice from beside me and saw Jasper handing me his worksheet.

“Oh, no. It’s okay. Thank you though. I really need to figure all this out for myself.” He nodded as the bell rang and I packed my bag up.

“Maybe you shouldn’t be in AP history if you don’t know the basics.” He said, walking out the door beside me and I felt as if I had just been slapped in the face.

“Maybe you shouldn’t worry about problems that you don’t know anything about.” I hissed and he flinched back as I practically ran out the door and into the cafeteria, grabbing a tray with a slice of pizza and a coke, before seeing Bella waving me over. “Hey. I’m Hope.” I introduced myself and learned Bella’s new friends names were Jessica, Mike, Angela, Lauren, Eric and Tyler. I listened as Jessica explained the Cullen’s to us, not really caring too much about what she was saying as I turned to see Jasper staring at me, he smiled slightly when he caught my eyes and I shook my head, turning back around.