I arrived at school with minutes until the warning bell.

I looked around the parking lot and

quickly spotted Angela's car. I started walking over to her when she turned and saw me her eyes
widened and quickly walked towards me.

When she got close enough to me she grabbed my arm and pulled me towards the bathrooms.
Unknowingly she grabbed a bruise on my arm which caused me to hiss and pull back in pain.
Angela immediately let go and turned back to me. "What's wrong Bella? I'm sorry did I hurt
you?" She asked me rushed almost not understanding what she said.

I gave her a weak smile and shook my head. She gingerly took my hand this time and continued
pulling me to the bathroom. When we arrived she questioned me. "What the hell happened to
you Bella? You have a huge bruise on your face and some on your neck." My eyes widened in
panic that she could notice. That means that other people noticed too and I was in trouble.

"Oh my god Angela you can see them?" I asked her. She nodded slowly "Bella you didn't cover
them very well and you can see right through your makeup and answer me Bella what the hell
happened to you?" She practically shouted at me.

I shook my head and felt the tears well up in my eyes. I took a deep breath and faced Alice. "Oh
Ange." I said before I started crying. I slid down the door and sat on the floor with my head in
my hands.

"Oh Bella," she said, "What happened Hun?" I just started crying harder when I tried to tell her.
She held me and stroked my hair while I composed myself enough to tell her what happened. I
couldn't look at her all when I was explaining what happened.

By the time I finished the story I looked up at Angela and saw the fury and sadness in her eyes.
She started muttering something under her breath that I couldn't hear. She stood me up and
hugged me tightly. "Come on Bella let's try to fix your makeup so your bruises aren't so
noticeable."

This is why I loved Angela; if you told her something bad she just did her best to make you feel
better. She quickly reapplied my makeup and was just putting away her makeup as the late bell
rang.

We gathered our stuff and headed towards the main office to get late passes. Angela left me at
the door as she went up and whispered something into Mrs. Cope's ear. I whipped my head
towards them when I heard Mrs. Cope gasp. I could only imagine what Angela must have told
her as she passed me and walked through the office door with passes.
She silently gave me my pass, hugged me, and walked towards our classes. When I arrived in
English I tried to put on the sorriest face I could make. The teacher saw me and nodded her head
at me to go to my seat while she continued her lecture on Shakespeare.

Even though English was my favorite class I couldn't concentrate on anything. The night before
last just kept creeping back into my mind as hard as I tried to concentrate on the book in front of
me. I sighed a breath of relief when the bell rang for the next period. I walked out the classroom
door and took a deep breath.

I stumbled through the hallway trying to avoid bumping into people. Being surrounded by so
many people scared me for some reason. It was as if they were all against me and purposely
trying to hurt me. I thanked the heavens that there was only two more periods left until lunch. I
had been hearing all morning that there were five new students in school. I kept my eyes open
for them in the halls on the way to history.

I felt so much pain physical and emotional. I walked into my classroom and instantly headed
towards one of the seats in the back. I sat next to a semi-muscular guy with blonde hair. He must
have been one of the new students I heard about.

I sat down and began drawing on my note book randomly until the bell rang. I felt something
land in front of my hand so I looked up and saw a note. I looked around the room trying to figure
out who it was from. I opened it up and read:

Bella,

Why did you run out of my house like that yesterday Baby? I was just getting ready for round
two. I guess I was just too much for you but I know you loved it. How bouts we meet up again
and have some fun? ;) And if you tell anyone about our little exchange I'll make sure you
personally pay for it.

Mike

I practically puked right there in my mouth after reading Mike's note. I was gaping at the note
and it must have been really noticeable because the new student next to me turned and looked at
me with this pained expression.

I turned away from him and hid behind my hair making a curtain between us. About half way
through the class while we were grouped off doing work the new student turned toward me and
started talking.

"Hello my name is Jasper. Are you okay? You seem disturbed." I jumped at the sudden
movement towards me and acted like it never happened. "Um yeah," I said quickly making up an
excuse in my mind, "I was just thinking about something, oh and my name is Bella." I told him
giving him a slight smile.
He returned my smile but seemed uncertain of my answer. "Are you sure Bella?" He asked me
again. "Yes I'm quite fine Jasper." I told him reassuringly. He furrowed his eyebrows and went
back to his work. Was it really that noticeable that I wasn't okay? That I was physically and
emotionally scarred and damaged?