Perfect

Monday morning rolled around quicker than I had wished it too. I woke up to the sound of my phone buzzing on the dark wooden bedside table and I wanted nothing more than to chuck it against the wall. It was too early to be getting up for this shit. A deep sigh emitted from my mouth before I rolled over to check out who was calling at this ungodly hour. I groaned at the caller ID showing up on the bright screen of my phone. My eyes were heavy with sleep and it was impossible to get my eyes to focus but it wasn’t hard to figure out who it was once I put the phone to my ear.

“Get up Isabella, I’ll see you at school!” Claire erupted on the other side of the phone before I got the dial tone. She’d ended?

That girl was crazy but I guess that’s why I loved her so much. I reluctantly swung my legs over the bed and out of the sheets into the cool air. Putting my iPhone on the dock, I picked a song and turned it up loud. I always needed a song to put me in the mood to get ready. I started singing loudly and dancing to the song of ‘Hideaway’ by Daya.

Since I had showered last night I didn’t need too this morning and proceeded to take my hair out of the messy bun it was in as I walked to my walk in wardrobe. I stopped abruptly when I saw my appearance in the mirror. I stifled a laugh, I had small bags under my eyes due to the intense lack of sleep the last couple of nights and my dirty blonde hair was sticking out in all sorts of funky places.

I grabbed a brush and started combing through the birds next on my head. I put a hair net over my original hair and pinned it to the crown of my head. Grabbing the light brown wig and placing it securely over the top of my head so it wouldn’t fall off, I then grabbed the curling iron and started lightly curling each bit of the long brown strands. After my ‘fake’ hair looked semi decent, I started on my makeup. I was only going for a light look, so I filled in my eyebrows with a light hand, curled my lashes and put mascara on them finishing off with some peachy lip gloss. Grabbing my contacts case out of one of the draws, I placed my green contacts carefully into my eyes making sure they were in properly before looking into the mirror and nodding at my appearance. Walking towards my wardrobe, I shuffled in looking for a suitable outfit for the day. I found a white blouse and some light blue skinny jeans along with lacy white flats. Claire had helped me with the whole American fashion when we’d become friends, otherwise right now I’d probably be dressed in something a lot fancier.

I giggled at the thought of me walking into school dressed in a silk woven gown with a crown on top of my head, expensive jewellery and some particularly nice diamond encrusted heels. I grabbed my phone off the dock and skipped out the double doors of my bedroom, into the hallway and down the spiral staircase shaking the absurd thoughts out of my head. Reaching the bottom of the stairs in no time, I took a right to enter the kitchen. My stomach rumbled at the smell of whatever was cooking on the stove, smelled like bacon and eggs. Smiling to myself I sat down, chef always knew exactly what I liked.

“I knew I heard an angry monster coming down the stairs to sit at the table.”

I laughed loudly at my favourite chef who turned the corner with a big smile on his face. It turned into a grin as he whipped a plate out from behind him and placed it down in front of me. My mouth watered at the sight of this delicious breakfast in front of me. “How dare you tease me Pete?” I scoffed as he pulled a chair out beside me and plonked his butt down taking a deep breath and relaxing into the cushion.

I shoveled a spoonful of the delicious goodness into my mouth and relished in the taste of godly made food. Pete sure knew how to cook, even if he did tease me with it. I looked over at his relaxed figure and almost snorted out loud, I could imagine the faces of my parents if they saw the cook relaxing in one of the mansion chairs as if he was the King himself. Although I didn’t care considering they weren’t here and right now this was my house, especially since all the staff were family to me.

Pete opened an eye as I shoved more food down my throat to get more of the greasy deliciousness inside me. “Excited for your last first day back Princess?” I shrugged at his question and continued eating my food swallowing quickly so I could reply. “I don’t think I’ll ever be excited for another day at school Pete. This year will most likely be worse than last, even though it is my last.” I said scrunching up my face in disgust at the idea of another whole year of crappy people.

“Come on Princess, what happened to positivity? Did they teach you anything over there in England while you were gone, other than to change your appearance?” Pete inquired with a flash of curiosity on his face.

“A lot of things have happened Pete, some worse than others. My positivity was crushed long ago but here I am.” His face dropped its curiosity and a smile and look of understanding came across his face before I was enveloped in a hug. “Sometimes I think you’re such a teenager but then you say something that makes you wise beyond your years Princess.” He said in a soft voice, a look of complete and utter respect crossing his face, before turning to walk back towards the kitchen.

I stared at his retreating back in shock, lucky I was sitting on the chair or I would’ve fallen over. I slowly finished my dinner, trying to unjumble my thoughts to prepare myself for school but everything was just all scattered around the place. In my mind that is.

Walking out of the large dining room I headed towards one of the downstairs bathrooms to run a brush over my teeth. I was out of there within four minutes grabbing my bag and rushing across the grand hallway floor towards the underground garage. One of the big burly security guards was already holding the door open for me by the time I got out of the elevator and headed towards the car. I jumped in and inhaled a deep breath in.

Here we go.

“Isabella!”

I turned the corner to see a brunette head bob through the mob of high school kids before being pulled into a bone crushing hug.

“I can’t breathe Claire,” I winced while giggling, I still hadn’t realised how strong my best friend was. She slowly let go of me and I dramatically gasped for air as she stood there with a smirk on her face.

“What did you expect, you were gone all summer doing your duties,” she exclaimed quoting ‘duties’ with her fingers and giving me a smug look.

“Sh!” I exclaimed quietly glancing quickly around the crowded hallway, “No one can know who I am remember!”

“I know Bella, I know,” she groaned rolling her eyes.

I couldn’t blame her for rolling her eyes, I’d known the girl since the day I walked into Primary school and she still hadn’t spilled the beans about who I was. We’d clicked instantaneously and she had never left my side even through all the harshness that had been Katherine and I couldn’t be more grateful for her presence in my life. She made everything feel somewhat normal, even though my life was far from ordinary.

Claire turned her gaze away from me and was looking over my shoulder when she suddenly let out another groan. I’d have giggled and said she sounded like a dying whale but her face was scrunched up in annoyance. I followed her eyes to where she was looking and turned around to find myself standing right in front of the hypothetical Queen B herself, Katherine Hayes.

I groaned internally along with Claire at her presence, we both gave each other a look as if to say, ‘what a great start to the day.’ I would say she was quite pretty with her semi dark blue eyes, strawberry blonde hair and good physique but her bad personality ruined that. Being Cheer Captain automatically made her the most popular girl in school. She was also Dance Captain as well and she was good at both. She was also good at spreading her legs but no one would ever say that in front of her for fear of being murdered. I had absolutely no idea why or what I’d done to deserve her hatred but she was more than willing to turn my school life into a living hell.

“What the hell are you doing back here Bella?” She asked, her voice dripping with venom and her blue eyes piercing into my green contacts. I had absolutely no desire to pay any attention to her witch like ways and I’d learned to try and avoid her throughout the last two years of my life but her glare made me want to almost bow my head in submission. My chin was lowering towards my chest, a triumph look crossing Katherine’s features when a swift slap was delivered to the back of my head. I turned around and glared at Claire, she knew better than to hit me but there was a look of determination in her eyes and I knew she was setting me back in my place reminding me that I was a Princess, not some lowly servant waiting to tend to Katherine’s needs.

I gave her a swift smile before turning back to Katherine and giving her a nod. Turning around I finished grabbing the rest of the books I needed out of my locker, grabbed Claire’s arm and started walking towards my first period class since hers was right near mine.

“You’ll regret walking away from me like that Bella.” I heard her say in a calm yet quite frightening tone as we continued down the hallway. I knew I would get in the shit later for ignoring her but it was my first day back and I was determined to get to all my classes on time. I knew she hadn’t come after me but Katherine’s little scene had gained some attention from the slowly dispersing students in the hallway. It’s been like this since the start of High School and I still got uncomfortable under all the gazes.

I quickened my pace knowing that I’d be late for class if I didn’t move it. Claire had walked towards her own classroom but not before she had told me we’d be having a serious conversation later. The long square shaped hallway seemed to go forever and I was groaning at the fact that I would have to walk into class late.

Turning the corner, I found myself unexpectedly smash into what seemed like a warm brick wall but was someone’s hard, muscled chest. My books scattered all over the floor and I fell right onto my ass. I didn’t want to look up at who I’d run into just because I knew I was blushing uncontrollably at my stupidity.

I hadn’t realized people were laughing, although I was lost in my own head thinking about how utterly stupid I looked. Slowly gazing up at who was laughing, I swear I saw a bunch of trees instead of humans. By then I was sure I was hallucinating but the cackle of laughter sounded so familiar, I had to blink a few times and who did I find smirking at me, none other than Cameron King himself.

If looks could kill I’d honestly be 6 feet under, Cameron may have been laughing with his friends about the fact that he just bulldozed me over but his angered piercing grey eyes easily told me the he wanted me to get out of the way instantly.

There was an actual written list that Claire and I had made before I started at this school and it had the names of people that I should stay away from during my entire time in High School. At the very top of the list was Cameron and I had done exactly the opposite of that, on my very first day back at this school.