Kathyleen Coleman: 1 Bella Flynne: 0

"Good bye, Bella." Aria slightly hugged me.

" Bye Ari. I'll miss you! Email me once in a while!" I said, letting go of her.

I turned to Dawn.
I was afraid she was going to burst in to tears, being her sensitive self.

" BYE BELLA!" She yelled.
She jumped on me.

I giggled.

"I'll sure be missing, Dawnster Monster," I smiled.

I turned to Gabrielle.

I hugged her tightly.

" Bye, best friend." I smiled.

" See you later." She said, letting go.

She smiled.
They all walked up ( Dawn, actually dancing/walking/skipping) the street, occasionally looking back and waving.

Ashleigh. She was in tears. In a waterfall of tears.

" I'll miss you SO much Bella!" She cried on my shoulder.

" I'll miss you too." I said.
She stood hugging each other.
She kept crying.
Sob after sob.
Worst than the time her fish died when she was 7.

Don't cry.
Don't cry.
Don't cry.
Don't cry.
D o n ' t c r y .
I told myself.

But I did.
Little salty cold tears ran down my cheeks.

" Time to go." She said, with a little fake laugh.

I hugged dad good-bye.
I petted Jimmy ( The family husky) good bye.

I got into the car and drove away.
It was only lunch, since at Monroe we could go home for lunch.
That means, If I get back home in time, I'd be able to go back to school right away.

No regretting.
No tears.
But some joy.

"We're here!" Ma looked back, mouthing the words, since my ears were listening to music from my ipod.

I smiled and jumped out of the car.

"And, you have 40 minutes till lunch!" She smiled.

I grabbed everything from the back and hurried into the building, coconut following behind.
As soon as we were in the front of my apartment door, joy filled my body.
No.
Not joy.
But happiness.
Relieve.
Almost felt like my life was filled.
I mean, I'm back home. With Liz.
All my friends. My... 'partner'. Gabrielle is moving back in a matter of weeks.
Glee.

I pressed the bell nonstop.

Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep.

"BELLA!" Liz yelled, yanking the door open.

" LIZ!" I yelled, hugging her.

Her hair in perfect curls, red curls.
Her eyes bright green as usual.
Her face pampered with make-up.
As usual.

" I missed you! " She said, letting go.

"I missed you too, Liz," I smiled.
I shoved past the suit cases and tore into the apartment.
In the living room a banner said:

WELCOME BACK, BELLA!

I smiled and ran to my room, dug into my drawers and pulled out my Anastasia Arts uniform.
I slipped inside it.
I rearranged my hair in the bun it was originally in, and ran back into the kitchen.

" LET'S GO TO SCHOOL!" I yelled, first time in my whole life, being exited for school.

"Wait, your not going to eat or anything?" Liz smiled.

"NOPE!" I grabbed my bag.

"You have to empty out your back and rearrange it, Bella," Ma said.

"I already did, last night. " I smiled.

We ran down the stairs, 6 flights, instead of taking the elevator.

" Ok, I guess we can leave now." Liz smiled.

" I love you, Bella!" Ma hugged me.

" Love you too, Ma!" I let go of her.

" Call me when you can!" She said, as we walked down the sidewalk.

I ran to school.

I. w a s . s o. e x c i t e d.

I walked into the main building.

" Welcome back to Anastasia, Bella." Said a tall man.

" Hi. Um..." I said, shaking his hand.

" Mr.Martinez was offered a new job at another school. I'm Headmaster Adams. Please, just Headmaster." He smiled.

" Hi, I'm Bella Flynne." I smiled.

"Off to lunch now, Bella. " He smile.

I ran to lunch.

I tore open the doors, and the first thing I noticed: The glee table.

I walked towards it.
They didn't notice me.

I quietly tip toed to Rodger, who was talking.
I pulled my hands over his eyes.

"Who's this?" He asked.

"Guess." Daniel said.

He put his hands over mines, examining them a little.

"Uh...." He said.

" Kathy?" He asked.

I arched my eyebrows.
Kathy?
Who is this girl?

'WAIT. no," He said, thinking hard.

"Wait a second... Is this... Bella?" He smiled.

I pulled my hands off of him.

" I thought you were coming in the afternoon!" He slighty kissed me.

" Well, I didn't want to wait till Monday to see all of you!" I greeted everyone else.

But I stopped.
A. New. Girl.
YAY!

" Hi, you must be new. I'm Bella Flynne, " I smiled.

" I'm Kathyleen Coleman," She said.

I sat next to Rodger.
I was so happy.
I couldn't wait for lunch.

" Bella! BELLLLLA! YO BELLA!" Said the football team in collision.

I slightly waved.
A hand pulled me over.
I was being dragged.
I looked over and it was Miranda.

"What?" I asked as she pulled me into the bathroom.

"Don't act like you all that," She said.

I was confused.

"The spotlight in glee club isn't on you anymore," She continued.

"Kathy is the best singer now, I'm sorry I'm telling you this, but even Ms.Terry said it, she barely remembers you, and Kathy makes your singing sound like dying chimpanzees," She says.

What? A singer? better... than..
DYING CHIMPANZEES?

" WOW, Miranda, you're real supportive!" I said.

"Sorry. But you'll never be the same." She left.

And I stood in the bathroom.
Nervous.

~Glee Club~

"Welcome, my talented students!" Ms.Terry announced.

I stood up straight.

"So, yesterday we were talking about--"

She didn't see me.

" Hi, Ms.Terry," I said, waving a little.

" Sit down, please," She said.

WHAT?

" Sorry I'm late!" Kathy burst in through the doors.

Oh god.

" LOOK AT OUR BEST SINGER, SHE'S RIGHT HERE! Don't worry your not late!" Ms.Terry smiled.

I looked over at Miranda.

She gave the I-told-you-so smirk/stare.

"Okay, Time for a sing-off! Of course my baby Kathy can come up!" Ms.Terry clapped twice.

Argh.

" I want to challange Bella, the new girl." She said.

I. Am. Not. New.

I stood up and walked to the stage.

" The song is Again, By flyleaf. The girl can go first," Ms.Terry said.

I'm pretty sure 'the girl' is me.

I sang in my most powerful voice.

"Here you are down in you knees again! Trying to find air, to breathe again! The only surrender will help you now, I love you please see and believe again!" I sang, in my best voice.

Not to sound concieded, but I was stunning.
Seriously.

"Now, Kathy you sing!" Said Ms.Terry.

She sang. She amazing.
She was.
Better.
Than.
Me.

" Bravo! As always the winner is Kathyleen Coleman!" Ms.Terry clapped.

"Wait a second." Ms.Terry squinted her eyes at me.

" Bella, I'll need the 'best singer' trophy back. We need to re-consider that prize." Ms.Terry smiled.

I.
Was.
Boiling.
Inside of me.

"What?!" I yelled.

"You are NOT the best singer!" Ms.Terry yelled back.

Oh no, I could see in Rodger's eyes.

" I AM. YOU'RE GOING TO TAKE BACK MY TROPHY? SERIOUSLY? MS.TERRY, HAVE YOU FORGOTTEN?"

"Dude, your girlfriend if having a major tantrum again." Danny said to Rodger.

"Yes, I have forgotten you! You are forgotten from Glee club! Kathy takes you place as lead, and that's it!" Ms.Terry yelled.

I felt weird.
Weird inside.
Some feeling, a feeling I've never had before.
Never.

" I HATE YOU! I HATE YOU, MS.TERRY!" I slipped the band ring off my finger, and threw right SMACK in the middle of Ms.Terry's eyes.

I took my back and ran off.

"Bella,Wait up!" Rodger ran behind me.

"NO! I WANNA GO BACK HOME!" I yelled.

Some how he grabbed my arm and twirled me close to him.
He secured his arms around me, making it impossible for me to run off.

I kicked and yelled, moving around, but I couldn't get out from his lock.

he pounded against the wall, but he held on to me.

He turned me to him.

"Bella, listen." He said.

"NO! LET ME GO, RODGER!" I kicked and yelled.

He let me kick and scream.

I calmed down a little.

"Let. Me. Go. Rodger." I said, angry.
He still didn't say anything.
I laid my head against the wall.

He knew me too much.

" Bella. You're the most amazing singer I've ever met. You can't listen to Ms.Terry, she's just, weird all of the sudden." He said.

"I don't get it!" I cried.

I told him how I felt.

"Jealously? " He said.

"What?"

"Jealous, that's what you are." He said.

"No, NO. I'm NEVER jealous!" I yelled, starting to kick and scream again.

" You should be, because you're amazing, just the way you are." He said.

Really? REALLY RODGER?

" You, Pest! You are acting like an animal!" Ms.Terry said.

" How does it feel to suck?" Kathy giggled.

I ran to the them to give a piece of my fist.

"LISTEN YOU PIECE OF--"

Rodger grabbed me.
AGAIN.
I kicked and screamed.
And I planned to until my fist touched Kathyleen Coleman's prett-- ugly face.

Minutes later Liz arrived.

"BELLA!" She yelled.

She pulled me, I continued to kick and scream.

"How'd you get her number?" I heard Rodger ask Daniel.

"Dude, she's hot."

Felicity got me home by dragging.

I am NOT letting Kathyleen get in my way.
Heck no.

~BELLS

I hummed 'Moment 4 Life' as the sound of the smooth voice played in my ears backed-up with a beat.

Ashleigh walked inside the pale blue room with her robe and her black&blue hair wrapped up in a mountain of a towel.
Her face, serious, annoyed... upset, probably.

"What's wrong?" I asked, curious.

" Mom, mom and dad are fighting. again," She said.

" Oh no. Is it bad?" I asked.

"See for yourself," She said, pulling the towel off her head, revealing her wet hair.

I crawled out of bed and quiet tip-toed to Ma&Dad's room.

They were yelling, yet I didn't understand anything.
My ear found it's way to the door.

" Joel, we will NOT move! I promised Bella that we'd stay here!" Ma yelled.

" This is important, Emma! We're are moving and that's it!" Pa yelled.

" Okay, so you make me break Bella's heart and accuse me of things I didn't do?! I'm done with you, Joel!" Ma yelled, her footsteps came closer.

I ran quietly to my room, slowly shutting the door behind me.

"We're moving, AGAIN." I said, upset.

Ashleigh looked at the floor.

" It can't be." I sat down.

" What if they, like, divo--"

"DON'T SAY THAT!" I snapped.

I heard yelling.

I slowly opened the door of my bedroom.

" You don't understand! Bella, she's just getting used to it here!" Ma argued, tears running down her cheeks.

"She doesn't belong here! SHE WANT TO BE FAMOUS. SOMETHING BIG. I want her to be a lawyer, a real state agent, Something else than a crappy career." Dad argued.

"NO you won't! You can't!" Ma argued.

' Well guess what? She is! THAT'S IT!" He yelled louder.

" I hate you, you will not take my Baby's dreams!" Ma yelled, placing down a cup.

I slowly closed the door behind me and flopped to bed.

Asheigh and I did nothing.
Nothing.
We didn't sing. Dance. Do our hair. nothing.
We just laid there.
Waiting for normal.
Waiting for our family back.

After a minutes, Ma came in.

" Ashleigh, Bella, hey there." She smiled, like nothing ever happened.

Her voice, softly spoken, joyful, but painfully stabbed.

We looked up.

" We're having a family meeting. Hop on from bed, girls." She smile brightly, underneath a sad face.

We walked to dining area, where dad sat at the end of the table the dim light on his face.

We sat down.
Not a word.

" Girls, I have some exciting news for you." Dad smiled.
His smiled was perfect.
He overachieved Ma.
Why shouldn't he be?

"We're moving!" Ma said, happily.

" YEAH THAT'S GREAT NEWS!" I yelled.

"Bella, Calm down, sweetie." Dad said.

"NO.I WILL NOT. BECAUSE YOU WANT ME TO BE A FRIKING REAL STATE AGENT OR LAWYER, BUT GUESS WHAT? I WILL NOT BE. I'M GOING TO BE WHAT I WANT TO BE,NO MATTER WHAT YOU SAY!" I snapped.

" Sit down, now Bella!" He argued.

" NO I WON'T! I'M GOING TO LIZ'S TOMORROW MORNING! I HATE YOU!" I yelled at dad, and stumbled off ignoring his "Come back here now, young lady!" and "I'm disappointed in you!" and mom arguing with him.

I stumbled in my room, slammed the door behind me and locked it.

I muttered a few *censored* words to myself until I picked up my phone.

I dialed the number.
As the familiar tone ran, I flopped down in the bed.

"Hello?" Rodger's voice.
"Hey Rodger." I said, crying a little.
"What's wrong?" He asked.
"I'm going back home." I said.
" Wait, you are?!" He asked.
"Yeah. My mom and dad are arguing, plus they're moving. I'm in no world start to move around so much again," I said.
"When are you coming back home?" He said, excited.
" Tomorrow. I have to call Liz, okay babe?"
" Okay, call me on some info." He hanged up.

I dialed Liz' number.

" Hey Bella!" She said.
"I'm going back home, no questions asked." I said.
" But--"
"No questions. I'll see you tomorrow." I said.
" Are you sure? What about you mom? Does she know? I don't want to be any trouble, Bella." She said.
" Don't worry about them. Bye." I said, hanging up the phone, not letting ask anything else.

I furiously pulled the suitcase out of my closet leading some crap to fall in top of me. I carelessly threw everything back inside.
I managed to stuff things in the suitcase with out hesitation.

"Bella, baby." Ma knocked on the door.

"GO AWAY, I DON'T WANT TO TALK TO YOU NEVER THE LESS DAD!" I yelled-

" We have to talk to you, Bella." Ma said calmly.

I stood up and walked to the door. I unlocked it and flew under my covers.

I felt my mom and dad sit at the edge of my bed.

" Bella. We agreed on something." Ma said.

I peeked out of my covers a little bit.
I saw Ma's face.
Wet. Red. Pale.
Like she's been crying for the longest time ever.

" You'll be moving back in with Liz." Dad said.

A little joy filled inside me.

"As long as you want." Ma smiled.

I could tell Ma and Dad didn't agree on that one. Dad hesitated a little.

" You'll leave tomorrow after school. I'll drive. Now, hop up, you guys don't want to be late for school!" Ma clapped, happily, for once in this day.

I climbed out of my bed, quickly applied make-up, and left.
Outside, I saw Gabrielle.
I haven't talked to her.
Ever since the 'Accident'.
But I knew I had to.
But I didn't have the guts to.
No way.

I quickly passed her, hoping it wasn't TOO obvious that I wanted to walk past her.

"Bella!" Gabrielle said.

Darn it, I thought.

"Bella, I have to talk to you." She said, catching up to me.

"Honestly, I do too." I said.

" I should of believed you. I found Collin making out with some girl. I should of really listened to you. I'll promise I'll always take you advice--"

"It's ok.He tried to kiss me, by the way." I said.

Gabrielle shook her head.

" Anyways.. Umm.. I have to tell you something," I said.

"What?" She asked.

"Well, I'm moving. Back with Liz." I said.

She looked down.

" Ma and Dad are fighting again. And it's really bad. Plus, my dad wants me to stop believing in my dreams. And we're starting to move around." I said.

" You know I hate moving around. " I added.

"I completely understand. My mom said I was better off living over there rather than here.So, I'll find a place soon." She smiled.

It was going to be ok.
Only the fact that I made to amazing friends here.
Dawn & Aria.
That I'd have to be away from Ashleigh.
That I'd have to break my parent's hearts.
That my parents might divorce.
Of getting that phonecall. To hear the bad news.

I walked to school with Gabrielle.
Afraid to announce the news to Dawn & Aria .
Right after I'd created the first Glee club.
Great.

I caught up with Aria.

" Ari!" I yelled.

"Oh, Bella!" She said, walking to me.

"I'm so sorry I called you all those names! I mean, I'm over him--"

"It's ok." I interrupted.

"Well, that was easy." She said, smiling.

"But I have bad news." I said.

"What?"

"I'm moving. I'm so sorry! I know I was the vocal instructor in Glee club, but my mom and my dad and... life!" I said, almost crying.

" That's HORRIBLE!" Dawn yelled behind us.

I turned around and saw Dawn munching on a bacon and egg sandwich.

" It is." Aria said, evidently upset.

" If you can be the vocal instructor? I'll teach you some vocal exercises, you know?"

" OK. I'll doubt theirs going to be a Glee Club for long, anyways," She said.

"Thank you so much, Aria," I hugged her.

The rest of the day went fine.
Normal.
Except that I was always with Dawn,Aria & Gabby.

"Welcome to the first ever Glee club." I said, that afternoon.

"My name is Bella and I'll be your vocal instructor just for today.

"And my name is Aria and I'll be your director and vocal instructor for most of the time." She smiled.

" okay, why don't we start off by hearing each one of you sing?" I smiled.

I looked over at the crowd.
4 girls. 2 boys. Wow.

" Introduce yourself up there first." Aria added.

One of the girls stood up, climbed up the stage, stopped to talk to Dawn, who slightly nodded, and walked over to the microphone.

" My name is Rachel and... I'm gonna sing paparazzi." She said.

The song started and she sang.
Her voice was to strained.
We clapped and she climbed down.
Then we met Genny, Elize, Thomas, and Julio.

"Great. Now, follow along with these vocal exercises. I will do it first, then you."

I sat down in the piano and played the notes.

"Ah, ah, ah ,ah ,ah ,AHHHH!"

The whole club sang.

After Glee, I had a sleepover with Aria, Dawn, And Gabby.

And I've never been so glad to go back home.

~BELLS

Screts

Rodger and Aria's reveal from Ohio.

" This is not working for me!" Dawn said, messing with her hair.

She's been trying to make a Lady Gaga bow on her head.
For the past thirty minutes.

" Here, let me try." Aria finally said, standing up.

As she stood up.
Her bag flowed from the support of her body, spilling some of her stuff.
She didn't notice.

A textbook, a notebook, Mocking Jay, and a weird gray book.

The book entitled the words "ARTIST PAD" in big bold letters.

I looked up at Aria, who was obviously distracted messing with Dawn's short *mess of* hair.
I slowly and quietly slid the soft cover of paper into my lap.

" AH! WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU!" Dawn yelled, frustrated.

I ignored the yelling and whining, and went ahead and opened the artist pad.
First page, a perfectly drawn horse.
I examined his features.
Based on the perfect and realistic markings and the tail, the horse is a pint.
Every limb of the horse perfectly angled, each hair carefully drawn one at a time.
Beautiful.

I quietly flip the pages.
Page after page, comes beautiful drawings , some splashed with fine strokes of watercolor, some shaded carefully with a pencil.

Until I got deeper into the sketch book.

A drawing of a boy and a girl.
Drawn with pen, a gel pen.
I could tell it wasn't meant to be, made with pen.
It was just a quick drawing.

When I actually noticed the actual drawing.
The girl, she had perfectly bouncy curls running down her shoulders, every lock drawn to perfection.
The small barrette on her hair with the tiny pink gems, her gray eyes.
Her rosy blushing cheeks.
I looked at the dude.
His hair parted, dark, big brown eyes-- eyes I've recognized before.
The smile I've seen in millions of pictures before.

His clothing, Navy shirt, torn up jeans.


Rodger Lucas.


" There, wala!" Aria said.

I panicked, rushing but being careful enough not to rip a page.
I closed the sketch book and climbed on my knees positioned to slide it back into her collapsed bag--

She turned around, holding down Dawn, who was brightly smiling.

I dropped the book over the bag and quickly put my hand over my head.
Like that helps me out.

"Uh, you bag fell so I just wanted to put it back in?" I said, awkwardly.

" Yeah, right." She said annoyed.

" Dawn theirs pancakes in the kitchen!" Aria said, fake happily.

"NO WAY!" Dawn ran towards the door.

"YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH!" Dawn's echo grew father.

Aria closed shut the door, and a click sounded, assuming that she, eh, locked the door.

" Bella, why were you looking in my bag?" Aria asked.

" Your sketchbook just caught my eye, I'm sorry, ok?" I said, annoyed.

"What did you see?" She asked, in a voice, a tone, it's just... elusive.
Like, the sarcastic/dramatic/serious/warning voice.

And boy, I did not like it...

"Well, just drawing and a few watercolors..." I answered her.

She gave a look.

Elusive.

She was just so, intense.
So, expression-less.
Hard to read.
It's like trying to talk to one of those ghomes that you put in your front yard.

Is it sad? Is it angry?
Is it happy?

Meh.

She crossed her arms.
She took a deep breath and rolled her eyes slightly.
Just make the intense in the room deeper.

" ARIA!!!!!!!!!!! Their is NO pancakes in the kitchen! Why would their be pancakes at this time?" Dawn yelled, from the door.

"LET ME IN YOU HOBKNOCKER!" She yelled.

Aria moved towards the door, slowly.

"Why did you have pictures of that boy? Who is he?" I asked, serious.

She stopped.

Silence.

" What does he mean to you?" I said, angry.

Shocked.
Want intense?
Bring it on, dawg.

Silence.

Even Dawn.
Which obviously is well, a surprise.
You could hear her slide down the door.

"What's his name?" I asked.

She turned around, looking down at the floor.

" Rodger, maybe?" I said, getting really angry.

" He's just, some one, OK? He meant.. he meant a lot to me! But then.. He just... disappeared." She started to cry.

I was like, what wut?

She hugged me, crying on my shoulder.

" I don't understand..." I said.

" He, left... he left me. He moved to... he probably had a pathetic best friend. His--" She cried louder.

"What?" I asked, confused.

" He was my best-boyfri- he was really close to me. I had stronger feelings for him. He didn't know. At the time we both lived in PA and, he moved. We were friends for ever. So when he moved her E-mailed me every day. Then he got a girlfriend! He described her, he called her brownie. I hate her. I pretend her face is on the archery board-- Anyways, he just like, started to fade away." She sniffled.

" But then, he had a trip to Ohio, with a group. And I was there too, for vacation. And we met up secretly, sometimes at dark, or sunset. Behind his girlfriend's back. And boy-- I had FUN! And he... kissed me. And said he always liked me. So we like I guess 'went out' for like two weeks. He dumped his girlfriend. But we had to leave. And then,weeks later, he broke up with me and got back with that.. ugh, indescribable." She said.

"Excuse me?" I said, standing up.

"What?" She asked.

I pulled out the bejewel R from my shirt.

" I'm, that pathetic girlfriend. " I said angrily.

" What?!" She yelled.

"This, is , AWESOME!" Dawn said from behind the door.

Shoot, Dawn.
I ran to the door and I opened it, collapsing Dawn to the floor.

" Don't talk to me, Aria. " I said, angrily picking up my books and carelessly stuffing them in my bag.

~BELLS