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Bella moves. It's uneventful. She's not thrilled with the rain.
New kid shows up at the high school the next day. Hello, the high school. Hello, the students in the high school.
Hello, Jessica.
Jessica's very talkative. It's almost hypnotic.
"So what's Arizona like?"
"Well, sunnier."
"I bet! Wow, have you ever seen snow before?"
"On TV."
"Ha ha ha! Oh man is everybody really tan? Do you hang out at the pool all year round ogling boys?"
"I'm a little too gay to ogle boys."
"Oh! Oh wow. Okay. So um, I know this is a really small town, but guess what?" says Jessica.
"What?" asks Bella.
"We actually have a lesbian here! HEY SOLVEI!" Jessica hollers across the entire cafeteria.
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onceandforall
gloriousdawn
Silence.
After about ten minutes of silence she has to get up and go pace the halls for a bit.
After about ten minutes of silence she has to get up and go pace the halls for a bit.
onceandforall
In a hospital room, Bella is stuffed full of IVs and festooned in monitors and then left without direct attention.
About fifteen minutes after that, Bella quite inexplicably wakes up completely unharmed. The mysterious force that accomplished this feat left no other sign of its presence whatsoever.
onceandforall
That's. Weird.
Bella... decides to wait in her hospital bed until someone explains to her what the hell.
sundayfish
And presently someone comes to talk to Charlie softly and show him out of the waiting room.
He comes out with a confused and perfectly healthy Bella walking next to him.
He comes out with a confused and perfectly healthy Bella walking next to him.
onceandforall
"Well, uh, literally no one has any idea why I can... breathe, let alone walk... so. Dad, were you invoking the power of prayer, you know how I feel about the power of prayer."
onceandforall
"No, I'd rather celebrate not being lacerated by also not being punctured. I don't think medical science knows squat on this one. I'd love to let them learn something, but this isn't exactly a research hospital and the stuff they had me hooked up to they said it had nothing except sudden miraculous health, so."
gloriousdawn
"Well. Congratulations on your miracle," says Solvei. "I guess I can go back to school now. What would you like me to tell the rumour mill? The rumour mill might already be a little confused - somebody suggested to me that I could get permission to go see how you were doing if I told appropriate authorities we were dating."
onceandforall
"Tell the rumor mill I'm - going to be back tomorrow, I guess?" says Bella. "Do you suppose the teenage boys will invent new ways to be obnoxious if people think we're dating, and if so will it at least correspondingly reduce their usual obnoxiousness?"
gloriousdawn
"I can just imagine what George will say," she snorts. "But I'm up for fake dating if you are. If it doesn't discourage Jack it'll at least provide convenient excuses. Plus, candy apprenticeship dates."
gloriousdawn
Off goes Solvei. Her aunt drives her back to school.
She informs the rumour mill that Bella is okay and will be back at school tomorrow and by the way they're dating.
She informs the rumour mill that Bella is okay and will be back at school tomorrow and by the way they're dating.
onceandforall
And the next day Bella is back at school. Looking sort of perpetually unsettled by her okayness.
gloriousdawn
"...So," says Solvei, sitting with her at lunch, "when should we have our next candy apprenticeship date?"
onceandforall
"...Today?" suggests Bella. "What with my being inexplicably able to do things. Such as make candy."
gloriousdawn
"Today works for me. We can make cake pops. Ordinary ones, I still haven't found that heart mold."