AN: OMG! I have waited so long to b on fanfiction and now I am! wow i'm excited... ok. spazzing is complete... for now. or maybe it never is... maybe i just control it enough to seem normal.... wow i really am spazzing. OKAY! onto chapter one :D
BPOV
"Hi!" I yelled across the parking lot to my best friend Alice Cullen. Short, beautifully pixie-like with spiky jet-black hair, she was probably the most hyper person you would ever meet.
"OMGOMGOMG!!!!!HI BELLA!!!" You see what I mean?? We've been on break for only 2 weeks and she greets me like we haven't seen each other for a month. Which is totally untrue. I saw her every day. My thought were cut short when a blur of black and white bounded up to greet me.
"BELLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!HI!!!!!!!" Alice yelled.
"Alice, I'm right here. Is there any need to yell???"
"YES! It's our first day back!" I opened my mouth to protest that being back at school wasn't a good thing, but Alice cut me off. "AAAND....Jasper just came up to ask me out!!!!" A loud, high-pitched squeal came out of her mouth and I wondered how I could still hear. But Jasper was her crush since September...and it was March now. So I didn't complain.
"Awesome!! But I'm not coming shopping with you and Ros-" I cut off suddenly, because at that very moment, my only crush in my entire life cut the engine of his car.
"What? Bella?! BELLA ANSWER ME!!!" Alice yelled.
"SHH!" I shushed her harshly. I'd apologize later.
Ohh.... and there he was. Opening the door to his silver Volvo... getting out... messy bronze hair and piercingly soft emerald eyes beautiful as always... and waving at me with a gorgeous crooked smile.
Did I mention that he - Edward - just happened to be Alice's brother....and one of my best friends??
No?
Well... yeah. He is.
I waved back and he started coming over. Oh no.
"Alice!" I whispered, "Is my hair ok? Do I have something in my teeth?" I opened my mouth to let her check.
"Um...no. Why do you want to---" realization hit her.
Craaaap. I hadn't told her yet!!
"You like my brother, don't you?" Alice asked me, her face glowing.
"Emmett?" I asked with a disbelieving voice, trying to buy my time.
"Bella. You know what I mean. Edward." Alice announced it, clear as day.
"ALICE!" I hissed. "He's RIGHT. THERE!!!" And he was. Just rounding the corner of a Subaru two rows away.
She nodded with an impatient expression, giving me a look that said 'you should have told me before'. I nodded and she walked off.
What?!
Why Alice?! Why?! Why would you leave me alone with the most gorgeous person on the face of the planet?!!!
"Hi!!" A velvet voice greeted me.
My time was up.
I turned slowly and gave Edward my best friendly smile, trying very hard not to look at his perfect lips.
"Hey! How was your break?" I asked.
"Eh. As good as it gets with a hyperactive sister and a brother nearly doing the deed every night with one of your best friends." I laughed out loud and he flashed me his infamous crooked smile.
Breathe, Bella, breathe.
"No, but other than that it was fun. You?" Edward answered me. We started to walk towards our lockers.
"Alice was dragging me all over the place. Seattle one day, Hollywood road trip the next day... ugh. I barely got any sleep." Which will make me look even more ugly. Yaaay.
"Aww. Poor Bella." I nearly melted when he said my name. Edward changed the subject. "You look pretty nice today, though. Alice?"
Oh.
My.
God.
Did he just say what I thought he just said??
Yes.
Yes he did.
He said I looked 'pretty nice'.
Oh my GOD!!!!!
"Uh... yeah. Thanks" was my genius answer, a beat late and with a blush thanks to all my hyper thoughts. I glanced quickly at his dark blue jeans and dark green faded vintage tee. "You do too. I would say Emmett but...." He laughed and I joined him.
"Well thanks. But nope, this is actually the first thing Esme handed me from the laundry."
I tried very hard not to think about that scenario... Edward... with his boxers on (I thank Alice for that piece of information....don't ask)..... without a shirt....oh god. OKAY. Next topic.
"Ah. Cool. So, you psyched for movie night tonight?"
"Yeah. Apparently though, it's Emmett's turn. Which means we will be watching Jigsaw. Again." Edward sent me an apologetic look. Emmett, Edward and Alice's big burly teddy bear of a brother, was IN LOVE with horror movies. I, of course, nearly puked no matter how many times I saw Jigsaw. Or any horror movie.
"I think we've seen that so many times it's irrational for me to be scared still. I'll try not to hang on to your arm for dear life again." He smiled. This sentence triggered one of my easy blushes. Not only had I held onto his arm, I had virtually curled myself into him (of course, I apologized profusely later). Not the best thing to do when he only liked me as a friend. If I couldn't have him as more than a friend, I wasn't about to stop being his friend.
"No, it was fine." Did that mean what I thought it meant. Suddenly, the bell rang.
"Hey, I have to get to class. See you at lunch!" He called over his shoulder, leaving me to my thoughts at my locker. I hurried to gather my things after a dazed second and rushed to my first class.
"Can't....breathe...Emmett!" I gasped later at lunch. Emmett had just lifted me into one of his signature bone crunching bear hugs. He let me go just enough so I could breathe a little.
"But Bellaaaaa," if I could I would've laughed at the whining tone his voice had taken, "I haven't seen you in forever!"
"Emmett you saw me two days ago."
"EXACTLY!" Emmett's tone screamed genius.
"Ok. But can you let me down now? I'm hungry." My stomach growled to prove my point.
"Fine. But be prepared..." As soon as Emmett let me down I laughed along with everyone at his ominous tone.
"Oh Emmett, I'm so scared," I said with sarcasm in my voice, pretending my hand was trembling.
The next few minutes of lunch passed uneventfully. Alice and Jasper sat together, that was new. And, of course, Rosalie sat next to Emmett. Rosalie and Jasper had known the Cullens since they were twelve - and I had known the Cullens and Hales since I was fourteen - but Emmett and Rosalie had been going out since their freshman year. It was their senior year now, along with Jasper's. Alice, Edward and I were still in our junior year. I noticed Edward wasn't here yet. Hmm....
I should probably mention that Rosalie could punch out any girls' self-esteem with just one look of her. She was absolutely drop-dead gorgeous. Tall with long, silky blond hair, she had a figure any model would kill for.
Emmett, like his brother, was tall and beautiful. His muscular build, with biceps about the size of my head, made him look like he should be killing everything in sight but really he wouldn't hurt a fly. He had brown curly hair and an infectious smile.
Jasper, Rosalie's younger brother (apparently he skipped a grade) had wavy blond hair that went down about halfway to his chin and that had a sideswept look to it at his eyebrows.
Me? Well, personally I didn't really think I was pretty. Everyone else thought differently. I had flat wavy brown hair that reached just below my shoulder bone and muddy brown eyes. My body wasn't that impressive either; I was a little on the short side with a slim body thanks to my fast metabolism.
"Sorry I'm late guys," Edward's velvet voice interrupted my thoughts.
Suddenly something occurred to me.
The only seat left was next to me.
I felt his weight on the bench as he sat next to me, and even the heat coming from his shirt. How close was he?
I decided that the answer would probably have my self-control going out the window.
"Mr. Hansen just happened to have to explain our homework after class because he launched down memory lane. Apparently we 'don't have to eat just yet! Always in a hurry! You know, in my day...' Ugh. The dude's a mess, I swear." Edward ranted.
"It's cool Edward. Mrs. Gomez does that too. This one time-" Jasper was about to continue with his story when Rosalie screamed.
"OHMYGOD!!! IS THAT THE NEW BMW Z4?!?! I wanna see I wanna see I wanna seeeeeeee!!!!" Her screams echoed from around the cafeteria and people stared. Obviously she didn't care, because, did I mention? She was obsessed with cars.
Emmett was, too.
"WHERE?!?! LET'S GO!!!" Emmett boomed. They jumped up and ran across the cafeteria to chase the BMW whatever.
There was an awkward silence. I broke it before it made me scream.
"Riiiight. Well, anyways. Jasper what were you gonna say?" I asked him.
"Mrs. Gomez doesn't teach us Spanish. She tells us about her life. This one time she literally told us her 14th birthday. In detail. 'The flowers on the dress were so pretty! And oh dios, los pasteles! Rico rico rico!'" Jasper imitated her voice an octave higher than his own, with his hands moving all around his face (which had the funniest expression) and it was hilarious. We were all cracking up when Alice stopped suddenly.
"Oh. My. God. LOOK AT HER SHOES!!!!!! Look look look!!! SHE HAS THE NEW VERSACE SPRING COLLECTION GLADIATORS!!!!!!!" Alice ran off to the girl across the room.
"Um..." Jasper looked confused. Not that she hadn't done this before, but before Jasper hadn't asked her out. I pitied him. He looked like he liked her a lot, too.
"She'll be back Jasper..... unless she sees someone else's bag... or top..... or jeans.... you know this one time she actually went all around the cafeteria. 'OHMYGOD! That is such a cute top! I NEED to know where you got that bag! THOSE JEANS LOOK SOOO NICE ON YOU!!" I did a poor impression of Alice's voice, but enough to make Jasper and Edward laugh. Oh.... Edward's laugh... don't be an idiot Bella. Be cool.... "She can go on forever." I finished.
"Well, I guess I better stop her. I'll see you guys later," Jasper said. He picked up his tray, along with Alice's, and left.
Which left me sitting next to a Greek god.
"Are you gonna run away too?" Edward teased me.
"Not today," I joked back. He smirked.
We sat together in a comfortable silence. Whenever I could, I sneaked a glance at Edward. He looked like he was debating something internally, and for some reason he looked a little nervous.
As I was staring out the window Edward called me.
"Bella?"
"Yeah?" I turned to face Edward. He looked incredibly nervous, which was really weird. He never got nervous....
"Um, I know it would be kinda weird but-"
BRIIIIIIING!!! The bell sounded, signaling the end of lunch.
"What were you gonna say?" I asked as I stood up.
"Oh, nothing. I'll tell you later." Edward looked very disappointed for some reason.
"Hey, you okay?" I asked Edward on our way to class.
"Huh? Oh, no I'm fine," he answered. His voice was poorly covered up with fake happiness and his attempt at a smile turned into a grimace. I would have pressed the matter but we had just gotten outside our biology door. Edward opened it just as the final bell rang. We hurried to our lab bench and sat down.
A few minutes into the word-for-word textbook lecture, Edward and I not only discovered that we already knew this, everyone did. People as far up as the second row (our teacher's face was directly in the book, facing the board) were already texting, plugged into their iPods, passing notes, and a few lucky people in the back were catching up on their sleep.
I felt the familiar electric zing of Edward's touch on my shoulder. I looked discreetly toward him. Without taking his eyes off the teacher, he slipped the note underneath my notebook. After a few seconds - just incase - I opened it.
Are you coming over today?
I opened up my pen and replied.
Yeah. Alice insisted that, even though Charlie leaves town tomorrow, we get our "slumber party" (which is really just your family being incredibly nice to me) on early.
I passed it back underneath his notebook and waited for his response. I looked around and saw Lauren and Tyler making out in the back. Sigh. Edward and I sat in the back... Bella get a hold of yourself.
A minute later, I felt the shocks again, this time on my hand. I didn't look, I just flipped my palm up to receive the note.
You know my family, always desperate for company. Do you have a lot of homework or do you wanna hang out?
Did I want to hang out? What did that mean? I didn't have a lot of homework, but Alice wanted to go shopping after school.... it didn't matter. I would go with Alice and hang with Edward.
Sure. Ugh, but Alice wants to go shopping. That's okay though, I limit those kind of trips to 2 hours... otherwise your family would go broke. :) no but seriously hours is when I put my foot down.
I handed back the note, and saw Edward read it. He was about to reply when a moan emerged from Tyler's mouth. A loud one. The entire class was about to burst out laughing, but we would have to wait until we got outside. Our teacher slowly turned, with what I think he meant to be scary look on his face, looking at what I presumed was all the male students.
"Who. Was. That." He asked, almost snarled.
No one said anything, but Tyler was blushing like he just streaked the school.
"Well someone must have....Was it you Mr. Cheney?" Ben shook his head fervently.
"I'll keep you all until tomorrow if I have to..." He taunted, slowly walking to lock the door.
"This is the part where the lock clicks shut really loudly and our teacher turns out to have a chainsaw behind his desk." I whispered to Edward when the teacher wasn't looking. Edward's lips twitched and I knew he would have been
cracking up if he could have.
"So why aren't you holding on to me, like with Jigsaw?" Oh I wish Edward. I was about to respond with something witty when the teacher boomed once more.
"!"
"Yes sir?" Edward whipped his head toward the teacher.
"IT WAS YOU!!!!!"
"What?! No!" Edward had a look of shock on his face. I'm sure I did, too. We were both straight-A students.... and we weren't going out...unfortunately. But even teachers knew who was with who in this small town.
"Oh really?" Our teacher asked, snapping me back into reality. "So why is Ms. Swan here blushing?"
"I always blush!" I retorted, my face redder than a tomato.
"It was TYLER, sir. TYLER." Edward stated, saving me. Everyone nodded furiously.
"Well, well, well.... Tyler, eh? So I presume Lauren was in this scandal, too..." BRIIIIING
The whole class rushed to scramble out of the class so we could burst out laughing.
"Before you all go..." our teacher began. I held back a groan. I wasn't sure I could wait much longer without exploding into laughter.
"I just want you all to know that Tyler and Lauren here will be having a little talk after I dismiss you. I'll even bring out the ninth grade health poster!!" he faked cheeriness and I suppressed a gag. That poster was.... graphic. We'll leave it at that.
"No homework tonight..." there was a collective sigh of relief around the room, "but remember: KEEP YOUR HANDS TO YOURSELVES!" Yeah right. Keep your hands to yourselves my butt.
"Class dismissed."
Everyone ran - including me, which was a miracle - and barely made it out the door before exploding into laughter. People in the hallway stared, but no one cared. It was just too funny.
"Hahahahahaha!!! Tyler....ahahahahaha.....face......door..... hahahahahahaha... haahaha... click....hahahaha!!" Edward was laughing so hard he couldn't even form a coherent sentence. It wasn't like I was any better. I was laughing so hard I had to hold onto Edward's shoulder and I was closer to the ground than the air.
"Hahahahaha! !! Hahahaha... it was...ahahahaha.... it was YOU!! Hahahahaha!!" I did a poor impression of the teacher's voice, but it both sent us into another fit of laughter.
We stumbled our way into the parking lot along with the other students from our class. Alice met us at Edward's Volvo, raising an eyebrow when she saw our position.
"Hahahaha!! Oh Alice! Hahahahaha!! Oh.. you...hahahahaha... you should've....hahaha... should've...been... hahaha... there!!" I gasped.
I gave up the lost war against gravity and fell to the ground, rolling around, clutching my aching sides and gasping for air. Edward, who had been leaning on me, also gave up and dropped to his knees, leaning forward and clutching his gut.
"Hahahaha....I don't get it. Oh well. BELLA DEAR! Guess what time it is..." Alice sang the last sentence and I knew that tone all too well. My laughter stopped.
"No Alice! No no no no no!! Not after such a joyful afternoon! NO!!" I cried as she dragged me, painfully, across the parking lot.
"Goodbye Edward! Remember me... well!" I cried dramatically.
"I promise Bella! We'll always have this afternoon to remember!" We laughed and he yelled, "See you at home!" I waved.
"I don't really want to but I'll throw you in the trunk if I have to," Alice's voice made me remember that she was there. You see what Edward can do? He can make you forget you're being dragged to the most vile place on earth. I quickly stood up.
"Alice!" I gasped, "look at my shirt! Ugh, it'll take at least four washes to get all of this out!"
What used to be my normal, navy blue polo was now the most disgusting shirt possible. There were grass stains, water, dirt stains, oil stains, and some other things that I didn't even want to know what they were.
"I can buy you a better one today. Now get inside the car!" She unlocked her flashy yellow Porsche and I reluctantly opened the passenger side.
"Okay, so before we go, we need a plan. Today, we're gonna focus on you. My mission is to create an outfit that will help you impress Edward. I'm thinking we head on over to Abercrombie for your shirt, because they sell some of the thinnest shirts ever. Next, we can head on over to the Gap for some dark flare jeans. We'll go to Icing for a nice, thick, bright red hairband, and finally Victoria's Secret for a black lacy bra... With a gray half-sleeve cling hoodie shirt, it'll go perfect. Okay. Let's go." Alice gunned the engine. I was still stunned and had not breathed since 'impress Edward.'
How the heck was I supposed to impress the man when he didn't even like me?!
"Bella? Usually you've started yelling at me by now... I would be incredibly ecstatic that you're warming up to shopping but by the look on your face, that's not it. Are you even breathing? BREATHE BELLA!" I complied with a shaky breath.
"Good. Okay, so for your makeup, I'm not thinking we should do much. Maybe some lip gloss and some light brown eyeshadow. You know you really don't need much. You look fine just-"
"ALICE! EDWARD DOESN'T LIKE ME LIKE THAT!!"
"But-"
"Stop getting my hopes up, Alice. It'll only hurt more when they crash down when I see him with another girl." I felt like I was being ripped in pieces just saying it.
Alice sighed, but said no more.
"Thank you. Now, back to what you had planned to buy... How about not?" I tried, without much hope.
"What?! No way Bella. Edward will love it. Besides, I don't see anything wrong with it."
"Black lacy bra?! What's right about that being underneath a thin t-shirt?!" I nearly yelled.
"Don't you know the workings of a boy's mind, Bella? I've seen it time and again," she shook her head knowingly. "Trust me, it will work."
"It might, but I'll have lost all of my dignity. I think not Alice."
"UGH! You're impossible Bella, you know that? Fine, I'll give you a compromise. You still have to wear the shirt with the bra, but you can wear a white tank top underneath. But Bella?"
"Yeah?"
"I don't want to compromise, so we're going to weigh the favor in my direction." My mouth popped open to protest but Alice beat me to it. "It's only fair, if you really want my help..." There it was, that sing-song smug voice again.
"What are you thinking Alice?" I sighed. It wasn't worth fighting when Alice had an idea.
"Not much. You can still wear the tank top... but let me tweak it a little. PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEASE?!?!?" OW. That hurt my ears. God, Alice could shatter glass with that voice.
"Fine!! God, Alice I think you shattered some of my eardrum." I pressed my hand against my ear, trying in vain to stop the ringing echo of her squeal.
"Glad to hear it." Alice pulled up to a parking spot at a mall somewhere just outside of Forks and cut the engine. We opened our doors and got out. Thank god Alice had let me wear black flats today or I'd be tripping all over the slippery pavement. Alice reached into the backseat and pulled out a half-sleeve purple tunic with a thick silver band down the middle and around the neck.
"You can't go into the mall looking like that; we'll get banned for life," Alice said somberly. I knew getting banned from any mall, no matter how small, was her worst nightmare. "Get inside the car and swap shirts." I went inside the car quickly and shut my door, along with Alice's. I didn't worry about anyone seeing me; the windows were too darkly tinted.
I climbed out again after a few seconds and grabbed my tattered wallet, sticking it into the front pocket of my skinny jeans that Alice had forced me into this morning.
"You look gorgeous Bella. Really. This is just too good. I need to take a picture. Hang on." Alice reached inside her white leather clutch and pulled out her iPhone.
"Smile!" I complied unwillingly and was blinded with a flash.
"Oh my God this is just too pretty. I need to send this to Rose. Gimme two seconds." I walked over to Alice and read over her shoulder.
doesn't she look HOTT?!
"Alice! God, just send her the picture, don't add a lie." I complained.
"But it's not. Now shoo! I hate it when people read over my shoulder." I sighed and walked away to face her.
She typed in two numbers and sent the picture. Rose's, I'm assuming, was one of them. But who else?
I was going to ask when she put the phone back into her purse and looked at me.
"Ready?" She asked, her eyebrows raised.
"Ugh. Let's get it over with."
"Come on, don't be a downer. It'll be fun. I'll keep it short and to the point. The outfit to impress Edward, and another one for my date. I promise. No more than that."
"You better mean it this time Alice."
"I do I do!" Alice nodded and we entered the hell most people call a mall.
AN: So...... what'd you think?? I love it and I already have another few chapters ready but I'm gonna need some reviews plz!! eitherway i'll post cuz that's how awesome i am :)
BTW I'm planning to write ALL of this story listening to Coldplay. Seriously they r like, awesome. I listen to them and I am inspired.... not kidding. I just came up with an entire chapter for another story I'm planning listening to "Now My Feet Won't Touch the Ground" from 'Prospekt's March', their new EP. TOTALLY WORTH BUYING!
wow.
spazz... again. o well :)
Review plz!
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