The bell ringed and the cafeteria was pouring out students. "Anna, are you coming?" Sarah, my other friend, asked. I look at my tray of garbage. "I'll catch up with you in class," I told her as I picked up the tray. "Sure, no problem," she said, and then went ahead with the others. I doubted ever eating lunches with wrapers and anything that will keep me late again.
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I couldn't believe I was running late at my first day. Cody wasn't anywhere around to escort me to classes like a gentlemen he was. I think I lost my map to the school. I was like a chicken with its head cut off running around the school, trying to look for the Biology classroom. When I turned to a corner... I slammed into someone, or as I think something. I flew back to the floor as I made an encounter with a wall of marble. "I'm so very sorry," said a voice of an angel. The boy was lamost singing in his velvet voice. I looked up to see Edward Cullen. His coal black eyes looked back at me with concern. "Er, that's okay," I said has I got to my knees to pick up my books. Strangely enough, he had already picked up all the book before I had a chance to even look at them. He held them out to me. I took them with an apologetic look. I noticed he gulped and look like he wasn't breathing as he sood perfectly still. I was wondering if I smelled bad or something. "Anna Martin, right?" he broke the silence. "Yeah," I said smugly. "You seem lost. I'm assuming your headed to biology?" he said. "H-how did you-?" I stopped mid-sentence. It was like he could read my mind; impossible, right? "Uh, yeah. I was going to Biology," I told him. "I'll show you there, I guess. You see, I have Biology too," he told me. "Lucky me. You're a life saver." We walked to Biology with a distance between us. He kept in hands in his pocket as he looked down to avoid eye contact. He still looked like he was holding his breath, his jaw clenched. "Is something wrong?" I asked after a while. He didn't look up at me. "It's just that-" he stopped his sentence to inhale a large amount of air with his eyes closed. He never finished and I never asked.
We finally reached the Biology classroom. "Cullen, you're late," Mr. Trakalo told him, his eyes intense. He let his eyes slip to me. "Ahh, Anna Martin. We've been expecting you," he smiled. "She got lost, I just showed her the way," Edward explained. I looked around the classroom to see that the class was doing blood testing with all the needles and microscopes. "You two are sitting together then," Trakalo told us firmly. We walked together to the only table left for us to sit in. I saw Cody in the front roll his eyes when he heard I was sitting with Edward.
It was strange how Edward seem to hate me very much when we just met. He kept the same posture as before with such intensity and hatred. He sat on the edge of the stool as far as he could. "Now, as where I left off, you will get a needle-" He took out a needle from a box that was in front of Cody. "-You will prick your finger-" he took Cody's hand and held up his index finger. Suddenly Edward moved quickly beside me. "Mr. Trakalo," Edward yelled before he could prick Cody's finger. "I feel sick. May I make my way to the Nurse's Office?" he asked. "All right," Trakalo allowed. Edward swiftly arose and marched out, giving me a cold glare for less than a second before he left. It was like I was the cause for his illness. Maybe that's why people didn't respect him. He had problems about me…
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