I rolled over to the sound of my phone playing 'How you remind me' and knew by the ring tone that it was my best friend Edward, and because he was the only person brave enough to call me this early on a Saturday.
"Who died?" I garbled, sounding like I had just swallowed a ton of gravel.
"Hey B did I wake you up?" my cheery sounding best friend laughed on the other end.
"What do you think E, its 9am on a Saturday, and I have no reason to be awake yet" I almost growled.
He laughed again "Sounds like somebody hasn't had their coffee yet".
I sat up and grabbed the remote, turning the TV on to the weather channel, checking to see if it was a good day to go skiing. I heard the water on in the background "Please tell me you are making coffee" I begged.
"Yep give me a few and I'll be over with it, that's why I was calling, just giving you fair warning, cause we are going to finish our homework this morning, and spend a day on the water".
"Edward you are a life saver" I said, hopping out of bed.
"Well that's what friends are for isn't it?" he laughed.
"Yeah but most are afraid of me until after lunch" I grinned, turning the TV off.
"Well, most haven't known you your whole life either, but I'll be over in about 5, and you better not be asleep."
"Fine" I mumbled, already in a good mood. Somehow waking up to Edwards voice in the morning made me feel better.
By the time I got my hair and teeth brushed and made my way over to the couch, I heard Edward coming up the stairs. When he walked in I almost sighed, because he had a steaming cup of coffee in his hands. He walked over and sat down beside me, handing me the coffee and dropping his backpack. "So…I picked up our school pictures yesterday while I was waiting for you to get out of gym" he said as I took a sip of the wonderful smelling coffee.
"Oh great I forgot about those" I whined "well lets get it over with" I said as he handed me a cookie, and took a sip of my coffee.
"Kay - here goes" he grinned as he reached into his bag and pulled out two white envelopes, and handed me the one that had 'Edward Masen' written in bold letters on the front.
We had started a tradition in the second grade, where we opened each others pictures and critiqued before we looked at our own. I groaned as I pulled his picture out, "perfect as usual" I said as I studied his picture. His bronze hair, green eyes and perfect smile had shown through perfectly in every picture that was ever taken of him. He grinned at me, showing off his dimples "yeah right! 'perfect' as if.. but yours is great, truly beautiful."
He handed me my pictures at the same time that I handed his to him. My picture was certainly better than last years, but definitely not beautiful to my standards. My long brown hair might be longer than most girls, but nothing way out of the ordinary, and my brown eyes sure don't set any records. But that is just Edward, he is always nice.
"Not hardly E, but whatever, do you like yours?"
"They're ok, same as usual" he replied.
I took another sip of coffee and handed him the cup, "So do you wanna get this homework over so we can get out on the water?" I asked as he handed the cup back to me.
"Might as well, it won't finish itself." He reached over to the other side of the couch and grabbed my backpack, and pulled out my science homework and handed it to me. Then he grabbed his backpack and pulled out pencils and a book. I groaned and started filling out the graphs.
When we finally finished, I put my homework in my backpack and hopped up, grabbing my keys, as Edward put up his homework.
"Um….Bella, I don't think that boxers and a tank top are quite river clothing. Do you?" He laughed.
"Well… I guess not" I laughed, catching his contagious laughter. So I ran into my closet and grabbed some blue jean shorts and my favorite t-shirt, and proceeded to the bathroom. I threw my hair into a ponytail, and put my clothes on, then went to find Edward.