My first proper serious Twilight story... All of my others have been pretty emo.

Please review, I'll return them in my entries. Thanks a lot. xBella POV

I woke with an aching pain in my stomach and groaned to myself. I really couldn't be bothered to go to school today, but there was no way that Charlie would let me off. I'd faked being ill last week to get out of one of my mid-terms. Sucks to be me. Maybe I should pay more attention when we studied Buddhism last year. Bad karma here I come. I strained to stand up and when I finally did I felt like falling right back into bed again, but I didn't. I stood up on this dreary morning and got myself washed and dressed then staggered over to my old van where I clambered in, coughing and rubbed my eyes sleepily, before driving carefully along to Forks High School. I paused at the entrance as I saw a shiny silver car parked in a spot directly in the middle of the abyss of disgusting ugly old cars. I stared at it for a while before turning to walk to my homeroom. When I entered, I saw that my best friend Alice was already sitting on a chair staring at her clack fingernails as though they were the most amazing thing on earth.

"Errr… Alice?" I waved a hand in front of her sharp, petite face and her eyes snapped to attention, catching the sight of my fingers and looking up at me, realizing I was there at last. "Alice, are you okay?"

"What?! Yeah fine. Why? What's up? Has something happened?" She asked her posture suddenly upright and her eyes crinkled in frustration. Her brows furrowed and she stared up at me intently, waiting for my answer.

"No." I said shaking my head, nearly laughing. I pulled a chair out from another desk and swung it around so that I sat on it facing the back towards Alice. I leant over the top of it and gazed at my pretty friend as she gave the impression of being confused. "Alice? What's going on? Should something have happened?" I stared intently at her as I saw her face sharply wince and I repeated her name, coaxing her into a response.

"Okay, okay… Please don't be mad at me if I tell you. Promise?" She held out her hand with her pinkie finger raised, something we'd always done ever since we met in the 7th grade, and waited for me to respond. "C'mon Bella."

I gave her my pinkie in hers and we locked on then shaked them. "Of course." I told her and leant over further as she proceeded to whisper something in my ear.

"My cousin been transferred to here." I laughed out loud, instantly at the hilarious answer.

"Your cousin? I thought someone had died or… or… you'd recently discovered you could see into the future and something terrible was gonna happen! Isn't your cousin that gorgeous blonde girl anyway? What's so wrong with her coming here?" I asked as Alice's head fell to the table in exhaustion, or maybe frustration with me.

"Not Rosalie. She's not coming here. It's the other one. Edward." She grunted into the table, just audible enough for me to here. I sat still for a moment. I'd seen Edward once in the 8th grade. He's in our year, but looked terribly older, more mature somehow. Alice had said to me he was her 'geeky' cousin because he was into poetry and listened to terribly emo music all the time. Also, he had these round glasses…. Which didn't go well with his build He seemed really friendly though. When I saw him he was smiling and everyone around him was laughing.

"Bella what am I gonna do?" She begged of me as she lifted her head up from the desk and saw me stare off into space. "Bella please, I need your help!" "Well" I began thinking fast. "His last names Masen right? Not Cullen. So if you're really embarrassed by him, no-one has to know your related." Alice stared at me for a little while.

"That could work! If I just ignore him and then no-one'll know. Well, except you, but you wont tell anyone will you?" She pleaded, her eyes like giant orbs staring into me.

"Okay," I replied my voice sounding raspy as it came out of my sore throat.

"Are you okay Bell?" Alice asked obviously, not so wrapped up in her own problem anymore that she could take notice of me.

"Oh, just a slight cold. Nothing to worry about." I smiled at her and put my arm around her shoulders.

"So long as you're sure," she told me as she placed her head on my shoulder.

"Yeah course…" I trailed off, biting my lip from saying the words that I so badly wanted to ask. "So… How did it go with Jasper last night?" I tingled with anticipation as I saw her lift her head from my shoulder and turned to face me with a massive smile plastered on her face.

"Well, lets just say that we have another date on Saturday night. We're going to see that new movie that's just come out at the Cineplex, Hancock? We actually had such a great time last night and I personally cannot wait! I mean, last night started off as a bit of a disaster when we walked in and I tripped knocking my soda all over his pants and then just made things worse when I knelt down to- Oh no… He's here!" Alice looked straight down at her table pale faced.

"Who" I asked innocently. "Jasper?"

"No you moron!" She teased me and slapped me lightly. "Edward!" I turned slowly around to see a gorgeous, well muscled boy standing in the doorway, his hair brown with a hint of the sleekest blonde and taller than most of the guys in our year. His clothes hung well around him, and the tones of black and brown that he wore suited his skin tone perfectly, his facial features were angular and his nose was as straight as I'd ever seen anyone's. He looked more like a movie star than a high school student. He held his rucksack in one hand at his side as he surveyed the room and his other hand stroked his long-ish hair back and when he caught my eye I blushed and turned away really quickly, praying that Alice wouldn't notice and luckily her head was placed firmly in the lock of her arms on the table.

"Oh God," she whispered to herself quietly. "I didn't know he was gonna join us for homeroom as well!" She huffed and puffed in her arms for a little while, but I couldn't get his stare out of my mind. He had the most gorgeous green eyes that shined in the bright morning light and when he stared at me for that tiny second I suddenly felt whole. Warm. I decided I'd turn once more to quickly get another glimpse of him, when I saw his face right behind mine.

"Hi is this seat taken?" He asked a wide smile emerging from his lips, his teeth sparkling white and sharp.

"Uh…" I stuttered, dazzled by his eyes. "I… I-I" I felt the urge come up from behind my throat leading to my face and I breathed in deeply before sneezing really loudly. Luckily, nothing came out, all the same I blushed a furious scarlet and mumbled a quick 'sorry' before turning back to Alice and hiding my head in shame.

I like this... Please tell me if I've done something wrong... Amateur here!!

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