The Tutor's Teacher
Chapter One : Edward's P.O.V
I laid back against my new car, a blue Noble M15. I didn't want to go home yet, I'd rather come up with a solution by myself to try to pass biology. I was in a really bad mood already, and it didn't make matters any better that Jasper Hale was heading in my direction. I sighed. Jasper was always a sign of trouble.
"What's up, Eddie?", he said as he reached me. I shot him a death glare, and he backpedaled. "Okay, fine, fine. Edward."
"What do you want?" I hissed, my bad mood apparent.
"Your sister", he answered. "But that's not why I'm here, of course." I wondered if I should feel offended by that, then guilty when I didn't.
"Then what do you want? And make it fast because I'm taking my sister home, and I can't say she shares the same interest for you."
"She'll like me someday. I'll make sure of that."
"You've had that same crush on Alice since the first day you met her."
"And I still do", he added.
"Then why don't you ask her out? All you do is mess with her until you get on her nerves, and then go out with some other girl."
"I'll do it my way, Edward."
"Truthfully, I don't like your way." He shrugged indifferently.
"My way is the way that works. I bet I could get Alice before you could get any girl using your…let's say, method."
"My sister is definitely not a bet", I hissed.
"If she was, she'd be a bet I would win."
"You know how it is, Jasper. Mess with my sister, you mess with me", I nearly growled, emphasizing my point. "And no one messes with me." He stared at my suddenly fierce expression, and he tried to back down again. Now my mood was flaring, and I blamed it completely on him.
"Yes. I think we've stressed that point enough."
"Good, so back to what we were getting at. What do you want?"
"You see her? The girl getting off a red truck?", he asked, pointing to a girl walking by us. Her eyes were chocolate brown, wide and deep. Her face was heart shaped, and her skin looked translucent, it was white and pale, though her cheeks were red, blushing I guessed. Her hair was dark brown, falling wavy against her back. She looked average, though there was something to her face that was interesting. But other than that, an average looking girl.
"Yeah, what about her?"
"Is she new here?"
"No. She's been here since last year. She's a junior, just like us", I reminded him.
"Really? I never noticed her here."
"Well now you do. So what about her?"
He shrugged in a suspicious manner, but I decided I didn't care. The girl walked past us again, and shot me a black glare this time. I stared at her in confusion. What had I done to her? I mean, I had never even talked to her, I was completely sure of that. I tried to shrug away from the strange feeling, but there was no way around it. Alice walked towards me, and she glared at Jasper.
"Vamoose!", she hissed at him, but he smiled gingerly.
"Nice to see you too, Alice. How was your day?"
Alice raised an eyebrow at me, and I tried to hide my smile. Her annoyance had always made me laugh.
"Run along Jasper. You wouldn't want anything to happen to you or your car now, would you?", she said aggressively, tuning around to face him. I admit that I was wrong, Alice was frightening on her own. Someone so small and fashionable, with her purse and pink sundress, topped of with stiletto high heels, could be so dangerous and menacing. It was amusing.
"Is that a threat, Alice?", Jasper asked, not aware of what Alice could do. She snickered.
"It's not a threat, Jasper. I'm not as immature as you to throw out threats that I never act out. It's a warning."
"I think you like me", Jasper blurted out, smiling teasingly at her. Her eyes widened incredibly, and she stared at him. Even I was surprised at the sudden change of conversation.
"What makes you say that? Maybe your male instincts? Well, your male instincts are terribly off. Or is it just stupidity clouding your already vulgar thoughts?"
He ignored the remarks, and stepped closer to her. Alice stepped back, but she was pressed against the brick wall behind my car. "Will you give me a chance, Alice? To explain something to you? Please?", Jasper asked softly.
I think I saw what was coming. Cough. Cough. Gag. Gag. What brother ever wants to see his sister's tongue down some guy's throat, anyway? I sure wouldn't want to see them make-out, so I slid into my car and turned the volume of the music all the way up, tired of my own personal mini-drama series.
I was staring out the window, staring blankly ahead -waiting for my sister- when the same girl passed again, and I started wondering what she was doing. Maybe looking for something? She dropped her things on the floor when she almost tripped on a rock in front of my car, and I practically jumped out, in record speed, to help her -my motives not yet clear. I reached down and picked up her keys, twirling it around on my finger when she looked up at me, her face not exactly kind.
"Thanks," she said, some what bitter.
"Your welcome. I'm Edward," I said, smiling gently and extending my other hand towards her.
"I know you, Edward. And I'm not interested," she hissed, glaring. She shook my hand and dropped it after less than two seconds.
"Oh, so how do you know me?" I asked.
"Don't think that I'm like your many admirers", she said, making sarcastic signs with her hands. "Everybody just knows you, that's it." She sounded offended by the mere prospect.
"You know what they say, there must be some reason that you thought of being my admirer…" I teased, and she rolled her eyes.
"Oh, you got me. I dream about you and you're beautiful green eyes all day, Edward. I was just waiting for you to pick me up and lift me out of my misery," she mocked, grinning, and her damsel in distress was well played.
"I just knew it. Well today is your lucky day then."
"Nice," she said, and she sighed. "Fine, my name is Bella Swan."
"Is that your whole name?"
"No. It's Isabella Swan, but-"
"But you prefer Bella," I interrupted, already knowing -more like guessing- what she meant.
"Yeah," she said, and she held her hand out for her keys.
"Will I see you around?" I asked, dropping them in her hand.
"Not if I have anything to say about it. But thanks for the extra help." With that she turned around abruptly and left towards her car.
"Hey! Wait. Let's go out sometime!" I yelled after her.
"No thank you!"
"Can I have your number?"
"No!"
"Can I have a kiss?" I asked playfully.
"Definitely not!"
"Can I at least have a hug? Some way you can show your gratitude?"
"Thanks. That's all. Bye, Edward," she called out, reaching her car.
"Nothing else?"
"Screw you, Edward!" she yelled, and she jumped into her truck and sped out the parking lot, rolling her eyes as she passed me.
I was completely surprised by that, because no other girl had ever left willingly, not wanting to ever see me again. Unless I'd done something really mean to them. Which I hadn't to Bella. I had just helped her, and I didn't deserve a token of gratitude, like any other girl would of given me? She was so different from the other girls in this school, and I felt like I wanted that challenge. I wanted it more than I had wanted anything for a long time. More than I had wanted my awesome car. More than I had wanted to put Lauren in her place when she started messing with every one that walked by her, even me. And if that was hard, this was going to be a challenge. One that I would take, and excel.