"Hey Joshua!" I said. I couldn't believe we were actually going out! Eek! I'd liked him since grade 5, and now, after two years, we were together!

"Hi, Bella! How you doin'?" He said as he came closer and took my hand.

"I'm doin-- " my words were silenced by his lips on mine. I started counting on my head. One, two, three, four, but then he pulled away.

"I'm doing much better now! How are you?"

"I'm exhausted! I just came from basketball practice. Being team captain is not that easy you know…"

"Yeah, I know. Well, how about we go for a milkshake? I can't hang a lot today cuz I got tons of math homework. Sorry," Mr. Sdao gave us so much homework it wasn't even funny! We had to do like 20 questions on fractions, copy 2 examples, and then we had a 3-page-long worksheet to do! (My math teacher actually is Mr. Sdao, and I actually have that much homework!)

"Milkshake sounds good. I don't have any math homework, but I do have to do a science lab on that project we've been doing for the past two weeks, a newspaper article I have to do for English, and the comic for History." (I actually have all this homework. It's not even funny!)

"Crap! I had forgotten about the newspaper article! Well, I guess we can't have a milkshake after all," I said, pouting. I really hated being away from him. You'd say, oh, she's only 13, they're just fooling around, but I really, really, really liked Joshua.

"Don't worry, there's only 12 schooldays left! Cheer up!" (LOL, there's only 12 schooldays left!!)

"Okay. We'll have a milkshake tomorrow night then. Oh no, wait, I can't," I frowned.

"Why can't you?" Joshua asked.

""Edward and Bella's movie night" tomorrow!" With that, I saw him frown. "C'mon! We've been doing this every Friday since grade 3. You can't be jealous!"

"I'm not jealous. You go have your movie night. I'll just hang with Jordan."

"Thanks!" I said.

"I have to go now," he replied, giving me a quick peck on the lips.

"Okay, bye! See you tomorrow!"



"Bye!" He waved.

I biked home as fast as I could so I could get all this homework over with. I really hated all my teachers. Like, CHILL! There's only 12 days of school left! Don't give us that much homework! When I got home, the house was empty. I wondered where Renee and Charlie were. I walked to the kitchen to grab a snack, and saw a note on the fridge.

Bella,

Your Dad and I have gone out for a while to talk some stuff in a place that isn't the house. It's just too hard to talk about it there. When we get home, we need to talk to you about something. Don't freak out or anything, it's something good.

Love you,

Mom

PS: We'll be there around 6:00 p.m.

I glanced at the clock. 4:30. Well, the good news were I had the house to myself for another hour and a half. The bad news was that I was now totally anxious to know what they were talking about that was so hard to do in this house. I didn't want to think about that, because it would just make me want to know even more. I was a very curious person. So, I just called my best friend Edward to clear my mind. I picked up the phone and dialled his number, 555-1234 I had memorized it a few years ago. He answered right away.

"Hello," he said in a low voice, almost a whisper.

"Hey, Edward! What's up?" I cheerfully asked.

"Nothing much," he answered. This time his voice was so low that a fish would've been louder.

I started to get worried, "Edward, are you OK?"

"Sure, whatever," I didn't even get to ask him about tomorrow night, because he had already hung up on me.



What did just happen? He did NOT just hang up on me. Ok, no I wasn't just worried, I was frustrated. I had all this homework to do, but Edward was my friend, and I needed to help him with whatever was happening to him. So, I just put my homework aside and started biking towards Edward's house. It was only about ten minutes away, but I was going really fast, so I made it there in about five. When I got there, the driveway was empty. He must be alone, then, I thought, Good, I wouldn't want to talk to him about whatever's going on with him with a whole bunch of people around watching. I parked my bike right beside his, and ran to the door. I rang the doorbell, but no one came to open the door.