"Jake, stop!" I half seriously half jokingly told him. "You're going to make me late to school!" I laughed when he continued to torturously tickle me. This is how it's always been with Jake, light and easy. He's been my best friend for as long as I can remember and I love him, so it was only natural for us to date.
We started dating in ninth grade. One day we were just hanging around watching movies when out of nowhere he kissed me. I wasn't sure what to do so I kissed him back. Now, in our senior year, we're still going strong.
"Jake I really have to go."
"Sure, sure go hang out with the pale faces, " he finally obliged and let me climb into my old red truck. Jake went to school at the Quileute Reservation, just outside of Forks where I live.
With one last quick kiss I pulled out of the driveway and left for Forks High.
I arrived ten minutes later and was greeted by my best friends, besides Jake of course, Alice and Rosalie.
"Bella guess what! There are two new guys coming to our school today and their brothers and Angela said that they are hot!" Rosalie told me. To most people this isn't big news, but here in Forks there is maybe one new student every three years. In fact, Rosalie and her brother Jasper, also Alice's boyfriend, were the last new students, and that was back in freshman year.
"If they really are hot I call one, "Rosalie proclaimed with a mischievous smile.
"You don't have to call anything Rose. In case you've forgotten Alice and I are both in stable, happy relationships," I reminded her.
"That is very true." Just then Jasper showed up and had his arm around Alice's waist and was giving her a broad smile which she reciprocated with a quick peck on his cheek.
They are soul mates. This is obvious, you can tell just by how they look at each other. I'm not sure if this is what Jake and I have. Yes, I love him and he loves me too, but I've never seen him give me the look Jasper gives Alice, and I really want someone to. Rosalie and I headed into the school to give Alice and Jasper time to catch up.
"So how are things with Jake?" Rosalie asked me.
"Umm… You know same as always…" I mumbled incoherently. I didn't like trying to explain how I felt about Jake to other people when I wasn't even entirely sure myself. She gave me a look that I knew meant she wasn't buying it, but luckily didn't say anything.
"So I'm guessing you will be trying out for the school play?" I smiled at this question. I love acting, it's my passion. When I'm acting I'm not my shy, boring self. Normally I wouldn't be able to get in front of people and act but I realized that I'm not myself when I am acting. I am a character and I love getting into their heads and understanding them and their choices. It also doesn't hurt that normally our school plays are some of my all time favorite books.
"Of course, in fact the play is Romeo and Juliet." She nodded her head in approval.
"So are you ready to kiss whoever is lucky enough to be cast as your Romeo?" she wiggled her eyebrows suggestively.
"Rose, I don't even have the part yet, and besides it's like two little pecks at the end and two in the beginning, and Ms. Cope doesn't make us practice those scenes so it will only be once, and it's not like I'm kissing the guy, its Juliet kissing Romeo."
"Okay, whatever you say," she snickered.
Just then the bell rang and I headed to my first class, which just happened to be drama. I walked in and took my seat like normal, but what walked through the door not a minute later was most definitely not what I was expecting.