In the back of the classroom, Lorin Taylor sat very bored in her seat, staring down the clock, which unfortunately was not moving any faster. The teacher was still droning on about something, but nobody was listening. It was one minutes until the end of Friday. And no one cared.
Sighing, Lorin straightened herself in anticipation for the bell. The teacher had stopped, and everyone was straining on the end of their seats, waiting.
Lorin cleared her throat and turned her head. Her brown eyes but those of blue, and she couldn't help the blush that crept up her face. The boy with the blue eyes smiled back, and his gaze swept over her. She quickly turned her head.
Finally, the bell rang. Springing from her seat, Lorin grabbed her books and pushed her way out of the classroom. The halls were congested with students, and the air was thick. But despite that, students were buzzing with gossip, and plans were being made.
Lorin slowly picked her way through the school hallway, dodging heavy backpacks and couples making out. She cringed a little when she was hit in the back from someone throwing a shoe and quickly weaved through the remaining students to make it to doors. Squeezing through, she pushed herself out into the open sunlight. Shifting her books, she began to walk down a rocky path towards her house.
Once the path smoothed out, she was on a side road that would eventually lead to her street. She straightened her books again and began to walk. It was quiet; the trees loomed menacingly on either side of her. Cars rarely came down here, so the road was only halfway paved. She stumbled over a rock, and her books slipped out of her arms.
Lorin gritted her teeth, and bent down to pick them up.
A twig cracked behind her.
Lorin froze. She was the only student to come down this way.
She thought she heard feet crunch the ground.
Despite what she told herself, she couldn't stop her heart from racing or the sudden fight or flight instinct that clouded her mind. She chose flight.
Swiftly, she stood up, and readied herself to run. The footsteps got faster.
Her sneakers pounded the ground as she began to run. She could hear whoever it was breathing fast behind her. She never would be able to make it. She wasn't fast enough. She only had one choice left. Fight.
Spinning, she dropped her books save one. She might as well have some kind of weapon.
It was then she realized who it was.
"Oh!" She said, feeling very foolish. She looked up into a familiar pair of blue eyes. "It's just you. Hi. What's up?"
Those were the last things she ever said.
One Minute Until Bell
Edward Cullen sat in the back of his history class, very, very bored. Unfortunately, this was one of his only classes Bella was not in, so he couldn't even have her to distract him. He did have Alice, and normally that would have been enough, but she was too busy thinking about how to solve the sudden problem that had occurred very spontaneously that afternoon: the sun.
Despite the fact that it had been cloudy this morning, the sun had appeared out of nowhere, and until Alice or someone else came up with a plan, they were stuck.
So Edward busied himself by reading the minds of his fellow classmates. The first two he focused on were spacing out, and their thoughts were incoherent and uninteresting. For a few seconds he read the mind of someone who had a song stuck in their head and couldn't help thinking about it, but he soon got bored and moved on to the guy sitting next to him.
He heard some thoughts about a girl, so he moved on to- what was her name? Lonna? Lory? - And saw that he was thinking about the guy. Interesting.
Then those two turned to stare at each other, and he smirked when he heard the girls thoughts. She apparently had this huge crush on him. He would have moved on, but then suddenly a voice filled his head. He realized it was the guy's, and he focused even more. And he gasped, unable to believe he was thinking this.
He looked back to the girl, and realized with a start she could be in trouble. He moved back to the guys thoughts, and he couldn't help a low growl that escaped his throat when he remembered why he was so mad. The guy's thoughts mirrored those of the guys who had almost hurt Bella. And he couldn't help the fury that was building now that he knew what was going to happen.
Alice suddenly had a vision. He saw it, and hissed when he realized it was about the girl and the guy…..and what the guy was planning. He looked over to glance at Alice, when the bell rang.
Students sprang up and hurried out of the class. Edward leaped up, too. He had to stop the girl. He couldn't let something like this happen…
"Edward!" Alice hissed. "Stay! The suns out!"
"Alice," Edward moved closer to her. "I know what you saw. And…I heard his mind."
Alice shook her head. "We can't…the sun." She noticed the look in his eyes. "Edward, I'm sorry…..I saw that it will be cloudy again in fifteen minutes…..we can help then."
"it might be too late!"
Alice closed her eyes. She wanted to help. Of course she did. No one deserved what was going to that girl. No one.
But the sun was their biggest concern now. Fifteen minutes, she thought. The girl can handle fifteen minutes.
She hoped.
