Chapter One

I opened my eyes to the sound of rain splattering against the window pane. Craning my neck to the side towards the alarm clock, I noticed I still could grab a few more minutes of sleep if I wished, but decided against it.

Yawning, I quickly took a shower, ran a blow dryer through my hair, and changed into appropriate clothes for a dreary, wet school day.

Charlie had already left, as usual, and I still had a few minutes before my ride would come. Although I felt like staring at the door till Edward knocked on it, I grabbed an apple from the kitchen table and ate breakfast.

A minute later, a low knock came from the door. Abandoning my apple, I ran to the door, ready to be greeted by…Alice?

Alice greeted me in her pixie-like stature, an open bright pink umbrella held high in her pale hand. Her face held signs of laughter, and her lips parted in smile as I said her name.

"Alice?" I asked, wondering why she was taking Edward's place. I resisted the urge to look behind her searching for that familiar crooked smile, and instead searched my best friend's face for any sign of uneasiness. "Where's Edward?"

"Relax, Bella, he'll meet us at school." I hadn't even noticed that my voice shook a little, but Alice's high soprano left me feeling a bit calmer, as though she borrowed Jasper's powers for a moment.

"But did something happen–"

Before I could finish my question, Alice steered me in the direction of a shiny silver Volvo, placing me in the passenger seat. She was sitting next to me before I could close the door.

I was about to ask again what was going on, before Alice turned to me with an impatient smirk. "It seems like Edward is…having a problem – but he's fine," she quickly added before I could say anything else.

I sighed, hating the secrecy. "Well…ok, but I better find out what's happening when we get to school."

She nodded seriously, and then seemed to double up with laughter as she put the car in reverse. "Bella, you will find out before school…whether from Edward, or Emmet – Gosh, he's having one of his best days in years."

I probably looked as puzzled as I felt, but Alice didn't say anything else until she smoothly drove up into the school parking lot, stopping beside Rosalie's bright red convertible.

I noticed Emmet, Rosalie, and Jasper immediately, as they were chatting quietly near the driver's seat door. It took me a moment to find Edward though, for he looked a little differently.

As soon as I opened the door, as Alice had said, Emmet rushed over to me with a too-solemn expression.

"Bella, I'm afraid I have horrible news." He stood in front of me, and Rosalie and Jasper quickly took his side, as Alice joined mine. "You've heard that something happened to Edward, am I right?"

I immediately looked over everyone's heads over to where Edward stood, hood up, facing away from me and leaning against the wall. I also took in the fact that Jessica walked a few feet away, her face confused as she took in the depressed-looking Edward.

I looked back over to Emmett's grave expression and nodded slowly, wondering what had happened to Edward to make him like this.

"Well…" He looked over to Alice and after a second gave a small nod. "I think it would be best if we showed you."

Again, in the same day, I was being dragged by a vampire before eight in the morning. At least this time it was to Edward.

"Edward?" I asked, wondering how I sounded, as I approached the forever-seventeen man in front of me. "What happened?"

Even under his hood I noticed that he wore a beanie. I thought this over and concluded that Edward would never wear one unless the emergency was dire.

Taking a deep breath, I walked up to him until I stood only a few inches from his face, which was staring down at his shoes. In one swift motion (although Edward probably could've stopped it easily), I grabbed the hood and pushed it off his face.

Suddenly Edward looked up at me, his golden eyes desperate.

"Bella, you love me, right?"

I didn't see what this had to do with a beanie that draped the top of his head, but as an automatic response I replied, "Of course."

He cleared his throat, embarrassed, very un-Edward-like.

"Don't take off the beanie."

I had no idea what to do. What could possibly be so horrible under that beanie that would make Edward act like this? But before I could react, Emmett came out of nowhere and tried unsuccessfully to snatch the beanie off of Edward's head.

"Oh, take it off!" Emmett lunged again towards Edward, this time, pulling the beanie off and ripping it in pieces (although I think this was accidental).

The second the beanie was off, Emmett and Jasper burst into deep boisterous laughing, Rosalie joining in with her high soprano only half a second behind. Alice managed not to make as much as a scene, but she still giggled, her face turned.

Edward's hair was not the same unusual style as it normally was. Instead, it was flat across his face. It stuck out unnaturally on the sides, as if a toddler had rubbed superglue onto it. But the main part of the laughing probably wasn't the unnatural aligning of his hair.

Edward's hair had green streaks.

I looked in amazement at the hilarious-looking Edward. Although someone's main intuition was to laugh, his brilliant gold eyes made you think otherwise, which was probably why I was not cracking up alongside Emmet.

Finally I sputtered out the obvious question. "What happened?"

He looked up straight at Emmett, who was still recovering from his unruly laughing. "Apparently," he said, eyeing Emmett with glaring, deadly eyes, "Its April Fool's Day."

Oh, so that what all of this was about.

I turned over to Alice, ignoring the mental argument so obviously going on between Emmett and Edward.

"So that's why you had me so worried over nothing–"

Edward paused from his little feud to gasp quietly beside me, and I rolled my eyes dramatically.

By now we had attracted a small crowd of kids who were trying to look inconspicuous as they eyed Edward's leprechaun hair, and pointed at Emmett, who was laughing as loud as the bears he ate for breakfast. Rosalie hissed something under her breath, and instantaneity Emmett slowly regained his posture and his noticeable laughing ceased. I still heard him snicker quietly under his breath, though.