Disclaimer: Characters aren't mine, though I'd like to have Edward myself. Also, this is rated M for a reason. Careful what you read, if you don't like cursing or sexual innuendo, this isn't the story for you.
BPOV
Everyone has a first time for everything, a first kiss, a first crush, a first heart break, and so on. I, Isabella Marie Swan swear on this, the eighth day of August 2007, that Edward Anthony Cullen will be my first everything.
"Bella, meet Edward Cullen, he will be your first year mentor." I look from Mrs. Cope, the school counselor, to Edward.
"It's nice to meet you, Bella." he sticks his hand out towards mine, giving my hand a gentle squeeze. I couldn't respond, I just stare and leave my mouth open while my eyes rake over him. Hair a mix of red, brown, and orange. Eyes a beautiful shade of green, lips a pale shade of red that just begged to give me my first kiss, and a chiseled jaw I would die to lick.
I felt a tug and look down at my arm as Edward tries to gently pull his hand from mind. Oh, yeah, wipe the drool from your chin and try not to act like a fool. Simple. I could do that.
"Bella? Bella?" I turn to look at Mrs. Cope and trip over the news paper stand that was directly beside me, sending me backward. I brace myself for impact, but instead of the floor meeting my face, I feel arms move around my waist and then pull me back to my feet.
"Two left feet?" Edward guessed. I blushed, nodding. He gave me a sideways smile, causing my heart to puddle into my stomach.
"As I was saying Bella, Edward is our Sophomore assistant, he shows all the new kids around. He has your schedule and he will be helping you find your way all week, after that, you're on your own." Mrs. Cope said. "Good luck!"
"But of course, I'll be here if you need me." he gave me a wink and another smile while he opened the door for the office, waving his arm out for me to walk ahead of him. How the hell can a sophomore be this hot? Has he even hit puberty yet? "Your first class is Math, I'll show you where it's at." I blush as his voice pulls me out of my head.
He pretends not to notice, but the smile on his face assures me has. Instead of commenting, he walks down the hall and my eyes fasten on his backside. To say that Edward was gorgeous, or that he had a nice ass, is an understatement.
"Here it is. You have..." he looked at the schedule. "Mrs. Ray. She will be good, I had her my first year too." he folds the paper and hands it to me, our fingers brushing which cues my blush.
Edward just grins at me and says, "My class is just next door, so I'll wait on you to walk you to Biology." I try to think of something to say that wouldn't embarrass me further, but I come up blank. He clears his throat and I look up to see those green eyes glancing over me. "Well, good luck." he turns and walks to the door directly beside the one I was standing in front of and I let my eyes gaze over his backside again. Yep, I'm gonna marry him one day and we're gonna have some hot babies.
Edward was waiting for me after class, just like he said he would, a smile stretching his lips as he catches my gaze. "How was it?" he pulls his long body from the wall where he was perched and walks towards me.
Still struck stupid by all that is Edward Cullen, I only allow myself to nod. It seems like the safer bet since just standing in front of him drops my I.Q. level at least 20 points. "Okay," he pulls out a copy of my schedule, "All of the science classes are in the same building, Mr. Banner will be your Biology teacher." Edward motions for us to join in the line of moving students and he lets me step ahead of him. "He's really easy, but really boring. He gives you a pre-test sheet that is the exact test you will take. He even tells you where to find the answers in the book. Also, be sure to hold on to all the test sheets he gives, he picks questions off of them for finals."
We struggle through the crowd of people until we get to a set of double doors that lead outside. I match my stride to Edwards and keep my head down, watching our feet match with each step we take. See? It's like destiny! We are taking the same number of steps!
"You don't have to be nervous you know." his voice brings my head up right before I walk into another student.
"Sorry," I mumble quietly as I walk around the girl I almost took out.
"She speaks," I look back at Edward and he has that smile back on his face. "I didn't think I'd ever get to hear your voice." he pulls me to a stop. " Are you always this shy?"
I turn to him, eyes dropping from his face. "Uh, I just don't like a lot of attention." I look everywhere but his face, knowing if I meet that jaw dropping green gaze that my heart will likely blow up in my chest. Oh the woes of a ninth grader.
"And if someone wants to give you attention?" Well, that brought my eyes to his.
"I don't, I just...I don't know." Stumbling on my words I start walking again without a clue which of the buildings in front of me I'm going to.
"It's the one to the right," Edward says, suddenly beside me again. "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to make you uncomfortable,"
"It wasn't that," I say, my eyes back on our feet. "I just feel safer on the sidelines. I'm an observer, not a doer." Silence follows for a moment as he thinks of what to say.
"Well, I can understand that. I'm the same way." I turn and look at him with a brow raised. He laughs and says, "No really, I am. You can only do this if you're a sophomore or higher and you're the first person I've had to help since it's the beginning of the year. My parents wanted me to do this to force me out of my shell." We push through the main doors of the science building and move off to the side so others can walk in. Edward starts tugging at his hair with a frown on his face. "I'm sorry, I'm really bad at this aren't I?"
"No, not at all. You're perfect." The blush immediately floods my face and I turn to look for the door I need to enter.
Edward clears his throat and I turn to him, noticing the tips of his ears are red. "You have lunch next, then gym. I have history right now, but we have lunch and gym together so I'll try to make it over here to walk you. I'll just see if I can leave a minute or two early."
Edward points to the door for my next class and tells me good luck again before he exits the building. My heart suddenly freezes as I remember what he said. Gym? With Edward, my future husband? Shit. I'll never get him to marry me after he sees the mess that is me with anything that requires balance or coordination of any kind. Damn you, you cruel world!
Biology was as boring as Edward had warned me, which left me plenty of time to fear gym. As I gathered my books and placed them in my bag, I noticed Edward's mass of reddish hair at the door. He noticed me and gave me that smile I realized I might could get addicted to rather quickly. Hell, I think I was already addicted.
"Ready for lunch?" I would never let on how much going to lunch alone had bothered me. It was the idea of walking into that large room full of people I didn't know and having them all watch me as I walked through the line. I was relieved Edward was going to walk me in, here's hoping my future husband would offer me a seat next to him as well.
"As ready as I can be," I pull my bag up my shoulder as we follow the crowd, once again, through the building.
"I was lucky enough to already have friends when I first started here, so I didn't have to worry about everyone watching me and deciding if I was going to sit alone or just pick a random person to sit beside." Did he just read my mind? "You can sit with me if you'd like, relieve some of the tension if you have it." Yep, I'm positive he read my mind.
"Can you read minds?" It took me a second to realize I had said it out loud and it wasn't just the musing in my head. His laugh is what made me realize I'd even spoken.
"No, but even though I had friends when I first started here, I still remember how scary it is to be the new kid. So my offer stands, you can sit with me and meet my friends, you know, get a chance to meet some new people. If you want." Well damn, my future hubbie wasn't just good looking on the outside, it seems he is on the inside as well.
"I would like that, thank you." Edward just smiles and pulls the door open for me, letting me step out first.
We walked back outside and around a group of taller buildings to a shorter and longer building with an entrance in the back, we continue walking and Edward explains the door we just passed is for exit only, some of the teachers freak out when students come in behind them since the teachers table is facing away from the exit. They like to see all the students enter, make sure they are accounted for and then watch them leave, making sure some unruly teenagers don't try and ditch their next class. Like gym. Shit.
"You okay?" I didn't even realize we had stopped walking until I looked up at him.
"Uh, yeah, I was just thinking about how much I hate gym."
Before Edward can reply, someone starts yelling his name. I turn and find a group of four people, two girls and two boys, standing there waving him forward. Well, one girl was waving him forward. The other three people were just hanging back talking to themselves while the short dark haired girl bounced around waving.
"That one is Alice," he says, pointing at the dark haired girl who now looks like she's having a seizure from all the twitching she's doing. "The blond is Rosalie, the big burly guy next to her is Emmett and the guy that's behind everyone is Jasper. Alice swears she will marry him one day but she can barely even get him to talk to her." He chuckles to himself and I figure, hey, if I know who I'm going to marry and this Alice girl does, too, maybe we can have a double wedding someday. I better start making her my friend fast.
"Let's go, let's go!" Alice does more of that bouncing as Edward and I approach and she smiles very sweetly at me. "Hi! I'm Alice!" She pulls me into her for a hug and I only now realize just how much shorter she is than me. About three or four inches which puts her at 5'0 or 5'1. "You're Bella? I've heard so much about you. You came from Phoenix didn't you? I couldn't stand the heat, I'd melt. This is Rosalie, she's my sister," she points at Rosalie who just looks at me. Not in a mean way, really, but not nice either. "You've already met Edward, who is our brother," I try to follow her words but she's speaking so quickly I feel like my head will spin off. "That's Emmett, he's the school jock, and that's Jasper," she leans in and whispers so quietly I can barely hear her. "I'm going to marry him someday. He just doesn't know it yet."
Alice gives me a devilish smirk and yanks me inside the building, skipping along to the lunch line while I walk behind her, a smile on my face at just how bubbly this girl is. "You'll love it here, Bella. I just know we are going to be best friends!" she gives a girly little squeal and hands me a tray and fork. "Always stay away from the salad bar. They leave whatever isn't eaten for days. It's disgusting."
As we move our trays along the counter, picking what food to try and hope we don't die from, Edward comes up with a grin on his face. I see the resemblance between him and Alice now. I wouldn't have noticed it without that smile, but now I see it and can pick out little things that are similar.
"Sorry, she can be a handful sometimes. Alice doesn't really have a stopping point."
"I don't mind. It's…nice, actually." I look up and Edward still has that smile on his face. Damn, but he smiles a lot. "You guys are a very optimistic bunch aren't you? Do you ever get mad?"
"We have our days, but we try not to. No one likes a Debbie Downer all the time. Besides, who wants to lead an angry life? That would be miserable." This coming from a fifteen-year-old boy, I shake my head but I have a smile on my face that seems to come from being around Edward.
"Come on Bella, let's go save everyone a seat," Alice takes her tray and moves towards a round table in the back. I had forgotten she was even there.
I pay for my tray of questionable food and follow behind her. I notice a few people staring at me, but it isn't anything too bad. I could have still ignored it, but for some reason when Edward stepped up beside me every female head popped up like they had some sort of Edward radar. My face starts to heat and I drop my head down, staring at my feet with a hope that I don't trip over anyone and that I make it to the table unscathed.
"Those girls, they are just jealous. Ignore them," Alice says as I make it to the table. She pats the seat beside hers and I gratefully sit down, managing to only stumble but all the food stays on the tray. "Edward caught their attention when he came here and since he won't date anyone they get jealous when a girl manages to capture his attentions."
"Alice," Edward reprimands. I look at him and his ears are flaming red.
"What? It's true. They hated Rosalie and me for the longest time; even after they found out we were his sisters." I look back and forth between them, Edward with his ears red and Alice saying everything matter-of-factly with big innocent brown eyes as if she doesn't notice Edward's unease. "There was this one girl, last year, her name was Emily. She and Edward were friends and all the other girls started picking on her. We thought she was still coming back this year, but she never showed."
The way Alice said it was like when people tell the end of a particularly scary ghost story when they say "and they were never seen again!"
"Okay, thanks Alice. That's enough now." Edward was giving Alice a blank face, the red from his ears were still there though.
"Hell yes! Pizza Mondays!" The burly guy, Emmett was it? He sat down beside Edward and immediately started eating. He had five slices of pizza, corn, two cookies, and a sandwich of some kind all stacked on his tray. "Dude, I'm so glad they chose Monday as pizza day. That's the only thing I have to look forward to after the weekend." Emmett spoke around his mouthful of food.
"That's disgusting, Emmett." Rosalie sat down beside him and Emmett went in to kiss her cheek.
"Sorry, Rosie baby,"
Jasper sat down next in the only empty seat, next to Alice. She glanced over at me, that devilish smile back on her face. She leaned over Jasper and whispered something none of us could hear. He choked and started coughing, his face so bright red I'm sure he could have out blushed me any day.
I needed to learn some tips from this girl if I wanted Edward to marry me. Speaking of Edward, he was staring at me so I turned and met his gaze. His ears lit up that red color again and his eyes dropped to his tray. Yep, I was definitely going to have to tips from his sister.
Gym, oh dear God strike me dead now. It was going to take more than a few words to get Edward in the same vicinity as me after this. Volley ball.
"Swan, you serve first." The gym teacher Coach Eason yelled at me. He grabs a beach ball, he says it's safer, and chunks it at me. I do that embarrassing girly 'eep' sound and try to catch it before it smacks my face. I almost have it, but I drop it and it rolls around while I try to pick it up. I kick the damn thing when I start running after it and the coach blows his whistle. "Pick it up Swan!" I freeze for a moment, which gives the blasted beach ball a chance to stop rolling and I pick it up, careful to not kick it again before I reach it.
I stand on the line the coach tells me to stand on; it's damn far away from the net. What distracts me isn't the distance though, it's the fact that this is boys vs girls volley ball and Edward is on the other side of the net with that Edward smile on his face as he tries not to laugh.
"Any day now," I look at the coach and mumble a sorry before I toss the beach ball up in the air, bringing my hand up to smack it. Miraculously, I do hit it, but instead of going up and over the net, it goes straight and into the net. "Again," Coach Eason yells. Why do all coaches have to yell all the time?
I step back on the line and ignore the giggles on my side of the net. Stupid girls are so bitchy sometimes. I toss the ball up again and hot damn if it didn't go up and over the net. I was so excited that I made it over the net that I didn't see the boy hit back over and coming directly to me again. Shit. This is why I hate sports.
I smack at the ball, which sends it into the face of one of the girls that was giggling at me earlier. Great, way to make friends, Bella.
"Ow! Coach Eason! She did that on purpose!" See? Bitchy. This is why I don't make friends with girls.
"You're supposed to watch the ball Stanley, not the opposing team." Coach Eason was right, she had been staring at a blond boy while the ball barreled at her face. "You are always supposed to keep your eye on the ball, no matter what sport it is." The coach grabbed the ball and threw it to the boys. "Boys serve, Cullen, you're up."
I see Edward move to the serve line and take a stance with his feet slightly apart. His eyes search for me and I shake my head as I see him process aiming the ball my way. He grins and the ball goes up and over the net in a perfect arch, right towards me.
He betrayed me! My soon to be boyfriend and one day husband betrayed me! Instead of panicking, I just step to the side and the ball lands exactly where I was standing.
"You're supposed to hit the ball Swan, not move away from it. Serve again, Cullen." Edward apparently takes pity on me and instead of going for me again, he goes for that girl I hit in the face. Again, she's watching that blond boy and gets smacked in the face. "Stanley, three laps, go!"
"What?" the Stanley girl whines.
"Three laps, around the baseball field. Go, go, go!" Coach screams all drill sergeant like. The girl walks out the door and starts walking towards the baseball field that is directly beside the gym building. "Everyone else pay attention or you will be joining her, understood?"
"Yes, Coach!" echoed around the room.
After another forty-five minutes of enduring the torture they call gym, Coach blew the whistle and we were dismissed. Thank you, Jesus!
"Bella," I turned and the blond boy that girl and been staring at was running toward me. "Bella, right?" I nod. "My name is Mike, Mike Newton. How is your first day going?"
"Uh, it's going okay I guess. I hate gym though."
"Yeah, don't we all." I stand there staring stupidly at Mike and he's fidgeting. "If you need any help finding your classes or anything, just let me know, okay?"
I stare at him for another second and say "Sure," he nods and starts to say something else when I see Edward walking up. "I'm sorry, I need to get to my other class now. Nice to meet you, Mike."
"Do you need help finding your class? I could walk you."
"I've got it Mike, thanks though." Edward steps up casually and motions for me to walk ahead of him.
"Thank you for saving me,"
"I didn't know you needed saving, but you're welcome. I'll rescue you any time."
My face hinted at a blush, but let my hair fall around me like a curtain. To distract myself, I pulled out my schedule. My last class of the day was English. I noticed I was in AP English, which was fine. I was good at English and I really enjoyed it.
"Oh, we have English together, too. I didn't know you were in AP English." Another class with my soon to be? Hell yes! I do believe I'm going to love this school.
"Hey, Bells. How was school?" Charlie, my dad, was sitting in the living room watching baseball.
"It was good. I think I'm going to like it here."
Honestly, when I first packed my bags in the Arizona heat, I thought for sure that Forks Washington would be a nightmare with all the cold and rain. I was happy to see that my pale skin didn't stand out here and I didn't mind the cold or the rain much.
I've visited my dad every summer here, and this past summer I thought it would be nice if I stayed longer since I'd be going off to college soon and I had spent my entire life with my mom. She worried about me a lot when I decided to move here, she didn't handle it well at first, either. My mom calls every night and sends random texts during the day.
Speaking of which, her ring tone started chirping happily out of my phone. I raced up the stairs to my room and grabbed the phone right before it stopped ringing.
"Hey, Mom,"
"Bella! How was your first day? Was it good? Was everyone nice to you? Any cute boys?"
"Mom slow down," I laugh and her rambling suddenly reminds me of Alice. "I met some people and I think I made a friend. Everyone was nice and I didn't have to sit alone at lunch so that was great."
"You didn't answer the cute boy question, Bella."
"Yes. Mom he was so gorgeous," I gush. My mom and I have always been close so it wasn't weird to me to talk about boys, even though I have never dated before.
"Well, what's his name?"
"Edward Cullen. He showed me around school, he's a sophomore and he has amazing hair."
"Is he going to be your high school sweetheart?"
"Duh," wasn't that part obvious?
"Okay, Bella. I'm glad you had a good first day, but I need to run now. I just wanted to check on you, make sure everything went okay. I love you, honey. Be good and listen to your father, okay?"
"Of course, Mom. I love you, too."
We hung up and I stayed on my bed with a big smile on my face. You just wait, Edward Cullen. I'm going to have you mind, body, and soul one day. Maybe I should exclude the soul part. That sounds a bit creepy. But one day, one day soon, I would have him for my own.
A/n
And that's it for the first chapter. I hope everyone enjoyed it! I love the idea of young, innocent love and thought it would be nice to share this idea with others. If you liked it, please review!
Just so everyone knows, I will be updating once a week, probably every Saturday but I'm not sure. I don't have internet at my house but I visit family every weekend and they do have the internet so I will post there.
Until next time!
Bronze