She believes herself, a queen.
He believes himself, a monster.
He thinks she is conceited, selfish and a poor representation of humankind; so manipulative, so petty, so normal; that he has to look away before the urge to steal it all away overtakes his better judgement.
She thinks he is conceited because how can someone who looks like that not be, selfish for not sharing the limelight like when she was willing to, when she had asked him out and a jerk because she's trying to cut down on her foul language from the previous year. She tries not to dwell on the impossible because then the urge to hit him with a baseball bat won't be as strong; murdering someone will not look good on her entrance essay despite what people think of her GPA.
He feels a very overwhelming yet explainable hunger as the sweetest of scents envelops him; venom pools and drips from his incisors. Barely restraining himself, his eyes meet soft brown eyes so much like the deer his family hunts; his instincts are slowly taking over, the thoughts of his sibling's warnings become just a buzz at the back of his mind. Then a strange ringing fills his head, annoyingly familiar, getting loud with every word of her thought.
Newton is totally going to give up on Swan if I'm assuming right which I usually am.
The way Cullen is looking at her sure isn't subtle, like he wants to eat her like I want to eat my favorite double beef, double cheese burger with French fries and a thick choco coffee shake.
But I bet his favorite is a greek salad or something along those lines.
He blinks, grinding his teeth and the spell is no more, his able to turn his head back towards his table thinking of how ironic it is, that she thinks he maybe vegetarian, he could see his siblings shocked faces, he lifts his lips in an unsure smile;Bella Swan is his siren of that he has no doubt but as unlikely a form as it has come, he just may have found his lighthouse.
She feels confused, very confused, she was sure, so sure that Swan would rail in the attention of the anemic anorexic jerk and that would make Newton stop following her like a lovesick puppy. Yet like with the time she asked him out her intuition fails her again.
When she hears from Mallory, that after just one class with Swan, Cullen high tails it to the administration office to request that his timetable be changed and since he is an honor student, he gets it. why couldn't he just play his part, she's new, she's not bad to look at (that's as close to a compliment she's going to give Swan) and that whole "I am mysterious" vibe going on; so why did he just ignore all the signs pointing to Swan.
There was a routine these past two years , she knew how to fall under the right one, the popular one and how to stay committed to it, she also knows that when routines change people get displaced; she is definitely feeling displaced.
The arrogant jerk is in all her classes, usually she wouldn't care much if he disappears afterwards not to be seen again, until he reappears in the cafeteria with his family, like he has always done except he doesn't do that instead she'll be waiting by Angela's locker and he'll walk by or she goes all the way to the back of the school library during free period away from the prying eyes of teenagers to study when she'll look up to see between the gaps of the shelves a long pale hand reaching for a book or every time, every single time she feel eyes on her, she keeps finding ever changing golden eyes staring back, surprisingly not the normal distain well it's still there just overshadowed by puzzlement in his eyes before she remembers herself and glares at him before rejoining her group's conversation.
To add to all this strangeness, he now seats two seats away from her when before he would pick the furthest desk away from everyone especially her. She would have blamed it on her ego, for linking everything to herself, so Stanley tries to convince herself that maybe it was Mallory he was interested in, like the girl had been telling anyone whoever would listen, even if they only had one class together.
However when Swan started asking Angela questions about what kind of relationship Cullen and she, Stanley had. Its became painfully obvious that if the new girl thought something was up then most likely a lot of others had noticed too.
Which begs the question, what the hell does Edward Cullen want with her, Jessica Stanley!?
