My first story! I'm still figuring out the workings of Fanfiction, so forgive me... maybe. The chapters will probably stay small. I've always had a thing for shy guys... so here it goes.
Everything Twilight belongs to Stephenie Meyer.
Bpov-
"Everybody!" Mr. Banner called for our attention, "Please take out last Wednesdays essay assignment. Make sure your name, the date, and your hour are in the right hand corner and that you have a title for your essay, please. These are easy points, people!"
The sound of rustling papers added a nice harmony to Mr. Banner's booming "teacher" voice. Some teachers, like Mr. Banner, do it so well they sound even more like a haughty tool than most.
Not all teachers are like that, and the Forks teachers are way better than the Phoenix teachers were. My teachers from Phoenix weren't very friendly, but they weren't friendly with all the students' parents either.
The door abruptly opened and crashed into the wall behind it. Edward Cullen stood red-faced and flustered in the doorway. His hair was extremely messy, and I felt embarrassed for him.
He ducked his head and started his journey through the classroom of eyes trained on his blushing cheeks, over to the seat next to me. Mr. Banner didn't even bother to comment, instead just walking over to the ancient monitor in the corner of the classroom.
Edward's interruption offered the perfect opportunity for the class to start up their conversations that Mr. Banner had stopped.
I spotted Jacob a few rows ahead of me. He was talking to his girlfriend Lauren. Stupid Lauren! She was prettier than me, but she was also a total bitch. She wasn't just a bitch some of the time, she's a bitch 24/7.
Maybe Jacob likes blondes... He dated Katie and she was a blonde, too. Yuck! I would look terrible as a blonde!
I couldn't even say why I like him. I had never noticed him in all our years of school together and then one day I saw him last summer while working at my new job at Newton's Outfitters.
Mr. Banner walked by and collected both Edward's paper and mine, stopping my thoughts of Jacob and his friendly smile over summer.
I looked over to Edward. He was looking down at the table, his face still had a deep red tint to it. Poor guy.
I heard Lauren's cackle across the classroom to see her looking straight at Edward. Jacob had a polite smile on his face as if he hadn't been paying attention, or was too nice to laugh at Edward's humiliation. He did seem like a really nice guy.
Edward was now drawing randomly on the cover of his notebook. He had obviously noticed Lauren and those who had heard her stupid joke laughing.
"Good morning, Edward," I spoke. I thought maybe I could distract him. It was mean what they were doing to him.
He looked up surprised.
I smiled brightly at him.
He looked shocked before diverting his eyes and mumbling a quiet, "Hello."
People were still talking loudly, and Lauren the loudest.
"Is it really that hard to come to class on time?" she asked snidely to the few who were listening. Jacob had turned to talk to Seth, bored with their conversation. The only people who appeared to be listening were Jessica and Tyler. Jessica wanted to be her and Tyler had been lusting after her since freshman year, so it was somewhat understandable.
I turned to face him, "How was your weekend? Did you do anything interesting?" I asked politely, trying to distract him.
He looked up again, still somewhat surprised. "N-no," he stuttered before clearing his throat.
I turned away after a beat of silence.
He cleared his throat again after another long beat, and I turned back while he continued, "Uh, I went camping with my family." His voice was still quiet and somewhat mumbled.
"Oh yeah, it was surprisingly sunny last weekend," I spoke up quickly before he got all shy on me and looked away.
Not very social, this one. Not that I'm much better.
"Do you and your family go camping a lot? I remember seeing you at Newton's this summer." Almost as much as Jacob.
"Yeah... Uh, any time the weather clears up my dad drags us all out to 'bond'." His voice had seemed to have lost the stutter, but he still seemed quite timid, while his cheeks had cooled and were almost back to his normal pale shade.
I looked to Lauren. She had lost interest in embarrassing Edward and was now gossiping about some other poor soul. I smiled happily. My distraction technique had worked!
I looked for Mr. Banner, just realizing that we had wasted ten minutes of class time. He was staring stupidly at the computer screen.
It was silent between Edward and me, with neither of us having much to say to give our short conversation a proper ending. Edward started fidgeting nervously again.
"What do you think he's doing?" I asked, abruptly.
He looked slightly less awkward. "Who?"
"Mr. Banner."
"Uhh, I don't know." he paused, "Entering grades?" he responded.
"Oh, you're no fun," I teased, and he blushed again. His blush was kind of adorkable, as long as it was a result of harmless teasing.
"Well I think he is... updating his eHarmony page and talking to his new friend. Her name is Brandi and she's '22'," I air quoted, "and Mr. Banner is '25'. They'll go home and have hot email sex imagining the fake pictures they've sent to each other," I made the story more ridiculous as I noticed his resulting blush re-appear midway through my story. Too cute.
I laughed at his expression. He understood what I meant now.
"So now what do you think he's doing?"
His brow furrowed in thought and they dissapeared beneath his thick rimmed glasses. He took a deep breath before speaking, "I think that he's not talking to Brandi, he's talking to Brandon." I smiled in encouragement. "He's a gay 23 year old from Nicaragua and works at a swanky spa in Portland."
I laughed. He was finally coming out of his shell.
"I don't think there are many Hispanic people named Brandon."
He thought about it for a moment. "His father is from Wisconsin."
I laughed again. Where the hell did the kid get Wisconsin from?
He was smiling big with only a slight tint to his cheeks.
"You've got good potential if you'd loosen up more, Edward." I chuckled again, and Mr. Banner finally got off his 'dating' site.
"Class, today we'll be...
