Summary: When a shy and anti-social Bella gets promoted onto upper grade and met Edward, a sweet Casanova who met Bella and thought of her as a "good girl" and had fallen in love with her unknowingly and wants to be her friend but he don't understand why Bella kept on ignoring him and don't even talk to him.

Disclaimer: I don't owe Twilight except Few characters. Stephenie Meyer does ; ((

Symptoms

"It's good to be in the new class with new books, friends and on the new level. Isn't it? Bella?", Said my close friend Angelia. We all were promoted in the second higher class and we all were ecstatic about it. Well, they were, not me. I'm Isabella Marie swan, Daughter of chief Charlie swan and Renee swan. I'm there only child. I live with my Dad in the forks, in short here. In this rainy place but I'm not complaining, I like rain until and unless it didn't makes me wet and sick. My mom re-married insert a wince in here) with Phil Dwyer and lived with him back in Phoenix. I'm happy for her but sometimes I felt so lonely that I felt like ending my life then and there. You see, I've been brought up with my mom until I was 15 and she met Phil and get married to him and then I was been left with my Dad in here. My Dad and I are alike. I'm just like my Dad, timid, anti-social, introvert but if you get to know him he will warm up to you and you will felt as if you had known him for ages ago.

Anyway, we all were moving to our new promoted class in our Forks High school. Everywhere I land my eyes on, I saw only joyful faces of my peers. Everyone was happy to meet his or her friends and new comers. Everyone was happy except me. I really don't care about friends, meeting new comers. I just wanted these school days to end so that could go from here and make my dream come true. Uh! FYI, I wanted to be Novelist. I write stories but this was the only thing that Angelia knows and no one else. I don't want anyone to make fun of something or me. But she just rolls her eyes at me and always quoted 'Your stories are sensible and are sentimental and they are amazing and interesting. You will be a great famous novelist'. But I know better that I can't be a novelist. Still, I wrote my imaginative stories and she read them enthusiastically and always 'Awed' and praised me, to which I'm very grateful. She never judge me and are always keen to help me because she says I remind her of her favorite cousin sister who lived in Spain and only once came to met her.

"Yeah, it's Awesome," I tried to say as much as enthusiastically as I could mustard in it. She here turned slightly towards me and smirked. I sighed because I knew she had got me in here. She knows me too well that I don't like coming to school, at all. Before she could speak, I caught Ben down the corridor, which is in his junior class but in our age and I coughed slightly.

"Well, if you would look behind you miss, you will have an awesome day today". I said and sidestepped her to enter in our new class. Confused, she turned to look at me but straightened up as she caught his presence and thrown me a glare. "You are next in this, Bella and you cannot run away from it nor hide from it". I heard her hissed before I could enter the class threshold. But the only thing I could do was to laugh merrily and waved her without looking back.

I enter in the class and looked around. I can see I-Am-The-Miss-Hotty and I-Am-The-School Dude were already there.

"Show off." I muttered as I walk down the lane of the fourth row and gently dumped my bag in the second last bench and sat in my chair and put my head down on my arms.

"Are you in this section?" I heard a deep yet musical voice asked from nearby and I slowly raised my head to see who was it. But what I saw made my head spin uncontrollably and my heart thudded erratically. My words seemed to get struck in my throat, which made me unable to speak.

What The Hell Is Wrong With Me? I thought.

Because before me was the most handsome Boy have I ever saw or would seen in my existence or till I would live. He looked like a Greek God or would it be too much if I said that he can put Greek God to shame? His angular jaw, his sharp yet soft looking prominent cheeks with just soft stubble on his chin, his messy copper, black, red and bronze colored hair and lastly his eyes. His emerald green eyes, which looked amused about some unnamed joke. With a jolt of surprise, I realize that I hadn't answered him and I looked away from him and nodded as in confirmation. I heard his friends called him and he turned towards them. I heaved an unsteady breath, which surprise me the most and then I realize that my cheeks felt too hot for my liking. I raised my right hand to touch my cheek and it felt hot under my sweaty palm.

Whoa! I thought. What the heck was that? I took deep cleansing breathe for what felt like eternity but merely few minutes when I saw Kiara and Angelia enter inside the class room and spotted me and beckoned me to join them. I lifted my bag up from the bench and marched up to them, who were standing near the windows bench rows, far away from the class entrance. They dumped their bag on there respective seats and I sat behind them. Before Kiara get up and come to stand by my bench.

"Again?" Said I worriedly as I got up and hugged her. This is happening since last grade. Sudden Breakup and Patch up with her beloved one. I told her to grow up and end this but she always decline and said "You don't understand, Bella. It is too hard to cut this relationship with him". Whenever she had breakups she always ring me up and I had to come up for her rescue and if I'm in the school, she'd come up to me and hug me and I always console her.

I heard her sniffed and nodded against my shoulder. I sighed and let her squeezed me tightly as she cried silently. It's better then that wailing fits she used to have. I looked up from her shoulder and once again met those emerald green eyes. Once again the skin of my cheeks crawled up with heat and I directed my eyes by my side and looked at Angelia, who just shrugged back at me.

"I told her so," She mouthed those words at me and I raised my left brow at her, incredulous. I bent forward and started whispering sweet words in her left ear. After few minutes or so when I could no longer hear her sniffling and sobbing against my shoulder, I was rewarded with a poke against my side. I dodged that cleanly and chuckled lightly but didn't stop whispering.

"And we can put his head inside the commode and flush his head off or we rather have him come and begged you to take him back," I whispered in her ear that earned a giggle from her and she raised her face to look at me.

"Both," She slightly croaked as she beamed at me. I smiled at her as I fished in my pockets for a spare handkerchief and offered it to her. She took it gladly and wiped off her tears from her blotchy cheeks.

"Well, both, it is." I murmured as I wiped off the last tear from her cheek as it had escape from her fingers.

"When all is well, when the end's well" said Angelia as she dramatically wiped off the imaginary sweat from her forehead, making both of us laugh. Just then the bell rang and the whole class settles. Our class teacher enters and the first thought that cross my mind was" Angry old women".

"Hello, Students. Welcome to the second senior level. I'm Rickha Fereene . Your class teacher and I expect good class with good behavior from all of you till you passed out this class. Is that understood?" She said in her stern voice as she stood before us, gazing around the class, daring anyone to contradict her. We all nodded our heads in agreement and have I told you that there was pin drop silence in the class as if she was a lady Hitler instead of our class teacher? She asked one of the students to distribute the school schedules. Once we got the schedules in our hands, the whole class started comparing them with their friends.

"I've got Gym, History, Fine Arts, English and Math's," said Kiara as she scanned her classes.

"I've got History, Web Technology, English, Sociology and Political science," Angelia muttered as she wrapped her schedule and put it in her bag. They both look up to me and I looked down at my schedule.

Isabella Marie Swan

Class schedules

8 a.m-9a.m = English

9a.m-10a.m = Web Technology

10 a.m-11a.m = Political science

11a.m-11: 30 a.m = Break

11:30 a.m -12:00 = Library

12 p.m — 1p.m = History

1p.m — 2 p.m = Sociology

As soon as my eyes read the golden words 'Library' My face split into a wide smile. They both hit their head with the palm of their hand as they saw me grinning like a Cheshire cat.

"Library." They both said in unison as they sighed heavily and both turned to groan or fused about it with each other. They both knew how obsessed I'm with books a.k.a Novels.

"Yup!" I said happily as I leaned back in my chair and stretched as far as I could in my seat. I felt as if I had won some sort of battle or something. I heard a soft chuckle and I turned my head to my side to saw the Green Eyed boy staring at me but with a soft smile on his face. But then I noticed that he was sitting with a blonde girl and she was too smiling up at him. I looked back and saw Mrs. Fereene calling out our names.

"Bella? Are you All right? You are all red on the face." Kiara said worriedly when she had turned around to pick up my schedule.

"Why? I'm fine. Don't worry" I said dismissively.

"She is blushing, Kiara." Angelia exclaimed as she turned and saw my face. I rolled my eyes at them and took out my English book from my bag.

"Why would she blush though?" Kiara asked her skeptically as her eyes scrutinized my face.

"I don't know. Better ask her." Angelia eyes twinkled as she winked at me.

"Because I feel happy that I've got half an hour to go to my favorite place." I said as Kiara turned and gave me a questioning look.

"Lie. Tell me about it later," Angelia mouthed at me as we heard her name called out by Mrs. Fereene.

"OH!" Kiara said and she turned to slump in her seat with a thoughtful expression on her face. I blew a lungful of air very slowly from my mouth and open up my book to read it. The enemy said the first chapter and I frowned at it. The whole hour passed by reading our first new chapter and soon the bell rang for the next period. We three took out our respective books and parted our ways for our class.

"So? Why were you blushing back before?" She demanded.

"Blushing? Who was blushing?" I cocked my head at one side as I looked at her curiously. She gave me a look that clearly said 'Don't test me'. But before she could said anything more about it, we both hear a cough from behind us and turned simultaneously to come face to face with the same Emerald Green-Eyed boy. And as soon as I saw him, two things happened at the same time.

First: I felt my cheeks flamed from the look he was giving me.

AND

Second: I dropped my books at his feet.

Fantastic! I thought sarcastically, embarrassed and frustrated.

"Clumsy," I heard Ang muttered as I bent down to pick them up hurriedly.

"See you later." I muttered to her as I gladly skip inside the class safely but not before I heard him greet her with her name. Hmm… He knows her then. I thought. I enter inside the class and without looking in front of me. But unfortunately, I collided with someone. I bounce back but before I could fall, someone caught my wrist and hauled me back.

"Whoa! Are you OK? I'm sorry. I wasn't looking." Said a booming yet an amused voice which made me look up at my savior. If I said that I wasn't scared at first would be an understatement. A boy like him would scare away a wolf just with a dangerous glare at it.

"D-Don't apologized. I-It w-was my fault. I wasn't lo-looking." I stuttered, half terrified of him and half reddening because what I had said or I should say, how had I said made me want to smack my forehead with the palm of my hand. His Big Brown eyes twinkled and his mouth twisted in a sweet smile.

"Don't be afraid. I'm not going to hurt you," He said as his eyes roamed about my face. I bit my lip, a habit I had picked up from my mother when she got nervous and clutched at my books to my chest more tightly than usual.

"Well, have I introduced myself? Hello. My name is Emmett Cullen. New comer in this institution." He held his hand out to shake mine. I looked down at it, still chewing on my bottom lip and took his hand to reciprocate the gesture. I noticed how my hand completely gets engulfed in his large yet pale hand. My hand appears so small in his big one.

"Bella. Nice to meet you, Emmett." I said with a shy smile of my own.

"Likewise," He said as he too grinned down at me. The word that crossed my mind when I saw him grinning like that was 'Teddy Bear'.

A voice that certainly said that it was our Multimedia teacher and then we both parted our ways interrupts us both. I came to realize that everyone was settled in their seats and that Angelia was already seated near the bulletin board, fourth row and was typing away something in the computer. I marched up to the bench when I felt my heart begin to throb unevenly. I furrow my brows at this and quickly as possible, took my seat beside her.

I breathed a sigh of relief and saw a lady maybe in thirties standing near the first row of our cabin and the first impression of her cried 'calm and lovely lady'.

"Hello, children. My name is Pamela Anderson but you guys can call me Mrs. Pam. I won't mind. Anyway, we are here to study about the Multimedia and the designing of web pages. This will continue next year too. I will guide you and tell you what it is about. The rest like the practical's, projects can rest in peace for a while. And yes! Before I forget, I will now distribute and paired you up with your lab partner so that you too can work together on any sort of project I may give it to you in the future. Now as I called out your name, kindly get up and paired up with your partner." She here took out a piece of paper from a folder and a pair of spectacles, which she put around her pretty, nose and read it out.

"Jasper-Alice," A girl who looks a pixie to me marched up to a blonde boy who looked like an Army guy and they both sat on the front row, first bench.

"Johnson-Elwin," A boy stood up who looked as if he was having his worst timing at school, marched up behind the first benches and took his seat beside a guy who look as if he was going to passed out in any second.

This continued until the teacher calls out my friend name.

"Angelia-Edward," My friend stood up and marched up to the cabin, round the table and marched back down the aisle and sat down beside the green-eyed boy, who was seated just next to our cabin.

Edward? His name is Edward? I thought. It just suited him just perfectly. I mused at this thought until Mrs. Pam called out my name with my partner.

"Bella-Emmett," He jumped enthusiastically and nearly run to my bench, which made me laugh.

"Hi!" He said as he sat with a bounce in his steps.

"Hello," I said as I giggled at his behavior. Now, seeing him behaving like this made me less scared of him. I remembered my grandfather said at one time 'Don't judge the person from his looks, Judge him from his behavior and see how he treats his inferior not his equals'. But these thoughts get interrupted as I once again felt the heat crawled its way from my neck and up to my cheeks and felt my heart picked up its pace. I once again ignore it as Mrs. Pam begin to speak again.

"Well, as we have paired up. Shall we start?" With a loud yes, we all begin our new class. The whole day passed out in the same manner and soon we all were attending our last class. Ang and I were sitting to next each other.

The period was boring as the teacher drooled in her lazy voice and almost half of the class was dozing of in their respective seats. I had my head balancing with the palm of my hand and lazily drawing and coloring my name to see which come best in different font. But before I could colored the letter 'M' a note was slipped on my page and I looked up to saw Angelia stared pointedly first at me and then on the note.

Had I told you that she is the most irritating being of this world beside Kiara?

I sighed quietly and pick it up and read it. It says:

"You didn't told me. Why were you blushing this morning?".

I pick up a pen and scribbled on it.

"I don't know."

I passed it on her folder very quietly and begin where I had left. I squeezed my eyes shut in frustration for a moment as I once again felt that same thing: The heat on my cheeks, the erratic thudding of my heart and my breathing patterns getting uneven ever so slightly. I gritted my teeth and forced my heart to calm down. I was once again rewarded with a note on my folder. It reads:

"You are Blushing again. What is wrong with you?"

She wrote.

"Again, I don't know. But can I tell you one thing if you won't laugh at me?"

I wrote back to her and I saw her nodded her head ever so slightly. I gulped as My heart begin to thud very fast for my liking and for once I felt like I was about to have a Heart Attack right then and there. With furrowed brows, I wrote back:

"I have been feeling some strange things. My cheeks felt as if they have been put on the hot stove. My heart thud so erratically that I feared I was about to have a heart attack at any moment and I am having difficulties to breath properly."

As soon as she read this she smiled and coughed slightly to disguise her laughter quietly. She picked up her pen and scribbled on the paper and passed it to me. It says:

Remember what I said this morning, Bella?

I looked back at her but she just looked ahead and smirked slightly. Suddenly I straightened up in my seat so fast as if I had been electrified by someone.

"You are next in this, Bella and you cannot run away from it nor hide from it."

I remembered her words from this morning. I shook my head slowly to clear my head but these words were reeling in my mind. Slowly, I turned in my seat and looked at her but her eyes look at me and then at the paper. At what I read made me want to vomit.

"LOOK AROUND THE CLASS!" It says.

I sit back in my bench to calm myself, took a minute but I didn't look around the class instead I turned and looked at the windows. I carefully looked at the Images that were reflecting from it and then as I land my eyes on the middle of the class. It almost made me petrified in Terror.

So, Ladies and Gentlemen, here are we about to Un-deciphered the suspense of the day. Here we go….…

There was Edward, stretched out in his seat, his arms folded across his chest and was looking at my profile, No! Staring might be the better word for it while I gazed at him from the reflection of the windows. I squeezed my eyes shut for a moment before I opened them .To see if I am dreaming but no. He was still there, looking ill at ease and still staring at me. Calmly, I turned back and buried my head in the safety zone of my arms and as soon as my head took its refugee between my arms, I started muttering profanities so low that even I cannot hear what had I said. The only word that comes out of my mouth was 'shit'. I heard the bell rang, declaring the end of the hideous hours of the school and reluctantly raised my head up from the safety zone of my arms.

"So? Who was he?" She asked me curiously as she begin to pack her bag.

"Nobody," I retorted as I stuffed my books roughly in my bag.

She tusked and said "Now, Bella. It would be better if you tell me who was he because if you do, it would be better for you for you future because you're going to need me."

"Whatever you are thinking is not going to happened." I said brusquely as I Jerked the zipper of my bag in an attempt to close it.

"Well, then, I've to find it out then." She said as she chuckled, looking thoroughly amused by my behavior.

"What you have to find out, Angelia?" asked Kiara as she picks up her bag and started stuffing her bag with her books. I looked back at Angelia as in the same time she turned to look at me. Both of us wearing the same expression.

"Nothing," We told her in Unison while we both get out of our seat. Kiara looked at us in suspicion but didn't voice it out. We bade our Goodbyes to each other at the gate when I once again felt the same thing. I turned and marched out of the gate as quickly as possible but someone caught my wrist and spun me around.

"It's Edward Cullen," Angelia murmured as she dropped my wrist and bounced away without looking back. As soon as she disappeared from my sight, I took a deep breath from my nose and turned with my instinct as my heart once again to throb painfully against my rib cage and I found him. Edward was standing with his group of friends, appearing the tallest one in the whole parking lot and looking at me with you could say with the most intense look. His eyes looked so dark against his pale skin, almost black in color.

ENOUGH! My heart and my mind screamed as my heart begin to thud so fast that I was certain anyone who passed me by could hear it so easily and my mind was spinning because I wasn't breathing. I hastily turned away and almost run out of the parking lot. Which I actually did and as I run, I thought

What the hell is wrong with him? Why is he staring at me like that? What had I done to him? These thought kept reeling in my mind as I neared my house street and I slowed down because, initially, I was out of breath. I unlocked the door with the key, entered in and locked the door behind me. I did my rituals, made dinner, worked on my homework before I went to bed.

If I know one thing if I'm sure of anything. I thought as I went inside the undercover of my warm duvet. I'm going to ignore Edward Cullen for the rest of the year if I'm going to study in this school. I'm going to avoid any path that led to his way and I am going to pretend as if he doesn't exist for me.

Authors Note: Hello, Readers. I'm just new at this and it is my first story so just please bear with me and tell me if you like it or not. Please review if you like this or love it and let me know if I should continue it or should I stop it.

'Thank you'

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