Okayy..here's chapter 2! I really hope you guys like it! please review! ohh..and you guys will hear edward's whole story of the adoption and his abusive parents in a later chapter.(:
I DONT OWN TWILIGHT! at all... :(
EPOV:
Another day. Another 7 hours of going through hell in school. I just wanted some kind of escape, and I thought being adopted by Esme and Carlisle would be my escape. That was my home escape, now I just need a school escape. I wanted to be able to go to school without being afraid of anybody. Sadly, I knew that this would never happen. I was a nobody for life.
"Edward? Are you ready?" Alice called outside my bedroom door. I got up from my bed, grabbed my backpack, and opened the door. I nodded my head at her. She smiled warmly as we walked down the steps.
"Have a good day, kids!" Esme called out from the kitchen. We said goodbye and headed to Alice's yellow car. Esme worked at a day-care center with a few other ladies in town. She loved her job, and it wasn't a long shift. 8:30 a.m.-2:00 p.m. wasn't bad at all. Carlisle is a doctor at the town's hospital. He wasn't a surgeoun or anything like that. He dealt with less severe cases, just broken bones. He was basically the guy you went to for catscans, MRI's, issues like that.
Alice interrupted my thoughts by asking "So, Edward, does Mike pick on you a lot?" She didn't have any classes with me, so she wouldn't know what my school life was like. However, she does know what my lonely lunch life is like.
I didn't want to get Mike in trouble, but I didn't want to lie. I decided to go with the truth. "Most of the time. It's really okay, though." I assured her. I was a big boy, I could take care of myself.
Right?
She sighed, clearly frustrated. "Edward, being bullied is not okay. You can't just let him treat you that way, you need to do something."
"Like what?"
"Stick up for yourself! Give him a taste of his own medicine, I don't know." She said in a half-teasing, half-serious tone.
We pulled into the parking lot by now. We both got out of the car, and Alice noticed that Rosalie and Emmett were talking to each other.
I was about to say 'bye' and walk into the building, but Alice stopped me.
"Oh my god, Edward! He's finally asking her out!" She squealed with excitement.
"Who, Emmett?"
"Yes! Jasper told me that Emmett was planning on asking her out today! I'm so excited. They've liked each other for like...6 months now!" She was practically jumping up and down.
That's Alice for you.
"They could be talking about anything, you don't know for sure that he's asking her out." I reminded her.
She slapped my arm. Alice and I were close. I would open up to her sometimes, mostly after she would tease me or something like that.
"Don't be so negatvie! You can tell by the way he looks so nervous and flustered. Aw!" She cooed.
I chuckled at her enthusiasm.
Just then, Emmett and Rosalie departed from each other. Emmett walked into the building, and Rosalie ran over to us.
"Alice! I'm going out with Emmett this Friday night! I can't believe it!" She sang at the top of her lungs while Alice gave her a hug.
"Rosalie! I'm so excited! Bella and I are going to make you look so amazing!" She squealed. They talked about it for a few more minutes, then my existance was finally recognized.
"Oh, hey, Edward! Sorry, you're so quiet, I didn't know you were there." Rosalie said, sounding a little guilty.
"Well I was about to head inside anyways. Bye, guys." I said, then gave them a gentle smile, and walked into the brick building, otherwise known as hell to me.
I walked to my locker before homeroom, feeling angry with myself. Why couldn't I do what Emmett just did? Why couldn't I grow a pair and ask Bella out? Why was all of this so hard?
Of course, all of my self-questions remained unanswered. And, they always will be. I knew for a fact that I would never build up the courage to ask Bella out. So, like I did when I was a child, I could only pray for things to be different.
After homeroom, my day went on just like a normal day would. I was currently walking to lunch, when Newton knocked my lunch bag down from behind me, spilling my food all over the floor. Newton's friend, Tyler, gave him a high-five, and they both walked away as they laughed. I sighed and picked up my lunch that Esme packed me. I put the food in the brown bag, then threw the bag in the garbage can.
I guess there's no lunch for me today.
I walked in sorrow to my table in the corner. I sat with my back to the other, I didn't want to see anyone's face as they made fun of me. Honestly, I was pissed. I've about had it with Newton and his games. I really do want to say something back to him, but I was afraid. I didn't want any more scars. My parents had given me enough of those.
*flashback*
I sat on my bed, staring at the walls. This is what I did every day. I had nothing. No T.V., no computer, no toys, no nothing. My parents did not care about me enough to buy me anything, and I never asked. I knew that asking them for anything would end badly.
My dad burst through my door, with a knife in his hand. I held back a fearful sob. I had to be strong, I had to endure the pain.
The never-ending pain.
"Edward! You're nothing but a waste of space and money." My father spat at me. I just kept my head down and whispered, "I know."
"You don't talk to me unless I ask you to!" He yelled in pure hate, then took my wrist into his hand. He used the shiny blade to cut a bunch of different lines into my arm.
He walked away, laughing to himself, clearly pleased. Once he was out of my room, I let the tears fall. I had no idea what I did to deserve this, but it was happening.
And I had no idea how to stop it.
*end of flashback*
I shook my head, trying to clear the awful memories out of my mind. I always told myself to put the past behind me, to move forward. But, how could I get over a time like that?
Just then, I head footsteps near my table. Alice, Rosalie, Emmett, Jasper, and Bella crowded all around my table. Like they were a group of vampires, and I was their human prey.
"Edward, can we sit here?" Jasper asked nicely. I looked around, and saw that they were all smiling politely at me. I was trying to figure out what Jasper meant by his question.
I then realized, they probably wanted my table. Never get your hopes up, it ends in a nasty fall.
"Yeah, I'll move." I answered simply, then started rising, but Alice put her hand on my shoulder, stopping me.
"No, Edward, we want to sit here with you."
I was shocked. They actually wanted to spend time...with me?
"Oh. Y-yeah, of course, go ahead." I agreed, while I still tried to wrap my head around the idea. Is what Bella said true? Do they actually want to hang out with me? I smiled at the though of it.
Bella and Alice sat beside me, and Alice noticed that I had no food.
"Edward, where's your lunch?"
I didn't want to tell them about the situation with Newton. It would make me look like a whimp, and I didn't want that. Especially in front of Bella. I also didn't want Alice to give me another speech about sticking up for myself.
"It's uh...in my locker. I'm not really hungry." I answered quietly.
Bella looked at me with concern. "Are you sure?"
I didn't know how to answer the beautiful angel in front of me, so I simply nodded.
"Edward, you do realize that you never had to leave our table in the first place, right?" Jasper pointed out to me.
I shrugged. When they looked at me with expressions that told me to elaborate, I said "I didn't belong over there."
"Yeah, you do. We're your friends. You belong with your friends." Rosalie said, while smiling.
I smiled and asked "really?" with excitment.
They all nodded and dug into their food.
"So, Edward," Bella said "did you do the biology homework?"
"Yeah, did you?"
"I did all of them except for number 11. It said something about crossing a codominant allele for a heterozygous chicken with a dominant alle for a homozygous chicken. How do you fit that into a punnett square?"
I smiled as I figured out the answer. I loved helping Bella, even if it was simply helping her with a homework assignment.
"Well, since codominance means that you don't mix colors, you cross the 2 colors for a chicken, which are black and white. You don't mix it to make gray, you say that the allele is speckled. The cross of that breed is capital B, and lowercase b. Then, the dominant allele of a chicken is capital B. And since it's homozygous, the allele doesn't change. So, it's two capital B's. So, you cross the speckled chicken, which is capital B, lowercase b, and the homozygous chicken, which is 2 capital B's, to get your offspring.
Bella's face brightened up after I explained everything to her, like a light bulb went off in her head.
"Oh, I get it now! Thanks, Edward." She said, then placed her hand on top of mine for a second, thanking me. My face turned hot, and and my hands started getting clamy. I felt a spark when she touched me,
like an electric current was running through us. I never felt that when I touched anyone else before.
"Your wel-welcome." I stuttered, trying to hide my blush.
Lunch was perfect. I was so happy sitting there...with my friends.
When Rosalie said that they were my friends, I was extatic. I finally have friends. Finally.
After lunch, Bella and I walked together to biology. She was just telling me about her day, and I loved hearing every little detail that she put in.
We entered the classroom together, and I noticed Mike Newton glaring at me when he saw that Bella walked in with me.
Biology was boring. We watched a video about crossing alleles the whole class. This felt like freshman biology all over again.
I thought about Bella the whole class. I had to resist the urge to take her hand, or to put my arm around her. I would steal some glances at her throughout class, and sometimes she caught me.
I looked down at her notebook, where she was drawing hearts all over the white paper. I smiled as I thought of the ridiculous idea that those hearts were drawn because she was thinking about me.
School ended on a good note. Besides the whole Newton issue, my day was perfect. I smiled to myself as I shut my locker.
I started towards Alice's car, when all of the sudden, a hand came out of the boy's bathroom that I walked by. The hand grabbed me, and pulled me inside.
I looked up in shock, and noticed that Mike was the one who grabbed me. He looked different now, though, rage was everywhere in his eyes.
"Now, you listen here, Masen! I see the way you stare at Bella and how you walked into bio with her today. She is mine! This is your last warning. If you don't leave her alone, things will get a lot worse than this."
He threatened menacingly.
"Bella's not yours." I said. I knew that I needed to stick up for myself. And this wasn't only about me, it involved my angel.
He looked at me and nodded his head. "Okay, so that's how you want it?" He then threw his fist back, and punched me in the eye. Mike laughed, then walked into the crowded hallway. I held my eye in shock.
So much for sticking up for myself.
there it isss.(: I know, I don't like Edward getting beaten up either. Don't worry though, IF i get some reviews, things with get more dramatic and they will fire up next chapter. but if not a lot of reviews...well... :\
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