"Bella!" I woke up to a screaming Alice. She was shaking me.
"Whaaat?!" I asked irritated. I rolled onto my stomach. "Leave me alone!" I yelled back.
"You have to get up for school!" She continued to shake me.
"Okay, okay! I'm up!" I lied. Of course she knew that as soon as she walked out that I would go back to sleep. I was up till about 2:00 in the morning and I was feeling awfully tired. She also knew that.
She kept shaking me. "Alice! Leave me alone!" She was getting very irritated with me.
At that moment, Edward ran in with wide eyes. He looked from me to Alice. "What's with all the screaming?"
"Bella is being a little brat-" "Alice is trying to irritate me to death-" We said at the same time. we looked at each other and glared.
He sighed in relief. He probably thought I had died or something. "Alice, get out," he said, emphasizing the word 'out'. I smiled at her triumphantly. "And Bella, get up for school." This time Alice did, my smiling fading.
Alice reluctantly got up. "You better be down stairs in an hour," she threatened.
"Out," Edward said again. She stuck out her tongue and left.
"Sorry about that," he said, his beautiful eyes apologizing. "Now. Up."
I groaned. I didn't want to get up for school. I didn't like the though of another day of Lauren patronizing me.
He smiled at me and took me in his arms. He kissed me lightly on the lips. I sighed and got up.
I walked into his bathroom, and for some reason, he followed. I looked at myself in the mirror. 'Ew' I thought to myself. To think Edward wanted someone that looked like me when he could have any beautiful girl in the world. I looked from him to me, measuring. He won by a landslide.
I frowned at myself.
Then I looked at him through the mirror again. He was starring at me and it was hard to not stare back, especially since he was looking at me in a way he hardly ever looked at me.
There was a slight smile on his face. His eyes looked eager, like he wanted something. It couldn't be what I saw of myself in the mirror. He wasn't looking at my face and I realized that I was only in a tank top and panties like I had been last night.
I blushed. I looked at him again, and he realized I saw him starring. He cleared his throat. "Well I'll…see you down stairs," he said quietly, like he wasn't exactly in this time and moment.
"Uh, yeah."
He gave one last look over, turned and walked out.
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I got ready quickly, not wanting to know what Alice would do if I wasn't ready by her deadline.
I flew downstairs and lost my balance as I skipped the last step. Edward caught me before I hit the floor. He laughed softly at me as I blushed.
"Are you always the one who is going to save me?" I asked.
"Bella Swan, you save me every day that you live." He stroked my cheek with his hand. I blushed again, though I don't know why.
He gave me a quick kiss as Alice walked into the room suspiciously.
"I'm ready Alice," I said, rolling my eyes.
"Good. Let's go."
Edward grabbed my hand with his own and entwined our fingers.
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We got to school within minutes at their speed, which I hated because that meant getting closer to being tempted to sock someone's face in.
Right when I left Edward's side for the only class I had without him, Lauren and Jessica were there, a few short steps away from whispering and shooting glares at me.
"Yeah I know. That's so ugly," Lauren said loud enough for me to hear. So they were talking about my clothes. I was tempted to close those few steps between us and sock her. 'No,' I thought to myself, 'You don't know if they're actually talking about you.'
I rolled my eyes and kept walking. That whole hour, I saw Lauren whisper something to someone and they would quickly look at me. She would glare 'Haters' I thought to myself.
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When I walked outside, Edward caught me by the waist and pulled me into a kiss. I heard a hiss come from behind me and broke away from him to see Lauren passing me. I starred after her.
I looked back at Edward. His eyes looked troubled. "Don't worry about her."
"Like I would let her bother me." I rolled my eyes pretending to look at ease, but I was actually screaming inside. I wanted to sock her nose in. How I hated her.
Edward seemed to buy it. He smiled. Then entwined our fingers. I smiled back.
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We sat at our usual table for lunch, the invisible line between Edward, Alice, and I and the rest of them.
I kept hearing hisses from the end of the table. I balled my hands into a fist.
Alice stood up and said a quiet goodbye to me and Edward. She was meeting up with Jasper to go hunting.
I glared at the table. 'She's just jealous. She's just jealous.' I chanted in my head.
Edward saw my irritation, and grabbed my hand soothing it with his thumb. He got up and I followed his lead confused. He grabbed both of our trays and dumped them in the trashcan, then pulled me along with him outside.
We headed towards the parking lot. I looked at him confused, but he kept looking ahead.
"Edward. Where are we going?"
He didn't answer as we reached his car.
He pushed me up against his car and started kissing me.
And then awareness dawned on me.
