Okay so here's chapter two. I hope you guys like it. Sorry about any grammar or spelling errors.


Chapter 2: Friday

"Friday at last," Kate exclaimed. I looked at her with my eyebrow raised. "What? We can't all hate Fridays with a passion like you do, Bella."

I know; everybody loves Fridays. I've never met a person—other than myself, but I don't count—who hates Fridays. But there is a perfectly good reason as to why I hate Fridays. And here he comes.

Felix Volturi sauntered over to Kate and me. "Hello Bella, Kate." He acknowledged.

"Hi Felix." We both replied.

"So Bella, I heard some very interesting things lately."

"Oh yeah, and what's that?"

"Well I heard my parents discussing with your parents that they really wanted you to go with me to the homecoming dance in two weeks." He said smugly.

"Well too bad because I'm not going to the dance at all." I said. Honestly though, I couldn't believe my ears. I was seriously hoping this was a joke.

"Hmm… that's going to be hard to explain to your mother and father don't you think?"

"They're just going to have to accept it because I'm not going with you; I'm not going at all."

"We'll just see about that!" Felix said smugly. Right then was when I wanted to punch him. Which was a surprise to me, I was not a violent person at all.

"Yeah we will just see." I said through my teeth. I turned on my heel and walked with Kate following me. Once we were around the corner I turned to her and said, "That's why I hate Fridays."

"I see." She replied. Just then Lauren and Angela came up and told us the bell had rung and if we didn't hurry we would be late to English. We made it to class on time and our teacher, Mr. Phillips, told us that we would have to write an essay of our own topic and that we should start it today since it was due Tuesday.

That was fine with me. It gave me more time to think about what had just happened. It was no secret to me that my mother wanted me to date my best friend—Jasper—but that was and is impossible because I don't even like him like that. Which I told her. She was seriously upset that I told her I could never picture myself with Jasper like that. But she got over it. Now she pictures me with Felix—her future son-in-law. Not! Never in a million years will that ever happen. Felix can be such a jerk sometimes. He thinks he's too good for some people and he only hangs out with the "A-listers" of this school.

I was still in deep thought when Angela came over.

"So what are you writing your essay on?"

"Huh," I forgot that that is what we were supposed to be doing. "Oh, I'm not sure yet about what I'm going to write about."

"Bella! Class is already over and you don't even have your ideas written down on your paper."

I looked down at my watch. Sure enough, class had ended a couple of minutes ago and I had yet to leave my seat. I jumped up and started throwing things in my backpack. We quickly left saying a goodbye to Mr. Phillips and headed to the lunchroom.

"Bella," Angela said, stopping me from going inside. "What happened that's got you so out of it right now?" She could see me hesitate so she continued, "Look if I just noticed, and I've been told I'm a good observer, and I'm standing right next to you then Jasper is going to notice from across the cafeteria. So would you like to talk about it?"

"Okay, so before you and Lauren came up and told us that we were going to be late for English, Felix told me that he overheard my parents and his talking about the two of us going to Homecoming together."

"Wow!"

"Wow?" I questioned.

"What I meant was 'that's horrible!'"

"I know and I'm surely going to hear about it tonight."

"Oh right. You hate Fridays simply because of Friday night dinners with not only your family and Jasper's family but it's also with the Volturi's—Felix's family."

"Exactly the reason why I hate Fridays."

"It will be okay you know. Your parents can't force you to go to the homecoming dance. If I were them I would force you to go to prom though." She teased me.

"Eww!"

"Eww? Oh, come on Bella! Its prom! How can you say 'Eww' to prom?"

"Simple, I can't dance so what's the point?"

"Bella Swan you are simply…one of a kind! Let's go, I'm hungry."

"Fine, fine." We entered the cafeteria and got into line to buy some lunch. When we got to the table Angela went to sit by Ben as always. I went and sat across from Jasper and next to Kate.

"Hey, what took so long?" Jasper asked.

"Nothing, Angie and I were just talking." He seemed to thing it was more but didn't ask me anything else because right at that moment Tanya came up.

"I can't wait for homecoming!" I stared at her incredulously. Why did she have to bring up homecoming?

"Homecoming is two weeks away." Kate said, stating the obvious.

"Exactly! Only two weeks away! You have to have time to buy your dress, matching shoes, the right make-up and all of that."

"You also have to have a date," Kate retorted. "So who are you going with? I'm assuming you asked someone or someone asked you, that's why you are telling us this?"

"Well actually I was thinking of asking Felix," she was looking directly at me and I froze. "That is unless you know he's already got someone to go with, Bella?" That's when I snapped. I had had enough.

"No, he doesn't have someone to go with, I on the other hand do, have someone to go with that is."

At this point every one of the guys were looking confused while Kate and Angela looked at me with raised eyebrows.

"Who?" Tanya, Angela, Jess, Kate, Lauren, and Heidi asked at the same time. I threw a quick glance to Jasper. I managed to catch his eyes and he seemed to understand the pleading in my eyes. I looked straight at Tanya. She had her eyes narrowed and you could tell that she was mad.

"My boyfriend." I said calmly with—I hoped—an air of indifference, like it was the most obvious thing in the world. Inside I was a mess. How could I just say it like that? Jasper is going to kill me. I managed to look back at Jasper. His face was calm, but his eyes were—not unsure—just cautious. He was trying to make sure that I was really sure about what I was doing.

I gave the slightest nod of my head-yes. He nodded in return.

Thankfully, nobody noticed this little exchange between the two of us. They were still reeling over the face that I said I was going with my boyfriend. Which they obviously didn't know that I had one. Which I didn't, have a boyfriend that is.

"Who's your boyfriend? You never told us that you had one." Tanya looked slightly relieved—like she found a flaw in my story.

"Well we were going to see how this worked out before we told anyone but I guess now there's no need to wait." Jasper said getting up and walking around to my side of the table. He stood behind me and put his hands lightly on my shoulders. Everyone's curious and confused eyes quickly turned to shock and surprise.

"You," Tanya said, pointing to Jasper, "Are going out with her!" She then said pointing to me. I felt a little insulted. I knew I wasn't super pretty, I thought I was rather plain looking.

"Yes, I am." Jazz replied.

"I knew it!" Mike exclaimed quickly getting over his shock. Jess raised her eyebrows at him.

"How did you know it?"

"I always knew they were going to end up secretly dating behind our backs." He exclaimed. Ben looked at us, back and forth.

"So when exactly did you two start secretly dating?"

"About two weeks ago," Jasper said, "like I said before, we wanted to wait awhile before telling anyone because we didn't want you guys to make a big deal out of it. You've teased us a lot growing up, if I do recall correctly about how we should date each other." I just nodded my head at the rest of them. "We also didn't want to say anything because if it didn't work out then all of you would probably be more upset about this than we would."

"Don't even try to deny that." I warned, "All of you would have probably made it more awkward as well."

Jasper and I could see they were about to bombard us with questions but thankfully we were 'saved by the bell' excuse the cliché. For once I was actually happy that I had to hurry off to my Chemistry class—and that I didn't have any of my friends in this particular class. I was—not happy—but relieved that Jasper went along with this crazy twisted plan.

In Chem, we had to do a lab so I really had to focus on the task at hand—especially since I had no lab partner. There were an odd number of people in this class and I was the unlucky one to end up with no partner. I didn't mind though—I liked working on my own and I found that I finished faster than all the others when I didn't have to wait for someone else. Even so, as class was coming to an end, I dreaded PE. Why? PE was the only class that the whole gang had together. Yup, in PE they would surely ask us about everything. This was so not good.

Outside of my class I was surprised to see Jasper leaning against the wall just right outside the door.

"Hey? What are you doing here?"

"Isn't it customary or traditional or whatever for a guy to walk his girlfriend to class?"

"Umm…yeah, I guess," I mumbled. "Listen I—

I heard him sigh.

"Let's talk after school. Okay?"

"Okay." I replied.

Gym was horrible. Not just because I hate all forms of sports naturally. Only because when we got there everybody started to ask us questions. When we had to go change in the locker room Lauren and Jess kept spitting questions at me. Simple enough but Tanya was just brutal. She would ask complicated stuff all the while glaring at me. I was actually afraid she might burn me with that look on her face. When we got out of there, we met up with the guys. I thought they would question me less. Boy was I wrong. They questioned me more. They were like little old ladies gossiping by the produce. But worse. I kept throwing Jasper apologetic glances all throughout PE when no one was looking.

PE was finally over. Which meant school was finally over. This also meant I had a twenty minute care ride home with Jasper.

I changed slowly back into my regular school clothes when I was finally done everyone was still waiting for me.

"You guys didn't have to wait for me."

"Well we weren't done with our questions." Lauren said.

"Hmm… well you waited in vain because Jasper and I have Friday night dinner to get to." Before they could say anything else I quickly left them in front of the school and made my way over to Jasper's truck. I quickly go into the passenger seat. It was quiet. He didn't say anything for the first couple of minutes during the drive. Then he sighed.

"What exactly happened between you and Felix today?" I was confused; this wasn't what I was expecting him to ask about. But I answered nonetheless.

"He told me that my mom and dad and his parents had decided that they were going to make us—Felix and I—go to homecoming together."

"Homecoming? In two weeks?"

"Yeah, it's exactly two weeks from this Friday, today."

"Well, I guess I won't have to worry about the usual group of girls that surrounds me the week before the dance, in hopes that I will take one of them to the dance with me."

"So you're gonna pretend to be my boyfriend? For the next two weeks? Just so I wont have to go to Homecoming with Felix?" I couldn't believe that he was actually going to do this for me.

"Yes, but," he threw a quick glance at me before turning his gaze back towards the road. "You owe me. Big time, deal?"

"Deal." I smiled; "You're the best, best friend I have ever had!" he just scoffed at this.

"I'm the only best friend you ever had!"

"Which is why you are the best!" I smiled.


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