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Behind the Mask

Chapter 2

I watched him walk out of the limo with an expression on his face that said "Why am I here?" He probably just thought he was too perfect to come to this small town. However, how he acted to the press suggested something different. While they all spewed out questions, he answered not in a stuck up way.

"Edward, will you tell us why you came to Forks of all places?" a young woman with long brown hair shrieked out to him. The rest were just as rude.

"Is it true that you are here to get back your ex girlfriend who broke up with you?

"Can you tell me how it feels to be a big star just trying to blend in?"

Seriously, no matter how much of an ass someone was, they didn't deserve to have their private life poked into. How he responded though was what shocked me. I expected him to kiss up to the press, and answer all of their questions. That's what stars did wasn't it?

But he responded in a cool, obviously displeased voice, "I just want to get through a day of school without being in the spotlight. I will answer no further questions."

I had to admit that his voice was beautiful. It had a musical tone to it, and a deep, but not too deep tone. Wait, what was I saying? This was the same voice that sang those corny love songs that broke millions of girls' hearts. It was the same voice that I had scorned from the time I was younger. I couldn't like it.

Oh, and did I mention that I watched this whole thing with the window of Alice's car rolled down, looking like a totally obsessed fangirl? Well, everyone else was doing the same thing, so I really didn't think about it.

I did notice that Alice and Rosalie were watching some people out the window, and they definitely weren't Edward Cullen.

They were walking right behind him, like they were his best friends. Later I found out that they were. One of them was so muscled he could be his body guard. He had a scary appearance, but the smile he was sporting showed that he wouldn't hurt a fly unless he had to. His hair was curly and dark brown, and he was overall good looking.

The other guy was a lot less bulky. He had sort of a calm aura around him instead of a threatening one. He was tall and had blond hair down to his chin. You could tell that he was the kind of person who could calm someone down even when they were really angry.

The bulky one noticed us staring and his eyes popped when he looked at Rosalie, who was also staring him down. The blond was the same way, except he was looking that way at Alice. I was shocked by my friends. They were never like this.

"Guys, are you okay over there?" I used a loud voice to wake them out of their trance. They did, and turned to me.

"We're fine," they exclaimed in unison. And we drove around looking for a parking spot, acting like this was any other day.

Everything was normal until sixth period English class. I usually loved English, since I was good at it and since no person that bothered me was in the class. I walked to the table that I sat at alone, and opened my spiral to take notes for the day.

The teacher began his lecture on something we'd already studied, but I diligently took notes anyway. The class was as normal as usual, until the door creaked open and someone stepped into the room. You can probably guess who.

He had an embarrassed expression on his face, obviously ashamed that he couldn't find his way around the school. He was clutching a schedule and what looked like a school map to his chest. No wonder he couldn't find his way around. Those maps were so detailed they were useless.

"Ah, Mr. Cullen, would you like to explain why you are late?" Mr. Miller questioned in a bored tone.

"I got lost," Edward muttered softly. Obviously he meant what he said earlier about not being in the spotlight.

"Well don't let it happen again." Mr. Miller tried to sound firm, and failed. He sighed. "Just take a seat at any open table."

I froze. There were only three open tables in the classroom. The girls at the two other tables giggled and waved him over to their spots. I just sat there wanting to melt into the floor, and hoping he wouldn't see me. I didn't want to sit next to him and have him try and flirt with me. I mean, that's what stars did right?

But looking non-flirty wasn't the best thing to do I realized as he walked closer to my table. Duh, he said he didn't want to be in the spotlight Bella!

"Is this seat taken?" he asked with caution in his voice.

"Go ahead," I snapped rudely. But what could I say, I hated this guy.

He looked taken aback, but he sat down quickly. Our teacher continued then.

"Well, if that's over with, let's get back to the lesson." And he launched into a lecture about literature classics. Ten minutes were left of class when he made an announcement.

"Class, we will be doing a partner project about a classic book of your choice."

There was excited murmuring. "And your partners have been picked out for you." Everyone groaned.

"Liz, Tyrone, Adam, Bethany…………" I zoned out, only listening for my name. "Oh, and we'll have one group of three." I listened. My name had not been said.

"Edward, Bella, Lauren." Oh no. You know how I said no one annoyed me in that class. Well I lied. Well not technically because I said no person annoyed me. I didn't even consider Lauren Mallory a person. She was a cheerleading slut who couldn't keep her hands to herself. She hated me and I hated her.

Then Mr. Miller said the words I was dreading. "For the last seven minutes of class you may get together and discuss." He obviously didn't know my pain. Lauren walked over to our table and was immediately flirting. She was wearing an extremely low cut top, and was leaning forward to expose her cleavage even more. Most guys would stare like pigs, but Edward surprised me yet again by turning away. I tried to give an idea about the project.

"So do you have any favorite classics we might be able to do?"

"What's the point in reading those old pieces of junk?" That was obviously Lauren. "We can just look up one online and get a C on the project." I almost slapped her.

Edward spoke up. "I think that we should at least try and do well on the assignment."

I spoke words then that I never thought I'd say. "I strongly agree." Wow.

"Well if you're gonna be so snotty about it Bella we can meet at my house. I'm sure you know where that is." Jeez, her nasally voice is going to drive me insane. She thought she was all that just because her house was a little bigger than everyone else's.

"Fine, we'll meet at five thirty tonight." I choked out the words, grabbed my stuff, and walked out the door. The bell had rung and lunch was next. I shoved my books into my locker and walked to the nearly full cafeteria.

Little did I know, I was in for an interesting lunch.

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