Chapter two
Edward left after a little more chat so I shut the shop early, there wouldn't be any more customers in this weather, and drove home. When I got in I decided I would finish my homework and go to bed, it was only half five but it was already dark outside and running the store all day really takes it out of me, but when I opened my maths book the answers were already filled in with elegant - definitely not mine – handwriting. I close the book too tired to care and crash out onto my bed.
After thirteen hours sleep I fill really refreshed and almost hyper but most of all I crave a fag. I tip toe across the landing to check my parents are still asleep – they got back late last night - and then down the stairs and out the back door into the woodland behind my house. I find my second stash of backy wrapped in a plastic bag and stuffed under an exposed tree root. I face the trunk of the tree allowing it and my body to act as a barrier to the drizzle whilst rolling the cigarette.
As I light it I remember my encounter with Edward Cullen yesterday and the dream I had about him last night, although I can't remember exactly what happened in it. I finish the fag, stub it out and sneck back up the stairs. I shove my clothes into the wash, have a shower and brush my teeth to get rid of the smell of cigarette smoke. By the time I'm changed and downstairs my parents are awake, dad sitting at the table with a cup of coffee and a bowl of cereal and my mum making sandwiches on the counter.
I grab a bowl from the cupboard, sit down at the table and pour myself a bowl of cereal.
"Anything interesting happen while we were away son?" dad asks.
"Not really dad."
"Didn't blow up the shop or anything?"
"No Dad. Although I did meet someone in the shop, Edward Cullen, he and his family have just moved here from Alaska. He said his family might be by the shop in a few days, apparently they love to go camping."
"The Cullen's you say? Well I'll be on the lookout then. Right we'd better be of" he says walking out to the hallway.
"See you later sweetie." My mum says grabbing the larger of the two lunch boxes from the side. And following him out to their car.
I slowly finish my cereal, I've still got an hour before I have to be at school. I wonder if Edwards going to be there today, he must have been around the same age as me. I quickly decide that he will be so I go back up stairs and change to something a little tighter and then thinking I might finally have a smoking buddy at school run out to fetch my backy from under the tree root.
When I finally decide it's not too early to be leaving, I grab my bag and head out to my piece of shit car that my parents brought be and drive to school. When I arrive I find the car park mostly full I'm just about to pull into my usual spot when I notice a shiny silver Volvo, which I've never seen before. There's a parking space next to it so I continue down the road and park there instead thinking that a new car means a new student and that new student may be Edward Cullen.
As if he had read my thoughts I hear a light wrapping on my window and turn my head to face him, my memory of Edward does not justify him as I am stunned by his beauty for a second. Ignoring the fact I had just thought of him beautiful I turned off the engine and got out of the car.
"Hi Mike." He says as I shut the door.
"Hey!" I reply with a smile, "I thought you might be here today." Yes I finally have a smoking buddy.
"Wanna go for a smoke?" he asks.
"That's weird I was just thinking the same thing."
A huge grin spreads across his prefect face, "They're on me this time." he says pulling out a pack of cigarettes. "Know anywhere good to go?"
"As a matter of fact I do." The warning bell fills the air and both are grins fall. "So much for that. Do you know where you're going for first lesson?" we start walking towards the school
"Yeah I'll be fine. We had a short tour of the school this morning."
"Who's we?"
"My two brothers, two sisters and myself"
"Wow big family" I say as we enter the school "I'll find you in the cafeteria at lunch we'll go out for a smoke then."
His smile reappears "Sure thing, till then."
"Buy" I say and we go our separate ways
Jessica bounds up to me a moment later and says "who's the new kid?"
"Oh, that's Edward" I say stopping at my locker to dump some of my textbooks
"He's gorgeous."
"Yeah, I know." Fuck did I say that out loud. "His sisters must be smoking." I say to cover myself. I swear I hear a genital chuckle echo down the corridor.