I woke up the next morning, instantly regretting my decision not to do homework. Damn, the teachers were going to kill me. I could just imagine the teachers faces preparing for a royal telling off.
I turned over in my bed, remembering I was still wearing the same cloths as yesterday. Looking at my alarm clock I saw that I had five minutes to get out of my house. Oh God, how was I, a mere girl, going to get ready in five minutes. Easy answer: I wasn't. I just got out my bed, grabbed my backpack and went downstairs. I didn't think to grab breakfast so I walked out the front door.
I didn't rush walking to school. The longer I could prolong school, the longer I could avoid being told off by all my teachers. The weather wasn't too bad today so I wouldn't have to duck and cover any minute so that was a definite plus.
When I got to the school parking lot I saw Alice standing by her yellow Mini Cooper S with Rosalie, Nessie, and Edward. I walked over to them keeping my head down because I knew I was going to the "Bella, has your fashion sense totally, like, died?" rant.
"Morning Bella," Edward and Nessie said. I tried my hardest to smile back but I was in a bad mood.
"Hey Bella," Rosalie said, warily looking at what I was wearing.
"Bella, are those the same cloths you wore yesterday?" Alice asked, hand on her hip.
"Yes…," I looked at her facial expression. "No?"
"! Youcan't wearclothstwodaysinarow!" Alice spurted out as one big meshed up word.
"Alice," Edward said putting a hand on Edwards shoulder. "You know, Bella's cloths are clean, and wearing them more than once does help the environment, so, how about you let her be today, okay?"
"Okay," Alice said reluctantly.
"I didn't ken that you could say a sentence without twang," Nessie told Edward.
"Nessie, there are a lot of things that you don't know," Edward told her with a devious, gorgeous smile on his face…
No! No oogling today! Must focus! Must not die!
"I guess we better get to our form class," Nessie said. "Where is our form class?"
"Nessie, you're in my form class 'cause you're taking Jasper's place. Edward, you're with Rosalie and Bella," Alice said smiling a very innocent smile.
The bell then rung, right on cue.
"Ok guys. We'll see you at lunch," I told Alice and Nessie.
Edward, Rosalie and I then started walking to our form class. All the way to the classroom we had people oogling Edward. I felt like saying "hay! I'm the one who oogles Edward!".
When we got to our homeroom Mrs Funnel wasn't there. We sat down in our seats and Edward took Emmet's usual seat.
"When does the teacher get here?" Edward asked without his Scottish twang.
"Edward, if you don't stop doing that I will punch you," Rosalie threatened him so I had to muffle a laugh with my sweater.
"Ok, so you don't mind me doing this accent then," Edward said in an American accent.
"That's just…," I said, trying find the right word.
"Wrong! STRAIGHT UP WRONG!" Rosalie said, backing away from Edward slightly.
"Fine, I'll stick tea the Scottish," Edward said then whipping out an evil grin. "For now."
My phone started to ring my favorite song, Barbie Girl, so I took it out my backpack and looked at the caller ID. It was Jacob, my boyfriend. I pressed the green button and pressed the phone tightly to my ear.
"Hey, Jacob," I said, looking at Edward and Rosalie wearily.
"Hey Bells. Why didn't you call me last night?" Jake asked sounding hurt. "I was at the Cullen's," I told him.
"So, you're always at the Cullen's."
"Yeah, but the exchanges came last night so I greeted them and lost track of time."
"Oh, so you lost track of time with some strangers, but you find it hard to spend time with me."
"You know it's not like that."
"What is it like then?"
Rosalie was looking at me with a worried face, and Edward looked like he felt my pain.
"Jake, I can't really talk about this right now."
"Fine, then talk about it after school at my house."
"Ok. I'll be at La Push at five. Bye," I told him and hung up straight away.
I stuffed my cell in my pocket and looked up at Rosalie.
"You do know that Jacob's an Asswhole, right?" Rosalie stated.
"I know but I like him, a lot," I told her.
It was true, I did like Jacob. He was kind, sweet, funny and caring, but he is also possessive, controlling, and a bit of a psychopath is another guy touches me.
I then looked over to Edward who wasn't looking at me or Rosalie, but he looked very awkward.
"Edward, you ok?" I asked him.
He turned to look at me and his cheeks went red. It was cute and it was so giggle worthy…
"Yeah, it's just I get all nervous about relationship issues," Edward told me.
"Then maybe you should face your issue head on," Rosalie said with a devious smile.
"What d'you mean?" Edward asked, sounding as confused as I was.
"I mean that you go down to La Push with Bella to see Jacob and make sure she doesn't come back to me and Alice in floods of tears," Rosalie said.
"Hay! That was two time!" I told her.
"Four to be exact," Rosalie said, leaning back in her chair.
"Hold on a second. You want me to go with Bella while she talks to her boyfriend," Edward said. "I think this is the part where I say that you're a mupet."
"Edward, stop with your Scottish crap 'cause it's starting to hurt my head," Rosalie told Edward. "Oh, and if you don't go with Bella, I'll tell the whole school that you're gay."
"Fine!" Edward threw his hand up in surrender. "I'll go!"
And after that conversation, most of the morning went by as a blur. A big, weird blur. I mostly thought about what was going to happen when I went to Jacob's with Edward. Jacob might think I'm breaking up with him, but I can't let Rosalie tell the whole school that Edward's gay. That would be way to cruel. Then again, when Jake sees Edward he may have a spaz attack and pass out, giving me and Edward time to run, get in my truck, and drive away screaming. That probably won't happen, but a girl can dream.
When lunch period arrived the one and only Alice Cullen along with Nessie met me outside my English classroom.
"Hey Bella, ready for some lunch?" Alice asked me, jumping up and down.
"Who cares if she ready? I'm bloody starving!" Nessie told us, grabbed Alice and I's arms and dragged us in the direction on the cafeteria.
How the hell does she know where the cafeteria is?
"Nessie, how are you this strong?" I asked as I almost fell from being pulled along but Nessie held me up.
"I'm not strong, you guys are just really weak," Nessie said as she let our arms go. "Now come on. Lets get in the queue."
Nessie then ran straight for the lunch queue and grabbed a tray.
"Alice, this girl may be more excitable and stronger than you," I told Alice as we gently walked to the queue, rubbing the place where Nessie had her vice like hands on.
After we queued up, got our lunches, and sat down at out table where Rosalie and Edward were already sitting.
"Hey, Edward. How many girls swooned over you?" Nessie asked him.
"lets just say that there are a lot of broken hearted girls in English," Rosalie said, taking a delicate bite of her apple.
"Why are they broken hearted?" I asked, poking at my so-called food.
"Well, Rose kind of…," Edward started to blush.
"I'll tell you guys later," Rosalie told us.
Maybe Rosalie pretended to be his girlfriend. No way, that can't happen! I took a bite of food, almost eating the fork. Was I angry at Rose? No! I can't be! I have a boyfriend!
Edward then was playing with his food and furrowing his brow. It looked so cute!
Swan! Keep your self together! You can handle not falling for this hot, bronze haired Adonis…
"Edward? Yo? Anyone 'ome?" Nessie asked, waving a hand in front of his face.
Edward instantly dropped his fork and opened his eyes wide in surprise.
"Oh, sorry," He said, shaking his head. "Hey, do you lassies know if exchanges can join the rugby team?"
"What the hell is rugby?" Rosalie said in a high tone.
"It's like your football but be'er," Nessie told us.
"I think he can take Emmet's place," Alice said helpfully.
"Cool, I 'hink I 'ave PE after lunch. I'll go then," Edward said smiling.
I swear to you that this smile could stop traffic!
The rest of the school day went past pretty quickly, and then I was faced with the most terrifying dilemma ever. I had to bring Edward with me to see Jacob, my overprotective boyfriend. Yay.
I met Edward beside Alice's car where I just remembered that I walked to school today. Another plus.
"Bella, you can take my car," Alice said, handing me her car keys.
Bitch.
"Remember to take Edward with you to La Push," Rosalie reminded me.
Asswhole.
"There are some Kleenex in the car," Alice noted.
Go to hell.
"I guess I'll see you guys later," I told everyone and got in Alice's car, and Edward hoped in the passenger seat.
I put the key in the ignition and looked at Edward who looked straight back at me with his lovely green eyes…
"I don't like Alice, and I have to live with her fea a month," Edward told me with his STS (stopping traffic smile).
"After ten years you kind of get used to it," I told him, smiling back.
We sat in silence for a moment until Edward said, "So, lets head down to La Push."
I started pulling out of the parking space, out of the lot, and onto the long road that took me to La Push. Edward an I sat in comfortable silence for a while.
"So, did you get on the football team?" I asked him.
"Yeah. The PE teacher took one look a me and said I was on the team," Edward said with a little, adorable laugh…
"That's great," I told him. "Have you ever come to America before?"
"Yeah, with ma mum and dad when I was five," Edward told me. "We went to Florida and my sister almost evaporated. Scottish people and warm weather aren't the best combination."
"You have a sister?"
"Yeah, her name is Grace. She's about five years older than me. Do you have any brothers or sisters?"
"No,no. I'm an only child and proud of it," I told him as I pulled into Jacob's driveway.
"Do you want me to stay in the car?" Edward asked me politely.
"No, you can come in with me. I think you'd like to meet Jacob," I told him, and we smiled at each other for a minute then got out of the car.
We walked up to Jacob's front door and before I could knock on the door Jacob was standing there looking pissed off.
"Hey Jake," I said nervously.
"Hey Bella," Jacob looked at Edward with confusion. "Who's that?"
"I'm Edward Mason," Edward said, offering his hand to Jacob. "I'm one of the exchanges fea Scotland."
Jacob looked at Edward's hand as if it was an alien.
"I'm Jacob, and why the hell were you in the car with my girlfriend?" Jacob asked him.
Was Jacob saying that I was his? Oh, I'm nobody's girl.
"Jacob, I'm not yours, and Edward is my friend," I said through my teeth.
Jacob folded his arm and raised an eyebrow at me.
"So, you're not my girlfriend?" Jacob said.
"Edward?" Rachel's voice said from behind Edward and me.
Edward turned around and shouted, "Rachel!" and ran and hugged her.
"Oh my God! What are you doing here?" Rachel asked.
"I'm on an exchange, and I'm staying at the Cullen house," Edward told her.
They then broke apart from their hug. Rachel looked at Jacob and I and turned into miss sensible.
"Bella, I think you should go home," Rachel told me.
"But me and her are in t-" Jacob started to say but was cut off by Rachel saying "Goodbye Bella."
I walked back to the car, got inside and watched Edward and Rachel hug goodbye. I felt so jealous of Rachel. She got to hug Edward and she clearly knew him well – but how? I don't think Rachel and Jacob have been to Scotland.
When Edward got back in the car I already had the engine running. I pulled away from the driveway, and begun driving back to Forks.
I didn't bother to ask Edward about how he knew Rachel, I just wanted to be alone with my thoughts.
Were Jacob and I going to break up? We'd been together for a year and people said that we were such a cute couple. We had our first kiss on the beech on the fourth of July. It was cold so he gave me his jacket and put his big strong arm around me. I felt safe and like I was almost whole. Then I, being me, fell over, but I didn't touch the ground because Jacob caught me. When I was back on my feet, I faced Jacob and we both leaned in and planted the magic kiss that started out relationship.
At first our relationship had been great, but in the past two months Jacob has been clingy and overprotective. Nothing like how he was before. I missed the old Jake.
The next thing I new I was pulling into the Cullen's driveway and it was twilight. I was about to undo my seatbelt when Edwards hand stopped me from undoing it.
"Bella, I ken it's no me place but I think you go 'ome and get some rest," Edward told me.
"You're right. I should," I told him, nodding my head. "I'll see you tommorow."
"Cya later Bella," Edward said and got out the car.
I sort of checked out Edward's butt (which doesn't look that bad) and then started driving home. I was so tired.
Once I was home I realized I still had Alice's car. Damn. I was going to have to give it back tomorrow.
I took off my coat and hung it up.
"Dad!" I called up.
No answer.
"Dad!"
I walked into the living room, but he wasn't there.
"Dad!"
I went up the stairs to see my dad lying on his bed, not moving.
"Dad? Dad? Daddy?"