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On with chapter 2!

Monday came as an unpleasant surprise as I stood outside the school; it was, unsurprisingly, a very grey and about-to-rain day. I had gotten to school absurdly early, in some strange hopes of finding Edward before our classes began. I had nearly forgotten about the whole Edward-does-something-weird-with-his-moronic-apple-in-his-totally-cool-bag episode on Friday outside the dreary school a bit after the school day had finally ended. In fact, I was nearly prepared to let it all go. But then I remembered my fiery determination, and I headed up the pathetically worn-down stairs with a new resolve.

I would ask Edward- I would- about the whole apple thing and...How the heck did he freaking do it?! Darn it, I'd somehow have to control my impossibly out-of-control thoughts from now on...For some unfathomable reason, I had the vague feeling that Edward was extremely good at guessing what you were thinking. I have no idea why. I sighed. Could this day get any worse?

"Bella! Hey, Bella, lookin' good!" Obviously, it could. Mike Newton was making his way toward me excitedly. Couldn't he just freaking leave me alone?!

"What?" I snapped. He stopped, looking faintly hurt. He recovered quickly.

"Well, Bella- hey, that kind of rhymed! 'Well, Bella,' hahaha!" He giggled girlishly.

"What is it, Mike?" I was seriously getting tired of this boy.

"Well, Bella-" he chortled, "I've got some news for you. You know that Cullen kid? Yeah, Edmund or something...you know, he has such a strange name. Edmund Cullen. It's like two separate names, I mean, what is up with that? Edmund Cullen. Yeah, he's pretty weird too. You know, I think he likes you...But you never know. He could like you as just a friend. Hey, that's like my one cousin Jill! That happened to her, you know. Yeah, she thought this one guy was, like, in love with her, and she followed him around to, like, gather evidence or something stupid like that...Then she asked him out, and he was all, 'No, Jill, I just wanna be friends wif you,' and Jill saw what a stupid person she had been and never became friends with him at all. That's totally so strange. It's so weird how people think something and it's something completely different...well, Jill wasn't completely wrong. I heard the guy grew up and became a spy-"

"Mike! SHUT UP! Can you please get on with it and not get so sidetracked that you make me want to die? And his name is Edward!" Apparently, the Newton kid hadn't noticed me giving him a death glare. He looked taken back, but said nothing.

"Right. Sorry. That kind of sounds British, you know. I love the British accent...Sorry. Edmund...I mean, Edward, was looking for you. Said something about something, can't really remember what about...It's like, I keep forgetting things so often! Like yesterday, I went downstairs and forgot what I went there for, I think it was for a jar of peanut butter...that stuff tastes so good..."

I didn't listen to his babble any longer and was already walking away from the annoying fan of mine farther into the school. Edward was looking for me? I wondered why...The bell suddenly rang. Oh, crap! While listening to an example of the Newton kid's extreme stupidity, time had passed. I had missed Edward completely. Just wonderful. I'll have the apple thing on my mind the whole day now, or at least until I get to Edward. Maybe in biology class...I made my way down the somewhat crowded hallways towards my neon orange locker.

"Hello, Isabella," came a cool, seductive voice suddenly from behind me, breaking through my thoughts. I didn't even have to turn around to know it was Edward. I turned around anyway and feigned surprise.

"Why hello, Edward," I spat with disdain. My head was still reeling, though. For a split second, Edward looked extremely baffled. I had no idea why, and I didn't particularly care.

"I merely sought you to inform you of your acceptance in BS," he replied calmly.

"BS? BS?! What the heck?! This is not funny, Edward Cullen, and I will-"

"Brilliant Students," he said, smoothly interrupting my shock at such a thing. But I had never registered for anything of that sort at all! I allowed my face to look extremely confused. Again, Edward looked perplexed. I, yet again, did not care.

"You have requested to get in repeatedly, Isabella, as it indicates, and so you're finally in. Your name is on the bulletin board right there," he said, looking purposefully to a point I could not see.

"Um...alright..." I had absolutely no idea what was going on. Or why Edward, of all people, was to inform me of my so-called acceptance.

"Is there something wrong, Isabella?" he asked in concern. "It seems as though there is."

"Noooo, why? Alright, fine...Yes, there is something wrong, Edward Cullen," I replied uncertainly. I had no idea why I was telling him...There was something about his topaz eyes that made me want to just stare and stare and stare and stare...

"Isabella? Isabella? Bella? You're not breathing!" came Edward's panicked voice. I snapped out of it and finally looked away from his dizzying eyes and released the air I hadn't realized I had been holding. What the heck...?!

"Ah...sorry, just uh...I um...have issues," I said lamely. Edward no longer looked anxious; on the contrary, he looked extremely amused. "Anyway, I should uh...get to my locker and get to class now, I'm uh...kind of late so um...bye," By golly! This was the most I had said to him without squeezing in an insult somewhere.

"Of course, Isabella. Of course. We shall converse in biology class. Goodbye." And with that, he strode off, presumably to get his own books and things and get to his class.

The time for biology class came by without any major incident. I hadn't tripped on my face and dropped all my books in the middle of the crowded hallway, vulnerable to be the victim of a vicious stampede, like I usually do; nor had I been kidnapped by on of the teachers for reasons that could not be explained. I also hadn't gotten any time to go look at the bulletin board thing Edward had so kindly specified for me, so I still had no clue what to do about the whole acceptance thing. And to ask him about the apple.

As I sat next to Edward in the smelly room, I met his eyes and nearly forgot to breathe again. Fortunately, I had my brains with me today, and so I came to the logical conclusion that I did that just because I freaking did. An explanation that would have made even Jess fall to her knees in admiration. Not.

Jess! I had nearly forgotten about that girl...I could just ask her. I'd usually ask Angela, of course, but she was, tragically, absent that day. Trust her to not be here when I actually need her.

As I mentally prepared myself to actually have a civil conversation with Edward Cullen, I was rudely interrupted by...Jess. How odd.

"Hey, Jess," I said enthusiastically. She shot me a disapproving look that said you're-such-a-weirdo-stop-being-so-freaking-enthusiastic-about-a-silly-thing-like-greeting-me-you-fool. If she noticed me looking a bit taken back, she gave no sign of it. "What the heck are you doing here anyway?"

"BS," she said. "I registered you, I hope you don't mind," she said carelessly. As if. I gave her a piece of my mind.

"Of course I mind, idiot," I snapped. "Why would you not ask me? I don't even know what the heck it is, either. Or why you're here, for that matter."

"BS is short for 'Brilliant Students,' O smart one. How can you not have heard of it? It's been on the announcements for about a month now." Like I paid attention to the lame announcements. Like anyone except Jess, and probably Edward, did. God.

"Yeah, okay, but why did you sign me up, and not yourself?" I asked in exasperation. It was one thing for Jess to be annoying. It was another thing entirely for her to freaking sign me up for something I don't have a clue about!

"Oh, just 'cause you're brilliant. Duh. Why else would I do it?" she said in what she perceived to be absolutely normal. If normal could be defined.

"Jess, Jess...Couldn't you have asked me first? And listened when I would have said, 'No, you freaking 'tard! I ain't brilliant!' and yelled in your face?" I hissed, extremely furious. Jess her eyes and flipped her locks impatiently (and infuriatingly) over her shoulder.

"Bella, you're so over-drah-mah-tic. So stop. You should be thankful that I pay enough attention to you that I even signed you up," she snapped, reacting to my nearly incoherent heated fury with irritating full-of-herself-ness.

Edward had watched the whole exchange with a mixture of intense amusement and slight (yeah, right, more like extreme) annoyance at Jess showing through his normally impassive eyes. Now Jess turned to him flirtatiously and ignored me completely while I harmlessly glared at her. She did a move that I had seen her do to Mike (and other guys worthy of her interest) a lot.

She bent her head down and looked up through her 'lashes with an intense gaze at the unfortunate soul with the rest of her in such a way that he couldn't get past her.

It totally worked and Edward was entranced by her endless beauty.

Yeah, right.

Edward stared at her. I bet no one had ever even tried to do that to him. I barely managed to suppress a torrent of pointless giggles and instead watched as Jess slowly lifted herself up, trying not to show her severe embarrassment. Flipping her hair, she instead glared at me for absolutely no reason. Whatever.

"Hey, um, Jess? Are you ever going to tell me about why you're here, what I'm supposed to do for BS, et cetera?"

Jess glowered at me. Again. "Just go to the gym right after school ends and look for the people with shirts saying 'BS' on it. Not very hard to miss. They're the ones who are hosting it. Have fun," she said. Of course, she just had to completely ignore my question of how she got here and all.

Class, unfortunately, began. I noticed Edward being a bit weird...He was clenching his fists just a bit and was as far away from me as possible. Oh well.

Well, biology was of no excitement. I kid you not. The rest of my suckish day flew by. Or maybe it dragged by, I don't really know. Anyways, the final bell finally rang and I trudged over to the magnificent gym. It was complete with a super-shiny floor, four average-looking basketball hoops, and the usually open bleachers tucked in.

There were no people. None at all. No "BS" clad students wandering around anywhere. Well, what the heck...

Just then, the gym doors opened dramatically and who should walk in but...Edward. Oh woe is me. I scowled at him for no reason and he looked coolly back at me, then approached him.

"Edward," I greeted him pleasantly, contradicting with my previous action.

"Bella. How coincidental of us to be here together," he replied, nodding.

"Well, I have no clue where these people are. At all," I said.

"Let's go find out."

"Sure," I agreed. For once.

We looked in the whole freaking school. There was no one except for us! Even the teachers were gone...I was beginning to get a little panicky.

"Hey, Edward...We should head home or something. There's no one here," I said uncertainly.

"Yes, I realized that." I blushed as he spoke. We were currently in the cafeteria, with all of the blue chairs and circular silver tables stacked in a corner. The place where you actually buy lunch was dark and scary-looking. Geez. I was fed up.

As we walked towards the open doors, I felt a sudden chill. From what? Impending disaster? I laughed to myself.

Turns out I was right.

The doors were locked.

After about five minutes of fruitless shaking and threatening of inanimate objects, we gave up.

"Do you have a working phone?" I asked.

He stared at me. "Uh, no," he said.

"Just a question, God..." I muttered. Just as I was about to finally ask about the apple, Edward perked up. I was just about to ask him what happened when I saw the hallways outside, while looking through the windows, get dark. Half a second later, I realized what was going to occur. I jumped up, about to scream.

The lights blinked out. Edward and I, completely alone with no way of contact to the outside world, were stuck in the cafeteria after school hours in complete darkness with no one knowing.

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