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A/N: R&R! Bella POV.
My first encounter with Edward was an uneventful one.
It was when we were thirteen. He had jus competed in a spelling competition. Because he did, our teacher had decided to pair us all of us up for an assignment teaching us how to spell and write things more correctly. She decided to pair him up with the second best speller, who had decided they didn't want to be in the competion: me.
The entire class time, we had tried to outdo each other and in the end, finished before everyone else, thus making the teacher pair us up for everything together. She told every teacher we had that we were amazing partners together and that we brought the best out in each other.
Every year, we were partnered together.
We hated each other, like I mentioned before. Then, something happened that changed that.
He and I were sixteen at the time. We were, as usual, trying to out each out each other at science. We were, of course, studying our district's main enterprise: coal. While conducting an experiment, one of Edward's admirers had come up to Edward, trying to get him to notice her. She then had started toward him, knocking down a bottle of fluid on me.
I angrily swore at her. The fluid had burnt my clothes, and me. Edward just raised an eyebrow. Oh, I hate him, I thought.
The girl started to cry with fake tears. This time, both Edward's eyebrows went up. The girl's boyfriend, hearing her, came up to her and asked what had happened. She tearfully told him.
He angrily turned toward me and asked, loudly, "What were you thinking? Who do you think you are, to hurt my girl?"
Then, he punched me.
I fell backward, clutching my jaw in pain.
To everyone's surprise- including mine- Edward leapt up, and hit the boy squarely in the jaw.
"No one should hit a girl," he said evenly.
The boy swiftly and fearfully, backed away. The teacher didn't say a word in the other boy's defense. I think he knew that the boy shouldn't have done that in the first place.
The girl openly gaped at Edward. Edward looked at her and raised an eyebrow.
"Anything I can do for you?"
"No! No, n-nothing," the girl said, fearfully.
I looked at him and mumbled a quick thank you. And that was, I think, our friendship's beginning.
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