I'm in Calculus now, and he is
sitting right next to me. The feeling of happiness was almost too
strong when I was this close to him. I felt all giddy, but new that
if I let it all out I would make a fool of myself.
This was one
of the three classes I did not have with Mike. So, it wouldn't hurt
if I played around a little. What he didn't know wouldn't hurt
him. I felt a frown spread across my face. I couldn't do that to
Mike, but yet, I couldn't resist not doing it either.
"Hi. I'm Bella Swan." I said, I flashed him a bright smile.
"Nice to meet you, Bella," He said, smiling as well. His smile was even more brilliant than his face. "I am Edward Cullen."
That was enough to make my heart pop right out of my chest. His smile was so… I couldn't even think of a word to describe how brilliant it was.
"How do you like Forks so far?" I asked him, fiddling with my pencil. He looked out the window, not answering me for a moment. It seemed like he was trying to figure out what to say.
"I love it," He spoke so soft. "I enjoy the rain." Then Mr. Anderson walked in.
"Ok, class! Get out your text books and flip to page 134!" he said, in his deep, gruffly voice.
The day passed slowly, and I felt myself more and more drawn to Edward. He didn't seem to be very interested in me, as most boys weren't, but even though I was dating Mike, I almost yearned for him to like me. I wanted for him to come up to me and ask me if I would go to dinner with him or see a movie. He never did.
I never felt this way before, and oddly enough, I actually enjoyed it.
After school, Mike drove me home and stayed for a while so we could do our English homework together. We were both sprawled across my bedroom floor with our English books in front of us and papers strewn everywhere.
"So, uh, I saw you staring at that new Edward kid a lot today." He asked awkwardly. Crap. I knew he'd notice.
"Um, yes, well…he looked kind of interesting. And, I wasn't just staring at him. I was looking at his whole family. They seem…different. The way they look at each other, and they hold hands. Weird isn't it?" I said weakly. I tried to cover up the real reason I had been staring at him.
"Yeah, they seem do seem kind of weird." He said wryly. I scrunched his eyebrows together and sighed. "This question makes no sense!" He shouted. Mike always had a little trouble with English. It wasn't his strongest subject.
"Hey, maybe we could invite Angela and Ben and the Cullen's to come with us to the movies tomorrow." I suggested. I wanted to badly to go out with Edward, even if it wasn't really a date with him.
"I don't know," He said, dissatisfied. "We haven't really gone out by ourselves in a while. I wanted to have some us time." He spoke calmly to me, sincere.
"Okay," I grumbled. My plan hadn't worked this time, but it definitely would the next time.
