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The next morning my stomach was twisted in knots, today is going to be bad I can feel it. I brushed out my hair and pulled it into a ponytail, brushed my teeth, added a scant amount of makeup, and dressed. I went downstairs and saw dad sitting at the kitchen table drinking what was probably his second cup of coffee and reading the newspaper. My opening the fridge and taking out the carton of orange juice alerted him to my presence.

"Mornin' Bells. Excited for the first day?" He looked up from his paper, as I sat down with my juice, watching me roll my eyes. "Yeah, I didn't think so." He shook his head and straightened out his paper folding it on the table. "Listen Bells, I know those girls give you a hard time. You are strong, beautiful, and confident. I love you to death Bells and Sue told me last night that she wished Leah had your personality at times." He turned bright red after his confession and turned back to his coffee and paper.

I was shocked by what he just said. My dad wasn't a big fan of emotions and he didn't show them often, but when he does you know he means them. "Well Bells. I better be getting to work, drive safe, it's raining." He said placing his coffee mug in the sink and grabbing his gun belt and jacket.

"I will dad. Try not to shoot anybody." I said trying to lighten the air.

"I make no promises." He said with a wink and walked out the door. I took a sip of my orange juice and regretted it immediately; it is a very bad combination. I set my glass in the refrigerator to save for later, grabbed my jacket and bag, and headed out the door myself. If this wasn't Forks I would think this rain was a bad omen.

I pulled in the parking lot a quarter after seven which mean I have thirty minutes to burn until homeroom starts. Forks High School is so small that my entire junior class fits in two homerooms. Mr. Berty, the English teacher, is my homeroom advisor; he also happens to be my first period teacher because that's how we roll.

I entered the building and headed to my locker, sexy guy from yesterday was there; that's what I decided to call him, sexy guy. Once again I approached it quietly, entered my combination and opened the door, and he never noticed I was there.

"Hey, thanks for helping with my locker yesterday. I didn't get a chance to ask you name before, I'm Edward." He held his hand out and I very reluctantly held my own out to meet his. He shook it softly, smiling a wonderful crooked smile that melted my insides; I blushed red and muttered "Bella" under my breath. "Well it was nice to meet you Bella, I hope to see you again soon." He shut his locker door and walked away. I shut my own locker quickly and rushed off to my first period, Edward Cullen is a person I definitely want to avoid.

I walked in the room, I was the first one here, so I took a seat in the back. Hopefully I could be ignored back here, but my luck has never been very good. Mike Newton and Tyler Crowley were the next to enter taking seats in the middle, soon followed by Jessica Stanley and Lauren Mallory who followed them around like love sick puppies; Angela Weber, Ben Chaney, and Eric Yorkie, taking their own seats upfront. Tanya and Victoria walked in and to my great shock, sexy guy came in next. He scanned the room, found my face, smiled, and walked to the back of the room taking the seat to my right. I looked up and saw Tanya giving me the most evil look I had ever seen, the phrase 'if looks could kill' came to mind. My cheeks turned a dark crimson and I looked down at my hands, this is going to be a long day; thankfully Mr. Berty started class.

It was difficult for me to concentrate during English, Tanya kept shooting glares at me the entire period and I was more aware of Edward sitting next to me than I would have liked.

At the end of class he handed a sheet of paper to each of us, said that we would partner up, pick a book of the sheet, and to be creative with our project. "Bella, would you be my partner?" I turned my head and saw Edward looking back at me. I couldn't speak, so I just nodded my head. "Fantastic." He said "Which novel sounds good to you?" I looked over the list and grinned when I saw it on my list "A Mid-Summer Nights Dream" I said smiling, looking up at Edward through my eyelashes.

"That's a good one." He mused looking the paper over again. "Let's do it." He smiled brightly at me causing my own grin to widen, until I heard a throat clear in front of me.

"Edward I was thinking we could do "Flowers for Algernon." She said flashing her dazzling smile at Edward. Well it was nice while it lasted, maybe Eric's free.

"Oh. Actually Tanya, is it? Bella's my partner. Maybe next time." He smiled and turned back to me. "What if we did a modern take Bella? You know, like the Romeo and Juliet with Leonardo DiCaprio." I couldn't answer; Tanya was still standing there glaring at me, making promises with her eyes I know she intends to keep. Edward noticed that I was preoccupied and came to my rescue. "Tanya do you mind? My partner and I are trying to work." She huffed and stormed away.

"As I was saying, we could do a modern-" He stopped midsentence noticing that my mind still wasn't with him. "Bella? Are you alright?" I shook my head.

"You shouldn't have done that you know, whatever your reason. You should have partnered with her." I looked at him, shock evident on his face.

"Do you not want to work with me?" He asked looking a rejected.

"No. That's not it at all. Tanya…always gets what she wants, one way or another and right now she wants you." I said looking anywhere, but at him.

To my great surprise he laughed. "Bella are you afraid of Tanya?" He asked joking at first, but the look on my face erased the smile off his. "Bella? Wh-" He started to ask, but I cut him off. "Never mind, just forget about it, so you wanted to do a modern take right?" He dropped the subject, but I could tell it wasn't over yet.

I walked into second period culinary tech and didn't see Edward or Tanya; I breathed a sigh of relief and sat on the first stool in front the blue counter in the back. I looked at the syllabus in front of me and noticed we would have to do a partnered project for this class as well. Joy.

I was halfway through the paragraph about knife safety when I heard the chair next to me scrape across the tile. "We meet again." The silky voice of my English partner caressed my ear. I looked up and saw him smiling at me, I was about to say something when he cut me off. "Don't yell at me, this was the only seat left." I looked around and saw he was right, this was the last seat.

I mumbled, "I wasn't going to yell.", under my breath.

"Why are you so opposed to the idea of sitting next to me?"

I wasn't sure how to explain it. "I don't trust many people Edward." I confessed, but Mrs. Dodds started class so I couldn't elaborate, but he shot me a curious look.

It was mostly notes and reading the Syllabus, don't know why she needs to read it to us, we're not five.

Finally the bell rang and I was out of my seat like my skirt was on fire.

Edward wasn't in my next three classes (Trig, Spanish, and Health) and it was lunch time. I went to the cafeteria, grabbed an apple and water, and sat at my seat at my table. This is such a small school we practically have assigned seating. I don't have to sit alone, Eric and Mike told me I could sit with their group, but Jessica has a thing for Mike so she sits with them; and Tyler's there too, which means Lauren. I would just rather sit alone.

I was twisting the lid off my water when there was a knock on the top of it. "Mind if I sit here?" Sexy guy was back and he wanted to sit with me. My first reaction was to tell him to sit somewhere else, so I was shocked when I felt my head shaking and my hand gesturing toward the chair in front of me. "Thank you. I'm still fairly new and outside the football team you're the only one I know." He said unscrewing the cap of his juice.

"It can be intimidating here, the cliques are air tight." I said shaking my head thinking about what it was like when I first moved back.

"Didn't you always live here?" He asked biting into his sandwich.

"No. I was born here, but I moved to Arizona with my mom before I was one." I explained pulling the stem out of my apple.

"Why'd you move back? If you don't mind my asking." He back tracked quickly wiping his face on his napkin.

"No you're fine. My mom remarried and I felt out of place, so I moved back here with my dad when I was ten." I smiled thinking about how easy my life has been in general since I moved back to Forks. My dad took care of me, not the other way around; he made sure the bills were paid, not me; yeah living with dad was better. I had to start cooking, cleaning, and writing out checks when I was eight, no kid should have that kind of responsibility. "Why did you guys move here?" I took a bite of my apple while he answered.

"My mom has always wanted to live in a small town, so my dad surprised her by applying for the physicians position that's about to open up. I know this sounds random, like he just took a map of the continental United States, closed his eyes and pointed somewhere; but actually the house we live in was my grandfather's vacation house. He was a doctor in Chicago, so getting out of the hustle and bustle and into a small sleepy town was the best thing to him." He said tossing the last bit of sandwich in his mouth and taking a long drink of his juice.

"What do you think of it here so far?" I asked looking at properly for the first time. He's not a jerk at all, he's actually really nice. As far as you can tell, don't forget what happened with Tanya. My conscience warned me, but I swatted it away, Edward was alright; I could tell.

"It's OK?" It sounded more like a question than an answer. He laughed and shook his head. "What I mean is, I do like parts of it, I'm used to Chicago, so it'll take time." He explained more confident this time.

I looked at the clock and realized lunch was nearly over. "What do you have next?" I asked checking my own schedule, "Chemistry with Banner", I read at the same time he was reading off his own class. We laughed and stood up tossed my empty bottle and core in the trash and he dumped his tray. Tanya was sitting at a table near the far left wall glaring at me as I walked into the hallway by Edwards side. I tensed and he must have sensed it because he looked down at me and asked "Is something wrong?". I shook my head and kept going. I am so going to be in for it. I do not want to open my locker later, who knows what'll be there and now Edward's here to see it; this will not end well. Edward found a seat at an empty lab table, but I wasn't sure where to sit. Edward answered my question for me when he pulled the chair next to him out and patted it pointing at me.

"Where did you plan on sitting?" He asked jokingly. I shook my head and said "No where". I heard the click of pointy heels and looked toward the door; Tanya was walking over to us.

"Edward?" She simpered. "Wouldn't you rather sit with me than her?" She out special emphasis on her, raising her eyebrow at me as if my gender were debatable, that stung a bit.

Edward looked startled. I was ready to pack up my things and move when he answered. "No. Why wouldn't I want to sit next to Bella?" He asked looking genuinely confused.

"Really? You would rather sit with her than me?" She laughed clearly not convinced and neither was I for that matter. Why would he pick me over Tanya? She placed her hands on her hips and smirked. "Oh, I get it, but honey I won't wait long." She winked and walked away leaving a thoroughly startled Edward behind.

"What does she get?" He asked looking concerned for her sanity.

I rolled my eyes. "She thinks you're using me to make her jealous. It's not working, she has nothing to be jealous about." At the end of the day Tanya's five foot ten inches of nothing but leg and well…I'm me. I was working to fight back the tears; I know that's exactly what she was going for, to make me cry. One slipped through though and I know Edward saw it before I wiped it away. He placed his hand on my shoulder to comfort me, I felt a current shoot through this hand to my shoulder, I jumped and he pulled it away slightly thinking it was unwelcome.

Before he could comment on what had just happened with Tanya class started and we were once again taking notes and reading a syllabus. Once it was over I tore out of there as fast as I could and made my way to the gym. I hated this class, but I wanted the day to end as soon as possible. The note on the door said we weren't dressing because we were going over class aims, which mean another damn syllabus; oh well it's better than participating.

I made my way to the bleachers and put my elbows on my knees and my face in my hands. I jumped when I felt a hand on my back. I looked up and found Edward looking back at me worried. "Are you OK? Bella? What?" he was tongue tied I was about to tell him nothing, but once again class started. He whispered under his breath "I can never finish a fucking conversation around here", but turned away from me.

I felt the hairs on the back of my neck stand up, I looked behind me and saw the bitchy trio glaring at me from the top row.

Well this is going to suck.

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