Chapter Two
Social Life

It wasn't long before morning came. I looked out the window and watched the sunrise. It was quite beautiful. As soon as the sun had firmly risen from the horizon, I went upstairs to my room and got changed. I couldn't wait until school. That was something I never thought I'd ever say. When I returned to the living room, Rose made a face.
What's wrong with you? She's just a mere human. What's so special about her? This is wrong and you know it. Rosalie thought. I glared at her. She glared at me aswell, but soon got up and left the room.
Don't worry. Rose will warm up to Belle sooner or later. It'll be okay. Alice thought.
"Thanks," I said to Alice, although it made no difference. Everyone knew Rosalie was never going to warm up to Belle, which made me mad. I had to defend her. She wasn't just a mere human!

Alice tried to cheer me up with a few games of chess. She won two out of three. She was very proud of that. Alice went upstairs and I went to the piano and played the new song I'd composed last night. A few minutes later, Rose and Alice returned in new clothes and smoothed hair. After another half an hour of mindless small talk and television shows, Jasper and Emmett got changed and we drove to school. After my first class, I went the long way to my next class hoping to run into Belle.

When she saw me, she smiled and waved. I walked up to her. As I did, she dropped her books. She groaned. I jogged over to her and stacked her books up in a neat pile just as she was about to bend over and pick them up. I didn't know whether I jogged to fast, but no body was paying attention. She grabbed her books and grinned.
"How did you do that?" She asked. I shrugged. She didn't care enough to ask more.
"So how are you?" I asked. She smiled again; her beautiful deep blue eyes sparkled. I never noticed her eyes before. They were the strangest shade of blue, almost violet. I'd never seen a human with such a beautiful eye colour. I can't believe I never noticed her appearance before. The way her long, wavy brown hair flowed down her back.
"I'm good. English was pretty boring though. How about you?" She asked.
"I'm well, thanks." I replied. We smiled at each other. But then Jessica Stanley approached us.
"Hey Belle! I was just-" she paused once she acknowledged my presence, "Oh, sorry for interrupting. Belle, can I talk to you?" Jessica asked her.
I can't believe she's crushing on Edward Cullen! And he likes her too. Why her? I'll make sure he doesn't get a chance to ask her out. Jessica thought.
"Sure Jess. See you in biology Edward," she said to me before she took of with Jessica. I trudged of to my next class, I couldn't wait until biology.

The day went slowly. At lunch, we sat at out table. I couldn't help but stare at Belle, she was so intriguing. I wished I could just walk over and sit next to her, but what would her friends think? And what would she think? I'd only known her for two days. We'd only had two conversations. I didn't want her to think I was creepy. As soon as the bell went I walked swiftly to the trash can and dumped my tray of untouched food. Rosalie snorted as I hurried of to biology. Rose was starting to get on my nerves. Why couldn't she just get over herself and be nice about Belle. According to Alice's visions, she'd be around Rosalie more often since she visited me. I didn't want Belle to feel unwelcome.

As always, I was the first to be seated. Belle and Angela were the next to arrive to class, followed by Mike. Then the rest came in groups of twos threes. She smiled at me as she took her seat beside me.
"Hey Edward," she greeted me.
"Hey Belle," I replied. She giggled.
"What?" I asked, suddenly feeling a little self conscious.
"Nothing, don't worry about it." She assured me. Mr. Banner walked into the room and started a long lecture. Every now and then Belle would roll her eyes and smile at me. Towards the end of the hour, Mr. Banner handed out sheets to the class for us to fill in. The class was filled with chatter.
"So do you have facebook?" She asked me.
"No," I replied. I didn't mingle; I only sat with my siblings at lunch. No one ever approached us. Belle was the only human friend any of us ever had.
"Oh," she said, suddenly saddened.
"But I'll make an account tonight if you like," I suggested. She immediately seemed happier, which made me smile on the inside.
"Thanks," she said as she smiled at me. After Mr. Banner collected our sheets, he said we could have a minute to chat before the bell went. Belle started to write something on a blank page of her notebook.
"Here," she said as she tore the page out of the book and handed it to me. It was her cell phone number.
"Text me later?" She asked hopefully. I smiled.
"Of course," I replied. I'd have to go out and buy a new cell phone this afternoon. My current one was on a plan where it was free calls and texts to ten numbers. I'd already had the ten numbers for quite a while now. And the phone was quite old; I didn't want her to think I was cheap. The bell rang, breaking me out of my preoccupation.
"See you later," she said as she smiled and got up.
"Bye Bells," I said. I smiled as she didn't seem to be discomforted by the fact that a guy she'd only known for two days just gave her a nickname.

In the car ride home it was silent.
"Facebook and texting, eh?" Alice said. Although she was pleased, she couldn't help herself.
"C'mon Edward! You know better than this," Rosalie hissed. She'd have to like Belle sooner or later. I really hoped it was sooner.
"Just catching up with the latest social stuff," I said casually. Emmett bursted into laughter.
"Shut up, Em." Alice said. She thought it was nice that Belle was returning my interest.

I dropped them of at the mouth of our driveway and headed back to town. I went to the only K-mart in Forks to look for a cell phone. I picked out a Nokia E63. It wasn't the newest cell phone out, but I didn't want her to think I was a millionaire either. When I got home, I activated my new cell phone and added in everyone's number. I gave my new number to my family and texted out my number to Tanya and her family. I was thankful I got a plan instead of pre-paid. Next, I went on the computer and made an email account. Then I made a facebook account. It was pretty easy, although I didn't have a picture of myself to put as my profile picture. So I took one of me and Alice with my cell and used Bluetooth to get it on the computer instead of having to download my phones software and then connecting it. Then I searched Isabelle Cale in the search box. There were 138 results. I sifted through all of them and found one with a picture of Belle. I clicked on the link and looked at her page. I added her as a friend. Alice was nice enough to make an account aswell so I'd have more than one friend. Instead of adding just Belle and I, she added basically the whole student body. She wondered to herself whether everyone would accept her. Alice went out and bought an iPhone. After she activated it, she took tones of photos of herself with all of us and uploaded them to facebook.

After Alice booted me of the computer, I texted Belle. I wrote:

Hey Belle. It's Edward. I made a facebook account, and I added you. So did Alice. She added the whole school actually.

I added a smiley face to make it seem more casual, I hoped it worked. Just a few seconds later I received a text from her.

Awesome! As soon as I'm done typing up this report I'll accept you both. Alice is really nice, isn't she? Can you give me her number?

Alice smiled as she read the text from behind me. She was already texting Belle when I hit reply myself.

No need. Alice is texting you right now, you'll probably get her text before you get mine. So biology was pretty boring this afternoon, wasn't it?

I wrote. Belle and I texted all afternoon. Alice texted her for a bit, but then went shopping with Rose. After she ate dinner she told me to go on facebook and chat. We chatted on facebook until eleven pm. But she had to go because her father told her it was getting late. When she logged off, I noticed a few people from school had added me. I accepted them all.