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Chapter 2
I walked towards my next class Biology II with Mike and a quite girl named Angela, who sat with us at lunch. When we got to the classroom Angela and Mike went and sat at their lab table. I went up to the teacher and he directed to the only empty seat, right next to Edward Cullen. As I went to sit next to him I noticed that his eyes were coal black. As I shifted in my seat his postured changed. He went rigid leaned away from me and he acted like he smelled something bad. I sniffed my hair and it smelled like strawberries. It seemed like an innocent enough odor. I thought that when class started I could pay attention to the teacher and ignore Edward. Unfortunately we were studying cellular anatomy something I already knew about.
I couldn't stop myself from looking at Edward. During the whole class Edward never relaxed his position and he kept trying to get farther and farther away from me. Now that he was away for his burly big brother I noticed that he was also muscular too. The class seemed to drag on longer and longer and Edward never relaxed. I wondered what his problem was? It couldn't be me, he didn't even know me. The looks he gave me were filled with revulsion. The moment the bell rang Edward was up and out the door before anyone else was out of their seats. I sat frozen staring after him. Is wasn't fair that he was so mean to me.
Mike came up to me after class.
"So what's your next class? He asked
"I'm headed to gym actually," I said beginning to be filled with dread thinking about gym.
"That's my next class too." Mike said sounding thrilled. As we walked to class he chattered on and on. Then as we entered the gym he asked "So did you stab Edward Cullen with a pencil or something? I have never seen him act like that." I grimaced so I'm not the only one who noticed. And apparently that wasn't normal behavior for him. I decided to play dumb.
"Was that the boy that I sat next to in Biology?" I asked
" Yeah" he said "it looked like he was in pain or something."
"I don't know he never spoke to me" I said.
"He's kinda weird. If I were lucky enough to sit you, I would have defiantly talked to you. I smiled at him as I walked up to the gym teacher. The coach found me a uniform, but didn't make me dress down for my first day. I watched them play volleyball and remembering the injuries I inflicted I started to fill sick. As the final bell rang I walked to the office to turn in the slip that all my teachers had to sign. When I walked into the office I almost turned around and walked out. Edward stood at the desk with his back toward me, so he didn't noticed when I walked in. He was arguing with the receptionist in his low very attractive voice. He was trying to change sixth period biology to another time….any other time. Again what did I do. No, it couldn't be it had to be something else something else that made him aggravated. As someone came and walked into the office they let the cold wind in and it caused my hair to swirl around my face. Edward's back immediately stiffened and he turned to stare at me with a hate filled glare. He turned back to the receptionist "Never mind then" he said with a voice like velvet "I can see that its impossible thanks anyway." Then without another glance he turned and walked away.
I walked meekly to the desk turned in my slip and walked hurriedly to the truck. When I got to the truck I got in and it was like a haven. I turned the key and the engine roared to life and I drove to Charlie's house fighting tears the whole way.
The next day was better….and worse. Better because I knew what to expect. Mike sat beside me in English and walked me to each class with Eric glaring at him the whole time. I sat with a big group at lunch including Mike, Eric, Jessica, and Angela. I no longer felt like I was drowning in a sea of endless faces. It was worse because I was still tired. The wind was still howling and echoing around the house. In gym they made me play volleyball and the only time I hit the ball I hit my own teammate in the head. But the reason it was really bad is because Edward Cullen wasn't at school at all. All morning I had been dreading lunch and his strange glares. But when I walked into the lunchroom with Jessica my eyes swept the room I saw his four siblings sitting together. But he wasn't there. All through lunch I kept waiting on him to walk through the door, but he never did. As time passed I got more and more tense. I walked to biology with Mike who was taking on the qualities of a golden retriever. I held my breath as we walked in, but Edward wasn't there either. Mike walked me to my table and stayed there until the bell rang. He looked at me wistfully and walked away. Looked like I would have to do something about Mike and it wouldn't be easy.
I kept telling my self that I was lucky that Edward wasn't there. But I had a nagging suspicion that I was the reason he wasn't. It was ridiculous to think that I could affect someone this strongly. Yet I couldn't stop worrying that I was the reason. As I got into my truck at the end of the day making sure I had everything for my shopping trip (I realized this morning that Charlie can't cook) I saw the Cullens and the Hale twins looking at me. I kept my eyes forward and was relived when I was free of the school grounds. As I got home from grocery shopping I started a dinner or steak and potatoes and went upstairs to change and check my e-mail before I started my homework. My mom had e-mailed mw three times each one more frantic than the last. The last on said if she hadn't heard from me by 5:30 pm she was calling Charlie. I sent my mom back an e-mail telling her about school and about the truck. After that I decided to read Wuthering Heights the book we were reading in English just for the fun of it. When I heard Charlie come home I realized I had lost track of time so I ran down to finish up dinner. As we ate he started asking me about school.
"So how had school been?" Charlie asked
"I have a few classes with a girl named Jessica" I started "I sit with her and her friends at lunch. And there is this boy Mike who is really nice. Actually everybody seems really nice." As I suspected Charlie knew all the kids and their parents. He mentioned all most all the kids in my grade except the one I was most curious about. So I decided to bring them up. "What do you know about the Cullens?" I asked.
"Dr. Cullen's family? Well Dr. Cullen is a great man.
"The kids…are a little different. They don't seem to fit in at school." I said. Charlie surprised me by looking angry. "People in this town" he muttered. "Dr. Cullen is a brilliant surgeon who could probably work in any hospital in the world make ten times the salary he gets here," he continued getting louder. "We're lucky to have him, lucky that his wife wanted to live in a small town. All his kids are well behaved and polite too. I had my doubts with all those adopted teenagers. But there all very mature, haven't had one speck of trouble. They stay together the way a family should. Camping every other weekend. Just because they're newcomers people have to talk."
It was the longest speech I'd ever heard Charlie make. He must feel strongly about whatever people were saying. I backpedaled "They seemed nice enough to me I just noticed that they keep to themselves. They're all very attractive," I added trying to be more complementary.
"You should see Dr. Cullen," Charlie said laughing. "It's a good thing he's happily married. A lot of the nurses have a hard time concentrating on their work with him around." We lapsed into a comfortable silence. After dinner he went to the TV and I finished the dishes then I went upstairs to do my homework. That night it was finally quiet I went to sleep quickly.
The rest of the week was uneventful. I got used to the routine of my classes. In Gym the kids learned quickly not to pass the ball to me. Edward Cullen did not come back to school. Everyday I watched until the rest of the Cullens entered with out him. By Friday I was comfortably going to Biology no longer worried about Edward being there, for all I knew he dropped out of school. I tried not to think about him, but I couldn't suppress the worry that I was the reason for his absence. My first weekend was also uneventful.
It was colder Monday morning, but at least it wasn't raining. After English the air was full of swirling bits of white. It was snowing. "Ugh its snowing." I said
"What you don't like snow?" Mike said from his place by my side.
"No that means it to cold for rain." I replied. Suddenly a snowball hit Mike in the back of the head. As Mike had aimed for Eric who had thrown the snowball I quickly said "I'll see you at lunch okay? Once people start throwing wet stuff I go inside. Mike just nodded.
I walked alertly through the cafeteria with Jessica after Spanish. When we got inside I glanced at the corner table out of habit. Then I froze, there were five people at the table. Jessica pulled on my arm.
"Hello? Bella?" Jessica said.
I looked down I had no reason to be self conscious I hadn't done anything wrong. I just grabbed a soda and sat down with my stomach churning. I was scared to look up and see Edward glaring at me. But I did sneak one glance and thankfully none of the Cullens were looking at me. They were laughing. Edward, Jasper, and Emmett's hair was saturated with snow. They were enjoying the snow with everybody else. Besides the playfulness something was different. I studied Edward's flawless face. The circles under his eyes weren't as noticeable. But there was something else too….
"Bella what are you staring at?" Jessica's voice broke into my thoughts. Just then Edward's eyes flashed over to meet mine. I dropped my head immediately not wanting to see his glare.
"Edward Cullen is staring at you," Jessica giggled.
"Does he look angry?" I asked.
"No" she said confused "should he be?"
"I don't think he likes me much," I confided
"They don't like anybody much" she said. "Well that don't notice anybody enough to like them, but he is still staring at you.
After lunch I was walking to biology with a knot in the pit of my stomach. When we got there I saw with relief my table was empty. But it couldn't stay that way. I heard when the chair next to me moved.
"Hello" said a quiet musical voice.
I looked up startled that he was talking to me. He was still sitting far away as the table allowed but his chair was angled toward me. His dazzling face was friendly open a slight smile on his lips.
"My name is Edward Cullen" he continued. "I didn't get a chance to introduce last week. You must be Bella Swan." My mind was spinning. Had I made up the whole thing? He was perfectly polite now. I had to speak he was waiting.
"How do you know my name?" I blurted out. He laughed it was enchanting, musical.
"Oh I think everybody knows who you are" he said. "The whole towns been waiting on you." Thankfully Mr. Banner started class and explained the lab we were gonna do. The slides he had in a box on our desk were out of order. Working as partners we had to separate the slides into the phases of mitosis and label them accordingly.
"Get started" Mr., Banner said.
"Ladies first partner?" Edward asked. "Or I could start if you wish."
"No I'll go ahead" I said while still staring at him. I was showing off a little I had done this lab already and knew what I was looking for. I studied the slide briefly. "Prophase" I said confidently.
"Do you mind if I look?" He asked as I went to remove the slide. His hand caught mine his hands were ice cold. "I'm sorry" he muttered as he pulled his hand back quickly. "Prophase" he agreed writing it down.
The rest of the slides went like that and we were finished before anybody else. Which left me nothing to do but to try not to look at him…unsuccessfully. I glanced up and he was staring at me with an inexplicable gaze. Wait his eyes that's what was different.
"Did you get contacts?" I asked not thinking.
"No." He said confused by my question.
"Oh." I mumbled. "I thought there was something different with about your eyes." He shrugged and looked away. In fact, I was sure they were different. Today his eyes were a strange ocher darker than butterscotch. I didn't see how that could be without contacts. Or maybe Forks was literally driving me crazy .I looked down his hands were clenched into fists. A little later Edward commented about the weather.
"It's too bad about the snow." He said,
"Not really" I replied honestly.
"You don't like the cold." He said it wasn't a question.
"Or the wet."
"Forks must be a difficult place for you to live," he mused.
"You have no idea" I muttered darkly.
"Why did you move here then?"
No one had asked me like that so I explained about Phil and how he traveled a lot for baseball.
"So you mom sent you here so she could travel with him." He said assuming.
"No she didn't send me here" I said coming to defend my mother. "I sent myself. She stayed with me at first, but I could see unhappy she was…so I decided it was time to spend time with Charlie."
"But now you're unhappy," he pointed out. "That doesn't seem fair."
"Hasn't anyone told you life isn't always fair," I laughed.
"You put on a good show" he said "but I bet you're suffering more than you let anyone see. Am I wrong?"
I tried to ignore him
"I didn't think so." Edward said
I scowled.
"Am I annoying you?" Edward asked
"Not exactly" I said. "I'm more annoyed at myself for being so easy to read. My mom always said I was an open book."
"On the contrary" said Edward "I find you very hard to read."
Mr. Banner called the class to order then and I turned around with relief to listen. I was in disbelief that I had just explained my dreary life to this bizarre, beautiful boy who may or may not despise me. He had seemed engrossed in our conversations but I could see now that he was leaning away from again. When the bell finally rang Edward rushed as swiftly and as gracefully from the room as he had last Monday. Mike skipped quickly to my side " Cullen seemed friendly enough today" Mike said. He didn't seem to happy about that.
I tried to seem indifferent "I wonder what was with him last Monday. After PE I quickly walked to my truck and I saw Edward standing by his Volvo staring intently in my direction. I jumped into my truck and threw it into drive almost hitting a Toyota in my haste. Luckily I stamped on the brake and as I passed Edward I swear I could see him laughing.
When I opened my eyes the next morning something was different. It was the light. It was clearer somehow there was no fog veiling my window. I looked out my window and groaned. There was a fine layer of snow on the ground, but that wasn't the worst thing. The rain from yesterday was frozen solid making the driveway a deadly ice slick. I had enough trouble not falling down when the ground was dry; it might be safer for me to go back to bed now. Charlie had already left for work so I quickly ate some breakfast. I was excited to go to school and that scared me. I was excited, because I would see Edward. And that was very, very, stupid. I should be avoiding him.
I almost tripped twice getting down the driveway, but my truck seemed to be getting along fine. I drove very slowly yet. I finally pulled into the parking lot. I was standing near the back corner of my truck when I hear and odd sound. It was high pitched screech and it was becoming loud. I looked up startled. I saw several things. Nothing was moving in slow motion like the movies, instead the adrenaline rush seemed to make my brain work faster and absorb in clear detail.
Edward was standing four cars down from me staring at me in horror. His face stood out among a sea of others. But more important was the dark blue van that was skidding, tires locked and squealing against the brakes, spinning wildly across the ice of the parking lot. It was going to hit the back corner of the truck, and I was standing between them. I didn't even have time to close my eyes. Just before I heard the shattering crunch of the van folding around the truck bed, something hit me, hard, but not from the direction I was expecting. My head cracked against the icy blacktop, and I felt something solid and cold pinning me to the ground. I was lying on the pavement behind the tan car I'd parked next to. But I didn't have a chance to notice anything else, because the van was still coming. It had curled gratingly around the end of the truck and still spinning and sliding, was about to collide with me again.
A low curse made me aware that someone was with me, and the voice was impossible not to recognize. Two long white hands shot out protectively and the van shuddered to a stop a foot from my face, the large hands fitting providentially into a deep dent in the side of the van's body. Then his hands moved so fast they blurred. He was gripping the van under the body and something was dragging me swinging my legs around like a rag doll's. The van settled glass popping onto the asphalt exactly where a second ago my legs had been. It was silent for one long second before the screaming began. More than one person was shouting my name. But more clearly than all the yelling I could hear Edward's low frantic voice in my ear.
"Bella? Are you all right?'
"I'm fine." My voice sounded strange. I tried to sit up, and realized he was holding me against the side of his body in an iron grip.
"Be careful," he warned "I think you hit your head pretty hard." I became aware of a dull throbbing above my left ear.
"How in the…." I said trying to get my bearings straight. "How did you get over here so fast?"
"I was standing right next to you Bella,: he said his tone serious. Then they found us a crowd of people with tears streaming down their faces.
"Don't move," someone instructed.
"Get Tyler out of the van!" Someone else shouted
I tried to get up but Edward would let me. "Let me up it's cold." I complained. It surprised me when he chuckled under his breath.
"You were over there," I suddenly remembered, and his chuckle stopped short. "You were by your car."
His expression was hard. "No I wasn't."
"I saw you" I was right and he was going to admit it. I heard sirens "will you promise to tell me everything later?"
"Fine,' he snapped. It took six EMTs and two teachers to shift then van far enough away from us to bring the stretchers. They put me and Tyler in the back of the ambulance. Edward got to ride in the front. It was maddening. To make matters worse, Charlie showed up before they could get me away safely.
"Bella!" He yelled in panic
"I'm completely fine Dad." I sighed "There's nothing wrong."
Naturally the ambulance got a police escort to the hospital. I felt ridiculous as they unloaded me. What made it worse was Edward got to walk in under his own power. They put me in the ER and a nurse took my blood pressure and my temp. Tyler Crowley from my Government class was beside me covered in bandages,
"Bella I'm so sorry" he said.
"I'm fine Tyler you look awful, are you ok?" I asked.
He ignored me and kept apologizing and then I heard the most appealing voice say "I heard the Chief's daughter was here." I turned around him and saw him.
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