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Plain Beyond Repair

by AliciousMind

Chapter Two

I was looking anxiously around the cafeteria to spot the missing girl, but she was nowhere to be seen. How was she so fast to leave the room so quickly? Why was she in such a hurry? I was so intrigued that I didn't notice that someone had taken the seat next to me. I jumped startled hearing suddenly a high nasally voice close to my ear.

"Hi," she breathed into my ear, but loud enough to be heard by everyone else at our table. "I'm Jessica Stanley. It's so nice to meet you." She addressed her introduction to our group, but her hand wrapped around my arm in a way that one could describe as seductive, if it didn't make me flinch with shock and disgust.

I was not the guy who made friends easily. I was rather shy and didn't like attention, especially from girls like Jessica, whose appearance screamed slut.

I quickly withdrew my hand and put it on my lap under our table to avoid her further advances. My action didn't seem to be registered by Jessica, who was still babbling about how happy she was to have so many new friends.

I searched my siblings' faces, they looked stunned and little amused. She surely was self-confident and insistent. You would have never suspected that one person could be so self-absorbed with herself.

"You can't even imagine how lucky you are that I have spotted you right away. Now, that everyone sees you talking with me, they would like to meet you, too. It will be such a great year, I can feel it," she was rambling happily, oblivious to our disinterest and amusement. "Surely you wouldn't like to be the social pariah from the beginning," her face showed deep disgust with a thought of not being popular or in a center of attention. "Stick with me and you won't regret it. We wouldn't want you to become the next Bella Swan, would you?"

She stopped her monologue abruptly looking accusingly at us, waiting for our affirmation. Emmett being Emmett busted out laughing. "Oh, girl. You surely have lungs, you know. I bet you've said it all in one breath. How can such a small person talk so much for so long without catching her breath? I'm telling you, you are something else," we all laughed with her being oblivious how easily Emmett saved the day by averting her question without answering. I smiled inwardly, but was also intrigued by something else she'd said.

"Bella Swan?" I asked, truly interested this time.

"Yeah. I swear to you, this girl is so hopelessly boring that nobody even looks her way anymore." She twirled the strand of her mousey brownish hair around her perfectly painted index finger and continued nonchalantly. "She must feel so sorry that I am not her friend. Well, no one is, but what do you expect when you're so plain and dull? It would surely be better for her not to live at all. The world would be so much colorful and exciting without pathetic people such as Bella in it."

My eyes grew wide with surprise. I could see that her words had the same effect with Alice, Emmett and Jasper. My fists clenched with fury. One thing is to be self-obsessed and vain, but to be so malicious and mean? I felt strangely protective about this Bella girl without even knowing her. I had no idea who she was, but I was glad she was nowhere near Jessica Stanley.

Soon after this revelation it was time to part our ways and go to our classes. We quickly said goodbye to Jessica and aborted the cafeteria. My next class was Biology - one of my favorite subjects. I'd always been interested in my dad's work so I'd often found myself in his private library reading his books or discussing some of his recent observations. I admired my father and in my heart I knew that someday I wanted to be just like him.

When I entered the class I was shocked that everybody was already seated.

Had it really taken me so long to get there? Must be all that thinking...

The teacher showed me my table and the lab partner for the fallowing semester. I found myself frozen in place seeing the girl from cafeteria being the said partner. I had no idea why this person intrigued me so much, but when I took my seat and started to introduce myself, she looked straight at me and my world stopped in place. Her deep chocolate brown eyes looked with such piercing intensity, that I wasn't sure what my name was any more. The pleasant shudder ran through my entire body, switching off the ability to speak. We were staring at each other for what seemed like eternity.

Finally she blushed and dropped her gaze, freeing me from her spell and letting my brain restart.

What happened? Why did she have such a power over me?

I slumped in my chair and sighed. She must have thought I was some kind of moron.

I was secretly peeking in her direction throughout the whole lesson, but her hair was down, covering her beautiful face and leaving me as clueless as at the moment I had seen her for the first time in the school cafeteria.

When the bell rang signaling the end of the class, I turned to finally talk to her, only to capture her graceful form leaving the classroom.

"Freak, isn't she?" came very high unpleasant voice from behind me.

"Excuse me?" I answered, still in a daze of the mysterious girl.

"Bella Swan, the plain goose who's just left. You have noticed her, haven't you?" a blond girl with too much make-up on her face and a malicious smirk apparently took my answer as a start of conversation. "Well, I really don't blame you for not noticing her. She's like the most boring creature in the whole world, not to mention about how ugly she is." I was in such a trance that I was not able to say a word.

THAT was Bella Swan?

The girl who captured my interest from the first moment I'd put my eyes on?

Boring? PLAIN?

How blind were these people?

I looked at the girl with what must have looked like a shocked face, shrugged my shoulders and left the classroom, trying to collect all my thoughts and understand the sense of the Forks High School students.

oOo

After school I met up with Alice and Emmett by my car. Their day seemed to be quite eventful, considering making the new acquaintance with the Whitlock's. Apparently, Emmett had met Jasper's sister Rosalie and had become smitten with her and she was all he was talking about during our drive back home. Alice was suspiciously quiet, looking through the window with the dreamy eyes.

Soon we reached home and everyone left to their own rooms to do today's homework.

I took my guitar out and sat on my leather sofa. Looking through the large picture windows at the deep woods below, I let the tips of my fingers gently brush the strings, creating the melody on their own. Music had always helped me concentrate and find the solution to my problems. This time however my mind was confused and I couldn't explain the anxiety I felt. My mind was wandering back to school and all the events that had happened during our day. Of course those thoughts quickly turned to the girl who seemed to take all my attention.

What was so special about her? She was beautiful - no doubt about that. Her heart shaped face was perfect, with her flawless skin, pink cheeks, and brown eyes. Oh, the thought of those eyes made my body shiver. They were brown, but that word didn't give them justice. Liquid chocolate with golden flecks which made them look even deeper. And that intense gaze – like they looked straight into your soul, like they had their own mind. No, Bella Swan was an enigma, certainly not the plain and boring type.

After finishing my homework I decided to go for my every day run. I put my Sketchers on and walked down the hall to knock on Emmett's door.

"Do you feel like running a bit, bro?" I asked, already knowing his answer.

"Not today, E. I'm in the middle of the damn Math project. That teacher knows how to make my life miserable on my first day at school." He sighed and went back to writing in his notebook.

I closed his door and went downstairs. Emmett rarely had joined me during my jogging routine. He preferred his working out at the gym. Alice was not the jogging type either. I was the only one who loved running. I was the fastest in my class back in Chicago and I used to run every afternoon. Now, in Forks I was thrilled to discover all the paths surrounded by woods and streams. The place was picturesque and not crowded like the parks back in Illinois.

I found my running list on the iPod and sprinted off of the porch. It was relaxing and exhilarating. My muscles came to life and the fresh breeze woke my clouded brain. The rhythmic music punctuated my strides, letting me know how long I was running.

I passed the neighborhood houses and stepped on the little path. I jogged along the spruces and firs, trying to remember all the possible ways and places to intersperse my future running trails.

The weather was perfect - not too hot and not too cold. The air was fresh and not humid. My legs seem to move on their own accord. I was glad that Emmett declined my invitation. He surely would talk and that was something I was opposed to doing while running. I liked silence, interrupted only by the sounds of nature, my music, and my own breathing.

I looked up wondering if it was going to rain, when my body suddenly crashed into something.

"Oooomph" went the sound out of the small body that apparently was the unfortunate barrier in my way. My hands instinctively went to catch the person, who certainly shouldn't be rammed with the force I had hit her?

My brain registered the person immediately.

"Bella?" I looked at the girl wearing a dark blue sweatshirt with black yoga pants, who seemingly was sharing my love for jogging.

"Are you okay?" I asked concerned, still holding her warm body close to mine.

"Yeah," she whispered confused and dropped her gaze, making me unsure of what to do next.

I straightened my back, squared my shoulders and reached out my hand in greeting. "Hi, my name is Edward Cullen, and we'll be lab partners for the next semester," I blurted out without thinking, realizing a second too late what a moron I was. It seemed that when Bella was concerned, my brain just stopped working.

A/N: So they met. lol.

Do you think they'll talk or he'll run away?

Maybe she will?

~Alice