"MORNING EDDIE!" Emmett yelled through the house.
"Oh God…" I sighed as Emmett found me in the living room.
"Ready to go?"
"Ready as ever. Come on."
Emmett was obviously excited to be coming on this introduction day (the school thought it would be a good idea to give the pupils an idea of what their extracurricular class would be like before the start of the school year in case they changed their minds). As we got closer to the school Emmett got more and more pumped up about the things we could do in class. I became more and more nervous about the whole idea…I mean was I really about to teach a group of teenagers about how to stalk each other? This was probably the lowest point of my life.
When we got to the school Emmett ran ahead of me to the classroom. Why was he so eager to do this? He must be the only vampire in the world to ever get bored.
"Look Edward this is where you'll sit! And this is where I'll sit!" Emmett pointed to my desk and then to the desk at the very front and the middle of the row.
"Great, my star pupil," I sighed, "take me over the rules of this deal."
"Okay, you must assign homework to make sure you know everyone is actually learning things. Make them take notes, check out who they are stalking and why, and don't mention that you were blackmailed into this by your brother." Emmett said leaning back, forgetting he was on a stool with no back and grasped the table to regain his balance, he left a huge dent in the table; hopefully no one will notice.
"Got it,"
100, 101. I'm here! This is like awesome! Edward is so hot and now I get to stare at him all the time with reason! And I'm also here to keep an eye on Mike, he has his eyes set on Bella and she can DREAM ON because Mike is MINE. Oops. Better go in now…people are starting to stare. Jessica's thoughts came from outside the door. One thing about being a vampire that I have always thought was a gift and a curse was having the ability to read minds. It was something not many vampires could do but for some reason when I was turned I received the ability. Which means I was subjected to the most idiotic thoughts from a group of hormone crazy teenagers on a regular basis.
"Hey," Jessica smiled walking into the room and taking a seat in the exact centre of the classroom. "I'm Jessica; I think we have some classes together. I didn't know students could like teach in this school that's awesome! So, you're like, Edward, right?"
"Yes, but it should really be Mr Cullen." I explained.
"Oh. Mr Cullen," I like it, HELL I LOVE IT! Edward is like so sexy when he says that, Mr Cullen. It'll play in my head all day! "I like that. And you're like Edwin, right?" She turned to Emmett.
"No, Emmett. Nice to meet you Jessica." DUDE! Can you believe this chick? She's psycho! Emmett rolled his eyes at me.
"Oh, Emmett hi. Nice to meet you!"
Jessica and Emmett started talking when I heard someone's thoughts outside the door. Here I am. 101. Cullen's class. Why am I doing this again? Oh, yeah, Jessica. She's only here because of Cullen and I don't understand what she likes about him I mean he's CLEARLY gay. I mean I can probably trust her around him since he has no interest in her whatsoever but you can never be too sure with girls like Jess.
"Hi, Edward, right? I'm Mike, we have bio together." Mike smiled the fakest smile imaginable and sat next to Jessica.
"Hi Mike. It's Mr Cullen by the way." I knew it was pointless to point this out to him, he wasn't going to call me that. In fact, I was pretty sure no one besides Jessica would call me that.
"Whatever. So, Jessica –" Mike turned to face Jessica, totally ignoring me and Emmett.
Great. This class was going to be very interesting. After about twenty or so more people came to join the class, not as many people as I thought but still quite a big crowd. It turns out that half of the people who did sign up had to resign because their parents disagreed to let them join a class on stalking. I'm not surprised. If my child handed me a note about a stalking class, I wouldn't let them go. Even if my sibling was teaching the class.
I sighed and stood up. Now or never. I thought.
"Class?" Everyone turned their attention to me. Wow. It was so weird seeing everyone's eyes on me. It felt like I had been caught out in the sun sparkling. "Welcome to Edward Cullen's Stalking Class 101. I am Edward. You can call me Edward or Mr Cullen. First of all, I'm new to teaching and above all stalking. Second, I'd like you to meet our class assistant, Mr Emmett Cullen."
WHAT?! Eddie this is so not cool! Emmett thought at me.
"Why don't you stand up and let everyone know who you are Emmett." I smiled.
Emmett reluctantly pulled his chair out and came to stand next to me, waved and sat back down but not before silently swearing at me.
"Okay the first thing I want to do is go around the class and everyone tell me their name and why you're here."
We started with a girl named Kristie and went from there. A lot of the reasons were the same, someone they loved was "slipping away", just because they wanted to, change of pace, Emmett's was the funniest and I have to say I wasn't expecting it.
"I'm Emmett Cullen and I am here to stalk every one of you. No joke. Just because I'm a nice guy doesn't mean I won't try and pry into your lives. So, you'd better be on alert, you never know who could be lurking right around the corner…" No one took him seriously and I don't think they were meant to.
Not that it would be hard for him to stalk all of them if he wanted to, Emmett had gotten quite good at sneaking around when he wanted to. I felt like he was taking this too seriously and I knew it was only going to cause more trouble.
When everyone had finished introducing themselves I was ready to leave. Unluckily for me we had to hang around for a few hours so I did the only thing I knew I could do and that was force ice breaker activities on them.
The general vibe of the room changed when I suggested everyone get into groups and discuss small talk topics. I knew it was a lame move and there's nothing people hate more than being forced to talk to people they have claimed to hate in the past but I didn't have anything else planned for the day.
On the way home Emmett kept telling me all the useless facts he had learnt about his classmates. Like how Jessica is in love with me and Mike is really not happy about it even though he's in love with Bella or how last year Lisa got so drunk at a party she peed herself, or that one of the exchange students managed to hook up with half of the junior year the two weeks they were here and the list went on and on.
"Emmett," I interrupted him as he began to talk about how all the girls were creeped out by the new English teacher. "What is the point in you telling me all of this?"
"I just thought you would like to know more about the class you are going to be teaching. It is good to relate to these people and cater to their interests, otherwise you are that creepy 100-year-old vampire talking about stalking innocent young girls."
"Thanks brother," I sighed, no matter what way you say it, it sounds bad.
"No problem. I think this is the best idea I've had yet."
"Right…so what did you tell people about yourself? That you are a vampire that is blackmailing his brother into teaching a stalking class for the year?"
Emmett laughed "No, I told them I was being a great wingman and trying to set you up with the girl you like, so I suggest you teach a class because chicks love teachers. Everyone agreed and wanted to know who the girl was but I didn't say, I think if I had you would have killed me. This is when Jessica got really excited and tried to get me to set you guys up."
"Are you going to set us up?"
"No? I mean I thought you were in love with that Bella girl. Look, dude I totally get why you wouldn't want Jessica, bitch is crazy…"
Emmett began to go off on a tangent about how awful Jessica was and as we were walking down the road to our house I saw Bella.
She was across the road with her beat up old truck, she didn't look very happy. I immediately ran off into the trees above to try and find out what was wrong. From the trees, I could see Emmett looking for me, he finally spotted me and mouthed "stalker" before going into the house.
I ignored him as I tried to find out what the problem was with Bella's truck. As I listened to her phone conversation I learnt that there was nothing wrong with her truck and that she was just lost. I considered going down to help her out but I thought just dropping down from the branches above would freak her out so I stayed in the trees and watched her hang up her phone and start driving. I decided to follow her to make sure that she got home safely.
As I made my way back home I thought about what Emmett had said before, he was right I was a creepy person spying on Bella. I didn't even mean to, it kind of just happened.
I have known Bella for about a year now and have had a crush on her ever since I first saw her, which sounds so cheesy but it's true. Emmett says that it's just bloodlust but I know that it is more than that. There's something about her that makes me want to know her, to protect her, to always be there for her. When I am with her I don't feel like a monster, I feel like a regular person.
As for the stalking thing, I didn't set out to stalk her but one night I was out hunting and saw Bella walking home from a house party and she was a little tipsy. I was worried about her safety and followed her in the shadows to make sure that she was safe. She's a clumsy girl and I didn't want her to get injured or have someone attack her. I thought I did the right thing and since then I have found myself following her more often, I tell myself it is only to protect her but I know it's more than that. I feel a connection with her that I have never felt with anyone else. If only she felt the same way…