This is Chapter two, and I have to say this is one of my favorite songs. I think the entire lyrics are so perfect and worth it if you want to get a feel of what I was aiming for.
Song for this chapter : A well respected man by The Kinks.
And he likes his own backyard,
And he likes his fags the best,
'Cause he's better than the rest,
And his own sweat smells the best,
'Cause he's oh, so good,
And he's oh, so fine,
And he's oh, so healthy,
In his body and his mind.
He's a well respected man about town,
Doing the best things so conservatively.
The Kinks
A well respected man
I woke up to the annoying sound of my alarm and pushed it off the table with a groan. "Great, another day of school", I complained inwardly as I dressed. I chose to wear a long sleeved button down Ralph Lauren dress shirt with my favourite jeans. I always had the most expensive and attractive clothes someone could wish for. I was the best and I had to dress the part.
Only I didn't care much about personal grooming and my hair was often a mess. Girls seemed to think it added to my charm.
My mood switched from slightly bored to downright furious when I heard the decorator talking to my mother in the next room. I frowned, realising there were deep in the process of destroying what was left of my brother's presence in the house. I didn't want to see it. I flew down the stairs and grabbed an apple in the kitchen. Carlisle was nowhere in sight as usual, so I ate quietly by the kitchen counter. I took a look at myself in the mirror and put my game face on. I didn't want anyone to know about this step sister thing before school was over. After all, there was, in my opinion, a good chance she wouldn't stick around. I walked to the garage in a hurry, eager to get out of this mad house. Feeling the stirring wheel of my car in my hands calmed me slightly.
"Should I skip today?" I contemplated before crossing the Longfellow Bridge to get to school. I didn't want to alert anyone that something was up and since I usually didn't ditch alone on a Monday morning, I decided not to. I parked in my space near the school entrance. I had the best spot of the whole student's lot and everyone knew to keep away from it even my name wasn't actually written on the ground.
I gathered my things and turned my iPod on loudly. I didn't want to chat this morning. A flock of seniors were celebrating their last Monday morning in high school. Emmett wasn't among them. Lucky bastard, I thought, envying him for being a senior and so close to freedom from this golden prison. I couldn't wait until next year to say goodbye to this place too.
Like every morning, a couple of younger girls were waiting by the entrance to try to catch my attention. I didn't know their names nor cared, but I could tell some of them were there every morning by how familiar their faces looked.
"Morning ladies," I humoured them and they giggled. How pathetic.
Sometimes the never ending attention I got from the female population was getting on my nerves. Couldn't they find something else to stare at? I guess there wasn't anything quite like me.
I made my way up the stairs to our —I mean the people that mattered— usual spot. I paused my music but didn't remove the ear buds from my hears, so no one would know I could hear nor by tempted to speak to me. Emmett was discussing the Red Sox with Eric. Tori and her followers were gossiping about the new English teacher and Ben was trying miserably to put his overloaded bag into his locker. Boring. I pushed the play button again to block them out. Tori gave me a sideway glance and winked. Great, now she thought I was coming back to her. I shouldn't have slept with her last week end.
First period was so boring I shamelessly took a nap on my book. The teacher never dared to say anything to me. I was a Cullen, and that went a long way around here.
Second period was gym and we were unfortunately done with swimming classes. It was the only sport I liked to practice. Today, we were revisiting volleyball and I just abhorred team sports the most. I begrudgingly teamed up with the guys and we went to the back of the gym. I knew I wouldn't have to do much even if I was awesome at this game. Ben and Eric would quickly get into it, they were so competitive. Who cared who won the damn volleyball game?
After a couple of practice passes, I spotted there was some sort of commotion by the teacher and glanced out of habit more than curiosity. What I saw definitely piqued my interest.
There was a new girl, but oh my, what a girl. She had long, creamy legs and her tight shorts accentuated her perfect ass. Her shiny hair fell in rich chocolate curls on her shoulders. She was a vision.
The guys stopped playing too. "Look at that fine ass," Eric whispered and I smirked. I knew they were waiting to see if I was interested. They wouldn't try anything against me. It always annoyed me. I had no serious competition outside the gym.
"She's with Mike," Ben pointed out.
"Not for long," Tyler snorted.
I just shrugged and we started playing. I glanced every now and then at the girl, she could become exactly the distraction I needed.
After class, I saw her coming out of the girl's locker room. Her long wet hair was framing her face like a bikini model, and her short skirt clanged to her forms like a second skin. The only thing I could think of was how good she would look against my sheets. I decided right then and there I had to have her. Tori was getting old and the endless streak of nameless women was just unsatisfying. It'd been so long since I had the thrill of the chase. Everything, even sex, was always given to me of a silver platter. Maybe this girl would be different, a challenge. I observed discreetly her during lunch; she looked like a shy girl. The shy ones were always harder to seduce. I was distracted from my thoughts when my phone rang.
From Emmett : to ECullen :
Meet me outside, got a plan for this afternoon.
I was just wondering where he was. I took a last look at my new prey and decided she'd have to wait until tomorrow.
My afternoon, and the rest of the day for that matter, was a total blur. Emmett made us drink so much tequila, I was drunk by two o'clock, and totally wasted by three. We spent the afternoon and evening between bars, playing poker with his friends and watching TV. Ben and Eric joined us around eleven at a downtown club and we played pool. I killed them all except for Emmett, who beat me 3-2 in a best of five.
"Losing your touch, Golden boy." He roared, happy to be the pool champion of the night.
"You just got lucky," I replied cockily,
He served himself a beer and looked at me daringly. "Oh yeah? Best of seven?"
"Yeah, whatever," I answered, thinking at this rate he would be too drunk to play in half an hour and I would easily beat him.
During the next game, the Tyler and Dave started laughing uncontrollably. I looked around to see what was going on and I spotted that Ben had caught himself a nice fish and was practically banging her in front of us.
Tyler took a picture of them getting it on in the dark corner of the bar with his phone and laughed out loud as he announced he was sending it to his Facebook page.
I won the sixth game, so we started a seventh one. That's when Ben checked his emails and saw red when he saw his sexual adventure was getting a lot of responses on the web. Ben disliked seeing photos of him on Facebook and was very weird about it. We didn't understand why.
He marched towards Tyler who was now trying to get a girl for himself and punched him right in the face. Tyler would without a doubt show up with a bruised eye at school tomorrow. The thing turned into a fight between Tyler and Dave and Ben and Eric and Emmett had to leave the game to separate them. He was the biggest guy around, and they didn't dare to try to hit him.
I was careful not to show which side I was on. They could fight all they want. It's not like anyone would ever dare to try that trick on me. I would end them. I personally didn't have a Facebook page, it seemed way too ordinary.
It was around three in the morning when I stumbled back home. My mother was already asleep, and my father ever so absent. I took a quick shower, and as I crashed into my bed, I thought of her. The mysterious brunette.
The next day in gym, the girl ended up in my team. As we played, she was right in front of me and I couldn't look away from her. As I imagined how soft her legs would feel under my touch, a girl from the other team served towards me. She didn't put quite enough force into it, so I took a step forward to catch it. I was surprised to end up with the new girl in my arms. She lost her balance and I caught her before she fell flat on the ground. Well, I was hoping for an ice breaker, this was perfect. I saved her, the knight in shining armor and all that bullshit. Chicks really dig that. I was about to help her up when she stared into my eyes, with a smile that would make Rose jealous. Her eyes were a deep shade of brown, with hints of gold, and I was speechless for a second. Her skin was smooth like silk under my fingers; I envisioned her brown curls on my blood red sheets.
"I'm Edward," I managed to say, and the effect she had on my concentration scared me.
"Alice. Sorry for bumping into you," she introduced herself while her eyes roamed on my face appreciatively. I couldn't hide my satisfaction as I saw she was totally impressed by my appearance. Maybe this would be easy after all.
"No problem."
The piercing sound of a whistle established that the class was over.
"Nice meeting you, Edward," she flirted before turning around and heading towards the girl's changing room. It was nice to see she could talk to me without babbling. Most girls couldn't. I was soon waiting for her to come out of the lockers; there was just something about her...
I invited her to have lunch with me and of course she said yes. Tori spotted me with her and grimaced, deciding to stay with her flock today. I knew she was secretly plotting to harass Alice after I was finished but I had previously made it clear that she could not interfere in my affairs as long as I was interested.
"Sorry babe I need another flavour right now," I thought, turning my attention back to sweet Alice. I introduced her to the guys. Eric looked disappointed; I could see he'd hoped I wasn't going to like her. Emmett chose this moment to arrive, and he feigned not to notice Alice.
"Where is your terror of a girlfriend?" He asked, bursting out laughing at my murderous expression, and Eric smiled. Emmett loved to make things harder for me.
"Tori isn't my girlfriend," I insisted.
"If you say so." Then, he turned to Alice.
"And who is this beautiful creature?" He joked.
"Alice," she introduced herself, blushing.
"I'm Emmett, enchanté," he said, kissing her hand.
It was so Emmett to do something like that. I couldn't resist teasing him. "Be careful Em, Rose asked me to watch you closely," I threatened with a smile.
"Well she's not here," he retorted.
"Who's Rose?" Alice asked.
"My girlfriend. She's usually here, but her and her brother cut the semester short to go to Europe with their parents," Emmett explained.
"You must miss her."
Typical response. So far, she was easy to figure out.
"I do," he admitted.
I was a little disappointed. I had hoped she would be a challenge, a project I could work on, but so far she was an almost too typical girl. Nevertheless, I invited her to eat with us all week, hoping she'd want to go out Friday night and I could quickly seal the deal. I couldn't back off now, not when I had established my interest so clearly. People would think she rejected me and that was unacceptable. I was the king of this place.
I went farther in this POV, and that could happen from time to time, even if I usually try to keep a somewhat equal timeline between the chapters. So? R&R please, you know how priceless feedback is.
Elmo 13
