Not mine.
It had been two weeks since Bella and I spoke. Things had gone back to normal, where we didn't speak. I guess since we weren't friends with the same people it was socially unacceptable for her to be seen talking to me. Especially since I was the schools biggest man whore.
"Earth to Edward." Emmett said waving his hand in front of my face.
I smacked it away. "What's up?"
"The bell rang bro, and that's usually when we switch classes." Jasper commented sarcastically.
"I'm ready." I said standing and picking up my notebook. We walked out of our Algebra and said our byes to Jasper as Emmett and I walked to my locker. I listened to him babble about God only knows what while I spun the lock and opened my locker. I switched notebooks and closed my locker.
"Does that sound good?" Emmett asked.
"Yeah sounds fine." I said having no idea what I was talking about.
"Alright good dude, I'll see you in lunch." Emmett said, we fist pounded and parted ways. I headed to my AP Lit & Society class. It was the only class that I took accelerated because my guidance counselor told me I had too since I did 'so well' in my other reading classes. Little did she know I always sat myself next to someone who would let me copy. I walked into Mr. Peter's room and slumped down in my assigned seat in the front by the door. I attempted to read the last few pages of Anthem before class started so that I could sleep, but got distracted when Bella walked in.
She looked beautiful as usual, wearing barely there khaki shorts to show off her legs, a white tank top, with blue and white striped button down polo over it. Her hair was curly today, and looked great. She walked behind me and took her seat and propped her feet up on the back bars on my desk just like she did every other day. The bell rang and Mr. Peter's stood up from his desk.
"Alright, now I'm sure all of you know what's about to happen since this happens every other day." He said counting out papers for each of the rows.
"Pop quiz!" he said way too enthused.
"Mr. P I would hardly call it a pop quiz since we all know that it's going to happen." Bella said from behind me, getting the class to chuckle.
"Very well Miss Swan, let me rephrase myself, quiz time." He said with a smile.
"That's better." Bella replied. He dropped the quiz papers on my desk and walked away. I sighed while passing them back and began to work on mine.
"Shit, I forgot to read." I heard Bella whisper to her friend Leah who sat next to her.
"Well I wouldn't copy off me, I didn't read either." She whispered back.
I felt her tap on my shoulder and I leaned back in my desk keeping my eyes on Mr. Peter to make sure he wasn't looking.
"Hey, did you read?" she whispered in my ear.
I shook my head yes.
"Are you against helping people cheat?" she asked.
I silently laughed and shook my head no.
"Then can you do me a solid and place your paper over towards the left, I didn't read anything last night."
I did as she asked and leaned on the wall to my right so she could see my answers better. I wasn't going to tell her no, I don't think I could even if I wanted to. A few minutes later she got up to turn her quiz in. she gave me a smile when she passed back by to sit down, and then I turned mine in and put my head down to sleep the rest of class.
I jolted awake when the bell rang and met Emmett back at my locker.
"Have a nice nap?" he asked with a smirk.
I rubbed the sleep from my eyes. "How could you tell?"
"Dude you have lines from your jacket all over your face." He said with a smirk.
"Oh." Was all I replied with a laugh.
"Come on man, it's lunch time and I'm starving!" he exclaimed quickening his speed. Emmett and I threw our notebooks on the table and took a seat along with Jasper, Alice, Matt, and Jared.
"Nice face." Alice said to me while taking a sip of Jasper's soda.
"I could say the same to you." I answered getting laughs.
"But there's nothing on my face." Alice said confused.
"That's the point." I said trying not to laugh.
"Oh you jerk!" she said and threw a fry at me. The table broke out in laughter at how slow she was to get that.
"Low on sleep Ali?" I asked her with a smirk.
"Shut it." She said and continued to eat her lunch. I scanned the lunch room until my eyes fell on Bella. She was pulling her wallet out of her purse which meant that she would be going through the line soon. I smacked Emmett in the chest without taking my eyes off her.
"Wanna go get lunch?" I asked.
"Yeah!" he said and hopped up without commenting on how pathetic I was. This was a routine that we had been doing since freshman year, we followed her and Leah to the same line and stood behind them listening to them talk about anything that came to mind.
"So band practice at my house or yours?" I asked Emmett while picking up a burger and fries and placing them on my tray.
"Well my sister's been on major bitch path this week, so lets go with yours." Emmett said while placing food on his tray.
"Ah, that time of the month?" I asked.
"Yeah, it's a dark place in the McCarty household." He said shaking his head.
"Feel free to crash at my place." I offered moving through the line.
"$2.10" she lunch lady said to Bella.
I watched as she pulled out a dollar. "Hang on, I know I have another dollar in here somewhere." She said digging through her wallet.
"I got it." I said and pulled a five out of my front pocket. She turned around and faced me with a worried look.
"Are you sure?" she asked looking guilty.
"Yeah, it's not a problem." I said shrugging my shoulders and handing the lunch lady my five.
"Thank you so much. I'll pay you back tomorrow."
The lady handed me my change back and I shoved it in my pocket.
"Don't worry about it."
"No I feel bad."
"Bella, really, it's not a big deal." I said stepping to the side and waiting for Emmett to get his change and join us.
"Well thanks again." She said giving me another smile and then turned to walk away.
"All these years of stalking her through the lunch line finally paid off." Emmett said squirting ketchup on his plate.
I smiled feeling victorious. "This is only the beginning."
