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It took them time to move the van far enough to bring stretchers in. Alice and I both managed to avoid ours, but I ensured they got Angela on one. I was almost certain she was fine, but she'd hit her head and I wanted to be safe. I scanned the crowd quickly as they placed a neck brace on her before settling her on the stretcher. I cursed as I saw Charlie arrive just as we were heading toward the Ambulance.
"BELLA!" He called, when he saw me getting in the ambulance.
"I'm fine." I told him quickly, "They just want to check to be sure, and I'm riding in with Angela."
I don't know if that alleviated his fears or not, but I climbed into the back with Angela on the stretcher and an EMT, while Alice settled in the front passenger seat. I had to fight to keep from holding her hand, so I was happy when she took mine on her own. I'm not sure if it meant the same to her, but it made me feel better to comfort her anyway I could. As I looked out the back of the ambulance, I saw Charlie talking with one of the other EMTs.
Off to his left, however, was Alice's family. Rosalie looked furious, like all of her worse fears had just been confirmed and she hated it. Edward and Tanya seemed resigned, but worried. Emmett's eyes were laughing and he was shaking his head. Jasper just had a rueful smile on his face. None of them though seemed concerned.
Naturally, Charlie escorted the Ambulance all the way to the hospital. I felt worried the whole time, not for myself, but because I didn't know how Angela was going to handle things. When we finally arrived, I walked alongside Angela into the emergency room, while Alice disappeared to find Carlisle.
The ER was a long room, with the beds separated by curtains. When we made it to one of the partitions, a nurse put a pressure cuff on Angela's arms, and a thermometer under her tongue, then turned to me. She quickly changed her mind on the receiving end of my glare and I started to pull the curtain closed just as there was another flurry of activity and Tyler Crowley was wheeled into the room.
My first instinct was to fly across the room and eviscerate the boy for endangering Angela. Only the fact that he was hurt worse than she was and the human in me knowing it was an accident kept me from it. He had bloodstained bandages wrapped around his head, and a few more taped on his neck, and arms. His eyes however, were locked on me, and wide with concern and fear.
"Bella! I'm so sorry!" He said, rushed.
I had to stop myself from growling at him, and forcibly keep my eyes from turning to slits, but when my voice came out it was only a little strained, "I'm not the one you need to apologize too." I pointed at the bed where Angela was, "She's the one that was hurt because you were being stupid!" I yanked the curtain closed before I said something I'd regret and turned back to Angela sitting on the edge of the bed.
"You're angry…" She said.
I had to take a few breaths to calm down, and I whispered so we wouldn't be overheard, "Very, but it ties into what I have to explain, and I can't do it here. Too much chance we'll be overheard."
"Oh… is it because of me?" She frowned.
"Because you were hurt… because you were in danger." I admitted, "Angela, you really can't tell anyone what happened, it would put not only me, but Charlie, my dad, and the Cullens in danger."
"No one would believe me." She whispered, then looked around, before looking back at me, "But I promise to wait at least until you explain everything."
That was probably the best I could hope for, for now. So I waited with her a few more minutes before they wheeled her to X-ray, and then back. She told me they hadn't found anything wrong and I was relieved. We sat there, in a strangely comfortable silence as we waited for a doctor to come see us. I smiled as I finally scented Alice and Carlisle coming toward us.
"We'll be able to get out of here soon." I told her as Alice came into the curtained area.
"Oh shoot. I was hoping you'd let me surprise her." Alice smiled, "Angela," she gestured as Carlisle came in, "You know my father, Dr. Carlisle Cullen."
"Miss Weber." Carlisle smiled at her, then turned to me, "Bella, it's good to see you again, though I wish it were under better circumstances."
"Dr. Cullen." I nodded at him.
"Sir." Angela looked at him.
He walked to the light board over the bed and turned it on with a casual movement, examining the X-Ray, then turned back to us, "Your X-ray looks fine, does your head hurt at all?"
"A little, but I did hit it when…" She looked around a moment worried.
"Bella and my daughter acted to protect you, I know." He said, and frowned a bit, "It's probably just a bump, but…" he gently probed her skull with his fingertips, and we all noticed her wince a bit, "Yes, most likely it's just a bruise, so you can go home, but come back if you feel dizzy or have trouble with your eyesight."
"Yes sir." She said easily.
He nodded, "Both your fathers are in the waiting room, as is most of the school." He chuckled, "Seems they want to wish everyone well."
I sighed, and shook my head. "You can't go to your house," I told Angela, "You need quiet, and rest. A pair of hyper eight year old twins is not the way to get it."
"You remembered my brothers?" She asked, a funny look on her face.
"I'll ask our dads if you can stay with us. The house will be quiet, and it'll give me a chance to give you that explanation." I told her.
"I'll meet you there." Alice said after looking at Carlisle, who nodded.
"Alright, let's get out of here. No offense Dr. Cullen, but I've always hated hospitals." I smiled at him.
"Please, Bella, call me Carlisle, and no offense taken. Most people have some distaste for them. I'll walk you three out."
It had taken a plea from Angela, assurances by my father, a suggestion from Carlisle, and a promise from me that I would see to it she was tended to before her father and mother, who had both showed up with the twins, would let me take Angela to my home instead of theirs. In the end though, it had been agreed that she would be easier to care for at my house where I could help her, than at hers where her mother would have to tend her and both the twins. Her father agreed to pick her up later that night, when he finished at the church.
That's how I found myself sitting at my desk watching her as she lay on my bed after Charlie had driven us home. We hadn't started talking yet. I wanted to wait for Alice, and we were comfortable with the silence. She had taken out her books and was reading while we waited, while I had picked up a sketch pad my mother had bought me that I never thought I'd use. I was halfway through a drawing of Angela before I realized what I was doing and just sat their staring at it.
"You ok?" She asked.
"Hm?" I looked up, "Oh, yea… I just didn't realize I knew how to draw."
That confused her, I know, "You didn't…"
I smiled laughing a bit, "I used to be just like you, it's only been six months that I became able to do the things you saw. I'm still getting used to all my new abilities, and sometimes it's the little things that will surprise me."
"So drawing?" She asked.
I smiled, "My hand eye coordination, memory, dexterity, attention to detail, all the abilities it takes to recreate an image on paper, have been amplified. I'd never done it before, but I guess…" I showed her the half finished drawing.
"Is that me?" She asked, blushing.
"Yea.." I said, and looked at it again, it was of the first time I'd seen her. There were shadows in the background, and her hair was loose and flowing around her head. I'd stopped partway through drawing her upper body above the table, so her left side was there, but the right was still just sketch lines.
"Are you going to finish it?" She asked.
I nodded and started to draw again, smiling as I saw the picture take form. It looked just like I remembered her from when I first felt my Desire. Her hair was loose, and though it was in the grayscale of pencil lines, I'd shaded it so her highlights were prominent. She was unbelievably beautiful to me, and it showed in the picture. I smiled as I handed it to her.
"Wow…" She stared at it, "That's me?"
I nodded, "The way you looked when I first saw you…" I decided to push on, "When I fell in love with you."
She looked up at that, her eyes wide. I'm not sure she knew what she was going to say, or what I would have said next because before either of us could decide, I felt Alice coming and turned to the window just as she appeared. Her sudden appearance started Angela, but just made me smile.
"I haven't missed anything, have I?" She asked.
"Not really," I told her, "Just me telling her I'm in love with her. Oh, and I found out I can draw pretty well now." I gestured to the picture Angela was still holding.
Alice let out a bell like laugh as she went and sat on the edge of the bed, "I think you may have pushed a little too quickly for her."
"In… love with me?" Angela finally asked.
"Hopelessly, irrevocably, completely." I told her, then sighed, "But there's a little more to it than that.
"I think we aught to start at the beginning, Bella, and build up to that." Alice said, "She's looking a little… panicky."
I smiled at Alice and then at Angela, "She's right, we should start at the beginning. I promised we'd explain everything."
Alice giggled, "Much to my sister's displeasure."
I sighed, "Rose is upset then?"
"Very, but I've already made my choice." She smiled at me.
I could see Angela frowning now as we both turned back to her, "Another part of the explanation," I told her.
"Oh… Okay…" She seemed more confused than panicky now.
"Where do you want me to start?" I asked Angela.
"You said… you've only been…" She searched for a word, "Able to do things like that for six months?"
I nodded, "I was in an accident, and was found by someone. I was more than likely going to die, but the person who found me wasn't human. He was a member of an immortal race that reproduces by changing humans. He changed me to try and save my life."
"So you and Alice are…" She started, "What?"
"Different." I provided while Alice smiled.
"Neither of us is human, but we're not the same either." Alice smiled at her, "My family are… vampires."
Angela's eyes widened in fear for a moment, and she started to look around the room, "Va… vam…vampires…"
"Calm down Angela…" I moved across the room and sat next to her, taking her hand, "Calm down, you're not in any danger…"
"She's…" She started, her eyes still wide, and I could tell that Alice was a bit hurt by the response.
I turned Angela to look into my eyes, letting them slit completely to shock her and gain her full attention, "Angela, Alice is a vampire, but she isn't going to hurt you. She and her family choose to hunt animals instead of humans, and she acted today, in order to save your life even though it meant risking her secret."
She slowly started to calm down, then looked at Alice and saw the hurt look on her face before her own eyes showed shame and pain, "Alice… I'm sorry, I didn't mean to freak out like that."
Alice smiled weakly, "It's ok Angela, I guess it is a lot to take in."
I breathed a sigh of relief before moving back again, "Her family works very hard to resist the temptation of human blood, Carlisle is so controlled that he is actually a doctor, dedicating his life to helping others."
Angela nodded, "So, you can go out in the daylight?" She asked.
Alice giggled and I smiled amused as Alice spoke, "A lot of the myths are just that, myths." She said.
"So… what's true?" Angela asked, looking between us.
"We do drink blood, and we are immortal, unless we're killed. We are faster and stronger than humans, obviously, and we do have better senses. Crosses and holy water don't do anything to us, and we have reflections, garlic smells bad, but that's it. Wooden stakes…" She laughed, and held her arm out to Angela, "My skin is as hard as diamonds. Vampires, real ones, have actually been compared to living stone."
I watched as Angela touched Alice's arm, feeling how hard and cold it was, her eyes wide again. Part of me wished she was touching me like that, but I knew it wasn't romantic as well. Not yet, she was still in a mild state of shock over all of this. Suddenly something came to mind and she turned to face me again.
"But that doesn't explain what you are…" She said.
"No it doesn't, and it's only the tip of the iceberg with Alice." I said, and smiled weakly.
I took a minute to gather my thoughts before I started, "I'm a shape shifter, like a werewolf, but not a wolf. I can look human," I gestured to myself, "but I also have another form. A dragon."
Her eyes widened again and she looked at me. I wasn't sure if she believed me or not, but she wasn't freaking out as much as she had with Alice. Maybe it was because she'd already had the one freak out, and realized we weren't going to hurt her. Maybe she remembered me saying I was in love with her. Whatever it was, she was slowly letting the thought of it sink in before she finally spoke.
"A dragon?" She asked, "A real live, flying, fire breathing, dragon?"
"She's beautiful," Alice said, "She has these gorgeous crystal scales that throw off the slightest bit of light like diamonds, and amazing gauze like wings that flow and shimmer like a rainbow." She was gushing, and I couldn't help but smile that she was so enamored with my dragon form.
"And yes, I can fly, and yes, I can breathe fire, though I have to be in my dragon form to fly." I raised my temperature and blew a small tongue of flame out from between my lips, "The fire though, I can do in either form, though it's stronger as a dragon. With practice, I can also breathe ice, acid, lightning, and poison mist, but only as a dragon."
Both of them seemed surprised when I revealed the natural breath abilities of my race, and that I could access fire at least as a human. Alice hadn't asked much about my nature yet, beyond my Desire, and while it was taken for granted that I could breath fire, no one had asked much about the mechanics of it. It was unlikely the other abilities had even been considered.
"How…" Angela seemed flabbergasted.
"How is that possible?" Alice asked.
"It's actually all natural for my other form. I don't know the mechanics, but it's just a matter of the proper… actions? Breathing fire isn't the same as breathing ice, for example. I have to lower my temperature to breath ice, and raise it for fire. I can do both pretty easily. I haven't figured out how to manage the others yet." I told them.
Alice smiled, "So that's why you can change your temperature so easily."
"Exactly." I told her, before turning back to Angela.
"Wow…" Angela said, her eyes wide, "I don't know what to think about all this."
"There is more…" I told her.
"Like why you said your anger had to do with the explanation? And you being in love with me?" She asked, frowning again and nervous.
"And me." Alice told her.
Angela looked at her, and I'm not sure if she was jealous, hurt, or just confused but I know I saw all three flash across her face, "But how…"
"Dragons aren't the same as humans, or even vampires. We have instincts and emotions that other's just can't comprehend. One of those is The Desire. It's not something a dragon can control, and I'm not sure we would even if we could. It's what I'm talking about when I say I'm in love with you, and with Alice."
"Desire?" Angela asked, her voice confused and a frown on her face.
"A dragon's Desire is, literally, love at first sight. When we first see our Desired, something in our heart, our mind, our soul, whatever word you want to use for it, shifts. It's an almost uncontrollable need for them. The Green who changed me says it is like finding the missing pieces of yourself, that you aren't whole until you have found all your desired and have brought them to you." I sighed and shook my head.
"So, we're both… desired." Angela asked.
"Very much so. I will go my eternity, loving you both. Equally, but irresistibly." I smiled, "It's why I couldn't do anything but save you when I saw that van coming. Oh, sure, I wouldn't have let anyone die if I could save them, but with you it wouldn't have mattered if I were right next to you, or a mile away. I'd literally stop heaven and earth to keep you or Alice safe, even if it cost me my own immortal existence." I looked her straight in the eyes as I spoke, trying to convey the sincerity and strength of my emotions in my voice, and I knew my pheromones were filling the room because I could see Alice's eyes glitter slightly as she listened, and smell her attraction.
Angela, I could smell that she was attracted, but it wasn't as strong, and her face kept flitting with other emotions as well. It was like she wasn't sure what she wanted. There were equal parts fear, confusion, and uncertainty in her scent, mixing with the desire. I was worried that it'd be too much for her, but I assumed it would be the supernatural parts that caused this.
"I'm not sure I can handle this right now…" She said.
I had to fight to keep the pain off my face. I knew, as a human at least, that dealing with things like this weren't easy. It hadn't even been easy for Alice, and she was a vampire, she understood the concept of being drawn to a mate, even if it wasn't the way it normally happened for her. Still, it hurt that my Desired didn't return my feelings. I had expected it, of course, but I was breaking inside as I spoke, but I did it anyway.
"That's ok. I didn't expect you to fall in love with me immediately. I would be shocked if you had." I left out that I would have also been amazingly happy, "I'm willing to take it slow. Just friends for now."
Angela nodded, but she still looked scared. It was going to take a lot of work to convince her to give us a chance I was sure. As we talked the rest of the afternoon away, I was also sure that I would do whatever it took to make it happen.
The next week at school was torture. Angela and Alice were neatly ignored, despite the first's more severe injury and the latter's part being equal to mine. I on the other hand, had become an instant celebrity, and seemed to gain yet another unwanted admirer. Tyler Crowley seemed intent on making up for the accident, and thought the best way to do that was to chase after me. I also had to contend with the new aspect of Mike and Eric being very unfriendly to him, even more so than they were to each other now that it was clear another person had thrown their hat into the so called ring.
I was glad of one thing at least. No one had seen Alice blur across the parking lot to help me save Angela. No one seemed concerned about her at all, as if she were a footnote to things. Part of me hated that she was so easily relegated to obscurity, or at least only considered in the same abstract that the Cullens always were. They were outsiders, strange, and always sticking to their group.
Another factor was Angela. She was still nice, still a friend, but she was standoffish. It was like she was trying to be there, and not be at the same time. In front of everyone else, she was fine. But the brief moments when we alone, or when she'd see Alice look over to her or at me she's freeze momentarily. Edward said that our secrets were not in any danger, but I refused to let him tell me more when he started to, and Alice respected my choice on that, choosing to stay in the dark to her thoughts as well.
It was reaching a point though, where I'd have to make a stand on certain things. My admirers were starting to get bolder. Mike was brave enough in biology to lean against the desk Edward and I shared, and try to 'chat me up'. I was polite, but did my best not to give him any incentive. It was getting harder and harder to push him away politely however. Afterwards, I had to spend the entire time listening to Edward's whispered commentary on his thoughts. I think doing it to annoy me amused him as much as his being unable to read mine frustrated him.
The ice and snow washed away after the day of the accident, and that meant the beach trip could happen soon if the heavy rain would stop. I was looking forward to it for a few reasons. The first was a chance to meet the wolves. The second was I wanted to go find Jacob Black and talk to him about upgrading my junk truck into something useful. I was hoping to find a junked car that I could learn how to put together. I wasn't a major fanatic when it came to vehicles, and I doubted I ever would be, but since my change I could never get enough of speed. My truck, however, just didn't have it.
According to Alice, however, the weather was going to stay rainy till the end of the first week in March, so unless I could get down to the reservation for some reason before that, I would have to wait. I probably could have managed it, but it was less suspicious to Charlie if I just waited. Still, when the first day of March came it brought with it an unexpected complication and unwanted news.
Jessica called that afternoon to ask me permission to invite Mike to the girl's choice spring dance in two weeks. I told her to go ahead, that I had no intention of asking him.
"Are you sure you don't mind… you're really not going to ask him?" Jessica's voice persisted over the phone.
"No Jess. I don't plan to ask Mike, Eric, and especially not Tyler, so you can inform anyone else who wants to know of those facts. I'm not even certain if I plan to go yet or not." I told her, not certain how the dance would fair if I showed up with either of my Desired, let alone both.
"It will be really fun." She sounded halfhearted at best, enjoying my popularity more than my company.
"Then YOU have fun, with Mike. I promise, there is no chance of me asking him. He's not my type at all." I told her firmly.
"Just what is your type Bella?" She asked, looking for gossip.
I just laughed, "If I do go to the dance, you'll see." I promised her.
The next day was the hardest for me yet. Jess was upset in trig, and Spanish. I was betting Mike had turned her down, and when she sat as far away from him in lunch as she could, I was certain of it. As we all settled in I sat close to Angela as usual, trying to get back to the easy comfort from before, but I could sense Mike, Tyler and Eric all waiting for a chance to get me alone. I decided I'd have to put an end to the attentions quickly.
"Edward." I pitched my voice at an octave only I and the vampires could hear, letting Angela know I was talking to them and she easily covered for me. I was glad that even though she was still indecisive that she cared enough to do that much.
"Yes Bella?" He answered, and I could tell he was amused.
"Are Mike, Eric, and Tyler trying to get me to ask them to the dance?" I made it clear I was strained by their persistence in chasing me.
"Yes." His voice came back, still amused even though it was too low for anyone else to hear, "Newton turned down Jessica because he wants you to ask him, and the other two have similar plans."
I nodded, "Alice." My voice was pensive, "How would you enjoy making a spectacle?"
I heard her bell like laughter across the lunchroom, then softer her reply "I am ready to announce our relationship, if you want."
I nodded, then spoke to Angela at a whisper next to me, "Angela?"
"Yes?" She looked at me, and I could see a touch of worry in her eyes, but I could also scent a touch of her attraction. I had already figured out that her mind was warring with her emotions. I smiled to try and relax her.
"Mike, Tyler, and Eric all plan to ambush me to try and get me to ask them to the dance. You know I don't want that, and I don't think you're ready to go with me yet. I wanted to let you know I was planning to make a show of asking Alice." I told her softly.
"Oh." I could see her biting her lip out of the corner of my eye as I turned my head and looked over to the Cullen table.
"I'd love to take you both." I whispered to her as I turned back, "But I don't want to push you…" I smiled at her.
She nodded. "I'm going to ask Ben Cheney." She whispered back, "Before I met you… before… I liked him… like him. I want…"
It hurt, but I knew she had to work it out on her own. I nodded at her, and wished her luck, then turned back into the conversation at the table. I laughed at a joke Eric told, and listened to a conversation between Jess and Lauren. Then I smiled, as I got a few peoples attention.
"Well, I was planning to do this later, but from the looks of things I aught to now. If you all would excuse me, I'm going to go get a date to the dance." I smiled at everyone and got up from the table, walking straight toward the Cullens.
I listened behind me as I nearly strutted across the room. It was so much fun watching them pretend to act nonchalant while we all listened into the gossip from my table.
"Is she going to ask Jasper? I thought she said she liked dark hair?" Jessica said.
"She can't be thinking about poaching Emmet." Lauren. "He'd never give up Rosalie, not for someone like Bella."
"You're both way off." Angela, and I could tell she was laughing on the inside, though it hurt she planned to ask Ben.
I didn't have much time to think about it though as I made it to the Cullen's table. Alice was sitting at the end, cornered to everyone else, and I gently tapped her on the shoulder. I nearly laughed at the false look of surprise on her face as she turned around. I spoke clearly, not loud, but enough so that the suddenly silent lunchroom could over hear.
"Alice, I was wondering if you'd like to go to the girl's choice dance with me?" I couldn't keep the smirk off my face, glad that my back was to everyone but them.
"OH MY GOD!" Jessica's voice.
"I don't believe it." Mike.
"No way!" Eric and Tyler both.
"She's a dyke." Lauren.
Alice almost broke character at that, I could see her eyes cut to the bitter voice, but she kept her voice calm as she looked into mine. "I'd love to." She stood up and I took her hand. I waved over at my table as we strolled out of the lunchroom.
Once we were out of hearing distance to the humans, we both broke into laughing fits. We both heard the eruption in the lunchroom, the cacophony of dozens of voices talking over each other about what had just happened. I knew we'd be the discussion of the next few weeks easy.
"I bet no one could have seen that coming." I laughed as we held hands and leaned against a wall.
"It was fun." She giggled, "And now I get to dress you up for the dance. We can go shopping in Seattle."
I smiled at her, "It sounds fun." I told her, more for her benefit than mine. I sighed though, "I need to call Charlie."
She nodded and we walked toward my biology classroom as she handed me her phone. I dialed the station, knowing that'd be the best way to get him, and sure enough he answered on the third ring.
"Forks Police, Chief Swan speaking." His voice was professional.
"Dad, it's Bella." I said, and he was off before I could get anything else out of my mouth.
"Bella? What's wrong? Why aren't you at school? What do I need to do?"
"Relax Dad." I told him before he could hand the phone off and have my needs relayed over a radio to him as he drove toward me, "I am at School, I'm using Alice Cullen's phone to call you because I wanted to tell you something before you hear it from someone else."
"Oh…" He sounded puzzled, "What is it, and why would I hear it from someone?"
I took a breath, "Ok dad, you remember I told you none of the boys at school interested me?"
"Yea…" I could hear the frown in his voice.
"There was a reason for that, and I probably should have told you this before I went and did something, but I was a little overwhelmed with them trying to charm me so I decided to act on the spur of the moment. I'm going to the spring dance in two weeks with Alice. I like girls dad. And you'll probably hear about it because I asked her in the middle of the lunchroom."
"Oh…" Charlie was stunned, I could hear it. "I… Well…"
"I just wanted to make sure you heard it from me, and not second hand Dad, but I need to get to class soon." I heard the bell while we were talking.
"Oh… Okay.." I think I put him into shock.
"I promise we'll talk when I get home dad." I could see Alice smiling.
"Yea… uh… home. Right." He stuttered out, "Bye."
"Bye dad." We both hung up and I handed Alice her phone.
"Think he'll be okay?" She asked with a smile.
I nodded, "Now, I do need to get to class." I caught a couple people coming around the corner out of the corner of my eye, and acted on impulse, leaning in and kissing her gently on the lips.
I broke with a smile as she returned the chaste touch of lips, "See you after school." She whispered, then went off down the hall as I stepped into class.
I was only at my seat a few moments before Edward came in and sat beside me. It was just seconds after that that Mike came in and sat on the edge of the desk, "So… you and… Alice." He fidgeted a bit.
"Sorry Mike, but I tried to be polite and didn't do anything to lead you or anyone else on." I smiled at him, "Guys just, really aren't my type."
"Yea." He sighed, "Well, I guess I'll see if Jess still wants to go with me."
"You should." I told him, "She really seems to like you."
"Really?" He asked.
"Really." I told him, with a smile, "And sorry if…"
He waved his hand, shaking it off, "I get it. Just wasn't in the cards."
He walked back to his seat and settled in, and I turned to the teacher as he started class. It was a few minutes in when Edward started the sub audible conversation of the day.
"You broke a lot of hearts in their today."
I tried not to laugh, "Other than Mike, Eric, and Tyler?"
"Quite." He said, "There were a few that still held out hope for Alice too, though none were brave enough to face her brothers."
"How was the gossip, after we left?" I asked.
"It was about as you would expect." He said, "Lauren is decrying you, and claiming you shouldn't be allowed in the showers at gym. Jessica was shocked, but doesn't really care as long as you don't come on to her and now she knows you're not after Mike. Angela defended you, of course…" I smiled at that, "Eric was shocked, a little depressed, but shrugged it off. Tyler and Mike spent a good bit of time imagining you and Alice together."
"About normal then, yea." I sighed silently. I was tempted to ask him about Angela, but I fought the urge down. I had to work it out slowly with Angela. I knew that the moment I first saw her, but it was hard not to ask for the inside track on her thoughts. "And I have to talk to my dad about my date with your sister tonight too." I chuckled a bit to myself.
"Good luck." He grinned, and we both tuned back into the lecture comfortable in silence for now.
Inside though, I kept going over thoughts of having to see Angela dancing with Ben, and my dad's face when he finally came home for me to talk with him. It was bound to be an interesting night.
