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Chapter 3: study date
Class went quick. When we were dismissed I went to my locker before Alice or rose could get there to question me. I didn't feel hungry, which is weird for me because I'm always eating. I was still skinny and didn't have an ounce of fat on me but I ate more than my brother sometimes. I was about to close my locker when I remembered I needed something to write with. I turned back to my locker and before I even had the chance to remember, I felt a hand on my right shoulder and an arm draped around my neck. In the hand was my pen. It took me a second to piece it all together, and then I remembered throwing it at Edward. Finally figuring it out I turned around smiling at the boy behind me. He was staring straight into my eyes and I could have stayed there for hours, but reality kicked in.
I turned away from his gaze and ripped the pen out of his hand quite aggressively. I slammed my locker door shut and doing my best to strut with my chin up, started to walk away. After I took a few steps, I turned around to see if he was following. Instead he was frozen, still standing in front of my locker, looking at me with a blank face as if to say 'what did I do wrong'
I laughed at his confused face. Obviously he didn't realise that I was joking.
"Well, come on Edward, I do believe we have a study date." I said, saying the last two words in a mocking tone and breaking out into huge grin. He smiled back at me, his face lighting up once he realised that I wasn't angry. Before he could take a step in my direction I bolted out the door and ran outside towards his locker bay.
He was behind me in seconds, chasing after me. We were running through the now crowded lockers, dodging people and each other. He never caught me, he was always an arms length away. But he never took his eyes off me as we ran.
Everyone turned to look at us. I could see gossip starting already, every girl in my year wondering what I did to get Edwards attention, even I didn't know what I did to deserve the hottest guy in the school chasing after me. Thankfully Alice ane Rose didn't see us, because I would never hear the end of it. However another two girls happened to see all the commotion we were making.
Jessica was standing with Lauren, one of the other "pretty" girls, and as Edward was running past them they called out to him,
"Eddie! Eddie! Do you want to…"
Edward completely ignored them. He didn't take his eyes off my back. Lauren had a hurt look on her face and when I looked back she caught my eye and greased me off. I just laughed and kept running.
I turned the final corner to his locker bay and surprisingly it was empty. I didn't know exactly which one was Edwards' locker but I knew it was along the back wall. I threw myself into the lockers, using my hands to support myself as I came to a stop. Breathing heavily after the sprint across the school, I turned so my back was against the lockers and slid down to a sitting position looking up at the roof with my eyes closed.
Edward was a second behind me. When he saw me sitting down he stopped running and walked over to sit down next to me. We were both breathing heavily and then we looked at each other and started bursting out laughing. He elbowed my side lightly, while leaning forward so he could look into my eyes. He looked happy, with a huge smile on his face. I punched his shoulder and poked my tongue out at him, and that just made him laugh more.
I looked up again, thinking about nothing in particular and just smiling to myself. Edward was looking up too, his eyebrows furrowed together like he was trying to solve a problem. With his facial features relaxing he turned to look at me and said,
"I don't get it,"
"What?" I asked looking up at him, his hair was messed up a bit from our little game of chasy, but it looked better than usual; in my opinion. His fringe swept across his forehead just short enough for his green eyes to be caught with my own.
"I don't get how, you can be so good at everything, running included", he added with a quick grin, "and still be 100% single."
At that I could feel my cheeks blush. He saw my cheeks redden then added "you never know, you might not be single for long."
He put one arm over my shoulders and ruffled my hair with the other. Then he pulled me tighter to his side and I leaned my head against his chest. If someone saw us they would probably think that we were 'together' because of the way he held me. But I knew that his last statement wasn't a hint, our friendship had come along way in a few weeks, and well, we were close now.
…But I do wish it were a hint.
-000-
Lunchtime went well. I got a lot of homework done while I helped Edward. We also talked a lot. We talked about what we want to do when we finish high school and about things on our 'to do' list.
Surprisingly Edward wants to be a doctor like his father Carlisle. And he wants to move to Italy with a family of his own. I didn't expect him to be so sure of himself, he seems to be the kind of guy that thinks he's too good to have a profession. I'm sure everyone thinks that about him, 'Edward Cullen, the hot high school dropout'. But I know him better then that. We understand each other, we have the same view on priorities. It feels like I know him inside and out. After all, we kind of grew up together.
-000-
"Where were you at lunch?"
School was over and we were walking to the car park, Rose seemed suspicious about why I wasn't with them.
"I had some homework to do." I said back to Rose, avoiding eye contact.
"Yeah right." Said Alice, wanting to be apart of the conversation.
"Where else would I be?" I asked her, daring her to object. I didn't want them to know I was with Edward, otherwise I would never hear the end of it.
Alice looked around as if she was searching for something, "oh I don't know, maybe you were hooking up with Edward behind the science building." She said it as if it was an every day routine.
I stopped walking mid-step with my jaw dropped. "Oh. My. God. Alice." I said the words slowly but accusingly. "I can't believe that even made it into your head!"
"Just keeping it real Bella, just keeping it real." She said, smiling.
-000-
That night I couldn't stop thinking about lunch. I loved being alone with Edward. I got to see another side of him. When he is around his friends he acts different, and now that I have seen him when he's not pretending, I feel a lot closer to him.
I was almost asleep, my mind full of bronze hair and green eyes… beep beep.
I opened my eyes as I felt my heart jump at the unexpected noise. It was my phone. I looked at my clock, 10:34pm. I groaned. Who would be texting me at this hour? Well its not that late I reasoned, I went to bed early tonight. With an effort that seemed to take all the energy from my body I rolled over to my bedside table to grab my phone.
Hey Bella
Me & rose r goin shopping 2moz after skool
Want 2 come?
-alice
Great. Just what I need. Well that definitely was not worth being disturbed from my daydreams. Shopping is not my favourite pass time, but having girly friends meant I had to suffer a little.
I sighed. I will text her back in the morning, I couldn't be bothered starting a texting conversation right now.
I was just putting down my phone when it went off again beep beep.
'Uurrrghhh' I groaned again. The one night I don't want to be on my phone I get 2 texts in 2 minutes. I knew it would be Alice - she always expected you to reply within seconds - so I didn't bother reading it and put my phone down so I could get some sleep.
-000-
Friday. I don't mind Fridays. But still, Friday was a school day, which means I have to get up and concentrate for 6 hours straight. I sat up, it was still dark outside, probably because it was raining really heavy and there were huge grey clouds covering the sun.
I walked over to my wardrobe and grabbed some clothes for a shower and made my way to the bathroom. After getting dressed and I was brushing my teeth when I remembered I had to reply to Alice. I rushed over to my phone, still with my toothbrush in my mouth. Alice was going to be pissed that I didn't reply till late morning. I took my phone in my hand as I ran to the bathroom to spit out the toothpaste. I remembered I had a new message that I hadn't looked at yet. I opened the new message; almost knowing it would be Alice telling me to be nice to my best friend and reply. That's why I was surprised to see that it was from and unknown sender.
I didn't finish reading it, after I read the first four words I dropped my phone hard onto the tiles of the bathroom floor.
I quickly picked it up, fumbling, and almost dropping it again.
Hey Bella, it's Edward
How are you?
I just wanted to say thanks for all the help at lunch today
I hope we can do it again sometime
-Love Edward
Oh damn! I mentally kicked myself. Why didn't I read it last night? Wait, how in the world did he get my number? Why would he bother to get my number just to say thanks? He could say that at school. I had a million questions on my mind, all of a sudden I had an urgent need to get to school and see him. I quickly tied my hair up in a rough ponytail and ran out of the house.
I was at school way early, but I didn't care. I just sat in my car reading his message over and over again. I loved the way he wrote messages. He didn't use shortcuts and wrote each word whole. That's another thing I loved about him. Woah! Slow down there Bella. We are friends. I don't like him at all. He's nice but I don't love him. I was definitely not falling for him just because of some text.
But it was so sweet… Snap out of it!
Annoyed with myself I got out of the car and walked into school towards my locker. A few people were arriving now, but I was still 20 minutes early. Not bothering to stack my books properly, I got a pen and paper and shut my locker. I went and sat up against the wall of the locker bay and started drawing. I drew anything I thought of.
After filling up 2 pages of scribble back and front, I realised that it's was only 5 minutes until I had to get to class.
I walked back to my locker, scrunching up my drawings and throwing them in the bin.
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