AN: I am a little discouraged by the lack of the reviews only one person! This chapter is dedicated to raw-rooky. YOU really inspired me too want to continue. This chapter is 2 974 words my longest so far. This chapter is a little AU and OOC. _
Finally the bell rang for lunch. I went to the cafeteria as quickly as possible. On my way I caught a glimpse of someone who looked oddly like Rosalie. I closed my eyes for a second and chided myself. Bella, you're being silly. This is Phoenix where it is sunny practically every day. The Cullen's couldn't live here. Besides Rosalie and Emmet are in England. They've finished school. You need to stop thinking about them.
I joined the lunch queue quickly, when I got to the cafeteria. I wanted to avoid all the questions. Once I had put a few things on my tray that I knew I wouldn't eat, I found Alison and Fred standing near the teachers table. One or two of the teachers smiled at me and I smiled back.
"Hey Bella there they are. The family we were talking about," Alison pointed to the family.
I looked up. Five people were walking away from us. Before I could think, I felt the tray slip out of my hands. With a crash it landed on the floor. Heads turned all around the cafeteria. He was here; my beautiful angel. As the Cullen's turned their heads they gasped. Edwards's plate was the first to drop. Alice's soon after. Emmet, Jasper and Rosalie managed to hold onto their plates but they were frozen just like Alice and Edward. Now everyone in the cafeteria looked between me and the Cullen's; confused.
I walked forward towards the Cullen's. Without thinking I walked straight for Edward, I could feel the cold radiating from his skin as I passed. I looked up at him meaningfully. He knew what I wanted, with a glance down he followed me towards the door.
"Bella, wait," Edward caught up to me by the door. I turned around to face him. He looked different somehow. He looked older, if you could call it that, more tired and sad.
"What are you doing here? You promised me," I said trying to sound angry but I wasn't. It was so good to see him again.
"I'm sorry. I didn't know you would come here. I really was trying to keep my promise. Although I was on the verge of coming back."
"Coming back?" I sobbed staring at him, "why would you come back? To torture me? To show me how great you are now that I'm out of your life?
"No. Never. These last few months have been really bad for me. I moved to Canada. I couldn't be around my family, for so long. It was torture for me, leaving you."
I laughed, bitterly, "Torture for you right and what do you think it was too me? A picnic? A walk in the park? One day you were telling me you loved me and the next you were telling me you don't. You don't get to tell me that it was torture for you. You left. You told me you didn't want me. That was you, not me."
"You think I wanted to leave? I had to do what was best for you and if that meant I had to lie so you would let me go, then that's what I had to do. You believed me so quickly. It hurt me. Had I not shown you how much I loved you? How much I wanted you? I would do anything for you and if that means I have to leave you than that's what I will do."
I stared up at him, unsure of what to say. He would do anything for me? My fist slammed into his chest. I knew it would only end up hurting me but I carried on.
"I hate you, I hate you, I hate you," I was sobbing now. I could feel the tears running down my cheeks. He put his arms around me and pulled me towards him. No, he was just going to leave me again. I tried to fight it but it was no use. Eventually I gave up and leaned into his chest, inhaling his scent.
"Bella, I love you so much and if you would let me have a second chance I promise I won't leave you again," He muttered into my hair as he kissed me gently on my forehead.
I didn't answer instead I pulled him closer to me
"So you forgave him?" Alice came up to us. "Good. 'Cause I need to take you shopping. You really need to get some new clothes."
Alice would think about clothes. I pulled away from Edward and turned to face Alice. As i turned i wiped away the tears on my face. "Hey, Alice."
She pulled me into a tight hug and shot a look at her brother. Obviously thinking something that she couldn't tell him in front of me.
"Alice I would love to stay like this but I want to talk to Jasper before lunch is over," I said trying to escape her clutches.
She let me go but before I could take a step Edward had his arm around me. I sighed but carried on walking. Before I could say anything to Jasper, Emmet had me in a bear hug.
"Little sis. Good to see you. You know punching Edward was a waste of energy right?"
"Yeah, probably but who cares. Now if you would let go of me I want to talk to you brother."
"But you just spoke to him," Emmet protested only half letting me go.
"Not Edward, you dope, Jasper," I laughed.
"Oh, that brother," Emmet said as he let me go.
"Bella, I am so sor..." I didn't let Jasper finish his apology.
"Jasper, don't apologise. It was going to happen sooner or later. There's not much you can do to avoid it. If I hadn't gotten a paper cut I would have tripped through a window."
"Good point," Emmet muttered behind me and Edward punched him slightly.
"Shut up."
"But still. I'm so..." Jasper tried to apologise again.
"I forgive you. Now are we friends or what," i interrupted his apology again.
Jasper offered me his hand and I shook it. "I would hug you but then I would probably eat you."
"No you wouldn't," Alice said, "You would be too scared of what Edward would do too you if you did."
Rosalie hadn't said a word the entire time and I didn't care to say anything first. I was glad when the bell rang saving me from doing anything.
"What do you have now?" Edward asked coming up behind me.
"Biology. You?"
"Physics. Biology was too big a reminder of Forks," Edward said.
"Fine, I'll see you in Gym or after school or whatever," I said to him.
"No, you won't I'm coming with you too Biology."
"Mr Dimsmore won't like that."
"Well Mr Dimsmore isn't the teacher and I know the new teacher won't mind."
"How do you know that?' I asked looking up at him slightly confused. What had happened to Mr Dimsmore? I had liked him.
"Oh, you'll see," Edward smiled my favourite smile as we headed to the Bio lab.
For the second time that day I was late for a class. Damn, if i kept this up I was going to miss a lot of school. I wouldn't be surprised if this teacher gave me detention. Edward had gone off to the office to quickly change his time table.
The lab here had longer tables. Each table could hold three to five people. The first thing I noticed when I walked into the class was that everyone was staring at me. No surprise there. The real surprise came when I turned to the front of the classroom and saw the teacher.
"Bella?" she asked, "What are you doing here?"
"Charlie sent me too come live with my mom."
"Does Edward know you're here?"
"Yes mom, I know," Edward answered the question coming up behind me. He walked over to Esme and handed her a letter.
"Alright then. You two can take the empty desk at the back and I warn you if you don't listen the only thing you two will be doing together is studying," Esme gave us a small smile. We knew she wasn't serious. Edward had already learnt the stuff and if I got lost, it didn't really matter, if I got my way this would not be the last time I had this lesson.
Edward gave Esme a small smile and mouthed Thank You. We walked over to our desk. Half the class had gone back to the work they were doing before we entered but the rest of them kept on watching us.
"Everybody, back to work. You have fifteen minutes to complete this assignment," Esme said from the front of the class.
Suddenly everybody was very busy. While Edward and I worked, well in this case mostly Edward, we talked.
"Why did you move to Phoenix of all places? It's not like you can just walk out into the sun without getting a few odd looks and there is hardly a day without sun," I asked as he swapped his paper with mine faster than anyone, save Esme, could see.
"Carlisle found a cream that's thick enough to hide the sparkle. It only lasts about five hours but it's effective. It allows us to come to school without problems."
"What were you doing in Canada?"
"I was trying my hand at tracking. I'm not very good at it but if I focus harder enough I should be able to track Victoria before she tracks us," Edward laughed. I couldn't see what was funny about what he had just said. "Esme says she hopes you actually know how to do this work otherwise the next time you come over she's going to teach you all this again."
I looked down at the worksheet, "I may not have been able to answer these questions as effectively as you have, but we did this last week. Besides if I have to sit and learn this again, you're going to sit with me."
"Now I have a question for you. Why did Charlie send you to live with Renee?"
"Because he couldn't have me moping around the house any longer. I fought him, but he wouldn't give in. He said it would be good for me. I'm going back at the end of the semester."
"What if we went back there together? I could run everywhere and just hide out at my house during the sunny days. Worst comes to worst, you can always come and stay with me at the house."
"Edward Anthony Masen Cullen! You will do no such thing," I hadn't heard Esme come up behind us. The entire class turned to look at us.
We slowly turned our head around to look at Esme.
"Edward, I need to talk to you outside," Esme looked down at him. Knowing her she had already started the conversation in her head. Edward sighed and got up. We shared a look before he followed Esme outside.
As soon as they were out of earshot, (or so the class thought, I on the other of course knew better), the class descended upon me.
"How the hell do you know him?" Alison asked.
"They used to live in Forks. Alice is my best friend and Edward was – well is- my boyfriend," I knew perfectly well that Edward would be listening to all my answers, just like he had done back in Forks when Jessica cornered me in Trigonometry and asked me a whole bunch of questions about our relationship.
"So you two are dating?" Fred sounded jealous and I could understand why. Although he had, had a crush on me for a while he had never had to deal with me having a crush on someone else.
"How much do you like him?" one of my other friends, Simone asked me.
I laughed the last time I had answered that question I had gotten a scowl from Edward. "You have no idea."
"Enough with the chit chat. Everyone back to work. You have two minutes left," Esme entered the classroom again, her face a little less pale.
I smiled when Edward came back and sat next to me he took my hand in his own.
"What she say?" I asked.
"That I should still talk to Carlisle about it but she thinks it wouldn't be such a bad idea if the Cullen's moved back to Forks."
"Yes it would," I blurted before I could stop myself.
"Why?" Edward looked at me confused.
"Charlie would shoot you," I said.
Edward burst out laughing and a couple of people shot irritated glares at him. Well the boys did. The girls tried but they didn't quite succeed. They landed up ogling at him instead.
"The only thing that would do is send your father into shock."
Esme sent a glare in Edwards's direction.
"Well Esme doesn't think its funny," I said.
"You wouldn't either if I were your son. Even though the bullets won't hurt me, the thought of someone shooting me, scares Esme."
"Times up everyone. Swap papers with the person next to you. Wait, that won't work," she looked straight at us as she said it. "You know what I'll mark them; they can go on your report."
A few people gasped they hadn't expected that to happen.
"But..." I looked over at Edward horrified. She couldn't mark this. I hadn't done the work; Edward had.
"Don't worry about it. It will only go on the report if we move back to Forks. If we're not coming back to school tomorrow, she wants to at least be able to show some good progress. You would have only been back for one day, so every piece of work you did today is going to be a waste if we leave," Edward muttered to me.
"And if we don't leave?" I asked him.
"Then she won't put it on our report," he answered.
Each lesson at Phoenix high was forty minutes long. So far only twenty nine minutes had elapsed. Once all the papers had been handed in Esme let the class talk softly and she got to work on marking. Being a vampire she had a great memory so she didn't need to look at a memo or count the marks once she was done.
"What class do you have next," I asked Edward.
"What do you have next?" he replied.
"That's not fair I asked first," I complained.
"It's my turn to ask the questions you've had your turn and now it's mine."
This was the same argument that we had, had in Forks that first month, when I had so many questions for Edward about being a vampire.
"Government. Now answer my question."
"I have whatever you have. You don't think I'm going to leave you alone, do you? I asked the receptionist to change my time table to yours. It took me a couple of minutes to convince her that it was the right thing to do but eventually she just wrote a letter saying that I would be joining their classes from now on," Edward grinned his cooked smile which of course made me smile.
"You know you still dazzle me. It's not really fair you know," I said looking in too his beautiful Topaz eyes.
"What about you dazzling me?" he asked looking innocent.
"So I dazzle you. You dazzle everyone. If I had gone and asked the receptionist to change my time table she would have said no," I argued.
"First of all you're a female and she's a female and second of all you should hear the thoughts of some of the boys in this school and in Forks."
"And you should hear the thoughts of all the girls."
"I do. Let's see. Fred wants to kill me for taking you away. That's one to me. Alison wonders what it would be like to kiss me so that's one to you. Kyle thinks I should cut my losses because there is no way I'm going to ever marry you, another one to me. Damien thinks that... wait that's disgusting. His thoughts about you are even worse than Mike's. Still that gives me another one. Yip, there's no one else thinking about us. Except wait, Esme thinks I should stop prying into other people's thoughts and think about letting you do your own work once in a while," Edward laughed as he conveyed Esme's message.
I looked up to Esme and she gave me a slight smile. I pointed up at Edward and made the sign for crazy. Esme laughed.
"Hey stop talking about me, I'm not crazy," Edward pretended to sound hurt.
I chuckled quietly and was surprised when Edward said loud enough for the whole class to hear, "That's not fair."
"What's not fair?" I asked confused, I didn't remember saying anything.
"All's fair in love and war, Edward," Esme said and I realised he must have been reacting to one of her thoughts.
"What she think?" now I was curious. What could possibly have made Edward ask that question so loudly? I knew Esme would have heard him if he had whispered.
"Esme said I am crazy. Crazy in love."
The rest of the lesson went smoothly as did government. Gym as usual was embarrassing. One class for each grade had gym in the seventh period. Alice and Jasper were in Gym with us but Emmet and Rosalie weren't. Edward explained to me that Jasper decided to start a year younger than he usually does so that Alice wouldn't be alone. He had wanted to get out of high school as quickly as possible so he had decided to finish his senior year and then plan his next move.
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