*A/N*- I know, this is a much shorter chapter, but I figured it was better than nothing and it really felt like it needed to end where it did!
I don't own Twilight. Sadly. Enjoy!
My cheeks heated up again thinking about what Edward Masen had said, I was sure I said he could call me Bella. Though I had to admit I – or the butterflies in my stomach—really liked that. It had been playing on repeat the whole weekend in my head. I sat in the classroom early Monday morning. I loved Monday mornings, unlike the rest of the world. I was sipping coffee at my desk, flipping through the new field trip papers I was giving out to my kids for the end of the day. My grade one class was invited on a field trip to Safety Village.
It was like a mini built city for kids, remote controlled cars and fake money. Basically a fake town to show them how to be safe on their own, I remember going as a kid and I loved it. They had to stop at red lights if they were driving 'cars', or walk on the sidewalks and wait for the flashing hands cross signal. There was a mini train in the town as well were they had to wait to see it go by. I was excited because I was sure the kids would love it.
I could hear Tanya's heels flipping through the hallway and automatically my back seemed to cringe. She waltzed into the room and I couldn't help but roll my eyes, what on earth was she wearing? He skirt hardly was at her mid-thigh, and she was wearing a fucking boob toob with a cardigan over top!
"Tanya, you can't wear that." I muttered.
"Excuse me?" She huffed back, pointing her manicured nails at me.
"You're not dressed for a teaching position. Your outfit is completely inappropriate. We teach a first grade class. Also if you insist on wearing six inch death heels, I would suggest staying away from the ones that say 'fuck me' on the side of them." I was exasperated with her, seriously who dressed like that?!
"Oh hush, hush Swan. You're just jealous because you can't pull this off!" She sneered at me and sat down at her desk in the back, crossing her legs in the air as she filed her damn nails again.
I didn't even say anything to her as I walked out of the room, my coffee cup in hand. I wanted to throw it at her head, but I couldn't risk my coffee like that. I walked straight into Phil Greens office, the principal.
"Phil, you cannot be serious about this. Have you seen the way she dresses! Why is she still even employed here?" I yelled as soon as I was in his office.
"Torres? Eer, Kostner, I guess she took her maiden name back after the divorce." He mumbled.
"I really don't care what her last name is, but you have to put a stop to this nonsense. Come with me right now and see how she's dressed." I demanded, practically pulling him out of his chair by his tie.
"Alright, alright!" He exclaimed, following me back to the class. She still was sitting the same in her chair, filing away at her goddamn stupid nails. I hope they spontaneously burst into flames.
They squabbled for a bit, Green sweated when Tanya put pressure on him. He wasn't good under pressure at all. I tried very hard not to huff and roll my eyes through their talk. Finally he made her go home and change, and that her punishment if she were to dress inappropriate again he would go to the board. I knew she already had strikes against her there, so maybe the threat would work. I kind of hoped it didn't. I would love it if Tanya wasn't in my classroom, she still hadn't done anything with the kids yet. I'm not even certain she spoke to them much.
Twenty minutes later Tanya still hadn't got back from changing her clothes and my students started to show up. When I was worried in the beginning about the related bunch excluding the other kids I found I didn't have to worry. They were all very friendly and made the whole class like a very close bunch of kids, I was lucky, I knew Alice already had to separate a few kids and we were hardly three weeks into class.
I handed out the permission slips for Safety Village, not wanting to forget in the end of the day hustle. We started with group reading in the morning, and then each student picked a book of their own to read before we had gym and lunch after. My first year of teaching I was told that the gym teacher wanted the morning prep so I would have to teach my classes gym period, after about twenty minutes of me falling on my face the principal re-arranged the schedules so I wasn't the gym teacher, it was my prep.
After the kids finished reading coach Art Clapp picked up my class and they walked to the gym. I turned off my classroom lights, on my way to the staff room to refill my cup of coffee. A desperate need teaching a grade one class, even a well behaved class.
I felt an electricity in the room. As if it was buzzing, humming with tension. I felt it, I knew it was him before he knocked. I turned and saw his heartbreakingly beautiful face in my door frame, and I was acutely aware that the lights were off in the room. I walked towards him, slowly, neither of us saying anything. My hand reached for the light switch to turn it on.
Then I looked at his face. His chiseled jaw was defined and prominent, a few days of scruff lined it, and my hand nearly reached up to stroke his face. His eyes were a deep, dark green, looking into them made me lost. His lips formed a perfect pout sitting still on his face, until he caught me looking into his eyes, and it broke out into a gorgeous crooked smile.
"Hi beautiful." He murmured, his hand covering mine over the light switch.
"Hi Edward." I breathed. "What are you doing here?"
Edward stepped closer to me, our chests touching, and our breathing heavy against each other's, I could feel his hot breath against my neck. He was going to kiss me. He wrapped his hand against the nape of my neck and pulled me closer. I looked into his eyes and saw the want in them. My eyes fluttered closed. I felt the gentle pressure of his lips against my skin, against my cheek bone, moving closer down to the corner of my lips where he paused. I nodded my head gently against him, encouraging him. I felt his lips trail nearly over mine when the light flicked on. Though not from our hands.
"Well, well, well. If it isn't little Isabella Swan, slutting it up with a mystery man in a dark classroom. Don't waste your time man, she's just the ugly swan. She's clearly not in your league, but you can give me a call." Tanya spat at me and winked Edward before turning on her heels and tapping her way down the hall way.
I moved away quickly from Edward after, embarrassed. I looked at him and silently agreed with Tanya, Edward was not in my league at all, such a pipe dream.
"So Mr. Cullen, what brings you here today?" I tried to be professional, but I felt the angry tears burning behind my eyes. How could I be so stupid? Of course Edward isn't in my league.
He sighed loudly, and I felt really uncomfortable.
"I got off work today so I was going to surprise Owen and take him out to the zoo or something. I know school's important but it's for a day, he's in grade one, and it won't kill him." Edward gave me a tiny smile.
"You don't have to explain wanting to spend time with your son to me, I think it's nice. No homework today and I can get him caught up tomorrow on anything he missed. Enjoy your day." I smiled back at him politely.
"Thanks, I ugh," Edward rubbed the back of his neck awkwardly. "I guess I will just grab Owen's stuff and we'll be on our way."
I grabbed Owens bag, not realizing it wasn't done up and the contents spilling out, I picked up Owen's lunch bag and a few of his books while Edward reached down to pick up what I realized was the field trip permission slip.
"What's this?" Edward asked, looking puzzled.
"Oh it's for safety village, a field trip, there is a book inside Owen's bag explaining it. That's the permission slip. You just have to fill it out, and it's a ten dollar fee for the bus expense."
Edward grabbed a pen from a nearby table and he quickly filled out the permission slip, handing it back to me, and giving me a ten dollar bill. He smiled at me again, and I could feel the room charge with electricity again, and I tried to push it off, remembering that Edward was out of my league.
The class came back a few moments later. Owen was bouncing in excitement when he saw his Dad standing in the classroom, and Owen's relatives smiled and said hello to their Uncle Edward. The rest of the class just smiled.
Edward left with Owen and waved goodbye to the class, we continued with our day and played outside after lunch break. The kids seemed to like Mondays as much as I did and I never saw Tanya for the rest of the day. I had no idea where she went after she walked in on Edward and I.
It was nearly time for my kids to go home when I looked at the permission slip Edward had given me. In the bottom corner, in the line that says "are you willing to be a volunteer parent?" and he had checked yes. I swallowed uncomfortably. Hopefully a few other parents would also volunteer to go on the trip and I could tell Edward that we would have enough hands. I didn't think being around Edward would help my train of thoughts. Or if i was being honest, the crush i was developing on him. Alice knocked on my door then, poking her head in to pick up her twins, Austin and Abigail.
"Hey Bella! My Mom, Esme, is taking the kids this Saturday night and a few of us are going out for drinks! I figure after your trip to Safety Village you may need them!" Alice winked at me playfully. "Also I really would like to get to know you better!"
I thought about it for a moment and thought that it could be fun. It might actually be even a good idea. "Sure Alice, I'd love too!" I gave her my cell number and told her to text me the details.
Now I had to ignore and bury whatever was going on between Edward and me.
*A/N- So thoughts? What's going on with Tanya? Can you believe her gull to say that?! What about Edward possibly going on the field trip? Also how do you guys feel about me popping my fanfiction cherry? Would you like to actually read the smut, or should I leave somethings to the imagination and keep it more 14A rather than 18A ? Reviews give me the motivation to write. So please review! :)