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Ben really should mind his own business. We pulled into my driveway and I got out while he was still muttering about Jacob.
"Wanna come in?" I invited.
"Nah, I have to finish that mid-term paper that's due Tuesday. Did you finish yet?" he asked
"Ben, that was due LAST Tuesday" I giggled. "but you can come over tomorrow and I'll help you."
"Crap, well then I really should get going if I'm gonna get a decent grade! Thanks, see you tomorrow then, Ang." he called through his cars window as he pulled away. I waved back.
-_-_-_-Next day-_-_-_-
I dialed the number that I knew was Edwards cell phone. I was a bit nervous seeing that I never called him before. I never had a reason.
"Hello?"
"Oh, hello Edward, it's Angela, Angela Weber." I said, his voice was actually quite soothing.
"Yes, hi Angela, you know, I think Bella's been meaning to call you..." he replied.
"Yah, I was just calling to get her number...do you know what time she's coming over tomorrow?"
"I have her number, I wasn't aware you two had plans but she's...in La Push at the moment..." he said sounding a bit irritated and mumbling something unintelligible. "I have a feeling she'll come over after she's back..."
"I hope everything's alright, are you ok Edward?" I inquired
He sighed, "Well, I wasn't exactly informed she would be going to visit Jacob today."
"Hmm, Bella means well. She's a great girl for you Edward.. You two are strong and I don't think you should worry about Jacob. I'll see you later, and if you see Bella she can come over whenever, bye!"
"Sure thing Angela, thank you. Good bye." Then the phone went dead.
I was to lazy to get up off my bed and used my, haha, 'powers' to move it to my desk.
The twins were at Port Angeles at a birthday party with my parents and Ben was probably going to be here any minute. I heard a car pull into the driveway, speak of the devil...and a knock at the door.
"Come in Ben!" I called.
"Hey Ang, I pretty much finished my paper, and Austin's gonna pick me up later so my mom drove me here." he explained.
"All righty, let me see it!" I jumped up from the couch and grabbed his back-pack. "Not bad" I replied "but you might want to work on your conclusion...it's really weak."I said hesitantly. "You wanna help work on my graduation invitations?" I suggested.
"About that...you see, my arm, ouch. I...I, don't think im able to write all that well. Might be tendinitis. I really would love to help, but you know..."
"Wimp." I muttered under my breath causing him to glare
"What?! My arm really does hurt! And besides, I thought Bella was coming over...?"
"She is, I just thought you could help, besides, I was only kidding!"
"Whatever you say my dear." he sighed. I popped a movie into the DVD player and snuggled into Ben's side, resting my head on his shoulder.
We ended up not seeing too much of the movie, not that I had a problem with that...
"Ouch! Ben!" I exclaimed. Something hurt the inside of my lip.
"What's wrong?"
"Oh, it's not you, I must have a cankersore..." I giggled. "I'm going to change into something else before Bella gets here, stay here." I insisted. I wasn't going to have him seeing me try to zap my cankersore out of my mouth, that's not the way I wanted him to find out.
"I've gotta use the bathroom." he complained.
"Fine, but stay down stairs." I huffed. I ran upstairs and went into my room, grabbed my comfy sweater and a pair of black Sofie's and went to the mirror in my bathroom. I focused on the little devil in my mouth and it zapped the warmth out of the room. The dot on my mouth got red, and then disappeared. Whew, I sighed to myself. What a relief.
I heard a car roll up to the driveway and looked out the window to see Bella getting out of her car. It was weird, because I thought I saw a silver Volvo speed down the street. Wierd.
Another car pulled into the driveway, it must be Austin.
Ben opened the door before Bella could knock. "Hey Bella!" he said.
"Hi, Ben. Er, is Angela here?" I heard her say.
"Sure." he said as I ran down the stairs.
"Bella!" I exclaimed.
Ben peered around Bella and looked at Austin's car. "Austin's here" he announced. "I'll see you later" Ben promised. "Miss you already."
He threw his arms around my neck and pulled my face to him so he could kiss me enthusiastically. After a second, Austin honked again. Way to ruin a moment.
"'Bye, Ang! Love you!" he shouted as he dashed past Bella.
I swayed, my face probably pink and the waved until Ben and Austin were out of sight, then I turned to Bella and smiled.
"Thank you for doing this Bella, from the bottom of my heart. Not only are you saving my hands from permanent injury, you also just spared me 2 long hours of a plot-less, badly dubbed martial arts film." I sighed in relief.
"Happy to be of service." she replied. I really liked Bella, she was so tolerant. We went through the house and I kicked toys out of the way. My house was unusually quiet.
"Where's your family?" she inquired.
"Birthday party in Port Angeles. I can't believe you're doing this. Ben's pretending he has tendinitis." I explained. He really was a huge wimp.
"I don't mind at all," she said as she walked into my room. "Oh!" she gasped.
I always could be doing this with magic, but then I wouldn't get to spend time with Bella. I felt a twinge of guilt as her eyes widened.
"I thought you were exaggerating," she admitted
"I wish. You sure u want to do this?" if she didn't I certainly wasn't going to maker her.
"I've got all day." she insisted.
I decided to make small talk, "So what's Edward doing tonight?"
She looked frustrated. "Emmet's home for the weekend. They're supposed to be hiking."
"You say that like you're not sure..." I implied, maybe I wasn't crazy for seeing that Volvo. I wondered if it had anything to do with her visit to La Push...
She shrugged.
"Your lucky Edward has his brothers for all the guy stuff."
We continued writing, but something seemed wrong with her. She didn't look as happy as she should.
"Is something wrong?" I asked "you seem...anxious."
She smiled sheepishly. "Is it that obvious?"
Yes. "Not really." I lied "You don't have to talk about it unless you want to, I'll listen if you think it will help."
She looked like she was going to say no.
"I'll mind my own business," I promised.
"No," she said. "You're right. I am anxious. It's...it's Edward."
I wasn't surprised. "What's wrong?"
"Oh, he's mad at me." Again, not surprised.
"What's he mad about?"
She sighed. "Do you remember Jacob Black?"
So my theories were correct. "Ah," I said
"Yeah."
"So he's jealous." that must be it.
"No, not jealous..."It looked like there was more when she said that, but I wasn't going to push her, not yet.
"He sort of thinks Jacob's a bad influence on me, I guess. But that's ridiculous, though."
I just shook my head.
"What?" she asked.
"Bella, I've seen how Jacob Black looks at you. I'd bet the real problem is jealousy."
"It's not like that with Jacob." she could be so dense sometimes. You would have to be blind not to see the way Jacob responded to her.
"For you, maybe. But for Jacob..." I argued.
"Jacob knows how I feel. I've told him everything." she stated.
"Edward's only human, Bella. He's going to react like any other boy."
She screwed up her face and sighed. She didn't respond. Maybe he wasn't. My mom said witches weren't the only mythological creatures that actually existed. She told me that while she lived in Alaska for a couple years, her best friend was a...vampire. But she was a good one. I don't know how they would be good though. But surely, Edward wasn't a vampire. I would have figured that out by now...or not, I wasn't going to question Bella right now. Maybe she wouldn't know.
I patted her hand. "He'll get over it." I promised
"I hope so. Jake's going through kind of a tough time. He needs me."
"You two are pretty close, aren't you?"
"Almost like family," she agreed
"And Edward doesn't like him....that must be hard. I wonder how Ben would handle that?" I mused
She smiled. "Probably just like any other boy."
"Probably."
I decided to change the subject. "So I got my dorm assignment to University of Washington yesterday." I got the one farthest from campus, naturally. And Ben got closest. He had all the luck. "Have you decide on where you're going?"
She stared down focusing on writing, probably thinking about that.
"Alaska, I think. The university is nice."
I was very surprised, I figured she'd want to go somewhere warm...
"And Edward?"
"Alaska, it's not too cold for him." she said looking bemused.
I was a little sad, thinking of how far we would be from each other."It's so far. You won't be able to come home very often. I'll miss you. Will you e-mail me?"
"If I can type again after this." she said nodding towards the stack of envelopes she had finished.
A while passed and we were finally done. "How's your hand?" I asked.
She flexed her fingers. "I think I'll recover the full use of it...someday." she giggled.
The door banged downstairs and we both looked up.
"Ang?" Ben called.
She tried to smile, but her lips trembled. "I guess that's my cue to leabe."
"You don't have to go. Though he's probably going to describe the movie for me...in detail."
"Charlie will be wondering where I am anyways."
"Thanks again for the help."
"We should hang out again sometime, it was nice to have some girl time."
"Definitely."
There was a knock on my door. "Come in, Ben," I said.
"Hey bell! You survived," Ben said before going to sit next to me. "Too bad there's nothing left! I would have...Ang, I cant believe you missed this one-" he continued but I wasn't really listening. I rolled my eyes at Bella.
"See you at school" Bella said
I sighed, "See you."
The rest of the night went on while Ben told me all about the movie, and I fixed us both dinner.
Thanks for reading, I had to borrow a lot from Eclipse in ch. 6. Please REVIEW!
xx twilighter zoe