Edit 4/11/15: To be honest, not even I remember what I changed. It's that irrelevant to the chapter. Barely noticeable. Again.

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The rest of the week passed quickly meshed into a blend of Christina Aguilera and Lana Del Rey Music, along with a dash of avoiding people. I was correct in my assumption when I predicted that Edward would be gone for the whole week but the funny thing is; his family was glaring at me like it was my fault. Like, really? Well, I suppose it was in a funny roundabout way I guess but still, it wasn't nice to feel daggers piercing through your head anytime they were in the vicinity. Though one good thing happened during the course of the week, which was me being bumped up in the senior classes. Correction; most of my classes were now senior level, Biology being one of the exceptions, much to my relief. Anyway, when the principle called me into his office and told me of the news, I was pretty ecstatic, because the junior classes were getting too easy for me, meaning I was getting bored with them. I was eager to hurry up and graduate, so I could get out of this hell hole and go back to Ireland. Because it wasn't like Trinity College ceased to exist in 2005. It was still there, just different from what I had seen of their current website. I was also really happy that I could stay in Bio, that way I could still see Edward, though I knew that if he really wanted to, he could get himself into the higher grades faster than I could say "Sparkle".

During the weekend, I attended one of my aunt's fashion shows, as well as the after party, which I didn't really like that much cause it was noisy and crowded, but I danced a lot to all the old songs from this decade that I had mostly forgotten about and had saved on a USB somewhere in my old time. Anyway, we stayed late until like three in the morning, so Sunday was spent sleeping and being lazy. I even contemplated going down to the beach in La Push but I decided that it wouldn't be a good idea. I didn't want to destroy my relationship with Edward before it had even begun.

That's another important thing that happened during that week. I realized that I really would like to be Edward's soul mate for the rest of eternity. When this whole thing started, I didn't really think about it that much, mostly because I thought this was all some type of messed up dream that I would wake up from, but after the third day of living with that notion, I realized that it was stupid and this was as real as reality could get. I brooded for the remainder of that day but eventually got over it, because like they said it 2012, YOLO!

Edward deserved to be happy, and I thought maybe that I could do the job pretty well actually, hopefully better than Bella anyway. Even Lauren would be better than that chick. So, thus I decided that I was serious in trying to win that vampire's heart and began reading the Twilight series over again. I had once bought them on Amazon. Thank god for IPads.

So it was with that positive outlook on life that I faced Monday. I didn't even grumble that much when my alarm rang. And that was a damn good sign.

I got ready quickly, before wearing a pair of navy blue ankle length tights, a light blue Billabong T-shirt and a matching cardigan on top, for the slight chill in the air. But just as I was about to leave my room, I decided to change my black pumps for my grey Elf ankle boots. Like the ones everyone wears in Shingeki no Kyojin before the attack of Wall Maria. Except these were grey.

They just looked like the shoes Elves would wear.

Breakfast was a quick affair, aunt Zaho had already left the house so it was just me and Nina, who was busy cleaning. I finished my cereal, then popped in a piece of mint gum in my mouth. Hey, I wanted to have cool breath.

I drove to school belting out the lyrics to Off to the Races by LDR and like always, ignored the incredulous looks from my classmates as I parked my car and stayed in the seat for the remainder of the ten minutes until the bell rang. The volume was loud, but I didn't care that everyone could hear music from the future. I sang along while dancing and tapping the steering wheel, watching at everyone watch me.

And then a silver Volvo drove in, briefly drawing everyone's attention away. I too looked at them, and blatantly rolled my eyes when I saw they took up three parking spots with no shame at all. Then they all stepped out, seemingly in slow motion like some movie, looking perfect as always but the only one who really captured my attention was Edward, who emerged looking oh so yummy today, in dark blue jeans, a grey V-neck sweater, the grey coat he wore in the Twilight movie and very expensive Diesel shoes. Don't ask me how I knew they were Diesel. I just knew.

His gaze immediately landed on my car (which now had Live or Die playing) and he looked through at me, and I saw his eyes were now liquid topaz. It was absolutely beautiful, even better than the black. But I pretended I didn't notice his gaze, instead fully switching off the engine, and disconnecting my phone. I plugged in my brand new headphones (I had bought them when I was in Seattle with Aunt Zaho) and walked into the school, eager to start the day, fully aware of the gazes being shot my way. I was used to it, an everyday occurrence for me.

The morning passed quickly, me easily breezing through the classes and being bored, then lunch came along and sadly, this time I unsuccessfully tried to avoid Jessica who latched on to me as soon as I got my food.

She was chattering on about something I didn't pay attention and like always, I just sat in my seat silently nibbling on to my sandwich. That is until, Jessica let out a squeal and shoved my shoulder, almost shoving me off my chair and making me choke on the bread, prompting a laugh from Lauren. I glared at Jessica, raising an eyebrow.

"Don't look now, but Edward Cullen is staring at you!" Which obviously meant she wanted me to. That chick was crazy, so instead I huffed irritably and roughly took a bite of the bread in my hands.

"That's it? That's why you almost tried to murder me?" I asked, finishing the last bite. Angela giggled, but remained silent and watched us.

But I decided to humor her and I turned around to see what she was talking about, and indeed said Cullen was staring and he didn't look away either, his eyebrows just furrowing further.

Ah, he must've been trying to read my mind.

I sighed softly, then I looked away, my hair blocking him out.

I would see him soon anyway.

The bell rang soon after that, and I quickly threw away my things and headed out the cafeteria before everyone else and made my way to biology, eager to see Eddie-kun for some inexplicable reason.

I wasn't surprised to see him in his seat already, like the vast majority of the class and I slowly went to sit next to him. I had already placed my things on my side of the desk before I went to lunch, and I saw they were in the exact same spot I had left them, not disturbed by an inch at all.

I sat down hesitantly, before opening my note book to a fresh page, writing the date and title on the board.

"Hello." I heard, and I jumped, startled, before looking at him in surprise. His voice was so smooth and velvety that it wasn't fair, and I suddenly didn't want to open my mouth, for some reason embarrassed of my own. I had to though, so I went in the blunt direction.

"Hi." I replied, whilst skimming over last week's notes so I could seem busy. Edward wasn't swayed, thankfully.

"I'm sorry I didn't get a chance to introduce myself last week. I'm Edward Cullen. You're Arsinoё Zeidan, right?" I looked at him with a raised eyebrow. No, I was Michael Jackson.

"How do you know my name?" I asked with a raised eyebrow, going with Bella's reply. Edward chuckled lowly, aware that Mr Varner had just started the lesson.

"Forks is a small town. News travels fast." Was all he said back and I 'hmmed' in agreement before 'concentrating' on my notes. Then I looked back at him, catching him staring.

"You were gone last week." I stated, blunt as ever. I saw a flash of panic in his topaz eyes before it was smothered and replaced with a slight smile. I wished I could roll my eyes at him.

"Yes. I was out of town for a couple of days. Family reasons." He said, but sadly, I knew he was lying, so I smirked and finished writing the summary from the board before reaching for the microscope. I already knew the answer.

"Yeah, I totally understand. When my grandmother's sister's cousin's brother's daughter's friend's cousin's pet gold fish dies, I will always go running." I said in a faux understanding tone. Edward let out an incredulous chuckle next to me, but I looked into the microscope to avoid his gaze. Then not even two seconds away, pushed it towards my lab partner and wrote the answer.

"Prophase." I stated absentmindedly, scribbling down the answer. Edward pulled it towards himself.

"Mind if I take a look?" I nodded and he did as intended, before coming away from the lens with a smirk.

"Prophase." He acknowledged, sounding amused.

"Told you so." I shrugged, earning a chuckle. Things were going quite well.

"Where did you hear that?" He asked, sounding highly amused. I snorted wrily, giving him a look that said "reall?"

"Everyone's been saying that." I replied, idly twirling my pen.

"And you believed them?" He asked, raising an amused eyebrow. I snickered lowly, looking at him with a mischievous glint in my eyes.

"Nah, I just wanted to see your reaction."

Edward chuckled and shook his head as if he were thinking about something amusing.

"So, how are you finding the cold weather? I can't imagine you're used to it." He asked, changing the subject and making small talk. Ugh, he just ruined it. Inwardly, I was getting angry. Why did everyone have such crazy assumptions about Africa? Yeah, it was hot most of the time, but doesn't mean I had never seen rain in my life! This is one of the reasons why I avoid other people. Their stupidity annoyed me. Not that Edward was stupid, but I just couldn't fathom why he would ask me about something as mundane as the weather.

Edward saw my irritation and frowned, no doubt thinking he had said something wrong, which he had.

"You're asking me about the weather?" I asked, my eyebrows raised in surprise, Edward seemed to relax a tad and he smiled, almost making me go into cardiac arrest.

"I suppose I am. Is there a problem with inquiring about your opinion of our gloomy weather here in Forks?" He asked, cheeky, and what he said threw me for a loop. I didn't expect him to say that, it wasn't in the books nor in the movie. Sure, I didn't want our conversations to be an exact replica of the series but it was slightly scary losing the only leverage I had so quickly, which was my knowledge of future events, dialogue included.

"None at all. You just didn't strike me as the type to make small talk. Or any talk at all." I answered, before saying "Anaphase." and sliding him the microscope automatically, already writing the brief description under my answer. "Do you mind if I check?" I heard his voice ask and I grunted a reply. He took it as a positive and looked, before nodding and writing the same answer as mine, as well as a much better and more put together description, in like one minute.

"You haven't answered my question." He said, turning back to me, eyebrow raised. He was right and I sighed, but it was a happy sigh.

"In all honesty," I started, looking at him casually, "I love the weather here. I lived in Ireland before I came, you know? It's rainy there too. The damp, the coolness and greyness of places like these appeal to me very much. The air is so fresh and crisp, making you just want to breathe it in all day, not to mention how healthy the fauna is, so beautiful and healthy looking." I said wistfully, forgetting I was with him but when I glanced back at him, he had this shocked yet pleased type of look on his face. Like he was happy about my answer and yet surprised by it.

"What made you move to Forks?" He asked, looking into the microscope and writing down the answer in his notebook quickly, and yet he still made it look like calligraphy.

I sighed, copying what he had written, followed by a description. Edward's eyebrows furrowed. Hmm, he was big on the eyebrow thing wasn't he? Tch, Lol dude.

"Its…um…complicated." I answered, knowing that he wouldn't drop it. I panicked though, 'cause unlike Bella, I didn't even know what to say. Do I saw "Oh, well you see, one second I was in my room and the next I was in Forks, in the land of fictional characters." Ha, like that would go well.

"I think I can keep up." He said smirking and right then and there, my heart skipped a beat, or three…and judging by the widening of his smirk and amused glint in his eyes, he knew it too. I was almost embarrassed. ALMOST.

"College scouts." I answered, trying to be truthful and yet lie at the same time. Edward looked slightly taken aback. "With my…..above average grades, many universities have been 'watching' me, if you must. My parents and aunt thought that it would be best if I got away from the city for a while to focus on my grades with no distractions. I come from an…" I trailed off, unsure of how to continue, "…Important family to say the least and of course the name can't be tarnished (can you hear the sarcasm?) , so it was either Forks or boarding school. I chose the former, as you can see." I explained, shrugging nonchalantly, before quickly scribbling down the last two answers Edward had somehow procured during my explanation. Said boy was…well, looking shocked. And I knew he was ten times more than the word in his mind because I could actually read his expression, which he normally hid relatively well. I didn't see what the big deal was though, honestly, this guy was confusing.

Edward's faced smoothly slipped into a marble mask and he casually put the microscope in the middle of the table, now done with it. His hand brushed against mine though, but unlike Bella, I didn't jump or squeal at the coldness of it. Instead I just poked it once, then pushed away gently with my index finger, moving it back to its rightful owner. Eddie-kun stared at me quizzically, retracting his hand fully with a mix of horror, surprise and confusion in his eyes. I shrugged and turned back to the clock, noticing we had four minutes left. I was done, and Mr Varner was explaining the homework (a summary of how all the stages worked together and stuff) so I began packing away my things, much like everyone else in class. The boy/man/vampire (what did I call him in the first place?) next to me, well, his things were already stacked neatly and as soon as the bell rang, he had gathered them and was out the door quickly.

Tch, some people.

History was interesting, but I didn't pay much attention, eager to go home. I was exhausted for some reason when the bell rang and by the time I had packed away my unneeded books in my locker and gathered the ones I would need into my backpack, I was visibly dragging myself to my car.

As I fumbled with finding the keys in my bag, I felt eyes on me and looked up, only slightly surprised to see it was the Cullens. I looked at them look at me, and noticed that Edward wasn't with them for some reason. After a few seconds of curious silent questions, I waved sarcastically, pasted on the fakest smile in the world and got inside the car, not wasting a second by immediately switching it on and driving out the parking lot, accompanied by the soft sound of Ride by Lana Del Rey, making my exit that much cooler. From the left sideview mirror, I saw Edward arrive just before I turned out the gate and into the freeway, and I caught him giving my car a questioning glance. I looked away before he knew I could see him and sighed heavily.

I still had a long way to go.

"Couscous, couscous, does whatever it is couscous does! It is yummy, and delish..Look out, there you are couscous!" I sang, pushing down my cart down the aisle at the grocery store. I had decided that I was tired of Nina's cooking and wanted to make something for myself. It wasn't that her cooking wasn't nice or anything, it was just too fancy for my tastes, it had to be prepared to my aunts tastes after all. As I was picking out the fancy packet with the weird dude in a turban, I heard a very soft sound behind me, almost like a giggle. I raised my eyes from my inspection of the package and turned around ready to ask the person if they needed something, because I had no intentions of stopping my Couscous song because of them.

Much to my surprise though, I was met with the sight of a very beautiful woman smiling softly when I met her gaze. She had soft looking caramel hair that spilled down her shoulders in wavy curls, lovely golden eyes that held warmth, a perfect feminine face with lovely high cheekbones and soft looking rosy lips and curves in all the right places. Not to mention her pale complexion which made her look like fragile porcelain that could break at any moment. She was beautiful. Way too beautiful actually.

Ah…She must be Esme, my mind connected easily.

"Oh, excuse me, it's just, you're song…about the couscous I mean, was just adorable." She gushed, smiling brightly, and making my insides melt. Damn this woman.

I looked to the ground, abashed whilst fiddling with the pack in my hands, not knowing how to reply.

"Er, t-thank you?" It was more of a question than a statement and I nervously tucked a strand of errant purple hair that was falling in to my eyes behind my ear, shifting from foot to foot. Esme giggled, before hesitantly taking a step forward, basket in hand. I noticed it contained common food items that frequently ran out, milk, bread, eggs, the like.

"I'm Esme Cullen. My husband works down at the hospital." She introduced, but she didn't hold out her hand. It was weird to think that confident and sure Esme would be nervous because of me, she just didn't seem like type.

So instead, I pasted on a smile, a soft and inviting one and asked with no little amount of nervousness, if she would like to have a cup of coffee with me(Yes, I knew she didn't actually drink coffee) at the little café next door. I don't know why I asked, it just seemed like the right thing to do.

Luckily for me, she agreed easily and we quickly paid finished our shopping, chatting happily all the while and soon bonded over mugs of steaming hot Chocachino's, which, surprisingly she drank.

I was surprised at how easy it was to talk to her, even if she was only a perfect stranger not even hours before and contrary to my initial assumptions, we had a great many things in common.

Then we spent the rest of the afternoon talking about all our favorite female heroines in history and the different fashions of multiple historic eras.

We left after exchanging numbers and promises to meet up again sometime.

When I got home, finished cooking and doing my homework, just as I was about to fall asleep, I couldn't help but think that for a mother of five, a wife, and a matriarch of a vampire coven, she was surprisingly easy to relate to.

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