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Chapter 4

Questions and answers

"Bella! Why didn't you text me back?"

Alice appeared at the door of my science class just as I was walking out. It was lunchtime and I hadn't even seen Edward yet, despite my rush to school this morning.

"Oh yeah, sorry Alice." I said, trying to act as innocent as possible, "my phone was flat." I added, hoping that she would buy my excuse.

"Sure."

She didn't sound convinced. After all, she is one of my best friends, she could read me like a book.

"Well do you want to come or not?" she was hyper now that we were talking about shopping.

"Shopping? Right," she knew I wasn't keen on shopping.

"Come on Bella! We have Jessica's party next weekend, we need dresses!" Jessica's party? That's the first ive heard of it.

"She's having a party?" I asked.

"Yeah well, she's been writing a list of people to invite during English."

"And what makes you think we are invited?" I said, really not looking forward to her answer.

"Well, I sort of talk to them, sometimes… and I made it on the list." Alice said, she seemed proud of herself. But it wasn't that hard for Alice to fit in with any crowd.

"Well that's leaves Rose and I free." I said hopefully.

"Yeah but that's where you're wrong, I got rose on the list." She said, seeming even more impressed with herself.

"Woo!" I said excitedly, "Looks like I'm out of the shopping night!" I said in triumph.

"Yeah, but that's where you're wrong again." Damn it. I knew there was a perk.

"What now?" I asked annoyed.

"Well you are on the list, above Tanya." Alice said, studying me curiously for my reaction.

"WHAT!?" I shouted, a bit louder than intended. A few people around us went quiet for a second.

Alice elbowed be in the side, "keep you voice down, save it for next weekend." She said laughing.

I was still confused "but wait, why am I on the list again?"

"Well…" Alice said as if I should catch on soon. "You are friends with the most popular guy in the school-"

"Oh my god Alice, don't start this again," I warned, I was sick of this whole Edward thing.

"But bells, I'm just saying that, she really wants Edward to go, and he will most likely ask if you want to come. So jess is going to beat him to the punch and invite you. She thinks it might get her some brownie points for Edward." Alice seemed to have thought this through.

"So I am being invited because jess wants to get on Edwards good side?" I said disbelievingly.

"No."

Okay now I am confused.

"What then Alice?"

"Well I think she's using you to get closer to Edward."

Okay. What a bitch. I'm not letting her get away with this.

It was silent for a moment. We were almost at Alice's locker, and I could see Rose coming towards us.

I stopped walking to face Alice, She looked at me with one eyebrow raised

"Okay Alice, if you are sure of your theory…" I said slowly, "I think I may have a need to go shopping tomorrow night."

"YES!" Alice said through her teeth, and silently punching the air. "I knew you were going to come."

She started skipping away spinning around in victory. "See you on the oval!" she called as she went to her locker.

Rose came up behind me, having finally made it over to me. She looked at the hyper Alice with a confused look on her face, and then she turned to me with one eyebrow raised. I laughed. "Don't worry," I said shaking my head, "we will tell you in a minute."

Still having yet to say a word, Rose followed me to the oval and we sat down to enjoy our free hour before class started again.

-000-

"Okay, so meet at my house, at 5pm, and we will all go in one car." Alice was talking about our shopping trip.

"Are we going to eat there or…" Rose was putting in to the conversation.

"Yep. We will eat while we shop. I really want to go to that new shop opening up near the food court apparently…" Alice was going on and on and I couldn't really focus on the conversation since I found no interest in it whatsoever.

I looked around us, searching for something more interesting for my mind to think of.

It was the end of the day and people were getting out of class and catching up on last minute gossip before the weekend.

As I scanned the groups of people around us I noticed one group that caught my attention.

It was the 'pretty' group. But it wasn't the blonde try-hards that caught my eyes. It was the messy brown haired boy that I was staring at.

Right now he was facing the other way and I could see his back. I think he sensed someone looking at him, because at that moment he looked over his shoulder, scanning the crowd like I had done seconds ago.

Then our eyes met.

My heart started beating a bit faster. I don't know why, maybe it was just the shock of him catching me staring, but I calmed myself down.

He turned his body around to face me now. Without breaking eye contact he started walking in my direction. I took a few steps towards him to take me away from my friends.

"…Yeah and that dress! I can't wait…Bella?"

Alice trailed off the end of her sentence. She and Rose noticed me move away from them. Then they saw that it was Edward coming towards me, so they acted as if they didn't realise and continued their boring talk.

"Hey Bella." Edward said. He seemed nervous and was looking down. He brought his hand up to run through his hair, it was cute.

"Hi." I said, not knowing what else to say. I don't know why it was so awkward. Only yesterday we were in his locker bay studying like best friends. Maybe it was because of the text, after all I didn't even know how he got my number, this is the first time we've talked since then. But I thought it was just a friendly thing… maybe he meant something else by it. I am so confused.

"Haven't seen you at all today," he said, finally raising his head to look into my eyes.

"Yeah, sucks." I replied.

"Hey, um, do you want to walk?" he asked.

"Sure."

He smiled and led me through the crowd out to the open school grounds.

I saw Alice and rose give me a look as we walked away. Shopping tonight was going to be worse then I thought.

As soon as we were relatively alone, Edward seemed to relax a bit.

"So, how was your day?" he asked.

"Pretty average, how about yours?"

"It got better towards the end." he said, looking up at me and smiling.

Then there was a silence for a minute, both of us just enjoying the company. He tensed up again, and I could tell he wanted to ask me something.

"What?" I asked, trying to break the ice.

"Oh, umm, I wasn't going to say anything." he said, well more like mumbled, while still looking at the ground.

"Edward, I have known you for a long lime, I can tell when you want to ask a question." I said softly to him. He looked at me, and smiled.

"How?" he asked.

"How what?"

"How do you know when I want to ask something?" out of the corner of my eye I could see him looking at me now, waiting for my answer. We stopped walking for a minute.

"Well…" I started, not sure how to explain. Taking a deep breath, I turned to face him, "when you want to say something, you go all tense. Your shoulders go back, and the muscles in your arms flex. You put your hands in your pocket as if you have to stop from punching someone, and you take a breath in, and then halfway through you stop and shut your mouth firm. And your eyebrows come together like you are trying to figure something out. Then you start scuffing the ground as you walk and you pull your jacket around you tighter as if you are cold." Somehow I managed to say all that in one breath. I surprised myself with the amount observations I have noticed over the years and remembered. He probably thought I was a freak.

He smiled and shook his head. "You are amazing." Okay, so that kind of made me blush.

Then, as a defence, he smirked and said, "what if I'm not wearing a jacket?"

I rolled my eyes, "you get my drift."

He ran his hand through his hair again. I liked it when he did that.

"Oh, and you run your hand through your hair." I added as an afterthought.

"What?"

"Its another thing you do when you want to ask something," I said seriously.

He smiled again, and for the first time, I wanted to never stop seeing his smile.

I started to walk again, Edward followed. When he came up next to me I asked him again, "so, what did you want to ask me?"

By the look on his face, I think he was hoping I forgot. "Its stupid." He said, dismissing the subject.

I wasn't going to let him get away with this. "So then why did you want to walk?"

That got him.

"Because I wanted to talk to you without any interruptions." He said, then he turned his head and muttered to himself "its been bugging me all day."

I don't think I was meant to hear that.

Well, too bad.

"What's been bugging you?" I was trying to get it out of him.

"Can you read minds?" he asked me incredulously.

"No, but I can hear you mutter things to yourself."

He laughed at that.

"Okay, okay. I… I…" he was hesitating, and kept shutting his mouth half way through breathing in.

"Come on Edward." I said, trying to keep him talking.

We stopped walking again, and he turned to face me.

"Did you get my text last night?" he asked, acting casual, as if he always messaged me, but letting out a big pent up breath.

So it was about the text. Because he was all nervous about the text, made me smile. I wasn't the only one fussing over it.

"Yeah… I did…" I said smiling, reaching into my pocket and getting my phone out. I held it to my side so he couldn't see and started writing a message:

Hey Edward,

I'm pretty good, how are you?

That's okay, I enjoyed it.

Sure, anytime you want

-Bella xx

He hadn't noticed my movement, because we were walking again and he was looking straight ahead.

"Why didn't you reply?" he asked, somewhat disappointed.

I pressed send and looked up at him.

"No way!" I said, over exaggerating my denial. "I soooo did." I said putting my phone back in my pocket.

Just then I heard his phone vibrate in his pocket. He looked took it out and looked at the screen.

I avoided looking at his face to stop myself from giving it away before he read the message. I started kicking an empty bottle that was on the ground to distract me.

I heard him chuckle silently. I kept looking down and kicking the bottle ahead of me, biting the side of my cheeks to stop myself from laughing.

I felt my pocket vibrate and I smiled wide. I still avoided looking at Edward and kept to myself. I took out my phone and read;

Bella,

I'm feeling good at the moment.

I'm glad you had fun, so did I.

What are you up to?

-Love Edward

I had to laugh at that, he was obviously playing my game with the 'what are you up to' question. He was definitely quick. I like that.

Edward,

I'm just chilling.

What about you?

-Bella xx

I pressed send and put my hands in my jacket pockets. The bottle I had been kicking was gone. I think I forgot to kick it again when I got his text. So I resigned to staring at the clouds and trying to make pictures with them.

We were still walking side by side, our arms occasionally brushing against each other's. Neither of us had spoken for about 4 minutes, but the silence wasn't awkward.

Bella,

I'm enjoying a walk with a beautiful girl,

And I cannot resist her smile.

But she is not looking at me,

So I want to get her attention.

How should I do that?

-Love Edward

I read his reply and my heart sped up again.

Was he being serious or was he just toying with me? Probably just toying with me. Damn it.

I took a while to reply, not sure exactly what to say.

Edward,

I have no idea what you should do

Maybe try something original and see what she thinks.

-Bella xx

As I pressed send again I looked around for the first time to see that there were only a few cars in the school parking lot. I couldn't see Alice or Rose's car, which was a relief. Although, I wouldn't of been surprised if they were watching me through binoculars from the roof of the library.

There were birds flying around picking up scraps left from the school day and there was not a breath of wind.

I heard Edward roll up his sleeves and was about to look up at him, but my phone vibrated again.

Bella,

Something like this?

-Love Edward

I didn't get it. I turned to question him, but he wasn't next to me.

"Ahhhhh!" I shouted out of shock. I found my self enveloped in big strong arms and then I felt something hard under me, I felt like I was in a washing machine. My face buried in the crook of someone's neck. I could hear a laugh that I loved. And I knew, not that I doubted it in the first place, that it was Edward. We were rolling on the ground and for someone watching we probably looked like a tangle of arms and legs everywhere. I was laughing so hard that my stomach hurt, realising what he did that was meant to be 'original'.

When we finally came to a stop I opened my eyes, I had them closed throughout the whole tackle thing. I knew I was lying on my back, because I could feel the soft grass tickling my neck, but I had lost all sense of direction.

My eyes took a second to adjust to the bright light and I realised that I was under Edward and was looking past his shoulder. Although his arms were still wrapped around my slim frame and I could feel his hair on my cheek.

He was laughing and couldn't wipe the smile off his face.

"Are you okay?" he asked me as he started to untangle himself from my limbs. I was still laughing at him.

"Very original." I teased, "but no, I'm not okay."

I propped myself up on my elbows, so I could look at him. He was still basically lying on me. His torso across my stomach and our legs intertwined.

I saw his mouth open, about to ask what, but before he had the chance to speak I pounced on him and tackled him back to the ground so that I was on top of him. I took him by surprise so he fell easily under my force. We started wrestling on the ground, which got us tangled up again, but it was fun and we were both laughing at each other. Edward wasn't really doing much to get me, he was mainly restraining my arms and legs so that I couldn't do anything, but I managed a few pushes and shoves here and there. Finally I ended up on top of him, his hands holding my wrists to stop me from thrashing about. All of a sudden we stopped and I sat up on him while he was still lying on his back.

"Okay," I said in a happy tone, "I'm done." I jumped up off him, but he was still holding my right hand and pulled me back to the ground with him, which caused me to sprawl across him again, my face on his chest. I started laughing again and he had a cheeky grin on his face.

"I'm not." He whispered in my ear.

Then he scooped me up in his arms in the same motion as he stood up, one arm around my shoulders and one beneath the bend of my knees.

"What are you doing?" I half laughed at him.

He just smiled and started spinning around, causing the world to go all blurry. I closed my eyes "ahhh! Stop it! Stop it!" I pleaded, putting on a baby voice.

He stopped spinning and was running now, my weight being nothing to him, not slowing him down at all. I dared open my eyes again and saw that we were heading to the park just next to forks high.

I realised that he wasn't going to put me down so I just relaxed into his chest, feeling safe in his arms. Edward noticed me relax and slowed down to a walk. He put me down on a park seat and kneeled on the ground so he was at eye level with me. I saw his face sideways because I was lying down, but I could still tell that he was smiling. I smiled back and pushed myself up to a sitting position. I got head spins from all the running, and held my hand to my fore head.

"Are you okay?" Edward asked.

"I am this time." I said with a smirk. I patted the seat next to me, motioning for him to sit. When he did, I was surprised to find that his arm was draped over the back of the seat and coming around to rest on my shoulder. I could get used to this.

-000-

"That's a duck"

"No way, it's a chicken!"

"No its not, it looks exactly like a duck, look at the beak."

"Whatever…I still think it's a chicken."

I had my head on his shoulder and we were looking up to the sky, making pictures from the clouds patterns. I swear this cloud looked exactly like a chicken, but he's so convinced it's a duck. Wait. What the hell does that matter? Right now, I'm leaning up against Edward Cullen, looking at the sky, and I was the happiest girl in the world.

Spending time with Edward was something I could never get bored of. We had only a few things in common to talk about, but we both wanted to listen to each other and learn something new. He told me about aeroplanes and architecture, and I told him about traditions and foreign countries.

That's the good thing about being opposites, you never run out of things to talk about. I had no idea how long it had been since school ended, but there were only two cars left in the Forks High car park. I looked at my phone and saw the time; 4:35pm.

"Oh shit." I said, hurriedly getting up off Edward, my temporary couch. "What's wrong?" he asked, seeming concerned.

"I have to be at Alice's in 25minutes. Shit." I grabbed my jacket, which was hanging of the armrest of the park seat and started checking the pockets to make sure I had my ipod, phone and everything else I carried with me.

Edward was up in a second, his hand grabbed mine, which made me stop flustering about and look at him.

"Its okay, its okay." He said reassuringly. I must have looked like a stress maniac.

"I know," I said calming down, "its just that if I don't get there, well you know Alice, and the last time she and Rose saw me I was with you and I cant stand their lets-corner-Bella-until-she-tells-us-everything approach. They have this whole idea that I like you and wont miss an opportunity to catch me out." I said all of that without thinking and started walking towards my car.

He didn't follow for a second, but then he jogged up next to me. "So you don't like me?" he asked, as if I should like him.

"Well yeah, as a best friend, dahh. But they think we are secretly going out or something." I said, dismissing the subject by shaking my head.

We were out the front of my car now and I was fumbling with the keys in the lock. "Fuck." I said under my breath.

"Here," warm hands enveloped my own and helped my guide the key into the car door lock. Because of his actions, I found my self in an embrace with him. His head coming over my shoulder, my back against his chest, his arms around my waist and in twined with my hands.

I felt my heart beat a little faster. I don't know what it was. When someone hugs you from behind with gentle caring arms like that, it means more than anything. Any amount of time spent together and any words ever said.

I turned around so that I could face him. Because he was holding me so close I had to lean back to look into his eyes. His eyes. They had me stunned, and I couldn't understand how beautiful someone could be. Not just what he looks like, but the kind of person he is. He is everything I ever wanted.

He walked me backwards until I felt the car door behind be. The soft impact brought our bodies closer, if that was even possible. He leaned forward to whisper something in my ear, however in the process I felt his lips grace my cheek. Whether it was by accident or not, I had no idea. I wished he meant it.

"You don't like me?" he breathed so softly that I could barely make out the words. He wasn't being seductive in any way, and he wasn't playing with me. he wanted to know. His voice sounded defeated. It seemed so wrong to have him so close without telling him how I felt, the feeling I have been denying and hiding forever.

"I… don't know" I breathed and forced myself to turn around and get into the car. He didn't try to stop me in anyway, instead he just continued to stare at the point where I was a second ago.

I sat in the drivers seat a meter away from Edward, the only thing separating us was that windowpane of my car door. He looked up at me, and again, our eyes met. I wound down the window, ridding of the wall separating us.

He was staring at me again, his eyes wishing. And for some reason, it seemed appropriate, but my next action was instinct. I leaned down out of the window and kissed his lips sweetly. Edwards lips graced mine for a second, knowing what it meant. I pulled away a few centimetres to look into his eyes. They were alight with happiness. Before either of us could react, or make another move, I pulled my head back into my car and turned on the ignition. In touched my hand to my lips, and looked back at Edward again, he was standing in the same spot with his eyes closed. Before I could get lost in his eyes again, I pulled out of the car park and started driving home. My mind thinking back to the kiss. Edward, my best guy friend, had kissed me, well I kissed him, but he didn't pull away. I was the happiest, most confused person in the world. Why would he love me?

I don't know, but what I did know was that Edward and I, we had something special. And I would never let it go.

-000-

I started when I found my self in front of Alice's house. I was thinking so much about Edward, I lost track of where I was driving. Hmmm not good, could have crashed.

I looked at my watch, 5:10pm. Shit. I took a deep breath and braced myself for what could me the worst night of my life. I stepped out of my car and locked it. I made my way to the front door and lifted my hand to knock when the door swung open and smashed against the wall.

I was confronted with two very angry looking best friends, who had their arms crossed and were both staring me down so much I felt like a helpless little mouse.

Before I had the chance to explain anything, they walked up to me and grabbed one of my arms each and dragged me upstairs into Alice's bedroom. They sat me on the bed quite roughly and Alice shut her bedroom door.

"Spill." They both said at exactly the same time. I looked from one to the other, pleading with my expression for them to spare me. But nope, this was Alice and Rose, no escaping. They were both standing looking at me now, waiting for an answer. Well, here goes nothing.

-000-

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