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Plain Beyond Repair
by AliciousMind
Chapter Four
Next morning I was the first waiting for my siblings to join me in the kitchen for breakfast. My knee was bouncing impatiently under the table and my eyes were drifting to the clock on the wall every fifteen seconds.
"Why are you so nervous, Edward?" mom asked watching me carefully from above her morning cup of coffee.
"Me? I don't know what you're talking about" I forced my leg to stop and tried to relax. I really had no idea why I was so anxious to get to school today. Or rather I didn't want to acknowledge the obvious reason which was the certain brown eyed beauty. Was she going to look at me differently? Would we talk? Sit together? All those questions were crowded in my head and I couldn't wait to find the answers fast enough.
Finally Emmett and Alice managed to join us. Luckily for me neither one wanted to eat much and our departure went smoothly without any more delays.
My first lesson was torture. I'd tried to find Bella's car in the parking lot when we had arrived, but I had no idea what car she owned. I also hadn't wanted to ask around about her, not willing to direct the attention at Bella. She seemed to be the girl who didn't like to be the center of school gossip, and me being one of the three new students, asking about her, would have certainly caused the interest of the rest of them.
No, I couldn't have done that to her - my protective instinct towards Bella had whispered inside my brain. I still couldn't fantom why everyone in this school thought about her as someone not interesting. She was spectacular. Beautiful outside and inside. Smart, fit and so intriguing.
I huffed to my inner thoughts and frustrated I had decided to go and attend the classes, then wait for lunch, or Biology, to see or maybe even talk to her to solve some of that mistery.
When the bell finally signaled the time to leave for cafeteria, I was a mess. My hands were trembling and my stomach turned into a tight knot. "Are you okay, bro?" Emmett asked concerned. For the big oaf he usually was, he seemed to know more that he gave out sometimes.
"Yeah, but thanks" I said directing us to the room already full of hungry teenagers.
We sat next to Alice, who already had some pizza and a salad on a tray in front of her. She was beaming with joy and excitement, but said nothing to either of us.
"What's up, Ali?" Emmett was the first one to ask. "What made you so bouncing and cheerful this morning? If I didn't know you I could think it was some History class?" he laughed loading his mouth with the pizza piece.
"Yuck, Em. Behave please or I'll lose my appetite and puke all over the table." Alice made the disgusted face and I laughed listening to their grumblings. "Oh, sister, you just wish you were able to eat so fast, so you could spare some time for more interesting activities" Emmett stated not stopping to devour his food.
"More interesting activities?" she cried shocked. "Like what?"
"Like spending time with some sweet boy to whom you are making some gooey eyes?" he wiggled his eyebrows suggestively, laughing at her upcoming response.
"I have no idea what you're talking about" she faked the lack of interest, failing miserably the moment Jasper sat on the chair next to her, startling her and making her jump from unexpected motion.
Fascinated we all observed like her eyes got bigger, then her smile widen and sliced her face into two. Finally an intense blush appeared on her cheeks in 0.5 second.
"No idea, my ass" Emmett roared shunting his chair back and leaving our table shaking his head with joy.
"What was that all about?" Jasper asked looking between Alice and myself. Ali just shrugged and continued eating her salad, stealing glances at the oblivious boy sitting next to her.
I tried to discreetly look around and see if Bella decided to sit by herself again, but when I turned my head left, my gaze met a very eager face of no other but Jassica Stanley.
Seeing me looking at her she immediately stood up and took it as an invitation to join our table. Unfortunately my quick attempt to direct my sight somewhere else and let her know that I wanted to 'uninvite' her made only things worse, because next thing I knew was looking at the face of the girl from my Biology class, who dared to speak poorly about Bella the day before. She also saw me acknowledging her and took after Jassica in our direction.
The feeling of dread flowed through my body, but it was too late to flee. I looked at Alice with what I could only describe as scared eyes, signaling wordlessly that I was only seconds before a panic attack.
"Here you are" oblivious to my fast approaching demise Jassica decided to take a seat on my left, where just a few minutes earlier Emmett was finishing his lunch. I sighed defeated seeing the second girl sitting on my right and putting her left hand on my shoulder.
"I had no chance to introduce myself yesterday. Hi, I'm Lauren" she fluttered her thick from overdoing her mascara eyelashes at me and squeezed my arm more tightly. I jumped in my seat trying and failing miserably to release my poor limb from her death grip. She only smiled to Jessica, communicating some self claim or whatever she thought she was doing.
Jessica's answer was jumping on my lap and putting her sweaty hand on my shoulder. "Lauren, take your disgusting hand off him. He must feel so uncomfortable feeling a stranger forcing herself on him" she whined with her nasal voice making sure she was perceived as my best friend or something. Mortified I felt paralyzed. Was she for real os was I in some parallel universe?
In that moment I spotted a single silhouette in the threshold of the cafeteria, looking straight at me with wide, sad eyes. When our eyes met I felt an emotional wave of sorrow and despair in her gaze. One single tear fell from her eyes and then she was gone.
Well, what do you think? I wonder if you would be interested in BPOV? Like the parallel story? It could be interesting to know what Bella had to say. Let me know your thoughts.
Have a nice day,
~Alice
My recs for this week (I know they are quite old, but sooo brilliant).
- Seducing Ms Swan by DQRC
AU Post-NM. Teacher!Bella, Student!Edward; a struggle of wills, an attempt at seduction, a dark secret, a dash of UST, a gallon of attitude, antagonistic motorcycling, a hell of a lot of angst and one unforgettable scene in a snow storm. Fiction T - English - Romance/Angst - Edward & Bella - Chapters: 22 - Words: 132,610 - Reviews: 5,741 - Favs: 6,028 - Follows: 4,859 - Updated: 07-12-10 - Published: 07-26-08 - Status: Complete - id: 4425217
- Behind The Images by A Cullen Wannabe
After Bella Swan's best friend releases a portrait of her it is purchased an an auction by Edward Masen, one of society's elite photographers, who seems to have an irresistible draw to Bella. Can Bella accept Edward's attention? Originally by . Fiction T (but you can find the link to her M rated version on her profile)- English - Romance/Friendship - Edward & Bella - Chapters: 36 - Words: 154,148 - Reviews: 1,657 - Favs: 1,608 - Follows: 714 - Updated: 01-30-10 - Published: 09-04-09 - Status: Complete - id: 5354195
Do you have your recs?
A.