Meeting

I know I haven't updated in awhile and I'm soooo sorry! School's been pretty busy. I hope you like this chapter! Edward and Bella finally meet!

Bella's POV

My eyes widened when I saw Edward Mason coming to take the seat next to me.

The town had been talking about the Mason's arrival for the past week. People rarely moved here, probably due to the lack of sun. When I had first moved here from Phoenix I hated it. Going from a place where it was sunny all the time except for the occasional cloud to a place where it was the complete opposite was not the easiest thing I'd ever done. I remembered crying myself to sleep every nigh. Eventually, the town won me over with a lot of help from my best friends, Alice, Rosalie and Jasper.

"Hi," Edward said, smiling, "is this seat taken?"

I stared at him, my eyes wide. I could see he was attractive when I saw him in the cafeteria, but I didn't think he was this perfect! My eyes trailed over his perfect face. The hard square of his jaw, his full lips which looked so soft, his straight nose, sharp cheekbones and those eyes! A beautiful emerald green.

His face was slightly confused and I realized he was waiting for an answer.

"No," I said quickly, "it's free." I blushed in embarrassment.

He put his books on the table and sat down.

"I'm Edward…Mason," he introduced himself. I noticed the slight pause between his first name and his last.

"I know," I answered without thinking and then realized how creepy that sounded, "Er...well, I mean with all the talk and everything…" I trailed off realizing how ridiculous I was being, "Um…I'm Bella," I finished lamely. My face was on fire.

"It's nice to meet you Bella," he smiled crookedly. He looked like he was about to say something else but started talking. I was staring down at the table, still embarrassed and not listening, so I didn't catch most of what he said. After a thirty minutes talking he gave us our assignment. We were supposed to separate slides of onion root tip cells into phases of milosis.

"Get started," ordered, "I want this done by the end of class."

"Do you want to start?" I asked Edward.

"Sure," he smiled and snapped the first slide in, adjusted the microscope then looked briefly.

"Anaphase," he murmured and wrote it down on the sheet.

"Do you mind if I look?" I asked blushing again. He looked up; looking surprised but nodded anyways and passed the microscope over to me. He may be confident enough but I knew exactly what I was looking for. He'd just come this class. He may have done it in his old school, but this was more advanced, and I sure didn't want to get it wrong.

I looked under the microscope only to discover he was right. Damn. Attractive and smart. Was there any justice left in this world?

He was staring at me expectantly.

"You're right," I told him and he chuckled.

"Next slide?" he questioned and passed me another one. I took it without looking up at him and snapped it into place. I studied it.

"Prophase," I said confidently.

"May I look?" he asked. I nodded and pushed the microscope over. He studied it quickly, nodded and then wrote the answer on the page. I could have written it while he looked but his writing was elegant and neat. I didn't want him to see my messy scrawl.

We finished the rest of the sheet like that, passing the microscope back and forth. We were finished before everyone else. I looked up to the clock and saw we still had ten twenty minutes to go. I sighed, and absentmindedly started doodling on my binder.

"So what do you want to do when you get out of high school?" Edward asked. I glanced up from my doodling.

"Um, I actually don't know yet," I blushed. I knew I should decide soon. The classes I take in high school will influence he job I have but I really had no clue what I wanted to do, "What about you?"

"I don't know yet either," he replied. I nodded.

"So how are you liking Forks?" I asked him. He frowned.

"It's…wet. I miss the sun," he complained. I laughed.

"Yeah, when I first moved here I thought I'd go insane. But you get used to it," I promised.

"Where did you move here from?" Edward asked curiously.

"Phoenix," I said. He raised an eyebrow.

"Phoenix…to here?" he questioned. I smiled.

"Yeah I know. It's…complicated." He was silent.

"I think I could keep up," he pressed looking me straight in the eye. My mind went blank when I looked into those emerald eyes and I answered without thinking.

"My mom got remarried." He nodded in understanding.

"And you don't like him," he stated.

"No, no! That's not it at all! Phil's a great guy. My mom and him are good together." His brow furrowed.

"I'm not following you," he admitted. I sighed.

"Phil plays minor ball. His team moves around a lot. My mom used to split her time. Half the time she stayed home with me and the other half traveled with Phil, but I she missed Phil, when she was with me…so I decided to move here with my dad so that she could travel with him," I explained, blushing slightly. He looked deep in thought.

"That doesn't seem very fair," he said at last.

"Actually I'm glad I moved here! My dad's great. It's nice living with him. And I have the best friends a person could ask for," I smiled when I thought of my three best friends.

"What about you? Now that I've told you my life story," I laughed and he smiled, but his eyes grey cautious.

"What do you want to know?" he asked.

"Where did you move here from?"

"New York," he answered automatically. I wondered if it was just due to the fact that he was probably asked that all day or something more.

"Do you miss it there?" I asked him, knowing how I'd missed Phoenix for weeks after I moved to Forks.

"I miss my mom," his words seemed carefully worded, "and I even miss my dad a bit, though he's hardly ever around."

"What does he do?" I questioned, finding myself fascinated by him,

"He's a surgeon. One of the best in the hospital I hear," he chuckled but it was darker this time. I realized how his voice grew hard when he talked about his father, unlike the soft voice he had when speaking about his mother. I was about to ask him what his mother did when the bell rang. Edward stood up and started putting his things away. I started packing my own things up. I was still bewildered by the fact that I'd told my story to a complete stranger.

"I guess I'll see you tomorrow Bella," Edward smiled, before picking up his stuff and heading out the door. I noticed he had taken the sheet and handed it in. I couldn't be certain, but it looked like Edward's cousin had been waiting for him. I shrugged it off and headed to the gym for my last class.

I got that biology assignment from the Twilight book haha! I don't take bio so I'm at a lose there. Please review and tell me what you think!