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I stared at her for a bit longer than necessary, and then I wrote her name down. The girl beside her spoke next.

"Alice Brandon." she said with a smile.

So that must be the girl who was programmed into Bella's phone. The Mike boy was in this class too, but they didn't seem to be paying attention to each other. It seemed that my heartbeat just wouldn't slow throughout the entire lesson. I let them all read silently instead of reading it to them; my voice was full of shame and anger. I couldn't believe this was happening.

As soon as the bell rang, the students were out of their seats and out the door. All except for Alice and Bella. I watched them out of the corner of my eye as they grabbed they're books and headed for the door. I turned around, needing to say something to her.

"Bella, can I please talk to you for a few moments?" I asked, trying not to let my burning anger seethe through my voice.

"Um... sure." she mumbled. "I'll meet you at the locker, Alice."

Alice smiled and left the classroom. Bella closed the door behind her.

"Don't close it." I murmured.

She opened it again and slowly turned to face me. Her eyes were full of guilt.

"Do you... am I... this is..." I couldn't form proper words to her, I was so mad. "Just... just sit down. Now."

She sat in the very front row and looked down at her hands on the desk. She twiddled her thumbs anxiously and bit her lip. I walked over to her, placing my hands on the desk and leaning over her.

"Do you have any idea how much trouble this could put me in?" I breathed, not wanting to yell at her. "I can go to jail for this, Bella."

She didn't speak; just continued to stare at her hands.

"I'm 28 years old." I said, my voice shaking. "And you're... you're..."

"17." she whispered.

"You're 17." I said. It wasn't a question; just a statement of fact. A very very troubling fact. "You're a 17 year old student, who seduced her 28 year old teacher. What the hell is wrong with you?"

She continued to stare at her hands.

"Bella, I don't want to yell because it will attract attention. Say something." I told her, gripping the edges of the table harder.

She stayed silent.

I pulled her book bag off her lap and threw it on the floor in rage. "TALK, DAMMIT!" I yelled.

My eyes widened as soon as I had done it. I ran to the door and peeked out into the hallway. All the kids were in their classes, and all the doors were closed. No one had heard. Phew.

I turned back and walked over to her again, picking up her book bag. I placed it on the little desk and I saw that tears were running down her cheeks. A feeling of warmth rushed through my veins.

"No! Do not comfort her! You don't feel anything for her. It was a one-night stand. And she's your student." my thoughts yelled at me.

I had to agree with them; it was the right thing to do.

"Talk." I told her. "Please."

She slowly brought her head up to face me.

Bella's POV

I couldn't believe this was happening. This couldn't be happening. He was pissed; I knew it. I mean, why wouldn't he be? I'd lied about my age, my occupation, my... everything. And the worst of it was that he ended up being my teacher; and we had had sex.

As I slowly looked up at him, the tears slightly blurring my vision, all the words just rushed out. Everything.

"I'm sorry, ok? I'm sorry! I'm sorry I lied, i'm sorry I had sex with you-" he winced at that. I kept going. "I'm sorry I even went home with you. I. Am. So. Sorry."

He stared down at me, and then he slowly started to shake his head.

"You don't get it do you? If anyone, and I mean anyone, finds out about what happened, i'll have to go to court, and then, most likely after that, jail." he exclaimed.

"I'll be 18 on the first of April." I said. "And then you won't have to worry." (AN: Yes, I changed Bella's birthday in this story.)

"I will have to worry." I contradicted me. "Because it still happened when you were 17."

"What do you want me to say? I can't do anything to help you!" I replied, the tears starting to flow again.

"You can keep your mouth shut." he told me, and I could hear his anger really starting to come to the surface. "Don't speak a word of this to anyone. Not your family. Not your parents. Not even Alice."

"I promise I won't say anything" I whispered. "I promise, Edward."

He flinched when I said his name. Probably because I had been screaming it so many times last night. I turned red.

"You lied too, you know." I breathed, looking down again. "You said you were a doctor."

"I'm an adult. I can lie." he replied, crossing his arms.

When I looked back up, I just couldn't deny how incredibly sexy he looked with his arms crossed. The perfectly toned muscles on his forearms that weren't covered by his pulled back sleeves popped out at me. All I could suddenly think about was how those arms had held me all night long, cradling me and making me feel... safe. Safe for the first time in a long time.

"You should get to your next class." he told me quietly; he had noticed me staring and was now uncrossing his arms.

I slowly stood up and grabbed my bag. I hung it over my shoulder and looked up into his eyes.

"You can't deny it though." I whispered. "Last night was... unbelievable. Don't argue, because you know it's true. If you weren't my teacher, and I was your age, I would definitely want to do it again. And so would you."

I wouldn't have minded doing it again now, but it was wrong.

I didn't give him a chance to answer. I just turned around and walked out the door and into the hallway. I headed to History, hastily wiping my eyes my the back of my hand.

Alice was staring at me the entire lesson, and I knew she knew something was up. Alice could always tell when something was up. I knew that I wasn't going to be able to avoid her prying questions, so instead of listening to the teacher, I just made up a story to tell Alice as to why I seemed upset. Edward- I mean... Mr. Cullen, was moving me next to Mike for the seating arrangements. That was pretty good. Hopefully Alice would buy it.

"What's wrong, hun?" she asked me as soon as we got out of class. "You look so sad. What did Mr. Cullen say to you?"

"He's moving me next to Mike." I sighed. "I tried to argue with him but it didn't work. I got detention. So now i'm bummed."

"Detention? Really? Mr. Cullen doesn't seem like the type of teacher to give detention just because you talked back. But maybe i'm wrong. I'm sorry, Bella." she leaned over and gave me a big hug.

"It's ok. It just sucks, because Mike will have to be my partner for Biology all year." I whined, playing it up. "He's an ass."

"I know." she sighed, leaning her head on my shoulder as we walked. "But it's only one hour of the day that you'll have to see him. And then you can go right back to hating him after that hour is over."

Even though it wasn't true, Alice was still comforting me. Probably because I knew that she was always going to be there for me. Maybe it wouldn't be such a bad thing if I told her the truth.

But, no. I couldn't. I had promised.

The day went by pretty quickly after that. I couldn't get my mind of Edward the entire day, and Alice thought that I was thinking about Mike. Probably because I had a huge frown on my face and my eyes kept getting wet.

"Bella Swan, please come to the office after the bell rings." Ms. Cope said over the intercom.

"I'll go with you." Alice said, taking my hand.

As soon as the final bell rang, Alice and I headed to the school office. Ms. Cope stood up as soon as we walked in.

"This was put in the lost and found about 15 minutes ago. Your name is on it." she then proceeded to place a black purse on the counter. My black purse.

I'd left that at Edward's house. Which only meant one thing... he had put it in the lost and found. He'd brought it with him to Forks. But... why?

"Thanks." I mumbled, grabbing it and hanging it over my other shoulder.

"Didn't you have that last night?" Alice asked as we walked onto the parking lot.

"Yeah. I don't know how it got here." I lied, looking at it in a puzzling way so she would believe me.

"Weird." she commented.

"Yeah."

Weird. Very weird. That's what Edward was. What had he brought this to Forks if he thought I lived in Seattle? Had he gone through my things? I was suddenly worried if he had looked at the pictures on my camera. Me and Alice had partied to hard one night, gotten wasted, and taken nude pictures. I hadn't gotten around to deleting them yet. Had he seen them? Well... I really hoped he hadn't.

Alice drove me home and I immediately ran straight up to my room. I pulled the camera out and clicked the "on" button. It didn't turn on. Right, there were no batteries in it. What a relief.

I flopped onto my bed and stared at the ceiling, wondering what the hell I was going to do about this stupid situation I gotten myself into.

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