A/N:So I got to writing tonight and I couldn't stop! I hope you like it! Thanks to whomever reviewed the last chapter! You are AWESOME! haha. This chapter is dedicated to the Heather in my own life. May you contine to have the same effect on the rest of the world as you did on me. Good luck after High School, Heather! You are going to need it.

Chapter 4

"Good morning students, welcome to yet another day of English at East High!"

The distasteful line that crossed the teacher's bony mouth contrasted with her cheerful greeting. I feel like this must be a standard greeting at this high school. Starting a new high school. Great. Frankly it wasn't that exciting at all anymore.

She looked down at her roster and then up at me standing in her doorway. I waved my hand back and forth with no emotion. She turned to address the class, "Students we have a new student joining us today. His name is," She looked down at the sheet in front of her as she spoke, "Edward Cullen?" She smiled at me, which I could tell was not a look that she was used to performing for her usual students.

I nodded, "Where should I sit?"

She pointed to the empty desk in the front row next to the window, "That should be fine," She looked at the haughty looking girl sitting next to the empty desk, "Heather? Would you mind catching up Edward with where we are in Macbeth?"

The girl sat up straighter in her chair as the teacher addressed her. "Of course Ms. Pullman, Anything I could do to make our new student comfortable." I took my seat, trying not to smile from listening to all of the horrible thoughts that everyone else in the classroom was thinking about this Heather. Apparently she was not well liked among her peers and there was a genuine reason for the empty seat around her.

There was another voice also that was making the situation with Heather not any easier to stand.

As Heather spoke of the play as she were Shakespeare himself, Bella leaned down next to my desk. She rested her elbows on my desk and placed her head in her hands.

"Does this happen every time you start somewhere new?" She inquired, staring at Heather as if she were bacteria in a microscope.

I nodded slightly, I'm sure Heather didn't notice she was too busy listening to herself talk.

Bella stood up and walked around my desk to look at her closer until she was standing only inches from Heather's babbling face. "You poor girl. You are wasting your time. You don't even have to tell me what she's thinking. Let me guess… Something like 'Wow, how lucky am I that I get to talk to the new guy when everyone else in the room is watching jealously.' Nod if I'm right please."

With a smile creeping up on my face and Heather's ecstatic thoughts in my head, I gently nodded for Bella's approval.

"Spot on! I love this game. Who says you need to actually be a mind reader to read minds? All you need is a little perspective and some estrogen." She smiled wide and then went to sit on the windowsill.

I acknowledged Heather's summary of Macbeth all the way through the third act and thanked her kindly for her service in helping me 'catch up.' Even though I probably could recite the whole play from memory from of the amount of times that I've had to act it out in my many years of repeating high school and college over and over.

I turned to look at Bella for the first time since entering the classroom. She was looking out the window into the courtyard watching, presumably, a squirrel on a nearby tree. She saw me looking her way and winked at me.

Our friendship had been oddly satisfying over the last few weeks. She was such a filling presence in my life now that it was hard to imagine what it was like before she was here. Always walking behind me wherever I went. We had extended conversations in private also. She was so curious about everything to do with vampires and how we live and how our rules work and such. She was so much more spirited and happy than I ever was. I realized how unhappy I had been before someone so cheery came into my life.

Before I knew it, the bell was ringing and Heather was tapping me on the shoulder, "Hey Edward, since you are new and all, I thought I would invite you to come eat lunch with me."

"If she really knew what lunch meant for you I feel like she would crap her pants," Bella had gotten up off her windowsill and was now standing next to me, arms crossed.

I tried not to smile as I said, "Thanks, but I will probably just sit with my family." I turned and left quickly from the room not pausing to hear her rebuttal.

Bella and I caught up with Emmett and Jasper walking into the cafeteria. We stood at the entrance and waited for Alice and Rosalie to enter before we took our seats.

When they finally showed up, we found an empty table in the right corner of the cafeteria and we made our way over to it. I ignored all of the comments that people were making about us as we passed.

Who are they?

OMG! are they brother and sister and they're dating?

That Edward is so cute I could just eat him up with an ice cream spoon.

Why was it always me? I never noticed the comments they made about Jasper or Emmett the way that they did with me. Was it just because I alone and therefore more attainable than my brothers? At this moment though, I didn't feel quite so alone.

We sat down all five of us (or technically six of us) and stared, each of us, off into our own direction of space.

"I miss food," Bella commented next to me looking at the grease soaked pizza that a boy a table over from us was devouring.

I looked at her sympathetically.

"Oh I'm sorry that wasn't a blow about you! Forget it really I'm over the whole ordeal. Who needs food anyway?" She smiled at me her voice echoing louder than anyone else's. Why did she have to be so nice all the time? Anyone else would have told me to just deal if they made a comment relating to the fact I had killed them. Sheesh, I could already feel how twisted this relationship was getting.

"Hey! Eddie! What is with you lately??" Emmett was impatiently staring at me. Obviously, he had said something to me and I had, yet again, not heard what he had said.

"I'm sorry, what were you saying?" I responded, avoiding his question.

"Well I just asked how your first classes went. Nothing too important, were there any incidents that we need to be wary of?" He asked in what I thought to be an untactful manner.

I glared at my brother, "No Emmett, It really was a controlled event. It isn't going to happen again, I can guarantee you."

"OK, I was just checking, no need to get agitated," he turned his attention back to Rosalie, a private conversation, avoiding having to talk to me, as irritated as he was.

I saw Alice and Jasper also engrossed in conversation about some prediction no doubt. I figured it was safe to speak to Bella aloud.

"So how is the experience for you? I know it must be different than going back to school regularly but still it must be interesting." I had adjusted my body so I suppose it looked like I was looking at an empty wall.

Bella shrugged her shoulders, "It's really not that bad, but I mean I'm still not used to the invisible thing yet, so that part is kind of odd. It is fun though too, the Heather 'incident' was especially entertaining." A smile crept up on her face.

I chuckled once, "I should always take you with me when I have to deal with the 'Heather type' you'd be a constructive outlet to direct all of my annoyed behavior."

She laughed, "You know what I feel like trying out a few more strategies on Miss. Heather for when we go back to cla-" Her expression changed on a dime and suddenly she looked really solemn, "Edward, you sister is looking at you, I feel like you should say something to her."

I didn't turn around immediately, changing my body expression to one of bored interest in my surroundings, as I rotated my body around to face Alice's glare.

"Were you talking to somebody?" She bluntly questioned.

"What do you mean talking to somebody? There is nobody here." Maybe stating the obvious would make her back off.

"Well were you having a mental conversation?"

This seemed like a safe option to agree to, "If I say yes, will you respect my privacy to not reveal who it was I was speaking to?"

Alice relaxed her features, "I suppose that's fine. Sorry for being so nosy." At least what she said sounded light and cordial enough. We'll talk later. I want an explanation, Edward. Got it?

That would be an interesting conversation. Bella noticeably relaxed around me though after Alice was seemingly calm once more.

"Well that was a close one right? It's probably best if we don't talk till were alone again. OK?" She looked in front of her across the cafeteria at all of the regular teenagers in this small mountainside town. She may have been wishing she could be among them. But I've given up trying to rationalize what Bella might be thinking.

That afternoon came too quickly.

After school, Alice volunteered to ride with me in the Volvo while everyone else went home in the jeep. I knew what her motive was for this arrangement and I wasn't too pleased. Especially since I knew that Bella would be present for the confrontation.

She slammed the passenger side door. I saw Bella sitting in the backseat in the rear-view mirror. She wasn't paying much attention yet to our conversation. I felt that would change in the very near future.

"OK, Edward, what's going on? What were you doing at lunch because I don't think that you would have a private conversation with someone and use facial expressions and talk so quietly. It just wouldn't make sense. Tell me what's really going on. I won't tell anyone if it's such a huge secret." Her eyes were fixed on my face, searching for any sort of reaction that would help her clue in.

I could hear Bella's loose reverberating voice coming from the backseat, "You aren't going to tell her are you?"

I spoke to Bella in the mirror, "I have to. She has a right to know."

Bella did not like this answer and chose to glower at me in the mirror, cross her arms and legs, and tap her fingers. Alice looked where I was looking and inadvertently looked Bella in the eye. This only upset Bella more.

"It's not her business."

I took a deep unnecessary breath. It really helps relax even if it doesn't actually do anything constructive to my body.

"Alice, I've been seeing someone."

She looked taken aback, "Like on a date?"

I rolled my eyes, "No Alice! Like a ghost! I've been seeing someone appear in front of me for the last few weeks now. Ever since we moved in."

She looked out the front windshield for a moment, "A ghost huh? That is something I have never heard of before."

"Me neither," I impulsively looked back at a fuming Bella in the backseat, "That's not all though Alice. The ghost I have been seeing? It's of Bella."

"Bella as in the girl from Forks, Bella?"

"Do you know any other Bellas?"

"No," she looked down, "I guess I don't." Something came to her in that second that startled her also. "Edward, Is she here right now?"

I looked at Alice. Then back in the backseat at Bella. "Alice this is Bella," I pointed to the backseat. "Bella, this is Alice." And then I pointed to the front.

Alice looked somewhere in the backseat not exactly at Bella but close enough. "Hello, Bella. How are you doing?"

Bella looked like she might bite Alice or something, "Tell her that I was doing great before she decided to but into other people's business."

I looked back at Bella, "She's just trying to be nice."

"It doesn't seem nice to me."

"Well that may be only because you're not being nice right now." I knew I was being harsh but she really was just being downright mean to Alice right now. She hadn't done anything to do warrant it.

Alice was beside me twitching her head left to right, from the backseat to myself. "Freaky," was all she had to say.

Bella leaned forward gripping the back of my headrest. "You don't get it Edward. What if this was all that was keeping me here right now? What if you revealing to someone of my existence was all it took to send me away. I'm not ready to leave yet."

She brought up an interesting point. What if I had just sent Bella to her demise? It wouldn't be the first time, yet I had fought her more on this issue than the first.

"I'm sorry Bella; I should have taken into account your wishes as well as my own. It was very selfish of me to reveal your identity to Alice. It was not my place and I apologize." I tried to smile at her just enough to soften her up.

"Apology accepted. Tell Alice I'm sorry for what I said."

"Well I never told her what you said about her so no harm done right?" I said.

"What did she say about me?" Alice chimed in.

"Nothing," Bella and I answered at the same time. All Alice heard was mine but it was still funny to watch Bella answer the question for her own defense.

"Well since you are still here Bella and haven't disappeared into nothing like you originally predicted, it should be OK for me to talk to Alice again about our predicament, right?" I asked Bella.

Bella nodded and then looked at Alice for a reaction, as did I.

"Well, this really is a strange place to be in. And I'm not going to lie Edward, but you do seem like a crazy person when I only hear one side of the conversation. But that's not the problem right now. I'm going to rack my brain tonight for future things that may have some sort of clue to help us figure out what's going to happen. I won't tell anyone yet either. I don't want to be the cause of any more, um, problems for you two." She smiled and then went to what seemed like a trance like state for the rest of the way home, scanning the future.

Bella shrugged and looked at me in the rear-view again, "She's not so bad."

"No she's not." I smiled, "You two would get along real well I think."

Bella looked at Alice, sitting shotgun with her head down thinking. "I think so too."

It was several hours after we had gotten out of the car, at home, and I had retired to playing the piano in the main living room that Alice finally found something that she direly needed to talk to me about, as she came running as fast as I've ever seen her into the living room.

"What is it Alice?" I asked taking my fingers off the keys.

"Bella is she here now?" She asked looking around hastily.

"No, she left about an hour ago, is there a problem?"

She waved her hands in front of me signaling me to stop talking, "Listen Edward, I saw you and Bella in Forks. Together. You were both together in Forks! I have no idea what you were doing there or how the hell you possibly came together, but you're together. And I can see both of you. So my theory is..."

"…that somehow I get killed when I'm in Forks with Bella?" I finished for her.

She nodded.

"Well, that deserves some looking into." I had already made my decision, "I'm going to go pack."

"Edward wait! This may be some development of my power in which I now see your future even in death, but what if its not? My visions may be wrong sometimes, Edward, but they are never impossible." She put a concerned hand on my arm. "I'm afraid of what this means."

"Alice don't worry, everything will be fine. Doesn't the fact that I have a heads-up on my future somehow help in the prevention of it?" I took her hand off my arm and made my way for my room. "I won't be gone long. I am curious though, this could be my one shot for a much needed explanation."

"OK," she spoke softly, "good luck. I'll keep you posted on any changes."

I smiled at my sister, "I know you will. See you Alice."

When I got to my room I had compiled a single change of clothes and a good pair of walking shoes before I heard a familiar voice from behind me.

"So, where are we going?"

I turned and faced Bella. She was in a much better mood than before. "I think you know."

She nodded. "Are you ready?"

"Let's go." I grabbed my bag, ran to the car, and drove myself all the way to the airport without anyone noticing.

A/N: I just want to clarify on why Bella's sense of humor may seem kind of immature. I feel like Bella really shies away from some situations in the real series, so I figure, that since she has the chance to be more outgoing because none of here peers can hear her then she would be! So there you have it! Now, Edward and Bella are headed back to Forks! What will happen next! Please review!!! I promise that if I get SOME (as in plural) reviews I will post tomorrow!! Love, Sarah