AN: Previously, Bella noticed some girls flirting with Edward, and he 'entertained' it. She came to the conclusion that he is just as egoistic as she thought. She met Alice and immediately liked her… Alice was very shocked when Bella mentioned Psychics & Vampires, it was as if Bella had offended her, but she didn't understand why…- This chapter dedicated to Kyrra, thanks for your help hun!! couldn't have done thi without your amazingly creative ideas!!
I had planned to keep my mouth shut for the rest of class but Alice started talking again after a few minutes, perhaps I was just being paranoid..
"So, have you always lived in Forks?" she asked me after 10 minutes of silence.
"Actually no.. Well I was born here .. but I moved to phoenix with my mum when I was 5.. only moved back to live with dad 2 years ago.." I replied.. not sure if I'd said too much.. did she really wanna know about my history?
"Your parents are divorced?" she asked, with the same gentle, concerned tone that everyone did when they realised this trivial fact of my life..
For the rest of class Alice questioned me on every fine detail of my history.. I didn't understand why she wasn't getting bored.. this continued till we reached the cafeteria together at lunch time..
After we'd gotten our food we wend to join my friends an the Cullens at the table.. I introduced all my friends- Charli, Jessica, Angela, Aggie, Mike, Eric & Jacob. Then Alice introduced her family- Emmet, Jasper, Rosalie, Edward & herself. Jasper & Rosalie are twins- they're not Cullens but Mr & Mrs. Cullen are their foster parents. They are Jasper & Rosalie Hale. Rosalie is Emmet's long time girlfriend & Jasper is Alice's childhood sweetheart. I couldn't decide who was most beautiful.. I think it's a tie between Rosalie & Edward. I noticed Mike and Eric staring- no ogling at Rosalie while Jess & Ang were smiling goofily towards Edward so I think my friends would agree with me. Charli was talking to Jasper about Dr. Carlisle Cullen- their father.
Alice continued to 'interrogate' me then. Asking about my step father Phil, my childhood in forks and all of that.. then she turned to Edward briefly and they exchanged in a very brief conversation before Alice turned back to me..
"So Bella, I'll bet you've had a fair amount of Boyfriends- in Phoenix & forks?" she asked.
WHAT?! Oh good lord!! Not this again!! I laughed a weak, nervous laugh & gave Charli a meaningful look of distress.
"umm.. no not really.. none actually" I replied, I noticed now that Mike, Eric, Jacob (Jake) & Edward all seemed to be listening.. " umm why do you ask Alice"
"Really?" she sounded surprised and intrigued "oh I was just curious Bellz- I find that quite hard to believe.."
I sighed.. "Yea I get that a lot.." I was quite eager to change the subject as soon as humanly possible..
"Bella sorry, I hope you don't mind me asking- but why is that?" it was Jasper asking. It was then I noticed that the whole table seemed to have tuned into to this discussion. It made me a little uncomfortable.. I didn't want to answer..
"Perhaps Mr. Right has just never asked her.." Charli tried to end the topic for me too. I flashed her a grateful smile for trying.
"so does that mean that Mr. Right is already in your life? But has just not approached you yet?" Jake asked looking intrigues. Charli stared at him, smiling, as if she had just had a huge epiphany.
"I don't know Jake, it's possible I guess.. some times you don't realise that what you're looking for has been right in front of your eyes all along.. & it takes searching the world to realise that it was always there.." I gave up.. clearly I would just have to deal with the fact that my love life was up for discussion today..
"Touché Bella.. very deep.." Edward said. " But Bella you know what they say- you gotta kiss a lot of frogs before you find your prince" He winked at me.
"oh shut up Edward, Bella will not be kissing any frogs- not if I can help it anyway.. we are gonna play a game. We will determine who Bella's prince is right here, right now.." Alice said, taking out a pen & some paper. I was quite worried, what did she have up her sleeve?
"Ok Bella, you nee to give the names of 5 guys you know- I don't care how you know them- you can include your postman for all I care- I just need 5 names.." she had her pen ready to write down the first 5 names I blurted out…
"Alice what the hell is this? I'm not doing that!!" I persisted.
"I'll answer for her!!" Charli volunteered. "after all who would know her better than me??"
I gave her a dangerous stare as she poked her tongue out at me & wedged herself in between me & Alice. " perfect" Alice chimed, excited.
" Ok. Well how about we go with: Mike, Eric, Jacob ummm.. Tyler Crowley.. and ummm…..?" the three that were sitting at the table shot me a quick expressionless glance. I hit charli playfully.
"Edward" Alice jumped in.. oh great! What a fine deck fate has dealt me.. Edward glanced at me too. He held my gaze he looked frustrated like he was looking for something in my eyes that he couldn't find. I quickly looked away.
"Ok Bella now all I need you to do is say 'start' and 'stop' whenever you want." Alice instructed.
"no wait!" Charli screamed. "I almost forgot! Get rid of Crowley- we have to put in Bella's ALMOST boy friend.." I kicked her as hard as I could "oww!!"
"What?!" Jess, Ang & Agg gaped in unison.
"Ok hold up- charli give us the dirty details" Alice demanded. I couldn't bare this. Charli was done for.. she better sleep with her eyes open tonight if she hopes to make it through the night..
"Ok well his name is Eugene" she started.. everyonw was already laughing.. "he wore glasses and over alls, he had black slicked back hair and buck teeth" oh great!! Ok no she wasn't gonna die.. she is going to SUFFER a fate WORSE than death!! I felt my face turned bright red as Charli continued.
"Oh my god Bella.. you dated an Erkle" Rosalie was speechless.
"ok whatever… Tyler is out & Eugene is in.." Alice proclaimed. "just a simple start & stop Bella" I gave her a meaningful stare. She stared back, hers more powerful and persuasive than mine.
"fine!" I sighed. "start" 1, 2, 3 , 4 , 5 "stop". Alice was now calculating something & crossing off names very quickly… everyone remained completely silent as she did this..
Before I knew it she was done. She had a very amused smile on her pixie-like face as she turned to me.. "Bella would you like to know the name of your 'Romeo'? she asked. Everyone seemed to lean in eager to hear the result. "Alice this is so silly.. why is the entire sample space made up of people I already know? Am I never gonna meet any more new people?" I tried to get out of it..
"Bella you yourself said that what you are looking for.." Jacob started to say..
"yea yea.. I know what I said." I sighed "fine.. who is the lucky guy Alice?" I rolled my eyes.
Alice flashed Edward a wicked smile as she announced my Mr. Right. "Edward Cullen". Edward winked at me discretely. I scowled. Edward laughed.
"Alice I think you're mistaken.. I'm not at all her type.. I'm no Erkle" he teased winking at me again. I was enraged.. "oh yea like as if I'm your type.. no doubt your type could only be one of two things.. 1. Men or 2. blonde hair, blue eyes, big boobs and no brain" I said knowing it was a cheap shot. He laughed hysterically.. "I prefer brunettes". I was even more enraged now. "well what ever floats your boat" I said as I began to storm out of the cafeteria.. but thanks to my inate clumsiness I slipped.. I was falling straight towards the linoleum floor, but Edward caught me just in time. Why now?? Couldn't I have slipped after I left the cafeteria? My friends cheered as Edward caught me..
"talk about falling for a guy.." I heard Charli say..
Edward held my gaze. He spoke in a very matter of fact tone then. "Admit it Swan, You want me!!"
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