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"So not worth 6 hours of my time." complained jasper as we dropped our stuff in the kitchen.
"You mean 4 and a half hours. We were late as." I corrected him, making my way over to the bench and plonking myself on a stool.
"I don't think it was a waste, they are pretty good. I mean, did you see how big that guy was?" said rose.
"What? There were no fat kids." I said confused.
Rose shook her head, "muscle, Bella, muscle."
"Right." I said, reaching for a spoon.
"But the other one was smoking." said rose casually.
"Ha, okay. Geez, take your pick. You can't have all of them." I said.
"Its only two." rose said innocently.
"I liked the girl, she seems nice." I said, remembering our encounter.
Rose agreed, "yeah, but she looked depressed... sort of like Angela on a sweet as surfing day when her mum makes her go to school."
"But like 10 times worse." put in jasper.
Rose and I met gazes but didn't say anything.
I continued on anyway, "yeah but no school tomorrow." I said, filling my mouth with muesli.
Even though I decided to drop it, rose was intent on getting to her brother.
"Hey jazz, what did you think of the girl?" rose asked, watching for his reaction closely.
Jasper wasn't one to speak of 'relationship' stuff, so it was rare he every really said anything seriously apart from 'who's that hot chick?' and stuff on the beach, but he's never seriously interested.
"You saw her didn't you?" he said, playing dumb.
Rose rolled her eyes, "ha, yeah but we're girls," she indicated me and herself, "and we cant really judge other girls like...that." she said.
"It might effect someone's perception of our orientation." I said, keeping a straight face.
"Ha yeah." said jasper, seeing right through me. "Um, I dunno. I guess she was alright."
I couldn't hold it in now. "Jasper, I saw you ogling at her all lunch." I said, laughing.
"Bullshit." he said.
Today at lunch we took our usual seats in the corner of the cafeteria. Angela got called to the office for some reason so she didn't sit with us. But from where we were we were able to check out the new kids, which was the whole point of getting out of bed this morning and dragging out butts to school.
Rose was right, I mean they are pretty hot, but not to die for.
And plus, they are probably wankas. Just like Jake and his gay friends.
But the girl, Alice, she seemed nice.
We came to a conclusion that they are related. They all sort of look alike.
Rosalie thinks the two guys are brothers and Alice is their cousin.
I think the big guy is the cousin and the other guy and Alice are the siblings.
Jasper doesn't comment.
But I don't really care, I mean, I don't need to know everything about them just cause they're new. I know what its like to be the new kid around here and I didn't like it, everyone trying to find out about me, so why should they like it?
"School good then?" chimed jenny as she came down the stairs with a load of washing.
"Yeah, great." mumbled jasper sarcastically.
I flicked a sultana at him and it got stuck in his hair. Rose almost chocked when she saw because jasper didn't notice.
Jenny dropped the washing basket at the bottom of the stairs and strode over to pick the sultana out of the oblivious jasper.
I kept my head down and scraped my bowl of muesli clean.
"Okay, I'm going to chill." I announced, getting up from the stool and chucking my bowl in the sink. I picked up my bag from the floor and headed up the stairs.
***
I woke up to the sound of rain. Yeah, rain.
I immediately shoved my head back into my pillow, not even bothering to look out my window at the beautiful ocean.
I opened one eye to check the clock on my bedside table that was absolutely riddled with all my stuff. I lazily raised my hand and pushed a few wrappers and wristbands onto the floor so I could view my clock. 10:30am.
I sighed and reluctantly pulled my covers off.
If my memory works, today should be Saturday since yesterday was the day after Thursday because I thought it was... yeah Saturday.
"Rain!" I heard jasper groan through the walls. I laughed, sitting up on the side of my bed thinking how we both just woke up at the same time and thought the same thing. This house isn't very well insulated because after his groan I heard jasper knock his head, accompanied with a few curses, even though his room was two doors from mine.
"I know dude." I said a little louder so he could hear me.
I heard him stumble to my room and bang open my door. He looked like his dog just died. "Rain Bella! Since when does it rain in Hawaii?" he complained
I looked out the window, "since to-"
"Shut up." he said, not wanting my smart-ass answer of 'since today'.
"Yeah, but its not cold." I said, opening my window and letting the fresh air rush in.
Jasper just huffed and went to knock on Rosalie's door.
"Rose!" he called, pounding his fists.
"Go away." I heard roses muffled voice, dripping with drowsiness.
I pulled on a hoddie, not bothering to change from my boxers, and walked out of my room.
Rose had opened up her door and jasper was turning on her plasma.
"And the racing tournament begins!" he said, resetting the play station.
Rose yawned, "you know I'm going to beat you."
***
"Bella, could you please go and get a loaf of bread for lunch?" asked jenny as I descended the stairs, fully dressed after our racing tournament.
Rose did win, by the way.
"Yep, sure mum." I said smiling, feeling awake after the excitement of our racing game.
Dave was sitting at the table with the paper. "Morning Dave." I said, walking past him to the door, grabbing my trusty ray-bans on the way.
Dave didn't look up but merrily grunted, too interested in his article to look away.
The rain had cleared up and the sun was coming out, about time. Stupid shit weather.
"Bella, where are you going?" asked rose as she came down the stairs too, followed by jasper.
"Getting lunch. Aunty Jen wants some bread." I said.
"Good! I'm hungry as." said jasper, going to the music room thingo. Rosalie offered to come but I said she should spend some quality time with her brother after smashing him at a video game.
The main street wasn't very busy for a Saturday, but I guess it was lunchtime and not many people were really walking around. Plus, today wasn't the best day Hawaii has ever seen.
I walked around a bit, looking in a few shops here and there. I wasn't in a rush to get back home; they could wait a bit for their damn bread.
"Bella." Greeted the guy from the op shop. I swear, he's a little freaky. I mean, I have never spoken to him and a few weeks ago I came in here and he greeted me by name. Like what the?
I smiled and walked past, looking at a few idle things that caught my eye. I headed out pretty quick though, because I saw the guy coming towards me out of the corner of my eye and decided to make a quick exit.
I stopped at a surf shop on my way to the store. I am friends with most of the guys that work there and I always love chatting to them. They're pretty hot too.
Rose had a crush on Reece for ages but nothing happened, I think they were both a bit shy of each other and grew out of the crush.
"Oh, look who it is." Called Reece as I entered.
"Ballerina." Greeted Corey, stretching out my name and its additional ending for longer than necessary.
"Hey guys." I smiled, pulling a shirt off the rack near the door and having a look at the design.
Reece came around the front counter and leaned on the rack I was looking at. "So, what's happening?" he asked casually.
"Nothing." I replied, "just roaming."
"Not up for a surf in this weather?" he asked, grinning.
I looked at him. "Its not the rain that I don't like. It's the mood it puts you in." I said. "And besides, it's only like three foot (a/n: 3ft high waves) today."
"Yeah, I guess." He said.
I moved past him to another rack of hoodies. "25% off? How much can you do for a friend?" I asked, pulling out one in particular.
"10% off." Called Corey from the counter. I turned around and stuck my tongue out at him.
"Dude, cant cut them any more, they're already retail." Said Reece apologetically.
I laughed, "I wasn't expecting you to be able too. I don't need one anyway." I put it back.
"We have some sweet new boards that came in yesterday though, Bella." Said Corey.
I laughed, "I know, my uncle makes them you loser."
Corey laughed too, "but I put them on display and made them look 10 times cooler."
"Right." I said sarcastically.
"They're on the back wall." He said, nodding in the direction.
"Thanks, ill err, go see how much cooler they are."
"Reece, how the hell do we store these?" I heard Corey ask as I walked towards the back where the racks of boards were.
I saw the ones Dave had delivered and they looked just the same as they did when he had finished working on them.
I looked at some of the boards, running my hand up and down them, feeling their smooth surface. I could remember Dave shaping, spraying and polishing every single one of them, but I still adored them.
"You know, Corey, I reckon they looked cooler in my shed." I called through the empty shop.
I heard him grunt, "I don't like you anymore."
I walked back up to the front. "You liked me?" I asked, laughing.
"Oh yeah, major crush." He joked.
I ruffled his hair and poked my tongue out.
Someone entered the shop and Corey all of a sudden looked up curiously. I turned around, leaning on the counter behind me, in time to see Reece help out the new comer.
"Hey, excuse me. Do you guys have skate boards?"
"Who the hell is that?" Corey whispered in my ear.
"Ahh, yeah the decks and stuff are all at the back." Reece said in response to the customer's inquire.
"That," I said, turning back around to face Corey, "is one of the new kids from school." I said.
Reece had come around to us and gave me the exact same look that Corey did.
"New kid." I said simply, turning back around to look at him.
"and I didn't know this because…" Reece began.
"Because you dropped out of high school to become a bum and aren't up with the high school goss." I said.
He just looked at me and then looked away, towards the guy. "Name?"
"Pfft. How should I know?" I said.
"High school goss." He mimicked in a high voice.
I sneered at Reece and started looking at some bracelets hanging on a stand on the counter.
"Nah, seriously, who is he?" asked Reece again.
I looked at him as if he were a freak, "I just said I don't know."
"Well find out." Corey piped up.
"Why don't you?' I asked him, picking a shell necklace off a rack and placing it on the counter.
"Because its weird for a guy to ask a guy his name." said Corey.
I stopped fiddling with my wallet. "And it's completely okay for a girl to go up to a complete stranger and ask?"
Corey and Reece exchanged looks and said simultaneously, "yep."
I looked from them to the guy at the back, looking at some decks.
"You're gay aren't you?" I said, quizzing Corey.
"Yeah, totally have a thing for this new guy." He said, sarcasm dripping from his words.
"Fine," I said suddenly, "but you give me that on the house," I indicated the necklace, "and chuck in some surfboard wax."
Reece thought about it, "and the wax? That's a bit extreme… but okay." He grinned mischievously, "but you have to seriously flirt with him." He said.
I didn't even laugh, "what the hell? Fine, stuff the wax. Name for the necklace." I said, finalizing our deal.
"Yep."
I sighed.
Walking towards the new kid felt like a movie. I don't know why, maybe it was because he was flawless in the way he walked to the way he looked. At school I never noticed how… perfect he was.
But it was like one of those dramatic movies where you don't know whether the guy with his back to you is a goody or a badie.
He was spinning the wheels that were already connected to some trucks, probably seeing which had the better bearings.
I reached passed him and put my hand on the spinning wheel he was looking at. "Hey, you're the new kid, yeah?"
He jumped a bit in shock and turned around quickly, almost knocking over a display. His eyes studied me up and down, as if judging whether to trust me or not.
I laughed, "okay, or you're not the new kid."
He still hadn't said anything, then suddenly he looked at my face. "You're Bella."
It wasn't a question.
"Um…yeah. How did yo-"
"Yeah I am the new kid." He cut me off, turning back to the wheels and spinning them again. I thought I heard him murmur something like 'the weird one' or something, but I'm not sure.
I rested my elbows on the bench and stared at him. After a second he noticed and gave me a quizzitive look.
"You know my name, I should know yours." I said simply. As much as I didn't intend it too, my request sounded sort of flirty.
He looked at me, "look, I'm not interested." He turned around and walked to some other stands.
I laughed, he thought I was coming on to him.
"Dude! Like seriously, I don't give a shit what your name is." He turned around as I came up behind him, looking slightly surprised. "The guys at the counter want to know your name."
"Then why didn't they just ask me?"
I laughed, "that's what I said."
I saw him smile, he seemed a bit friendlier now that I wasn't supposedly 'coming on to him'.
"Well then why are you asking me?"
"I can't believe we're going through all this just for a name." I sighed, laughing.
He laughed too, and I could see that he was playing my game now.
"It's a valuable name." he smirked at me.
I laughed, "more like a shit kicker name."
He narrowed his eyes mockingly.
"Okay, they said I could get this necklace on the house if I found out your name." I said honestly.
He raised one eyebrow, "what about the flirting attempt?" he questioned.
"Attempt? Was it that bad?"
"No, I would have fallen for it if I was having a good day."
"Well, sorry about your bad day." I said sincerely, "But they said, if I flirted with you, they would chuck in some surfboard wax."
He smiled, "well you can tell them I was blown out of my mind by your flirt so you can get the wax." He gave a small wave and started heading to one of the side doors of the shop.
I jogged up to him and cut him off. "Hello? Name?"
He laughed, "Oh right. My names Edward. Bye Bella."
"Bye ed." I said.
Just as he was at the door he spun around, "don't call me that." He said it shyly.
"Who said I was going to talk to you again?" I called back.
He just laughed and walked out.
He's a pretty cool guy. I wonder if he surfs.
"Edward. Now give me the necklace and some damn wax." I said to Reece and Corey when I went up to the counter.
"Ooo, Bella just had a go at the new kid. Is it love?" mocked Reece.
I sneered.
"Edward? Bit old fashioned." Corey said.
I smiled, "at least its not gay like 'Corey'."
"Fine take that it." he handed me a small bag with two bars of wax and the necklace.
"Thanks guys." I laughed and waved as I walked outside.
I got the bread on my way back home and gave it to jenny as I came in the door.
"Took your time, Bella." Complained jasper, already getting out a plate.
"Sorry, got caught up at the surf shop." I said, getting a plate for myself.
Rose came down the stairs and started helping herself to some food next to me. "Hey, will you come to school with me Monday?" I asked he quietly so japer didn't hear.
"Um, yeah. But why?"
"Nothing. I just want to have a look at something."
Or someone.
***
So, they have met.
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(I noticed a few typos)