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Sushi
Another Thursday rolled around and that afternoon Amy had her second microbiology lab. Things went relatively smoothly and without incident, which she was extremely happy about, she was determined not to do anything clumsy, especially not where Edward could see it. At the end of the microbiology lab, just after she had been signed off and was packing up her things, Amy managed to knock her pen on the ground. It wasn't a rare occurrence, she sent pens flying off desks on quite a regular basis, often in the middle of lectures, but there was usually some nice person to pick it up and hand it back to her. That didn't stop it being kind of embarrassing though. Swearing under her breath to herself, she bent down to pick it up. Once she had grabbed it, she straightened up and put her hand on the desk. Something shifted under her hand then and then next thing she knew, she was lying on the ground with an extremely sore head.
"Crap, what just happened?" she asked, sitting up and putting a hand to her head as it began to swim, and everything seemed rather blurry.
"A textbook hit you on the head," she heard Edward say.
"Oh right," Amy said, and tried to get up, but that wasn't going to work and she landed rather heavily on the ground again. "Okay just give me a minute, and I'll be fine," she said. "Look, there's not even that much blood,"
"There isn't any blood," Edward pointed out. "Believe me; I wouldn't be so calm if there was,"
"Oh," Amy mused. "But I could swear that…" she trailed off and just sat there on the ground for a moment while her vision cleared and somewhere nearby she could vaguely hear Edward talking with the lab supervisor.
"Ok, come on," he said, crouching down in front of her. "I'm taking you home,"
"Don't you have to do like your cleaning up stuff?" she asked him, it was the demonstrator's job to make sure that the lab was in order after they all left.
"I would much rather that you didn't get hit by a car while walking home," he said.
"Honestly, I'm fine," Amy said, getting to her feet and then clutching onto the bench when her legs began to shake.
"Come on," he said, gathering up her things and then walking over to Amy's bag.
With help, she somehow managed to get her lab-coat off and then her jacket on, and then she followed Edward out into the hallway and then into the elevator to go downstairs, he wouldn't even let her walk down the two flights of stairs to the ground floor. As they walked, Amy began to wonder what sort of car he had, but they hadn't walked too far when they stopped in front of this rather flash silver car. She didn't know what sort it was, but then she had never been good with car models. However she could pick out when someone had a flash car and this one looked flash.
"Is that your car?" she asked disbelievingly as he opened one of the back doors and put her bag in the back.
"No, I stole it," he said and she just looked at him. "Then why would you even ask that question?" he asked her.
"Because I didn't expect you to have a car like that," she said, gesturing at it.
"Stop staring and just get in," he told her, opening the passenger door so that she could get in and then shutting it behind her.
Even in her slightly confused state, she noted that he drove very fast and barely even hesitated as they shot up the driveway and then parked behind David's car.
"I could have totally walked the like two blocks to home," Amy said, even as she opened the car door and somehow managed to almost fall out of it.
"Of course, you could have," he said, getting out of the car and then grabbing her bag out.
"What are you doing?" Amy asked him.
"Making sure that you can get up those stairs of yours," he said, and then ushered her towards them.
Miraculously, Amy somehow managed to get up the stairs without falling back down them and she wasn't so sure what Edward could have done if she had tripped. She opened the front door and then went inside and was immediately met by Sushi.
"Hey, you still up for going to the supermarket to get food?" she asked, and then spotted Edward who was standing slightly behind Amy and holding her bag. "Oh hi Edward," she said cheerfully.
"Hello," he said. "Listen I don't think walking to the supermarket is such a good idea tonight, Amy got hit on the head quite hard by textbook in the lab, so she's a bit disoriented. It's not serious, but I still thought it might be a good idea to bring her home so that she could have a lie down,"
"Good idea," Sushi said, as they all walked into the dining area and Amy sat down on one of the chairs. "She's rather lucky you were in the lab then,"
"I wouldn't exactly say that," someone said, and they all looked to see Jacob standing in the doorway, a dark scowl on his face.
"Oh I thought something smelt rather bad around here," Edward said coolly.
"What are you even doing here?" Jacob asked.
"I could ask you the same thing," Edward replied. While Jacob sounded and looked angry, he was somehow managing to remain completely calm and unaffected.
"That's not what I meant," Jacob said. "I meant what are you doing here, I thought you would have learned your lesson after what happened in Forks,"
"This is completely different," Edward said.
"Not from where I'm standing," Jacob said, folding his arms defensively.
"I see you're just as stupid as ever, jumping to conclusions when you don't even know half the story," Edward said. "And besides, aren't you a bit of hypocrite, lecturing me about this when I clearly have much better self control than you do,"
"Don't you ever compare me to you," Jacob said, his voice coming out almost as a growl. "We are absolutely nothing alike,"
"Finally, you've said something that made sense," Edward said, and then turned back to Amy, who was sitting on the chair looking slightly confused, although whether that was partially due to the bump on the head no one could be sure. "How are you feeling?" he asked her.
"Fine," Amy said.
"Well if you're feeling ill or something, go and see a doctor," he said and she nodded. "Oh and I'm not sure how much of the microbiology lab you're going to remember after that bump, so if you need any help, just come and talk to me about it,"
"Ok," Amy said, smiling. "Thanks for your help,"
"Any time," Edward said and then after saying goodbye to Sushi, he turned and left and as he went past Jacob Sushi seriously thought that one of them was going to hit the other.
"You should stay away from him," Jacob said after the door had shut behind Edward.
"Why?" Sushi asked.
"Because he's bad news," he explained. "Extremely bad news, the whole family is, we lived in the same area back in America,"
Amy stood up rather abruptly then. "I think I'm going to go and have a lie down," she said, and then grabbed her bag and headed upstairs and Sushi could hear her stomping up the stairs it was probably a good thing that no one else was home so that they avoided any awkward conversations, with people asking what was going on.
"That's not a very nice thing to say," she told Jacob. "Amy and Edward get on very well,"
"You should keep her away from him, if you want to keep her out of trouble," he said.
"I still don't understand what you mean when you talk about Edward being trouble," Sushi said.
"Look, that's not important," Jacob said. "You just need to know that he's dangerous and you need to stay as far away from him as possible and keep Amy away from him too,"
"It's not like I can control her life or anything," Sushi pointed out.
"Then just work something out," he said. "But just take my advice, now I have to get going but I'll see you around, I'll send you a message or something,"
"Okay, bye," Sushi said, and just stood there as he left and the back door shut behind him.
She was trying to make sense of what had just happened. Edward and Jacob really didn't like each other; she wondered what had happened back in America, had Jacob mentioned a place called Forks or something? Well she was at least going to have to try and talk to Amy about it, but she figured that now probably wasn't the best time if she wasn't feeling very well. She figured that her friend would probably scoff at Jacob's claims that Edward was dangerous, and she wasn't even sure herself whether he was telling the truth or not. And even if he was, after listening to the conversation between him and Edward, she got the impression that there was something dangerous about Jacob too, and if they were supposed to be staying away from dangerous people then shouldn't she be staying away from him as well?
Well that wasn't going to happen, and she figured Amy would be the same, so the only thing that they could really do for now is try to be careful and hope that nothing bad ended up happening. Also Sushi figured that she was going to have to do some snooping around for information, she wanted to know what Jacob and Edward had against each other. Also she wanted to know why Jacob had run away the day before, when she had asked him he had simply made some kind of lame excuse and that wasn't good enough. But there was a time and a place for everything and so she decided that the investigating could wait until the next day.
"We need to talk," Sushi said to Jacob as they walked back from class, even after the slightly awkward situation after Amy's microbiology lab, she was still working with him through his health science stuff.
"About what?" he asked and she could tell that he was trying extremely hard not to meet his eyes.
"About what happened," she said. "And why you seem to hate Edward so much,"
"It doesn't matter," he said.
"It does matter," she told him. "You can't tell me to stay away from someone because they're dangerous and then not tell me why you're saying that,"
"Well I just did," he reminded her.
"Jake," she said, her tone of voice warning. "I think you maybe owe it to me to tell me what's going on; you've been acting really weird lately,"
"You'll just go and tell Amy," he said. "And I really don't think that that's a good idea,"
"Ok then, I promise that I won't," Sushi told him.
By this time they were heading up the stairs towards the flat and they walked in total silence until they got up to Sushi's room and then Jacob shut the door behind them.
"Tell me," she said firmly, folding her arms and then looking at him with a level gaze even though she had to look up.
"Have you noticed that there's something strange about Edward?" Jacob asked her.
Sushi thought about it for a moment, and then shook her head. "No, but then I haven't spent a huge amount of time around him, am I supposed to notice something weird?"
"What about the fact that he's extremely pale and he won't touch anybody?" Jacob asked her.
"Well I thought he was just a germaphobe," Sushi said. "And have you seen Amy after a winter in Dunedin, tons of people are really pale,"
Jacob sighed, twisting his face in a frown. "Well I don't know how else to explain this to you," he said.
"Just try," she said.
"If I told you that someone was pale, had ice cold skin and didn't eat, what conclusion would you jump to?" he asked.
Sushi thought about it for a moment. "An anorexic statue?" she asked finally, saying the first thing that popped into her brain.
He just rolled his eyes. "No, actually think about it," he said.
She just stood there and looked at him with a slightly blank look on her face until he sighed loudly.
"Alright, I give up," she said. "Tell me,"
"Do you watch horror movies?" he asked.
"Nope," she said.
"Then do you know about monsters in horror movies?" he asked.
"Yup," she said. "Don't like them,"
"That's why you should stay away from him then," Jacob said.
Sushi just frowned at him then, processing what he had just said. It didn't make any sense, it wasn't like Edward was a monster like a zombie; she hadn't exactly seen any rotting flesh or anything. She decided to just change the subject then and they started studying, but she couldn't stop herself from thinking about it. Finally unable to concentrate or even think properly anymore, Sushi asked Jacob to leave, telling him that she was tired and needed a nap.
She wasn't sure how long she'd been asleep, when she rather suddenly sat bolt upright in bed, and she was sure that she knew what was going on. The question was what she was going to do now that she knew.
Edward wasn't exactly in the best of moods as he walked down the street after one of his microbiology labs. It was just one of those days where every little stupid thing that everyone said or did seem to get on his nerves and the class today seemed to be particularly lacking in the brain department. The situation also wasn't helped by the fact that there were other things on his mind, providing a rather unwelcome distraction from the tasks on hand.
He was walking in the direction of the library and then spotted a flash of blonde hair up ahead. Amy was talking on her phone.
"Yeah I'll talk to you in a couple of days," she was saying. "I love you too mum,"
She shut the phone and then paused to put the phone away in her bag, and then reached up to pull the hair band out of her hair and then pulled apart the long plait, shaking out her now wavy hair. Glancing back down the street, she spotted him and then she headed back towards him.
"Hey," she said, and started to twist her fingers together as she stood there, she did that when she was feeling nervous. "I just wanted to say thank-you for yesterday,"
"It's fine," he told her. "How are you feeling today?"
"Good," she said. "My head's a bit sore though, and there's a lump, but its no big deal,"
"That's good," he told her.
She was silent for a long moment, looking down towards the ground. "You and Jacob don't like each other, do you?" she asked him. "Why is that?"
He looked at her for a long moment, and seeing the look on her face, all he could feel was guilt at lying to her. "As you probably heard, we lived in the same area back in America, and there was a disagreement of sorts, it was complicated,"
"Oh," she said, looking disappointed with the answer. "Well I should probably get going; I've got a bit of work to do before I can let my weekend start properly,"
"Until next time then," he said.
"Well next microbiology lab," Amy said. "Right before the mid-semester break,"
"You never know, we might see each other before then," he said.
"I'd like that," she said, a small smile curving up the corners of her mouth. "Bye,"
She started walking away then and Edward just stood there for a long moment, watching her walk, as she waited for the traffic lights and then crossed the road on her way back home.
"Why hello Edward," a woman's voice said from behind him, jerking his attention away from Amy. "Fancy meeting you here,"
He turned, looking at the woman standing there and it was hard to stop himself from taking a step away from her. Somehow he managed to keep his cool. "Bella," he said, nodding at her and then turned and continued walking on.
She started following him then; he could hear her quiet footsteps behind him. "So is that all you're going to say to me then?" she asked him.
"I'm not entirely sure what else to say to you," he said. "You've made your choice; the only thing that I want to know is what you are doing here,"
"I just wanted to see you," she told him. "Or is that not allowed?"
"I don't make the rules," he told her.
"Okay then," she said and fell silent for a moment, and when she spoke again, he could hear what sounded like amusement on her voice. "So I see you've made a new friend then, isn't that just lovely, though I didn't really think that you liked blondes,"
"That's none of your business," he told her shortly.
"See, I don't really agree with you there," she said. "Here I was thinking that you were going to have the common sense to simply stay away from that sort of thing but clearly you don't, I mean look at you, you're being stupid,"
"I wasn't aware that making friends qualified as a stupid action," he said.
"Oh is that what you call it now?" she asked. "I think it qualifies as a stupid action when the girl you're trying to make friends with is human, haven't you learnt anything?"
"I have no patience for this any longer Bella," he said calmly. "There are things that I have to do, so I suggest that you leave and stay away unless you want to cause some serious trouble,"
"Okay then," she said. "I guess I'll see you around,"
He didn't say anything; he didn't even want to look at her so he just continued on walking.
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