It was Monday, how I hated Mondays. Alice was unusually chipper this morning, even though she was always perky and running on a constant sugarless sugar high. I never understood how someone of her size could hold so much energy. She always smiled at me whenever she looked at me. Something was up. That or I'm just really paranoid. All my classes were still boring; I almost fell asleep in my AP Biology. But I always kept thinking about Edward. It made that hole in my chest that missed him grow bigger and bigger. The bell rang and signaled the end of the period. I had lunch next; I couldn't wait to see Alice. Note the sarcasm in my voice.

"Bella! Bella! Bella! Come here!" She practically tackled me in the middle of the lunchroom.

"What Alice?"

"Guess what I heard!?" I thought maybe it was something about Edward and I began to listen to her.

"What?"

"There's a sale at Macy's! We need to go shopping after school!" I sighed and the empty feeling came back again. I walked past Alice and landed heavily on my chair with a humph. "What? What did I say?" I looked at her my eyebrows knitting together. She giggled uncomfortably. "Oh come on Bella, it'll be fun! Maybe we can even look into getting costumes for the Masquerade Ball?"

"Alice, I hate shopping. You know that, and I'm not going to the Masquerade Ball Besides it's like two months away."
"Oh but why not? Besides it's always good to be prepared."

"Because, I don't have anyone to go with, and you know I'm a terrible dancer." I was instantly reminded of Edward and me dancing at the party. It was the first time I ever had fun dancing, and I didn't hurt him or myself in the process.

"Well will you at least go shopping with me?" She gave me her puppy dog face knowing I could never say no to it. I agreed and leaned my head against my hand looking out the window. I saw someone look inside wearing sunglasses and a bronze patch of color whirl out of sight as they saw me looking out the window. Who in the world is that? I sighed and looked back to the table; I could see out of the corner of my eye that they were looking back in the window. I turned my head again towards the window and they quickly disappeared again. OK this was getting creepy. I got up from the table and said I was going to the bathroom even though I was really going to go into the courtyard and find out who this mystery person was.

Before leaving the lunchroom I could see Alice quickly dialing something on her cell phone. Something fishy was going on. I hurried out to the courtyard before he would vanish. I saw him, he was still standing outside of the window; his hands wailing beside him and I could hear him yelling. I couldn't see his face because it was hidden by a hat and hooded sweatshirt and sunglasses. I tried to get closer and find out who it was but of course my feet betrayed me and caused me to trip on a rock.

"Oops, whoa!" I yelled as I fell to the ground possibly scuffing up my knee. The man turned around and saw me on the ground. He snapped his phone shut and quickly ran away before I could get back to my feet. "Wait! Who are you?" But it was no use; he was gone.

I looked at my knee; yep definitely scraped up and was bleeding. It made me a little nauseous; thankfully I had some Band-Aids in my book bag. But who was this mystery man? He looked so familiar but I couldn't put my finger on it. I sighed and got up carefully not to get any blood on my uniform; it would be a pain in the butt to try and get it out. I hobbled back into the lunchroom to see Alice look surprised.

"What happened?"

"Uh, I fell on some water…?" I was a horrible liar.

"Oh, are you OK, do you need to go to the nurse?" Now this was unusual, Alice could always tell when I was lying.

"No, no. I'm fine. I have some Band-Aids; don't worry about it."

"So… about shopping…when do you want to leave? I drove my car today so we can leave right after school."

"OK, no problem, we'll just have to drop my truck off at my house."

"OK, well we'll have to go to my house real quick so I can grab a few things too, is that OK?" We were going to her house? Maybe I could see Edward there.

"Yeah, no problem." As soon as I was done talking to Alice Mike Newton began to talk to me; he was a nice kid, but he reminded me of a golden retriever. Ever since I came her last year he's been following me around constantly. Jessica Stanley was sending me daggers from across the table. Why couldn't Mike just realize I didn't like him like he wanted to and that Jessica did…? ...stupid boys...

WOO HOO chapter 4!! haha well review please and give me you feedback and criticism!! thanks to all who review!