Chapter 4

I walked into study hall the next morning, and was tackled to the ground by someone. Literally.

Hilary had found out about my girl's night out with the Cullen's. She was screaming at me, firstly about me being a backstabbing betrayer, and hanging out with her enemy. Then I was attacked with questions, where we went, what we did, what they said, did we talk about Jasper, the whole nine yards.

I carefully told her bits and pieces of what had happened the night before. Hilary sighed and laughed and growled and swooned. After Study Hall I walked to Spanish, where I sat next to Charlie as I always did. Señora Gonzalez was working at her desk, so we were talking when I noticed Rose and Edward coming in. I waved to Rose, and Charlie turned to see who I was waving at, as he knew we didn't have any other friends in our class. He saw Edward, and his jaw clenched. Edward and Rosalie talked to Señora Gonzalez, and then Rose came to sit by me, Edward choosing the seat directly behind her.

That day we were conjugating verbs. I'm terrible at that, so naturally Señora called on me. As my mind scrambled to figure out what went behind nosotros, I heard Edward's velvet voice murmur the right answer and I answered with relief saturating my tone. When Señora turned around I looked back at Edward with a grateful smile to thank him, and he was staring back at me. Senora Gonzalez asked him a question I didn't hear, so stunned that I was that he was looking at me. "Tú eres bonita," he said, with out taking his eyes from mine, and I felt myself go numb as he smiled crookedly at me. How can he have such a perfect face with such an odd smile? I wondered. It was the one imperfection…yet it completed him.

I walked with Rose and Edward down to lunch. Charlie hadn't stopped glaring all through class, and he was still sulking, so I had just ignored him and chatted with Rose. She had invited me to sit with her and her family at lunch, so when we got down to the cafeteria I just grabbed a small bit of food- a bottle of lemonade and a cookie- and had sat at one of the two empty seats at the Cullen's table, right between Rose and Nessie, across from Alice and Bella. All through lunch Nessie and Rose, sometimes with Alice and Emmett, asked me questions about my life. My age, favorite color, flower, about my parents, any siblings, everything. They quizzed me so fast that I only ate half my cookie and didn't even pop the seal on my lemonade.

I rushed to English, not noticing until I was at the door that Bella and Jacob were following me. I entered the classroom, sitting in my usual seat by Laura, while they made their way to the teachers desk, and then to their assigned seats in the back.

I began to wonder if I'd have any classes without the Cullen's.

I walked to Social Studies, and there was Alice and Edward, who were having some kind of silent argument with one another. As I approached, Alice looked up and smiled broadly at me, motioning me towards the chair to her left. I smiled timidly at her and Edward, and walked to sit beside Alice. She poked Edward in the ribs, and he sighed.

"Jean," he said, turning to me. "We-" Alice kicked him under the table and he corrected himself, rolling his eyes. "I was wondering if you'd like to come over to our house today, and meet our parents. They want to meet the girl who befriended Nessie, Rose, and Alice." He elbowed Alice playfully. "Or the girl they're obsessed with really. We can give you a ride, if you'd like."

I was astonished. I'd known the Cullen's all of one and a half days. Going shopping and showing around the girls was one thing, but meeting their parents… I swallowed nervously, clearing my throat as I tried to clear my brain.

As my scattered thoughts struggled to organize themselves, Starr entered the room, flanked by her little cronies. She looked around the room, her eyes landing on Edward. Starr sashayed across the room, pausing in front of Edward's desk. She looked at him flirtatiously.

"Hey Edward," she purred, her green eyes glowing at him. "I was thinking, yesterday we got off to a bit of a bad start. So maybe we could start over, and have a little talk over dinner tonight?" Starr fluttered her eyelashes at Edward.

But once again Edward acted as is he was from another time-a time where boys were smart enough to know when they were talking to pure evil incarnate versus a good looking body.

"Sorry, but I'm afraid I have to decline your invitation. I have other arrangements tonight, although I'm quite willing to accept your apology and start anew. Thank you."

And he turned back to his silent conversation with Alice. Starr stood there for a moment, then recovered herself and stalked off with her minions, although not before Sunni threw a death glare at Alice over her shoulder.

I almost laughed out loud. Apparently Hilary wasn't the only one who liked Jasper.

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