Disclaimer: I do not own Twilight or any of its characters.

A/N: First of all, thank you so much for the reviews, they really do make me happy!!!

Secondly, thanks to Witty Kate for her suggestions, I especially liked the first one. My boyfriend told me I should turn Jacob into a girl, which is actually the logical answer, but I don't know. We'll see... Please keep the suggestions coming!!

And finally, I don't really like this chapter. I tried to let go of the book like I did with the previous ones but was unable to. This chapter is quite important and a lot of things have to be said and done. I tried to make it a bit different but I guess I wasn't very inspired, though I am satisfied with the ending. I hope you enjoy it!

I was nervous as I walked to the classroom, Alice tried to reassure me when she realized what was going on, but it didn't really help.

When I walked into the room I was relieved to see that my table was still empty. Mr. Banner, the Biology teacher, was distributing the material for today's class. I kept my eyes on my notebook, dreading the moment when she might walk in.

I heard her sit down next to me a few minutes later, but kept my eyes on some silly notes I was writing.

"Hello." She said with a very sweet voice.

I looked up to make sure it was actually her talking to me. She was sitting facing me, but as far away as the table allowed her. I got caught in her glance and couldn't look away, her beautiful chocolate hair fell down in lovely ringlets and her slight smile was heavenly. I noticed there was something different about her since the last time I had seen her, but I couldn't make out what it was.

"My name is Bella Swan. I didn't get a change to introduce myself last week. You must be Edward Cullen."

I couldn't speak, I didn't understand, nothing made any sense. The girl who for some reason alien to me hated me was now being completely nice to me.

With perfect timing, Mr. Banner started the class before she began to wonder if I was slightly retarded. Today's assignment was to classify the phases of mitosis from onion root tip cells without using our text books.

"Do you want to go first?" She offered with a dazzling smile. Again, I couldn't speak.

"Or maybe I should go first?" Her smile faded and for a moment she looked sad again.

"No, I'll go ahead." I said nervously.

I had done this lab before so it didn't take long for me to figure it out. I placed the first slide under the microscope and adjusted it. I studied the slide for a brief moment.

"Prophase." I said confidently.

"Do you mind if I look?" She asked while I was starting to change slides. Her hand caught mine, to stop me, as she asked. Her fingers were ice-cold, but that wasn't why I jerked away so quickly. When she touched me, it stung my hand as if an electric current had passed through us.

"I'm sorry" She muttered, pulling her hand away immediately. She grabbed the microscope and examined the slide and came to her conclusion in less time that I had.

"Prophase." She agreed. She slid the worksheet for me to write it down and then switched the first slide for the second and glanced at it.

"Anaphase." She murmured, waiting for me to write it down.

"May I?" I said trying to sound indifferent.

She was right. I wrote it down.

"Slide three?" I held out my hand without looking at her.

She handed it to me, being careful not to touch my skin again.

"Interphase" I passed her the microscope before she could ask for it and wrote it down while she looked.

We were finished before anyone else was even close, which left me with nothing to do but try not to look at her… unsuccessfully. I glanced up and she was staring at me and suddenly I realized what was different about her today.

"Did you get contacts?" I said without thinking.

"No." She seemed slightly shocked and puzzled by my question.

"Oh, ok." She didn't look like she was pleased by my question so I decided not to push it.

She suddenly looked away and I remembered that her eyes were a deep black the day we met and now they were a completely different colour, a strange ochre, darker than butterscotch, but with the same golden tone. Either she had lied or I was going crazy… or perhaps a combination or both.

I looked down and saw her body completely tensed.

Mr. Banner came to check why we weren't working and once he saw that our worksheet was complete and took a look at the answers he spoke:

"So, Isabella, didn't you think Edward should get a chance with the microscope?"

"Actually, he identified three of the five." She said with a slight smirk on her face.

"Well, I guess is good you two are lab partners then." He said, and then mumbled something on the way back to his desk. After he left, I went back to my notes for distraction.

"It seems the snow will clear." She said cheerfully. Why was she bothering with small talk?

"I don't really mind." I didn't really have a preference for any particular weather, but I liked the snow, my siblings and I always had fun when it snowed.

"You prefer the cold?" She said, not so much as a question.

"Not really, but I like it when it snows. I have snow fights with my siblings and we have a lot of fun."

"Oh. This is your perfect spot then."

"I don't really care." I was honest.

"What do you mean?" She asked curiously.

"It doesn't matter how the weather is or where we go, there's no perfect spot for us." The skeptical side of me which had disappeared during the previous week had resurfaced.

"Why?" She was really the first one to ask about the subject.

"We always seem to force ourselves out of every town we go to and if that fails the people in it do the job."

"Why did you move here?"

I don't know what possessed me, I wasn't supposed to talk about it, the least anyone knew the longer we may be able to stay.

"My sister Rosalie hit a girl for throwing herself at Emmett, who is her boyfriend." I regretted the minute it came out of my mouth, but she didn't seem all that shocked or horrified over it. She actually looked like she was holding back not to laugh. I had to admit I almost laughed myself, it was quite ridiculous.

"Oh." She smiled. "So you pay for your siblings' mischiefs?"

"We have all made our mistakes." I replied with a serious tone.

"We all have." Her face was more serious now.

I was caught by her glance once again and I eventually broke free thanks to the bell, though I didn't really want to.

A/N: So, I started to think about other parts of the book that might be tricky, well, more like funny… Can you imagine Bella carrying Edward through the woods? Or saving him from some guys on a dark alley? Or Edward fainting on Blood Type? Or him talking about radioactive spiders or being hunted down by James? I think it's safe to say I have a lot of changing and thinking to do… As always I'm open to suggestions.

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