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Chapter 6: And There's Chemistry
Bella
My current status: Lying under Edward Cullen's bed while he is on said bed. Remind me, why am I here? Yeah, maybe because I'm crazy or it was just too great of an opportunity to pass up. I think it was the latter. Although not even 30 seconds ago, he was green eyes were peering directly right at me through the darkness, and yet he didn't see me. I have no complaints about that. I can just imagine what would happen if he caught me hiding under his bed.
Oh hi Edward. Don't mind me; I'm just hanging out here under your bed. What am I doing here? Oh nothing I was just resetting your alarm clock so you would be late for school tomorrow, no biggie. So yeah, I'll just be leaving now, bye!
Yeah, I don't think he would like that very much. Neither would I for that matter. I shuddered at the mere thought of being caught, I had to focus or else I was going to be caught. And I'm sure goody-two shoes Cullen would rat me out to the school administration. Jerk, could never take a joke. I peeked around the boxes to see him getting up off the ground, and then I heard the blond Barbie speak.
"Is it under there or not?" she questioned, sounding more irritating to me than I ever thought possible. She didn't have the pink-bubblegum girly annoying voice, but still it was annoying nonetheless. I seriously need to get out of here, ASAP before things get ugly.
"No, nothing under here but some boxes and shoe…"he trailed off. I almost started snickering out loud because that was my shoe he was talking about. He seemed puzzled, I clamped my hand over my mouth to keep from blowing my oh so wonderful hideout under a bed.
They then proceeded for the next ten minutes, to make out and fill the silence with mindless chatter. But in this mindless chatter, I learned some info on the blonde Barbie. Her name was actually Jenny, go figure.
I still liked Malibu Barbie better.
Oh and blond Barbie is a cheerleader, a freaking cheerleader who cheerleads. I almost laughed out loud because it was so funny and typical. Of course Edward would find some who was exactly like that, although I wasn't getting the ditzy, dumb girl vibe from her when she spoke. Once again he found his perfect match, a blond Barbie who was a cheerleader with seemingly perfect grades, how blah. She probably looked perfect next to him in his wonderful blue Abercrombie & Fitch polo. I bet his closet was filled with oodles and oodles of clothing from the wonderfully popular Abercrombie & Fitch. Ugh, he made so angry sometimes when I thought back to when we were kids, and he always thought he was better than me.
I broke off my thoughts, to check my phone for the time. I looked and saw I had a missed call and a text, I wonder who the culprits who almost got me caught by Edward under his damn bed. I opened the message that was from Rose, and noted that the phone call was from Alice. Thanks guys, you almost got me in trouble with last person I need to be in trouble with. And it was almost 1 a.m, which meant I had been under his bed for almost an hour. I was starting to get hot under here, but what else was I supposed to do? Make a run for it when their busy doing something else? I laid there for a few more minutes until, I heard them talking again.
"Hey, I think I should get you back to your dorm now." He said, while getting off the bed. Thank god, his weight over me was starting to get overbearing.
"Be my guest, and escort me Cullen?" she questioned. I mentally gagged, who says stuff like that, "escort me Cullen?" what the hell is that? And plus I thought I was the only one who called him Cullen, what gives?
"Follow me, Jenny." Oh please, quit the cheesy factor you two before I plug my ears like a 2 year old.
I'm Swan, and he's Cullen. That was just us. Wait, what am I thinking? There is no us, I don't even like him or his remarkably good looks. No, no I do not. I refuse to be one of those people that date Edward Cullen, the rich and popular socialite of the Manhattan Academy. Never ever, on my life. This place blows, why couldn't my parents chose a different state like Florida or Washington…those are fun places, right? Right.
I heard as she giggled and left the room, and out the door. Finally, they left without having me to witness any psychologically disturbing noises from above. I quickly slid out from under the bed, and brushed any dust off my pants. I quietly crept over to his bedroom door, and opened it slowly making my way into his living room. I took one last look around the room, and left their dorm making a quiet exit down the hall and out the door. I ran back to my building through the darkness, hoping that I wouldn't trip over any sticks or rocks. I finally saw the outline of my building and ran faster towards the door. I pulled out my I.D keycard and scanned it, thus opening the door for me.
I ran down the hallway, ready to have a chat with Rose and Alice about our mission almost gone awry, albeit almost thanks to them. We did get everything that needed to get done, and that was the most important part of this whole plan. All I was trying to do was open the guys' eyes to the two girls who were waiting in my room. They were being ridiculous, they need a little eye opening.
A good wake up call, is what I liked to call it.
I unlocked the door, and there was Rose and Alice asleep on the couch and single chair. Well at least they waited for me, I guess. So I went over and shook them so they would wake up.
"Bella! What happened? We waited for you, but it got late." Alice fired off quickly. Eesh I just woke her up, and she's already awake. While Rose on the other hand was still struggling to wake up.
"Well, let's see. I was in Cullen's room when he arrived with the Barbie doll and the only place I could hide was under his bed." I huffed, still annoyed by the ordeal. "And I had to stay under there and listen to their mindless chatter and make-out session."That was when they burst out laughing, at what I don't know. Maybe it was the part how I was under his bed or how I had to listen to them make out. I was the poor soul who got stuck under pretty boy's bed, while listening to him make out with the blonde Barbie. I didn't seem to think that anything was funny about it at all, actually.
"Thanks for the sympathy, Alice and Rosalie." I said sourly. "It really was not that funny, guys. I was lying under his bed, and my cell phone starting vibrating and then I see his green eyes staring at me. Oh and then he grabs my shoe, he almost found me under his bed!" I shouted over their laughing. I think my whole rant made things even funnier for them.
"We're sorry, Bella. But that is just hilarious. You hid, under his bed?" Rosalie choked out from giggles. "Why didn't you go in his closet or something?" she chuckled with Alice at her side. There was no way I was going to be able to justify this at all. Nor was I going to hear the end of this, ever.
"I see that this conversation is going nowhere. Remember bright and early tomorrow, you guys have to look great and plus we have a lunch table to fill."
Edward
I opened the door to the dorm room that I shared with Jasper and Emmett, who didn't seem to be around which was probably a bad thing because the first day of school was tomorrow. No one is ever late on the first day of school; it's pretty much unheard of. Although if you missed the first day, then you just looked bad and frankly a bit weird. I walked into my room, shut the door and sat down on my bed. It was already past 1, so I got ready for bed until I stopped and noticed something odd about my desk. The picture of me and Jenny was tipped over on my desk, I don't remember accidentally doing that and I don't think Jenny did it either.
I picked it back up, and shrugged it off. I probably did it and didn't notice. I grabbed my school schedule from the same desk and looked it over. I had the usual English class, Spanish, history, study hall, and an AP Chemistry class after lunch. The classes seemed like no problem, I liked to maintain my grades in perfect condition. My parents expected as much, but they weren't here. They lived in upstate New York, working and doing whatever it is they do. I looked back down at my schedule and silently hoped I didn't have an classes with Swan.
If I did I was screwed.
Then I remembered that she was Varsity Soccer Girls Team Captain. She was good, she had to be otherwise there was no way she could make varsity let alone team captain. I was team captain for crying out loud, and she managed to rank me equally. It was so surprised when I arrived at the roster, and there she was right at the top of the list. Then there was the matter of the ultimate challenge and tradition at the Manhattan Academy: Girls Varsity v. Guys Varsity. Whichever team won, gets all the notoriety.
The guys team has won the last three years. I wasn't about to let that go. I was going to take Swan down, it was sure to be a hard fight.
I was sleeping soundly, until the stupid alarm starting beeping right in front of me. I could faintly hear Jasper and Emmett's clocks going off. I shot my hand out from under the covers to shut my alarm clock up. Groggily, I sat up in bed and rubbed the sleep out of my eyes, it was way too early to be up. Class started at 8, so I had awhile to shower and get dressed in my uniform.
Sure the uniforms were a stupid idea, when I had plenty of clothes from them to wear. I didn't really mind, except for the fact that I hated the black dress shoes and maybe the dress pants too. I sat there for a couple minutes rumpling my hair when I turned to check the time, and I nearly fell off my bed.
It was 12:10 p.m. What the fuck?
"Shit, shit. I missed all my morning classes. Shit." I muttered running out of my room stumbling to check to see if Jazz and Em were still asleep too. Sure enough they were, sleeping soundly like nothing was happening. I decided to get Emmett first, he was a heavy sleeper so it would take longer to get him up.
"Emmett! Emmett! Wake up!" I shouted at him while shoving his shoulder, which only earned me some grumbles from his part. I kept shaking him, until he started to become coherent.
"What? What do you want Edward? It's like 6:30, go away. Just because you need to shower and smell good doesn't mean you have to bother everyone else." He was mumbling into the pillow so it was hard to hear, but I got the gist of it.
"Hate to break to you Em, but it is now 12: 13 p.m" I shouted, we all needed to get going or else we would miss lunch and afternoon classes were starting soon. I still needed to get showered and dressed, not to mention gathering all my books and shit for class. That seemed to wake him up, he jumped out of bed and grabbed the clock and sure it enough it now read 12: 15 p.m.
To put it in simply terms, we are screwed.
"What? How did this happen?" he shouted, running around frantically looking for clothes, namely his uniform. I hadn't asked myself that question yet: How did this happen? I had no idea, our alarm clocks must be fucked up. So therefore we paid the price, and now we have missed half of the first day of school. It looked like lunch was going to end in about 30 minutes.
"I have no idea. You go get Jasper and I'm going to take a quick shower." I didn't wait for his answer, as I ran from the room and into my bathroom. I took a quick shower, with warm water and tried to fix my hair, all to no avail. I gave up on the hair, grabbed a towel and went looking for my uniform which consisted of the aforementioned disliked dress pant and shoes, white dress shirt, tie, and blazer. The only problem was I couldn't find any of those things, they were gone. I searched my entire room before asking Emmett and Jasper. I walked into the living room with a towel wrappred around my waist.
"Hey Jasper, Emmett have you guys seen my uniform stuff?" I questioned looking around the room. We now had about 15 minutes before lunch was over, and afternoon classes started.
"No, that's funny I can't find any of my clothes either." Jasper concluded, appearing from his bedroom door looking just as confused as I was. Coincidence? I wasn't sure, but this was weird I can't find my fucking clothes anywhere. And I kind of needed them, obviously. Plus since it was the first day of school, it was definitely not an out of uniform day so I couldn't show up to AP Chemistry class in an Abercrombie & Fitch polo, now could I?
And I'm betting Swan would make fun of me for wearing it in the first place. She used to hate on my Ralph Lauren polo shirts when we were kids. So I naturally made fun of her pink overalls because I knew she loved it.
"I can't find mine either!" Emmett bellowed from somewhere in his bedroom. Okay so here we all are with towels, looking like idiots because we can't find our stupid clothes. Emmett appeared from his room looking frustrated and confused.
"What the hell are we supposed to do now?" I asked no one in particular, while tugging at my hair. Lunch was almost over, and neither of us had any clothes to wear to class. This is sad, we can't even find our own clothes. I swear I put my clothes in my room, how could they disappear just like that? I looked up and Emmett was rubbing his face, and Jasper was just blankly staring at something.
"Why is that window open, did you guys open it?" Jasper mused, "Because I didn't open it."
"Huh?" I mumbled, confused. He pointed to the window by the couch.
"Nope, wasn't me. Em?" I asked quirking an eyebrow. He shook his head, and then I knew something about this whole thing wasn't right. My picture was tipped over, our alarm clocks were all set late, and the opened window wasn't opened by us. I was starting to get the sneaking suspicion that someone was in our room last night. I walked over to the window, and was about to shut it when I noticed the familiar pattern of our school ties, tied around the window handle.
What the hell is my tie doing on the window?
I looked down, and sure enough there was a black bag, I reached down and pulled it into the room. I wonder what could be in hear…haha.
"What's in the bag, Edward?" they both asked at the same time. I was really confused, annoyed, and slightly creeped out that someone was in our dorm room screwing around with our clothes.
"Well what do you know, it's our uniforms." I said sourly "Someone was definitely in here last night, playing a prank on us."
"Who?" Emmett wondered, "why would they throw our clothes out the window? That's so weird."
"I have no idea. I'm sure we'll find out, soon enough." I smirked, trying to think of who would do something like this because frankly it was just a bit weird. I had the sneaking suspicion that it was Swan, but I couldn't think of a motive. Of course when did Swan need a motive for anything? I wasn't going to jump to conclusions, just yet. Then I remembered that I must have a text from Jenny, probably wonder why I wasn't in class or at lunch.
I collected my clothes from the bag, and quickly got dressed in the pants and tying my favorite black dress shoes. My mom insisted that these mandatory black shoes, must be Prada. I just let her buy them, Prada or not. I still didn't like them, regardless. I buttoned up my white dress shirt and threw my tie on, leaving it loosely tied around my neck. I decided to forgo the blazer, and grabbed my backpack and headed into the living room where Jasper and Emmett were already waiting.
"Why is it that you are always the last one to finish getting ready?" Jasper asked, smirking.
"Swan doesn't call me "pretty boy" for nothing." I retorted while heading out the door and into the hallway. "Hurry up we have a total of 10 minutes left for lunch."
We hurriedly ran over to the courtyard where everyone had lunch. I scanned the ground for our usual table with my sister Alice and Rosalie. We 5 of us always had a big table towards the edge of the courtyard, and it was always there for us no one ever took it. I spotted Alice's black hair, and made my way over to our table with Jazz and Em by my side. As I got closer I noticed people sitting where we sat. I saw Alice and Rosalie flanked by two guys, and Swan who was also flanked by two guys.
I recognized the first dusty brown headed guy to be Hilton who was Swan's best friend. I never get along with him either, we weren't' very friendly per se. I recognized the other guy, who was my own teammate and goalkeeper, Leo. I was getting more confused, how does Swan know Leo? I really was starting to not like this whole situation.
I got closer to the table, "Alice?" I called and she turned around to face me.
"Hello dear brother, I guess you've decided to grace us with your presence." She smiled continuing on with the conversation at the table. I looked to her right and I didn't recognize who the guys, nor did I recognize the one next to Rosalie.
"Uh who are all these, people?" I asked irked, our table seemed to be invaded by new people. But she didn't respond, someone else did.
"Hey Cullen! I see you've had a late start to the morning or shall I say afternoon?" she smirked. "You've missed quite a bit this morning, except that should be no problem for you after all you are the golden boy, no problem there whatsoever." She smiled, taking a bite of a sandwich.
"What…" I trailed off before she interrupted me.
"Oh you remember Hilton, the freak? And that's Tom and Luke from the Lacrosse team, if you didn't know that." She taunted, keeping direct eye contact. "And you know who this is." She gestured to Leo. I could see her eye contact faltering, but I focused on her words.
"Of course, I do." I replied, Emmett and Jasper were eerily quiet behind me. I turned to them and I could see that Jasper was glaring at Tom and Emmett was staring Luke down. Was I missing something here? I looked over at Swan who was snickering at the whole situation.
"Uh, we're going to go sit down. Bye, now." I mutter awkwardly walking away. Well it seems as though I just lost a word battle with Swan, I couldn't come up with any snarky comment. I was rendered speechless by the whole ordeal. As the three of us walked past our full table, she waved stupidly at me while smiling and snickering at the same time.
It was her. It had to be.
I was angrily making way to my class after lunch, AP Chemistry. I was convinced it was her, it just had to be. I was also irritated because she overran my lunch table, Em and Jazz were acting weird the whole time I was talking or barely talking and stuttering. Oh and she totally out worded me, if that even makes sense. She got the last word, and she knew it. That girl knew every way to get under my skin, and she succeeded.
I pushed the door open on the science building, and walked down the hallway until I found room 110. I walked into the room, and it was mostly empty except for a couple people who were milling in. I decided to sit on one of the window lab tables. I sat there bored for a few minutes until I looked up a noticed that all the lab tables were filled up except the seat next to me, of course. None of my good friends were in this class, no Jazz or Em. Or anyone else for that matter.
At that exact moment, the classroom door opened and she walked in. And I really saw her.
I watched as she walked in the room, and scanned the room for the seat obviously not finding one then zeroing in on the seat next to me. She was wearing the standard white button shirt, with the school tie, and the standard plaid skirt. It was a really short skirt, but not as short as some others by far. It looks like she also decided to forgo the blazer just like I did, and it was paired with bright orange converse all stars. I can't believe that I was staring at her for so long, so I turned away. She was attractive, and I can't believe I didn't notice before or the fact that I just admitted that Isabella Swan is attractive.
"Guess, I'm stuck with you Cullen." She muttered pulling out the stool and sitting next to me. Well she didn't seem too thrilled to be sitting next to me, and neither was I. This was weird, I was ready for the word battle to begin, it always happened between us. Then the bell rang and class started. Yay, go AP Chemistry! Ha, not.
"Okay. Since this is AP Chemistry, we will be doing a lot of labs. Therefore, you need a lab partner and that person is sitting next to you." Wow, thanks teacher for making my day even better…and then I heard the instant groan from Swan. Seems like she isn't very thrilled about our partnership.
"Come get the instructions for your lab!" ugh stop the cheeriness, this is not fun. Swan is my partner for chrissake.
"Are you going to get off your ass or do I have to?" she huffed, clearly not pleased by this.
I sat there wordlessly staring at her with a smirk playing at my lips. I shook my head, and she got up but not before saying, "Pompous basterd." I laughed as she walked up to the front to get the instructions and materials. I would have done it myself but it made her mad that I showed no interest in doing so.
While she was up there getting the materials, I got lost in my own thoughts. I suddenly remembered that I'd be missing school on Thursday and Friday this week because my contract with them started, and I had to start working. I had one problem though, how was I going to explain to everybody why I was always gone all the time, a couple times here and there. I had to make up some excuse, until it came out and everyone knew.
She must have seen the spaced out look on my face, and plopped the supplies right in front of me, and it startled me. Add fuel to the fire Swan, I expect a comment in 5, 4, 3, 2..
"Quit daydreaming about yourself, and let's get started." She said, scowling at my blank expression.
"Shut it, Swan. I wasn't daydreaming about myself." I muttered grabbing the test tubes.
"oh touchy, are we today? That time again, huh?" she questioned raising her perfectly arched eyebrows at me.
"What did you say?" I questioned, frowning although I had heard what she had said. It was crystal clear.
"Aww is the baby sensitive today because he couldn't wear his favorite Abercrombie & Fitch polo to school so all the girls could drool over him?" she taunted, laughing freely.
"I don't know what you're talking about. Your just jealous you can't shop there." I retorted, it was a low blow to bring money into this, but she was pushing all the right buttons today, and they were not in the mood to be pressed.
"You must be living in a dream world, Cullen. I would never be caught in the stupid stores that you "shop" in. And FYI, my platinum credit card says otherwise." She said using air quotes with the word, "shop." How was that weird? Platinum credit card, well…
"And where do you "shop?" At Wal-Mart? And where did you get the platinum credit card? Did it come with your plastic wallet and purse?" I challenged, knowing full well that I was hitting a couple of nerves.
"No, I don't shop at Wal-Mart. And if I did, so what? That's all some people can afford, not everyone can throw away $30 on a polo shirt with a moose on it. Did your mommy buy you those shoes? They look expensive, I bet they you could feed someone with your Dolce & Gabbana designer shoes." She huffed, crossing her arms.
"Actually these are Prada designer shoes. What kind of shoes are yours? Converse? And yes, my "mommy' did by these for me, atleast my mom buys me things." I replied, although I could care less if my shoes were Prada or Dolce & Gabbana.
"Oh excuse me, for mistaking your Prada shoes for Dolce & Gabbana how dare me. Yes, yes they are do you have a problem with my shoes, huh?" she questioned, shoving her leg in my direction.
"You should be, if you go here you should know the difference between Prada, Chanel, Dolce & Gabbana, and Ralph Lauren. And yes, your shoes are so bright there hurting my eyes." I said, while covering my eyes because her shoes were "blinding" me, they weren't of course. I was just goading her.
"Like hell I will, I'm going to study all the rich kid and snooty brands that people wear just so I can know what kind of shoes and jackets you wear. I hope your eyes adjust, these shoes are going nowhere." She said sarcastically, while writing some notes down for our lab.
"Good, maybe then you'll know who I'm wearing. But I'm sure you know, what Abercrombie & Fitch is, right? I would hope so. I'll bring sunglasses next time, so your shoes don't hurt my eyes….maybe you'll even be able to tell what brand they are." I snorted, while putting a test tube back. We were working rhythmically as we worked, yet we seemed so focused on the fighting banter.
"You mean the company that has a moose on all of its shirts? Yeah, they're so cool! You better believe I'll know what kind of fucking rich kid sunglasses you'll be wearing….hmm Prada, Ray-Ban, or Dolce & Gabbana?" she spat, scribbling more notes down.
I looked up to see the teacher approaching us.
"What is with you two? Lovers spat?" she inquired with curiosity. I heard Swan snort, and then a gag. I think the color drained from my face.
"You two have been fighting the whole class period, some tension going on between you and your girlfriend?"
"What? No! She is not my girlfriend."
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