Aila's POV

I'd almost completely forgotten about Edward Cullen until the day he returned. Something about him was different. He seemed...

happier.

I sat at my spot in biology and noticed he'd somehow disappeared.

Was he skipping?

I turned around to talk to Ana. When the teacher called for our attention, I jumped.

He was here.

"Today," the teacher announced as she began handing out microscopes with slides, "We are doing an onion root-tip lab. You simply

observe the slide, then record what stage of mitosis it's at. Understand? You will be working with the person at your table."

She shot a look at Edward and I.

"You first?" he offered, pushing the microscope to me.

"Sure..."

I in the first slide.

"Interphase," I said after a moment.

As I wrote it on the worksheet, he said, "Um, I'm sorry about my behavior the last time I saw you. Let's say we try to start fresh. My name is

Edward Cullen, you are-"

"Aila Fox."

"Well, Aila, do you mind if I check?"

"Sure."

I slid him the microscope, trying hard not to stare.

Now that I could see his features up close without fear of getting my head ripped off, he was even more

magnificent.

His muscles were much larger than I'd thought, yet he didn't look like an over-worked bag of meat. His hair was the most particular

bronze color, eyes of molten gold. His skin was pale, like porcelain, unlike my chalky, milky colored skin.

Like me, his featured stood out. Thingd like this don't come natururally to normal humans.

Something was seriously wrong with this dude.

We finished the lab in nearly five minutes with much ease. We were the only ones finished, so that left alot of empty

room for him us to talk unfortunately.

"So how are you liking it here?" he asked.

Why was it that one day he's disgusted with me, and the next he thinks it his buisness to know if I'm

happy or not?

"It sucks, man!" I decided to be honest.

My answer seemed to amuse him.

"What's so bad?"

I huffed. What did it matter if this stranger knew my feelings? I had nothing to lose.

"its a long, complicated story..."

"Try me."

"Fine. So, I moved here from Atlanta, Georgia to live with my biological father while my mother and little sister go to Jacksonville,

Florida so that my mom could find a better job."

"Why Jacksonville?"

"Its where my grandparents live. Anyway, I didn't find out until I arrived that Heath, my dad, remarried to this total monster Carla. And, oh!

Don't even get me started on Alli and Maddi!"

Edward nodded taking in what I'd just said.

"That doesn't seem right."

I laughed hysterically.

"Hasn't any one told you? Some of us actually have to fight and work our way through life, and can't get out of tough situations.

Not all of us from high-class, stuck up, rich families! Life isn't fair, bub! Get over it! You don't even know the half of it!"

I hadn't realized that I'd yelled that last part.

Ms. Fish was giving me the death stare.

"Edward... Aila... is there something the two of you wish to share with the rest of us?"

This was my chance to get away from him... maybe.

"No." he stated firmly before I could put in my two cents worth.

The rest of the class period, we glared angrily at eachother.

But he was very intimidating.