A/N: Sorry for the late update. Here's chapter 7, hope you enjoy. Don't mind any spelling/grammar mistakes.

Enjoy.

Chapter 7: Superman, tree climbing and pitiful behaviour (A/N: not in that exact order)

Epov

I knew I was going to see Bella again today. I could feel it.

So, for the rest of the day, I waited hopefully in class to see if she'd come in and expected to see her after turning every corner.

Fucking pitiful, I know.

But I couldn't help it. I trust my intuition way to much. It's a stupid thing to do and you'd think that by now I would have learned not to do it. It only ever made me look like an idiot.

By the end of the day, I was so sure that my intuition had been wrong, that when I walked to the parking lot, and found Alice standing with Bella and Jasper in the middle of the lot, I was shocked.

Guess it wasn't wrong after all.

"Hey Ali! Come on! We have to go."

Bella turned and saw me. I smiled at her and started walking towards them. Alice looked kind of relieved to see me.

Avoiding something? Don't worry; your escape route big brother is here! I told Alice-using our twin mind connection. She frowned, and I smirked. No Edward, I just was happy you got here on time… and she trailed off back to talking normally.

"Oh, hey Edward. This is Bel-" "We've already met." Bella and I interrupted her.

Alice looked confused, looked between Bella and me and smirked. This can't be good…

When and where? Alice thought, still with the mischievous smirk. She's already getting ideas. Later. What are you smirking about?

Oh nothing…but you better be prepared for that "later" mister.

Gulp.

"Oh?" Alice asked.

"Yeah, at lunch." Bella answered. She glanced at me and blushed.

You would expect there to be an awkward silence right about now, but it didn't happen. The four of us just kept talking as people left. It was too good to last and eventually Bella looked at her watch and, after realizing the time, started leaving with Jasper.

Before they got very far, Alice yelled "WAIT!" and ran off after Bella and Jasper.

That really fucking hurt! Any louder Allison? I thought. She stuck her tongue out at me.

She skipped back a few minutes later, smiling the whole way. "There," she said. I quirked an eyebrow at her. Alice rolled her eyes. "I gave her your number genius!" Oh. She gave Bella my number…

She gave Bella my number… why the hell hadn't I thought of that?

"Come on Eddie. If we don't get to the car soon Rosie will drive off without us." Alice said grabbing my arm and dragging me towards the car.

To say Rose was mad would be a lie. Even though we kept her waiting almost an hour, she didn't yell, shout or even glare like she usually does when she's mad. She didn't seem mad at all.

According to her, every boy she had passed complimented her or drooled in her wake. Great, it'll just make her ego that much bigger. And my job that much harder.

Rose started talking about one guy who she had deemed "dateable" which got Alice started on Jasper. Girls really do that, and God it's fucking annoying! I can't wait to have my own car so I don't have to listen to this.

When we got home Alice and Rose went off to do whatever it is girls do after school and I snuck into my room before Alice could remembered her statement about "later". I just hope she doesn't say anything in front of mom. Rosalie and Alice are bad enough, but throw my mom into the mix and any hope of keeping anything a secret is destroyed almost instantaneously. The three of them were like secret cracking super spies. (A/N: that doesn't make sense does it?)

Don't get me wrong, I love my mom, but she likes to know everything and, just like Alice, she's got an overactive imagination. Basically you say crush she starts thinking couple. And when it doesn't work out she's more upset then you half the time. I love her to death, but sometimes things are better kept secrets.

Dad's better that way; he knows when you want to talk and when to just leave you alone.

There was nothing to do. Fucking absolutely nothing.

There was nothing good on TV and I'd already finished my homework. Alice and Rose went out- I don't know where the hell they went in a town this small- so I didn't even have avoiding Alice to keep me occupied.

So I went for a walk. Boring, but if Rose and Alice could find somewhere to meet their entertainment needs in this town, then maybe I could too.

I think I'd been walking for about fifteen minutes when I saw her. Bella was leaning on a lamppost, looking at her hands, and before I could call out to her…

In a crooked little town they were lost but never found

Fallen leaves, fallen leaves, fallen leaves on the ground

…my phone rang.

Bella's head shot over to where I was standing and she smiled. "Nice ring tone."

"Thanks, it's new. Got it after I went to the concert. It was awesome." (A/N: I went to the Billy Talent concert. Totally loved it.)

"Yeah, it must have been. You know, you should probably check that. Might be something important."

"You think? Well I'd say I'm doing something pretty important right about now so, sorry caller." I shrugged, slipping in a compliment for Bella. She blushed. One point for Edward!

"Nice to know that you'd screen my calls" she laughed. I shrugged. We started walking down the street talking and my boredom evaporated. (A/N: wonder why?... :P)

"So, what is there to do here anyways?" I asked after a few minutes of silence. "Well, there's bowling, most people do that…then there's the 7eleven…the "two movies at a time" movie theatre and the park." Bella listed, marking everything off with her fingers.

"Not much to choose from is there? Where are we closest to?"

"Nope, and I think the parks only about a block away."

"Well, what are we standing around here for, let's go to the park!" I grabbed Bella's hand and we sprinted in the direction she had pointed out.

Once we got there, I raced for the swings. They were my favourite thing at the park, always had been. Bella took the swing next to mine and we just sat there for a while rocking back and forth, not really swinging or talking.

"The swings were always my favourite, you know," Bella said after almost ten minutes of total silence. "I used to pretend I was a fairy, flying around a garden when I was little. Then, after I read Harry Potter,I pretended I was riding a broomstick." I laughed at that.

"Hey, don't laugh! It's not that funny…" she trailed off twisting the swing. "Yes it is. Besides, you'll laugh to after I tell you that I used to pretend to be superman saving metropolis from meteorites, you know when I was six." She laughed now and I couldn't not stare at her. She looked so cute when she laughed.

"Wanna see who can go higher?" Bella asked shyly after we stopped laughing at each others childhood memories. "One…Two…" I started. "THREE!" Bella laughed and we kicked off and I started pumping my legs faster and faster. There was no way I was losing to Bella. No way in hell.

"I'm going to beat you, you know." she said. "Not likely." I retorted. Then, she jumped off, and her swing went over the bar, and she landed right in front of the jungle gym six feet away. Fuck that looked cool. I skidded to a stop.

"See," she said, pointing to the swing over the bar, "told you I'd go higher." "You cheated." I said, walking over to her. Bella acted like she was offended. "I did no such thing!" "You know you did." "Oh Edward, don't be such a baby! It's just a little game!" she teased.

Bella took my hands in hers and pulled me towards a tree with low branches right beside the park entrance. We climbed up to the third branch and sat there talking.

"So, do you like it here or what?" she asked. "I didn't until I met you." Bella blushed.

Flirting. You could be serious or just joking around, and if it works out, good for you. If it doesn't, you could just say you were kidding around. It's the perfect trick, with one flaw. You never know when it's for real.

"Oh very funny Mr. Cullen." Bella laughed, nudging me in the arm. "Well it's true." "In that case, you're first day here must have been more boring then watching a sea sponge grow." "What?" "Nothing. I say weird things sometimes." "Whatever you say, captain."

We sat there for I don't know how long, talking and watching the sky get slightly darker (how do you tell when its getting dark out in a town constantly covered by clouds?) until my phone buzzed. I looked at it and read a text:

From: Alice

Where the hell are you?! Mom is freaking out Edward. You better get home fast if you don't want to be grounded.

Oh fuck. I'm dead. Play it cool. "Sorry Bells, I gotta run before the 'rents find out I'm not home." It sounds like you sunk out of the house behind their backs. Nice one Casanova.

"Shit that reminds me…" Bella trailed off, looking at her own phone. "10:15. Yup, I'm dead. It's passed my curfew. "

"You're parents must be strict." I said as we climbed down from the tree. "Not really. Just big worry warts."

We didn't talk much on the way back until we turned down the same street. There was a dead end at the end of the street, so there was no way she could have been headed in another direction.

"You live on this street?" I asked. "No. I live right here, on the corner." Bella pointed to the house right beside us. "Ha ha, very funny. I live right at the very end." "Good to know. Now I know which house to nicky nicky nine door." I narrowed my eyes. "You wouldn't." "You'll have to wait and see. Night Edward." she laughed and walked up the steps to her house. "Night Bella." I said. "See you tomorrow." she called back.

And with that, I headed home only to find Alice waiting for me at the front door with her eyes narrowed. "Do you realize that for the first time in fifteen years, you have avoided one of my 'laters'?" "No I didn't realize that Allison. Are mom and dad home?" "They went out to dinner an hour ago. I just wanted to talk to you so I lied. And don't call me that." "Sorry Mary. And thanks, by the way, for that lie. I was having a great time until you ruined it." "URG! Don't call me that! You know I hate it when people call me that!"

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how you successfully avoid an Alice confrontation. Bug her about her names and she completely forgets what she was going to bother you about. At least for a short period of time. After two to three hours she'll be back.

Alice stomped off to her room and I was glad she wouldn't be bugging me about anything for at least a day. It was already ten thirty, so I grabbed a bag of chips and watched Superbad, until halfway through (about 11:15), when mom and dad came home and told me to get to bed.

And that was the beginning of my life in Forks. Not as bad as I thought it would be (thanks to a certain brunette).

A/N: Good, bad, in between? Review people, tell me!! I couldn't come up with a good ending, so I left it at that. Next chapter will be BPOV and then Emmett. FINALLY! At least that's how it's supposed to happen if things go the way I want them.

I know that Rose and Alice hear about Bella at lunch, almost right after Edward and her meet, but I had written and posted the last chapter before I realized it, so I wrote this chapter to fit in with that one. I'm just mentioning that little screw up here. Alice just thinks its another Bella in this chapter, not the one Edward met earlier. Any other questions about mistakes or anything else, just leave them in a review or send a PM.

Bye for now, R&R please.

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