Chapter 7 BPOV

My first week in Forks passed quickly. The days became routine which was oddly comforting. Edward continued to stare into my dreams every night. Things were going well. Oddly, I was happy.

I had grown strangely accustomed to the rain. I found it oddly soothing at night, along with the other natural sounds people wouldn't normally hear in Phoenix, it was a nice change. School was easy—they didn't teach anything that I haven't already covered in Phoenix, so it was one less thing to worry about. And of course, there was Angela, who was rapidly becoming my closest friend here. So why couldn't I be happy?

I was lying to myself. I knew the only reason I was even remotely happy here was because of Edward. How pathetic. I've only been here a week and he's become the corner-stone of my happiness—a hopeless obsession.

The days were much the same. I would arrive; he would be there—grinning at me from his car. At lunch, he would again smile that heart stopping smile while his sister, Rosalie would glare at me—which had also become routine. During Biology we would talk, he would ask me a question either about me or Phoenix, or ask me how my day was. After school he would be there to smile one last time before he left with his family. Sometimes I would look away from his face (which wasn't often) and see his pixie sister, Alice, looking between us with a satisfied grin on her lovely face.

Though the school week went by quickly, the weekend dragged on for what felt like forever. I nearly drove myself insane trying to pass the time. After finishing the laundry, my homework, and cleaning the house top to bottom, I was ready to pull my hair out from the anxiety of seeing him again. I had too much time on my hands. I was so anxious to get back to school, to him. It was ridicules! I basically spent the weekend in agony trying to keep him out of my head, and quite obviously failing.

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It was Monday again, and for the first time, I was absolutely ecstatic that the weekend was over. Today was a bit colder than usual, but it wasn't raining so my outlook on the day brightened exceedingly. I was still a bit anxious on my way to school. What if I had imagined it? Now that I thought about it, it all seemed like a beautiful dream, but my worries were put to rest when I saw Edward from across the parking lot smiling crookedly just like every day last week. Instinctively, I blushed, and his grin grew. I couldn't resist a smile as I made my way to my first class.

You know how when you are really anticipating something unpleasant time passes very quickly and before you know it you have to face that annoying inconvenience? Yet when you are really looking forward to something time goes slowly almost stops. That's exactly how I felt right now.

The day was dragging, it seemed like time had stopped altogether. The hands on the clock seemed to be going ten times slower than usual. My hand tapped restlessly on my desk as I counted down the minutes until lunch. So it surprised me when the bell rang for lunch. As soon as the bell rang, I was up and out of my seat headed towards the door. The other kids gave me funny looks, but I paid them no attention as I made my way outside. I stepped outside and shivered automatically. It seemed colder than it was in the morning, and I noticed the little white cotton fluffs that were falling from the sky.

Snow. Great, I thought sarcastically.

I heard squeals of delight as more people exited the classrooms. Soon, balls of mushy snow started flying around and hitting poor, unsuspecting students in the face. That was my cue to leave. I dodged dirty snowballs, keeping my folder ready to block any of them coming my way, and a annoying Mike Newton trying to get my attention as I made my way to the cafeteria. It was a relief when I finally got there.

Angela was already waiting for me in the cafeteria when I arrived. I looked around the cafeteria as Angela greeted me. My eyes landed on their table. They hadn't arrived yet. My mood darkenend

"I bet you're the only one that is not happy about the snow," Angela said, examining my scowl.

"How did you know?" I asked sarcastically as we walked towards the lunch line. The snow was only have of it.

She smiled and paid for her lunch with, thankfully, no more comments.

Occasionally, when we felt like it, we'd sit by ourselves in which ever table was free, but today we sat with Mike and Jessica's group. Jessica had asked us earlier and we agreed graciously, not knowing where we were going to sit today.

"Hi Bella, hi Angela!" Jessica greeted as we sat down. "Can you believe it's snowing? It's so exciting! The first snow fall of the year!" She gushed. Jess was nice, but sometimes she got too excited.

I look around the cafeteria as Jessica turned to speak to Mike. He had become less annoying over the past week; however he still sported the puppy-dog vibe by hovering around me whenever he got the chance.

I quickly spotted the Cullen table and saw that Edward wasn't looking my way, in fact, none of them were, which was out of the norm.

They were laughing. Edward Jasper and Emmett's hair was soaked with melting snow. Rosalie and Alice were leaning away as Emmett shook out his wet hair. It seemed like they had already had snowball fight judging by their drenched hair. They looked like a photo you would find in a greeting card or scene form a movie. They were enjoying the snow day just like everybody else.

Suddenly Edward turned away from his family to smile at me. I blushed, embaressed to be caught staring, and looked away. From the corner of my eye I could see him still looking at me.

"Bella," Lauren's nasally voice brought me back to reality. I looked up form the table to see the silver blonde scowling at me.

"Are you going to be here after school for the snowball fight?" She asked in a sickly sweet voice. "We're not going to play but we are going to be cheering the guys on." I could tell by her tone that she did't want me there in the slightest bit. Lucky for her I didn't want be there either.

"No, I don't really like the snow." I said.

"You don't like the snow?" She sneered. "Well that's too bad." Not really. She seemed satisfied that I wasn't going.

When I looked back Edward was no longer looking at me, but glaring at Lauren. I was baffled. It was like he heard everything she said, which was impossible. He couldn't have heard from across the cafeteria, right?

He was no longer glaring at Lauren, but now looking at me curiously. I looked down, feeling my cheeks go red. I have to stop getting caught staring. He must think I'm a stalker or something.

I tried not to look at him as much but it was nearly impossible. I attempted to keep my mind on the conversation but missed most of it. Jessica kept trying to convince me to go afterschool to cheer for the boys but the image of Lauren kept me from giving in to her. And, frankly, I just did not want to go. Finally, the bell rang and Angela and I made are way out of the cafeteria.

Out side it had started raining, washing any evidence of the snow. Disappointed groans filled the air all around me. Inwardly, I cheered, glad to have it gone.

"There goes our snowball fight." I heard Mike mutter disappointed.

I walked to my next class with a satisfied smile on my face.

We were the first ones there. I sat down, still smiling and anxiously waited for the second bell to ring. Stop it! I scolded myself. I shouldn't be so excited. Most people were starting to arrive when I heard someone pull out the stool next to me. My heart hammered in my chest.

"By the smile on your face I would say you're quite satisfied with the snow." My heart lurched and my breath caught when I heard the velvety voice that has been haunting my dreams for the past week.

I looked up to see him smiling crookedly down at me. His angel face was framed by his darkened bronze hair still wet form the snowball fight. It made him all the more beautiful.

I looked down blushing. I'm amazed my face isn't permanently red.

"Yeah," I said. "Snow is drier than rain…until it melts in your socks. Which isn't pleasant." He seemed fascinated by my little rant. I couldn't imagine why.

Mr. Banner called for the class to quiet down and started the tedious lesson. It was one of those days when Edward and I didn't get to speak. I took careful notes to distract me from ogling at him.

My hand was writing mechanically while my brain had taken a trip to fantasy land. It's a good thing I covered most of this in Phoenix or else I would be failing.

RING!

I jumped, practically flinging my notebook across the room with a yelp. Everybody stopped packing up to look at me with wide eyes. My face flamed, and I looked down, covering my face with a curtain of hair. I heard Edward chuckle.

"I'll see you tomorrow," he said, still laughing. I would have been angry at him, but his laughter was far too enchanting to think about anything else. I walked out of class pondering the effect he had on me. It was clear that every other being in the female race was as dazzled by Edward as I was. Did he use it to his advantage? Could he walk into a store and dazzle the cashier into a free iPod?

The rest of the day passed quickly. I found out that the nearest sports programs was in Port Angeles. With the gas mileage my truck has I don't think Rusty (the name Angela so kindly thought up for my truck) could handle a two hour drive 3 times a week, just so I could get a good work out. I suppose I could just run on the weekends—that is, of course, If it doesn't rain. Then of course there's Gym.

I quickly finished my homework and made dinner for Charlie before falling into my inviting bed, exhausted from the seemingly normal day.

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I woke the next morning to the annoying ringing of my alarm clock. I slammed my hand down on the snooze button, scowling. My head pounded from the high pitch of the ring. I need to buy a new alarm clock. I looked out the window to see it was as foggy as always but clearer somehow. Something didn't feel right.

My feet hit the chilled wood of my floor as I made my way to my window. I rubbed away a small circle of frost to look out at the road and gasped in horror.

Over night, the melted snow had frozen over and now covered all of the ground with a thin sheet of ice.

"I'm going to die," I moaned.

I think I preferred the snow over this. I might as well go back to bed and spare my life. I thought sarcastically. Reluctently I got ready for school, mentally preparing myself for the awful waiting ahead

I ate my breakfast quickly and made my way carefully across the ice to my truck. I drove slower than usual, not wanting to lose control and crash.

I arrived at school a little later than usual but still had a few minutes before the bell rang.

I was making my way around my car and to first period when something silver caught my eye.

I bent down behind my truck to see that the tires were covered in crisscrossing chains making diamond patterns on them.

Snow chains. Charlie.

He must of gotten up who knows how early to put this on.

I felt myself tearing up. I had never really been taken care of before. I've always been the adult back home and ever since Phil came I've felt alone.

I knew it was irrational and overemotional, but I had to fight a sob from escaping my throat.

Suddenly I heard a high-pitched squeal followed by a scream. I turned quickly to see where the commotion was just in time to see a large van headed straight towards me.

Time seemed to stop and everything was moving in slow motion as I braced myself for impact. I looked around quickly, hoping to spot the person I wanted to last see.

Edward's eyes were wide with shock and his mouth was hanging open.

I looked back towards the van and shut my eyes tightly. Something hard crashed into me, knocking me to the ground. I opened my eyes carefully and looked down at my sore body. Cold, pale arms circled my body, my chest pressed to his. Slowly, time started to move again and reality started to creep back.

"Bella? Bella? Are you okay?" I heard a velvet voice ask frantically.

I felt faint as I realized what happened, what could have happened.

"Edward?" I replied dizzily.

And then everything went black.

There you go the chapter seven! It might not have been a week like I wanted to but at least it wasn't 2 months!!

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