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I walked up to the front desk and 24 pairs of eyes followed me there. Including Edward's and Lauren's-who was glaring at me viciously. I waved to her and turned to the teacher.
"You must be Isabella Swan,"
"Bella." I muttered under my breath.
"Welcome to the Country's most prestigious school-Thurston. My name is Jack-"
"Tupp!" Someone coughed and the whole class cracked up. (Get it? Jack Tupp? If you don't, say it faster!)
"Yes," he glared at the student who was still snickering, "Tupp just so happens to be my last name. It's quite unfortunate. May my parents rest in hell." He mumbled so quietly I could barely hear him. "Anyway, Bella, because it is the beginning of March you have missed quite a bit. But you seem intelligent, so I am sure that you will have no trouble catching up with the rest of the class." He smiled pleasantly at me and I averted my eyes, not knowing what to say back to that. If all you have to do here is say one word for people to think that you're smart, I guess I won't be speaking much. Not that I have a problem with that. I thought.
"Yeah, okay thanks. Um, where do I sit?" I scanned the room and it didn't take me long to figure out where I would be placed, because there was only one open spot left.
"You may have a seat next to Mr. Cullen. I'm sure he'd be happy to show you around the school."
Before Edward could say anything, Alice's hand shot into the air. "Actually Mr. Tupp, I've already claimed that job." She stated proudly and smiled at me. I smiled back, "I owe you." I mouthed to her.
"Thank goodness." Edward mumbled and angled his chair far enough away from me so that he could avoid me as much as possible, yet still see the board. It turned out that we were watching a movie on GMOs and the effects on farmers and the world in general. I yawned and took out my sketch pad, for I had already seen this documentary various times. I started off drawing random things at first- from sheep to smiley faces, birds and 3-d boxes, to the occasional heart. I closed my book and asked to be excused to use the bathroom. When I came back, I found my book open, and Edward staring at my drawings, a frown upon his face.
"What are you doing?" I slammed it shut and shoved the pad back into my bag.
"You call that a drawing? Looks more like chicken scratch to me."
I was taken aback, and my face turned a bright color red. But I still had enough dignity to strike back, "Did I ask for your opinion?"
He ignored my question, "You don't take an art class, do you?"
"No." I answered truthfully.
"Good, because then they'd be borderline desperate."
I glared at him, "Don't you have some sulking to do?" I asked just as the bell rang.
Edward rose from his chair and swiftly kept his distance from me, "It was a pleasure talking to you, really." And then he was gone.
I stood there gawking at where he had sat when I then felt a tap on my shoulder. A big guy in a hockey jersey, jeans, and a backwards hat stared at me, fidgeting with his nose ring. "Dude, what did you say to him? He was totally on edge. Watch your back homie, Edward has major connections."
His pants sagged and he walked away from me, hiking them up and almost tripping over them in the process.
Rosalie and Alice appeared in front of me at the classroom door, blocking my exit, "What just happened?"
I explained to them how Edward had shifted his chair away from me just as I sat down, and when I found him going through my sketch pad, and then him insulting my drawings.
"Did anything happen before that?" Alice questioned. I shook my head and she exhaled loudly. "Jeez, I've never seen him act that way before."
"Neither have I." Rosalie agreed.
"Maybe he's just thirsty?" Alice whispered to Rosalie, but not quietly enough.
"Well, lunch is about 3 hours away, I'm sure he can wait a bit longer." I muttered. Alice and Rosalie exchanged wary glances. "And if he can't," I added, "there's a water fountain right over there." I pointed to one across the hallway.
The starting bell rang and we bid our farewells to Rosalie before Alice dragged me to Gym. I changed into the uniform that we were required to wear- a blue and gray t-shirt with the school's emblem on the front, and shorts that went down to between your knees and thighs, though most of the girls had cut theirs higher up.
Alice and I walked out of the room together, arm in arm, and sat down on the bleachers awaiting the teacher's instructions.
"Bella, if you could have another chance to mend your bleeding wound with Edward, would you?"
"What?" I asked Alice.
"In other words, if you want to get off to a fresh start with Edward, here's your chance." I looked in Alice's direction and low and behold, who came sauntering out of the boy's locker room with his buddies surrounding him? Edward, of course.
He must have sensed me staring at him, because he turned his head my way and his face became sour. "Did you see that?" I asked Alice astonished.
"See what?"
"He was laughing and smiling with his friends, but then he saw me and he frowned! What have I ever done to him?"
Alice didn't answer. She was looking into the distance in a daze.
"Alice, Alice?" I snapped my fingers in front of her face and she smiled at me and answered my question, like nothing had just happened.
"We're going to find out now."
"And what makes you say that?" I was interrupted by a sharp whistle sounding throughout the gym.
"All rise!" The Gym teacher yelled. "You know the drill." She pulled out a clipboard from behind her back.
"I don't know the drill!" I whispered frantically to Alice and she giggled at my nervousness. "Alice, this is not a time for laughing, nothing is funny about this."
"Calm down, silly. I've got you covered."
"Mallory!"
"Here."
"Stanley!"
"Like, what?"
"Cullen!"
"Which one?"
"Both of you!"
"Here!" Came Edward and Alice's simultaneous reply.
"Fields!"
"Waddup, yo?"
"Black!"
"It's all good in the hood." Snickers came from around me and I looked to see who had said that. A familiar black haired head made its way into my view and I slowly recognized him as Jake. I waved to him and when he saw me he winked. Alice frowned at him and stuck up a naughty finger.
The coach sighed and dropped her clipboard on the ground, "Listen, I don't have time for this, if you're here say 'I'."
"I" The class repeated.
"That's what I thought. Today, we will be playing dodgeball." Cheers rang out and the students high-fived each other, everyone except for Lauren and her clique, who were to busy sitting at the far end of the bleachers, filing their nails.
"Form a straight line at half court, now!" She counted down from five, and a clutter of bodies raced to the middle of the basketball court. Alice briskly tiptoed over to the gym teacher and tapped her on the shoulder.
"Ms. Shower, my friend here," she pointed to me, "she's new, I was just wondering if we could sit out, you know, so I could show her around the school for a little while?"
Ms. Shower stared at Alice blankly, "You can do that on your time, Cullen. Right now, we're playing dodgeball. What's her name?"
"Bella Swan."
"Mhm. Ah, here she is." She crossed my name off of the list and motioned for Alice to join me at half court. Alice and I linked arms hoping that we would be on the same team. Alice stared ahead, not saying anything- that was very unusual for her. Guessing that something was wrong, I nudged her with my elbow, and she held up a finger and then switched spots with the person next to her- thus puttng him in between us- just as the teacher stood in front of the class and barked out, "You stay on the team I put you, whether you like it or not. No switching places in line." Hopefully she didn't see Alice.
Ms. Showers started counting off by making every other person the number 1. When she was done counting off, she said, "One's to the right, all the other's to left of the line."
We split up into our teams and Alice and I met on the same side and slapped each other's hands in approval of her master plan. "Hey, look, Bella!" Alice pointed to the end of our side of the court. "Edward's on our team, whoo-hoo! Not only will we win now, but you can straighten things out with him!"
"Oh, great." I said with no enthusiasm at all.
About 2 dozen balls were thrown out of the equipment room. The whistle blew, and the games began.
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