Chapter 7.
Chapter title is kind of lame, but I didn't have anything better for it. I you have a better idea for it, don't hesitate to let me know.
Enjoy.
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Quick summary: Bella is going to boarding school, Edward is the jock player around there and finds an interest in the pretty new girl. Bella is totally attracted to him but doesn't want him to know. Eventually they'll end up together, DUHH, but there's going to be a lot of teasing and fluffy stuff. And of course, of course there will be sexy stuff too (not too lemony though).
The story is All Human. Pairings will be the same as in the series (no crazy JasperxBella or RosaliexEdward, eww). Edward is kind off Out Of Character, since he's a jock and everything, but the Edward we all know is in there too. Bella is not too much Out Of Character. She just loosen up a little more around the people she's familiar with.
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Eating buddiesI
was one of the first students present in Biology class today. Edward
sat beside me and greeted me with a small smile before turning his
attention to the teacher. We didn't talk much during the hour and
he was being distant. Not unfriendly, but just distant. Like he had
something on his mind. His mood brought mine down with his. I wonder
what was up with him.
After Biology class I went to Economics and
Spanish. Jessica was passing me notes again during Spanish. She
interrogated me about how my date with Cliff was. I had a hard time
convincing her that it wasn't a date. After Spanish she walked with
me to the cafeteria and was chatting again about the latest gossip.
It didn't mean anything to me since I hardly knew the persons she
was talking about. When we entered the cafeteria, my eyes darted
automatically over to the Cullen-Hale table. I saw Rosalie, Emmett,
Jasper and Alice. Disappointment flooded through me as I didn't
find Edward sitting there. I silently walked next to the still
babbling Jessica, over to the lunch line. "So Bella, I was thinking
about taking your advice and just ask
Mike to the dance." Jessica beamed at me. "That's great Jess,
you should do that." "I know right?!" I gave her a small
encouraging smile, before tuning her out again. I wasn't feeling
very hungry so I just bought a bottle of lemonade. I wanted to go and
sit and be left alone. "Edward Cullen is staring at you again"
Jessica said, breaking through my abstraction with his name. My head
snapped up, I followed her gaze to see Edward, smiling crookedly,
staring at me from an empty table across the cafeteria. "I wonder
why he's sitting alone today. Normally he sits with his family or
just has a lunch date. Actually, I don't think I can recall a time
where he would sit alone." Jessica gushed, but I was only half
listening. Me eyes were trained on him. Once he'd caught my eye, he
raised his hand and motioned with his index finger for me to join
him. As I stared at him, he winked to emphasize his gesture. "Does
he mean you?"
Jessica asked with insulting astonishment and disbelief in her voice.
"I think so. I better go see what he wants." I muttered to her.
"See you in Trig." I could feel her staring after me as I walked
away. When I reached Edward's table, I stood behind the chair
across from him, unsure. He was being so distant this morning, it
made me confused. But now he wanted me to sit with him?
"Why
don't you sit with me today?" he asked, smiling.
I sat down
automatically, watching him with caution. He was still smiling. It
was hard to believe that someone so beautiful could be real. I was
afraid that he might disappear in a sudden puff of smoke, and I would
wake up. He seemed to be waiting for me to say something. But I
wasn't sure what I could say to him. His mood swings were
confusing. "This is different." I finally said. It was different.
Until now I've only spend my lunches on the other, the crowded,
table. "I think your friends are angry with me for stealing you."
he said. I glanced over to the lunch table I normally sat on. I saw
Jessica and Lauren whispering with each other while Angela shot them
angry looks. Mike, Eric and Tyler were glaring in our direction. Lee
and Samantha were busy with each other and didn't pay attention to
their surroundings, as usual.
"They'll survive" I said to
Edward when I turned my attention back to him. I could feel Mike,
Eric and Tyler still staring at us. "I may not give you back
though," he said with a wicked glint in his eyes. I gulped. How I
would like that idea. No Bella. Focus.
He laughed. "You look
worried." "No, I'm not." I said in a small voice. The things
crossing my mind caused my voice to shake a little. I mentally
scolded at myself and tried to get rid of the alluring thoughts. His
eyes showed amusement as he flashed me another smile. My insides
turned to pudding. I looked down at my hands wrapped around the
lemonade bottle. Not sure what to do now. I cleared my troath. "So
ehm… why a change of seat today?", I asked him, and looked up
again. He shrugged. "I enjoyed your company at break fast
yesterday, so I thought you might as well be my company at lunch."
He stared into my eyes. "Unless, you don't want to, of course."
As if. "No, no, it's fine." I said quickly. "Good." he
grinned.
"So, I've met your sister yesterday. She's in my
Art class.", I said, trying to make conversation. "Really?"
Edward looked at me surprised. "Yeah, I think she's nice. She's
a very optimistic person." I paused for a second. "And very
bouncy", I added and smiled at him. He laughed, "Yeah, if I
didn't know her so well, I'd think she took an overdose of
happy-pills every morning. I bet she's also convinced you to go
shopping with her hasn't she?" The guilty look on my face was
already enough of an answer and made him laugh harder. "I can't
help it that I'm a total push-over. I just couldn't say no to
her."
'Well, be aware. You have no idea what you've agreed
on.' Edward chuckled.
I groaned and Edward just smiled at me. I
really did not enjoy shopping. Sighing, I took the cap of the bottle
and took a sip of my lemonade. Edward eyed my bottle of lemonade
disapprovingly. "What?" I asked him. "Bella, where's your
lunch?" he pointed at my bottle. 'Oh… I wasn't really hungry
so I figured I would just buy a drink.' Great. He probably thinks I
have an eating disorder or something, since I also didn't buy break
fast yesterday. He said nothing. He just shook his head and pushed
his plate of French fries to the middle of the table. He kept on
looking at me and I realized he was waiting for me to eat some. So I
did. When I started chewing on some fries, I realized that now my
mood was up again, so was my hunger. After eating some himself,
Edward said, 'So. What has my beloved sister been saying about me?'
'Well, actually,' I said, as I thought back to yesterday, 'she
hasn't even mentioned you. She just talked mostly about Jasper.'
'She hasn't even mentioned me? Oh I'm hurt.' Edward
placed his right hand over his heart and stuck his bottom lip out in
the most adorable pout. "Shut up Cullen. I'm sorry to tell, but
the world doesn't revolve around you.' I said and threw a French
fry at him. He chuckled and continued eating, so did I.
Edward asked me a few questions about Cliff and seemed somewhat pleased that I didn't saw Cliff as anything more then a friend. For the rest we just talked about random stuff.
After lunch we walked to English together. Mike was glaring at Edward, but Edward didn't seem to notice. Tyler looked over to us a couple of times, but Lauren was claiming most of his attention. Mr. Mason handed out the General Prologue of the Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. I could hear a few groans coming from the back, here and there. Once everyone had one, and Mr. Mason was behind his desk again, he cleared his throat. 'Today, class, we're going to start working on the Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. I've just handed out the General Prologue, which exists out of 42 lines. The original prologue exists out of 860 lines, but that is obviously to long to treat in class. Now, as you can see, this is written in Middle English. Everyone gets to read one or two lines out loud. Together we'll translate it to Modern English and analyse the text.' Mr. Mason paused and walked over to a small desk at the side of the classroom. He put a cd in the cd-player that stood on the desk. 'I know that some of you are dreading this assignment, but I hope this will lift your spirits.' He threw a quick glance through the classroom and then pushed down on the play-button of the cd-player. Suddenly there was a booming beat pumping out of the speakers and Mr. Mason cracked his neck and loosened his tie. What was he doing? I looked at Edward but he didn't seem to know either. But the answer came soon enough.
'Whan that Aprille, - with hise shoures soote,
The droghte of March, - hath perced to the roote.
And
bathed every veyne in-swich- li-cour,
Of which vertu engrended
is-the-flour…'
Oh-My-God, he started rapping. I stared wide-eyed to the sight in front of me. I looked at Edward, who looked as astonished as me, and back to the rapping teacher in front of us. Am I dreaming? I mean, this is as crazy and absurd as the dream I had about Mr. Varner and Mr. Richwood… I pinched myself in my arm. Nope. I am not dreaming. Edward recovered from his shock and burst out in laughter. His laugh was infectious and I found myself laughing as well. A few boys in the back started whistling and clapping for Mr. Mason. Soon I had tears falling from my eyes, this was just downright hilarious. When he finished the last line, Mr. Mason stopped the cd and the whole class erupted in an applause, which he accepted by taking a bow. 'All right. Now that I got that over with,' Mr. Mason chuckled, 'I would like to begin. Ms. Hill could you start by reading the first line please?' The girl he meant, I think her name was Lindsey, started reading. She had to pronounce everything the way it was supposed to sound. That caused a few laughs here and there. Together we translated the lines and analysed everything. Mr. Mason gave us no homework, because we would continue in class tomorrow. When the bell rang and students left the classroom, a few people pounded fists with the teacher and claimed he was now 'officially cool'. Edward walked with me to my next class, before running off to his own.
During geography I told what happened to Angela. She too thought it was hilarious.
In Trigonometry, Mike kept on trying to make conversation with me. But every time Mr. Varner caught him whispering and he ended up with extra homework.
Angela told me she was going to Ben after school and that they were going out for dinner tonight. Right before she started to walk away, I remembered that I hadn't asked her yet about the plan for tomorrow. When I told her, she was really excited to meet the boys again, and promised to let Ben know, so he could meet them too.
Now school was done for me for today, I decided I could finally check out the library. I went back up to the dorms and repacked my bag with my homework. I went to the bathroom to freshen up a little and took a snack from the fridge. I flipped my phone open and dialled Jacob's number. After three or four rings, he picked up.
'Hello?'
'Hey Jake!'
'Oh hey Bells, whatsap? Have you asked Angela yet?'
'Yeah, sorry I didn't let you know any sooner, but I forgot. But she's fine with it. So what time do you think you guys will be here?'
'I think we can leave around 04:00, so we'll probably be there between 07:00 and 08:00.'
'Ok, that's good. Well, I'll see you tomorrow then.'
'Yess, see ya tomorrow Bells. Bye.'
'Bye Jake.'
I hung up the phone. I took my bag, now filled with my homework, and made my way to the library. When I reached it, I dropped my coat and my bag in a chair and started wandering around. I strolled by the large bookshelves and read the many titles. Occasionally I would pull one out and read the back cover. Of course there were a lot of school-related books, but there were many many, other books that I would enjoy reading. I made mental notes to myself for the books that I thought I should or shouldn't read sometime. When I was finished exploring the bookshelves, I took a seat in the study area and finished my Spanish and Art class homework. I didn't feel like doing much else today, so it was only 5 o'clock when I left the library. I went back up to my dorm and dumped my bag on the bed. I flopped down on the couch and started zapping through the tv stations. After an hour or so I got kind off bored and decided to check my email before fetching something to eat from the cafeteria.
I went to sit behind the computer and opened my inbox. I got an email from my mom. She asked me how I was and how I was liking my new school. She asked me about Jacob too, since she knows that he's my best friend. She didn't know that he was my unofficial boyfriend, because I hadn't told her yet. I didn't want her to get all excited when we weren't even sure if we would go through with it. I answered all her questions in my reply, and asked her a few myself. How she and Phil were doing, etc.
After I'd send my reply, I read the two emails that my dad and Cheryl had send me. One was asking me about the same questions that my mom had asked me, about school and Jacob.
And in
the other, they had added some more pictures and they wrote a little
about how they were enjoying Argentina. After I replied to their
emails as well, I got rid off the spam in my mailbox and shut off the
computer. I put on my coat and started making my way down to the
cafeteria. When I was halfway across the courtyard, I saw Edward on
the other side. When he caught my eye, I waved to him. He smiled and
jogged over to me. "Hey", he said, once he was within hearing
distance. "Hey", I greeted him back. "Were are you
going?"
"Cafeteria. Angela is eating out with Ben, so I'm
just gonna pick up some dinner for tonight." "You're alone
tonight?", he asked. "Yeah, guess so." "Hmm," he mused.
"You know what? Garrett is also out tonight. Maybe if you'd like
to, we could get some dinner together?"
"Yeah, sure," I smiled at him. Wow, we're really starting to grow a pattern here. If somebody comes up to me in 10 years and asks me how I knew Edward Cullen, I would say, "Cullen? Oh me and him were eating buddies back in high school."
"Great." Edward grinned at me. "Well, let's go then." He turned and started walking towards the cafeteria. I walked beside him and together we went over to the line. Edward grabbed two disposable food containers and handed one to me. I filled mine with mushroom ravioli, while Edward got himself some chicken parmesan with penne pasta. After we paid for the food, I got a little plastic bag and put both of the food containers in it. 'Here, let me carry it.', Edward said, while reaching out for the plastic bag. I eyed the big sports bag he was carrying. "No, it's fine, you're already carrying something and seriously, this weights nothing." "I really don't mind, just –," Edward started, but I cut him off. "Seriously Edward, it weights nothing, now come on before it gets cold." I laughed. "Fine.", he sighed in defeat.
"So
you wanna go to your dorm or mine?", I asked him. "Do you mind if
we go to my dorm? I want to change into something more comfortable."
Oh, I don't mind at all,
I mentally sang. "Sure, that's fine." I nodded and started
walking into the direction of the boys building. When we were inside
the dorm, Edward dumped his bag on his bed and fetched something from
his closet. "I'll be done in a minute", he said and disappeared
in the bathroom. I walked over to the counter and placed the plastic
bag on it. I started searching the cupboards and found plates, knifes
and forks for us both. I also poured us some drinks. I placed the
plates and the drinks on the coffee table. I got the bag from the
counter and placed it on the coffee table as well. I sat down on the
ground, in front of the coffee table and sipped from my drink. Edward
came out from the bathroom and sat across from me, on the other side
of the table. He had changed into loose grey sweatpants and a dark
coloured t-shirt which clung slightly on his torso. I have to admit,
he looked good. Distracting myself, I took the food containers out of
the bag and handed Edward his. I placed my food on my plate and
started eating it slowly. After chewing on a few bites, Edward
started talking. "Have you made any friends yet?" I couldn't
answer his question right away, because I was still chewing on my
food. As he noticed that, he continued talking. "I mean, so far
you've met Angela right?" I nodded.
"And Ben of course. And well, you've met me,"
he flashed me a crooked smile when he said this. I was glad my mouth
was empty by know, because I would've probably choked on my food.
"And Jazz, Emmett and Alice. You'll probably meet Rose soon too."
"Rose?" "Yeah, Rosalie, she's Emmett's girlfriend." "Oh
right." He flashed me another smile and continued listing off
names. "Well, Cliff too of course, since he's in your partner in
Chemistry and he's in your History class. And I guess you know the
Lauren-Mike-club too." "Well, I don't really call the
'Lauren-Mike-club', as you put it, friends. Not yet anyway. I
mean Lee and Samantha are ok I guess, but they're mostly talking to
each other. Jessica however, never shuts up." Edward chuckled. "And
Lauren, I don't know, I don't really like her. It's not that
she's being really mean to me or something, but she's just being
unnecessarily unfriendly." "Oh but Lauren can be really mean if
she wants to. Have you heard of her former roommate? The one she had
before Jessica moved in. Seriously, I hated Lauren for the way she
treated that girl. You know I used to date her?" Edward shook his
head. "She pretended to be all nice and stuff, but then I saw how
she acted towards other people. She even pulled a stunt on Alice,
because she thought Alice was trying to steal me away from her. Once
she found out that Alice was my sister, she tried to make up for it,
by sucking up with me and with Alice. Of course the damage was
already done." Edward shook his head again and took another bite.
"Wow," I said. Edward dated her? "Well, like I said… I don't
really like her, and I think the feeling is mutual." I said. I
shrugged and scooped up another ravioli into my mouth. "Well, if
you ever have any trouble with her, just let me know, and I'll take
care of that girl. Jessica too, if necessary.", he winked at me,
but his undertone was serious. I nodded.
"Anyway, how about Mike? Or
Tyler and Eric, you get along with them?" "They're
ok. Tyler is funny but a little too cocky. Erik
is ok too I guess." "And Newton?" Edward watched me carefully.
"Mike… Well, he's nice… but a bit annoying." Edward
chuckled, "Annoying how?" he looked as if he already knew the
answer, but just wanted to hear it from me. "Well, I can't stop
imagining him with a wagging tail, he's like a golden retriever,
always following me around. I don't like to be rude to him, but
whenever I am nice, he just takes it as an encouragement to his
persistence." Edward laughed at this. "I just hope his obsession
will go away in a week or two." I sighed. "Anyway, besides those
people, I didn't really talk much to anyone else out side of class.
But I guess that'll all come later." Edward nodded and we
finished our plates. When we were done, I stood up and stretched
myself. My legs had gotten stiff from sitting in one position too
long. Once I felt good again, I got my plate and started washing it
in the sink. When I was done, Edward bumped my hip with his and told
me to move over so he could clean his plate too. When he had dried
his plate off and had put it in the cupboard, he turned to me, "So.
What do you wanna do? It's only 07:10." He looked at me and
waited expectantly. "Uhm… I don't
know?" It came out as a question. It
was 07:10. I was in Edward Cullen's dorm. Alone,
with him. I couldn't think of anything I could do with him, beside
the obvious, which was totally wrong and I wouldn't do that. I
looked up to him, waiting for him to come up with an idea. "Hmm…"
he tapped his chin with his index finger, as he was thinking. "Oh,
I have an idea.", he suddenly said. "Do you know the game of
'stressing'?" "Stressing?", I asked him. "Yeah, the card
game." "Uhm… no?" "I'll teach you, come on." He grabbed
my hand and tugged me back to the coffee table. I sat down in my
previous spot and waited for Edward to return with a deck of cards in
his hand.
He said down in front of me and divided the cards in to
two equal piles. He handed me a pile, face down. "Ok, so it's
quite simple. You hold the pile in your hand, face-down. You lay down
4 cards in front of you, face-up, and I do the same." He started
laying down 4 cards and motioned for me to do the same. "You can do
this in your own pace. You can wait till I have laid down all of my 4
cards, but you can also lay yours down before me, as long as there
are 2 rows of 4 in the end." I nodded. "Now look," he said and
pointed at the cards in front of us at the table. "On my side, we
have a 7, a 10, a 3 and a 5. On your side, we have a 5, a 7, a Queen
and a 3. The colours don't matter here. Now the point is, to cover
all matches as fast as possible, taking cards from your pile." I
nodded again. He slowly covered the matches of 7, 5 and 3, face-up,
with cards from his own pile. "Your allowed to cover up cards from
the other persons row. Now as you can see, by covering up the
matches, I've created a whole new situation." He pointed at the
cards. He was right, by covering up the matches of 7, 3 and 5, he
created a new situation with a row of 8, 10, 10 and 2. And a row of
10, a Jack, a Queen and 2.
"I'm
covering up the match of 2." He said while doing it. "But as you
see, there are three cards of 10. In such a case, or even when there
are four similar cards, you can cover them all up." He covered them
all up, creating a new situation of two 8s a King, a Jack, a Queen, a
Joker and a 5.
He covered the two 8s with a 7 and a 6. "As you
can see, there are no matches left. But," he said and pointed at
the Joker. "The Joker is the only card that doesn't need a match
to be covered up. So…," He covered the Joker up with an 8, "I
can lay this one down as well."
I nodded. So far I could
understand. In the new created situation, there was a 6, a King, a 4
and a 7 in his row. And an 8, a Jack, a Queen and a 5 in my row.
"Now, even by covering the Joker, there are no new matches created.
You take your own row back," He took his own row back and put it on
the underside of his pile. I copied him. "and you lay down 4 cards
again, face-up. As you can feel, your pile as gotten bigger, because
I've been covering up cards in your row with my own. That obviously
means that my pile has grown smaller. That's the point of the game.
You have to cover up the matches as fast as possible and try to loose
all of your cards to the other player. The game is finished once one
of the players has lost all his cards, that player is then of course
the winner." I think I understood. "You got that?" "Yeah, I
think so," I said and looked up to him. "Good," he grinned.
"Oh, there's one more thing I want to explain. You see these two
6es right?" he asked, pointing at the Diamond six in his row and
the Spade six in my row. "Yeah," I said. "Well, sometimes, it
could happen that you…," he paused and searched through his pile,
"accidentally cover a six, for example, with another six." He
covered his Diamond six with a Heart six. "In such a case, your not
allowed to consider the Heart six and the Spade six a match, because
the Spade six was already a match with the Diamond six from the old
situation." "Kay." I said as I processed all the given
information. "And, it can also happen that we both spot the same
match. Of course we'll try to cover up both of the cards with our
own, but if it happens that we're equally fast, than it's allowed
that we both try to cover up the same match." Edward motioned me to
hand over my pile and he divided the deck of cards back into two
equal piles. "I'll go easy the two first rounds, but after that,
I will show no mercy," he grinned as he gave me back my pile.
We
both lay down our rows of 4 cards, and I covered up the matches.
After a while, I was getting the hang of it, but Edward still beat
me, even when we were playing really slow. After two rounds, which
Edward both won, we started on our third. "Remember, no mercy,"
he said, with a sly grin plastered on his face. I huffed. I was
really getting into the game, so I thought I was at least some sort
of competition for him. Boy was I wrong. I stared wide-eyed at how
his hands flew over the cards. When I was still busy figuring out
which match he had just covered, he was already busy covering two
others. Damn it. Unlike the first two games, this one was finished
within 3 minutes. Edward laughed at me when he saw my disappointed
face. Just wait and see Cullen. I'm prepared now.
We divided the
cards back into two equal piles and started the 4th
game. Edward was fast but I could keep better track of what he was
doing now. I held a card ready in my hand, and while Edward's hand
was flying over the cards, I spotted a match that he missed. I
quickly slammed my card on top of the other and let out a squeal of
excitement. I wanted to cover up the other card too, but
unfortunately Edward had already figured out to which match it
belonged, and beat me there.
This round took 10 minutes to finish. Of course Edward won again, but I was a little more of a competition for him. Around the 6th game, I could really see why this game was called stressing. My hand was sour from slamming the cards down on the table a little to hard, because of my excitement. Sometimes we paused to make sure there weren't any matches left. During such pauses, the tension of the game would built enormously and my hand would twitch in anticipation.
We
were now busy with our 8th
game and I was almost as good as Edward now. He was still faster then
me, but due to some luck I had now only 3 cards in my hand and he
about 15.
The rest was on the table. We were pausing, and trying
to spot any other matches. My hand twitched forward once. Suddenly I
saw it, and I quickly threw down to cards to cover up a match. This
created another match and I covered a part of it with my last one.
Oh-My-God I won. "I won!" I cried out
in victory and throwing my hands up in the air. "Dang it, I got
beaten in my own game.", Edward muttered and he threw his cards on
the table. "Ha, eat your heart out Cullen!," I said to him with a
goofy grin on my face. I can't believe I won.
"Don't be so sure of yourself Ms. Swan, let's see if you can keep it up." Edward cocked his had and raised an eyebrow. He took the cards and divided the piles. "We'll see," I said mockingly, full of confidence.
At
the end of round 10: "Ha, in your face Cullen. Three times in a
row. Now you can't call that beginners luck anymore." I laughed
at his grumpy face. "Fine. No beginners
luck. Anyway, you wanna do something else? I don't feel like
playing anymore." He said. "Sure, sure, you just can't take it
that I won, can you?" I said teasingly.
"Whatever Bella," he
rolled his eyes end started to get up. He stretched himself end
walked around the coffee table. He held out his hand and pulled me
up. This caused us to stand fairly close to each other and Edward
held on to my hand a little longer than necessary while he looked
down at me. I could smell his intoxicating scent and I was glad he
stepped away before it got me high. Now I was standing up, I felt how
stiff I was and I stretched myself and started to shake my legs a
little bit loos. "It's only 09:00, would you like to watch a
movie or something? Or did you still need to finish your homework?"
Edward asked me while he walked over to the counter. "Oh no, I'm
done with my homework, a movie sounds good. What did you have in
mind?" I asked him. "I don't know, it's your pick," he said
while leaning against the counter. "Our DVD's are over there.",
he pointed at a little shelf next to the tv. I walked over to it and
dropped to my knees to get a closer look. I liked his collection of
DVD's, I've watched a lot of them with Jake. Spending so much
time with Jacob and his friends, and living with a father, without a
mother near, caused me to growing into boys stuff. "Oh! You have
Star Wars?", I said when I noticed the DVD. "Yeah, you like Star
Wars?" Edward asked me curiously. I pulled out the DVD and got up
on my feet. I turned to face him. "Yeah, I think it's awesome and
hilarious at the same time," I grinned. "Can we watch it?" I
asked him. "Sure, Star Wars it is." Edward smiled. He'd put
some popcorn in the microwave and now took it out. He put the DVD in
the player and turned it on. He then went to sit down on the couch
with the bowl of popcorn in his lap. He patted the spot next to him.
Suddenly I became very shy and with a blush on my face, I sat down
next to him.
After I while, I was so into the movie, that I forgot
all about Edward and the popcorn until he asked me if I wanted a
drink. I nodded with a smile, and he got up to get us some cola.
After a few sips I put my glass down on the coffee table and I leaned
back into the couch.
Something
soft was stroking my hair and I heard a faint humming near my ear. I
shut my eyes tighter and clasped whatever I was holding a little
harder. The humming stopped and the soft thing left my hair and
started rubbing circles on my back. "Bella?", I heard a faint
whisper above my head. "Hmmm," I hummed sleepily. "Bella, wake
up. I think I should get you back to your dorm." I heard the smooth
voice softly speaking. "Nu-uh I'm
good." I said, barely opening my mouth. I
snuggled closer to the owner of the voice and the hand that was
caressing my back. I assumed it was a hand. I heard a chuckle and
felt the person shaking slightly with it. This caused me to pry an
eye open and it took me a moment to realize that I'd had been
pushing myself into a chest. Oh. The voice, the dark t-shirt and the
scent made the click in my head and I pulled away blushing. "I fell
asleep. I'm sorry.", I stated whispering. Edward smiled and
smoothed my hair out. "It's ok. Come on, I'll take you back."
I
nodded and stood up from the couch. I stifled a yawn as I went to get
my coat. Edward had quickly pulled on his shoes and put on his own
coat as well. He took my hand in his and led me back to my dorm. It
was quite cold outside, but as we walked over the courtyard, I looked
up and saw the sky was clear this evening. That made me smile. I
always like it when the starts come out. "What are you smiling
about?", Edward asked me with a smile on his own face. I pointed to
the sky, "The stars." I said.
He looked up, "Oh, that's
nice." He said and looked back to me. "I always love to go out at
night and just watch the sky. It's fun to search for
constellations." He said and gave my hand a gentle squeeze.
"Hmm-mm," I nodded.
When we reached my dorm, I held still in front of my door. I wanted to say goodbye here, because I didn't know if Angela was already sleeping or not. "So…," I said, shifting under his gaze. "I had fun tonight." I smiled. "Me too." He said, still looking me in the eye. "I guess I'll see you tomorrow?" "Yeah," he sighed. We paused. I wasn't really sure what I should do. "Well, good night Bella." Edward spoke softly and cupped my faced with his free hand. He caressed my cheek for a moment with his thumb and then let it drop again. "Good night Edward. Sweet dreams." "Sweet dreams." He released our intertwined hands and smiled before he turned away. I sighed and watched his retreating body. He turned once and gave me a small wave. When he was out of sight, I took my key and opened the door.
It was dark. "Angela?", I whispered. No response. Carefully I shuffled into the room. "Bella?" I heard a groggy voice calling from Angela's bed. "Shh, go back to sleep Angela." I said. "M'kay." It was quiet after that.
I changed into my pyjama's and brushed my teeth before crawling into bed and snuggling into the covers.
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That was chapter 7. Hope you liked it.
I hope everyone got the card game part. I'm not to good with explaining things, but I hope you understood anyway. I didn't know what the game was called in English, but translated from my language, it is called Stressing. The game is really addictive, and just for two players. If one of you didn't get it, feel free to ask questions.
Also. Some of you may worry what's gonna happen with Bella/Jacob, now Bella/Edward seem to have made some progress. Don't worry I've got it all figured out in my head, and it'll work out just fine.
I know it's hopeless, but I'll keep on asking. Make my day and please review?
