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Chapter 7: Partner Up
EdwardPOV
I leaned in and surprisingly she leaned in too, and in that moment the world disappeared. It was just us two and no one else. I looked into those beautiful deep brown eyes and I kissed her. A bolt of electricity shot through my body, I felt like I was on fire. Her lips were soft and molded to my lips perfectly it was as if they belonged there. Like she was made for me.
We pulled apart only slightly, our foreheads still touching, just to breathe. She smiled up at me...
"Edward, I lo-"
Beep! Beep! Beep! Beep!
I shot up out my bed and landed on the floor with a loud thump.
"Ugh!"
"Edward is everything okay in here?" Alice said coming through the door and walking over to me.
I was on the floor, struggling with my bed sheets that had become tangled around my legs "Um, I will be once I can stand up."
Her little bell laugh filled my room.
"I'm glad you find me amusing, Ally" I was still having trouble finding my way out "Can you please help me?"
She pouted and giggled "Aw, poor Eddie stuck in the sheets?"
"Yes! Can you please help?!" I groaned, throwing up my arms in defeat.
"Oh, okay. Do you always have to ruin my fun?"
"Yes, its my purpose in life." I smiled as I was finally able to stand up with Alice's help.
"Well, get ready. We have school in an hour and a half, so hurry up or you'll be late" she mocked as she closed my door.
After I went in for a quick shower, I walked over to my closest to find clothes for the day, and for once I was really glad I had Alice for a sister. Sometimes her sense of style came in handy, especially when getting me clothes was concerned. I pulled out a blue American Eagle shirt and a pair of Levi jeans. I matched it with my black and gray DC's with a matching belt. And I topped it off with my black hooded leather jacket.
I walked over to the mirror and spiked up my copper hair, after I was done I looked at myself for a while. I had to admit I looked pretty good today. But to be honest I was the last thing on my mind. I was thinking about Bella, I haven't spoken to her since Saturday and I was wondering if she regretted dancing with me.
I walked down stairs and went to meet my family in the kitchen.
"Good Morning, everyone" I yelled grabbing a bowl and the box of Apple Jacks "Where's the milk?"
"Here you go bro" I turned to see Jasper with Alice on his lap and I burst out laughing. "What's so funny, Eddie?"
"Did... Alice... dress.. you... today?" I spoke in between breaths.
He looked down and shrugged "I think purple looks good on me" he said smiling and kissed Ally's cheek. She smiled and lite up like a Christmas tree.
"You both look like twins" I said with my mouth full.
"Eww, chew and shallow Ed" Rose yelled coming into the kitchen with Emmett in tow.
"I take it back" I laughed again "All of you look like twins. Is there a memo I missed, by any chance?"
"Kids, time to go" Esme called down from the second floor.
We grabbed our coats and bags and walked out to the car "Bye Mom!" we yelled in unison.
BellaPOV
I had my eyes closed and the only thing I saw in my mind was a pair of beautiful bright emerald eyes, and a really sexy crooked smile. Edward has been the only thing on my mind since Saturday. I was dreading today, I really didn't want to go to school. I didn't know if he regretted our dance or if he even remembered who I was, there's a bunch of girls after him in school, many of them much more prettier than me. He was probably thinking about one of them and not plain old Bella Swan.
I finally stepped out my shower when I realized I couldn't spend the whole day hiding in there. Plus the hot water was starting to run out. I dried off and pulled on a pair of vintage ripped skinny jeans. I peaked out the door of the bathroom and everything was quiet, Charlie must have left already – good cause I was only in my bra and I needed a shirt – I ran over into my room and opened my closest doors.
"Hmm, I like this outfit" I jumped and spun at the sound of his voice.
"Oh my god Jake, what are you doing here?" I squealed.
"I came to take you to school, duh" he laughed "But if you plan on going to school like that I think I'm going to get in a lot of fights today" he smiled, eying me up and down.
"What do you mean?" I was suddenly very confused.
He jumped off my bed and walked up to me, wrapping his arms around my waist "Bella, you know I love you with all my heart and I will do anything for you" I looked into his deep brown eyes "But sometimes you're really slow because you're kind of in your bra right now."
I looked down and jumped out his arms, pulled the first thing out my closest and ran to the bathroom.
JacobPOV
I swear I love that girl but she's been acting a little strange lately.
"Bella, come on! We're going to be really late!"
"I'm almost done, give me two minutes" she yelled from down the hall
Its always two minutes, ever since I met her its always been two minutes. I looked in her full length mirror, sometimes I don't think I'm good enough for her. Bella sees herself as plain but she's anything but plain, she's beautiful and sweet and kind, and sometimes its hard to believe that she's mine.
I'm a pretty good looking guy, I had dark brown eyes and short spiky black hair. Everyone always said I had nice russet color skin. And I had my own style, I had on a black t-shirt with half a skeleton on it, loose ripped jeans, my gray thermal hoodie, and my Air Jordan's.
"Hey, sexy" I turned around to see my beautiful Bella smiling at me. My breathing hitched when she walked toward me, she looked so sexy, wearing tight jeans that hugged her hips and a gray and black shirt that showed off her hour glass curves. "Baby, can you grab my bag while I find my black uggs"
"Sure" I mumbled looking around "Is your room always so messy?"
"You should talk, your's is worse" she giggled sliding on her last boot and grabbing the leather jacket she knew I loved her in.
"Found it!" I yelled digging through a pile of clothes.
She tipped toed and gave me a quick peck on the lips "Cool, let's go then" and she disappeared out the room and down the stairs.
God, if she only knew what she does to me, than she would see that she makes me go weak in the knees.
"I'm driving Bells!" I yelled and ran after her.
AlicePOV
"hmmm I'm falling even more in love with you hmm hmm hmmm "
"Edward stop humming that song" the rest of us yelled at Eddie as we got out the car.
"Sorry, I didn't realize I was" he was always so clueless.
As we walked up the parking lot towards the school, everyone's eyes were on us. When they stare I feel like I didn't match my clothes correctly. I let go of Jasper's hand and looked down at my clothes, my purple shirt looked fine and my white jacket wasn't dirty, my faded jeans and matching purple heels were fine too, and to top it all off I had my white Lacoste hand bag.
"You look perfect" Rosalie sighed and pulled me aside.
"You look beautiful, Rose" I smiled up at my big sister
"You can say that again" Emmett laughed spinning Rose in a circle and picking her up into a big bear hug "I can't wait to see that black corset thingy under this red jacket later tonight." She giggled and Emmett continued to whisper in her ear.
I felt someone wrap their arms around my little waist.
"She's right, you know. You look so perfect, I can't wait to get you out of these jeans" Jasper breathed in my ear.
"Jazz, she's my little sister please stop" Edward groaned covering his ears.
"And, you're my little brother, so what's your point?" Jasper smiled and nuzzled his face in the crook of my neck.
"Well, my point is I do..." Edward's sentence trailed off as he stared out into the parking lot. We all turned to see what he was looking at, and there Bella was getting out of Jacob's 1986 Camaro. She looked beautiful too, no wonder Edward looked like he was struck by lightening.
"Allycat, let's go say hi to Bells" Rosalie giggled as she snapped her fingers in Edward's face to snap him out of it "Oh well, I tried. Em drag him to class please" she tipped toed and kissed Emmett's cheek.
I gave Jasper one last kiss "See you later. Love you."
We left the boys behind and walked hand in hand, towards Bella and Jacob.
BellaPOV
I swear watching Rose and Alice walking towards me is like having your own personal supermodel as a friend.
"Hey Bella" they both said in unison.
"Hey Rose... Alice..." I smiled weakly suddenly very self-conscience.
"Oh my God Bella I love your jacket!!" Rosalie smiled eying my jacket up and down.
"My Jacket! Are you kidding me, isn't that Gucci" I pointed at her red jacket.
"Yeah, I got it last weekend. You can borrow it if you want, I'll even lend you my heels."
I looked down at her red and black killer heels. "You're crazy, I'll kill myself in those" I replied in mock horror.
"Ooh idea! Bella why don't you coming shopping with us on Friday. A little girls time, then maybe stay over at our house." Alice screamed bouncing up and down
Rosalie had to put her hands on Alice's shoulders to hold her down, she looked like an energizer bunny. "Yeah come'on Bella it'll be fun. Promise."
How could I say no to them "Sure, why not?"
And with that the bell rang and it was off to my first class of the day. YaY!
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My morning passed rather quickly, it was my last class before lunch and I actually liked English. I hope to be a journalist someday. And luckily I haven't seen Edward all day, but I knew that would change once I got to the lunch room, he was bound to seat with the team and of course that meant near me.
"Good Morning Class" I turned my attention away from the mindless doodle I was drawing on the corner of my book, to pay attention to the teacher. "I have a new assignment for all of you. Over the next month I will pair you up with another person in the class, your assignment is to find out as much as you can about that person, and at the end of the month you will present an oral presentation describing the person you were assigned. I want each of you to spend time with the other and learn as much as you can. Also as I said I will assign you your partner so it'll be someone you probably hardly know, it's a good way to meet new people."
Almost the whole class groaned at the fact it'll be teacher's choice. I rested my head on my arm and waited for my name to be called.
"Isabella Swan..."
"It's Bella, Ms, Wolf" I corrected her.
"That's right, I'm sorry dear, you'll be paired up with..."
Please not Mike. Anybody but MIKE!
"Jasper Hale."
To say I was shocked would be an understatement. I turned around to look at the back corner of the room. There Jasper was in all his god-like glory, blonde curly hair, god-like face, with his purple t-shirt, American Eagle jeans, DC sneakers and a black track jacket. You could have guessed he walked right out of a magazine, he wasn't as gorgeous as Edward, but he had this classic southern charm to his appearance that made him just as beautiful. He smiled at me and bowed his head, I couldn't help but smile back. This is going to be an interesting month.
Wait, if I have to partner up with Jasper that means I'm going to have to go to his house.
If I go to his house that means I have to meet his family.
And if I meet the family, I'm going to end up seeing Edward almost all the time. This throws my whole avoiding him plan out the window.
I banged my head against the table top, God I'm so screwed!
JasperPOV
As the teacher called out my name saying I was paired up with Bella during this assignment, I couldn't help but laugh on the inside at what problems this simple little project is going to create. I picked my head up to meet Bella's gaze. I smiled at her and bowed my head like the gentlemen Carlisle raised me to be. Watching her smile back at me then turn her gaze back to the teacher, I could tell why my brother was so in love with the girl. She was very beautiful, not like my Alice, but in her own way that made her shine.
I think I'm going to enjoy getting to know Bella, she seems like a good person, and maybe someday she'll be a good friend to me.
The bell rang and I gathered my books together and walked up to Bella.
"Hey Bella" I smiled making my way towards her desk. She was fumbling with her books when I got there.
"Oh, hey Jas-" she dropped all her books and I bent over to help her gather them.
"Are you always clumsy?" I mused.
"Only 99.9% of the time" she giggled "That .1% is when I'm asleep."
She was funny and knew how to joke around. "Do you want to walk to lunch together?"
She looked up at me surprised "Sure."
On our way to the lunchroom, we talked about our favorite music and movies. We seemed to like all the same songs and movies, even though I had to disagree and say that The Dark Knight was better than Iron Man, she put up a very strong argument and I had to hand it to her, she should be a lawyer. When we got to the lunchroom I met the stare of the person I completely forgot about. Edward.
Oh shit this is going to kill him, having her in the house and not being able to say anything to her. This just got very interesting and very bad all at the same time.
"Um Bella, I'll see you later."
"Okay Jasper, bye" and she waved her good-bye.
I walked up to my very surprised family, before I could say one word I got pulled away by a very shocked Edward.
"What's going on Jazz?"
"Okay see, Ms. Wolf assigned us this project to get to know someone else and my partner is Bella."
"Oh, okay. Did she say anything about uh-Saturday night?" he said lowering his head.
"No, sorry bro" he turned to walk back to the table "But I should warn you, she's coming over tomorrow afternoon to work on the project with me" I braced myself for impact.
"Coming over where Jasper?" he hissed.
"Well to our house silly." my small smile quickly faded when I saw his reaction.
"Bella – is – coming – over – to – our – house – tomorrow!"
"Yeah." it was barely a whisper.
And with those last words Edward walked out the lunchroom and straight to the parking lot. I sat down at the table and was stared down by every member of my family.
I took a deep breath and answered their unspoken question "Bella and I have to work on a project together, meaning she has to come to the house tomorrow afternoon and Edward didn't take the news so well."
I looked up to meet their wide eyes. Emmett was the first to speak.
"Well tomorrow's going to be interesting."
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