Fall In Love by: See You Soon

Coming so close to me now you're a part of me
You're everything that I could not explain
Now I want to show you what I've always tried to be

So can we just fall in love
I see home in your eyes and
You will always be my best

Waiting for so long, for too long now I confess
I've tried to find you in so many ways and I've failed
Now we're on fire and I'm so calm
I can finally rest in you

Baby I don't care how far away you are
Baby I'll be there when the sun goes down and
I will never let go
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It was time for art class now, and I was dreading it. I didn't know whether to feel ashamed for being rude to Demetri, or to still be angry. When class began, every student got their supplies and got to work on their projects. At this point, I was still drawing my locket with my mother wearing it. I wanted to make her look like an angel, like she is right now, with her pale blond hair and complexion.

Demetri was hard at work, using a wide range of colors of pastels to draw abstract splashes of random color surrounding a motif of a face that he drew. The colors blended together in some parts beautifully, and his talent made me begin to doubt my ability to do very well on this project.

Once in a while, when he thought I wasn't looking, I'd catch him looking at me. He didn't look at me in disgust, or like I was crazy; he looked at me like I was an amazing mystery to him that he admired. The look in his yes when he looked at me made my stomach twist into knots and into butterflies. I'd have to look away so it wouldn't get the best of me.

He never talked to me though, and only sneaked a glance at me once in a while. I was starting to run out of patience for this boy. The thing was, I wanted so badly to just let my guard down and talk to him, and that urge was incredibly overwhelming.

Somehow, I was able to let my common sense win this time, and I didn't talk to him. It was almost impossible to do, but somehow, I did it. Part of me loved him so much I couldn't understand why or comprehend it, and the other part hated myself and him for feeling that.

I didn't understand myself, and that made me more frustrated that I couldn't pin point my emotions or what I wanted. Once again, my emotions were spiraling out of control and I didn't know myself well enough to comprehend it.

I cursed in my mind at myself, and at everything else running through my mind. Suddenly, Demetri started to chuckle. I turned around to face him, puzzled by why he was laughing. Then he suddenly looked nervous and embarrassed. "You... seem like you daydream a lot." he said.

"Is that why you were laughing?" I asked, with an eyebrow raised.

He chuckled again, and said "Yes, I suppose that was why."

"How can you tell that I day dream a lot?" I asked.

"You look like you're in your own world, staring off into space."

"Oh." I said, and I could feel my cheeks turning red. I looked down, trying to hide my rosy cheeks, until I felt his cool hand lift my chin up and his fingers brush gently across my cheeks tenderly. That was it, my common sense was untraceable now. I felt my stomach begin to flutter furiously with butterflies, and I felt like I would flutter off with them.

I involuntarily felt myself lean my face into his fingers, and I felt chills and warmth run through my body all at the same time. That was until he jerked them back, and I suddenly regained my better judgment.

I was completely flustered now, with myself and with him. Why did he have to tempt me so much? He has no idea what he does to me; my heart was beating faster and my breathing was once again complicated. He was playing with my emotions, while probably not even realizing that he was.

I just stared dumbly, and then he picked up what was behind my expression. He looked regretful now, "I'm sorry, I shouldn't have done that."

"But, why?" I asked. I can guarantee no one touches someones cheek like that for no reason, so I was confused as to why he even did it.

"I don't know." he said, looking straight into my face. Then he looked away from me, as if he was embarrassed and resentful of himself.

The bell rang suddenly, and I picked up my things quickly, not making sure I had everything. I bolted out the door and to my car before I could let myself look at Demetri again. I couldn't handle it anymore, feeling that way around him, wanting so badly just to be with him as anything but this. Especially when he did something like that; I could almost feel the butterflies start up again just thinking about it.

I felt like crying, screaming, something. I pounded on the steering wheel without much force, and then started the car up and drove away. When I was almost home, the engine suddenly started smoking and sputtering. "Dammit!" I yelled at the car, as if it would do something.

I struggled to get the car to drive all the way home, and it barely made it into the driveway. It broke down. I got out to check the damage. I lifted the hood even though I had no clue what on earth I was even looking at or how to fix it. I groaned and began poking around at the engine to see if I could point out something that was wrong. I couldn't. "Stupid freaking car..." I said to myself.

Suddenly, I jumped as I heard a car door closing in my driveway near me. I looked back, crouched over my car with hair over my face, and my lips parted in astonishment when I saw who it was. Demetri. My jaw was still lowered, and my hair was still in my face as I looked at Demetri though it, my expression not changing. He looked at me unsure, and then simply said, "Hi."

"Hi," I replied, uncertainly.

"You left your art book behind when you left." he said, handing my notebook to me.

"Thanks," I said grabbing my note book and keeping eye contact with him. After lookingat him for a few seconds more, I turned around and continued where I left off with my car. I still had no idea what I was doing.

I expected him to turn around and leave, but he just stood there. "Car trouble?" he asked, amused.

"Yep." I told him, not taking my eyes off of my car.

"Adalia..." he began. Something in his voice made me look up from what I was doing and look at him. "What?" I asked.

"Do you need a ride tomorrow? You know, with your car not exactly being in a drive-able condition at the moment." To confirm his statement, and add a comical twist to it, the car made a loud sound and a puff of smoke came out. It reminded me of something straight out of a comedy TV show.

Yes, I thought, but bit my tongue before I could say it. I knew I couldn't, because I'd just fall deeper in whatever this was that I felt for him and not be able to go anywhere with it. It would become unbearable, not being able to be friends or talk to him.

"No, that won't be necessary." I said, and began to force as much friendliness into my words as possible. "I think I'll just get a ride on the cheese wagon tomorrow morning..."

"Cheese wagon?" he said amused, raising an eyebrow at the term.

"You know, like a bus; the color of cheese..." I told him, embarrassed and trying to explain.

He laughed, and his eyes had a sort of little twinkle in them. Wow, he was beautiful. "Well the ride on the 'cheese wagon' won't be exactly necessary either." he said, still chuckling at me.

I changed the subject, and said "Why are you here, Demetri? You dropped off my things, and now you're free to go and not talk to me like you said."

His expression changed, and then looked sorry and regretful. I felt bad for being so harsh. He thought a moment and laughed lightly. "I think, that maybe my family has finally changed my mind."

That caught me off guard. "What?"

"I don't know..." he said, unsure again.

"You.... changed your mind? Are you kidding?"

"No.. I am not kidding." I just shook my head at his answer in disbelief and frustration.

"I'm sorry Adalia, that probably sounds horrible, I'd completely understand if you didn't want to talk to me anymore now."

I couldn't help but accept his apology, but I shoved that aside. "You," I began, shoving my pointed finger at him accusingly, "are the single most confusing boy I have ever met."

He smiled and chuckled a little to himself but quickly became serious again. "I apologize for that, really, I do. I couldn't agree with you more, I'm even confusing myself. I have no idea what I want, and there are so many emotions I've been feeling since I met you and don't know what to do with them."

I felt all my rage and confusion freeze. "That's exactly how I feel..." I said, astonished. He smiled, "We may have more in common than that."

"What do you m--" I started, but was cut off by Demetri.

"I have to go now though, I'll talk to you later, if you'd like." I didn't know what to say, so I just kept looking at him dumbly. He smiled at me again genuinely, and then said "Adios." He hopped into his car and drove away. I just stood there looking in the direction that his car went in until it disappeared.

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The next day, I walked to the bus stop. I listened to my Ipod on the way there, until I noticed a yellow bus drive past me and slow at the bus stop further down the road. I began speeding up, and then started running towards the bus.

"Wait!" I yelled, hoping that someone on the bus would hear me and have the bus wait for me to catch up and get on. All of a sudden while I was running, I tripped over a large crack in the road, and went flying forward, crashing into the ground.

The bus drove away. I gave up, letting my body rest completely on the cold ground. This was just my luck. "You really are a danger magnet," Alice's term for me came into my mind. Slowly, I began to pull myself up, until a new, nice and sleek black sports car that I recognized pulled up next to where I was on the sidewalk.

The window rolled down, and Demetri talked to me through it. "Are you okay?" he asked.

I laughed, and then said sarcastically, "Just peachy."

He laughed, "I told you that I would give you a ride. Get in."

I looked around, and then accepted and got into his car. We didn't talk for most of the ride. Eventually, Demetri looked over to me sadly and said with his irresistible accent, "You don't want to talk to me anymore, do you?"

"What? No, I mean, I don't know. I'm just afraid that..." I began, and bit my lip when I realized I might have been saying too much, or that he might not understand what I meant or even cared, for that matter.

"What are you afraid of?" he asked.

"Do you promise that you will try to understand, even though I make no sense? And will you promise that if you think its stupid or something, you won't laugh?"

He laughed, uncertain what I was talking about. "Sure, I promise." he said.

"Pinky swear?" I asked, holding my pinky out.

He looked at me and his eyes twinkled as he laughed. I loved that, there weren't any words to describe how much I loved it when he laughed like that, he looked so incredibly gorgeous, I felt like I was going to melt. It felt great to be the source of laughter, especially his, and I appreciated that feeling because I've never really considered myself a funny person, intentional or unintentional.

He twisted his pinky finger around mine, his much larger than mine, because I had such small hands. "I pinky swear," he smiled. We shook our pinky's as they were intertwined, and then let go.

"Alright..." I started, "I'm afraid that... well," I continued, and put my face into my hands. "Gosh, this is hard for me to say, but... I'm afraid that you won't always be there, and if I get attached then it will be excruciatingly painful for me if you were to stop talking to me later."

He just looked at me sympathetically, and then said "That makes sense, and I don't think it's stupid..." He started to look like his mind was wandering off, and his expression darkened and saddened in pain.

"What's wrong?" I asked.

"It's nothing, I'm just hoping that I was wrong, and my family was right. If I'm right, I wouldn't be able to live with myself..." he said, but it seemed like it was more to himself than to me.

I just looked at him, as if I could uncover his mystery by doing so. "Demetri, besides being the most confusing boy I've ever met, you're also the most... mysterious." I said, making a face at 'mysterious.' "Everything you say just leads to more questions..."

His attention was back on me now, and he said "It's probably best I stay that way."

I laughed, "Speaking of what I was talking about, you've just added more mystery and questions."

He smiled a little despite himself. I wasn't paying attention to how close we were to school, and then I realized we were pulling into the parking lot. We walked in with each other, and I saw his brothers and sisters in the parking lot too.

Bella, Alice, Edward and Renesmee all looked satisfied, but the burly boy and the blond haired boy looked concerned and nervous about the gorgeous, furious blond girl next to the burly one. She looked at us in disbelief and anger, and I remembered the way she looked at me the first day they came.

I looked away, because I didn't want to stare or let it get to me. Demetri noticed her glaring too, and then looked back at me. "Don't worry about Rosalie, she's just..." he began, and then tilted his head to the side, fabricating an answer. "PMS-ingtoday, I guess? Don't worry about her." I laughed at his awkward use of the term, but I knew that wasn't the truth, not even in the slightest.

I took one last glance at the Cullen's before walking inside, and had to smile at Alice, Bella, Renesmee and Edward's excited expressions. My friends were also in the parking lot, looking at me and Demetri with shocked and excited expressions.

"So, is this a permanent thing, or will I have to worry about you not wanting to talk to me sometime later down the road in this friendship?" I asked him once we were inside, attempting at saying it jokingly, but I don't think it really sounded like a joke.

He took it seriously. "I don't think I'm strong enough to not have it be a permanent thing."

"And that was yet another puzzling thing that you have told me. I think I'm going to start keeping track."

He laughed, "I'm sorry I confuse you so much."

"You should be." I joked. "Okay, but seriously, you won't run away, will you?" I said, seriously, my face saddening a little at the thought. I so didn't understand myself.

He smiled, "No, I won't. I'm actually more afraid that you'll run away from me."

I stopped, "Why would you be afraid of that?"

"The same reason why I didn't think we should be friends." he said. I didn't push it any further and ask him to elaborate for me. "You really are a puzzling person, Demetri."

I walked with him to my locker where we went our separate ways. After surviving the horrid smell around my locker, I went to talk to my friends at our usual meeting spot. Surely enough, they bombarded me with questions. I remembered how they seen me and Demetri this morning.

"Correct me if I'm wrong, but did you come to school with Demetri Cullen this morning?" asked Natalie.

"Oh, yeah. You are correct."

"How did you manage that?" she asked, astonished.

"He asked me yesterday if I wanted him to give me a ride, since my car broke down. I said no, and was going to ride the bus, but that didn't work out and he showed up soon after and picked me up."

"He wanted to pick you up that bad?" she asked, and I could see the jealousy in her eyes.

"I suppose so..." I said, awkwardly. The disbelief in her face was clear. She shook her head and looked away from my face. "How is it that you, of all people, could talk to him when he talks to no one." she said more to herself than to me.

I was taken aback at how she said "you, of all people," but I couldn't agree with her more. I really didn't understand why he wanted to talk to me. This made me feel incredible, like it was some sort of a miracle.

I was pleasantly surprised when any boy showed any interest in talking or being friends with me, but this was Demetri, the drop dead gorgeous boy that every girl wanted to talk to but couldn't. My happiness was escalating to unmeasurable amount. He really was a puzzling creature.

"Thanks for that..." I said, noting how she referred to me, "and I don't know."

She just shook her head in disbelief some more. The bell rang soon after, and we went to our first hour classes. In science, Renesmee was glowing with satisfaction.

"So you and Demetri are friends now?" she asked happily, probably already knowing the answer.

"Yeah, I'm assuming so. Unless he decides not to talk to me again." I said trying to joke but failed miserably.

"I don't think he will, Adalia. He seems like he wants to be friends with you too much for that. He wants to get to know you." I couldn't help but feel my stomach soar with butterflies and happiness to hear that. He wanted to know me, like I want to get to know him. I could only hope he wanted that as much as I wanted did.

I realized that I was involuntarily smiling, and Renesmee smiled back.

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At lunch my friends were watching me and Demetri.

"So I hear that you got a ride with Demetri to school today?" said Emma, expectantly. She said it as if it was something she has been wanting to ask all through lunch so far.

"Yeah..." I said, awkwardly. She looked excited, and intrigued by my confirmation.

"Seriously!?" she said in disbelief and excitement. "That boy won't talk to anyone!" She nudged me and continued, "How did you get to be the only person in school that he'll talk to?" she asked. The way she asked it wasn't the same as Natalie, she asked it with absolutely no trace of bitterness or envy at all. She was excited and happy, and didn't appear to be faking it.

"I really don't know." I said, my cheeks turning red. Out of the corner of my eye, I could see Demetri smiling at me. I couldn't help but smile back.

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Art class came around and Demetri welcomed me by smiling and pulling out my chair when I came in. I couldn't believe that he'd do that. It only happened in old movies, when men knew how to be proper gentlemen. Guys nowadays could care less, and never did cute things like that.

I sat down, and said "Thank you."

After a while of working on our projects, I asked him, "Will you promise to answer something for me?"

He looked skeptical of what I was talking about. "Sure, I promise."

"What are you drawing?" I asked, looking at his paper.

He smiled mischievously, "That, I won't tell you."

"You promised." I reminded him.

He sighed in defeat, "I'll tell you another time, is that okay?"

I looked up to the side and contemplated. I sighed, and said "Alright, I suppose so." I smiled.

"Can I ask you something?" he said.

"Sure," I said, curious what he wanted to ask me.

"Do you want to hang out this weekend?" he asked nervously studying my reaction.

"You want to hang out with me?" I asked, a smile growing on my face at the idea of him wanting to hang out with me.

"Yeah." he smiled, "I think if we're going to try this, being friends, that we should start over and get to know each other."

The smile remained on my face, I wanted that more than he knew. "Yes, I'd like that." I said looking down shyly trying to hide my enormous smile and my reddening cheeks.

He smiled back genuinely, and gently lifted my face up higher to meet his eyes. "I'm glad."

I smiled to myself more, my cheeks probably similar to the color of a tomato at this point. Once I was able to control my smiling, I asked "When and where?" I hoped that it would be soon, I didn't want to wait for that day for too long.

He looked up and squinted his eyes. "Ummm..." he began, ponderinga moment. "We could do something today, if you'd like?"

I concealed my eagerness to hang out with him that soon, and said "Sure, what time and where?"

"Well you still need a ride home, so maybe we could just hang out after school?" he asked. Twenty more minutes, even better. I could hardly conceal my enthusiasm.

"Alrighty, what do you want to do?" I asked.

He smiled, "We'll think of something."

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After art was over, we walked out to the student parking lot. Alice and the rest of the Cullen's were also in the parking lot, and she was happy and waving at us. The rest of the Cullen's expressions were pretty close to the typical.

Once we were in the car I began to worry, what were we going to do? I was so afraid that I'd be boring to him, that I would screw this up. This was it, we were hanging out, no near death experiences with drunken kidnapper/rapists and crumbling old houses involved.

The only time before that we had ever been together just the two of us, was a time I didn't quite want to remember or think about, and didn't exactly qualify as good times. Here we were about to be together by choice, and I could easily screw it up.

I was nervous, what happened if I did something or said something completely ridiculous and awkward and made a fool of myself? What if he changed his min and came to his senses and didn't want to talk to me anymore again?

"Thank you for agreeing to hang out with me." said Demetri, breaking through my worrying.

"Oh, no that's fine." I said. Apologetically, he said "I would have completely understood if you didn't want to, after how I was to you before."

I felt bad then, and I wanted to comfort him. All of a sudden I realized that I couldn't be mad at him for that, he was too sincere.

"It's really is fine, don't worry about it."

He smiled, but didn't say anything. Instead, he turned on the car stereo and began to play a song on his Ipod. After it went through the intro of the song, I recognized who it was.

"Led Zeppelin?" I asked, surprised that he'd like a band from the 60's. Most kids now-a-days only listened to crappy music with no originality about 'hoes in da club'.

He looked pleasantly surprised that I could name the band, and nodded and said "Dazed and Confused," naming the title of the song.

"Awesome, they were a great band."

He smiled, "They definitely were, there was a lot of good music in the 60's and 70's."

"I own a record collection at home with a ton of music from those decades."

He looked even more surprised now, "Seriously? Most people download digital music now, illegally. No one even buys CD'S much anymore."

"I like the old school way of listening to music. Do you want to see my collection?" I asked.

"Yeah, they're at your house right?"

"Yeah.." I began, and then started to dig my own Ipod out of my purse. "Do you mind if I turn on something on my Ipod?" I asked.

"No, I don't mind; go ahead."

I connected my ipod to his car stereo and began searching my itunes music library for something to listen to. As he was parking into my driveway I found it.

"Haha," I laughed evilly, "Here we go." I pushed play and the intro began to blare through the stereo.

"Ohhh," he said, recognizing the beat. "Sum 41?" he asked.

"Yeppp, Fat Lip" I said smiling and prepping myself to sing along badly to the lyrics.

"Storming through the party like my name was El Nino. When I'm hangin' out drinking in the back of an El Camino. As a kid, was a skid and no one knew me by name, I trashed my own house party cause nobody came" I began singing the lyrics badly and making faces and bad dance moves in the car to it. Demetri watched me and was laughing, until he joined along, intentionally singing badly just like I was.

"I know I'm not the one you thought you knew back in high school. Never going, never showing up when we had to. Is it attention that we crave, don't tell us to behave. I'm sick of always hearing 'act your age'" we sang badly, getting really into it and having fun with it.

"I don't want to waste my time, become another casualty of society. I'll never fall in line, become another victim of your conformity and back down." We were dancing in our seats and whipping our heads around, trying not to laugh too hard so we could continue singing along.

We sang through the whole song somehow, and I could feel the excitement build inside me. I felt like a regular teenager, being obnoxious with her friends and enjoying every second of it.

"Woooo" we said, laughing so hard I could barely breathe. I could feel my eyes water up I was laughing so hard. Once we collected ourselves and could breath and I could see clearly again, we looked at each other happily.

"Good song choice." said Demetri laughing.

"It's a pretty good song." I laughed.

"So, are you going to show me that record collection?" asked Demetri with a kind of glimmer of happiness in his eyes I've never seen on him before.

"Yeah, come on." I said, opening the car door. He followed me to the doorway, and we walked into the house together.

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Important: I changed how many day's have gone by. In the last chapter, instead of it being on Tuesday on the second half of the chapter, I made it be Thursday. In this chapter, it is Thursday afternoon and Friday.

Thank you for reading, and please review! Tell me what you think, good or bad. I'm not sure if I've mentioned this before, but this is my very first story/fan-fiction. With reviews, I can only get better.

Sorry for the wait, I had to put more time into the conversations and planning of this one a little more than usual. I've been really busy lately and a lot of things have been going on. I'll try to get the next chapter up soon, but no promises.

PS. So, No Doubt is going on tour again (with Paramore), the first tour since their tour with Blink 182 back in 2004. And guess who else is back? Blink 182, dude! Amazingggg. =D

PPS. Read Vampire Diaries if you haven't before, they're amazing. In some ways, the series is better than twilight I think. It's similar to Twilight but more suspenseful and dark. It's not a twilight rip off though, it was originally written back in 1991. A new VD book just came out today (February 10th), and there are more on the way, many years after the last one came out. Also, the CW is apparently going to turn it into a TV show, and I believe that would be aired this Fall.