Curiosity

The bell rang long ago, but History didn't seem to even be ending. Mr Miller just dragged on and on, and if no one was going to speak up he would drag on until dinner time. I looked over to Jasper, and of course he was getting way into it. I didn't want to make Bella wait, and it didn't even occur to Mr Miller that the bell had rung ten seconds ago. Almost everyone had packed up their stuff, readying to leave, and he was still drilling the history of Hitler in our heads. History wasn't going to do us any good, not when we wouldn't even going to use this knowledge in real life. We all had different dreams, and the only reason that anyone – such as myself – would even take this class because it gave us more credits than the others. We all wanted to graduate High School with the utmost acceptable grades, and I was one of those people. I wanted to do Fashion and Design when I go to College, and that was only a year away from now. Why must Mr Miller be so boring?

I sighed and placed the side of my face on my hand, while I propped myself up on my elbow. This was getting too ridiculous, and the only person in this class that didn't look like he wanted to leave was Jasper. Would it be because he wanted to be around me more, or truly interest in the history of Hitler, I didn't know. All I know was that I'm going to die out of boredom. I looked around the class, trying in vain to see if anyone would have the guts to shout out to Mr Miller that the bell had rung. Not even one single person had the expression that would say 'I'm a badass'. So this was pretty useless. If I asked Jasper to do my own dirty work, then I would feel bad and totally weak about it. I turned to face the front, watching as his lips moved while words being thrown at us. They went through my ear, and before my brain would process it, went out the other. I glanced up at the clock hanging above the whiteboard, and sighed. One minute had just passed after the bell had gone, and I was making Bella wait. I wanted to get out of here, and spend the rest of the afternoon time with her, even if it was only scenery searching. So building up my courage, I raised my hand up just when he started to talk about Hitler's battle strategy.

"Yes, Ms Cullen?" Mr Miller asked softly, though I could hear the faint curiosity in his tone. I put my hand down and smiled faintly.

"You do know that the bell had been gone for almost two minutes now, right Mr Miller?" I asked as sweetly as I could muster my voice to be. I turned to look at the class, and everyone's eyes were saying their silent thank you. I smiled at them, and looked back at Mr Miller as he tilted his head to look up at the wall clock. He didn't seem to be affected by the time, however.

"You are right, Ms Cullen. I do apologize for keeping you all here." He looked back at the class, offering us his apologetic smile before carrying on. "There is no assignment, other than read the next chapter in Military History, we will be talking about it tomorrow."

As quick as we possibly could, we stood up and went straight out the door with a mumble 'Okay'. I took my time however, since Jasper was still packing his stuff up. I told him that I didn't want to make Bella wait anymore longer. He understood, and ushered me to go, and for that I was grateful of him. I hugged him goodbye and bolted out of the door, and down the hallway towards the front of the school. Everyone was using the back of the school, since that was where the school parking lot was. I would be using the back as well, if I didn't need to meet Bella. Need and want, I wonder which one would have the strongest desire to meet the person that had occupying my mind. I sighed, after a moment of not figuring out the answer, when I came up with the only most stupidest answer; if there was no need, there wouldn't be a want.

I shrugged the idea off, and proceeded towards the front of the school. I stopped though, when I saw three figures stood there. No one was around, and I knew who they were; Bella, Lauren and Jessica. Bella and Lauren were glaring daggers towards one another, and Jessica looked like she'd rather go home other than being here. Then in a flash, Bella and Lauren were gone, and Jessica was running. My curiosity got the best of me, so I quickly followed Jessica where she was running. When I was out of the building, the sight that I had set my eyes on was unbelievable. Now I knew why Jessica was running, but it wasn't exactly away from them. She stood just a good distance away from them, watching as Bella and Lauren were engaged in a fight. This fight was nothing but professional fight, they weren't all over each other, punching each other's faces in. They were circling each other, upper body as straight – though their backs were bending back a little. Their legs were crossing over each other while they walked to prepare for any oncoming attack. It looked like they had practiced this move, since it looked so real and perfect

I didn't think that neither of the three girls had spot me yet, since they were too busy doing what they were doing; Jess watching as Bella and Lauren prepared to kill each other. I didn't think that Lauren would make the first move until I was proven wrong. She halted, and only a matter of a second later she lunged forward with her fist pulling back behind her face. Bella halted as well, but instead of attacking one of her feet slowly dragged back. When Lauren met the space, she pushed her fist forward towards Bella's face. I gasped, just as Bella twisted her upper body as Lauren's fist went through the space that Bella's head once was. Bella's hand came up, grabbing hold on Lauren's wrist while her other hand quickly came up towards Lauren's neck. Before Lauren could even move away to avoid, Bella have grasped her fingers around Lauren's airwaves, though I could see that her hold were not too tightly to even choke her.

"Give it up, Lauren. Just leave me be, it's not like I'm here to kill you." She said, and my curiosity had gotten bigger. I approached the scene, and shortly enough I was standing beside Jessica. That was then the three of them noticed my presence, not that it would be that difficult if they weren't too focused on their rather confusing fight.

"What exactly is going on here?" I asked, both in curiosity and concern. Curious about the whole situation, and concern about…well concern about Bella. I looked over at Bella, and she looked back at me as if she had just seen a monster. If her natural pale face wasn't enough, then she couldn't look any more paler. She released her hold on Lauren, and quickly moved forward while Lauren turned to face me, her eyes widened a little in both surprise and shock.

"Alice, let me explain." Bella quickly said, moving forward me then stopped just an arm length in front of me. Behind her, I noticed Lauren rolled her eyes.

"Oh yea, what are you going to say to her? Oh hi Alice, we were just practicing Tae Kwon Do." Lauren said mockingly, as she folded her arms across her chest. I knew that they wouldn't be practicing it, since the sight before, they looked like they were going to rip each other's heads off.

Bella snapped her head to the side, glaring back at Lauren as she spoke with venom in her voice. "Fuck off Lauren. I didn't ask you."

I shuddered at her tone, but I tried not to show it and thankfully, my body agreed with me. I watched as Bella turned to me, an apologetic smile adorned her now softened and beautiful features. "Alice, this is not the right place to have this conversation." She said softly, and I raised an eyebrow at her.

"Why? What would happen if we talk about…why you two were trying to kill each other off?" I asked, trying not to get irritated of the topic being talked about somewhere else, since she would be thinking of a way to avoid it anyhow.

"Alice, she's right." Jessica piped up beside me, and I turned to look at her with a questioning look.

"How so?" I asked, clearly irritated now.

Jessica shrugged, and turned to look at Lauren. I looked over at Lauren, and she just shrugged her shoulders before walking off towards the parking lot. I turned to look at Jessica once more, and she sighed before looking at me. "It's not safe out here, trust me…Or don't trust me since Bella doesn't really trust me anyway." She muttered and turned to join Lauren, which left me with Bella.

"Well?" I said as I turned to face Bella once more, and she was looking at me with pleading eyes. "Whatever, where are we going to talk about this?" I gave in. If it was Emmett though, I wouldn't have given in so easily.

"Umm…" She started fidgeting around with her fingers, maybe she was trying to think of a place that would be 'safe'. Jeez, we weren't being chased down by any cops because she fought with Lauren about something that I didn't even know of. "I don't know anywhere around here that would be safe, except for my house…"

That made sense, sort of. "Okay…I can just drive us there…" I said uncertainly, and turned to head over to the parking lot. Then I paused and looked over my shoulder, checking if she was coming. She still stood there, looking at me if I was a little insane. I raised my eyebrow at her, "Are you coming?"

She quickly nodded and walked up to me. I turned around and headed towards my destination, with Bella walking closely behind me in silent. We got to the parking lot and I could see that Lauren's and Jessica's vehicles were not there, and the only student vehicle in the parking lot would be my Grey Blue Jaguar XK. Yea, the car was expensive, but for me and Emmett to come from a rich color with your father as a successful doctor, and your mother as a successful interior designer, then this sort of cars was to be expected for someone like us to own. Besides, it wasn't like I was bragging, a car was a car and I only have it to get me to places…a little faster at times. I pulled out my keys from my bag, and pressed the button that would unlock the doors. As the door beeped, I turned to look at Bella to see her expression. She seemed to smile at the sight of the car, and I felt relief that she liked it. Wait, why would I want her to like my car? I didn't even care if anyone would even hate it.

"It's a lovely car." Bella said as we moved over to the car. Usually it would be me to stroke the hood of the car, but right now it was Bella to do so. I felt flattered that she actually liked my car, for some odd reason. It was just a car, even though it looked nice and had the best engine that Emmett and Rosalie had put in. For a Head Cheerleader, Rosalie sure knew how a car works.

"Thank you." I said softly and moved to open the passenger door. "Would you be so kind, m'lady?" I asked, trying as best as I could to faint an accent, but failed when a giggle seemed to try to escape.

She giggled and looked on at me in amusement, and nodded as she moved forward. She paused just between the car and myself, and turned to look at me. "Would you like a tip, my dear?" She asked teasingly, and I laughed as I punched her lightly in the arm.

"You just ruined the mood, now get in." I asked, gently pushing her inside. She giggled and got in before I shut the door. I quickly went around the car and got in. After I closed the door, I buckled myself and started the engine. The engine purred, and that made me smile since it always relaxed me, somehow. "Where do you live?" I asked as I slowly backed the car out of the parking space, and out of the school ground.

"Just make a right here." She instructed so I followed. It was quiet after that, neither of us even wanted to start a conversation. If she wanted to tell me what was going on back there at her house, and so be it. I let out a sigh as I leaned back, turning here and there as she instructed me to. Finally, we arrived at her home. Actually, to say that it was a house was an understatement. It was built as a mansion, or a place for two famous celebrities to live.

"Wow…" I uttered under my breath as I waited for the gate to slide open. I heard her giggle, but I was too busy marveling the outside of her 'home'. It was as if she was a princess, living in her own modern castle. I drove into the driveway when the electric doors were opened. I parked behind the white limo, and shut the engine. I turned to her with amazement.

"You live here?" I asked, and almost slapped myself for such ridiculous question.

She looked on at me, amused. "Where else would I be living? The pool house?"

I rolled my eyes and opened the door, in which she opened hers and stepped out. I walked over to her side, and she immediately grabbed my hand, sending another electric jolt through me. Why did she even do that? Not that I didn't like it, but right now it was making my knees buckle and I really didn't want to wobble to the house. She tugged at my hand as she began to walk inside, so I followed her with awe look plastered on my face. If the outside wasn't already marvelous, the inside was grand. I couldn't describe the room that I was standing in at this moment. But that all brought me back towards the topic that we were supposed to have. She couldn't just charm me with her house, and think that she could get away with it. Nuh-uh.

"Bella, about what happened with you and Lauren…" I started, and she tensed a little before relaxing.

She sighed, and turned to me. "Can you wait in the living room while I go and get someone to bring us some snack?" She asked me as she pulled me over to…I think it was the living room. When we arrived, she stopped and studied my expression. Once again, my mouth nearly dropped when I took in the living room. This 'living room' could fit hundreds upon hundreds of people in here.

So instead of answering her question verbally, I nodded. I heard her sigh again before leaving the room. I walked over to the sofa and put my bag down, before taking a seat. I replayed the even that had happened earlier, and I couldn't really quite understand why they were even fighting in the first place. They didn't know each other, since Bella hadn't even been in the same school as them when they were still children. I was mostly curious about why couldn't Bella tell me what was going on outside of the school. Jessica had said that it was unsafe, and I wanted to know why. Then again, she might not tell me, since we only met today after all. I sighed, leaning back into the sofa as I closed my eyes. I brought my hand to the bridge of my nose, and pressed lightly. This was just a little too much to take in. I'd have to respect Bella's explanation if it wasn't quite what I was looking for. I'd have to gain her trust first, even though I knew that she had already gained mine…and I wasn't sure how she did it.


A/N: I always got lost in writing every single chapter now, ending up having a huge chapter lol.

So as you can see, Bella is faster than Lauren. As for strength, we haven't seen anything yet. ;]

And Alice's car will be on my profile. Bella's and Alice's houses will be there as well. =]

Thanks for your reviews. =]