The movie was...
Awful. xD
"Was that completely necessary, Alice?" Edward hissed at me almost silently through clenched teeth.
I glanced at him very briefly. So he'd picked up on the scene, anyway.
Not looking away from the chalkboard, I told him, Yes.
Yes, it was.
Chapter 7
UNWELCOME
bella p.o.v.
By the time I arrived in History, it was ten minutes to the bell. I kindly explained to the teacher that my car had broken down on the way, and he wrote me up as tardy. The fact bounced off of me like a marble on rubber. There was probably nothing in the world at the moment that could put me in a worse mood than I was in.
I took a seat as far away from Edward and Alice as I could; thankfully Angela was sitting in the far back corner. I sat behind her and immediately she turned around, handing me a couple pages of loose leaf. "Notes," she mouthed, smiling sweetly.
"Thanks, Angela," I whispered back to her, opening my own notebook to make copies. I didn't need to fail biology and history.
"No offense, Bella, but you look awful. What's wrong?" she asked, her eyebrows pulled together in concern. Her simple gesture warmed me up considerably, but it didn't last very long.
I hesitated only briefly, knowing full well that if I didn't tell the truth, there was a chance that Alice would twist it; that or make it ten times more awful than it really was. I nearly chuckled to myself. Never mind about that, it's impossible, I thought. It already was terrible; she couldn't make it any worse.
"Edward and I broke up," I whispered, shifting uncomfortably in my seat. "I may have been… a tad more harsh on him than necessary."
Angela's jaw dropped, and she was silent for a moment.
I sighed. "What?" Was everyone out to agitate me today?
"I'm sorry," she apologized hastily. "I don't know. I just thought—I just thought you two were together for good. I even heard somewhere that Edward was planning to propose."
I felt my face fall.
"Oh, God, Bella, I'm sorry, I shouldn't have said that. That was—I'm sorry. I'll shut up now." She caught herself babbling and stopped. If only I could do that.
"No, don't worry about it. It's really not that big of a deal. I guess I just—felt really overwhelmed, I guess. It was getting really serious, and I wasn't ready. And he was kind of overprotective. But, really, I've moved on. I'm fine."
"He sounds like a prick, anyway," a third voice whispered.
I turned to the girl it was coming from. Who was she? Was she a new student? Someone I hadn't even noticed before?
She didn't especially stand out, anyway. Her thick, light brown hair was pulled into a pony tail. She had an everyday, faintly pretty face that was scattered with freckles. The only interesting part of her was her blindingly blue eyes. She reached over the edge of her desk to shake my hand.
"I'm Alexia. Lexi. It's nice to meet you…?" she said, leaving a blank for me to fill my name in.
"Bella," I said, hesitantly taking her hand and shaking it as our teacher turned to face the blackboard. "Are you new here?"
Lexi nodded. "First day."
Ah. I knew how that felt from experience.
"Oh. Well, welcome to Forks High."
Lexi smiled. It looked almost… greedy.
I stared at my desk as she and Angela exchanged an introduction and Angela, being Angela, offered to show her around the school at lunch.
What were the chances of someone joining in the second semester of school, someone with so much confidence she would butt in to an obviously private conversation? I remembered the way Lexi had smiled at me and shuddered. Could she be an ally of Lucas? Of the Volturi?
I shook my head. The Volturi didn't have anything to do with us at the moment. I was probably overlooking this, suspicious of everyone I met after Lucas. I was on the edge, and I couldn't help it. She was just a late newcomer, just like I had been not too long ago.
I almost laughed aloud, feeling stupid. This girl wasn't even a vampire. Her blue eyes and tan skin—more tan than a vampire's, at least—reinforced that idea. I was way too high strung. Paranoid.
"So tell me more about this guy," Lexi said. "What's he look like?"
Angela tried to be subtle as she gestured to Edward. He was leaning slightly towards Alice in his seat and I knew that meant that they were having one of their 'only audible to vampire ears' conversations. I was dying to know what they were saying, but I was fairly sure that I knew the subject of their conversation.
Lexi leaned over in her seat to get a full view of Edward. She paused there for a moment, her eyes sweeping him over, before turning back to us. "He looks good from the back, at least," she said, laughing. I felt jealousy pumping through my veins like addrenaline.
"No, I'm just kidding," Lexi continued. "I saw him coming in. I didn't know that was who you were talking about. Lord."
I scowled, sinking lower into my seat. "Tell me about it."
"Hey, Bella—just how over this guy are you?" Lexi asked, innocently.
I lied; all the better for my story. "Very over."
"You don't mind if I take a whack at him, then, right? I mean—not literally, of course. But you won't get mad if I, you know...?"
I knew.
"Go for it," I muttered.
"You may as well not try, though," Angela came to my aid, even if she were unaware she was doing it. "Bella is the first girl that Edward's dated his whole time here. And probably the last. Before her, he and his family were completely antisocial and it changed when Bella came around, but now, it looks like, they're going to be back to normal." I could kiss her.
"Hm." Lexi said as the bell sent its ear-shattering ring through the class.
"Study up, class!" our teacher yelled, erasing the board. "There may—or may not—be a quiz tomorrow."
And I hadn't heard a word of his lecture.
Lexi clung to Angela and I like at tick through all of our morning classes. Even when she wasn't in them, she'd walk with us as far as she could until Angela pointed out the direction in which she needed to head. We only had one more class with Edward in it, besides the first one, History, but during that one, Lexi didn't take her eyes off of him, once.
You couldn't honestly blame me. I couldn't let myself like her on principle.
Edward was in all of my classes this year, thanks to his help of deliberately getting us into the same classes. I'll bet he regretted that now as much as I did. My last class before lunch, I was without Angela, or even Lexi.
I was late because I had to point the way to Lexi's next class out to her, and as I filed into the classes, I immediately realized that the classroom was full, all but one desk.
Next to him.
I put my backpack on the seat of my desk as the students chattered before our teacher walked in.
He kept his eyes pointedly off of me as he pulled a notebook and pen out of his backpack. He was trying too hard to be casual; the corner of his mouth was twitching downwards every few seconds, and the blatantly bored-looking expression his face bore was far away from his usual.
His stunning beauty was impossible to cover up, regardless of his dispassionate façade. Oh, how I longed to just touch him…
I nearly slid into the seat next to him, knowing full well I would possibly combust from the tension... I nearly did.
But in the next second he looked up at me for a half of a second, his face the same feigned bored expression, his eyes cut at me expectantly, and then darted back to his supplies.
"Hey, Ben?" I called across the room to Ben who was sitting by Mike Newton, looking uncomfortable as Mike chattered away about something that was probably fairly annoying or obnoxious. "Would you please switch spots with me?
I arrived to lunch at a fairly decent time. I didn't realize how valuable having a vampire as a boyfriend was. He walked so quickly without even realizing it, and while trying to keep up with him, I'd walked more quickly, too. I didn't arrive late for anything.
But I'd taken advantage of it. Only now, after I'd lost those little things, did I realize how wonderful they were.
Mike had followed me. I was happy to know that word hadn't yet gotten around about me and Edward, and even Mike, who was a very big gossip spreader, hadn't heard. Still, he had something to chatter to me about, although I didn't even know what it was as we walked through the lunch line.
Ben waved him over and Mike waved to me in departure as he walked over to where Lauren and a few of her and Mike's friends sat. It didn't mean anything to him that he was deserting me. Ever since Edward had moved back, he'd given up on inviting me to eat with them.
I took a deep breath and stalked over to our normal table.
The whole gang was there: Ben, Alice, Edward and Angela.
What had I been thinking? I couldn't sit here. I was… I was unwelcome.
Alice was hissing something in Angela's ear, Angela's mouth dropped. I could guess just who she was talking about. I was disappointed in Alice. I'd have thought she would have more class.
The second I walked up, Angela dropped her eyes along with Ben, and Edward and Alice looked up at me, as if to say, "What do you want?"
I had half a mind to slam down my tray and shout, "I have a right to sit here, you know!" but I couldn't bring myself to do it.
And then, out of the corner of my eye, I saw salvation. Lexi was waving me over to her table.
I felt a satisfied smirk tugging at my lips and I directed it at Edward and Alice before turning on my heel and walking over to Lexi as if I'd been heading there all along.
If you haven't seen the movie yet,
Don't waste your time or money. Okay?
Anyway, I promise LOTS of action in the next chapter! How was it? Review! (:
