Hi! Okay, so I'm going to Londen for the next 3 days and I'll be back Wednesday night, I think I'll write...thursday evening maybe...
anyway, I'm going to write in Londen though, so I'll post a few chapters at the same time (& I had a momentary thought about a few chapters in Londen, but that's way ahead of this...so I don't know what I'm going to do with it..)
This chapter doesn't contain really "WOW"stuff, but it's quite important for the coming chapters, so...
it may look like Edward is telling Bella a lot really soon, but he really isn't, but you'll see that in the next chapter
My mind was split in two while I was running towards Bella.
One part of my brain was thinking Bella, Bella, Bella and another part of my brain was thinking about the repercussions this might have.
Alice didn't indicate that this would be the night where I'd make up my decision; no, she definitely didn't make it seem that way. But I hadn't been paying that much attention to her thoughts while she was trying to act mad. Yes, trying, because Alice had never and probably would never be mad at me.
Alice hád however learned how to lie in her thoughts and she'd tried it a few times – some successful and some horribly embarrassing.
Had she been lying this time?
I'll soon find out, my "Bella" part of my mind thought happily and I quickened my pace.
When I reached the edge of the forest near Bella's house, I scanned the street for conscious – or meaningful – thoughts.
Mommy! The monster's going to get me! A little girl screamed in her sleep and the human in me felt sorry for her.
She looks totally hot in that dress, a boy thought hungrily and I almost laughed, she'd look better out of it though. He started picturing the girl without clothing and I quickly shut him out.
I climbed up the tree across from the window from Bella's room. She was sleeping soundly, curled up in her quilt and I smiled at the sight of her. She seemed peaceful and looked absolutely stunning: her hair splayed around her pillow and wearing a ragged and old shirt.
Then something suddenly hit me. Alice had told Bella I had been "camping" with "us". First of all, I couldn't have been camping, since it was in the middle of the week – not that it mattered, but it would be odd – and I had saved her that morning from a car crash! Second of all, who was "us"? Bella had ridden with us in the car and nobody besides Alice and I had been in it with her.
Alice probably expected me to solve this faulty lie. Or she had done it on purpose, because now I had to talk to Bella to fix Alice's mistake.
Yes, it had been on purpose. Alice, I growled internally.
I sighed and climbed further into the tree to get a better grip. Once I had seated myself somehow, I stared at Bella until it became light.
'Just go to her and fall in love already, it's taken long enough. I want to spend time with my new sister!' Alice nagged. She had been annoying me the whole ride to school and I was breaking the speed limit beyond belief to try and get to school as fast as I could; to be away from Alice.
'Edward and Bella, sitting in a tree. K-I-S-S-I-N-' My anger flared then.
'Don't you dare and finish that sentence!' I yelled at her.
Her mouth fell open, but after a moment she pouted her lips and flashed me a wide smile. G, she thought and I groaned.
'Edward, I promise I won't tease you anymore.' She suddenly threw at me and I jerked one eyebrow up.
I pulled into a parking space then and Alice jumped out of the car, before flying off to class. FYI: Don't worry about what you need to tell her, Bella's just gonna love you.
I growled and let my head fall onto the steering wheel in response, causing it to honk. My siblings laughed at the sight of me and I heard Emmett also humming the "Edward and Bella…" tune as he walked away.
I only had English with Bella today and so I had to convince her that Alice – and I – hadn't been lying to her in just one small hour. This was hopefully going to be easy.
I was already sitting in my seat in the back of the classroom when Bella entered. Her eyes met mine and she blushed scarlet as she walked towards me.
She sat down next to me and peeked up at me through her eyelashes. 'Hi.' She smiled brightly and with that brightening my day immediately. Stop.
'Hello, how are you today?' I asked curtly.
I inspected her thoroughly and found nothing to be wrong with her – except for a bruise on her left arm. She noticed me looking at the bruise and giggled. 'I'm fine and that bruise is nothing, I tend to get bruises very fast. How are you?'
Was she just fragile, or did she bump into things a lot, I wondered curious. 'I'm okay.' I lied casually, but she didn't buy it.
'Just okay?' She pushed and I smiled tentatively. She stared into my eyes, like she was trying to pull the answer right out of them. 'I'm great.' I told her, staring into her eyes like a lost puppy.
She suddenly sucked in a ragged breath then and I realised she hadn't been breathing – that was strange.
I was wondering how I would ease into the subject of Alice's lie, when Bella made it fairly easy for me. 'Thank you again for the ride yesterday, I don't think I could have gotten home if you hadn't been there.'
I smiled at her and she smiled back, warming my cold heart. 'About yesterday,' I began carefully, making sure I didn't say anything that would give the lie away. 'I figured you had been wondering about why we were there. Alice said that I was camping with "them", but she meant that I was helping some acquaintances of my family pack up their stuff. They had been camping out there and we wanted to help them.' The lie was illogical, but a normal human wouldn't actually care even if he or she knew it was a lie.
Bella acted different, of course. 'I hadn't even thought of that.' Her lips parted and she stared off into the distance; I could see clockwork of her brain work overtime.
Why didn't she pay attention to what somebody told her the one time I expected her to? Because Bella never did what I expected her to, that was why.
Ha-ha, Alice thought inside another classroom somewhere inside the school and I almost jumped off my seat in anger. 'Alice.' I muttered under my breath.
Bella was still staring off into the distance when I tried to correct my mistake. 'Never mind it then. I just thought I would clarify what she had said, so you wouldn't think anything of it.'
She looked up at me again then, her eyes mocking me for what I was saying; it didn't even make sense in my mind. 'I didn't and I won't.' She told me blushing once more and I breathed in deep, smelling her blush in the air. What are you thinking, I almost asked it aloud when Bella turned to the front of the classroom. Was she ignoring me? I couldn't stand it if she were to ignore me.
'What are you thinking?' I asked her; I needed to know.
She turned back to me and cocked her head to the side. 'First I was wondering if I should ask you if you were going to enlighten me a bit more on the "not-being-human". Then I decided to not ask, because if you didn't bring it up yourself, you obviously don't want to talk about it.' She was whispering, but I knew that my brothers and sisters would hear.
'Perceptive.' I mumbled and stared into her eyes, trying to find answers.
'Does it irritate you that I don't tell you?' I probed and she nodded glumly.
'We should talk about this somewhere else.' I told her and watched as her eyes grew curious.
The lesson dragged on and the whole time I stared at Bella and she stared at me.
By the time the bell rang I didn't notice it at first, Bella's stare was so intense that my surroundings were blurred.
The teacher then called out to us. 'Can the two lovebirds also carry on to their next classes?'
Bella blushed at her statement and I grinned widely – did we look like we were in love? Wait, that isn't a good thing! I realised and my internal struggle started again.
I walked in front of Bella and led her out of the school, towards the huge boulder that we sat upon just a few days ago. She probably didn't grasp that she was going to skip class now – she didn't seem like a girl that would just do that.
Bella sat down on the boulder and I started pacing, hoping some explanation for all of this would pop into my mind. 'What do you want to know?' I asked her, without giving myself permission to do so.
'Are you sure you want to tell me this?' She asked me and the undercurrent flowing through her voice confused me.
'No.' I told her, being honest.
She pursed her lips and considered that for a moment.
'What have you guessed this far?' I probed once more.
Deep creases appeared in her forehead and she blushed suddenly. 'You're extremely strong, fast and cold.' She had noticed the cold part? Of course she has.
'And?' I pushed her to continue, I needed to know what she thought of me and if she was scared…of me.
'And I have got no idea. Nothing fits: I've tried books and Google and more books, but nothing fits.'
She laughed then. 'My father figured that you are Iceman on speed.' You have got to be kidding me.
My eyes grew at what she said and she smiled in response. 'I didn't tell him about you.' She added explanatorily.
Iceman on speed? Seriously Bella? Iceman's one thing, but on speed?:O
well, she's going to learn in the next chapter & it'll be GOOOOOOD
xx
