Hey wonderful Readers

There are two songs for this chapter one is Taylor Swift's Mean

You, with your words like knives and swords and weapons that you use against me
You have knocked me off my feet again

You, with your voice like nails on a chalkboard, calling me out when I'm wounded
You, pickin' on the weaker man

Why you gotta be so mean?

and Heartbeats by Jose Gonzalez

One night to be confused
One night to speed up truth
We had a promise made
Four hands and then away

Both under influence
We had divine scent
To know what to say...

And you
You knew the hand of the Devil

also a little bit of My Chemical romance's Bulletproof Heart

I gotta bulletproof heart
You gotta hollow point smile...

Everybody knows you don't
Ever wanna come back, let me be the one to save you

I'm who I've got to be.
These pigs are after me, after you...

So get me outta my head.
'Cause it's getting quite cramped, you know

Tell the truth

Hold your heart into this darkness
Will it ever be the light to shine you out
Or fall and leave you stranded
Or are you gonna be the one left standing?
You're gonna be the one left standing

:) I own nothing of course...

Bella's PoV

After I got home I went to the lake as usual and swam for what felt like hours. I wouldn't be shocked if my hair is so damaged that it falls out by the time I'm thirty but I believe in living for the moment and all that stuff. When I got in the house and Charlie got back from work we went through the same usual routine of me making dinner, us eating together and then separating, he went to go watch television and I went to my room to study and read and listen to music until I fell into a dreamless sleep.

When I woke up the first thing I did was look at my alarm clock and the second thing I did was yell "fuck" at the top of my voice. I apparently hadn't set my clock right last night and it hadn't gone off this morning which meant that I was now late for school. I jumped out of bed, dashed round the room to stuff all my books in my bag, grabbed the first clean clothes I could find and got changed, stubbing my toe in the process, and then ran out of the house grabbing my phone and keys on the way. I locked up the house and was about to start up my truck when I remembered that I was going to Angela's today and had to left my truck here. I banged my head against the steering wheel causing the horn to start and then got out of my baby and started walking to school.

It was not fun especially since I hadn't eaten anything so my stomach was growling the whole way and the gray clouds in the sky didn't look promising but luckily a miracle occurred and didn't start to rain on me.

When I finally got to the school I was already fifteen minutes late and had missed some of my first class which was Spanish. The teacher gave me a look as I walked in the door but didn't say anything and carried on with his lecture which I thankful for. Apparently (according to the gossip every other girl in school talked about) Edward Cullen also took Spanish but I wasn't in his class which I couldn't have been happier about especially as I had seen him seen him enough this past month to last me a lifetime.

The morning was mostly uneventful apart from getting in trouble during algebra for daydreaming. I received a ton of homework from various teachers which I wasn't ecstatic about but I grinned and bared it. Well... I bared it. During classes I paid attention but I always had one earphone in my ear- every class but biology it was too worried about Edward ratting me out the teacher. In my other classes people either refused to come near me or blatantly ignored me. It probably wasn't the best learning technique but it worked for me. Music inspired me and in some classes such as algebra I found that inspiration sometimes made me do certain things without thinking like the other day I had started drawing and only when I halfway through did I realize that I was drawing a face that reminded me suspiciously of Edward's. I angrily scrubbed it out with my pencil.

I was extremely frustrated that he was now beginning to creep into my subconscious thoughts and later that day I went into Port Angeles to go to the gym and release some tension out on a punchbag instead of going swimming.

As the bell for lunch rang I rushed out of the class and walked through the corridors until I reached the cafeteria and quickly grabbed some food and sat down at my table and plonked my bag down on what would be Angela's chair and began to eat. I paid little attention to my food and while the cafeteria was beginning to fill up with students I pulled out my book and started reading.

I only noticed there was someone else at the table when the person got annoyed and pulled my book away from my face and out of my hands. "Oh oops, I didn't see you come in..." my voice trailed off as I looked up and saw that person sitting across from me was not Angela like I had first thought but someone completely unexpected. Well maybe not completely unexpected.

My face atomically harden into a frown as I said in a monotone "What do you want Edward?"

He smirked as he replied "You. Me. Dinner. 7 o'clock. Tomorrow. I'll pick you up."

"When will you get it into that thick head of yours that I don't want to go out with you? I have never wanted to go out with you and I will never want to go out with you, so just leave me alone okay?"

Still that smirk of his never left his face. My fist was itching to punch him again but I knew that if I did that just now in front of everyone someone was bound to report me to the Principal and I couldn't afford to have a suspension on my permanent record. 'Edward hell will freeze over and Jesus will go ice skating in it before I go out on a date with you, so go trot right back to Lauren like a good little puppy-"

"I wouldn't be so sure Isabella if I were you" he interrupted with. My forehead crinkled in confusion.

"What do you mean?"

" I have something that I think will make you change your mind"

He opened his bag, brought out a flashy new phone and handed it to me.

"What? Are you trying to bribe me now" I asked. He shook his head.

"Look are the photo's" I did as he asked and searched through his phone until I reached his pictures. It really wasn't too difficult to figure out how to use the phone as it was a touchscreen, and brand new from the looks of it but that didn't surprise me. Everyone knew the Cullen's were loaded.

I flicked through his photo's until I found what I guessed he was wanting me to find. My hand froze and my blood turned to ice as I saw myself on camera. Or rather I saw myself stripped down to my swimming suit on camera. I got a sick feeling in the pit of my stomach and it was like all the air had been punched out of my lungs and whooshed out of me.

"What...?" I croaked out. I cleared my throat and tried again"What is this?"

"That Isabella" he said slowly with that smirk still on his face " Is a picture of you yesterday afternoon in the wooded area near your house."

"How...how did you get this?" I asked desperately hoping that this was all just a horrible dream one which I could wake up from soon.

"That's not important. What is important is that you understand what this means. If you go on a date with me I will delete this picture from my phone and laptop and USB. If you don't I will send this picture to everyone's e-mail address at this school. You think I was bad at pestering for a date, you have not seen half of the male population at this school." I gulped and I somehow knew we were both thinking of the same person. Mike Newton. I had same him try to chase some other girls in the past. He would hound them for weeks without stopping until eventually they would either go out with him or get a restraining order against him. If he saw this I would be his next target and I was stressed enough already, I couldn't cope with him on top of everything else I had- I would have a breakdown.

I looked Edward straight in the eyes and cleared my throat.

Edward's PoV

As she was looking me I the eyes noticed that they were a odd shade of brown, not the usual color of mud that I had seen repeated so many times in so many people at this school: Lauren. Jessica, Samantha, Rachel, Jenny... as I went down the list I realized that I had either slept with or made out with those girls at least once or twice. Not one of them had the same eye shade as Bella: it was a mix of dark chocolate and gold honey to create a mix of color that was so beautiful it had no name yet and they were so deep it was strange to see in someone but strange in an amazingly gorgeous way. Jeez Edward Get A Grip said the little voice in the back of my head. I shook my head gently to clear it of all my thoughts and finally saw that she was about to talk.

She took a big breath in... and then let it all back out again.

I let go of the feeling of impatience that usually consumed me and reminded myself that it had to be difficult for her. We did have a mutual hatred of each other since we were four after all.

About another half a minute went by before I started to get a bit on edge. Subconsciously I was tapping my fingers against the desk. Before I knew what I was doing I felt a hand go over my own to stop me.

The electricity that went through me at that point was familiar but still fantastic in the same moment. She moved her hand away as soon as she could tell I wasn't going to start tapping again.

I turned my face back towards Bella's and sat perfectly still until she decided she was ready to speak.

"I'll go on a date with you."she gnawed her bottom lip for a second. This was obviously hard for her to say. "One date. No strings attached. You can decide where to go. I don't have to say anything I don't want to and if I feel even the tiniest bit uncomfortable you have to take me home instantly. Deal?"

"Deal" I agreed holding out my hand for her to shake she did so grudgingly and make sure take she was barely touching me but the electricity still ran through me and apparently through her too. When she let go I rose from my seat and turned to walk back to the table where Jasper, Alice, Rose and Emmett were waiting for me the girls had confused looks and the guys were looking a bit pissed off. Out of the corner of my eye I could see Angela beginning to make her way over to Bella.

Before I had got a foot away from the table I remembered to tell Bella something vital "Oh, wear something descent tomorrow. The place where I'm taking you won't let in people who wear hoodies."

She didn't need to need to know that I was bluffing about the whole picture thing .