Ch. 9
Recap:
"I'll see you later, right?" I asked.
"I'll be seeing you for as long as you want." Edward replied with his crooked smile.
"Then I'll see you later." I told him right before I shut his car door. I walked into my house and heard Edward speed away. "Wow." I muttered to myself.
I was excited to wake up this morning. The sooner I got to school, the sooner I would see Edward. I decided to hold off to asking him to turnabout till tomorrow. I got dressed into a pair of jeans and a blue sweater that made my eyes pop. The brown dye had completely washed out of my hair and I was back to my previous blonde hair color. I grabbed my jacket, a granola bar, my bag, and ran out the door. I sat in my car for five minutes when I decided to give up and walk to school. Today just had to be the day that my antique car decided not to work. I'd fix it after school, but right now I had to get to school. I've only been walking a few minutes, but I was sick of all the funny looks people were giving me. They probably thought I was some hobo with a very poor sense of direction. I saw a familiar car speed past me and they turn around.
"Is?" the driver asked.
"Yes?" I asked. There was finally somebody that recognized me.
"Do you need a ride?" he asked.
"Edward?" I said, peering into the window of the car.
"Yes?" he asked.
"Oh, never mind." I said, getting into his car. "So do you usually come to school this way?" I asked, trying to start a conversation.
"No." he replied.
"Then how did you know that I needed a ride?" I asked him.
"I have my ways." he replied.
"Can you share what your mystical powers are?" I asked.
"I don't think you want to know." he replied.
"If I didn't want to know, I wouldn't have asked." I replied.
"Some things are better left unsaid." he replied.
"And sometimes it is better for the person's mental health if you share." I pouted. Edward just laughed at me.
"What if I told you that I could read minds?" Edward asked.
"I'd think that you're crazy." I replied.
"I can read everyone's mind, except yours." Edward said.
"Why can't you read my mind?" I asked.
"You were supposed to say that I'm a crazy person." Edward corrected me.
"Yeah, but you brought me into this, so matters have changed." I replied. "Why can't you read my mind?"
"I wish I had the answer to that question." he replied as he pulled into the parking lot next to a jeep. Inside the jeep there was a dark haired guy with a blonde girl.
"Your siblings are here." I commented.
"Yup." Edward replied as we made our way to school. Everyone just stared at us. A couple people even dropped their books.
"Hello, Is." Alice said, bounding up to Edward and me.
"Hi, Alice." I greeted. "Why didn't you tell me that you guys are moving because of me?" I asked.
"Uh," Alice replied, "I need to go." Alice bounded off to meet Jasper.
"So, are you still moving?" I asked Edward.
"We're not sure." Edward replied. "Why don't I take you to my place so you can meet everybody."
"I'm sure they'll be thrilled to meet me." I replied sarcastically.
"For me?" Edward asked giving me this puppy dog pouty face.
"Fine." I muttered. "Stupid mystical powers."
"I'll see you then." Edward said as he walked to his first class.
"Hey, Is." Jess greeted me as we walked to English.
"Hi, Jess." I replied.
"So are you and Cullen together?" she asked.
"I'm not sure." I replied.
"Well you better find out soon and then tell me."
"I'll try to find out." I told her as I sat down in my seat. The rest of the day went by pretty slowly. Everyone in the hallway kept on giving me questioning stares. I was about to meet Angela and Jess for lunch when Edward stopped me. "Hey, Edward." I greeted him when he cut right in front of me.
"Why don't you walk to lunch with me?" he asked.
"I'm not so sure." I replied, trying to walk around him to get to Jess and Angela.
"Why not?" Edward asked.
"Go eat lunch with him." Jess whispered in my ear as her and Angela walked past me.
"Your family doesn't like me." I told Edward.
"Then we'll have to change that." Edward said, wrapping his arm around my waist and dragging me to the cafeteria. There was no use to argue with him.
"Hi, everybody." I said as I sat down.
"Hello, Is." Alice greeted. Rosalie laughed.
"Is?" Rosalie asked. "That's your name?" Rosalie just laughed some more.
"This wasn't such a great idea." I said as I sat up and walked over to Jess's table.
"What's the matter, Is?" Jess asked when I sat down between herand Angela.
"It's nothing." I replied.
"If it was nothing, then you'd be over there." Angela said.
"I bet it was Rosalie." Lauren said. I nodded yes.
"She's just jealous." Jess said.
"Yeah, don't pay attention to her." Angela said. I ate my lunch and chatted with everyone. Apparently everyone had a date to the dance, except me. The bell rang and I headed off to biology.
"Hey." Edward said, grabbing my hand.
"Hi." I replied.
"Sorry about Rosalie." he apologized.
"It's fine." I replied.
"Why don't you let people call you Bella?" Edward asked.
"I'll explain later." I said, sitting down.
"I'll be waiting." Edward replied right before the bell rang. I sat through the class, learning absolutely nothing once again until the bell rang to end the class.
"Meet me outside after your last period." Edward whispered to me before heading to his next class. My heart fluttered and I walked with Mike to gym class.
"Sorry about what happened with Rosalie." Alice said the minute I walked into the locker room.
"It's fine, really." I said. I hated when people made a big deal about such a trivial matter.
"Okay." Alice replied. But I knew that Alice wasn't going to let this go
"Alice," I said, motioning for Alice to come closer, "can you read minds, too?" I whispered.
"No, that's just Edward." she replied.
"Is there anything different about you?" I asked.
"I can see the future." Alice whispered.
"What about the others?" I asked.
"It's just Edward, Jasper, and me." Alice replied. "Jasper can control emotions."
"Oh, thanks." I replied. "We better head up to the gym."
"Probably." Alice said. We ran up the stairs and into the gym. Today we were playing volleyball. I tried to stay in the court for as little as possible. The ball hit me in the head a few times while I was looking at the time. The sooner gym class was over, the sooner I would get to see Edward. When I thought the time would never come, the gym teacher told us to go to the locker room and get changed. I raced down there and got dressed.
"Someone's excited." Alice commented. I couldn't help but blush.
"Just a little." I replied, rummaging through my purse trying to find my brush. I finally found my brush and walked over to a mirror to brush my hair. I put on some more chapstick and walked outside. Edward looked like a god, leaning against his car. I felt my heart speed up as I walked over to him.
"There you are." Edward said. "I thought you changed your mind."
"I can always keep a promise." I replied. Edward opened up the door for me, then walked to the other side of car and got in. Then he speed off to his house. Luckily for me, we got there before the others, so I didn't have to face Rosalie. We walked up to the door and Edward opened up the door.
"You must be Isabella." a woman said as we walked in.
"Yes I am." I replied. "And you are?"
"I'm Esme." the woman said. "Edward's mother."
"Very nice meeting you." I replied.
"It's a pleasure meeting you, too." Esme replied.
"Let's go upstairs." Edward said, leading me up to his room. "So why won't you let anyone call you Bella?" he asked once we both were seated on the couch.
"All my old friends and my ex-boyfriend used to call me Bella." I replied.
"You miss your friends, don't you?" Edward asked.
"It's complicated." I replied.
"I think I can hadle it." he replied.
"I miss my friends, but I'm not sure that I want to go back. But I don't want them to forget about me or think that I don't care about them."
"And what does all of that have to do with your name?" Edward asked.
"It's like Bella is in Arizona and Is is in Forks." I replied.
"That's messed up." Edward replied.
"Excuse me?" I replied. I, personally, was quite fond of my idea.
"Bella's not in Arizona." Edward said.
"Physically she's in Forks, but mentally she's in Arizona." I replied.
"Bella." Edward said.
I didn't replied.
"Bella." Edward said. His tone was harsher this time. "Do you still care about your old boyfriend?"
"Huh?" I said.
"That's the only reasonable motive I can find for you to change your name." Edward said. Did I care about him?
"No." I replied.
"How long were you guys together?" Edward asked.
"This is a very akward conversation."
"I'm trying to figure you out." Edward replied. "You're the first person whose mind I can't read and this is very frustrating for me."
"We were together for about three years." I replied.
"Can you honestly say that you've fully moved on?" he asked.
"No." I whispered.
"Good." Edward said.
"How is that good?" I asked him.
"Now I know that you're not some crazy person. You're just a normal teenage girl."
"And you know what a normal teenager is like?" I asked him. "When was the last time you were a teenager?"
"I haven't been a teenager for over 100 years, but I'm surrounded by them everyday at school." Edward replied.
"That's a long time." I replied. Edward just laughed.
"A very long time." Edward confirmed.
