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Presentation Day.
Edward and I were at our geography class listening to Katy Traven's presentation. It was quite funny actually.
"So like Europe is located near France. It's where the French people live. Which is totally cool because…"
I stopped listening to Katy for fear of losing IQ points and looked over across the room. I looked over at Rosalie with Emmet by her side? Oh right Emmet is a senior which meant he had senior rights. If seniors had free periods (which they do) they can wonder around campus and go into classes as long as they were respectful to the lessons being given. I smiled a little as I saw Emmet being in total trance with Katy. It's like he understood everything she said. How he made it to senior year was beyond me. Alice and Jasper were behind them and they had the same tortured expressions from listening to Katy. I haven't really talked to Alice since that unforgettable incident two days ago. Glittered piano thing remember? But it's not like we were glaring daggers at each other. Alice looked up and gave a little smile to me which I returned gratefully. In fact I honestly believe everything will go back to normal after this whole presenting thing is done. I sighed. I was looking forward to it. Katy was going into her final words of her presentation. I knew because she kept repeating "so yeah" every couple of words. So I panicked.
"I can't do this." I whispered.
Edward chuckled. "What's the worst that can happen?"
"I can forget everything." I answered as my eyes widened.
He rolled his eyes. "I'll be the one doing most of the talking."
"I can trip and fall."
"I'll catch you." he grinned.
"I'll blush and be embarrassed." I stuttered. But I knew he wouldn't have an answer to that.
"Isabella." He said slowly. "You're always blushing. Nobody would know the difference. "He smiled.
I stuck my tongue at him. He was right.
"Edward, Bella your next." are bald headed world geography teacher announced.
"Ehhh."
"C'mon." He dragged me along to the front of the classroom. I saw everyone stare at me and I immediately felt my face going hot. So I held up my fat poster in front of me and everyone awed. I side glanced at Edward as he smiled at our audience's reaction. They loved it and we haven't even started! Take that insecurity!
"Wow guys. That's a nice looking collage. Elaborate on your question please." Mr. Cornelius said.
"Alright." Edward clasped his hands already fixed on taking the lead. "Our question was 'How does the physical geography of Europe influence it's human activities?' well if the climate is cold, people would want to go skiing opposed to going to the beach were they'll freeze their butts off."
Our audience laughed at that. There was nothing funny about it but Edward has charm like that. He smiled as he continued. "And if the weather is warm then it would be a good time to go camping." Edward talked while he pointed out specific pictures from our poster. We were doing great until…
"Wonderful pictures. Now let me ask you, where is the Mona Lisa located?" Mr. Cornelius asked.
Edward froze.
"What?" he blurted. He clearly didn't know the answer and people were starting to notice.
"France! The Mona Lisa is located in the Louvre Museum in Paris, France", I said matter of factly. What? I read a lot. Edward looked relieved.
"Hmmm extra points. Good job guys and it's nice to hear your voice once and a while Bella." He finished as we took our seats. Everyone applauded and I felt the relief of the big weight lifted off me whenever I finish presenting.
"Nice save. I can't believe I missed that!" Edward critiqued himself.
"Let's just be grateful that I actually spoke." I grinned.
"Alright guys." Cornelius spoke up to calm the class down. "Alice, Jasper your up."
Alice popped up gracefully as she headed for the front of the class with Jasper in toe.
"So for me and Jazzy's project we decided to make a movie!" Everyone laughed at her peppiness. She popped in her Cd to her laptop and fixed the big screen and Jasper shut the lights. It played and let's just say amazing was an understatement. It showed Jasper and Alice dressed up in old European clothes and demonstrating different scenes. It was really funny seeing Jasper's "up do" hair. But then a completely different shot took over the screen.
I looked horrified as I looked at Alice whose mouth dropped. This shot showed Alice asleep with a slight drool coming out of her mouth. Giggling voices filled the air as a hand was over her face drawing pictures on Alice's face. I remember because I was there. I was filming it. I thought we destroyed this!
Alice quickly stumbled to her laptop and shut everything down but the damage was already done. Everyone was laughing at her. She ran out of the classroom and I saw a peak of her bottom lip quivering. Jasper looked mad and was about to go and get her until I stopped him.
"I got this." I ran out to search for Alice. I walked down every hall as I remembered that horrible night. It was a sleepover back in 6th grade. I just met Alice and we were obsessed with nothing but becoming popular. So we were thrilled when the most popular girl in school who was a 7th grader invited us to her annual sleepover. Her name was Tracy and she was a bitch but we didn't care because she was going to give us what every girl secretly wanted. Popularity. That night consisted of chocolate, makeovers, and of course gossip. Katy Traven and some other girls attended too. It was Tracy's annual Sleepover, who wouldn't go?
*Flashback*
I saw Tracy pouring something into a red cup. We were in the kitchen together away from the others.
"What are you doing Tracy?" I smiled.
She smirked. "That little pixie thinks she can talk to my man well she is sadly mistaken." She said as poured the last contents of the bottle.
"Tracy. You don't have a boyfriend". I said
"Yeah, well. Not yet." She grinned.
1 hour later
"That soda knocked her out fast." Katy commented. Alice was fast asleep and was snoring slightly. Tracy seemed to be happy that she fell asleep.
"I know right!" Tracy chortled as she went over to her desk and grabbed her camera.
"You know how to work this right?" Tracy said to me.
"Umm sure." I said shyly.
"Perfect" she beamed at me which made me all happy." Now, Bella bring it over here." I did as I was told and shot the camera at Alice. Markers were all over the place and Tracy started drawing all over her and the other quickly followed. The others were giggling though I didn't find it funny at all. I figured I must lack a sense of humor. I shrugged.
*End of Flashback*
I then remembered that Tracy was planning on showing it to her "man" but I stole the tape before anything could happen. That "man" was Jasper and he checked out a month later. I remembered Alice was ecstatic during freshmen year when she saw that same "man" walk in to her first period. We did become popular for a brief time until me and Alice got tired of surrounding ourselves with fake friends. We left the group a year later and became our own person. We weren't "popular" but we had true friends. I wouldn't trade it for anything in the world.
Sad thing now is Tracy got what she wanted. Her "man" saw Alice fast asleep, drooling, with pictures all over her face. It was her most embarrassing moment and everyone saw it.
I heard sniffling around a corner and quickly went to it and I literally felt my heart rip. My always bubbly, optimistic, best friend was crawled into a ball at a corner.
"Alice." I said softly.
"He saw it. I thought we were over this!" she cried.
"We are over it."
"People were laughing!"
"People are stupid. And people get over things, especially people from our school who have the attention span of a blind pig."
She smiled at that and then her smile drooped. "Who did this?"
"I don't know. Someone must've messed with your tape."
"Only few people knew about that tape and you were one of them." She said.
"What are you trying to say Alice?"
She ignored me." Katy Traven is too stupid to work a Cd, Tracy moved and I don't even know what happened to her group." She then looked up to stare at me.
"I-"
"What is that?" I looked over to what she was staring at and saw a poster hanging.
I saw Alice take it down and her face paled.
"Who the hell would do this?" she shouted.
"What is it?" I snatched it from her and it was a poster promoting our school play. The infamous picture showed a man holding a woman from the old times. This picture was different though because the face was covered with a picture of someone else's face.
Just then the bell rang.
"We have to take these down!" Alice shrieked. I was confused but quickly when to every hall to take this poster down. Alice and I separated as I went to other halls and then I collided with someone.
I looked up to see Edward holding the poster I've been taking down and he had an anger expression. He looked from the same poster and to me. He crumpled the poster and chucked it away and left.
"Edward, wait!" He didn't turn back.
I picked up the poster from the ground and uncurled it. I looked it over some more to try to make some sense to this. I couldn't stop staring at the girl's face. She had the most familiar warm green eyes. I then looked at the headline.
Romeo and Juliet: So sad, so young.
A/N:
Some of the events you read actually happened to me. The Europe presentation and that stupid, unforgettable, horrid sleepover. I just changed it a bit. (:
I hope you guys understood what I was refferring to with the Romeo and Juliet poster. Edward's cousin, Jane remember? So sad..
Anyways let me know what you thought of this chapter. The more reviews the more inspiration I get to type up a new chapter! (:
-PaleChik
