Chapter 8

Reintroductions

Isabella POV

It had been almost an entire week since Edward had left and I was quickly growing impatient. While my head told me he needed his time alone, however my inner Shifter was telling me to hunt him down, and drag his ass back home. But of course I couldn't do that.

Kicking the door of my room open I shuffled in and flopped down onto my bed trying to think of other things. There was still the issue of telling Edward and the others what I was I sighed and shut my eyes hoping that sleep would relieve me of my cluttered thoughts.

The next day brought little relief to my ever growing headache, by the time I arrived at the school it was a full blown migraine. Pulling into the parking lot I groaned and rested my head on my steering wheel, today was going to be a long day.

I went through the normalities of the day as usual, studiously ignoring the advances of the male population and, ignoring the never ceasing chatter of this girl, Jessica I think. Going through classes was as boring as ever, my family had made sure I would be able to understand what would be going on in school. Though tutoring me to above and beyond the average college student seems a little overboard now that I think about it. Yeah what better way to fit in then being smarter than anyone else in the school.

By the time lunch rolled around I was mentally exhausted, I simply got my lunch and sat at my empty table. Taking a sip from my soda I peered over at the Cullen table and promptly choked on my soda. Edward was back, sitting casually with his siblings. I stared shocked, he was finally home again.

The bell rang and I practically sprinted to Biology. He was there already, of course, sitting by the window gazing out of it staring off into space. I sat down in my seat and peered over at him, he was looking at me as well. He smiled kindly and said, "Hello my name is Edward Cullen."

I felt my heart swell slightly at the sound of his voice, the voice of MY Edward. "And you are Isabella Swan, correct?" He asked politely looking into my eyes with an alarming intensity. I smirked inside my head, he was trying to read my mind but it wouldn't work.

"I prefer to be called Bella." I said bringing my eyes back to the front as class started. Out of the corner of my eye I saw him flinch but, then he composed himself.

"Bella; Italian for beautiful," he said turning his gaze back to me and flashed me his signature crooked grin. "It suits you well." I felt my face heat up as I blinked owlishly at him and turned my gaze back to the front.

"Thank you." I whispered as butterflies assaulted my throat preventing me from saying more.

Edward POV

"Bella Italian for beautiful, it suits you well." As soon as the words left my mouth I was immediately embarrassed beyond belief, and wanted nothing more than to sink into the ground and pray that Bella didn't think that I was some sort of creep. But instead of looking at me in disgust her cheeks flushed crimson and she whispered a simple 'thank you'.

I could hear my siblings snickering in another room, their thoughts teasing me. "Really Edward, that was the best flirting you could come up with?" Emmett thought snickering.

"Well I guess we now know that you aren't gay, your flirting was adequate we will have to work on it." Rosalie and Alice teased.

"And it seems to have been affective, she feels embarrassed but pleased." Jasper thought, reading her emotions.

"Be quiet, it wasn't like that." I said below human hearing. My eyes flashed to Bella as I thought I heard her chuckle. Could she have heard me, no it wasn't possible. I shook my head to clear and turned back to the teacher trying to pay attention.

We were doing a lab on mitosis of onion root tip cells, I mentally sighed and put in the first slide. Passing the microscope to her I said, "Ladies first, partner."

She raised an eyebrow at me and smiled cheekily, "Age before beauty." She said passing back the microscope. I had to force myself not to laugh out loud, age before beauty indeed. I quickly identified the stage and told her, "Prophase." Then handed the microscope back to her.

She switched out the slide and quickly looking into it and said, "Anaphase."

I lifted an eyebrow and asked, "Do you mind if I take a look?" She smirked and gestured with her hand for me to proceed. I glanced into it, it was anaphase. "Anaphase." I said and wrote it down.

"Like I said." She replied cheekily. We went on like this until we had finished long before the other students.

"So," I said trying to think of something to say to break the awkward silence. "Why did you move here?"

She paused before answering, gnawing on her lip for a second before answering. "I wanted to see where my mother lived when she was a girl." I heard a subtle shift in her heart beat and knew she was lying, but why would she?

"Don't press it Edward." Alice thought.

Heeding her advice I quickly dropped it in time for Mr. Banner to come up and say, "Edward don't you think that Isabella should do some of the work as well?" "She probably didn't do any of it, just let him do it for her." He thought snidely.

I felt my eye twitch in irritation, damn judgmental humans. "Actually Bella identified three of the five." I said stressing her preferred nickname, and snickered to myself watching his face heat up in embarrassment.

"Fine, just work silently then." He said stalking back off to his desk.

Bella was shaking next to me and I felt a bit guilty for calling her put like that. "Hey I'm sorry," I quickly apologized. "I didn't mean to put you on the spot like that."

She shook her head sitting up clutching her hands to her mouth, I then realized she was laughing. "Oh man that was too funny." She said whipping her eyes clear of tears of laughter. "They really know how to judge and jump to conclusions, don't they?" She said looking back to the front.

"They?" I asked wanting her to clarify.

"You know, teachers, other people, hell even family members can be obscenely judgmental." She said blowing out air in a huff and running a hand through her hair.

I paused choosing my words carefully. "Depends on the person, not everyone is like that." I said smiling kindly at her.

She looked at me for a second before smiling halfheartedly, "That is a valid point." She said. The bell rang so we gathered out things and left.

"Where are you going now?" I asked.

Her nose crinkled in distaste and she replied, "Gym."

I chuckled at her disgruntled expression, "You don't like gym?" I asked.

She looked at me with a gleam in her eyes and a smirk on her lips and said cheekily, "Not at all, it's just that it is too easy." And weigh that she left down the hall, a slight sway to her hips. I stood there staring at her longer than necessary.

Emmett came up behind me and smacked me upside the head. "It's rude to stare." He said with a mock stern expression. Then he muttered to himself, "Even though she is fine looking."

Rosalie came up then smacked Emmett on the back of his head, glaring at him. "She certainly is interesting, for a human that is." She said a hint of a smile on her lips.

Alice shook her head and said, "That's the one thing I'm really not certain of." We all looked at her puzzled.

"Not certain of what?" Jasper asked, his brow wrinkling.

"That she is even human." She said. We froze, and looked at each other in alarm.

"If she isn't human, then what is she?" Emmett asked looking concerned.

"I don't know, I mean she doesn't appear in any of my visions, but then again neither do any of the Quileute Wolves. But she smells too good to be a shifter." She said rubbing her temples as if to relieve a headache.

Now that she had mentioned it there were a few things strange about Isabella Swan. Just who is she, and what is she?

Hey all I'm back! :3 but I feel so bad for being gone for so long... T_T I'm sorry! I had this chapter written months ago but I lost the papers I wrote it on and had to look for it. Thankfully I have the next chapter almost written and will hopefully have it typed up this weekend. Again I'm sorry for being gone so long, please review I love getting the feedback please favorite it I really appreciate it and I will post the next chapter as soon as possible. Thank you! :3 love you all Renee120