Mrs. Hanigan walked up and down each row of desks as she passed out the students' graded essays. Rosalie stared up at her teacher as Mrs. Hanigan smiled down at her.
"I really liked what you said." she informed, setting Rose's paper facedown on the desk, "It was really interesting."
Rosalie flipped the paper over to see the perfect score written in red marker on the top of her stapled essay paper. A grin stretched out along her lips as she heard groans from other students who didn't receive the same grade.
"What did you get?" Rose asked, leaning over to glance at Jasper's paper.
"C." he muttered, pulling a black pen out of his binder.
"It wasn't original. I wanted new thoughts. Thoughts and opinions I never heard before." Mrs. Hanigan explained, before walking back up to her desk.
"How are we suppose to know what you heard and what you didn't hear?!" Jasper proclaimed, balling his essay paper up.
"Your next assignment is due at the end of the week!" Mrs. Hanigan informed, grabbing a dry erase marker, "It's a four page essay on who's your favorite female character in Othello and Hamlet. I'm very interested to read what some of you say." she paused to glance at Rosalie, before turning around to write the criteria for the paper on the board.
"Hey." Rose muttered, shoving Jasper's shoulder, playfully, "Cheer up kid!"
"I'm not in a good mood." Jasper growled, pulling the top off of his pen.
"When are you ever in a good mood?!" Rose joked, watching as Jasper rolled his eyes in annoyance.
Jasper unraveled his essay paper and laid it flat on his desk. He started doodling on the paper and occasionally looking up to check the time.
"Hey." Rose called out, turning to face him completely, "What's wrong?"
"Nothing is wrong. I just don't want to be here. I want to be home helping dad." Jasper muttered, shoving his pen back into his binder.
"It's senior year. After this school year, you'll be able to help dad as much as you want. The first day of October is this Friday, the school year is flying." Rose reminded, patting his shoulder.
"Not fast enough." he spat, hearing the bell ring.
Jasper quickly grabbed his things and stormed out of the classroom. Rosalie slowly gathered her things. Paolo stepped inside the classroom to see what was taking her so long.
"What's up with your brother?" Paolo asked, as Rose shrugged her shoulders in irritation, "He stormed out of the class and basically ran me over. Carlo chased after him."
"Come on. I don't want to be late for math." Rose whispered, grabbing onto Paolo's wrist to drag him out of the classroom.
Rosalie glanced ahead to see Charlotte, Victoria and the other cheerleaders standing by their lockers, laughing.
"Hold on a sec." she spoke up, walking away from Paolo.
Victoria groaned as she watched Rosalie approach them. Charlotte smiled, widely, hoping Rosalie had good news.
"Have you thought about it?" Charlotte asked, crossing her fingers.
"Yeah." Rose answered, rolling her eyes at Victoria before smiling up at Charlotte, "I'll join."
Charlotte's high pitched scream filled the halls of the school as she began jumping up and down.
"Great." Victoria murmured, crossing her arms, "Welcome to the team. Practice is after school every Monday and Wednesday."
"Wait. I don't have to try out?" Rose wondered, confusedly, running her fingers through her hair.
"No silly!" Charlotte giggled, patting her shoulder, "I'm sure you're a quick learner."
Rosalie nodded her head as she backed away from the perky girl. She joined Paolo who looked on in amusement.
"Mondays and Wednesdays is cheer practice. Tuedays you have auto club." Paolo reminded, following her towards Mr. Archer's class, "Can you handle it all?"
"I'm Rosalie Romano!" Rose asserted, flexing her pretend muscles, "Of course I can handle it all!"
Paolo laughed as she approached the outside of her class. Students were inside laughing and bouncing around, which was weird since Mr. Archer was one of the strictest teachers.
"Oh, I forgot to tell you." Paolo spoke up, stopping her from walking inside, "I'm not going to be your guard anymore."
"What? Why?" Rose asked, quickly turning around.
Paolo was her guard since she was four. She's grown use to him. They can't just switch guards with her just like that.
"I was assigned an assignment from your father." Paolo answered, leaning against the wall, "Mario will be your new guard."
The school bell rang. Rose pouted as she stepped inside the classroom. Mr. Archer wasn't in. The class had a substitute which explained everyone's behavior.
Rosalie grabbed the worksheet they were assigned to do before sitting down. Mario being her guard shouldn't be bad. He's young, either 24 or 25. He's good-looking and he's funny. It should be alright. It's going to be different, but maybe a good different.
She stared down at the worksheet and drew a blank thought as she looked at the problems. She had no clue how to do the assignment.
"Jasper." Rose whispered, looking to her left.
No Jasper. Rosalie looked to her right. Still no Jasper. She stood up, clutching her worksheet and looked around the classroom. Rose sighed to herself before flopping back down into her seat. She had no chance of getting a good grade in this class if she didn't have help. Jasper was usually her help.
Rosalie sighed to herself as she gave up and pushed the worksheet away from her.
"What's wrong?" Caius asked, approaching her.
Rose smiled to herself before glancing up at the unfortunate boy standing in front of her.
"Hmm, where to begin?" she asked herself, glancing down at the paper.
Caius smiled as he leaned forward to see the first problem.
"Morons." Rose spat, glaring down at the worksheet, "I swear math is a legal form of torture made by people who hate happiness! I mean,…what's your name?" she paused to hear his name, "Caius, tell me when I would ever use this in the future?!"
Caius stood up to grab his completed paper off of his desk. He glanced down at hers to see it completely blank.
"In the first six problems you have to find x." Caius whispered, as Rose glared menacingly at him.
Rose snatched her pen off of the desk and circled x in the first six problems.
"There! Found x!" she asserted, slamming her pen back down.
Caius smirked, as he picked up her pen. He wrote the problem down on a separate sheet of paper to help her work through it.
"Okay the first problem equals 0, but you need to find x. A number is x. Ignore the a, b and c for right now." Caius explained, holding the pen out towards her.
"Just forget it. I'll just sell drugs." she muttered, leaning back, crossing her arms.
Caius started to laugh as he nodded his head. He grabbed a chair and pulled it up close to her desk.
"Math is really simple Rosalie. It always goes back to the basics." Caius explained, looking up to face her, "If I have six bottles in this hand and four in this hand, then what do I have?"
"I don't know…a drinking problem perhaps." she rudely remarked, before hearing Caius sigh, "Sorry, you have ten, but that has nothing to do with this problem."
"I'm going to do the first problem for you, slowly. I want you to watch and pay attention." Caius informed, grabbing her paper.
Rosalie watched intently as he proceeded to complete the first problem. By the time he was finished, she felt she could at least try the second. She worked through the problem, and Caius would occasionally correct something she did wrong.
"You smell good." Caius whispered, leaning closer to watch her complete the next problem.
"Um, thank you." she replied, furrowing her brows.
She turned back to face her paper to complete the other problems with help from Caius.
"Watch where you place your decimals." Caius reminded, pointing towards a problem, before feeling his hand being swatted away.
Rose and Caius quickly looked up to see Jasper glaring at the male.
"She no longer needs your services," he growled, as Caius stood up, "If she needs help, I will help her."
The male blond quickly nodded his head before scurrying towards his desk. Jasper sighed to himself as he sat in the seat Caius previously owned.
"You're just a boy magnet, aren't you?" he asked, looking over her shoulder as she turned to adjust the decimal point.
"It's harmless fun!" Rose proclaimed, glancing over the completed problems, "I don't feel invisible. It's empowering when you're wanted."
Jasper couldn't help but smile, obviously feeling much better.
"You aren't invisible." he asserted, taking her paper from her.
"Aw, I love you too!" she exclaimed, tossing her arms around her brother.
Jasper laughed while skimming through her worksheet. She pulled back to see Jasper continually checking her problems.
"What's the verdict?" she asked, as he handed her the paper back.
"They're right." he sighed, watching as she quickly hopped up to turn in her paper.
Jasper grabbed a paper to take home to complete since he didn't have time to complete it in class. The school bell rang and the twins headed out to meet Paolo and Carlo in the hallway.
"Oh good! Lunchtime!" Rose exclaimed, rubbing her stomach, "I'm starving!"
They stepped inside the cafeteria. Today they brought lunch to school. Edward was seated with his glee club buddies at a different table. Bella and Alice were alone at their usual lunch table.
"Hey Jasper!" Trevor, the wrestling team captain called out, "Sit over here with us!"
Jasper glanced back at his sister to see her nod, assuring him she was going to be okay.
"Rose! Over here! Rosalie!" Charlotte shouted, waving her hand around, "Hey sit with us!"
Rosalie smiled as she took a seat at the cheerleading table. Victoria continued to look upset. She ate her food in silence as Charlotte and the other girls told her about Brooklyn High School.
"You know, your brother is kind of hot." Victoria spoke up, glancing over at the wrestling table, "Maybe you could put a good word in with him for me."
"He's not looking to date." Rose informed, shrugging her shoulders, "He'll just turn you down."
The girls on the squad couldn't help but laugh. Victoria wasn't use to rejection. She wasn't even rejected by Jasper himself, but by his sister.
"I should head to class early." Victoria growled, grabbing her tray to dump it.
"Did I say something?" Rose asked, biting into her apple.
"No. Victoria has always had a stick up her butt." Leah assured, patting Rose's shoulder.
By the end of lunch, Rose and the squad were on good terms. Well, she was on good terms with everyone, but Victoria. She was not expecting that to change. Jasper and Rose separated to head in different directions for their next class.
Jasper arrived to science to see Alice sitting in the seat next to him. He quietly took hold of his seat and purposefully didn't glance at her.
"Hey." she greeted, as he raised his hand to silently wave.
"Okay, projects." Mr. Rogers announced, entering his class, "Who ever you are sitting next to is your partner."
Jasper groaned and rested his forehead against the science desk. Alice pretended like she didn't hear him. It kind of hurt that he didn't want to be partners with her.
"I'll go into details about the project in five minutes. For right now, I want you to discuss with your partner and create a schedule on when and where you all will meet up after school." Mr. Rogers said, grabbing a stack of folders to pass out, "While you all are talking, I'll be passing out today's assignment."
Rose took a seat in her history class, ready for it to be over so she could go to Spanish and see Jasper again. She sat in the furthest seat from the front ready to hear Mrs. Adams lectures about whatever topic she's teaching today. A buzzing sound pulled her from the lecture. Rose reached into her purse and pulled out her cell phone. Emmett's name flashed across the screen.
I can't wait until our next date.
-Em
Yeah, I can't wait to see you again :D
-xoxo Rose
Rose quickly sent the message before looking up at her teacher. Mrs. Adams continued her lecture on the Industrial Revolution. Her phone silently buzzed once again.
Send me a pic of you.
-Em
Rosalie glanced up to make sure her teacher wasn't looking at her. She used the front camera on her cell to snap a quick, but cute picture of herself. Rose quickly typed a short message telling Emmett to send her one of him, before sending her own.
Beautiful!
-Em
Rose couldn't help but smile as she waited for his picture. The next time her phone buzzed, she knew it was his picture. She opened the attachment as a wide grin broke out onto his face. He had a goofy grin showing his appealing dimples. Rose couldn't think of the right words to type, so she settled on symbols to get her message across.
;) ;) ;)
-xoxo Rose
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I wanted to leave you all with another chapter! I know it wasn't as eventful, but hey, we'll get there eventually! Next chapter, we'll be visiting Emmett in school!
-Rachel.