In the morning, I didn't want breakfast. I just had to get away from this cursed house! I got dressed for school and left. I pulled up at a fast food place and ordered something from their breakfast menu. It wasn't anything special. Just a strawberry pastry. I can feel some one else in that house and I can't stand to stay there any second longer than I have to!

When I got to school I wasn't surprised to find nobody there. I did wake up quite early, and my driving was hysterical. So to pass the time I drank my juice and ate my pastry slowly. When I finished, I was astonished to find students and teachers crowding the parking lots. I sighed and popped a mint into my mouth before heading out. My new book bag, slung over my shoulder loosely, hit some one surprisingly close to me.

"Hi!" Jessica cheered. "So, my friend works at The Diner. She told me about you're date with Bella," Jesica said a little less happy. Usually when Jessica finds out that I've spent time with Bella, she'd shut her trap and leave me alone until some one else came around! But seeing to it that now three other girls that I haven't met, in cheerleader uniforms, were following behind, I can see why she was a little joyous. I guess she was becoming more popular with the gossip of Bella and I together spreading.

"Yeah...?" I asked, dragging the word on. Jessica looked at me like she was lost. I bet she thought that I would just pour my feelings out onto the table for her wouldn't she? Of course. "Look Jess," I started, the girls behind us giggled when they heard the little name, "This is my life. Not your's! I'd simply ask you to just leave me alone." I walked a little faster, but the bouncing girls kept at my heels.

"Just tell me what it was like? I heard you guys got super soaked and shared a blanket and hot chocolate!" The girls behind us awed as Jessica stated something that they hadn't heard yet. I rolled my eyes.

"Jess, let me put this some way that you may understand, OK? I'm throwing a party. Bella and I are hosting it. But you weren't invited! So don't show up!" I yelled at her. I pinched the bridge of my nose as I heard her gasp, along with the three followers. "Harsh!" I heard from a passerby that had been watching the scene. I looked down at Jessica and she looked like she was about to cry. "Hey, I'm sorry. Just... Just mind your own business," I said gentler before she followed me subtly away to English.

Finally escaping the chatter box, I headed to each of my classes with my usual group of friends until lunch. Eric being the last one in my class and the closest one to walk with me, followed me to lunch.

"You're not sitting with us at lunch, are you?" He grumbled.

"I don't think so," I responded, telling the truth. Sure Bella tells me that she loves me outside of school but when we're inside, she may not like the attention. Especially when she knows now that people are watching us outside of school as well. But as I make my way to the door, I see a familiar wave of mahogany hair fill my eyes and a sweet scent fill my nose. Eventually a cool hand fits in mine and the question is answered. "No, Eric, baby. I will most definitely not be sitting with you guys. Sorry." I smirked as he crossed his arms and marched off, grumbling to himself.

"Hello, dear."

"Oh, hi..." I look around a little to see if any passerby would be lurking near and leaned close to her, "love." Bella giggled lightly and smirked at me deviously. I pulled her away to the cafeteria before sitting ourselves right next to the Cullen and Hale's table.

Today I had actually brought money! Not that it was on purpose. I stuffed the money in my bag last night, the change from The Diner let me have enough money to buy a pizza and a water. I put my tray down on the table and sat down across from Bella. She stared at my food in disgust and wrinkled her nose at the smell. I raised an eyebrow in wonder.

"I'm curious."

"That's a surprise."

"What if some one dared you to eat food?" I finished. Bella quickly picked up the pizza, the cafeteria almost seemed to gasp, and took a bite out of the saucy mess. She quickly chewed and swallowed, glaring at me. I watched, eyes wide.

"If some one dared you to eat dirt, you could, couldn't you?" She asked, grimacing at the mere memory of the pizza. She flopped it back onto the tray and and continued to glare. I flinched away a little before righting myself. "I tried it once, on a dare," I admitted, "It wasn't so bad."

"More surprises. You know, you're just full of 'em," Bella added sarcastically.

"Yikes, someone's in a bad mood." I crossed my arms and slouched in my chair. This seemed like a good weapon against Bella. She never wanted me to feel bored, or disappointed! She's to easy! Bella stared at me with stone-like look. I avoided her eyes, getting nervous. Abruptly and suddenly, Bella stood up and leaned across the table, pointing a finger at me.

"You know what? I don't even know why I'm hanging around you! I can kill you! I'm too dangerous for you! What if you get hurt around me? Has that never crossed your mind?" She interrogated. By now, she has pushed me so far into my chair, I'm almost at the brink of falling off. I nodded my head yes.

Bella's expression turned from frustrated, to angry, to completely in pain in seconds. Bella buried her face in her hands and sat back down. She was completely unsure as to what to do with me.

"Well, I know why I hang around you," I said quietly. Too quiet for anyone human to hear. She looked at me through her fingers before slamming them into her lap and giving me a look that dared me to go on. I decided I would just wait until she asked me to continue herself. She gritted her teeth at me. "What? I actually want to hear every little thing! Why? I bet you can't find anything other than 'I'm beautiful'!" She hissed at me. I ignored the bet and went on.

"I hang around you because you're the only one that cared about my feelings. I thought I was completely fine without a girl, just me and my mother until I could move away from her. She's the only one that let me talk. I know I'm really selfish for just keeping you with me, but if I didn't, I'd go insane! You comforted me, and kept my mind away from her. Everyone knows that she's not going to make it. Carlisle knows, my supposed friends know, Alice knows, even you know it, don't you?" I spat at her. I looked at her with all the emotion I could get from every corner of my body. "I grew up as an only child. I grew up with a ton of money! Almost millions! I grew up with one parent! The other one just ignored me! Now the other one is dead and the only one I have is going to die!" I put my face in my hands trying to fight my tears and rubbed until I can feel my eyebrow hairs coming out.

"Me, too," Bella said finally.

"What?" I looked up at her, puzzled.

"You pretty much just summed up my whole life as a human." She shook her head with a small smile on her pretty pink lips. "I grew up with my mother, Renee. Though she was just too happy with her latest husbands. I grew up with her until I was three years old. I was sent away every summer to visit my father, Charlie. They were divorced. One day, when I was thirteen, my mother didn't come back for me. She left me with Charlie. I couldn't have been happier in my life." Bella chuckled blackly. "You see, Charlie was a cop back then. He was very good at it, he was the Sheriff even. And eventually, some guy wanted revenge on him, being arrested was that guy's worst nightmare. He came back to our house one night, when I was sixteen, and... well Charlie died in my arms." She breathed heavily at her words, burying her eyes into the palm of her hands. I'm guessing that her father was very special to her. If I wasn't frozen to the spot, and on the edge of my seat from the story and her sad voice, I would be over there with her, letting her cry. But I was glued, and Bella started to continue with her beautiful eyes hidden from me. "I was in a coma after the trespasser shot me across my ribs. I didn't wake up after that and my heart was dying out on me. Somehow Carlisle thought I had potential and 'saved me'." She used air quotes. "Now here I am, almost one hundred years later!Frozen at the age of seventeen! Every women's dream right?" She added sarcastically, adding as much happiness into her voice. She looked at me with sad eyes.

I stared silently at her, contemplating that she had experienced my entire life, and probably worse, and yet she was still strong enough to laugh, joke, go out, and not be a complete depressed psycho like me. Hold on a second... "You're almost one hundred years old!?" I whisper-yelled. I was astonished. How could she spend that much time alone? I wondered aloud.

She chuckled humorlessly before returning to a straight face. "Just living on the thought of losing an actual family." She waved her hand to the table behind her. Rosalie stared at me with a glare, threatening me menacingly. That was the only look I have ever shrunk away from. Bella's voice, as I have been noticing, was like honey. Sweeter than anything I can dream up of. "And by the way, Edward, before you came around, I was actually determining leaving them. Right now, I'm just glad I didn't." Bella stared at me with soft eyes. I froze to my seat again. I need to try and stop being so easily manipulated by the littlest things! Like her eyes, they're simply just two body parts secured to her brain!

I quickly searched for my water bottle and drank thirstily. "I... really do like you, though, Bella. Probably more than you could ever like me." She scoffed. "Sure. You're definitely wrong about that Edward dearest. I like you, way more than you like me!" She waved a hand at me, one that she said she could kill me with.

"Is that so?"

"Mhmm!"

"Well... I love you! Take that! Ha!" I stabbed a finger in her direction, not aware of the little challenge, and what I was going to do if I were to win this silly match. Unexpectedly, Bella stood up with crossed arms and a smirk on her face. "Alright, now let's clean up and get to class." She patted my chin before moving away with a skip in her step. This lunch has been intense.