Hey guys, sorry for the delay! It's been a crazy few weeks for me. I finished college, broke u, moved cross country and moved to a new house!
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This chapter is rated M for sexual content and language.
Chapter 10 School
I'm trying to find a logical reason for what I'm doing right now. Unfortunately I'm failing miserably.
I'm in my new car, a dark blue Opel Insignia or something like that, I barely heard a word the man said since I'm not that big of an autophile. Alice picked the thing, while I was busy dreading this moment.
I was on my way to high school. I'm not even in the mood to mock myself. I've done many things in my quest for answers, but this is a new low for me. It's a good thing none of my friends can see me, I'd lose whatever respect I've earned in an instant.
I was trying to find something to distract myself, so that I wouldn't make a u-turn. I reached the parking lot, but it was empty. I guess I stepped a little too much on the gas on my way here.
The truth is the car run great, but I missed running. I missed a lot of things. I felt like a lion, caught in a jungle and forced to live like a house cat. Trapped. My beast was already clawing at these new bounds I'm forcing it to live in. I wonder how long I'll be able to keep this charade up.
I parked and turned on the radio listening to what passed as music these days, all in another miserable attempt to distract myself from my inevitable doom.
Slowly the parking lot started filling in with cars. My phone buzzed another message from Alice. She's been texting me relentlessly ever since we parted ways at the dealership. I didn't reply to any of them, but that did nothing to discourage her. Maybe she is watching me reading them in her visions? All the maybes Alice brought up in me started to give me the vampire equivalent of a headache. I really need some answers from her.
As I reached for my phone, that song she said she liked started playing. It wasn't much of a song, but I still listened to it. My guess is she liked it solely for the repeat of the you'll be mine phrase. Again my suspicions surfaced due to the curious time of the text. Did she send it because she saw me listening to the song? Or did she say she liked the song just because she saw me listen to it? I think I'm getting paranoid.
A: Don't forget to go to the office! And be extra friendly to the humans, not Bella friendly. xx
Bella friendly? So now I'm not being friendly enough? I've been on my best behavior with her family! I huffed, I guess now is as good as any time to get moving.
I got out of the car, people were already staring at it when they thought no one was in, gossiping at the potential of having a new student. Now that I left it some had the decency to look away, while others straight up gawked. The comments that I heard was everything you'd expect from hormonal teenagers. Petty little humans. Always want what they can never have.
My phone buzzed again. A: Loved the song choice by the way. ;) I rolled my eyes, trust Alice to misinterpret the tiniest of things, or schedule them. I guess she is somewhere in the parking lot, I didn't look for her, she'll probably misread that too. I have to make it clearer to her that the only thing she was getting from me was sex and only because I was horny and she was there.
Also I didn't want to look lost, I could already hear debates within groups whether one of them should come help me find my way. Win points, with me.
So I moved faster, following the signs to the registration office, while my phone buzzed yet again. Have I said how much I regret giving her my number? Maybe I should just turn the damn thing off…
I read the latest text, before I did so. A: You look sexy with glasses on. ;)
Oh right, I was wearing black shades, she texted me to do that for the first few days, because my eyes were an inhuman color. So I would be claiming to have light sensitivity for the next days until the special eye contacts she ordered for me arrived. I looked forward to that. I could just wear them all the time, that way I could stray from my current diet. This blessing in disguise funnily enough was Edward's idea.
Normally they would made me wear glasses until my eyes turned golden, but since he was hell-bent on not having his family publicly associated with me he thought it best if our physical resemblances were minimum. Of course since we were all vampires we looked alike, due to our paleness, gracefulness and extreme physical beauty.
The golden eyes though were the Cullen family's trademark, if my eyes were gold the humans would immediately think that I was one of them, or something along those lines. Alice texted me that was what Edward used as an excuse on the others. I didn't really care, since it could work in my advance.
At long last I reached the office, inside it was very bright, even with glasses on and very warm, comparing with the outside slightly chilly weather. Of course vampires didn't get cold or warm, but we could feel the temperature around us.
The office was small, I was in a little waiting area decorated with awards, notices and a bunch of other school crap. Since there was no one around and I could hear only one heartbeat I went further in. There were three desks behind a counter, one of which was manned by a red-haired woman near her forties.
As I walked towards her I was careful to make a shuffling noise, to alert her of my present. It worked, because she immediately looked up. "Can I help you?"
"I'm Isabella Bianci." Her dull eyes lit up with recognition. Carlisle said he called ahead, to inform the school of my arrival.
"Of course, can I see your papers?" I handed over the envelope, I was holding.
"So how do you like it? Living alone." She asked as she went through the file and pushed random buttons in her computer.
"It's alright."
"It must be lonely." She commended, a small frown forming on her face when I didn't add anything. The woman was looking for gossip and I wasn't going to provide her any.
"Why are you staying in Forks dear? There is hardly anything to do around here for a young lady like you." She tried again to dig in.
"I like small towns, they are quiet." I had a feeling she was stalling to satisfy her curiosity.
"Fill in these, honey." She handed me a few papers. "I'm going to need a permanent address soon."
I nodded. "I'll try to have one by Friday."
I handed back the papers, she quickly scanned them. "Alright, now choose your classes. I've already added the mandatory ones in your schedule. These are the ones you can choose from that still have open seats."
I quickly scanned the paper, careful not to pick anything Alice told me she'd be in. I remembered to pick a few AP ones, hoping to share some with Emmett.
After what seemed like an eternity of questions the woman handed me a schedule, a map and a slip for my teachers to sign that I had to return to her at the end of the day. Great, I have to see her again.
Alright first class English Literature with . "Hey there! I'm Eric Yorkie." There was a tall gangly boy with slick black hair and poor complexion leaning right next to the office door. Was he waiting for me? Instead of frowning at the eager to please boy I gave a small smile, all in the name of being friendly.
I noticed his extended hand then and shook it. "I'm Bella." I tried not to cringe, the boy needs to lay off the cologne.
"I know, you are big news here! We rarely get any new students. Anyway I'm running the school paper. How about an interview? It can be next week's front page." He beamed.
"I'm sorry, could you not do that? I don't want the extra attention." Or the extra gossip. I could already hear the woman I left in the office gossiping over me on the phone. I guess Emmett was right, hot unsupervised teenage girl is big news for this town.
"Oh ok…" he frowned a little. Is being in the school paper such a big deal? "Can I see your schedule?" he smiled again. I merely handed it over.
"Sweet, we share some classes. Unfortunately not the first one." Or fortunately.
"Can you point me in the right direction?" I asked eager to part ways with the boy.
"I can do better! I'll walk you, you are on my way." I tried not to gruff and followed after him.
"So, you moved here alone?"
"Yes."
"That's so cool! Having no parents around." He said dreamily.
I noticed a few students walked a little too close, probably trying to eavesdrop on the conversation. These gossipy small town people started to get on my nerves.
"Where are your parents?" he asked again.
"Dead."
"Oh I'm sorry I didn't mean to…"
I cut him off. "It's ok, it happened a long time ago."
"So… how do you like Forks so far?"
"It's rainy."
"That's an understatement. You probably wont need those." He chuckled, pointing my glasses.
"Actually I do, for the next few days. I had an eye surgery and I'm extra sensitive to the light." I explained, now if he asks what surgery, I'm kind of screwed.
"Oh… alright. That's your class by the way." He came to a stop at a crossroad and pointed to the second door on my right. "Listen, if you want and don't have other plans you can sit with me and some of my friends at lunch. Maybe?" he asked hopefully.
"I'll think about it." I said not wanting to reject him right now. Or maybe I should have. Then there be a rumor going on about what a bitch I am and the humans might leave me alone. I just don't know what to do here. I mean I have to be nice, because the Cullens will be monitoring my behavior. Also there was a small part of me that wanted to be extra friendly, just to prove to her that if I wanted to I could be more than Bella friendly! But I just don't want to! It's too much.
When I reached my class, most of the students were there already, including Rosalie and… Alice? What the hell is she doing here? I'm positive there was no English Literature in the schedule she sent me. I tried not to scorn at her beaming smile and walked to the teacher.
as the small name tag on his desk stated was a middle aged, tall, curly haired perverted man who gawked at teenagers. I know I'm not a teenager, but I still looked like one. It always kind of bothered me how the men would lust for girls who were barely of age and a lot of times younger even. Unfortunately that was something that remained unchanged through the centuries.
I cleared my throat loudly to try and wake the man from his stupor, so he would sign my stupid slip. Wouldn't it be nice if I just reached out and crushed his skull like the insignificant bug he is?
He finally closed his mouth and signed the damn paper. "Miss Bianci always a pleasure to entertain new students." I'm never wearing a skirt in this school. "You can sit next to Miss Webber." He pointed to the table right in front of the one Rosalie and Alice, were sited. Both watching me like I was lunch. Alright. I'll just have to be extra careful and extra friendly in here.
I sat down the girl next to me, Miss Webber as the pervert indentified her, had light brown hair and eyes and wore glasses. She smelled like wood, peach and patchouli and offered me a small smile and a hand. I shook it. "Angela." She whispered quietly and if it weren't for my enhanced hearing I might have not heard her over the noise the other students made.
"Bella." I smiled back. I got the feeling we would get along, she was a girl of few words like me.
"Your hands are freezing." She commented.
"I'm not used to the weather." She smiled sympathetically.
"Be ready for the worst winter of your life. This is summer weather for Forks." I winced; I'm certainly not spending winter here.
"Maybe you should run while you still can." She must have associated my grimace, to an aversion for gold weather, but still her cautious words felt real.
I felt my phone buzz again. Didn't I turn it off?
"I might have to, Forks is turning out to be a lot different from what I expected." I turned off my phone without checking what Alice texted me this time.
Mr. Perv called attention back to himself saying what books we'll read and be tested on; Angela quickly opened her notebook and started writing down stuff. I guess she is the geeky type of girl.
I felt a small kick from behind, but didn't react. "Turn on your phone." Alice whispered.
"Why are you in here?" I whispered back, too low and fast for any humans to hear.
"Darling, I didn't even need a vision! I knew there was no way you'd choose anything I was in, so I texted you everything I wasn't!" She giggled.
I froze. She played me yet again? What the hell am I doing? I'm being soft with her, too soft. This is no more about her liking me or thinking that I'm better than I am. It's about control! She already knows there's a darker side to me… And as far as I know she kept it to herself. Maybe it's time to give Alice Cullen a wakeup call. Or to be more accurate maybe it's time to let the real me come out and play… Clearly my paranoia has been right. The girl knew more than she was letting on.
First of all I have to know what she knows. I need to know about her visions, which means I have to start playing with her feelings, manipulate her so she would tell me. Maybe this hot and cold game we play isn't so bad after all. The way I see it I can either do one of two things. Either make my demand once more and if she doesn't comply, I start being cold and completely ignoring her, even in front of the others. Or I start playing the love struck mated vampire, until she trusts me and tells me everything.
Well I guess its choice number one no brainer. This plan though is high risk high reward. It might get me results, but the others will take notice of my indifference toward her and are more likely to pester me about her. I could use a little breathing room from her. I could also use the hunting possibility; if it turns out she can't see me.
Hunting humans. What if I took her with me? Carlisle apparently has the self-control to work in a hospital. What about Alice? How would she react if I ripped a throat open in front of her?
I could just picture her losing control, her eyes turn to black, crunched over a human body, her teeth sink deep into the vein. And blood. Blood everywhere. On her clothes, on her lips, trickling down her chin. For some reason the thought of her drinking human blood really turned me on. I had to bite my tongue to stop myself from moaning.
"Some one likes Shakespeare a little too much." I heard Rosalie whisper mockingly. Great they could smell me.
I heard Alice take a big breath and then leave an almost inaudible moan.
"Jesus! You are in a classroom! Both of you…" Rosalie whispered again, only this time she sounded more annoyed than amused. "It's going to be one long year."
"Baby, turn on your phone." Alice whispered huskily. I was tempted to do so, but the logical part of me won. There's no better time than now to start shunning her. Here at least she can't do anything about it.
"I don't know about you, but glasses really turn me on." I whispered back and made a small motion to look at Angela, who was way too absorbed in the lecture to even notice me.
She wasn't as hot as Alice or as beautiful, but she was cute in her own way and she had a girl next door kind of quality.
Alice left a warning growl and I smirked. Sometimes it was so easy to get a rise out of her.
That was when the bell finally rang, a nasal buzzing sound. God! That was bad for my ears. I notice Angela gave me a weird look, so I raised brow silently asking what was up.
"Aren't you going to write that down?" she pointed to the board were the word homework was written with big white letters followed by a paragraph of what we had to do. I quickly read it. No way, I'm not doing it. I might have fallen to the level where I need to go to school, but no one says I have to do the crap that comes along with it! Nor that I have to pay attention or be a straight A student.
"Nah, I'll remember it." she looked at me disbelievingly and started packing her things; along with everyone else. Apparently I'm the only one with just one notebook.
"What do you have next?" I stood waiting for Angela. Normally I would have gone, but I had a suspicion Alice was stalling just to watch me interact with the human girl.
"Algebra with Mr. Varner." I grinned.
"Me too. Would you mind walking with me?" she smiled kindly back at me, even if she did she wasn't the type to say it out loud.
"Of course. I can sit with you too, if you want." She offered.
"I'd love to." Just then I felt a hard mass collide with my back, I stammered a little bit forward because I didn't expect to be hit with such force. If I wasn't a vampire I'm certain I would have been thrown across the room and have my spine broken.
I looked up, to see Alice hastily exit the room. Rosalie swiftly following after her, throwing a glare my way just before she left.
I turned to smile at the girl next to me. "Shall we?"
She nodded, her eyes were glued to the door and her brow was furrowed. Did she notice the mini interaction between us?
"Did you knock their table or something?" Yes she did.
"Who?" I asked and moved to leave the classroom, nodding at the teacher who waved at me happily.
"The girl who pushed you. She is usually very nice and friendly, it's just so unlike her to do something like that." She mused, following after me.
"You know her?"
"Alice Cullen."
"And you think she did it on purpose." She was observant for a human.
"It looked that way and as far as I know she is the type who would apologize after crushing into you."
I shrugged, brushing the subject aside, like it was insignificant.
The next few periods passed nearly without incident. I made small talk with Angela, she barely asked a thing and she stopped talking as soon as the class started, leaving me to my thoughts. Unfortunately I didn't share any more classes with her, until lunch.
The only thing I got from algebra was a tick named Mike. Originally I would have thought him as an attractive boy; he had pale blond hair, blue eyes, a baby face and an athletic build. Unfortunately his good looks came with a very annoying personality; he was cocky, overly eager, cheerful and chatty to the point of carrying conversations by himself. Maybe the last thing was good, because I spaced out most of the time and just provided a few nodes and ahas here and there.
He must be a popular kid, because he seemed to know everyone and he introduced me to a bunch of other people. All of them asking the same things over and over again. Why did you move here? What's with the glasses? Seriously why move here?
I tried to answer in a way that was friendly, open and didn't raise any more questions. I figured they were going to run out of questions sooner or later.
Jasper was in that class too, but he only gave me a small smile, since we weren't supposed to know one another. I shared one class; I think it was history, with Emmett. He spent the whole hour giving me the basics on video games, what consoles are there, the must video games that I just had to play and other staff like that. I just nodded, not really interested but not completely disinterested either. Video games might seem pointless at first, but they provided a way to spent time as inconspicuously as possible, time that I would normally have spent in the woods or in the wolves' territory, time that I could ignore Alice while being right under her roof.
Anyway I was now headed to the cafeteria, for lunch, with one of Mike's friends; she sat with me in French. She was one head shorter than me with curly dark brown hair and blue eyes, I forget her name thought. I didn't really pay attention during introductions.
Forget Mike and Alice, this girl could talk! I guess she is the gossip queen around here because she was giving me a run in on everyone! Even on the teachers. And she spent the whole time in French passing me notes, basically interrogating me. At that time I missed Angela's silent companionship more than ever.
The girl was quite observant too, she was sure the substitute Miss Greene, who taught our French class, was a lesbian and into me. She wasn't being as obvious as most of the males in Forks high, who drooled when they caught sight of me, but there were lingering glances and she did check me out when I walked up to her. To be fair most humans did.
We went straight to the cafeteria line, to pick up trays and she started talking my ears off about what was edible in here and what her diet required her to eat. I was kind of forced to pay attention now, because I didn't feel like I had any other choice. The cafeteria was buzzing with noise, humans chatting, chairs been pulled, plates and forks clattering, but my ears automatically focused on one thing. The united thundering of all the hearts around me. It wasn't as if any specific scent called me, they were all massed together. It was just the concentration of so many humans in a place that irked the predator in me.
Such a waste.
There was a sudden lull, did she ask me something?
"How about pizza?" I offered hoping it was relevant.
That did it, she took off again about calories, that it wasn't healthy and I should have a salad to keep my good figure. I just picked whatever food she pointed out for me.
"Poor Bella." I heard Emmett's voice somewhere far in the background. "She has been captured by Jessica." His comment was followed by a chorus of musical laughter. I didn't look up, not wanting to give them the satisfaction.
I followed the girl, Jessica, to a table right in the middle of the cafeteria where Mike and thank god Angela sat, along with other 5 people. One was the boy from the morning and some of the others looked familiar, maybe I had a class with them? No one bothered to introduce us and I didn't ask. Their names didn't matter.
I sat in between Angela and Jessica, who was for once quietly gawking Mike. Look at that, the tick is useful after all.
Speak of the devil, he gave me what should have been a seductive smile. "How's Forks treating you, girl?" I started picking at my salad. Human food smelled and tasted vile, but it was a necessary evil.
"I got no complains." I ate a piece of greenery. It was terrible. "Scratch that, the food is…"
"Awful." Jessica finished for me, trying to gain his attention. I was happy to just observe them, chewing on the same piece as long as I could.
As I ate another piece I heard collective gasps come from my right. "What is she doing?" I turned, just enough to glance at them. No one could see my eyes, I'm wearing shades after all, to the world I would appear to be paying attention to whatever Eric and the other dude were saying.
The Cullens plus Jasper were all sitting in the far corner of the cafeteria, far enough to look like social outcasts. They all gawked at me wearing the same shocked looks on their faces, even Rosalie. What did I do wrong?
I picked another piece and chewed it.
"I thought you guys couldn't stomach human food?" asked Jasper.
Of course vampires could only feed on blood. I was only eating this, for the sake of appearing human. Didn't they ever eat? I mean they attended human schools every day for so many years. One glance at their untouched trays of food was enough. They didn't.
Figures, I already knew they were weak. If you are playing a charade play it right. Yes humans were stupid, but they did have vivid imaginations, it's impossible no one ever got suspicious of them. A group of four very pale teenagers never touching food, but always looking somewhat hungry.
"We don't." answered Edward, now looking at me with disgust. As I said before, weak.
"You don't have to eat it if you don't like it Bella." I turned to the girl next to me. Angela had her nose deep into a book since I arrived; I'm surprised she noticed my disgust with the food. "Here you can have my pizza it's more… edible." It all tastes the same to me.
"Yeah, but it's not worth the calories." Jessica said before I could reply. "One moment on the lips, forever on the hips." This generation had an odd fascination with weight control. All the girls on the table, minus Angela had only salads on their plates, while none were actually overweight.
Angela rolled her eyes. "I don't think she needs to worry about her figure. I mean look at her!" Jessica looked me up and down with envy, while Angela gave me a slice of pizza.
Now I have to eat it. "Thanks." I offered a smile and she blushed in return.
Now this food supposedly tastes good, I have to control my face better.
"Alice Cullen is glaring at you." Jessica announced and pulled me in out of my thoughts, just before I took a bite.
"Who?" I asked innocently, not turning to see if she was right since I am not supposed to know who the Cullens are. Surprisingly Jessica hasn't blabbed about them yet. Something tells me she is about to.
"Three o'clock." I turned to see that indeed she was right, Alice glared hard and her eyes were almost black. As soon as I did though Edward nudged her and she turned away like nothing happened.
"That's twice." Angela whispered under her breath. I didn't comment on it because if I were human I wouldn't have heard her.
"I think Bella is about to get the Cullen special." Emmett announced happily, while everyone else groaned.
"What are they saying?" asked Jasper.
"She seems familiar." I mused, now I kind of want to hear what the humans think of them.
"She was in our English class."
"Oh right! I've been meaning to ask you about that, is it true?" Jessica said conspicuously, I noticed the other two girls on the table ceased talking and stared at me expectantly. I had to force myself not to laugh at Emmett's imitation of Jessica, as he was reciting everything for Jasper.
"Is what true?" I had no idea what she wanted to know.
"Did she body slam you on the first period?" her eyes gleamed with excitement. I heard Emmett's booming laugh.
"No." I snorted trying to pass it off as ridiculous.
"Samantha was there, she saw the whole thing and she swears she did." The blond girl from across the table said matter of fact. "Are you calling her a liar?" she raised an eyebrow and stared hard at me. I really want to chuckle at the ridiculousness of the situation I am in, but I guess it will be taken the wrong way.
"No." I shrugged indifferently. "I didn't see what happened. I just guessed she tripped and fell on me." Alice was defending herself too, over at the Cullen table, saying the humans didn't know what they saw. "I mean look at her, I don't think she could push me even if she wanted to." The Cullen's chuckled and I couldn't help my smirk, when I saw her frown.
"You be careful Bella. There's not a thing that bitch does on accident, believe me I learned that the hard way." Jessica said and glared at Alice.
"No one told you about them yet?" asked the blond again, and then shook her head disbelievingly. "Are you losing your touch Jess?"
"I was waiting for lunch, it's pointless to gossip when she hasn't even seen them yet."
"Anyway. Those people over there, they are the Cullens. Doctor sexy and his wife adopted all of them when they were younger. I suspect she can't have children."
"I suspect their father did plastic surgery on them!" added Mike jealously.
Angela groaned. "Mrs. Cullen despite anything you might hear is a very kind and compassionate person, she helps with every charity event and she donates huge amounts of money too."
Jessica cleared her throat to attract the attention back to herself. "The huge guy is Emmett, the red haired god is Edward and you already know her. Those three are siblings, the doctor and his wife adopted them after their parents died in an accident. The blond ice queen, Rosalie, is Miss. Cullens niece or something. I think her parents shipped her to them, because she is too much of a bitch."
"And she is dating Emmett." Added scandalized, the black haired girl from across the table. Just then Emmett and Rosalie shared a quick kiss, causing the girl to ewe loudly and face the other way.
"So what? They aren't related."
"Yeah, but they live together! It's weird." Jessica added disgusted. "Plus Edward and Alice are twins and they totally were together when they first moved here! And then that bitch stole Jasper from me! She even had the audacity to sit at our table. Can you believe that?" I was kind of shocked to hear Alice dated the human too.
"But karma is a real bitch because they both dumped her and went for one another. Oh right, I almost forgot Jasper is the sexy blond next to Edward. And don't get any ideas about them, Alice Cullen turned them as gay as day." I glanced at their table again, Emmett was having a kick with Jessica's Cullen special, while everyone else looked annoyed.
"Meanwhile, in the real word Alice pretended to be with Jasper to cover for her brother when the boys first started dating and were too shy to come out of the closet." Angela added quickly, Jessica was ready to argue but was interrupted by the bell.
Having heard enough from Jessica for another decade I quickly made my way out of the cafeteria and to the bathroom to rid myself of the human food. I could probably keep it down until the end of school, but I also want to grab the chance to be late at my next class, which I share with her. If I'm late maybe she'll sit with someone else and I won't have to spend another hour being interrogated.
The halls were almost empty when I finally reached my next class, Biology with Mr. Banner. He left me to sit wherever I wanted. Sadly the only unoccupied seat was right next to Edward, who without missing a beat started to poke at my shield the minute I walked through the door. Maybe I would have been better off sitting with Jessica.
I also didn't fail to notice that Alice was sitting at the desk behind mine with Jasper. You'd think she'd jump at the chance to sit next to me, but no she'd rather have her overbearing brother glare and poke at my shield for the next hour. I know I shouldn't, but I felt just a tad betrayed, that she left me with him.
"Couldn't you at least give me Jasper?" I whispered disappointed on my way to my seat. Alice ignored me pretending to write something in her notebook.
"You are too dangerous to sit next to him." Edward nearly growled, I refused to acknowledge him. If I wanted to kill the boy I could do so from right next to him.
"Hey Bella." Jasper whispered with a cheeky smile, I nodded and couldn't help but give him a small smile too, just before I took my seat. It felt nice to have someone happy to see you, a lot better than being ignored or glared at. Maybe that's why they keep the human around. It's like having a pet that smells good and doesn't litter.
The next hour passed painfully slow. Edward kept glaring at me, both hands fisted and on his thighs he looked like he had a stick up his ass, but since he is gay I guess he'd look more entertained if that were the case. He actually never stopped poking at my shield, to mess with him more at one point I created a shield around him, cutting him off from the rest of the word. At first he looked like a lost puppy without his ability, but he recovered his glare as soon as he saw my cocky smirk. Even after the class ended and I made my way to my next one I tried to keep my shield around him. Unfortunately we had classes too far away and I felt him move out of my reach.
Alice didn't talk at all during class, but I could hear a lot of scribbling noises from behind, while no one else was writing anything down. Whatever her deal is she entrusted it to the human.
Of course she did, they are best friends, who might have dated. Or not.
My next class was well boring. Alice was in it, I sat next to her, but she didn't even spare me a glance. She kept taking notes and pretending to listen. It bothers me, that she is ignoring me. I mean it's hard for me to ignore her, when she is already ignoring me.
What if she is ignoring me because she had a vision of me ignoring her? I need to talk to her, preferably not on school grounds.
My next class is the last for today and it's Gym which means I'll just sit around watching other people play sports due to my eye thingy. I don't think I'll get in too much trouble if I skip. But what worries me is if she will skip with me. Based on the last two classes she won't. I have to create a plausible excuse to make her come with me.
I could tell her I'm thirsty and need to hunt, but she might take me hunting again and I'm not drinking animal blood again, unless I absolutely have to.
Sex won't do it either, she was barely willing before.
I guess I'm going to have to pet the lion.
"Alice…" I whispered, but got no response instead she kept scrabbling down things.
"We need to talk." Still nothing.
"About us."
"I thought there was no us to talk about." She whispered back.
"I thought you wanted it to be an us." That got her, she started chewing on her lower lip nervously.
She left an almost inaudible sigh finally dropping the whole indifferent charade and turned to stare at me her wide topaz eyes full of hope. "I still do. Do you?"
"Depends on our talk." Just then the bell rank.
"After school?"
"No, now."
"We can't skip on the first day! Everyone will notice." Like I cared for the human population of Forks high.
"Me or school, Alice." I got up and headed for the parking lot. I didn't turn around, but I knew she was following me.
Now, if only I could find a way to fit in the us part of the conversation with the I-need-to-know-what-the-hell-she's-seen-of-me part.
Next time Alice and Bella are going to have a much needed talk about their non-existent relationship.
Who do you think will break first? Alice and tell B everything she wants to know or Bella and give A what she's been waiting for?
Thoughts, suggestions or pointing out mistakes on the chapter are always welcome.
A huge P.S(to explain a few things)
Some of you are in a hurry to see the darker Bella I promised. I'm sorry, for the wait. I know we are in chapter ten, but this is day 7 of Bella being in Forks. Day 1 she met the Cullens and went hunting with Alice. Day 2 she was still with Alice, but spent most of it alone in the hotel. Day 3 still alone in the hotel. Day 4 Alice joined her. Day 6 they went back to the Cullens. And Day 7 she went to school. (The time she spent in the hotel, was her trying to rein in her darker side.)
I thought I hinted at it before, but Bella just acts friendly with the Cullens(I'm not saying she doesn't harbor affection for some of them), she is trying to gain their trust, there are things she needs from them. So she plays good, the thing is for how long she'll manage.
One more thing when you spent time around someone you tend to act like they do. Bella right now is in Rome so she acts like that... Alice brings out her humanity and it works both ways, in future chapters you'll get to see what Bella brings out of Alice...
I know it seems fluffy and I guess it is because I want the girls to have a bond before things get crazy…just think of it as the calm before the storm. And please be patient with me, I'm not writing as I go, I have a plan! I swear! A lot of the things Bella says or thinks are intended as dark humor or sarcasm.