Chapter 11 - Bella
I was in my truck, on the way to college. I didn't do it on purpose, but as I drove past the Cullen's new house I slowed the truck to a crawl to look over.
The house was huge, modern and bright. A small girl, it must have been Alice, with brown spiked hair was fluttering around outside, lifting a few boxes from a van. She turned around to see me staring, smiled a laughing smile and waved friendlily at me then took a tall blonde haired boys' hand – Jasper I assumed. I pulled my lips up at the corners to smile back and lifted the speed in the truck.
I finally arrived at college and made my way to class. Mr Varner was talking about Wuthering Heights and didn't seem to notice that I wasn't paying attention today.
Lunch finally came and I was sitting at the usual table, next to my usual friends. Mike, Jessica and Eric talked about how they wanted to go surfing down at La Push. Mike invited me, but surfing wasn't my thing.
"Just come, Bella. I'm not surfing, there's whale watching too." Angela said, trying to convince me. I suddenly remembered my plans with my friends at the weekend, maybe if I went to La Push tonight, I could get out of the trip to the movies at the weekend…and I could see Jacob.
"Okay, I'll be there…after college right?"
"Yeah, I'll pick you up if you want?" Mike offered.
"No, no…its okay, I have to do some stuff first anyway. I will meet you all there though" I didn't want to think about a fifteen minute ride to La Push with just me and Mike.
The hall was almost empty. We had been let out of Mr Varner's class early, so it wasn't as busy as usual in the cafeteria.
Emmett walked through the door. His huge strides would probably be about three of my own. He locked eyes with me and I instantly let me head drop to the fries in front of me.
"Emmett Cullen is coming over, Bella." Angela beamed. I risked lifting my head to look at her, she was running her fingers through her hair, and quickly adjusting her lipstick. Jessica looked uncomfortable, but sat up straight and pushed out her chest. I dipped my head back to my fries and hoped he was just walking past.
"Hey…Bella?" I felt a light hand on my shoulder as the husky voice spoke. I looked up and could feel my face turning redder as the seconds passed.
"Uh…yeah?" I stuttered.
"I was wondering if I could talk to you…Alone" he added looking up to catch the rest of the table staring at him.
"Sure," I said, standing up, carefully. I followed him to where he sat at another table, about four away from mines.