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So there you have it as much as I would love it, I don't own this fabulous series I just own this plot
A/N: 18 reviews for last chapter! Oh my Carlisle!! Thank you soo much! And I just have to say, I saw the new Twilight trailer and LOVED IT! The scene where they kissed was sooo cute even though it was like 2 seconds… I still screamed… my mom kind of came running downstairs thinking I was being raped or something… my bad. Oh and fyi Bella and Edward aren't exactly dating yet… more will be explained in the chapter so read!
Chapter 10
We got back to Coleman's Academy on January 2, classes started up again on the 3rd. Edward helped me bring my bags up to my room. I gave him a hug and a smile and he went to go unpack his things. Alice and Rosalie hadn't returned yet, so I had my room to myself for a little bit. My mind kept drifting to my time in Phoenix… I couldn't help it. I knew I would never get my things unpacked if I kept thinking about it, so I slipped the buds of my ipod in my ears and cranked up the music.
Once my things were unpacked I had a sudden craving for coffee. I knew Emmett wouldn't be working, he was getting back later tonight, and that meant no free coffee. Oh well. I slipped into my peacoat and threw my scarf around my neck and went downstairs into the cold New York weather.
I made my way down to the coffee shop wondering when Alice and Rose were going to get back. I knew that they would want every last detail of what happened over break. It would be difficult to explain the reasons why Edward and I hadn't actually really done anything since that one night he kissed me. I smiled at the memory of his soft lips on mine and shivered.
I got my coffee and sat down at one of the tables in the shop. I didn't want to walk home with coffee in my hands, knowing me I'd trip and spill it all over my coat. That would be a dry cleaning bill that I didn't want to pay.
"BELLA!" I heard someone call from behind me. I knew that voice from anywhere. I turned around to see Alice standing at the entrance in skinny jeans with Ugg boots, her black winter jacket, and her favorite white knit hat with matching scarf. Her cheeks were stained with red from the cold. She bounced over to me and sat down across from me. She was smiling so wide, I was afraid that her cheeks would fall off.
"What?" I asked with a laugh. She laughed with me; boy did I miss this girl.
"Well… aren't you going to tell me what happened over break!?" she practically screamed.
"Alice! Not here!" I shushed her. She giggled and stood up.
"Then what are we still doing here?" Alice asked and pulled me away. Thankfully I had already finished my coffee. We ran out of the coffee shop and all the way back to the dorm. Alice quickly unlocked the door, pulled me inside and threw me onto my bed before jumping onto it herself. "Talk. Now!" she insisted.
"Okay, okay! Well, when we were on the plane going to Forks, I got stuck with this really creepy guy. He tried to make a move on me and just before he was about to force me into a kiss, Edward was there and he punched the guy!" Alice gasped.
"NO WAY!" I laughed.
"Yes, then we got Edward and his seats switched. So that was the end of that problem. Then when we got to Forks, he helped me get my bags to my room and then we went over to his house and hung out with his parents for the afternoon and I cooked dinner for Charlie. Nothing else really happened until Christmas Eve and we were on the beach…" I told her about the events at the beach and at Christmas dinner. I told her of what happened while we were making cookies and when we watched Finding Nemo. I explained how Renee and Phil loved his company.
And lastly I explained what happened the first night in Phoenix.
"HE KISSED YOU!" Alice screamed. "I KNEW IT! I TOLD YOU! OH MY GOSH! EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! FINALLY!" She was bouncing up and down on my bed like a madwoman. I started laughing. "Aww you guys are the cutest couple on campus now!"
"Alice! Slow your roll… we're not a couple…" I said while looking down.
"WHAT! HOW DARE HE? HOW DARE HE KISS YOU AND THEN… GAHHHHHH!" Alice got up and stomped towards the door. "I AM GOING TO GO GIVE HIM A PIECE OF MY MIND! EDWARD!" My eyes widened and I ran to stop her. I tackled her to the ground and she was squirming under me, "LET GO OF ME!"
"Alice! Stop! It's okay. It wasn't his fault." She stopped.
"Oh. Okay so why are you not dating?"
"Well, I don't really know. He never really asked me, it was kind of just an, 'okay we know how each other feels now' I guess we kind of want to take it a little slower" It was true. We hadn't kissed since I went into his room and kissed him to tell him I felt the same way. We also didn't want my mother to get suspicious. I knew she'd freak if she knew Edward kissed me, only because she would have pressured us into officially becoming a couple. Me, I was still trying to wake myself up from this dream, slowly realizing I'm not dreaming.
It was a couple hours since I was at the coffee shop, Alice made me tell everything in detail. I had just finished the story when Rosalie barged in, complaining that New York was too cold in the winter. She and Alice started unpacking and I retold my story to Rose, with Alice's help.
It was now 4:00 and we were headed over to Edward's room. We didn't know if Jasper or Emmett had gotten back yet, and I wanted to see Edward. And also the fact that Alice and Rosalie wanted to see how we acted around each other now we both knew for a fact how the other felt.
I knocked on the door and waited for a minute before I heard footsteps coming and the door opened.
"Emmett, did you forget your key aga—" Edward stopped as he looked at me. I giggled and he smile turned into my favorite crooked smile. "Hi" he said quietly.
"Hi" I bit my lip and looked down. I heard Alice cough behind us and I remembered that they were there. Apparently Edward hadn't even seen them yet.
"Oh! Alice, Rose, how are you?" Edward said turning to them, attempting to sound interested. Rose rolled her eyes.
"Just let us in Edward" He stepped aside and we walked in. Edward closed the door and I went over to sit on his bed.
"So, Jasper isn't back yet?" Alice asked sadly. I felt bad for her, she had to go so long without seeing her boyfriend, when I got to see Edward everyday of my vacation and he wasn't even my boyfriend… yet.
"No Alice. Sorry" Edward said sincerely while sitting next to me. I leaned into his side and he put his arm around me. It had been like this since the kiss, but nothing really more. I saw Alice and Rosalie look at each other and try to hide their smiles. I rolled my eyes.
We stayed at Edward's for a while, waiting for Jasper and Emmett to get back. Alice and Rosalie kept looking at the door, as if one of their guys would suddenly appear if they looked away for too long. About an hour later, Jasper got home but was tackled by Alice before he could fully step into the dorm. He fell backwards onto his luggage and onto the floor. Alice may be tiny, but she sure has some power in that little body. After Jazz got back, Rose started to get nervous. Emmett still hadn't gotten home, she didn't like that. But at long last, we heard Emmett's booming voice yell from outside the door, "HONEY I'M HOOOOOME!... hey Edward, could you open the door, I forgot my key…" We all started to laugh, because we all knew he would forget it.
It was now a week after we got home. We were in classes again, ugh. I walked into my Spanish class, groaning at the fact that I still had to take this stupid language. Spanish had never exactly been my strong point. I hated the class, I knew I wasn't going to go into anything that had to do with being able to speak Spanish, so why did I even have to take the course? Because you never know what you'll want to do come college, my teachers say. It all just sounds like blabbing to me. But, here I am, in stupid Spanish class, sitting next to that annoying, dumb, stalking, vile, Mike Newton.
After an hour and a half of torture, class was over and lunch was next. I was on my way out of the classroom when Mike called my name.
"What Mike?" I said with a sigh, I really didn't feel like dealing with him today.
"Well, I wanted to tell you that I'm finally going to make your dreams come true" he said with a smug smile. Huh?
"What? My dreams?" I asked confused. Ugh, I should have just walked away when I had the chance.
"I'm going to take you out to dinner on Friday… and then… you know… we could go back to my dorm… Tyler won't be back till Sunday… we'd have the room to ourselves if you…" he looked me up and down "know what I mean" all I saw was lust in his eyes. Ew, he thought I wanted to go on a date with him. Gross, I think I just threw up in my mouth a little. Sadly, I am not one who can flat out tell people, 'no I don't like you, go away!'
"Uh, Mike, I don't think Friday would be a good idea. I'm uh… busy…" I said, hoping he'd get the hint. Being Mike… he didn't.
"Okay, that's cool, how about Saturday?" NO!
"Uh, I don't think Sunday would be good for me either…" Why can't I just say I didn't want to go out with him at all? Please get the hint!
"Oh, hmmm well why don't you tell me when you're free." Mike said with a smile and I wanted to smack him so hard… but that would probably make him stupider… maybe not a good idea to do, but it would make me feel better.
"Mike, I—"
"Won't be free any night at all as far as anyone other than myself is concerned" a velvet voice from behind me finished. I turned around and Edward was leaning against the wall outside of the classroom, waiting for me before lunch. I smiled. But I was also confused.
"And why won't I be free any night at all as far as anyone other than yourself is concerned?" I said using his words, I got up really close to him and he stood up straight.
"Because I don't really like it when my girlfriend goes on dates with other guys… Especially Mike Newton" He said loud enough for Mike to hear. I turned to see his expression and he looked way more confused than he needed to be.
"And who said I was your girlfriend?" I asked him playfully, I could tell he knew that I was just joking around.
"Oh, how silly of me I forgot to ask" He said while shaking his head in mock shame.
I sighed, "So, how are you going to fix this little predicament we have found ourselves in?"
"Easy… Will you be my girlfriend?" Mike's head snapped up with his eyes wide.
"Hmmm. I don't know… I mean, I do like you… a lot but I just don't know…" Mike's face relaxed, but I couldn't let him think the wrong thing. "Well, now that I've thought about it… I'd have to say yes" I said while smiling. I looked at Mike from the corner of my eye and saw that he had his mouth open in shock. I laughed as I saw him stomp away.
"Aww poor Mike. We crushed his dreams" I said with fake concern.
"Yes, but you made mine come true" Edward said. He lowered his head to meet his lips with mine. I happily obliged. The kiss didn't get heated because we were in public. It was soft and sweet, but I could feel the passion and happiness behind it.
We walked to lunch, hand in hand, and I've never been happier in my life. I thought all guys could do was break your heart, like they thought girls were a toy God had given them to play with. It wasn't like that with Edward; he took it slow with me and gave me time to earn his trust. He knew that trust was not something I served on a silver platter, you had to earn it. It wasn't just given away on a whim. And he liked me, all of me. Just like Alice and Rosalie had when I became roommates with them. I've never been so happy that I got sent here. And I didn't want it to end.
We approached our usual table and Alice's eyes widened and her smile grew when she saw us holding hands. Even though we had been very close and pushing the friendship boundaries over the last week, we had never held hands. Alice knew.
"OH MY FLIPPING GOSH FINALLY!" Alice said as I slipped into the booth next to Edward, still holding his hand.
"Wha?" Emmett asked with his mouth full of sandwich. Alice let an angry breath out and reached over Edward's lap and grabbed our entwined hands so everyone could see.
"This! Hello! They've finally started dating!" Alice said as if it was the most obvious thing ever. She didn't really like it when she thought something was obvious and no one else thought so.
"Oh! DUDE! SCORE!" Emmett reached across the table to give Edward a high five but Rose slapped him across the head. "Ouch! What was that for?"
"Bella is not someone you can 'score' Emmett!" I started laughing. They were like a bickering old married couple sometimes, but I knew they loved each other. They were a perfect match.
"So… when did this little occurrence… occur?" Alice asked.
"Well… it sorta started over Christmas break, but nothing official. The official part happened… oh not 15 minutes ago." Edward answered. Alice squealed. I rolled my eyes. Lunch continued as usual and sadly I was now saying goodbye to Edward before my Chemistry class. Luckily it was my last class for the day.
"So don't you have to get across campus for your next class?" I asked him when we reached the classroom door.
"Hey! Are you trying to get rid of your boyfriend not 2 hours into the relationship?" Edward asked with feign hurt. I rolled my eyes
"I just meant I don't want you to get in trouble for not being on time."
"Don't worry about that… you should be worrying about Friday night though" He said with a smirk.
"Wait what's happening on Friday?" I asked confused. I don't remember making plans for Friday that I should be worrying about… oh no did Mike think that I was going with him on Friday?
"You're going on a date with me"
"Oh good point. That is a reason to worry" I said with a joking smile.
He gasped. "I'm appalled! You think that going on a date with your boyfriend is something to worry about!"
"I'm kidding! I actually have no idea why I should worry. I never worry when I'm with you" I said while kissing his nose.
"Well you should worry because I'm not going to tell you where we are going or what we are doing. It's a surprise and I know how much you hate surprises"
"Then why must you use them?" I groaned. I hated surprises so much, although it was cute that he remembered that.
"Because I love surprises" he said with a smug smile. The bell rang and I ran inside, pondering (haha that's a cool word… pondering) what this date could possibly be. I knew that it would be something out of the ordinary, but wonderful at the same time. I couldn't think of a single thing that Edward would do. Everything just seemed to be too generic for him to do
I went back to my room after my last class still trying to figure out what the heck I was doing on Friday night. This is going to sound totally Alice, but I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT TO WEAR! I mean seriously! An hour later Alice waltzed in with a smile.
"I know what you're doing Friday" Alice sang.
"WHAT! Tell me!" I screamed as I tackled her onto her bed. She started laughing.
"I'm not telling!" Alice squealed. I harrumphed and sat back down on my bed.
"But Alice I won't know what to wear!" I whined. I wasn't just trying to get her to tell me. I honestly wanted to be prepared. Alice froze and turned around with her eyes wide and a little smile on her face.
"Do my ears deceive me? Did… did you just freak out about what to wear? Bella… that's a very… me thing to do!"
"Well yeah I know. But this is my first date with Edward… come to think of it, my first real date with anyone. I don't wanna screw it up." Alice looked impressed with my logic, but slightly depressed that my fashion crisis was not completely because I was now loving fashion.
"Well, I can't tell you where you're going. But Edward is going to give you clues the rest of today and all day tomorrow to help you try and figure out what you're doing." Alice said. Aw, that's so cute. I can't wait to get my first clue!
"And here's your first clue" speak of the devil…'s words… makes confused face. Alice walked over to me and told me to close my eyes. She opened my hands, put something in them, and closed them and told me to open my eyes.
I looked into my hands and was extremely confused. In my hands were a pair of shoe laces.
"Shoe laces?" I asked. Why in the world would I need shoe laces? I had shoes, and they all had shoe laces.
"Yep! It represents an activity you will be doing on your date tomorrow" And that was all the information I got from my wonderful friend.
I tried to figure out what kind of activity would include shoe laces, and not shoes. I had always been a terrible guesser, so why would Edward make me try and guess through clues? Because he wanted it to be a secret but wanted to at least give me a chance to get out of the surprise part. Even though there wasn't a single chance I would get it.
At dinner I got my next clue, and it only confused me even more.
"Hey Bella!" Emmett called as I sat down in the booth for dinner.
"Hey Emmett" I said with a smile to my big bear like brother figure. He had a huge grin on his face and I'm not going to lie, it scared me a little bit.
"I got this new toy today and it's really cool. Edward gave it to me" Emmett said.
"That's cool, Emmett. What is it?"
"It's this." He showed me a hot wheels car. It was a drag racer. "He knows that they're my favorite toy, but I already have so many cars." He said as he handed me the car. "I want you to have it"
"And why do you want me to have this?" I asked. I didn't really want it. Toy cars just weren't my thing.
"Just take it Bells" I took the car, still confused. Emmett didn't usually act this way, even if he did act like an oversized 2 year old. The rest of dinner I sat there trying to figure out what was going on. That's when I got it.
"IT'S A CLUE!!" I half screamed at the table. Everyone erupted with laughter.
"It took you long enough!" Alice said while laughing. I blushed and looked down. It wasn't my fault.
"The blush on your cheeks looks lovely." I heard a velvet voice tickle my ear. I bit my lip and looked up to see Edward looking down at me. Our eyes met and I realized that we were closer than we thought. I smiled and Edward knew what I wanted. When his lips met with mine, I forgot we weren't alone. I brought my hands around his neck and tangled my hands in his soft bronze hair. He grabbed me by the waist and pulled me closer to him in the seat. I heard a faint cough in the distance but it was enough to make me remember that we were in the cafeteria.
Edward and I broke apart and I felt my cheeks grow hot. Alice and Rosalie were grinning from ear to ear, Emmett was laughing, and Jasper was shaking his head in shame.
After dinner we all went back to the boys' room to watch a movie and just hang out. Edward and I curled up in our spot on the bean bag that Alice bought the boys for Christmas. I liked it this time because I could snuggle up next to him and not be scared of looking too much like a couple, because we were an actual couple.
We watched Crash it was a really good movie. It was about a bunch of people that are stereotyped and have racial comments made to them constantly, not to mention different kinds of abuse of power. It doesn't sound too wonderful, but it actually became one of my favorite movies. (a/n: no lie that is a great movie. I had to watch it for my English class. We're going to read The Catcher in the Rye and my teacher thought it would be a good way to sorta lead into it. It was really good and I highly recommend it )
After the movie Edward walked me to my dorm. I had fallen asleep in the bean bag and Alice and Rose had gone home so Edward, being the overprotective boyfriend that he is, didn't want me to walk home by myself in the dark. We stopped when we got to my room. I wanted him to come in, but we had class tomorrow, it might be at 10:30, but I knew I wouldn't get a lot of sleep if he was that close. He pecked me on the lips then proceeded to my nose, each cheek, my forehead, each finger on each hand, then back to my lips which he kissed passionately.
"I'm so happy I can do that anytime I want now" he murmured with a smile. I smiled back and said goodnight. I dreamt of Edward that night.
The next day I woke up to Alice scurrying me into the bathroom for a shower. She laid my outfit out on my bed and I changed into it. Normally I'm very unobservant in the morning due to the fact that I don't want to be observant because I don't want to be up. But this morning I couldn't help but notice the glitter on my pillowcase.
"Alice… why are there coins on my bed?" I asked her. She turned around and looked completely innocent. Not the kind of innocent she usually looks like when she's hiding something, but a true innocence.
"I don't know. I didn't put them there" She turned back around and continued with her make up. The only other person who could have done that was Rose.
"Hey Rosalie!" I shouted through the bathroom door.
"Yes Bella?" I heard from inside.
"Why are there coins on my bed?"
"Well, Edward gave me some and I thought you might like some too. I thought they were pretty cool." Edward. Of course. I didn't miss it this time. I knew it was a clue. But what did it mean?
"It's a clue isn't it Rose?"
"I don't know. All Edward did was give me them…" I shook my head and, because I don't take an hour to get ready, grabbed the coins, put them in my bag and ran out the door. I met Edward at the front of my building and he walked me to my first class. He wouldn't budge on telling me anything, not even what those three clues meant. It was just so frustrating!
Lunch came way too slowly. I had some sort of feeling I would get another clue at lunch. Sadly, I did not. But I did get stopped by Jasper on my way to my 4th class of the day.
"Bells!" I turned around. I figured out that I would get a clue from all my friends, it was just like Edward to do something like that. "Close your eyes and hold your arms out. I want to give you something."
He slid something around my wrist. I opened my eyes and saw that a glow stick turned into a bracelet was sitting on my wrist.
"Another clue?" I asked and Jasper nodded. I sighed. "Any chance you might tell me what it means?"
"Nope" he said and walked away. I was getting annoyed with this a little bit, mainly cause I couldn't figure out what it was. I went through the rest of the day trying to figure out what the heck those clues could mean. Shoe laces, a hot wheels car, coins, and a glow stick.
Edward was waiting for me outside my last class.
"So have you figured it out yet?" Edward asked and I knew that he knew I didn't.
"No… and you know I didn't." I raised my eyebrow at him.
"hey, just be glad I didn't give you 6 and a half clues." I looked at him funny. 6 and a half clues?
"How could you give—OH!" I wanted to smack myself for not getting it at first. "You'll pick me up at 6:30?" I asked with a smile. He laughed and nodded.
"Good job. You got one."
"Yeah but I didn't get any others" I grumbled. He chuckled and we walked back to my dorm where Alice was awaiting to play Bella Barbie with me… joy.
A/N: okay so I know it took me a little while to update, but I had a little itty bitty writers block. I couldn't figure out where to go. Anyway. Anyone think they know what the date is? Take a guess and if you get it right… you get a cyber hug! No actually you will get an honorable mention in the next chapter haha. So as always please review because you love me! okay well maybe not but I hope you do!