Bella's POV

After what felt like forever, the lunch bell finally rang. Damien and I no longer sat with mike and everyone at lunch, sometimes we would have people come and have lunch with us like Ange and Ben. I was playing with the lid to my coke bottle when Damien threw a skittle at me to catch my attention.

"He's starring at you again." Damien whispered looking over my shoulder at the Cullen table.
"Correction, they are starring at you." He said doing a double take. After a moment or two his face went blank as he starred up, over my shoulder this time.

"Hi Bella." A chiming bell voice said sounding excited. I had forgotten that I hadn't told Damien I was friends with Alice. I looked up to see her smiling down at Damien and me.

"Hi Damien, I'm Alice." He said holding out her hand when I didn't answer her hello.

"H-hello." Damien replied taking her hand. Once they had shook hands she sat next to me.

"Bella I'm sorry if I freaked you out the other day." Alice said looking deeply troubled over the matter. I laughed trying to not sound too fake.

"Don't worry about it. I was just late that's all." I said hiding my face embarrassed. I looked over my shoulder to see something that caught me off guard. Edward was glairing, but it wasn't at me, it was at Alice.

"Ah just ignore him." Alice said when she realized where my attention had gone.

"He's just being a baby." He said looking back at him and sticking out her tongue. That did it. He looked back at he as if he was about to come over here then looked over at me and left.

"Don't I just bring out the best in guys." I said turning back to play with my pop lid. Alice tapped my shoulder.

"Oh believe me its not you at all. He's my brother, I know how to push his buttons." Alice said in a smug voice then she rose from her seat.

"Well I'm sorry we didn't get to chat longer but I just really needed to make sure you weren't angry at me for the other day." She said smiling down at me.

"No worries, no hard feelings" I said shrugging my shoulders. We said our goodbyes just as her family all got up from their table and walked by ours. Jasper came by and it was almost as if he just swept her away. She looked back and waved and Damien and I as she walked out of the café. I was suddenly aware that most of the student body was starring at me. The bell rang just in time and everyone got up and started skittering away like a bunch of confused ants.

I walked into biology with Damien at my side. I looked over at my table not expecting to have his attention, but I did. He looked at me as I walked over and took a seat. He continued looking at me for a moment, I'm guessing waiting for me to say something. So when I didn't he took it upon himself to do the introductions.

"Hello, I'm Edward. Your Bella?" he said half stating half questioning.

"Mmhm." I mumbled as I stared into his eyes. They were so beautiful they had my brain scrambled.

"I'm really sorry about Alice. She can be really pushy." He said looking away sheepishly.

"Pushy?" I asked still trying to put my brain back together. He chuckled a little then nodded.

"She was telling me about you one day and I had mentioned that you seemed nice, that I would have liked to meet you one day. I guess she jumped to conclusions or something." He said looking away shyly again, which just made my mind crumble all over again.

"What conclusion would that be?" I fumbled around making sure I got the right words out. This question made him laugh; it made my breath catch. Then he sighed and looked into my eyes.

"Who knows what goes on in that woman's head." He said smiling so happily that it touched his eyes.

"Oh." Was all I could get out. Then class was called to order and the lesson began.

Edward's POV

There was about ten minutes until class was over. I sat there thinking about how I could strike a quick conversation. If there was any way I could find out if she liked me back. I knew we couldn't speak because Mr. Banner was still lecturing. Then I had an idea, I would write her a note. Just when I had my not finished perfectly and was about to slide it over to her I saw a paper slide under my notebook.

What was with day one?

She scrawled on a sheet of paper. I was assuming she meant the day I just about killed everyone in this room, in this school, all for her blood. I didn't know what to tell her. I obviously couldn't tell her the truth. I had no idea what to say back. She must have noticed because she took the paper back and wrote again.

Your eyes look different lately. They were black then…

She had noticed that? She was pretty perceptive. People never pay us enough attention to even notice that we never eat. I knew she was still waiting for an explanation, but I didn't have one.

I don't know what you want me to say.

I wrote finally after thinking hard about all the things I wished I could tell her. I handed it to her just as the bell rang. I was out of the class before anyone even stood up as usual. I held back the need to look at her as I turned the corner and left the room. I was mad, but I wasn't mad at her, just myself. I knew I shouldn't be talking to her; it was dangerous, and stupid. She could never love me because she would never understand me, and she would never understand me because she could never know me. I can't believe I had allowed Alice to talk me into this. This was a mistake; I needed to stay away from her, for her sake if not for my sanity. I went out to my car and picked out some good angry music to listen to. I knew Bella had gym next so even though I tried very hard to listen to only my music I couldn't help but start hearing Damien or Mikes thoughts. They were doing health today in gym, blood typing? Mike and Bella were partnered together. An angry feeling started to fill me putting a pit in my stomach. I shut them out again and started listening to my music. I didn't want to feel like this. I didn't want to love her, and I didn't want her to know me, she would be afraid, she would leave. Suddenly the smell of Bella's blood was strong in my nose, even though I was nowhere near the gym. I looked out my back window to see Mike with his arm around Bella. She was peaked and staggering, she had one of her hands balled into a fist as she staggered along beside him.

"Mike just let go and let me die." Bella moaned as she lied down on the cement. That did it; I jumped out of the car and ran over to them. I had to remind my self to slow down as I approached them. I stepped behind Mike moving a little so that he was aware of my presence.

"Shit! Cullen when did you get here, fuck, you scared the crap out of me." Mike complained as his hand clenched his chest.

"What did you do?" I accused as I looked down at Bella who looked as if she was about to be sick.

"Hey, I didn't do anything! She doesn't like blood!" he defended himself. I really didn't care about the look he was giving me or anything; I just wanted to make Bella better.

"Why are you not taking her to the nurse then?" I accused again still looking at her half dead on the ground.

"I was when she went down, she wouldn't let me take her any farther. Just shut up and get…" mike 'threatened' until Bella cut him off.

"How about you both leave," she moaned into the cement.

"Yeah Cullen…" mike began again but Bella interrupted once more.

"Mike! Just leave me!" she exclaimed as loud as she could. Mike turned and walked away back to class. I didn't move and nether did Bella. I couldn't help it; I started to laugh a little.

"Ugh, your still here?" she mumbled still face down. I laughed again and kneeled down to pick her up. Once I had her off the ground she started to complain.

"Put me down," she moaned "I don't want to puke on you." She weakly tried to push away from me.

"Oh please Bella, clothes can always be washed." I said walking to the nurses' station.