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I'm so sorry that it took me so long to update but this chapter took me so-oo long to write. I kept deleting parts and then adding them back in again repeated.

Anyway instead of boring you with my life I'm going to give you my next chapter...

I'll Be Your Tutor

Chapter 13: He's Changed Bella!

I picked up my cell that was lying on my desk; I had three new messages, every single one was from Alice. I guess she's decided to hear me out instead of jumping to conclusions. The first one read:

To – Bella

From – Alice

Hey, I'm sorry. I was being ridiculous! Would

you ring me back please. Thanks

The second one read:

To – Bella

From – Alice

Bella, I'm really sorry if I upset you. Please

can you ring me back? Thanks!!

I guessed the others would be the same so I deleted them without bothering to read them. Well, here goes nothing, I sighed dialing Alice's home number into my keypad.

After a few rings, somebody picked up. "Hey," they said. It was Emmett.

"Emmett," I greeted. "It's Bella. Is Alice there by any chance?" I asked him politely.

"I think so, two seconds," I heard him step anyway from the receiver and shout Alice's name. "She's one her way… Hey Edward, have a nice time?" I could literally hear the smile in his voice as talked to his brother.

"Bella," Alice squealed over the phone. "I'm so glad you called! I left you messages; I'm guessing you got them."

I nodded, only to realize she couldn't see me. "Yeah, yeah I got them," I sighed into the phone.

"Bella, I have to apologize for my behavior. I really shouldn't have spoken to you like that. Both Edward and Emmett have told me that and I agree with them. I don't know what went through me but I shouldn't have acted the way I did. I'm so sorry. Please forgive me," she ranted into the phone.

"Alice, hold on a second," I replied. "It was my fault; I shouldn't have run out like that, I know I must have scared you. You had every right to be angry with me-"

Alice cut me off, "Bella," she sighed. "I understand; you scared the hell out of me but I didn't have a reason to act the way I did and my family will never let me forget it." Then her voice went very low and she whispered into the phone, "Especially Edward." I didn't bother to ask her what she meant by that.

Instead I looked at my bedside alarm clock, noticing the time I sighed. "Alice, it's getting late and I have a very busy day tomorrow with it being the first day of me tutoring and all that. I'm going to have to go; I'll see you at school tomorrow." And with that I shut my cell without listening to her goodbyes. With everything that had happened to me today I only wanted to curl up and go to sleep – so I did.

The night went by too quickly and the next thing I knew I was getting out my truck in the school car lot and making my way down to my first period. I was surprised to see there was no group of girls surrounding the doors like normal – maybe Edward's already here and gone off to his lesson, I thought.

Walking down the English corridor I felt a hand on my shoulder and whoever it was spin me around to face them. I stiffened; it was Lauren and Jessica again – great!

"I thought we made it clear," Jessica sneered at me. "I thought we told you to leave Edward alone; to stay away from him!" She raised her voice at the end.

"I did," I told her in a strong voice, there was no way I was going to let them know I was scared of them. "But with me being best friends with his sister it's rather hard not to stand in the same room as him." I was pleased I kept my voice up without it cumbering at the end.

"Don't lie to us you bitch," Lauren spat. "We saw you coming out of the restaurant with him last night. There's was not sister or not brother with the two of you. You both looked quite cozy together!"

I sighed. There was no way I was getting out of this one. "Just run away Bella," Jessica laughed and me expression. It wasn't a friendly laugh it was an unkind type of laugh. "If we ever see you alone with him again I swear you will regret it." And with that we turned away, swaying their hips way too much to look natural.

The rest of the day seemed to go alright with the glares from Lauren and Jessica whenever I walked past them in the hallways. I knew they weren't going to let it go but they had already made themselves quite clear with what they wanted. There was no reason for them to give me death glares for crying out loud.

When I walked into the cafeteria Alice, Jasper, Emmett and Rose were already seated at the table eating their lunch. I went to join them, pulling out a chair and sitting down, continuing in their conversation.

"…if we go on Friday then it gives us exactly three weeks to find accessories," Alice was talking to Rosalie. I knew it must have had something to do with shopping. I mean it was Alice we were talking about here, shopping is all that's ever on her mind. "Bella, Friday's shopping, we'll pick you up at six," she told me without even asking me whether or not I could make it – of course I could make it, what else was I going to be doing?

Emmett started laughing and Jasper was just shaking his head at his girlfriend. "Alice," Jasper started to laugh. "Doesn't Bella get a chance to say whether or not she wants to go?" Alice glared at him.

"Bella loves our girl time, she wouldn't even think about refusing would you Bella?" she asked me, turning to face me for the first time.

"No Alice, I love going shopping with you," I told her putting a little too much enthusiasm in 'love'.

Alice rolled her eyes at me. "Thanks Bella," she said sarcastically. "Edward," I turned around to find a tired looking Edward walking towards our table; he looked like he needed a good night's sleep – but that didn't stop him from looking so God damn gorgeous.

"Edward my man," Emmett greeted him, pounding hands with each other when Edward sat down at the table across from him, next to me. "How could you possibly piss off nearly every girl in the school within four hours?" he asked him. I had absolutely no idea what he was talking about but I couldn't be bothered to ask. It obviously had something to do with Edward's fan-girls.

"Em, I just forgot about that," Edward sighed. "I feel absolutely terrible, can you drop it." What had he possibly done to be so ashamed of?

I didn't get time to ask as Alice did it for me. "You better tell me everything that's happened!" Alice glared at Edward and Emmett. "What did you do?"

"Hey," Emmett defended. "I didn't do anything." He lifted his right hand above his head and pointed towards Edward next to him.

"Em, I can see what you're doing," Edward scowled playfully at his brother. "I didn't really do anything either. All I did was turn down a few offers to going out tonight to a few… people."

"Who?" Rosalie asked him; her face mirroring Alice's – pure shock. "Why did you turn them down? It's… different… It's not you."

Edward rolled his eyes. "You know, Jessica, Lauren, Tanya, and Kate, the usual." He paused for a second before adding, "I swear, I hate them so much. They're so pushy!" I cringed slightly at the sound of Lauren and Jessica, remembering the conversation we had unfortunately shared this morning. Thankfully nobody was taking any notice to me to notice my reaction.

"Well, well, well, hasn't somebody changed," Rosalie piped up. "Not a few days ago they were probably your favorite people to walk this planet!"

"Yeah well people do change don't they?" Edward replied to them.

"Yeah," Alice interrupted. "But usually over an amount of time, not over night." I didn't know what to do or say; it wasn't really my business whether Edward changed or not. I just thought it was a bit strange how one day he admits his possible feelings for me and the next he turns his total view on girls around completely.

The rest of lunch went by peacefully; Edward dropped the conversation Emmett had started about him and set for a more simple discussion including Alice's plans to drag me around a shopping market against my own will with Rosalie. According to Alice it was her apology to me for her behavior; Jasper, Edward and Emmett seemed to find that hilarious, I on the other hand didn't seem to find it as funny.

After lunch, Edward politely offered to lead me to Math and I agreed. If I was with Edward I thought it would give Lauren and Jessica less of a chance to have another go at me. I was right in a way, they didn't shout at me or anything but they did send me more death glares when we walked past them. I wasn't sure whether or not Edward noticed as he sent them both glares back; they weren't as powerful and not way near as evil and vicious as the ones they sent me but they still had an impact. We walked basically in silence, with the small talk added in every now and then but it was comfortable, not awkward in the slightest.

We got to Math just as the bell rang, sitting down in our seats and pulling out our books. After Mr. Vanner started the lesson, setting the class our work, he came over to mine and Edward's table. I know what this is about, I told myself.

"Edward, Bella," he nodded, standing over us. "How's the whole tutoring situation going on?" He had lowered his voice – thankfully – stopping the other students in the room from hearing our conversation.

"Umm," I mumbled, trying to find the right words. "We're having our first session tonight actually, straight after school."

The plan was that Alice and Emmett would drive Edward's Volvo home and I would drive us over to my house. When it came to him getting home he just shook his head and murmured a soft, 'Alice owes me from all the times I've had to play taxi driver.'

"Okay, that's fantastic," he exclaimed walking back to his desk at the front of the class. The rest of the lesson pasted by, Edward kept asking me to check his answers and I would smile and nod when he got it right or explain how he went wrong otherwise.

I led Edward towards my truck after the lesson had finished. When I opened the passenger door for him he shook his head.

"Nope," he stood still, folding his arms across his chest. "I don't trust your truck at all, I have a strong feeling it's going to conk out at anytime, and I would feel a lot better if you let me drive."

I shook my head at him, copying his pose. "No way," I said slowly. "It's my car; I can't believe you've just insulted Steve!" I twirled the car keys around my middle finger.

"Steve?" he asked my mockingly, raising his eyebrows at me. "I'm sorry did I hear you correctly… Steve?" He smiled at me finally giving in and jumping into the passenger side.

I drove home, listening silently he Edward complained about how slow my truck was and how he wished he was in the driver's seat. "Bella," he looked over to me after a few seconds of silence. "Have you heard anything more from your mom?"

"Umm," I sighed. "No, not yet. I know it isn't over yet though; Renée doesn't give up without a fight."

I felt his gaze on the side of my face. "Bella," he sighed. I turned my head around to face him, he had an incredibly strange expression on his face; it was like he was trying to hind his emotions from me by plastering a relaxed mask on his face. "You would tell me straight away if you… if you changed your mind, wouldn't you?"

I was slightly taken back; did he really have such little faith in me? "Edward," I whispered. "I promise but you don't have to panic over nothing as I am not changing my mind." He nodded in understanding and turned back to staring out the window, slightly murmuring about how 'unsafe' Steve was.

I pulled up into the driveway of my house, cutting the engine before reaching to unbuckle my seatbelt. But before I could do anything Edward had already jumped out of the passenger seat and walked around to my side of the truck. Holding my door open for me I grabbed my door keys and led Edward up to my front door.

I placed the key in the lock but surprisingly it wouldn't turn. I tried the door handle and as I suspected, it was unlocked. Charlie's cruiser was nowhere to be seen so I ruled him out of the question. Edward was looking at me curiously and I had never been so happy for his presence; if he wasn't with me I wouldn't be brave enough to open the door.

"Bella, what's wrong?" he asked me, his expression worried. "What's going on?"

I just stared at him in horror. "The door's open," my voice shook. "There's somebody in there." He stepped in front of me and bravely opened the door a crack to look inside. I looked over his shoulder to see inside – there appeared to be a statue type figure standing in the middle of my porch. Edward opened the door all the way and then I realized who the figure was.

"Hey honey," she said, a smile appearing on her face. "You look fabulous."

"Mom," I breathed clutching tightly onto the sleeve of Edward's jacket.

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