Okay, I skipped quite a bit of time in this chapter, I hope it doesn't get too confusing! I was very dissapointed by the FOUR REVIEWS I recieved last chapter...I understand that the alerts weren't working but still! Reviews make me happy and make me write faster. Do I have to resort to threats again?
Special thanks to piratequeen01 for her supa hero like editing skizills!
Disclaimer: I OWN TWILIGHT!! -muffled voices on phone- haha very funny guys, i just loooove practical jokes. So, I guess that makes twilight not mine. Sigh.
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May 30th
"Bella! You're gonna make us late! Get out here!" I heard Rosalie shout from downstairs.
"Just a minute!" I called back, smoothing out my t-shirt and grabbing my back pack, then running from my room down the stairs. I leapt from the third stair from the bottom, landing before a fuming Rose.
"I can't believe you! We're probably going to be late! On the last day of school!" I smiled innocently at I followed her out the door to the garage. I hopped on my bike, joining Rosalie, Emmett and Jasper outside.
"About time you made it out here, Bella." Emmett commented, starting to pedal. I stuck my tongue out at him and followed his lead.
The ride to school was a short and irritating one. It was short because it was sunny, meaning there was no rain slowing us down. It was irritating because of Emmett's and Jasper's singing of theme songs to various TV shows that Rose and I had never seen.
By the time we had gotten to the junior/senior high school, Rosalie had managed to knock Jasper off his bike twice and given Emmett at least three bruises on his arm from her rock-throwing in attempt to shut them up. I was giggling furiously as we met up with Alice in front of our homeroom.
"Hey, Bella!" She greeted cheerfully. I waved goodbye to the rest of my friends as we parted ways.
"Hi, Alice." The two of us walked silently into the brick building, me smiling at the most amazing thing in existence. I practically skipped over to the table it sat at.
"Good morning, beautiful." Edward greeted, giving me a chaste kiss on the lips. I wanted to do so much more...
"Morning, Edward." I replied, my face flushed. We greeted each other like this every morning. Every morning for the past four months I have blushed furiously and gotten dizzy from the same innocent kiss from the same dazzling boy.
After that first date, we had been practically inseperable, meaning Edward had kept his promise. He didn't leave me. He talked to me on the phone every night before bed (much to Charlie's chagrin) and every weekend we went out. Whether it was just us watching a movie or all six of us getting into trouble at the mall (long story, Emmett's still not allowed to go back there...). Those past few months had been the best of my life.
"Bella Swan?" I was pulled out of my memories by the irritated voice of Mrs. Phillips.
"Sorry, here." I muttered. I heard Edward chuckle quietly beside me. I scowled at him. I felt him grasp my hand under the table. He gave it a quick squeeze before setting it down and listening to the teacher.
"In honor of the last day of school, you will have a two hour early release!" Everyone cheered. "And we will be spending the day outside! There will be a picnic and semi-organized games of basketball, baseball, and kickball." We all stood up, rejoyced and filed out of the building, onto the field behind the school.
"Bella! Edward! Alice!" I whipped my head around to find Rosalie, recieving a piggyback ride from Emmett. Jasper was close behind, smiling over my shoulder, no doubt at Alice. I saw her smiled back shyly. They frustrated me so much. Everybody knew they liked each other, but Jasper was too shy and Alice felt he should make the first move. It annoyed me to no end to hear her complain about their lack of a relationship. She skipped over to Jasper, took his hand and led them over to a tree. She sat down and pulled out a deck of cards, dealing them into a game of Speed.
"You guys wanna head over and play some kickball before it gets too busy?" Emmett questioned, gesturing to the growing mob of people by one of the baseball diamonds.
"I'm game!" Rosalie shouted, jumping off of Emmett's back. I shrugged as Edward grabbed my hand and pulled me towards the field.
"Okay team captains are Mike and...Rosalie!" Tyler Crowley called as she came into view. "Ladies first!"
"Um..." Rose began. I shot her a pleading look, because I knew who Mike would and wouldn't pick. She sensed my distress. "Bella." I pumped my fists in the air as I saw Mike grimace.
"Ben." Mike mumbled.
"Emmett!" Rose shouted, Mike looked up in suprise, he hadn't noticed Emmett. He probably mentally kicked himself.
"Tyler."
"Edward!" The pickings went on until even teams were formed. Everyone headed onto the field, our team was kicking first. I got in line, behind Edward and Emmett. Rose was right behind me. Mike was the pitcher and Angela Weber was up to kick. We all cheered her on as she bolted to first base, then to second and eventually sliding into third, just missing the ball that was hurtled her way.
Emmett went next. His kick sent the ball flying to the parking lot that had a basketball hoop. There was some yelling and swearing in that direction as Emmett ran gracefully around the bases. A home run.
Edward was a beautiful runner. After the ball smacked against his foot, he took off to first base, flying with grace. I couldn't tear my eyes away. He was a god.
I stepped up to the plate, glancing at Edward, who was watching me from second base. Mike winked at me before rolling the ball in my direction. I swung my foot, suprised to see the ball flying over Mike's head.
"RUN, BELLA!!" I heard Rosalie shouting. I obeyed, heading towards first. Lauren Mallory was the standing near Tyler, the first baseman.
"Whoops." She shouted, a horrible job acting, her nasaly voice monotone. I noticed her pretend to slip, a foot flying out in front of me. Of course, being me, I tripped. I went sliding, my hands scraping on the dirt. I heard Lauren's vicious laughter and Edward's voice asking if I was alright.
"I'm fine, I just want to wash my hands." I told him, standing up and dusting my hands off on my shorts. I noticed the scrapes on my knees. "And maybe a bandaid or two." He nodded and walked with me to the clinic I'd seen many times since my incident from months ago. I'd still been having the same dream, my nightmare always ending the same. Edward was always breaking my heart and the woman, whose features slowly became more visible, always dragging me away to God knows where. I shuddered at the thought. We neared the main office building; Mrs. Cope greeted us.
"We need some bandages." Edward grinned. I just looked at my shoes.
"Of course, dears." She dissapeared through a door, only to return a few seconds later with some badages and a wet cloth. I mumbled a 'thanks' as I took the items from her. Edward sat us down under the tree we had left Alice and Jasper at earlier.
"What happened?" Alice asked, not turning her eyes away from the game she was playing.
"Lauren tripped me." I stated, wiping the dirt from my knees and hands.
"Ah." She paused be for yelling, "SPEED! Ha! I win!"
"Whatever." Jasper muttered gathering the cards.
"Hey, Bella, you all cleaned up?" I heard a booming voice from behind me as I was putting the bandaids on my knees.
"Yeah, Em. You guys wanna grab some lunch?" Everyone nodded in response. We made our way towards the other end of the field where teachers were serving hot dogs and chips.
"Afternoon, kids." Mr. Banner greeted us. We said our 'hello's and continued down the growing line of starving teenagers.
"How many dogs can we have? I'm starved!" Emmett asked, the teacher responded with a 'two'. Emmett grumbled something and continued, taking at least four handfuls of chips. I rolled my eyes as I got my lunch and can of Coke. The six of us met back up at 'our tree'.
"So, Alice, Jasper," Rose took a sip over her diet Coke, "What did you guys do while we played kickball?" I saw a tinge of pink on Alice's face.
"Alice and I played Speed and Egyptian Ratscrew," Jasper stated for her.
"Mm-hmm." Everyone said.
"Oh, shut up. Nothing happened, other than me beating the crap out of your brother!" Alice said.
"Oh yeah righ--!" Rosalie began to retort.
"Okay, guys let's just chill out." Edward tried to calm them, bless his heart.
"At least you didn't start groping him...it might have actually gone somewhere. He's way too much of a wimp to make a move on his own, anyway." She sneered. Alice gaped at her.
"That was completely uncalled for, Rosalie." Edward said quietly.
"Oh don't even get us started on you!" Alice and Rose shouted. "I mean you should hear him at night when he sleep talks! He's like-"
"Aliiice!" He hissed. I raised an eyebrow. I knew he sleep talked but no of what he said.
"Wait, I wanna hear this!" I urged Alice to continue. I caught a gleam of mischief in her sparkling green eyes. I felt a tugging on my arm. "One second, Edward."
"No, now." I was hoisted up off of the ground and thrown over his shoulder.
"Put. Me. Down." I growled, pounding my fists into his back. I saw Alice talking and everyone having mixed expressions. Jasper shot me a knowing look, which confused me and Rose 'aw'ed while Emmett howled with laughter.
"Why can't I hear?" I demanded, once he set me down under another tree.
"I'll tell you another time." He told me, playing with my hair. I sighed as I rested my head in his lap, he contined to twist the brown locks. I didn't know how long we sat there but eventually, Alice came barreling over to us.
"Sleep over at Rose's tonight! Time to celabrate the summertime! WHOO!" She bolted back to the others, who were laughing. I glanced at my watch. It was 12:44 PM.
"I think we should get our stuff. We can leave in, like, fifteen minutes. He nodded and bent his head down to give me a sweet kiss.
"Race you!" I shouted, jumping up and running towards our homeroom. He laughed and followed behind me.
"AHH!" I shouted sd he lunged for me and I fell onto the soft grass. I struggled to get up; he was making it difficult since he was holding my ankle. He got up and started running. I followed, jumping onto his back. He carried me the whole way there.
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Okay, I hope it was long enough and filled you guys in enough about what happened the past few months. There will be some EPOVs, APOVs, and RPOVs in the next chapter, which will be exceptionally long and be out next weekend.And just so you all know, Egyptian ratscrew is a completely AMAZING game that piratequeen01 is total beast at. Speed's one of my fav's too…but seriously, look it up or something, cuz it's rockin awesome. 3
