Bella POV

I was on my way to school when the rain started to belt down. I groaned, trust me to forget my rain coat when I need it the most.

I pulled into the school parking lot and found Edward standing by my parking space with an umbrella. Life saver. He shot me a crooked grin when he saw me. I waved and parked my truck.

"Morning Bella" he said, opening my door for me.

"Morning, you ok?" I asked, ducking under the umbrella with him.

"I'm good thanks, you?"

"Fine thank you. Alice told me you went to the cinema last night, was it any good?"

"Hmm it was ok."

"I haven't been to the movies in months." I said, as we started walking to English.

"Really? Maybe we could go sometime." he said looking down at me. I looked up at him and smiled.

"I'd love to." I replied.

He smiled at me and threw an arm around my shoulders, pulling me closer under the umbrella as my arm was starting to get wet. I felt the heat rush to my cheeks at how close I was to Edward. I could smell him and could feel the warmth coming off of him, even with a layer of clothes on.

We were nearing the building so Edward let go of me and opened the door for me. I walked inside and waited for him to put his umbrella down. We started walking again in a comfortable silence. After a few seconds, Edward cleared his throat.

"Uh Bella?" he asked as we stopped outside my class.

"Yes Edward?"

He ran a hand through his hair and then dug his hands into his pockets.

"it's Emmett's birthday this Friday and some of us our going out for a meal with our parents and I was wondering if you….if you wanted to go with me?" He asked looking down at his feet. I giggled at how adorable he was when he was embarrassed.

I reached out and lifted his head so he was looking at me.

"I'd like that, what time were you thinking of picking me up at?" I said adding a cheeky smile. A wide smile appeared on his.

"I don't know yet, can I get back to you later?" he asked.

"Sure, see you at Lunch." I said as the bell went and walked inside the class before he could reply. I practically skipped to my seat, with a goofy grin on my face.

"How come you're so happy today?" Alice asked, looking up from her notebook and turning in her seat to face me.

"Nothing." I lied but I couldn't get rid of the smile on my face.

"Don't lie to me, I know you Bella Swan." I knew there was no point of arguing she would find out at some point.

"Edward asked me to go with him to Emmett's birthday meal." I told her. Alice squealed and jumped in her seat.

"What?"

"We get to go shopping again!" she screamed. Getting a few stares from the other students. I sighed, shopping with Alice was exhausting.

"Do I have to? Can't I wear something I already have?" Alice's eyes widened.

"You are not wearing jeans and you have already been seen in that blue dress. So no you can't. you need a whole new outfit."

I sighed again and started to argue back but she put a finger on my mouth and shook her head.

"Don't try to argue Bella, you're going and that's final."

I slumped back into my seat, crossing my arms across my chest and waited for the teacher to start the class. I heard Alice giggle beside me.

I wasn't listening to the teacher today. I was mostly thinking about Edward and our date. Well it wasn't really a date, we were going out for a meal with his parents but he did say he would take me to the cinema soon.

Before I knew it, the bell had rang and people were starting to leave the class. I quickly ran out of the room and turned a corner but was met with a hard chest. Before I could fall back, two hands grabbed onto my arms and pulled me back up straight.

"Careful." I heard a velvet voice say. I smiled and looked up into those green emerald eyes that I could get lost in for hours.

"Thanks," I said and straightened out my clothes, "What you doing here? Don't you have Gym?"

"I do but I wanted to walk you to class." He said and grabbed my hand, pulling me to class. My heart beat raised as I felt the shock when we touched and smiled up at him.

"Thanks, but aren't you going to be late?" he shrugged and just shot me a crooked grin.

"Doesn't matter, it's only Gym."

We were getting a few stares around the school, even some glares from the girls. I noticed Lauren was looking at me but when she noticed that I was starring back at her, she scowled and turned away. what was up with her?

We stopped out of my Spanish class but Edward still didn't let go of my hand.

"Thanks."

"No problem." He assured me and squeezed my hand. I saw someone was starring at us from the corner of my eye. I turned my head to see who it was.

It was Mike, his bruises under his eyes weren't as dark as yesterday. He looked straight into my eyes and started to walk closer to me. I heard Edward growl next to me. Did he really just growl? Mike was a few steps away and stopped when he noticed Edward was glaring at him.

"Bella…" He sighed, stepping a little closer.

"Back off Newton" Edward snarled.

"I'm not going to hurt her." Mike snapped back. I squeezed Edwards hand and smiled assuring up at him.

"It's ok Edward." I whispered. He seemed to calm at the sound of my voice.

"What is it Mike?" I asked, looking back at him.

"Bella, I just wanted to say that I'm really, really sorry. I was drunk and I don't know what came over me. Please forgive me." He rushed out and looked apologetically at me.

I noticed that Edward was still starring at him. He inched forward a little, trying to stand in front of me.

"Do you really think she's going to forgive you? You forced her into something she didn't want to do!" Edward shouted.

"I know! I'm sorry" Mike shouted back. They were edging closer and I could tell there was going to be fight.

Without thinking, I jumped between the both of them. My hands on Edwards chest and my back to Mike. I looked up at Edward, I only realized how tall he was when I stood right next to him. He looked down at me and I could see that there was anger in his eyes, I just stared back, pleading with my eyes.

"Stop, please." I whispered to Edward. I watched as the anger vanished from his eyes. He glanced at Mike one more time before stepping back. I went and stood next to Edward, facing Mike.

"It's fine Mike, just leave me alone." I told him. Mike smiled at me.

"Thank you Bella." He said and then walked into his class. I turned to face Edward.

"What did you say that for. It's not fine." Edward said, looking down at me.

"I need to get over it, I can't keep avoiding him."

"But-" Edward started but I put a finger on his lips, just like how Alice had done earlier on. I felt the shock again, his lips were soft, all I wanted to do was kiss him, what? but I stopped myself.

"You better go to Gym, you're going to be really late." He smiled under my finger.

"Ok." He said, bringing my hand down to my side. "See you at Lunch."

"Bye." I said and then walked into class.

The rest of the day flew by and I was soon making my way to the cafeteria.

"Bella!" I heard someone shout, I turned round and found Edward jogging towards me.

"Hey." I said once he was beside me.

"Hi." He replied, opening the cafeteria door for me. I walked to the line and pulled out my purse. I grabbed a slice of pizza and bottle of water. After I paid I walked, with Edward, to our table.

Everyone said their hellos as we sat down. I saw Alice starring at us and then winked at me, I looked down trying to hide my bright red cheeks. Most of Lunch we talked about Emmett's birthday, if anyone mentioned presents, a wide grin would appear on Emmett's face like he was a ten year old boy on Christmas morning. Now and then I would catch Edward looking and smiling at me, I would just smile back and carry on listening to the conversation. Soon the bell had rung and we were making our way to our classes.

I walked with Edward and got to class a few minutes earlier.

"Is it ok if I pick you up at six on Friday?" Edward said out of the blue. For a minute I was a little confused but then realized what he was talking about.

"Yeah sure."

"Ok." He said and fell silent. I could tell that something was wrong. Maybe it was something to do with his parents?

"Are you ok Edward?" I asked placing a hand on his arm. He starred at my hand and then looked up to my eyes.

"I'm fine." He replied, forcing a smile that didn't quite reach his eyes. He obviously didn't want to talk about it.

I removed my hand and faced the front, waiting for the teacher to turn up.

Edward was very quiet for the rest of the lesson, sometimes asking a question about the work or telling me about the fancy restaurant we were going to be eating at on Friday. At the end of lesson Edward walked me to class again. Before he walked away I stopped him.

"Uh Edward?"

"Yeah"

I was starting to get nervous, my palms were starting to get sweaty. I didn't want him to think I was being nosey again.

"Do you want to do something tonight? It looks like something is playing on your mind. Maybe we could go to the movies or that café again?" I asked, looking up into his deep green eyes. He smiled back down at me but looked a little disappointed.

"Uhh, actually Bella, I have this essay to do for English that needs to be in tomorrow and I need to start the biology homework." He replied.

I hoped the disappointment didn't show on my face too much.

"Oh…ok, maybe some other time then. Bye." I said and turned to enter the Gym but stopped when I felt his hand on my shoulder.

"You could always come over to mine and we could do the homework together." He offered. A wide goofy grin appeared on my face.

"Sure, what time?"

"I'll pick you up at about four-thirty?"

"Ok, see you later."

I walked into the changing room with the smile still on my face. Alice was beaming at me.

"What?" I asked, tying up my sneakers.

"Oh nothing." She assured me. I could tell she was lying.

"You're lying." I said knowingly.

"I know." She giggled and ran out the changing room before I could reply.

She was up to something, I just knew it.

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Sorry I havn't updated in the last couple of days. School has been really busy.

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19th Septemeber: Hi, I just wanted to say that I have changed the first chapter a little. At first I said that Edwards father had killed himself but didn't like how the story was going.