October 23, 2006
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Chapter Twenty-One: Friends and Foes.
The next morning, it was raining, which made me want to curl up in my bed with a bottle of butterbeer.
There was no mention of our last night's conversation during the car ride. I was grateful for it.
School was as usual boring. Jessica was super excited when I told her about that I wanted to come to the Halloween party.
"But, I thought you told Mike that you weren't going." She asked in the Geometry class.
"Well, if I had told him that I was going then you wouldn't have been going with him," I winked for a good measure.
Her ears turned pink, "Yeah, well thanks for that Bella. Oh, we are going to have so much fun. Have you decided what to wear?"
"Not yet. But I'll probably decide it by tomorrow. And you?" I asked.
"And if these two young ladies would be kind enough to stop talking and get out of my class, only then I shall continue," Mr Smith yelled.
I grimaced.
"Sir-" Jessica started.
"Out." He barked. He looked purple.
Jessica and I shared a look. My lips twitched. She shook her head, controlling her own laughter. We gathered our stuff and ran out with a barely audible sorry.
We burst out laughing.
"Come on let's go before he comes out," Jessica said. Grinning, I followed her. We ended up in the parking lot. She kept on telling about the new things happening in Forks, and damn I had missed having a friend. We ended up skipping our next class too.
"And you know what Mike did? He was like trying to maintain his cool attitude and ended up spilling water over him. You so do not want to happen on your first date with your crush. But you know Mike isn't the kind of guy you would want to stay in a long relationship with. Enough about me; what about you and Edward's first date?"
"Dreamy, is the kind of I would use. He took me to this place in the forest, and it was so beautiful, Jess. And it feels like it was yesterday, you know." I said, grinning.
"I know the feeling. He is just so..." she sighed.
"Hey!"
"Well, can you blame me?" she asked.
I chuckled.
The bell rang, signalling for lunch.
"Off to meet your guy?" Jess had a smirk on her face.
"Well, aren't you off to see Mike?"
She laughed. We went to the cafeteria together, bought out lunch and parted ways.
"Hello, Edward," I said as I reached our usual table.
"By now the whole school knows that the Bella Swan was thrown out of Mr Smith's class and she even ditched her next class." He smiled.
"Well it was fun and I missed doing that," I said and I took a bite of my favourite sandwich.
"You know, right now her thoughts are all filled about your conversations and how glad she is that you are coming."
He eyed the sandwich in my hand with disgust written on his face. I rolled my eyes and raised my hand so that the sandwich in my hand was near his lips.
"Go on have a bite." I smirked.
"Bella," He pushed my hand away.
"Then at least stop grimacing every time I take a bite of any sort of food." I said, almost hissed, "I accepted what you eat. Then it's only fair that you accept what my diet is."
He opened his mouth to say something but no words can out. A moment later he uttered a sorry.
"Good. Where's Alice, anyway?"
"She's gone hunting with Jasper, Irina and Laurent."
"Wait, they are already here? Why didn't you tell me when were your cousins coming?" I said.
"I did tell you," said Edward.
"You did not."
"I didn't?" He pretended to think.
"Don't act like you forgot it. You have a hi-tech memory, for Dumbledore's sake." I narrowed my eyes.
He grinned. "Hi-tech? Seriously?"
I shrugged. "Watch it, mister. It's me who is going to decide what you will be wearing on Halloween."
He grimaced.
"How about we go out later today? The rain's stopped anyway."
He smiled and replied a second later, "You will have an hour after school. Then I will be at your doorstep to pick you up."
"Will I need to change clothes?" I asked. He shook his head. "But you can wear your robes, if you want. Early Halloween spirit."
"What are you planning?" I asked excitedly.
He curled up his index finger. I leaned forward slightly.
"It's a surprise."
Scowling, I slapped his hand away. Biology was well biology. We had a test, which I copied off Edward. Gym was awesome. I played really well in today's class.
I almost ran to Edward's car after school.
"Hurry up," I said. He was taking even longer to get in and drive.
"Bella, calm down, love."
"Shush. We hardly have gone out. It will be a nice change." I grinned.
At home, I quickly changed into my favourite robes which I had bought from a shop in Hogsmeade. Quickly using my wand, I pulled my hair up in a half up-do, curling up some strands which framed my face. I didn't notice that mum had arrived and had been watching me from the door. I turned just as the eye liner which was hanging in the air poked my eye. "Ow."
"Going somewhere?"
"On a date," I tried very hard not to squeal. I closed my eyes and let the brushes which were roaming around my face do the work.
"Oh, my honey is going a date," Mum said dramatically.
"Don't get started." I groaned. Knowing her, she would surely start giving me tips which were century old.
I heard her laugh. "No, not that lip colour. Wear a lighter shade with those robes."
I opened my eyes and looked into the mirror. She was right. I flicked my wand again.
"Hm, that's better," I said as I smacked my lips. A little bit of perfume, picking up all the necessary things, and finally a bracelet on my wrist, I made a show of walking around my room for mum to see.
"You look beautiful." She kissed my forehead.
"I am your daughter after all." I said.
"But you'll get cold. Take a scarf." She said.
I groaned, "It'll ruin my look Mum."
"Bella," she started.
I shook my head with a loud no.
We heard a purr of a car pulling up. I reached for the door.
"No, you wait here." Mum said and went downstairs.
I sighed. A moment later I heard the front door open, then Mum and Edward's voices, some laughing and finally.
"Bella? Come on down," Mum yelled. I took a last look in the mirror, it was a simple look yet nice and pretty.
Then I went downstairs. He had the widest smile on his face. He had changed his shirt. Now he was wearing a black shirt with sleeves rolled up, his jacket hanging over his arm with blue jeans. Black suited him.
"Shall we?" He offered me his hand. Laughing lightly I took it. He kissed the back of my hand and I heard a click in the background.
"It's not prom, Mum," I said. "Though, I do want that photo."
"Here, take the camera and capture your moments. Have fun."
"I am sure we will," Edward said.
"Come on," I tugged at his hand. Mum laughed.
"Love you," I said as I kissed her cheek.
"I love you, too honey." She waved us goodbye. And I felt like I was in those clichéd sorts of movies. But after yesterday, this was certainly nice change.
"Will you please tell me where are we going?"
"Port Angeles. To this Halloween carnival-slash-party thing. Carlisle got some invitation passes from his colleagues. "And, er, we will have company." He smiled apologetically.
"Oh? Who exactly?" I asked, getting a bit wary.
"Em, Rose and Tanya." He said rather hurriedly.
"Ah," I said. Emmett and Rose? Fine, no problem. But Tanya? This 'cousin' of theirs...
Great, there went my date.
"Just 'ah'?" He asked his face neutral.
I shrugged. "I had wanted to meet the Denali's anyway. And I think it will be a good time to you know get to know Rosalie more."
He still looked uncertain.
"I mean it. I am the Lady Volturi after all," I made a pose. That finally made him smile.
"I love you." He grinned. I beamed back.
The rest of the way, I mostly listened to Edward's compositions. I told him that I wanted a copy of that CD. When we finally reached at the venue, he introduced me to Tanya. Emmett, Rosalie and she were already there.
Tanya had long strawberry blond hair, chalk-white skin and of course, a beautiful face and a deadly figure. To my surprise she was very accepting. She was nice. I mean did notice her flirting with Edward twice but she backed off when I took his arm. I had a few tricks up to me sleeve too. She didn't know who I really was. But that was fine. Telling vampires that a human was the Lady Volturi would have created some complications.
There was a lot of dancing. I loved that place. My robes didn't stand out. The most surprising thing was Rosalie's words. We were playing some games just the two of us when Emmett and Edward went off to mingle and Tanya had caught the eye of some guy. Rosalie and I were winning.
"Thank you, Bella." She said.
"What for?" I asked in confusion.
"For making my brother happy." She said softly, "I know, I haven't treated you well. To be honest I don't like witches and wizards to start with. I have had experiences of my own with them. But you are different. Not like them."
I looked at her dumb folded.
She laughed. A man turned to look at the sound of it. Rosalie winked at him. I let a giggle. She smirked. "It helps to keep Emmett in line."
I laughed. "If you don't mind me asking. What happened?" I turned sober.
She shook her, "Not here. Not now."
I didn't force her. But I think it was a nice start between us.
"Who did your hair?" She asked.
I smiled; yes this certainly was a nice start.
It was... I don't how many hours later. After lots of food, fun games and dancing and betting on how long Edward and Emmett could keep food inside of them, we finally went back. I was tired.
"Do you want meet the others?" Edward asked during the car ride.
I could spare an hour or so. After all it was a school night. I nodded.
"Have you finished that Biology assignment?"
He nodded.
"I'll need yours so that I can finish mine," I smirked.
"I'll do yours later tonight." He shrugged. Bless him.
"You are the best," I told him, "Biology is even worse than Herbology."
"Do I want to know what Herbology is?" he asked.
"Study of magical plants. I took that subject for seven years. But I do admit I would do anything to go back to Hogwarts now. I wish I could show you Hogwarts. The castle's so huge." I sat a little straighter. "On my first day I lost my way. I ended up in a fourth-year class rather than my own. Jen, Lisa, Suzy and I used to smuggle food from the kitchen almost every night. And I really, really wish I could see them now." I launched into little details and incidents at my old school. He listened patiently.
But all of a sudden, he pressed brakes. My forehead almost hit the dashboard. The cons of not wearing a seatbelt.
"What the hell?" Edward muttered and unbuckled his seatbelt.
"No, you stay here." I yelled.
In front of us was a very familiar figure. The headlights of the car showed his long hair and scarred face.
Hey yo! I am back with a new chapter. And yeah I know what you mean by chapter 19 and 20 not really fitting with each other. I suppose that is because I wrote chapter 20 two months after chapter 19. I mean I did start the chapter but didn't have time to complete it.
I hope you like this chapter. And the story is changing.
See you soon.
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