Have you ever just found yourself starting at someone doing something seemingly innocent yet you found it sexy? Hormones are a strange thing. I should probably listen to my biology teacher more often. I bet the subject of hormones has been covered already. I'll have to Google this later.
I watch enamored at the scene before me, Edward tilting his head back and drinking from his coca cola. I could clearly see his Adam's apple working with each swallow. It's been almost two weeks since the party at Jessica's house and things are sort of back to normal. Edward was finally done with the ridiculous notion that he had to treat me like a fragile doll, which suited me well. It was cute the first few hours but when I could try to kiss my boyfriend he'd hold back. I wasn't okay with that.
From under the cafeteria table I feel someone bump my shin firmly and it causes me to look away from Edward. I turn my gaze to find Rosalie starting at me with a smirking smile and discreetly wiping the side of her mouth.
The look screams, you're drooling.
With a shy smile I look down at my tray of food and pick at my chili cheese fries, managing to just barely hear Rosalie's snickers over my music. Besides me, the subject of my creeper staring, Edward picks up my iPod from the table and scrolls through my music until he finds 'pumped up kicks'. Reaching over he tugs the earphones from their place and fixes them so we both are listening to the depressingly upbeat song.
Stabbing two fries I shove them in my mouth and chew while nodding my head to the beat. From the corner of my eye I see Rosalie still looking over with her now usual soft small smile.
It's been a long two weeks, those in which Rosalie and I came to an understanding.
We had literally been in the house for two minutes before I'm pulled into a hallway by Rosalie. Her gaze wanders over my person and she opens her mouth to speak but instead shakes her head and keeps on pulling me somewhere.
I'm slowly trudging my feet behind her because she was most likely going to ruin my morning.
"Are you okay?" she asks whispering once we go inside her room. Confused I nod my head yes but she doesn't believe me and keeps on pestering me for a good minute before I get annoyed and throw my arms out and twirl in a circle to show her I had no bones sticking out of my body.
With a sigh she explains her sudden worried motherly inquisition. Apparently she had seen the whole showdown with Mike and her brother, meaning that she also saw when I fell off the porch. She starts rambling and telling me that if Edward is being anything less than a gentleman, I could tell her. "Just because he's my brother doesn't mean I won't turn his ass in for domestic abuse" are the exact words she says and had I been drinking something she would have completely been soaked.
It takes me a moment to calm her down before I am the one pulling. I sit her down on her beautifully made bed and explain the situation to her. Incredibly I see a soft blush burst from her normally pale face and she awkwardly stutters over her apologies for assuming anything. I sit down beside her and we're silent for a while.
"I don't hate you." She says looking down at her comforter and tracing the stitching.
"I mean, I used to hate you but...it's different now."
I don't respond in any way until she looks up.
"How is it different?" I asked curiously.
"Edward has been changing. Not a complete 180, but he's changing nonetheless and I'm not saying you're the exact reason." She stops and gives me such a pointed a stare that I end up raising my hands as if to say 'I give'
"You're part of it. I think the move has allowed Edward to free himself from his body guard roll"
With my questioning look, she ended up side tracking into a story about the Cullen family back in LA. And I immediately feel sad and immensely proud of Alice because of her revealed past. Afterwards it doesn't take a genius to figure out why Rosalie hated me. And I tell her I'm sorry even though I didn't physically have anything to do with the move. She waved off my apology and stands up, motioning me to follow as well.
"It doesn't matter. I'm fine with it. I know now that the move wasn't for not. It'll help." She says over her shoulder and gives me a real smile before going to the living room, effectively leaving me wonder just who the move will help. I needed sleep.
"Babe?" Edward mumbles against my hair and I'm brought from my thoughts.
"Were you planning on ditching class?" He says amused and I look around the school cafeteria to see that it's all but empty with the exception of a few stragglers.
I wind the earphones cord around my iPod and toss it into my bag before pulling my bag pack over my shoulder.
"Your hand's so cold." Edward muses as I take his outstretched one with mine and we begin walking to class.
I shrug not really knowing how to respond and he laughs at me before taking both my hands and putting them to his cheek. Beneath my fingers I feel his jaw clench as he tries to suppress a shiver.
We make it to class seconds before the bell rings and I attempt to learn but figure I can just look over Edwards' notes tonight.
~.~
"Iz!" Angela gasps as I scare her after school in the parking lot.
"Heeey girl heeey." I mouth, my mind flashing to when Emmett said the same thing to Jasper the night prior.
She chuckles softly and pulls her hair over to one shoulder.
"Where have you been?" I ask and sync our feet like we used to do in freshman year.
"Where haven't I been?" She retorts and pauses, "oh god that sounded slutty,"
I smirk at her not bringing up the fact that she deflected my question. I was serious too. Lately Angela has been like a ghost. I would see her during passing period but as for our shared classes we didn't sit together anymore. I frown to myself knowing that I was just as much to blame for her absence in my life as of late. A cell phone worked both ways.
"So you and Edward?" She says with a curious yet happy tone.
My cheeks heat up along with an eruption of a girlish butterfly sensation in my stomach.
"Oh my god! You and Edward!" She screams-laughs and clutches my arm while jumping up and down.
"I knew it! I so knew it. How come you didn't tell me sooner?" We come to her car and she looks at me excitedly. I shrug with a smile on my face and lean against her car.
"Are you busy today?" I ask her deciding that it was time to tell her my situation. I was amazed that she hadn't confronted me about it, or if she even had the slightest idea about anything.
I watch as her face falls and she struggles to recompose herself.
"Kind of. But I'll text you when I'm free, yeah?"
I act unaffected by the news even though I am. Nonetheless I accept her offer and we hug each other good bye.
I stay close to my phone all day but I never get the text.
~.~
"Izzy! I need help." Alice comes into my room after knocking twice and jumps onto my bed besides me. Putting down my homework I turn to her and see her frown at her iPod touch.
"Help me." She drags out the word for about ten seconds and I chuckle at her antics.
She turns her iPod towards me and I see that she's playing '4 pictures 1 word'. I recently started playing the game and I had shown it to everyone in the house. We were all addicted. But considering this was a solely Apple product home, the version we had wasn't the completed game. I made it to level 183 before I ran out of available levels. Now I was stuck to wait for the updates.
I was considering switching to an android phone just to get the version of the game that went past 200 levels.
On the screen are four pictures: the first was a picture of a door, the second of a mailbox with the symbol ' ' in it, the next was a screen shot of the word 'link' in the search bar and the last was of a type of business woman holding a microphone to her lips.
Remembering when I played this level I quickly type out the answer: Address.
"Oh. My. God." Alice groans angrily staring down her iPod.
"How did I not get that?" She growls and reaches up to kiss my cheek in thanks and flitters out of my room. Yeah, she flitters.
"You helped her with that!" Jasper laughs at my door way and I nod my head smiling at his soothing low timber of a laugh.
"Emmett owes me 100 bucks now. She spent like an hour on that before she gave up and came to you."
"What'd you wager?" I ask and motion him in.
"I bet that she'd breaks before an hour and a half. He had more faith in her and said she'd break after two hours."
I roll my eyes at him and put my homework away. Clearly I wasn't going to get anymore done. Jasper and I don't have a close best friend vibe that is obvious, but once he comes to me it's for something interestingly funny.
"We're gonna go to the movies and watch that new zombie movie that came out. You down?"
"Like down under." I respond with a blank expression.
"You're weird, Swan. You're weird. Edward is a true man." He replies sassily and I flip him off.
"Let's go!" He suddenly yells and gestures me to get up. He keeps on saying the words insistently as I go around my room getting ready.
When his impatience gets the better of him, he snatches my shoes from the floor as I'm reaching towards them. Without giving me a chance to even look annoyed he runs out of the room and yells out "She's ready!"
His childish demeanor is infectious and I grab my phone off the bed before running after him full speed.
It's on the last flight of stairs that I catch up and mindlessly throw myself at his back.
"Oof fuck!" He grunts and we end up falling. We tumble down for a few seconds before we finally stop moving. It's silent for a moment before something comes and pokes me in the ribs. Ignoring the slight ache in my arm, I start to giggle because falling down the stairs was both scary and fun and I was ticklish. I hear Jasper snort from somewhere and pretty soon we're just a jumble of laughter. I lift my head up, but can't see anything because my hair is in my face.
"I think they're on drugs." I hear Alice say and the rest of the family agrees with her.
"C'mon crazy chick." Edward tells me as he helps me up with a tender smile.
"Have fun!" Esme calls out as we drive past the house on our way out.
"Bye mommy!" Emmett sticks his head out of the window and waves live a madman.
Almost half an hour later we arrive to the movie theater and get the next showing for Warm Bodies.
"Alright, let's kill some zombie fuckers." Jasper and Emmett say loudly once the movie starts and then begin giggling like school girls, which makes it pretty obvious that they planned to say that. Dorks.
It's halfway into the movie that my butt falls asleep and I squirm in my seat. To be honest the movie was kind of boring, however, it was better than Rango. God that movie sucked hairy balls.
"You okay?" Edward leans down to whisper in my ear. I nod while bringing my index finger to my lips, politely telling him to shut up. Eventually though, I get fed up and lift the arm rest between us before bringing my legs up and resting my head on his chest.
With his arm around me and the comforting sound of his heart beat under my ear, I doze off until the movie ends.
"Leave her alone" I hear someone whisper above me, and I feel something tickle my nose.
I crinkle my nose and snuggle deeper into Edward's chest.
"Emmett, stop." More whispering, and with my sleeping daze clearing up, I recognized the voice as Alice.
"I think she's drooling." I hear Jasper chuckle in the background and my eyes pop wide open with my hand coming up to my mouth to check for said drool.
They all start laughing at me and beside me I feel Edward jolt.
"What's happening?" he mutters as he brings the heel of his palms to his eyes and rubs the sleep from them. "Oh god, what time is it?" he groans out in a husky tone.
"The movie ended almost thirty minutes ago. The cleanup crew is getting tired of waiting. We gave them a bill so they'd leave us alone for a while, but the next showings about to start." Rosalie explains and rips the tatter napkin from Emmett's hand as he went in to tickle her nose.
"I'm hungry! Let's go get food." Emmett says and we all agree with his statement. We let Edward wake up a bit more before we meander out of the theater and get into the car.
We end up going to this little hole in the wall pizza joint and order an extra-large pizza with almost all the toppings available (except anchovies, Alice swore she'd throw up) to go.
Back in the parking lot, Edward claims the car keys because he didn't trust Emmett to drive and not eat a slice of the pizza so I end up going in the passenger seat back home.
I sit with my back against the door and lean my head against the window. From my position I can see throw the crack of the headrest to the shenanigans that the eldest Cullen brothers are doing.
"Stop it." Em whines while pushing Jasper away and inching closer to Rosalie.
"C'mon baby. It'll be fun." Jasper croons and gives his brother a sexy look. I see his hand start creeping up Emmett's arm and Em's face starts too ashen.
It's when Jasper shoves his hand into Emmett's armpit that Emmett replies with "Oh my God. Get out of me. I'm going to be sick."
The car erupts with laughter and I laugh so hard my ribs begin to hurt.
"Fuck you guys." He mumbles when we calm down and we all fight to giggle as Jasper retorts back "Oh please baby."
I roll my eyes away from them and focus on Edward. My heart stutters when I see that he's already looking at me.
"What?" I ask him and he smiles with a shake of his head.
"You look happy." He answers quietly over the sound of his talking family.
My eyebrows close together as I smile questioningly
"Because I am."
He puts his hand out towards me and I lean over to clasp it with mine.
My cheeks warm considerably as he lifts our joint hands to kiss the back of mine and I feel the stare of all his brothers and sisters on us.
"Good." He mumbles against my skin.
~.~
School starts up the next day and I head to first period anxiously to find two open seats. Which I do, but the second seat stays open when Angela doesn't show up for class.
"Are you okay?" Alice asks me during our free period. I bite my lip and shrug while staring at my phone. I wanted to text her, but with the way things have been lately, I could only assume she didn't come to school because she was either sick or busy with family matters. In the end, I opted against texting her for the fear of bother her. Alice and I spend the rest of the period playing MASH and I end up marrying Dean Winchester where we live in a mansion raising two kids while I drive a Bugatti to my job as an elephant pooper scooper at the local zoo.
After school we divide up the cars, the boys going in Edwards to go to Port Angeles for something and we girls, in Rosalie's, go to the store to buy junk food for tomorrow's impromptu movie night.
We end up buying almost one hundred dollars-worth of chips, dips, and sugary sweets and then head home. We go our separate ways after putting the bought goods into their respective places.
Now I'm up in my room reading One Direction Fanfiction. It was a new found guilty pleasure. Damn Alice and her fangirling ways. In a matter of days I have decided that Zayn was my number one, followed by Harry, Liam, Niall and lastly Louis.
He was last mostly for the fact I didn't like his name. Every time I saw Louis, I read it as "Lewis". It was so annoying.
"Babe?" Edward pulls me from my boy band obsessed thoughts and I look away from my iPod to see him leaning against my door way.
"Hi." I smile brightly at him and wave him closer.
He walks the distance between us and kisses me once before sitting down beside me.
"I didn't think you'd be here," He said taking my iPod and rolling his eyes at me when he saw what was on my safari page. My cheeks warm and I attempt to take my iPod away from him while he just laughs and holds it over his head. His arms are too long for me to reach my iPod.
"I just assumed you'd be helping Angela with the packing." My body froze with confusion and I pull back from my place on Edwards lap to look at his face.
"What do you mean?" I ask my head tilted to the side. Irrationally my heart starts pounding and I hear ringing in my ear. Packing?!
Dropping my iPod on my bed, my boyfriend brings his hands to push my hair from my face.
"Bella, there's a moving truck in her driveway…" he says slowly. For a second, I literally forget how to breathe and in the span of two heartbeats I'm off his lap, rushing to my desk for my car keys and running down the flight of stairs. I hear Edward call out to me, but I don't stop.
No, no, no, no, I keep chanting on my way out. A moving truck. Those meant moving away. That would mean she…no… just no.
I force my mind to blank out and I sped to her house.
I arrive on the familiar street and don't even bother turning off my car before I jog up her drive way and to her door.
Bang, bang, bang, ba- "Mom! We don't have enough room for the-" Angela stops talking when she looks up from her occupied hand and sees me.
"Izzy…" She says completely shocked and follows my gaze to the interior of her house. The walls were bare of their family pictures and the only things left were the couch set and the coffee table that had piles of different sized boxes upon it.
"You're moving." I state looking Angela dead in the eyes.
She drops her eyes and begins to dig her shoes into the carpet.
"…Yes."