A/N: Hi hi hi, so i know you all want to yell at me for not updating , but theres just problems going on and i hadnt been able to get in the mood to write with everything. READ THE END please. Read and Review
~Nessie.
Ch 52 Back to Forks. Summer over. Back to school.
Bella's POV
New York was amazing! We were there for practically the whole summer. We came back last week with double the amount of luggage's we left with, much to Carlisle's surprise.
School starts tomorrow and my birthday is in three days. Ugh! Usually I would be happy about my birthday, but I realize I'm starting to grow old. But luckily I won't be for long, because next year I'll be a vampire. Alice is planning my birthday party for this Saturday and is going nuts because she only has four days left.
"Bella!" She yelled from her room. I got up from my bed and walked over to her room.
"Yeah?" She was sitting on her bed with papers scrambled everywhere and a pen in her mouth.
"I have your theme! All I got to get you is an outfit." I looked at her like she was crazy. "Why are you giving me that look?"
"Alice, I have three luggage's full of clothing from New York. You're going to tell me I don't have one good outfit in there?!" She sighed.
"Fine, you probably do have the perfect outfit…" She trailed off.
"Alice, what's my theme?" I asked.
She beamed brightly. "Club themed." I squealed and Edward appeared on the doorway.
"What happened?" He asked.
"No way!" I squealed again ignoring Edward's question.
Alice jumped on the bed. "Yes way!"
"What just happened?" Edward asked again.
"I'm having a club themed party!" He shook his head with a small smile and walked away.
"Well Bells, you have to go to bed." I groaned. "Bella, get your butt in that bed now."
I pouted but went to bed.
The next morning…
Alice's POV
I looked over at the clock and saw it was 6:50 am. Oh, well it's time to wake Bella up! I smiled, skipping to her room. Edward and Jasper walked upstairs and saw me smiling.
"Alice, what's up with that creepy smile?" Edward asked teasingly. I stuck my tongue out at him.
"It's a new school year!" I said like it was obvious.
"Alice, why in the world would you be happy about that?" Jasper asked.
"Because…" I didn't even know why I was excited, I just was. "Well, just because…" I skipped passed them and into Bella's room.
She was tangled up in her sheets with one leg hanging off the bed and the other crossed. Her right arm was over her chest and her left dangling off the bed with her left leg too. Her hair was sprayed all over the pillow and she just looked well…like a sleeping Bella.
If I wasn't me then I would've let her kept sleeping, but I was dying to get her ready for school. So I skipped over to the edge of her bed and shook her shoulder gently.
"Oh Bella," I sang. "Wake up, doll." She groaned and rolled over hitting my arm in the process.
"Five more minutes." She mumbled.
I huffed and walked over to the edge of the bed. An evil smile crept on my face and I grabbed the sheets and pulled them, making her fall off the bed with a thud.
"Ah!" She yelled. She sat up straight and glared at me. "Alice, must we always start off the morning like this?"
I shrugged. "If you would get up easily without any trouble, maybe I wouldn't need to go to extreme measures." She snorted. "Ah shut up. Go get washed up while I pick out your outfit." She nodded and walked over to the bathroom, but not before tripping on her two feet. I giggled. "You alright over there?"
"Yeah," she called back. I walked into her huge walk in closet and decided what she was going to wear. After I was done, I looked in the mirror only to see my pink shirt stained with mud. I growled, knowing who it was. Emmett.
I ran back to my room and picked a totally different outfit on short notice. I picked a pair of light washed jeans with a black and white striped shirt. I did my make up quickly putting brown on my lids and black on the outer corners. I quickly grabbed the straightener and straightened my hair so it wasn't in its usually spiky fashion.
I heard footsteps and saw Jasper looking at me with a smile. "Why did you change darling'?" A little bit of his southern accent—which he has tried to keep from using—passed through.
"Emmett used my shirt to clean up his hands after he played in the mud." I pouted for affect. He walked over to me and kissed my pout, which then turned into a grin.
"Don't pout, Al." I pouted again just to see what he would. He bent down and kissed me a little longer this time. When he pulled away I beamed and he chuckled. "There we go, I love to see those little white pearly teeth." I jumped and kissed his cheek before walking out.
"I love you Jazz," I whispered.
"I love you too, darling'" I heard him say back.
Bella's POV
I walked out of the bathroom and looked at what Alice had picked out for me to wear. It was actually so adorable I couldn't wait to put it on. It was a ¾ sleeved, purple baby doll shirt that reached mid thigh, and had a beige design on the hemline of the shirt and sleeves. I also had light blue jeans and a pair of thick heeled boots.
I looked at myself in the mirror and for once I thought I looked pretty. Although my hair was still a haystack, so I grabbed a brush and lightly brushed it back. By the time I put the brush down Alice was back in my room with a curling iron and make up set. She pushed me down onto the chair and started working on me.
"And vuala!" I opened my eyes and saw me. My hair was in huge wavy curls with my hair parted down the middle. I had on light brown eye shadow, some eyeliner and mascara. Alice handed me a peachy lip gloss and I was ready to go.
"Thanks Al." I hugged her and she kissed my cheek before running off.
When I walked down the stairs I saw Rose. She was looking gorgeous of course. She had on a regular black shirt with light washed jeans and her hair was wavy at the ends and tousled. She had on some natural grey eye shadow and some lipstick.
She smiled at me and I waved smiling back. Then I looked over to see Edward. He was wearing a navy blue short sleeved shirt and dark jeans. His hair was tousled and he looked just perfect!
He looked at me and smiled. I completely melted, but I snapped out of it in time to smile back. He walked over to me and led me to his car. "You look beautiful, Bella!" he complimented.
I blushed and looked down. "Thank you."
When we got to school, everyone stared at us with mouths open as we walked to the office. This time it was Rose who introduced us.
"Hello Ms. Cope," she greeted friendly which is really a first for Rose. Ms. Cope looked up with a smile.
"Good morning, Rosalie. What may I do for you today?" She asked.
"We would like our schedules please. It's Hale and Cullen." Ms. Cope nodded and looked through a cabinet, taking out a stack of papers.
"Here you go. This is for Jasper," Jazz took it. "This is for Alice," Alice bounded and took it. "This is for Emmett." Emmett snatched it and looked eagerly at it. "This is for you Rosalie." Rose grabbed it and took a look at it. "This is for you, Edward." Edward reached in front of me and took it. "And this," she kind of looked at me funny. "Is for you, Isabella." I took it and looked at it.
Before I could actually read it, Alice took mine and Edward's and compared them.
Hale, Isabella
Period 1 Spanish- Mrs. Martinez
Period 2 Geometry- Mr. Delic
Period 3 Gym- Coach Clapp
Period 4 History- Mr. Zoom
Period 5 Free Period
Period 6 Lunch
Period 7 Biology- Mr. Banner
Period English, literature- Ms. Melina
Cullen, Alice
Period 1 Spanish- Mrs. Martinez
Period 2 English, literature- Ms. Melina
Period 3 Gym- Coach Clapp
Period 4 Biology- Mr. Banner
Period 5 Geometry- Mr. Delic
Period 6 Lunch
Period 7 History- Mr. Zoom
Period 8 Free Period
Cullen, Edward
Period 1 Gym- Coach Clapp
Period 2 AP Spanish- Mr. Cordero
Period 3 Free Period
Period 4 History- Mr. Zoom
Period 5 Pre Calculus- Ms. Donna
Period 6 Lunch
Period 7 Biology- Mr. Banner
Period 8 English, literature- Ms. Melina
"Awesome, I have the best free period!" Alice exclaimed, giving us back our papers and jumping.
"Me and Edward got a lot of classes together." I noticed looking up at him. He smiled down and nodded.
"Wait, I have a bigger question to ask." Emmett said. We all looked at him. "Do we all have the same lunch period?"
Everyone took a look at their paper and said "I got 6th." At the same time except Emmett who said "I have 7th." We all looked at him and he looked shocked.
He fell to his knees. "Noooo! Oh cruel, cruel world, why?" Rosalie checked to see that nobody besides us was seeing this. I put my hand over my eyes and looked away.
"Emmett, go tell the guidance counselor to change it." Edward said like if it was obvious.
"I can't, she kind of hates me…" He trailed off and Edward snorted.
"Well maybe if you didn't throw a rock at her car and saying you wanted to 'test gravity' she might like you more." Edward retorted. Emmett smirked at the memory then grimaced. "Come on Emmett, just beg her. And if not just use the tricks we have up our sleeves." Emmett nodded and ran off. Right before rounding the corner Emmett came back.
"Bro, it's a guy and I don't think he'll take charming very coolly. He looks straight and I am straight." Jasper chuckled before saying,
"Have Rosalie convince him." Rose looked over at him fumingly.
"Excuse me? I am not a toy you use when needed to." Emmett grabbed her hand in his as she turned to look at him he looked her in the eyes with love and plea. She visibly melted.
"Please Rose? I want to have lunch with the family, with you," he grabbed her chin and she smiled.
"Okay Em, let's go." He smiled and ran off with her.
I laughed and walked into first period. The day just breezed on by.
I just got home after a long day of school. From second period and on I told my friends about my club themed party. They agreed and would call me later on. I told if they come they have to come in club clothes.
Ring! Ring!
I picked up my sidekick and saw it was two calls, three missed ones and fifteen text messages! Holy cow!
I picked up the first call and joined it with the second one. "Hello?" I asked not recognizing the number.
"Yeah Bella, it's Lauren and Jessica." Lauren's nasal voice said over the phone.
"Oh hi guys." I greeted with fake enthusiasm.
"Yeah, whatever." Rude much. "We're calling to RSVP for your party." My jaw dropped. Alice invited them?
"Oh, are you?" I gulped hoping she was joking. Jessica laughed while Lauren snorted.
"Well a duh! Why else would I call you? It's not a friendly hello."
"Alright, then be here by seven and the theme is club." I gave them the details and sat on the edge of my bed.
"Whatever, Hale. Goodbye." Lauren hung up as Jessica said bye. Once I closed my phone Alice walked past my room with her phone on her ear.
"Alright, so remember by seven…okay…goodbye." Alice ended the call and I looked at my text messages. A lot of the people confirmed, so I kept scrolling down until I saw two unknown numbers.
"1-917-554-0987" I opened it only to find it was from Mike. I rolled my eyes, this kid doesn't get I don't like him does he?
I read the message he sent.
To: Bella
Hey Bella, it's Mike Newton; I just wanted to RSVP for your party. I didn't get an invitation, but I understand, maybe you forgot to give it to me or tell me. So anyways see you Saturday!! =)
I rolled my eyes. I texted him back giving him the details to my party and saving him in my contacts that way I know when it's him.
I looked at the other unknown number. It had a different area code then ours which was strange.
"1-590-646-8890" I opened it, but I couldn't tell who it was at all!
The most beautiful thing I have ever seen holds my heart.
My eyebrows scrunched together at the anonymous message. I realized Alice was talking and I had tuned her out. I didn't look up but cut her off.
"Alice?"
She stopped mid sentence. "Yeah?"
"Come take a look at this." I said gesturing to the spot next to me. She sat down gracefully and I passed her the phone. "Do you recognize that number?" She looked at it confused and I realized then that she didn't know who it was.
"No Bells, sorry." She handed me back my phone. "Why? What happened?" I shook my head.
"No, nothing I just got a really random, weird message from this unknown number." She held her hand out for the phone and I gave it to her.
She read it so fast I didn't even get a chance to put my hand on my lap.
"Bella, I don't like this message." She handed me back the phone.
"What do you mean?"
She shrugged. "This gives me a bad feeling. Just careful remember what Tanya said."
"…there's a lunatic out there… they're worried because if he obsesses over anything—especially a person—he won't stop 'til he gets it, even if death is the way…" Tanya's words rang through my head.
"Anyways, Bella why don't you go freshen up and start your homework?" Alice suggested with a smile. I nodded and put some sweats on and took out my books.
My mind didn't stay on my homework though; it went back to what Tanya said.
"You have to be more careful with Bella…"
I looked down at my books and bit my pen cap. Could the message from my phone, and the lunatic have some sort of connection? No, probably wrong number.
But it seemed like it was a message for me. My eyes narrowed at nothing, but I jumped when I heard a knock on my door. I turned around and saw Edward. He was casually leaning on my door frame with a grin on his face.
"So Bella, have you finished your homework?" He asked half teasingly. I looked down at my English book and saw I wrote one word "The." I groaned and shook my head. He laughed and walked towards me. "Well maybe if you weren't so busy staring into outer space you would have finished by now."
I didn't have a smart come back so I just stuck my tongue out at him and crossed my arms. Suddenly I was lifted into the air and placed on someone's lap. I looked up to see Edward was in my seat and I was on his lap. I blushed and looked away trying to hide it. From the corner of my eye it looked like I saw him grin slightly.
"So missy, you might want to finish you know?" I rolled my eyes at him.
"Well a duh!" I said. He raised his eyebrows, and—don't ask me how—got a pillow and hit me with it (Well not with all his strength.)
I raised my eyebrows at him before I took the pillow and hit him with it. He looked a bit shocked that I took it from him. I started laughing and continued to hit him. He started blocking himself, before he took my wrists and pinned them down to his lap. I tried to get free but he only raised an eyebrow as in to say 'do you really think that's going to work?' I nodded and he chuckled.
When I looked up I noticed our faces were centimeters apart. He stopped laughing and it all went silent. Before we knew it we started to lean in. My mind went blank and suddenly everything surrounding us didn't matter to me.
I shut my eyes and our lips barely touched when Alice walked in my room.
"Here you go Bella," My eyes snapped opened and I jumped off of Edward's lap and landed on the floor on my butt with an 'oof'. Edward got up and helped me up. I looked away not wanting to see Alice's reaction, but she acted like normal. "Hey Edward, leave me and Bella please."
"But Alice…" Edward was cut off by her glare.
"No buts, she needs to eat and I'm gonna help her finish your homework."
He mumbled something that sounded like, "well I was going to do that." Alice didn't say anything, just raised an eyebrow and he sighed.
Edward turned to me and hugged me. "Night Bella," I hugged him back before he pulled away.
"Night Edward," he walked out of my room closing my door on the way out. I sighed and looked at Alice. She had put the tray of food down and was giving me the look.
"Hi Alice," my voice squeaked as I sat down at the edge of my bed.
She walked over to me. "Don't you 'hi Alice,' me" she said doing a perfect imitation of my voice. "What did I walk into?"
I decided to play ignorant. "Um, my room?"
"Ha ha Bella, you're hilarious. Now seriously, why were you on Edward's lap and why were your faces so close together?"
Alice's POV
I waited patiently for Bella's answer as she shifted uncomfortably. I already knew the answer. They were going to kiss.
"Um, well it's not the first time I sit on his lap." She got up and looked away. She's so nervous that I wanted to laugh, but I didn't I wanted her to confess to me that she loved Edward.
I realized Edward was downstairs and he would hear me, so I sent him a thought. "Edward, can you take Jazz hunting?" I heard him groan and the door shut.
I walked over to Bella and touched her arm. She looked at me and I smiled.
"Bella, you have always told me everything. I don't want that to change now. You can trust me you know." She smiled back at me.
"Ok Alice, you're right. I've told you everything." I nodded and she took a deep breath. "Remember how I told you I liked Edward?" I nodded again. "Well I realized that…that…that"
"That?" I insisted.
"That I love him." She said with closed eyes. I inwardly 'awed'. I touched her face and giggled.
"Bella, you're in love with Edward?" She slowly nodded her head.
"There's nothing to be ashamed of honey,"
"I'm not really ashamed, but more of scared and shocked. I mean I'm scared because I don't know what's going to happen and shocked because well I grew up with him. He's practically my brother!" She plopped down on her desk chair. "And now I realize I love him! Everything's so awkward now."
"Ohh honey, don't worry about anything ok. Things happen for a reason." She gave me a watery smile. "Oh don't cry Bella."
"It's just I don't want to be rejected by him. I know he doesn't love me—" I wanted to scoff at that. You don't know how much he does love you. "And I don't want to suffer. Or make him feel that he has to."
I kissed her hair and smiled. "Bella, don't worry ok? Why don't you just go to sleep?"
"But I have to do my homework." I shook my head.
"You won't go to school ok? Now go on, get your jammies on and sleep." She smiled at me using the word jammies and went to the bathroom.
I left the room and went to mine and talked to Rose about it. Rose shook her head.
"Oh my poor little girl." I put my hand on her shoulder.
"When they get together, they'll know all this was worth it." Rose smiled and nodded. I pulled back and took out my cell phone. "How about we start getting the decorations and presents for Bella's party?"
"You read my mind Alice." Rose said looking at a magazine.
A/N: Alright so i probably know you guys are saying "why the hell did she not write about New York?" or "You skip around too much." honestlyy i was going to write about new york but then the story would be elongated and wel never get over it ! i think everyone wants to see Edward and Bella together, so i gotta hurry it along. Maybe il do an outtake of those chapters wen im done with the story. Well if i can get 15-20 reviews in ONE day il post a new chapter . READ AND REVIEW
~Nessie
