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I walked into Forks High with Jessica and Angela by my side, both girls talking about the upcoming finals and the Prom, I couldn't help but to smile as they spoke, they brought back a sense of normalcy that my life was sorely lacking, no vampires, no wolves, no weird as visions, just high school and its woes.

"Why don't we go to Seattle to buy our Prom dresses?" I proposed as we walked to Math class, Jessica looked at me excited by the idea.

"Really?" she asked, I nodded.

"We could go next Saturday, make a whole day out of it, just us girls," I said with a grin, Angela and Jessica exchanged glances and nodded, "Perfect."

Math class was a review for the upcoming exams, so I mostly doodled in my notebook as the teacher droned on, junior level math class was so boring. After math class I said goodbye to Jess and Angie and walked towards the Spanish classroom, Jasper and Emmett were already there when I arrived, they smiled and waved me over to their seats.

"Hells Bells!" said Emmett as I took my seat, I smirked at him.

"Emmy-bear, Cowboy, sup?" I asked as I took my seat.

We spent most of the class talking between ourselves as we were doing revisions. At lunch I sat with my usual gang, Alice being Alice, decided that she could join us and it was really entertaining how gobsmacked Lauren was to see a Cullen at our table, I had an ever present smirk on my face as Alice talked fashion to Jessica and Angela. I winked at Rosalie before walking out of the cafeteria and she rolled her eyes at me.

Edward was already in the classroom when I arrived, after making a pit stop to fix my lipstick in the girls' bathroom, I grinned at him and made a beeline for my spot.

"Alice is enjoying this too much," Edward said with a small smile on his face.

"Well, I'm sure the girls are enjoying it as well, hey… maybe Alice and Rose would like to join us on Saturday, we're going to Seattle to buy our prom dresses," I said, Edward seemed to be thinking about it for a moment and then another smile appeared on his face.

"Alice is in, Rosalie will think about it," Edward said looking far too amused, "Who are you taking to prom, Bella?"

"I haven't decided yet, how about you Teddy?" I asked, he looked away from me and I rolled my eyes.

"You know, we could go together, as friends," I said after a moment, Edward looked at me confused.

"You'd go with me?" he asked, I nodded.

"I mean, it's not like here in Forks my options aren't limited, besides, I like you well enough and it's not like you'll try anything as any hormone riddled teenager might, so, yes, mister Cullen, would you do me the honor of taking you to prom?" I asked, a smirk on my face, Edward smiled at me.

"Of course, miss Swan," he said.

"You know," I began, "Do you guys have any plans for the summer?"

"Not really, we usually go to Alaska to visit our cousins," Edward informed me, I raised an eyebrow at him.

"Cousins? That's the Denali's, right?" I asked.

Edward seemed surprised but nodded, "Have you seen them?"

"Not exactly, I know about their existence because it is connected to yours, nothing else," I explained, a little bit of a lie, but Edward didn't need to know that.

"Are you coming to my house after school?" Edward asked suddenly.

I thought about it for a moment, the idea of eating Esme's food did appeal to me, and I could take some for Charlie too, Esme always cooked too much, but it was always so good.

"Sure, your mom is the best cook," I said with a grin.

Edward rolled his eyes good-naturedly, "Of course food is your deal breaker."

"And you know it, Teddy."

After Bio Lab, Edward walked me to the gym, he promised to wait for me after class and I walked into the gym with a grin on my face, I was quick to change into my gym clothes and as soon as I walked out Mike handed me a tennis racket, my grin was unparalleled.

"Finally!" I said as Mike and I walked to take our positions.

"You play tennis?" he asked.

I smirked at him, "I lived in Arizona, bro, I needed to do something."

"Well then," Mike said smiling, "let's show him how it's done."

My smirk turned into a grin as I spotted Eric and Tyler on the other side of the court and I looked at Mike.

"Let's have them eating dirt!"

We played two sets, and utterly destroyed the other two boys, Mike high fived me as we finished the last set.

"You're brutal," he said as we walked to the changing rooms.

"Nonsense Mikey, I'm adorable," I said with an innocent smile on my face.

Mike laughed as we reached the door to the girl's changing room.

"You're something else, Swan," he said.

I grinned, "You're not too bad, Newton."

Edward was waiting for me in the parking lot, leaning on my baby looking far too smug for his own good. I threw him the keys and he caught him in a really suave movement, I got into the passenger seat and turned on the radio, surprisingly Britney Spears was playing, Edward raised an eyebrow at me but I ignored him in favor of singing along.

Esme had made pasta, it was glorious and she promised to pack all the leftovers for me and Charlie. As I ate, Esme showed me her new projects, oh how I missed Pinterest, I made a few suggestions and Esme took them gracefully.

"You could study architecture or interior design," Esme told me as we went over one of her folders.

"That's a good idea, I was thinking about law, but then again, I want to do something more creative with my life," I told her.

She smiled softly at me, "you still have a year to decide."

"Yeah, I also want to travel, you know, I've been thinking about taking a small job in town, maybe at the Newton's shop," I said.

Esme hummed at me as she passed the page.

"Oh, that would look fantastic in a lighter blue tone," I pointed out at the picture on the page.

"What if I were to offer you a job?" Esme asked suddenly.

I stilled and looked at her confusedly, "Esme, I love you and all, but I just… I would feel really bad because you already feed me and your family is fantastic."

Esme laughed, and what a glorious sound it was, "Oh Bella, I have no problem to feed you, it actually gives me an excuse to go to the supermarket, and I love cooking and to actually have someone in the house that enjoys the food I make its fantastic, and I actually need a hand or two for this new restoration that I'm making, an old building in the town center."

I thought on her words and smiled at her, considering the offer, working with Esme was probably going to be more fun than working for the Newtons, "Fine, but you have to promise me to not pay me a ridiculous amount of money for the work I'm going to be doing, I just wouldn't be able to take it."

"Deal," Esme said with a lovely smile, "We start right after your finals!"

"Perfect."

I returned home just in time to warm the leftovers for dinner, Charlie got home a couple of minutes after me and walked straight into the kitchen as I was setting the table.

"Leftovers?" he asked as he sat down.

"Mrs. Cullen's actually, she had me over for lunch today and since she loves to cook for a small army and knows how much I love her food she just," I said gesturing with my hand.

Charlie shrugged before digging in on the plate that I had placed in front of him, "this is really good."

"I know right, I would definitely marry her, if she was single, just to have her cook for me every day," I said as I sat across from him.

Charlie laughed, a full blown belly laugh at my words, and soon the two of us were laughing over our dinner.

"Oh Bells, don't ever change," Charlie said softly.

I smiled at him in between bites of my dinner, "I promise, dad."