Disclaimer: I don't own Twilight. (I hate it when people put long ones. Get to the chapter!) lol
Aurora and I floated back to the Mustang and Jasper was already revving the Jaguar. I was actually looking forward to this race. Speed was good. Aurora jumped into the driver's seat in one flashing graceful movement. I moved just as fast to sit next to Edward. I barely hit the seat before Tristan began the racing start up.
"Readyyyyyy…"
I couldn't help but smile. Edward looked over at me confused. I just smiled wider as he placed his arm around my waist. I no longer considered Edwards arm as made of steel like I did before. He was unfortunately still stronger than me, as he proved earlier, but it was just a normal arm now.
"Go!" Tristan yelled out.
I just looked at Edward's Godly face as our bodies jerked to tell us we were now racing. The wind pounded in on my heightened hearing. It wasn't pleasant. The next time we raced I would insist on NO convertibles, but I did like the racing!
Aurora's waist length white-blonde hair whipped back at us and Edward and I caught her magnificent scent, we leaned forward slightly; drawn by it.
"Hey!" Tristan yelled at us.
"Sorry…" I muttered, leaning back into Edward's chest. Wow, her scent was alluring.
Jasper's Jaguar was being pushed to the limit. I saw Aurora look at Tristan and she winked, her eyes were now bright apple red again.
Jasper was pulling ahead now. Aurora turned back and concentrated on the road. When we reached the Cullen home, we were second in line. Jasper had barely pulled the emergency break up before he jumped out of the car with an impish grin on his face. I was sure he wanted to jump around and scream a bit, but Jasper was never that carefree.
"You two should probably go change," said Alice as she slipped under Jasper's arm. She giggled at the look on his face.
I looked down at my attire. It was still the same things I had worn when I was changed. I guess vampires didn't have any sweat or body odor of any kind because the only thing preventing me from wearing them to school was that they were wrinkled. I looked over at Aurora, her beautiful frame was so distracting I am sure no one would notice her clothes, like I didn't notice Edwards for the first few months I saw him. Nothing was wrong with her sporty attire; it wasn't even wrinkled, except she had a couple spots of blood on the left shoulder and collar. I nodded to them. She looked down and her hair draped in a curtain to cover her face.
"Tristan…" she whined and stomped her foot, making the ground shake. "You just ruined my favorite shirt!"
"Well," he said affronted. "Excuse me if I had a rough time not drinking every last drop of blood you had! And when I could let go I got some on your shirt!" he stuck his hands on his hips and I almost laughed. This was the funniest and strangest argument I had ever heard.
"Well you should say sorry!" she swiped her hair back out of her face to glare at him. "It was my favorite!"
"Well, I didn't like it so I am not going to apologize for ruining it in my attempt not to kill you!" he said.
"Hmph…" she continued to glare and ran back in the house. I heard a door slam all the way out here.
"Ouuuu!" taunted Emmett coming out of the house with Rosalie following him. "You're in trouble."
"Shut up, Emmett!" growled Tristan. Emmett took the hint and went to sit in the back of the Jaguar.
Rosalie's lovely form passed me and she looked up at me with a sort of resigned expression. I remembered how I used to think she was the most beautiful woman in existence. Aurora added to Rosalie's terrible personality quickly corrected that idea. She sighed and forced an awkward smile at me. I returned it automatically. Her smile became a little less force and more natural, then she went to sit in the back of the Jaguar too.
"Are we not going to take the Volvo today." It was more of a statement than a question.
I turned around to look at Edward. He smiled at me and raised an eyebrow mysteriously.
"Hmmm…" he mused. "I don't think we are…" he ended with a smile at me and I couldn't help but lean in to kiss him. His arms wrapped around my body as we intensified the kiss. He broke it off a few minutes earlier than I had planned. Tristan groaned at us and jumped in the passenger seat of the Mustang.
"Do you want to change your clothes?" Edward asked.
I sighed and kissed him swiftly on the lips before darting into the house. I ran up the stairs to our room and then danced into my closet. I looked around at all the clothes and sighed again. Oh Alice…
I reached up and grabbed a white cotton tee-shirt that looked soft and comfortable and then grabbed a pair of jeans. I had no doubt that these were the best clothes money could buy. They fit well and looked good too. When I looked in the mirror I didn't notice my own clothes I had just put on, though. I was captivated by my face that was almost as lovely as Aurora's. I was as beautiful as Rosalie, if not more.
I walked down the stairs slowly as I was listening to a strange sound coming from Aurora and Tristan's room; the used-to-be guest room, for no guests. It was so faint I stopped my loud walking and closed my eyes to devote full concentration to my hearing sense. I still couldn't make out the noise. I ran to the door to their room and knocked once before entering.
It was an amazing site to see. Aurora was standing in the center of the room and all the potted plants I had seen before were growing. There were orchids and vines; water lilies that were floating in the little pond to the right. The floor was completely grass except for the occasional rocky patch and the area around the little pond was soft sand. Shiny pebbles lay at the bottom of it through the crystal clear water. I shut the door and walked over to Aurora. She was now making a lovely waterfall with moss covered rocks.
"Aurora…" I said and my voice reflected my awe. "We have to go."
Her stunning features looked at me and her eyes were the terrifying green again. "Ok Bella." Her voice sounded hollow and deeper. She let the vines that were now creeping up the wall stop and ran to grab her duffel bag by the little pond. She threw on a black tee-shirt and faded distressed jean capris. "I need to go shopping…" I heard her mutter. She slipped on some black flip-flops and we were on our way out the door. We were walking human pace.
"Where can I go shopping around here?" she asked curiously. "We have to leave a lot of our stuff behind every time we move and I always have to leave more because I had to bring my plants…it drives Tristan crazy," at the last sentence she glared off into the distance.
"Are you really mad at him for just that?" I asked. I couldn't imagine getting angry at Edward for something so trivial.
She looked at me and laughed lightly before placing her finger to her lips; signaling me to be quiet. "No," she said, her lips humming with the speed of her speech. "I just want to make him anxious. He has been making cryptic little remarks about how he can't wait for tonight. It is getting rather annoying. He is going to have to sweat this whole day out." She smiled at me. I almost laughed before I caught myself; this was going to be funny. I had a lot of respect for her now; I couldn't resist Edward all day just to make him anxious.
"Are you still hungry?" I wasn't, but I thought she said she was starving earlier, I didn't know how she was going to go the whole day in school.
"Tristan and I fed before I saw Charlie," she answered shrugging.
"How was it?" I asked anxiously, I was a bit worried about this part of vampirism.
"Not wholly satisfying but it will do, I guess it has to." She looked away from me and we walked towards the door. She reached out her hand for the knob and winked at me before thrusting it open.
It banged loudly and I had to catch it before it could swing back and hit me. Aurora ran over to the Mustang and hopped in the driver's seat and I ran to jump in after her. I landed next to Edward and we were already moving. Tristan was trying to put his muscled arm over Aurora's seat to be closer to her but she kept pushing it back.
"Stop it, Tristan!" she said in a deadly voice.
He stopped; he folded his hands in his lap politely and sat like that for the rest of the trip. When we reached the school parking lot most of the students were just arriving. Aurora parked the car and jumped out as Jasper pulled up next to us. Alice smiled and shook her head at Aurora. Aurora winked back at her.
I jumped out of the car and Edward was instantly beside me. "We have to go slow Bella," He nuzzled my jaw and slid an arm around my waist as we walked toward the school. All the students in the lot stopped and stared. I recognized some faces.
I looked back at Aurora and she smiled a heartbreaking smile at me and I saw the great Tristan behind her; hovering inches away from her body awkwardly. She turned and smiled at him reluctantly and he smiled back; relieved.
He tried to reach out to her but she backed away a step and he dropped his arm back to his side. He glared at the ground; frustrated.
"We will take you two to get your schedules," Edward said and he led me to the office with Tristan and Aurora following.
"I can't believe I am going to high school," Tristan sighed angrily. "I'm pretty sure I am two-hundred and thirty four years old!"
"Do you want to leave me alone here… with teenage boys?" Aurora breathed without even looking at him.
Tristan's face changed to rage as he glared at her back. We reached the office door and it was raining already. I had forgotten my jacket, I didn't feel cold like I used to anymore. Edward rolled his eyes at me and opened the office door and held it open for me.
"Well there may be some reason I should come here… there was a pretty attractive girl by the cafeteria." Tristan smiled.
Aurora's back stiffened she exhaled angrily. Tristan had won…wait-
"Bella can you introduce me to that blonde boy… the one with spikes in his hair?" Mike…
I turned around and she was looking at me with a deadly expression, I swallowed. "Sure,"
"Thanks," she walked up to the office counter and Tristan stayed by the door, breathing loudly.
Poor Mrs. Cope. Aurora started speaking to her sweetly. "Hi, I am Aurora Stanton; Carlisle came in to register Tristan Merlo and myself. We would like to pick up our schedules, please." She stared at Mrs. Cope; waiting.
Mrs. Cope slowly let her hand fall from her neck that she had clutched. She ripped her eyes from Aurora and looked back at Tristan. She had a bit more trouble taking her eyes off his glorious form. Next her eyes darted to Edward and me.
"Isabella?" she asked, looking confused.
"Good morning Mrs. Cope," I answered as politely as I could.
"Good morning Mrs. Cope, my father did come in, did he not?" Edward asked.
"Oh!" Mrs. Cope snapped out of whatever sort of trance vampires could put on people. "Why yes he did!" she was quickly regaining her happy carefree attitude.
She handed four sheets of paper to Aurora and made the mistake of looking at her face again. Aurora held her gaze.
"Thank you Mrs. Cope," said Edward abruptly and Aurora turned and walked toward the door. She silently handed Tristan his schedule. Tristan yanked hers out of her hand. He was still fuming about the Mike thing, I could tell.
"Our classes aren't the same!" he yelled.
I was aware of Mrs. Cope trying to spy on us and reached out for the knob. Edward grabbed it before I could and held the door open for us. Tristan didn't move, and then he walked back to the desk. Mrs. Cope smiled excitedly at him.
"Can I help you young man?" I looked over and saw the disgusted look Aurora was giving poor Mrs. Cope.
"Yes, I would like to rearrange these schedules to match each other," he said in his deep seductive voice.
"Ok…" she said. "We don't normally do that. Can you state the reason…" she said as she ruffled around her desk looking for something. She wheeled over to her old computer and started pulling up forms and typing furiously. I heard Edward softly shut the door behind me. I looked back at him and he was glaring at the back of Tristan.
"My girlfriend and I would like to have the same classes." Mrs. Cope stopped typing, and turned around to face him. She forced a smile.
"I'm sorry young man, we don't have anymore available room in those classes," her voice was forced sweetness.
"Thank you for trying." Tristan turned on his heel and marched out of the office. We followed.
Once out in the rain again the smell of blood was not as intense. It didn't really bother me the way I thought it would. It was more like a tempting smell than a gut wrenching thirst.
I breathed in the smell of fresh air; it was still moist from the recent rain. The first bell rang and I saw the parking lot was deserted.
"What do you have first?" I asked Aurora.
"English, with Mason."
"That's with me." I answered happily.
"What do you have, Tristan?" Aurora asked him.
"Trig…Varner." He answered sulkily.
"That's with Edward." I offered. I had his schedule memorized.
Edward fought a smile. "Yes, Carlisle arranged it so you two were with either Bella or myself your entire day."
"But he couldn't arrange so Aurora and I were with each other the entire day?" Tristan's eyes narrowed a fraction as he looked at Edward skeptically.
"I guess not." Edward looked down at the ground. The second bell rang. "We are all late."
"Come on Bella, let's go." She turned to leave in the wrong direction of English and Tristan grabbed her arm and drew her back into him.
Edward and I kissed for a few minutes as well. We were already late, what was the rush? We broke apart and Tristan and Edward walked off with grins and goodbye waves. I looked over at Aurora and she looked murderous.
"It's this way," I said timidly. We started walking on the deserted sidewalk and it started raining again.
When we reached building number 3 our hair was barley wet. We hadn't gone human speed. I opened the door and we scampered in. I went over to the hooks to hang up my backpack and take my notebooks out. Aurora did the same.
"Your very late Miss Sw-" Mr. Mason had started. I had turned around to apologize and the whole class fell silent.
"Um…sorry Mr. Mason." I said looking at all the dropped jaws. "I was helping my friend Aurora get her schedule. She just moved here."
Aurora was still fiddling with her backpack; facing the wall. I then heard the low hum I now recognized as words. "Bella! You shouldn't have called attention to me. Now I have to introduce myself and I can't just slip into a chair! Didn't you see your father?"
I cringed inwardly. Oops…
Aurora turned around and Eric and others fell out of their chairs. Mr. Mason sat down, clutching his heart.
"Lovely…" I heard her sigh angrily. She glanced at me; her eyes were again the clear water blue she seemed to like them to be.
"Hello, I'm Aurora Stanton. I just moved here from Oregon." She stepped forward and handed the stunned Mr. Mason her sheet he had to sigh. She stood there for maybe a minute before he took it. She was looking anywhere but his face. I went to go sit down in my regular seat, unfortunately by Mike. There was an empty desk behind me for Aurora. She came and sat down fluidly. Mike had his jaw dropped looking at both of us. I smiled politely at him and he tipped over and hastily sat back down. Aurora giggled musically.
Not much was taught in class that day. None of the students were really paying attention and were rudely staring at us, regardless of manners. Mr. Mason was also very preoccupied and barely got full sentences out before he looked at Aurora and me and stopped talking altogether. It was extremely awkward and I tried to look anywhere but at him or the students the entire class period. Thank goodness it was a Thursday. I could tell Aurora was aggravated by the less than subtle behavior of the class.
When the bell finally rang Mike and Eric waited for us by the door as usual. I walked over to them after grabbing my bag and Aurora followed. Mike and Eric tore their eyes from me and I saw them widen as they fell on Aurora and I noticed the slightest sag in their posture. Mike leaned back against the door frame.
"Wow…" that was all he could say. … Pitiful really.
"Hello Mike… Eric," I said.
"Hey, Bella," they both said. And their eyes reluctantly drifted back to me.
Mike was now collecting his normal enthusiastic self now. "I hope you're feeling better," he really did sound like he meant it. I felt affection towards him. He really was a nice guy, even tough I never was interested in him, he was always nice to me.
"I am," I smiled and turned to go out the door. Aurora followed with her devastating walk.
Mike and Eric stood in the doorway admiring it when I turned back around to wait for them. They both blinked a couple times and followed. Mike walked beside Aurora. I overheard their conversation as Eric just stared at me.
"So… how long are you planning to stay in Forks?" he obviously felt awkward. I heard him quietly clear his throat.
"Until I graduate, probably," she answered him, careful to look at the ground.
"Oh, that's cool," his voice was deeper this time. Aurora's and my hearing could detect the husky forcefulness of it.
She smiled, still looking at the passing ground. "Yeah, I guess."
"What do you have next?" I asked her.
"Spanish,"
"Me too! I'll show you the way," Mike almost yelled, he was so happy. They walked off; him with a little hop in his step and turning to see everyone in the yard looking at him and the gorgeous new girl; together.
I walked off to my History class with Eric to see Tristan's huge glorious form waiting outside the door. He was leaning on the wall looking almost as godly as Edward in a gray v-neck sweater and faded jeans. He shook his shaggy blonde hair out of his eyes. He looked up and smiled at me. I love Edward…yes, and I'm sticking to that. He shrugged off the wall and came to stand by me. Poor Eric looked terrified. Tristan and I were the only ones with brown eyes, now that he had to wear contacts too. You should see him without the contacts Eric, I thought. Eric muttered a quick goodbye and got out of there fast.
"How was English?" He asked.
"Oh, absolutely fabulous." I rolled my eyes. He chuckled.
"Sounds like Trig." He sighed.
"What happened?" I asked.
"Not much to tell the truth. I was a little preoccupied though…" he trailed off. "Aurora didn't say anything did she?" he tried to act casual.
"Not really," I said and watched his face fall.
"Oh… okay," he looked down. "Shall we?" He opened the door for me and when we walked in it was just like last period. Jaw's dropped, people stared. This time it was the girls who almost fell over. Tristan looked like he should be in the NBA, not sitting here as a junior in high school. Tristan and I conversed in hums the whole class though and sometimes even spoke to each other out loud and let everyone hear. They were so curious it was like watching animals with a shiny new something they couldn't touch but wanted to.
"So you're only about 130 years younger than Carlisle?" For some reason this was a hard concept for me to accept.
"Yes, I suppose," he answered, we were speaking in hums still.
"And Aurora was only 16 when you fell in love with her?" This was the hardest concept to understand.
He stiffened slightly and then relaxed, "Yes,"
"How old were you when you were changed?" I asked, curious about all vampires, as always.
"19," he said. My eyes grew wider. He smiled.
"I wasn't always this tall," he said out loud, quietly. "It happened during the change, I changed." The last sentence was hummed. He flexed his left arm slightly and laughed out loud at my expression. It was a quiet laugh, but everyone turned to look at us.
He quickly looked down at his notebook and started scribbling. I watched him for a while as the nondescript scribbling slowly turned into a sketch of Aurora.
He looked back up at me and smiled. "This fool knows nothing about history." He glanced at the instructor.
"I wouldn't know." I said casually, leaning back in my chair.
"I suppose not," he said. A frown appeared on his face as the teacher mentioned the French Revolution. "Idiot." He muttered and shook his head.
"You lived in France?" I asked, already knowing he had.
"Most of my vampire life," he said. "I was born and raised in New York." He was adding detail to the sketch of Aurora.
"Really?" I leaned forward and said this out loud.
His eyes snapped up to mine and he held me. Everyone including the teacher was watching us. He released me and pointedly looked back down at the notebook on his desk. Everyone slowly turned back around, and the teacher continued.
"Yes," he said in hums. "Nice going by the way."
I glared at him and he smiled kindly up at me. "I am new at this."
"I know," he said. "I didn't mean to offend you."
"You didn't," I said.
"How did you fall for Edward," he asked. We weren't looking at each other, to complete the whole pretense that we weren't speaking.
"I am sure you can imagine," I thought back to Edward's face and his voice and his smell...
He chuckled in whispers. I couldn't help it; I had to look over at him to read his expressions. "I mean how you accepted he was a vampire." he asked.
"Oh," I turned back around to face the front of the class. Everyone was now taking notes so I got out my notebook and started copying down what the teacher was writing on the board. "I suppose it never really bothered me, I was already too far in love with him for anything to bother me."
"Aurora too, and I drank from humans," he looked down; sad. "There is something wrong with you two."
I laughed. "I wouldn't tell Aurora something is wrong with her right now. You'll dig yourself in a deeper hole than you are already in with the favorite shirt crisis."
He grimaced. "Is she really mad about that? She isn't usually like this."
I couldn't help it, sorry Aurora. "No, she is just making you sweat it out for all the little remarks you are making about later tonight. She thinks they're getting annoying."
He smiled at me. "Oh, she is gonna pay for this," I saw a plan formulating.
"You aren't supposed to know," I said quickly.
"She won't know you told me," he said. Oh yes she will.
The bell rang for the end of class and we stood up. We were the first ones out the door.
"What do you have next?" he asked me casually, looking over everyone's heads for Aurora. He was still grinning.
"Trig, you?" I asked, ruffling around in my bag to put away my notebook. I saw Tristan stiffen next to me and looked up to see him glaring murderously a little to our right. He started marching off in that direction and the genius that I am thought it might be a good idea to follow him.
"Tristan! What are you doing?" I shouted. He continued stomping off and then he stopped abruptly. "Tristan?" I turned around to see what he was glaring at and saw Aurora walking with Mike. She looked like she was desperately trying to ditch him. He followed her like a puppy, a love struck puppy.
"So Aurora…" he started as she darted off to her right. She still hadn't seen Tristan through all the people. "I was thinking…if you're not too busy…maybe we could go out tonight."
Aurora spotted us and stopped dead in her tracks. Her beautiful water eyes got very wide as she looked at Tristan who was cracking his knuckles beside me.
"Mike, go!" she said, not taking her wide eyes off Tristan.
"What?" Mike was confused and a little upset at her reaction.
"Mike, I have a boyfriend!" she almost shouted.
"Who?" he looked almost depressed now but also skeptical. Tristan was in front of them in an instant.
"That would be me," he almost growled. I walked up beside him.
Mike's eyes slowly went up Tristan's torso and they got bigger as his face tipped back to look into Tristan's furious one.
"Mike, this is Tristan. My boyfriend." She said as she took Tristan's hand gently. I took Mike's arm and led him off, anywhere but near Tristan.
"That guy is huge!" he gasped. Looking at me with awe again, I sighed.
"Yeah, and very protective, you might consider leaving Aurora alone." I advised him as I let go and started walking toward trigonometry.
I had barely made it in time. I fluidly crossed the room and sat next to Aurora. She turned to me and her lovely face was quite shocked.
"I thought he was going to kill him," she said in hums.
"So did Mike, I think," I answered in the same fashion.
That was all I got to say to her before Jessica turned around to look at me.
"My God Bella! What happened to you?" I cringed inwardly.
I shrugged. "Have you met Aurora? She is Edward's cousin, she just moved in with his family."
Jessica's head turned and she completely forgot my appearance. Her jaw dropped and then she glared at Aurora and turned around in her seat, "Hmph!"
I suppressed a laugh and Aurora looked at the back of Jessica's fuzzy head, astounded.
"She's rude," Aurora surmised and we were humming our words again.
"Not normally," I said in Jessica's defense.
This class period was similar to the last we had together. Mr. Varner had no hope teaching us trig with everyone randomly starring at Aurora and me. There was one exception though; Jessica stiffly sat with her back to us the whole period.
The class ended and I headed off to Spanish and Aurora said she had gym. Only one more period before I can be with Edward, I thought. The classes were a little more interesting with the prospect of finding out more about Tristan and Aurora though.
This time Tristan wasn't waiting outside the building. I walked in and saw him surrounded by the female class population. The male population was glaring at him. The girls were all giggling and smiling. I chuckled slightly at the disgusted look I saw on his face that they were ignoring.
His head snapped my way at the chuckle and he got up and gently pushed them out of his way. Jessica was one that he had touched and she almost fainted. He walked over to me and whispered "Help me!" I smiled.
"I have an idea." I walked back out the door leaving him. I saw that the yard was deserted. I ran to the gym and into the girl's locker room. I found all the girls glaring at Aurora's body. Their glares intensified as I walked up to her.
"Come into Spanish in a minute or so," I human whispered so the locker room occupants would know I had a reason for being here. "Ask Tristan if he has your tee-shirt." I quickly explained the whole fan club he was collecting. She agreed willingly.
I was back in Spanish before the second bell had rung. I saw all the boys sitting on the outer-left corner of the room and all the girls spread out like a fan from the lower right corner desk. Tristan sat there, looking slightly frightened by all the girls that were whispering to each other and seeing who could laugh the loudest and get the handsome new guy to look at them. I also saw Tristan's leather bag in the seat nearest him, right in front of him. He looked up as the door clicked shut and glared at me. He pointed stiffly to the seat with his bag in it and I fought back a smile. I sat down after he moved his bag and all the girls glared at me. I heard their whispers clear as day. "Don't worry, she's with Edward, he is definitely available," that was all Jessica. I couldn't wait for Aurora to come in. Tristan had heard Jessica too and he looked at me desperately.
"After you left they swarmed!" he was humming the words to me.
"The solution is on the way." I assured.
"It would have helped the whole swarming thing a bit if whatever git of a teacher who teaches these idiots were here!" he growled lowly. I looked around, just noticing Mr. Pracket was gone…perfect. I couldn't hide a smile. Come on Aurora…hurry.
Just like she heard my thoughts a soft knock came on the door and it was opened by Tyler. His jaw dropped before we had even seen who was behind it but I knew.
"Thank you," said her alluring voice. And she stepped in the room wearing the same short shorts she had worn when she was changed. She scanned the room and her eyes fell on Tristan. "I think you have my shirt, baby," Tristan stood up and looked in his bag and found the planted shirt. I am sneaky.
"Yeah Rory, I have it." He walked over to her and handed it to her.
"Mmm…" she sighed seductively. "Thanks."
"You're welcome," he smiled and lifted her up and kissed her in a way that no one would ever doubt they weren't together. Jess looked furious and all the other girls depressed; now they had seen her, there was no way he would take an interest in them. I felt slightly bad for them.
"Bye Tristan," Aurora breathed and left the room.
Tristan came and sat back down behind me. All the girls that had been giggling were silent but looked at him now wishfully. He avoided their gaze.
Mr. Pracket then waltzed into the room and began his animated lecture and I copied down the words and their translations into my notebook. Tristan walked up to him after class and tiny old Mr. Pracket tilted his head back to look at him.
"Welcome to Forks son. You related to the Cullens?" he asked.
"No, my girlfriend is Edward's birth cousin though. We just moved in with them." Tristan seemed to like Mr. Pracket.
"Come on Tristan, its lunch time," I urged.
"Oh, okay," he said and hurried out. Edward and Aurora were waiting for us outside the door.
"How was gym?" I asked.
"I don't want to talk about it." Edward snapped unexpectedly.
"That bad?" I asked as we laced our fingers together.
"Not really," said Aurora and I could almost hear the smile in her voice.
"Drop it Aurora," Edward growled.
"We were playing basketball and I scored on him," she sighed.
Edward snarled at her and she laughed. "How many times did you score on me? Nine?"
"That's not the point," he growled back.
"Temper, temper," Tristan added. I laughed at that.
"I thought you were going to kill Mike! Watch who you scold," I said and Edward smiled at me.
"That was justified rage! He asked Aurora out!" he said.
"He did?" Edward asked. We were entering the lunch line now to keep up appearances. Edward piled our plate and Tristan theirs.
We paid separately and went over to our table. Everyone else was already there. They were all staring in different directions until we got there.
"How is school?" Jasper asked Tristan.
"Difficult…" Tristan grimaced. "And slightly frightening."
Emmett laughed his deep booming laugh. "Humans?"
"The girls," growled the lovely Aurora.
"That boy," snarled Tristan.
The couple both sat there; silently fuming.
"It happens," said Emmett as he pulled Rosalie closer to him. "You get used to it. You have too."
Tristan didn't look thrilled with that idea at all. "Or we don't have to go to school at all…we could stay with each other all day," he suggested to Aurora.
"Oh no… I don't think so," she said. "We will spend all day at school if we have to."
He sighed. "You're killing me, Aurora!"
"It doesn't hurt that bad to die." She wrapped her arms around his waist and hugged him. He hugged her to him and they looked peaceful, I would have thought they were tired if I didn't know better.
The rest of lunch passed in silent hugging and optional breathing of each others intoxicating scents.
The end-of-lunch bell rang and I didn't want to have to go to biology, even though it was the only class I had with Edward. I wanted to sit here with everyone for the rest of the day.
"What class are you going to now?" I heard Tristan sigh.
"Biology… Banner," I heard her answer him.
"Me too!" that was Tristan's seductive voice.
"Really?" I asked, finally opening my eyes and straightening up from leaning on Edwards's chest. "You two are with both of us. I thought there was no more seats in that class though." I looked at Edward.
He shrugged. "Maybe they've added chairs."
We walked in and there was a table set up behind our lab table. Tristan and Aurora walked hand in hand between the black lab tables up to Mr. Banner's desk. I sat down by Edward and he moved his chair and mine so he was less than four inches away from me. I smiled. Mr. Banner signed their sheets and cleared his throat loudly.
"There is no PDA in here Miss Stanton, Mr. Merlo. Please take your seats." Tristan glared at him but Mr. Banner, unwisely, didn't look phased.
Edward chuckled and Tristan discretely gestured with his now free hand. I was a little taken aback.
"Mr. Cullen if you get any closer to Miss Swan you will be in her lap. Please move your chair. My class period will not be everyone's personal bonding time!" he said. "Maybe we will have to get a new seating chart."
"That's not necessary Mr. Banner," called the voice of a goddess and everyone turned to look at her. "We'll be good."
Tristan's arm was draped around the back of her chair possessively. "Um…" Mr. Banner stuttered. "Too right you will Miss Stanton; I'll take your word for it." He was too captivated by her face to notice Tristan's arm. Tristan grinned darkly.
I leaned over my notebook and took notes the whole period to show Mr. Banner we would be good. It would be horrible if he moved Edward. The end of class came quickly and Edward stood up in one of his lithe movements I could now copy. Tristan and Aurora were waiting by the door for us and we were the first ones out of the classroom.
"Next?" I asked them.
"History, with Edward," answered Aurora.
"Gym, with you," said Tristan.
We gave each other kisses goodbye and attracted an audience quickly. Tristan's size stood out. Tristan walked slowly to gym. His legs were long and his strides were longer than mine.
We reached the Gym and I pointed to the boy's locker room and continued down the old dark brick hallway to the girl's locker room. I walked in and changed quickly, I didn't like the awed looks all the girls were giving my new body. I walked into the gym and saw Tristan shooting the ball. It swished every time, I expected as much. All the guys, who for some reason could get dressed faster than girls, were watching amazed as Tristan effortlessly swished a half court shot.
"Hey Bella!" he shouted out when he saw me. All the boys grumbled grudgingly. Tristan through the ball at me and I surprisingly caught it. "This is the last period right?" he asked and he sounded slightly annoyed.
"Yes," I laughed. And I threw the ball at him gently. It still went pretty fast.
We split into teams and Tristan and I were on the same one. I suppose I was a bit of a ball hog, as this was the first time I had played a sport without tripping on air. As a matter of fact, I didn't trip at all the whole time. Tristan and I were an unbeatable team obviously. I cringed whenever he did something the recruiters for the NBA would have been hounding him for. Coach Clap blew the whistle at the end of the period and yelled, "Swan, Merlo, can I have a minute?" all the other students walked to their respective locker rooms muttering about us.
"You two are going out for the team next year, right?" Coach Clap asked us enthusiastically when everyone was gone. Great…we had displayed our vampire skills…lovely.
"Sorry Coach…I hate basketball." I said. "I don't want to play."
"Heart problem," Tristan said simply.
"Come on Merlo, our team could really use you…" Coach Clap was starting to beg.
"I can get a note from a doctor and prove it, I have a heart condition," he stated. Coach Clap sagged and let us go reluctantly.
"Heart condition?" I asked him wryly.
"Yeah… it doesn't beat." He smiled. "Just grab your clothes, I want to get home fast." He waved and walked quickly into the boy's locker room.
I did just grab my clothes. I almost ran outside to see Edward.
He was leaning up against the wall watching Aurora and Tristan kiss. I couldn't help but smile hugely. He smiled back and then frowned at me. "Coach Clap tried to recruit you when before you couldn't even walk the length of the gym. Very subtle." He said and his eyes looked worried.
"He tried to recruit Tristan too," I said defensively, I had been really irresponsible.
"Yes, but he didn't know that Tristan couldn't even walk without falling before prom." He said, and he had a point. "It's ok, just try to tone it down, we all do it." I looked up at him and he smiled kindly at me.
"Come on guys?" Tristan groaned.
Edward led me to the car and we drove home at record speed.
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