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The Twilight Twenty-Five
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Prompt: 22 – i39[dot]tinypic[dot]com/n49mcp[dot]jpg
Pen name: IngenueFic
Characters: Bella, Edward
Rating: PG-13

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"We're going to do an icebreaker."

Bella groans quietly and wants to bang her head against the table. Freshmen orientation is nothing like she thought it would be. Sure, she moved into her dorm earlier, but right now, she's sick of these stupid icebreakers that the people running the activities are having them do.

Descriptive name game? Check.

She made herself Bendy Bella, which made a few of the boys in her group stare.

Two truths and a lie? Check.

Bella said the following: I am from a town whose name coincides with a fork's partner. I love fishing. I chose Dartmouth because I didn't know where else to go.

Only three people chose the correct lie.

Dance a Name? Check.

Since most of the stupid and mundane dance moves were taken by the time it was her turn in the circle, Bella did the Michael Jackson crotch grab move while saying her name. Again, boys stared at her. It made her slightly uncomfortable.

"Everyone pair off!"

Bella shakes her head and realizes she's missed the activity. Everyone slowly pairs off until Bella is standing alone near the center of the room. She tries to catch the activity leader's attention. "Um."

"I'll be your partner."

Bella looks up and sees Edward, one of the assistant leaders – leader assistants? – in the group. He's been popping in and out of their sessions since he's what they call "the mouse," meaning he's the guy who scurries around to different areas on campus to the groups that need him the most.

Something like that, anyway.

"Okay!" Tanya claps her hands and Bella feels oddly like she's in a kindergarten class. "You have ten minutes to ask each other the questions on that sheet that's being handed out now. Make sure you remember your partner's answers because you're going to have to introduce him or her by memory!"

Edward hands Bella the sheet of paper and she lets out a sigh. "Should I ask you first or should you ask me?"

"How about you ask the question, I'll answer, and then you will?"

"Okay."

When she doesn't ask the first question, Edward clears his throat. "Okay?"

"Oh, sorry," Bella mumbles, heating up slightly. "Um… Full name?"

"Edward Anthony Cullen."

"Isabella Marie Swan. When and where were you born?"

"June 20th in Chicago."

"September 13th in Forks."

"Forks? Really?" he asks. "That's the name of your town?

"Yeah, I said it – oh, you weren't in the room during that one. Yeah. Forks, not Spoons or Knives or Ladles, as many people have tried to say. Forks."

"Ladles? Really? People say that?"

"It's annoyingly stupid," Belly says with a roll of her eyes. "Favorite subject?"

"Web design."

"Anything but gym. Okay, these questions are really stupid."

Edward crooks a grin at her. "Then why don't you make up your own?"

"I can do that?"

He shrugs. "Sure. Just remember – you have to answer them too."

Bella thinks for a moment. "Best injury you had as a child?"

"Can any injury be the best?"

"Yes. Answer."

"You're bossy. Maybe that should have been your descriptive name – Bossy Bella." He laughs and jumps out of the way when she tries to swat at him. "My brother was an awesome skateboarder when we were younger. I wanted to be like him so I tried it except I tried to do what he did and ended up falling down the steps because I couldn't get high enough to ride down the railing. Got this awesome scar up my arm, see?" He bends his elbow so his hand is in the air and points to a long scar that runs down the back of his arm. "What about you?"

"I was six and wanted to follow my cousin up the monkey bars even though I had terrible balance and no sense of, you know, life preservation. I managed to make it up there before I realized I didn't want to actually be up there so I froze. My cousin didn't know I was too scared to move and she kept moving and bumped into me. I fell off the bars."

"Oh my God, really?" Edward's eyes are wide and he looks a little bit like those cartoon bugs. "Did you hurt yourself?"

"I managed to fall on my arm. I was in a cast for a while. It was electric blue."

"Thank you for not saying it was hot pink."

Bella makes a face. "That's disgusting. Okay. How about… Favorite thing to do with a member of the opposite sex." The amused look on Edward's face makes her continue quickly. "PG! At least!"

"Is this going to come back to haunt me? Are you gonna find out which fraternity I'm in so you can tell my brothers and they can rag on me?"

"You're in a fraternity?"

"Uh, yes?"

"That's cool. My mom was in a sorority. She wants me to rush. I have to think about it."

"Yeah? Which one?"

"Stop avoiding the question, Edward."

He sighs. "I like kissing." His eyes dart around like he wants to make sure no one's listening.

Bella frowns at him. "Is that a bad thing?"

"Is what a bad thing?"

"Liking kissing."

"No, I guess not." Edward's hand moves to the back of his neck. "It's just not very, I don't know, manly."

"Get over it," she teases him.

"And you?"

She rolls her eyes. "I'm a girly-girl at heart but you better not tell anyone that. I like cuddling."

"Cuddling?"

"Yes," she says defensively.

"When?" He waggles his eyebrows at her.

"While watching a movie." She sticks her tongue out at him when he nudges her. "I know what you're trying to get me to say. It's not gonna be said."

"Why not?" He nudges her. "Come on, you know you want to say it."

"No, I don't."

"Isabella."

"Edward," she says mockingly.

"You can't tell me you don't like to cuddle after sex."

The room falls silent just as Edward says that to Bella. Tanya is standing in the center of the room with her arms up, trying to get everyone's attention. She's a frozen statue because she's staring at Edward and Bella.

"Oops."

Thanks to oOza for the beta work.