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Chapter Eleven

Everyone was talking about the accident the next day at school, but it wasn't until Thursday that Tyler Crowley had come back to school. Tyler had tried to approach Hermione many times during the morning, but after apologizing more than ten times in the first ten minutes she saw him, she decided to avoid him for a bit. He had finally cornered her after trigonometry.

"Bella, wait!"

Hermione squeezed her eyes shut and took a deep breath; she just needed to get this over with.

"Hello Tyler." He was almost a foot taller than she so she had to look up to look into his eyes.

"I wanted to apologize again for what happened on Monday."

Hermione gritted her teeth but forced herself to smile, "There is no reason to apologize to me. You were the one who was injured, and you did not crash your van on purpose. I'm fine Tyler, but thank you for checking up on me."

She tried to walk away but Tyler stopped her, "Look, let me make it up to you, will you go to prom with me?"

Hermione wasn't sure how to feel about the invitation, and strangely when she thought about going to prom she pictured a certain copper-headed vampire accompanying her. Shaking her head, she smiled which was now less forced.

"Thank you for the offer, but I don't feel that way about you. You're just a friend and I wouldn't feel comfortable going to such an event with you. Why don't you ask Lauren? I've seen her looking at you every now and again."

Tyler blushed and looked around, "Lauren, huh? Thanks Bella, and you're a friend to me too. I'll ask Lauren at lunch."

He waved and then was gone, and Hermione breathed a sigh of relief.

"That was quite painless." Hermione immediately stood up straight at the unexpected voice and turned around, Rosalie stood behind her with a smirk on her face. "I'd thought you would make an excuse as to why you couldn't go with him, but you were honest. Not many people would be."

"I'm not like most."

Rosalie laughed a bit and nodded, "That seems to be true. You just seem different than the others, I can't explain it."

Hermione bit her lip, could Rosalie somehow feel that she wasn't a muggle? That's impossible.

"You are different as well Rosalie, you try to put up a front in the presence of others. You like to keep your distance. You do not care what other think about you, your main focus is your family, and I respect that."

Rosalie seemed to think a moment before she smiled and nodded, "I believe it is now time for lunch and if I'm not in there soon Emmett will come for me."

Just as she said that the large vampire turned into the hallway, his face lighting up and he caught sight on Rosalie. "Rosie!"

Rosalie rolled her eyes but couldn't keep the smile off of her face. Emmett wrapped a large arm around Rosalie's shoulder and turned to Hermione, "And you must be Bella Swan, everyone has been talking about you!"

Hermione blushed, she wasn't exactly used to being talked about, even with the fame in wizarding England.

"Bella this is my boyfriend Emmett. Emmett, as you already seem to know, this is Bella."

"It is very nice to meet you Emmett, but I must be going. My stomach is protesting." Just as Hermione said that her stomach rumbled embarrassingly. She blushed and Emmett laughed, which seemed to echo down the hallway.

"Well then let us go little Belle, food seems to be calling you."

Hermione never knew it was possible for an entire cafeteria to go quiet in one moment, but as soon as she walked in with Rosalie and Emmett it seemed like everyone paused what they were doing to see what was happening.

Hermione nodded to both of them and then joined her some-what friends at the table and as soon as she sat down the talking started again. Lauren looked like she wanted to say something, but with Tyler by her side she kept quiet.

Mike broke the uncomfortable silence at their table, "So Bella, would you like to go to prom with me?"

Hermione mentally slapped her forehead, what was with these guys? Tyler seemed to smirk and sit up straighter. "Mike I'm flattered, truly, but I do not see you in that way. You are a friend, nothing else. I'm sure there is someone who would love to go to prom with you here, but that someone isn't me."

There was silence for a moment when Emmett's loud laughter startled most of the students at the table. Hermione smirked, they must have been listening.

Mike seemed slightly upset that Hermione had said no, but said no more on the subject.

"So does that mean no for me too?" Eric said sadly.

"I'm sorry but you are all just really good friends."

"Is there anyone who has gotten your attention Bella?" Angela asked.

Once again copper hair filled Hermione's head, but she just shook it off, "No, there isn't." You're lying, her mind whispered and she had to force down her blush.

The rest of lunch passed in mindless chatter, Lauren had tried, unsuccessfully, to ask Hermione why she had walked in with Rosalie and Emmett but Hermione had mostly ignored her. Lauren still didn't seem to like the Cullens much.

Biology brought the mitosis lab, Edward and Hermione spent the first couple of minutes actually working on the lab when Edward said, "You are very strange."

Hermione raised a brow, "And how exactly am I strange?"

"You seem to just take things in differently."

That was the second time she had been called different, she wasn't really sure what to do with that information at the moment. "I believe in the weird and unimaginable." Wasn't necessarily true, but he didn't need to know that.

Edward seemed confused for a moment, "You really shouldn't be around my family or myself."

Hermione bristled at that, he was not her professor and she was smarter than he thought she was. "I believe I like your family, the only one I haven't met would be Alice's significant other. But from what I have gathered from the rest of you, you are great people."

Edward quietly scoffed at the 'people' part, "You should still stay away, and not befriend us."

Did he somehow regret saving her?

"No, of course I don't regret it!"

For a moment he thought she had let her shield drop, but then she had realized she had said it aloud.

"Well you save me and then practically tell me to stay away from you and your family. Let them make their own decisions, you don't control them and you don't control me."

When the bell rang, Hermione was the first one up and out of the room. She had to find a way to let Edward tell her his secret. Then eventually, with Kingsley's approval, she would tell them hers.