Student/Teacher Relations
AN: I like that title...do you like that title? Wait until you read this shit.
Math class is particularly interesting today and it has absolutely nothing to do with that little conversation Bella and Ms. Denali had before school started...okay so it has everything to do with that little chat, but right now that's besides the point. Because right now, Edward is getting his ass handed to him in a very cordial way.
When the class had started Edward decided that he'd sit next to Bella instead of his seat on the other side of the room. He then proceeded to try and engage her in conversation. At first he just cleared his throat and stared awkwardly at the side of Bella's face, then he tried asking if she needed any help with the classwork and when she didn't respond he decided notes would be a better tactic which leads us to now.
"Now Mr. Cullen it has been made abundantly clear that you have more interest in getting Ms. Swan's attention than you are in paying attention to my class. So, shall we settle this and move on?" Ms. Denali doesn't wait for him to respond. "Ms. Swan would you like to, what does this note say," She unfolds the note and smirks. "Would you like Mr. Cullen to walk you to your car after school?" There's laughter coating her words and Bella can't help but allow her own smirk to show.
Bella looks to Edward and the boy actually looks a cross between cocky and hopefully, it's the stupidest thing Bella has ever laid eyes on. "Absolutely...not. I would rather be mauled by a bear actually." Jessica laughs first, with a snort and a giggle and from there it takes over the room in a wave until Edward is sinking down into his seat, beyond humiliated by the laughter of his classmates. Bella's smirk doesn't lesson as she focuses back onto her smug teacher. "Can you show us how to workout number eleven again? I was having trouble concentrating."
"It would be a pleasure Ms. Swan." Bella is almost positive that Ms. Denali's eyes flash, but it's too quick for her to be sure before Ms. Denali saunters, she's literally sauntering, up to the front of the class, tossing the crumpled note into the bin as she stops. Bella has to shake her head to bring her eyes up to the board, but then they don't quite make that journey either because gold eyes are just a little bit too interesting to look away from.
"I swear this place has never been exciting until you came along." Jessica gives a small shake of her head and laughs. Bella smirks and shrugs but otherwise she stays quiet. Jessica suddenly gets quiet as well and looks at her queerly, and it's enough to put Bella on edge. "Why aren't you interested in Edward though?" Jessica's eyes light up just a little as though she's figured it out. "Are you gay or something?"
Bella laughs, the tension leaving her as her shoulders sag and she smiles. "Or something." She grins. "That has nothing to do with why I don't like Edward. Truthfully, the guy creeps me out." Her words proved right as a shiver runs through her body. "Besides, conceited, self righteous, mama's boy aren't my type." Her friends chuckle at Edward's expense. Bella chances a glance in the Cullens direction and she finds the siblings in, what looks like, a heated conversation, only Emmett seems to find something amusing as they talk. She shrugs and focuses back onto her own group, but movement behind Jessica catches her attention.
Amber eyes stare at her, a heated, weighted gaze that Bella can't seem to pull away from. The conversation continues without her as she watches the Alaskan breeze teases strawberry-blonde hair. Ms. Denali tilts her head to the side and then she smirks. Bella sucks in a breath when the gesture takes her off guard. "Bella," Tyler calls and brings Bella's attention to him. "See you tomorrow." Tyler laughs and shakes his head.
Bella smiles back, "Yeah, see you guys tomorrow."
She waits until Charlie goes to bed before she sneaks out her bedroom window out onto the roof and then she shimmies down the large tree down to the ground. She makes her way down the cold street until she sees the running car on a quiet street. Bella climbs into the backseat, grinning at Angela and Jessica up front. "Ready?"
"Absolutely," Bella answers Jess with a grin on her own.
Angela laughs and starts to pull the car around. "Seatbelts." When she got the late night text, Bella had been all for it, sneaking out in the middle of the night for a night of underage drinking and pool, well how could a girl say no? Besides, Angela agreed to be the D.D so it's all good in Bella's mind, even if they have to drive out to the outskirts of Denali to find a bar that didn't know one of their parents. Bella hadn't bothered to mention that it wouldn't have matter, she figures it doesn't matter either way.
When they pull up Bella is surprised by the look of it, it's not as seedy as she expected. They walk in and Bella sends Jessica and Angela to commandeer a pool table while she gets the drinks, naturally. She leans on the bar, offering a pretty smile to the older man behind the bar. "What can I getcha hun?" His grin is less innocent than hers but she can use that to her advantage.
"One coke, plain, one jack and coke, and one whiskey sour, and make it a double." Her voice is low and soft and she grins when he focuses on her lips and then more intently on her eyes.
"I.D?" He grumbles.
Again Bella grins and watches his eyes get hazy. "You've already checked our IDs, remember?"
He shakes his head and then grins at her as he goes about making the drinks. "Coming right up sweetheart." He hands her the drinks and Bella smiles at him once more until he mumbles something about a tab.
The girls grin at her when she hands them their drinks, she winks at them. "Drinks are on me tonight." She laughs, but they don't get the jokes so she shrugs and waits for Jessica to rack the balls. Angela breaks and Bella is content to sit back and watch the two girls play the first round. She leans against the wall, hand curled around her drink and pressing it to her shoulder as she watches Angela school Jessica in the game. "So Jess," Bella starts, waiting until she gains the girl's attention. "Why haven't you asked Mike out yet?"
Jessica's pole misses the white ball and shoots through her hands. Bella and Angela laugh and it makes the girl blush as she retrieves her stick from the ground. "Yeah, right, like he notices anything but you, Bella." The statement sobers Bella and she does feel bad for the girl, really bad actually.
Bella moves to lean against the table next to Jessica. "Listen, if he can't take a hint about me not liking him, and if he can't see that a great girl like you like him, well he doesn't deserve you, Jess." Bella shrugs. "But hey, let's forget about the boys," She looks to Angela, "except for you of course," Angela smiles and tips her head, "and let's just have fun. I mean, look around Jess, we are in the perfect place to make a few bad choices."
Jessica brightens almost immediately, and a bit of false bravado creeps into her posture and Bella can see that at least for now she's not hung up on a stupid boy. "You know what? You're right." Jessica holds up her glass over the table. "To poor judgement and bad choices."
Bella meets her glass and matches her grin. "A-fucking-men!" She cheers. "And to Angela for picking up our sorry asses at the end of the night!" They three cheers.
Angela shakes her head. "You're a very bad influence, Isabella Swan."
Bella gasps and holds a hand to her heart, "Angela, why would you accuse me of such things?", but she breaks off into giggles and shrugs as she takes a heavy sip of her drink. "Guilty...and speaking about bad choices, here comes the first one of the night." The young man, probably just over twenty-one, is making his way over to the table and his eyes just happen to be locked on Jessica. "Say yes." Bella whispers in Jessica's ear as she grabs her pool cue and moves away.
Jessica frowns after her, confused, before the man clears his throat. Jessica whips her head around and he smiles at her. "H-Hi." He stutters and Bella swallows an 'aw' behind her hand as she nudges her shoulder with Angela's. "Um, can I buy you a drink?" His cheeks are pink and Bella approves of the kid, but Jessica looks like a deer in the headlights.
She clears her throat, but when Jess doesn't respond she steps forward and nudges her friend in his direction. "She'd love that." Bella answers for her and takes Jessica's drink from her hands.
The movement snaps Jessica out of it. "Yeah, I'd like that." Jessica grins at him. "I'm Jessica."
His eyes light up as he offers his hand and Jessica takes it. "Riley." He grins at her as they walk over to a table near the bar. He seems nice, but Bella still watches them for a moment before turning back to Angela.
"He's cute." Bella offers.
Angela nods as she racks the balls once more. "He is, and he picked a spot in view of us, so he might not even be a creep." Bella nods absently as she takes another look over at Jessica and sees that he's gotten her an unopened bottle of beer and opens it in front of her. Bella grins and nods to herself, satisfied in her friend's safety for now.
Bella quickly downs the rest of Jessica's jack and coke then places the empty glass on the nearby table. Her own glass gets placed on the corner of the pool table as she lines up the first shot, breaking the balls, but none end up in a pocket. "Be warned...at least one ball might end up on the floor."
Angela looks at her queerly, hunched over as she makes her shot, the two ball sliding into the right corner pocket smoothly. "You're serious?"
Bella nods solemnly. "Deathly." She tries to keep a straight face, she really does, but a silly grin breaks across her face. "Just remember to duck and cover." Bella laughs at her own expense, and Angela follows suit.
The night goes on as Angela repeatedly schools Bella in pool, and the drinks keep coming until Bella's teeth are numb with an even buzz, and before too long Jessica returns to the table, more sober than bella but not by much. "I think you just might be the best thing to ever happen to me." Jessica blurts out and it sends both her and Bella into a fits of giggles. Angela sits by the side, shaking her head at her inebriated friends.
Bella goes to respond but something pulls her attention to the bar's door. She doesn't know what, there was no sound or call, but her attention is drawn there nonetheless, and what she sees makes her spine straighten. "Ms. Denali." She hisses as she pulls her two friend close into the shadow of their dimly lit corner. "Ms. Denali just walked in."
Angela and Jessica freeze and look to the front door, sure enough there's Ms. Denali. "Fuck. What are we going to do!" Jessica whispers frantically.
"I can't get caught...my parents will kill me." Angela is beyond green at this point and it makes Bella's stomach churn, this was her idea after all.
"Okay, okay...I'll go distract her and you two get out and go home." They look at Bella as if she stark raving mad, and maybe she is, but Bella knows that it'll be easy for her to get out of this situation, and it'll be easier for her to do it without Jessica and Angela witnessing it. "I got this, okay? Even if I have to call my dad to pick me up, this was my idea so just let me do this." Reluctantly, the two girls nod and Bella sets her plan into motion. Carefully they move around the crowd until Jessica and Angela are near the entrance and that's when Bella makes her move. She moves across the room, making sure to pass in front of her teacher, and grabs the first youngish guy she spot and pulls him close to her. "Wanna buy me a drink?" She grins devilishly at him and he can't jump fast enough at the chance.
"Hell yeah!" She laughs a bit too loudly and when she checks over his shoulder, she sees Ms. Denali's eyes on her, unaware of Angela and Jessica slipping out behind her. Bella breathes out a sigh of relief and accepts the cold beer offered to her. "What's your name, sweetheart?"
He tries to pull her close but she escapes his grasp. "Thanks for the drink. You can go back to your friends now." He stares blankly at her for a moment, then moves back to his table blindly, bumping into a person or two on his way. Bella sighs and turns to the bar, taking an empty stool and waits for Ms. Denali.
A rush of cold air pushes against her back and she shivers, already knowing who's behind her, but she doesn't turn around. Her heart thumps loudly in her chest as she waits, aware of the efforts she's putting in to keep her posture relaxed and 'unaware'. "What do we have here, hmm?" The silky voice washes over Bella and floods her every nerve ending with a wave of excitement and anticipation. This might actually be fun.
Bella can feel Ms. Denali move around her. Her body brushing against Bella's the whole way until she's standing at Bella's side, and that's when Bella shifts to face her. "Ms. Denali...this is awkward." Bella gives a halfhearted smirk.
"Tanya," Ms. Denali responds with a much more assured smirk.
Bella frowns, that's not what she expected. "...Tanya…".
Ms. Denali-Tanya laughs and, is she checking Bella out? Bella watches as gold eyes look her up and down, and yeah, Tanya is definitely checking her out. What the hell? "Now what are you doing in a bar, Bella." Tanya purrs and it sends a different kind of shiver through Bella's body. "It's very naughty of you."
Bella's eyes grow wide, and a blush sets fire to her face and down her neck. She has no idea what's going on. "Um what?"
Tanya laughs and Bella's stomach swirls. "Don't worry Bella...this will be our little secret," Tanya whispers, and that's when Bella panics.
Bella stands, ignoring the way her body slides against Tanya's, no, Ms. Denali's. "I've got to go." She rushes her words out as she stumbles back from the bar. "I've got to go." Bella all but sprints out of the bar and finds the first person she sees. The muscled out biker doesn't stand a chance as Bella descends upon him. Bella locks eyes with him and sets her voice to a low timber. "Take me home."
The man mounts his bike and hands her his helmet. "Let's go, hun."
"No funny business and you'll forget this ever happened." She drawls out before hopping onto the back of his bike. The roar is deafening as he speeds away before Bella has a chance to chicken out.
She has him drop her off up the street from the house and it's on her cold trek back that she remembers...she forgot to push Ms. Denali.
Fuck.