The story of Twilight and all of its characters were created by the wonderful Stephenie Meyer.
Chapter 27: What Could Happen in a Cafeteria?
In every period I heard people whispering around me and saw them looking me up and down from the side of their eyes. Although I was a little embarrassed and angered of how my peers made me their entertainment it wasn't anything I couldn't handle. My focus was just on more positive things, like Edward and what could be our future together. I wondered often how were we going to get pass the friend category. Would I confess first or will he? How would I even make a move on a vampire? I don't know but either way I'm going to have fun having the upper hand. Edward may be used to being ahead of people it would be nice knowing that i'm not the only one to lose my cool in this relationship.
When the school day rolled around to Spanish class I didn't want anything more to just hurry up and see Edward. Since I had made this discussion to be with him I feel so hyped up to see him to the point I could just vomit. Seriously I need to calm down before I regurgitate my breakfast. I wiped my hands on my pants and pressed them down on to my thighs to keep them from jumping up and down repeatedly. I closed my eyes and took a deep breath to help me calm myself, thankfully it worked. After I opened my eyes I saw from the side of my left eye that the other Jessica was staring at me from her desk. So I turned my head and give her a confused expression but she just gave me an excited smile and moved lunch before going back to the assignment. She really wanted to know what was going on between Edward and I. I smiled to myself after I thought 'Edward and I'. To bad we were only friends or else I would keep Jess waiting a lot longer than lunch.
When the lunch bell rung all the nervousness that I kept at bay came back in full force and created giant waves in my chest. I knew for a fact that I was not ready to enter that cafeteria yet so I went my safe haven, the art room. Even though my kegs felt like they my fall off any second I get there I one minute versus my usual three. I opened the door to the art room and walked in then I smiled tightly at before heading straight to my seat. Then I sat down quietly and sighed, that's what I liked about this room it was just a huge stress reliever just to be quiet and surrounded by art.
After ten minutes of relaxing and building my courage I was ready to go. I picked up my things and slowly made my way towards the door. But when I got into the hallway Edwards face popped into my head, my steps started to move faster. My heart was speeding up again and my mouth was feeling dry. I stopped at the water fountain and took four large gulps of water but when turned away and walked a couple of steps I felt a strong urge to pee. Why do I have to be so nervous! I knew that I didn't have to pee as much as my excitement was making me think that I did but I still went to the bathroom and I hated every minute of it. The girl's bathroom may have helped me through a lot but feeling closed off and alone in a stall was the last way that I wanted to feel, it just made my nervous feelings very unpleasant.
As soon as I was out of the bathroom cool open air flooded my lungs and I was back to walking to the cafeteria, this time with a skip in my step and a less nervous feeling in my stomach. The level of nervous was lowered to one-third bees and two-third butterflies. When I came up to the cafeterias door I had to wonder to myself why I opened it so quickly. After I walked into the cafeteria I swear that the noise level lowered and my feet swell ed from my nervous heart beating to much blood down there, yet they felt cold.
I was really too nervous and jittery to eat anything so I just cautiously walked over to my usual table. I wasn't trying to be cool but I walked over there with my head held high, why? To avoid the gazes of those who were staring at me, I couldn't hold it down because that would have been uncomfortable for my neck and I wouldn't be able to see anything. When I stood in front of the table I didn't miss Lauren's glare and eye roll or that Tyler and Eric and had to push Mike to pay attention again to the conversation. Before I turned away from them I felt someone bump shoulders with me.I turned my head and saw that of course it was Jessica looking very excited and in front of her there was Angela who would never admit it but looked as equally excited. They both were starting to make me feel uncomfortable so I decided to play dumb.
"What?" I asked Jessica. She and Angela gave each other a look giggled before they turned back to me. Jessica lifted her eye brow at me and Lauren scoffed.I lifted my eyebrow at Lauren before turning my attention completely back to Jessica.
"What? Edward Cullen you know what." Jessica said to me obviously. "You caught a ride with Edward Cullen today." She said.
"Oh, yeah I did." I said nonchalantly before I looked over at Angela. I narrowed my eyes playfully at her when I saw that she was smiling.
"So you two are pretty close now right?" Jessica asked while staring at me. I looked thoughtful for a second.
"As close as two friends can be." I answered. Jessica squinted her eyes and leaned closer. When she had just opened her mouth to say something Mike interrupted her.
"So you two are only friends?" Mike asked me from across the round table. After a couple of seconds I shook off Mikes invasion of our conversation and nodded.
"Yeah, we're only friends." I said to him. Mike looked a little relieved so I had to ask why did he even care, he clearly was not a gossip like Jessica. "Why does it matter?" I asked. Mike looked just a little bit thoughtful before opening his mouth but just like he cut off Jessica Tyler cut him off.
"He doesn't think that he's good for you." He stated for Mike and by the tone in his voice and the look on Eric's face and it seems like they both agreed with him. I lifted both of my eyebrows and nodded my head thoughtfully. That kind of took me by surprise, how could he think that he would know what was right and wrong for me. We are all on the same level and me and him aren't even close friends. How in the world did he gain guardian status? Whatever nervous feelings I had before were out the window now.
"So you decided that he wasn't good for me?" I asked him and this time Eric stepped in.
"No offense to you of course." He said when he saw that I was a little less then pleased. I lifted my eyebrows again and twisted my mouth up with a thoughtful expression.
"No offense? Okay. I mean its not like any of you can actually control where I go or who I speak to." I stated with a small laugh. I hope they got the point of that last sentence. They all looked at each other in embarrassment and Lauren just looked up up from her nails, rolled her eyes at me before she scooted closer to Tyler. This chick has problems I thought with a raised eyebrow. When I turned back to Jessica she continued to ask questions.
"So how did you two become such close friends in the first place?" She asked. The pleasant memory of the restaurant with a warm atmosphere floated into my mind.
"At the restaurant, we just...bonded." I said smiling. I couldn't really give her details about it. I mean I invited what she thought was a teenage boy into my house and we talked about when he saw me naked.
"Bonded? Bonded how?" She pushed.
"Yeah, I just don't know how to describe it...I mean when did you know that you were friends with Angela or Eric?" I asked her.
"Okay, you have point there." She said and then after a few seconds she looked back at me with curiosity in her eyes. "So what's he like?" That question surprised me usually she doesn't really care about anybody's personalty.
"He's really nice,a gentleman, which although it takes getting some use to I find it a very likable quality. Also he's very careful with everything he says of ask me. And that makes me think that there is a whole other side to him that I don't know about. Hopefully one day he'll trust me enough so I can find out." I said. I really didn't know how I was going to help him bring everything to light. I can't just say hey! I know that you're a vampire and you drink blood and i'm cool with it!
But to be truthful the whole vampire thing i'm not as cool with, I mean who would be? When I say the name it makes me a little worried but when i'm around him his presence is to overwhelming for me to care and I just forget about it and I just see him. Just him, his personality, the intensity that drips from his eyes, and the way he looms over me. I looked away from my hands in my lap to Angela when she spoke.
"You two seem like you would be a serious couple if you two would get together." Angela said. I tried to hide my real reaction by making an 'o' shape with my mouth. However my cheeks spilled the beans, I supposed that a color came up on my coffee brown cheeks.
"Oh! You're blushing! You really do like him!" Jessica whispered. "I was starting to think that he wasn't your type because you acted so calm before. But who are we kidding so me one that good looking is everyone's type. Not to mention-" Jessica said. Can't she just be quiet and let things like me blushing slide just a little? Then as if my wish had just came true Jess was quiet. I turned my head to see why she had stopped talking suddenly and found that her gaze was not on me but in the back of me. I turned my head around to see what she was looking at and I swear that my heart stopped. A table across from us was Edward sitting down, looking our way. The sight of him was just as wonderful and breathtaking as it was this morning when we last saw each other in the hallway.
I finally released a breath as my heart thudded against my chest after a couple of seconds looking at him. Then my heart felt like it grew three times its sized when he smirked at me. I'm surprised that my brain was able to function enough for me to give a small smile back. Edward nodded his head towards his table.
"Oh my god. Nothing but friends I think not. He's obviously flirting with you." Jessica said with wide eyes. I almost didn't hear her because most of my attention was on him.
"He just wants to talk." I said getting up from the table. "I'll see you later guys." I said to her and the table. The boys especially Mike looked uncomfortable with it but they were just going to have to suck it up. I picked up my bag and walked towards Edward with butterflies in my tummy and he kept his eyes on me every step of the way.
"Hey." I said meekly and sat down next to him. My feet were not under the table but my knees were facing towards it and the rest of my body was facing towards him.
"Hello Jessica." He said. I took a deep breath and cast my eyes towards the table because his voice sounding amazingly pleasurable against my ears, how in the world did he gain this power over me so fast? Oh yeah I let him. Even though the air around us was getting thicker with our unspoken words I manged to look at him, well sort of. I looked at his throat to avoid his capturing eyes and twisted a lock of my hair. I should say something.
"So how's it going?" I asked glancing at the floor several feet away. He chuckled huskily which caused me to shyly smile.
"I guess you can say that things are good for now." He said and I gave him a nod.
"For now?" I asked him curiously.
"Nothing is too dangerous at the moment." He said guardedly and I finally looked at him. I was making this to easy for him, yet here I was and I could barely breath. So I pushed some of those feelings away to gain further access to my voice.
"You're not going to elaborate further then that are you?" I more stated then asked.
"No." He said with a boyish smirk and I gave him a full smile. The atmosphere was lightened because of it more hints of amusement. Edward put his shoulder on the table and leaned a little closer to me.
"So, how has the been treating you?" He asked with a smirk. Of course, he knew that people have been gossiping about me all day. I give the ceiling a thoughtful look before speaking.
"Besides people staring at me a lot longer than usual it has been pretty much the same." I said to him. Things have been pretty much same old same except that I think of him 70 percent of the time rather then my usual 10 percent. I glanced around the cafeteria and my gaze landed on the Cullen for a few seconds longer. Then an idea popped into my head and I licked my lips to hide my smirk. I turned my head back to Edward and felt a shiver when I looked directly into his eyes. I silently reprimanded
myself for that. Come on Jessica, he may make you weak in the knees but you are not disabled. I can make him sweat(figuratively speaking) a little to. I looked down at my hand on top of the table before speaking.
"So lately I have been really into reading dramas." I said suddenly and Edward gave me a curious expression.
"Really? Anything I know?" He asked me and I shook my head.
"No they aren't just any drama books." I stated.
"Well what kind of books are they?" He asked.
"They're vampire dramas." I admitted almost embarrassingly. Edward had lifted an eyebrow at me and give me a small smile. I knew that I was making the wheels turn in his head and I was smiling widely in my head. I shouldn't be the only one in a hot spot.
"Vampire dramas are you sure it's not horror or a cross are of both genres?" He asked me and I looked at his face.
"I'm sure it isn't horror. I can't stand that genre, it twists my mind to much." I said honestly and Edward looked away from me.
"So what so special about these books?" He asked giving me a side glance. I had to really hold a straight face for what I said next.
"Oh, I think that vampires have become sort of a sex symbol for me." I said then turned and looked over my shoulder and beyond our table when Edwards eyes snapped in my direction.
"How could vampires be a sex symbol." He asked me seriously and I shrugged lightly.
"I guess it's the idea of someone beautiful and powerful sucking on someones neck that got me." I said. Edward came and leaned in closer to me.
"You think that's sexy?" He whispered and I closed my eyes to enjoy how close were.
"In a way." I answered after opening my eyes.
"In what way?" He asked while laying his hand on the table.
"In the way that it could be considered sexual instead of thinking about being drained." I said before looking at Edwards hand on the table.
"Most people would think the opposite when vampire comes to mind." He said and I turned my head to look back at him.
"Most people willingly think about sex before death comes to mind." I countered and he smirked at me darkly. I then put my hand back onto the table and accidentally bumped his hand and of course it was icy cold but this time I didn't gasp or recoil in surprise but he still placed his hand on his knee.
"You don't have to do that you know." I said impulsively and he lifted an eyebrow at me. I put my hands in my lap and opened them.
"I could warm them up." I said innocently. I can not believe that I just said that. I saw a hint of surprise in his eyes before they became intense once again. He sat both of his hands in his lap and I reached over slowly for them while my heart beat became faster in my chest. Before I took his hands I looked back at him then I started put my palms in he's. His eyes were watching our hands as they clamped together before he looked back up at me thoughtfully and I smiled at him. His icy hands made me want to rap a warm blanket around us.
"They'll be warm in a couple of minutes." I said tilting my had to the side. Then Edward smiled at me and I could see mischief in his eyes. He pulled my hands toward him to bring my chair close to him as possible without our legs touching. Then he bent down next to my ear.
"You still haven't given me your number." He murmured. I took a deep breath to relieve some of the intensity before I turned my head slightly to look at him.
"Oh, I almost forgot." I said. I didn't forget, in fact I thought about it several times today.
"Well are you going to give it to me?" He asked huskily. Boy did I want to give it to him, I thought with a smirk.
"I don't know how badly do you want it?"I asked him and he chuckled near my ear.
"I guess I don't have to call this weekend." He said nonchalantly while distancing his self a couple of inches away from me and I pouted on the inside.
"Alright, alright. Give me you phone." I said after I untangled one of ours hands to reach out for it. He smirked at me as went into his pocket and pulled out his cell and gave it to me. I took bank and put my number in it before I put it back into his hand.
"I'll text you this weekend." He said. After he put his phone away he took my hand in his.
"Mhm." I while biting my lip because he stated rubbing his thumb on top of my hand. We were just sitting there holding hands.
"My hands are really warm." Edward said to me. I looked down at them and the back at him.
"Do you want me to let go?" I asked. I wouldn't mind being like this a bit longer but we should get to class." He said. I looked at him in confusion before noticing that the cafeteria was almost empty. I looked at the clock and sure enough it was three minutes past the time the 4th period bell rings. I guess I was so wrapped up I didn't hear it.
"Oh my gosh."I said standing up. today we walk together side by side the class. along the way Edward asked me titles of the vampire dramas that I was reading . I just smiled knowingly and shook my head.
"I'm not telling you." I said. Edward lifted his eyebrow at me before we walked into the classroom.
Hello everyone I hope that you have enjoyed this chapter of The Deeds of Life. Saying that I haven't updated in a while is an understatement. So guys but I had left Fanfiction for a while. But I don't want to bore you with all the details that led to that decision. Long story short fanfiction was taking over my life. So decided since I don't over update but I do over read to just write and let out my creativity and update. I felt so bad about leaving you guys hanging, please forgive me! And review, show me forgiveness by reviewing please.