Twilight Through Alice's Eyes Chapter 24
A/N: Sorry for the long wait. I've been a little distracted lately. I'm not going to tell you why just yet but I'll tell you probably next chapter. Anyway without further distractions, here's chapter 24
Disclaimer: Do you seriously still think I own Twilight? If you do, you're crazy because I don't. ;)
Chapter 24
APOV
After walking into the cafeteria and buying the food that I definitely wouldn't eat, I sat down at the table with the rest of my family. I did spy on Edward and Bella that day, but only because I really wanted to know what was going on and whether or not we would have to move soon. Listening in on their conversation wasn't that hard, but drowning out all other noises was.
Edward and Bella got into line to buy food. I watched them closely, but in a way that I thought Bella wouldn't notice. Edward grabbed a whole bunch of food and paid for it, to the objection of Bella. They want over and sat at the same place they had before together.
Edward pushed the tray toward Bella. "Take whatever you want," He said simply.
She picked up and apple and said, "I'm curious, what would you do if someone dared you to eat food?" I was still looking over towards them, curious to how much Edward had told her and how much more he was going to tell her.
He glared at her. "You're always curious." He picked up the slice of pizza off the tray and deliberately took a huge bite. She stared at him almost in awe. "If someone dared you to eat dirt, you could, couldn't you?"
"I did once. . . on a dare. It wasn't so bad." She wrinkled her nose up at her first statement. I giggled lightly under my breath at her statement.
"I suppose I'm not surprised," Edward said in a joking tone. He stared off behind Bella to one of her friends who was watching their every move. "Jessica's analyzing everything I do-she'll break it down for you later." He seemed a little irritated at reading Jessica's mind. He pushed the rest of the pizza over towards Bella for her to eat. She put down the apple she had in her hand and started to eat the pizza. "So the waitress was pretty, was she?" He always did have a way of attracting pretty women to him. It got annoying very quickly. Whenever he took me shopping he always had girls practically drooling all over him.
"You really didn't notice?" Bella asked in surprise.
"No. I wasn't paying attention. I had a lot on my mind." I had a feeling he was still trying to read Bella's mind that night; that and he was trying to make sure that she didn't go into shock.
"Poor girl," Bella said simply. I wonder what that girl was doing that Bella pities her like that.
Edward seemed a little uncomfortable, but nothing that a human would really notice. Then he brought up the topic that was bothering him, something Edward didn't normally do unless he was forced. "Something you said to Jessica. . . well, it bothers me." He glanced up a Bella, most likely dazzling her like he does to other women to make them tell him the truth.
"I'm not surprised you heard something you didn't like. You know what they say about eavesdroppers." The fact that Bella wasn't surprised at him eavesdropping surprised me; the rest of the family and I are used to it, it happens all of the time to us. The fact that Bella knew he probably was listening in, meant that she probably knew him better than I thought she did.
"I warned you I would be listening." Well that explains how she knew he would be listening, but it still didn't mean that she didn't know him closely enough to know that he would do that anyway.
"And I warned you that you didn't what to know everything I was thinking," she countered.
"You did. You aren't precisely right, though. I do want to know what you're thinking-everything. I just wish. . . that you wouldn't be thinking some things." What could she possibly be thinking that he doesn't want her thinking about? Was it something bad or scary? Or was it something sexual like what was in most girls' minds?
"That's quite a distinction."
"But that's not really the point at the moment."
"Then what is?" Bella asked, the same question that was on my mind and probably the minds of the rest of my siblings if they were eavesdropping, too. Bella was leaning forward towards Edward; Edward was also leaning towards Bella.
"Do you truly believe that you care more for me than I do for you?" Aw, that was really sweet. I didn't know my brother had it in him. Bella looked like she stopped breathing for a moment, most likely a result of Edward dazzling her.
"You're doing it again," she said quietly.
"What?" Edward asked. He probably had a very good idea, but wanted to hear it from Bella's mouth. I had a guess that it was him dazzling her, like he did to almost every human woman so he could get what he wants.
"Dazzling me." He always had that effect on girls; I guess Bella is no different.
"Oh," he said simply.
"It's not your fault. You can't help it," she said while sighing.
"Are you going to answer the question." By this point I completely forgot there was a question. I sort of think Bella forgot the question for a little while, too.
"Yes," she answered. This left me confused. Was it a yes that she was going to answer the question or was it a yes to the question itself?
"Yes, you are going to answer, or yes, you really think that?" Apparently Edward thought the exact same thing I did. Either that or he was asking her so I could listen in and he didn't have to repeat it to me later.
"Yes, I really think that." There was a pause before Edward answered her.
"You're wrong."
"You can't know that."
"What makes you think that?" Edward started to dazzle Bella again to get the truth straight from her.
"Let me think." He stopped dazzling her, probably happy that he knew he was going to get an answer from her. "Well aside from the obvious, sometimes. . . I can't be sure-I don't know how to read minds-but it seems like you're trying to say goodbye when you're saying something else." What hidden message was Edward putting in his conversations with Bella?
A/N: There you go. I hope to update really soon, but I don't know whether that is going to happen or not. I assure you that the reason I haven't been able to update isn't terribly bad. It's just mostly things I've had to do at work and at home. Good night. Please review. ;)