Finley's First Day (Part I)

I'm glad everyone's liking the story so far! I've decided to split Finley's First Day into two parts. I won't be posting the second part until tomorrow. But it will feature more Bella/Fin interaction :)

I'm giving a little too much away so just read on...

Bella POV

I woke up the next morning lying next to Edward as always. He whispered my name in my ear and I knew that it must be a Monday; he never woke me at the weekend.

"Bella, love. It's time to get up." He whispered as pressed a soft kiss against my neck; my skin covered itself in goosebumps and I knew I'd have to wake up properly so I could kiss him back.

I tried to stretch my arms out to put them around his neck but he'd already left my side.

"When you get up you can kiss me." He said as I still had my eyes closed, however I could hear the smile in his voice as he used dirty tactics to get me out of bed. He knew the only reason I would voluntarily get out of bed would be to wrap myself around him and kiss him back.

"You're evil, you know that?" I sighed as I sleepily opened my eyelids to look for where he was standing.

"Alice taught me a few things over the years." He replied to the right of me.

With hazy vision I turned to the right to look for his blob but he wasn't there.

"Come on, up you get, otherwise we're going to be late." He said, his voice now coming from the left side of my bed.

"If you'd stop playing mind games with me then I'd get up." I complained as I threw the duvet away from me.

I rubbed my eyes and as I got out of bed I found myself standing right in front of him.

"Good morning." I smiled as I placed a light kiss to his lips.

I'd completely forgotten about the state I usually looked in the morning, I was just assuming I looked pristine until I caught sight of myself in the mirror.

"Urgh! Have you seen what I look like this morning?" I screeched as my hands stretched up automatically to tame what looked like a bird's nest on my head.

"You look beautiful as always." Edward told me as he hugged me closer to his chest.

"I think you need to get your eyes checked." I replied as I tried to push myself away from him. I wanted desperately at this point to run into the bathroom to make myself "human".

"Vampires have perfect sight, have I never told you?"

"Well there must be something wrong with yours because I look a mess."

"That's your opinion, but I think you look ravishing."

"I'm in no mood to argue right now. I need to go and take a human minute and try and make myself look decent." I said as I looked around to make sure I'd packed my bag already "Charlie's left already right?" I asked before I made my way to the bathroom.

"He left twenty minutes ago." Edward informed me.

"Ok. Well, just do whatever you want whilst I'm showering. I'll try not to be too long."

I ran into the bathroom and hoped that there was enough hot water left to have a decent shower. I pulled the curtain and twisted the hot tap and tested the water to make sure it was at least lukewarm.

"OW!" I cursed as the water burnt my skin.

"Bella?" I heard a concerned voice from outside the door. "Are you ok? You haven't hurt yourself have you?"

"I'm fine." I replied as I quickly turned the cold tap on to get it to the temperature I liked.

"What happened?" he asked outside of the door as I stripped off my night-time attire and got into the shower.

"I burnt myself on the water. It's nothing serious." I called back over the sound of the gushing water.

"Are you sure?"

"Yes I'm sure!" I shouted wishing that I wasn't so accident prone. That was half of the reason Edward was so protective of me, I didn't like to be a burden all the time.

I washed my hair and my body and I got out of the shower feeling refreshed. I grabbed two towels from the rack and wrapped one around my body and the other I used to rustle my hair to stop it from dripping everywhere.

I opened the door and walked back into my room to find him reading from my copy of Othello.

It wasn't one of my favourite Shakespeare plays but we had to study it for English.

"She loved me for the dangers I had passed," He read aloud to me "And I loved her, that she did pity them."

"That's Othello's speech about how he and Desdemona fell in love." I said as a dragged a brush through my moist hair.

"I can't help but think we fell in love that way." He said as he put the play down on the bed and started walking over to me.

"I think that you're taking Jasper's comparison a little too seriously." I replied feeling his hands rest on my bare shoulders.

"Maybe I am..." he said dreamily as he lent forward and kissed my exposed collar bone. "You do smell exquisite, more floral than usual."

"Blame the shampoo." I was only now realising how naked I felt. There was only a towel wrapped round me to keep myself decent, I wondered if Edward had sussed this out yet.

"I don't think it is. How's your burn anyway?"

"It's nothing." I told him as I thrust out my arm which had a little pink blob where I'd burnt my wrist. My other hand held the towel at the top of my torso to stop it from falling down.

I wasn't quite ready yet to let Edward see me naked. I started to blush at the thought.

"What are you thinking about?" he asked noticing the blush that was starting to colour my cheeks.

"I'm thinking about how late we're going to be if I don't get a wriggle on." I replied hastily as I ushered him out of my room so I could get dressed.

"No you weren't." He managed to squeeze in before I shut my door.

I towelled myself down so that I was dry and grabbed the clothes I'd left on the dresser last night. Once I was clothed I switched on my hairdryer to maximum power and my hair was dry in no time.

I opened the door and found Edward leaning against my doorframe.

"Ready to go?" he asked as his topaz eyes seemed to glitter. I didn't like how innocent he looked, it made me suspect he was up to something.

"Yeah. Let me just grab my..." I paused as I looked around for my bag.

"It's in the car already."

"But...how?" I asked utterly perplexed.

"Whilst you were drying your hair I popped in and grabbed your bag to save some time."

"You what?" I asked incredulous. He could've walked in whilst I was naked! But then I remembered how much a gentleman he was, he wouldn't do a thing like that.

"You said that you were thinking about how late we were going to be, so I was just helping you out."

"You should ask next time." I growled as I walked down the stairs.

"You should tell me what you were really thinking."

"You don't need to know everything I think."

"I do. That's what's so frustrating about not being able to read your mind."

"Can we just get to school?" I asked as we approached the shiny silver Volvo.

He sped down the roads as usual whilst I worried about how much over the speed limit we were going. Nevertheless, we still got to the school gates with time to spare.

As we drove into the car park I could see people crowding round a car. I laughed thinking that just the year before everyone had been in awe of Rosalie's red BMW.

Obviously someone had gone and got a new car, so excitement from the students (mainly the boys) was inevitable.

Edward and I got out the car and I heard someone shouting our names.

"Edward! Bella!"

It wasn't a familiar voice, but instinctively I looked over in the direction on the crowd.

He jogged towards us and I saw Edward start to scowl again. He wasn't wrong when he said that Finley would enrol today.

"I'm so glad you're here. I was surrounded by people when I arrived; I think they want to know the car more than they do me." He laughed. His laughter sounded lyrical, it sent warmth throughout my body even though the weather was cold. It seemed I was warming to him more than Edward.

"What car have you got?" I asked as I tried to make conversation. I couldn't see what it was due to the swelling crowd around it.

"A Ford Mustang." He shrugged as if his car were something common. From my knowledge of cars I knew it wasn't one you could buy on the cheap. It had to be a pretty expensive car to have that many people surrounding it.

Just like the Cullen's, Finley's family had obviously invested their money well.

"I don't know what that looks like." I admitted as I saw Edward shoot a mutinous glare in my direction.

"I'll have to show you when everyone gets to class." Finley offered with the smile he had given me yesterday. I couldn't help but smile back, his smile was like Jacob's. It was infectious.

"You don't have to." I said quickly as I tried to have a neutral look on my face. In the corner of my eye I saw that Edward's gaze grew even more livid. "Don't you need to see Mrs. Cope and get your timetable?" I asked subtly trying to get rid of him, I felt bad but it was needed when Edward was acting like this.

"I got it already. I was here kinda early. I was hoping I'd bump into you two." He confessed as he gave Edward a quick glance before looking back into my eyes.

"I got up late." Was all I could answer before the bell rang to show that the school day had commenced.

"What have you got first?" he asked hopefully.

"Er...Biology."

"Shoot. I have French." He said as he cast his eyes to his timetable. "Oh well. Maybe I'll see you at break. I saw Alice and Jasper somewhere around here, maybe they've got French with me."

I gave a half-hearted smile and watched him walk away from us towards building three.

"I told you didn't I?" Edward started as he stared at Finley as intently as the night before.

"I know you told me. But you didn't need to look at him in that way." I chastised him. "It's hard enough to face people in a new school without someone you know acting like you're the plague."

"I told you last night. I don't like him."

"And I asked you last night, are you jealous of him?"

"No I'm not."

"So what's your problem then?"

Edward stood in silence defeated by my argument and made his way towards the Biology lab.

"Give him a break will you?" I pleaded for the vampire I hardly knew. "He knows I'm in a relationship with you. Finley would have to be Jacob if he thought anything would happen between him and me."

"Fine. I get your point." He replied shortly. "I'll try and be nicer to him. But if he thinks of you in that way again I'm..."

"Going to ignore it." I cut in. "If you can do it for Mike, Tyler and Eric I can't see why you can't do it for him."

"Come on we're late." He said as he took my hand and hurried me towards the labs.

I'd hoped then that Edward had listened to me and was going to ignore Finley's thoughts.

Instead he listened in but didn't tell me about them.

That was the second stage of the jealousy.

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