Chapter Two
Reality Check
"Edward!" I shouted as soon as his Volvo was parked.
Edward strode over to me wrapping his cold muscular arms around me. I buried my face in his chest, while he leaned down kissing the top of my head.
"Is something wrong?" He asked when we both pulled away to look at each other.
"No, nothing's wrong. I'm just a little confused as to why you didn't tell me you had asked Charlie to marry me! I mean it was totally awkward sitting in my room talking to Charlie telling him I was engaged! I thought he would rather kill me before letting me get married!"
"Sorry about that. I just wanted to ask him first."
I let out a sigh. "Well, that's one parent down, now only one to go."
Edward looked down at my hand then at me, "Where's you ring?"
"Right here." I pulled out a long gold chain with the ring on the end from under my shirt. "I figured that if I wore it on my ring finger everyone would get suspicious."
"I'd say that's a very good assumption, but why do you care what they think?"
"I'll wear it on my finger tomorrow, just for you."
"Sounds perfect," he whispered into my ear before gently kissing my lips.
"Let's get to class."
It was a sunny Tuesday, which meant no Edward. I groaned this was going to be a very long boring day. I stepped out of my truck and walked very slowly to my next class. I stared down at the ground not paying attention where I was going and ran into someone. My books fell to the ground, papers flying everywhere. I expected the hard floor to hit my butt, but it didn't.
I looked up to see who my savior might be. A tall slender boy stared down at me his arms wrapped around my waist. He had shaggy brown hair that hung in his left eye. His golden topaz eyes gazed down at me; I looked at them and saw the edges around his pupil were slightly black.
"I-I- I'm so-so sorry," He stuttered.
"Oh don't be." I said getting to my feet. "I'm so clumsy. I'm sorry I ran into you."
"Yeah... i mean no, it's okay. Oh, I 'm Jason."
"Hi, Jason. I'm Isabella Swan, but, I like to go by Bella. Thanks, for catching my fall. I guess I'll be seeing you around." I waved.
"Oh, yeah-yeah, around."
Okay, that was totally out of the ordinary. I mean number one, he's a vampire, not to mention a hunger one, and it's sunny outside. The even stranger thing was that he was stuttering just by looking at me, totally random. Maybe it was just because he was hungry.
I sat down alone at my desk just as the bell rang. I was staring down at my ring when a voice interrupted my thoughts. "Nice ring."
"Oh, hey Mike. Yeah, I really like it."
"Did Cullen give it to you?"
"Yes, Edward gave it to me." I emphasized his name.
"Why?
"Because, Mike. Bye, Mike!"
"Well... why are you wearing it on your wedding finger?"
"Oh my gosh! I'm wearing it on this finger because we're engaged! Okay?" I whispered dangerously
"You're... engaged!?"
"Yes!"
"Miss Swan, Mr. Newton, is there a problem here?" The teacher stared at us.
"Yes! Bella's engaged!" Mike shouted, making sure the whole room heard.
Murmurs went up all around the room.
"Who is the guy?"
"Is it Edward?"
"Are we all invited?"
All, the girls were talking about how gorgeous the ring was.
"Well, Miss Swan, who's the lucky man?" The teacher said above the noise.
Everyone was quite and turned to look at me from there desks. I felt violated, everyone trying to cram themselves into my personal life. This was going to be an even worse day. The news would spread like wildfire in the dry season.
I stared down at my paper. "Edward."
"Well, congratulations!"
I gave her a tight smile before the lesson started. This was going to be a long, long day.
"So when did he pop the question?"
"Well, Friday night, but we had talked about it. He also asked Charlie first." I paused. "Jess, do you think that you could stop asking questions, I'm trying to focus on my Trig homework."
"Well, okay. Will you sit with me at lunch? I mean, he's not here today."
"We'll see."
"Great!"
Okay, Jessica was like the most confusing person. She wants to be my friend at the beginning of the year. Then when I got all sad those months we didn't talk. When I wanted to hang with her again she totally pushed me away. She was dating Mike even though it was painfully obvious that he wanted to date me. Now that I'm the schools biggest gossip apparently we're friends again. Good grief!
I decided not to sit with Jessica at lunch, other course I almost didn't make it because of all the lingering kids in the halls asking me millions of questions I'd already answered a billion times. When I did reach the lunch room everyone was calling my name asking me to sit with them.
When I saw Jason sitting alone I went to sit with him.
"Um, hey Jason. Can I sit here?"
Oh, yeah sure... Bella."
"So you're the girl getting married to Edward Cullen?"
"Yes," I sighed.
"Sorry to ask you. I know you've probably been asked that a million times."
"Close to that many."
He took a bite of the sandwich and swallowed, then took another bite. Either I was wrong about him being a vampire, and he was the most breathing taking gorgeous human ever, or he was trying really, really hard to fit in. He looked up and caught me staring at him, and I blushed, my cheeks turning a deep rose color.
The bell rang and he stood up, looking straight at me, "Guess I'll see you around, Bella. It was nice seeing you again."
"You too, Jason. I'll see you around." I stood and walked out of the cafeteria.
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