A/N: Sorry I didn't get this up sooner. I was debating on what to do with this chapter and I decided to kind of have another filler before some excitement! Also my computer went nutz on me, but no fear, my honey fixed it so I'm back up and running. Hope you like it.
Chapter Four: Question
I decided to go to campus to do some studying today. I had my favorite spot under a tree. Even with all the hustle and bustle of students, it was peaceful. As I was listening to my I-Pod walking over there, I saw someone sitting under the tree. I frowned, and cursed under my breath. Now I would have to find another spot. As I got closer, I noticed the wavy brown hair of my angel. I smiled as I saw her nose in a textbook, with a very serious face. I slowly and quietly walked up to her. "You know this is my tree."
She screamed and jumped about a foot in the air. When she saw it was me, she shoved my leg causing me to fall on the ground. "Geez Cullen, give me a heart attack!"
I laughed. "Please not yet. Let me get into medical school, and then finish before you have one of those."
She just rolled her eyes. "So whatcha doin' here?"
"I was going to do some studying. It was too pretty of a day to stay indoors."
"I know! It feels so good out here." She smiled. "You know I think I'd be willing the share my tree with you."
This time I rolled my eyes. "How kind of you."
She patted the spot next to her. I scooted next to her and pulled out my books and began reading. After a bit I felt her eyes on me and I looked up. She was grinning. "May I help you?" I asked.
She shrugged. "I was just curious if maybe I could steal your attention for a little bit. I didn't get much of a chance to know you when we all went out, so I thought I could get to know you better now."
You can steal my attention anytime….wait! Where in the world did that come from. "Sure," I smiled. "I would love to."
"Ok," she put her book down. "Well I already know a little bit of your history due to Alice, but I guess my first question is why do you want to become a doctor?"
"Well, I've always been interested in it…and my father is one and I really admire him. It's a field where you are constantly learning, and I like a challenge."
She nodded. "Cool. I was hoping you weren't going to say for the money. I swear if I hear one more person saying that's why they are going into the medical field…I'm gonna kill them!"
I laughed. "Evil Bella, I like that! But why do you say that?"
"They should have a passion, I passion to help people, not to glorify themselves. The world is so much bigger than them, they need to realize it. With either their hands, or words in my case, we can help someone become better. Shouldn't that be enough of a reward?"
Wow. She blew me away. She had such passion, such drive.
"So, where are you from?"
"Phoenix. Lived there my whole life."
"Why did you decide to come to school here?"
I saw her eyes go sad for a moment but that disappeared quickly. "Well, I always wanted to visit here. Plus NYU is an amazing school, so we I got accepted, I couldn't turn it down."
"Well, don't take this the wrong way, but I'm glad you moved here. I'm glad we're getting to know each other. You're a pretty cool chick," I laughed.
She giggled and nudged me. "You're not too shabby yourself!"
Just then her phone rang and she held up her finger signaling me to hang on. "Hello. Yeah I'm on campus….WHAT?! Oh my….ok ok…I'll be right there." She hung up and gathered her things. "I'm so sorry to cut this short. Emergency…I have to go now. I'll see you later." And with that she took off running. I watched her running across campus and couldn't help smiling. Though our conversation was short again, I knew she was an amazing person. I was about to start studying again when I noticed her book on the ground. Crap, she's going to need this. That's when I realized I had no clue where she lived, or what her phone number was. I was just about to call Alice when Alice actually called me.
"Hey hey bro, what ya doing?"
"Nothing much just on campus, was going to study, then ran into Bella and got to talking."
"Ahhh isn't she amazing. I love that girl to death!"
"Yeah, she's cool. She had to take off though; some kind of an emergency."
"Ohhhhhh," Alice said like she knew what it was.
"Yeah, and she left her book and I was just about to call you to get her information so I could get it back to her."
"Oh, well actually we're all going to the club tomorrow night…yes you included. Its Bella's birthday, so you can bring it and give it to her afterwards."
"Tomorrow's her birthday? She didn't say anything about it."
"Well, she's not much on birthdays…really hasn't had a celebration in a long time…so I figured it was long overdue!"
I laughed. "Ok, well where and what time tomorrow?"
Alice gave me the information and then we said bye. I picked back up my book and tried to study, but I couldn't get Bella out of my head. I was looking forward very much to tomorrow night.