Characters I may warn you now, are a tad OOC because obviously, I'm not Stephenie Meyer.

Chapter Three

His electric green eyes met my dull, brown ones. His mouth hung open just the tiniest of a fraction, possibly shocked to see that it was me.

Before he or I had a chance to say anything however, I heard Alice whisper distractedly, "Not here, not now."

She grabbed my arm and proceeded to drag me towards the nearest shop with Jasper and Edward curiously following us.

"Alice, what?" I still let her drag me, because knowing Alice she always knows whens something is going to go down.

"Jasper, Edward can you go grab us two something to eat?" Seeing the looks on thier surprised faces that she was dragging me away with no explanation except to go get us some food. "Now."

They soon scurried off to not face the wrath of the terrifying pixie. Alice still had her hold tightened on her arm and then continued her way to the oppisite direction of the foor court.

"Kelly is coming this way, and if we don't move she'll just make things worse for you and I know you don't want Jasper and Edward there to huiliate you further and all that I've been trying to do for the last few hours would be in vain. So come on, before she-"

But it was already too late of a warning, a shrill voice rang out above everyone else's noise, "Isabella!"

I turned sadly to face her.

"Hi Kelly."

"Hi loser." Two nasally voices started to laugh next to her. Her loyal minions, Lauren and Jessica.

"What are you like doing at the mall? It's not like you're pretty enough to like pull any of those like outfits off." She said whilst pointing to the bags I held.

"You should like just go buy something baggy from like Walmart, maybe like they won't look that hideous on like you, but who am I like kidding? Nothing like looks good on you! You're just a big ugly frump! Geez, like did you put on weight or like something? Because you like seem to like get fatter and uglier everytime I like see you, which I thought was like impossible. The same lanky, boring brown hair with like eyes to match."

"Awww, is like little Bella like going to cry? Crying like, isn't going to like help make you prettier or like thinner or like taller or blonde. Maybe you should like crawl into a hole so like no one can like see your disgusting face." She sneered.

I felt the waterworks getting ready to burst. Alice was seething with fury. I had never seen her so angry in my life, and she looked incredibly scary. She opened her mouth to argue back but I had already started to drop some of the bags and was currently stepping away from Kelly.

It was all true. I was just a hideous toad that no one should ever be able to see. I wasn't pretty like Kelly, I wasn't thin or tall like Kelly. I was just this big, ugly frump as she so put it. Alice didn't deserve to hang around with someone like me.

I was running now and I could hear Alice screaming at Kelly but also telling someone to go after me.

I collapsed into tears when I had made it to the other side of the mall.

It was deserted here, but I hardly noticed because the tears were rolling down my cheeks and splashing on the pavement.

I heard footsteps approach me and I assumed it was Alice. "Alice, go away. I know you're not listening to a word I say, but just listen to me for once, you're better off without a loser like me hanging off your arm." I spoke in hiccuped sobs.

"Well, it's lucky I'm not Alice then." The voice wasn't Alice's soft calming voice but a smooth, deep, masculine one instead.

"Edward?" I lifted my head from my hands and saw him kneeled in front of me.

He wiped away another tear which strolled down my face. His hands felt wonderful and soothing against my skin.

"So I finally know about the ever elusive Kelly."

I sniffled a little and then padded my eyes before I heard mysel saying, "Yeah, now you can go after her just like every other guy I know except Jasper and Emmett." I sneered at him. I realised what I had justsaid and my eyes got wide with surprise. The words just came out of my mouth, I didn't actually mean to speak them.

I said, "I'm sorry for saying that, that was way out of line." at the same time he said, "I'm sorry?" In a confused manner.

I sighed "Kelly's beautiful and every guy I know wants her at first sight." Another tear broke through and I muttered, "They all want her eventually."

"And you're not beautiful?"

I chocked in an awful twisted laugh. I then saw his face was looking very serious, my laughter stopped immediately. "You're kidding, right?"

"No, I find you very attractive to be truthful."

"Haha, very funny."

"You think I'm joking?"

"Who wouldn't be? You heard what my sister said."

"First of all, you shouldn't listen to what she said because none of it is true." He lifted a finger to my chin so that I could look at him straight in the eye. "You are beautiful, and you're not fat or ugly at all, I agree with what Alice tells Jasper when they don't know I'm listening. You don't see yourself very clearly, if you stop hiding behind your baggy clothes and your hair which has now been cut, people will see how pretty you are Bella. Kelly's nothing special, she's bringing you down because she feels threatened by you. Why else would she make your self-esteem so low? So what do you say? You should show that Kelly can't get to you. Otherwise, she's truly one in succeeding to bring you down." He stood up and I realised he was actually very tall, standing at least 6"2'.

His words actually affected me and made me feel better.

He offered me his hand and helped me to my feet.

"Thank you Edward."

"You're very welcome Bella."

He gave me a breathtaking crooked smile and I couldn't help but smile along with it.

"I guess we should be getting back to Alice."

"I guess we should."

We walked in silence back to where we last were. He was so close to me that I if I moved my arm the tiniest bit, our arms and the back of our hands would be touching.

The closer we neared to the other end of the mall, my teeth started to bit down harder on my lip.

"Hey, it's going to be okay." He grabbed my hand and gave it a light squeeze.

My small hands fit into his large, slender ones and it felt so right.

But I knew he wouldn't want someone like me and I felt my heart sink.

We turned the corner and saw Alice picking up the shopping bags in anger with Jasper helping her and at the same time trying to calm her down.

I didn't see Kelly or her sneering friends.

I walked over to Alice and hugged her. She instantly turned around and hugged me back and I knew that I had one great friend in my life.

Someone had actually stuck up for me.

"You're the bestest friend I could ever ask for." I whispered into her ear.

"And you're my best friend who should get a life."

I smacked her playfully in the arm and she squealed out a "Kidding!"

One thing and one thing only that I knew about today was that I would not let Kelly get to me anymore.

That would certainly be harder than I thought.

An: I thought I'd do a happy chapter. (:

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