I've given up with the French. I don't know enough to actually make sense.
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Survival of the Smartest
Chapter Four: Closer
BPOV
"Hey, Bella! Wait up!" Alice called. She darted through to get to where I was waiting for her. "What's up with you? I saw you talking to the Cullen-ator. You, like, totally hate his guts."
I sighed. Nothing escaped Alice's sharp eyes. "We're kinda working together on a project."
"Like a partner project! One where you have to get together all the time and spend every minute with one another?" I could see the gears in Alice's mind turning. She was always trying to get me and Edward to like each other. She said we were "soul mates" and "star-crossed lovers who won't die. Trust me, you won't die." Her words, not mine.
"Yes. But I'm not spending any more time than necessary with him and we are never going to work anywhere but the library. I don't trust myself alone with him."
Oh yeah, Alice knows about my secret crush too. I don't trust Rosalie enough, but I know Alice would never blab anything unless she had permission.
"Well, I'm glad you feel something other than contempt towards me, or are you just afraid that if you're alone with me you'll try to strangle me with your bare hands?" A musical voice from behind me whispered in my ear. I swear I felt shivers in my toes.
"Hi, Edward. I, uh, wasn't talking about you. I was, um, talking about someone else. It's a different science project."
"Really? Because we are in the same class. I would think if you're doing a project, I would too."
Crap. He had me there. I looked up at his flawless face, turned up a smirk, and ran. I couldn't bear to look at him anymore. He was too perfect, and too close to the truth.
I managed to stop and catch my breath once I was safe in the girl's bathroom. I leaned my head against the stall door and tried to breathe in and out, calmly. There's no way he knows. It's not like he can read your thoughts. Don't worry, Bells. Just let this go. Concentrate on the prize. You are in this to win this. I pep talked myself enough to emerge from the bathroom. Alice wasn't out there waiting for me like I'd hoped. But Edward was.
He was leaning against the wall, looking a little uncomfortable standing outside a girl's bathroom. He was still smirking a little, but it was now a less mocking gesture, and a more sympathetic one. He must of thought I'd gotten sick at the sight of him.
My stomach did turn at the sight of him, but with butterflies, not sickness.
"Hey. Are you all right? You ran off pretty suddenly. What, couldn't take looking at me anymore?"
"Uh, yeah. Something like that." He didn't need to know that it was looking at his perfection that made me sick.
"Well, I was hoping we could discuss our project over lunch, but if this is a bad time…" he trailed off.
"No! Um, it's fine. We can eat lunch together. Sure." I was barely forming coherent sentences now, and I knew it.
"Cool. See you in a few!" He had turned and was gone before I could even say bye.
I watched his back for a moment until I snapped back to reality and dashed off to the cafeteria too.
…
I bought my lunch and scanned the cafeteria for that beautiful bronze head. I spotted him in the back, near the windows and stumbled over to him.
"Hey, Edward."
He looked up from what looked like a textbook and smiled. "Hey!"
His exuberance surprised me. Maybe he didn't hate my guts as much as I thought he did. "So, can I sit down?"
"Oh! Sure, here." He pushed his books over and opened a seat for me. "So, what do you think we should do? I was thinking something about how technology and science affected the outcome of both world wars. What do you think? We could do something differed, but this way we have both of our expertise in one subject!"
I just nodded and smiled. It was so hard to concentrate on what that wonderful mouth was saying when I wanted to kiss it so bad.
"Bella? Hello? Are you okay?"
Suddenly I saw a hand waving in front of me. "What?"
"Jeez, do you space off a lot or is it just when I'm around."
Just when you're around. I'm a horrible liar, but I spit our, "No, it happens a lot. No-not just around you." I knew my face gave away my lie, and so did he apparently.
"Sure, okay." He smiled again and turned back to his book. I leaned over and saw that it was in fact a textbook—a history textbook.
Looking up at him I finally noticed just how close we were. My nose was an inch from his cheek. He must have noticed the proximity of our faces at the same time because he looked up.
I felt myself drowning in green.
EPOV
After relating my idea to Bella, I looked at her to see her reaction, but those deep brown eyes were glassy and she looked out of it. "Bella? Hello? Earth to Bella!" I started waving my hand in front of her to wake her up.
"What?" She snapped back and looked around.
"Jeez, do you space off a lot or is it just when I'm around?"
Her face turned guilty fast, but she still choked out a reply. Like really choked it out. "No, it happens a lot. No-not just around you." She was lying to me, and it was obvious.
Maybe she doesn't hate my guts. Maybe it's like in Hey Arnold where that mean girl actually loves Arnold. Wow, I must be going crazy. I'm comparing all my feelings for Bella and vice versa to movies and books. I'm such a nerd.
"Sure, okay." I smiled knowingly, and a little ecstatically.
I turned back to my book to look for topics. I could hear some rustiling as she moved around but didn't really notice it until I felt soft breathing by my ear.
Looking up, I noticed how close we were. I could see every color in Bella's eyes and feel her breathing.
Without thinking I leaned in…
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