A month into school and everything was starting to pick up. Football season was starting in full force, Emmett and Jasper practicing every day after school, games on Friday's.

Rosalie campaigning for senior president, because running the school wasn't enough, she wanted a title to her name as well.

Alice jumping from club to club helping plan out various fundraising activities even though she wasn't actually a part of any of those clubs.

I stuck with science club and national's honors society.

Edward still steadfastly ignored everyone in the school, including me. I managed to get a couple words out of him during the first couple days, but quit trying after that. Now he just talks when we have to do class assignments together. He even managed to offend Jessica and Lauren by flat out rejecting their advances in front of everyone in the hallway and proceeding to walk away in the opposite direction. Granted their taking offense only lasted like a millisecond before they decided he was just playing hard to get.

I actually felt bad for the guy a little. He didn't want to be here and we all knew it. That grated on my nerves more than anything.

In biology class I finally snapped.

He sighed to himself for about the tenth time in forty minutes.

"What? If you have something to say then just say it?" I couldn't control my irritation.

"Excuse me?" he actually looked surprised and confused.

"Why do you keep sighing? What's your problem?"

For a second he looked startled, like he really didn't know what to say. Then the cold mask that I've seen him put off and on for the past month slipped over his face.

"Other than being stuck in this dead end town, nothing," he said icily.

I knew some people thought of this town like that, my mother was one of those people and left because of it. I however, thought differently. This town was as small as can be, but it was also full of a lot of love and support. Wherever you went, somebody knew you and could strike up a conversation. It's a town full of good-hearted people give or take some. It could also make you bored out of your mind with nothing to do, but with friends like Emmett, Rose, Jasper, and Alice, it didn't tend to stay that way for long.

Regardless, I was tired of hearing his complaining, he didn't have to voice it for people to know that he did. "You know, if you took your spoiled rich head out of your ass, you might actually see that this is a decent place to live," I told him. "But you can't open your eyes long enough to see that. Instead you go around moping, complaining, and ignoring any and every person trying to talk to you. If you hate it here so much then leave. What's stopping you? Go back to Seattle where you came from and get over whatever made you come here in the first place."

His mouth was dropped open and his eyes wide. I glanced around to notice other classmates with the same facial expressions. Guess I wasn't as quiet as I intended to be. I looked up to see Mr. Banner staring at me. His mouth open like he was about to say something, but the bell cut him off. I wasted no time in grabbing my stuff and walking out of the room, glancing back at Edward he was still sitting glued in his seat looking shocked.

I was at my locker at the end of school when Alice ambushed me.

"I heard you ripped Edward Masen a new one!"

"And who did you hear that from?" I inquired.

"Are you kidding? Everybody knows! It's all over school! I knew you would snap at some point, he's so sulky, but I had no idea you'd yell at him in front of the entire biology class," Alice rambled. "I couldn't believe it when I heard. Then I couldn't stop laughing. I would have loved to see Mr. Banner's face. And Edward's face. God I would have loved to see his face. I doubt he's used to being put in his place."

"Oh he looked shocked to say the least," I said, recalling the stunned look on his face.

"That's awesome," she laughed as we climbed into my truck so I could drop her off at her home.

I pulled up and she started laying out the game plan for tonight, as if it was different from every Friday night.

"Rose is picking me up at 6:30; we'll be by to get you after that. Then Newton's party after the football game."

Great, a Newton party. Good thing Charlie was pulling an overnighter at the station. Mike's parties never went as planned. Hell, I don't even think there ever was a plan. Last time, Emmett jumped up on a table and started trying to do a strip tease. He then grabbed Alice and my arm and pulled us up there with him as much as we tried to fight him on it. No clothes were removed in our drunken haze, thank god we were smart enough for that, however the table didn't fare so well. It ended up breaking under the weight of Alice and I trying to get down and Emmett jumping up and down on it. Rose made him walk home that night and Mike had to make up some excuse to his parents as to how a sturdy wood table broke. Another instance had Mike's best-friend, Tyler, completely hammered and climbing up on the roof. He jumped off fully believing that he could fly. One broken arm and a mild concussion later, the hospital released him to his very angry parents.

By 6:30; I had my eyeliner and mascara on and was dressed in my jeans and red racer back tank top. Throwing a Forks High Spartan hoodie over it, I walked out the door to meet Rose and Alice. They were already waiting in Rose's red BMW. Alice's eyes narrowed at my outfit as I walked up. I raised my hoodie, showing my tank-top underneath. Her narrowed eyes disappeared and an approving smile crossed her face.

"I do know how to dress, Alice, thank you very much," I told her, sliding into the backseat.

"I know, I was just seeing what you had on underneath the hoodie," she responded.

It wouldn't have been the first party I've gone to in a hoodie, but I did own quite a few skimpy tops, skirts, and dresses. I collected them on my many shopping excursions with Alice and Rose.

Alice unzipped her sweater showing off her gold sparkly tube top shirt.

Rose didn't have to unzip anything. She was already in her black halter top style shirt. How she didn't freeze at football games was beyond me.

"Come on baby! Kick his ass!" Rose was standing in her seat screaming.

Halfway through the game Emmett got tackled, this was rare considering it was always him doing the tackling. He liked to call himself "the enforcer." I couldn't disagree either, neither could anybody else. He was like a giant brick wall. People could slam into him and they'd still be the one to fall down.

Jasper on the other hand was all agility. I honestly had no clue what his spot on the field was. All I know is that he can move in and around the clusters of other football players and never get hit. He was their main strategizer.

"Well well well. Look who's here," Alice pointed down the bleachers to the walkway.

I had to stretch to see who she was looking at.

Edward.

What the hell? I almost wanted to laugh at the absurdity of him being here at a football game in a town he supposedly hated.

He looked like a lost puppy, standing around not knowing where to go. He then looked up and his eyes met mine in the crowd. I could see him pause for a second before taking a deep breath and walking up the bleachers towards me.

"Is he headed this way?" You could hear disbelief and excitement start to bubble in Alice's voice. Meanwhile, Rose stayed oblivious to us and was still standing up on the other side of Alice screaming towards the field.

"I have no idea." I really didn't know, but I kept watching him come closer.

"Hi," he greeted quietly and looked questioningly at the empty space next to me.

I nodded and squeezed closer to Alice to make more room for him to sit down.

He sat down looking nervous. He wasn't wearing his normal button down shirt and instead was in dark jeans and a long-sleeve grey thermal.

"I'm shocked," I stated bluntly. I wasn't necessarily talking about the clothes because it did look good on him, everything did. One thing he definitely had going for him was his looks, tall, thin, and toned with a head full of crazy hair. Everything else about him was still up in the air.

"Me too," he breathed out heavily.

I could feel Alice burning holes into my head with her eyes. I took that as my queue to introduce her.

"Alice, this is Edward. Edward, my best-friend Alice."

"Hi," she said calmly, though I could feel her bouncing in her seat.

"Hello, nice to meet you," he reached across me and shook her hand. That was definitely better than the introduction he gave me in our first biology class. Ass.

"And the tall blonde screaming her head off is Rose," I told him gesturing to the other side of Alice.

He nodded.

"You're fan club doesn't look happy you're sitting here," I gestured over his shoulder to a few rows down where Lauren and Jessica were sitting in their barely there clothes throwing daggers our way. If looks could kill.

He visibly shuddered when he realized who I was talking about.

I couldn't help but laugh and wave at them pissing them off even more.

"They are truly frightening girls," he stated plainly.

I nodded in agreement, focusing back on the football game. It was nearly the end of it. Forks in the lead, the entire Forks side was standing up cheering on the home team. The clocked ticked down until the buzzer went off indicating the end of the game. We were all clapping and screaming for our team. Edward was even standing, though he didn't do anything else.

"Hi Edward," Rose finally took notice of him sitting with us.

Rose had never met him, but she knew who he was and wasn't the type of person to pretend otherwise.

"Hello Rose," he replied back, remembering that I told him her name earlier.

"Are you coming to Newton's party?" she asked.

I turned back to look at him wanting to know the answer to that as well.

"No, not tonight. Maybe some other time though," he said throwing a brief glance my way.

He mumbled out a goodbye and descended down the bleachers, while I stood rooted to my spot taken aback by his brief glance my way and sudden departure.

"What the hell was that?" I turned to a giggling Alice and Rose.

"I don't know, but it seems that you ripping dear Mr. Masen a new asshole may have caused him to join the living of Forks now," Alice said.

"Ugh," I grumbled. "Let's go to the party. I'm going to need a drink."