BPOV
After photography I wandered around campus with nothing to do. It was times like this that I wish I had more classes. When it was about five minutes until the last class of the day I ran across campus to the English room. When the bell rang and Alice stepped outside the building I almost tackled her to the ground.
"Guess What?" I asked. She smiled instantly picking up on my good news.
"I don't know. What?" she asked, perfectly playing the best friend role.
"Edward asked me on a date!" I said, looking at her expectantly. She paused a minute before squealing.
"It's about time. When is it? Where are you going? What are you going to wear? Come on Bella give me details," she said, making me giggle.
"Friday night. He said he's going to pick me up at my room at seven, but he didn't tell me where we are going just dinner and a movie," I answered, in one breath.
"You don't know where you're going?!?" she screeched, causing people to turn and look at us.
"You're wrecking my mood Alice. Let's go tell Rosalie," I said, trying to get everyone to turn back around and mind their on affairs. She nodded, linking her arm through mine, and skipping towards the History building. We laughed as we tried to go higher in the air with each skip. On the way to the History building we passed the Gym, where the boys were just leaving.
"Hey," we said in unison, slowing down beside them.
"Hey?" Jasper, asked leaning in to give Alice a hug, while Edward gave me a knowing smile.
"Yuck. You're all sweaty," she complained, pulling back. All three of the boys rolled their eyes.
"What are you two girls up to?" Edward asked, eyeing Alice skeptically.
"Girl stuff you wouldn't understand," she said, pointedly, "We're off to get Rose, don't expect to see her anytime soon Em we are going to have some girl time." With that, she grabbed my arm and started pulling me away. I snapped my head around to the guys and mouthed "Help Me" jokingly, before turning around to try and keep up with Alice. To be honest it was quite difficult; she had me breaking into a run to try and keep up.
Rosalie had already left the history building by the time we got there, but we caught up with her a few yards away.
"Bella has really good news," Alice said, barely containing her squeals of excitement.
"What is it?" she asked instantly interested. They really were the best friends a girl ever could ask for and they were all mine!
"Edward asked me to go on a date with him Friday," I gushed. I tried to ignore the three girls, who seemed to be following right behind us, but they were talking in hushed whispers and they were way too close for comfort they didn't know me well enough to be concerned with my personal life. I discreetly tipped off Alice and Rosalie about the situation going on behind us and they started giggling.
"I'll take care of this," Rosalie whispered, stopping so suddenly the girl behind her ran into her.
"For the love of all things holy would you watch where you are walking," Rose said, pushing the brunette backwards. The girl lost her balance and fell flat on her ass. Alice and I could barely contain our laughter.
"If you're going to eavesdrop on someone else's conversation at least try to be a little more discreet about it," she spat at the girl.
"Geese, you don't have to be such a bitch about it, Rosalie." The red head snapped as she helped the girl on the ground get back up on her feet.
"You don't have to be such a whore either but that isn't my business and I wasn't the one listening where my ears weren't invited," Rosalie retorted. It seemed this fight was going past just eavesdropping and something had happened between these girls before.
"I'm not the one who's been in every guy's pants within a ten mile radius," the red head, shot back.
"You're right. You're the one who lets every guy in their pants, just like a door knob everyone gets a turn." Rosalie smirked. The red head shot Rosalie a death glare, but quickly scurried away when she saw who was coming towards us. I almost snorted; this girl was afraid of Lauren Mallory?
"I don't have time to chat," Lauren said, glancing over her shoulder at the guy waiting, "I just wanted to let you know that Miss Bridget is considering letting me be captain again because of our fight. She said whoever dances better tomorrow will get the responsibility."
"Sounds like you don't have much of a chance," I said.
"You've never even seen me dance," she said, trying to defend herself.
"I don't need to I already know sticks can't dance," I said, looking at her weak calf muscles. She gasped at my comment and couldn't even get a response out in reply before a giggling Rosalie and Alice pulled me away.
"We really are bitches," Alice said, nonchalantly.
"But we're hot, so we're allowed to be, not to mention we are the captains of all the sports SBA offers for the female population or at least after tomorrow when it is official anyway!" Rosalie said. After another round of giggles we finally made it to Alice and Rosalie's dorm room. Alice brought out the popcorn, chocolate, sodas, and spaghetti while Rosalie went to get romantic movies and blankets. We pushed the couch back some and made a big pallet in the middle of the floor, before plopping down to watch The Notebook.
We finally passed out around two-thirty in the morning after watching The Notebook, Titanic, P.S I love you, and A Walk to Remember. We awed, laughed, and cried at all the right parts and had finished a six pack of coke, two bags of popcorn, six Hershey bars, and all of the spaghetti by the end of it all.
The next morning we managed to get up at a reasonable time and I walked them to their first class. I wished them luck as they entered into the Math class, Trigonometry I think it was. I saw Edward entering the Math building and he stopped me right before I reached the door.
"Hello Bella," he said, trapping me against the wall.
"Hi Edward," I said, trying to keep my voice even and as calm as possible.
"I can't wait for our date Friday," he said, leaning in slightly closer.
"Me either," I said, trying not to get distracted with our proximity and my accelerated heart rate.
"See you in English," he said, seductively. And with that he pushed off the wall and walked into his math class. I laid my head back against the wall and groaned. He was such a tease sometimes. When I was finally able to move, I headed over to my dorm room to grab my book-bag. I was surprised to see a note stuck on the door, but I rolled my eyes when I saw the handwriting on the front.
Bella
I skeptically opened the card. I would recognize his handwriting anywhere. I didn't like knowing he was in New York City; he wouldn't come here without a purpose.
Fred called me and said you were performing next Monday. I thought I would come early and we could hang out some.
Dad
I snorted. We would most definitely not be hanging out. No matter how much I tired we would never be close again, he wrecked that years ago. When I entered my room I considered going through my morning routine again, but I really didn't have time and I had already showered at Alice and Rosalie's. So I just grabbed my book-bag and didn't even bother changing out of the clothes Rosalie had let me borrow.
--
As I slipped into my seat next to Edward, I couldn't help but notice how he seemed upset over something. I gave him a few minutes to speak up about it, but he just sat there.
"A penny for you thoughts?" I asked. He didn't answer, just asked me a question.
"What gives people the right to assume that things are a certain way?" he said, still deep in concentration. I instantly started wondering what he was talking about, but played it cool.
"It's human nature." The corners of his mouth twitched and he turned to face me.
"I suppose it is." I almost gaped at him. He just did a 180. He seemed so upset over something and I make one small comment and he's completely fine. I settled for a huff and continued to stare at him.
"Why did you ask?"
"I just came from psychology class and that was the question of the day. I can always count on you to give me the simple answer," he said, shooting me a grin. I smiled back, but on the inside I was disappointed. My inner teenage girl had wanted some sort of gossip.
--
Gym passed very quickly as our coach didn't require us to play. He said he couldn't handle the whining. Alice and I just talked about how busy next weekend was going to be.
"We have to go to Jasper's game right after class on Friday, then we'll eat, and then we'll go to Edward's game," she said, frowning.
"Okay well Saturday is out because we have the all-day carwash," I pointed out. The whole school was doing a car-wash that started at six am and didn't end until eight pm. I almost laughed at Alice when she said this, but she explained it was a lot of fun. She said that someone blared music, soda and pizza were provided all day, and that everybody had water gun and water balloon fights in between washing the cars.
"I almost forgot about that. Well we'll have to go get swimsuits Thursday night because I have practice tomorrow." With that we moved onto Sunday.
"Well Rose has a game at eight am, so we can get together for breakfast before that. Then we'll have like two hours before we need to get lunch and head over to the field for my game at one-thirty," Alice explained.
"Well then I know that Emmett has practice had four and I have practice at four-fifteen. We can grab dinner after that and then we'll be able to hang out all of Sunday night," I finished.
"Perfect," she exclaimed just as the bell rang. We hadn't even bothered changing out for gym, so we just grabbed our purses and walked outside.
"I'm in the mood for Chinese," Alice said, pulling me over to some Asian looking building.
"I can't have Chinese right now. I'm going to a competition on Monday," I said, sadly. She frowned, starting to walk away, but I stopped her.
"Go ahead. I'll meet you at the table," I smiled. She opened her mouth to argue, but I just ran away towards the salad bar.
I ended up getting to the table at the same time as Alice, as we took seats right next to each other.
"Rosalie, Bella and I planned out next weekend," Alice said, opening her sweet and sour sauce.
"What about this weekend?" Rosalie laughed.
"Easy, all that's going on is their date on Friday, Emmett's game Saturday and Bella's practice Sunday, so Friday night will be our couple time since we will be missing Bella and Edward."
"Well then, tell me about next weekend." I blocked them out already knowing all the details and turned towards Emmett who was seated on my right side.
"Do you take psychology?" I asked, hoping whatever Jasper was talking about was keeping Edward interested.
"No," Emmett said confused, "Jasper and I wanted to take that course, but they don't offer it here." I knew I hadn't seen it on the elective sheet! I smirked, nothing ever got past me. When it looked like Jasper and Edward's conversation had ended I spoke up.
"So Edward, do you like psychology? I think I might pick it up," I said, stabbing a piece of lettuce with my fork. Edward sighed, when everybody else turned to look at him confused.
"There is no psychology class." Well, that wasn't very hard now was it?
"I just didn't want to hurt your feelings by telling you the truth," he said. I could hear the honesty and sincerity ringing in his voice as he spoke.
"What is the truth then?" I asked.
"Some people, assumed I was," he paused, searching my face, "fucking you." I stopped; I hadn't been expecting that one, so much for the gossip I had wanted. Luckily I didn't have to say anything because Alice cut in.
"What in the world would give people that impression?" Edward chuckled, but still stared at me.
"I don't know Alice," he said.
"I mean they're obviously just trying to start something to interfere with your dating each other," she continued.
"Obviously," I commented. As soon as the word left my mouth, Edward smiled slightly.
"Glad to see you're not affected by it any at all."
"Of course not why should I be we know the truth," I lied, "I'm just a little offended that you didn't tell me the truth in the first place."
"Sorry," he whispered. I shook my head, dismissing it.
"Don't worry about it." The look on his face clearly said he would be worrying about it, but neither of us made any further comments about the subject.
EPOV (This is back when he asked her on a date)
As I jogged away from Bella, I couldn't help but smile. I had waited much too long to do that. I made it over to the gym in record time, due to my new Bella induced high. I had already changed by the time Emmett and Jasper got there. Jasper raised an eyebrow, but just continued to the locker rooms behind Emmett. As soon as he got back though, he asked.
"What the fuck is up with you man?" Well he isn't he just a big bowl of sunshine.
"Nothing," I said, trying to play it off. I wasn't about to start acting like a girl and gushing about my great date I had coming up or some shit like that, I wasn't one for gossip.
"Sure," he said, unconvinced. I just shrugged and he thankfully let it go.
My luck ran out when we stepped out of the gym and Bella and Alice skipped over to us. I couldn't help but notice how Bella's eyes danced. I loved that sparkle in her eyes. I quickly averted my gaze, as not to draw any suspicion.
"What are you two up to?" I asked, noticing that Alice was extra hyper.
"Girl stuff you wouldn't understand. We're off to get Rose, don't expect her anytime soon Em we are going to have some girl time." she said, dragging Bella away. The three of us laughed as Bella turned around and mouthed "Help Me". As soon as the girls rounded the corner Emmett and Jasper began shaking their heads.
"When did you ask out Bella?" I'm sure my jaw dropped open. How the hell did they know that?
"We're just good like that," Jasper smirked. Oops, must have said that out loud.
"During photography," I said, heading in the direction of my dorm room.
"Don't fuck this one up, I like her she's a keeper and if sides have to be drawn and friends chosen I'm on her team got it bro" Emmett called behind me. Well, thanks Emmett! What ever happened to bro's before ho's?
That evening Tyler stopped by my room asking if I could do him a favor he gave me the money that I required as a fee and left knowing I could make his wish come true.
--
The next morning as I entered the math building a few minutes later than normal I saw Bella walking my way. I smirked; might as well mess with her a little bit while we have a few seconds alone.
"Hello Bella" I said, putting a hand on either side of her head, forcing her to turn and face me.
"Hi Edward," she said, her voice a tad higher than normal. I held in my chuckle.
"I can't wait for our date Friday," I said, getting as close as I could without touching her.
"Me either," she said, glancing down at our bodies.
"See you in English," I said, in the voice I knew drove most girls crazy. I pushed off the wall, hopefully leaving her wanting more. When I rounded the corner I saw two girls huddled close together, their backs to me. Little did they know their whispers weren't really whispers at all.
"He has to be fucking her," the brunette commented.
"I know right. Edward Cullen doesn't go on dates," the red head, replied. I couldn't hear anymore as they started heading towards their class, but I managed to get a glance at their faces. It was Victoria Mallory and Lisa Allen, they we're famously known for being the girls who tried to bash Rosalie. I thought they would have learned not to gossip after the last run in they had with her, hope this didn't get back to Bella. I knew first hand that girl could pack a punch and I feel sorry for any other girl on the receiving end, I may be a man but I have to admit it hurt.
-- (At lunch)
Jasper went on and on about some dumb Civil War shit that I couldn't have cared less about, but being the good friend I was, I listened. Eventually he spared me of the boredom and just went to eating his hotdog.
"So Edward, do you like psychology? I think I might pick it up," Bella said, probably killing part of her salad. I sighed, when everybody sent me their accusing looks. It wasn't my fault I couldn't bring myself to tell her the real reason behind my question. She was so sweet and I didn't want her to have to deal with the nasty rumors high school girls could come up with around this place out of their jealousy driven stupidity.
"There is no psychology class." When she didn't say anything I decided to continue.
"I just didn't want to hurt your feelings by telling you the truth," I said, hoping she could hear the honesty.
"What is the truth?" she asked.
"Some people assumed I was," I paused, making sure she really wanted to know, "fucking you." She froze and so did I. This is what I had been trying to prevent. I knew it would upset her.
"What in the world would give people that impression?" Alice asked. I chuckled, but my gaze never left Bella's face.
"I don't know Alice," I said. For the first time in my life I had no clue why people would think I was fucking a girl. Any other time I would know exactly why, but not this time. Everything with Bella was....different. I didn't just want to mess around I wanted a future with her already and our date isn't for a couple of days.
"I mean they're obviously just trying to start something to interfere with your dating each other," she continued.
"Obviously," Bella commented. I was so happy to hear her brush it off like it was the least of her worries, I had to smile.
"Glad to see you're not affected by it any at all."
"Of course not why would I be we know the truth," she said, "I'm just a little offended that you didn't tell me the truth in the first place."
"Sorry," I whispered. I should have known she wasn't one of those girls who took everything personally, but she shook her head.
"Don't worry about it." I'm sure everyone at the table knew I would worry about it, but that was the end of that conversation.