A/N
All of this belongs to Stephanie Meyers.
EPOV for all of this.
Cliché
Chapter 6 Dreams part 2.
We are all living in a dream,
But life ain't what it seems
Oh everything's a mess
I hum the Imagine Dragons quietly to myself, looking around the cafeteria, feeling as if I was in a movie.
My table was crowded, but I felt alone. The only people that I actually saw were Alice and strangely enough, Bella. After the first few days of school she stopped eating lunch in the cafeteria and shortly after that, she started eating lunch with her brother and his friends, looking totally out of place and uncomfortable. Today she was sitting with Alice and her friends looking out of place still , but more comfortable due to her newfound friendship with Alice last night.
I felt a tap on my shoulder and looked up into the grey eyes of Tanya Denali. Her pretty face was framed with straight, strawberry-blonde hair that reached to the middle of her back. Tanya was my girlfriend in the 8th Grade, but my 'sixth sense' told me she still probably had feelings for me. "Hey, Edward." She smiled flirtatiously, resting her right hand on my back. "I snuck us some hall passes, would you like to go somewhere?" Knowing Tanya, she wouldn't take no for an answer. I nodded reluctantly and she took my hand, dragging me to God knows where. As we walked past Alice's table, I spotted Bella looking at Tanya's hand intertwined with mine. Her chocolate irises glanced into mine, she blushed furiously and looked away quickly. I felt a sense of … guilt.
Yeah, because she's your girlfriend.
Tanya drags me into a disabled bathroom which no-one uses because no-one in our school is actually disabled. She pushes me against a wall and giggles. Her grey eyes looked into mine, closing into my face. Before her thin lips kiss mine, I dodge her and break out of her grasp. "What the hell, Tanya!"
"I know that you want me like I want you, Eddy." She purred. I hated when she called me that.
"I don't want you anymore, Tanya. It's been a year, can't you understand that?"
"I thought you forgave me." She pouted, attempting to look adorable and innocent. Six months into our relationship, I found out that Tanya was cheating on me with my best friend, Jacob Black. It didn't really hurt me that they were doing things, it just hurt me that my best friend would betray me like that. I didn't really even like Tanya, and it gave me an excuse to not talk to her.
"Just because I forgave you for doing things with Jacob, it doesn't mean I'll forget it." I say coldly. I open the door and walk back to the cafeteria. As I walked past a reflective piece of glass, I noticed my bronze-coloured hair was messier than usual, and my cheeks were flushed. I joined my table again and the guys started to give me praises for 'banging Tanya'. I was patted on the back, punched and shoved for my 'success' but I just ignored them and their banter. Tanya walked in with a purposely messed up outfit and sex hair, smirking as she heard my crowded table congratulating me. The whole cafeteria could hear my loud 'friends'.
I felt an electric feel and look up to sad, chocolate eyes. Bella was usually sad at Lunch, but she looked even sadder. Feeling bad for her, I gave her a half smile, and then the bell rang.
My two afternoon classes went quickly and before I knew it, it was the end of school. I don't know why, but I was anticipating film club. I visit the toilet and walk to the English room, where I see Bella playing with the keys Mr Luis probably gave her idly. She looks up, readjusts herself and gave me a timid smile. I returned a crooked smile while she sits down and sort out the DVD then sit down two desks away from her, similar to Tuesday.
We finish the movie in this session with 15 minutes left to spare. I take out my phone to seem busy while we sit in a comfortable silence. "It's good he finally saw his kids out of the dream, right?" her clear voice spoke. I look up from my phone and her chubby cheeks flush a slight red colour. I found it kind of … cute.
I didn't agree with her statement though. "No, he's still in the dream." I word slowly.
"The spinning top wobbled like it was going to drop. It was real life." she argued back timidly.
"It still kept on going though." This was amusing. She was like an angry kitten.
We went on arguing until I decided to Google what really happened at the end.
'The way the end of that film worked, Leonardio DiCaprio's character Cobb- he was off with his kids, he was in his own subjective reality. He didn't really care anymore, and that makes a statement: perhaps, all levels of reality are valid. The camera moves over the spinning top just before it appears to be wobbling, it was cut to black.'I read the article of the director to her. 'It matters to people because that's the point about reality. Reality matters' I finish the last sentence. Bella huffed and rolled her impatient chocolate eyes. "That did not help at all." she complained. "It only made me more confused."
"But it did kind of imply that I was right." I stated. She groaned and argued back.
We debate over the ending of Inception until the fifteen minutes left are up. This time, Bella stayed with me as I switched off the light and locked the door. "Hey, there's this song I know that actually goes with Inception quite well." She informs me with a timid smile, still shy as we walked through the halls.
"Oh yeah?"
"But it depends on what type of music you like or you'll probably hate it." she blushed and looked down. I had a feeling she was very self-depreciating.
"I like all types of music." I assured her. Even though I only really liked alternative.
"It's like alt rock." She tells me as if it was a question.
"Well good, because that's my favourite genre." I smile crookedly as I open a door for her. She thanked me with a small smile.
"You're just saying that to be nice." she accused me jokingly, although her eyes were worried.
"No, I really love alternative rock." I say truthfully. She squints her eyes, scanning my face until she was convinced.
"Well, the song is called Dreams by a band named Imagine Dragons."
"Can I hear it?" I ask, pretending to not know the song even though I listened to it thrice in the past six hours. She pulls out her iPhone, goes though her music library (which was quite similar to mine) and plays Dreams while we continued strolling.
We walk through the main door and to the parking lot but our older siblings aren't there yet. As the song finishes, she flashes a shy smile and says "So yeah." so quietly, it's almost a whisper. Before I could reply, a small and a tall frame exit the gym door, making their way to the car park.
"Um, I want to talk more with you." I say lamely.
Grow some balls, Cullen.
"Me too?" she replied like it was a question.
"Can I have your phone number so we can talk about music and stuff?" I ask stupidly as Alice and Jasper approach us.
"Sure." She said hastily. She takes out a pen, writes her number on a scrap piece of paper and gives it to me just as Alice and Jasper hug and separate to their cars. "Text me at eight." she whispers. Bella walked to the white car quickly.
"Bye." I smile at Bella. She gives me a half wave as she gets in Jasper's car and he ruffles her hair.
I couldn't help but get the sense that I was going on my first date.
A/N
So yeah they started talking properly woo hoo.
Come back on Monday if you want more.
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