Chapter 2- Answers

All through out lunch I thought about Bella. About why she didn't talk to other people and why she kept to herself. I heard people call my name but kept thinking. After lunch I had biology. No one had a class in the same building as I did so mike had to give me directions. "Ok, it's the 3rd building, and it's the fifth door down the hallway on the right side." "Ok, the 3rd building, and the fifth door on the right side. I think I remember." "Good Luck!"

I walked out of the cafeteria and went to building 3 with the card the teacher sign. As soon as I got in the room, I saw Bella sitting at a table by herself. I looked at her and then went to Mr. Banner to have him sign the card. The only sit that was free was next to Bella so I had to sit by her. When I sat down at the table her chair was moved from where she was when I walked in. When Mr. Banner signed my card she knew I had to sit by her so she moved her chair as far right as she could go. I wanted to know her problem. In biology, they were studying cellular anatomy. I had already studied this at my old school. I was stuck for and hour with nothing to do. I was thinking about how I should talk to Bella. We only had this class together, so if I wanted to talk to her, now was my only chance. "Hi," I said looking at her. She turned to look at me, but her chair moved no closer to me. "I'm Edward Cullen." She didn't answer. Since I was clearly not going to get her to talk to me, I turned back around. A few minutes later I heard someone talking to me. "Hi, I'm Bella Swan." Her voice was a smooth and velvet like sound. It was so enchanting. "Hi, nice to meet you Bella." She just stared at me for the last few minutes of class like she wanted to talk to me, but she couldn't. When the bell rang, she was out of her seat in a flash. I was confused.

I walked out of the biology room and went outside to go to my locker. I passed Mike on the way. "Hey Edward. Did you talk to Bella?" I was surprised at how fast word travels at a small school. "Yeah I did actually, how did you know?" "Well, Tyler is in you biology class. He saw you talking to her. How'd you get her to talk? She hasn't talked to anyone. Not even me." He sounded more shocked than I was. "I thought no one I knew was in my biology class?" "Well, you don't know Tyler, Eric just told you about him. Now answer my question." He wanted to get to the bottom of this. "Actually, I'm going to be late for my next class. I got to go." I walked away as fast as I could with out running. I got to my locker quicker than I would have if I walked regularly. I looked at my schedule. The next period I had gym. Gym wasn't one of my favorite things at school. I waited for Eric to come to his locker but he never came. Maybe he got here before I did. So I walked around the buildings looking for a sign that said where I was. I never made it to gym that day.

By time the day was over, it was raining again. I walked to my Volvo where Alice and Jasper were waiting. "So, Edward, how'd classes go for you?" Alice said with a smirk on her face. "What do you mean by that?" "I mean, how'd your classes go?" She was still smirking. I was confused. Was she talking about Bella. "Are you talking about Bella?" I said confused. "No, I'm talking about Jessica." She said sarcastically. " Oh, well I didn't have any classes with her. But other than that, class was good." I said sarcastically. She gave me a serious face. She started smiling. "Yes I mean Bella, did you talk to her?" "How did you know I had a class with her?" "She has her schedule with her still, I saw it when we had first period. Did you talk to her?" " Yeah I talked to her." She was smiling even bigger now. "What did you say? Give me full details." I laughed her when she said that. Emmet and Rosalie were walking up to us when I was laughing. "What's so funny?' Emmet asked with a big grin. Emmet's voice was slow and smooth. "Nothing, just something Alice said." Jasper said smiling with us. Rosalie rolled her eyes at us. "You guys are so weird. Let's go Emmet." Rosalie didn't seem in a good mood. Maybe there was a girl in her class got more attention than she did. I chuckled at the thought of Rose being jealous of another girl.

When we got home, Esme was in the living room waiting for us. "Well, how was school? Did you make friends?" Emmet was the first to say anything. "Rose got mad because no body paid any attention to her today." He said smiling. "No I'm not." She said seriously, not even a hint of happiness on her face. "Then why are you mad." Emmet said still smiling, but he was serious. " I'm not mad, nothing's wrong. I had a pleasant day." She said disgusted at the word pleasant. "Jasper how'd your day go?" "Good I guess, Alice and I have the same classes." "Edward, how'd your day go?" "Good." Alice, Jasper and Emmet were waiting for me to say something about Bella. I didn't plan on saying anything about her so I went up to my room. When I got in my room I turned on my stereo. I didn't have no homework today, so I was bored. After about 5 minutes I fell asleep on my bed.

When I woke up it was time for dinner. I went downstairs to the kitchen. On the table there was a plate full of chicken, and a bowl of mashed potatoes. Emmet was staring at the table like he was in love with the chicken. I laughed at him. He looked up at me. "What, I'm hungry?" "Well it seems to me like your in love with it." Jasper walked in when I said that. He started laughing. Emmet walked around the table and gave us a hard punch. Carlisle, Esme, Rose, and Alice walked in. Alice said, " What'd we miss?" Emmet looked at me with a serious face. He walked by me and whispered," Don't you dare tell them." Jasper looked over at us and then at Rose. "Fine, I'll tell them," Emmet look hard at Jasper. "Emmet was staring at the chicken like he was in love, Ed saw him and made a joke about it." Jasper was laughing harder than he was before. Rose looked at me, she looked like she was still mad about what happened at school. "You guys are immature." Alice started laughing. We sat down and started eating. Emmet took two pieces of chicken and set it on his plate. "Finally!" We all started laughing.

When dinner was over, Emmet's plate was wiped clean. He must have been hungry. I picked up my plates and put them in the dishwasher. I decided to go outside for a while. When I opened the front door it was raining. Like usual, I thought. I sat down on the front porch steps, I only got wet by rain a few times. I couldn't help but think about Bella. I wanted to know why she was so intimidating. Tomorrow in biology I was going to get some answers from her. In the mean time, I thought about the questions I would ask. Why doesn't she talk, why are her eyes red, why don't people like her? I was still tired after my nap so I went back up to my room after about 30 minutes. My shirt was cold, and my hair was wet. I decided to take a shower than go to bed.

The next day, I was ready for biology. The day passed so fast I don't remember even going to school. Math and English passed by too fast, I was starting to feel nervous. Mike, and Eric were talking to me when we were going to lunch, but I wasn't paying attention to what they were talking about. "Edward?" I looked over at Mike. "Yeah?" "Are you sitting with us today?" "Uh, sure I guess." Eric looked at me. "What's up with you today, is something wrong?" "No, I'm fine, just thinking about some things." "Oh." When we got in the cafeteria I looked all over the room. "I saw Alice and Jasper sitting with a couple of other people I didn't know. Probably some new friends they made. I saw Rose and Emmet sitting with two other boys. Rose looked much happier today. I guess she got the attention she wanted. And at another table I saw Bella. She looked relatively calm today. Like she expected something to happen today. Mike looked at me then looked where I was. "That's Bella. I wouldn't even bother with her, she's too… shy, I guess that's the right word." I looked at him. "I know who she is, my sister told me about her. And by what I heard ALL the guys went crazy for her. And unless your not a guy, that means you did too." His eyes got wider when I said that. "Well, maybe I…uh did, but that was before I knew about her." "What don't I know about her?" I was ready for what ever he said. "OK, first let's find a table." I looked all over the room for a table. There was only one left. Before I could even move, the guy named Tyler shoved his way the cafeteria door to the lunch line. "He must be in a hurry." I said. Mike and Eric started laughing.

When we sat down I looked at Mike until he saw me and then looked at Bella. "OK, what don't I know about her?" "You don't know why she came here. And you don't know why she's shy." I looked more curious because Eric started smiling. "Wait, and how do you know this? Did she tell you?" "No… but I just know these things." "Well if these things aren't true, I don't wanna hear them." Mike looked at Eric, then at me, like he was waiting for Eric's approval to tell me. "She moved here because something took her mom and she had to come live with her dad. They haven't found her mom since then. And I guess she's still upset." I couldn't believe what I was hearing. And I didn't. There had to be more to her shyness than just her mom was taken. "That's it? I mean I thought it was something more…" " Don't listen to Mike, that never happened. He doesn't even know why she's here. He just tries to get people to talk to him, and he tells people about "Bella's story"." I looked at Mike. He started laughing. "Is that why people don't talk to her, because of what Mike tells him?" "Yeah, and because she'll just ignore you." I looked over at Bella. As if she heard our conversation she looked up and saw me. Mike and Eric were looking back and froth from me to Bella. I heard Eric whisper something to Mike that I couldn't catch. "Hey Edward." Tyler had sat down at our table. I looked at Bella to see if she was still watching me and she was. I turned to look at Tyler. "Yeah?" "I'm Tyler. Did Mike tell you "Bella's story" yet?" "Yeah he told me. None of that is true though is it?" "No way! Well… it might be true, but no one will ever know because no one talks to her."

I turned to look at her when I heard some one whisper my name. "Edward." I looked at Mike who was in the lunch line, Eric was in front of Mike, Tyler was eating an apple, and then I looked over at my family. Alice was the only one looking at me. "Hey Tyler, I'm going to go by Alice OK?" "Is Alice your sister?" "Yeah." I got up and moved over by the empty seat next to Alice. Rose and Emmet got up and left the room as if by cue. Me, Alice and Jasper was left. "What?" I asked. Alice looked at Jasper. "Bella's staring at you." A big grin was on his face. "Don't look at her." Alice started laughing," And why can't we?" She was testing me. "Uh… because she'll think we're talking about her." "But we are talking about her." "Well I don't want her to know we are." Alice and Jasper were laughing so loud Mike and Eric looked at them.

When they stopped laughing the bell rang. I went to my locker and got my biology book. I walked in the room and Bella was sitting where the chair was originally at. I was confused. Yesterday she sat as far away from me as she could and today she's sitting closer. I walked to my seat and sat down. I looked at her, she was staring straight ahead. Maybe yesterday was a bad day for her. I looked at her and then she looked at me. "Hi." She just looked at me. I turned back to face forward. I wanted to talk to her but I wanted her to say hi, or least something to let me talk to her. Mr. Banner was passing out microscopes. Maybe if we had to work as partners I could start asking her some questions. "Today you and your partner are going to separate onion root tip cells and the phases of mitosis they represent." I looked down at the slides and the microscope Mr. Banner just set down on the table. I looked at Bella, "Ladies first."

She looked at me and I put the slide in the microscope and pushed the microscope to Bella. She looked at me for a moment and then said, "Thanks." I smiled at her. She looked at the slide and then she started writing. "Prophase." I looked at our paper, she had a beautiful script writing. "You want to do the next one, or shall I?" "I'll do it." When she smiled saw a straight line of teeth. She slide the next slide in place then slide the microscope to me. I looked at it for a longer time than she did. "It's anaphase." She looked up from our paper. "Can I check?" "Sure." I looked up at Mr. Banner he looked like he was confused. I looked around the room, everyone was staring at me and Bella. I turned back to our table. "You were right, it's anaphase." She started to write. When she looked up her eyes were a dark brown or a blackish color. "Yesterday I could've sworn your eyes were red, and… today, they're a dark brown color." She looked down at the microscope. "Uh, yeah I have brown eyes, but…when the light hit my eyes at the right angle they look darker." She looked back up. "Oh. You wanna do the next one?" "Sure." She took the microscope and I handed her the next slide.

She slid it in place and identified it quicker than she did the last one. "It's interphase." She wrote it on our paper. "Do you mind if I check?" "Sure go ahead." I looked at the slide. "It's interphase." She smiled at me. "Like I said." I smiled back at her. I looked down at the paper and back at her. "Do you mind if I ask you a few questions." She looked around the and I did too. No one was looking at us anymore. "I won't be able to answer any of your questions." "Why can't you?" "It's not a good idea that you find out about me. No one knows about me, that's how I want it." I looked at her, I was confused. My face must have said I was too. "There's things about me, you shouldn't know, you can't know. it's too dangerous for you to know anything about me or even be my friend." This was not how I planned our conversation to go. "If… that's how you want it." She looked hurt. "It's not that I don't want to be your friend, because I do but…" The bell had rung. She hurried up to take our paper and gave it to the teacher. I watched her as she sped out of the room. She wanted to be my friend, but it was too dangerous? How is being her friend dangerous. I don't know but I want to find out. I needed to find out more about her if that was the last thing I do.