A/N: Well, here I am! I'm back with a new chapter. (I hope it isn't underlined like chapter six…) Yay! Sorry this is really, really late…again…but reality kept me busy, and on top of that this chapter was really hard for me to write for some reason, but whatever.

This chapter is dedicated to UnconditionallyDazzled and anitah97, without whom this chapter would be nonexistent for at least another two days.

Yes, this chapter is named after the Jonas Brothers song, 'Games'. It totally goes with this chapter.

Disclaimer: if I owned Twilight, I wouldn't have to do my really stupid trigonometry project…but I do, so I'm not SM!

We're in heaven, it's chapter seven!

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"GET THE HELL OFF MY BOYFRIEND!"

Chapter 7: Games

I looked up to see Tanya fuming beside us. Of course he picked the head skank. My arms were still wrapped around him, but his were just laying at his sides.

"Did you here me, bitch? Get your stinky paws off my man!" she screeched. Greeeat, now all eyes were trained on the three of us.

"Tanya, how many times do I have to tell you that I'm not dating all three of you? Jessica is my girlfriend, okay?" He said all of this very slowly so it would get through her thick head. Then he looked down at me with a very confused expression. "And may I ask who you might be?"

I unwrapped my arms from around him and crossed them over my chest. "I'm Bella, don't you remember me at all?"

"No…should I?"

What? First he doesn't return my calls, and now he actually forgets me altogether?! "I used to live in NYC with your cousin, Rachel. She had a party back in eighth grade, we played spin the bottle…"

"What?! You didn't actually have to kiss her, did you?" Tanya looked appalled.

"How could I have kissed her when I've never met her before in my entire life?"

"I don't know…"

He turned back to me. "I swear I don't remember you, okay? And I would watch yourself, we do have rules against PDA, ya know?" With that, he stalked off with Tanya towards the lunch line.

I turned back to see my salad splattered across the floor where I had dropped it. It didn't matter; I wasn't hungry anymore anyway. Instead, I headed over to where Alice was sitting and sat down next to her. Alice looked bewildered.

"What?" I asked her.

"Do you mind telling me why you ran up and hugged my brother like you've seen him before?" she demanded.

"Because I have seen him before… Wait a minute, did you just say your brother?"

"Yeah, we're twins, just like Jasper and Rosalie over here," she said, pointing to the blondes. "And this is Emmett, he's Rosalie's boyfriend and is on the football team with Jasper and Edward. Which brings us back to you." She smiled. "Go on."

"Well…I was at Rachel's party-"

"Rachel as in Rachel Cullen?" she asked and I nodded. "What a small world! She's my cousin. How do you know her?"

"She was my best friend in NYC," I explained. "Anyways, I was at her party, and Edward was there, obviously. How come you weren't there, by the way?"

"Um, I don't know. When was this?"

"March fourteenth, eighth grade." I sighed, that was one of the best days of my entire life.

"Jeez, that's a long time ago, what was I doing that weekend?" she asked rhetorically. She scrunched up her nose, struggling to remember, while the blonde girl, Rosalie, just looked murderous. Emmett looked like he wanted to hide after taking a glance at her. Jasper was staring lovingly at Alice. Hm, I wonder if they're together…

"Alice," Rosalie said menacingly. Her voice even sounded lethal.

"Yeah, Rose?" Alice replied nonchalantly.

"That's my birthday," she said through clenched teeth. God, she was so self conceited.

Alice got up from her chair and ran around the table. She stopped at Rose's chair and gave her a huge hug. "I'm so sorry, Rose!"

"Yeah, sure." Rosalie just rolled her eyes.

"I'm serious! I'll take you shopping and everything to make up for it. I promise!" How could anyone think shopping was a good thing?

"Fine, I can't stay mad at you forever, after all," she chuckled.

"Maybe Bella can come with us!" Alice clapped her hands together in excitement. Rosalie went back and forth between glaring at Alice and glaring at me. She looked like she was about ready to pounce.

Before she could say anything, I said, "No, that's okay. Maybe some other time." Alice looked disappointed but at least Rosalie looked relieved, which is what I was going for. I couldn't have an enemy on the first day.

Alice ran back to her seat next to me after that. "Continue. You left off at the part where Edward was at the party," she urged.

"Anyways, in the middle of the party, we played spin the bottle, and Edward landed on me. We went out into the garage and-"

"Ah, gross! I don't wanna hear about some eighth graders doin' it!" Emmett said and pretended to gag.

"We didn't do that, thanks for the image." I didn't mind the image actually… "We just kissed, okay? It was the best kiss ever, I might add." I sighed. "And I can't believe he doesn't remember."

"Wait, wait. Did you guys ever talk again after that?" Alice asked.

"Well, sort of, I guess. We talked on the phone a lot, but then he just kinda stopped calling me and answering my calls and texts."

She scoffed. "What a jerk! He's just as bad as his dumbass girlfriend! I am gonna have a serious talk with him tonight," she practically growled. Dang, her and Edward actually are related, I thought as I remembered Brian and the baseball incident.

"And what's worse is that I got a text from him this summer!"

Alice and everyone just looked completely confused. Jasper spoke for the first time this lunch hour. "Why is that bad?"

"Well, I was just so confused by the message. Here, I'll let you guys read it." I took out my phone and passed it to Alice. She gasped and pushed some buttons, then looked up at me.

"Who is Brian?"

I snatched the phone away from her. "No one!" My face turned bright red and Emmett burst out laughing. "What?" I asked.

"You should've seen your face when she mentioned your little boyfriend!" He was laughing so hard now that other people were starting to look over at us.

"Shut up, Emmett!" Rosalie said. "Or else I'm not skipping with you next hour." Emmett immediately stopped laughing. I don't even want to know what they're planning to do in that closet.

"And he's not my boyfriend. He was my stalker next door neighbor back in NYC. And now I have to deal with his cousin, Mike, as a really crappy replacement," I grumbled. Everyone laughed at me. Even Rosalie cracked a smile, surprisingly. "It's so not funny!"

"Yes it is!" Alice barely choked out. "Newton is so desperate for a girlfriend that it's not even funny anymore!"

I lowered my voice. "I heard Jessica talking about him like he was some god in class this morning. Wait, how many Jessicas are in our school?"

"Well, I only know one…" Alice thought.

"And Edward is dating a Jessica…"

"Holy shit! Do you guys think that it's the same one?" Emmett asked. Wow, this guy was a living example that muscles and brains really don't go together.

"Duh!" The rest of us shouted in unison.

We talked for the rest of the lunch period. I already felt like I was a part of their group. They were all very, very nice, with the exception of Rosalie, of course. But you can't win them all at one time. She just seemed like the kind of person that would be a bitch to everyone, though. So I wasn't too worried about how she would treat me. For as big as Emmett was, he was very funny and he just seemed to play the role of the over protective big brother to everyone, again the exception being Rosalie. Jasper seemed to always calm down people with a simple touch, especially Alice.

When she looked up at him, I could definitely tell they were together, it was quite obvious. I guess there was no need to question her about it later, which was good. Rosalie and Emmett appeared to be an item as well; they were touching at all times. I didn't dare to look under the table in fear of what I might see going on under there. Everyone at the table was together. In some way, I felt sort of like a fifth wheel, but usually one of the couples wasn't being all mushy-gushy with each other so they could talk to me. So that was good, I supposed.

I couldn't help but wonder if Edward was considered part of the group. He went off with Tanya to sit at the table where a bunch of guys were in T-shirts with Forks Vikings written on them, probably football or basketball players, would be my guess. And of course there was a whole load of Tanya clones sitting at the table, but what did I expect? He sat down next to Jessica, who seemed to be flirting with every guy at the table. But hey, I was going off of her body language, because I was across the cafeteria. All the other girls were leaning in on Edward. It made me sick.

"Earth to Bella!" Alice was waving her hand frantically in front of my face, trying to get my attention. I blushed at being caught gazing at Edward, but I couldn't look away, not yet. "What are you looking at?" She must've looked up, because next she said, "I can't believe you still like him after him being a jerk to you!"

I looked at the pixie and said, "I'm sorry. I just can't help it, okay?"

"Whatever. We have to get to class anyways. What do you have next?" she asked, grabbing my schedule out of my hands because apparently I hadn't been fast enough for her.

"Oh! You have bio with Banner. Jazz has a class in that building." She threw him another smile.

"I'd be happy to show you to your class, Bella." He smiled.

"Thank you." I looked around. "Where did Emmett and Rosalie go?"

"Well, you see, Emmett has a little agreement with the custodian here. His daughter is absolutely obsessed with Emmett, and he agreed to give him signed memorabilia in exchange for keys to the school, which includes the janitors' closets…" Alice trailed off suggestively.

I laughed. "Who is his daughter?"

"I don't know, I asked Emmett the same thing, and he said the janitor wouldn't tell him." She shrugged. "Okay, now we really have to go, otherwise we're gonna be extremely late. I'll see you guys later, my class is in the building the exact opposite from where you two are going." She stood up on her tiptoes and kissed Jasper on the cheek. "Bye!"

Jasper turned to me. "Let's go."

He walked me to my class, which I could've found by myself really easily, but I still appreciated him and Alice for thinking of me. I said thank you, and he walked down the hall as I entered the classroom.

It was your basic science room; there were black lab tables instead of desks, diagrams of things I never ever wanted to see a diagram of, and baskets for late work and such. After asking my teacher, Mr. Banner, where I sat, he pointed to the middle back table. This was good; at least I sat in the back so I wouldn't get too much attention…hopefully. But only one of my teachers so far had asked me to tell the class about myself. And it was my math teacher, who I hated anyway because it was, well, math.

The class was about half full when I sat down, and I noticed there was still a few minutes until class started. Maybe I had the lab table to myself after all.

But then, a familiar blond stalker walked up and I was afraid. I was afraid, because what if I got stuck with him as my partner this entire year? I would die, no question. He didn't look like the smartest guy around, either, even though science came really easily to me. But still, I didn't want to get stuck doing all the work.

"Hey, Bella!" He waved at me as if he thought I hadn't noticed him.

"Hi." I nodded my head in his direction and then looked straight ahead. Maybe he would get the hint, but then again, he was a Newton, after all…

"So, I talked to my cousin. You remember Brian, right?" How could I ever forget that sicko?

"Sure."

"Well, anyways, I called him. He told me that he was in love with you, but said you weren't interested." He had the nerve to actually lean on my table and bring his face close to mine. I tried to back away, but he would just lean in farther. "But you know what? I think you would like me better," he breathed into my face.

I leaned back just a little too far. But the tables were pushed up towards the front of the room, so there was no wall to catch me, unfortunately. Just as I expected to hit the floor, two very strong arms caught me and righted me in my seat.

I immediately knew it was not Mike that caught me, because I was looking into his stunned face right then. After I looked behind me, I was stunned as well. It was Edward, and he was smiling my smile. The smile he gave me after he kissed me at the party. At that moment, I knew that even if he claimed not to remember me, I knew he really did after all. All's I had to do was get him to admit to it.

"Thank you." I smiled and blushed.

"Any time." He sat down next to me, and I was relieved it wasn't Mike that was my lab partner. "This isn't where you sit," he said pointedly at stalker numero dos, "so why don't you go sit with someone who actually appreciates you."

He nodded, still in shock I could see, and headed back to his seat next to a particularly tall brunette.

"God, that guy pisses me off," he said under his breath. Turning to me, he extended a hand and said, "I don't believe we really had a formal greeting. I'm Edward." He smiled.

"Yes we have, and you know it. But if this is the game you want to play, then so be it." I put on a fake smile and shook his hand. "Hello, I'm Bella."

"Why don't you just cut that out? I'm telling the truth, okay? I swear I've never met you before. Maybe you were thinking of someone else. There are a lot of guys that look like me, ya know. You'd be surprised," he said coldly. Yeah, there are actually guys that look as perfect as you out there, I thought facetiously.

I opened my mouth to say something, but Mr. Banner cut me off. Apparently we were doing some sort of lab today, examining something or whatever. But I wasn't paying attention. I had my attention trained on Edward. How come he still acted like he didn't know me even when it was just the two of us talking? If nothing else, I wanted to confirm that I wasn't crazy after all. But I knew I would want so much more after that if he confirmed just that.

"Bella? Hello? Do you want to examine it first, or should I?" he asked with a smirk on his face.

"I'll go first."

We did the lab wordlessly, and since we weren't distracting each other by talking, we ended up being the first ones done. I spent ten minutes after we were complete thinking about what I should say next to him. Do I still claim I know him, or do I play along with his little game and wait for him to come to me? Option two seemed way better to me.

So, I took a deep breath and asked, "Are you related to Rachel Cullen?"

He looked surprised that I had spoken to him at all. "Yeah…She's my cousin, we aren't real close, though. She lives in NYC."

"No way!" I said, feigning shock. "I used to live in NYC!"

"Really. That's interesting. What caused you to move here?" He actually sounded interested, which is exactly why I thought he was faking.

"Well…" I bit my lip. How could I pour my entire life story on him? Even if I had counted on him before, there was no guarantee that he would actually care about me now. If, on the off chance he actually had forgotten about us, I was nothing more than just some psycho girl that he had just met. "It's kinda complicated, and tragic. I know that sounds melodramatic, but it's true. And I don't want to dump it on you."

"I think I can handle it. Tell me what's bothering you?" He actually sounded… concerned. Wow. I guess I still had some effect on him, even if not very much.

"You seriously wanna hear it?" I asked doubtfully.

"Of course I do." I looked up into his eyes, and they were very soft and penetrating, just the way I remembered them. I forced myself to look away, because otherwise I wouldn't be able to speak coherently.

"Well, my father left us. Two years later, my mother got a brain tumor and died. My mother's lawyer found my father, who happened to live here. So here I sit."

"I'm…sorry. I wish I could do something to help." You could stop with the whole 'I don't remember you' act.

The bell rang, and I thought I had actually gotten through to him, but I was proven wrong, yet again. He sprinted out of the room as fast as he could, probably to go find his skankfriend, whoops, I mean girlfriend. This was just perfect. Just peachy keen. And now I have gym. Could this day get any worse?

"Hey Bella! I'm headed off to gym. What class do you have next?" Mike asked, materializing at my side.

Yes, this day could get worse.

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A/N: To make up for the lateness of this chapter, I will start writing chapter eight right now!

Even though this was really late, please review!

Ashton.