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I know, I know. This is extremely late. And I am extremely sorry, but you guys don't deserve this. And yes I know this is super short too. Actually, this chapter is dedicated to Nicole ;] and also to x TWILIGHT x OBSESSED x for their reviews and PM. Without them, this story would seriously have gone without an ending. =[

Longer A/N at the bottom!! =]]

Holy crap this is late!! Here's chapter eight!

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"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.

"Really? That's cool. I have to go now. Bye." I turned, attempting to leave, but of course, he cornered me. "Mike, I have to get to class."

"What class do you have?" His eyes were bright and full of excitement.

"Um, I-"

"Hey Bella! Let me show you to your next class!" someone called from the doorway. Mike's face fell. I looked over in that direction and saw Jasper standing there, smiling warmly.

"Sure thing." I ran over and hugged him. God, I've only been with Alice for a day and she's already rubbed off on me. We walked out of the biology room, leaving a nonplussed Mike standing there all alone. What a strange sense of accomplishment, I thought. When we were far enough away, I turned to Jasper, hugged him again, and said, "Thank you, thank you, thank you!"

"You're welcome," he chuckled and patted my back. "You can let go now, ya know," he hinted.

I pulled back, blushing. "Sorry."

He laughed. "No problem. Newton gets on my nerves a lot, too. If he ever goes after Alice, he's a dead man." I laughed along with him.

The bell rang, and I groaned. "Great. Now I'm late for gym and Mike is in that class. Ugh."

"You're actually going?"

"Well, yeah…"

"It's the first day of school, all's they do is go over dress code and stuff the whole freaking hour, which gives Mike a chance to talk to you. And besides, it's the last hour on a Monday, the five of us always skip and do something fun." He chuckled. "Well, if you want, it could be the six of us…"

"That sounds fun. Wait, is the fifth person Edward?" I asked warily.

"Yeah…" He looked confused, and then it clicked with him. Guys can be serious dumbasses sometimes. "Oh right, sorry. You don't have to come if you don't feel comfortable with it. I won't take it personally. However, if you want, I can make Edward take it personally…"

"I'll go. But if Jessica's going to be there, then I might just have to go to gym," I said sadly.

"No, she doesn't even know he skips." He laughed. "He always makes some stupid excuse as to why he can't drive her home then. But seriously, didn't she realize it was every single Monday last year?" He shook his head.

"Wow. Why doesn't he just dump her? She is way too stupid for him."

He shrugged. "Ask him that. We all tried to get an answer out of him, but he wouldn't say why."

"How long have they been going out?" I inquired.

"Since the beginning of freshman year, I believe."

"That was about the same time he stopped calling me…" "That's peculiar," Jasper said thoughtfully, then looked down at his watch. "We have to get moving before we get caught in the halls. Can you do me a favor and get Rose and Emmett? I still have to bust Alice out."

"Sure…what class do they have?"

"They're not in a class…" He shuddered.

"Wha-?" Then I heard a groan from the janitors' closet behind me, and remembered what Rosalie said at lunch. "Behave or I'm not skipping with you." Jasper looked pointedly at the closet door. "Oh they aren't, I mean, why are they doin' it in a janitor's closet?"

"Once Edward realizes he's making a mistake, you'll find out," he snickered. "Or if you gave Newton a chance…"

"No way in hell am I ever doing that. EVER. I had enough of his dickheaded cousin back in New York," I snapped.

"Damn, I was kidding. Sheesh. We really have to get moving." He turned around and started walking away, then called over his shoulder, "I would just knock if I were you!"

He didn't need to tell me that, it's not like I was gonna walk in on god knows what they're doing in there. If I wanted to do that, I could just look up porn*(see author's note at the bottom) online. Gross.

So, instead of subjecting myself to X-rated stuff, I pounded on the door as loud as I could. Just in case they couldn't hear a little knock. There was a loud bang, and a couple 'ows,' and then some grunting.

"Karl! This is my closet hour! Go get your own!" Emmett growled. Or it could be Rosalie, just by the way she despised me today.

"Um, who's Karl?"

One of them sighed in relief. "He's the janitor. Is it Bella?"

I giggled. "Yeah, now get some clothes on and get your asses out here!"

"Aw shit! Is it Monday?"

"How could you forget what day it is? It's only the first day of school!"

"Sorry! We'll meet you out at the Volvo."

I heard clothes rustling, so I took that as my cue to leave. Then it hit me: what's a Volvo? I didn't want to turn around and ask, so I just kept going. When I was about to round the corner, I collided with something hard, and almost fell backwards. But, two very familiar arms caught me.

"This is the second time today I've saved you, let's not make it a third." His voice was teasing.

I blushed, and looked up at my favorite bronze-haired angel who was now smiling crookedly at me. My breath hitched. That was my smile. And it didn't miss my notice that he was still holding me. In that moment, he looked so perfect; his lips were parted, and his emerald eyes darkened at the sight of my lips.

He closed the small space between us. It was the most perfect kiss in the world, not that I'd ever kissed anyone else before, but still. And it was quite obvious he'd been brushing up on his kissing expertise since his quirky early teens. He just gently brushed my lips with his.

Before either of us could deepen it however, I heard someone screeching, "EDWARD?! W-T-F are you doing with that slut?!" Okay, it was obviously one of the bimbos, because she just used online lingo.

He surprised me though, and just when on kissing me. It was kind of awkward now with someone staring, but I guess it was alright…until his hand started sliding down my back and onto my butt. Apparently this was all she could take, because I heard the sound of heels clicking down the hallway. That was when Edward pulled away and started laughing hysterically.

"Tanya's such a bitch…" He helped me up and then just set me on my feet. "Thanks for that by the way. It saved me from having to talk to her. And unless you say something, she probably won't tell Jessica." He winked at me, and then started walking towards the parking lot.

My brain went dead. I probably looked stupid standing there with my mouth open, but I couldn't find the need to care about it. All's I could think of was "Hey Lyu! PWNED**(AN below)." I can't believe I thought he was falling for me again. How could I think that? He's too player-like to ever go for me again, if you don't count one night stands. Jessica and him were the perfect couple, as much as I hated to admit it. I wanted to scream "You PMS like a bitch I would know!!" down the hallway. That would make me feel better, but then again a teacher might hear me and give me detention, and then Charlie would be all angry at me. So that was out.

Option two: I could tell one of the Newtons that Edward had a crush on them, and they would believe it because they were so desperate to be in a relationship with someone.

Option three: I could just deal with him and then call him names behind his back like an eleven-year-old.

I kind of liked option two.

"Bella! Why are you still in here? You were the one that interrupted our sexcapade!" Emmett shouted.

"Emmett! You're such an ass! Don't announce it to the entire freaking school!" Rosalie was back in her hooker black knee-high boots, which made it even more hilarious that a future prostitute wouldn't want to talk about sex. Okay, okay, I know, that was low. But it's not like I said it out loud or anything…She stormed out of the building.

"Bellaa…" Emmett walked over to me and waved his hand in front of my face. When he didn't get a response out of me, he slapped my arm, hard.

"OW!" I began frantically rubbing my arm. "What is your problem?!"

He started laughing. "You look hilarious right now!" I glared at him. "Oh come on, that didn't hurt!"

"Well it's not like I could hurt you if I tried, so I'm not gonna waste time."

"Good choice. But we have to go before Rosie gets mad at me." His eyes widened when he said her name. "Holy shit!! I forgot about that…I gotta go make it up to her! We'll meet you guys there!" He sprinted towards the parking lot door, while I followed. This was going to be pure hell.

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We went to the park and played on the playground, and had a ton of fun! Edward kept his distance from me, which was good if I was ever going to get over him, so I hung out with Alice. She already told me I was one of her best friends. The other one was Rosalie, and jeez if there was ever a permanently pissed off disorder (PPOD, I'm officially calling it that from now on!) she definitely had a major case that couldn't be reversed.

But dinner was worse, especially when Alice had one of her little outbursts.

"BELLA! How could you not have told me it was your birthday this weekend?!" She leaned across the table so she was practically in my face. I was sitting in between Edward and Rosalie, do not ask how that happened, while Jasper and Emmett were on either side of Alice. Each little part of the table was in their own conversation, but everyone stopped to listen when the pixie screamed.

"How did you find that out?" I said quite quietly in comparison, my face turning bright red.

"It's on your facebook page." She held up her iPhone. "But anyways, back to the matter at hand. How did you not tell me?! We're best friends!" she whined.

"ALICE!" Rosalie stood up and screeched so practically all of the people in Pizza Hut were staring directly at her. "How the fuck could you do this to me? First you forget when my birthday is, and then you call her your best friend. You've known her for less than a day! We've been best friends for ten years! TEN FREAKING YEARS! You are the worst friend ever! She could be a hooker for all you know!" *cough cough hypocrite cough cough* "UGHH!!!"

She stormed away…yet again. But this time, I could hear burning rubber outside. The restaurant was completely silent, until Alice started crying. She, too, ran outside but I don't think she actually left.

"I'll go talk to her." Jasper got up and left too.

"I'm gonna go to the buffet…and then I'm probably gonna go lift some weights and then talk to Rose after she's been cooled off." I gave him the thumbs up, which he laughed at, and then he ran over to get some food.

That left just Edward and I.

Just my luck.

"Um…Edward?"

He turned to look at me and actually…smiled. What the crap? "Yeah, Bella?"

"Will you drive me home?" I sighed and looked down. Great, now I was depressed while talking to him.

"Sure." He grabbed my hand and pulled me out of the restaurant and into the Volvo.

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The air was so tense, it was odd being here, alone, with him. It felt like there was something missing, but I couldn't put my finger on it. Maybe it was just awkwardness. Yeah, probably. But who knows? Maybe I was just super paranoid. I missed those two days back in eighth grade. Those were nice; he was still a nice guy, and I was still forgiving. But today, he just tasted so good, it took all that I had not to pull him back.

"Edward, can I ask you something?"

He looked at me. "Sure. What is it?"

"I have to know the truth, okay? Do you really not remember me? Please just tell me honestly. If you don't like me anymore, just say so! I'm sick of this awkwardness of not knowing anymore."

"Bella, I just met you today. Please just stop bringing this up!"

His words cut me as if I were stabbed in the heart. Actually, it hurt a whole lot worse than that. How could he say he didn't remember me? I remember him perfectly. I don't think anyone that ever met Edward Cullen thought ever forgot anything about him; he had the look, the mysterious one, and his personality was great…when he wasn't acting like this.

I couldn't take it anymore, I just started sobbing. Trough my tears, I could see a pained look flash across his face, and then a look of alarm.

"Oh god Bella! NOO!"

And then…nothing.

Darkness.

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A/N: :D I love cliffies, don't you?? Haha don't you worry about a thing, the next chapter will be out soon, and I mean it this time. I'm procrastinating studying for my science final, so that's why you get this =]]

* lol ok, well, everyone obviously knows what porn is. I'm not that stupid. But, my friend didn't know what it was. She seriously thought it was a liquid!!!

**.com/watch?v=Fhb89V43KWc I love this video!!! Ryan Higa is already married to me…so back off!!!

For those of you that enjoy reading my author's notes: Thanks so much for putting up with my insane-ness!

1) WHAT THE CRAP WAS UP WITH AMERICAN IDOL?!?!?!?!?!?!???!?!?!!!??! ADAM SHOULD'VE WON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh, and I met Elliot Yamin by the way 33. Lol, be jealous!!

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3) My four-year-old brother is eating a cupcake. I want one. But reviews will do just fine!! The more reviews I get, the faster I write!!!!!!!!!!!