A/N: Okay, thank u, thank u, thank u to everybody that stuck with me while I wasn't writing anything! I've tried to re-write this chapter so many times, and this is like the fourth authors note that I've written! Anyways, this is defiantly for mradrz4evr. Now that I've written it you won't have to kill me! Yay! Anyways, I have tons of excuses like that I went to Whistler last week or that volleyball just started or that I've had tons of homework, but I'm sure you all don't want to hear about them. So, on that note, on with the story!

Disclaimer: I don't own any of this. Otherwise I would be up at Whistler a WHOLE lot more than I actually do because I would be richer than crap!

Chapter 8 – What's There to Hide?

Bella's POV

The day after the infamous Steering Wheel Incident was uneventful – until biology. Emmett constantly teased me, of course, and Rose seemed to be smirking at me the entire day. Alice just giggled every time she looked at Edward. Even Jasper seemed affected – he seemed to be repressing laughter, too. I ignored them as best I could and silently counted down the minutes until biology with Edward.

Is this for real? I wondered as I sat at our usual lunch table. I'm practically counting the seconds until I can see him again. I've never been like this before.

And yet you still maintain that you aren't falling in love with him, my evil side injected..

It's because I'm not, my good side countered.

Are too.

Are not.

Are too.

Okay stop! The good side finally exploded. This is pointless! I'm not falling for him and that is that!

"Bella."

What? I answered.

"Bella?"

What?!

"Bella!" Alice hissed loudly, kicking my shin as hard as she possible could. It probably would have broken any humans leg, but it just made me wince.

"Yeah?" I finally replied, working my foot in a circle to ease the pain.

"Are you okay?" she asked.

"Yeah," I shrugged. "I'm fine." Alice raised her eyebrows.

"You were staring at the table and muttering to yourself… again," she explained.

"Oh," I said. "Whoops." If there was one thing that I didn't want my family to know about, it would be my multiple personality arguments that I had with myself. Besides the steering wheel licking thing, that is.

"We should probably go," I told Alice, glancing at my watch.

"That would be good, seeing as everybody else is already gone," she smirked. I looked around and saw that it was true. We were the only ones left in the cafeteria besides the ancient-looking janitor.

"Sorry," I smiled apologetically.

"It's fine," Alice laughed, standing up and linking arms with me. "However, if you still felt really bad you could make up for it by going shopping with me tomorrow…"

"Alice…" I moaned as I was dragged out of the lunch room.

10 minutes later I arrived in biology after being forcefully drafted into a weekend shopping trip with Alice. Although seeing her so ecstatic made me happy, I still dreaded the trip. When I sat down it was almost as if Edward could tell.

"Any weekend plans?" he asked cheerfully as we worked on a homework sheet together.

"Unfortunatly, yes. Alice is taking me shopping," I sighed.

"That sounds like fun," Edward said.

"Obviously you've never been shopping with Alice," I snorted.

"True," Edward shrugged as I laughed quietly.

Edward POV

"Obviously you've never been shopping with Alice," Bella snorted, still writing as she spoke in her perfect calligraphy-like penmanship.

"True," I shrugged, watching her. She laughed quietly and I was struck dumb. Hearing Bella laugh was the most beautiful sound in the world.

She is so amazing, I thought. Her dark brown, almost black hair fell across her should and spilled onto the tabletop as she leaned across the desk and her gold eyes glittered like Tiffany diamonds. As I studied her I noticed that something was different about her eyes, though. They looked almost… lighter colored than when I had first seen her. Before I could get a really good look she turned to look at her paper again.

"What about you?" she asked.

"Huh?" I blurted out, still a little stunned by her pure beauty.

"Are you doing anything this weekend?" she clarified.

"Oh, uh, yeah. Mike and Tyler and I and a few other guys are going into Port Angeles to see a basketball game, actually," I said.

"Fun," Bella smirked. She probably knew exactly what I was in for, with having two brothers and such.

"I don't really like basketball myself," she continued.

"What do you like?" I asked curiously. "I mean, you don't like shopping basketball or shopping, so what do you like to do?" Bella looked up at me and twirled her pencil in her pale fingers.

"I like a lot of stuff, Edward. I like… camping. And I love to read, I play the guitar, I run," she said, ticking the things off with her fingers.

"That's all?" I asked. She shrugged nonchalantly.

"I guess." It seemed like there had been something that she was hiding, though.

That's a little extreme, I thought. Maybe there was just something that she didn't feel like sharing. I was about to gather up the courage to ask her about it when the bell rang. She gathered up her things and stood up.

"I'll see you on Monday then, Edward," she chirped as she walked away.

"Yeah," I replied, watching her leave. The way she moved just intoxicated me.

Damn, man. You've whipped, said an evil little voice in my head.

Shut up, I replied silently.

Yay yay yay! It's finally done and now I can start on chapter 9! I already have it planned out where it's going to go, so it should go pretty quickly. I'm so excited to start really getting more into the plot, I just can't wait!