A/N: I think I'm the happiest person alive.... I want to thank BurningUmbrellas: And I was thinking of sticking Edward's point of view in there, I'll see. Thing is I don't want to give too much away. I also want to thank xxpianoplayerxx: your reviews made me laugh, and I wuv you too besto! Also TrappedInsideADream thank you so much. Reviews mean a lot to me, so I really do mean it when I say thank you for putting time in to simply comment, it doesn't have to be long, I'll appreciate it anyway : ) Sorry I'm ranting :/ On with it.

Song for chapter: The Memory by Mayday Parade

Chapter four: The Memory

I was counting the seconds down until the bell would ring. God, Edward he was so nosy and, and, and just plain ugh, nosy. Again, why does he want to know so bad? It was a just a dumb song. I groaned quietly, but not quiet enough I guess since Edward looked at me with a frown. I just shook my head to let him know I was fine.

Edwards words were still ringing in my ears over and over. 'Everything has a meaning' I know it does, but not the same meaning. Depending on the person and the way they see things. Sure, I listened to that song and it had a deep meaning to me, but it could mean something completely different to someone else.

It felt as if this class was never going to end. Just as I thought that, the bell rang. I hopped out of my seat and ran to the door, wanting nothing more than to be away from Edward. Luck wasn't on my side today though, because as I walked down the hall thinking I was free, I looked back only to find Edward right behind me. "Ugh," I groaned loudly.

"Weren't planning on runnning off on me, were you?" he asked amusement lacing his voice.

"No, why would I do such a thing?" I asked.

"Oh I don't know, to run away from the truth?" he said answering my rethorical question. Okay now I was angry he didn't know a thing about me and has absolutely no right to judge me.

"What is your problem?" I said sharply, abruptly stopping in the middle of the hallway.

"I don't have a problem Bella." he said.

"You obviously do. You act like you know me, and like we're friends and then you ask me these stupid questions, that don't even make sense. We aren't friends Edward and we are not going to be." I said with finality.

He stood staring down at me, he seemed angry. I was the one that was supposed to be angry not him, he had no right to be in this situation.

"Are you okay?" he asked. Just like that no arguement or anything. I wanted to scream at him and yell and thrash. Why did he keep asking that? It was like he was purposefully trying to torture me. No, I'm not 'okay' but it's not like I'm going to tell him that.

"Yeah I'm fine Edward, but what has that got to do with what we're talking about?"

"It has everything to do with it." he said simply. I hadn't realised but the hallway was empty and we had to get to class.

"Yeah, look, whatever." I said just sick of his cryptic replies to practically everything I said to him. "We're going to be late."

As I was walking down the hallway, he called back to me, "Save me a bench?" he asked with a hint of a smile in his voice, and sure enough when I turned around he was looking at me smiling. I rolled my eyes and kept walking.

"Is that a yes?"

"No."

"Well is that a no?"

"Yes."

"Aha, is that a yes?"

"God Edward. Yes you can sit with me but no I will not talk to you." I said frustrated.

I heard him laugh and say, "I knew you'd give in, I knew you'd give in."

"Trust me, I didn't do it for you." I said while turning a corner, and not waiting for an answer.

German class was, fun? I was able to consentrate, and that might have had a little bit to do with Edward not being there, seeing as he did French. Our topic was fasion 'Die Mode' not that I was into fashion that much, but it was fun learning all the different things and ways to describe stuff.

Right, so I was trying desperately not to think about Edward, but it wasn't working and it wasn't even right. Why would I think of him when all he was doing was sticking his nose into other peoples business? Maybe it's just because he's been following me around a lot and he was always there, that it was hard for me not to think about him. Yeah, that was it.

Next I had Biology, and I had that with Edward. Again he sat next to me, making it harder for me to consentrate and making me even more frustrated. It shouldn't be hard. Mr Varner had yet to arrive, and I wanted him to come running into the room as Edward cleared his throat and prepared himself to talk with me.

"Horrible weather, isn't it?" I asked desperately. That was odd, the weather? He raised his eyebrows, and just looked at me for a bit.

"Yeah it is, isn't it?" he replied. "Hey Bella I was-" I cut him off before he could finish.

"Do you not like it?" I asked. He just confirmed that it was horrible, how could he possibly like it?

"No not really, it's boring. But that's not what I wanted to say, I was going to ask you abou-"

"It is boring yeah, very green."

"Bella, what is going on? You're acting really weird. Not you at all." he said with concern, for me?

"Edward you don't even know me." I said frustration taking over again.

"Yeah, that's because you won't let me." he mumbled. It was then that I realised how mean I had actually been treating him, he was so nice and I shouldn't have been talking to him that way.

Just as I was about to apologise Mr Varner walked in. I sighed and grabbed a piece of paper and wrote on it, Sorry. I slipped it over and looked at his face to see his reaction, again he didn't seem any happier, I apologized.

Say it to my face was all the note said. What he thinks I can't say it to his face? I can and I will.

Fine. I wrote determined to prove him wrong. He has no reason to think, that I can't apologize.

I tried to listen to Mr Varner for the rest of class, he was going on about the heart. And we were going to disect one soon apparently, I should seriously start paying more attention. But then if I'm paying attention, I think about Jason, and I promised myself I wouldn't do that, I'm over him now. No memories, no Jason, no nothing, there was never anything between Jason and I. At the bench he wrote.

Did I mention how all my classes drag on? Well they do, and half the time I'm either doing the exact opposite of what I said I would do (think about Jason) or because Edward keeps giving me knowing glances throughout all of my classes. It's unbearable, makes me feel like he knows so much about me, but he doesn't and he can't. I mean he just moved in to this small town not long ago. And the first time he has ever seen me is in school, for all he knows I was 'mauled by a bear'.

When the bell finally rang, I was going to make a run for it, but Edward being Edward stopped me.

"There's no point in running, remember the bench. I'm gonna' be there." he said humour evident in his voice. I sighed and walked by him, and out the door. If he's going to be there, then he can be, but I did say that I wasn't going to talk to him.

I sat at the bench, glad that Edward wasn't there yet, probably at his locker or something. But no matter, he isn't there.

It was a rare sunny day in Forks, and I loved it. I was sipping my drink when Edward came out the double doors, letting them swing behind him. He looked like he had just run a mile, but I ignored him and kept my earphones in. What he didn't know was, that I actually wasn't playing anything.

"My God, it's near impossible to get out through that lunch room." he said chuckling.

When I didn't say anything he looked at me and then continued anyway.

"I was trying to get by this Newton guy, and he wouldn't move. I had to shove him aside eventually." he said. My hands tightened into fists in my lap at the mention of Mike.

"Yeah anyway away from that. You owe me something." I still didn't talk to him.

"Remember the apology?" he asked.

"Bella I know you can hear me." he said simply, after a pause.

I pulled the earphones out and looked at him.

"What?" I asked annoyed.

"Aha, I knew you could hear me." he said smiling crookedly.

"No actually, I didn't hear a word you said."

"Yes you did Bella, and I know that for sure."

"How could you possibly?"

"Well, for one when I said you could here me you pulled the earphones out." he said smirking. "And also when I mentioned Mike, you tensed up and looked like you were going to punch something." he said suddenly serious, and looking at me with a frown.

I couldn't lie now. It's obvious that he knows, and well, I suck at lieing. I sighed and looked up at the tree above us.

"Also Bella, I can tell when you're listening to a song," he said softly.

"How?" I murmered.

"You tend to get carried away, and you have this concentrated look about you, and then at times you would frown, others sort of smile..." he paused to look at me, as if contemplating how I would react to his next statement. "And sometimes you would cry."

"I do not." I said. There was no way I was going to agree to that. But like I said I suck at lieing, and probably didn't sound anywhere near convincing because he just raised his eyebrows.

"You do."

"I don't." I insisted.

"Bella you do."

"Edward no-I-don't." I said breaking it down for him.

"I'm no simpleton. And yes you do, and you're proving my point by being so stubborn as to not admit it yourself. Because if you didn't, you wouldn't care if I kept saying you did. But you do, and it's okay to cry." he said softly.

I stared at him shocked and mesmerised.

"What?" he said smiling warmly.

"How did you know all that?" I asked. How many times has he seen me listening to music?

"Maybe I'm just observant?" he said it like a question. That unsure of himself?

"Extremely."

"Well that's unfair." I said not looking at him.

"What isn't?"

"You know all this about me, by simply being 'observant', and I know nothing about you apart from the fact that your dad is a doctor."

"You want to know things about me?" he asked amused. "You didn't look like you cared."

"That's because I don't. I just said that it wasn't fair."

"Yeah, well I'm hurt Bella." he said putting a hand on his heart and feigning being hurt.

"Ha, ha." I said although I was trying hard not to smile. My lips were twitching, I don't even remember the last time I had smiled a real smile, and not for the sake of the people around me.

"Right, well I'll tell you anyway. My name is Edward Anthony Cullen, I am seventeen years old. I have two brothers Emmett and Jasper both are a year older than me, I have the most amazing parents in the world. I love music, play the piano and the guitar. I like basketball. Can't stand some people in this school, I won't name them but I'm sure you already know. And lastly -because I don't want to bore you- I hate and will murder anyone that ever messes with anyone I love and care for." he said this all while staring directly at me, not wait scratch that, it was like he was seeing right into me as he spoke.

"Wow." I breathed and he laughed, I guess that must have been because I was gaping at him.

"So who did you do it for?" he asked out of nowhere.

"What are you talking about?" I asked confused.

"Well when you agreed to let me sit with you, you said you didn't do it for me. So who did you do it for?"

"I-I don't know I just did." I stuttered.

"Why?" he asked innocently.

"Well, maybe it has something to do with the fact that you are so stubborn, and I knew you wouldn't listen even if I said don't."

"Caught me there." he laughed.

"Bella you weren't really mauled by a bear, were you?" he asked, completely changing the atmosphere to one of seriousness and tensity. My barrier was up when it came to this conversation, I will not answer a thing asks about it.

"I don't know what you're talking about." I said feigning ignorance.

"Bella, I think you know very well what I'm talking about."

"I do no-" he cut me off before I could continue.

"I saw you Bella."

"Y-You what? When?"

"Last week, when you went into the forest with that guy." he said.

"You saw that?" I whispered, staring at him in shock.

"Yeah I did and I wish I hadn't." he mumbled.

"No, you didn't. You're only saying that, you want me to talk to you, but that's just hitting below the belt." I said getting angry.

"No, Bella I wouldn't force you to talk. If you didn't want to tell me something, I would understand."

"You didn't seem to have understood that at the beginning, when I practically ignored you all the time." I said fuming now.

"I wanted to help you." he shouted.

"How? By being nosy? All you did was annoy me, and ask me all these questions that I think I made very clear, I didn't want to answer them." I shouted at him.

"Yes, you did make it clear. But you weren't helping yourself at all Bella. The first step in helping yourself, would be you opening up to somebody and that somebody can be me, I'm willing to listen Bella." he said sounding almost pained.

"I don't want to talk about anything," I screamed at him standing up and looking down at him.

"That's what you keep telling yourself Bella. But eventually your not going to be able to take it anymore." he said eerily.

"What are you talking about?"

"Bella...." he said standing up infront of me. "I mean that eventually you won't be able to keep quiet anymore, your going to keep blaming yourself for God knows what, it's not healthy, and I want to help you." he said softly putting his arms around wrists and pulling me closer to him.

"I have to go to class," I said but didn't make a move.

"I want to help you," he repeated almost begging me.

"No." I said and stepped away from him.

EPOV (surprise!!)

"Bella," I called after her as she walked towards the doors. I didn't think she would acknowledge me, after yelling at her but she did turn around. I could see the tears building up in her eyes.

"What?" she asked her voice cracking.

"Will you be okay?" I asked her.

She slowly walked up to me then. She stood right infront of me and asked me the question I had been waiting for her to answer.

"Why do you keep asking me that?" she asked the tears spilling over. My heart was breaking for her. I slowly reached out and gently wiped the tears from her face, only for more to follow.

"Because I'm waiting for you to believe it, and answer me honestly." I whispered.

Walk away

Barely breathing

As I'm lying on the floor

Take my heart

As you're leaving

I don't need it anymore

This is the memory

This is the curse of having

Too much time to think about it

It's killing me

This is last time

This is my forgiveness

This is endless

Right, I think this is the longest chapter yet. I personally like it, it's a step forward, right? Oh, in the song just think of the 'she' as 'he'. I will try update soon but next next week is going to be crazy for me, maybe Tuesday? I'll try. Thanks for all the reviews, I never believed it when people said it would make them update faster, I thought it was just to get reviews, but I've learned that's not true.

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My favourite part would be when Bella and Edward were argueing over him sitting with her.

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