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CHAPTER VIII – Get Over It

JUNO POV

I groaned, slamming the Biology book shut. How the hell am I meant to know, let alone remember any of this crap?! We should've just stayed at Hogwarts, stayed at hoem and everything would be fine and simple and easy.

"Juno?" I glanced up and frowned.

"Are you following me or something?" I asked, making Edward blink.

"This is my classroom too," he said, gesturing the Biology room next to us.

"Yeah, but the lesson doesn't start for another five minutes. And wherever I seem to look, you're standing right there...people may start getting the wrong idea. I think I am"

"I guess…and why are you sitting on the floor...outside the room?" he asked, frowning, slightly hesitant and confused. I looked up and down the almost abandoned corridor, the noises of the few students in the classroom a mere buzz in my ear. Most of the other students were still in the cafeteria, as were Ron and Hermione.

"I wanted to look through my books for a minute" I explained, waving said book. "And I wanted somewhere quiet…and Mike and Jessica were pissing me off again with their ignorance and their 'oh I'm so wonderful' attitude" I added, in an undertone. Edward smirked, almost triumphantly at that.

"Can I…?" he gestured to the spot beside me.

"Sure" I said, moving my bag in-between my legs. He sat in the gap between me and the door, his arm brushing against my own, causing a zing of electricity spark through my body. I opened my book again, trying to ignore the slight shudder that the spark caused.

"I'm guessing you aren't really listening or understand what happens in the lessons," Edward said, obviously trying not to smile. I grinned.

"You got that whole 'try to not to smile' thing down," I stated. "And what am I meant to be listening to? You know? Sometimes I wonder why I even come here. Seriously. I only need to know the basics to survive. I don't need to know the exact stages of mitosis or the exact concentration of. I'm not going to be a doctor or anything" I glanced back to Edward, who was properly smiling at me. "What?"

"Maybe I can help you"

I blinked. "What? Like you wanna be my tutor?"

"Maybe, if it helps you" he said, smiling.

"Edward?"

"Yes?"

"I have six brothers. I'm not an idiot. I know how boy's minds work and what they mean by wanting to 'tutor me'" I explained, my eyebrows raised. His eyes widened in shock.

"T-That's not what I meant" he stuttered and Edward doesn't stutter. I suppressed a smirk at his reaction. "I want to help you," he pressed. "I'm not like the other boys here," he added, his face growing dark.

"I know. Don't worry about it," I said. "Its just, with that many brothers, you learn to be careful around boys"

Edward frowned again. "You have six brothers? I thought you were adopted"

My own eyes widened at my slip up. "Um...not blood related. Like, I'm so close to them, they are my brothers. They are my family. You know? Like you are with Jasper and Emmett, probably. Oh!" I said, noticing his face fall ever so slightly. "Sorry" Edward nodded, in understanding.

"I'm guessing you left them back in England"

"No, they all live in my basement. I throw them scraps every now and then and turn the hose on them if they keep fighting" I muttered, sarcastically. Edward didn't seem fazed though and laughed with me. "Yeah, they're back home. Fixing up the family mess. Their mother, Molly, phones every. Single. Day. It's getting annoying. But I talk to Remus and Teddy pretty much everyday so I can't complain. I love talking to Teddy"

"I thought Teddy was only a baby. Surely he wouldn't understand what you were saying"

"I just don't want him to forget my voice. It's bad enough I cant see him..." we both remained silent at that, me tapping a tune out on my knee.

"Oh! Before I forget" I said, putting my book back into my bag, and turning from my kneeling position to look him directly in the eyes. "What is your problem with Mike?"

He took a deep breath. "I don't have a problem with-"

"Don't give me that crap" I cut in, and he blinked at my use of language. "You two seem to have this thing going on, ok? You give each deathly looks. If your looks could actually kill, Edward, Mike would be dead and six feet under by now. So, what is your problem with him?" He remained silent, and seemed to have frozen. I groaned, resisting the urge to pull my hair from exasperation. "You know, you are an incredibly hard person to talk to? The fact that I can't talk to either of you, and I want to talk to you, without the other of you being complete idiots, I have to say this. Get. Over. It. Grow. Up!"

I grabbed my bag and stood up, freezing as Edward gripped my arm. I stepped back, him still holding, realizing how much he towered above me. He opened and closed his mouth a few times, before sighing and closing his eyes. He opened them again, and looked me directly in the eyes, his golden pools flickered with black and making him seem even more hostile than he normally does.

"I'm sorry, if mine and Mike's attitudes to each other make you uncomfortable, Juno, but you must understand we don't see eye to eye"

"On what?" I asked, pulling my arm from his grasp, and placing my hands on my hips. His hands fell to his sides, his fists clenching ever so slightly. "Because, I don't mean to be picky, Edward, but I've never seen you two even talk to each other!"

"Because he continues to go after something he doesn't deserve and what he cant have!" Edward stated, his eyes wild. I blinked.

"Is that…am I supposed to understand what that means? Is it cryptic crap again, or are you speaking the Boy language again? 'Cause, Edward, I'm not-I'm not smart-" I broke off as I felt myself being shoved on both sides. At some point in our argument, the bell had rung and the students were all milling past us into the own classrooms. I couldn't help but notice how many people were staring and whispering about Edward and me. "Men" I muttered, rolling my eyes, pushing past the boy myself and entering the classroom.

EDWARD POV

Edward tugged a hand through his tousled hair, sighing. He wished he could tell her. Tell her exactly about every single of Mike's disgusting thoughts about her. How he was practically protecting her from him. How she was too good for someone like Mike. How she wasn't meant to be with him. She was meant to be with Edward. He didn't care how arrogant he sounded.

He ignored everyone else in the room, the teacher and the entire lesson, none of it important to him at all, and tried to keep his attention as far from Juno as possible. He didn't want to make her as uncomfortable as he did before. Mike's thoughts pestered him, so he closed his mind off to anyone and everyone. The fact he couldn't read Juno's thoughts had become a relief. He hadn't seen Juno in a week, and he was finally with her. He couldn't believe how he was ruining it, already. Risking their relationship before it had even started. He frowned, trying to remember any conversation that they had that hadn't been interrupted. He sighed again. How was he supposed to make Juno be with him, if they were never able to have even a simple conversation?!

He stared out of the window, mulling over his options. One: try to get as close to Juno as possible and try to ignore Mike completely. The proper, gentlemanly way. Two: make Juno realise what Mike was like, and make her get closer to him. Though he was a vampire and possibly even more dangerous… Edward scowled, as he went over option Three: get close to Juno, and rip Mike into a million pieces…that one he liked a lot.

He leaned closer to Juno. "Juno?" she remained silent, but he could tell she was listening. "I know that you want-"

"You don't know what I want, Edward, ok? Even I don't know what I want," she muttered, running a hand through her own hair, the slight breeze enhancing her scent.

Edward thought carefully about what he said next. "I know that you don't want to be here"

"Who doesn't want to be in high school?"

"I don't mean the high school," Edward explained. She looked him straight in the eye, her green emeralds glittering with questions. "You don't...you don't want to be in forks, at all. You want to go home. You seem to be more miserable every day. You hold yourself different than you did when I first saw you"

She sighed. "Well, I got to say that you are good, Edward. You're very good. I don't want to be here. At all" she picked up her pen, and began to scribble on her books, in nerves. Edward wanted to talk to her more, learn more, help her, but he could tell that he couldn't push her.

"Juno. I'm here if you need to talk...sometimes its easier to talk to someone you don't know very well"

"Ok" he heard her whisper, as she hid her face behind her hair.

It's a start, he thought.

JUNO POV

"Hi!" I blinked, looking up to see Alice Cullen grinning at me.

"Hi?" I responded, attempting to put my hair into a ponytail. I glanced around to see everyone had gotten into the teams for our next dodge ball game. Change isn't really the Coaches forte. Angela was standing beside Jessica's even more obnoxious friend, Lauren Mallory, and the two were on our team, and didn't seem that happy about it, and Ron was with Mike on the opposing team, the latter seeming put off at the arrangement and kept glancing in my direction. I rolled my eyes. Edward stood not to far from them and was thankfully not glaring at Mike, but kept glancing at Alice, almost confused and she just smiled at him.

"Oh, sorry" she said. "I don't think I've actually introduced myself. I'm Alice Cullen" she held out her hand to shake mine.

"J.D Dumbledore" I replied, shaking her hand. It was almost ice cold, just like Edwards. But hers didn't cause the same jolt of magic or feelings into my body. I pulled my hand back, frowning slightly, my hand immediately going to my hair.

"That's a really unusual name. Who adopted you?"

I blinked at her question. She immediately took my hesitation for annoyance or hurt. "Oh, I'm sorry" she began to ramble. "Its just that we know you three are adopted, obviously you look nothing alike and you're dating each other, so I-"

"Alice, Alice" I cut across her. "Don't worry about it. Yes, we were adopted by my grandfather, Albus" I lied, hoping she didn't see through it. "Very old, very crazy man. Barmy, he was. He died last year," I added, at her questioning eyes.

"I'm sorry"

"You need to stop saying that. He was very old. Like a hundred or something. Maybe more…didn't ever feel it was polite to ask how old he was" I glanced once more to Ron, who seemed to be in a conversation with Mike.

Alice looked like she was going to answer or even continue our conversation, but at that moment, the coach called to us to begin the game. Alice smiled at me, which I returned, happily, before saying we should talk more. Alice and Edward were probably the easiest people here to talk to. I had better get used to it. Fast.

RON POV

Ron gave a lazy wave in Hermione's direction, which she replied to, before she buried her head once more into the large heavy brick she called a book.

"Whoa, Ron. Your girl sure does love to read" Mike said, chuckling. "I swear she has a new one every lesson"

"Yeah, she has a new fondness for What's His Name. Shakespeare" Ron said. "She's already read ummm…Midsummer Nights Dream, Hamlet and she's started Macbeth. How can you read it? It's a play. Dunno how you can" Mike shrugged, obviously baffled about it himself. "And she's attempting to make Junie read them as well. Its fun to watch them argue about it, actually. Good when there's nothing on the bloody TV" he said, laughing.

Mike laughed too, glancing towards the brunette. "I'm guessing she's more of a sport girl?"

"Yeah, we leave the intellectual stuff to Herm. June and me can't handle stuff like that. We just play sports, or just not pay attention"

Mike seemed to mull something over in his head, biting his lip, before speaking. "Is J.D single?" Ron froze, frowning before looking the nervous boy directly in the eye.

"Why?"

"Just wondering" Mike said, shrugging.

"Mike, my sister is not an object that you can touch or look at. Remember that" Ron muttered, glancing around. Almost every boy had begun to drool over June the second she stepped foot on the school premises. It wasn't particularly new; during her last few years at Hogwarts, when she began to look slightly more like her mother and matured, every boy seemed to follow her like they would a Veela. And Juno, like usual, remained oblivious to all their attention to her, either not caring, or simply not knowing. But when she came here, it was like they've never even seen a girl before. All of the boys seemed to go after her. As her brother and her best friend, Ron naturally became protective of her, and it pissed him off to no end, having to warn off all the boys who looked at her in any way he deemed inappropriate.

"Well, a lot of the guys here like her, and I was thinking that I had a chance and thought about asking her to one of the dances here. We have loads. Would…would that be ok with you?" Mike asked, hesitant. Ron raised his eyebrows at that. No one had asked his permission to date Juno. No one had even asked him to date Ginny, and they were actually related. They just did. Is this an American thing?

"You do know that she would kill you for asking me if you could date her? And you? You would die. She's scarily independent. And I mean, she's scary" Ron explained, glancing over at Juno to see her talking to Alice Cullen, or the Pixie as he called her. "Anyway, I wouldn't do it at all" he added, growing a stern look back onto his face. "She's already got a bloke. Big bloke, moustache. Don't wanna mess with him. Mike" he added, seeing the blonde open his mouth once more. "Don't even try it, ok? If my sister shows interest, maybe. As she isn't right now, hell no are you going out with her. No way"

JUNO POV

"You should definitely think about coming to La Push. We're going to go the weekend after this one. Its really good down there"

"Really?" I asked, not really paying attention to what Mike was talking to me about. I opened Hermione's locker, she being the only one smart enough to get one, and began to look through the books to see what ones were actually mine.

"Anyway, I have to go, so let me know if you guys came come"

"Ok" I said, not looking at him. I dimly realised that he left, and just focused on looking for my books. "If I wanted a dog, I would've asked for one instead of Hedwig," I muttered, under my breath. I twitched, as a prickling feeling spread throughout my spine. I sighed and turned around, to see Edward walking past with all four of his siblings. I looked back to the Biology book in my hand, full of equations, notes and explanations to things I couldn't even begin to understand. "Dammit" I muttered. "Edward" I called after him. He turned his head immediately, and unfortunately so did his siblings. I felt my cheeks begin to burn under their almost accusing gazes, as other people turned to stare too. I kept my gaze away from his blonde sister, who for some reason seemed to be glaring daggers into me, while the other three simply smiled "Where you serious about that whole tutoring thing? I really don't want my sister to kill me"

He gave me a crooked smile. "I'll have to get back to you on that" he said. I flashed him another dazzling smile, before turning back to my locker, my cheeks almost on fire from embarrassment.

At least school will get remotely better. Now just to cope with Edward Cullen.

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