An Undeniable Love: Chapter 2
I had most of my classes with either Edward or Alice; Emmett had classes in an entirely different part of the school. I only had one class where neither of them were with me: gym. Gym was my most dreaded class of the day.
Everyone knew to stay out of my way or leave me out of the game, which I didn't mind. The first day of gym for me was horrible. I tripped three girls all at the same time trying to throw the basketball through the hoop. I was so clumsy that it was hard for me not to get hurt at least four times a day.
Alice was in three of my other six classes, Edward was in two, and they both were in one class with me together which was English. Me and Edward had biology and history together and Alice and I had calculus, trigonometry, and health together. I sat next to her in all of those classes and me and Edward sat together in the two we had alone. But I sat in between them for English.
Edward didn't really talk to me. Okay, he didn't talk to me at all. I would glance in his direction every once in a while, but he never seemed to notice.
I headed off to my first period class, English. When I walked through the door, I saw Edward sitting at his usual seat, so I sat next to him in my seat. He was working on some homework from yesterday that he obviously hadn't had the chance to finish yet. I decided to try to make some small talk with him, since he never saw me these past two years.
"Hey Edward," I said as casually as possible.
"Bella," he replied, looking up from his work. He seemed shocked that I was here. "What are you doing here?" Oh my gosh.
"Um, Edward? This is my first period class."
"Really? Hmm… I didn't know."
"Edward, this has been my first period class since the beginning of the school year. I've been sitting next to you all this time and you just noticed that I'm in your class?"
"Oh… sorry. I guess I forgot," and with that he turned back to his work. The class droned on without another word out of his mouth. As soon as the bell rang, I was up and out the door. I needed some time with Alice to get my mood back up.
I walked into my health class and sat down at my table with Alice.
"I talked to Edward this morning in history, and he forgot that I was in his class. Can you believe that?"
"Really? Wow. Well, he has been a little off these past few weeks. It's like he's thinking way too deeply about something. But I can't place my finger on it…." she replied, trailing off as the bell rang.
When class was over, Alice and I chatted about random things; our homework assignments, Edward, boring teachers, Edward, class projects… did I already mention Edward?
After calculus with Alice, I headed to the gym locker rooms and got dressed. Surprisingly, we weren't doing anything today… except watching some silly video about the rules of street hockey. Great.
After gym, I walked by myself to the lunch room where Alice was waiting at an empty table. I grabbed a tray full of food and sat down across from her.
"Where's everyone else?" I asked. Usually, it was me, Alice, Edward, Emmett, Jasper, and Rosalie who sat with us at lunch.
Rosalie and Jasper Hale were twins. Jasper was Alice's boyfriend, and Rosalie was Emmett's girlfriend. Jasper was a junior and Rosalie was a senior; long story short.
"They'll be here in a minute. Rose and Emmett's Spanish class ran a little late and I have no idea where Edward is," she replied.
All of a sudden, I heard Emmett's booming laugh and Rosalie's quiet giggles as they walked through the doors to the cafeteria.
"Hey!" Emmett called to us.
They came and sat down next to me across from Alice. Emmett pulled me into a tight bear hug.
"Emmett… can't… breathe…" I choked out.
"Oh, sorry," he said letting me go.
Then Jasper walked through the doors and sat next to Alice, across from me, and kissed her lightly on the cheek. They exchanged their hellos and Jasper said hi to me as well.
Then I felt a gentle tap on my shoulder and looked up to see a certain green-eyed friend of mine, standing with a lunch tray in his hands.
"Hey Bella," he said.
"Oh, hi Edward."
This was the first time he'd acknowledged me like this in two years.