Chapter 6 – Surprise
Miraculously, we all made it out the door and to school on time – of course breaking a few speed limits – but it wasn't too bad.
The first half of the day went by as normal, Edward and I walked hand in hand to all our classes, we whispered back and forth while the teachers spoke, he stared at me, and I stared at him. But I couldn't shake the feeling that there was something he was keeping from me, he confirmed my suspicions on the way to lunch.
"I need to get something from the car; I'll meet you at the table." Edward said.
"I'll go with you."
"No, that's okay; I don't want the rest of the family to wonder where we are."
"Okay." I didn't really feel like arguing about it, so I went along. I let go of his hand and headed to the cafeteria alone. At the table, Alice, Rosalie, and Ness sat, looking just as confused as me.
"Alice, what's going on?"
"I'm not sure, they all keep changing their minds, and none of them have the whole plan. It's like they are trying to hide it."
"Maybe they are." Rosalie added.
"I think they are coming." Alice said.
I felt along my shield for each of the boys, they weren't together. Emmett was coming from the north entrance, Jasper the south, Jacob headed in from the east and Edward the west door. Jasper came in first, I could feel the excitement in the room and it was unlike him to raise the emotions in the room. I could feel someone getting closer behind me, "Emmett" I said as I turned, and Rosalie followed. Jacob and Edward both entered at the same time, it felt like an ambush, if it wasn't the heart warming smiles painted on their faces I'd have thought they'd gone mad.
I couldn't take my eyes off of the majestic beauty walking slowly toward our table from the west entrance. The four were all dressed alike – black suits, white vests, white ties; none of them pulled it off quite like Edward did. In their hand a single red rose. From the speakers that hung on either end of the room beautiful music rang through – undoubtedly an Edward original. His eyes reached deeply into my soul – the soul he thought he condemned – the soul I knew I never lost. What were they doing?
"Yes! Yes!" Alice screeched out from next to me. She must have figured out what their plan was. My eyes shifted around the room, every head was tilted in our direction, some, even turned their chairs to face us. In every on lookers eyes you could read jealousy, lust, and disappointment. Edward told me how some girls debated amongst each other which one of our boys was the most attractive. Last week along I heard the girls talking about our family in the bathroom; I'd pretended to eat some food and had to cough it back up. They seemed to all agree that the "new girls" aren't as pretty as the boys were saying. Then they intimately detailed the things about Edward, Jacob, Emmett, and Jasper that they found intriguing. There was no conclusion to the argument when I walked out of the bathroom stall – they scattered.
I felt Edward's soft hand against my cheek, he pulled my face to meet his gaze, and everyone else disappeared.
"Bella, you are going to hate this, but I am doing it any way." Edward said. He could have killed me again in that moment and I wouldn't have been upset. He continued "The sun was made to shine for you, the stars to light the night for you, the world was made for you to be, and yet you chose to be with me. I love you; will you please accompany me to homecoming?"
"Yes!" I didn't sound as excited as Alice, or Rosalie, or Nessie, but I tried.