A/N: First thing I'm going to do is apologise. Profusely. I'm so sorry it's been so long since I updated. Tbh with you all, I've only just figured out where I really want this to go, and thats why it's taken so long to get this out.

Also I've got pretty important stuff going on at school at the moment, so that's also another reason. But again, I'm so sorry!

Anyway, I hope this chapter is okay. :) I'm quite excited to get it out, since this is where we really start getting into it, if you know what I mean. ;)

Happy Reading! :D

Bella's point of view:

The day passed by quite uneventfully, well, except for all of Jess' shrieking about how 'absolutely and amazing and just generally full of awesomeness' the concert was on Saturday.

I never tired of it, as much as I liked to keep my secret and still live the 'normal' life, I always felt this huge amount of pride and happiness swell over me when somebody told me or in this case talked about how amazing it was to see and hear me sing.

Everybody else – especially at lunch time - got tired of Jess never shutting up about the concert and eventually yelled at her to stop. She looked shocked for a moment, but eventually stopped talking about it. But I knew that the moment she was out of the cafeteria the non-stop chattering would start again.

I was going to find a way to give that girl some sort of Hannah Memorabilia. She was one of the most intense fans I'd met in a long time.

As good as this day has been so far, I'm not looking forward to Biology this afternoon. I know that I promised myself this morning that I was going to do something about Edward and the fact that I seemed to be hopelessly in love with him, but for some reason I am already chickening out.

He's just so pretty and I'm just so... not. Okay, pretty is probably the wrong word, but I'm still right. I'm so ordinary and whenever I look at Edward or even imagine myself standing next to him, everything just seems wrong. I've already established that there's something different about him, and the more I think about it, the more I have to realise that this insane crush I've got on him needs to stop, and it needs to stop now. Because I know that he's not going to reciprocate these feelings. I'm just plain old Bella Swan, why would somebody like Edward Cullen ever be interested in me anyway?

The only way I'll ever be able to get close to him in that way would be if I dressed as Hannah permanently.

"Bella," I'm vaguely aware of somebody snapping their fingers in front of my face, and I shake my head briefly to wake myself up from my daydream.

"Huh?"

"Ah, you are awake! I was beginning to think we'd lost you!" Jess giggles.

"Ha-ha."

"C'mon, it's time for class."

A groan escapes my lips as I stand up from my chair. "I cannot be bothered today. I'm insanely tired."

Jessica isn't paying any attention to me anymore. Her attention is diverted to a sophomore she's telling about Saturday. I flip my head round to grin at Angela who's standing on the other side of me. She's rolls her eyes and then links her arm through my own.

We start to walk off towards Biology, but I can't help but feel a sudden hint of pain at the motion of having linked arms with Angela. The last time I did something like this was back in Tennessee. A huge wave of homesickness rocks over me and it takes all of my energy to stay standing upright.

It's only just occurred to me, how much I really miss home.

"You okay Bella?"

"Hmm? Oh yeah, I'm fine."

Angela squeezes my arm and then lets go as she goes to walk off towards her lab table.

I glance over at my own lab table to find Edward already sitting at the desk. He's staring intently out the window, with one hand gripped tightly on the edge of the desk.

I resist a sigh and walk over to the desk. I land in my ungraceful manner onto the chair and dump my book bag onto the floor.

I stare intently at the top of the desk for a while, and then start to doodle on the piece of paper in front of me. I'm only drawing scribbles, since it's about the only thing I can manage.

I'm not artistic in that part of art.

Edward's velvet voice breaks me out of my doodling trance. "Hi Bella,"

I turn to look at him just as he unleashes that damn crooked smile on me, and every mean word I was going to say to him suddenly leaves my mind as I become a big pile of mush on the floor.

The only word that manages to escape my mouth is "hey" and even that is almost a whisper.

He smiles once more, his butterscotch eyes sparkling. "Did you have a good weekend?" Something about the sentence puts him on edge and a slight frown suddenly graces his beautiful features.

I blink rapidly a few times and try to lie as smoothly as possible. It's gotten a lot easier to lie over the years, since I've been keeping the Hannah secret anyway. I can't come up with the possibility that he recognised me, when I saw him on Saturday. The results could just be... catastrophic.

"Oh, um, yep. It was good, yeah, it was good."

What the hell was that, Bella? So much for being a good liar.

I suddenly felt like smacking myself on the forehead.

He nods his head and then starts to pay attention to the lesson. I haven't even noticed it had started.

Paying attention gets difficult throughout most of the lesson; it is only about 15 minutes from the end that he starts to talk to me again. And it is the last thing I expect to hear from him.

"You miss home, don't you?"

I stop mid-way through the sentence that I am writing and look up at him. I hope that the shock is written clearly on my face.

"What makes you think you have any right to ask me about that?" I can feel the anger and the homesickness flare up inside me.

His eyes lock with me and I try to keep the anger inside of me, but his stare is making that almost impossible. What is it with this boy?

"It's easy to tell. You don't really want to be here, but you don't really want to go home either."

I scoff. "Do you read minds or something?"

His face lifts up into a full-blown grin, showing off a set of perfectly set white teeth. "I just read people easily,"

"I don't understand you. One minute you seem to want to be friends with me and then the next it's like you don't even like me. Are you bi-polar?"

He laughs and the noise and feel of it gives me goose bumps. "No. I told you on Friday, Bella. I'm tired of trying to stay away from you. You...intrigue me in ways I'd never thought were possible."

I narrow my eyes slightly but can feel a smile tugging at my mouth. "You really are bi-polar..."

He smiles crookedly at me again, and the bell rings out above us, breaking the trance that I am currently in.

Edward walks beside me whilst I'm on my way to math, and I know as soon as I get in there Angela will be asking all sorts of questions.

He stops a few paces away from the classroom door, and I also stop walking and look up at him to try and find out why he's stopped.

"Are you doing anything this evening?"

My breathing comes to a halt, as I take in his words. After a few seconds I manage to suck in a breath and then let another one out.

"Um, no?" It comes out like a question.

He chuckles and then smiles at me again. This one isn't a grin or that crooked smile, but something in the middle. And I like it.

"Good. I'll pick you up at 7 then,"

"Ok... hang on, what?"

He's started to walk away but he turns around and just grins at me again. "7. I'm taking you out on a date."

Everybody within radius of his words turns round to look at me, and the blush creeps onto my face.

Hearing those words coming out of his mouth suddenly makes me feel as if the world is going to cave in around me.

I can feel the huge grin that is set across my face as I walk into math and sit down next to Angela.

"What was that all about?" She asks in an excited whisper.

"Edward Cullen just asked me out on a date."

Angela's mouth sets into a large 'O' and I can't help but laugh at her expression. "I don't mean it like that; it's just that... he's never asked anybody out before... I don't mean that it's not because your -"

I cut her off. "I know. I get it too."

"You are so lucky."

"I know that too."

The grin that sets on my face then is one that is going to be plastered on my face for the rest of the day.

A/N: So, I hope that was okay and that you enjoyed it! :D

I've got 10 days left at school before I leave forever (Yeah, scary thought) so I've got a mega long summer. I'll try to get a chapter out for you, asap! :)

Please review, they make me so happy! :)