Chapter 4

I gathered all my things and shuffled out of the classroom toward my locker along with Jasper.

"Not excited about gym class I see." Was it that noticeable? I mean I was walking extra slow to my locker with my head down and biting my nails, other than that, I didn't think it was that obvious. Maybe he kept hearing me mumble "fucking gym" under my breath. That could have tipped him off.

"Hell no….I seriously hate gym with a passion. I mean, what's the point of it, to pretend to play volleyball or basketball? Screw that, I'd rather sit my ass on the bench. That's what I'll be- a bench warmer. Or maybe I can just hide under the bleachers. "

"Jeez, tell me how you really feel Bella."

I laughed. "Sorry, at least I'll have Alice there with me. Maybe she can make the hour and a half go by quick." I shrugged. One can only hope.

We made it to my locker, and it didn't surprise me that Alice was already there with how slow I was walking.

"What took you guys so long? I've been waiting here for like 2 minutes!" This girl was impatient. "Did you two lock yourselves in a broom closet somewhere?" She wiggled her eyebrows.

"What! No! Why would I do that! Jasper is your boyfriend, and I don't see him like that Alice. I mean he's cute, but no, just no." Alice and Jasper started laughing.

"Wow…I kinda feel offended." Jasper held his hand to his heart.

"Silly Bella, I was just messing with you. I know you wouldn't be in a closet with Jasper." This sick pixie freak! She teased me for her own pleasure.

"You are a danger to my health Alice! You made my heart beat go 1000 times per minute at least three times today!" I laughed.

"Sorry, it's just the look on your face each time is just priceless." I bet it is. We'll see if she says that when I'm dead on the floor looking like I just watched "The Ring" video with my face all contorted out of fear.

"Well you are forgiven. As long as you are getting some kind of pleasure out of it, then hey, it can't be that bad."

"I agree! Now you ready to go to gym?"

"No, but I'll go anyway." I put a fake smile on my face. Alice kissed Jasper goodbye and we went in opposite directions.

We walked into the gym and saw all the students sitting on the bleachers waiting for the gym teacher to come in. I kept praying to myself not to trip and fall down the bleachers as we climbed up to take our spot. We found a spot at the top and sat down. I took this time to look around and see if I noticed anyone in the class. That's when I saw that bronze hair. Edward was in this class! He was resting his arms on his knees and his head was down listening to his IPod. Not only was I going to make an ass out of myself in front of people, I would also do it in front of Edward! He is going to have a book written on things to fuck with me about once we get out of this class. I mentally slapped my forehead.

"Are you ok Bella?" Alice whispered in my ear.

"Yeah, why wouldn't I be?"

"Well you just slapped your forehead pretty hard. I'm kind of wondering if you gave yourself a concussion." Oops, I guess it wasn't mentally.

"Oh….Uhhhh….yeah." I sighed. "It's just that Edward is in this class also. I already have to deal with him in 1st period and lunch, I'm not sure I can take anymore."

"Don't worry about it Bella. It's only the first day of school, and you're already stressing. I told you, everything is going to work out fine. Best of friends remember."

"Ok…If you say so." I laughed. Did I believe Alice, not really, but her way just sounded so much better.

I also saw Jessica was in this class. Well, I didn't see her, it was more like her third head saw me and decided to scream my name from the bottom of the bleachers.

"BELLA!! HEY! I DIDN'T KNOW YOU WERE IN THIS CLASS!!! THIS IS SO AWESOME!"

I simply nodded my head and smiled. My cheeks were getting tired from all this smiling. They haven't seen this much action since…..well I can't really remember. Sad I know. No need to pity the antisocial girl.

Edward must have heard this bit of information being that he picked his head up and looked in the direction that Jessica was frantically waving at.

As soon as I made eye contact with Edward, I quickly looked down.

Stupid fucker…..I bet he is just overjoyed that he can mess with me in here also.

"Please don't tell me you made friends with Jessica?" asked Alice with a disgusted look on her face.

I laughed, "Of course not, I have her for Trig. She sits right next to me and took it upon herself to let me know that she is Forks High's own gossip queen." I rolled my eyes. "She was the one that also informed me that you guys really don't let people into your group."

"She's just bitter because we didn't let her sit at our lunch table!" Alice laughed. "But seriously, you would have to be Mother Theresa to put up with her jabber jaw."

"Yeah, I've learned that." I laughed.

I heard an annoying giggle, and I looked in the direction it was coming from. It was Jessica who was now sitting in front of Edward. She was twirling her hair in that annoying way that girl's do when they TRY and flirt. It looked so ridiculous. Then mix it with her hyena laugh. I was truly in hell. Did she really think he was going to fall for that?

I looked at Edward and he was just smiling at her and listening to whatever was coming out of her mouth. Wait…..what? Why? Was this the kind of girls he went for, the ditzy females? A girl that looks like she can't think for herself?

Edward turned his head to the side and looked right at me. His eyebrows scrunched in confusion at first then he looked as if he had some kind of epiphany. At that point he did that sexy crooked grin and turned back to Jessica and reached out to twirl a piece of her hair. He then went on to whisper something in her ear.

I looked away at that point. What was this thing I was feeling from him flirting back, jealousy? Over Edward! No way! I didn't even like the guy. Did I?

Oh my god! Stop asking yourself questions!! It's getting annoying and weird.

Just then, a woman who I could have swore was the sergeant from Full Metal Jacket walked, or should I say marched in, with her sweat pants, Forks High shirt, and a whistle around her neck.

She looked like she could kick some ass….I was prepared for her to call us maggots!

I heard the loud screech of the whistle.

"Alright! I'm Mrs. Hardy. Consider today you're only off day! You won't be doing any physical activities today! We'll just be passing out your uniforms for this class and giving you your locker numbers! This will be the one and only day that this will happen! You all are mine for the rest of the semester!"

Oh shit….I'm just gonna love this class. I looked at Alice with I'm sure a terrified look.

"Help me." I said.

"Don't be so dramatic Bella. It's gym. We'll get through this together." She clutched onto my arm.

I giggled. "Ok…We'll be ride or die bitches!"

Alice laughed. "Wow, you just went gangster on me!"

"Sorry……It's just one of my alter egos. " I shrugged.

"YOU TWO AT THE TOP! ARE YOU GUYS DEAF?!? I JUST TOLD ALL THE GIRLS TO GO TO THE LOCKER ROOM!"

Alice and I looked down at the Mrs. Hardy like two deer's caught in headlight. We then looked around and noticed that girls were already going into the locker room. Oops I thought.

We got up and started going down the bleachers as fast as possible.

"And are you a man or a woman?" I said under my breath. Alice just laughed.

"Excuse me. What was that?" asked Mrs. Hardy.

"Oh um…I said we are on our way." I said.

"Well go faster…..my 90 year old grandma with a bad hip can move faster than that."

I wonder if her grandma was built like her, if so, then I'd expect no less from granny.

Alice and I got to the last step when, of course, I stumbled. My foot didn't quite step all the way on the last step and I started to fall forward. Thankfully, Alice was in front of me, so I just ran into her back. She didn't fall or even tip forward. She was like a wall. The little pixie was tough.

I immediately started to blush when I heard some of the guys laughing. I recognized one of those laughs from the asshole. I shot a glare up to him which made him laugh harder.

Alice pulled me by the hand and led me into the locker room.

And my gym class embarrassment begins.

Edwards POV

As I sat in gym class listening to my IPod, I still couldn't help but think of Bella. What was it about her that got me hooked? Is it her attitude? The type that doesn't give a fuck what people think, or more accurately what I think? I needed to get her out of my mind.

Today at lunch, her fucking with me was a major turn on. I wanted her to continue just so I could hear her voice or see her face when I said something that she didn't like. And what the hell was with her making fun of my phrases. That was annoying as shit. From now on I'll just say it just to bug her ass.

The girl couldn't be all that bad, but like I said "Edward Cullen" doesn't settle. I didn't want to get close enough to her and take a chance of falling for her. I'll just keep pushing her away along with pushing her buttons because that shit was just fun. I could maybe find some poor soul that I can lead on to take my mind off of Bella. That would be simple to do. There were so many girls that would be willing to occupy my time and keep my mind off things. The first decent girl that caught my eye would be the lucky winner.

"BELLA!! HEY! I DIDN'T KNOW YOU WERE IN THIS CLASS!!! THIS IS SO AWESOME!"

I looked up and saw Jessica Stanley's tits staring right at me. Well that was fast. But what did she say? Bella? She was in this class?

I looked in the direction that Jessica was yelling in and saw Bella sitting next to Alice. She quickly looked down. Well this is just great.

Well at least I can have Jessica to take my attention away from Bella.

"Hey Jessica" I smiled at her.

"Ohhh….uh…..Hey Edward!" You could practically see the girl bouncing from me talking to her.

"How's your first day been?" I asked as if I was actually interested.

"Umm….yeah, it's been great! Even better now!" She said with an annoying giggle at the end while twirling her hair. How did she twirl it? She had to have at least a can of hairspray in her hair by the way you heard a crunch noise.

"Yeah, I just really……" Jessica flapped her mouth some more and I completely tuned out. For some reason out of my control, I looked toward Bella. She has a disgusted look on her face. Why? Did she not like Jessica? I know she didn't like me, so I don't think she had to make that known yet again. WAIT! Is it because I'm talking to Jessica? Was that a look of jealousy? It was! I knew she was into me just a little, seriously who wouldn't be. Well this little idea of mine can work both ways. One, take my mind off the girl, and two, make Bella jealous just to piss her off.

I continued my flirting with Jessica; however, I bumped it up a notch. I grabbed a piece of her ridiculously hard hair and twirled it. I needed hand sanitizer after this stat!

Finally the gym coach came in and introduced herself to the class. She dismissed the girls to go to the locker room, but I guess my sister and Bella didn't hear her. They got their ass chewed out for not listening. I watched as they went down the bleachers and as Bella tripped, yet again, and almost fell down.

I started laughing. How clumsy is the girl really? She shot a glare up at me and that just made me laugh even more! This class might not be so bad after all.

Bella POV

We came out of the gym with Alice still complaining about the required gym uniform.

"Seriously Bella….Those sweat pants can go all the way to our arm pits, and those shirts are huge even for a small!"

"I think they are just huge for you Pixie!" I laughed.

"Yeah well, they are not gonna make my ass look good I can tell you that."

We were walking out toward the parking lot since gym was our last class. I noticed Edward standing by a silver Volvo. I guess that was his car. Duh…Why else would he be leaning on it?

Oh did I forget to mention his car was parked right next to mine? I can't even get a tiny break can I?

"Oh Bells! I forgot to tell you, this coming Friday we are having our annual back to school party! We've done it for the past couple of years! It's an excuse to get all pretty! Say you'll come!" asked Alice.

"A party huh? I don't know Alice I don't usually do parties. It's not really my scene. Besides I'm just gonna be that girl who is standing in the corner watching everyone dance and mingle."

"Well I'll be the girl next to you with ridiculously hot shoes!" she pouted.

"Ugh…..Ok I'll go, but you cannot ditch me!"

Alice threw her arms around "Of course I won't! We'll be like those country singer Siamese twins attached at the head!!"

I laughed as we continued walking to my car.

Edward scoffed. "This is your car?"

I looked at him and rolled my eyes. "Yes. Why?"

"It just doesn't look like something you would drive."

"Yeah well you don't look like you would drive a car like that either." I said while pointing at his car.

"What does that mean?"

"It means like maybe grandma picked the car out for you. I mean come on, a Volvo? Isn't that one of the safest cars around? It sure is a grandma approved car if you ask me."

"Well no one asked you!" He glared at me. Ooooo……I think I just hit a nerve.

"Well actually you did." I smiled.

He turned around and got in his car without another word.

Alice was just standing there with a goofy grin on her face.

"You guys just need to do it and get it over with."

"No thank you Alice. I'll pass."

"Ok, well I'll talk to you tomorrow then!"

"Sure thing. Later Alice-- and thanks for today." I said while looking down.

"No problem Bells."

With that I got into my car and drove home. Today had been quite a first day. I met some awesome people and one asshole. It evened out though in my opinion. I just needed to figure out a way to ignore the jerk and things would be fine, something to get him out of my mind.

"Easier said than done Bella." I said to myself.

I'll just talk it one day at a time I guess.