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Chapter 2 Bella POV

Movie Night

My mom didn't wake me up the next morning.

I wasn't really surprised; although it wasn't the biggest argument we'd had in the last year, it was the first time I had mentioned the real reason she made us leave Kansas and I stupidly reminded her that her husband wasn't coming back; something I'm sure she didn't need to be reminded of.

I followed my morning routine like a robot and then made my way downstairs, which had been weirdly quiet. It was when I got into the kitchen that I found out why.

Sitting on the kitchen counter was a piece of paper with my mom's familiar scrawl on it. It read: Bella, I've gone to work early to get things ready for Mrs Cullen. We'll have the lasagna for dinner. See you tonight, mom xx

I sighed, feeling bad knowing how much I had hurt her. I decided to skip out on breakfast, not feeling hungry despite the fact that I had not eaten since lunch the day before. I made a quick stop at the only coffee shop in town and ordered myself the largest size coffee they had available, hoping it would keep me awake during school.

I made the decision to sit in the shop for a little while so I wasn't too early for school and, at seven fifteen, I made a move. When I arrived at school, I managed to park in the same pace I was in the day before. I was climbing out of my car when I heard my name being called and, all of a sudden, five bodies were standing next to my car.

"Morning, Bella," Alice said cheerfully.

I much have looked like I was trying to identify a creature with three heads or solve a math equation in my head, because I couldn't for the life of me figure out how someone could be so cheerful at seven thirty in the morning.

The man that Alice had identified as Emmett the day before laughed deeply.

"Why are you so happy?" I finally said, and the others started to laugh as Alice blushed slightly.

She giggled and shrugged. "I'm a happy person. Anyway, let's go to homeroom." She linked her arm through mine as if we had been best friends for years and dragged me to class with the others trailing behind us.

When we got to homeroom, she pulled me to the table at the back and sat down gracefully, almost throwing me into the chair beside her. The blonde man, Jasper, sat on the other side of her and Rosalie sat on the far end, leaving the two seats in between us empty. Emmett took the one closest to Rosalie leaving Edward to sit beside me.

Homeroom passed in a blur of Alice asking me everything about my life. When she began asking about my dad, Edward jumped in like Angela had at lunch the previous day and changed the subject. Alice gave him a dirty look but moved on, turning to Jasper and asking him about their date on Friday.

"Thanks," I muttered quietly. He smiled back as the bell for first period went off.

I said goodbye to them and made my way to class.

At lunch, Jessica ambushed me again and asked me to sit with them. I politely accepted and followed her to her table. I noticed everyone apart from Angela was there.

"Where's Angela?" I asked Jessica quietly.

"She's sick. Hence why Ben is glued to his phone acting like a love-sick puppy," she said rudely. I chose to ignore her for the rest of the hour.

When the bell rang, Mike, Eric and Tyler once again asked if I wanted to walk with them to class. Because there was no Angela to save me, I was about to reluctantly accept when I heard a soft voice speak.

"Ready Bella?" I turned and saw Edward standing over me, his hand reaching out to me and a smile on his face. He must have seen my confused face because he said, "Remember you asked me to show you to the office before class."

I realized that he was saving me from walking with the three boys so I smiled. "Oh, yeah, of course," I said quickly as I took the hand that he had extended to help me stand up. "See you guys in class." We walked away without another word. "Thank you."

He grinned. "Don't thank me; Ange messaged me and asked if I could save you from them. Looks like you've got some admirers."

I shuddered. "Remind me to thank Angela." He laughed and we continued our way to class, taking the long way around.

Biology passed quickly as I spent the majority of the time talking to Edward; well, he talked, I listened except for the few questions he asked. Gym, however, did not pass quickly. In fact, it dragged. The reason being that I had to actually join in today. We were playing volleyball and, despite my attempts at warning my team not to hit it to me, they did and I managed to hit myself in the face as well a hit Mike on the back of the head, even though he was on the other end of the gym playing soccer.

I'm pretty sure everyone involved breathed a sigh of relief when it was time to changed and go home.

The days passed in a blur and all of a sudden it was Friday, which meant I had survived my first week.

I cheered inwardly.

When the school day finished I rushed home as quickly as I could looking forward to the weekend of doing nothing. However, that bubble was burst at around five that evening.

I was sitting on the couch doing homework while my mom was flicking through the channels on the television when there was a knock at the door. My mom stood up and answered it and I recognized the high-pitched voice that spoke from the other side.

"Hi, Mrs Swan. I'm Alice; one of Bella's friends." I rolled my eyes because I wouldn't exactly call us friends; they dragged me to sit with them every morning in homeroom and twice they had gotten to me before Jessica and got me to sit with them at lunch but I hardly ever spoke to them, and I certainly didn't make an effort to seek them out.

I could tell my mom was smiling. "Oh, hello, Alice. It' lovely to meet you. Do you wanna come in?"

"Oh, no, thanks. Some friends are waiting for me…I just wanted to see if Bella wanted to come to Port Angeles and watch a movie with us."

"Oh that's a lovely idea. I'll go get her." I heard my mom's footsteps returning. "Bella, sweetie, Alice is at the door. She wants to know…"

"I know, I heard her."

"Do you wanna go? I think it will be a really good for you."

"If I say no are you gonna try and guilt trip me until I agree?" She nodded. "I'll go get my shoes on," I said reluctantly and I ran upstairs while my mom went back to the door and told Alice.

Moments later I returned back downstairs and saw that my mom and Alice were still standing at the doorstep gossiping like old friends. I rolled my eyes and cleared my throat.

"Hey, Bella. Your mom is so funny," Alice told me with a laugh and my mom grinned widely.

I nodded. "Shall we go?" It was her turn to nod and she said goodbye to my mom. I muttered goodbye and followed her down the porch steps and to the Jeep that was parked near the road. Alice climbed in over the seats to sit on the back two seats where Jasper was sitting. I climbed in after her and saw Emmett in the driver's seat with Rosalie beside him, leaving Edward and I in the middle. They all said hello and I said it back quietly.

We were halfway to Port wherever-it-was when Jasper spoke up from his private conversation with Alice and asked, "So what shall we see?"

"Ooh there's that new horror that's out; it's meant to be really good," Emmett commented.

Alice groaned. "No. No horrors. What about Fifty Shades of…" she didn't even finish before all the boys yelled their protests. She and Rosalie laughed.

"What about that American Sniper?" Edward suggested.

"No," I said quickly, speaking up for the first time.

"Why not?" he argued.

I shrugged. "I'm just not into the whole 'army' thing." The look in my eye confused him but he didn't argue.

"The new Divergent movie is out," Alice said from behind me and everyone else in the car agreed that they wanted to see it. "Bella, is Insurgent okay?"

"Yeah sure."

If there was a quiz after the movie asking what it was about I definitely would have failed as I pretty much zoned out right from the start. I was so out of it that I didn't even realize it was over until I noticed Alice stand up from beside me. I stayed quiet, as I had the whole night, as we walked out of the theatre and listened to the others comment on how good the movie was.

"I swear the things I would do to Four," Rosalie gushed with a giggle as Emmett growled from beside her.

"Oh, I know. He's so hot," Alice agreed. "Do you agree, Bella?"

"Huh? Oh yeah, totally." I forced a smile.

I saw Rosalie turnaround from the passenger seat and give Alice a look. "You're not really into this, are you?"

"What? Sorry, I'm just tired. It's been a long week, what with the move and new school, and stuff."

Try a long year, I thought.

"Of course, we should have known you'd be tired. Sorry, you probably just wanted to have an early night after the long week," Rosalie said.

"No it's fine."

"We'll have to do this again when you're not so tired," Alice suggested. "Maybe we can go and see Pitch Perfect 2 when it comes out in a couple of months."

I nodded. "Sure."

Not long later we pulled up outside of my house and I thanked them all before climbing out of the monster car and walking up my pathway. I gave them one last wave as I walked in the front door and closed it behind me, hearing the rev of the engine as the pulled away.

"Hey sweetie," my mom called from the living room. I walked in and saw her sitting in front of the TV with a glass of wine. "Did you have a nice time?"

"Yeah. I'm going to bed." Without another word I walked up stairs and didn't even bother taking my jeans off before I climbed into bed and drifted off into a restless slumber.

When we returned to school after the weekend, most of the school had realized that I'm actually very boring and turned their focus on upcoming finals and dances. However, some people still found a need to stare at me any chance they got. This coupled with the fact that Alice and her friends were trying even harder to make me fit in with them that, come Monday lunchtime, I was feeling irritated.

I decided to try and get to the cafeteria as early as I could so that I could escape outside before anyone could get to me. I was, for the first time since I had started at Forks High, enjoying my lunch in peace until I heard footsteps approaching the bench I was sitting at.

"Hi, Bella." I looked up and saw Mike Newton staring at me with a creepy smile on his face, making him look like my homeroom teacher, Mr James.

"Oh, hi, Mike. What are you doing out here?"

"I was gonna ask you the same question."

I couldn't really say that I was sick of being pulled between two of the most overbearing groups of people so I came out here to escape so I lied saying, "I had a headache, so I thought some fresh air might help."

He looked concerned. "Oh, you okay?" I forced a smiled and nodded and he, somehow, took it as an invitation to sit down. "Well, I'm actually glad to have gotten you alone."

I shivered, feeling my creep-radar rising. "Why?"

"Well, since you moved here last week I have been able to get you off my mind," oh no, "and I was wondering if, maybe, you would, uh, want to, um, maybe go out with me sometime?"

I grimaced. "Oh, um, Mike, that's…uh, that's sweet, but, um, I just moved here." He nodded. "And, um, I'm not really looking to be anything other than friends." And, if I was being perfectly honest, I didn't even wanna be friends.

His face fell, reminding me of a puppy who had been told off for peeing in the house. "Oh, okay. That's fine." He stood up and made a move to go back inside. "If you change your mind." I nodded but inside I was shouting No!

There must have been a competition to see who could be the first one to get a date with me because the day after Mike asked me out, I got asked by both Eric and Tyler. Of course, I declined both invitations, giving them the same excuse that I gave Mike the day before.

I thought that was the end then; that maybe the boy of Forks High would get the hint and leave me alone.

I was wrong.

It was Friday afternoon and I had been home from school for about an hour. I was sitting at the breakfast bar doing homework while dinner was in the oven when I heard a knock at the door. I groaned, hoping it wasn't gonna be Alice coming to drag me to another movie. I opened the door and saw Edward.

"Hi."

He smiled. "Hi, Bella."

"Edward, what are you doing here?"

"Um, I wanted to ask you something. I was gonna ask at school today but I didn't get the chance."

I frowned. "Okay. Ask me what?"

He took a deep breath. "Do you wanna see a movie?"

I was surprised. "Oh, are you guys going again?"

"No, we're not. I meant just us."

My mouth fell open in shock but I managed to recover before he noticed. "Oh. You mean, like, a date?"

He smiled. "If you wanna call it that."

I took a moment. Saying no to Mike, Eric and Tyler had been easy; basically because I found them all annoying and kind creepy. And while Edward could be annoying, he also saved me from walking with them the two days Angela was off sick and interfered whenever Alice began asking about my dad.

"Edward, that's a really nice offer, and if I had known you a year ago, I probably would have said yes."

"But," he said, the smile no longer present on his face.

"But I'm going through a lot right now and…" I was about to tell him something similar to what I had told the others but he cut me off.

"That's fine. I understand." He gave me a small smile before turning around and walking off of the porch.

However, he came to a stop when he noticed my mom standing at the end of the pathway. He turned around to look at me for a minute and then began walking again, moving around my mom to get to his car. When he had driven off, my mom continued walking up the path and onto the porch. She stopped just outside the door and gave me a look.

"Don't," I told her coldly before turning around and returning to the kitchen. She followed me, closing the front door behind her. "I didn't say anything."
"You didn't have to."

She sighed. "I just don't understand why you would turn him down; he's a very good looking boy. And he seemed to like you."

"Well I don't like him."

"Bella…" I cut her off.

"No mom. When we moved here you made me promise to try and make friends and I'm trying. But you said nothing about promising to accept any date offers so nothing you say will make me say 'yes'."

"Fine. What's for dinner?"

And with that, the conversation was over.

So what did you think? Don't hate Bella (or me) for turning Edward down. She has her reasons, trust me.
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