Okay, so this chapter is very, very, very, long!! It is so long that I bet that it could bore you to death. This chap can actually be separated into two chapters. lol This will be the longest ones out of all of my chapters and soon to be chapters. I hope you like it!! ENJOY!!
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BPOV
"Morning Bella," Emmett said in a cheery voice.
I slid into the backseat of Emmett's big red jeep and buckled up. Rosalie was sitting in the passenger's sea next to Emmett while Jasper was in the back with me.
"You're way too happy in the morning Em," I said.
Emmett drove out into the street and headed for school.
"I'm always happy Bells, you need to be too," informed Emmett.
"So do you want go out to dinner tonight? We can even invite the Cullen's," Rosalie said changing the subject.
My mind instantly thought about Edward. I tried pushing it out of my head, but it wouldn't budge.
"Sure!" exclaimed Emmett. "We could even go to that new pizza place. What was it called again?"
"I think it was called Brickhouse Pizza," Jasper said, joining in on the conversation. (A/N this is not a real pizza place I just made I up. lol)
"Oh, then lets try it. Bella can you invite them for us?" Rosalie asked.
I shrugged, "Sure."
Emmett drove into the school's parking lot and parked into Rosalie's parking space. We always took turns driving everyday, and we shared the same parking space.
I jumped off his car and headed towards the school with Jasper. Rosalie and Emmett were having their morning kiss next to the jeep. Jasper and me didn't even bother to look for them because it was just too private of a moment to look at.
"So…" Jasper said. I looked up at him. Jasper was trying to ask something and I had a feeling I already knew the question.
"I think she likes you too," I said before he could ask. "You guys would make quite an amusing pair," I teased.
He scowled playfully at me.
"I'll see you at lunch. Gotta get to my locker," Jasper said putting his arms around my shoulder and giving me a tight squeeze.
"I gotta go too. See you then."
I headed towards my locker. When I got there I put my combination in and put away my books and grabbing my trig book.
I looked around quickly before closing the door and putting the lock back on. I saw Edward a few lockers down and headed towards him. Maybe he forgot where to go for his next class I thought to myself, even though in the back of my mind, I already knew that he probably didn't.
I stood behind him, waiting till he was done with putting away his books so that I could ask him. Before I knew it, he wheeled around and glared at me. My eyes got wide, surprised by his expression. I felt my legs take a step back. It was an automatic reflex. To my embarrassment, I felt myself falling back. I winced waiting for the impact of the ground, but instead I felt my arms catch me. Edward pulled me up while I just blushed and whispered, "Thanks."
"Do you still need help finding your classes? I can walk you to one," I said talking starting to babble. "Wait, never mind, I bet you already know where to go. Just forget I mentioned it," I said.
I was just about to turn and leave without embarrassing myself again, when Edward grabbed my hand. His touch made electricity zap through me. It was even stronger than... his. I pulled my hand away and stared at him, horrified. I couldn't go through that again.
"I know where my classes are," he said. I looked down at the ground, surprised by the disappointment that hit me. "But I won't mind if I have some company." My head shot up to see Edward smiling, his pearly white teeth gleaming from the hall's fluorescent lights.
I blushed, my gaze not moving from his well structured face. "Okay then."
We started walking. There was silence for a couple of seconds, before I asked, "What's your first class?"
I watched Edward's face go into a thoughtful expression. "American history."
"That's cool," I said nodding my head.
"What's yours?" asked Edward.
"Trig."
It was quiet again for a few seconds.
"So how long have you been in Forks?"
"Practically my whole life," I said proudly.
"So Emmett grew up with you?"
I glanced over at him. Why was he asking about Emmett?
"Yeah, he's been my best friend since we were both babies. Emmett is like my brother, that's not blood related to me. And we're really cool with who each other dates, yet very protective." I thought about the conversation that Emmett and I shared yesterday. I didn't know who could be a better friend then him.
I had just remembered about asking if he and his sister wanted to join for pizza, when I heard a girl's screech from behind me. I looked around to see Lauren coming straight for us. "Edward!" she shouted. I stopped and watched as she hugged Edward tightly. I ignored the pain that seized inside of me when she jumped on him and the whim of wanting to be the one that he was holding.
"I can't wait till our date tonight! Where are you taking me?" she asked. That had answered what I was about to ask and was all I needed to hear before walking away. They probably need some privacy I thought to myself. But deep down, I knew that I was only walking away before the pain could overcome me again. What rattled me was that the pain that I was getting from watching Edward and Lauren was almost as strong as the pain that I felt when he had cheated on me.
I went straight to my class and spent the whole morning trying to distract myself with work. After trig with Alice, we both headed to our next classes which were right next to each other.
"Hey, do you want to go out for pizza with me, Emmett, Rose, and Jasper," I said exaggerating a little on Jasper's name.
"Sure," Alice said giggling a little.
"He walked me to class yesterday after lunch," she said nudging me and wiggling her eyebrows.
I laughed.
"I don't think Edward will be coming though," Alice said bringing the topic back up again after a while of small chat. I could feel her blue eyes penetrating me, watching my expression carefully.
I put on my poker face and said coolly, "I know, that's why I didn't ask him to come."
"Oh," was all she said. I could hear definite disappointment in her voice, but why?
"Well, we've reached our classes. I'll see you at lunch." I gave her a smile before going into my English class. After a while of hearing a teacher lecturing about a new essay we were going to be doing, a thought hit me. Was Edward going to be sitting with us?
When lunch arrived, my question was answered. There he was, sitting with Lauren and her posse. I shuddered. I had hated her ever since kindergarten when she had stolen my crayons. I had told on the teacher, and when she had asked the class who had taken them, I said Lauren. Lauren had then gotten in trouble and cried, saying that she was sorry. Like the girl I was, I had forgiven her. But when she returned the crayons to me, I looked inside and found all of them broken in half. Ever since then, she has always done many horrible things just to embarrass me. I watched as she started to flirt with Edward, my stomach felt like it was in a tight knot.
"Hey everybody," I said brightly. I patted Emmett on the head when I passed him and sat down next to Alice who had Jasper on the other side of her.
"Did you see Edward sitting with Lauren?" Rosalie whispered to me. Her hand was covering her pointing finger so that the rest of the cafeteria couldn't see.
I nodded. "Yeah."
"So are you going out with us tonight?" I heard Jasper ask Alice.
Alice looked at me and giggled then looked back at Jasper. "Yeah."
"Bells, you wanna come over so that we can get ready together?" Rose asked.
"Sure," I said.
I could feel Alice's eyes on me. I turned to her and asked, "You wanna come too?"
"Of course!" Alice squealed excitedly. "But do you want to go to my house instead? You can even sleep over."
I checked with Rosalie who just nodded, so I said, "Sure."
I looked over at Jasper, to see that he was watching her with adoring eyes.
I couldn't help but let out a bubble of laughter. Jasper's head whipped up and looked at me, his face turning red.
After I had stopped by my locker when school ended, I headed outside to where Rose and Alice were waiting for me.
"The guys have practice today, so their just going to pick us up at Alice's, but right now, we're going with Alice in Edward's car," Rosalie explained.
My breath caught when she said Edward's name. I turned to Alice and asked, "You're driving right?"
"No, Edward is. We have to go carpool with him because I usually go to school with him in his Volvo."
"Oh."
I followed the two chatting girls as they headed deeper into the parking lot. We stopped in front of a silver Volvo.
"Okay, do you guys want the backseat?" Alice asked.
"Yeah," I answered quickly.
"Edward will be here in a few minutes," informed Alice.
"So have you gone anywhere around here?" asked Rose.
"No, that's why I'm so excited!" Alice shrilled.
I smiled. How was Alice always so happy? I could always feel a happy vibe coming off of her.
"Alice, why are they here?" I heard a familiar voice say from behind me.
I turned around to see Edward glaring at her.
"They're coming over so that we could get ready to go out to dinner with the guys tonight and they're sleeping over," Alice said.
Edward's piercing eyes flicked over to me. They seemed to be asking a question that I couldn't understand. I looked down at the ground, not wanting to be sucked in again.
"Fine, let's go."
We all got into the car and headed towards their house. I took a deep breath. Edward's car smelled so sweet, that it was actually soothing. It was something that I had never smelled before, and it was definitely not one of those car fresheners. If this was how Edward smelled, then I could smell him forever. My eyes had rolled back, while I was taking in deep and long breaths.
"Why was he looking at you?" Rosalie whispered.
I turned to look at her and blushed to be caught smelling his car. Then I just shrugged.
"Did you invite him?"
I turned to her, and slowly shook my head. "He has a date with Lauren."
"Lauren?" Rose made a disgusted face. "Are you serious?"
I nodded.
We didn't talk for the rest of the ride. Edward had parked in the driveway of a house so big that I could call it a mansion. I got out and walked next to Rose, towards the huge house. Alice and Edward led us into the house. It was huge! There were long glass windows that stretched up, a feet under the ceiling. All of their furniture was either white or black and it was fantastic. The hallway was decorated with pictures of sceneries that were incredible.
"Wow," I breathed.
"I know," Rosalie said, just as breathless.
"Come on guys let's go upstairs to my room to get ready," Alice piped.
"But we aren't going out till six," I said, my eyebrows furrowing together.
"Yeah, but we need to pick out our clothes then get ready," Alice said. "I'll even put help you with make up and clothes."
I turned red, not sure if it was a compliment or just a helpful comment.
Rosalie and Alice started heading up towards the stairs and I followed up the stairs glancing quickly back to Edward. He was watching me with an amused expression. What was so funny? I didn't know why, but the thought of him watching me made my stomach do a back flip.
I turned at the top of the stairs, losing any view of Edward. When I got into Alice's room, I stopped immediately, my mouth hanging open. There on her king sized be, was about twenty different outfits. My eyes got big, and I watched as she and Rosalie were picking through outfits, deciding on which to wear for all of us. After a while, they both finally noticed me standing there, watching. Right away, Alice attacked me with things to wear, holding up clothes and putting them against me to see if they were a good combination with me.
An hour later, all three of us, well, more like two of them, were done picking out all of our clothes. Rosalie had ended up with a red off-the-shoulder silk top, a voile belted white skirt, three inch red heels, and a small satin clutch purse that had a bow on it. Alice ended up with a blue halter top that had a black belt, a knee length black skirt, silver heels, and a blue clutch bag with jewels on them. I however, being able to argue, ended up with a half sleeve green banded top, dark skinny jeans, green round toe ballet flats, and thankfully no purse. The thing that I traded the purse in for was to wear Alice's emerald earrings that were gorgeous. I had refused to wear them but I had been sabotaged by Alice and her adorable puppy dog eyes.
"Okay, now lets wash up and so that we can do makeup!" Alice sang. I shuffled in slowly and washed my face. How was I going to survive this? I would only take about fifteen minutes just to get ready.
I lied on Alice's bed and T.V. while waiting for Rose and Alice to do their hair and make up. Forty-five minutes later, they were done and dragging me to Alice's actual make up station. Rosalie did my hair while Alice did my make up. It was pure torture. That was why Edward looked like he was amused.
I scowled, but got yelled at by Alice. "Don't scowl or it will make me mess up your make up."
I did what she said, and thankfully survived through the rest of the makeover.
After everything was done, both Rose and Alice stood back and examined their work. They squealed excitedly and turned the chair so that I could see myself. I gasped. I had no idea who I was staring at. She had brown hair that was curled and put up in a ponytail, with a few loose strands. She had a dark shadow around it, making a smoky look. The girl's lips were shiny and glossy, and she actually had… cheekbones.
I looked back at Alice and Rosalie who were grinning at me. "Now let's go get changed."
All three of us got our clothes and got dressed. If this was how we would always get ready, just to get pizza, then I was never going to get ready with Alice again. I knew I would somehow always give in to her, but I had to at least try for an argument.
"Alice, you have company!" I heard a woman's voice call.
"That must be the boys," Rose said.
"Tell them to hold on for a minute!" I heard Alice yelled back.
"You ready, ladies?" Alice asked looking at herself in her full length mirror.
"Like I have anyone to impress," I murmured to myself.
"You might be surprised," Alice told me grinning before opening the door and heading downstairs.
What was she talking about? I sighed and followed Rosalie. I watched my feet while walking down the stairs, being careful not to trip. When I got down to the bottom step, I let out a sigh of relief. When I looked back up, I turned red because everybody was staring at me curiously. That was when I tripped.
I felt the warm arms from this morning wrap around me again.
"We've got to stop meeting like this," he whispered near my ear. Edward's breath was just as sweet as his car.
I turned away from his face and turned a deep crimson.
He stood me up again, and I brushed myself off. "Thanks," I muttered again for the second time that day.
Edward just grinned at me. I turned towards the rest of the group. Emmett and Jasper had changed into t-shirts and jeans, and were cleaned up from their sweat.
"Let's go then," I smiled.
"Okay, let's go," Emmett said. "I'm starving, what took you girls so long?"
We headed out the door and towards Emmett's jeep.
"You can't know everything Em," I said, whacking him playfully on the arm. "It's girl stuff."
"Geez, I was only asked what you did," said a laughing Emmett.
"Well, to us girls, that's kind of like us asking you boys, what you guys do in the locker room shower," I said, smirking.
Everyone laughed while Emmett's face scrunched up from the thought.
I giggled wrapping my arm around my teddy bear. "You see Emmy Bear? You should never ask that question."
We all climbed onto the big jeep. Rose and Emmett in the front while Jasper, Alice, and I were in the back. I watched as Jasper whispered something to Alice and she giggled then she whispered something back to make him laugh. I didn't want to be caught staring because if I was, I would ruin their cute moment together. All I did was lean my head on the window and stare out into the street.
FLASHBACK
"James!" I screamed laughing. He had lifted me up his back and was running towards a hill.
"I won't drop you Bella," yelled James continuing toward the hill.
"I know you won't," I whispered, comforted by his words.
"Here we go!" he shouted and started running down the hill.
I screamed my head off. It was so thrilling!
Halfway down the hill, James tripped and we both fell down on the grass and rolled all the way down. I was laughing hysterically, having the best time of my life in the small park with my boyfriend.
"Sorry," James said crawling over to me.
I grinned at him. "No problem, it was fun."
"Everything I do with you is fun," he said.
I watched as James crawled over even more and got closer than he ever had. Then his face started getting closer, and I stopped breathing, ready for the first kiss that I had been waiting for. James' face was only half a centimeter away…
"Bella, are you okay?"
I looked over at Rosalie to see her twisted in her seat looking at me with a worried expression.
"Yeah, why wouldn't I be?" I asked.
"Well, maybe because you're crying," Rose said.
I touched my face, to feel it wet. I wiped under my eyes to see that there wasn't a black smudge on my finger. Maybe Alice had given me waterproof mascara. I shook my head. "I was just missing my mom," I lied.
Rosalie saw right through it, but she didn't press the matter.
But he had dropped me. I fell for him, and he had caught me, but had dropped me on the floor and just left me there. The impact of the fall of was harder than I had ever expected, and the pain felt like it was never going to go away.
We finally got to the new Brickhouse Pizza place. It was big, and had a huge banner spread across it that said "Grand opening tonight!!"
I hopped off the car and headed inside with the rest of the group. After we got a seat in a large booth, ordered each of our drinks, and got three large pizzas, we just sat there and talked.
After a while, I looked around and saw a group of girls coming inside the restaurant. They somehow looked familiar to me. Luckily, they came towards us, and then walked past our table so that I could get a closer view. A second later, I remembered. "Becca?" I called.
A beautiful girl's head whipped around to see who was calling her.
She saw me right away and said, "Bella? Ohmigosh! I haven't seen you in months!" she said excitedly.
I stood up and walked over to Becca and gave her a hug.
She was my best friend in Phoenix, Arizona. I would always hang out with her whenever I visited my mom Renee, which was every six months. I could consider her one of my best friends that I trusted very much.
Renee had gotten a divorce with Charlie when I was only a baby, and I had stayed with my mom until kindergarten. When I went to preschool in Phoenix, I had met Becca there. We became best friends right away because both of our names began with a "be" and ended in an "a". It also had double of a letter in the middle. When I went away though, both of us cried so much that it could've filled up an aquarium.
The last time that I had visited Renee was five months ago.
"I missed you!" I said. I grinned at her, happy to see my friend. "Why are you here in Forks?"
"Well, me and my family were visiting my sick uncle in Port Angeles," Becca explained.
"Why aren't you in Port Angeles then?" I asked.
"You know how Phoenix is really big and busy all the time? Well my parent's wanted to stay somewhere quiet so here we are in Forks," said Becca. She threw out her arms like she was a magician's model who just reappeared from a disappearing trick.
I laughed.
"I believe you when now about how cold it is here," she shivered. "You were definitely not exaggerating."
I grinned at her.
"So you haven't changed at all," Becca said, looking me up and down. "I mean it in a good way, because you look as gorgeous as you did before."
I blushed. "I think you look even prettier than before," I complimented her.
"Thanks," Becca said excepting it.
And Becca really did seem prettier than before. She had cut her long dirty blond hair, so that it was only until her shoulder now. Her green eyes looked brighter and happier than ever. Becca even got taller. I knew, because she wasn't wearing heels.
"Come on, let me introduce you to my friends," I said pulling her towards my table.
"Everyone, I'd like you to meet one of my friends that I told you about from Phoenix," I said, interrupting all of their conversations. The pizza had arrived, so I was interrupting them eating too.
Four pair of eyes hungry eyes looked up at us. "Hi I'm Becca," she said politely.
"Becca these are my friends from home that I was always telling you about. That's Emmett, Jasper, and Rosalie. And I just met Alice yesterday," I said pointing each one of them out.
"Why are you here in Forks if you can be in Phoenix?" Emmett asked.
I shot daggers at him and he just held up his hand in defense.
"Me and my family are visiting my uncle here," Becca said.
Emmett just nodded and said, "That's all I wanted to know."
"Do you wanna sit with us?" I asked.
"Sure, let me ask my friends over there."
I slid back into my seat and watched as she walked over to the other table and started chatting.
"We wanted to tell you something, but I don't know if we should," Rosalie whispered to me.
"What?"
"I don't know," she said looking uncertain.
"Come on! You can tell me," I urged. "Is it about Becca?"
"No," Rosalie shook her head.
"Rose! Tell me!" I said.
"Well, Edward and Lauren sitting at the booth in the corner."
I froze. "How long have they been there?" I asked.
"They came when you were talking to Becca."
"My friends said that I can meet up with them later," I heard Becca's voice say from behind me.
I turned around and scooted over, making some room for my friend.
"So what's going on here in Fork's?" Becca asked so that the whole table could hear.
Before I knew it, Rosalie was filling her in with the whole story of Edward, and even the part about him.
When I heard his name, I squeezed my eyes shut. I put my hands to my ears and somehow slid out of the booth without interfering Rosalie and Becca's conversation. I headed straight for the restrooms, not looking at anybody around me. How could Rosalie do this to me? She knew that I didn't like to talk about it.
I hurried into the small hallway that led to the restrooms. Right when I was about to pass the men's restrooms, I collided into a something very har.. I hit whatever it was so hard, that I actually bounced back a little. I touched my head, and felt a small bump starting to form. Did I hit the door? When I looked up to see what I hit, I was shocked. I had hit… Edward? It couldn't be. How could Edward be that hard?
"Sorry?" I said, still not sure if I had hit him.
Edward laughed a deep rumble that somehow sounded so musical.
"Why were you running so fast?" he asked getting right to the point.
"Oh, nothing. It was a conversation at my table." I was looking down at my feet, not giving Edward any eye contact.
"Okay, but are you sure you're all right?"
I nodded.
There was a slight pause before he asked, "So who's that girl you were talking to?"
I looked up at him in surprise. Was he interested in Becca? "That's my friend from Phoenix," I explained.
He nodded. "Why is she here?"
"She's visiting her uncle."
"I see."
"So I see you're with Lauren?" I heard myself say. I felt like a ton of weight was taken off of my shoulders. I hadn't noticed how much I wanted to ask him that until now.
Edward grinned at me his crooked smile somehow seemed perfect. "Yeah, but she's really boring. I don't even know if I want to go back."
The look in his eyes was telling me that he wasn't lying.
I laughed. "Don't be mean, you should go back. I'm going to be sleeping over at your house tonight, and at least want to hear something entertaining."
He seemed surprised by my answer. "Really?"
"Sure," I nodded.
"Okay then, back to my boring date," Edward said. But right when he was about to go, he whispered in my ear, "I'm only doing this for you."
A shiver went through my spine and I smiled. When Edward was finally out of earshot, the smile on my lips disappeared and I leaned on the wall, trying not to hyperventilate.
Later, when I had finally calmed down, I went back to the table. Becca quickly got up and gave me a tight hug. "I'm so sorry," she said right next to my ear. I looked over at Rose to see that she was mouthing the words, "I'm sorry too."
I nodded accepting it; I couldn't stay mad at them for some reason.
"So when are you going back?" I asked after we had finished all of our pizzas and were walking into the parking lot. The rest of the group had gone to Emmett's jeep while me and Becca had lagged behind.
"Tomorrow," she said. Becca seemed sad that she was leaving.
"Already?" I asked.
She nodded sadly, "I've been here for a week already. Today's my last day."
I was hit by disappointment. "Oh, okay then. I'll see you in a month."
I gave her a tight hug. "I hope you and Edward work out," I heard her say.
I pulled back. "What?"
"Well, from what Rosalie tells me, she says that you guys have this weird chemistry together that you both don't seem to notice," Becca said shaking her head in mock disappointment.
I whacked her softly on the arm but she still whined and said, "Ow!"
"I'm gonna miss you Becca," I said hugging her again.
"I'm gonna miss you too. But don't do anything stupid in the time that we're separated okay?"
I laughed. "Is it possible that I don't?"
She grinned. "No, but I always say that when you go away."
I smiled back at her. "Well have a nice flight home. I'll see you in a month."
We a goodbye to each other and headed for our rides.
I remembered about Becca's words. "You guys have this weird chemistry together that you both don't seem to notice." What did she mean by chemistry? I would know if we did have any of it. I then thought about another thing Becca had said. "I hope you and Edward work out." I couldn't help it, but half of me wished that we didn't, yet half wished that we did. Even though this night had its ups and downs, it had ended up to be one of the best nights of my life. But I had a feeling that it was going to get a whole lot better.
Did you like it? It was boring, huh? So long too XP so the next chapter will be in Edward's point of view but it won't be as long as this one though. Anyways, plzzzzzzzzzzzz R&R lol I only need one and thank you to everyone else who are already reviewing. :) plz be nice, constructive criticisms and regular comments are fine. The next chapter will be up on Saturday, I don't know when, but it will be up that day. Thanks for reading.
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