Disclaimer: obviously, I am not stephenie meyer and therefore do not own Twilight or any of it's characters… grrr

A/N: thank you so much for all of you that have already reviewed and favorited my story! It's only my second fanfiction so this is very nice for me to hear. I'm kind of making up the plot as I go along so bare with me (ideas are welcome!). And last before I keep you from reading more of my story I have to say I read Breaking Dawn and loved it! I wont give any spoilers incase some of you have not read it yet (shame on you!) but I will say that it is different and not what I expected but I loved it nonetheless and think our beloved stephenie outdid herself on this one. But enough of my babbling! Read!

Chapter 2

After lunch I only had one class left. Photography. I was taking it as one of my electives this year and I couldn't wait to get started. It was weird how I came across choosing it though. My mother, Renee was more of a free spirit than I was, so she was always trying something new and dragging me along with her. Mainly because I was the only one she could. I didn't have any siblings and my parents had been divorced since I was a baby. Renee was now married to Phil, a minor league baseball coach. He could handle her perfectly well, but the baseball season was so busy during the summer. So by association, so was he. My father, Charlie, lived in a small town in Washington, called Forks. I hated it there, it constantly rained. In Phoenix it rarely rained, so that's where I spent my summer vacations. Charlie visited me during the summer instead of me visiting him because according to Renee, "I had been gone from home long enough, I didn't need to be gone any longer." So I was the one to go on her adventures with her during the summer. One of them this summer had been taking photography classes. By the end of the first class, Renee had changed her mind, but I was hooked. So here I am, anxiously awaiting the beginning of my photography class. Ten minutes later the teacher was deep into the beginning of school speeches.

"As you know, photography is a very delicate subject. You must use extra caution when maneuvering around the photos" Mrs. Adams looked directly at me when she said that. No surprise there, everyone knew I was a klutz. I could feel my face heat up as a couple of students in the front row turned to look at me. Wow, only the first day and I've blushed four times. The rest of class was very boring and I was happy to get out of there. Hopefully we'd be doing more exciting things in our next classes.

"Hey! Bells!" I heard a familiar voice call from behind me. I turned around to see who it was and found myself in a tight bear hug. If I had any doubt as to who it was before, it was gone now.

"Can't breathe Jake!" I said with the air I had.

"Oops, sorry. I'm just so glad to see you!" Jacob said as he let go.

"I know! We should have hung out this summer! You should have come over with Charlie!" I told him. I had met Jake back in freshman year. He was in one of my art classes and we were partnered together. We became fast friends. It even turned out that he lived near my father. He 

lived on the Quiluete reservation in La Push, about 15 minutes from Forks. Not only that but his dad, Billy, and my dad were good friends. That showed just how often I visited Charlie.

"I couldn't, Billy's joints were bothering him a lot of the summer." Said Jacob. Billy was in a wheelchair, I couldn't remember why though.

"Aw, that's too bad. So, are you still chasing after Leah?" I asked him. He had had the biggest crush on Leah Clearwater last year. She seemed to like him but never said yes.

"Don't have to!" He said with a stupid grin on his face.

"What? What are you talking about?" I was confused.

"Well, her family moved to La Push over the summer. I showed her around and before I knew it I had asked her out and she said yes!" he said keeping that stupid grin alive. Hmm, maybe it wasn't stupid and he was just extremely happy.

"Wow, Jake! That's great!" I said as I gave him another hug.

"I know! But I've got to go. I promised Leah I'd meet her when her class ended." I said good bye to Jacob and headed back to my dorm. I decided to stop by the student center and see if I had any mail. I didn't think there would be much. Boy, was I wrong.

I decided to pick up Alice and Rosalie's mail too and that was not a good idea. Apparently Rose had forgotten a bunch of things at home and they were all there. Alice's parents sent her a large care package and all I got was a letter from my mom. I decided to leave Alice and Rose's stuff there, since I couldn't carry them all and my bag. I opened my letter and started reading as I headed back. Renee loved to send letters and get them for some strange reason. She said it was just nice to get mail other than bills. I didn't care much so I didn't complain. I would answer her letters and mail them rather than email. It wasn't as big of a deal as everyone else made it out to be. According to the letter, Phil's team won their last three games and both Phil and Renee were about to go to Chicago for an away series, so this would be my only letter for a while. Renee also got a bad massage and she was thinking about redecorating, again.

I didn't understand why she got massages. She never came back happy because she didn't like strangers touching her. But she constantly insisted that she get them. My mother was irrational, but I loved her for it. As for redecorating, she did this every year or so. She would get bored or annoyed with the decoration in the house and completely change it around. I swear that the rooms in our house were an inch bigger than what you measured them to be because of all the paint that was on those walls. Not to mention we constantly had yard sales to get rid of the furniture that didn't go with the new decorations. My mother would set aside a couple of pieces that I liked for when I had my own apartment. They usually sold for good money. I started laughing at my ridiculous mother when I realized that as a klutz, it might not be a good idea to be walking and reading at the same time while holding all my books. I looked up to refocus myself so I didn't trip on something like a crack in the sidewalk when I ran into someone… literally.



CRASH!!

"Ouch…" I said as I fell straight back onto my butt. "Wow, I'm so—" I started as I looked up to see who I crashed into. I found myself looking into a pair of emerald eyes. It was the boy from English class. His name was Edward, I think. "—sorry" I finished after being lost in his eyes for a moment.

"It's alright. It was my fault. I was trying to read this map and wasn't watching where I was going." He said while smiling crookedly. Hopefully he didn't remember me from class today.

"A-are you sure?" I stuttered.

"Absolutely." He said sincerely. He offered his hand out to help me up. I gladly took it. When I did, it seemed like a shock was sent through my body. I wondered if he felt it too. Stop it Bella! You do not care if he felt it. He probably didn't anyway. He's too gorgeous to be affected by you. After an awkward moment of silence, he broke it.

"Um, do you mind helping me out? I can't seem to find my way back to my dorm" he said smiling sheepishly. His dorm building turned out to be right next to mine. We didn't talk as we walked, but unlike before, it was a comfortable silence.

"Well, I think I can make it from here" he said as he gave me that crooked smile again.

"Alright… see you" I said as I walked back towards my dorm.

"I-I'm Edward… by the way." I heard from behind me. He was still there? Talking to me? I stood there dumbfounded for a second then quickly composed myself and slowly turned around.

He was standing in the same place I had walked away from and he was looking at me. Those emerald eyes looking into my soul. I gave a small smile.

"… I'm Bella" I said. He returned the smile and turned around to walk back to his dorm. I let out the breath I didn't know I was holding. I went up to my room and lay on the bed, waiting for Alice and Rose to get back. As much as I tried, I couldn't get my mind off of Edward. He had said maybe 4 sentences to me, but I couldn't stop thinking. I knew I didn't like him. I couldn't.

First, I didn't know him enough to like him. Second, he was a guy, therefore, could only hurt me. Third, even if I did like him, there was no way he cared at all. I tried to figure out what I was feeling as Alice and Rose came in from their math class.

"Hey Bells… what's wrong?" said Alice. Just one look at me and this girl knew something was wrong.

"It's nothing…"



"Isabella Marie Swan, we both know you better than that. Something is up." Said Rose. Great, now I would have to tell them everything. I told them of what happened from the moment I fell to the ground when I knocked into him. They were listening intently, the only time they ever listened that much was with some sort of crisis, not in school though, they didn't pay attention. When I was finished they stared at me for a moment.

"Well, I think someone has the hotts for Miss Isabella!" said Alice. What!? What is she talking about? Edward didn't like me? How could he? I was miss plain jane who had some of the best grades because no one would date me and I had nothing else better to do.

"Alice, there is no way that he likes me. How could he? He doesn't know me and I am like the plainest girl in the world and he is like the most gorgeous boy in the world. Tell me how those 2 pieces fit together." I countered.

"Bella, Bella, Bella! You are so completely absurd! You are one of the prettiest girls I know! And you don't have to put on the make up to be beautiful like a lot of girls on campus do!" said Rosalie.

"Okay whatever. Even if some crazy miracle happened and he damaged his brain enough for the thought of liking me to sound remotely true and then he damaged it further to actually believe he liked me, he wouldn't actually try and date me. And I'm not going to get my hopes up and open myself to getting hurt!" I said angrily as I walked out of the room. I knew what they were going to say to me, "not all guys are like that" and "he could totally like you", "you don't see yourself clearly", "you have to try dating sometime." I knew all of these things because we had had this conversation plenty of times before. When a guy would express any interest in me other than friendship I would avoid them. I just couldn't handle being hurt. I had always had a high tolerance for physical pain, but not for emotional pain. A couple years ago, my so called friend, Jessica, had betrayed me and basically "friend dumped" me. I was hurting for longer than necessary.

I just couldn't take emotional pain. No one understood that, not even my mother who knew me inside and out. Even if Edward did like me and I gave him a chance, he would break my heart and then I would be hurting for a long time, I would probably cry all the time and that would be embarrassing. And if I led myself to believe he liked me, after a small encounter with me, and he didn't, well that would also be embarrassing and it would hurt and make things awkward. I couldn't let that happen, I wouldn't let that happen.

While I was walking I decided I needed caffeine to calm my nerves. Yes, I know, caffeine does not usually calm people's nerves, but I needed something to hype me up and doing so would actually calm me down about the situation because I would forget it. I don't know if my logic made sense but I didn't care. I walked to the on site coffee shop to get my usual mocha hazelnut. I walked in and got into line, there weren't that many people in line so it wouldn't take that long.

"Next!" a booming voice called. I looked up; oh he was talking to me. I stepped up to the counter and saw that the person behind the counter was someone I didn't know. He must be new. He was very large. No, not fat large, muscular large. He kind of looked like a bear. Interesting.

"I'll have a medium mocha hazelnut" I said.

"No way! That's my favorite coffee!" he said. Okay, maybe I was wrong saying he looked like a bear, I could see now he was more like a teddy bear.

"Haha, mine too! I'm Bella by the way" I said to him. He was very easy to talk to, considering his size.

"I'm Emmett. It's nice to meet you Bella, are you a regular here?" Emmett asked.

"Basically. Did you just start working here or have I just been completely oblivious?"

"Nah just started here. Just started going to this school too for that matter. I take it you're not new?" Emmett said to me as I handed him the money for my coffee.

"Nope. I've been going here since I was 13"

"Nice, well here's your coffee and your change, maybe I'll see you around campus." Said Emmett.

"Thanks, and yeah. If not we so have to hang out, my two best friends would totally love you." It was true, especially Rose would love him.

"Yeah! Definitely, if I don't see you around campus you have to come back here so we can set up a time okay?"

I laughed. "Okay Emmett. I'll see you later." I took my coffee and walked out of the coffee shop. I took a sip and was instantly soothed. I walked back to my dorm to tell Alice and Rosalie of my new friend at the coffee shop.

Okay so there is chapter 2. I hope you liked that little encounter with Edward and then Emmett. Don't worry, Rose and Emmett will be together soon enough. So please press that little go button and review!! You know you want to