Disclaimer: Another Chapter with classic characters that once again don't belong to me, but to the magnificent Stephenie Meyer who has let me borrow them. To Stephenie.

A.N. Again sorry for any miss spells and what not's.

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Chapter 3: Confrontations

After a moment of actually paying attention to Mr. Banner, I had remembered doing this experiment back in my AP Chemistry. We were creating Ionic compounds.

I grabbed the box from the table, ignoring Bella entirely -though I could still feel her eyes on me- I began to set up the lab.

"Lady's first?" I said. My voice, hadn't change tone, it was still flat.

"Its okay, you can start." she said smiling another breath taking smile. I swore I heard my heart skip a beat. I lowered my head and pretended concentrate on the task at hand. I just didn't want her to see me blushing. That was just too embarrassing.

"You were gone" I blurred out. For some reason my mouth has a mind of its own.

She gave a small laugh. It sounded so sweet almost like honey.

"Yes, I was out of town visiting family." Her answered sounded a little rehearsed. Maybe she'd had to excuse herself a lot today?

"Ca2, calcium" I said jotting in my sloppy handwriting

"May I?" She asked. Her eyes were full of amusement. I handed over the compound. Was she undermining my intelligence?

"Calcium" she wrote the name in an elegant script that put my hand writing to shame. Then again I was a guy. We don't have great hand writing… at all.

"Like I said."

"Are you enjoying the rain?" I scoff. Was I hearing right? Was she talking about the weather? Did I imagine everything that happened last week? She was looking at me with amusement in her eyes. And did she get contacts? Because her eyes were clearly not that color the last time I saw her.

"Are we talking about the weather?" I was beginning to think my brain and my mouth were in completely different stratospheres. She then gave me a smile, making my heart go any faster than it already did.

"Yes, I guess I am"

"Well… um. I don't really like the rain. Wet and cold aren't really my thing" Her eyes looked pained for a second before she recovered with another question.

"Why did you move to the wettest place in the continental U.S?

I stared intensively at her, was she making conversation with me now? After a whole week of not showing up in school and acting as If I completely repulsed her!

"Sorry I didn't mean to pry" she said taking her eyes off of me and redirecting them to the chalkboard.

"Your not, actually my dad and step-mom are having a baby."

"So they sent you here?" she was not looking at me straight in the eye, as if trying to see inside my head.

"No, it's not like that. I sent myself here." I managed to answer before the bell rang. I started gathering my books ready to dash out of the room. I looked over to the door to find Jessica waiting there impatiently. Great.

"Why did you send yourself here? Couldn't handle a baby?" I looked up at her smoldering eyes. They were full of pain and desire. Her eyes were making me loose track of my thoughts. This is so confusing.

" Umm. I... I thought it was time for me to spend some quality time with my mom. She's been alone for most of my life. It's the least I could do. Charlie has Sue and the baby, soon. Renée can have me now."

She cocked her head to the side as if calculating my words. I couldn't help but feel as if she was trying to read me.

"That was selfless of you." She finally said.

"Or selfish, depending of how you look at it. To some it might seem like I wanted attention and didn't want to share it with the baby. Others, like you I suppose see it as selfless. I see it as a punishment"

"A punishment?" I could tell she was confused. Like why would I punish my self? Which, technically that's what this whole move to Forks felt like to me. A punishment.

"Yeah. A punishment" She shook her head and gave me a grim smile that if anything made her look more attractive.

"If anyone should be punished here, it should be me."

"What is that suppose to mean?" Now I'm the one confused. Why should she be punished? As far as I could tell she hadn't done anything wrong. She then looked over her shoulder towards the door where Jessica was still waiting. Hatred and jealousy clear in her eyes. Bella smirked.

"You better go your girlfriend is waiting."

"She's not my girlfriend"

"You should tell her that" she looked me straight in the eyes. Her large honey one boring into mine, mesmerizing me. She then grabbed her books and gracefully exited the room.

After gym class I ran over to my truck in hopes to avoid Jessica. The attention I was getting from her and other girls in the school was overwhelming. As far as I could tell I looked the same as I did in Phoenix. The same strange green eyes, same messy un-tamable bronze hair, same nose, same mouth, same everything. Why all the attention? I guess the lack of the male specimen in this school get girl to act this way.

Bella's words were still running in my head. Did Jessica really think of me as her boyfriend? The mere thought of it made me gag. It wasn't that she wasn't pretty, which she was, no doubt. But never in a million years would I go out with someone like Jessica Stanley. She just wasn't my type. She was just too clingy.

I reached the house just as the rain started to come down. The wind had picked up and if anything it got colder than it was earlier. How I missed those warm days in Phoenix. Where the need of a hoodie was only required in the school since the classrooms were just as cold as Forks. Renée wasn't home yet, so I ran to my room and started with my homework early not wanting to leave it at last minute, especially since it was Trig. But I could barely concentrate on any of it. All my thoughts were on Bella and her family. I knew there was something odd about them, and I could have sworn I saw her eyes black last time and now they were a deep amber color that if anything it had mesmerized me even more. Eyes just don't change colors like that. They just don't! I let out a frustrating sigh. This town was already making me delusional. Why did I even come here?

"Edward! I'm home!" the owner of the voice made me realize why, my mom. She needed me here. She needed a man to take care of her. She needed her son. "I'm up here Mom! I'll come down in a second!" I yelled back. "I bought Chinese food." She informed me.

I wasn't that hungry but I ate anyways so Renée wouldn't worry. Dinner was a quiet even. I was used to quiet. Charlie wasn't exactly verbal at times. Sue was mostly the one who supplied the conversation at the dinner table. Renée was the same. But not today for some reason, which was strange.

"You okay mom?"

"Oh, I'm fine baby." She paused, and then looked at me.

"Are you okay?"

"Yeah, sure" I knew she could see right through me. She didn't call me her open book for nothing. She knows I hate it here. I had voiced it out plenty of times in my childhood. To the point that we often vacationed in California when ever it was time for me to spend time with Renée.

"If you say so." She shrugged. The sad look was back in her eyes. I was doing it all wrong. I had come here to make her happy and instead I'm making her unhappier. I was going to have to check my attitude at the door every time I was around Renée.

"Hey mom?" I said completely out of the blue, not really thinking about what the answer might be but instead hoping it would answer some questions.

"Yes, baby?"

"Do you know the Cullen family?" My head was lowered as I looked at my mom through my lashes, acting innocently of course.

"Dr. Cullen's Family? Sure. Dr Cullen is a great man and he is so handsome"

"They… the kids are kind of different. They seem to keep to themselves" I tried to sound as un-concerned as possible. Renee surprised me by getting angry.

"The people in this town!" "She huffed. "Dr. and Mrs. Cullen are wonderful people. We are lucky Dr. Cullen chose this town, when he can easily get ten times the salary here anywhere in the world" She paused to chew. "And those kids are so well mannered" She continued. I listened. "I thought we might have trouble – since there are 5 of them- but not even a peep from them. Unlike some kids in this town. And they always stick together like a real family. They even go on camping trips every time the weather is nice. How sweet is that?"

"Very" I agreed. Hoping to finish her little speech with that.

"They seem nice to me. One of them talked to me today actually" which was odd, but I wasn't about to say that to my mother.

"Really? Which one?" I cleared my throat as I tried my hardest not to blush.

"Umm… Bella" I said.

"She's probably the prettiest of the three"

"I suppose" I dismissed it as if it were nothing. I quietly excused myself from the table and dashed to my room, mumbling something about homework. The glint in her eyes gave me a heads up. She was making assumptions. Typical Renée.

That night was the first time I dreamt about Bella Cullen. The dream felt so strange, so real. We were at some kind of open field. The sun was hitting her skin in a way that made it shine or sparkle even. We were looking at each other as if there were no cares in the world and the only thing that mattered was us. But it was just a silly dream. Nothing more. I looked out the window to find that a thin blanket of snow covered our yard. That was all I needed to start my day, snow. My hopes and dreams of having a sunny warm day was slowly disappearing. Becoming only a blimp in the radar. Sighing, I made my way to my daily routing of getting ready for school. Hopefully my day will be better, and the snow will disappear. I can only hope.

Playlist

Space Dementia – MUSE

Camisado – Panic! At the Disco

Dreams – The Cranberries

AN. This was probably the worst chapter I have ever written =\ I don't like it at all and it was so hard to write it took me almost 3 weeks to finally finish it. I want to make this story as similar and as different from the book/movie as possible. At the moment I'm having trouble on the "How is Bella going to save Edward" chapter. So if anyone has Ideas please let me know I will greatly appreciate it.

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