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Chapter 13 (Edward's POV)

I was wondering what had Bella all happy this morning when I went to see her. Today was Monday. First day of actual school for me. It looked like Bella was happy I was leaving, but I thought she….

The bell rang for the end of first hour. All the girls came up to me to ask me what my next class was. Luckily, Emmett saved me and dragged me away. Not that I couldn't handle it on my own, but still, he was big-brother protective.

"Thanks Emmett."

"No problem!" Emmett grinned at me. "Nothing like girls chasing ya, huh?"

"What?" I looked behind me and saw all girls. Behind them, all boys. Except the girls were happy and the guys were glaring. "Hey, I have a girlfriend."

Emmett looked at me weird. "Who? When?"

"I'm dating my former boss." I spoke loud enough so that everybody could hear. Emmett already knew this, but he was letting everybody know. "That's why I had to quit. They had a no boss-worker relationship rule."

"Tsk. It happens." He said apologetically.

"Yeah." I said sadly. From the corner of my eye, I saw Emmett look back, then forward, smiling wide.

"It worked." He chuckled out. We went around the corner and stopped in our tracks. "Uh-oh."

Alice and Rosalie were in standing right there, smiling.

"Nice story guys." Rosalie said. Emmett went to stand by her, holding her in his arms. But first he made sure there were no teachers around to yell at him for PDA. "Too bad it's not true."

"So?" Emmett asked.

"Your letting a lot of girls down Edward. They're wishing they can get with ya." Rose was the one who didn't know I was with Bella. I had told Emmett this morning, strictly forbidding him to tell Rose. Alice noticed a change in me and asked me about and told Jasper, who was also wondering. So Rose, she was the only one who didn't know. She would have bantered me and embarrassed me. Who knows what she would have done? "And why did you guys make up that story? Are you gay, Edward? Is that what you had to talk about with Emmett this morning?"

"No!" Where in the world does she come up with these things? "Rosalie. I think all that blonde hair dye is sinking into your roots and well…your acting like a dumb blonde. Though, you are one, so—"

I quickly stepped back, out of reach from her impending slap in the face. I loved making her mad and making fun of her for her hair. I knew she didn't color it, but it was fun none-the-less.

"You are going to DIE!" She came after me again, but Emmett still had a hold of her. I was laughing from her expression, she looked so murderous. Alice took me away and walked me to my next class.

"Edward, you shouldn't tease her about that." Alice lectured me when we sat down. "It's not nice."

"Yeah and it's just so nice being called gay. How could she think that?" I was still stuck on that.

Alice busted out laughing. Several people turned in their chairs to look at her. "OMG! That was so funny! I thought Emmett would be on the ground laughing!"

I shut up after that. Obviously, today, she was not on my side.

In each of my classes, I was made to stand up and say my name and talk about myself. I was totally bored by fourth hour. I had done all this stuff plus more. My family was right. I could graduate this year.

"Hey. Edward Cullen? Right?" A boy talked to me after the bell rang for lunch.

"Yeah." I replied, shaking his hand.

"Tyler—"

Another kid interrupted us, "Let's go, Tyler. We're going to be late."

I followed them to the long, non-moving lunch line. I looked around to see Emmett and the rest of my family sitting at the last table in the back. Across from that, I saw Bella's friends. She said that they were back to being friends now, but I didn't want her getting hurt again.

A heard whistles go through the crowd and everybody else went silent.

The guy that told Tyler was going to be late for lunch started talking to me. He looked familiar, but I couldn't place him. Pointing to the person who was walking past us. "That, my friend, is the most hottest, smartest, everything, girl in this school. Except your sister, but she's with your brother." He gave a gross, disgusted look. "Anyways, that there," He nodded his head towards the girl. "She's been unattainable since…ever."

"Really?" I asked, completely amused.

"Yup. There was talk of her going out with that group of idiots over there, but they all say they haven't." He kept talking and I kept listening, the line still going extremely slow. He started talking real low, "You see, we have a bet here at the school. The guys I mean. Every guy who wants to compete throws in five bucks. Whoever dates Bella first gets the money. So far, no one has." He grinned. "But I soon will."

I covered up my laugh with a cough. "Really? How do you plan on doing that?"

"Easy. No girl has ever refused me. Well, Bella has, but she won't this time." He said, fully confident in himself.

I didn't even notice Emmett coming up behind me until he clamped a hand on my shoulder.

"What are we talking about?" Emmett said, with a small smile on his face.

I replied, in an amusing tone, "The bet about Bella. Who can date her first."

He grinned. "Well, I throw in ten bucks for Edward."

The guys laughed. "Yeah right. You don't have a chance. Even if you are new."

"I bet…" Emmett leaned in, his smile was mischievous. "I bet you each ten dollars, that he can kiss Bella right in front of everybody. Right now."

The guy scoffed. "Of course he can. But will she?"

"Ten bucks she'll run into his arms the minute she sees" He grabbed my chin "his lovely, darling face."

Again, the guys laughed. "Alright, deal. Ten bucks each. Everybody agree?"

They all did. Emmett went back to sit at his table and we went through the lunch line. I was putting my tray down next to Tyler's when I saw Emmett looking intently at me. He nodded his head, signaling he wanted me to come over.

"I'll be right back, guys." I said to the table, now looking at me to see if I would go to Bella. But I went to stand behind some girl, sitting in front of Emmett.

"What's your problem? I made a bet! Are you going to talk to her?" Emmett started questioning me, before I could even open my mouth, he screamed, "BELLA!"

The whole cafeteria shut up and looked between Emmett and Bella. She turned slowly to see Emmett and frowned. Wonder what made her so mad. Probably Rosalie glaring at her. Emmett pointed to me and everybody turned from Bella to me. When her eyes moved over to me, she smiled. Everybody gasped as if it wasn't an everyday occurance. Maybe not for them, but it was for me.

She immediately got up and proceeded towards us. I opened my arms when she was within reach and held her tight. I lifted her chin up and kissed her, making Emmett win the bet. I didn't want to spoil the moment by asking her why she didn't tell me she was going to be here. We didn't kiss too long. Or too passionate. Not in front of everybody. I saw Emmett grin and Rose looking shocked and confused. HA!! Take that! I'm NOT gay!!

I looked down, while Bella looked up. She blushed, remembering the people around her.

"What happened to your other girlfriend?" A voice came from behind. I turned around to see a girl glaring intently at Bella and I. It was one of the girls from earlier. I looked down and Bella frowned, looking hurt as she looked at me.

She must think I have someone else. I quickly held tighter to Bella as she pulled away. "This is her."

Bella didn't smile. But the other girl did, in fact, she laughed. "Nuh-uh. You said you were with your former boss. And you—"

"Eavesdropping on my brother and I's conversation?" I interrupted. I heard Emmett snort behind us.

She looked uncomfortable. "Well, you said it loud enough."

"It's still rude." I replied. Bella looked like she was trying not to laugh at the girl's obvious discomfort. It appeared she had figured it out. But I was still displeased. Could she think of me that low? To go out with multiple girls? "Anyways, Bella was my former boss."

The girl gasped. Bella waved and said, "Bye Lauren."

She pulled me away, taking me to in the direction of her table.

"You really think I would go out with someone else?" I asked, while wrapping an arm around her waist.

She bit her lip. "I thought you would have a girlfriend already."

"Bella." I said disapprovingly as we sat down amongst Jake and the rest of them. They had come to visit Bella a few times in the last week, making up for the time they lost.

"Hi guys! You know Edward." She said to the table. They looked really ecstatic-note the sarcasm.

"Hey." I said, when Bella nudged me.

"Hey, Edward, right?" I turned and saw the guy I was talking to in line.

"Yeah."

"I'm Mike. Mike Newton." Finally it clicked. The idiot stalker boy that Bella was talking about. "I was wondering if you wanted to sit at our table."

"Um, no." I said, astonished. Couldn't he see that I already had a place to sit? "I'm sitting with my girlfriend."

His eyes flashed over to Bella, who sat with a half irritated/half amused expression. "Oh." He locked on eyes with Bella with a hurt look, "I thought we were going out, Bella."

Her eyes widened to the extreme. "WHAT!?!?!"

"Well, you remember." He started getting all cocky and arrogant. "Last month, we had that little fling."

"I think you might have dreamed that up, Mike. Because, there is NO WAY I would go out with you." Bella looked furious. I looked over to Jake and all three were standing up.

"No, I don't think I did, especially the part when you-" I didn't even see Jake move around to us. His fist came out of nowhere. HE came out of nowhere. But it was amusing how Mike went screaming to the nurse about his broken nose.

"Jake! You are going to be in so much trouble!!" Bella screamed at him. Right now, I don't think Jake cared too much. Plus, he was looking a bit ferocious. He looked at Bella in a way that immediately made me step in front of her. Jake stared me down and was coming after me when some teachers came in, telling-more like yelling- at Jake to get to the Principal's office. NOW. He didn't listen, just kept glaring at me. Waiting to pounce.

"Edward, what are you doing? I-" Bella's voice cut off as a new one joined.

"Bella, shush. Jake's not acting normal." One of the boys told her. Jake looked over my shoulder, finally breaking the staring/glaring contest. Something seemed to click and he loosened up, all the tension going away from his stance. He looked at me, his eyes less cold and possessive than what they were, and he quickly sped out the cafeteria.

The chatter that had ceased, resumed and Bella hugged me. "What a first day, huh?"

I laughed. "And of course, it was about you."

I heard and felt her snort against my back. I was prying her hands off when the bell rang. "Well, better go. Bye Edward!!!"

She was gone before I could turn around. How in the world did she do that? And why? I frowned, but Alice came up beside me. She giggled. "Rosalie still thinks your gay."

I rolled my eyes, not even commenting on Rose's intellectual being. "Come on, let's go. You said you had this hour with me."

We went to a class room with desks like a chem lab. Or biology, since this was a biology class. The teacher, not making me go in front of the class, just sent me to sit with Alice, in the very back. She started talking to me about Bella and what happened at lunch. Along with why Rose still thinks I'm gay. I didn't ask, though, not bothering with my sister's reasons.

"Well, I don't understand it, really. But she says it's because Bella hasn't gone with any of the guys here, and they're all straight, but when you come along, you get-"

"Well, look who showed up!" The voice of the teacher was loud enough that it stopped all conversations. Everybody looked to front to see the teacher watching Bella go to her seat, right in front.

"Yeah, I just totally missed your class, ya know?" Bella's sarcasm came out in a drawled accent. And smiled a brilliant smile at him.

The teacher relaxed, rolled his eyes, and went to desk and dug some papers out. He handed them to Bella, "Here's your homework. We have a lab today and test Wednesday."

Bella looked up from her stack of papers, "I probably won't be here Wednesday."

The teacher sighed, "Then when are you Bella? You really need to start coming, your not going to get your credits."

"Umm, what's the test over?" She asked, uncertainly.

"Mitosis and meiosis." He said simply. "And also chapter thirteen of your book."

I couldn't see her face, but her voice brightened, "Oh good! Can I take it today?!"

I might not have been able to see her face, but the teacher's I could see perfectly. "What?"

"I've read over all of it and was wondering if I could take it today?" She said again.

"You need to do the lab first, then if you finish with enough time, I'll let you do the test. But I will ask a few questions to make sure your ready for it." He looked uncertain, but still let her.

"Okay." She happily said.

"Alright, class. Today we have a lab over mitosis. The slides and microscope are beside you and you may NOT use your books. You may begin. Everything you need should be on the desks." The teacher said, he went around, making sure everybody was doing okay. But he always watched Bella. We were on slide three when Bella came up to him.

"Mr. Banner?" He took the lab, going over it and then went to his desk. Alice and I had already done this lab, but I took over for her, biology my strong suit. We were done within minutes.

"Go take it to Mr. B." Alice handed me the sheet with our answers. I walked up next to Bella and she jumped when I wrapped my arm around her waist. When she saw it was me, she released the tension and smiled.

"Jeez, give me a heart attack. I didn't even see you in the class!" She swatted my shoulder. Mr. Banner cleared his throat, getting the attention back to him.

"Mr. Cullen, do you need something? Is the lab to hard?" Bella laughed, covering it up with a cough.

"No, I would just like to turn in the paper." I gave it to him and turned back to Bella. "Don't run off again. I do need an escort you know."

Bella laughed, "Not a professional escort I hope?"

It took me a moment to realize what she said, then I scoffed, "No, I'll leave that job to my sister."

Her eyes got huge. "Edward! That's mean!"

"Not Alice. Rosalie." Hopefully she wouldn't yell at me. Why were girls so squeamish about that?

She smiled a little, but tried to hold it back. "It's still mean."

She must know my sister, "Have you met Rosalie?"

She raised her eyebrows, "She has a vendetta against me."

This was new, "What for?"

"Stealing Emmett away from her." She laughed at something.

"You went out with my brother?" I thought she said she never went out with anybody. I was going to kill Emmett for not telling me.

"NO!" She realized what she said and corrected it. "I mean, in gym, I kinda, well…" She trailed off. "Interrupted their make out session. I was going for the ball and ran into Emmett. Literally. And it ended up by me sitting on him. Rosalie screamed at me for 'taking her man'. She's never gotten over it." Her worry went back to happy, "Though he just started laughing and simply got up. He'll never let me live it down, he keeps teasing me about it."

"That's Emmett." I remembered my brother.

"You know? I completely forgot Emmett and Alice's last names were the same as yours. It never clicked." She said. "I didn't know you were brother's and sister's. Kinda scary." She shuddered, then laughed, "THAT'S why Emmett said 'Don't jump on my brother like you did with me' when I saw him today."

I busted out laughing, making Bella blush beet-red.

"Are you guys even paying attention to me?" Both our heads swung to meet the teacher's. Whoops.

"Sorry." We both said at the same time.

He deeply sighed. "Bella, here's your test. Edward, go sit down."

I kissed her on the cheek, ignoring the teacher. I whispered in her ear, "Meet me after class."

She giggled softly and went back to her seat. I walked back to mine, again, ignoring all the stares. When the bell finally rang, Bella had just finished. While she turned in her test, I got her stuff together, which wasn't much. Just a pencil and her papers she was given.

"Ready loverboy?" I heard her say. That nickname was one I never heard her say.

"Sure, cowgirl. You gonna lasso me to next class?" I don't know where that came from, but hey! If she liked it? I was going to keep doing it.

"You are so weird." She laughed.

"But that's why you love me!" I said, making her smile.

"Please don't say your going to sing again!" She begged.

"Too bad!" We both wrapped an arm around each other's waist. Once we got out into the hallway, I started.

"Bella's in love with me! Bella's in love with me!"

"Edward!!!!!" Bella screeched.

"What?" I asked, "You knew I was going too!"

"I didn't think you would actually sing it!" She looked so red, I was laughing my butt off. This wasn't too good of a thing, because Bella-she avoided me the rest of the day. Not good.

But…in last hour, P.E., she was in there. I came up behind her and put my hands over her eyes. "Bella, your not still mad, are you?"

"Yes. Now remove your hands before I remove them for you." She sounded angry. Uh-oh, not good. Not good at all.

I removed my hands and turned her around, "Please? Don't be mad anymore?"

I made my eyes go wide and my lips pout. It's what Emmett does when he's in trouble. It looked like it was working, her angry expression turned to a dazed one. HAH! IT WORKED!

"EDWARD!!" She slapped me. Not really hard, though. More like a swat. Great, now she was even more mad now that she knew what I tried to do.

I grabbed her in a bear hug before she could get away. She struggled, of course. "Bella, I won't let you go until you say your not mad at me!"

She kept kicking, but I just picked her up and went over to one of the mats on the floor(their playing mat ball-pretty fun game) and plopped us both on it. Me lying on top of her. Luckily, the coach was still in the locker room.

"EDWARD! GET OFF!" I looked down to see Bella's face scrunched up. I started kissing her irresistible beautiful features. She stopped struggling and soon wrapped her own arms around my back. I finally reached her lips when something hit me. On the butt. Hard.

I pulled back to see everybody watching us. And Emmett grinning like it's Fourth of July. I narrowed my eyes and looked around to see what hit me. A kickball. Dang that was really hard.

"Um, Edward?" Bella asked.

"Yeah?" I said, looking into her beautiful brown eyes.

"Can you get off me?" I realized I still had her pinned beneath me. I quickly stood up, and helped her up too.

"Sorry."

"No problem. Though your sister will probably-"

"OW!!!" I turned around to see who threw a foam ball at my head. I don't think these people liked me very much. This time, I saw Rosalie grinning.

I picked up the ball, throwing it directly at her. It hit her, right in the face. She didn't even try to duck.

"EDWARD!" Emmett went rushing to his girlfriend's side. I chuckled, remembering she had a job tomorrow. And she needed her pretty face to model. Emmett picked up a ball, throwing it at me. I turned, waiting for it to hit my back. But it didn't. Instead, Bella had caught it. Before anybody could say anything, the coach came out finally and called for exercises. The tension was thick. And maybe it was a good thing that Bella and I were on the same team as Emmett and Rosalie. Who knows what would have happened if we were opposing sides?

Bella came out of the locker room rubbing her arms. I took her bag off her shoulders and asked, "What's the matter?"

"I have so many bruises." She frowned, looking at the one on her arm.

"Maybe you should just stay on the mat next time." I told her, laughing.

"I did!" She said exasperated. It was true, whenever she got on base, she just sat on the mat, not moving from her position until the inning was done. Even then, she just sat there, being first baseman. "So, I'll see you tomorrow?"

"I can't come over?" I asked, depressed.

"Yeah, you can." Then she smiled mischievously. "Your just postponing your torture for when you get home! Emmett and Rosalie are going to beat you're butt."

She was right. The second I stepped one foot in that house, I was dead. And deaf from Rosalie's screaming. "Oh, I can always sleep at your house."

"Yep." She said as we reached her truck. "With the horses."

I stopped, "Hey, that's mean!"

"See ya in ten minutes!" She yelled back as she started her truck. She pulled out and I went to my car, with Alice waiting in it. It may be more then ten minutes.

"You are so dead." Alice said when we pulled up. Sure enough, she was right, because there, on the porch, was Esme, with Rosalie right behind her.