Chapter 5

First Week

BPOV

The stares and excitement around Edward had died down minutely by Wednesday but it was still bothering him. I could tell by the frown he wore in biology, whenever I peeked at him. He didn't speak to me in biology like I thought he might, just nodded at me when I sat down and smiled briefly. I was relieved that he didn't try to make conversation with me as I was sure that I would have been blushing throughout and just end up making a fool of myself. Yet, I was also disappointed. When I had heard his deep, smooth voice at lunch on Monday and yesterday, I had almost started hyperventilating.

Tanya Denali came and leaned over the desk in front of Edward, blatantly flaunting her cleavage.

"Hey Edward," she whispered, "I'm having a little trouble understanding this cell division stuff. Do you get it?"

From my peripheral vision, I could see Edward struggling to keep his eyes on anything but her breasts.

"Um..." he swallowed, "yeah, I pretty much understand it." He said.

"Really?" Tanya responded, running her fingers, slowly, through her hair, "well...why don't you help me out a little. You know, come to my place; tutor me a bit...." she trailed off, intently staring into his eyes.

He hesitated, leaning back in his chair, further away from her eyes and breasts.

"Tanya, I don't think I'd be the best person to tutor you." He said, "I mean, I just started this school, I've got to catch up with a bunch of stuff myself."

"Oh," Tanya sounded disappointed. "Yeah I guess you're right. I'll see if I can find someone else then." She smiled at him before straightening up and sauntering back to her desk, her denim skirt barely covering her ass.

I heard Edward sigh and he shook his head. The frown returned shortly after.

I really don't know why, but there was a tiny part of me that was pleased that he had turned her down.

Our lunch table was filled with the same group as yesterday and Monday, with an additional person, a guy who was also in the school football team with Emmett, Mike Newton.

I inwardly grimaced.

Mike Newton was one of the guys I had turned down when he asked me out. Fortunately, after I had turned all the other guys down, they hadn't bothered asking me again. Mike on the other hand, was persistent.

"Hey Bella!" he called out as he saw me walking towards the table, "I saved you a seat."

He pulled out the chair next to him. I frantically looked around the table for another seat to find, to my dismay, all of them occupied.

Perfect.

I took the seat next to Mike, smiling an obviously forced smile and muttering, "Thanks."

Alice snickered quietly, I shot her a glare.

Mike didn't seem to notice my hostility and smiled at me warmly, "No problem."

Everyone was engaged in conversation at the table, including Edward, he and Emmett were having an animated conversation about a football game. Emmett was using his water bottle and a grape to re-enact the winning touchdown. Edward was laughing at this, a deep melodic laugh that made my pulse speed up minutely. I smiled.

Mike turned to me.

My smile faded.

"So Bella, are you doing anything this Friday?" I was running out of excuses when I suddenly remembered,

"Um...yeah actually, Jasper and Rosalie are having a little get together at their house that night. I'm going with Alice."

"Oh yeah!" Mike exclaimed rolling his eyes, I can't believe I forgot about that. I'm going too. We can probably just hang out together there or something right?"

I wanted to scream.

"Sure Mike." I mumbled instead.

He continued trying to make conversation with me, leaning close and almost whispering in my ear.

I was impatient for lunch to end.

EPOV

My first week felt very long. Though thankfully, by Friday the whispering and staring had almost stopped. I guess I was becoming old news. I had gotten into a routine, made a bunch of friends and joined the track team. Who would have thought a tiny High School like Forks High had a football, basketball and track team. At lunch I sat at the same crowded lunch table as I did on the first day. There was Jazz and Rose, Alice, Emmett, Tyler, Tanya and Jessica, Bella, and from Wednesday some guy from the football team started sitting with us, Mike Newton, I found out his name was. He was also kind of big, nowhere near as big as Emmett but beefier than Jazz, Tyler and I. He had a round babyish face, blond spiky hair and bright blue eyes. He looked at me warily and nodded curtly when Emmett introduced me to him. I returned the gesture.

Something told me that me that this guy and I weren't going to get along.

He was all over Bella, sitting close to her, whispering stuff in her ear, completely oblivious to the fact that she looked like she was dying to get away from him.

I shook my head.

I had noticed that the girls in Forks High were surprisingly bold when it came to guys. I had received over a dozen winks and a lot of flirty smiles, and phone numbers slipped into my locker.

I ignored each wink and threw away each number.

Girls had started approaching me too, asking how I was liking Forks, trying to make idle conversation while staring at my mouth as I spoke and pushing out their cleavage.

This was increasingly annoying and I found that I had a permanent scowl as I walked the halls and sat in lessons. Even that didn't deter them.

The boldest of all these girls, it appeared, was Tanya.

On Wednesday I sat in biology after nodding and smiling at Bella when she came in – she never spoke to me – and Tanya waltzed over to my desk leaning forward in front of me.

She was wearing a tiny denim skirt with a tight pink top that showed a great deal of her large, firm boobs. The way she was leaned over also allowed me to view the lacy, pink, see-through bra she wore underneath.

I fought to keep my eyes away from her chest because although she was acting like a desperate slut, she was undeniably hot and had great boobs that were causing things to happen to certain parts my body that shouldn't be happening in class.

She was whispering something about wanting me to tutor her and I hesitated, because I knew that tutoring was obviously just a cover up to get me to her house and with boobs like that I was sure I wouldn't mind doing whatever it was that she had in mind. But then I saw Bella Swan move slightly from the corner of my eye and for some reason, I decided to turn down Tanya's offer. She walked back to her desk slowly and I couldn't help but watch her ass.

Emmett was in my gym class. He was actually a really cool guy. We partnered up for games and with his strength and my speed, we almost always won.

It was him who convinced me to try out for the track team.

"Dude, c'mon you would totally make the team. I've never seen anyone run so fucking fast." He'd said after our team won at baseball.

Emmett was pretty popular and got along with everyone but the other guys seemed to eye me warily – the same way Mike Newton had – and generally didn't really speak to me much. It was fine though as I didn't really want to talk to the assholes anyway. We hung out, watching a football game when he came over to see Rose on Tuesday after school.

Rose was not pleased about this, her face in a scowl as she rolled her eyes at us every time we yelled at the TV.

I grinned at her teasingly and she threw her magazine at my head mumbling something about football games being the death of relationships.

Author's Note:

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