If you have read my One-Shot "Another Time" then you have read this chapter before. I still hope you enjoy it. Thank you Sunflower Fran and Nanstew for editing this chapter for me. :)

Disclaimer: These characters belong to Stephanie Meyers.

Chapter 4

Bella Pov

Later at the beach, I meet up with a group of girls at my school, 'The Populars.' We prepare for a segment of the web show labeled 'Social Experiment; X.' I only agreed to this because my friend Rose just succeeded in hers last week and it was pretty embarrassing. She shouldn't have to do them back to back.

Last week Rose's segment involved her running around the school smacking guys on the butt. Then she had to wait near them and catch their reaction on camera. She's an absolutely stunning girl, so all was forgiven, and most of them even tried to hit on her. Her social experiment was completed.

If you're a beautiful woman, you can go around smacking boys on the butt and ninety-nine percent of them will be okay with it.

Today my challenge -if I choose to accept it- will be to go around the beach pretending to be lost and needing directions. As the guy or girl attempts to direct me, I stealthily have to try to kiss them without their permission. If I successfully get one guy or girl to make out with me, my social experiment will be complete.

"Okay Bella, are you ready to do this?" James, Victoria's boyfriend- asks me, the camera pointed directly in my face.

"Of course." Is my quick reply as I ruffle my hair and run my middle finger across my lips checking that they aren't chapped. "Let's do this."

I quickly introduce myself before letting my eyes freely roam the crowded beach, thankful that I have a great selection of both girls and boys.

There's a boy approaching the water with a surfboard in hand eyeing me as he passes. He sees the camera behind me and turns his attention back to the water shaking his head. Everyone in town has heard about us, so I'm sure his reaction is due to the fact that he knows we are about to do something completely against social order.

I run to catch up to him since he's the closest to me. Tapping his shoulder lightly with one finger to gain his attention turns out not to be such a great idea. He almost steps over me as if I wasn't there in the first place. I know that I'm a little on the short side, but this dude had to see me walking beside him. Even when I attempted to step in front of him as he took wide steps with long legs towards the wind-tossed waves of the ocean water I got no response.

"Hey," I say when he finally stops and actually looks at me. He smiles and folds his arms across his chest looking down at me from his height of nearly six feet five. He's cute, but in a very boyish way.

"You're camera girl." He points out, then he looks over my shoulder at James, who has the lens pointed at us but not near enough to be obvious.

"I have no idea what you're talking about." I tell him, and he snorts and mouths, 'okay,' looking down at the ground. "Honest to God, I just need directions."

"Where to?" He lifts his brows eager to help.

"You tell me. Are there any good sandwich shops nearby?" I ask, putting on my flirty face, batting my lashes, swinging from side to side in a very damsel in distress sort of way.

His grin widens as he turns facing the entrance of the beach. His long arm points, and at that moment I realize he's too tall for this plan to work.

"I can't hear you from up there," I tell him and at this he laughs and leans down but continues to point, trying to give me directions.

"Turn left and-," He says but stops short when my face comes within inches of his. He looks at me frowning. "Did you just try to kiss me?"

"Mmm Maybe..."

He stands back upright and glares at me. "That's weird." He shakes his head and starts back towards the ocean shaking his head at me.

"Fail!" James shouts from his position not too far from me.

"Oh fuck off will ya!" I shout back, and he bursts into laughter. Victoria doesn't look amused or impressed, which I find irritating. This is supposed to be fun, but she makes it seem like a job.

I move from guy to guy getting so close to a kiss but they either just walk away laughing, or they are so freaked out they ask if I am mentally challenged.

One girl lets me get close enough to peck her cheek, but she calls it quits at anything more.

"That's all you're getting babe." She said, winking before running off to another girl throwing her arm around her waist.

"This is harder than I thought." I voice to James and Victoria.

"It's because you look like a creep," Victoria says with no inflection, all monotone and serious.

"I thought that was the point. Would you let a random creep kiss you?" I tell her and watch as she rolls her eyes at my idiotic statement.

"You being a stranger, trying to kiss a stranger, while said stranger is giving you directions are what makes you a creep." James clarifies, only solidifying the impossible nature of my task.

"One out of one hundred of these losers has to be a free spirit,"I say as I scan the crowd for what seems like the millionth time.

I see a mass of glistening, wet bronze hair with a hand strolling through it and my eyes zone in on the handsome face to match.