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Chapter 8

Supergirl

"Nice shirt supergirl" Lauren laughed as she sat down near the door and thankfully as far away from me as possible. I stood up and did the hands on my waist pose, giggling.

"Drat I've been outed! How could this have happened!?" I called and did the stupidest pondering face I could think of. I scratched my brow and stroked my invisible beard, everyone was laughing uncontrollably. I sat down again as the teacher entered the room and I smiled as the rest of the class continued to laugh, it took the poor teacher a few minutes to get everyone settled. Score "one" to me for making lame jokes!

"Nice" Alice whispered to me just before Mr. Letson began his lecture. I bowed to her and started taking down notes. I had put on a long sleeved white shirt under my supergirl shirt and had left my sweater in my locker, carrying coat. Everyone got a kick out of my outfit today although Lauren and Jessica seemed to be trying to make fun of me. I spoiled their plans by doing it first.

As soon as class was finished we all stood up with the intention of leaving the classroom, I thought to myself, "they want something to laugh about, well I will give them something" and proceeded to deliberately trip myself up and felled flat on my preverbal! "What a world when supergirl can't even walk over a flat stable surface without meeting the ground!" I called and everyone laughed with me. I giggled and picked myself up of the ground and dusted myself off walking quickly to History. Jasper nodded to me smiling as I took my seat.

"Afternoon Jasper, it's another horrible rainy day here in Forks, but at least I'm supergirl!" I said and he chuckled and I giggled with him. He had a nice smile it's a shame it didn't last longer. "Hey, you and Alice make a great couple" I said thinking of the picture I drew yesterday and flipped to it, handing it to him so that he could look at it. He just simply stared at it, almost in awe!

It was as though he could not speak, so I was the first to say something, "you can have it, if you want it, I mean it's on lined paper but it's pretty good" I said and he looked from me to the sheet in his hands and nodded. He wasn't smiling but some of the pained look left his eyes for a moment or so. I hope that means we can be friends. "Hey I have some blank paper I'll make you a better one" I said thinking of how boring the last class was.

"No, no, this is lovely, thank you very much Bella!" said Jasper smiling at me. It was nice to see him smile and I was glad he liked my picture.

For the rest of class whenever Mrs. White would say anything closely related to history I would quickly jot it down. Jasper smiled at me every time I did it so I shrugged and decided to ask him about it later. His eyes were glued to my page as I sketched yet another picture of him and Alice. This time I made Alice more playful and gave Jasper his true smile and I was pleased to hand it over to him at the end of class.

"Hey what were you smiling at when I took notes in class?" I asked as I handed him the second picture and watched as he carefully put it in his bag.

"The only way you could know what information was actually related to history in her lecture was if you already knew the points you were putting down" He said and I blushed realising that was exactly what I had done. He smiled at me but didn't continue.

"Okay so I think I may know more about history than she does. But mostly I just want to make sure I do well in this course even if I could sleep through it and get an A" I replied and he smiled at me again. As I left class I noticed that Angela was waiting by the door for me. "Hey Angela, where do you sit in this period I totally didn't notice you, sorry" I said and she laughed at me and smiled as Jasper brushed past us.

"I sit in the opposite corner to you, and I see you've made a new acquaintance." She said bobbing her head towards Jasper and I smiled at her taking her arm in mine.

"Yup, I plan on making all of them love me, and I am gonna make it incredibly awkward for Edward to hate me" I said laughing and Angela joined me after a moment. "Can we stop at my locker?" I asked and she nodded. "Its funny but I completely forgot I met their father at the hospital the week before I started, he told me I was in the same grade as Alice and Edward" I pondered realising I had gotten my wish; I had a class with Alice and one with Edward. "And yet Jasper is the one I've talked to the most out of all of the Cullen kids" I commented finding it amusing that it was Jasper I was getting to know.

"Why were you in the hospital?" Angela asked looking worried. I was going to have to lie but I was ready this time.

"No worries Ange! I am completely fine. I just managed to trip and bruise a few ribs in the move and my uncle was all paranoid and wanted to check that I was okay" I answered blushing slightly I have never really been good at lying and my blush always gave me away. Angela accepted my answer thinking I was embarrassed not lying. Ange is a good nickname for her.

"Ah" She said remembering my earlier very public trip that morning. "Come on supergirl lets go eat" She said giggling and I chuckled putting my books away and walking into the cafeteria. I was getting used to being an exhibit and ignored the eyes that seemed to follow me.

"Over here girls!" Ben called after we got our food and started looking for them. They weren't sitting at the same table as yesterday; they were at a table down from the Cullen's today. I looked at them and nodded at Alice and Jasper it looked like he was showing her my picture. Blushing I walked towards Ben and Erik and sat down beside them.

"So what's with the supergirl outfit Bella?" Erik asked and I shrugged.

"Oh, I just felt the need for a bit of added strength today. Yesterday ended on a bit of a low note for me" I said honestly not thinking about having to answer the next question.

"You seemed fine in Art." Erik said looking at me confused. I nodded thinking desperately to come up with an answer to the question, when I felt a light tap on my shoulder and turned to see Alice standing behind me.

"Hi, umm it's Bella right?" she asked looking at the whole table before her eyes landed on mine. "I just wanted to thank you for making such a beautiful picture of me and Jazz" She said and I nodded smiling at her.

"I'm just glad that I could improve it during History, I did one yesterday on lined paper and thought I would do a better one, I gave them both to Jasper" I answered and she grinned at me. "I hope you don't mind that I drew it without your permission?" I asked realising she would know that I had been looking at her during class yesterday.

"No, not at all, I just wanted to say thanks." She said before going back to her own table. Her movements were graceful and it looked almost like she was dancing. I chuckled and thought of drawing her as a dark haired Tinkerbell and Jasper as Peter. She turned and smiled hugely at me almost like she knew what I was planning. Weird but nice at least she didn't look upset.

"Wow" Erik said softly beside me and I looked at him. "They don't normally talk to other people" he explained on seeing my curious expression. Angela and Ben nodded in agreement as though they were thinking that it was kind of sad that no one tried to talk to them, I know I was thinking that anyway!

"I never realised how no one talks to them" Ange said feeling bad and I shrugged.

"Maybe they like their space, don't feel bad just because you didn't notice. Just be you, and say hi or wave if you see them. No big deal really. It's not like they don't have each other" I said and she smiled at me though it didn't completely reach her eyes. "Sides since people leave them alone I bet they don't get bugged by anyone, I mean people constantly asking them out or picking on them" I said and then tried to imagine Lauren or Jessica bothering the girls.

For some reason I just couldn't see it, Alice may be small but I wouldn't want to cross her and well I think Rose would murder me. I looked at Ange and we both burst into laughter, she was thinking the same. I think Alice and Rosalie could handle Lauren and Jess. The boys looked between the two of us and shrugged obviously not getting the joke.

Soon after Ange and I headed to Biology, I walked in prepared for glaring and hatred only to find the seat empty. Now that I thought about it I hadn't seen him at lunch. Looking at Ange I pointed to my seat she shrugged and I sat down. Why wasn't he here? Did he hate me so much that he had moved out of this class and skipped lunch?

My thoughts stayed on Edward as I sketched out the picture of Jasper. After only a few minutes I realised I was drawing Edward not Jasper... he had that same look of hatred. The sharp look hurt and I moved on to drawing his hair and lips avoiding the eyes at all costs. Deciding to finish it later I looked at the board and noticed that Mr. Varner was going over the functions of the different organelles in animal and plant cells. Looking in my text I began to skip ahead to see if I knew all of this terms lesson plan and found that minus a few weird details that I did. This was going to be a long class especially if my lab partner was going to be absent.

"So now he's a no show" I said to Ange as she waited for me to pack up, I have to get quicker at this.

"Maybe he's sic." She suggested again and I nodded but for some reason I knew that he wasn't in class because of me and it made me feel awful. "why does this bother me" I thought to myself! We parted as she went to Geography and I made my way to Art. Erik waved at me and I smiled back taking a seat next to him.

"Hey I totally forgot to ask if you finished your piece or not yesterday" He said and I nodded looking around for the paper I had left on the desk. I couldn't find it but it didn't bug me too much.

"Yeah I did" I said, "but it seems to have vanished on me" I shrugged. Erik helped me look for it and finally found it on top of Mrs. Talbot's desk. We looked at each other and shrugged. She must have put it there in order to prevent it from getting wrecked by other students. I left it there and decided I would ask for it back after class.

We took our seats and were waiting for the remainder of the class to filter in before the final bell. I noticed that Mrs. Talbot was looking at me smiling proudly. I wondered what this meant I nudged Erik.

I whispered to Erik, "Why do you think she is smiling at me?" I asked and he looked at her and back to me again.

"I haven't a clue, maybe it's got something to do with the piece you did yesterday?" he said and I nodded maybe.

"Attention class" Mrs. Talbot called and everyone settled down and it became silent. "I would like to announce that our newest student has caught the eye of some of the administrators and has been offered the opportunity to create a mural for the school, you may know whom I am speaking of" she inclines her head towards me and says "Bella, would you be interested in doing this for the school?" She said and the class erupted in hoots and "way to go Bella's" it was weird but I stood up and then everyone noticed my outfit and laughed. It did seem rather appropriate now.

"Settle down class please, settle" Mrs. Talbot said again and the ruckus stopped, Mrs. Talbot continued. "What do you say Bella? It is a great opportunity" She said beaming at me. I nodded and blushed, no pressure or anything! "Great! The mural is to be in the hall way between Buildings 3 and 5" She finished and I realised that was between my history and English classes. I wondered if was that concrete wall that led to the picnic benches no one seemed to use.

This period, art was filled with me making base sketches of ideas for the mural and everyone trying to help. Thankfully there were only 14 other students in the class or I would have been trampled. Erik added nothing only commenting on what looked neat to him. I was thankful everyone else was making suggestions like 'do sporty stuff' or 'more girly' or my personal favourite 'do it more supergirl style' I have no idea what that means but I got a good little laugh out of it.