So sorry for not updating, guys! So I was reading a few past reviews, and realized I never did answer some questions.
Edward is staying with Lauren to help David because Lauren won't take his money otherwise, and Forks Hospital has a policy that makes sure no donations are accepted unless the patient's next of kin allows it.
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In Chapter 2, Please Don't Freak Out On Me, there is a part where Lauren reaches up to whisper something into Edward's ear in the cafeteria, in the fifth paragraph from the end. What she is really whispering to Edward is warning him to shut up and keep on with the act. In that scenario, Edward is pissed but since Bella is so far off from him (the Cullens were directly across the cafeteria), she can't see his anger. This was asked via PM by someone called AnonymousCullen. Hope it answers your question…if you're still reading, that is.
In Chapter 3 the famous photo of Lauren and Mike with Tyler's face on it was plastered up there by Tyler himself. He blew up the photo at his house and so that Mike doesn't get whacked by the teachers, he put his own face on it to disguise Mike. He did it to cheer Bella up and to provide a distraction from Bella's misadventures. Gina, his girlfriend, stuck up the photo since she was a ninja wannabe.
New Kid In Town
Friday
For some strange reason, the school was more alive today. Everyone was muttering to themselves, not seeming quite present in the future. Though from all the muttering I kind of got the gist that nobody quite new what was going on.
I walked to class with Alice, Rose and Jasper-Emmett was somewhere trying to reason with Edward against my wishes. Knowing Emmett, it would probably be 'reasoning' five seconds and 'wrestling and forcing him to reason' ten minutes.
"What's going on? Everybody seems so hyper," I commented, ducking under the shelter from the light drizzle. I blew on my hands to keep them warm.
"You haven't heard? Forks is seeing more excitement these past few months than my whole life," Rosalie asnwered, sniffing haughtily. "There's another new kid."
"And apparently she came from the beautiful far off country of Italy," Alice chimed in.
I rose my brows. "Italy? Either she's brave or she's one–"
"Idiot," the three of us said together. I smiled and continued talking. "But really, three visitors in three months? That's quite something."
"Tell me about it," Rose snorted. "There hasn't been this much excitement since the town drunk put down the bottle and joined church."
"Abe stopped drinking? When did that happen?" I asked. Old Abe, or Drunk Abe, whichever you preferred, was a notorious drinker when I was still living here in the Pre-Divorce era. He always kept a bottle of something in a paper bag he never went around without. He scared me to bits then.
"Two years before you came," Alice said nonchalantly. "He was diagnosed with liver failure and went cold turkey. You should've seen him. He looked like Carlisle before his morning coffee."
I started laughing. Carlisle without caffeine was hilarious. He looked like a lost rabbit without it. It was one of Carlisle's funnier flaws.
We strolled into the main building, where the corridor was full of students lounging around before the bell rang. The same corridor where The Photo, aka the photo where Lauren and Mike had been caught making out, had been blown up and posted.
Rose was narrating a rather hilarious recount about one April Fool's Day where the Cullens had teamed up with Mike's 'gang' consisting of Tyler, Eric, Angela, Jessica, and Lauren (ugh) to prank the entire school, teachers and principle included. Apparently they had staged a dramatic confrontation over a supposed staring incident.
"And Carlisle even joined in. He came into the school on this Harley Davidson wearing a leather jacket and PVC tights looking hilarious and told us to kiss and make up," Rosalie laughed. Alice grinned.
"And when Esme found out she refused to talk to Carlisle for weeks," Alice added. I was laughing to death at a weird image of Carlisle as a Ghost Rider wannabe. It was way too wrong.
We stopped outside my class, Alice smiling at me. "Good luck with Edward, Bella," she said to me.
"Yeah, I'll get Emmett to kick his ass if he won't listen to logic," Rose chimed in. I snickered and waved to them, walking in.
Immediately I knew something was wrong.
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"Um…no offense, but this is my seat," I said, trying to sound firm but coming off completely wimpy. I attempted a weak stare at the girl sitting in my place.
She had pale, washed out skin that was scarily pale. She was petite…actually, small would be a better word. She looked barely twelve. Her hair was a matching pale brown, trimmed to something like a pixie cut. Her figure was slim and adrogynous but her face was beyond beautiful. Actually, it was angelic.
"Really?" she asked in a high-pitched voice. "That's funny. I don't see your name down here."
That did it. I officially hated this girl. She joined cahoots with Lauren at the top spot of my Most Hated list of people.
"Look, missy, I don't know where you're from or who you are, but the way things work around here are that this is my seat. You're new, go seat at the back," I spat at her. She stood up, deliberately scraping the stool against the floor, and standing up to glare at me.
She glared at me before stomping off haughtily to take her seat next to a boy with permanently crusted nostrils and gelled hair. He looked thrilled when she slid down next to him, never mind her pissed off expression.
Edward came in then, holding his books cradled to his chest. I read somewhere that that was a defensive sign. Body Language Today, I think the magazine was called. It stank, big time. Practically useless.
He rose one eyebrow at me before looking very pointedly at the steaming mad girl at the back, who I could tell was glaring daggers at me.
"She was pissing me off," I explained. He nodded and sat down. I sighed.
Stupid new kids.
So sorry for not updating, people! Hope this satisfied you guys till next time!