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Unlucky

The day passed quickly, without much happening. Emma and I had bought our lunch from the cafeteria and hurried outside to have our lunches at a bench and enjoy the sun. I have always loved sunny days, even where we lived before, where it had been sunny nearly every day. I feel like when the sun comes out, it brings me luck. I really did hope that everything would truly work out today. I hadn't been paying attention to my lessons as I had just been replaying in my head what I wanted to happen that afternoon.

I turned my head to Emma and saw her looking at something in the distance, mesmerized. I looked in the direction she was staring at. She was looking at the car park, where there were a couple of guys tossing a basketball around. I knew most of them. Dash, Thomas and Mark were in a few of my classes. I watched as Dash tossed the ball to Mark, who missed and ran towards us to get the ball. I twisted around again to see that Emma's eyes followed Mark.

I chuckled, 'Hey Emma.'

She jumped up, startled, 'Oh, um, yeah Bella?'

'You like him don't you?'

Emma bit her lip and looked at me with those big innocent eyes of hers. 'Uh, who are you talking about?'

'Mark… Gavin,' I smiled and raised my eyebrows at her.

Emma blushed, 'Yeah … he's cute isn't he?'

I nodded. Mark had light brown curls which sometimes fell over his eyes and a very nice smile. I had to admit, however much I was in love with Edward, Mark was cute. Definitely boyfriend material. Possibly, if things worked out, Mark would become Emma's boyfriend. And I did believe that everything would work out on this rare day that the sun was out.

There was silence between us for a while, Emma preoccupied with watching Mark, while I was preoccupied with my thoughts. I came out of my trance-like state when Emma squeezed me and whispered, 'Oh my God, he's coming over this way!'

I looked up, and just like Emma had said, Mark was walking over to us and Dash was following him.

Mark came up to us and said with an easy smile, 'Would you ladies like to join us?'

I looked at Emma, since she was the one that liked Mark, it was really her decision. And I was sure that Mark was really asking Emma to join them, not me. Emma nodded happily. I smiled for her as Mark took her hand and walked her over to the car park.

I was surprised when I realized Dash was still there, 'Bella?'

'Yeah?'

'You coming?'

'What?' I asked confused.

'You coming to play with us too right?' Dash shoved his hands in his pockets and lowered his gaze.

My eyes widened. Was Dash nervous to ask me to play basketball with him? Did he like me? Wait, I told myself, I was just flattering myself. Dash was just asking to be polite. Of course he was.

I smiled widely at him, 'I would love to.'

He led me across the car park, hands still stuffed into his pockets. I saw that Emma and Mark seemed to be getting along quite well. Emma had the ball in her hands and Mark was standing behind her, holding up her arms and helping her to pass. I laughed. No way did Emma not know how to do a simple pass, she was probably just pretending so Mark would have to help her.

I noticed that the rest of the guys had left, leaving Mark, Emma, Dash and I to play by ourselves.

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An hour later, I was sitting in Media and going through a final run through for the plan I would carry out in Biology. Lunch had not gone very well for me. It had been awkward for Dash and I as we had nothing to do apart from watch Emma and Mark having fun. Still I was happy for her. Mark had asked her to a movie and she had agreed to go with him. Glad that it had worked out for her, I was hoping desperately it would work out for me.

I rushed to Biology so quickly after Media ended, that I think I even knocked over a couple of people. I quickly dumped my books on the table and got seated. Since I had hurried to Biology, I had to wait quite a while for the rest of the class and the teacher to arrive. I tapped my fingers on the desk impatiently, waiting for Edward.

I watched as everyone walked pass and sat down.

I kept watching as Mr. Turner came in.

I waited as a few late students came in.

I spent my whole lesson watching and waiting.

And guess what?

Edward didn't show up.

Why wasn't he there? What was going on. Out of all the days he could choose not to be at school he had to choose today. I balled my hands into angry fists. I thought that today would be a good day for me as the sun was out; and that wasn't something that would happen a lot in this small town.

After the class I walked to the bench that I was supposed to meet Emma at. She was already there, sitting on the table and holding Mark's hand. I could tell that they were getting along really well because Emma was beaming hugely.

But when Emma saw the look on my face, she gave Mark a kiss on the cheek and I saw him leaving. I guess she could tell that things didn't go really well and that I need to talk to her. Privately.

'Aw Bella! What happened?' Emma asked as she put her books back into her bag.

I dumped my bag on the table and scowled, 'He wasn't there.'

'What? How could he not be there?'

'I don't know,' I grunted grumpily, 'He wasn't there. I didn't talk to him. Period.'

Emma gave me a hug, 'well you could always talk to him another day you know. I'm sure it'll still work out.'

I felt a lump in my throat, 'Yeah, I know,' I sobbed, 'but today was supposed to be a prefect day for me. I wanted it to be today!'

Emma sighed, 'All right, let's get you home.'

I kept sobbing, 'I don't have my car here today. I took a ride with Carissa. How do I get home?'

Emma patted me comfortingly and smiled, 'I have a way, come on.'

She led me to a car which Mark was leaning against. Mark smiled at Emma, 'You should have told me earlier if you would need a ride.'

Emma smiled back at him, in trance, 'Of course,' she said in a sweet voice.

'Thank so for giving me a ride Mark,' I nodded at him in acknowledgment.

Mark managed to take his eyes off Emma's face for a second to nod at me. Mark led Emma into the passenger seat and I had no choice but to get into the backseat. I sighed, but whatever; at least I had a ride home.

'Why don't we drop Bella off first?' Emma giggled.

Mark smirked, 'Sure Emma. Whatever you want honey.'

I coughed, 'Yeah, sure, that would be fine by me.'

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So, I guess I could say that nothing went well for me that day, but at least Emma got lucky.

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