DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN TWILIGHT OR ANY OF ITS CHARACTERS. THOSE RIGHTS FULLY BELONG TO STEPHANIE MEYER.

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Chapter Three: Contact? Friends?

For a week that's how it went. In lunch they would all glare at me while I sat with Mike, Jessica, and the rest of their friends. I was starting to think that this was how the whole school year would go for me.

Finally Edward decided to make the first civil move, "Hello, I don't think we have been properly introduced." He paused while I turned around and looked at him. "My name is Edward Cullen."

"Hello Edward, my name is Bella Swan." I said to him not letting my guard down. "I hope that we aren't going to have a problem here in class any more are we?"

"What on Earth are you talking about?" he said with a crooked smile.

I look in his direction and whispered, "Keep your mind to your damn self, do not try to attack mine any more during class, I mean you and your coven no harm." I said as I sat down and looked away from him, waiting on the teacher to start. I heard him laughing a little besides me and couldn't help but look at him.

"Do you really think that I would do something in class?"

"Well I don't know, I don't know you from Jack. You and your coven have been attacking me since my first day at lunch and then all week here in class, why would now be any different." I said with a bit of a hiss to it.

"Please listen to me, we didn't mean any harm its just that you are new here and we maintain a permanent residence here, we did not want your hunting to hurt us or the people here."

I stared at him with disbelief at the words that he had just said and smiled, "Do not fear me, I do not plan on harming no one here, I myself have a permanent place here as well." I paused to let that sink in. "Plus I have never killed a single person in my life."

His eyes listened just a bit but not as much as I would have liked, but it didn't matter because class had started. I felt him staring at me the whole time we where in class but he never did try to get past my shields at least that was a good thing.

When class finally ended I turned towards Edward and smiled, "Tomorrow is going to be a sunny day, would you like to come by my house? If you want to invite the whole family they are more than welcome to come."

He smiled his crooked smile that made me want to melt, "I will be there and I will pass it on to them."

"Okay I live next to the chief of police, well a little way from him but you know where I mean," I said sounding like a complete idiot.

"Yes I know where you are talking about I will see you soon," he said waiting on me to walk away.

When Mike walked over I had barely even noticed. "Hey Bella you going to gym today?"

"No Mike I think I'm going home I feel a little sick. Will you tell the teacher for me." I said still looking at Edward.

"Sure I will let them know." he said then looked at Edward for the first time. "Cullen."

"Newton" was his only response.

"See you tomorrow Bella, hope you get to feeling better." Mike finally walked away.

"You want to go somewhere with me?" Edward finally asked when he followed me out to my truck.

"What did you have in mind?" I asked him smiling.

"It's a surprise." was all that he would give me.

"How will your family get home?" I asked him as we got into the driver's seat of my truck. My truck was a Chevrolet, it was four wheel drive and painted cherry red. It had a great lift on it and everything fully loaded. I loved it. My "father" had sent it to me when I told him I was going to settle alone for a while.

"Alice has a key to my Volvo in case I decide to run off sometime." He said when he started the truck and we were off to who knows where.

We drove out of town for about ten minutes when he pulled over to what looked like the middle of no where. "We have to run from here." He said as he got out of the truck.

"Okay but I don't know where we are going." I said feeling strangely at ease with him even though we have just started talking, I felt like I have known him my whole life. He holds out his hand and I take it noticing how they seem to fit together so well.

"Okay now lets go." He said pulling me along for a moment. We didn't run long, vampires have great speed it would have been a good hike if I was still human, then we stopped in the middle of the most beautiful meadow that I had ever seen.

"Wow," was all that I could manage to say as I looked around. The meadow was a complete circle with beautiful wild flowers growing all over the place, a large bolder was in the middle of it and looked like a good place to sit and think, also I could hear a little brook nearby that just added to the beauty of the place. I slowly made my way over to the bolder and sat down.

"So you really like it?" Edward said after a moment.

"Yes, its beautiful." I said once he had joined me on the bolder. "Where did you find this place?"

"I found it one day shortly after moving here while I was hunting." He said with a smile. We sat there in silence for a while just lost in thought we had not even noticed nightfall come. "Won't your family be worried about you if you don't get home soon?"

"Yea since I bet that your still blocking Alice's power. She is probably throwing a hissy fit as we speak." He said laughing. I had never noticed just how beautiful his voice is.

"Yea sorry its more of a habit now. Do you want a lift home or are you just going to run home?" I asked trying to be polite but hoping for me time together.

"How about you come to my house, then my family won't worry as much and we can spend more time together." he said looking a little nervous.

"Okay." I said just as nervous.

"Are you sure?" he asked sincerely.

" Well what if they don't like me?" I asked looking down.

He started laughing and said, "Your worried they won't like you instead of if they are planning to attack you?"

"Yes exactly, I'm glad that you get a good laugh out of it." I said in a sarcastic tone.

"Don't worry I don't think anything bad will happen." He said with a smile, with that we were headed back to my truck and on our way to meet his family.