Sorry this one isn't as eventful as the first chapter, but I'm hoping people got the thunder storm/cullens play baseball thing down :) Unfortunatly I still have to go to school and aswell as going out and stuff I'm writing as much as I can in my 'spare' time. Its really fun :D

I'm hoping for the next chapter to be more action packed, it should be up sometime tomorrow, fingers crossed !

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Chapter Two

Why am I so uncomfortable? I wondered, rolling over I glanced at my clock, 19:22, I must've fallen asleep listening to the thunder. Weird... I stretched and climbed out of bed, still in my jeans and button down shirt, no wonder I'd been so uncomfortable. I stripped down and pulled on some sweats and an old pyjama top. Brushing the knots out of my wild bed hair, I headed downstairs, Charlie would be back from work by now.

"Hey dad" I yawned, perching on the arm of the sofa,

"Hey bells" He smiled, "Sleep well?"

"Yeah I guess" Funny, I didn't recall my dream... "You should have woken me" I said eyeing up the pizza box in his lap,

"Don't worry about it, you looked like you could use the sleep" He smiled reassuringly,

"How was work?" I asked, standing up and proceeding to the small kitchen just off the lounge, to get a glass of water,

"It was okay" He sighed, "How was school, you showed the new kids around today didn't you?"

Edward...

"It was good, they seem pretty nice" Well they did seem pretty nice, different maybe, but definitely still nice. Or at least Alice was.

"You want some of this?" He asked, gesturing towards the left over slices of pepperoni pizza,

"No thanks, I'm not really hungry" I lied, truth be told I didn't really like the look of the pizza, it was enough to kill my appetite, "I think I'll just go for a shower"

"Okay bells" He smiled, his eyes drifting back towards the basketball game.

After my shower I went to check my emails. Renee would have replied by now and I could really do with a distraction, I'd thought about Edward solidly for the last hour and I was sure that wasn't healthy, even for a crush...

Sure enough Renee had replied, she told me all about her latest house and the scenery, all the local attractions and her new neighbours. It was tough only seeing her a few times a year, but she moved around too much for me to ever come out and see her, she visited me here in Forks. I couldn't help being envious that she was able to move around as she pleased and see the sun every day. It was in fact Forks that had made my mum the traveller she was these days. She decided after living here her entire life, she had wanted something more. Like I wanted...

When she and Charlie had got divorced, she left almost immediately, I was only four at the time. She wanted to take me with her, she always reassured me she would have, if she had known where she was going. She still has no idea. Moving from place to place every couple of months, I don't think she's ever unpacked her suitcases.

I replied to Renee's email and went to rummage around under my bed for my CD player. Lying down on top of the covers I closed my eyes and tapped my fingers to the rhythm. I quite liked this band, Muse. Renee had bought me the CD for my most recent birthday. I'd just turned 17. It hadn't been much of an event, I'd had school that day which had passed much the same other than a few birthday hugs and digs and also a couple of cards and presents. When I'd got home Renee had been waiting with presents and cake, Charlie sort of awkward in the back ground had shown me my 'new' Chevrolet truck and pecked me on the cheek.

Lying here thinking, my thoughts rewound back to Edward...

His topaz eyes engraved into his immaculate skin, which appeared to have a marble like texture. He could have been a statue of a Greek god. Yet he walked and talked. How perfect could one person be? While lying in the darkness, somewhere in between thoughts of his beautiful bronze hair, and his liquid gold eyes, Who has gold eyes anyway? , Did I recall the sounds I'd heard before falling asleep. The sound of boulders smashing together, so close by, they could have been hitting the house across the street, but the sounds had most definitely come from the forest next to my house.

I strode over to my window, perching on the ledge I peered out into the darkness, squinting slightly. I couldn't see anything out of the ordinary, Mr. And Mrs. Frasier were shutting off their lights, which they did every night, promptly at ten. How time flies. I took in a once over of the whole street, no casualties as far as I could tell.

"Bells?" Charlie knocked softly at my door, his voice merely more than a whisper,

"I'm awake dad" I replied, hopping down from the window seat and walking over to my door,

"Well I wasn't sure" He shrugged, "Anyway, I found this in the yard when I got back from work" He tossed me a baseball,

"It isn't mine" I replied, letting it just fall to the floor, why embarrass myself by attempting to catch it, "But thanks anyway" I kicked it under my bed and sat down,

"Well alright then, night bells" He leaned forward and kissed my cheek before dashing out of my room, poor Charlie. Then again, we both cringed at physical contact, we just didn't express our feelings that way around here.

I climbed into bed and plugged my headphones back in, my thoughts drifting towards Edward again... His mesmerizing features, stunning movie star good looks, musical voice... everything about him drew me in. Remembering his troubled glare in English, it could almost be interpreted as anger? Surely I'd done nothing to make him angry. Somewhere along the line, I drifted into another dreamless sleep...

"So what have we got first class today then!?" Alice was at my side before I'd even managed to get out of my truck, and she was all hyper again. I began to think this was just her personality, I could imagine us being very close friends, opposites attract and all that...

"English, the time table here is pretty basic" I admitted, pulling my bag over my shoulder and locking the doors,

"Oh, well that's okay" She grinned, Jasper was once again at her side, his arms wrapped almost protectively around her waist, "Do you want to walk to class with me?"

"Okay" I agreed, smiling. Jasper whispered something in her ear, far too quiet for me to hear, maybe that was the intention. With one graceful turn, Alice twisted around and faced him, kissing him lightly on the lips and once more he stroked her cheek with the back of his hand. A strong sense of love was radiating off them, I felt my cheeks flush red as I realised how close I was to them, I felt like I was intruding on the moment. They stared into each other's eyes, for little more than a second and before I knew it, Alice had her arm linked through mine and was attempting to drag me along in a skip. Edward hadn't shown. I felt my stomach tighten up, I wished more than anything that I could look up into his topaz eyes again. What was wrong with me!?

The morning passed in a boring daze. I thought mostly of Edward, although the occasional thought of the other Cullen's crept into my head. Why did Rosalie always glare at me? And how come Jasper looked like he was in constant pain? Maybe the Hales just had funny faces.

I wanted to ask Alice about all that, like how the whole Hale/Cullen thing goes, but it seemed sort of private, and I'd only known her for a day. Though we were getting quite close already, she told me her family had moved down from Alaska and that she and Jasper had been together for a Very long time. She told me about her parent's Carlisle and Esme and she told me all about her old school. She told me about her passion for fashion, and had already planned a shopping trip for us this weekend. That one shocked me a little, but I was really beginning to enjoy Alice's company, she had an infectious good mood which made everyone around her smile. No matter how much I disliked shopping, I knew a trip with Alice would top any I'd had previously so I found myself slightly excited. She didn't really say anything about Edward and I didn't have the nerve to ask ... he was still a mystery to me.

The days passed and still no sign of Edward, I thought again about approaching the subject of this absence to Alice, but I felt too intrusive. I would ask on Saturday I decided, it was starting to bother me, why wasn't he ever around? God, I might be crazy. But I could have sworn I actually missed him! Funny, since we hadn't spoken two words to each other or maintained eye contact for more than 3 seconds. Unexplainable attraction. Yet it was there.

Bring on Saturday...