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Edward's POV
I walked into the cafeteria with Jessica and sat down at our usual table
"Yo Ed…" I looked up to see Mike, since when was he gangster? I tried my best not to laugh aloud "Bella's staring at you bro" I looked over my shoulder to see her smiling at me
"Nice…" I muttered as she waved me over "alright guys, Bella wants to talk." I got up quickly and walked over to the table before anyone could protest. I sat down beside Bella and kept my eyes on her feeling her siblings eyes boring into my side. I decided to risk it and take a quick glance at them, they were all completely silent yet I could hear someone 'what on earth is Bella doing? She said she wouldn't' I looked at them all, they weren't even looking at one another.
Impossible. How was I hearing this when no one was talking?
"Edward? Um…hello?" Bella was saying trying to get my attention
"Oh sorry…I got caught up in my own thoughts…or someone else's" I mumbled the end so she couldn't hear it "So is it still my turn to hear about you?" I grinned at her trying to ease the tension and my own confusion
"Of course" she was suddenly grinning back at me
'what is she doing?!' there was a sense of urgency this time ,I blocked whoever's thoughts these were from my mind and focused on Bella
"Well go ahead" I chuckled
"well basically, my parents died in a car crash when I was young and my other family refused to take me in, they were very religious and my parents had me out of wedlock…" she chuckled a little as if it were an inside joke "So I ended up in foster homes for a good few years and then last year I ended up with Carlisle and Esme, they're great. They decided to adopt me, we were living in Phoenix but Esme liked the idea of small town life so here we are" she smiled and it made my heart go crazy
'What a fool, she wont be there for him much longer' I heard snigger come from one of her siblings
"Did someone say something?" I asked Bella still confused
"nope" she shook her head
"I must be hearing things" I laughed a little trying to make things a little less awkward "you're coming to biology right?"
"Nah, I can't be bothered, just going to hang around in my car for a while. Do you want to join me?" she smiled at me warmly
"You skip classes?" I couldn't help but laugh at that, this girl I had come to think of as an angel skipped classes
"skipping the odd class is healthy" she flashed me a grin
"okay then you're on" I could help but grin back at her
We sat in her black Volvo "So what music do you have?" I asked curiously
"All sorts" she said opening the glove box, I looked through the line of CD's in the small compartment
"Debussy? You like Debussy?" I looked at her a little shocked
"Yeah, I do like it, its relaxing" she smiled
"Shall I get it out?" I offered
"Its already in the CD player" she said before pressing the little green arrow. I smiled contently as the harmonies filled her car, I could see a sparkle in her eye as she listened with me
"this music is beautiful" she said opening her window
"it is very beautiful" I said not able to take my eyes off of her.
As we continued to talk a gust of wind blew into the car, I watched as Bella completely stiffened up.
"What's going on Bella?"
"You need to get out" she whispered
"Why?" I looked at her confused
"Please just go" she whispered a little more harshly
"Um okay" I got out of the car feeling deflated, why had she suddenly changed her entire attitude?
I looked back to see her car speeding out of the lot, wouldn't her siblings wonder where she had gone?
I put on my best pale face and walked into biology a few minutes later "Sorry Mr Porter I wasn't feeling so good so I took a minute to sit down and lost track of time"
"That's okay Mr Swan, take seat and I will come to the desk in a minute an explain what's going on" he smiled, I had to clamp my mouth shut trying not to laugh at the fact that he believed my lame excuse
"So today's class is about finding out your blood type so that when you're around Port Angeles you can give blood" I started to wonder if Bella had missed the class for the reason, why was she so resistant to attend? Did it make her squeamish? Was it something else?
The image of her tensing up as the wind blew into her car confused me, why did the gust of wind effect her so badly? I was going to find out somehow.
I went home after school and spent the afternoon speculating what it could be, I suppose it would be easier to ask her but she might not like it.
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I got to school early the next morning somewhat eager to see her. I wanted to ask her what was going on, I wanted to talk to her, I wanted to see her smile. I wanted to be the reason for that smile. I watched at her siblings pulled up in their fancy cars, no wonder people stared, I had to wonder why they had these cars and their designer labels if they didn't like being stared at, even if they didn't have the cars and the labels they're all beautiful people…Bella took my breath away. Her onyx eye, her almost translucent skin, everything about her. The way she talked, she spoke like she was from another time so eloquently. She spoke to me like she cared, like I mattered to her. All these guys in Forks had never mattered to her and there she was talking to me, I'd be warned by Mike but I didn't care. She was different to the way he saw her, she looked like a model but she didn't act like one.
I looked over at her parking spot where her black Volvo was supposed to be and there was nothing, the car I sat in with her wasn't there, she hadn't turned up with her siblings either. Where was she?
The morning classes went by fast, I barely paid attention to class or anyone around me, I sat there racking my brain about what was going on with Bella.
I sat in the cafeteria with the others listening to their various complaints and ideas.
"Hey dude, what happened with Bella yesterday?" Mike asked pulling me out of my trance
"We just talked is all" I tried my best to shrug it off
"Oh yeah…so why isn't she here today?" he sounded slightly bitter 'she's probably just playing him for a fool' I had my eyes on mike the entire time as I tried to come up with an explanation, it was definitely something he would say, but he hadn't said a word since he asked the question. I listened carefully as a sudden flood of other voices filled my head. What's going on? Am I going crazy? Surely voices in my head isn't healthy.
It took me a minute to block all the voices from my mind, I looked over at Bella's slightly crazy sister Alice who had a blank look on her face, I wondered if it had to do with Bella. I put my attention directly on Alice's mind, the image of Bella standing over my dead body filled my head, Bella stood over me with a cold look in her eyes and a satisfied smirk on her lips, there was blood on them she gave me one final pity filled looked as she licked her lips and walked off through the trees away from the small meadow I laid in.
I took the focus off of Alice's mind as a chill ran down my spin. Surely I had been day dreaming, that wasn't what Alice was seeing in her head was it?
Maybe that vampire book I had been reading had gotten to me, I was looking for Bella's problem. Maybe my subconscious was trying to find explanations, Bella couldn't be a vampire, how could she be? If she was a vampire maybe the other Cullen's were, but how were they lasting in a room full of humans? None of it made any sense. Stupid overactive imagination.
I shook those thoughts from my mind and put my attention back on Alice's mind, I suddenly saw a very different image, Bella and I were laying together in the same meadow but this time I was alive and we were talking and laughing, Bella was sparkling beautifully in the sun she was amazing there was a happiness in her eyes, and we were holding hands. I closed my eyes to savour the image and then opened them again looking at Alice this time she was smiling like the image she had just seen was going to happen as if the image before had all but faded. At this point I was beginning to believe anything was possible here I was reading someone's mind, maybe Bella was a vampire. Was that why the Cullen clan always stuck together? Was that why the colour and emotion in Bella's eyes and in her smile never touched her cheeks? It was a lot to take in. I knew for my best interest as well as hers the only way to find out would be to ask, but when would she back?
As I sat there thinking I suddenly realised why I had never had many friends, all those times I'd heard someone say something bad to me or about me, those people hadn't spoken those words, they had thought them. It was beginning to make more sense, That was why no one reacted. That was why nobody jumped to my defence or did the opposite. I was the only hearing them. It was almost comforting to know that the people who hadn't defended me never had anything to defend, I had been the only one to hear these insults and off comments because they weren't said aloud.
My lunch time of revelations was about to get interesting as Bella Cullen walked into the cafeteria.
A/N: It took me longer to get this one out because I wasn't sure of what way to go, Let me know what you think =D I'm posting this in a rush so if things make little sense, sorry.