"You know, if you combine out first initials, it spells BAA." Angela said as she walked ahead of Alice and I. We ignored her sugar-induced craziness; we rolled our eyes at her and continued talking about our previous class as we walked to our final class of the day.

A warm arm surrounded me as we walked. Edward had drapped his arms over Alice and I's shoulders.

"So, what's up...?" I almost shrugged to answer his question, but I didn't want to shake off his arm.

"Nothing much. How's your head?" Alice answered, then asked.

I concentrated on keeping my voice even, but Edward's arm was distracting. I managed to ask the question I had though. "What's wrong with his head?" I tried to keep the worry for his health out of the question so Alice wouldn't notice. If he had hurt it, he could be delusional, not in his right thought process, that's probably why his arm is around me. What other explanation could there be for the warmth coming from him that was making my heart tingle and spread that warmth to the rest of my body. Why else would he be touching me, his best friend's sister, let alone touching his sister. He usually hated being near us.

"Well, I sort of dropped a book on his head this morning..."

"Oh, that's right, he's got the locker below you, doesn't he? I was wondering when you were going to that," Angela said at the same time I asked 'Why'.

"Because he was picking on me for being short." Alice answered. "But you are short and it does kind of make no sense for you to have the top locker and not him." I told her. Edward still had his arm around Alice and I for some reason, and it was becoming difficult not to lean into him. I wanted to wrap my arms around him as well, wanted to get closer to the warmth, the protection, in his strong arms offered. But Alice. Alice. Alice. Alice. Alice. Well she might understand... No, thoughts off Edward, Bella. What would your best friend say? NO! Don't think of Edward.

Angela muttered something about hugging and Edward backed away from us, but still walked close. I glared at Angela's back. Alice mumbled something about 'stupid brothers'. Edward just grinned a crooked grin.

After class, Angela and I walked towards the parking lot, Alice and Edward following us. They were walking slowly, not wanting to go home just yet while Angela and I were walking a little quicker.

"Has your heart re-started yet?" Angela whispered.

"I don't believe so," I replied. Of course it had restarted! Double time. To an extreme. It had been racing all class long. It was so loud that I was surprised that the whole class hadn't heard it.

"Well, see you, Bella." Alice said, walking in a different direction than where her car was.

"Where are you going?" I asked, wondering if there was something wrong with her. Maybe Edward had gotten revenge for the book dropping incident... Or maybe Alice had finally gone insane.

"I'm riding home with Angela so I can baby-sit her little brother while she goes somewhere with her parents. Some mature-family members only reunion thing."

"Have fun..." I said sarcastically.

"Oh, I'm sure Geoffry will behave just wonderfully." She said in the same sarcastic tone that I had used.

I laughed, nodded, and walked towards my truck after waving bye.

Alice and Angela got in Angela's green car. I slammed my door to get it to close all the wat and set down my books. The top one slid to the floos and I bent to pick it up. When I leaned up again, they were already speeding out of the parking lot-- Alice must be driving.

I put the key in the ignition and turned. It didn't start. I tried again. Still nothing. It stuttered, and then died again. Banging my hand against the steering wheel, I cursed. I glared out the window, and out of the corner of my eye, I saw a pair of smiling green eyes staring at me. They moved closer. Then they disappeared from my sight. Soon, there was a knocj on my window. I opened the door instead of rolling down the sticky glass.

"Something wrong?" Edward asked, grinning. I tried to glare but didn't do it very successfully. He was too beautiful when smiling (in my mind.)

"My stupid truck won't start." I kicked the tire to illistrate my anger at the vehicle.

"Want a ride?" When I stared at him, he grinned again. "Aw, come on, I don't bite. It's no problem."

"My house isn't exactly on your way home..." I mumbled.

"Well, if you're going to be stubborn, then come to my house. We'll do our homework, you'll call Charlie when he gets off of work and he can come pick you up. How 'bout that." He was right, I was stubborn, but he was more so than me, so I knew it was pointless to argue.

I sighed and grabbed my books. He shut the door for me, and we walked side by side to his shiny Volvo, three cars away from mine.

He opened the door for me and then jogged to the driver side.

"So, we gonna study together? It couldn't hurt anything." I just nodded. I'm sure he didn't realize it, but his eyes were hypnotizing, and I had no choice but to say yes.