Chapter 4- Clumsy, Silly Me

A/N: I'm SOOO SOO SO SORRY that this one took so long. I've been having some RL issues, so I haven't gotten a chance to right. On the bright side, This chapter's a little longer than the others and it contains all B/E goodness. I hope you guys can forgive me enough to read and review!

I pulled out of the school parking lot and headed down the main street through town. It was only about a five minute drive to the library, but I really couldn't bring myself to go. In those five minutes, I thought about everything that would probably slip out of my mouth in the time I'd be with Edward at the library. It instantly made my nerves shaky. You can't just bail on him, Bella. You already told him you'd be there. You'll have to see him every day in school and ditching now would make school awkward. Not to mention the biology projects for the year.

"I know, I know," I mumbled to myself. Wow, I'm insane. Not only am I having an argument with myself, but I'm arguing with myself over something I shouldn't even be thinking twice about. Edward is a really nice guy. So what if he is the most attractive guy I've ever seen in my entire life. I should still be able to work with him on school stuff without caring what he'd think about me.

Once again—for about the trillionth time today—I was so lost in my internal ramblings that I didn't even realize I had already pulled into a spot in front of the library. Well, I guess my subconscious knows that I want to see Edward again.

I grabbed one of my empty notebooks and headed inside. I stared at my feet as I walked through the doors so I wouldn't see him suddenly and forget I had a brain. As the second set of doors opened and I walked through them, I ran into something hard. Great job Bella, way to be clumsy in front of tons of people. I looked up, expecting to see that I'd run into a shelf of books, but instead, I saw beautiful green eyes looking at me with concern. I instantly wanted to faint.

"Oh my God, Bella," Edward said with worry laced through his words, "Are you okay? I didn't even notice that you were coming in. I should've been watching where I was going.

"Oh, I'm, uh, I'm fine," I fumbled because my brain had gone AWOL. "I should've been watching where I was going, too. I'm a klutz, and I should know better than to look down while I'm walking."

"You shouldn't look down. No one can see your beautiful smile."

Confusion set in, and I said, "What?"

"We should get started on your tutorial now," Edward fumbled. Did he just have a loss for words? Did I make him nervous? Bella, stop thinking stuff like that, you're just getting your hopes up. But Alice did say she thinks he likes me. I can't go by that. I don't even know her well! Stop having an argument with yourself and watch out for the doorjamb. I glanced up and sure enough, there was a doorjamb that I was about to run into. I side stepped quickly, but ended up tripping over myself and falling into Edward. Again. Ugh. He thinks I'm a moron now. I peeled my eyes away from the floor to look up at Edward so he could tell me to leave, but instead, I saw concern painted on his expression.

"I'm sorry," I began, but he cut me off.

"Are you sure you're okay. Are you dizzy or anything? I can take you to the hospital if you need it."

"No, I'm fine. I told you I'm a klutz. I just can't seem to help myself."

"Well, we should probably get you into a chair so you don't break any bones or something," Edward said, chuckling a bit.

Turning bright red from embarrassment, I slowly walked to a chair and glue myself to it. Edward was still chuckling when he came to sit next to me after grabbing a few books from the shelves. The table we sat at had a computer with two seats on either side and enough room in front of the keyboard to spread out some books. This genealogy thing must be pretty serious if there's this much room to sprawl out, I thought. I looked over at Edward whose eyebrows were furrowed together in concentration while leafing through the books. He found the spot he wanted and then he looked at me to speak.

"First thing you'll need to know is what genealogy is and what kind of stuff you will find while researching. So what in all do you know about genealogy?"

"Uh," I stammered, "Well, I know that you find your predecessors, and historical facts about them. Right?"

"That's pretty much what it is. What you'll want to start with is your family tree, as far back as you know true."

"Ok, well there's Renee and Charlie. Renee's parents Catherine and David. And Charlie's parents Paul and Barbara. That's pretty much as far back as I know."

"Well, that's usually what we start with, so it's no big deal if you know any farther back. We'll map it out on the white board on the wall. We'll reserve this section specifically for you," Edward said as he pointed to the far-right section of the white board wall. He started by putting my name at the top, and made a line that connected Charlie and Renee to me. The tree then branched out to include my grandparents.

"We're going to start off easy so you can get to know the databases you'll be using. The first thing we're going to do is find everyone's birth certificates. We'll start with your parents and grandparents; then, that will lead us on. We only have access to Washington records right now, but we're working on expanding our availability."

Then, my cell phone rang. It was Charlie. Bella, you idiot, you forgot to tell him you weren't coming straight home after school! I pulled my phone out of my pocket and answered quickly. "Hey, dad. Sorry, I forgot to tell you, but I'm at the library."

"That's fine, Bella. You're an adult. But I did make us reservations in Port Angeles in an hour and a half. So could you come home soon to get ready so we can go?"

"Yeah, I'll be there in ten. Bye Dad."

"Bye Bells."

I looked up at Edward and said, "Charlie is taking me to dinner in Port Angeles tonight, so I have to go. It was a great tutorial. Hopefully we'll get a little bit farther along next time."

"Yeah, hopefully. We're not even to the fun parts yet," he said.

"Can't wait! See you tomorrow, Edward."

"Hey, Bella, can I ask you something," Edward asked, wringing his hands in the slightest way.

"Sure, anything," I said, maybe a little desperately, looking for any excuse to stay around him longer.

He looked down to the floor, then up to me through his lashes. "Would you like to go out with me sometime? Like, maybe this weekend? If you don't want—"

I cut him off by added, "I'd love to."

"Great," he said, sounding relieved. "How about Friday night?"

"Sounds great. I'll see you tomorrow, Edward."

"Yeah, see you tomorrow, Isabella."

As I climbed into my truck and drove home, all I could think about was Friday night. Maybe Forks isn't going to be so bad after all.

A/N: YAY! Bella and Edward have a date! Woot! That should be the next chapter. Anyway, I also found another fanfic over the weekend that I'd started a couple months ago and forgot to really run with it. If you want to read that one, it should be posted in the next week or so. It's another all human story. Edward gets kidnapped and it will be told in BPOV and in EPOV so both side of the story are equally appreciated.


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