"How's my favourite sister in the whole wide world?" Edward sang, pecking Alice on the cheek and stealing on of her waffles.
Alice made a face. "Oh come ON!"
"What? You still have three left. Greedy guts."
His sister snorted. "Like you don't know what I'm talking about."
Now he was really puzzled. "Its not about the waffles?"
"No! Its about you looking far FAR to happy. You're not meant to be ENJOYING being Tanya's boyfriend!"
"What are you on about, Alice?" Stupid sister. Ruining his Bella mood.
"Hmm," Alice put her finger on her chin, pretending to be thinking. "You sneak out last night, then walk in the front door with a huge smile on your face at seven in the morning. What am I meant to think you were out doing last night?"
Edward opened his mouth to reply truthfully, but stopped himself. There was no way he could tell Alice that he and Bella were together all night, not that anything happened (stupid Bella and her self-control) But knowing his darling sister, it would be all over school in five minutes. Then Tanya would find out.
"Well?" Alice demanded.
"I...went for a walk?"
And where did this walk lead? Right into Bella's bedroom.
She yanked the waffle out of his hand. "Well I hope Tanya had fun. Its good to know her little plan is working perfectly."
"I went for a walk." Edward repeated.
"Whatever, Edward." Alice brushed past him. "I'll see you at school."
*
"Ew....Spiderweb." Tanya squeaked to herself, trying not to look at the super dirty bike-shed.
"I'm here." a voice behind her hissed.
Tanya spun around. "What the hell took you so long?"
"What, you think you can run with explosives in your backpack?"
Tanya flipped her newly dyed-back-to-blonde hair over her shoulder. "Ok, so you have to plant them. I'm not risking getting expelled."
"And I am?"
"You have a clean record. I have one dirtier than...Well," she looked around. "...this bike shed."
"This is SUCH a stupid plan, Tanya. There's no way in hell this is going to work...."
"I don't see you offering up any amazing ideas on how to break them up! This was all me!" Tanya fumed.
"Thats
because everytime I gave you an idea, you shot it down because it
didn't involve explosives!"
"Yeah, whatever. This is going to
work. Just plant them and everything will go smoothly."
The person opposite fiddled with their fingers. "As..as long as you're sure they'll have no idea I was involved..."
"Don't be such a freaking baby." Tanya muttered. "I repeat. Plant the explosives exactly where I tod you and it'll be fine."
"Exact time?"
"Five minutes after the bell rings. See you there."
*
Bella and Rose sat at a picnic table before school, waiting for Emmett and Edward to arrive.
"So what did you get up to last night?" asked Rose.
"Nothing much." Bella replied quickly. "Why? Did Edw-...Someone say something?"
Rosalie suppressed a laugh. Bella was so transparent sometimes. "No-one said anything, Bells. I was just wondering. Oh, here come the guys."
"Rosie!" Emmett called, tugging on Rosalie's ponytail. "Did you get the flowers?"
"Em, I always get the flowers."
"Good morning, Bella." Edward said quietly "Long time no see."
Bella smiled. "I was thinking about you last night."
"What a coincidence." Edward replied in mock surprise. "So was I!"
Rose and Emmett exchanged a glance, just as the bell rang.
"Well." said Edward standing up. "I guess we'll see you ladies at lunch. Come on, Em."
He turned is head, winked at Bella so that only she could see and strolled off in the direction of his first class.
"Bella, why are you blushing?" asked Rose in her usual loud voice.
Edward smiled as Emmett caught up with him.
He'd made Bella blush.
*
Bella was fidgeting like crazy.
"Bella!" hissed Rosalie. "Your thumbs are going to drop off if you twiddle them that fast!"
There were two reason for Bella's unsettled behavior.
Reason One: The satisfied 'I win! I win!' look Tanya was giving her from across the cafeteria scared the shit out of her. 'Calm down, Bella.' she told herself. 'She can't possibly have any idea about you and Edward.' They had both agreed to keep their newly rekindled relationship a secret from everyone. It was for the best.
Reason Two: She had just spotted Edward walking over to her table. And she wanted him. Badly.
Seeing him in there all his gorgeousness, made her think that pulling away from him at the last minute the night before had all been a huge mistake.
She tried to give her sexiest smile as he sat down opposite her. "Hey."
"Hi, Bella. Whats with the thumbs?"
She looked down, her thumbs were still twiddling away so fast you could hardly see them.
"They're bored." she replied. "In fact, my whole hand is bored. It needs something to...work on."
Oh. My. God. Stupidest attempt ever.
Rose spat out her coke, spraying it all over the table. "Yeah. Yeah real subtle." she spluttered.
Bella smiled awkwardly. "No idea what you're talking about, Rose."
Edward shifted his weight in his seat. "Maybe you should join the origami club." he suggested.
Bella grinned and nodded. She flipped her phone open under the table and scrolled down until she found 'E'.
Meet me in the girls bathroom. I won't stop you like I did last night.
She pressed send and stood up.
"Bathroom." she muttered and sped off down the hall.
The only person in the girls restroom was that annoying gossip, Jessica Stanley, typing furiously on her laptop like no tomorrow.
"Jess, this girl is flirting with Mike back in the cafeteria. You might wanna go and...ya know.." Tear her head off.
Jess's eyes widened and she snapped her laptop shut with a fierce expression. "Thanks Bella. I'll go kill her now."
Like taking candy from a baby.
Bella sat on the sink bench and folded her legs.
Ooo, Yeah. Thats hot... *rolls eyes*
She heard a knock on the door and a deep voice hiss "Bella?"
She bit her lip excitedly. "I'm in here, baby."
The door opened a crack and in walked....EMMETT!?
Lesson one for texting under tables : Always check who you're sending too before you send. It is possible you could know more than one person with a first name staring with 'E'.
"Emmett!" she cried, jumping off the sink. "What are you doing here?"
He looked at his shoes and mumbled. "I knew you had texted the wrong person."
"Well, OBVIOUSLY! What did you think I was referring to when I said 'I won't stop you like I did last night'?"
Emmett continued to stare at the floor. No way was he admitting that he had thought Bella was waiting with the rest of her McDonald's chips. He'd asked her if he could finish them off last night, eaten one but then she'd taken them away saying that he was being a pig.
Em was a sucker for fries.
"I dunno." he mumbled. "But who did you mean to send it to then?"
"Ed...Eric." So. Close.
Emmett shuddered. "Please. Don't tell me."
Bella giggled and punched his arm. "Lets get out of here."
They both sat down at the table laughing. Edward gave Bella a quizzical look but she just mouthed 'Tell you later'.
Edward was going to love that he now had Eric as competition.
*
Tanya was usually above hiding in the bushes, but to day she was willing to make an exception.
She watched her partner in crime attach the explosives to the bottom of Bella's truck and run over to join her in the bushes.
"Are you sure she's not going to be in the truck when it blows up?"
"No." Tanya replied. "She'll be standing a few metres away when we hit the button."
"I still don't see how blowing up her truck with break them up..."
"We've been over this!" hissed Tanya. "No guy wants to go out with a car-less girl." she eyed the truck. "However hideous that car may be."
"Bu-..."
"And Bella will be so distraught over the death of her precious piece of crap, she'll completely neglect Eddie and he'll run straight into my arms."
In the distance, the school bell rang.
"Get ready." Tanya rubbed her hands together.
It only took a few minutes for Bella to make her way from her last class of the day, to the parking lot. She was with Edward.
"Of course they're together." muttered Tanya. She pressed her thumb down on the button and the red Chevy truck exploded with a BANG!
The whole parking lot fell silent, waiting for Bella's reaction.
It wasn't much. She simply shrugged and said loudly. "It was getting old anyway." she thought for a moment. "But now I'll have to walk everywhere...." she glanced at Edward.
He smirked. "Well now, we can't have that. Please consider me your new personal chauffeur."
Bella giggled. "Why thank you." she said in a REALLY bad British accent.
Two girls stood up in the bushes a few metres away from them.
"I told you this was a stupid plan!" yelled Angela.
"I GIVE UP!" screeched Tanya at the same time. "I TRY AND TRY BUT I JUST CAN'T WIN!" she threw her arm over her face in a dramatic pose.
Everyone just stared at her.
She ran over to Edward and slapped him. "Its over!"
He opened his mouth but she pushed her hand over it to stop him. "Don't beg." she advised. "Its just pathetic."And with that, she strutted off down the street.
With Tanya gone everyone turned to stare at Angela who was still standing in the bushes.
"Um...Yeah...We were making out in there...."
