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Chapter Three: Football

"Go! Go! Fight! Fight! Go! Go! Fight! Fight!" Couldn't the cheer squad come up with something better than that cheer? They had been doing it for three hours ever since the football game had begun. The cheerleaders were doing flips and back and front-handsprings- totally showing off. I mean, even I could do that. I just never did. I honestly didn't like attention.

"How much longer is this gonna last?" I yelled over the cheering to Edward. He was sitting next to me. Alice and Jasper were on the other side of me, and Emmett and Rosalie were on the other side of Edward. We were all into the game.

"I don't know. It might go into overtime or something!" Edward called over the cheering. I guessed that our quarterback had just scored a touchdown. "Go Spartans!" Tanya yelled. She just happened to be the head cheerleader. Then she looked over her shoulder and winked at Jacob Black, the school player. Luckily Edward didn't see it. He would have been heartbroken.

Everyone in the school knew about how Tanya was cheating on Edward with Jacob. Even the teachers knew, but that was only because of the number of times they had been caught in the janitor's closet... Emmett, Rosalie, Alice, Jasper, and I wanted to tell him, but we couldn't. We had no way to prove it, and not one of us could would be able to stand the look on his face. But sometimes I just wanted to punch Tanya for cheating on Edward.

Edward was about to look at her so all of us got into our "positions", as we liked to call them. "Edward, does this shirt make me look fat?" Emmett asked. We all stifled our laughs as we looked at Edward's face.

"Um..well...maybe we you should talk to mom and dad about this." Edward looked horrified. We all sighed in relief when Tanya stopped looking at Jacob.

"I'm gonna go get a drink. Do you want one, Bella?" Edward asked as he stood up.

"Sure." He didn't need to ask me what I wanted because we knew each other so well. As soon as we were sure Edward was gone everyone's head turned to Emmett.

"What?" He asked.

"Emmett, darling, explain to me how you are in all honors classes with straight 'A's, and you still can't think of anything better to say than 'does this shirt make me look fat?'" Rose asked sweetly.

"I don't handle well under pressure. It was the first thing I thought of, and it worked didn't it?" He grinned triumphantly.

"That's true." We all laughed. Right then half time started. We knew Edward wouldn't come back to the bleachers so we went to go find him. He was leaning against his Volvo holding two drinks. When we walked up to him he handed one to me. It was a coke.

"Thanks." I smiled as I sat on the hood of his car. "I wanted a sprite though."

"What? You never get sprite! You hate sprite!" He exclaimed.

"I was kidding, Edward. Calm down." I smiled.

"You are going to pay for that." He smiled evilly as he turned and began tickling me.

"St-stop!" I managed to get out between my laughs.

"I don't really feel like it." Edward continued to tickle me.

"Gu-guys-help m-me!" I pleaded with the rest of the group. They just laughed and didn't do anything.

"Uh-oh, Tanya alert." Rose muttered. Edward immediately stopped tickling me and sat back up. I sighed and sat back up too. I reached for my drink but noticed how it had feel to the ground when Edward was tickling me. My cheeks were still a little red from laughing so hard.

"Hey, Eddie!" She smiled as she walked over to us. She had changed from her cheerleading outfit into a low cut tank top and a mini skirt. I consciously pulled down on my t-shirt and looked at my jeans. Her outfit was worse that her cheer outfit. I had no problems with cheerleaders. My friend Angela was a cheerleader along with a few other nice girls that I knew. The thing was that Tanya was totally like the cheerleader stereotype.

"Hi Tanya." He smiled and his eyes got colder. I sighed and crossed my arms over my chest.

"Why aren't you in your cheer outfit?" Rose asked.

"So it won't get dirty." She scoffed. "I'm going to change back into it when the game starts. How can one person be so stupid?" Rose looked at her with her evil eye. Tanya shrunk back and looked scared. Emmett put an arm around her waist and whispered something in her ear. She calmed down a little and relaxed into Emmett's arms.

"So, do you guys like the new cheer outfits?" Tanya asked. Jacob walked by and winked at her; luckily Edward didn't see. Tanya smiled at him and winked back.

"I'm sure Jacob liked them." I muttered.

"What does she mean?" Edward asked.

"Oh...um...he was looking at Leah the whole game." I hated how she could lie like that. Alice looked like she wanted to punch Tanya. Jasper kissed her cheek and held her hand, and they rarely showed PDA.

"Oh, okay." Edward blew it off. Before he started dating her I thought I knew that nothing could get by him. I was constantly proven wrong now. We all just stood there in silence until it was time to go back to the stadium. Tanya ran to who knows where to change back. Emmett, Rose, Alice, Jasper, Edward, and I sat in our original seats in the bleachers.

I had never really gotten football and didn't understand why people loved it so much. To me it was a bunch of guys wearing tights and carrying an oval shaped ball. What was so exciting about that? I just couldn't pay attention. Since Edward was so enthralled in the game that he didn't notice me staring at him dreamily. I couldn't help but let my mind wander.

I wandered to a place where Edward finally woke up from the spell that Tanya had cast upon him. He would realize that he loved me; that was he was looking for had been right in front of him the whole time. He would search and search until he finally found me. He would jump off of his white horse and run to me. When he reached me he would proclaim his love to me. He would carry me back to his noble steed, and we would ride away into the sunset.

The sudden eruption of cheers pulled me out of that daydream. Everyone was standing up and cheering. I stood up and pretended to be excited. "What just happened?" I shouted over the cheers.

"We just won!" Edward shouted as he pulled me into a hug and swung me around in a childish manor. I couldn't help but smile. This was the first time in a while that he had let his guard down and acted this way.